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A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals. Animals with more specific designations are also listed.
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 ...
Though long extirpated from the state, the grizzly bear remains the official state mammal of California. This is a list of mammals in California, including both current and recently historical inhabitants. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) monitors certain species and subspecies of special concern. These are mammals whose ...
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California's perception of the grizzly bear is wrong, according to new research. The grizzly bear was, for the most part, a vegetarian. California's grizzlies: gargantuan, dangerous meat-lovers.
In addition to the California condor, the Bitter Creek Refuge provides grassland, oak woodland, chaparral, pinion pine/juniper/oak woodland, and riparian and wetland habitat for federally listed endangered San Joaquin kit fox, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, giant kangaroo rat, and species of Federal concern such as the western spadefoot toad, the western horned lizard and the tri-colored blackbird.
Scientists have identified three new species of giant kangaroo that lived from 5 million to 40,000 years ago, one of which is around double the size of the biggest kangaroos alive today.
American black bear: Ursus americanus: North America: T(S/A) Baluchistan bear: Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus: Iran, Pakistan: E Brown bear: Ursus arctos arctos: Palearctic: E Blue bear: Ursus arctos pruinosus: China (Tibet) E Grizzly bear: Ursus arctos horribilis: Holarctic: T Louisiana black bear: Ursus americanus luteolus