Less Info
Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download

One of the three brown bear (Ursos arctos) siblings at the Angoon city dump, Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska, USA.

It was always sad to see bears that had become so completely dependent on garbage dumps as their main source of food. The bears that had been feeding at dumps for a long time always looked very mangy, often with fur scorched by the fires in the dump and tape worms trailing from their backsides. There have been many attempts by the Unites States National Forest Service to re-locate dump bears, sometimes long distances by helicopter, but they frequently return to their convenient diners.

Filename
Alaska-wildlife-bearAlaska-wildlifeAlaska-wildlifeAlaska-bear11.jpg
Copyright
Duncan Murrell
Image Size
5549x3750 / 26.9MB
Contained in galleries
Bears, Moose and Wolves
It was always sad to see bears that had become so completely dependent on garbage dumps as their main source of food. The bears that had been feeding at dumps for a long time always looked very mangy, often with fur scorched by the fires in the dump and tape worms trailing from their backsides. There have been many attempts by the Unites States National Forest Service to re-locate dump bears, sometimes long distances by helicopter, but they frequently return to their convenient diners.