Alaskan brown bear

Alaskan Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos gyas) / Ours brun de la péninsule de l'Alaska / Image by jeffandangiephotography (Jeff and Angie Birmingham) from instagram

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We spent the better part of this morning searching for bears with no success. The fog was so thick, we knew the bears were all around us, but visibility was so low we couldn't locate one...

Large brown bear with its catch from the salmon run. In North America, coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos gyas) with access to marine food resources like salmon are generally larger than grizzlies, a brown bear subspecies that lives further inland.

Grizzly Bear close-up.

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