SKULLS

[grrraaahhh]

Oct 5, 2012 5:34:19 GMT -9 warsaw said:

Oct 4, 2012 18:45:53 GMT -9 Ursus arctos said:

Warsaw, here is the correct link.

Thanks.
Grrraaahhh sent me this article to read,but my computer recently crashed.

As a general rule in studying bears, I am always interested about the sample selection details: location, date, gender & the age of the subject. The next area of interest would be methodology. I want to skim through this article again before further comment.

[grrraaahhh]

Oct 6, 2012 4:49:11 GMT -9 grrraaahhh said:

Oct 5, 2012 5:34:19 GMT -9 warsaw said:

Thanks.
Grrraaahhh sent me this article to read,but my computer recently crashed.

As a general rule in studying bears, I am always interested about the sample selection details: location, date, gender & the age of the subject. The next area of interest would be methodology. I want to skim through this article again before further comment.

It's an impressive collection of skulls spanning the decades. The only thing that surprises me is at what age these different populations of brown bears attained 97% asymptotic size. I would have thought the ages for both length & width to be a little bit older:



shaggygod.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=trophyhuntingskulls&action=display&thread=10&page=5





FWIW, threads dealing with the technical reports covering Kenai Peninsula & Southeast Alaska brown bears are planned. Other North American technical reports/threads including Canadian populations are also planned.

[warsaw]

"This Brownie was the oldest killed in SW Alaska in 2011, 31 years old aged at the University of Montana for the Alaska DNR. Taken off the Togiak National Reserve. Some of you may have seen it on Solo Hunter TV show on the outdoor channel a couple of weeks ago.Shot at 15 yards with a 375 Ruger, and 270 Gr Barnes TSX handloads."
iowawhitetail.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44155

[warsaw]

Photo from LEWIS & CLARK NATIONAL HISTORIC
INTERPRETIVE CENTER, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA

fallroadtrip.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/h-w-grizzly-skull-gr8-falls.jpg

[warsaw]

www.flickr.com/photos/35443425@N06/6064607235

[Ursus arctos]

[warsaw]

Mar 3, 2012 8:31:59 GMT -9 warsaw said:

Some variations in skull shape among Carpathian brown bears from Romania.



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[sarus]

Andean Bears' Skulls (Tremarctos ornatus)

[warsaw]

Grizzly bear
www.preciolandia.com/mx/craneo-de-oso-grizzly-original-6ptvww-a.html#&panel1-4

[sarus]

postimage.org/image/yob1h7clj/

Skulls of grizzly bears from the interior of British Columbia.

[warsaw]

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[warsaw]

[warsaw]

[divingwolf]

I get the following message when I use the link above:

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[warsaw]

These skulls of female (CN4543; live body mass 203 kg) and male (CN4532; 496 kg) of the Kodiak brown bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), showing not only the marked size-dimorphism characteristic of all extant ursids but also distinctive morphological differences, such as the taller, more robust overall skull proportions of the male; the much larger mastoid process; more robust upper canine; larger sagittal crest; and the shorter facial region.