Grizzly Bears Fishing for Salmon in Alaska
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Join wildlife photographer Max Goldberg watching grizzly bears fishing for salmon in Alaska. Enjoy more of his photos of wild grizzly bears here.
By Max Goldberg
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Watching the grizzly bears fishing for salmon in Alaska was quite an entertaining experience for me, as I had never seen anything like this in my life. I got to see the whole process: catching the salmon, skinning the fish and eating the brains (those are the fattiest parts), and getting back to the falls to do it again. I will admit that the sound the bears made when they were ripping the fish apart was slightly disgusting, but cool at the same time.
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Usually, after a bear would catch a salmon, it would take its catch to calmer water or to the river bank. Sometimes, the bears would eat the salmon right where they caught them; after eating nothing but grass for the past few months, why wait a second longer to eat delicious salmon?
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Watching bears catch salmon is definitely not for anyone with a weak stomach. Besides the gruesome sounds, there are bright red guts flying everywhere as the bears tear into the salmon. Good thing at this point I hadn’t eaten lunch!
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My favorite part of photographing the bears catching salmon was laughing at the expression of the salmon right before or right after they got caught. They seemed to have a “What have I done?” face in every shot.
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The grizzly bears seemed to be putting on a show for us! Every time they caught salmon, they turned toward the cameras as if to say, “Look what I caught!” Both the photographers and the bears were having fun. Only the salmon were not having fun.
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