Grizzly Bear

A grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) near Fish Creek (Hyder, Alaska).

In a way it was almost painful that she trusted the tiny group of people present so much that she did not even look at us and eventually just started fishing just a dozen or so meters away from us. Why? Because she runs a very real risk of being shot just a bit farther away by pleasure hunters and have her head mounted on a wall, or her skin as a rug in front of a hearth somewhere. And yet that trust...

If bears are supposed to be aggressive and dangerous killers of people, this one certainly didn't learn her lesson well. Neither did all other bears that I have met over the past years. Possibly they would have much more right to call our species aggressive and dangerous killers..