Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos)

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(11-16-2020, 10:53 PM)Maritimus77 Wrote: @TheNormalGuy 

Again thank you for your efforts, Normal Guy, you've sent me a document regarding the monitoring of Cabinet-Yaak grizzlies and the weight data extracted from that is higly valuable:


Mature male grizzlies (5y+, old ones were also included): ~194.2kg (~428.1lbs; n=19)
Mature female grizzlies (5y+, old ones were also included): ~126.2kg (~278.2lbs; n=15)

Fully grown/Prime male grizzlies (all boars being at least 9y of age and not too old; I excluded one male at 27y of age): ~217.4kg (~479.3lbs; n=8)
Fully grown/Prime female grizzlies (all sows being at least 7y of age and not too old; I excluded three females being well over 25y of age): ~141.9kg (~312.8lbs; n=11)

Largest male: 270kg (595.2lbs), 14y of age
Largest female: 171kg (377lbs), 11y of age


Full document is here: http://transbordergrizzlybearproject.ca/pdf/Kasworm%20et%20al%202009.pdf

@Shadow I saw that you asked for precise weight data in your previous post here; this might be from great interest for you then.

Well brown bears have variation in size depending of population. These seem to be a bit smaller than Yellowstone population what comes to weight then. Then again so small number weighed that not possible to make too big conclusions. 

In my country biggest wild bears have been well over 350 kg, biggest was 372 or 373 kg. A 300 kg bear is naturally always big, but not something extraordinary. Then again 791 at Yellowstone is clearly over 300 kg, it´s way larger than 881 which was weighed to be 280 kg so it´s quite safe to make that claim. Hopefully they could weigh 791 also one day, even though I do hope, that they wouldn´t radio collar it. I don´t like to see too many animals radio collared even though I understand, that doing it to some gives valuable information. Reply