This Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) was the male initially courting the female at the time before the bear fight. Although a large, dominant bear we had encountered for several days in the area, he was beaten by the black coloured grizzly and left the area and the female to the victor.
As I indicated in the previous image, serious wounds are inflicted during these territorial scraps but in this case the bear was able to hobble away and was observed a number of days later alive and apparently doing okay.
This bear suffered a number of small punctures in the skin along with a cut, probably from the other bear's teeth along the neck (see saliva area) and several long gashes from the claws of the black coloured male grizzly on its back leg. Although quite dramatic in view, none of them appeared to be crippling to the loser.
Thus we see survival of the fittest in the natural world.
28 May, 2015.
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