A later version says the photo is of a forest service worker and also includes a picture of an alleged bear attack victim and says the bear had been responsible for several human deaths in Alaska and was the largest bear ever recorded. ... This bear was killed on Hitchenbrook Island by an airman stationed at Elmendorf.
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Kodiak Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kodiak bear ( Ursus arctos middendorffi ), also known as the Alaskan brown bear , is the largest subspecies of Brown Bear and occupies the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in south-central ...
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The brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It weighs 100 to 680 kilograms (220–1,500 lb) and its largest subspecies, the Kod...
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Do photographs show an enormous bear killed by an Alaskan hunter? ... Claim: Photographs show an enormous bear killed by an Alaskan hunter. Status: Real pictures; inaccurate description.; Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 2001];
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The average size of a Kodiak bear is usually not as big as the average polar bear, but because of the abundant food supply they can get pretty big. The largest Kodiak bear on record was a male taken in 1894 that weighed 1,656lbs/745kgs!
www.extremescience.com/PolarBear.htm www.extremescience.com/PolarBear.htm
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 ... Only one person has been killed by a bear on Kodiak in the past 75 years. About once every other year a bear injures a person.
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A US airman is believed to have killed the world's largest bear. ... A US airman is believed to have killed the world's largest bear. Ted Heuvelmans says he shot the 1,800lb Alaskan Brown bear from 35 yards away, in self defence.
breaking.tcm.ie/2002/10/11/story72067.html
Wildlife author killed, ... U.S. Geological Survey bear researcher Tom Smith; Sterling Miller, formerly the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's top bear authority; and others said they tried to warn the amateur naturalist that he was being far too cavalier around North America's largest and most powerful predator.
www.citizenreviewonline.org/oct_2003/california.htm
The bear had killed a couple of other people. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. Think about it. This thing on it's hind legs could walk up to the average single story house and look on the roof at eye level.
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