Canadian Rockies Wildlife

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Canadian Rockies

Wildlife of the Canadian Rockies
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We encountered abundant wildlife throughout British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies. In the national parks, the animals seemed (unfortunately) quite used to humans and paid little attention to people peeping at them.

Grizzly bear (!) foraging for food along the dirt road to Bowron Lakes	Moose after taking a swim in half-frozen Maligne Lake near Jasper	Mountain goat walking by the Icefields Parkway
Male Big Horn Sheep sitting in the Maligne Canyon lot	Female Big Horn Sheep	Very cute baby Big Horn
Elk were common throughout the Jasper area	Mule deer	Caribou grazing in seasonally dry Medicine Lake
Local Jasper ground squirrel (notice the little flat tail)	Chipmunk along the Icefields Parkway	Finally, we saw a black bear and cub, south of Whistler on the way back to Vancouver