DCHP-3

Kodiak bear

[< Kodiak Island, Alaska]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an enormous grizzly bear, Ursus middendorfi of N.W. Canada and S. Alaska.

Quotations

1936
After we had taken care of all the stations around Cook Inlet we went over to Kodiak Island where are found the famous Kodiak brown bears, the largest in the world.
1964
When a boat's crew went ashore to bury her above the Unimak shoreline . . . a couple of Kodiak bears . . . disputed their right to land.