Artist: Sean Neilson

Bears will occasionally stand up. This often appears more threatening than it actually is. In most cases they stand up to get a better view. By getting up like this, the bear was able to identify the strange sounds coming from behind the bush where I was standing. Because I was downwind of this bear, she was unable to smell me, which would normally be her first alert system, as bear's have significantly more sensitive olfactory senses than vision, with respect to our own. Here she peers out at me inquisitively, but only for a moment.