A Brown Bear cub nurses at its mother’s breast

Cubs this size will eat both solid food and their mother’s milk while their mother slowly weans them. Their damp fur means they might have just come from fishing in a stream.

This photo was taken in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park, which supports a healthy grizzly population. Photographer Matt Shetzer leads trips where you can learn to take pictures of the many behaviors of grizzly bears.

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