Joel Sartore's Close Encounter.

A very cool photo from the talented Joel Sartore:

Separated from them by a yellow wire he thinks is an electric fence, Whopper the trained bear impresses some Boy Scouts. His trainer dreams of setting aside enough wild land in California so that the state animal can roam as it did before it disappeared from the state in the 1920s. (California, 1999)

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