Ailsa Bernard, Hungry Cubs (ANIMAL & NATURE 2023)

What a privilege to witness a brown bear feeding her young just metres from me on a beach in Alaska. Another female bear had made an approach, unsettling the young, so mum chased her off and then to calm both herself and the cubs she lay on her back to breast feed them. The bears were unconcerned with the presence of any people nearby.

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