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| Guadalupe fur seals, floating upside down underwater over a rocky reef covered with golden kelp at Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 02113 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Guadalupe fur seal, floating upside down under the ocean's surface at Guadalupe Island, watching the photographer and looking for passing predators. Image ID: 02114 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Alaskan brown bear catching a jumping salmon, Brooks Falls. Image ID: 17031 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| A large, old brown bear (grizzly bear) wades across Brooks River. Coastal and near-coastal brown bears in Alaska can live to 25 years of age, weigh up to 1400 lbs and stand over 9 feet tall. Image ID: 17039 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA | Full grown, mature male coastal brown bear boar (grizzly bear) in sedge grass meadows. Image ID: 19134 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Portrait of a young brown bear, pausing while grazing in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Image ID: 19135 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa. Image ID: 01611 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 02158 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sea lion underwater. Image ID: 27418 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea. Image ID: 26315 Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Black bear walking in a grassy meadow. Black bears can live 25 years or more, and range in color from deepest black to chocolate and cinnamon brown. Adult males typically weigh up to 600 pounds. Adult females weight up to 400 pounds and reach sexual maturity at 3 or 4 years of age. Adults stand about 3' tall at the shoulder. Image ID: 18744 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | California sea lion and diver consider each other, underwater in the clear ocean water of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 02251 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Guadalupe fur seal pup sits on brown rocks along the coastline of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 02441 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A northern elephant seal hovers underwater over a rocky bottom along the coastline of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 03505 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Bull elephant seal exits the water to retake his position on the beach. He shows considerable scarring on his chest and proboscis from many winters fighting other males for territory and rights to a harem of females. Sandy beach rookery, winter, Central California. Image ID: 15458 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Mountain lion, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. Image ID: 15791 Species: Mountain lion, Puma concolor | Coyote, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. Image ID: 15879 Species: Coyote, Canis latrans | Two mature brown bears fight to establish hierarchy and fishing rights. Image ID: 17036 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Brown bear waits for salmon at Brooks Falls. Blurring of the water is caused by a long shutter speed. Brooks River. Image ID: 17047 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA | Black bear walking in a grassy meadow. Black bears can live 25 years or more, and range in color from deepest black to chocolate and cinnamon brown. Adult males typically weigh up to 600 pounds. Adult females weight up to 400 pounds and reach sexual maturity at 3 or 4 years of age. Adults stand about 3' tall at the shoulder. Image ID: 18741 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear walking in a grassy meadow. Black bears can live 25 years or more, and range in color from deepest black to chocolate and cinnamon brown. Adult males typically weigh up to 600 pounds. Adult females weight up to 400 pounds and reach sexual maturity at 3 or 4 years of age. Adults stand about 3' tall at the shoulder. Image ID: 18743 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA |
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| Black bear in a tree. Black bears are expert tree climbers and will ascend trees if they sense danger or the approach of larger bears, to seek a place to rest, or to get a view of their surroundings. Image ID: 18745 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear cub in a tree. Mother bears will often send their cubs up into the safety of a tree if larger bears (who might seek to injure the cubs) are nearby. Black bears have sharp claws and, in spite of their size, are expert tree climbers. Image ID: 18746 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear in a tree. Black bears are expert tree climbers and will ascend trees if they sense danger or the approach of larger bears, to seek a place to rest, or to get a view of their surroundings. Image ID: 18747 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA |
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| Black bear walking in a grassy meadow. Black bears can live 25 years or more, and range in color from deepest black to chocolate and cinnamon brown. Adult males typically weigh up to 600 pounds. Adult females weight up to 400 pounds and reach sexual maturity at 3 or 4 years of age. Adults stand about 3' tall at the shoulder. Image ID: 18748 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear walking in a grassy meadow. Black bears can live 25 years or more, and range in color from deepest black to chocolate and cinnamon brown. Adult males typically weigh up to 600 pounds. Adult females weight up to 400 pounds and reach sexual maturity at 3 or 4 years of age. Adults stand about 3' tall at the shoulder. Image ID: 18749 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Brown bear walks on tide flats. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19136 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Juvenile female coastal brown bear (grizzly bear) grazes on sedge grass. Image ID: 19137 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19138 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | A brown bear mother (sow) stands in tall sedge grass to look for other approaching bears that may be a threat to her cubs. Image ID: 19139 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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