Photo: A mother polar bear and her cubs

A mother polar bear plays with her four cubs on an ice floe near Arctic Bay on Sept. 28. It’s unusual to see a bear with more than two cubs. “Many of us sort of became tourists and got our cameras out, for we witnessed something rare—a polar bear with four cubs,” said photographer Niore Ikalukjuaq. (PHOTO BY NIORE IQALUKJUAQ)