Size comparisons

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I put this video also here to update earlier postings about Kodiak brown bear male, named Taquka and Eurasian brown bear male, Felix. These bears live in same enclosure in Swedish wildlife park because they get along so good. In video from March 2019 Taquka is approximately 8,5 years old and Felix is app. 5,5 years old. Brown bears grow size (bones, skull) approximately up to age 10-11 years old. Naturally also weight grows too. So Felix should be growing a bit more compared to Taquka, but obviously it is and will be clearly smaller in future too.

Zoo gave weights from this April and Taquka was 410 kg (app. 904 lbs) and Felix 244 kg (app. 538 lbs). Good to notice, that these are weights after hibernation quite early spring. These two are very interesting pair to observe also in future. 

For those, who are interested to think about situation in Amur region, Felix is subspecies which is quite comparable with Ussuri brown bears overall. Maybe biggest bears in Ussuri area are bigger than Eurasian cousins, but in average, they are quite close each others. Biggest Eurasian brown bears are also about 400 kg before hibernation. Seeing how Kodiak bear dwarfes reasonable sized Eurasian brown bear like this is quite astonishing (imo). When Felix is alone, it doesn´t look like small at all :)

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