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Best Answer: Grizzly bears are so called not because they are 'grisly' --- that is, horrifying or gruesomely unpleasant --- but because of their grizzled or gray hairs. Wow good question! I never thought of that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bea...
The term grizzly refers to the grey tips on the hair, like when a man has a greying beard that mixes grey to his regular hair color. This grey-tipped hair color phase is only â¦ in the central continent, coastal bears in Alaska and Eur-asia bears don't have it which is why they were called brown bears.he collective nouns for a group of bears are a pack of bears, a  maul of bears, a sleuth of bears, or a sloth of bears.    The collective nouns group of polar bears a â¦ re a celebration of  polar bears, an aurora of polar bears, a pack of polar bears. + 175 others found this useful. Robert Thompson.