Unexpected vision on the cliffs of Glacier Bay

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Roaming through the observation deck of the arc of the sea lion as it was located in front of the glacier Lamplugh 8 mile-long Glacier Bay National Park of Alaska, something unexpectedly caught the eye Fox WWF Member Dennis.

Turn off the side of the ship's voyage ??????, just above the line of vegetation on the cliffs ?"????? John Hopkins on Fox saw shadowy movement. He grabbed his binoculars, zeroed subject: brown bear ???????? perilously steep walk uphill, rocky cliff.

The bear came out of the rough vegetation, walk up the part of the mountain more smoother. He shuffled across the open space, seemingly walk slightly but clearly on the job, the space in front of it.

He was ?????? for wildflowers – probably screw, lousewort.With extreme precision, the bear climbed higher and higher, reaching a point where the walls too inhospitable Rocky similar cost report. But the bear, stretching across the rocks lumbered, digging his nails into its snout ?????? and extending beyond the limits of the seemingly get his, only to pluck one tiny yellow flower.

Fox could save the sight of himself for too long. He pointed out the bear some naturalists, which in turn alerted the captain that there was something remarkable to see, so the captain turned the boat while quietly whispered Word spread among the passengers 55 of the presence of a bear.Although small in heart attacks, calving Glacier would have to wait.

"Walking on rocks and eat flowers and berries in extreme ?????? bear," said one onboard naturalists, Doug Gualtieri."It would be very tedious to make your life this way."

The behavior is not very common, yet she probably coastal brown bear is saved during a recent WWF coast Wilderness expedition Alaska Tour apparently did in the past, in an effort to meet the very specific purpose.

And this purpose is much eat?.. it all bears think summer: finding food. while waiting for critical salmon, Cedar proteins come up the River during the summer peak, bear rely on Alaska shoreline grasses, intertidal zones, barnacles, grasses and flowers, berries, nuts, new seeds, even ground squirrels and mice.

Although that persecution of nutrition, bears not take such terrain without to think through the risks. in this case, it is likely the bear knew exactly what he was getting into – and getting around these flowers were equal ?????? ???????.

Look for brown bears foraging for Alaska in 2011: WWF

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