Waiting For Lunch
Alaska Brown Bear watching over the Silver Salmon Creek, waiting for a sign of salmon to feed her and her cubs that are impatiently waiting behind her.
The Alaska Peninsula brown bear (Ursus arctos gyas) is a subspecies of brown bear that lives in the coastal regions of southern Alaska. Generally speaking there are two types of brown bears classifications in North America, the coastal brown bear and the inland grizzly bear; these two types broadly define the range of sizes of all brown bear subspecies. These subspecies are defined mostly by habit and isolation which causes subtle differences in the bears appearance
Alaska Peninsula brown bears are a very large brown bear subspecies, usually ranging in weight from 800 to 1,200 pounds (363 to 544 kg).They are found in high densities along the southern Alaskan coast due not only to the large amount of clams and sedge grass but also to the annual salmon runs; this allows them to attain huge sizes, some of the biggest in the world.
