Two 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.
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- Copyright
- Duncan Murrell
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- Contained in galleries
- Bears, Moose and Wolves