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Photo of the Day #88: Playing Grizzlies
Posted: 03 Jan 2008 09:04 AM CST
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the second largest living bear (the largest being the polar bear, Ursus maritimus), but depending on where you are in the world it can go by many names and vary in appearance. At present there seems to be a glut of possible brown bear subspecies that scream for proper revision, from the familiar grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) to the strange Tibetan blue bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus). Further adding to some of the confusion are rare hybrids produced from the mating of a polar bear and a brown bear, a wild example of this sort of pairing being discovered in 2006. The bears pictured playing above are grizzlies at the Bronx Zoo, and all the bears in the exhibit are named after characters in the Archie comic books (sadly, the bear named Jughead died last year).Read the comments on this post...
//////////////////INTROSPECTION ABT MEANING OF EXISTENCE=MSOIA
///////////////////twenty years this job
now downsized and outside
I smell the fresh air
Chris
/////////////////BUDDHISM WAS A PROTESTANT MVT TO BRAHMANIC HINDUISM
/////////////////BRAHMANISM REVISIONIST MVT TOWARDS IDOLATORY PRACTISED BY THE TOILING CLASSES
///////////////////SALAGRAM SHILA=AMMONITE FOSSIL?
//////////////////KALYANBRATA CHAKRABORTHY-BOIMELA -2006
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