12 Facts About Grizzly bear

Grizzly bear, known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.

The grizzly bear currently has legal protection in Mexico, European countries, some areas of Canada, and in all of the United States.

The Grizzly bear often waits for a substantial snowstorm before it enters its den: such behavior lessens the chances predators will find the den.

The oldest known wild inland grizzly was about 34 years old in Alaska; the oldest known coastal bear was 39, but most grizzlies die in their first year of life.

The black bear will only fight when it is a smaller grizzly such as a yearling or when the black bear has no other choice but to defend itself.

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However, a bear shot in autumn 1986 in Michigan was thought by some to be a grizzly×black bear hybrid, due to its unusually large size and its proportionately larger braincase and skull, but DNA testing was unable to determine whether it was a large American black bear or a grizzly bear.

Wolverines are aggressive enough to occasionally persist until the Grizzly bear finishes eating, leaving more scraps than normal for the smaller animal.

An area that has been dug by the grizzly bear has significantly more nitrogen than an undisturbed area.

The mother Grizzly bear eventually got to shore and slept, waiting patiently for her cubs to arrive.

Some best Grizzly bear viewing in the world occurs on coastal areas of the Alaska Peninsula, including in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge.

Grizzly bear is listed as threatened in the contiguous United States and endangered in parts of Canada.

In 2002, the Endangered Species Conservation Committee recommended that the Alberta grizzly bear population be designated as threatened due to recent estimates of grizzly bear mortality rates that indicated the population was in decline.