Bear Size ~

[Polar]

(07-07-2016, 04:47 AM)Pckts Wrote: You keep saying this...
"the heaviest polar bear weighed 1,541 pounds while the heaviest confirmed Kodiak bear weighed 1,653 pounds. "

But that is incorrect, you have multiple polar bears weighing 2000lbs plus and you still are unable to show me how the kodiak was weighed nor his body measurements, the same protocol you are asking for the polar bear you are refusing to accept are not being used for the kodiak bear you're accepting.

You also don't know how a kodiak would respond to a strictly carnivorous diet, especially a blubber rich diet. Polar bears have traveled down a different evolutionary path and thus their adaptions will not turn into automatic advantages for another bear. The bears also have morphological differences and while they may be "similar" they certainly aren't the same.

I agree that blubber will raise the brown bear's normal weight higher, but still not as high as the polar bear's normal weight. As Pckts suggested, polar bears could have genes which just automatically makes them heavier than a brown bear given an equal diet, but I don't know about the genealogy of polar bears. However, I definitely know almost everything else about their physicality and habits.

I think Brotherbear meant that the heaviest well-documented polar bear is 1541-pounds, but there definitely were ones ranging over 2000-pounds back then. Again, the Kotzebue specimen is not well-documented at all, or maybe its info is hidden and kept somewhere within a filing cabinet. Who knows? Same can be with the maximum Kodiak.

Well-documented measurements of animals usually provide the girths of various body parts, total length/height, as well as the weight if the system of weight-bearing is conclusive. Reply