Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for salmon

A grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) in Fish Creek, near Hyder in Alaska. In this shallow creek the bears come in late summer and early autumn to fish for the plentiful salmon swimming upriver to spawn. Even though the season was at its end here, this female bear managed to catch what looks to me like a fair-sized chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta).

Articles on this website about the grizzly bears at fish creek:

Bears, cuddly or evil?-- There are two extremes to how people think about grizzly bears. One, amazingly enough, is that they are cuddly animals that you can pet and the other is that they are bloodthirsty monsters that kill for fun. Watching even just one bear at Fish Creek near Hyder in Alaska dispels both extremes... (Read more)

Bear hunting-- Bears are hardly ever killed for sustenance. Those hunting for bears almost always do so to get a nice trophy and for the thrill of killing something that is physically stronger than they are...(Read more)

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