Brown Bear
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| Brown Bear Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Recent |
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| A Brown Bear | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ursus |
| Species: | U. arctos |
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| Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) range map. | |
A Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear of the Ursidae family. Brown bears live mostly across northern North America and Eurasia.
Brown bears can weigh 130–700 kg (300–1500 pounds). It is the national animal of Finland.
Taxonomy [change]
There are several Brown Bear subspecies.
- Species Ursus arctos
- Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
- Siberian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus); Siberia
- Golden Bear (Ursus arctos californicus) †
- Atlas Bear (Ursus arctos crowtheri) †
- Gobi Bear (Ursus arctos gobiensis); Mongolia
- Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis); Canada and United States
- Himalayan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus); Nepal and North India
- Carpathian Bear (Ursus arctos formicarius)
- Marsican Bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus); Central Italy
- Kodiak Bear or Alaskan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi); Kodiak, Afognak, Suyak, Admiralty, Chicagof, Baranof Islands (Alaska), plus other islands in southeastern Alaska and along the mainland coast of southeastern Alaska
- Mexican Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos nelsoni) †
- Tibetan Blue Bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus); Western China
- Syrian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos syriacus); Middle East
- Hokkaido Brown Bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis); Japan
Image gallery [change]
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A Grizzly Bear.
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A Kodiak Bear.
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A Syrian Brown Bear.
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