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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 2544619" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Minimum of 8 years old for maximum skull growth.</p><p></p><p>Brown bear aren't considered mature until ~7 1/2 years old. Some survive in the wild up to ~30yrs, where there's little hunting pressure. Which is usually the difficult and expensive areas to get to. Or in a coastal area National Park. The "No Hunting Allowed" areas. Like where Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend were killed and consumed.</p><p></p><p>Some people think brown bear skulls continue to grow wider until death. But I talked to a F&G biologist who covers Kodiak Island who said their bone structure is basically mature, as big as it'll ever get, by around 8 1/2 years of age. There's a full body mounted boar in the Kodiak F&G office with a +29" skull. The body didn't look huge. Biologist told me it was the largest skull on any boar he'd ever checked in. And the boar was like 8yrs old.</p><p></p><p>This biologist was aware of the belief that brown bear skulls continue to grow, albeit slowly, after 8 yrs of age. But he disagreed. Said they're no different than humans. Our skeletons reach full size after a certain age, and then our bones grow no larger. </p><p></p><p>I do believe most human stomachs contine to grow larger past the age of skeletal maturity... <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😆" title="Grinning squinting face :laughing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" data-shortname=":laughing:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 2544619, member: 4191"] Minimum of 8 years old for maximum skull growth. Brown bear aren't considered mature until ~7 1/2 years old. Some survive in the wild up to ~30yrs, where there's little hunting pressure. Which is usually the difficult and expensive areas to get to. Or in a coastal area National Park. The "No Hunting Allowed" areas. Like where Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend were killed and consumed. Some people think brown bear skulls continue to grow wider until death. But I talked to a F&G biologist who covers Kodiak Island who said their bone structure is basically mature, as big as it'll ever get, by around 8 1/2 years of age. There's a full body mounted boar in the Kodiak F&G office with a +29" skull. The body didn't look huge. Biologist told me it was the largest skull on any boar he'd ever checked in. And the boar was like 8yrs old. This biologist was aware of the belief that brown bear skulls continue to grow, albeit slowly, after 8 yrs of age. But he disagreed. Said they're no different than humans. Our skeletons reach full size after a certain age, and then our bones grow no larger. I do believe most human stomachs contine to grow larger past the age of skeletal maturity... 😆 [/QUOTE]
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