Bear Strength

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I write this a little bit what comes to overall discussion about strength of animals. I mean we often can read, how tigers, lions and bears carry or drag "enormous" animals here and there just like nothing. Then when we see some footage, it is often like this. Not so big animal, even leafs under it to make less friction, and result.... a lot of effort and only a few meters before giving up. Of course here we see distraction to maybe make this tiger to stop fast, but that dragging wasn´t easy. Far from it.

I remember one footage about lion and headline something like "lion drags a huge carcass", then in footage was a half eaten buffalo with no internal organs  I have started to wonder, that how much some researchers are exaggerating their observations overall, concerning all animals, not just bears, tigers and lions what comes to testimonies how they drag/carry away big carcasses just like that. Or maybe we would need to know more, that what is big to different people? 

There are some quite impressive performances, but I find it hard to believe, that these animals would drag some moose or buffalo easily more than 10-50 meters. Bear should have more endurance to go somewhat further, but dragging a moose is not simple, when it is dead.

Here this video, dragging starts from 0:35:

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