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To: Chuca Marsh who wrote (344)11/13/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: Chuca Marsh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 407
 
Hey, I did a seach and found that Peace River is the area of the Swift River, so when surfing I found another Grizzly ...a Web Designer:
( No, Not The Griz here but info on the Bear is great reading!)
grizzly-internet.com
"Grizzly" means grayish. The grizzly's thick coarse coat of fur varies in color from a golden yellow, tan, brown to black.

In the Rocky Mountains of Alberta the typical color is dark brown with the grizzly frosting on the back, thus the nickname "silvertip". The local name for the grizzly in the Peace River region is "Longtoe" due to the extremely long claws on the front feet. Because most of the time you only know a grizzly has been around due to the foot pad and claw marks.


Naturalist George Ord put the scientific name "horribilis" as the second meaning of grizzly after reading the adventures of Lewis and Clarke due comments made about this "tremendous animal". "Ursus horribilis" was at one time classified as a North American species but now it is considered a race of the circumpolar brown bear - Ursus arctos horribilis. Adult males average about 600 to 800 pounds (272 to 363 kgs.)and reach a length of 8 feet (244 cm)from head to rump.

The mainland grizzlies are classified as one of the subspecies of Ursus arctos horribilis but the Kodiak bear which inhabits Kodiak and two islands in the gulf of Alaska are classified as Ursus arctos middendorffi.





Chucka