Talk:Brown bear/Archive 4

Arctos - Latin or Greek?

There's a tumblr meme going around that posits that the "arctos" in "Ursus arctos" is the greek word for bear, rather than the latin word for northern. Link

I came to wikipedia to get the correct answer, and while wikipedia gives an answer, the source is just to a Greek-English dictionary. Yes, arctos means bear in greek, but that doesn't meant that Brown bears were named for it.

I've been googling for something and have yet to find anything. Let's squash this! Pconerly (talk) 18:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Was there a prehistoric subspecies called Ursus arctos priscus?

HEY! I would like to know. Sarsath3 (talk) 18:02, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

@Sarsath3: yes; fossils have been found in Slovakia [1].--SamHolt6 (talk) 17:53, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Problem with geographic range data

Kodiak Island, home of the largest subspecies of brown bear Ursus arctos middendorffi, should be included on the range map but is not.

There is probably a problem with the underlying IUCN source data.

206.174.88.41 (talk) 15:11, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

this is a brown bear. they are brown. I like brown bears. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.174.23.78 (talk) 01:01, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

name

hi there, only some brown bears are considered Grizzles in North America. it depends on their relative size. this is reflected in the Grizzle Bear page but not here 2600:1003:B02C:D354:71F1:6DF9:C285:4544 (talk) 19:36, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

On the geographical data

Under the geographical spread of the Brown Bear the Finnish population is separately brought out along with Scandinavian, Spanish and Italian populations. Meanwhile, a widespread population in Estonia (over 900 bears - https://elurikkus.ee/bie-hub/species/108642#overview - as per the national sightings record agency) has been completely glossed over. Bears are the animal of the year here for 2022 and they are widespread over all the country, being even seen on the smaller islands. In 2021 hunting season 87 brown bears were hunted (https://keskkonnaamet.ee/elusloodus-looduskaitse/jahipidamine/kuttimisandmed - in Estonian directly from Environmental Board of Estonia). Compared to the importance of the Brown Bear in Estonian culture (22nd most widespread family name in the country is "Karu" - Brown Bear(https://www.stat.ee/nimed/pere/TOP - Statistics Estonia (governmental statistics board))) and there being a completely different population from neighbouring Russian bears (https://dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/29042/keis_marju.pdf?sequence=1 - doctoral work by Marju Keis in University of Tartu) it is heartbreaking to not see a single reference to having bears in Estonia in this otherwise excellent article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.8.204.11 (talk) 14:19, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Biology

Mwkwkwlw 82.78.233.67 (talk) 13:24, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Link to Ungava brown bear broken

In the section Distribution and Habitat/Conservation status there's a link to the Ungavan brown bear, which seems to be a typo, as the actual article is called Ungava brown bear . Ninetycrows (talk) 14:26, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Name and link fixed. —  Jts1882 | talk  15:40, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

References

Wrong figure in the number of animals in nature

At the beginning of the subsection "Distribution and habitat" It says that: "There are approximately 200,000 brown bears left in the world" But the source [77] they list says 110 000 --TheBobMcBobbob (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

walk over = walk on

if its paws touch ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:D300:D0F:ECFD:2826:F5CF:5433 (talk) 12:38, 6 June 2022 (UTC)