re: Watch This Brown Bear Follow a Young Boy Down a Mountain in Viral Video

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had no idea there were brown bears in Italy or Europe.

Thought they were only in Russia and North America.

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There are many subspecies of brown bears and dozens of small fragmented populations scattered from the Pyrenees Mountains of Spain and France to Italy all the way across Asia to the former Soviet states, Iran, Afghanistan and central China. The nominate species being the Eurasian brown bear ranges from Norway to Estonia and Romania and Greece to the Ural mountains of Russia.

There is also the Ussuri brown bear and Kamchatka brown bear of the Russian far east, and an isolated population on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.