Old Ephraim
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Old Ephraim (also known as Old Three Toes by shepherds due to a deformity on one foot[1]) was a very large grizzly bear that roamed the Cache National Forest in Idaho and Utah from circa 1911 until his death on August 22, 1923.
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Species | Grizzly bear |
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Sex | Male |
Died | August 22, 1923 |
Nation from | United States |
Named after | Folkloric name for the grizzly bear |
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The name "Old Ephraim" (or "Ol' Ephraim") had been a term popularized in the 19th-century American West to refer to the grizzly bear,[2] and was used in frontier folklore to refer to specific animals. It appears as the name of a bear in a story by P. T. Barnum.[3]