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Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I mean, 1v1 is easy, 1v2 maybe even, but if there's a group of silverbacks, what with being somewhat smart and sturdy themselves, I think they could occasionally even get a win.

I've never seen a gorilla irl, but I've seen a taxidermied polar bear, and holy fuck those things are big. But then I think of just how versatile opposable thumbs are and of how insanely thick gorilla muscles are.

I'm marking this as a thing I'd like to know but probably never will, what with the moral implications of setting animals on each other in blood sports.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Gorillas don't have much for protection. The bear has 4" of fat "armor". The gorillas won't be able to bite or tear flesh.

My thinking is that if the bear is able to grab one of the gorillas, it will be disabled pretty much instantly. Unless the remaining gorilla(s) can press their momentary advantage while the bear is distracted, it's just going to rip them apart one by one.

1v4, they might have enough clout to keep the bear immobilized long enough to kill it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Gorillas don't have much for protection. The bear has 4" of fat "armor". The gorillas won't be able to bite or tear flesh.

Oh yeah this is very true. But like several of them manhandling one, idk. Might be out of their capacity for coordination, though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, with adequate coordination, the gorillas should prevail in a 1v3. But I think they tend to fight more like individuals than as a pack.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I'm just saying that the romans stopped putting bears into fights in the colloseum because it got boring - the bears qust wrecked everything else the romans could get their hands on.

Or so I've heard, I'm not a historian.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

A bear would get obliterated by an elephant, maybe even a hippo. And the Romans could get their hands on those.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I believe this.

And they didn't even have polar bears afaik.

Romans should've put Silverfang in the ring.

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