Brown Bear

The brown bear is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It weighs 100 to 680 kilograms (220 to 1,500 lb) and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family, and as the largest land based predator. While the brown bear's range has shrunk, and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN, with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its principal range countries are Russia, the United States (especially Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania), and Finland where it is the national animal.

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The author has received a Ph.D. in Physics with specialization in Medical Physics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of X-ray Fluorescence applications in medicine at Mount Allison University in Sackville, Canada.