Male polar bears can weigh the equivalent of a dozen men and be 11 feet tall?

At the San Diego Zoo, their polar bear exhibit includes a life-size male polar bear standing on its hind legs. My 6-year old daughter stood next to this impressive 11 foot statue and was absolutely dwarfed — scarily so. A typical adult male polar bear weighs between 775 and 1,200 pounds (351 to 544 kilograms), or the weight of about a half-dozen men. However, according to Polar Bear National, the biggest polar bear ever recorded was a male weighing a whopping 2,209 pounds (1,000 kg) equal to about a dozen men. By contrast, adult females typically weigh about half of the average male tipping the scales at a measly (by polar bear standards)  330 to 650 pounds (50 to 295 kg).