Rare white-colored grizzly bear captured on camera in Hokkaido

A Japanese research team has succeeded in taking footage of a white-colored grizzly bear in a forest used for research on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido.These types of bears have been observed in the wild on Kunashiri and Etorofu islands off Hokkaido, but it is extremely rare to be able to see the animal repeatedly in the prefecture.The grizzly bear has mostly white fur except on its back and was filmed six times between September 2016 and July 2018 by the team from Nihon University's College of Bioresource Sciences.The group had placed dozens of heat-sensing cameras in the 2,…READ FULL ARTICLE