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Post by Montezuma on Mar 5, 2023 12:48:37 GMT -5
Adult cave Lions always lost fights against adult Cave Bears!
Lions and bears, in modern times, don't meet each other in wild. But, many years ago two gaint species of bears and lions did collide in northern parts of Asia, where as a rule adult male or female lions preyed vulnerable small bears, yet always lost against adult male or female cave bears. And the proof is here.
Before starting, i want to show that evidence shows that most lions, if not all, were adults that lost to bears, not subadults etc so its a very good proof that how easily adult bears can kill adult big cats.
"Crucially the lions were mostly older males, reinforcing the impression that only the bigger males entered the caves, supporting the idea they did so to hunt bears."
"All lion Panthera leo spelaea (GOLDFUSS, 1810) material studied is from more or less grown up animals, whereas juvenile lions are lacking."
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12819243
"Another explanation of the predominance of males is that larger and stronger male lions more often tend to hunt very large preys and went into the conflicts with other carnivores than females which resulted in higher injuries and mortality (Turner and Ant´on, 1997)."
www.researchgate.net/publication/347492257_The_Pleistocene_lion_Panthera_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_from_Poland_-_A_review
"Only adult male cave lions entered in cave bear dens".
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618211001182
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 5, 2023 12:49:25 GMT -5
"But they also strongly suggest that some cave lions lost the fight with cave bears."
"The taphonomic situation of lion remains in caves becomes much more complex resulting from a new study of several cave bear den caves in the Sauerland Karst, Germany (Perick caves, Martins Cave, Bilstein Cave, Keppler Cave), Harz Mountain, Germany (Hermanns Cave) (DIEDRICH, 2009b-f), and Carpathians, Romania (Ursilor Cave). In the Hermanns Cave and in the Ursilor Cave originally articulated skeletons of the large cats were found deeply in the cave bear dens, several hundred to up to 800 meters deep, even after difficult passages (DIEDRICH et al., 2010). A similar cave bear den penetrating situation by lions but not that deep is found at the Balve Cave, Bilstein Cave and Keppler Cave (Sauerland Karst, NW Germany). All those caves prove that lions went time by time into caves and died there most probably as a result of lion-cave bear antagonism."
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12819243
"EVEN WHEN ATTACKED INSIDE THE CAVES WHILE HIBERNATING, LIONS WERE POSSIBLY ALSO KILLED IN BATTLES WITH CAVE BEARS. LION SKELETONS WERE FOUND IN EUROPEAN CAVES BECAUSE OF CAVE BEAR-LION AND HYENA-LION CONFLICTS."
www.researchgate.net/publication/233230329_The_largest_European_lion_Panthera_leo_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_population_from_the_Zoolithen_Cave_Germany_specialised_cave_bear_predators_of_Europe
Based on archeological evidence, a virtual video shows an adult male cave lion attacks a sleeping female cave bear with her cub. He attacks with surprise but fails and a fight breaks where the bear kills the adult lion in a matter of seconds.
Its authentic since its made by scientists and presented by BBC.
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 5, 2023 13:05:55 GMT -5
This is mortality of cave bears, hyenas, and lions because of battles and conflicts in the Zoolithen cave, as we can see, for the cave bears (blue line) (both Spelaeus and Ingressus), they are mostly cubs and seniles, but very few adults. For the cave lion, (red line) they are mostly adults. "Additionally, important for the understanding of the paleobiology of the steppe lions is the individual age statistics. If all bones and skeleton remains of the above-mentioned sites are included (MNI ¼26 Sauerland Karst, MNI ¼13 Zoolithen Cave, MNI ¼4UrsilorCave, MNI ¼2 Srbsko Chlum-Komin Cave), in total of 44 individuals, their percentages are important to support different theories. In a normal ‘dying curve’, as demonstrated here for the Zoolithen Cave cave bear population (Figure 17), and often published for cave bear populations at the den sites, most of the remains are from cubs, adolescents do not survive until their first hibernation (e.g. Perick Caves: Diedrich 2006b). Adult bears are less represented, and finally the peak rises again with high adult to senile animals. In the lion bone record, this curve is opposite. Cub remains are missing, and adolescent remains take 14%, whereas the highest mortality is in the best adult to high adult ages within the lion remains found in the hyena and cave bear den caves with 82%. Finally, the high adult to older lions are again less represented with 4%. This very ‘un-normal’ mortality curve (Figure 17) supports again, the non-use of the cave by lions as dens, but it supports the following theories about ‘battles between lions-hyenas’ in cave dens, and ‘conflicts during the cave bear hunt’ in cave bear dens – both resulting higher mortalities in adult lions and lionesses.
