Brown bears, Alaska

Summer up north belongs to the bears. When the sun reigns, so do the brown bears of Alaska in the United States – like this mother and cub in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 418 kilometres southwest of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city. Also known as grizzly bears, brown bears fit a year of living into the summer months, foraging, feasting, frolicking, fighting and mating under skies of nearly perpetual daylight.
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