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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.cience has not decided that they are all closely related enough to be subspecies within one species of Brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Europe, Asia, and North America. Grizzly bears like those in Yellowstone National Park are Ursus arctos horribilis.