Russian Brown Bears

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(06-04-2020, 12:46 AM)eagleman Wrote:

(06-03-2020, 04:33 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(06-03-2020, 04:24 PM)eagleman Wrote:

(06-22-2015, 05:26 PM)brotherbear Wrote: ~~New World record skull size Kamchatka Brown Bear at 30 11/16 inchesGreatest length of skull 18 13/16"=47,78 cmGreatest width of skull =11 14/16"=30,16 cm
Source www.scirecordbook.org 
First posted by Warsaw - http://shaggygod.proboards.com/
 The largest brown bears in all the Europe are those from Carpathian Mountains of Romania, as the widest skull was 29 centimeter and the second one 27,6.
 

I´m not sure if bears from Carpathia are really the largest in all Europe because I´m not sure if Finnish and Scandinavian hunters send information to those record books. Still for instance in Finland has been shot several male bears over 350 kg and biggest wild bear, which was sedated and collared was 373 kg. It is one huge wild Eurasian brown bear. I don´t think, that there are big differences between Eurasian brown bears of Carpathia and other populations, same bear after all.

The 350 kilo male bear is a middle sized male in Romania, The largest males are more than 400 kilos, with some approaching 500 kilos in autumn. The particular enviromnment condition of Caprpathian Mountains favorized the evolution of a particular and quite distincr population fom brown bears in Europe. For example , the top 10 of brown bear skulls from Europe are coming from Romania, according to FCI official measurements.
The longest bear hunted in Romania, ad a length of 2,77 meters from tipof nose to the base of tail. 

Are there any records of these bears said to be over 400 kg? I don´t really believe that 350 kg would be middle sized even there, it´s quite big for brown bears in Europe.. I have seen some people in Finland talking too about 500 kg bears, but never any real proof. 500 kg would be a big bear even at Kodiak Islands.

And 2,77 meters from nose to tail, I´m not buying that really if no really hard evidence, that would be over 3 meters tall on hind legs. Starts to sound some stories from hunters with too much alcohol. So do you have something concrete to verify that? Reply