Photo of the Day #62: Polar Bear

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A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) playing with a plastic drum at the Philadelphia Zoo. This isn't much of a post, but I should probably note that this is my 200th post here on ScienceBlogs (time sure does fly, huh?), and you readers have left nearly 900 comments thus far. More posts should be coming up today, including a review of The Loch Ness Horror and the continuation of a meme. I guess I'm just so fascinating that people keep wanting to know 7 things about me...

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