title: Spirit bear
text: # Spirit bear
  
  Spirit bear refers to any white-coated (leucistic) American black bear. It also specifically refers to the Kermode bear, a subspecies of American black bear in coastal British Columbia, which has a high prevalence of white-coated bears.
  
  It can also refer to:
  
  * Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story, a 2005 Canadian film
  * Touching Spirit Bear, a children's book by Ben Mikaelsen
  