i love them c: my special interest is bears, especially brown bears; this blog is a place to let it run wild with endless bear reblogs. almost all posts are queued. katmai bear #128 grazer is objectively the best bear
Happy Wet Beast Wednesday! Here’s a sopping wet bear 503 catching a salmon.
[ID: a brown bear in the the rushing plunge pool of a waterfall. he dips his head under the water and comes up with a salmon in his mouth.]
854 Divot, the bear with the snare. This is another big name bear at Brooks, and she has quite a story. A few years back, she got caught in an illegal wolf snare. She pulled herself free, but the snare wire continued to tighten around her neck. A decision was made that the park staff would intervene, as it was a human caused injury; and happily Divot was able to be tranquilized and freed of the snare wire, while her yearling cub looked on. You can actually watch a video of her rescue here (cw injured animal; they do show the wound): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7sbqfgw8VI
Divot has gone on to thrive, and has had multiple litters of cubs since then, but she will forever bear the mark of the snare in the form of a scar ring around her neck.
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Baby brown bears, separated from their mother and unable to live in nature, have become the mascots of a rehabilitation centre in Karacabey, Bursa, Turkey, where they were taken under protection