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The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies [4] of the brown bear inhabiting North America. In addition to the mainland grizzly ( Ursus arctos horribilis ), other morphological forms of brown bear in North America are sometimes identified as grizzly bears.
The California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos californicus [3]), also known as the California golden bear, [4] is an extinct population of the brown bear, [5] generally known (together with other North American brown bear populations) as the grizzly bear. "Grizzly" could have meant "grizzled" – that is, with golden and grey tips of the hair ...
Possible hybridisation between different species of bear. An ursid hybrid is an animal with parents from two different species or subspecies of the bear family (Ursidae).Species and subspecies of bear known to have produced offspring with another bear species or subspecies include American black bears, grizzly bears, and polar bears, all of which are members of the genus Ursus.
On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you've got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state.
Also known as grolar bears, the hybrids usually share some characteristic of both species, which only diverged 500,000 to 600,000 years ago. Also known as grolar bears, the hybrids usually share ...
It appears as the name of a bear in a story by P. T. Barnum. [3] Additionally, Theodore Roosevelt referred to a grizzly bear by the same name in his 1885 book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, when discussing a bear in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. This indicates that the name "Old Ephraim" was commonly used in various regions of the American ...
A reporter for Montana Public Broadcasting Service called to ask my opinion about removing grizzly bears from the Endangered Species list. If grizzlies are delisted, the state of Montana will ...
Bears of northern regions, including the American black bear and the grizzly bear, hibernate in the winter. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] During hibernation, the bear's metabolism slows down, its body temperature decreases slightly, and its heart rate slows from a normal value of 55 to just 9 beats per minute. [ 112 ]