Bear Strength

[Shadow]

(10-23-2018, 04:21 PM)brotherbear Wrote: I have watched that video numerous times. It shows the strength and wrestling ability of the grizzly she-bear as well as her courage and determination to feed her cubs and herself. Also, those caribou antlers are sharp. I could almost hear "the gears grinding" in the bear's head - bears are thinkers. Great video Shadow.

Adult predators show quite good their experience and it was obvious, that this bear understood danger with antlers. Anyway here we could see a predator making an attack without surprise element and practically "wrestling" opponent to fall down. Not an easy task to do when prey is bigger than predator. And before someone rush to say "that it bite also that caribou", I would add, that I know it and I saw it, but this was still impressive.

Still when I read that research from Russia, it is maybe even more surprising. I mean many times people talk about gorilla making comparison how many times stronger it is than a human (never it is quite clear if comparison is to average man or someone really strong and we never have anything where to compare actually). Then here we have a test showing, that bear lifts 4,6 times it´s weight and wasn´t even close to maximum. There we have one very comparable result from a bear now. Anyone can go to gym and test. 

But I think, that this is quite unknown test though. I find it surprising when knowing how interested so many are about animal strength. And there we have a 83,7 kg bear showing to be most probably stronger, than strongest man ever. And I don´t mean now about that pound for pound alone, but I mean, that how much it can lift actually compared to a man, who lifts more weight from ground than anyone else. Those scientists seemed to think, that it could have lifted anything between 770-1100 kg. Even if they would be wrong, we have a fact, that this bear lifted about 400 kg just like that, effortlessly. I think, that it is quite safe to assume, that at least anything between 500-600 kg would be possible and that alone is quite something. I think, that most untrained men weighing 84 kg would have hard time to lift even 100-120 kg. Someone trained would lift maybe 140-160 kg. Trained powerlifters (with steroids... oh, sorry, of course they are all "clean" ; ) then more, but still nowhere close to what this bear did there.

1 pound is 0,454 kg, so 400 kg is about 881 lbs. Reply