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BROTHER BEARS

Two bear cubs play in a forest of the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Your Shot photographer Volodymyr Burdiak says he wasn’t expecting to see them emerge from the bushes, and he had only a few seconds to get this photograph before they ran back into the woods with their mother.
PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLODYMYR BURDIAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT