Oh, I did not know that. Only other black bears I've seen before were in the wild in Canada and they seemed smaller. I can't work out how to change the title....
source: The Sydney Morning Herald (forunately as article sugegsted might happen, the Jed & Jethro the American black bears did not leave Taronga for Dubbo, but did leave for Malaysia in late 1992; Barney & Bethyl & Cynthia the Kodial bears lived the rest of their lives at the zoo, Betsy & Buluman the western lowland gorilas were already at Melbourne since 1980 - but official ownership paperwork was signed giving Melbourne Zoo official ownership of them.
