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    The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America. It is the continent's...
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    The cinnamon bear (Ursus americanus cinnamomum) is both a highly variable color morph and a subspecies of the American black bear, native to the United...
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    The glacier bear (Ursus americanus emmonsii), sometimes referred to as the "blue bear", is a subspecies of American black bear with silver-blue or gray...
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    The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear, is found in parts of Louisiana, mainly along the...
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    The Haida Gwaii black bear (Ursus americanus carlottae), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands black bear, is a morphologically distinct subspecies...
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    The spirit bear, sometimes called the kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and...
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    The Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) is a subspecies of the American black bear that has historically ranged throughout most of Florida...
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    The Newfoundland black bear (Ursus americanus hamiltoni) is a morphologically distinct subspecies of the American black bear, which is endemic to the island...
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    Ursus kudarensis Baryshnikov, 1985 †Ursus minimus (Devèze & Bouillet, 1827) †Ursus pyrenaicus (Depéret, 1892) †Ursus rossicus Borissiak, 1930 †Ursus savini...
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    Sun bear (redirect from Ursus (Helarctos))
    photographic capture–recapture sampling based on chest marks". Ursus. 23 (2): 117–133. doi:10.2192/URSUS-D-11-00009.1. S2CID 86278189. Sodhi, N. S.; Koh, L. P...
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    Polar bear (redirect from Ursus maritimus)
    name Ursus maritimus is Latin for 'sea bear'. Carl Linnaeus classified the polar bear as a type of brown bear (Ursus arctos), labelling it as Ursus maritimus...
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    Brown bear (redirect from Ursus arctos)
    "Moccasin Joe". The scientific name of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, comes from the Latin ursus, meaning "bear", and the Greek ἄρκτος/arktos, also meaning...
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    prominent in the northern sky. Bear taxon names such as Ursidae and Ursus come from Latin Ursus/Ursa, he-bear/she-bear. The female first name "Ursula", originally...
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  • species. Thus, some species of bear are Ursus americanus (American black bear), Ursus arctos (brown bear), and Ursus maritimus (polar bear). Though the above...
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    and North American sun bear) is a variety of American black bear (Ursus americanus) found in the lava beds of south central Oregon. The animal was described...
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    Sloth bear (redirect from Ursus ursinus)
    1793, Meyer named it Melursus lybius, and in 1817, de Blainville named it Ursus labiatus because of its long lips. Illiger named it Prochilus hirsutus,...
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  • Academic Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-12-397837-0. University of Michigan. "Ursus Americanus". Retrieved 2013-01-16. Ardito, G. (1976). Check-list of the data on...
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  • Blackbear may refer to: American black bear (Ursus americanus), a North American bear species Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), an Asian bear species Black...
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    ago. Ursus etruscus appears to have evolved from Ursus minimus and gave rise to the modern brown bear, Ursus arctos, and the extinct cave bear, Ursus spelaeus...
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    bears are recognized: the black bear (Ursus americanus), the brown bear (Ursus arctos), and the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). American black bear in Labrador...
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    shorelines, where the forest is less dense. The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is the most common bear species native to North America. The largest...
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    been extirpated. Locations of subspecies are as follows: Lepus americanus americanus (Erxleben) – Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana,...
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    Examples of living hypocarnivores are the grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis), black bear (Ursus americanus), binturong (Arctictis binturong) and kinkajou (Potos...
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    Moose (redirect from Alces americanus)
    take young moose than to hunt adult moose on their own. Black bears (Ursus americanus) and cougars (Puma concolor) can be significant predators of moose...
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    Kermode Bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) in British Columbia, whereby this rare, white variant of the American black bear (Ursus americanus) has been declared...
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    India". Ursus. 23 (1): 78–85. doi:10.2192/URSUS-D-11-00006.1. JSTOR 41818973. S2CID 86410436. Dewey, Tanya; Kronk, Christine (2007). "Ursus americanus". Animal...
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    (Puma concolor cougar), raccoon (Procyon lotor), Olympic black bear (Ursus americanus altifrontalis), Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), coyote...
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    yinanensis (Li, 1993) Ursus Linnaeus, 1758 Ursus americanus (Pallas, 1780) – American black bear Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 – brown bear †Ursus deningeri Richenau...
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    Forests, slide areas, alpine meadows - C The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is North America's smallest and most common species of bear. It is...
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    Chevreuil. — (White-tailed deer). Present only on Anticosti Island. Ursus americanus. — Ours noir. — (Black bear). Considered extinct on Anticosti Island...
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