On Nov. 24, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was notified of a lone polar bear cub roaming the Prudhoe Bay area of Alaska. The Service sent a team of polar bear program biologists to the area to assess the situation. The team, in consultation with the Alaska Zoo veterinarian, made the difficult and […]
Taquka’angcuk—Bear Cub Taquka’angcum maamani malirqatuu’uraa.—The little bear is following its mama. The Kodiak Archipelago is home to an unusually dense population of brown bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi). Biologists believe that there are as many as 3,500 bears in the region, with the highest densities in southwest Kodiak Island. This large number of bears reflects both the […]
The identities of the two tour guides with UnCruise Adventures, who were mauled by a Brown Bear sow while guiding 22 tourists from the cruise ship Wilderness Explorer have been released by authorities on Monday. Alaska State Troopers identified the two tour guides as 41-year-old Anna Powers of Hawaii and 26-year-old Michael Justa of Juneau. […]