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The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the second largest living bear (the largest being the polar bear, Ursus maritimus), but depending on where you are in the world it can go by many names and vary in appearance. At present there seems to be a glut of possible brown bear subspecies that scream for…
A polar bear (Ursus maritimus), playing with a plastic ring at the Bronx Zoo.
A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) playing catch with itself, photographed at the Bronx zoo in the spring of 2008.
[As a side note, I'll probably head back to the Bronx zoo tomorrow to get some new photographs. The forecast is calling for thunderstorms but I'll probably go anyway; I just can't say…
A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) playing with a plastic drum at the Philadelphia Zoo. This isn't much of a post, but I should probably note that this is my 200th post here on ScienceBlogs (time sure does fly, huh?), and you readers have left nearly 900 comments thus far. More posts should be coming…