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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 25, 2020 5:54:24 GMT -5
Here is a coastal brown bear taking on a Yellowstone grizzly; the size difference between the two is enormous, these coastal brown bears are real life giants!
![](https://i.imgur.com/Ykg3Lha.png)
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 25, 2020 6:34:10 GMT -5
And here we have the battle of the gigantic brown bears: A Kodiak bear (left) taking on a coastal brown bear (right).
![](https://i.imgur.com/CulOeuh.png)
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Apr 25, 2020 6:56:47 GMT -5
Another epic showdown featuring an American black bear and a Yellowstone grizzly bear.
![](https://i.imgur.com/CNIPUB7.png) Good comparison. While I like the American black bear better, the grizzly bear is way stronger.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Apr 25, 2020 6:59:16 GMT -5
Sorry about that, I'll try do it as soon as possible. ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) It's just that these size comparisons have awakened my interest for bovids and how they compare. Could you make a virtual comparison between the lappet faced vulture and Eurasian black vulture please?
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Post by brobear on Apr 25, 2020 7:00:17 GMT -5
"Nice 'Taker... Prehistoric and Extinct Bears - Earliest Bear Ancestors - Basic Bear Evolution - first post; scroll down to: "Brown Bears". U. arctos apparently entered Alaska about 100,000 YBP but did not move south until the late Wisconsin, about 13,000 YBP. Kurten and Anderson (1980) suggest the possibility of 2 independent migrations; narrow-skulled bears from northern Siberia through central Alaska to the rest of the continent becoming U. a. horribilis, and a southern migration of broadskulled bears from Kamchatka to the Alaskan peninsula becoming U. a. middendorffi. *This coincides with my own theory that the Kodiak bears and Alaskan peninsula bears were at one time one-and-the-same bears. But as the ice began to melt, some were stranded on the islands while some remained on the peninsula. Over the centuries, the peninsular grizzlies have been crossing with inland grizzlies. There are two factors for the Coastal bear's large size: food abundance including salmon and genetics.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Apr 25, 2020 7:03:42 GMT -5
This is a sympatric comparison; a Plains bison taking on a Yellowstone grizzly bear.
![](https://i.imgur.com/uWhfl2L.png) I always knew the bison was much bigger but I didn’t imagine by this much 🤓😊. Could you make a size comparison of a grizzly bear and an African elephant/white rhino/African hippopotamus please?
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Post by brobear on Apr 25, 2020 8:45:55 GMT -5
Quote: Here is your requested comparison between an African leopard and a western lowland gorilla. Love'it
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 25, 2020 8:58:30 GMT -5
Reply #28, awesome Taker, thanks mate. And yeah, just what i thought, the Gorilla's arms alone are larger than the leopard, lmao. The leopard would never fight the gorilla head on, its obvious. Does not look that a leopard has much of a chance if they fought head on.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 26, 2020 8:33:54 GMT -5
Two of the most popular carnivores going at it: A Kruger lion taking on a Yellowstone grizzly.
![](https://i.imgur.com/Z7fDY8S.png)
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 26, 2020 9:11:39 GMT -5
Reply #31, good one Taker, but i assume that is a huge 470 lb lion correct? Was that at same weight? Because the lion looks much taller at shoulder height.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 26, 2020 9:23:37 GMT -5
They would be roughly the same weight at ~425lbs. A lion usually has a decent body length and slight shoulder height advantage over a grizzly bear at weight parity.
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 26, 2020 9:29:49 GMT -5
They would be roughly the same weight at ~425lbs. A lion usually has a decent length and slight shoulder height advantage over a grizzly bear at weight parity. Right, i just thought that the shoulder height difference in that comparison is huge, but maybe its just me. But, ok, awesome.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 26, 2020 9:43:54 GMT -5
I think a lion's mane also is an important factor making him look bigger than the really is.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 26, 2020 12:11:22 GMT -5
Comparison between a female and a male Asian lion residing in Gir National Park.
![](https://i.imgur.com/hSg5I4Y.png)
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 26, 2020 13:03:41 GMT -5
Clash of the Indian big cats: An Asiatic lion taking on a Bengal tiger.
![](https://i.imgur.com/9411CDN.png)
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Post by brobear on Apr 27, 2020 3:12:48 GMT -5
They would be roughly the same weight at ~425lbs. A lion usually has a decent body length and slight shoulder height advantage over a grizzly bear at weight parity. *I would like to see a full-grown mountain grizzly boar vs male African lion king.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 27, 2020 9:14:08 GMT -5
Comparison between a Pantanal jaguar and a Zuniceratops.
![](https://i.imgur.com/kznFV2q.png)
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Post by brobear on Apr 27, 2020 14:40:28 GMT -5
Comparison between a Pantanal jaguar and a Zuniceratops: Now there's a site we don't see everyday.
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Post by brobear on Apr 27, 2020 14:56:19 GMT -5
Spinosaurus with Carcharodontosaurus. Two massive predators that lived at the same time as each other and in the same place but had completely different ecological niches. Diagrams by Franoys *IMHO - Carcharodontosaurus was a predator; a true Carnosaur. Spinosaurus was a fish-hunter and shoreline scavenger. wildfact.com/forum/topic-spinosaurus-news?page=4 ![](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a361ebc3e65c596d8b3cf278b6667679)
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Post by theundertaker45 on Apr 27, 2020 16:08:22 GMT -5
An Asiatic lion taking on a sloth bear.
![](https://i.imgur.com/2yAeeQK.png)
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