Kodiak Bear

The Kodiak bear.

Information
Write the firs The  Kodiak bear  ( Ursus arctos middendorffi ), also known as the  Kodiak brown bear  or the  Alaskan grizzly bear, [1]  occupies the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago  in South-Western  Alaska. Its name in the  Alutiiq language  is  Taquka-aq. [2]  It is the largest subspecies of  brown bear  and one of the two largest members of the bear family, the other being the  polar bear. [3] t section of your page here.

Height and Weight
Few Kodiak bears have been weighed in the wild, so some of the weights are estimates. Size range 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).[2]  Mature males average 480–533 kg (1,058–1,175 lb) over the course of the year,[6]  and can weigh up to 680 kg (1500 lbs) at peak times.[2]  Females are typically about 20% smaller and 30% lighter than males[2]  and adult sizes are attained when bears are 6 years old. Bears weigh the least when they emerge from their dens in the spring, and can increase their weight by 20–30%[7]  during late summer and fall. Bears in captivity can sometimes attain weights considerably greater than those of wild bears.

An average adult male measures 244 cm (8 ft 0 in) in length and stands 133 cm (4 ft 4 in) tall at the shoulder.[6]  A wild male weighing 751 kg (1,656 lb) had a hindfoot measurement of 46 cm (18 in).[6]  A large male Kodiak bear stands up to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall at the shoulder when it is standing on all four legs. When standing fully upright on its hind legs, a large male could reach a height of 3 m (10 ft).[2]  The largest verified size for a captive Kodiak bear was for a specimen that lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. Nicknamed "Clyde", he weighed 966.9 kg (2,132 lb) when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. According to zoo director Terry Lincoln, Clyde probably weighed close to 1,090 kg (2,400 lb) a year earlier. He still had a fat layer of 9 inches when he died.[8]  A mass of 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) was published for this subspecies, but further details were not specified.[9]

They are the largest brown bear subspecies, and are comparable in size to polar bears. That makes Kodiak bears and polar bears both the two largest members of the bear family and the two largest extant terrestrial carnivores.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fws_3-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">The standard method of evaluating the size of bears is by measuring their skulls. Most North American hunting organizations and management agencies use calipers to measure the length of the skull (back of sagittal crest on the back of the skull to the front tooth) and the width (maximum width between the zygomatic arches — “cheek bones”). The total skull size is the sum of these two measurements. The largest bear ever killed in North America was from Kodiak Island with a total skull size of 78.1 cm (30.75 in), and 8 of the top 10 brown bears listed in the Boone and Crockett record book are from Kodiak.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  The average skull size of Kodiak bears that were killed by hunters in the first five years of the 21st century was 63.8 cm (25.1 in) for boars and 55.4 cm (21.8 in) for sows.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-huntmgmt_11-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]