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EXPEDITION KODIAK

Grizzly Bears on Kodiak Island, Alaska

* For the last 10 thousand years, since the end of the last ice age, Kodiak Island has been isolated from the mainland by the 40-kilometre wide Shelikof Strait.
* The brown bears on Kodiak Island evolved into their own unique subspecies.
* Kodiak brown bears are the biggest bears on earth.
* Kodiak Island is home to nearly thirty-five hundred bears.
* Kodiak Island has the densest concentration of brown bears anywhere in the world, with just under one bear for every 2.6 square kilometres.
* Bears in Yellowstone National Park can stand about 100 centimetres at the shoulder when on all fours and weigh about 275 kilograms.
* Coastal brown bears can stand 112 centimetres tall at the shoulder when on all fours and weigh 410 kilograms or more.
* A Kodiak bear can stand more than 140 centimetres tall at the shoulder when on all fours and weigh more than 630 kilos. Reply