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Post by brobear on Feb 4, 2019 13:19:57 GMT -5
What is the largest animal a polar bear can kill? Probably walrus/Beluga whale. What is the largest animal a polar bear will attack - I believe that we can safely say - no size limits. A polar bear would probably attack Godzilla.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 4, 2019 19:13:33 GMT -5
What is the largest animal a polar bear can kill? Probably walrus/Beluga whale. What is the largest animal a polar bear will attack - I believe that we can safely say - no size limits. A polar bear would probably attack Godzilla. Yeah a polar bear has and would attack giant walruses, Not with much success, but attack nontheless. I will tell you who a polar HAS NOT attacked yet on record, that is grizzly bear.
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Post by brobear on Feb 4, 2019 19:40:23 GMT -5
What is the largest animal a polar bear can kill? Probably walrus/Beluga whale. What is the largest animal a polar bear will attack - I believe that we can safely say - no size limits. A polar bear would probably attack Godzilla. Yeah a polar bear has and would attack giant walruses, Not with much success, but attack nontheless. I will tell you who a polar HAS NOT attacked yet on record, that is grizzly bear.But... a polar bear did attack a whale the size of a greyhound bus.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 4, 2019 19:49:41 GMT -5
Yeah thats right. And that is telling us something about the grizzly bear. What the polar bear sees in the eyes and soul of grizzly bears is pure aggression. The polar will attack a giant walrus and giant whales but not a grizzly. Its called “horribilis” for a reason.
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Post by brobear on Mar 21, 2019 5:21:25 GMT -5
Polar bears, whales and beyond.
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Post by brobear on Mar 21, 2019 5:38:40 GMT -5
Among living bears, the polar bear is the only full-time predator.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2019 8:52:06 GMT -5
The Bear Almanac by Gary Brown. The polar bear eats skin and blubber first ( 100 to 150 pounds of blubber per meal ). Will beg for blubber from whaling ships. Stomach capacity is 154 pounds ( large male ). Their teeth being able to slice thick hide is impressive. This once again confirms that polar bears will have an easier time biting through the thick hide of bovids (musk oxen, buffalo, and even gaur and bison) compared to that of walrus, beluga, and narwhales which have hide 100 times thicker than the average land mammal.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 9:07:43 GMT -5
What is the largest animal a polar bear can kill? Probably walrus/Beluga whale. What is the largest animal a polar bear will attack - I believe that we can safely say - no size limits. A polar bear would probably attack Godzilla. Totally agree with you. Attacking an animal doesn't mean successfully killing one. Yet I believe a large male polar bear can kill large bovids (e.g. cape buffalo, bison, gaur etc if it manages to get pass its defenses). A giraffe is a very tall and dangerous animal and even though a large bear has only about 2/10 chance to kill it, nevertheless a large male polar bear can kill a giraffe if it sleeps lying down or if it manages to pull it down by surprise. A huge bull walrus can outweigh a giraffe or at least weigh the same as it potentially.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 12, 2019 8:14:41 GMT -5
What is the largest animal a polar bear can kill? Probably walrus/Beluga whale. What is the largest animal a polar bear will attack - I believe that we can safely say - no size limits. A polar bear would probably attack Godzilla. Yeah a polar bear has and would attack giant walruses, Not with much success, but attack nontheless. I will tell you who a polar HAS NOT attacked yet on record, that is grizzly bear.<iframe width="24.920000000000073" height="5.719999999999999" style="position: absolute; width: 24.920000000000073px; height: 5.719999999999999px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_21874414" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.920000000000073" height="5.719999999999999" style="position: absolute; width: 24.92px; height: 5.72px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1185px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_63239034" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.920000000000073" height="5.719999999999999" style="position: absolute; width: 24.92px; height: 5.72px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 225px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_52589834" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.920000000000073" height="5.719999999999999" style="position: absolute; width: 24.92px; height: 5.72px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1185px; top: 225px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_9230520" scrolling="no"></iframe> I am still wondering why till today. However, this reveals the secret of why the grizzly bear survived for so long among many predators (which are now extinct).
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Post by King Kodiak on Jun 12, 2019 11:25:19 GMT -5
I am still wondering why till today. However, this reveals the secret of why the grizzly bear survived for so long among many predators (which are now extinct).
