Grizzly Bears: The Drama of the Alaskan Salmon Run | Alaska 🌎 🇺🇸 | Wild Travel | Robert E Fuller
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- During the Alaskan salmon run, grizzly bears concentrate on the rivers in huge numbers. But as they group to hunt the cubs must be protected.
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Grizzly bears
Grizzly bears are among the world’s largest land predators. These animals are perfectly adapted to their environment with keen eyesight, an acute sense of smell and incredible strength and power.
Katmai National Park
I flew to Katmai National Park to see the bears as they feasted on red salmon, known as sockeyes. These fish swim in from the pacific ocean each summer to reach their breeding grounds.In places, the river is pink with salmon.
Salmon feast
Salmon are a vital food source for grizzly bears. They are rich in fats and high in calories. Just one fish provides around 4,500 calories, and they can eat over 20 a day. That’s a staggering 100,000 calories, 40 times what I eat!
Bear salmon hunt
During the salmon season grizzly bears go into a phase of hyperphagia; which means they have an insatiable appetite, but never feel full. This drives their need to continually feed and helps them build the fat reserves they need to get through winter hibernations.
Hunting techniques
I watched up to eight bears at any one time and quickly noticed their individual hunting techniques. One would hold his paw up just before he dashed into the water, whilst another preferred to stay up on the bank with her cub as she watched the salmon, ready to pounce.
Salmon glut
Because the salmon are so abundant; the bears can afford to be selective. They prefer female fish for their nutrient rich eggs and can easily tell them apart since the males have larger heads and a hump on their backs. The bears only eat the fattiest parts of the fish, but there are always gulls to swallow what they discard so nothing goes to waste.
Grizzly bear cubs
Mother bears can have as many as four bear cubs, but two is the norm. Born in winter, they spend their first months tucked away in a den before emerging in spring. Grizzly bear cubs will spend their first two years with their mother, before setting off on their own. In their first year, these youngsters will grow 10 times their spring weight.
Males are a threat to the cubs
Male bears sometimes kill cubs to force the females into oestrus. The mother bears are therefore wary and tend to keep their cubs away from the rest of the hunting bears. Watch the film to see one mother bear quickly call her two young away when she spots two males approach.
It’s been a real privilege to spend time out here with the bears… and I can’t wait to come back to Alaska, to experience this again!
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انا اعشق السكا انا لجء سوري في لبنان اعيش كم كنت أود أن اعيش في الولايات المتحدة ولكن الظروف لا تسعدني لانني لجء
I've always loved the Grizzlies. They're the last animals I expected to see on this channel. Thanks for going so far out of your way to include them.
More to come!
I have traveled to every Continent in the world watching wildlife mainly taking photos for my paintings and as a group leader and guide but love to do video work as well to make films films do you want to see more from around the world 🌎
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I like your local videos enough to watch them regularly as is, but I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at more foreign ventures
I’d love to see more from around the world AND from your beautiful home, I love your videos no matter where you are! The more the better! XXXX
@@RobertEFuller Yes please!
Never thought grizzly bears were this cool! It really is such a privilege to see these bears up close.
They really are majestic creatures!
Go to Katmai National Park in Alaska during the salmon run and you'll see the bears. They are magnificent. The bears usually show up in late June (with July being the peak season for viewing) and are there through the first part of Aug. Then they take a break and head to some of other creeks in the area and go back to the Brooks River in late Aug early Sept and will remain there until they head up the mts for hibernation. Great viewing platforms for viewing.
Yes, it is so fascinating. Some of the rangers refer to their hunting and eating habits as 'high grading', as you pointed out the bears eat the head, the skin, and the eggs, and most of the time discard the rest of the fish. Puts things into perspective too for anybody who may have ever caught a salmon. Sometimes it takes 10-20 minutes to land one of those amazing fish, and these bears catch them in their mouths and just swipe them out of the river with their claws. Amazing!
Yes it depends on the bear and the quality of the fish they eat as to which bit of the salmon they eat there are young unexpected bears that are just glad to catch one and eat everything and they mop up after the other bears eating what they leave
@@RobertEFuller One of the coolest things to me is that the bears can smell the difference between male and female fish from above the water. It would be difficult to come up with a better example of the circle of life than the dance at Katmai. So cool you got to see it. Great footage too! Cheers!
Love the bears and their cubs.
They are so adorable I have traveled all over the world but this is well up there as one of my favourite trips
I wish I had done such a trip when I was younger. All wildlife is interesting but the bears are so different from our modern day fauna in the UK. Lovely to see so many healthy, unfarmed salmon too. How pink they are! Of course the bear cubs are so-o appealing; I love their big feet! Thank you Robert for some more great camera work.
