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  (08-16-2019, 10:29 PM)epaiva Wrote:(08-16-2019, 09:57 PM)Pckts Wrote:It was a huge incredible Bear hope some day I can see a wild Kodiak Bear Me too, it's incredibly expensive for whatever reason. I'm not sure why they price it so much more than African and Indian Safaris but they do.
paulnicklen
Verified When living on the sea ice, it is always fun to see who has been hanging around camp at night. In this case it was a large male polar bear that was probably in the 800 to 1000 pound range. I know this because of the size of his footprints and because he woke me up by sniffing next to my head near the fabric of the tent. We had to go outside and politely encourage him to go and find food elsewhere. Throughout my career as a biologist and a photographer I have seen over 2000 polar bears and have had some remarkable encounters. But never I have I been in a life threatening situation. Walking in the footsteps of bears has been one of the greatest gifts of my life 
@BorneanTiger let´s keep this thread for extant bears, post things about prehistoric animals to their own threads :) It makes threads clearer, when not mixing up everything to everywhere. I removed your posting about short-faced bear because it was a copy from another you already posted in right thread, where people can see it.
(11-03-2019, 11:07 PM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Ursus ingressus versus Actotherium angustidens is surely going to be an interesting matchup. As moderator you maybe didn´t notice, that posting about short-faced bear was soft deleted to keep this thread for extant bears. I have understood, that this thread is about current living big bears. Then there is thread king of the bears for these comparisons, where prehistoric and modern bears are compared in different ways. Maybe this posting could be moved there to keep threads more clear?
Of the bears of the present age (Holocene), in terms of maximum reported weights (but not necessarily in terms of breadth of skull), the 3 biggest that I can think of, with maximum reported weights of approximately 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs), are:
* Kodiak brown bear (Ursus arctos): https://www.pinterest.com/pin/841328774117008579/ * Californian grizzly (Ursus arctos) (reportedly extinct since 1924): https://www.vchistory.org/exhibits/grizzly-bear/, https://www.yelp.com/biz/valley-center-h...ley-center * Polar bear (Ursus maritimus); credit: M. Watson White sow near Kaktovik, Barter Island, Alaska; credit: Alan Wilson
well dont forget Clyde the kodiak bear from the Dakota zoo, according to the zoo director, weighted about 2400 lbs 2 years before his death.
 *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.bismarckcafe.com/blogs/wiki/clyde-the-bear (11-04-2019, 12:00 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Of the bears of the present age (Holocene), in terms of maximum reported weights (but not necessarily in terms of breadth of skull), the 3 biggest that I can think of, with maximum reported weights of approximately 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs), are: For the breadth of skull, see the information on the Kamchatka brown bear, the largest of the Eurasian brown bears: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-russian...1#pid94501 (11-14-2019, 06:29 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:(11-04-2019, 12:00 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Of the bears of the present age (Holocene), in terms of maximum reported weights (but not necessarily in terms of breadth of skull), the 3 biggest that I can think of, with maximum reported weights of approximately 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs), are: Not apparently. Kamchatka bears are largest brown bears of Eurasia. As Kodiak bears and bears of Alaskan peninsula are largest bears of North-America. These three populations are in their own league when talking about big bears. When talking about bears living in forests of north, no matter if Eurasia or North-America, differences between populations and subspecies are marginal. So what comes to size, these bears are basically in two groups, coastal brown bears (Kodiak islands + Kamchatka and Alaskan peninsula) with access to salmon rivers and in another group brown bears with no access to salmon rivers. There is no question about it, that where biggest bears live, question is about it, that how big are the biggest ones etc. So some skull comparison between Kamchatka and other brown bears in Eurasia isn´t needed to figure out where the biggest bears are, that is very common knowledge and mentioned here in many threads before many many times. Of course such comparison can be interesting to see the difference in average, between biggest individuals etc. But there is no need to say "apparently" about self evident matters :) You can say without any need to worry, that biggest bears of Eurasia live at Kamchatka peninsula. 
A new record bear in Sweeden that weighed 352.1 kg. What a waste!
https://svenskjakt.se/start/nyhet/skot-sveriges-storsta-bjorn/
Kevin Cooper
This is the largest polar bear ever recorded. From Kotzebue Sound, Alaska in 1960 weighing a 1002 kilograms or 2,210 pounds and stood 11 feet 11 inches in height. Here it was featured in the Alaska exhibit of the Seattle World Fair.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
(02-02-2020, 12:50 AM)Pckts Wrote: Kevin Cooper It's similar in weight and appearance as the stuffed Californian grizzly which I posted above: https://www.vchistory.org/exhibits/grizzly-bear/, https://www.yelp.com/biz/valley-center-h...ley-center *This image is copyright of its original author *This image is copyright of its original author
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