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While the brown bear ' s range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions , it remains listed as a least concern species by theIUCN with a total population of approximately 200,000 . As of 2012 , this and the American black bear are the only bear species not classified as threatened by the IUCN . However , the Californian , North African ( Atlas bear ), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , and many of the southern Asian subspecies are highly endangered . The smallest subspecies , the Himalayan brown bear , is critically endangered , occupying only 2 % of its former range and threatened by uncontrolled poaching for its parts .[ 3 ] The Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears . The brown bear ' s principal range includes parts of Russia , India , China , Canada , the United States ( mostly Alaska ), Scandinavia and the Carpathian region ( especially Romania ). The brown bear is recognized as a national and state animal in several European countries . It is the most widely distributed of all bears .
12 . Brown palm civet
The brown palm civet ( Paradoxurus jerdoni ) also called the Jerdon ' s palm civet is a civet endemic to the Western Ghatsof India . There are two subspecies , the nominate P . j . jerdoni and P . j . caniscus .[ 1 ] The Sulawesi palm civet is sometimes referred to by the same English name due to its brown colour .
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Brown palm civet
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April , 2016