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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