Monarch the Grizzly Bear | California Academy of Sciences

Discover the story of Monarch, one of California's last grizzly bears. This specimen is on display in our California: State of Nature exhibit. This video is one of several on the subject of the California grizzly bear. View the entire playlist here: • The Grizzly Bear
Video credits:
Rebekah Kim
Nick Perez, Videographer/Editor
Molly Michelson, Producer/Writer
Additional images courtesy of:
OpenSFHistory.org
Tejon Indian Tribe
Monarch the Grizzly, Susan Middleton
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[@RedKoopaPlumber]

I learned about Monarch earlier this year and was really sad :(
I'm surprised he isn't talked about more from when I learned about California Grizzlies in school, and when I looked up videos on recently extinct animals including the California grizzly.

[@blackquiver]

Lots of grizzlies where I'm at.. lot's

[@h.l.malazan5782]

Cow-jumping bisons did not send the bisons to the brink of extinction, a military sanctioned extermination did. Long-hunting did not wipe out California grizzlies, building mining towns did.
There is a lesson to be learnt here, but we will just keep talking over one another.