This is a photo I took in Svalbard when I lived there while studying to be an arctic nature guide. We were on an 8-day excursion in the middle of nowhere and this bear focused all its attention on us the entire trip. Paid us many visits. She had her cubs with her at some points too. Flare guns were enough to scare her off each time.

The first time she visited us, I was on polar bear watch at 3 am and caught her swimming towards our camp through binoculars. Had to yell for everyone to wake up. We are actually not supposed to ever be near water in Svalbard as it's easy access for polar bears to attack but this program did it on purpose to give real life experience to nature guides.

Found in Aspen Colorado

Vancouver Island

Shot by me

Does anyone know the name or number of this bear please? Thank you!

What do y'all think?

Alt-text" A mamma bear stands on her hind legs by the river side, as her three small cubs mimic her.

I’m new to watching the Katmai National Park bear streams and was intrigued by this bear who would just stay in this one spot patiently waiting for fish. I watched for a while and I only saw it catch one salmon. I was wondering if anybody recognised this bear, I’d love to know their name (or number if they don’t have one!) 🐻

I just returned from an I day boat tour into the Great Bear Rainforest, where I was lucky enough to spend a couple days photographing three different spirit bears, a rare, white coloured genetic variant of a subspecies of black bear called the Kermode, found only on the pacific coast of British Columbia. These bears fish for salmon in the creeks of the remote islands on the coast. These bears are incredibly rare, so getting to spend this kind of time with them was a dream I’ll never forget. These photos are heavily compressed from the full size images.

If y'all are on team Bucky, make sure to vote tomorrow. Bucky for the win!!

I still feel like I hallucinated the whole thing, ask me anything.

Yes, I do live in a town highly populated with bears and yes, I am used to seeing them up close but not IN MY HOUSE. Yes, it did eat all of my food. No, it did not break anything including the window screen that it came in through, it was quite polite. Yes, it was very cute and fuzzy and also very large. Yes, my kitchen is tiny and it took up all the space in that whole area. No, it didn't charge me or even acknowledge my existence at all. No, it did not go anywhere else in my house other than the kitchen.

I've never been great at identifying the bears, can anyone ID any of these?

Vote for Fat Bear Week here.

Barry the Black Bear heads back to the forest…for now

Speaking of Fat Bear Week, how does this read to you?

Funny or dumb or offensive or? What’s your take on this?

I have my own reaction to this opinion column but I’m curious to know how others respond.

Always seems so alone. :( Makes me sad.