Grizzly Horseplay
by Allen Beatty
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Grizzly Horseplay
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Allen Beatty
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Photograph - Photographs
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Grizzly bears are icons of the wilderness: beautiful, powerful, sometimes fearsome, but also vulnerable. Grizzly bears once occurred from the Mississippi River west to the Pacific Ocean, and from northern Mexico up to the northern coast of Alaska. Eating a variety of foods,plants, roots, berries, pine nuts, insects, fish (especially salmon), rodents, and occasionally large animals like elk and moose. They are able to live in diverse habitats including grasslands, forests, and mountains.
But human developments and activities like livestock grazing, mining, and hunting caused their demise from 98 percent of their historic range in the continental United States and reduced grizzly populations in Canada as well. In 1975, grizzly bear populations in the western U.S. were listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Recently, the grizzly population in and around Yellowstone National Park was de-listed thanks to many conservation measures that allowed this emblematic group of bears to recover. Here we see a pair of grizzlies engaging in some horseplay at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
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June 22nd, 2015
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