Salmon-hunting brown bears overrun this country ... Here a bear had caught a fish and sprawled at full length in the willows to eat it. The bear’s heavy body had smashed down the growth to form the ...

For the approximately 500 brown bears that inhabit the area, pink salmon are an essential food source in late summer. Most bears lose weight in summer because there are not enough plants to eat.

The battle to be the plumpest predator was delayed after a younger male brown bear killed an older female while hunting for salmon on Monday ... then began eating his fallen adversary, later ...

Females are half to three-quarters as heavy as males. HABITAT: Kenai Peninsula brown bears frequent salmon streams and berry patches in the summer and fall and over-winter in mountainside dens. RANGE: ...