A close up picture taken of a brown bear located at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. Brown bears belong to the family Ursidae, which includes eight species. The Kodiak bear is a subspecies of brown bear found on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Kodiak bears are the largest of all brown bears and the second largest bear in the world. The largest bear is the polar bear, which inhabits the arctic coastal areas of the north. Brown bears have the widest range of any species of bear in the world. Their range covers northwest North America; across northern Europe and Asia from Scandinavia to eastern Russia; central Europe, including the Pyrenees, Alps, Abruzzi and Carpathian mountain ranges; and from Syria through the central Asian republics to the countries of the Tibetan plateau.
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Camera Settings (EXIF Data)
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Shutter Speed: 1/200 seconds
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Lens Aperture: F/5.6
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Focal Length: 119 mm
- Image Resolution: 2923 x 2049 pixels
- Image Size: 5.22 MB (JPG), 17.1 MB (TIF)
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Date Photo Taken: June 19, 2005 4:06 PM
- File Name: 606_brown_bear.jpg
- Image ID: # 606
- Date added to website: 12-Aug-2005