平特五不中

Rappelling down a 650-foot cliff to catch seabirds on a remote island just below the Arctic Circle was scary enough.

鈥淭he first time you look over and you rappel over, it鈥檚 certainly not for the faint of heart,鈥� said Kyle Elliott, a research chair in Arctic ecology at 平特五不中 in Canada.

But for Elliott and fellow researcher Emile Brisson Curadeau, it was the hungry polar bears (Ursus maritimus) 鈥� usually one a day walking near their cabin 鈥� that raised real concerns, and devoured their research subjects.

PHOTO: A polar bear feeds on murres and their nests on the cliffs of Coats Island in Hudson Bay. 漏Emile Brisson Curadeau