User:Enmah2001/California grizzly bear

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=== In 1866, a grizzly bear described as weighing as much as 2,200 pounds (1,000 kg) was killed in what is present-day Valley Center, California. The incident was recalled in 1932 by Catherine E. Lovett Smith, and it was the biggest bear ever found in California; if its measurements are accurate, this particular bear was one of the largest specimens of any bear species ever recorded. The California grizzly was already an enormous bear. In the 1800s, multiple newspapers noted of these bears weighing well over 1,000 pounds and even more. Not only that but the hind foot of one particular adult male grizzly was measured at 12 inches long and 8 inches wide, and claws were often 2 to 3.5 inches long. Lovett Smith witnessed the bear’s killing on her family's ranch when she was six years old. (Other sources confirm her account of the bear, but differ as to its exact size.) Her telling of that bear is part of the oral history of “Bear Valley,” the original name for Valley Center. ===