www.researchgate.net/publication/233230329_The_largest_European_lion_Panthera_leo_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_population_from_the_Zoolithen_Cave_Germany_specialised_cave_bear_predators_of_EuropeAs shown above: (1) In fights, since lions preyed on small bears so bear cub mortality is higher, while since adult females were rarely taken and adult males were strictly avoided so adult bear mortality is lower. (2) However, lion cub deaths are low since they were engaged in attacks by adult bears but the adult lion mortality is very high showing they always lost against bears. Nice chart.
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 5, 2023 13:25:20 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 5, 2023 14:38:34 GMT -5
"It was risky business facing this powerful animal in total darkness, and many lions were killed during such incidents, but not eaten by herbivorous bears. Another explanation of the predominance of males is that larger and stronger male lions more often tend to hunt very large preys and went into the conflicts with other carnivores than females which resulted in higher injuries and mortality (Turner and Ant´on, 1997)."
"During such fights, lions also lost their battles, especially with large bears, but their carcasses were mostly not scavenged by herbivorous cave bear and left inside the caves. This behaviour might be interpreted as the main reason for the accumulation of lion bones, which was not typical cave dweller as well (Diedrich, 2011a; b, 2012, 2014, 2017)."
Figure by biologist shows a lion loses battle for carcass with immense steppe brown bear Ursus arctos priscus. Drawn by W. Gornig. (Below)
www.researchgate.net/publication/347492257_The_Pleistocene_lion_Panthera_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_from_Poland_-_A_review
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 8, 2023 1:29:02 GMT -5
Prehistoric bears as kleptoparasites of LionsAs scientific evidence shows, due to immense strength and size, Short-faced bears in north america kleptoparasited on adult America lions (more than one even) as they did on Saber-tooths and dire wolves; whilst in Siberia, gigantic snd highly carnivorous Steppe brown bears always robbed Cave lions from their killed prey. Cave bears despite of their physical superiority not usurped kills from lions due to herbivorous nature. Starting from short faced bears.
"Its primary competitors in the large carnivore guild of the southeast would have been dire wolf (Canis dirus Leidy, 1858) and large felids like Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853), Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) and Smilodon fatalis (Leidy, 1868). The much larger body size of A. simus would have provided an advantage in disputes over carcasses."
www.jstor.org/stable/20627694
"From the BBC Prehistoric America documentary, an adult (mature) Giant Short Faced Bear drives off two American lions from a mammoth carcass. While the debate over the GSFB diet continues, the scientific literature consensus is clear about the capacity of the GSFB (as illustrated in popular culture and documentary) to acquire and defend animal material from other predators for its dietary consumption."
shaggygod.proboards.com/thread/472
"The short-faced bear used its immense size as a tool to intimidate smaller predators to steal their kills like dire wolves, Saber tooth cat and American lion ."
books.google.com.pk/books?id=dJg9EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA89&dq=bears%20of%20the%20north&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY6eT3oJf1AhWRy6QKHQswA3QQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=bears%20of%20the%20north&f=false
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 8, 2023 1:34:48 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 8, 2023 1:44:34 GMT -5
Ocassionally, cave lions hunted juvenile cave bears in hibernationThe truth is that, unlike as most media protrays, cave liobs weren't active hunters of cave bears. Bears were mostly cubs and subadults in hibernation killed mostly by Adult male cave lions (proof given above that lions were fully-grown males). Here is some evidence.
