Brown Bear - Ursus arctos - Bruine Beer
North-America, Eurasia and North-Africa.

The following 14 subspecies are being recognised:
Ursus arctos arctos - Europe;
Ursus arctos crowtheri - Northwest-Africa (extinct in 1870);
Ursus arctos syriacus - Lebanon, Syria, Asia Minor, Iran and Caucasus (extinct);
Ursus arctos persicus - North-Iran;
Ursus arctos isabellinus - Afghanistan to Nepal and North-India;
Ursus arctos pruinosus - Mongolia to West-China;
Ursus arctos lasiotus - Mongolia, North-China, North-Japan, Korea and Kurile Islands;
Ursus arctos yesoensis - North-Japan (extinct);
Ursus arctos dalli - Alaska (Malaspina Glacier and northwest of Yakutat BAY);
Ursus arctos middendorffi - Kodiak and adjacent Island, Alaska (Kodiak Bear);
Ursus arctos richardsoni - Arctic coast of Canada, from Kent Peninsula to Mackenzie Delta in Northwest-Territories;
Ursus arctos horribilis - Saskatchewan and Alberta to Missouri and West-Kansas (Grizzly Bear);
Ursus arctos californicus - Coast of California (extinct in 1925);
Ursus arctos nelsoni - North-Mexico and South-USA (extinct in 1964).

Of this species there are also Nature photo's available.