Talk:Himalayan Brown Bear

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An entry from Himalayan Brown Bear appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 5 October 2006.

[edit] Population

The citation for the population of Himalayan brown bears refers only to the population within the Deosai region. If there are only 35 of these animals left in the world, they would be considered extremely endangered and the article should make that clear. -- 67.183.24.72 01:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

The Himalayan Red Bear and the Himalayan Brown Bear are the same taxon. It is not allowed for a species and a subspecies in the same genus to have the same epithet. Basically, the HRB article can be 90% scrapped, it is full of errors and has little worthwhile to add. The describer's name is not part of the scientific name, and it does not get italicized anyway, and the genus Spelaeus is not valid anymore, etc. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 12:24, 9 December 2007 (UTC)