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The hydro project was the first significant invasion of inland bear habitat on Kodiak Island. To address the opposition encountered from the public and agencies, a mitigation settlement was negotiated in 1981 which included brown bear research and the establishment of the Kodiak Brown Bear Trust. [37] The hydroelectric project was completed in ...
Considering pinnipeds [73] and polar bears [74] [44] [75] to be marine mammals, the Kodiak bear is the largest [76] [77] of the living land-based mammalian predators. The largest subspecies are the Kodiak bear (U. a. middendorffi) and the questionably-distinct peninsular giant bear or coastal brown bear (U. a. gyas).
The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole. The non-native mammals Sitka black-tailed deer , mountain goat , Roosevelt elk , caribou , marten , red squirrel , snowshoe hare , and beaver were introduced to the archipelago between the 1920s and 1950s and are now ...
Kodiak Island, hence its name, is another place to view bears. An estimated 3,500 Kodiak grizzly bears inhabit the island, 2,300 of these in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. [158] [159] The O'Malley River is considered the best place on Kodiak Island to view grizzly bears. [160]
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.Of the land carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on average.
“Kodiak bears are the largest bears in the world. A large male can stand over 10 (feet) tall when on his hind legs, and 5 (feet) when on all four legs. They weigh up to 1,500 pounds.”
The Alaskan Peninsula provides an important habitat for fish, mammals, reptiles, and birds. At the top of the food chain are the bears. Alaska contains about 70% of the total North American brown bear population and the majority of the grizzly bears, as well as black bears and Kodiak bears.
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