Who would win in a hypothetical fight between a grizzly bear and a polar bear?
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Depends on what they are fighting for.\n\nIf it is a grizzly female they are fighting for, the grizzly wins. \nIf its a polar female they are fighting for, the grizzly wins. \nIf its seals they are fighting for, the polar wins.
772309
Bears vs San Diego. I think the bears will win.
752303
Not quite but close. A Polar Bear's Skin is actually black and the individual strands of fur are pretty much transparent. The fur however is very good at trapping air and air is one of the best heat insulaters in nature. The helps the polar bear stay warm. A side effect of all that trapped air is that the Polar Bear will appear to be white.
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On April 16, 2006 a polar bear of unusual appearance was shot by a sports hunter on Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. DNA testing released May 11, 2006 proved the kill was a Grizzly/Polar Bear hybrid. This is thought to be the first recorded case of interbreeding in the wild. [1] The bear was proven to have a polar mother and a grizzly father. The DNA testing also spared the hunter the C$1000 fine for killing a grizzly bear, and the risk of being imprisoned for up to a year. The hunter had paid C$50,000 for a license to hunt polar bears; he did not have a license to hunt grizzly at that time. [2]\n\nThe animal had dark rings around its eyes, similar to a panda's but not as wide. It also had remarkably long claws, a slight hump on its back, brown spots in its white coat, and a slightly indented face — the nasal "stop" between the eyes which polar bears lack. [3] The guide leading the hunt, Roger Kuptana of Sachs Harbour in the Northwest Territories, was the first to note the oddities.\n\nSeveral names were suggested for this specimen. The Idaho hunter who killed it, Jim Martell, suggested polargrizz. The biologists of the Canadian Wildlife Service suggested grolar or pizzly, as well as nanulak, an elision of the Inuit nanuk (polar bear) and aklak (grizzly or brown bear). Both grolar and pizzly were used by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation [4] in widely-distributed stories.\n\nPresently, though the mating seasons overlap, the polar bear's season begins slightly earlier than the grizzly bear's. A blog columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggested that more hybrids may be seen as global warming progresses and alters normal mating periods. Dateline Earth Blog, reporter Lisa Stiffler, "You got your grizzly in my polar bear," May 11, 2006 The Canadian Wildlife Service noted that grizzly-polar hybrids born of zoo matings have proven fertile.[5]\n\nGrizzly bears have been sighted in what is usually polar bear territory in the Western Arctic near the Beaufort Sea, Banks Island, Victoria Island, and Melville Island. A "light chocolate colored" bear, possibly a hybrid, is reported to have been seen with polar bears near Kugluktuk in western Nunavut.
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Hippo. They are immensely strong and powerfull. When males are fighting they use their huge teeth (longer than a 12")and impressive bulk, its hard to imagine what a grizzly could do with his comparatively puny canines and meager body
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Gorillas may be powerful, but the largest bears are more than twice as large and heavy than even the largest gorillas, so assuming that the fight involves a large bear, then the bear would win.\nHowever, if it was a small bear then I would guess that maybe the gorilla could use its strength to overpower the bear.
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Man, I love these answers!!!  I think they should all win.  But to give you my take, here is another one to add to your already fun collection.\n\nIf indeed polar bears don't show up on infra red, it would simply show how greatly effective their insulation is.  Infra red would go for temperature, and the surface temp of the bear is similar to its environment.  It's body temp is much higher.  Its fat layers and primarily its pelt have evolved to sufficiently insulate the animal.  There is little heat loss, which is good because otherwise the bear would freeze to death eventually.  Think of it this way, the polar bear is an inverted refrigerator, only that it is warm on the inside and cold on the outside.  See what I mean?\n\nNow your TV question, I am not exactly sure that you would be able to concentrate much on CSI or Jim lehrer's News Hour (whatever you prefer) when there is a polar bear in between you and the TV.  But in case there were, i think at one point you could not change chanels anymore.  Think about it!  It swallows your arm with the control, and with that insulation you can try changing chanels as you like, it wouldn't get out to your TV...
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The largest brown bear in the world is the Kodiak bear, attaining a weight of 1,600 pounds and ten feet in height as it rears up to fight. Siberian tigers do not weigh 1,000 pounds. They max out around 650 pounds and are 13 feet long including the tail, the body is 9 feet. Neither animal would want to test the strength of the other so any encounter would probably result in a stalement with both animals not wanting to get hurt and moving along. But the bear is a more powerful animal and would beat a tiger in my opinion.
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Yogi Bear vs. Ahhhnold Swarchzenegger at his prime.\n\nI'll take Yogi any day.
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neither...they would lie each other out of fighting
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Neither would win, they would resolve their differences and team up to destroy the evil robots and martians. They would be known as Pinjas. :)
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A gorilla will poop on the floor than start throwing it at the polar bear and it will get in the bears eyes and than the gorilla will eat him alive.
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a bear ---- because they get to eat their hearts out, and nobody gives them a hard time about exercise, PLUS the fact that they get to smack their cubs when they are doing something stupid, AND the fact that they get to sleep all winter! ROFLMAO
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Well, the major problems would be that if there is global warming, the habitat (tundra) of polar bears will shrink. See:\nhttp://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/index.cfm?uNewsID=67980 this is from the World Wildlife Federation, a very respected group.\n\nhttp://www.nwf.org/globalwarming/polarbears.cfm The National Wildlife Federation is also a highly respected organization.
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cockroaches and polar bears...  ;)
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Yeti, since he "lives" in a cold place, he is probably bigger and more tenacious since he has to work harder to get food. Look at bears, polar bears are bigger & fiercer than bears that live in the woods.
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This joke/riddle is so old. The bear is white cause you are at the North pole.