I was thrilled to see another sow with dark
brown yearling cubs working the riffles for bright red salmon as the morning sun broke through the clouds to light up the river.
Not exact matches
But Bruce Lyon of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Erick Greene of the University of Montana in Missoula wondered why, then,
yearling male lazuli buntings were so variable in color, with some birds almost as dull as the all -
brown females and others as splendid as the full - grown males.
These sightings included individual black bears and sows with very young cubs and
yearlings, also grizzly
brown bears, large males and sows with
yearling cubs!
After all, Holly could've been merely tolerating the
yearling's close proximity and adoption in
brown bears is very rare.