Bears of the Pleistocene

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Post 301 is converting the shoulder height to American showing that this massive cave bear had a shoulder height of 4 feet and nearly 5 inches. He likely weighed 1500+ pounds.
 
Unrelated to cave bear data: 
The panda bear has been proven to be closely related to the Andean bear, or to be more specific, the short-faced bear lineage. This brings such monsters as Indarctos and Agriotheruim into the lineage.
Also, in comparing the panda bear with the Andean bear for similarities, we might see attributes basic to this lineage. Both the panda bear and the Andean bear have extremely strong jaws. This is proven to be true in extinct short-faced bears. Panda bears and Andean bears prove to be more vocal the Ursus bears. Perhaps this too was a short-faced bear trait. Neither the panda bear nor the Andean bear hibernates. It is widely accepted that the extinct short-faced bears never hibernated. Reply