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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!
Why not? You'd be safe from polar bears there!
But not from those pesky penguins
With their nonstop singing and dancing…
Wow the lady is tall but the TIL bear is huge asf
guess I'm never going to Arctic ~~Antarctica~~!
FTFY.
Sorry it's the inner nerd in me!
Lady is built like Petunia from Futurama
Welp, time to up the anti on the old "man or bear" debate.
Would you rather be stuck in a frozen wasteland containing a male nazi or a polar bear?
the bear will kill you, eat your corpse. the man will keep you alive so he can keep raping you or beating you or both for years and years. that was always the point. that was always the entire argument. death is better than torture and rape.
That's one more vote for the polar bear!
Obviously the nazi. Why would I want to hunt down a poor polar bear u.u
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.
If it's brown lay down
If it's black fight back
If it's white say goodnight
There'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.
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.
This would be a female bear, as she is with her cubs. Polar bears are actually the second most sexually dimorphic mammal. Consequently males are vastly bigger than females.
The most sexually dimorphic? The elephant seal. Those dudes are immense.
Edit: this, I read on wikipedia a couple of years ago. The information is no longer there but the fact that polar bears and elephant seals are among the most dimorphic mammals remains. The precise ranking is perhaps a little more obscure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear
Third sentence of the first paragraph mentions sexual dimorphism, at least in the English version of the page. Mentioned a few more places too, so it's still there.
Didn't know that was a thing, that's pretty cool!
I mean previously it stated that these were the two most dimorphic species. I'm guessing that due to the variance in body weight of the animals, it's not that easy to say that they are more dimorphic than other species, because that depends upon the variable body mass of the animals. But it's certainly a notable quality of polar bears and elephant seals that there can be such a huge difference, even if that difference grows and shrinks at different times of year.
The woman looks so small next to those bears.
bears can be up to 8-10+feet on average.
If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, say good night.
If it's brown, also say good night because a grizzly will still fuck your shit up no matter what you do.
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.
Ursa minor is the one with Polaris in its handle though.
You right. Ursa Major has a chain of stars that point toward Polaris.