A brown bear hunts for fish in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge on an island off the southern coast of Alaska. A male Kodiak brown bear can rear up 10 feet (3 meters) and, at 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms), roll along at speeds as high as 35 miles (56 kilometers) an hour.
—Photograph from, and text adapted from, "On Television," January 1994, National Geographic magazine
