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Quiz about Splitting Bears Brown Black or Bewildered

Splitting Bears: Brown, Black or Bewildered Quiz

Imagine you are in north-western North America. You spot a bear. Can you tell if it's a black bear (Ursus americanus) or a brown bear (Ursus arctos)?

A multiple-choice quiz by Cher40. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Cher40

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
269,608

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

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7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. You spot a bear and are told it is either a grizzly bear or a Kodiak bear. What type of bears are both grizzlies and Kodiaks? Hint

Either black or brown bears

Black bears

Brown bears

Neither black nor brown bears

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Question 2 of 10

2. If the bear you spot is brown, what type of bear are you seeing? Hint

Neither a brown nor black bear, since both are usually white or blond.

A brown bear because it was brown.

Either a brown or black bear as they can both be brown.

A black bear because they are usually brown.

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Question 3 of 10

3. If you see a bear with a hump at the shoulder, what type of bear is it? Hint

Black bear

Could be either as they both have shoulder humps.

Neither. Bears don't have shoulder humps, bison do.

Grizzly bear

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Question 4 of 10

4. If you spot a bear in the distance, and the ears are quite prominent and slightly pointed, what type of bear are you probably looking at? Hint

Brown bear

If it has large ears, it is likely just a rabbit.

Impossible to tell - both bears have large ears

Black bear

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Question 5 of 10

5. If you find a bear's foot print that is 6 inches (15 cm) wide, what type of bear likely made it? Hint

Brown bear

It could be either, as they have very similar feet.

Black bear

It was probably a sasquatch as bear feet are not large.

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Question 6 of 10

6. You spot a bear by the side of the road and notice it has a distinctly dished face. What type of bear are you seeing? Hint

Black bear

Neither has a dished face, so it might be a wolf or a cougar.

It could be either as the face shapes are identical.

Brown bear

7. From the comfort (and safety) of your car, you are photographing a bear on the side of the road. If you notice that it has white or silver tips on its dark fur, what type of bear are you photographing? Hint

Brown bear

Either as both often have silver-tipped hair.

Black bear

Neither has white-tipped hair so it's likely a polar bear.

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Question 8 of 10

8. You spot a bear that is black in colour with a large white patch on its chest. This bear is likely what species? Hint

Black with a white patch? It must be a skunk.

Brown bear

Black bear

Both are commonly black with white patches.

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Question 9 of 10

9. You spot a large dark-coloured animal at the top of a tree. It leaps rapidly from branch to branch and from tree to tree, soaring in between tree tops. What type of bear have you spotted? Hint

Both will exhibit this behaviour

Black bear

Neither type of bear is likely to do this.

Brown bear

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Question 10 of 10

10. While camping in "bear country", you wash your dishes and cooking utensils and put them in a large plastic box beside your tent. You throw the dish water in the bush behind the tent. You wipe the table cloth on the picnic table and hang the cloth and towel on a line to dry and retire into your tent to nap. When you awake to hear a bear in your campsite, is it more likely a brown or black bear? Hint

Brown bear

It could be either as they would both like the food odours.

Black bear

It's just a raccoon since you cleaned all the food odours.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. You spot a bear and are told it is either a grizzly bear or a Kodiak bear. What type of bears are both grizzlies and Kodiaks?

Answer: Brown bears

Both grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) and Kodiak bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) are subspecies of brown bear.

2. If the bear you spot is brown, what type of bear are you seeing?

Answer: Either a brown or black bear as they can both be brown.

Both brown bears (Ursus arctos) and black bears (Ursus americanus) can be brown. Without further information, the bear could be either species.

3. If you see a bear with a hump at the shoulder, what type of bear is it?

Answer: Grizzly bear

Grizzlies have large muscular shoulder humps. The powerful shoulders are what makes them the effective diggers that they are.

4. If you spot a bear in the distance, and the ears are quite prominent and slightly pointed, what type of bear are you probably looking at?

Answer: Black bear

The ears of the black bear are pointed and more prominent than the ears of a brown bear, though the presence or absence of a shoulder hump might be a more distinguishable characteristic to use when differentiating brown and black bears.

5. If you find a bear's foot print that is 6 inches (15 cm) wide, what type of bear likely made it?

Answer: Brown bear

Brown bears have much larger feet. Black bear footprints will usually be less than 4 inches (10 cm) wide. And, the sasquatch, though known as "big foot", probably doesn't exist.

6. You spot a bear by the side of the road and notice it has a distinctly dished face. What type of bear are you seeing?

Answer: Brown bear

A concave or dished face is characteristic of the brown bear. Black bears, and even polar bears, have more convex or Roman facial structures.

Answer: Brown bear

The grizzled appearance of some brown bears led to the name grizzly bears. While black bears are often colours other than black, and may even be more than once color, the grizzled appearance from the silver-tipped hairs is characteristic of Ursus arctos horribilis.

8. You spot a bear that is black in colour with a large white patch on its chest. This bear is likely what species?

Answer: Black bear

It is very common for a black bear to have a white or lighter patch of fur on its chest.

9. You spot a large dark-coloured animal at the top of a tree. It leaps rapidly from branch to branch and from tree to tree, soaring in between tree tops. What type of bear have you spotted?

Answer: Neither type of bear is likely to do this.

While black bears can climb trees, unlike adult brown bears, black bears are not likely to leap from tree top to tree top, and are especially not likely to be soaring or flying. If such a bewildering spectacle is ever spotted in north-western North America, it is most likely NOT a bear of any type.

Answer: It could be either as they would both like the food odours.

Either a black bear or brown bear would be attracted by the food and cooking odours. To decrease the attraction a bear would have for your campsite, your dishes, cooking utensils, and table cloth should be stowed in a bear-proof vehicle. Dirty dish water should be disposed of in a proper drain, and even dish towels which will contain food odours should not be left out.

Source: Author Cher40

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