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| Alaska's salmon-swatting bears caught on HD live stream | |
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| It's an encounter relived every summer through the ages: thousand of salmon swimming furiously upstream towards their spawning grounds – and the brown bear lying in wait to swat them out of the water and devour them. | It's an encounter relived every summer through the ages: thousand of salmon swimming furiously upstream towards their spawning grounds – and the brown bear lying in wait to swat them out of the water and devour them. |
| Only now, the meeting between fish and bear is captured on nine HD cameras streaming live video from Brooks river in Alaska's Katmai national park. | |
| About 70 bears are believed to be within a mile of the falls, and early footage from the cameras showed bears furiously batting salmon out of the water, and eating them up tail first, before repairing to digest off-camera. | About 70 bears are believed to be within a mile of the falls, and early footage from the cameras showed bears furiously batting salmon out of the water, and eating them up tail first, before repairing to digest off-camera. |
| Organisers hope for the first time to record the entire salmon run, from the frenzied dash upstream in July through the autumn months. | Organisers hope for the first time to record the entire salmon run, from the frenzied dash upstream in July through the autumn months. |
| The camera network was set up by explore.org, a project of the Annenberg family foundations. It is powered by a combination of solar panels, wind energy and battery packs. | The camera network was set up by explore.org, a project of the Annenberg family foundations. It is powered by a combination of solar panels, wind energy and battery packs. |
| Some of the cameras can be operated by remote control. which explore.org said would allow volunteers to pan or zoom on the bear-salmon action. | Some of the cameras can be operated by remote control. which explore.org said would allow volunteers to pan or zoom on the bear-salmon action. |
| "the challenge is to keep the network up and stable" in a remote area with no electricity, said spokesperson Jason Damata. | "the challenge is to keep the network up and stable" in a remote area with no electricity, said spokesperson Jason Damata. |
| Broadcasts will go out through July, as the fish make their way upstream past the waiting bears, and again in September, when they return from the spawning grounds. | Broadcasts will go out through July, as the fish make their way upstream past the waiting bears, and again in September, when they return from the spawning grounds. |
| Explore.org has carried out similar projects, setting up cameras at puffin nesting spots off Maine and polar bear grounds in Churchill, Manitoba. | Explore.org has carried out similar projects, setting up cameras at puffin nesting spots off Maine and polar bear grounds in Churchill, Manitoba. |