I knew they were big bears but not TWICE A HUMAN size! I didn't even google this image for the polar bear I wanted to see how big a black bear is.
guess I'm never going to Antarctica!
If it's brown lay down
If it's black fight back
If it's white say goodnight
There's a reason why they say that
There's reasons in rural communities in Canada that polar bears frequent that it is custom to keep your car doors unlocked at all times, so if someone walking runs into a polar bear they can dive into a random car for safety.
Big bastards best stay away lest they suffer double nipple twisters.
YSK bears have three pairs of nipples, better bring the sextuple twist or you'll be a bear stain
I have great bright strength and practically prehensile toes. That last nipple might be a deal breaker though.
I guess there’s a good reason the movie, The Edge, was set in Alaska instead of Antarctica.
They're all talk though.
Says someone who's never encountered a polar bear before.
Santa Barbara zoo?
Cave bears used to make polar bears look small.
They used to have some at my local zoo when I was a kid. Now knowing this, I'd like to see one in person again. Obviously to a kid they looked fucking huge, but I'd like to see one in person as an adult now knowing this. It's definitely better that my zoo decided they didn't have a big enough enclosure and stopped getting polar bears, but it kinda sucks too.
It's ok, he has a contact with the girl.
Arctus = “Bear”, Anti = “against” in ancient Greek, or “opposite” in modern meaning.
Arctic = bears are here
Anti-arctic = opposite bears, or “no bears”.
Has absolutely nothing to do with actual bears though.
The name comes from the constellation Ursa Major, which in Greek was Arktos Megale. Both mean the Great Bear.
Basically it just means north and not north because the Ursa Major constellation has the North Star in it.
It does just kinda work out that bears are in the northern hemisphere and not the southern hemisphere. There’s only one bear native to the southern hemisphere, the Spectacled Bear native to the Andes mountain in South America. There are no bears native to Africa or Oceania at all.
Koala bear,
Check mate athiests
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In German Baerbel is a woman's name. And you say Baer if you mean beaver. The more you know. 🤷♀️
Beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia in English
yeah if you put bears on antarctica they mutually annihilate
This has come up before on lemmy.
Wouldn’t a better translation given the context be something like the place opposite to the place where there are bears? It’s not like the Greeks somehow intuited that there was such a place and that there would be no bears there.
It's more of a translation-based mnemonic device, really
It's the place opposite /ursa major/ (the great bear constellation, in the northern sky.) The name has nothing to do with actual bears (that's just good luck.)
You fell for the bait.
But I learned so it's fine
I saw this before somewhere and a commenter said they didn't actually know if there were bears or not in these places when they named them. This had more to do with the constellation Ursa (bear) major/minor (north star). But works out to being a nice mnemonic.
They're northern Hemisphere, not Antarctica. We have them in our province (Manitoba), but yes they're big. On average tho not quite as big as the painting there shows.
This would be a female bear, as she is with her cubs. Polar bears are actually the second most sexually dimorphic mammal. Consequently males are vastly bigger than females.
The most sexually dimorphic? The elephant seal. Those dudes are immense.
Edit: this, I read on wikipedia a couple of years ago. The information is no longer there but the fact that polar bears and elephant seals are among the most dimorphic mammals remains. The precise ranking is perhaps a little more obscure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear
If one of the average sized ones rises up in front of you and roars, I bet it would look just as big as that painting.
Can anyone confirm? Probably not.
Yup, Not many people get the opportunity to see one up close and live to tell about it, unless there's something REALLY solid in between them. Like that Nat Geo guy in the cage. https://youtu.be/U-S4NbX5IYE They're absolutely terrifying up close...
They don't typically roar tho, unless they're fighting or f..uh screwing. And they're not scared of anything.
I knew it! Seeing them in a Zoo many years back I got the impression they were pretty big but not THAT massive.
I think the painting shows the largest they've found, not the norm. It's like showing Robert Wadlow (The tallest guy in the world at 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow) to show the size of humans. Yes we can get that large, but it's an extreme example.
Just let it happen. If someone is looking at my stat sheet Im not going to complain if they say I can run 100 meters as fast as Bolt did in the Olympics. *limps to the kitchen..
I've studied bears for a while now. There's actually a proven strategy for fighting polar bears. First you dodge to the left, then jump as high as you can and punch them in the eye. By the time they realize what's happened, it'll all be over and you'll be opening your eyes, hoping you prayed to the right god
The bear must be really big. Nobody is talking about her crab pants.
Polar bears are also pretty big.
I think the sizes shown are probably biggest specimen. Black bears can get pretty big, but I've never encountered one that was taller than me.
Nah. I've seen larger women.
I find it offensive that no one here has mentioned Rachel.
Fucking brilliant pull
Good news, Antarctica is still polar bear free ;)
That is what the name means, afterall.
If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, say good night.
Get me a saddle
I'm about to show you something you can only do once
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