Dear Tago Zulu,
What you say is true as far as records books go but I still find the weights interesting. There were for years rumours of very large black bears in Ontario but the bigs ones were always cut up or skinned in the bush because they were too heavy to move and weigh.
Then a transport truck killed a big one crossing a highway near Kapuskasing and because it was on a road MNR got it to a weigh scale and accurately weighed it at 780 pounds. Another killed in Manitoba was accurate weighed at more than 850 pounds.
That black bear is larger than any grizzly bear killed in the continental United States since they began weighhing them. One or two even heavier black bears have been killed in recent years in the eastern USA. pennsylvania sems to have most of the big ones.
Llyn Rogers talks about a female black bear weighing more than 500 pounds but its almost certainly one raised in a roadside zoo or artificialy fed.
