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Photo of the DayOctober 19, 2006
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Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, Canada, 1996
Photograph by Nick Caloyianis
Two young sled dogs sleep off their meal of fresh, though toxic, Greenland shark. Hours after eating such a meal, dogs appear inebriated and have difficulty standing up thanks to the strong neurotoxins found in the shark’s flesh.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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