brown bear and cub (Alaska)

Normally, I only post postcards that have been mailed to me, but I’ll make an exception here for this fantastic lenticular postcard, especially one so beautiful as this! Furthermore, Yutian got it while she was in remote Alaska so it was particularly challenging to find stamps and a postbox.

Massive omnivores weighing between 600 and 900 pounds, brown bears eat everything from large mammals to fish, birds, nuts, tubers and rodents. Litters of one to four pups are born in their mother’s winter den while she hibernates. A pronounced hump, enormous claws and brown color distinguish brown bears, also called Grizzlies, from black bears.