20 Facts About Brown bear

Brown bear is a large bear species found across Eurasia and North America.

The brown bear is recognized as a national and state animal in several European countries.

Brown bear remains from the Pleistocene period are common in the British Isles, where it is thought they might have outcompeted cave bears .

Brown bear fossils discovered in Ontario, Ohio, Kentucky and Labrador show that the species occurred farther east than indicated in historic records.

The polar bear is a recent offshoot of the brown bear.

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Under some definitions, the brown bear can be construed as the paraspecies for the polar bear.

Grizzly–polar bear hybrid is a rare ursid hybrid resulting from a crossbreeding of a brown bear and a polar bear.

In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a strange-looking Brown bear that had been shot in the Canadian Arctic, and seven more hybrids have since been confirmed in the same region, all descended from a single female polar Brown bear.

Normal range of physical dimensions for a brown bear is a head-and-body length of 1.

Brown bear claws are longer and straighter than those of American black bears .

The claws of a polar Brown bear are quite different, being notably shorter but broader with a strong curve and sharper point, presumably both as an aid to traveling over ice and procuring active prey.

The Syrian brown bear is very rare and it has been extirpated from more than half of its historic range.

When looking at another animal at a distance, the Brown bear makes an "alert face" as the ears are cocked and alert, the eyes wide open but the mouth is closed or only open slightly.

The adult female brown bear is similarly promiscuous, mating with up to four, rarely even eight, males while in heat and potentially breeding with two males in a single day.

Brown bear is one of the most omnivorous animals in the world and has been recorded as consuming the greatest variety of foods of any bear.

The largest amount of legalized brown bear hunting occurs in Canada, Finland, Russia, Slovakia and Alaska.

In Japan, a large brown bear nicknamed "Kesagake" made history for causing the worst brown bear attack in Japanese history at Tomamae, Hokkaido during numerous encounters during December 1915.

Grizzly Brown bear dung is difficult to differentiate from American black Brown bear dung, as diet is in a constant state of flux depending on the availability of seasonal food items.

Russian Brown bear is a common national personification for Russia, despite the country having no appointed national animal.

The brown bear is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 5 kuna coin, minted since 1993.