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The brown bear Ursus arctos was once common throughout Europe, but is now found only in Scandinavia and the Pyrenees. In North America (this one was photographed in British Columbia, Canada) it is common in the national parks. It has a thick shaggy coat, varying in colour from blackish-brown to grey, and lives mainly on fish, fruit, roots, honey, and carrion.

Species of bear found in northern Europe.



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Namgay Doola grinned so persuasively and began to tell me about a big brown bear in a poppy field by the river.
The way he'd say "I've been a regular brown bear to-day," and take himself in his arms and hug himself at the thoughts of the brute he had pretended.
It is the country of the wolf and the isard, of the brown bear and the mountain-goat, a land of bare rock and of rushing water.
 
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