Stock Photo - Brown bear Ursus arctos at the Brooks River in Katmai National Park near Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA Pacific Ocean The normal range of physical dimensions for a brown bear is a head_and_body length of 1 7 to 2 8 m 5 6 to 9 2 feet and a shoulder height 90 to 150 cm 35 to 60 inches Males are 38_50 larger than females It is not unusual for large male Kodiak Bears to stand over 3 m 10 feet while on their hind legs and to weigh about 680 kg 1,500 lb The largest wild Kodiak bear on record weighed over 1,100 kilograms 2,500 pounds There are about 200,000 brown bears in the world, with 32,500 in the United States 95 of the brown bear population in the United States live in Alaska