A spirit bear of the Great Bear Rainforest spotted one early fall morning checking out the trees on the edge of a clearing looking for crab apples. Wild apples and other fruits are a favourite supplement to the diet of bears when available and of course by the fall here on the BC coast, filling up on salmon is their main food source, with fruit as a tasty alternative, but farther inland fruits can make up a larger part of their pre-hibernation diet. See also – Scrumping Kermode.
