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Little update what comes to Kodiak brown bear Taquka and Eurasian brown bear Felix, living in Swedish zoo Orsa Rovdjurspark. Taquka is now 9 years old and Felix is 6.

They weighed these bears October 24th. With Taquka it went ok and he was 533 kg, Felix didn´t want to go in the cage with scale and they got his weight when only half of him was inside, result was 150 kg. He was before 250 kg, so 300 kg estimation might be ok.

Quote: "In october 24 this year Taquka weighed 533kg before hibernation. Felix didn't want to come inside the cage so we only got 150kg on him and then he was inside the cage with half of his body. 

It's hard for us to know the length on them on their hind legs but I have seen Taquka on his hind legs in the enclosure and he is most likely over 3m then."

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I asked also about Peter the Great (Kamchatka brown bear) and he was 570 kg when he arrived to Orsa zoo, so newspaper articles about 1000 kg bear have been exaggerations. 


Taquka and Felix

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One more with Taquka

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