UPDATE: 8:34 PM 4/25/2016

The Yellowstone National Park Facebook page says that Scarface was wearing a collar. It is not clear if the collar was active or why the delay on announcing his death.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- A grizzly bear killed last November has been identified as No. 211, otherwise known as “Scarface.” The 26-year-old bear was killed in the Little Trail Creek drainage north of Gardiner, Montana in the Gallatin National Forest. The shooting is still under investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During the same relative time period scarface was killed the Billings Gazette reports a hunter told Montana Fish and Wildlife that he stumbled upon a bear at close range and was attacked. That’s when he killed it. At this point, it is unclear if this incident is the one in which scarface was killed. We reached out to Montana Fish and Wildlife but as of the time of publishing our calls have not been returned.

Scarface was well known to grizzly bear researchers in Yellowstone. He was born in 1990, just a couple years after the famed wildfires which torched much of the park. During his life he witnessed the return of wolves to Yellowstone as well as his own species’ in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem rise from about 300 to more than 750. He was very recognizable to visitors and photographers due to the scarring on his face from fighting with other bears.