Thanks for watching bears are amazing to watch and yes those cubs were adorable ☺️
True, never seen such a pink salmon
Amazing Robert, thank you so much for sharing and all you do for our wildlife, also an incredible artist. I’ve learned so much from you. Never stop what you do……thank you xxxxxxx
Thanks for watching and kind words 😃
I could watch this event a thousand times. Never gets old.
BBC has nothing on you Robert! You are both so valuable to spread awareness and education. Thank you.
Oh thanks 😊 we are always are trying to improve what we do here so nice it’s appreciated 😊
Another gem, Robert and thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
They look so different when wet. All furry. Very awesome to see this. Alot of seagulls as well hanging about for scraps. Very beautiful. This was definitely a special sighting tysm Robert ❣
Thanks 😊 I was amazed how different they looked when they were dry too they were all individuals different colours sizes hair length just fabulous to watch them
I lived in Alaska for 5 years stationed at Fort Richardson, and loved it!
All videos are excellent. Very good job. Thanks Mr Robert
Thanks glad you liked this one I just love Bears 🐻 they are all individuals
OH ROBERT I'm so HAPPY you got to experience a dream come true!! ❤ You do so much for Wildlife Preservation you deserve to go seek out wildlife you've always wanted to see!! I'm so proud of you 👏 👍 And I can't wait to see the paintings you're going to do having gone there!!! AWESOME documentary!! Thank you so very much sharing with us your experience with the grizzlies. We're they big?
They were big alright and when you are just a few meters away they look even bigger Thanks for your kind words 😁
@@RobertEFuller 😳😳👍🤩
What a privilege to witness such a wonderful event. Bears are my favourite animals xx
Bears are incredible ! my favourite thing about them is they were all Individuals and all looked so different 🐻
The film is educational, narrated so well by you, and beautiful music score. It's truly a privileged to view the Alaskan brown bear interactions during the salmon run. The footage is astonishing. I'm happy that you got the opportunity to visit. It was a thrill of my life to view as I reside in USA. Thank you for choosing to Alaska! Exceptional documentary!
Blessed man!! Trip of a lifetime, I bet.
Excellent nature🌿🍃 lovely nature and life! ✨ Great job ! Thanks lots for beautiful sharing 🌹🌹🌹my dear friend stay safe 💞
Thanks 😊 I felt very safe around the bears 🐻 they only have fish on there mind at that time of year and have no interest in people, there is so much talk about wildlife being dangerous which is so exaggerated the most dangerous animals is man !
as usual top quality images and entertaining commentary, I'm soooo envious 😃
Thanks again!
I can't believe you kept this video in the can for so long. How exciting to be so close to the bears. These bears only have fish on their minds and they were oblivious to all the watchers.
Got a trip planned later this year, so there's more coming soon!
Yes the Bears only have salmon on their minds I felt very safe around them there is so much said about how dangerous they are but it’s more dangerous crossing a road
@@RobertEFuller You should try setting up some remote cameras before they wake up so you can get up close and personal. Maybe set up a camera on an r/c crawler. Change the truck body for something that looks like a rock with moss.
Back ground music reminds me of song that goes listen to the wind blows ❤😊
Many thanks for these outstanding shots! Wonderful the pictures with Mama Bear with her cubs! Hopefully they all got enough fish to fill them up! Too bad for the salmon, but good for the bears! But that's Mother Nature! - All the best and thanks again for these great pictures! Many greetings from Germany!
Thanks it looks a bit gruesome at times for the salmon but plenty make it past the salmon to spawn
Awesome!
Is is amazing. Ty for sharing 🙏
What an amazing video , thank you so very much for sharing again ! Fantastic to see the bears! Their way of catching the fish is great! They never miss !!!! I understand you had a great time there !
It was an Incredible trip to Alaska the bears are all Individuals
Wow Bob Wow! Good for you getting up to the Brooks! I've been stuck on the 48 continental states for 20 years. One of these days! Was that Holly, and I'm thinking Lo might have been one of her cub's names? The return of Otis last summer was one of the highlights of recent memory. He is magnificent, and a well deserving Fat Bear Champion. Shout out to Mike Fitz and the Katmai and Explore.org team! To be brutally honest, it is these bears that drew my attention away from your property. It's hard to get more exciting than brown bears and salmon of this abundance. Still, I feel like you are doing the best work out there for someone who is basically recording his backyard. Really appreciate all you do! Thanks for this!
Thanks for your kind words brooks falls is amazing place for sure. but I prefer to be walking with the bears in the rivers instead of a board walk’s
@@RobertEFuller I hear that! Like I said, I haven't been there. I'm the same way. In the bush as the Canadians or the English may call it, opposed to the pre approved beaten path. Cheers!
Holly is not on the video.
