Kodiak bears will eat almost anything, but throughout most of the year their diet consists primarily of vegetation. They will hunt land animals, but usually prey only upon the sick or elderly of these.
Kodiak bears are a particularly large subspecies of brown bear, endemic only to the Kodiak archipelago off the Alaska coast.
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A subspecies called the Kodiak bear is particularly impressive, and can reach similar sizes to its polar cousin.
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Rabbits and hares are lagomorphs as opposed to rodents. Hares are much longer-limbed and swifter than rabbits.
The largest subspecies of the brown bear are the Kodiak bear and the bears from coastal Russia and Alaska. It is not unusual for large male Kodiak Bears to stand over 3 m (10 feet) while on their hind legs and to weigh about 680 kg (1,500 lb).
The North American brown bears, including the Kodiak bear and grizzly bear, are regarded by many authorities as varieties of U. arctos. Brown bears are dish-faced; i.e., their muzzles curve upward in profile. Their shoulders are humped.
The polar bear rivals the Kodiak bear as the largest four-footed carnivore on Earth and can live up to 25 years.
The polar bear is one of the world's largest land carnivores and the largest of the bear family, although the North American grizzly bear and Kodiak bear can weigh more than a polar bear - sometimes over 900kg.
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Some of the more commonly recognized subspecies include the grizzly bear, Kodiak bear, Alaskan bear, Eurasian brown bear, Syrian brown bear, Hokkaido bear, Sibierian brown bear, Tibetan blue bear and Himalayan brown bear.
The brown bear has small ears and high shoulders. It can range in color from cinnamon to almost black.
It is also known as the Kodiak bear.
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The coat of the of various species ranges from shades of brown to black fish gray, often with gray tipped hairs. They usually weigh from 300 to 1,000 lbs.. An Alaskan brown bear known as the Kodiak or Kodiak bear is the largest living carnivore , ...
white, they give the bear a grizzled appearance, hence the term grizzly bear, applied to the smaller of the two North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis. The larger North American subspecies is Ursus arctos middendorffi, the Kodiak bear of ...
 See also: Brown Bear, Bear, Polar Bear, Grizzly, Grizzly Bear
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