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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...
I never thought of that. -The word grizzly in its name refers to grizzled or grey hairs in its fur, but when naturalist George Ord formally named the bear in 1815, he misunderstood the word as grisly, to produce its biological Latin specific or subspecific name horribilis. Hope this helped! =]