Size comparisons

[Maritimus77]

@Shadow 

Thank you for the question, Shadow!

I first came across an average number for Kodiak bear measurements in "The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats" (Wood, Gerald) and they stated the average total length of a Kodiak bear as 244cm and the average shoulder height as 132cm:

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I then compared these figures with measurements taken from Alaska Pensinula brown bears in a scientific work called "Morphometric Characteristics of Brown Bears on the Central Alaska Peninsula" (Glenn) and the measurements were roughly the same, just slightly less (I'll attach the whole work below):

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https://www.bearbiology.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Glenn_Vol_4.pdf Reply