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An adult Polar bear has just killed White-Beaked Dolphin on Svalbard. This is a behaviour no scientist has ever experienced on Svalbard before.
White-Beaked Dolphins usually only visit Svalbard in the summer months, and they have never been seen so far north, so early during spring before.
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Scientist did this amazing discovery in april 2014, and later during the summer the scientist got in tips about several other carcasses of white-beaked dolphins.
Its asumed that they catch the Dolphins on the sea-ice. A white-beaked dolphin doesn`t make much of a meal for a polar bear. And seals will still be their highest priored prey, but they can make a big difference for an individual during the toughest months of the year.
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The Polar bear stading next to its prey, and the hole in the ice where it probably made the kill.