Labrador mix alerts his owner, a fisheries technician, to the presence of brown bears while he works salmon streams.

Brown bears adopt various hunting tactics, from pinning the salmon down in shallow water or waiting to seize them as they leap upstream to stealing catches off other bears. A large, successful bear ...

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: ...