There are 3 people wading through the river downstream a bit. Not sure I'd want to be that close.
Nice find 🙂
@houndlegs have seen footage before from Alaska with people very close, bears only interested in the salmon
Not sure I'd want to be that close.
The camera compresses it and they are actually farther away than it looks. Visitor rules are you never approach any closer to a bear than 50 yards.
Have seen many a fisherman back slowly & carefully away when a bear wanders down the river.
In all the years that Brooks Camp has existed, I think there have only been a couple of minor injuries in bear/people confrontations (usually people being stupid). Park Rangers are on duty, dispersed around the camp, falls area and trails to keep things under control.
All visitors have to go through a bear orientation upon arrival.
Pretty hard to completely avoid the bears as there are an estimated 2200 bears in Katmai NP, although only a small number of those frequent Brooks River and Falls.
NOW!!!
Bison
Walrus who're rather noisy.
@cinnamon girl
You had asked the other day how many salmon the brown bears eat in a day and yesterday one of the NP Rangers spent some time observing one of the big males and he ate 37 fish in the space of a few hours. That's about 185 pounds of fish and 148,000 calories. Would take a lot of MTB to work that off 😀
That's a mad stat!! 148000 calories? I love this app - such a beautiful place, even without the bears and fish... I check 'my Bears' every day at the moment... Think I've become obsessed
busydog - 37 fish in a few hours? Blimey!! Apparently 100 bears descend on this particular stretch of water every year so there's clearly sufficient for them to feed on, nevertheless that's a hell of a lot of salmon!
So happy to have seen a bison although only from the back and side, was on its own too. There's a few hundred of them in the park.
Totally addictive. 😀
Tuned in, saw a bear - and then it caught a salmon in the first few minutes... ace!
This wins the internetz.
cinnamon girl---it is one hell of a meal, but the big males weigh between 700 and 900 lbs now and will weigh over 1000 lbs by fall and time to go to the den
Baby bears! Hanging around left of shot. Looks like they are watching mum.
Just had to watch Grizzly Man again... kinda wished that I hadn't now 😕
Bison with a passenger! Camera is pretty close. 8)
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Bison is on top of camera. 😯
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/plains-bison-grasslands-national-park-cam-2
