Size comparisons

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This photo is from zoo Orsa Björnparken, Sweden. This is interesting way to show to people sizes of two of their bears.

Left are silhouettes of Kamchatka brown bear, Peter the Great and on right Eurasian brown bear Norbert. As you can see, Kodiak bears aren´t only giants among bears. These are both residents of Orsa Björnparken.

Here figures, which are told in information tables of these bears:
Peter:     Weight 570 kg (1257 lbs), height on hind legs 3 meters 10 cm (10 ft 2,05 inches), shoulder height 1 meter 55 cm (5 ft 1 inch) body length 260 cm (8 ft 6,36 inches)
Norbert:  Weight 250 kg (551 lbs),  height on hind legs 2 meters 10 cm (6 ft 10,68 inches), shoulder height 1 meter 5 cm (3 ft 3,34 inches) body length 160 cm (5 ft 3 inches)

This is a bit unfair comparison I have to say, because this Kamchatka bear is a really big boy, then again Norbert seems to be smallish Eurasian, they can be after all even 250 cm tall on hind legs, which is 8 ft 2,45 inches. Still this is a pair, which could meet also in wild in Russian far east if some Kamchatka bear makes a trip to inland. Brown bear males can travel several hundreds of kilometers especially when rutting time in summer. Naturally same when thinking about Alaskan peninsula brown bears and inland grizzlies.

I have seen some sources saying, that in heaviest condition Peter would have been 900 kg (1984 lbs), but about that I try to find more information. Anyway that 570 kg is direct information from the zoo (no idea yet if spring or autumn weight, but with that frame it could be spring weight, that bear is simply huge, bigger than for instance famous original Bart the Bear and naturally clearly bigger than Bart II.

I think, that these silhouettes are excellent way to show the size difference so,  that people can really understand it.

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In this photo seems to be some man, maybe 180 cm, about 6 feet tall, my quick estimation comparing himself to Peter the Great silhouette :)

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And a woman at almost same place.

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Kamchatka bears Peter the Great and Sofia sitting in the pond, Orsa Björnparken June 14th 2013.

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Peter the Great, October 2014

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June 2016, Norbert should be one of the males in the rear enclosure.

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