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(10-12-2014, 11:01 PM)'sanjay' Wrote: I have question, Is Kodiak and Coastal brown bears are different ? If yes which one is larger ?
The Coastal Brown Bears are just the overgrown Grizzly bears, and they are genetically identical to the Inland Grizzly Bears, just grow larger than their Inland cousins with the rich diet.
Whereas the Kodiak Bears descended from an earlier group of Brown Bear that migrated from Kamchatka.
The Grizzly Bears are closely related to the Amur/Manchurian Brown Bears, and the Kodiak Bears are closely related to the Kamchatkan Brown Bears.
Wow, that is very interesting. Could you put the source please?
It seems that like tigers, brown bears also lived several waves of "extinctions" and "reintroductions" in they evolutive history. Great data!
Brother Bear already has the information.
BTW, i see very little difference between the Manchurian Brown Bear and the American Grizzly Bear, and the genetic difference is between these two is probably as large as the difference between the Caspian Tiger and the Amur Tiger.
The "King" of the bears - comparison between the Polar bear and the Brown bear
