Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for salmon

...Not wasting time, she walked to the shore and tore the big salmon to pieces and ate every last bit. As soon as she was finished, she started looking for the next fish. The bears seem almost insatiable just before winter, which has earned them a negative reputation as gluttons. However, if you keep in mind that an adult bear can lose up to a third of its body weight during hibernation, it is easy to understand that every single fish increases their chance of surviving the bitter winter a bit again.

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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