The largest Kodiak Bear ever recorded was a captive bear named Clyde. He was a Kodiak bear that lived at the Dakota Zoo in ...

Together with polar bears, they’re the world’s largest land carnivore. Clyde, the biggest known Kodiak bear, was estimated to weigh a tonne before he died in a North Dakota zoo in 1987.

The pilot can’t believe my bad luck. “You didn’t see a bear? Let me show you bears!” he says as we skitter over the lake and lift into the air. Sure enough, dozens of bears are dotted along a ...