What is being measured?
Adult males are described as reaching 2.5 m from nose tip to tail tip. This is a published upper size reference, not average polar-bear length.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- nose to tail length
- Reference value
- 2.5 m
- Evidence
- Published reference measurement
- In metres
- 2.5 m
- Variant
- Adult male; published upper size
Put the length in perspective
One Polar bear — male, upper size reference represents approximately 29.2 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Polar bear — male, upper size reference · 2.5 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m