I knew they were big bears but not TWICE A HUMAN size! I didn’t even google this image for the polar bear I wanted to see how big a black bear is.
guess I’m never going to Antarctica!
It is not just that they are enormous and strong. Its that they will actively hunt you for food unlike most brown or black bears.
I think they are fairly unique among the animal kingdom for being willing to chance attacking a human. Most other predators don’t find the risk of not knowing exactly how it would go to be worth it.
There is a reason that a lot of the people that you see that live or spend a lot of time in the parts of the world that Polar Bears live in don’t often go outside without high caliber weapons.
The woman looks so small next to those bears.
If it’s brown lay down
If it’s black fight back
If it’s white say goodnightThere’s a reason why they say that
There’s reasons in rural communities in Canada that polar bears frequent that it is custom to keep your car doors unlocked at all times, so if someone walking runs into a polar bear they can dive into a random car for safety.
Big bastards best stay away lest they suffer double nipple twisters.
YSK bears have three pairs of nipples, better bring the sextuple twist or you’ll be a bear stain
I have great bite strength and practically prehensile toes. That last nipple might be a deal breaker though.
Genius! Surely I am the match for any polar bear with this knowledge!
They’re northern Hemisphere, not Antarctica. We have them in our province (Manitoba), but yes they’re big. On average tho not quite as big as the painting there shows.
If one of the average sized ones rises up in front of you and roars, I bet it would look just as big as that painting.
Can anyone confirm? Probably not.
Yup, Not many people get the opportunity to see one up close and live to tell about it, unless there’s something REALLY solid in between them. Like that Nat Geo guy in the cage. https://youtu.be/U-S4NbX5IYE They’re absolutely terrifying up close…
They don’t typically roar tho, unless they’re fighting or f…uh screwing. And they’re not scared of anything.
I knew it! Seeing them in a Zoo many years back I got the impression they were pretty big but not THAT massive.
I think the painting shows the largest they’ve found, not the norm. It’s like showing Robert Wadlow (The tallest guy in the world at 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow) to show the size of humans. Yes we can get that large, but it’s an extreme example.
Just let it happen. If someone is looking at my stat sheet Im not going to complain if they say I can run 100 meters as fast as Bolt did in the Olympics. *limps to the kitchen…
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Cave bears used to make polar bears look small.
Arctus = “Bear”, Anti = “against” in ancient Greek, or “opposite” in modern meaning.
Arctic = bears are here
Anti-arctic = opposite bears, or “no bears”.
Has absolutely nothing to do with actual bears though.
The name comes from the constellation Ursa Major, which in Greek was Arktos Megale. Both mean the Great Bear.
Basically it just means north and not north because the Ursa Major constellation has the North Star in it.
It does just kinda work out that bears are in the northern hemisphere and not the southern hemisphere. There’s only one bear native to the southern hemisphere, the Spectacled Bear native to the Andes mountain in South America. There are no bears native to Africa or Oceania at all.
yeah if you put bears on antarctica they mutually annihilate
You fell for the bait.
But I learned so it’s fine
So did the Greeks traverse the whole planet? Like the idea isn’t too far fetched but it’s just weird to think about Mediterraneans traveling to the arctics
Lol.
Good news, Antarctica is still polar bear free ;)
I’d rather the bear than Shoggoths, Elder Things, or possibly a Great Old One!
They’re all talk though.
Says someone who’s never encountered a polar bear before.
If it’s white, you can win that fight.
Says someone who’s never encountered a polar bear before.
If it’s black, fight back. If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s white, say good night.
I like the rhyme but I mean, what the fuck are the chances of running into a polar bear. As in, if you live near polar bears, you definately know how terrifying they are and don’t need to have a guide like this.
No, I’m not fun at parties.
Yeah, if one ever gets that unlucky you just have to hope they make it quick.
Santa Barbara zoo?
I think the sizes shown are probably biggest specimen. Black bears can get pretty big, but I’ve never encountered one that was taller than me.
The first black bear I ever saw in the wild was this beefy boi. Fucker was huge. Didn’t see him on his hind legs, but I would imagine he was close to 6’ if he did stand on them.
I saw a black bear in Virginia crossing the street on a polite Tuesday mid- morning a few years ago…the god-damned thing was as big as I imagined grizzly bears are…it was huge.
They used to have some at my local zoo when I was a kid. Now knowing this, I’d like to see one in person again. Obviously to a kid they looked fucking huge, but I’d like to see one in person as an adult now knowing this. It’s definitely better that my zoo decided they didn’t have a big enough enclosure and stopped getting polar bears, but it kinda sucks too.
Get me a saddle
I’m about to show you something you can only do once
I saw it in a cartoon, but I’m pretty sure I can do it.
I will say, those bears represent the upper end of the ‘weight ranges’ for those 3 species. Average sizes would be a bit less.
