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Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured

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Polar bears normally hunt seals but if these are not available, the big predators will seek out other sources of food - even their own kind, as photojournalist Jenny Ross discovered.

She pictured an adult male eating a 1-to-2-yearold bear on ice floes in Olgastretet, a stretch of water in the Svalbard archipelago.

The journalist described the event to our correspondent Jonathan Amos.

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