Sound Gallery - Bear with cubs

Female brown bear and cub (Ursus arctos) at Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve in Alaska

NPS Photo by K. Jalone

• Bear with cubs

  
  

  Sound recording of mother bear and cubs, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

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  Audio Transcript

  Bear cubs make mewling, crying noises.

Spectrogram of a mother bear and cubs. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right.

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