California grizzly bear
The California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos californicus) is an extinct population or subspecies of the brown bear.[2]
| California grizzly bear | |
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| Specimen at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ursus |
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| Subspecies: | †U. a. californicus
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Ursus arctos californicus Merriam 1896 [1]
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The California grizzly bear was much like the Kodiak bear of the southern coast of Alaska.
The grizzly became a symbol of the Bear Flag Republic.[3]
California Grizzly Bear Media
Copy of an old picture-supposed to be last grizzly bear shot in the Big Tujunga Canyon by Cornelius B. Johnson, October 28, 1916. Angeles National Forest, California. (Forest Service photo by Frederic E. Dunham)
The California grizzly bear is featured on the flag of California
References
- ↑ Merriam 1896, pp. 76–77
- ↑ Wright, William Henry. The Grizzly Bear: The Narrative of a Hunter-naturalist, Historical, Scientific and Adventurous (1909).
- ↑ Storer, T.I.. California Grizzly (1996). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 335, 42–187. ISBN 978-0-520-20520-8. Retrieved 2021-01-27.