What bear species is the strongest?

Question

What bear species is the strongest?

Answer 1

Actually, the Grizzly could kick a Polar Bear's behind.  True, the polar bear is a larger and heavier bear but it is much less robust than the Grizzly.  

Compared to the grizzly, it has a thinner, longer and more delicate skull, along with narrower forequarters. This streamlining is an adaptation for an aquatic life style.

The grizzly has a shorter, thicker neck, heavily built skull and more powerful shoulder structure. Despite being a good foot shorter, the grizzly has a trump card.

Their claws, having evolved as digging tools,  are also unmatched at opening body carcasses. Claws of 6" aren't uncommon (9" record) while the polar bear has small hook-like 2" claws.

Sometimes, when the ice melts, polar bears have been known to be driven off by grizzlies, when they move south into the grizzlies feeding area. A grizzly will defend his barren ground patches jealously as he races to pile on enough fat for the end of summer denning.

Answer 2

The polar bear. They are also the only bear that will `stalk' a human from what I have heard.

Answer 3

White?

Answer 4

Polar bears. Kodiaks and grizzlies are both types of brown bears.  They are also very strong and can be very aggressive.

Answer 5

poler bear

Answer 6

polar bear

Answer 7

Certainly not the one's from Chicago!

Answer 8

Pooh Bear is the strongest smelling

Answer 9

FACT! The Kodiak.

Answer 10

the artic ploar bear

Answer 11

polar bears

Polar bears can run at speeds up to 55 kph!

Polar bears are excellent swimmers

Answer 12

not the Chicago Bears, not this year

Answer 13

thestrongestare the biggest and that is the polor bear

                                Polar Bear Brown Bear

Average Weight of Mature Male

                           900-1,500 pounds 500-900 pounds

Heaviest Recorded

                           2,210 pounds 2,500+ pounds

Average Length of Mature Male

                                8-8.4 feet >7-10 feet

Answer 14

Nobody has gotten this question right yet!  Correct answer is a Kodiak~Polar Bear HYBRID  (a cross between the two bears).

This hybrid cross has happened many times in zoo's (usually by accident). The offspring are fertile and can breed with other polar, and kodiak bears, as well as themselves.  In other-words they are NOT a genetic dead end.

The first one ever reliably proven in the wild was shot on April 16, 2006 (in Canida).  There had been many therorized ones before that, but DNA testing was not around when they were hunted and killed.  

So they exsist naturally in the wild, they can breed with other bears, and other hybrids (so are not a genetic dead end), and being hybrids, they grow to unusual giagantic size and strength (even bigger and stronger thant their original parents).

So correct answer is a and Ursid Hybrid, specifically a Kodiak~Polar Bear Hybrid.

~Garnet

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