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14 images Created 15 Mar 2012

Photos of Alaska's Anchorage area and the Glenn Highway include: Knik & Matanuska Glacier views, Pioneer Ridge hike, Alaska Zoo animals, snowy owl, polar bear, brown bear (grizzly), Dall sheep, musk ox, map.

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  • The Snowy Owl is a powerful arctic predator, active during the day from dawn to dusk. Visit the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Snowy Owls (also known as Arctic owl, Great White owl, or harfang des neiges in French) nest in the Arctic tundra of the northermost stretches of Alaska, Canada, and Eurasia. They winter south through Canada and northern Eurasia, with irruptions occurring further south in some years. The Snowy Owl is a large bird of prey with a rounded head, yellow eyes, black bill, and heavily feathered feet.. The adult male is virtually pure white, but females and young birds have some dark scalloping; the young are heavily barred, and dark spotting may even predominate. It was formerly regarded as the sole member of a genus (Nyctea scandiaca), but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data (Olsen et al. 2002) shows that it is very closely related to the horned owls in the genus Bubo, so it is now called Bubo scandiacus. It is the official bird of Quebec. Snowy Owl calls are varied, but the alarm call is a barking, almost quacking krek-krek; the female also has a softer mewling pyee-pyee or prek-prek. The song is a deep repeated gawh.
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  • A white Dall sheep grows large curved horns at the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) are native to northwestern North America. The sheep inhabit the subarctic mountain ranges of Alaska, the Yukon Territory, the Mackenzie Mountains in the western Northwest Territories, and northern British Columbia.
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  • A white Dall sheep grows large curved horns at the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) are native to northwestern North America. The sheep inhabit the subarctic mountain ranges of Alaska, the Yukon Territory, the Mackenzie Mountains in the western Northwest Territories, and northern British Columbia.
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  • A brown bear (called a grizzly in the Lower 48) strides over a log in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is an omnivorous mammal of the order Carnivora, found across northern Eurasia (including Russia and Scandinavia) and North America. The easiest place to see brown bears in the wild is by taking the bus on the Denali National Park Road in Alaska.
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  • A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Polar bears live mostly within the Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, and surrounding land. It is the world's largest land carnivore and the largest bear, together with the similar sized Kodiak Bear. Published in the book "On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear" by Richard Ellis 2009, from Alfred A. Knopf and Random House.
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  • A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Polar bears live mostly within the Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, and surrounding land. It is the world's largest land carnivore and the largest bear, together with the similar sized Kodiak Bear.
    06AK_8046-Polar-bear_Alaska-Zoo.jpg
  • A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Polar bears live mostly within the Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, and surrounding land. It is the world's largest land carnivore and the largest bear, together with the similar sized Kodiak Bear.
    06AK_8052-Polar-bear_Alaska-Zoo.jpg
  • Musk ox in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
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  • Young musk ox. The Musk Ox Farm near Palmer makes a worthwhile visit at Glenn Highway milepost 50, in Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
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  • The Musk Ox Farm near Palmer makes a worthwhile visit at Glenn Highway milepost 50, in Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
    06AK_6098-Musk-ox-farm.jpg
  • The Musk Ox Farm near Palmer makes a worthwhile visit at Glenn Highway milepost 50, in Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
    06AK_6094-Musk-ox-farm.jpg
  • A poisonous Amanita muscaria mushroom grows in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. A mushroom is the fruiting body of fungi.
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  • Two yellow mushrooms grow tall in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. A mushroom is the fruiting body of fungi.
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  • South Central Alaska map, USA, 24 days by RV (Recreational Vehicle) including Anchorage, Denali National Park and Preserve Park Road, Mount McKinley flightseeing from Talkeetna, Parks Highway, Kenai Peninsula, Sterling Highway, College & Harriman Fjords cruise from Whittier, Seward, Homer, Glenn Highway, Richardson Highway, Valdez, McCarthy, Wrangell Mountains, Fairbanks, North Pole.
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