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A brown bear and a black bear are most definitely NOT the same thing. 9dreizig sums it up pretty well. "Brown" is normally a grizzly or some variant thereof and "black" are the much smaller, more common bears that still roam around the Sierra Nevada of California (it's interesting to note that although the grizzly is a symbol of CA and is on the state flag, grizzly bears haven't existed in CA in almost 100 years because people hunted them to extinction here).