"The only reason of the presence of articulated lion skeletons, sometimes being scattered and disarticulated (all situations documented in the Ursilor Cave), must have been an active cave bear hunt, which took place most probably especially in winter times, when food prey sources were scarce, and when it was most easy to kill bears during hibernation, especially the cubs."
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12819243
"Bocherens’s analysis, reported in the 6 December issue of Quaternary International, revealed that the cave lions occasionally ate bear cubs but not adults. Their favorite food, however, was reindeer, which Bocherens and his team determined consumed massive quantities of lichen."
www.science.org/content/article/dissecting-cave-lion-diet
"Speleoid bears were atypical prey for the Pleistocene lion, but when the food was scarce, lions entered deeply into caves and hunted bears (Argant, 1988, 1991, 2000; Diedrich, 2013a-b, 2012, 2014, 2017; Marciszak et al., 2014, 2019a, b, 2020). It was risky business facing this powerful animal in total darkness, but their strong forelimbs might have helped subdue prey due to a lethal bite"
"Evidences of such activity were found on the numerous bear bones belonged mostly to cubs and young specimens, less than one-year-old."
"Since rare in Polish sites, this state of affairs and the predominance of can be partially explained by their specialisation in hunting on cave bears during the times when the other more typical food sources like ungulates were scarce. Spelaeoid bears U. spelaeus sensu lato were atypical prey for the Pleistocene lion, but when food was scarce, lions entered deeply into caves and hunted them (Argant, 1988, 1991, 2000; Diedrich, 2012)."
www.researchgate.net/publication/347492257_The_Pleistocene_lion_Panthera_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_from_Poland_-_A_review
This graph below is being repeated but here i want to emphasize it again as it shows, most infant mortality is found in bears compared to lions and hyenas meaning in conflicts or hunts mostly little bears died.
www.researchgate.net/publication/233230329_The_largest_European_lion_Panthera_leo_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_population_from_the_Zoolithen_Cave_Germany_specialised_cave_bear_predators_of_Europe
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 20:54:41 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 21:02:58 GMT -5
THEODORE ROOSEVELT-PRESIDENT, HUNTER, AND NATURALIST. "ANY ONE OF THE BIG BEARS WE KILLED ON THE MOUNTAINS WOULD, I SHOULD THINK, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE SHORT WORK OF EITHER A LION OR A TIGER, FOR THE GRIZZLY IS GREATLY SUPERIOR IN BULK AND MUSCULAR POWER TO EITHER OF THE GREAT CATS".
books.google.com.pk/books?id=tGucX7uw4wcC&pg=PA325&dq=theodore+roosevelt+anyone+of+the+bears+we+killed+on+the+mountains+should&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=theodore%20roosevelt%20anyone%20of%20the%20bears%20we%20killed%20on%20the%20mountains%20should&f=falseROMAN PROSKE, FAMOUS BIG CAT TRAINER “A BEAR CAN ANNIHILATE A LION OR A TIGER".
books.google.com.pk/books?id=m3C1AAAAIAAJ&q=
"When accidents happen, when strange animals are placed together and a fight starts, always try to protect the weaker animal, regardless of his species. You will hear it said that a tiger can kill a lion, or vice versa. In my experience i have seen all theories exploded. Tigers have killed lions, lions have killed polar bears, a small leopard has killed a large tiger. usually a polar bear can kill any of the big cats, but i have seen a lion kill a polar bear", Louis Roth, forty years with jungle killers, page 204-205."
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 21:10:00 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 21:19:48 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 21:28:57 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 21:37:01 GMT -5
According to a hunter of rocky mountains E. E. Bowles a Grizzly bear can kill an African lion very quickly. "The other (rocky mountains grizzly)- well, he can knock out an African lion, "which is the king of the beasts", in one round."
