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Brown Bears
University
Brown University
Conference
Ivy League (primary) ECAC Hockey EIWA (wrestling) EARC (rowing) NEISA (sailing) NCEA (women's equestrian) CWPA (women's water polo) NWPC (men's water polo)
NCAA
Division I (FCS)
Athletic director
M. Grace
Calhoun
Location
Providence, Rhode Island
Varsity teams
28
Football stadium
Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium
Basketball arena
Pizzitola Sports Center
Ice hockey arena
Meehan Auditorium
Baseball stadium
Murray Stadium
Soccer stadium
Stevenson Field
Rowing venue
Hunter S. Marston Boathouse
Sailing venue
Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion
Mascot
Bruno
Nickname
Bears
Fight song
Ever True To Brown
Colors
Seal brown, cardinal red, and white[1]
Website
www.brownbears.com
The Brown Bears are the sports teams that represent Brown University, an American university located in Providence, Rhode Island. The Bears are part of the Ivy League conference. Brown's mascot is Bruno. Both the men's and women's teams share the name, competing in 34 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports. In football, the Bears, along with all other the Ivy League teams, compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).[2]
^"Brown University Athletics & Recreation Brand Guidelines" (PDF). June 17, 2022. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^"Athletics and Recreation". Brown University. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
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consists of a single clade that is the sister group to all other brownbears and the polar bear. The dating of the branching event, estimated at 658,000 years...
Kamchatka brownbears resulted in attack. The first Europeans who went to Kamchatka in the 19th century, although surprised by the number and size of bears there...
be a population of the mainland grizzly bear subspecies (Ursus arctos horribilis). Alaska Peninsula brownbears are very large, usually ranging in weight...
approximately 200,000 brownbears left in the world. The largest population is in Russia, with 120,000 individuals. The brownbear occupies the largest...
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currently considered subspecies or populations of brownbears have been listed as follows: Brownbear size, most often measured in body mass, is highly...
dedicated to animals such as the Marsican brownbear, with hopes of rekindling the large, yet isolative bears' once-thriving existence. Debate exists as...
arctus syriacus, and to overlap parts of the Eurasian brownbear's range. Eurasian brownbears are larger in size with coats that are considerably darker...
(including the sun bear, the Asian black bear, and the American black bear); and the brownbears (which includes the polar bear). Modern brownbears evolved from...
those of brownbears, though this is largely because black bears outnumber brownbears rather than being more aggressive. Compared to brownbear attacks...
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three species of bears are recognized: the brownbear, the black bear (Ursus americanus), and the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). A black bear searching garbage...
particularly the ABC Islands bears of Southeast Alaska. A 2010 study estimated that the polar bear lineage split from other brownbears around 150,000 years ago...
Despite living in North America, American black bears are not closely related to brownbears or polar bears; genetic studies reveal that they split from...
prolific bear hunter. He swore an oath to kill ten bears for every victim of the attack. By the time he reached the age of 62, he had killed 102 bears. He...
The Cantabrian brownbear, Iberian brownbear, or Iberian bear (formerly Ursus arctos pyrenaicus) is a population of Eurasian brownbears (Ursus arctos...
The Kenai River BrownBears are a Tier II junior ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League based in Soldotna, Alaska. The team joined the North...
stage between sloth bears and ancestral brownbears. M. theobaldi itself had teeth intermediate in size between sloth bears and other bear species, though...
to European brownbears and to polar bears.[citation needed] DNA studies indicate that the ABC Islands bears have mixed brown and polar bear ancestry. "Kodiak"...
bears are not known to attack people, but brownbears are. Both species of black bear seem to be most vulnerable to predatory attacks by brownbears when...
related to the polar bear and Alaskan brownbears or outside the group that contains all other brownbear mitochondrial lineages. Atlas bears do not appear to...
brownbears, though darker coloured individuals predominate. Originally, Cuvier's trinomial definition for this subspecies was limited to brownbear populations...
brownbears may attack Asian black bears. Asian black bears are occasionally attacked by tigers and brownbears. Leopards are known to prey on bear cubs...