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Originally Posted by Penguin
There are not really distinctive features that can really tell the difference between a North American Brown bear and its European/Asian cousins. Bears on this side of the pond can also have grizzled tips on their fur. As written before, even the definition of the Kodiak bear (another example being the Hokkaido bear- Ursus arctos yesoenis ) as a subspecies of the Brown Bear is debated among zoologists.
If you would put a pregnant Kodiak bear into the Finnish woods, you could not really distinguish her offspring from the Finnish bears - other than by the alcoholic beverage preferences of course  |
Sounds to me like the differences between these various species of bear are less than those between humans.