Season for arctic animals arrives

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Visitors look at a polar bear at Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Nov. 11, 2014, at the start of the zoo's wintertime operation lasting until April 7, 2015.

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