Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos)

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VITALS

Common Name: Grizzly bear.

Also known as: Silvertip, Bear That Walks Like a Man, Old Ephraim.

Names of some local forms: Golden bear ( California, gone by the 1920s ), yellow bear ( Mackenzie region, Canada ), Toklat grizzly ( interior Alaska; light gold coat with chocolate feet ), brownie/big brown bear ( coastal British Columbia and Alaska ), Kodiak ( Kodiak Island, Alaska ).

VITALS continued: Scientific Name: Ursus arctos horribilis. The species Ursus arctos, called the brown bear, is distributed around the Northern Hemisphere. Eurasian populations occur from Scandinavia to Russia's Pacific shores and as far south as northern India, Iran, and Spain. North America has a variety of identifiable races and ecotypes. Most experts classify them together as the subspecies horribilis. This includes the big bears of Kodiak Island and brown bears of the Pacific mainland coast, as well as the interior brown bears whose fur more often has the frosted, or grizzled, appearance that gave rise to the label "grizzly". It is a common and accepted practice to refer to all New World brown bears as "Grizzly". Reply