Which is bigger a polar bear or a kodiak bear?
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The polar bear is the largest member of the bear family, with the exception of Alaska's Kodiak brown bears, which equal polar bears in size. Males stand from 8 to 11 feet tall and generally weigh from 500 to 1,000 pounds, but may weigh as much as 1,400 pounds. Females usually stand 8 feet tall and weigh 400 to 600 pounds, but may reach 700 pounds. Part of the reason the polar bear weighs so much is that is stores about a 4-inch layer of fat to keep it warm.
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Crocodiles tire relatively quickly, and polar bears are well used to wearing down prey. They repeatedly strike at belugas who are trapped in the ice and are forced to surface at a single opening. They do this until the beluga is exhausted and dies.\nTemperature of the water is important for the crocodile , too cold and it would go into a torpor and die. If the water is not shallow enough, say that it is up to the bears shoulders, this would impede the bear and give the advantage to the croc.
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The answer IS NOT pressure. Pressure has nothing to do with temperatures at the north pole, or why polar bears are white!\n\nThe right answer is "NO"!\n\nSources:\nhttp://fun.egreetingsetc.com/2F/D/AI/index.shtml\nhttp://teensetc.com/0F/0D/BI/index.shtml\nhttp://phunpages.com/1F/D/AI/index.shtml
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I know polar bears only live in the north pole. There isn't any life in the south pole.
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Polar Bears:\nFor evolutionists:\nFirst of all, Polar Bears evolved from Brown Bears that where seperated from the other populations by a glacier or possibly something else, trapping them in extreem conditions.\nNow, due to these conditions, pressures where quickly placed on them to have them evolve very rapidly into the Polar Bears (by evolutionary standards, meaning it still took several thousand years), due to the fact that the very harsh conditions quickly weeded out Bears that where not so readilly able to survive.\nNow, the Bears eventually managed to adapt to the conditions, and find an abundant source of food on the sea ice, consisting of Ringed Seals, and ocasionally some other species of seals, such as Walrus cubs.\nAnd, since Polar Bears evolved up North in this area, they obviously couldn't have started down in Antartica.\n\nNow, the Polar Bears have no method at all of travelling this far south, to reach Antartica, as they would die of heat exhaustion far before then, not to mention they would probably lack any prey item, being used to hunting seals, and such.\nAnd, for the Brown Bears that could have theoretically moved down South, and then go their, and evolve into a Polar Bear-like animal (though, it would probably have multiple distinguishing features, and quite probably a different diet), this is also very unlikely.\nThe furthest south that the range of Brown Bears has ever been is in Northern Africa, in the form of Atlas Bears, which have been hunted to extininction by Humans in the eighteen hundreds, which is still quite far away from Antartica.\nNow, even if they theoretically wheren't hunted to extintion by Humans, and where given the time to be able to travel all the way South to the southern most tip of Africa, they would from their be unable to swim far enough to be able to reach Antartica, and would theirfore still be unable to reach it.\nAnd, if you mention the fact that their are marsupial fossils their, then I will have to mention the fact that know placental animals where down South during those many long years ago before Antartica split off, theirfore they still wouldn't have been down in Antarctica.\n\nFor the Creationists:\nPolar Bears have a yearly "routine" of waiting during the sumer for the sea ice to freeze, and, then, when the sea ice does begin to freeze, they then swim out to it, and begin their hunting of seals on the sea ice, never traveling out onto the permanent ice, but only on the temporary ice, as, this is the only ice they are able to hunt on, concidering they hunt by smashing a hole in the ice, and waiting for a seal to surface to take a breath, and then pull it out, and the permanent ice would be much to thick for that.\nAnd, in Antartica, it would have to instead then wait down South, where it is colder then it may be up north, or just as cold, meaning that because the Bears are being inactive trying to conserve energy, they may freeze, and theirfore need more insulation.\nHowever, then they would overheet while hunting, etc, out on the sea ice, which is something that should not happen, and may overall cause some stress, etc.\nSeeing all of these problems and different adaptations the Polar Bears would need to be able to survive in Antarctica, god decided not to put Polar Bears there, as they would likely be unable to survive without having to have a variety of modifications made.\nAnd, this would also be rather inconsistant with the general pattern of dispersal; only marsupials where put on the southern land masses (and placentals eventually invaded the ones they could reach, and then out competed the marsupials wiping them out...and in the case of Antarctica, couldn't survive the extreem cold), which is why they are only found on Australia, and some islands such as Tasmania, and then the Opposum mananaged to survive the "placental invasion".\nThe Polar Bear, being a placental, would have gone against the general distribution of animals a
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There are no polar bears in Antarctica.  There are some seals and sea lions there.
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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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A polar bear in an ice storm.
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No, but there is a Honey Bear otherwise known as a Sun Bear.
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The term "largest" needs clarifying as the tallest may not be the heaviest, longest etc.\n\nHowever I would suggest the Carribou (?) \n\nSurely the Grizzly lives in the mixed forests of N America and is not native to the pure pine forests of Norway etc.
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The North American bison (Bison bison) can weigh between 300 and 900 kg (about a ton).  And stand up to 1.87 m at the shoulder.\n\nAn adult polar bear (Ursus maritimus) can weigh between 150 and 800 kg.  Large, but not as large as a big male bison.  They average around 475 kg, and about 1.6 m at the shoulder.\n\nA bull moose (Alces alces) can weigh between 360 and 600 kg.  On average, lower in mass than the polar bear.  However because they have long, rangy legs, they can stand 2.3 m at the shoulder, making them taller than either of the previous critters.\n\nThe Kodiak grizzly (the largest variety of brown bear (Ursus arctos)) averages 389 kg for a male, and one specimen was weighed at a whopping 780 kg.  That's a big bear, but doesn't put it in the realm of the bison, or even the record holding polar bears.\n\nHowever, the largest mammal that actually comes up on land in North America is the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus).  An adult male walrus can weigh up to 1700 kg, and up to about 3 m in length (it's hard to measure their shoulder height though).  It's kind of hard to say if the walrus really counts though, since you are already excluding other marine mammals.\n\nGoing back a little ways in time, a mere 10,000 years ago there were numerous larger critters around in North America.  The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus colombi) stood more than 3.5 m at the shoulder, and upwards of 9000 kg!!! (That's about twice the mass of the largest modern African elephants).
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THE BEAR IS WHITE--YOU'D BE AT THE NORTH POLE, HOME\nOF THE POLAR BEAR.\nTHE RIDDLE IS ALMOST AS OLD AS THE BEAR!!
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Polar bears do not hibernate, though the lactating females will not emerge from their cave while the cubs are very young. The mother will not have eaten for nine months, thus relying on stored body fat also known as blubber for both her own nutrition and that of the cubs
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Klondike implies some form of masculinity. \n\nThe Klondike is a rugged and rough semi-polar region. It requires a tough temperment to endure the regions harsh weather. Whereas, Dovebars... c'mon. That's so soft sounding. It's not masculine.\n\nPlus Klondike bars have a polar bear on the packaging. Polar bears are more manly than doves.
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Elephants because they are stong and can be very agressive. They would use their tusks to stab the polar bear if they don't trample it. Normly, though, most beings just run away at the site of the immense size of an elephant. I'm not saying that the polar bear will run away, but it would probably stand down and be dicouraged.
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Polar bears are endemic to the northern polar region for the same reason as elephants are indigenous to Africa and Asia. They just didn't migrate to the areas around what became Antarctica when they had the chance.
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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