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[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I was thinking of human bears, perhaps Kodiak or polar. How do they keep themselves fed? I don't think it's by pack hunting.

Bill Stoddard

It's by swatting fish out of the rivers, for the Kodiaks. Plus eating berries.

A kodiak will eat 20-30 salmon's skins per day. Generally, they don't bother with the actual meat, just the fatty skin. Less efficient fishing bears will clean up the leftovers, as will ravens. They will also hijack wolf and lynx kills, if they can. If they happen to have an easy swat at a squirrel, I've seen Alaskan brown and black bears do so and gulp them down.

Oh, and raiding trash cans is another favorite food source for them.

Polars are solitary hunters... but HIGHLY effective.