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Kodiak bear
	A Kodiak bear at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ursidae
Genus:	Ursus
Species:	U. arctos
Subspecies:	U. a. middendorffi
Trinomial name
	Ursus arctos middendorffi; Merriam, 1896

The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), also called the Kodiak brown bear or the Alaskan brown bear is a suspecies of brown bear. It lives on the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska.^[2] It is the largest recognized subspecies of brown bear. It is one of the two largest bears alive today. The other largest bear is the polar bear.^[3]

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Media related to Kodiak Bear at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Ursus arctos middendorffi at Wikispecies

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