Kodiak bear
An average adult male measures in length, and stands tall at the shoulder. The largest recorded wild male weighed , and had a hind foot measurement of . A large male Kodiak bear stands up to tall at the shoulder, when it is standing on all four legs. When standing fully upright on its hind legs, a large male could reach a height of . The largest verified size for a captive Kodiak bear was for a specimen that lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. Nicknamed "Clyde," he weighed when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. According to zoo director Terry Lincoln, Clyde probably weighed close to a year earlier. He still had a fat layer of when he died.
Great bustard
The huge adult male great bustard is amongst the heaviest living flying animal. It is also arguably the most sexual dimorphic extant bird species, in terms of the size difference between males and females. Going on mass, the only known bird with a higher dimorphism is the green peafowl ("Pavo muticus") as the males are apparently near four times as heavy as the female. Among both bustards and all living birds, the upper reported mass of this species is rivaled by that of the kori bustard ("Ardeotis kori"), which, due to its relatively longer tarsi and tail, is both longer and taller on average and is less sexually dimorphic. In terms of weight ranges reported, the great Indian bustard ("Ardeotis nigriceps") also only lags slightly behind these species. A male is typically tall, with a length of around and has a wingspan. The male can range in weight from . Average male weights as reported have been fairly variable: in Russia, males weighed a median of ; in Spain, males weighed a mean of during breeding season and during non-breeding; in Germany, males weighed a mean of ; and the Guinness World Records has indicated that prior to their extirpation male bustards in Great Britain weighed an average of . Average weight of males is almost an exact match to that of male Kori bustards. Among all flying animals and land birds, male Andean condors ("Vultur gryphus") may match or exceed the mean body masses of these male bustards but not their maximum weights. Furthermore, male swans of the two largest species (trumpeter and mute) may attain a similar average mass depending on season and region. In a study in Spain, one male weighed as much as . The heaviest verified specimen, collected in Manchuria, was about . Larger specimens have been reported but remain unverified.