Before that, Wager Bay has too much ice to be visited by boat, and in the autumn the Inuit say: "During summertime, you may watch polar bears.

Pack Creek is one of three places in Alaska where people can readily watch brown bears.

The days are spent on the tundra watching bears and other wildlife.

Only viewers who visited the Frozen Planet website and stumbled across a video by the producer, Kathryn Jeffs, would have learned that they had been watching bears in captivity.

"We hope to bring tourists here to watch bears, too," she continued.

Great Bear Lodge is the perfect base for watching wild grizzly bears on British Columbia's Rain Coast.

Parenting plays a role, but watching bears shows that enterprise and opportunity play a part as well.

In 2005, Brugiroux completed his dream of seeing the whole world by watching polar bears in the bay at Churchill, Manitoba (Canada).

Crowds gathered to watch snow monkeys, red pandas, polar bears and sea lions.

A lover of all animals since he was a child, he traveled to Alaska to watch bears at the urging of a close friend.