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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 1, 2019 6:35:44 GMT -5
The Himalayan brown bear (red bear) is the most passive and docile of the brown bear subspecies.
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Post by brobear on Dec 1, 2019 6:49:25 GMT -5
Bears are the toughest extant land mammals (excluding pachyderms) to kill for their size. During the early 1800's the grizzly proved to be harder to kill than other animals of similar size. The long-barrels black-powder rifles which were adequate for the eastern states, loaded with soft lead balls ( such as used by Daniel Boone and David Crockett ) proved to be too low caliber for killing a grizzly. Thus a legend was born. With a modern high-powered rifle, any nine-year-old girl can kill a grizzly with one shot. Excluding pachyderms?
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 3, 2019 20:10:45 GMT -5
The glacier bear is the 'polar bear' of the American black bears.
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 4, 2019 12:37:33 GMT -5
If tigers lived in the Artic circle, they would be on the polar bear's diet, including adult specimens.
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Post by brobear on Dec 4, 2019 13:41:49 GMT -5
If tigers lived in the Artic circle, they would be on the polar bear's diet, including adult specimens.
Same if there were tigers on Kodiak Island.
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 4, 2019 13:49:43 GMT -5
If tigers lived in the Artic circle, they would be on the polar bear's diet, including adult specimens.
Same if there were tigers on Kodiak Island. Yes, although not as much as in the Artic. Polar bears are full time hunters and would definitely kill and eat those tigers. In both habitats though, the Artic and Kodiak island, the tigers would live on the run.
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Post by brobear on Dec 4, 2019 14:19:52 GMT -5
Same if there were tigers on Kodiak Island. Yes, although not as much as in the Artic. Polar bears are full time hunters and would definitely kill and eat those tigers. In both habitats though, the Artic and Kodiak island, the tigers would live on the run.I believe that even a Kodiak she-bear would be completely safe from tigers; although she would have to keep a close watch on her cubs. Same with polar bears.
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 4, 2019 16:56:25 GMT -5
Yes, although not as much as in the Artic. Polar bears are full time hunters and would definitely kill and eat those tigers. In both habitats though, the Artic and Kodiak island, the tigers would live on the run. I believe that even a Kodiak she-bear would be completely safe from tigers; although she would have to keep a close watch on her cubs. Same with polar bears. Female Kodiak bears can reach a weight of 700 lbs, we know for a fact that tigers are not going anywhere near those. The cubs are always vulnerable of course.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 4, 2019 18:18:44 GMT -5
Female polar bears will beat any modern days tiger or lion in a one on one fight.
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Post by brobear on Dec 9, 2019 10:16:44 GMT -5
Until it can be proved otherwise; I have absolutely no reason to believe that a mature male grizzly will not hesitate to displace a tiger of any age, sex, or size from his kill. The size ratio between the tiger and the grizzly is no different that that between a black bear and a cougar or a sloth bear and a leopard. Also consider that the grizzly is much more of a kleptoparasite than either the black bear or the sloth bear. I will therefore boldly state that the Usurri brown bear can and will displace even the biggest and baddest tiger from his kill.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 10, 2019 7:10:12 GMT -5
Both the polar bears and glacier bears are ice bears.
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 19, 2019 12:24:44 GMT -5
The old American hunters and pioneers would laugh at the notion that a tiger or a lion would defeat a larger bear more often than not. These people use to call the bear "Old Ephraim" and "Old Grandfather".
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Mar 1, 2020 23:57:37 GMT -5
Brown bears have faster paws swipes than lions despite the fact they do not run as fast.
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 20, 2020 7:16:16 GMT -5
THE BEAR IS THE BEST KLEPTOPARASITE IN THE ANIMAL KINDOM.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 12, 2020 8:31:18 GMT -5
A male polar bear at 800kgs is only an estimate as they are too heavy to be lifted by helicopters.
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Post by brobear on Jun 12, 2020 10:07:33 GMT -5
A male polar bear at 800kgs is only an estimate as they are too heavy to be lifted by helicopters. Too heavy for the choppers used by Park Rangers. I was big military choppers carrying big trucks and stuff... in 'Nam. But yeah; some polar bears rank right up there with the short-faced bears.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 12, 2020 10:14:42 GMT -5
/\I am sure these exceptionally heavy male polar bears are hard to find today thanks to poaching 😡.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 12, 2020 10:17:06 GMT -5
Sloth bears are the least mascular bears pound to pound and have the weakest jaws of any bear yet they are the most defensively aggressive bear.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 22, 2020 19:26:16 GMT -5
ABC bears are good swimmers probably second only to polar bears.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 24, 2020 9:31:09 GMT -5
A large male brown bear and polar bear can displace lions the same way a male lion can displace spotted hyenas.
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