A few minutes of hiking after seeing the mother bear, some hikers pointed out these bear cubs, one black and one brown. One of them called out constantly. I didn’t want to get close to the cubs, in part because I didn’t want to give Mom a reason to attack, but mostly because I didn’t want the cubs to start to think that being close to humans was a good idea.
Tagged: critters
Seen two days ago while hiking on the Mist Falls trail in Kings Canyon National Park.
Featured in 7 Reasons to Love LA for May 17 on LAist.
This gorgeous cat came over to visit us while we were staying with relatives a few weeks ago in Maryland.
UPDATE: Hooray! This cat was selected for today’s “Caturday” post at Jerry Coyne’s blog!
FURTHER UPDATE: At the aforementioned blog, reader Khalil identifies this as a marbled Bengal cat.
A water moccasin floats on the Alligator river in North Carolina