Determing sex of bear

[Decoy]

When hunting bear, it doesn't always seem easy to determine the sex of a bear at a distance. Any pointers?

[manxxcatt]

When hunting bear, it doesn't always seem easy to determine the sex of a bear at a distance. Any pointers?

Run up to the bear, and do a function check of it's parts :) no, just kidding....couldn't help it.

Quoted:
Male and female black bears cannot always be distinguished with certainty, unless accompanied by cubs. However, males are typically larger than females. In studies in Idaho and Pennsylvania, adult males weighed nearly twice as much as adult females. In areas of good nutrition, females reach adult weight at 3½ years, but males may continue to grow until 8½ or older. In New York, 2½-year-old males were similar in size to 8½-year-old females. Adult males also have substantially larger skulls than do females. In Alaska, 5-year or older females had skulls 8 to11% smaller than males of comparable age. Adult males have more heavily muscled heads, necks, and shoulders than do females. If adult bears stand erect facing the viewer, it is often possible to see the male's penis or the female's nipples. Males are often called "boars" and females "sows".

Personal Notation:
Also, if you have the opprotunity to observe them urinate, a female will urinate from the rear, a male will urinate from the underside. Every once in a while, you might get lucky, and his unit will be distended.

Black bears, due to the coloring, are hard to distinguish by the "tallywhacker" method.

[TreeStump]

shoot it and and check between his legs

i found this:
Observing urination is one way to tell the difference between male and female bears. A female bear (pictured here) urinates from the back, and the males urinate from underneath their torsos.


The penis, although small compared to his body size, is usually visible on male grizzly bears.

[manxxcatt]

i found this:
Observing urination is one way to tell the difference between male and female bears. A female bear (pictured here) urinates from the back, and the males urinate from underneath their torsos.


The penis, although small compared to his body size, is usually visible on male grizzly bears.

I think I said that in my above post.