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Brown Bear (Grizzly Bear)

Description:   Both brown and grizzly bears are the same bear.   The name "grizzly" comes from the silver tipped grizzled hairs that   these brown bears develop as they get older.   They reach weights of 300-1500 pounds. 

Habitat:   They live in mountain forests, open meadows and large river valleys.   They have been found in North America, Europe, and North Asia.

Food:   They mainly eat plants including, berries, flowers, grasses, herbs, tubers, and nuts of all kinds.   They also eat fish, small marine animals, ants and other insects, honey, elk and moose calves and a variety of other small mammals (e.g., ground squirrels, marmots, etc.)

More Pictures and Sounds

• Grizzly Bear  
• Ed Sharp Photography - Alaskan Brown Bear Photography 
• Animal Sounds - Bear 
• The Birmingham Zoo - The real video of Grizzly Bear

More Information 

• The Virtual Zoo - The general information about bears 
• GeoZoo - Brown Bear  
• Bear TAG - Brown Bear 
• Bears.org - Brown Bear  
• Bear Den, The 
• Shadow of The Bear 
• Animal Diversity Web - Brown Bear 
• The Birmingham Zoo - Grizzly Bear

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Last modified : April 5, 2000
Created by Quaehee Yu