English: A Kamchatka Brown Bear near Dvuhyurtochnoe taken on July 23rd, 2015.
Deutsch: Ein Kamtschatkabär aufgenommen nahe Dvuhyurtochnoe am 23. Juli 2015.
Date 23 July 2015, 20:17:51
Author Robert F. Tobler https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rftblr
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamchatka_Brown_Bear_near_Dvuhyurtochnoe_on_2015-07-23.jpg

The Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus), also known as the Far Eastern brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear native to the Anadyrsky District, the Kamchatka Peninsula, Karaginskiy Island, the Kuril Islands, the coastal strip west of the Sea of Okhotsk southward to the Stanovoy Range and the Shantar Islands. Outside the former Soviet Union, the subspecies occurs in Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering sea. It is closely related to one clade of brown bears in Alaska and northwest North America, and is thought to be the ancestor of the Kodiak bear.
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: Ursus arctos
Subspecies: Ursus arctos beringianus Middendorff, 1851
Synonyms:
kolymensis Ognev, 1924
mandchuricus Heude, 1898
piscator Pucheran, 1855