This is a young sub-adult grizzly bear we named ‘Patch’ due to a thick clump of long dark fur that was always present on his back left leg. It didn’t matter how short his spring/summer coat was, this thick dark patch always stayed on his leg. He was a similar age to those two favourites JJ and Junior and he would often hang out with JJ, but rarely with Junior. There was a dominant adult bear, known by some as ‘Zeus‘, who seemed to have it in for Patch a lot more than some of the other young males in the area and on several occasions I observed him following Patch determinedly, as if fixed with the obsession of catching him.
