Brown Bear Directory

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Two Kodiak females going at each other.

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Kodiak female teaches her cub how to fish

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Kodiak female with a broken right ear.

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view up from within an (abandoned) Kodiak brown bear den. 1974.

Most Kodiak bears will sleep in their dens throughout the winter, emerging in April-June. Female bears give birth to their cubs in the den during January and February. The mother and cubs usually emerge latest, around the end of May and early June.

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Pictured is a winter bear den with Refuge Manager Hensel showing the relative size of the entrance. 


Bear cubs are born in the den during the months of January and February. Weighing in at less than a pound at birth, they will remain in the den for several months nursing before emerging around May or June. 

photo: winter den entrance
credit: USFWS Reply