Russian Brown Bears

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(06-04-2020, 04:29 PM)eagleman Wrote: Hello!
In Romania is the same situation, actually when bear attacks humans or cattle, they are hunted. Regarding trophy hunting, yes, the biggest males are extracted but actualy when they are getting old, in order to allow them sufficient time to pass their valuable genes to as many females as they can find.

Yeah, it´s good to have it so even though I personally dislike trophy hunting. What Ceausescu did back then and made others do... those are crazy things and stories, but it was different era back then. Well, I have no doubt about it, that there are some very big ones. Bears can gain a lot of weight in good years what comes to food. And we have some assumptions about Californian grizzlies who didn´t hibernate at all and still they were considered to be very big. Some give numbers like 1000 kg, but I think that there are lbs´s and kg´s mixed up by someone. I have never seen suggested, that Californian grizzlies would have been bigger or heavier than bears of Kodiak Islands and Alaska and it doesn´t make really any sense. But it looks like, they have been in between, so big males over 400 kg doesn´t sound impossible, when we know how huge some bears in Alaska are.

But is it so in Carpathia, that is what I was thinking because I haven´t seen any studies suggesting so. And as Juuso bear proves, bears up north can gain a lot of weight too. He is clearly bigger than other male bears in same zoo in which he lives and naturally bigger than any other bear in any zoo in Finland. Vyöti, another male bear from same zoo as Juuso getting same food has been in his heaviest condition a little bit over 300 kg if I remember right. And then there in between in records are at least 4 wild bears over 350 kg. It´s for some reason quite difficult to find information online about hunting statistics in Finland. Reply