Photo of a Brown Bear Digging For Clams

Photo of a Brown Bear Digging For Clams, Natural History Photography Blog

Photo of a Brown Bear Digging For Clams

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Latitude: 59° 59' 27.21" N, Longitude: 152° 38' 21.06" W, Coord: 59.990892°, -152.63919°
Filed under: Alaska, Brown Bear, Lake Clark, National Parks, Photo of the Day, Wildlife on 8/27/2007

One of the interesting behaviors of coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos) is their interest in eating razor clams. Negative low tides expose broad tide flats along the Cook Inlet coast. Brown bears are quite tuned to the timing of these low tides and will arrive at the beach shortly before the tide flats are exposed. Working alone, each bear will sniff around and look for clam vents in the sand before digging up a razor clam and eating it, repeating the process for hours.

Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide., Ursus arctos, Copyright Phillip Colla, image #19224, all rights reserved worldwide.

Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide. Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA.
Image: 19224
Species: Ursus arctos
Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA

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