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  • Leopard seals on an ice flow near Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Leopard seals on an ice flow near Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Crabeater seals lie on an ice flow in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Erika Madsen, the seal hunter Emil Madsen's wife, begins with a long incision to clean the seal her husband shot in Cap Hope village, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After cleaning the seal, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal meat continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced the indigenous diet.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen's wife Erika cleans a seal shot by her husband at their home in Cap Hope, Greenland. (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After cleaning, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal meat continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet.
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  • Erika Madsen will butcher the seal, keep the best cuts for the family, save some seal fat for fishing, and give the rest of the carcass to their sled dogs. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet.  Cap Hope, Greenland. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164).
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  • Erika Madsen begins with a long incision to clean the seal her husban Emil shot and son Abraham and nephew Julian left in the hall. After cleaning, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet. Cap Hope, Greenland. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Erika Madsen begins to clean the seal her husban Emil shot and son Abraham and nephew Julian left in the hall. After cleaning, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet. Cap Hope, Greenland. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fur seal on Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Erika Madsen, cleaning the seal her son Abraham and nephew Julian left in the hall, will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 153). The Madsen family of Cap Hope village, Greenland is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • John S. Weber looking at a model of himself by German artist Karin Sander. Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) San Francisco, California. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In preparation for the upcoming harvest, barrels are washed at R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.) La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen stops to look for prey (polar bears, seals, musk ox, and geese) while the dogs take the moment to rest near Cap Hope village, Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in May was 6500 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 170 pounds. Here he is looking for seals near the ice edge (a giant iceberg is in the open water in the background) The family has been traveling by dogsled for a good portion of the day. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen stops to look for prey (seals, polar bears, musk ox, and geese) while the dogs take the moment to rest. Here he is looking for seals near the ice edge (a giant iceberg is in the open water in the background) The family has been traveling by dogsled for a good portion of the day. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (1992) Elephant seals at Ano Nuevo State Reserve in California. Skin samples are collected for the Dr. B. Leboef study to determine if high social dominance is correlated to reproductive success and if the proportion of copulations a male obtains is proportional to the number of offspring sired. DNA Fingerprinting..
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  • (1992) Elephant seals at Ano Nuevo State Reserve in California. Skin samples are collected for the Dr. B. Leboef study to determine if high social dominance is correlated to reproductive success and if the proportion of copulations a male obtains is proportional to the number of offspring sired. DNA Fingerprinting.
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  • (1992) Elephant seals at Ano Nuevo State Reserve in California. Skin samples are collected for the Dr. B. Leboef study to determine if high social dominance is correlated to reproductive success and if the proportion of copulations a male obtains is proportional to the number of offspring sired. DNA Fingerprinting.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen's rifle tied to a wooden stand during one of his hunting trips near his home in Cap Hope, Greenland. (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He has just shot a seal and is rowing his small plywood boat out to haul it in before it sinks out of sight and reach. Unfortunately he did not reach this seal in time and it was lost beneath the ring of blood on the clear arctic sea. Seal meat continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen (right) carries a seal after a day of hunting in Cap Hope Village, Greenland. (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake near Cap Hope village, Greenland. The steel pikes on poles are used to chop holes in the ice.   After a day of dogsled travel, seal hunter Emil Madsen, his wife Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.
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  • Emil Madsen is on the hunt for a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Later tonight he will shoot that seal and bring it back home for his wife, Erika, to clean and cook. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Emil Madsen, a seal hunter, with his typical day's worth of food on the sea ice in front of his sleeping sled dogs near Cap Hope village, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen is on the hunt for a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side. Later tonight he will find and shoot that seal and bring it back home for his wife, Erika, to clean and cook. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen is on the hunt for a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side. Later tonight he will find that seal and bring it back home for his wife, Erika, to clean and cook. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake near Cap Hope village, Greenland. The steel pikes on poles are used to chop holes in the ice.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)    After a day of dogsled travel, seal hunter Emil Madsen, his wife Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.
