Brown Bear Directory

[brotherbear]

~I have no connection with the latest findings, but from all that I've read I would say that on average the typical Kodiak brown bear is roughly 200 pounds heavier than the typical Alaskan peninsula brown bear. I have a theory regarding these bears. Science places the Alaskan coastal brown bears as grizzlies while sport hunters claim them as Kodiaks. I believe that they are both right. I believe that, at the end of the Pleistocene, after the sea retreated, some of their ancestors became stranded on the Kodiak Islands while others were left on the coast of Alaska. The Kodiaks remained pure while the coastal brownies are occasionally breeding with inland grizzlies.As for the Ussuri brown bears of the Russian far east, the average mature male is, to my understanding, about 5.5 feet from nose to rump and weighs roughly 580 pounds. According to a post at shaggygod about trophy hunting, trophy black grizzly measure from 8 to 8.5 feet long. That is a big bear. Reply