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Brown Bear: North America
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There are about 200,000 brown bears in the world. The largest populations are in Russia, with 120,000, the United States, with 32,500, and Canada with 21,750. 95% of the brown bear population in the United States is in Alaska, though in the West they are repopulating slowly but steadily along the Rockies and plains. Much smaller populations, ranging in the hundreds, are ... present in countries such as Mexico. In Europe, there are 14,000 brown bears in ten separate fragmented populations, from Spain to Russia and from Scandinavia in the north to Romania and Bulgaria in the south. They are extinct in the British Isles, extremely threatened or extinct in France, and in trouble over most of Central Europe.
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The brown bear ... shared North America with the American lion and Smilodon, carnivorous competitors. The modern grizzly can eat plants, insects, carrion, and small and large animals. The American lion, Smilodon, and giant short-faced bear had a more limited range of food, making them vulnerable to starvation as the supply of available large mammals decreased, possibly due to hunting by humans.
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This is a smaller brown bear, considerably paler in color than the Eurasian brown, with a coarser and sparser coat. Includes the following races: syriacus (Lebanon), schmitzi (Palestine), meridionalis (Caucasus), lasistanicus (Black Sea coast), caucasicus, dinniki, smirnovi (Caucasus), and persicus (northern Iran).The color varies from pale straw to dull grayish-brown, with a large dark brown patch of long hair on the withers and sometimes a rather wide dorsal stripe extending back from it. There may be a dark brown patch on the head and sometimes there is a white collar. The claws are straighter and lighter in color than in northern races. Smaller, lighter colored bears tend to occur at higher altitudes, with larger and darker bears in the forests below.
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Brown bears make a loud roar when injured, but they normally warn other bears and people with “huffing”: chomping or clacking sounds made with their teeth. They almost always avoid dangerous encounters with people. In most of their North American range, brown bears are relatively secure, but they are threatened in Europe.
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Although the name grizzly bear is sometimes used to refer to all brown bears, grizzly actually refers to one subspecies in the northwestern interior of North America. Members of the subspecies that range throughout coastal Alaska and western Canada are known as Kodiak bears; those on Alaska’s Kodiak Archipelago are ... called Kodiak bears. On the Eurasian land mass, brown bears extend from Norway to the Siberian peninsula and as far south as Greece and Iraq.
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In North America the population of Brown bears is declining at an alarming rate with only 40,000 to 50,000 Brown bears still in existence. They have been effectively eliminated from 48 US states and remaining populations are distributed between western Canada and Alaska.
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