Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), Denali National Park, Alaska
An adult grizzly makes its way through the ground cover in Denali National Park. For a much better brown-bear picture see the photostream of Chuck Starr ! All brown bears in North America are often described as grizzlies but in fact the grizzly is just one subspecies of the holarctically distributed brown bear, and not the largest; that honour goes to the Kodiak bear of Kodiak Island off the south coast of Alaska; its size is attributed to a diet containing a high proportion of fish, which are lacking in the meagre, silt-filled streams of the Alaska Range. The ground cover here beyond the tree-line consists of dwarf birch, dwarf willow, and ericaceous plants such as blueberries, crowberries etc., all able to survive the severe winters at this latitude. The bear's winter strategy is of course to hibernate. From a slide.
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Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), Denali National Park, Alaska
An adult grizzly makes its way through the ground cover in Denali National Park. For a much better brown-bear picture see the photostream of Chuck Starr ! All brown bears in North America are often described as grizzlies but in fact the grizzly is just one subspecies of the holarctically distributed brown bear, and not the largest; that honour goes to the Kodiak bear of Kodiak Island off the south coast of Alaska; its size is attributed to a diet containing a high proportion of fish, which are lacking in the meagre, silt-filled streams of the Alaska Range. The ground cover here beyond the tree-line consists of dwarf birch, dwarf willow, and ericaceous plants such as blueberries, crowberries etc., all able to survive the severe winters at this latitude. The bear's winter strategy is of course to hibernate. From a slide.
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