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88872035?searchTerm=Grizzly%20bear%20king%20of%20the%20beastsOne opinion but enough. Scientists state that the cave lion, even the largest of them, would stand no chance against a large cave bear in a confrontation. "Largest males of the Polish specimens of P. s. spelaea reached up to 400 kg, which is double of the weight of the average Siberian tiger. However, U. a. priscus was truly gigantic bear with an average weight of adult males ca. 600–800 kg, and it can reach even up to 1500 kg in the largest individuals (Musil, 2018; Marciszak et al., 2019c). Such immense individuals are known among other from Nied´zwiedzia Cave, where they co-occurred with the cave lion. In direct confrontation with the horse-size bear, even the largest cat, hyena clan or wolf pack was without any chance and usually left their rightfull kill for the competitor (Bocherens et al., 2011a, b, 2015; Bocherens, 2015) (Fig. 18)."
www.researchgate.net/publication/347492257_The_Pleistocene_lion_Panthera_spelaea_Goldfuss_1810_from_Poland_-_A_review
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 22:03:35 GMT -5
Brown Bear is the true King of the Beasts, not African Lion!After seeing numerous opinions from animal experts saying that Brown/Polar/Cave bears would defeat a African/Cave lion in a fair fight, lets see some experts inclined to think Brown bears as the true "King of the beasts", not Lions.
From Clyde beatty, of the most famous Animal trainer "The lion is not the true King of the jungle, the grizzly bear is the ultimate heavyweight champion."
New Castle News(New Castle Pennsylvania) . 17 Mar 1937, Wed. Page 14 "The lion has generally been represented as the "king of the beasts", and numberless are the stories of his courage, strength, and ferocity. The truth is, the lion is nothing but a great overgrown cat, and his courage is just that of a cat on a large scale, and nothing more. A cat will fight when cornered, from sheer excess of cowardice, but she always prefers running".
"But the stories of dangerous characters of the grizzly, unlike those relating the lion, are not and cannot be exaggrated. I know from observation that the oldest hunters are the most afraid of a contest with grizzly and take the greatest pains to avoid one".
"The plain truth is, that the grizzly is much better entitled to the title of King of the Beasts than the Lion."
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 22:07:14 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 22:37:15 GMT -5
Bears are better, stronger and more enduring fighters than Lions
No matter, how much excuses people make about a bear’s strength, the brown bear is indeed the strongest animal in carnivorous mammals. No big cat can match their superior strength. See here that how morphological studies reveal that how bears are stronger, better fighters, more durable than cat etc. “Lateral view of left scapulae of Ailuropoda melanoleuca (1), Magericyon anceps (2), Panthera leo (3) and Ursus americanus (4), figured at the same size. "“Notice how the scapular of the American Black bear is wider and more robust than that of a Lion”.
