The strongest bites in the animal kingdom

[Shadow]

(09-06-2019, 07:00 PM)GreenGrolar Wrote:

(07-24-2019, 06:32 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(07-24-2019, 06:06 PM)GreenGrolar Wrote: Honestly, polar bear bites are severely underrated in general. Correct me if I am wrong.

In general I think, that many people don´t understand one simple rule. The bigger the animal is, the stronger is also the bite. Some exceptions can be, but in general it´s pretty easy to understand, that if one animal has twice as big head as another, bigger one bites stronger :)

Naturally shorter snout helps to get more power to canines/front teeth when biting. And naturally if we compare muscles of jaguar and leopard, it´s easy to understand, that jaguar has clearly stronger bite even when there are two same sized individuals overall.

Shadow, I totally agree with you. I just want to add that a larger brown bear and polar bear obviously will a stronger bite force than a smaller lion or tiger. A smilodon despite having canines that are suitable for giving skull bites have only the bite strength which is one third of a lion. An animal with stronger jaws does not mean the skull is stronger either. For example, there is a source which says that dingos skull can take more stress than that of a tasmanian tiger despite the latter having stronger jaws.

I don´t want to claim too much, because some animals can be pretty close call, but for instance when thinking about jaguar and biggest cats I have never understood the idea that jaguar would really bite stronger. And recent studies seem to bust that myth. I have to admit, that I have doubts too concerning situation with biggest cats and bears. They all can break bones with bite though, so difference is most probably practically irrelevant. Reply