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Tiny black bear cub smelling wildflowers.
Historically, black bears occupied the majority of North America's forested regions. Today, they are primarily limited to sparsely settled, forested areas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bl...
It's the first bear I saw into the Wild! Motivating me to go to encounter bigger ones and then grizzlis. I haven't faced a grizzli yet, but black and brown bears. It's always nice (but also dangerous I confess), to encounter wild animals, and it gives a lot of emotion when I photograph them. It's different from zoos etc, but risks are differents too... I hope that you like this one! Take care
Spotted on Jun 25, 2010
Submitted on Aug 2, 2013
8 Comments
Thank you Marta!
I had not seen him until now. Really cute!
Thank you Kat and all the ones who liked this little buddy
FLUFFY! (:
Btw, sometime they smell, sometime they eat them!
Hehe, I was just thinking about to write that I was keeping an eye on the surroundings... for the mum... being in alert on every single branch crack...
Thank you Suzanne and Debbie for your nice comments!
Yes I really prefer to see animals into the Wild, but sometime it's a long hike for 'nothing' :/
Funny recent story, I hiked for 40km in one day in the Rockies, hoping to photograph grizzli bears. I saw none... the only bears I saw, was a big black bear mom and her almost as big 'cub', along the road when I was driving!
Note: it was my longuest hike ever. I'm not quite sure that I can do it many days in a row! :)
Bears smell flowers. Who knew? Verra-verra nice spotting, Frederic ... where was mom?
Brilliant spotting Frederic! You;re definitely right about wild animals being much nicer to see in the wild :-)