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Ursus arctos
Male Kamchatka Brown Bear at Kurile Lake, the second-largest sockeye salmon spawning ground in the world. I shot this at about 50mm; this guy was CLOSE and one of the meaner looking bears we met on the perimeter of the lake this day.
Anywhere you might find salmon in Kamchatka.
Spotted on Jul 24, 2010
Submitted on Sep 9, 2014
5 Comments
Congrats! This spotting has been chosen as PN Fact of the Day:
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Project Noah Fact of the Day: The brown bear is the most wide-ranging species of bear in the world, one of the most wide-ranging mammals on Earth and the largest land-based predator. There are currently 16 recognized subspecies of brown bear that includes the grizzly, Kodiak and Kamchatka brown bear. The Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) is the largest subspecies of brown bear in Europe and can be found on the Kamchatka and nearby islands in the former Soviet Union but also on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering sea.
Kamchatka Brown Bear spotted in Russian Federation by PN user ethan.smith:
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Welcome to Project Noah ethan.smith
Great first spotting,congrats and thanks for sharing
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Thanks Luis!
And Welcome to Project Noah!
Great shot Ethan!