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Brown bear mom and 2 cubs resting in the estuaries sawgrass. Keep walking, and you will be welcome for lunch.
A coastal brown bear staring at the small group of photographers wondering what all the fuss was about.
Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
This Coastal Brown Bear was cooling down on a very warm day by lying in some shallow water, when something caught its attention. Not for long however. He settled back down right after this shot was taken.
Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Best viewed enlarged.
Today starts a non-themed series on my photo stream. The only thing the next few posts will have in common is that I will pick them randomly based on what moves me each morning.
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At the head of Turnagain Arm near Portage Alaska is the Alaska Wildlife Center that is basically a rescue operation for wildlife that has been orphaned or injured.
I was very surprised to see that their brown bears were still up and about and hadn't called it a year. I was told that the weather has been so warm they haven't decided hibernate yet (of course bears are not true hibernators and actually fall into a Torpor when they den up for winter).
This blond phase coastal brown bear was patrolling a stretch of river in search of its next salmon meal. Katmai National Park, Alaska.
Fishing for salmon to feed the nippers, she had three young in tow.
Sliver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park. Alaska
A recent shower and some evening sun gives this young female coastal brown bear (Ursus arctos) a soft a cuddly look!
A brown bear takes a stroll in the spring sun at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Girdwood Alaska. If anyone travels to Alaska, this is a must stop. It is not a zoo, but rather a rehabilitation center where wild animals brought to heal wounds. Some are released back into the wild while others will stay at the center for the rest of their life. Located at 79 mile Seward Highway, a scenic drive south of Anchorage, one can spend the day there among Alaskan wildlife.
I was recently at Katmai, hoping to photograph brown bears fishing for salmon. That and cubs is about the best photography there is. So maybe I'm projecting a bit with this caption as the salmon were far and few between, the berries ripe and no fishing bears to be found.
Tidbit: Brown bears are grizzlies that live near the coasts. They have more abundant food sources than grizzlies in the lower 48 and thus are less likely to view humans as a source of protien. Kodiak Brown Bears have been classified as a subspeicies in their own right. They can grow the largest due to their even more abundant food sources. And yes, Brown Bears and Polar Bears have produced young. Here's a bit copied form Wikipedia:
A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also pizzly bear, polizzly, prizzly bear, pizzly-grizzly, nanulak, Polar-Grizz[citation needed], or grolar bear[1][2]) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a unique-looking bear that had been shot near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic.
I'm parti\al to the name "grolar" and would love to see one in the wild.