Bear Strength

[Polar]

(06-03-2016, 01:43 AM)brotherbear Wrote: I believe that the shoulder hump of the grizzly makes him pound-for-pound the strongest of bears. This is not something I merely thought up myself, but have read from many of those who know the bears, from the old mountain men, the hunters, and those who study them in detail. That big chunk of muscles reinforces the bear's upper-body strength. It is an adaptation from roughly a million years of digging in ( sometimes ) near-concrete-hard ground ( sometimes ) riddled with stones and/or laced with tough roots. This shoulder hump gives the bear greater digging power and a more powerful paw-swipe.
I have started a topic on bear anatomy, but I personally at this time have no quality information to add there.

A fully-grown polar bear can have just as big of a shoulder hump as a fully-grown brown bear.

I think I have some/can search some pictures of such polar bears.

There is also a black bear population (forgot the area) where they also had massive shoulder humps. Could be that all ursids back then had considerably massive shoulder humps.

Shoulder hump vs thicker arm, thicker bones, and possibly faster arm strike: a mere 50/50 for me. Reply