BEARS

Black Bears feeding on Salmon

Across the water from Ucluelet on the Pacific Rim of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

I found about a dozen Black Bears coming down from the forest, looking food. They found plenty of Salmon near to, and escaping from a Salmon farm which was situated a kilometre or two off the Hwy., down an unpaved road through the forest.

The Brown Coloured Back Bears Feed on tiny berries, gently picking them from staging bushes. I’ve found them along a back road on the way to Jasper in Alberta. They are efficient berry-eaters, consuming up to 30,000 berries a day in a good year. They gather berries quickly, using their sensitive, mobile lips and swallowing them whole.  The berries enter a two-part stomach, which grinds the pulp off the seeds.

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