![]() ![]() In bears it was about 59.3% of their humerus. In the cats about 55.65% of the humerus was taken up by this hollow space. The empty space does not provide structural support. The humerus, and other long bones, are hollow tubes, like a straw. Too many variables come into play, let me cut it down:ġ) Lions/tigers have slighly greater bone density than bears:Ģ) Lions have thicker bone walls than bears: LOL, I love these topics, and I'm ready to own them. The lion was known for bravely charging straight in and looked good for the money, but the grizzly killed a male lion almost as easily as he'd killed the bull. The most fierce of the adult males was sent in whilst the grizzly was already waiting in the pits. The grizzlies, using their paw as a club, shattered the unfortunate bull's skull or shoulder bones so easily that the betting became poor.Įventually, and at considerable cost, African lions were brought in to raise the stakes. The Californians of the late 19th century staged well-documented pit fights with grizzlies and spanish bulls. They have evolved powerful elastic muscles over a low weight, low density bone structure to suit their purpose of chasing down prey. They have developed into huge and enormously powerful animals.īig cat biology is very different. The grizzly bear subsequently evolved enormous bone and muscle density roughly ten times our own for a given size. This, however, shifted his evolution in favour of the job in hand, namely as a digger of hard barren ground for roots, tubers and den building. The grizzly bear is a poor predator, taking down a caribou only when the opportunity arises. This honour is held by an animal the tiger does not often have encounter it is the grizzly bear. Oddly, few people simply ask which is considered the Ultimate Carnivore. Almost all queries received on this topic request answers to the lion versus tiger question.
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