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Kodiak bear
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Ko·di·ak bear  (kd-k)
n.
A brown bear inhabiting islands and coastal areas of Alaska and sometimes considered a separate species (Ursus middendorffi).

[After Kodiak (Island).]
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Noun1.Kodiak bearKodiak bear - brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia
brown bear, Ursus arctos, bruin - large ferocious bear of Eurasia


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This would be the same Jean-Jacques Annaud who, in his 1988 film ``The Bear'' kept an audience absolutely riveted for long stretches of film time while watching the wordless interaction between young and adult Kodiak bears.
McMillan's crisply focused photographs are filled with close-ups of salmon and the animals--gulls, eagles, Kodiak bears, magpies, and fox--that also depend on this fish.
And as an avid outdoorsman (he even labeled himself ``an ecologist''), he could be graceful in writing of natural beauty: ``There is a vast wilderness of mountains, lakes, rivers, glaciers and tundra, where Kodiak bears roam and the great Arctic wolves stalk the caribou.
 
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