In Focus: Stolen Slumber
- National Geographic,
In Vancouver Island's temperate rainforests, black bears use cavities in old-growth trees as hibernation dens. But as industrial logging has claimed most of these giants, bears like this one, photographed with a camera trap by National Geographic Explorer Ryan Tidman, sometimes curl up on the stumps. Tidman says the animals use this spot as a "summer daybed," where they might snooze after fishing for salmon.
