Bears like the heavyweight contenders of Fat Bear Week are clearly eating plenty of salmon. But a recent study shows they also spend a lot of time picking berries, even when they could be eating fish instead.
: We know that salmon are just a wonderful resource, and so we were watching streams that were a kilometer long and just pool after pool after pool of salmon and just maybe six, seven inches of water, so easily catchable. And what we saw were bears that would come in and eat, certainly, they would come in and eat salmon. But we just hypothesized that they would eat salmon, go to shore, sleep it off, come in, eat more salmon and just do 24 hours of that.
Charles Robbins, a professor of biology and director of research at Washington State University’s Bear Center, bottle-feeds a young brown bear cub named Kio, while Robbins’ dog Mandy looks on. : One popular one right now is Adak. He won’t defend the food that we feed him. And so even small females will take his food away. He’s kind of an un-grizzly grizzly bear. So we kind of cheer for him. And hopefully someday he’ll grow up.: He does. He needs to learn how to be a grizzly bear.
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