Stickeen brown bear
| Stickeen brown bear | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ursus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | U. a. stikeenensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Ursus arctos stikeenensis Merriam, 1914 | |
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The Stickeen brown bear (Ursus arctos stikeenensis), also known as Stikine brown bear, is a large North American brown bear that is most commonly dark brown in color but can also range from blonde to black, featuring a distinctive hump on its shoulders and a slightly dished profile to the face. It ranges along the coast of the Pacific Ocean from the southeastern Alaskan panhandle to the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon.