Wet Polar Bear
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
With
their slightly webbed paws and powerful muscles, polar bears are
excellent swimmers. Their favorite meal is seals, but they will eat
anything they can catch, even scavenging through garbage in areas where
their habitat overlaps with humans.
Brown Bear Hunting
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A
brown bear hunts for fish in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge on an
island off the southern coast of Alaska. A male Kodiak brown bear can
rear up some 10 feet (3 meters) and, at 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms),
move at speeds as high as 35 miles (56 kilometers) an hour.View the Slideshow!
