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[thaumaturgy]

This is largely a matter of local lexical confusion. In the US, "brown bear" can mean two things: a black bear with a brown coat (ursus americanus), or a grizzly (ursus arctos horribilis, which makes me giggle every time).

Across the pond, "brown bear" probably means ursus arctos arctos, a cousin of our own more foul-tempered beasties.

But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/).

[look_lookatme → thaumaturgy]

> But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/).

Well that's confusing. Whenever I hear brown bear (in hunting contexts, etc) I assume grizzly.