Bears and Fish

Artist:  Harriet Peck Taylor  ​A mother bear introduces her cubs to salmon. Salmon carry ocean's riches upstream, nourishing forest creatures​ and trees​. In fresh water, ​young salmon ​eat insects (mayflies and caddis fly larvae), worms, and smaller fish. ​They then swim downstream to the ocean. There ​​salmon eat herring, shrimp, plankton, and krill.​ ​ ​After growing large and strong, salmon swim upstream to spawn. Then bears, bald eagles, kingfishers, herons, harbor seals, and river otters eat the ​salmon​. Birds and animals range about, spreading scat. After spawning, fish decompose and become nutrients ​for​ rivers, soils, and trees. When animals and plants die, their bodies ​also ​become nutrients. The caption reads "Bears and fish, the circle of life" Design #1706T 1706P 1706W