What’s the difference between a grizzly bear and a Kodiak bear?
Both grizzly and Kodiak are names given to brown bears, which are found throughout northern Europe and Asia as well as North America, says Mike Madel, FWP bear biologist. The Kodiak is the common name for the brown bear subspecies found off the Alaskan coast on Kodiak, Afognak, and Shuyak islands. Grizzlies are inland brown bears. Brown bears that live along the Pacific coast are called coastal brown bears. Kodiak and coastal brown bears weigh roughly one-third more than their inland cousins.
