When Mama Bear waded into the Unganik River that runs through Kodiak Island, she was surrounded by salmon heading upriver to spawn. She spied the prize, the dark spot in front of her right leg, and kept her eye on it, drooling a bit, perhaps in anticipation of her next meal. When she turned to pounce, the salmon escaped her grasp. No prize this time but the blood on her snout indicates she had recently been more successful.