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Grizzlies fish for salmon in one of the best spots where the Ozernaya River flows into Kurilskoe Lake under the backdrop of a volcano.
Brown bears are not pack animals and an abundant food supply attracts them to the same place to hunt. The Kurilskoe Preserve is the model for poaching enforcement in all of Kamchatka. It is protected and the last wild place that produces all seven species of salmon.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
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- 6000x4186 / 143.8MB
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animal behavior, animals, anticipation, bears, brown bears, color image, commonwealth of independent states, day, fish, fishes, fishing, getty, hunting, hunting animals, image type, kamchatka, kamchatka peninsula, kurilskoye lake, kurilskoye lake preserve, lakes, looking down, low angle view, mammals, no people, one animal, outdoors, photography, predator, russia, russia (the country), salmon, salmon fish, searching, standing, underwater, underwater photography, unesco world heritage sites, ursus arctos, waiting, water
- Contained in galleries
- Kamchatka Salmon_ National Geographic Magazine 8/2009

