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One of my favorite places to fish is on the Kasilof River. During this time of year, the most common type of fish you will catch is the Coho Salmon which is more commonly known as the Silver Salmon. Silver salmon are used for sport and subsistence fishing. Lots of locals catch them and use their meat for canning, smoking, or just cooking the fillets. The eggs are also helpful as you can use salmon eggs as bait during certain times of the year. Adult Silver salmon can range in size but most are commonly caught around 8-12 pounds.

Drama. These guys all normally get along pretty well, but here a squirrel decided to start something and nearly got kicked in the head as reward. Moments later they were back to munching sunflower seeds side-by-side again.

Aka Bearded Capuchin. in 2004, they were the first non-ape primate in which tool usage was documented in the wild. They have strengthened back and leg muscles, enabling them to walk on hind legs while carrying the heavy stones used as hammers to crack nuts placed on hollowed worn stone anvils.

São Gonçalo do Gurguéia, Parnaiba Headwaters National Park, Piaui, Brazil

COHA and fox squirrel
The COHA was pouncing on the squirrel, not with the intent of hunting. Neither were vocalizing. COHA went down to the ground where the squirrel was, then went back up to the wire. The squirrel climbed up to the wire opposite the COHA and (belive it or not!) jumped over ONTO the COHA! They both wnet in circles back down to the ground, and the COHA again went chasing the squirrel. The alternated this activity!
Sorry, terrible pics, but that's what I witnessed this morning!
Associated with observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178078627

A friend of mine had set his backpack down on the beach while he went swimming in the ocean. Those of us still on the beach saw a huge baboon walking towards us. We all took a few steps back, but the monkey went straight for the backpack and started rustling through its contents. One of my professors through his flip-flops at it, but the baboon did not leave. Eventually, it dragged the pack up to the top of the sand dune. None of us were sure what to do to recover the bag. Suddenly, out of nowhere, an ostrich came running straight at the baboon (http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1198222). The baboon took off running down the beach, and the ostrich simply turned around and walked away.

Predators and prey - the eternal cycle of life and death in the Masai Mara. Two young male lions (brothers) stalked a herd of cape buffalo. The female stood her ground and they took her down. It was a confronting, slow and brutal death. She never gave up and nearly regained her feet but eventually sucumbed to the strength and persistance of the youngsters . Masai Mara, Kenya. Pam Osborn image.

Based on their tails, there are two O. h. h. x O. h. c. hybrids (intergrades) in this photo and one O. h. h.
But if one was to sample the DNA from these animals, there'd probably be significant introgression by Black Tailed genes in all of them. See comment by jnelson and paper by Latch et al in the thread below.

Was stalked by a cougar, felt like being watched heard noises from bushes while bird watching. Was looking at the pond when I spotted it, it was crawling lowly through the grass roughly 60 feet away. I was crouching using my scope so when I stood up it "ran" into the bushes, could hear bush noises for maybe a second then stopped, which meant that it was still there. Farm owner helped get me out of there.

Video

An unusual scene captured here (unusual for this part of the country anyway!). What appears to be our resident puma passing within about 15' of a female moose that has been in the area since late November. The cat can be heard drinking from the perennial spring flowing through this ravine location. Video clips within a minute or two show the moose not appearing too agitated before ambling off the other direction. 10-15mph prevailing west wind at this day/time would have taken any moose scent away from the cat's direction of travel, although winds/air movement down in these deep ravines are often more variable than in the nearby "open country."

[update 12.16: additional video from separate camera]