{"id":374,"date":"2007-08-27T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/brown-bear-digging-for-clams\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:37:10","slug":"brown-bear-digging-for-clams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/brown-bear-digging-for-clams.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of a Brown Bear Digging For Clams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting behaviors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/coastal_brown_bear_photo.html\">coastal brown bears<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_arctos\">Ursus arctos<\/a><\/em>) 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=19224\" title=\"Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at e...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/brown-bear-clamming-photo-19224-197316.jpg\" alt=\"Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide, Ursus arctos, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska\" title=\"Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide, Ursus arctos, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=19224\">19224<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_bear_photo.html\" title=\"Brown bear photos\">Brown bear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_arctos\" title=\"Ursus arctos photos\"><i>Ursus arctos<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=lake_clark_national_park&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Lake Clark National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Alaska<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,152,180,93,103,134],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alaska","7":"category-brown-bear","8":"category-lake-clark","9":"category-national-parks","10":"category-photo-of-the-day","11":"category-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}