Here’s a fascinating look at a man who found two grizzly cubs with their dead mother in Alaska, and continued to raise the surviving cub to maturity. The word “grizzly” in its name refers to “grizzled” or gray hairs in its fur, but when naturalist George Ord formally named the bear in 1815, he misunderstood the word as “grisly”, to produce its biological Latin specific or subspecific name “horribilis”. Continue reading to see more.
Except for cubs and females, grizzlies are normally solitary, active animals, but in coastal areas, the grizzly congregates alongside streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds during the salmon spawn. Every other year, females (sows) produce one to four young (commonly two) which are small and weigh only about 500 grams (1 lb). A sow is protective of her offspring and will attack if she thinks she or her cubs are threatened.
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