Grizzly Bear Black Bear Hybrid Discovered In California

Grizzly Bear Black Bear Hybrid Discovered In California
California grizzly-subspecies (Ursus arctos californicus)
Location: Northwest California
Altitude: 5000 ft.
Color: Brown
Weight: Estimated 600 lbs.
Condition: Healthy Adult
Sex: Unknown
Residual Population: Unknown
The California grizzly is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos). Historically, 7 subspecies of California grizzly (highly improbable). Historically, California grizzly related to Idaho grizzly (Ursus arctos-horribilis). California grizzly not known to have large shoulder hump and known to come in all color variations. Historically, possible variation between California coastal and mountain grizzly. Possible hybridization with California black bear.

[@JoshuaWestfall-pz8qb]

Big Black Bear.

[@rypatmackrock]

Even the Almighty Kratt brothers of Zoboomafoo and wild Kratts fame; wrote as dialogue regarding Alaska’s grizzly Bears in their salmon run special episode, that the differences between grizzly bears and black bears are the size, the shoulder hump, and a more round disc shaped face, compared to a streamlined dog shaped head that this bear and black bears have.

[@Pharoah510]

That…is a cinnamon phase american black bear…nothing more nothing less

[@jonluchessi1643]

Blackbear with strong shoulders/shoulder blades. Not a grizzly bear. That’s a typical color especially Northern California.

[@mrmuscle007]

Is that the real California grizzly bear which was considered extinct? Should I consider this as a rediscovery?

[@ron6547]

That is a black bear

[@UmongusSussehFrusseh]

That bear has the same snout as a black bear.

[@CitybytheB3ach]

Someone gotta kidnap some grizzlies from another state and dump them in our California woods. that would be awesome

[@Thenordicwoodsman]

I think it's a black-grizzly hybrid of some sort. It has the hump, and is pretty large for a black bear. However, it has the face of a black bear. Whatever it is, it was a cool find

[@californiagrizzly1808]

Recently on the Joe Rogan Experience, a video was shown of a grizzly bear in the mountains of Colorado. Colorado grizzlies were declared extinct in 1953, but a hunter killed a grizzly in Colorado in 1979. Apparently there is a small residual population of grizzlies in remote areas of Colorado. Welcome back!

[@peatmoss4415]

Yep, California alright , no other place that could be....

[@membershipofbus]

I hope it’ll go to Los Angeles and the population will get shattered

[@KimB0ngUn]

⁠​⁠I’m from Alberta and we have both black and grizzly bears. Some of the more mature black bear boars get small shoulder humps that look similar to a young grizzly.

[@aldwinberlien3775]

Looks like a black bear with maybe some grizzly inbreeding from the past. When the grizzly population declined this started happening

[@steveabbott1202]

That's a black bear. I have hunted both.

[@GorillaCookies]

That's a black bear not a grizzly. California Bear population consists of Black Bears. Although they are brown and cinnamon colored along with black. It's easy to tell that the bear in the video isn't a Grizzly bear

[@Masteradamant]

You’d only see these bears in North California on the east side where there’s the most water and less people.

[@theleopard3900]

Looks more like a brown colored black bear which is pretty common in black bears in western states

[@jasonjohn1978]

@CaliforniaDFW Can we get a professional opinion on this video from one of the state’s biologists?

[@SfLow415]

I might have seen one on this job site I’m on its deep in the mountains away from any main road for 45 min driving down winding dirt roads idk tho coulda been a hybrid mixed w black bear but idk