www.researchgate.net/publication/236133447_Aspects_of_the_shoulder_anatomy_of_the_Late_Miocene_amphicyonid_Magericyon_anceps“Animals with plantigrade posture (bears, badgers, etc) have a combat advantage over animals with digitigrade posture (tigers, etc). Plantigrade posture improves performance when striking, pushing or pulling.”www.researchgate.net/publication/313784524_The_effect_of_foot_posture_on_capacity_to_apply_free_moments_to_the_ground_Implications_for_fighting_performance_in_great_apes“Bears are highly durable beasts. I have seen many bears with severe wounds on head, legs, necks, jaws, chest and on other parts due to fierce rival males fight but despite of such such serious wounds, they not just survive but thrive in wild.”bears of the north a year inside the world“The intertubercular groove of ursids is closed and canal-like, allowing a better control of movement and a more powerful biceps brachii than felids.”www.researchgate.net/publication/236133447_Aspects_of_the_shoulder_anatomy_of_the_Late_Miocene_amphicyonid_Magericyon_anceps“Felids (tigers, lions, etc) have relatively smaller pectoral and deltoid muscles than ursids (bears).”www.researchgate.net/publication/236133447_Aspects_of_the_shoulder_anatomy_of_the_Late_Miocene_amphicyonid_Magericyon_anceps“The bones of felids are more slender and gracile than those of ursids.”www.semanticscholar.org/paper/What-size-were-Arctodus-simus-and-Ursus-spelaeus-Christiansen/14c1ecaa29bb88d8930fa543279937074628c946 “No animal of its size has strength comparable to that of a grizzly bear”. books.google.com.au/books?id=mTPI_d9fyLAC&pg=PA114&dq=NO%20ANIMAL%20OF%20ITS%20SIZE%20HAS%20STRENGTH%20COMPARABLE%20TO%20THAT%20OF%20A%20GRIZZLY%20BEAR&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrqtDw6YblAhUV7HMBHf5dDmAQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=NO%20ANIMAL%20OF%20ITS%20SIZE%20HAS%20STRENGTH%20COMPARABLE%20TO%20THAT%20OF%20A%20GRIZZLY%20BEAR&f=false “Cats are built for explosive effort. they cannot run down prey over long distances as members of the dog family, nor can they spend hours excavating it, as do bears or badgers.”
“Bears heavy and robust limbs reveal their great strength and endurance but poor speed”.
books.google.com.pk/books?id=qQhuqVC4bnEC&pg=PP56&dq=Bears%20have%20stronger%20skeletons%20than%20felids&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v%3Donepage%26q%3DBears%20have%20stronger%20skeletons%20than%20felids%26f%3Dfalse"Many people, who think that a bear is clumsy, and cannot run fast, are extremely mistaken. Anyone who has shot many bears knows their quick movements and running speed, and these qualities together with their strength make them dangerous foes. This is why not everyone decides to hunt bear, leaving it to braver promyshlenniks." books.google.com.pk/books/about/The_Great_Bear_Almanac.html?id=L0ggAQAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y"Bears possess enormous strength, regardless of species or size. The strength of a bear is difficult to measure, but observations alone ( bears moving rocks, carrying animal carcasses, removing large logs from the side of a cabin, and digging cavernous holes ) are indicative of incredible power.”books.google.com.pk/books/about/The_Great_Bear_Almanac.html?id=L0ggAQAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=yBears claws are more destruction than those of lion.beargorillarealm.proboards.com/thread/154/bear-claws-jokeFor more see here: beargorillarealm.proboards.com/thread/162/strength-girth-comparison-bears-catsbeargorillarealm.proboards.com/thread/133/bear-strengthbeargorillarealm.proboards.com/thread/10/morphological-studies-comparing-animals
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 23:07:58 GMT -5
"THE GRIZZLY BEAR IS THE MOST TERRIBLE OF ALL BEASTS. ITS GREAT STRENGTH, ITS ENORMOUS SIZE, ITS FEROCITY AND ITS COURAGE RENDER IT A MORE FORMIDABLE ENEMY THAN THE LION. IT WILL NOT HESITATE TO ATTACK A BUFFALOES EVEN WHEN A WHOLE HEARD ARE TOGETHER."
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165891194?searchTerm=Bear"The American grizzly is a more terrible fighter than either lion or tiger, being far stronger and harder to kill.”
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217836141?searchTerm=summed%20up%20as%20fighters%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=An animal dealer tells that a grizzly bear is better fighter than a lion. "The grizzly bear is a formidable foe. He can punch like no animal save the elephant, one blow of his stupendous paw will break a horse's back, and when he clinches to avoid punishment, his hug will crush anything living. Besides this, nothing can break his pluck. He will fight as long as he can see or stand, and he is a glutton for punishment. None of the cat tribe could stand a tenth of the pounding which the grizzly takes without turning a hair. As an offset to the useful qualities i have enumerated, the bear is slow on his feet, and his eye is not good".
