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Post by brobear on Jul 9, 2024 6:39:45 GMT -5
It's not hard to imagine that among the bears ,kodiak and peninsula brown bear have the strongest bite. They have the biggest skulls. domainofthebears.proboards.com/thread/696/skulls?page=1 WORLD'S RECORDS BLACK BEAR: Greatest length of skull without lower jaw: 14 12/16 Greatest width of skull: 8 14/16 SCORE: 23 10/16 WORLD'S RECORDS GRIZZLY BEAR: Greatest length of skull without lower jaw: 17 4/16 Greatest width of skull: 10 9/16 SCORE: 27 13/16 WORLD'S RECORDS ALASKA BROWN BEAR: Greatest length of skull without lower jaw: 17 15/16 Greatest width of skull: 12 13/16 SCORE: 30 12/16 WORLD'S RECORDS POLAR BEAR: Greatest length of skull without lower jaw: 18 8/16 Greatest width of skull: 11 7/16 SCORE: 29 15/16
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Post by brobear on Jul 9, 2024 6:51:26 GMT -5
Here is a skull comparisson between kodiak and polar, the kodiak has it longer and wider, and probably weights more also.
The kodiak is the right one.
Kodiak Bear (darker skull): length of skull 48 cm, wide of skull 31 cm, length of upper canine tooth 5,6 cm, length of lower canine tooth 4,6 cm.
Polar Bear: length of skull 45,5 cm, wide of skull 29 cm, length of upper canine tooth 5,5 cm, length of lower canine tooth 4,6 cm.
![](https://i.imgur.com/hHENRKm.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/CSdZsZO.jpg)
The two biggest bears have skulls that will dwarf that of any big cat.
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Post by brobear on Jul 9, 2024 6:53:33 GMT -5
Amur brown bear - score: 27.6 ( inches ). American black bear - score: 23 10/16. American grizzly: score : 27 13/16. Alaskan brown bear - score: 30 12/16. Polar bear - score: 29 15/16. Grizzly taken by hunter - score: 27 6/16. www.boone-crockett.org/news/featured_story.asp?ID=207 LARGEST HUNTER-TAKEN GRIZZLY ENTERS BOONE AND CROCKETT RECORDS FRIDAY, MAY 02, 2014 Consider that this very old grizzly skull found by a hunter was simply a random bear which had died back during the 1800's. What are the chances of this bear being a giant among his own kind? That would be like a thousand years from now, a human skull is found ( the only one ) and it just happens to be the skull of Andre the giant. Very unlikely. No; this grizzly skull of the "old bison hunters" was most likely a typical specimen of his kind; which was bigger than the record-sized mountain grizzly of today. About half-way in size between the Kodiak bear and a Yellowstone grizzly. Notice that there is little difference between the total score of an inland grizzly skull and that of the Ussuri brown bear. However, the old grizzly skull is bigger than the Ussuri bear's.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jul 9, 2024 7:04:16 GMT -5
![](https://attachment.tapatalk-cdn.com/86340/202407/104_6514bfe127c203e389ebed8d4eee5848.jpeg) how polar bears fight.
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Post by brobear on Jul 16, 2024 14:21:47 GMT -5
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/where-lions-and-tigers-and-wolves-attack-and-kill-humans-180981539/ Big cats like tigers and lions launched the deadliest attacks, with 65 percent proving fatal compared to 49 percent for canids and just 9 percent among the bear attacks. The authors note that this disparity in fatality rate corresponds with two very different types of attacks. While canids and big cats sometimes stalk humans and attack them for food, the bears were more often taken by surprise. Bears were often disturbed when feeding—or a mother may have reacted to protect her cubs. Fatal attacks were also more common in the lower-income countries, primarily because they are home to tigers and lions, which engage in a larger share of such attacks. ______________________________________________ *Note; I will add to this. When a bear mauls a person or other animal, be it predatory or in what he believes to be self defense, the bear has no concern as to whether he leaves you dead or alive, just so long as his meal or the threat is disabled. There have been numerous people who survived a bear mauling; usually due to medical help soon after. Also, bears are notorious for eating their prey alive.
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