Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for salmon

Grizzly bears are also called brown bears. Most of them indeed can be said to be a shade of brown, ranging from light blonde to dark chocolate. Very often the guardhairs have lighter tips, giving the bears a grizzled look. This bear, however, shows none of those characteristics. It is a relatively rare black grizzly. Pelage colour seems to corelate somewhat to habitat. All colour phases, from blonde to black can occur anywhere within the range, but lighter bears are more often found in more open areas while darker bears are more commonly associated with darker forested habitats. Very dark or black grizzlies seem to be most common along coastal forested areas.

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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