Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear) is a white variant of the North American black bear, and it's found almost exclusively here in the Great Bear ...

spirit bears – also referred to as Kermode bears – are actually a white-furred variant of a subspecies of black bear, called Ursus americanus kermodei. While the exact number of these bears ...

But as a reminder of the ice age, he caused every 10th black bear to be white. The formal name is Kermode bear. Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred or ...

Long thought to be cousins of the polar bear, these creamy-white animals are, in fact, Kermode bears (a subspecies of the black bear) that have pale coats owing to a genetic variant. They are ...

The First Nations people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, have for centuries revered the spirit bear, or Kermode bear, to be found in the Great Bear Rainforest – a vast, old-growth temperate ...

Sprawling along Canada's Pacific coast, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border, the Great Bear ...