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Drip Dry for Katmai Brown Bears

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Katmai National Park and Preserve is home to over 2,200 brown bears (Ursus arctos). Bears that live along the Katmai coast are known to swim several miles across the ocean in search of marine mammal carcasses, marine invertebrates, and beach grasses. 

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Public Domain.

Photo taken by Laura McDuffie, U.S. Geological Survey

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