Talk:Grizzly bear

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Contents 1 Tone tag 2 Range 3 Capitalization? 4 Sub-species question 5 climbing trees 6 Treadwell Trivia 7 Colbert 8 Grizzly, Seperate Speicies Than Brown Bear?

[edit] Tone tag

Someone had added the following tag to the section now entitled "Encountering a Grizzly Bear in the wild":

I have editied the rather funny section to hopefully conform to the standards and thus removed the tag. (Nice one to whoever wrote that, it was pretty funny). Ben 21:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Range

An interesting side note is that grizzly bears are now being seen more frequently in the high arctic. This apparent "expansion" of range is difficult to explain and has been theorized as being linked to global warming. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grizzlydog (talk • contribs) 15:13, 22 December 2005.

Can somebody add information on the range of grizzlies? Nothing in the current article mentions their range within North America. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.225.246.225 (talk • contribs) 22:43, 12 January 2006.

Added a map. -Ikkyu2 17:28, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

the map says their range stops at the u.s.-mexican border. i really doubt bears respected imaginary lines that weren't even concieved of yet. someone should get a more accurate map to show their true range of habitat. comments Lue3378 10:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

There's a map showing a dip into Mexico in this pdf: [1]. It's Figure 13, on page 56 of 98. --Mathew5000 11:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization?

Shouldn't this article be located at Grizzly bear? I see no reason that "bear" needs to be capitalized. If I forget to effect this move within three days, bug me on my talk page. --Cyde Weys 22:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, there's also the Polar Bear page as well. I recall the Wikiproject species group debating this for a long time, and so far, there's no strict consensus, so it can go either way. —Khoikhoi 22:58, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sub-species question

The Brown bear page still lists the grizzly bear as a separate sub-species, despite the DNA evidence discussed here. At a minimum, there should be conformity between the two pages saying something like, "There appears to be a lack of consensus as to whether the grizzly bear is a separate subspecies of the brown bear, etc." At this point, the two articles are simply in conflict.

NorCalHistory 21:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The comprehensive bibliography I compiled on this issue, which took me several hours, was deleted without comment (although much of the article text I contributed remains in the article). Go back in the article history and read it if you're really interested. -ikkyu2 (talk) 06:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] climbing trees

I am particulary concerned by the way this has been phrased in the section. it makes it sounds like that the first thing you should do should you see a grizzley is run and climb up a tree, which isn't the case at all. also the fact that grizzleys can't climb trees is false. A simple google search to yellowstone national parks advice [2] on grizzleys says this isn't the case if the branches are spaced far enough apart. Also the act of running from a bear is likely to increase its anger. While it is still a solution it is not the first one recomended anywhere that I have come across warnings about bears. Philbentley 13:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

This movie (http://www.fws.gov/video/wmv/grizbear512stream.wmv) may be converted into OGG/Theora and added to the article as it is a free work, produced by the US government (like the photo in the taxobox). I'll do this later unless someone else is up for some encoding. —msikma <user_talk:msikma> 12:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Treadwell Trivia

In the trivia section, Treadwell lived among bears in Katmai National Park, not Kodiak. If someone can confirm this, please change.

[edit] Colbert

While I'm a big Colbert fan, I think maybe the comedy is taking away from the legitimacy of the entry.

[edit] Grizzly, Seperate Speicies Than Brown Bear?

Some people think that the grizzly is a 9th speices seperate than than the brown. March 18 2007

every one there is only 15,00 grizzlies left in Canada, there going to get instinked, we got to help them!