what is the largest bear in the world?
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Which is the largest/biggest bear on the planet? The Alaskan Kodiak Bear or the Polar Bear? It is a close call, but the polar bear is generally considered the largest bear on Earth. A close second is the brown bear, specifically the Kodiak bear. The Kodiak is a subspecies of the brown bear native to Alaska. The consensus among experts is that the polar bear is the largest, but some believe the Kodiak bear to be larger. Part of the dissension comes from the vagueness of the word largest..
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The Largest Bears in the World The Largest Bears in the World. Few of this largest bear have been weighed in the wild, so some of the weights are estimates. Size range largest bear for females is from 225 kg (500 lbs) to 315 kg (700 lbs) and for males 360 kg (800 lbs) to 635 kg (1400 lbs).
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Black Bear WORLD RECORD BLACK BEAR. The largest black bear ever recorded in North America weighed 880 pounds and lived in North Carolina. Many facts including growth rate, habitat, time of year, diet, and gender determine how big a bear will grow. The difference in male/female weight can be up to 25% to 30%. Huge bears tend to be male.
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- The World's Largest Gummy Bear is the lion of the candy world. There is no candy more magnificent or more powerful. This five-pound beast is the equivalent of 1,400 regular sized gummy bears and packs a whopping 6,120 calories.
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Alaska hunter bags world record grizzly bear Although Fitzgerald shot the bear last September, Boone and Crockett, which certifies hunting records, has only now determined the grizzly, with a skull measuring 27 and 6/16ths inches, is the biggest ever taken down by a hunter, and the second largest grizzly ever documented.
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Giant Panda Bear The Giant Panda is a species of bear that is found in the mountains of central and western China. One of the most famous and easily identifiable animals in the world, the Giant Panda is also one of the rarest and is under immense threat in its natural environment, primarily from habitat loss.
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What is the largest bear ever? 1 Male bears are called boars, females are sows, and youngsters are cubs.  Kodiak bears are the largest bears in the world. A large male can stand over 10' tall when on his hind legs, and 5' when on all four legs. They weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Females are about 20% smaller, and 30% lighter than males.
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- The Polar Bear is generally the largest in terms of average size of the breed. The males usually stand between 8 and 8 1/2 feet and weigh between 900 and 1500 lbs. The largest male weighed 2,210 lbs. That said, the largest bear found was a Kodiak:...
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- The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear with the widest distribution of any living ursid.[2] The species is distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America.[1][2] It is one of the two largest terrestrial carnivorans alive today, rivaled in body size only by its close cousin, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), which is much less ...
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Which is the largest/biggest bear on the planet? The Alaskan Kodiak Bear or the Polar Bear? It is a close call, but the polar bear is generally considered the largest bear on Earth. A close second is the brown bear, specifically the Kodiak bear. The Kodiak is a subspecies of the brown bear native to Alaska.
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Bears Polar Bears. It's a magnificent, powerful, and fearless animal; the world's largest land carnivore. The polar bear is a unique part of our natural heritage - directly connected to the Arctic Refuge.
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What is the largest bear ever? 1 In most areas the number of bears is stable, but there are some places where bear density is increasing. 2  Male bears are called boars, females are sows, and youngsters are cubs.  Kodiak bears are the largest bears in the world. A large male can stand over 10' tall when on his hind legs, and 5' when on all four legs. They weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Females are about 20% smaller, and 30% lighter than males.
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Polar bear Polar bears live across 1 million square miles of open tundra and sea ice encircling the North Pole. Their range spans the far northern reaches of Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and Norway. Polar bears are the largest member of the bear family. Adult males weigh up to 1,400 pounds and stand up to 11 feet tall on their hind legs.
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-       The Grizzly has a large hump over the shoulders which is a muscle mass used to power the forelimbs in digging. The head is large and round with a concave facial profile. In spite of their massive size, these bears can run at speeds of up to 55 km/h (35 mph). Myths About the Alaskan Grizzly Bear There is no doubt that Alaska has the largest bears in the world. 2  With reports of encountering these monstrous mammals, also comes many myths regarding what they are, how the…. 3  The Asian Black Bear The Asian black bear is all black except for a white area on its chest.
