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The Kodiak / Alaskan brown bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi, medved kodiak) from ZOOM Gelsenkirchen, Germany


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INFO ABOUT THE ANIMAL:

Name: Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi)
Location:islands of the Kodiak Archipelago - Southern coast of Alaska
Size: 3, 2 m long body weight: 700 kg
Diet: mostly plants (berries, plants), but also meat (salmon, elk, deer, goat)
Conservation status:
Interesting facts: Kodiak is the biggest of all brown bears subspecies | Kodiak bears have solitary lives, every animal defends its own territorium | mother gives birth to 2-3 cubs during the time of hybernation. They must beware of the males then, as adult male bears often kill and eat the cubs. Almost half of the cubs die and the main reason of their death are adult males | females are smaller and lighter than males | the population is slowly increasing | not all the Kodiak bears spend the winter by sleeping in den.

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