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  • Delayed for a day by offshore winds and cracks that threatened to push new islands of ice out to sea, seal hunter Emil Madsen (far right in black) readies his small plywood skiff on this calm, sunny day in Cap Hope village, Greenland.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • While Emil Madsen stows away the gear and winches the boat ashore, his nephew Julian and son Abraham drag the freshly killed seal up to the house, followed by inquisitive dogs licking up the trail of blood at Cap Hope  village, Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although the boys are almost staggering with tiredness (it is 1:30 in the morning) they haul the animal inside, leaving it in the hallway by the bathroom overnight.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen shouts commands to his dogs as they try to get over a crack in the ice near Cap Hope Village in Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Getting over these cracks can be very dangerous as there is always the very serious worry of falling in. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen's children, Abraham, Martin and Belissa break away from watching MTV to watch dogsled teams and travelers on a skidoo hauling supplies in a sled pass by the window of their house in Cap Hope, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil and Erika Madsen's nephew Julian bites down on an Arctic char, half in jest, for the camera because the fish is large, but locals say that children often eat small fish raw. It's said to "tickle their bellies." After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, they yank them out of the hole with a practiced motion. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a day of dogsled travel, Emil, Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.  Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Having just returned from a seal hunting trip, Erika and Emil Madsen slather narwhal oil on dried fish for a snack in the living room of their home, with MTV on in the background. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While Emil Madsen stows away the gear and winches the boat ashore, his nephew Julian and son Abraham drag the freshly killed seal up to the house, followed by inquisitive dogs licking up the trail of blood. Although the boys are almost staggering with tiredness (it is 1:30 in the morning) they haul the animal inside, leaving it in the hallway by the bathroom overnight. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 152).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After quickly motoring over to the seal to haul its body out before it sinks, Emil Madsen, tired after hunting, heads back home. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 151).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). With a single expert rifle shot, Emil Madsen kills a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side. At the bullet's point of impact, a crown of water rises from the sea. The sound does not disturb Emil's son Abraham or his nephew Julian, who have fallen asleep under some old jackets in the bow. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 150).
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  • Taking special care around the treacherous cracks in the ice near Cap Hope village in Greenland, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in May was 6500 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 170 pounds. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support.
    GRE04_0897_xf1brww.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • As the main supply center for 500 miles in any direction, the general store in Ittoqqortoormiit, the bigger village (pop. 550) across the bay from Cap Hope, sells everything from guns to butter. Although such stores sell seal, musk ox, and other Arctic meats, most Greenlander families still obtain their meat from hunting. Hunting to feed the family is Emil Madsen's lifelong pursuit; taught to him by his father. Too fill his family's larder, Emil is often gone for a week or more. Not surprisingly, prices in the general store are high, but the Danish government heavily subsidizes Greenlanders' incomes to the tune of $6,786 per person in 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available. Geopolitically, Greenland is part of Denmark, hence the close ties of the people and the cross-immigration. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 153).
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas. Candidates for 1990's Biosphere 2 project at a press conference just before being sealed inside the Biosphere for two-years. Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization.  1990
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  • Brian Krause, president of Boots and Coots, talks with Sara Akbar, development specialist for the Kuwait Oil Company, and member of the firefighting team from the company's (KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) as they prepare to extinguish the first oil well fire in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. After dousing the flames with high pressure water hoses, they sealed the spurting well of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger," a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila oil field is one of Iraq's biggest with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Brian Krause, president of Boots and Coots, with Sara Akbar, development specialist for the Kuwait Oil Company and member of the firefighting team from the company's (KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) as they prepare to extinguish the first oil well fire in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. Sara is a Muslim woman and is rather surprised by the way Brian, a friendly American, reacts to a photo by putting his arm around her. The other Kuwaiti's notice this too. After dousing the flames with high pressure water hoses, they sealed the spurting well of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger," a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila oil field is one of Iraq's biggest with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Sara Akbar, development specialist for the Kuwait Oil Company, makes a cell phone call before joining firefighters from the companies (KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) as they prepare to extinguish the first oil well fire in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. After dousing the flames with high pressure water hoses, they sealed the spurting well of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger," a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila oil field is one of Iraq's biggest with five billion barrels in reserve. The burning wells in the Rumaila Field were ignited by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began in March 2003. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • USA_SCI_BIOSPH_71_xs <br />
Biosphere 2 Project environmental research lab. Eating lunch of tilapia fish harvested from the Bioshphere 2 rice fields during a test phase prior to the sealing of the Biosphere.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. 1987
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