Kodiak bear | |
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A Kodiak bear at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Genus: | Ursus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | U. a. middendorffi
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Trinomial name | |
Ursus arctos middendorffi Merriam, 1896[1]
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The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), also called the Kodiak brown bear or the Alaskan brown bear is a suspecies of brown bear. It lives on the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska.[2] It is the largest recognized subspecies of brown bear. It is one of the two largest bears alive today. The other largest bear is the polar bear.[3]