Thank you. Fantastic movie. Whaooo. 👍👍👍👍👍🇸🇪
Beautiful animals and landscapes!! Great job. Robert
Thanks we 😃
I grew up in Alaska and witnessed this every spring as well as standing on the edge of the Kodiak and ship creek, and the kenia peninsula fishing kings and pinks… was a different way of life than the lower 48… I miss it… thanks for the reminder and triggering my old memories
It’s an amazing place and amazing wildlife
Truly an outstanding spectacle. The fish is also remarkable. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
So beautiful
Amazing video!!! Your channel is so underrated, videos like this should get millions of views😁
Tell everyone to watch a few million view’s would be nice 😊
@@RobertEFuller I sure will!
Amazing footage filled with fun facts … thank you !
as usual , lovely episode Robert!
Yoo new salmon run looks good i cant believe you get to play as mr grizz
Goodness, another beautifully crafted film. I love all the detail you have included about their behaviour. Yes, please do share some more of your other travels around the world to study wildlife. Thank you Robert 🙏💚
Will do more coming
I have just been to the French Alp’s filming the amazing wildlife that lives there !
@@RobertEFuller yes, filming ibex and golden eagles? Sounds very exciting. I believe you said on the chat that you were near Chamonix.
Excellent camwork by Robert "Bobby" Fuller
This is wonderful! Such beautiful animals, and the life cycle and importance of the salmon to many species in Alaska is fascinating.
What a wonderful film of the bears. Alaska is great to visit I was there in 2018 visited a sanctuary that cared for birds that could no longer live in the wild
On my bucket list to fish in the Kings river in Alaska..❤
bears are one of my favorite animals! so stoked to see bears featured on this channel let's go
Do you want to see some Black Bears next I have been to film them too
Wow that last shot was a great catch!
They are so skilled being able to catch the slippery fish
I watch that Alaskan live river salmon bear vid....love bears
Thank you Robert for another stunning video.👏🏼👏🏼
I lived in Alaska as a child, and the array of animals that I saw was incredible… and will not soon be forgotten.
Alaska is an amazing place can’t wait to go back there 😃
Beautiful grizzly bear
What an incredible journey to observe Bears in Alaska!!!!!! I Appreciate you for sharing this Special time with the bears!!! I Enjoyed!!!!😃🤗💕
Great 👍 glad you enjoyed it it brings it all back to me too 😃
Thank you for sharing such wonderful sites.
No problem it’s a pleasure 🐻
I just 🤎 BIG BRUTAL BROWN BULKY #BEARS🐻.
Just awesome bears, thanks for sharing this.
Glad you enjoyed it 😄
How wonderful seeing you in the US filming grizzlies!!! You were so close it was scary 😬😬 I love bears and wolves so much. We only have black bears here in South Carolina and red wolves of which the red wolves are extremely endangered. Wonderful film!
The bears are very much focused on eating as many salmon as possible they have little interest in humans, So not scary at all just simply amazing to be so close to such magnificent creatures !
The main thing is not to surprise them especially a female and cubs 😄
انتي فتاة جميلة جدا احب ان اتعرف عليكي
I never can catch fish like these bear ,so cool
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Thanks for watching and commenting on every video on my channel 👍
Two places I need to visit before I die: Alaska, and Fullerdale’s scenery
😃 yes Alaska is amazing
Please make your videos longer. They're lovely to watch.
Thanks for watching and feedback we are developing my channel all the time and will do some longer videos
Amazing footage!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks 😊
I was reading about the bears of Katmai last night. It was great to see your videos of them.
Glad that you enjoyed my film.
Krásne !
This is great. Chris Morgan is someone who does terrific work on the lives of bears.
Thank you for this its so amazing to watch
Another kind of fun fact is it's the only mammal born at such a small itty bitty size to grow within five six years to be up to 1500 lb if you you know Kodiak Island and as well as you know polar bears some grizzly bears.
Birds are enjoying too with bears and sharing fishes.😊
Nice filming... I always like to watch quality Wild Life in reels...
Glad you enjoyed
What amazes me is how the birds are just chilling along side the bears while the rat and hunt the fish without being afraid of the bears.😂
I love how the grizzly bears and seagulls completely ignore each other
Love bears thank you for sharing
They are Great ! 🐻 thanks for for watching
You have the most amazing life, thank you for sharing it with us :)
I know exactly where you are. I watch the WildEarth live-streams on TH-cam. Brilliant that you actually got to go there!
Yes the water fall with the bears is Brook Falls
Absolutely beautiful backdrop!! Robert blends in so well with the Alaskan scenery. I'm also very shocked to know there are seagulls living in Alaska forests....I thought they preferred beach scenery or coastline cities
The gulls are there just because the salmon bears are there were ever there is food there is birds and animals to take advantage of it !
in the olden days it was said you could walk across the backs of the salmon without getting your feet wet during a salmon run, all the area wildlife take advantage of the brief abundance of food. during the salmon run even solitary animals tolerate others of their kind, ignoring the normal territorial boundaries and rules for the yearly feast where in all can eat their fill without any fear of hunger or running short on food. they don't need to defend resources during that time of brief abundance as there is more than enough for all.
