Bear Size ~

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Animal facts and feats by Gerald L. Wood.
The greatest weight recorded for a polar bear in the wild is an incredible 1002 kg ( 2,210 pounds ) for a white colossus shot by Arthur Dubs of Medford, Oregon, U.S.A., at the polar entrance to Kotzebue Sound, NW Alaska, in 1960. In April 1962 the 3.39 m ( 11 feet 1.5 inch ) tall mounted animal was put on display at the Seattle World Fair.
That it is possible for polar bears to exceed 907 kg ( 2,000 pounds - 1 ton ) has also been confirmed by Ognev, who says that some of the old males killed on Spitzbergen have scaled as much as 60 poods - 979 kg ( 2,160 pounds ), but even a weight of 725 kg ( 1,600 pounds ) must be considered exceptional.
There are few records of captive polar bears exceeding 453 kg ( 1,000 pounds ). A large male which died at New York Zoological Gardens ( Bronx Zoo ) in 1960 scaled at 467 kg ( 1,030 pounds ) ( Crandall, 1964 ). Another male named "Harold" who died at Dudley Zoo in November 1965 reportedly measured 2.74 m ( 9 feet ) nose to tip of tail and weighed 508 kg ( 1,120 pounds ), but the compiler has not been able to confirm these figures. Even larger examples have probably been kept in Russian zoos, but no statistics are available. Reply