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

> But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/ https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/). Well that's confusing. Whenever I hear brown bear (in hunting contexts, etc) I assume grizzly.