Bear Size ~

[brotherbear]

Here's the thing, none of this matters. I doubt that Goliath was ever weighed. Clyde was weighed, but not until his health, and he was not at his heaviest; weighed after he had died ( 2, 136 pounds ). But, the only weights that have any true meaning are those which have been scientifically confirmed. In the wild, polar bears in general average heavier than Kodiak brown bears. This is, of course, due to a diet almost exclusively on blubber. Not even captive polar bears living the easy life in zoo's are as heavy as their wild brothers. 
A brown bear is more likely to be heavier living in a zoo; easy meals and no hibernation. Now, what if a Kodiak bear were fed on a polar bear's diet his entire life... how heavy might he become? He could easily be bigger than Clyde or Goliath, or possibly any polar bear. But, size potential doesn't really matter does it. 
[b]I understand about captive animals Pckts. In the wild, as for confirmed weights, the heaviest polar bear weighed 1,541 pounds while the heaviest confirmed Kodiak bear weighed 1,653 pounds. This does not prove that Kodiak bears are bigger than polar bears. It does prove that the biggest brown bears are the polar bear's only real competition and that it is the polar bear's diet that makes him 'normally' the biggest.     [/b] Reply