Kodiak brown bear sow and cub
Date 25 July 2014, 11:09:08
Source National Digital Library of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
at http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/natdiglib/id/18388/rec/1
Author Lisa Hupp / USFWS
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kodiak_brown_bears_FWS_18388.jpg

The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), also known as the Kodiak brown bear, sometimes the Alaskan brown bear, inhabits the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska. Its Alutiiq name is taquka-aq. It is the largest recognized subspecies of brown bear, and one of the two largest bears alive today, the other being the polar bear.
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: Ursus arctos
Subspecies: Ursus arctos middendorffi Merriam, 1896