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| Black bear on granite rock. This bear still has its thick, full winter coat, which will be shed soon with the approach of summer. Image ID: 18750 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear walking in a forest. 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: 18751 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear cub. Black bear cubs are typically born in January or February, weighing less than one pound at birth. Cubs are weaned between July and September and remain with their mother until the next winter. Image ID: 18752 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: 18762 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear portrait sitting in long grass. This bear still has its thick, full winter coat, which will be shed soon with the approach of summer. Black bears are omnivores and will find several foods to their liking in meadows, including grasses, herbs, fruits, and insects. Image ID: 18763 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Black bear portrait sitting in long grass. This bear still has its thick, full winter coat, which will be shed soon with the approach of summer. Black bears are omnivores and will find several foods to their liking in meadows, including grasses, herbs, fruits, and insects. Image ID: 18764 Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA |
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| 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: 19166 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for salmon returning from the ocean to Silver Salmon Creek. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19167 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams in sand flats at extreme low tide. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19168 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Coastal brown bear (grizzly bear) walks sedge grass meadow near Silver Salmon Creek. Image ID: 19169 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Young coastal brown bear in sedge grass meadow. Image ID: 19170 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Juvenile brown bears near Johnson River. Before reaching adulthood and competition for mating, it is common for juvenile brown bears to seek one another for companionship after leaving the security of their mothers. Image ID: 19171 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Johnson River, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Mature male brown bear boat walks in tall sedge grass. Image ID: 19172 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Young brown bear grazes in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Image ID: 19173 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear walks on tide flats. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19174 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Juvenile female brown bear forages for razor clams in sand flats at extreme low tide. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19175 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Mother and cub brown bear. Image ID: 19176 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bears fighting or sparring. These are likely young but sexually mature males that are simply mock fighting for practice. Image ID: 19177 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Mature male coastal brown bear boar waits on the tide flats at the mouth of Silver Salmon Creek for salmon to arrive. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19178 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear cubs. These cubs are one and a half years old and have yet to leave their mother. They will be on their own and have to fend for themselves next summer. Image ID: 19180 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Juvenile female brown bear forages for razor clams in sand flats at extreme low tide. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19182 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| 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: 19183 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear head profile. Image ID: 19184 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear mother sow and her three cubs, alert to the approach of another adult brown bear who may be a threat to the cubs. Image ID: 19185 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Brown bear female sow in sedge meadow, with her three spring cubs hidden by the deep grass next to her. These cubs were born earlier in the spring and will remain with their mother for almost two years, relying on her completely for their survival. Image ID: 19186 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: 19187 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for salmon returning from the ocean to Silver Salmon Creek. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19189 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Coastal brown bear forages for salmon returning from the ocean to Silver Salmon Creek. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19190 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear walks in Silver Salmon Creek. Image ID: 19191 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear digs in a nearly dry river bed for remains of salmon. Image ID: 19192 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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