The "King" of the bears - comparison between the Polar bear and the Brown bear

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(12-13-2018, 06:04 PM)GuateGojira Wrote: @Shadow I think that you would prefer a table like this:

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Yes, that gives good information and gives justice to bears and how they grow. If chart is like 1 years old, 2 years old, adults.... it is just too simplified and very difficult to get real picture about situation. It is just like you said about tigers. At some point animals mature enough to breed and then at some point it is ok to say, that physically full grown what comes to skeleton etc. Then only relevant variable is weight.

Of course for majority of people rough estimations are just ok and it doesn´t matter to them really what bear is the biggest. But then again if we want to really find out in fair way, that how it is in reality, charts should be made in fair way so, that comparisons would be without too much room for speculation.

We have now some charts suggesting that Alaskan coastal bears at least in some areas might be heavier, than Kodiak bears. Then again vast majority of biggest hunted bears happen to be Kodiak bears. They take always skulls of hunted bears so, that those can be measured. 17 out of 20 biggest ones are Kodiaks. Also heaviest know bears, which have been weight relatively reliable, are Kodiaks. Even in that one chart which panther shared, biggest individual male bear was Kodiak bear and with huge difference to biggest from Alaska peninsula weighing about 170 kg (!!!) more, that was over 600 kg bear and biggest from coast wasn´t even 450 kg. 

I hope, that good information could be found more, if not now, hopefully in future. I don´t care which one is bigger, those are all brown bears. But if some other bear is bigger, why all trophy hunters are so eager to go hunting to Kodiak islands in hope to get a "monster"? Statistics are always interesting, but I think, that it is just fair to demand certain quality too taking account qualities of species when making those. Reply