Anybody ever have a grizzly encounter?

[Arcticdude]

Really applies only to female polar bears having cubs from what I understand.

I've seen polar bears with and without cubs all winter. The sow will stash her very young cubs when she's out hunting. So it is possible that all the polar bears I've seen were sows.

 

[Tactical Lever]

Grizzlies and Kodiak's are subspecies of the Brown Bear.

That is more or less what I was scratching around at, but to figure out which one is the subspecies of which you would have to establish which one has the most amount of genetic information.

More than likely it is the brown bear.

 

[Gazrok]

Rightly or wrongly, we always called them Kodiak brown bears....

 

[Tactical Lever]

Rightly or wrongly, we always called them Kodiak brown bears....

I usually hear one term or the other, but seeing as how those are the Kodiak Island bears, I don't find anything wrong with it.

Always wanted to take one of those big brutes with my (Marlin) Guide Gun.

 

[Maverick]

I just read Washington State and conservationist is wanting to introduce more Grizzlies to the Cascades, wanting to restore to 19th century levels... stupid people

1895 grizzly kill 6 miles from my property, 383 hides in one year taken in the Cascades just north of me. It would be a travesty for both bear and man to restore to 19th century levels, not enough food!

 

[Kevin L]

My parents had an encounter with a black bear (no grizzlies in Fl) right in the back yard here in Florida.

It was written up in the newspaper.

The animal couldn't leave fast enough.

My parents actual have quite a bit of animal and outdoors experience (and common sense), so there was little or no safety issue.

This bear was later trapped and released deep in the boondocks.

His name was Hershey.

 

[Arcticdude]

Rightly or wrongly, we always called them Kodiak brown bears....

Most people in Alaska call any grizzly living close to the ocean a brown bear. In the interior they're called grizzly. And of course black bears can be brown, cinnamon, blond or black.

 

[DrHenley]

figure out which one is the subspecies of which you would have to establish which one has the most amount of genetic information.

More than likely it is the brown bear.

Subspecies have a third scientific name.

Brown Bear - Ursus arctos

These are some subspecies of Ursus arctos:
Grizzly Bear - Ursus arctos horribilis
Alaskan Brown Bear - Ursus arctos alascensis
Kodiak Bear - Ursus arctos middendorffi
Eurasian Brown Bear - Ursus arctos arctos
Kamchatka Brown Bear - Ursus arctos beringianus
East Siberian Brown Bear - Ursus arctos collaris
Syrian Brown Bear - Ursus arctos syriacus
Himalayan Brown Bear - Ursus arctos isabellinus