Yeah, it looks like polar bears have like a natural fear of grizzly bears. Most probable its because of the aggressive nature of grizzlies, especially the barren ground grizzlies. The polars are not used to interacting with another apex predator. But if a fight happens, the much larger polar would win in my opinion.
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Post by tom on Jun 16, 2019 22:16:40 GMT -5
IMO a large Polar certainly has the necessary power to handle a barren ground Grizz, I'm just not sure the fight would ever take place due to a little thing called intimidation.
But.... never say never.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 17, 2019 1:05:53 GMT -5
Sooner or later blood shed will come. Just think even though it rarely happens, a Siberian tiger can still kill a female ussuri brown bear by ambush. A male polar bear being much stronger than a Siberian tiger, can demolish a barren ground grizzly bear if it wants to.
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Post by brobear on Dec 7, 2019 7:33:45 GMT -5
If leopard seals of the antarctic lived around arctic waters, he would likely be prey to adult polar bears while also a predator to juvenile bears.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2021 9:11:51 GMT -5
Idk if was posted but this is just incredible
"In May 1970, during field work in the Gris Fjord in the Canadian Arctic archipelago, a local hunter reported that a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) had successfully hunted three belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in March near King Edward VII Point (76 ° 08 'N, 81 ° 08'W.), A headland in the southeast of Ellesmere Island, Northern Territories.Since none of the fifteen local hunters have ever seen anything like it, and only one has heard of it before, I assume that the predation of bears by relation to cetaceans is very rare, after which I tried to collect all the information about this case. According to the hunter's story, the movement of the iceberg about two hundred meters from the coast prevented the freezing of a small section of the water surface that surrounded the iceberg. It is known that when the ice cover begins to increase, whales often fall into traps, and since the open sea was at least 30 kilometers from the site in March, it looks like a small group of belugas was eager to go out into the open sea, following the iceberg. In March, a medium-sized polar bear caught and dragged ashore an adult female beluga whale, then another adult beluga whale and a gray adolescent beluga whale, the sex of both animals is unknown. The she-bear dragged the adult female beluga whale 7 meters away from the water, the other two beluga whales were closer to the water. On May 25, we tried to visit this place, but 15 kilometers from it, traces of a large male bear were found, and the hunt for this animal took the rest of the day. The stomach of this 400-kilogram bear contained, along with the skin and fat of a freshly harvested ringed seal (Pusa hispida), several pieces of white skin of a beluga whale. Four days later we reached the hunting ground, where only the body of a gray adolescent beluga whale remained. Apparently, the movement of the iceberg broke the ice cover, and it was now impossible to detect traces of the presence of the other two belugas. The corpse of a juvenile beluga whale attracted a large number of great polar gulls (Larus hyperboreus) and ravens (Corvus corax), and two male bears visited the site earlier in the day. The smaller bear by the tail pulled the beluga whale away in a zigzag about 150 meters from its previous place. During inspection of the carcass, it turned out that there was no skin and fat left on the carcass and most of the flesh on the head and torso, the back of the head was fractured, but it is impossible to say for sure whether this injury was received before or after death. However, a witness report on a polar bear hunt for beluga whales in Novaya Zemlya says that the bear lies on the ice with its legs outstretched and strikes the beluga whale on the head when it emerges for air. In this region of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, beluga whales usually change color from gray to white at a length of 375 cm. If we take the length of two white whales as 400 cm, their weight is approximately 935 kg. The length of the gray teenager is 275 cm and weighs 350 kg. There is no reason to doubt that the hunter who reported the case found the beluga whales shortly after they were killed in March, nor that the beluga whales were killed by the same medium-sized bear whose tracks were found near the carcasses. According to the description, this bear could weigh from 130 to 180 kg, that is, about 5 times less than each of the adult beluga whales killed and pulled ashore. The only two reports of such cases that I have been able to find seem to be contradictory. One of them states that in Baffin Bay near the wormwood, where beluga whales are trapped, "small groups of bears gather, which kill small whales, pull them ashore and eat them." According to another report from the Eurasian Arctic, attacks by single bears on beluga whales are frequent, and when a bear finds a group of belugas trapped in an ice trap, it stays nearby and successfully kills them (up to 13 at a time, according to reliable sources). This case of the killing of several beluga whales by a single bear, supported by an inspection of the scene shortly after the event itself, suggests that there is no difference in predatory behavior between Eurasian and North American polar bears. "
I don`t have link for it tho
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