Photo: Sled Puppies
Photo: Sled Puppies
Baffin Island, Canada, Sled Puppies, 1996, Photo of the Day, Picture, Photography, Wallpapers - National Geographic
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Sled Puppies, Baffin Island, Canada, 1996
Photograph by Nick Caloyianis
"'Drunk as a dog,' the Inuit like to say. The phrase comes from the behavior of sled dogs after they eat the raw flesh of Greenland sharks, which often contains a strong neurotoxin. One of the few ways to detoxify the flesh is to soak a dead shark in salt water for several days."
(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998,
National Geographic
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