Shot of the Day: Polar Bear Cub Plays Piggyback
Posted by Emma Torry on October 05, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Angela Plumb, a tourist from the UK, captured this rare shot of a seven-month-old polar bear cub riding on its mother's back from a ship in the Svalbard archipelago - midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.
The polar bear mother is wearing a radio collar, which prompted Mrs Plumb to contact Dr Jon Aars, from the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, to ask whether this was a common sighting.
"I hadn't seen this behaviour before or heard about it so I asked other researchers and found out it is something that has been observed but not frequently at all," Dr Aars says.
Via the BBC website.
Wallpaper* does travel
Posted by Emma Torry on January 13, 2009 at 01:35 PM
If you're a travel loving reader of Wallpaper* magazine then it's time to get excited. They have teamed up with UK based travel agency Black Tomato to create a series of four fantastic travel experiences.
Travellers can sign up for a long weekend in Miami, skiing in northern Norway, a cultural break to Bucharest and Transylvania or a 5* escape to a Tuscan villa.
Each of the trips is bespoke and more experiences will be added to the Wallpaper* / Black Tomato offering in the future.
For more information visit www.blacktomato.co.uk/wallpaperTravel. For more trip ideas click here.
Photo Credits:
Lyngen 2006 - melkein huipulla and HDR in Bucharest via Flickr (Creative Commons).
