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The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), also known as the Kodiak brown bear and sometimes the Alaskan brown bear, inhabits the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska. [3] It is one of the largest recognized subspecies or population of the brown bear , and one of the two largest bears alive today, the other being the polar bear .
The Alaskan Peninsula provides an important habitat for fish, mammals, reptiles, and birds. At the top of the food chain are the bears. Alaska contains about 70% of the total North American brown bear population and the majority of the grizzly bears, as well as black bears and Kodiak bears.
The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole. The non-native mammals Sitka black-tailed deer , mountain goat , Roosevelt elk , caribou , marten , red squirrel , snowshoe hare , and beaver were introduced to the archipelago between the 1920s and 1950s and are now ...
Black bears didn't live in Alaska until the end of the last ice age. [18] Grizzly bear/Kodiak bear Ursus arctos ssp. Alaska contains about 98% of the U.S. brown bear population and 70% of the total North American population. [19] Brown bears can be found throughout the state, with the exclusion of some outlying islands. [19]
A pair of Kodiak bear cubs unique to a remote part of Alaska were found roaming the Florida Panhandle and the encounter got even stranger when they tried to play with the responding sheriff’s ...
Kodiak Island, hence its name, is another place to view bears. An estimated 3,500 Kodiak grizzly bears inhabit the island, 2,300 of these in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. [158] [159] The O'Malley River is considered the best place on Kodiak Island to view grizzly bears. [160]
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The state's propensity for lots of bears also attracts hunters and fuels economies in many rural areas, with more than 4,000 animals taken during the 2022 bear season − up 11% over 2021 figures ...