Big cat and Bear tale

[brotherbear]

Big Bonns... I think Warsaw makes the point. How many Lions achieve 230kg....give us the data. Of course they occur but just dont get caught for health checking purposes.
Thus we can only get an idea of the potential size/weight of a species potential by the animals which turn up on occasion for whatever reason.
As regard Yellowstone i have documented record of 5 Grizzly which have met or exceeded the 750lb limit you set.Carmichaels Bear in Grizzly Years is described as a good 750lb animal by a man who had tracked Bear at the biological level for 9 seasons.....John Craigheads 500kg Bear actually weighed and reported in his book 1979. Lance Craigheads 890lb Bear in Bears of Wyoming (Wyoming scrapes the edge of Yellowstone) The 2 recent road kills at 730lb and 840lb and of 2003 the translocated 847lb Bear of 2003.
Its enough for me to suggest these animals can do about 800lb to 850lbs.
As regard the Yukon only bear made the very unusual weight of 930lb and i accept that 750lb Bear is highly unusual for here with this 930lb animal a freak.
Similary with the Rocky mountain 750lb Grizzly.
However, Khutz grizzly and Bella Grizzly are often reported as very big. The record for Khutz of 1050lbs again demonstrates that 850lbs is not fantasy.
Incredibly a female from Denali weighed 700lbs, demonstrating that even a female can outweigh the biggest ever Lion in freak cases. Reply