• iAmTheTot
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      1611 months ago

      Just in case you hadn’t heard, they’re a subspecies of brown bear.

    • @garfaagelOPM
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      1211 months ago

      It’s a subspecies of brown bear.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      From what I read on Wikipedia, grizzlys are a subspecies of the brown bear:

      The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.

      Family: Ursidae
      Genus: Ursus
      Species: U. arctos
      Subspecies: U. a. horribilis

  • cavedueller
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    1311 months ago

    The projection makes it look like polar bears rule the world.

    • Skua
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      1811 months ago

      Funnily enough, “Antarctica” is literally “not bear land”. “Arktos” is an old Greek word for bear. The constellation Ursa Major (itself meaning “great bear” in Latin) is in the northern part of the sky, so the Greeks named the north after it, the Arctic. Some Greek philosophers theorised that the north pole must have a counterpart in the south, and since the land around the north pole was the Arctic they named it the Anti-Arctic, or Antarctic. How correct they accidentally were would not be discovered for about 2,000 years.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Honestly there’s not much in inland Antarctica. Some scientists and some very bored skuas that were hoping for an adventure and just got ice.

  • such_lettuce7970
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    311 months ago

    I see the Great Lakes have dried up, or perhaps been drank by very thirsty bears. I myself have met a few thirsty bears in Toronto, but I think they may have been a different subspecies. Musky though.