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This momma grizzly bear I always thought of as the Queen of the Khutzeymateen, on the northern BC coast, when I visited earlier this year. She was the mother of the two yearling cubs (see Khutz cub) that had done an excellent job in raising them and she always stood proud and alert to everything that was going on around her. She did not flee on our arrival, but the smell of the large male bear – that took a good 5 minutes to arrive on the scene – quickly had her senses alert and she sent the cubs in to hiding up a tree in the bush.
