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Alaska may have a mandate to investigate all bear attacks, but that would be the only true fact in these remarks. Grizzlies and Brown Bears get killed. A "brown bear" and a "black bear" are the same thing. There are different kinds, such as the COLOSSAL Kodiak bears. In my part of the world, brown bears are much smaller than that. Some are black. Most are cinnamon. Grizzlies are pretty darned big and, as we know, they are not gentle, peaceful bears. But the really BIG ones are those Kodiak bears. HUGE. I'm not sure if they are ever black. If so, then there are multiple colors of the same bear. Same with their smaller cousins here, further South. Some are brown, a few are black, they are the same bear.
Actually this in not correct Grizzly bears and Black bears are the two seperate species.. When one refers to a "Brown Bear" they are referring to a coastal Grizzly which gets larger , typically as big as a Kodiak ( which again is just an very large grizzly). Even though Kodiaks are of the largest across the water on the alaskan penisula they get as large if not larger.. Skull measurment on Kodiak bears tends to be a bit larger however
While Black bears can and do come in a variety of colors black, brown, even a bluish white in the polar variety.. they are not refered to as "brown bears).
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