Bear Interactions with Other Predators

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Text extract from Naturalist Terry Domico:


"The brown bear is stout and rather chunky in shape, with a large hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders and very long claws. It has a wide, massive head that some people describe as being somewhat "dish faced" in appearance. That big head is equipped with extremely powerful jaws. I once saw a big male, trapped in a leg snare set by researchers, take out its frustration on some neighboring trees. In one bite he bit completely through a 4-inch (10-cm) -diameter pine, snapping it off. It also chewed through several 6- and 8-inch (15- and 20-cm) -diameter trees. One stump looked as though it had been dynamited. When we slammed the sharp end of a geologist's pick into the trunk of one of those trees, it only penetrated about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) into the wood." Reply