A brown bear hunts for fish in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge on an island off the southern coast of Alaska. A male Kodiak brown bear can rear up some 10 feet (3 meters) and, at 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms), move at speeds as high as 35 miles (56 kilometers) an hour.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "On Television," January 1994, National Geographic magazine)
George F. Mobley
