Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear) is a white variant of the North American black bear, and it's found almost exclusively here in the Great Bear ...

The formal name is Kermode bear. Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred or supernatural creatures. There is science, not just folklore, behind several of the ...

Found primarily in the aforementioned Great Bear Rainforest on Canada’s north and central coast, spirit bears – also referred to as Kermode bears – are actually a white-furred variant of a ...

of which the most striking is surely the spirit bear, says Oliver Berry in the Financial Times. Long thought to be cousins of the polar bear, these creamy-white animals are, in fact, Kermode bears ...

The First Nations people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, have for centuries revered the spirit bear, or Kermode bear, to be found in the Great Bear Rainforest – a vast, old-growth temperate ...