Pretty self explanatory
Pretty self explanatory
Tiger hands down. An average tiger vs a grizzly bear is the only contest.
The bears which Siberian Tigers prey on are essentially Grizzly Bears.
beetbattlestargalactica wrote:
An average tiger vs a grizzly bear is the only contest.
It takes at least 3 tigers to take down a polar bear.
and grizzlies are among the smallest brown bears there are, coastal browns are the big ones.
Which bear is best?
Black bear.
No Question Polar Bear would beat any of the large Cats. In fact, the Tiger would not survive the -40C temp where the Polar Bears live. I watched a show on TV where a Polar Bear killed 2 Canadian hunters within 2 minutes.
We have to choose the two biggest! Polar Bear vs Siberian Tiger.
Polar bear wins, easily outweighs the tiger by 700+lbs.
Tigers kill by going for the throat and suffocating, wouldn't get a chance head on.
Until recently this was an unsettled question. With the benefit of hindsight it has become clear that the tiger's challenge to the golden bear came up short.
I'm more interested in who would win between a bear and Big Foot.
Tiger Woods beats Winnie the Pooh easily
tugger wrote:
Tiger Woods beats Winnie the Pooh easily
But not the Golden Bear.
BW
Stick to threads about video copyright and infringement.
Grizzlies are NOT among the smallest brown bears there are; no more than they're among the largest brown bears there are. Some grizzly bears weigh over 900lbs.
Coastal brown bears are, essential, grizzly bears who eat salmon. Lots of salmon. There are taxonomists who split the North American brown bear into myriad different subspecies, but most generally accept only 2 or 3 today.
Even a small female grizzly from the arctic slope will drive all but the very largest male polar bears off a food source. A single grizzly will scatter a gathering of polar bears like a wolf among sheep.
Large brown bears of the Kamchatka Peninsula are known to kill tigers.
Now a tiger and a Koala bear, no contest.
Many people in North America use the common name “grizzly bear” to refer to smaller and lighter-colored bear that occurs in interior areas where there are not a lot of salmon to eat and the term “brown bear” to refer to the larger and typically darker-colored bear in coastal areas where there are salmon. This species also occurs in Russia, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia where everyone refers to them as “brown bears”.
Unless you're talking about South American or African grizzlies, you're either wrong or in the minority.
Stick to threads about cameltoes and getting rejected by women.
The Siberian Tiger is the top predator. Bears are lunchmeat.
The North American brown bear, known as subspecies Ursus arctos horribilis, is regarded as a separate creature from those in elsewhere (tell the authors of your link that Russia AND Scandinavia are in Europe).
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=202385
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180543
http://www.bear.org/website/bear-pages/brown-or-grizzly-bear/68-brown-grizzly-bear-facts.html
{on grizzly bears} - Weight: Females reach their maximum weight of 270 to 770 pounds in 8 years. Males reach their maximum weight of 330 to 1150 pounds in 12 years. The heavier a female is the better are her chances of having cubs. The heavier a male is the better chance he has of successfully breeding with a female. Males are 1.2 to 2.2 times as heavy as females.
Kodiak bears can grow to 10 feet long and weigh over 1,000 lbs (Jonkel 1984, p 22).
Grizzly bears are very much a capable predator; and as I said before, even small tundra grizzlies of the arctic run polar bears off food sources.
I photograph bears for a living. What do you do?
You DO know the species is correctly called the Amur Tiger, right? "Siberian" tiger is an outdate nomenclature.
European brown bears, particularly those not found in eastern Russia, are much smaller than North American bears, and also the brown bears of Kamchatka.
Just because a tiger catches a subadult brown bear and eats it doesn't mean tigers are the top predator. Hyenas eat young lions, too. Wolves and mountain lions also kill and eat grizzly bears; they just don't eat healthy full grown adult males.
I'll clarify further .. North American brown bears' taxonomy is not as clearcut as some would have it. Where exactly is the delineation between a coastal brown bear and a grizzly bear? Many grizzly bears eat salmon, they just don't eat as much of it as those in areas like Katmai and Lake Clark NP of the Alaskan Peninsula. how about the brown bears of eastern and southeastern Alaska? They eat a lot of salmon, but they're dwarfed by those big bears on the Peninsula.
The grizzled tips of the hair isn't standard to all individuals at all, and nor is it completely absent from those with a protein rich diet of salmon. Nor do those on the peninsula only eat salmon; they eat berries by the thousands, and will immediately walk away from salmon to feed on available red meat, whether it's a moose kill or another bear.
The reason for the size differential is due one thing; more, and richer, food.
Some taxonomists demarcate half a dozen different N. American subspecies of brown bears, and some only 2, the Kodiak bears and rest. Most, today, go with 3 subspecies, Kodiak bears, Ursus arctos middendorfi, the brown/grizzly Ursus arctos horribilis, and those found on a few SE Alaska islands, the subspecies Ursus arctos sitkensis. They're known as the ABC bears (after the islands, Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof).
Taxonomy in general isn't so cut and dry either .. most naturalist either fall into one of 2 groups . "lumpers" and "splitters".
Thanks but you're a photographer not a taxonomist.
William 'The Refrigerator' Perry was a very large bear. I believe he could take Cecil Fielder of the tigers in a head to head duel.
Mebbe so ... but perhaps you meant "Craighead"?