Talk:Syrian brown bear

Size
How big is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.88.40 (talk • contribs)

Biblical reference
I am going to go ahead and change the "Yahweh" to "God", as the Bible specifically says "God". Does anyone have a problem?Prussian725 (talk) 04:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Palestine
until a Palestinian state is created and recognized by the inte"ll community. the syrian brown bear is extinct in ISRAEL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.196.91.224 (talk) 06:02, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

What source say
He who added this with sources wrought Palestine:, it was then changed here without bringing any new source that can confirm the validity of the change. We must follow the source. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 20:33, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. The source says Palestine. Mariomassone (talk) 17:06, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

U. a. syriacus or U. a. arctos in Caucasus?
The lead (and distribution map) say that U. a. syriacus occurrs in the Caucasus. Yet, under evolutionary history, it says that alls brown bears in the Caucasus are U. a. arctos. Isn't that a contradiction? Or am I reading the statement re U. a. arctos wrong? Either way, I think some clarification is needed. Robuer (talk) 13:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Coming from the perspective of a cat-fan, as you may see from my username, I know that certain animals that were regarded as subspecies may now be regarded as populations of subspecies, such as the Asiatic lion (formerly Panthera leo persica) now being regarded as a population of the subspecies Panthera leo leo, and the closely related Caspian and Siberian tigers (formerly Panthera tigris virgata and Panthera tigris altaica, respectively) as populations of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris), but I do not have a reference for Ursus arctos syriacus being reclassified as a population of the subspecies Ursus arctos arctos. Leo1pard (talk) 05:57, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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Leo1pard (talk) 05:57, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Did Caspian tigers prey on brown bears?
Today, the brown bear's region has leopards and wolves, and a leopard had killed two small bears in the Caucusus, in 1931. Previously, the bear had also been sympatric with the Asiatic lion and Caspian tiger, which I find interesting, because in this age, the tiger preys on bears. In particular, the Amur tiger (which is closely related to the Caspian tiger) preys on the Ussuri brown bear. Leo1pard (talk) 07:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Name of Syria
'Syria' may refer to two places:

1) The modern country, which is called Sūriyā (سُـوْرِيَـا).

2) A broader, historical region, which is called Ash-Shām (اَلـشَّـام), and includes the modern countries of Syria and Lebanon. 

Both places are applicable to this bear, due to where it is recorded to have occurred. Leo1pard (talk) 12:48, 6 March 2018 (UTC)