Grizzly bear (Courtesy of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service). (Missoula Current) Although the lower 48 states now have more grizzly bears than it did in the 1970s, biologists and ...
distinguishing it from the typically smaller black bears common in other parts of Canada. (Later on the bus when we can talk, our wildlife biologist guide tells us that adult grizzly male bears ...
The grizzly bear is so named because its hair is grizzled, or silver tipped, yet the name is commonly believed to be derived from “grisly,” meaning “horrible.” DESCRIPTION: A subspecies of brown bear, ...