Adult bears generally weigh between and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size.

Carrying a bear trophy head at the Kodiak Archipelago

The largest living forms are the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), with a body weight of up to, and the similarly sized Kodiak bear ( Ursus arctos middendorffi ), again consistent with Bergmann's rule.

Lost, wet, and freezing, the men, knowing the plane was off course, attempt to hike to a more likely search area, only to find that a male Kodiak bear is stalking them.

* Bart the Bear, a male Alaskan Kodiak brown bear who appeared in several Hollywood films

Writer Alan Barra's comment on this movie is that it shows Holliday as he might have been, if he had been a tough-guy from Boston: " Victor Mature looks about as tubercular as a Kodiak bear.

** Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi

Some of these, such as the caribou, lion, and plains zebra are familiar and relatively common, but others, such as the desert bighorn, kiang, Kodiak bear, panda, and passenger pigeon, are threatened, endangered, or extinct.

* Kodiak bear

He was anxious to hunt a bear, and he decided to head toward Kodiak Island when he heard that there were bears there.

A gulf in the Sea of Okhotsk, a strait between Alaska and Kodiak Island, and a town in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia bear Shelekhov's name.

The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak brown bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole.

****** Ursus arctos middendorffi ( Kodiak Bear )

The Grizzly Bear ( Ursus arctos horribilis ) and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear.

Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler, Cape Middendorff ( Novaya Zemlya ), Kodiak Bear Ursus arctos middendorffi, and the Middendorff Bay ( Taymyr Peninsula ) are named after him.

Merriam was the first to recognize Kodiak bears as unique and he named the species " Ursus middendorffi " in honor of the celebrated Baltic naturalist Dr. A. Th.

Subsequent taxonomic revisions merged most North American brown bears into a single subspecies ( Ursus arctos horribilis ), but Kodiak bears are still considered to be a unique subspecies ( Ursus arctos middendorffi ).

Kodiak bearUrsus arctos middendorffi

He was allegedly a native of Kodiak Island ( Aleutian Islands ), and is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was baptized into the Orthodox faith by the monks of St. Herman's missionaries operating in the north.

* SS Aleutian ( Shipwreck ), Amook Island, Larsen Bay, AK ( Cramp, S. and Sons S & EB Company ), NRHP-listed in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska

Its orbits overlapped the radar picket stations of the ships of Escort Squadron Seven ( CORTRON SEVEN ), from roughly Kodiak Island to Midway.

As of 2010, there are 24 stores in Alaska, including: Anchorage, Fairbanks ( both in multiple locations ), Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Nome, North Pole, Palmer, Seward, Soldotna, Valdez, Wasilla and Unalaska.

* Kodiak Tracking Station ( KTS ), Kodiak Island, Alaska ; callsign KODI ( closed on 20 March 1975 )

* Kodiak ( TV series ), a television program that aired Fridays on ABC during the 1974-75 television season in the United States

* Kodi ( full name: Kodiak ), a fictional character in Balto III: Wings of Change

The strait is named after Grigory Shelikhov ( 1747 – 1795 ), also spelled " Shelikof ", the Russian fur trader who founded the first Russian settlement in what is now Alaska at Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island in 1784.

The Kodiak Archipelago is an archipelago, or group of islands, south of main land mass of the state of Alaska ( United States ), about by air south of Anchorage in the Gulf of Alaska.

Other smaller operational hubs include Cordova ( Prince William Sound ), Ketchikan ( southern Panhandle ), and Kodiak ( Southcentral Alaska ).

They have also been found on the islands of the Alexander Archipelago, Prince William Sound, Kodiak Archipelago, and Haida Gwaii ( Queen Charlotte Islands ), British Columbia.

The largest bear ever killed in North America was from Kodiak Island with a total skull size of 78. 1 cm ( 30. 75 in ), and 8 of the top 10 brown bears listed in the Boone and Crockett record book are from Kodiak.

In May 1942 the Armed Forces Radio Service ( AFRS ), was established on the Alaskan island of Kodiak.

A new village, Port Lions ( named for the Lions Club who helped construct it ), was constructed to house the tribe, but many moved on to Kodiak or elsewhere in the United States or Canada.

The salvage crew's beneficiary also brought along an insurance policy in the form of a Nietzschean mercenary named Tyr Anasazi (" out of Victoria by Barbarossa ", of the nearly extinct Kodiak pride ).

Most of the land area belongs to Kodiak Island, but a thin strip of coastal area on the western part of the Alaska Peninsula and other nearby islands ( Afognak Island, Shuyak Island, Marmot Island, Raspberry Island, Little Raspberry Island, Whale Island, Spruce Island, Woody Island, Uganik Island, Sitkalidak Island, Tugidak Island, Sitkinak Island, Chirikof Island, and the Semidi Islands ) are also in the borough.

The USCG Air Station and the Aviation Technical Training Center ( ATTC ) in Elizabeth City was also featured in numerous scenes of the 2006 Disney movie " The Guardian ", although the base was made to look like Kodiak, Alaska in keeping with the film's script.

Bart the Bear, a trained Kodiak Bear known for appearances in several Hollywood movies, also appears in the film as a vicious grizzly ; this was one of his last film roles.

The FN actions were also used by Sako of Finland as their Hi-Power Rifles, by Browning on the early Medallions, as Husqvarna Small Ring model 146 and Large Ring late model 640, and by Kodiak Arms, Connecticut.

Kodiak is also home to the largest U. S. Coast Guard base, which includes Integrated Support Command Kodiak, Air Station Kodiak, Communications Station Kodiak, and Aids to Navigation Station Kodiak.

* United States-the United States Marine Corps through the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in northern California ; the US Army in Alaska at the Northern Warfare Training Center and the Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho, Vermont and the US Navy also in Alaska at Naval Special Warfare Cold Weather Detachment Kodiak.

Golovnin was also tasked with compiling a report detailing relations between the Kodiak Islanders and employees of the Russian-American Company.

All of the Peninsula is organized as a part of four adjacent boroughs ; the Aleutians East Borough, Bristol Bay Borough, Kodiak Island Borough, and Lake and Peninsula Borough ; and also the entire small Bristol Bay Borough.

The rugged southern half of the peninsula, and also the Kodiak Archipelago which lie off the south coast of the peninsula and are home to even more bears, constitute the Alaska Peninsula montane taiga ecoregion and contain a number of protected areas such as Katmai National Park.

Afognak (; also Ag ’ waneq in Alutiiq ) was an Alutiiq village on the island of Afognak in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States.

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The Kodiak is also considered by many to be a variant or subspecies of the basic Arctic ( circumpolar ) brown bear.