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![Image 3) An Arctic hare eating a piece of dried apple.](/web/20071115085937im_/http://www.nature.ca/ukaliq/elem/pop/images/P0305_min.jpg) |
Dried apple was the most successful bait used by the biologists when live-trapping Arctic hares for study.
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