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- No. The polar bear is actually the largest bear in the world, and is the largest predator on land. The largest polar bear weighed 2210 pounds and stood 14 ft tall on hind legs … , while the largest grizzly bear weighed 1760 pounds and stood 12 ft tall.3 people found this useful.o. The polar bear is actually the largest bear in the world, and is the largest predator on land. The largest polar bear weighed 2210 pounds and stood 14 ft tall on hind legs … , while the largest grizzly bear weighed 1760 pounds and stood 12 ft tall. 3 people found this useful.
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What is the Biggest Bear in the World? It is a close tie between the Polar bear and the Kodiak bear; a subspecies of brown bear found only in Alaska. The polar bear wins out weighing between 300 and 600 kg and are 2 to 3 meters long.
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What Is the Biggest Kodiak Bear Ever Recorded by Weight? A: The world’s largest known bear from an existing species was an 11-foot-tall male polar bear that weighed 2,200 pounds, as Discovery News reported in Februa...
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11-foot Sturgeon Caught In Columbiaâs Hanford Reach While sturgeon are spread throughout the Columbia system, the traditional area for giants has been below Bonneville Dam, but Armatrout’s estimated 700-pounder is one of several big diamondsides caught upstream of Tri-Cities this year, including one that pushed a dozen feet. Here’s Ryan’s story:
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Brown Bear Currently, the largest brown bear populations are in Russia, Alaska, and Canada. Brown bears have a large hump of muscle on top of their shoulders, and grizzly bears have the most distinctive hump of all. Their great front claws make all brown bears powerful diggers.
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- 3-Polar Bear – Ursus Maritimus Polar bears are among the largest bears in the world. Adult males may reach 800 kilograms (kg) or 1760 pounds (lbs). In Ontario, the largest male bear recorded from “live capture” research studies weighed 654 kg (1439 lbs). The average weight of male polar bears in Ontario is about 500 kg (1100 lbs). Adult female bears are smaller and average around 300 kg (660 lbs); their peak weights do not usually exceed 400 kg (880 lbs).
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Marine Mammal Viewing A powerful and patient predator on land, sea, and ice, the polar bear is the world’s largest carnivore and a unique symbol of the Arctic. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Ursus maritimus, or the sea bear, evolved from its brown bear (Ursus arctos) ancestors to occupy an ecological niche in the frozen far north.
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Bears The grand Grizzly Bear is one of the greatest symbols of the vast wilderness. Once common throughout much of western North America, the grizzly species currently reside in five separate populations in western Canada, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington, and there are around 30,000 bears in Alaska.
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- The largest Kodiak bear ever held captive in a British zoo was probably a male called 'Nick' (one of the twins) received at London Zoo direct from N America on 29 January 1954 At the age of one year he scaled 595lb 270kg, and when he died at Whipsnade Zoo in October 1963 he recorded a posthumous weight of 1148lb 521kg.
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Polar Bears 1 The polar bear is the largest land carnivore.  Male polar bears (boars) grow two to three times the size of females (sows). Boars weigh about 350 to more than 650 kg (772-1,433 lb.) and are about 2.5 to 3 m (8.2-9.8 ft.) long.
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Polar Bear Polar Bear Classification and Evolution. The Polar Bear is a large species of bear that is found inhabiting the ice fields in the Arctic Ocean. It is the biggest species of bear in the world (with the exception of the Kodiak Brown Bears found in Alaska which can reach similar sizes) with males often weighing-in at around 600kg.
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Bears: Facts Brown bears and polar bears are the biggest bears. They can be over 6 feet long and can weigh from 100 to 600 pounds. Sun bears which live in southeast Asia are the smallest bears.They weigh about 100 pounds or 45 kg.ears can probably see as well as humans can. They can recognize shapes but not details at a distance, and they observe moving objects better than stationary objects. When you've got to find lots of food on the ground, sharp eyes that see color can come in handy. And that's exactly what the black bear has.