Hansa 38cm Grizzly Bear club plush Grizzlies are normally solitary, active animals, but in coastal areas, the grizzly congregates alongside streams, lakes, rivers, & ponds during the salmon spawn. Brown bears are found in Asia, Europe & North America giving them one of the widest ranges of bear species. The ancestors of the grizzly bear originated in Eurasia & traveled to North America Approx. 50, 000 years ago. This is a very recent event in evolutionary time, causing the North American grizzly bear to be very similar to the brown bears inhabiting Europe & Asia. In North America, grizzly bears previously ranged from Alaska to Mexico & as far east as the Hudson Bay area