Animals / Mammal

Brown bear

Ursus arctos · Ursidae

The brown bear is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Of the land carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on average. The brown bear is a sexually dimorphic species, as adult males are larger and more compactly built than females.

Where the Brown bear lives

Recorded in Norway, United States of America, Sweden, France, Russia, Canada, Estonia, Romania, Switzerland, Spain and Finland (Europe, North America and Asia).

Most records fall in Alaska, Wyoming, Västerbotten, Jämtland, Gävleborg and Arges.

See the Brown bear’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 47,577 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.