Question for Peter

[brotherbear]

Pckts says: ~~So you haven't seen the Raja video of him killing a Guar?
 No offense but nothing you are saying has to do with strength. You are using examples of bears with out knowing any of their weights, weights of the objects they are moving etc. How am I going to see a Tiger push a dumpster?
 It doesn't happen in the wild, they live in two different places where they will never run into these objects.
 I have never seen a bear take down large prey with the ease of a tiger, I have seen a bear get in a long drawn out fight with a caribou and be pushed and pulled. I have seen a bear be pounded by domestic cattle and watch Raja kill 3 of them in seconds and they were larger than the cattle that attacked the bear, I have seen raja choke a much larger gaur that is larger than himself in 2 minutes with out being budged. These singular examples are pointless, they have no way of proving anything since the size of the bear or tiger or prey is unknown.
 Tigers are notorious for dragging their kills for long periods of time. If you wan't me to find the many accounts of this, that is fine. They are not hard to find, but I know that you have already seen them.
I have admitted from the beginning that the big cats are more capable hunters and killers than the grizzly. The tiger is a specialized ambush predator and has the tools of the trade. He has the stealth to sneak up on a gaur, the speed to launch an attack so quickly that the gaur is taken completely by surprise, the claws designed to hold onto his prey, the strength to pull it down, and the teeth and jaws perfectly designed for the slow kill.
When a grizzly kills a large herbivore, he must overpower it in a wrestling match without the use of "Velcro paws." More often than not, the grizzly meets his adversary head-on... face-to-face. He is very much dependant on brute strength and grappling ability.   

 

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