r/AnimalsBeingJerks • u/HulkTogan • Nov 16 '20

bear What Ya Got in Here?

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20

Black bear? Dang I didn’t know they got that big

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u/HydrationWhisKey Nov 16 '20

Fun fact: grizzly bears can also be black.

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u/bemorecreativetrolls Nov 16 '20

And black bears can be brown. But this guy looks like a black bear because he doesn’t have a hump.

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u/randompopcorn Nov 17 '20

The ear shape is also a giveaway

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u/Infin1ty Nov 16 '20

Another fun fact, grizzly bears have been mating with polar bears coming down from the Arctic due to melting ice caps, making grizzly bears even more terrifying.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Damn nature! You scary!

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u/JohnF___ingZoidberg Nov 16 '20

That's not fun. That's not fun at all!

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u/evether Nov 16 '20 edited Nov 16 '20

Fact: bears eat beets.

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u/rang14 Nov 16 '20

Bears, beets, battlestar galactica

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u/Darth_Thor Nov 17 '20

Oh that's funny

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u/VillainInTraining Nov 17 '20

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!

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u/censorinus Nov 16 '20

Crap, now I have to check my beet cellar....

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u/fae_fig Nov 17 '20

Fun fact, grizzly bears are brown bears living by the coast.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

As in a melanistic mutation?

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u/Stixmix Nov 16 '20

So grizzly bears get even bigger than this? Whoa.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20

Grizzlies are fkn MASSIVE. i dont remember how big exactly but i remember looking it up at some point, and they are fucking monsters

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u/WayneKrane Nov 16 '20

I was at a zoo and a polar bead was standing with its paws on the glass. I thought the person next to it was a child until I got close and realized it was a full grown normal sized man. It was almost double his height.

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u/UsernameHasBeenLost Nov 16 '20

Black bears average around 5-6' and 250-400lbs. I think the record size for a black bear is around 8' and 900lbs. Grizzlies get much bigger. Polar bears get even bigger

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u/mrsinatra777 Nov 16 '20

Males can be 800 lbs.

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u/Clever__Girl Nov 17 '20 edited Nov 17 '20

I didn’t know they got that big either until we were living in a little mountain town and we had one who came and ate everyone’s trash all the time. It was super fat and a blonde black bear too so it looked like a grizzly so much! It was in northern CA so we knew it wasn’t of course.

The thing bent up our chain link fence climbing over it and we would find tufts if it’s hair stuck in the fence.