If you look on the map, Katmai isn’t that far from the coast!
Does anyone else get a tiny envious at watching all that delicious salmon being devoured? 😋
As a little girl I wanted a grizzly friend who would throw my a salmon or 3 during the salmon run. 😂
FANTASTIC, TO SEE THE FISH FLY IN THE BEAR HIS BEAK. HE EATS FREE SUSSHI HERE AND MUCH, MORE FRESHER THAN IN THE RESTAURANT BEAUTIFUL FILM🐻🐟🌹🌱🌳
the raw power
I adore all bears, think they are all absolutely beautiful!
Feel as though you may be the next David Attenborough!
I grew up in Alaska. This is a treat!!
amazing video! what a treasure to actually see this in person
Yes very special to be there with the bears and salmon I feel very lucky to have been there 😁
Wonderful seeing the bears and cubs and learning more abt them. Lovely video 😊
Thanks 😊
So glad you enjoyed your trip to the Great White North! I was very surprised by the grizzly bear popping up on your channel, usually covering mostly birds. As someone living in Northern Canada it was an excellent surprise to see our big friend the Grizzly show up in my feed being covered by you. Keep up the awesome work Robert! Excited to see what you have to come!
P.s. I recently purchased one of your "little owls and beetle" prints! I have to say I'm throughly impressed!! Both in the talent of the painting itself and the care put into my purchase. 10/10! Expect more orders!
Thanks for all your kind words there will be more bears to come I have been to film coastal black bears too.
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Robert is there no end to your talent! This is truly magnificent footage of a fantastic wildlife spectacle, the editing, the captures, the compositions and exposures we are treated to here are really binge worthy of of any magnificent masterpiece of cinematography. Robert you are THE wildlife cameraman and environmentalist. You and Mr Attenborough NEED to get together. Thank you so much for sharing this Robert, cheers mate.👍
Thanks so much David I love what I do and so please so many of you appreciate the work and effort and knowledge that goes into my work. I have seen Mr Attenborough speak at a wildlife conference from the front row my hairs stood on end he is amazing 🤩
@@RobertEFuller you are too Robert 👍
Great video thanks 👍
thanksfully nothing goes to waste :)
Ohh nice work appreciate alot❤
*¡Esto es maravilloso! Animales tan hermosos, y el ciclo de vida y la importancia del salmón para muchas especies en Alaska es fascinante.*
Beautiful Alaska and animals. I’d love to go back and visit sometime. Thanks Robert for the lovely footage! I’m glad you stayed safe while filming. These bears can get very aggressive, especially a mom with cubs.
I felt no fear at all from the bears when the salmon run was on they only have eating as many salmon as they can. The day I filmed the mom and cubs I saw over 50 bears they were not interested in us at all
@@RobertEFuller that’s incredible!
Another great video and story
Glad you enjoyed it
YOU'VE GOT A BOSS SALMONID INCOMING. DO YOUR JOB!
Wow so beautiful
Love to watch these beautiful creatures ❤
You’ve got amazing content Robert 🙂! Your nature commentary is now officially ranked #2 after David Attenborough!
Really neat robert. thanks
Thanks for watching 😃
Gorgeous footage! We have black bears where I live (western NC). There's a mama bear with 3 legs (she can move very fast considering the missing front leg... assuming she was born with all her limbs and lost one in a trap or accident, she seems to have adjusted well) that lives nearby and the past few years she's come around with her cubs in the spring/summer looking for food. I've stopped putting birdseed out unless it's winter or only very small amounts at a time that the birds can eat quickly. We've encroached on their territory and sadly some people feed them on purpose and they get desensitized to humans (which is dangerous for us and them).
Thank you so much for this fantastic video! I loved it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
AMAZING!
Thanks 😊
At the beginning of the tape is Lefty at the falls, (Brooks Falls). The boar with the scar on his hip.
Beautiful video !
But now I'm hungry for Salmon's sashimis :S
Que afortunados esos osos pues yo nunca he probado el salmón
The Salmon face expression is golden to me. O/\O
Was a very cool insight!! Such a lovely video
Thanks 😊 glad you enjoyed it
Very very nice, thank you my brothers, mashallah Allah Hafez from India,22,03,2023.
Fascinating! Thank you.
Thanks for watching 😃
Didn't expect that! Wonderful to see!
I will bring you more videos from my travels now it’s getting easier travel I have just been to the French Alps filming wildlife
Wow!!