Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode ... a biologist at the University of Victoria. "There's not enough habitat for grizzlies on those smaller islands.

This photographer recently had a bear-y lucky encounter while fishing in British Columbia, Canada. Last October, Steven Rose came across a spirit bear — a rare white bear with an estimated 400 ...

A spirit bear mother and her cub emerge from the forest ... The material is sent to a lab at the University of Victoria, where the DNA is extracted, along with other information, and matched ...