About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Birds of Armenia, Mammals of Armenia, Reptiles of Armenia, Brown Bear, Ortolan Bunting, Eastern Imperial Eagle, List of birds of Armenia, Black Kite, Bohemian Waxwing, Vipera ammodytes, Edible dormouse, List of mammals of Armenia, European Water Vole, Great Cormorant, European Otter, Mouflon, Pallas's Cat, Spur-thighed tortoise, Common Vole, Black-crowned Night Heron, Greater Short-toed Lark, Long-eared Hedgehog, Lesser Noctule, Menetries's Warbler, Nathusius's Pipistrelle, Purple Heron, Steppe Eagle, Syrian Brown Bear, Barbastelle, Particoloured bat, Bechstein's Bat, Lesser White-toothed Shrew, Moustached Warbler, Eumeces schneideri, Wild goat, Calandra Lark, Whiskered bat, Soprano Pipistrelle, Armenian Gull, Woodlark, Crested Lark, Lesser Short-toed Lark, White-winged Lark, Bimaculated Lark, Bezoar Ibex, Armenian Birch Mouse, Sevan trout, Armenian Rock Lizard, Sevan khramulya, Armenian Shrew. Excerpt: The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from 300 to 780 kilograms (660 to 1,700 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. There are several recognized subspecies within the brown bear species. In North America, two types are generally recognized, the coastal brown bear and the inland grizzly, and the two types could broadly define all brown bear subspecies. Grizzlies weigh as little as 350 lb (159 kg) in Yukon, while a brown bear, living on a steady, nutritious diet of spawning salmon, from coastal Alaska and Russia can weigh 1,500 lb (682 kg). The exact number of overall brown subspecies remains in debate. While the brown bear's range has shrunk, and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species b...
