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The historic distribution of bears and the impression the Eurasian brown bear has made on people are reflected in the names of several localities (some notable examples include Bern, Medvednica, Otepää and Ayu-Dag), as well as personal names—for example, Xiong, Bernard, Arthur, Ursula, Urs, Ursicinus, Orsolya, Björn, Nedved, Medvedev, and ...
Yamamoto Heikichi around 1913. Yamamoto Heikichi (Japanese: 山本 兵吉, 1858 – July 1950) was a Japanese hunter.He is best known as a local hero for killing Kesagake, the giant brown bear involved in the Sankebetsu brown bear incident.
Brown bears have the broadest skull of any extant ursine bear. [43] The width of the zygomatic arches in males is 17.5 to 27.7 cm (6.9 to 10.9 in), and 14.7 to 24.7 cm (5.8 to 9.7 in) in females. [49] Brown bears have strong jaws: the incisors and canine teeth are large, with the lower canines being strongly curved. The first three molars of ...
The damaged caused by brown bears to Hokkaido amounted to 46 deaths, 101 injuries, and 2,600 cattle and horse deaths from 1904 to Sankebetsu brown bear incident. However, in the 20 years since Ōkawa had become a hunter, the damage had been reduced to one third of that amount.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book published in 1967 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. [1] Written by Bill Martin Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle, the book is designed to help toddlers associate colors and meanings to animals.
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies [4] of the brown bear inhabiting North America. In addition to the mainland grizzly ( Ursus arctos horribilis ), other morphological forms of brown bear in North America are sometimes identified as grizzly bears.
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 Ungava brown bear is an extinct population of grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) that inhabited the forests of northern Quebec and Labrador until the early 20th century. Common names [ edit ]