Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.
History[]
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes[]
Due to the Simian Flu Pandemic, human kind drastically plummeted, with only 1 in 500 genetically immune. This allowed grizzly bears and other forms of wildlife worldwide to thrive and expand. It can be assumed that some grizzly bears began to spread and some made residence within the Muir Woods, where they became territorial enemies to an equally thriving colony of apes. The Evolved Apes were able to protect themselves from grizzlies by theirselves with spears and bolas.
One elk was caught up in a bolas thrown by Caesar during a hunting trip, where it laid panicking before Caesar and his son Blue Eyes ascended to butcher their kill, but after noticing signs of bears living in the woods by some claw marks on a tree, they were interrupted, and Blue Eyes was attacked by a huge grizzly bear, gaining large wounds across his chest and face from its claws. Caesar quickly came to rescue his son by driving his spear at the bear, but out of instinct the bear swiped Caesar's spear away and stood high above them in a sizing contest. Caesar yelled at the bear to try and scare it off while calling for aid and Koba heard his king's calls, rushing through the woods to their aid. As the bear reared to deliver a fatal blow to Caesar, Koba jumped at the bear and drove his spear through the back of its neck, fatally injuring it. The bear's dead body fell to the ground with Caesar beneath, but to Koba and Blue Eyes' relief he was not hurt. The bear was brought back to the Ape Village with the other ape kills for butchering.