The grizzly bear, also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.
Grizzly Bear Jean Beaufort
A grizzly roams in a wooded area near Jasper Townsite in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Grizzly claws are longer than an American black bear's and adapted for digging
Alaskan grizzly in Katmai National Park with partially eaten salmon – the heads, skin and subcutaneous tissue are eaten to obtain the most fat
The California grizzly bear, also known as the California brown bear, California golden bear, or chaparral bear, is an extinct population of the brown bear, generally known as the grizzly bear.
Grizzly bear
…populations—the Kodiak bear (U. a. middendorffi), the Kamchatka bear (U. a. beringianus), and the peninsular grizzly (U. a. gyas)—as well as the extinct California grizzly (U. a. californicus†) and Mexican grizzly (formerly U. a. nelsoni†). The Ussuri brown bear (U. a. lasiotus), inhabiting parts of northeast Asia, is…
Ursus arctos californicus, Santa Barbara, Natural History Museum
Illustration of a California grizzly bear skeleton
An illustration of a bear bullfight by HM Stoops. Published in The San Francisco Call on January 15, 1911.