Welcome to the third episode of Animal Battle.
Today’s battle is going to be intense because the two candidates for the title “The Best
Mammal in the World” are very powerful, being the largest carnivores on land.
Allow me to introduce you to these amazing animals:
The Brown Bear Vs
The Polar Bear Also stick until the end of the video to find
out who is the winner of the last battle beetwen the jaguar and the leopard.
Let’s do it.
I’m Mario and this is Animal Battle!
Before we start you should know that the winner of Animal Battle isn’t necesarilly the strongest.
We are going to evaluate all of them by 6 different characteristics: Agility, Attack,
Defense, Intelligence, Bonus skill and Survival.
Also an important thing to know is that there are many subspecies of brown bears found across
Eurasia and North America like grizzly and Kodiak bears, but even though they might look
different they are all the same species.
Now that you know that, we can start.
Let’s begin with Agility.
Both of them can climb trees.
Polar bears can run with the speed of 40 km/h which is pretty impressing, but they are outspeeded
by brown bears which can reach speeds of up to 55 km/h.
That is faster than a horse.
That makes brown bears great pets for Putin.
But even though polar bears are slower on land they are a lot faster in water.
Brown bears can swim pretty good, but polar bears are just incredible swimmers, being
able to swim with a speed of 10 km/h.
They are made for that having a long skull and nose, a flexible neck and large front
paws.
They can swim for 7 to 10 hours per day.
The longest time recorded was 9 days.
That makes polar bears slightly better at agility.
Let’s move on to attack and defense stats.
Both of them are realy powerfull.
This might be due to their large sizes.
Brown bears range a lot in sizes reaching from 1.4 to 2.8 m in length.
On average they can weight 115-360 kg.
But some individuals can be twice as big.
The biggest one recorded weighted 680 kg.
This is impressive, but polar bears are even larger.
In fact they are the largest carnivores on land.
They can reach 2.4 to 3m in length and can weight around 350 to 700 kg.
The largest one recorded wheighted 1002 kg.
Living in the arctic region Polar Bears usualy hunt ringed and bearded seals.
In some cases they can hunt even larger animals like walruses and baluga whales and if they
have the chance they can eat other mammals like raindeers.
Their most common hunting method is called still-hunting.
They use their smell to locate seal breathing holes and wait until the seal reaches ut to
breathe.
That’s when it attacks it with a powerfull bite directly into the skull.
Brown bears are omnivores, being able to eat almost anything from berries to fish and over
100 different species of mammals.
Searching for food they can move very heavy objects and lift heavy rocks . Even though
they are not as large as polar bears they have longer 7 to 10cm claws.
Also they are territorial and more agressive while polar bears are not territorial and
avoid fights.
I’ll talk more about what happens when brown and polar beas meet later.
Brown bears have just a few competitors.
They can steal the pride from packs of wolves and can be killed just by other brown bears
or by tigers.
Polar bears on the other side don’t have any competition being the largest predators
in the arctic region.
So we can observe that brown bears are slightly better at atack due to their agression while
polar bears are better at defence due to the lack of competition.
Because they are both predators they are pretty inteligent.
Brown bears might have a larger skull but this doesn’t necesarily mean that they are
smarter because, once again having a bigger brain does’t necesarily mean that the animal
is smarter.
So we can say their intelligence level is pretty much the same.
Let’s talk about bonus skills.
Both Brown and Polar Bears live in regions where it can get realy cold.
So they have adapted to that in two different ways.
When winter comes brown bears don’t need to search for food, partialy hibernating.
For that they have to gain a lot of food before it gets cold.
Polar bears though live in regions where it is cold all of the time.
That’s why they don’t have just one layer of coat, but also [Another one, and another
one].
Actually they have two layers of coat.
Also their hairs aren’t actually white, but transparent, which appear white because
the air in the hair scatters all the wavelength of light.
And what color do you think their skin is?
It is black, which absorbs more heat to keep the body warm.
Plus a 5-10 cm thick layer of fat and you have everything you need to survive in cold
regions and to have more boency when swimming.
And last, but not least, let’s talk about survival, because there is no use to have
high stats if the species is going extinct.
Brown bears, even though are hunted by humans, are doing pretty great.
There are about 200 000 of them in the wild and it is listed as a least concern species.
They also have a 25 years lifespan.
Polar bears are doing worse here.
Although they can also live up to 25 years in the wild, there are just 22 000 - 31 000
of them in the wild, being listed as a vulnerable speies.
By 2050 their population is expected to decrease by 30%.
This is due to habitat loss caused by climate change.
They are usualy walking on ice, but it is melting faster and some individuals can end
up swimming for days and starving to death.
So now more and more polar bears go on land further on the continent.
So their territories might overlap with those of brown bears.
But surprisingly, the result of their meeting isn’t an epic battle, but a brown and polar
bear hybrid which is called Grolar or Pizzly Bear.
And these hybrids are actualy fertile, meaning that they can reproduce, unlike other hybrids.
So let other people know how amazing these animals are sharing this video with your friends,
family and babushka and you can vote the winner of today’s animal battle by cliking right
there, and leave your oppinions in the comments down bellow.
I think it is going to be realy close so even though you comment who you think is the winner,
consider to vote in the poll right there.
Now I am going to anounce the winner of the animal battle between the jaguar and the leopard.
First of all, I must admit that I made a mistake, leopards can also swim pretty good, so their
agility stats are even higher.
So, after counting the votes, the winner is ... the Jaguar- an amazing animal with high
stats overall.
Leopard fans shouldn’t be upset, because even though the Jaguar is the one going further,
Lions are still impressive animals and we should understand that all animals are amazing.
So once again don’t forget to vote for this episode’s winner in the top right corner.
Respect Animals.