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/33198135?searchTerm=Bears%20are%20better%20fighters%20than%20lions
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 23:17:57 GMT -5
From William Temple Hornaday, American zoologist and conservationist. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_HornadayHe explains the great difference in behavior of bears and felines, where bears are mostly facing fighters while cats are instead sneaky back attacks. And lion, is a big cat. "At the New York zoological park, a male jaguar killed a female jaguar, "he had determined to murder her, but had cunningly concealed his purpose until his victim was fully in his power".
"Bears usually fight "on the square" openly and above-board, rarely committing foul murder. If one bear hates another, he attacks at the very first opportunity. He does not cunningly wait to catch the offender at a disadvantage and beyond the possibility of rescue. Sometimes a captive bear kills a cage-mate or mauls a keeper, but not by the sneaking methods of the human assassin who shoots in the dark and runs away." books.google.com.pk/books?id=1o85AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA290&dq=bear+kills+jaguar&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bear%20kills%20jaguar&f=false"The Grizzly bear is, according to prominent authorities, is far more feared than lion or tiger and is harder to kill."
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57863071?searchTerm=Grizzly%20bear%20kills%20tigerAccording to Lewis and Clark, two famous personalities in about North american history amd fauna: "This animal (Grizzly bear) is the monarch of the country . The African lion or the Bengal tiger are not more terrible or fierce."
books.google.com.pk/books?id=BfCthJZx5RwC&pg=PA245&dq=the%20grizzly%20monarch%20of%20the%20america%20is%20more%20terrible%20than%20lion%20or%20tiger%20book%20grizzly&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibhf3d1Lj4AhXUS_EDHQ4iBEUQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=the%20grizzly%20monarch%20of%20the%20america%20is%20more%20terrible%20than%20lion%20or%20tiger%20book%20grizzly&f=falseFrom VALENTIN FILATOV-SOVIET BEAR TRAINER. Explains how tenacious and determined bears are when attacking compared to lions. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Filatov_(bear_trainer)"Bears are the most dangerous and deadly of all circus animals and the most difficult and time-consuming to train."
"Unlike the lions and tigers who have frequent forthright flashes of temper, bears are given to secret brooding and unexpected attacks."
"He notes that a displeased lion or tiger will give a few prefatory snarls, and an angry elephant will sway its trunk before he charges, "but you never know what bears are thinking or when they are planning to tear you to pieces."
"Bears strike without warning, and their strength is so formidable that one strike of a paw can kill a man. And, once enraged, they are almost impossible to stop."
"If you are being attacked by a lion you can hold out a chair and the beast will bite at it. But a bear will bat the chair away, move in swiftly and bite you."
books.google.com.ar/books?id=XlIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA72&dq=bear%20swipe%20harder%20than%20lions&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4sLDT3uH4AhUTBtQKHZqMA74Q6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=bear%20swipe%20harder%20than%20lions&f=false
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Post by Montezuma on Mar 10, 2023 23:32:31 GMT -5
THIS ARTICLE IS FROM ANDREW J. STONE, WORLD-RENOWNED ARTIC EXPLORER, HUNTER, AND NATURALIST. He explains that bears are larger and stronger than lions and can very well defend themselves against lion attacks.
"It is safe to say that the largest of the brown bears of the North would weigh three times as much as the largest specimen of lion, and is beyond all question greatly superior in strength."
"Comparing these two powerful animals in action, if brought together in combat, the bear would at first appear very clumsy. It would not be capable of the quick rush or of the catlike spring of the lion. It would not attack, but would remain entirely on the defensive, meeting its adversary with blows of such rapidity and terrific force as at once to illustrate its superiority not only in strength, but in action. I do not believe that there is an animal in the world that can act more quickly or effectively or can aim its blows with greater certainty than the bear." books.google.com.pk/books?id=w8B6YOWPpvcC&pg=PA205&dq=is+a+bear+more+powerful+than+a+lion&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false"Like Lions, bears are also careful battlers and strategists."
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