Brown bear (Ursus arctos) also known as a grizzly, feasts on sockeye salmon, ...

Brown bear (Ursus arctos) also known as a grizzly, feasts on sockeye salmon, which is a fundamental drama in Kamchatka's still largely intact ecosystem. Salmon—pink, chum, sockeye, coho, chinook, and masu—flood the waters that typically solitary brown bears crowd together to feed at Kuril Lake. Bears need to eat about 40 fish a day to put on weight to make it through the winter. Brown bears in Kamchatka can be 7 to 9 feet in length and weigh 700-800 pounds. Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears in the world; Kamchatka, Russia
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