Wild Alaska

The short summer
This 45 minute DVD deals with Alaska's wildlife only in the summer. It has scene selection and English subtitles for the deaf.
Much of the emphasis is on the bears of Alaska; hardly anything is mentioned about salmon, except as food for the bears. We see how polar bears swim in the summer and do not eat, since they hunt on the ice and it is gone. The film even ends with bears benefiting from what is left over from the Bowhead whale hunt.

There is one scene showing a wolf hunting and catching a squirrel and a mink catching and eating the claw of a Dungeness crab. Some mention is made of the incredible growth of flowers and caribou are included along with the pestering insects. The seabirds and eagles are also given some descriptions of what they do in the summer months.
This is not a film for the very young or squeamish unless you want them to see bears mating and a Native America hunt of the bowhead whale where the cutting of blubber and gushing of blood is...





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