The United States of America abounds with beautiful scenery, amazing natural resources, and fascinating animals. One of these states is Alaska. Alaska has an amazing ecosystem that hold many creatures. The state of Alaska provides an abundant habitat for numerous species of mammals, fish, and birds. Many species of mammals reside in Alaska. One is of the bear species, the black bear. Black bears have a medium to heavy frame with large ears and powerful limbs. The black bear has a coat that can differentiate from brown, cinnamon, blond, grey-blue, and of course, black. They can adapt to their environment easily but are normally found in forested areas. It has a diet that consists of fruits, buds, berries, nut, insects, and food lest by humans. …show more content…
The brown bear have several races that are recognized, such as, Grizzly, Kodiak, Alaskan,and many more. All have the same features, such as, long claws, a distinctive shoulder hump, and a concave facial profile accompanied with small ears. They have white tips on their fur that give them a grizzled look. Brown bears are generally herbivores, eating grasses, roots, bulbs, tubers, berries, nuts, and salmon. The male brown bear weighs twice as much as the female brown bear, getting to be up to two thousand pounds. They can get as long as nine and three fourths feet (Clutton-Brock and Wilson …show more content…
Lake trouts have silver-like skin with small cream-yellow irregular spots. The males have a more pointed snout and are slightly longer. They can be recognized from other fish by their deeply forked tail. The maximum weight is one hundred and two pounds and the maximum age is sixty two years. They have a diet that is made up of zooplankton, insect larvae, small crustaceans, clams, snails, leeches, numerous kinds of fish, mice, shrews, and even young birds (¨All Animals¨ 2). Alaska is home to two breeds of eagle: bald and golden. The bald eagle is Alaska's largest bird of prey that has a wingspan of seven and a half feet and can weight up to forteen pounds. Unlike other animals, the female is larger than the males. Eagles use nests to lay and hatch eggs which will produce their young. However, not all young make it through the sibling rivalry and the weakest is killed. Fish are the main part of an eagles diet but they also eat clams, crabs, and small mammals (¨Wildlife in Alaska¨
Across the creek, on the creek flat, is a large white pine tree mixed among other deciduous trees. It is quite a ways away. About two thirds up the pine tree will be the large nest. The nest has been in this location for years. Each year the adult eagles add new materials to the nest in order to ready it for raising a new family.
So, since the Haast eagle’s mane food source was gone and nothing else was big enough to sustain it so it starved to death and went extinct.
The winter months test the eagles’ survival. Bald eagles feed on animal carcasses during the harsh winters of Yellowstone. Bald eagles form life long bonds and lay two to three eggs a year that hatch in the spring. Yellowstone’s bald eagles stay in the park year round (Nat'l Park Service U.S Dept. of the
The Kermode Bear The Kermode Bear is a different kind of black bear because it has a gene that normal black bears don’t have. This bear was mentioned in a book called Touching Spirit Bear.
The chum salmon, often call dog salmon, is the most widely spread species of pacific salmon. However, they are regarded as less desirable and used as dried meat. They feed on insect larvae and move to crustaceans, terrestrial insects and young herring while moving to the sea. Also, they eat copepods, tunicates mollusks and a variety of fish while at sea. They can be as long as twenty eight inches and weigh up to thirteen pounds with the males being larger than females (¨All Animals 2).
Today otters face other threats. Apart from disease epidemics, otters continue to be threatened by overharvest, interactions with fisheries (e.g. gear entanglements), oil spills and being prey to killer
For instance, a bear weighs around 500 to 900 lbs. Also bears can become around five feet long when a bear is full grown. Plus a bear 's paw exists to be around two feet long at the max. Also, they are one of the top ten largest mammals on earth. How Athletic a bear can achieve?
the Kermode bears the might look like a polar bear or an albino but
The grizzly bears adapt to their environment by hunting down their own food. They hunt down carcasses of caribou, moose calves, walruses, ground squirrels, and salmon as well
They can get as long as nine and three fourths feet (Clutton-Brock and Wilson
Bald eagles are found in many environments in the United States. Those environments include deserts, mountains, freshwater, and marine areas. Bald eagles are known to build very large nests in treetops and always near water. The main source of food for bald eagles is fish, but they will sometimes eat other small animals.
Alaska Alaska is known for its great lakes and rivers. The main advantage about Alaska is that majority of the fishing grounds are in the proximity of urban areas such as Kenai Peninsula and Fairmont. Some of the fish you could catch here include; trout, landlocked salmon, pike, burbot, grayling and the rare sheefish which is found towards the state’s interior Utah The most notable place that everybody wants to visit in Utah is the strawberry reservoir. Anglers here enjoy the predominant species known as rainbow trout.
Sea otters diet is mostly small marine life. Otters eat slow-moving fish, crabs, abalone, sea urchins, clams, mussels, and snails. They can also eat 25% to 30% of their weight. A large male may eat as much as 25 lb. of food
I. Introduction: Black bear is the smallest of the three species of bear, and is the only bear living in the eastern United States. Bears are very calm and independent animal. As a result they are usually lives in the wild. Black bear use forest as protection and food.
Through remarkable structural and physiological adaptations, polar bears are the most successful organisms living under the extreme conditions of the Arctic Circle. The polar bear (Ursus Martimus) is a flesh-eating