Other common subspecies include the Eurasian brown bear, the Kodiak bear, and the Syrian brown bear. To understand brown bear vs grizzly bear, it’s necessary to define exactly what a subspecies is.

My heart leaps. Surely, a bear looms in my not-too-distant future. My next stop is a dock. I’m catching a float-plane to the island’s interior to stay at the Kodiak Brown Bear Centre and Lodge ...

The brown bear is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. Adult bears generally weigh between 100 and 635 kg (220 and 1,400 lb).