Subspecies of brown bear found in Southeast Alaska
ABC Islands bear
At the Bronx Zoo
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] (ABC Islands)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Ursidae
Genus:
Ursus
Species:
U. arctos × U. maritimus
Subspecies:
U. a. sitkensis
Trinomial name
Ursus arctos sitkensis
Merriam, 1896
The ABC Islands bear or Sitka brown bear (Ursus arctos sitkensis) is a subspecies or population of brown bear that resides in Southeast Alaska and is found on Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island in Alaska (colloquially known as the ABC Islands), and a part of the Alexander Archipelago. It has a unique genetic structure that relates them not only to brown bears, but also to polar bears.[2] Its habitat exists within the Tongass National Forest, which is part of the perhumid rainforest zone.
^"IUCN Brown Bear subspecies status". Retrieved August 29, 2022.
^Stephens, Tim (March 14, 2013). "DNA Study Clarifies Relationship Between Polar Bears and Brown Bears". University of California, Santa Cruz Newscenter. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
gyas), Kodiak bear (U. a. middendorffi), Mexican grizzly bear (U. a. nelsoni), ABCIslandsbear (U. a. sitkensis), and Stickeen brown bear (U. a. stikeenensis)...
European brown bears and to polar bears.[citation needed] DNA studies indicate that the ABCIslandsbears have mixed brown and polar bear ancestry. "Kodiak"...
genetically anomalous grouping of grizzly bears is the ABCIslandsbear, implying that previous grizzly bear subspecies designations are unwarranted. However...
sterile. However, in 1943, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an island tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. The...
second half of hers. (I.e. a pizzly bear has a polar bear father and grizzly bear mother whereas a grolar bear's parents would be reversed.) Chordate...
animals are known chionophiles: ABCIslandsbear Adélie penguin Alaska marmot Alaska moose Alaska Peninsula brown bear Alaskan hare Alaskan tundra wolf...
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harder and less sensitive than that of a horse, and it is better able to bear heavy weights. A mule has 63 chromosomes, intermediate between the 64 of...
provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. Coyotes and wolves hybridized in the Great...
particularly the ABCIslandsbears of Southeast Alaska. A 2010 study estimated that the polar bear lineage split from other brown bears around 150,000 years...
powerful build of the jaguar. On April 9, 2006, two jaglions were born at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, Barrie (north of Toronto), Ontario, Canada. Jahzara...
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