Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Saw this black bear on the side of Highway 4 on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. We were driving from Port Alberni to Tofino, before the turnoff to Tofino or Ucluelet. Near Kennedy Lake, Clayoquot Plateau Provincial Park, and Pacific Rim National Park. Several cars slowed and had a look, but no one stopped and harassed the bear as we went by.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: Ursinae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. americanus
Binomial name
Ursus americanus

September 12, 2025.

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