Who is the "King" of the bears?

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2 very different bears coexisted in North America during the late Pleistocene. The short-faced bear was without argument the dominant bear and likely the dominant predator of his environment. But, the grizzly was a fighter. The giant wolves, the giant jaguar, the scimitar cats, the saber-toothed cats, and the big cat known as the American lion knew this. The American black bear is a rather timid bear probably because during the Pleistocene he was forever scurrying up a tree. The grizzly, on the otherhand, like a kid growing up in a tough neighborhood, had to be a fighter. This is why Lewis and Clark discovered that the grizzly was a much more dangerous adversary than the bears they had known back east. 

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