Animal Strength Feats

[Polar]

(01-05-2019, 04:14 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(01-05-2019, 03:36 AM)Polar Wrote:

(01-04-2019, 11:29 PM)Shadow Wrote: In this video is a cow, weight 1400 kg, shoulder height 194 cm. 

I bet, that no tiger would drag this one anywhere, I think, that not even biggest bear there is would move this more than a meter :)

Honestly, I am 100% sure the largest bear can easily drag more than twice or thrice that weight with no sweat. There is a video on the "Bear Strength" where a polar bear was dragging a dead, bloody walrus, and that walrus appeared to be 2 to 3 times heavier than the bear.

I didn´t see video in bear strength thread, but you meant this?

Quite difficult to be sure about that walrus size, looked like to be a little bit bigger, than that bear, so maybe 500-800 kg walrus? For sure not even close to big ones weighing even 2000 kg, those giants make polar bears look pretty small :) But this video shows of course, that bear is strong, but also, that it takes some effort to kill and drag this size opponent.

Yes, that video. Harder to tell from a distance than up close, but the bear looks 400kg and the walrus at 800kg, still twice his weight. It is also actually really hard to drag on snow, since large amounts of weight condenses the snow and increases the coefficient of friction. The difference could make it so that the bear is dragging the walrus and an additional few pounds (or few hundred, I don't know).

Since it was dragging uphill, I think it was struggling moreso with its positioning relative to the walrus and tried to shift its weight back to gain greater leverage. If this was on flatter ground, it would be significantly easier, and to be honest, I don't think the bear would even be dragging near the max it can drag.

My estimate is from the videos I've analyzed, but a big cat should drag between 5-8 times its own weight with its own jaws before not being able to do so. Reply