Meanwhile, some bears are fishing salmon out of a river in Alaska

#Bearcam may just be the best thing ever. Explore.org has two hi-def webcams turned on in Alaska's Brooks River in Katmai National Park. More than a hundred Brown Bears gather along a mile long stretch of Brooks River there each year, to pig out on the world's largest Sockeye Salmon run. And now, we get to watch the whole thing online. (via @gregmitchell)

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I ♥ bears.
http://www.edmstudio.com futnuh

Pretty sure the bear in the background, the one sitting alone in the river, is just a human dressed in a bear rug …
Bob K.

“The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very very badly” http://www.despair.com/ambition.html
xzzy

Also a nice reminder of how long sunlight is up there. Pitch black where I’m at, it’s still full day on the camera.
- Paul Renault
  
  Imagine how long the nights are, in Winter.
brerrabbit23

I am going to Alaska, where the animals can kill you,
but they do so in silence, as though if no-one hears them,
then it really won’t matter. I am going to Alaska.
They tell me that it’s perfect for my purposes.
rob_cornelius

the Olympic opening ceremony will have to be bloody good to compete with this…
robotbiker

Is anyone else getting OBJECT_TYPE_CONFUSION network virus alerts when following this link? (I’m using Trend Micro Titanium security)
thequickbrownfox

Why don’t fishermen just stand there with nets and catch the salmon?

Oh yeah, the bears.
http://twitter.com/tadasyoyolt Tadas Jelinek

Best live public webcam I’ve ever seen…
ahecht

I was watching a bit last night. It wasn’t the bears that amazed me, it was the giant flying bugs swarming the camera.
Gary61

Ehrmagurd! Buurrrs!
bobkat

Some days you eat the bar… and some days, well, the bar eats you.
- bobkat
  
  This is really awesome. I just watched for 10 minutes and saw a bear catch and eat a salmon, and then another bear charged over and they had a big confrontation in the middle of the river! Love it.