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Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos)

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(02-09-2015, 01:35 PM)'brotherbear' Wrote: I think it pretty impressive that Bear 205 at the age of 4.5 years ( a brown bear is fully mature at age 9 ) within a period of 29 days hunted and killed 6 adult moose and 3 calves. First of all, this would suggest that Bear 205 chooses adult moose rather than calves which are the usual choice of a grizzly. It is also impressive for a predator lacking the "hunting tools" of a big cat or the pack-strength of a wolf to pull down and kill an adult moose.

 
I´m a bit surprised but also not. Thinking about an adult male brown bear, I always thought they can take down pretty much any land mammal prey, except the obvous like rhinos, giraffes, hippos and elephants. They´re just abnormaly powerful creatures. Though looking at the weight of the male, which isn´t extremely heavy for a male brown bear, and considering the weight of an adult moose, if it was a male, than I´m kind of surprised. Just checked wikipedia and the moose in Scandinavia are not the biggest among the subspecies. So everything is relativised. But still, if it were males, average 320 to 475 kg, and with that mentioned frequency, 6 times, it´s still an impressive data by any means.
I dont think you have to be as efficiently equipped as a big cat to hunt down big prey animals, if your the most powerful omnivour on the planet ;-)


 
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Wanderfalke - 02-09-2015, 07:24 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Sully - 03-04-2016, 07:15 AM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 06-15-2016, 03:05 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Tshokwane - 08-22-2016, 12:39 AM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 08-22-2016, 11:59 AM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 08-22-2016, 06:07 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 08-22-2016, 09:06 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 11-21-2016, 07:46 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Bronco - 11-26-2016, 09:36 AM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 11-26-2016, 10:27 AM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Tshokwane - 12-02-2016, 06:27 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 12-02-2016, 06:46 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 12-03-2016, 04:15 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Tshokwane - 12-07-2016, 01:13 AM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Tshokwane - 12-15-2016, 07:02 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Tshokwane - 12-15-2016, 07:03 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - Tshokwane - 12-15-2016, 07:06 PM
RE: Bear Photos and Videos - brotherbear - 12-16-2016, 02:35 PM



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