Animal Strength Feats

[Shadow]

(11-24-2020, 06:06 AM)alexandro Wrote: https://fb.watch/1Y5Ag3uMvI/

A american black bear turn over a big rock for their body size, almost as the "The great bear almanac" book (The book of the screenshot and link to wayback machine of my post). And @Shadow I know what you're talking about th source reliability. I researched about the autor of this book, and was a park ranger in Yellowstone, bear biology expert and bear management expert and consultant (In the same book it appears at the end of this one). And I know all the implications of what you say about the physics of flipping, dragging, or moving a stone. But still, it is impressive, especially in a bear.

There are videos of bears flipping stones and they do it usually with relative ease. But that book can give somewhat exaggerated image for people because as I said, dragging adult moose is something else than dragging some deer. And when reading that page which you linked some people can get the impression that bears would drag very big carcasses just like that, which doesn´t happen in any video clip really and there are some in which a bear tries to drag big moose. They can do it, but it demands some real effort. I have seen only one video of bear running with juvenile moose carcass which might have been 200-250 kg maybe.

And I would love to see a bear dragging 450 kg (1000 lbs) half a mile up almost vertical mountain. Until I see something proving even half of that claim I´m very cautious to take such claims too seriously, no matter who makes such claim. In past there wasn´t so much authentic video footage as today. Comparing real situations to claims in books makes it harder and harder to take some claims for granted. I live in a country with bears and moose and I´ve never heard here that kind of stories as in that book. Reply