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(12-27-2020, 04:47 PM)johnny rex Wrote:

(12-27-2020, 03:53 PM)Shadow Wrote:

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(12-26-2020, 07:23 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(12-26-2020, 04:11 PM)johnny rex Wrote: A size comparison between a skull of a 19 years old Kenai brown bear (Alaskan coastal brown bear) on the left and a skull of a 22 years old grizzly bear (inland brown bear) on the right. 

This is a good photo. Good thing to notice is, that Alaskan bears skull is almost world record size, only approximately 0,5 cm less, which is 0,22 inch. Then again inland brown bear skull isn´t similar representative but smaller. So this pair is like biggest of the big against closer to average inland brown bear. 

While biggest Kodiak bear skull has been 45,56 cm long, biggest inland brown bears have had skull lengths around 40 cm too. I think, that this is good to know when looking at this photo.

If you measure the grizzly skull with the scale in the photo above, the grizzly skull is approximately 40 cm.

I measured and that smaller skull has length of approximately 36 cm when knowing that bigger one is 45 cm. 

I discussed with a representative with Finnish hunter organization and learned, that longest bear skull from Finland is also 45 cm, but narrower than what Alaskan and Kodiak bears have. This record bear what comes to skull length has skull width 23,52 cm and it´s biggest skull from here. Then there are many bear skulls around 40 cm long. 

Naturally when putting two random skulls to a photo it can happen that one is almost world record class and other one isn´t same kind. While Kodiak and coastal brown bears in Alaska have bigger skulls than grizzlies I´m not sure if that photo is representing average difference.

It simply means there are varieties of different shapes between brown bears. While the length of the largest inland grizzlies approached the size of the largest coastal brown bears, coastal brown bear skulls tend to be wider.

Naturally. My point to put some measurements was to show, that those two skulls in the photo aren´t necessarily showing average size difference. And it´s something good to remember when looking at those skulls. Reply