IRL Polar Bear Respect Thread (H3's Christmas Special)

[H3110l12345I20]

Note that this is a serious respect thread for one of the Xmas-associated animals, the polar bear!

Polar Bear Respect Thread Xmas Special​

• This will list feats that are at a bare minimum, above average to that of a regular person.
• If any links succumb to link rot, the links have been archived in either of these sources

Abilities

• Senses
  • Hearing
    • May communicate at low frequencies
    • Can hear 25 kHz, which is 5 kHz more than what a normal human can hear
  • Smell
    • Can smell a seal 1 m (3 ft) under snow
    • Can smell a seal from over 1 km (0.6 mi) away
    • Is stated (and likely exaggerated) to be thousands of times stronger than a man's nose
• Stealth
  • Can sneak up on seals
  • White camouflage works on humans
  • Is almost completely invisible to night vision
  • Can ambush reindeer
    • Tracks down and found a small group of reindeer after stalking them for 20 minutes
  • Can dive underwater to stalk geese and catch them by surprise

Age

• Lives up to 20-30 years, but can live up to 32 years in the wild
• The oldest polar bear was 45 years old

Anti-feats
(These feats will be used for other animals to scale to the bear, get a more accurate sample size, etc)

• Killed by a tiger by a neck bite
• 2 Lionnesses aren't too injured from a fight against a polar bear
• Doesn't recognize family members
• Was maimed to death by a sloth bear despite being somewhat weakened

Strength
Note: For attacks on human/animals, animals physically equal with the bear or common feats that can be calculated will only be allowed unless the animal hasn't shown to physically contend with animals on their strength level.

• Relies on raw and piercing strength to kill prey
• Blunt/Raw
  • Against Humans
    • Easily tossed and threw a woman like a rag doll
    • Can easily shove a swimming woman underwater
  • Against Non-human Animals
    • Can overpower seals regularly, with bearded seals being capable of breaking free of their attack
    • Occasionally hunts walrus, albeit usually hunting younger walrus
      • Uses large ice/stones to kill walrus
    • Overpowers stranded beluga whales and narwhals and can drag the former's body a certain distance
    • Can haul up a mid-sized seal, albeit the type of seal isn't specified
      • Implied to have regularly won against seals in ancient rome
    • Hunts reindeer
      • Overpowers reindeer by forcing it underwater while they're in the middle of deep waters
    • Overpowered stranded White-beaked Dolphins from the ice
    • Can fight large cats despite both animals being abused and in a more temperate climate
      • Could beat down and hold their own against 2 lionesses despite being heavily injured
      • Virginia Citizen, Volume 11, Number 12, 20 December 1901
        • In the third round, Peary overpowered Roosevelt the lion by shoving him at metal bars, with the lion having a 60 lb weight disadvantage
        • In the fourth round, Peary was able to snap long poles like matches and knock iron rods back to injure men holding them along side Roosevelt the lion
        • Peary the bear able to fight, cut through badly, and hold his own against Roosevelt the lion for 9 rounds despite having severe cuts and bites all over his body and having a 60 lb weight advantage
        • Peary squeezed Roosevelt the lion hard enough to break the latter's bones despite having severe cuts and bites all over his body
    • A sizable male polar bear is large enough to regularly take on walrus and bearded seals
    • Males can take down lone bull Muskoxen
    • Kills entrapped belugas with a full swipe to the head
      • Stuns whales (including 14 belugas) with a full forepaw swipe to the head
      • Can drag a beluga whale carcass onto ice from a breathing hole
    • Implied to have pulled up adult narwhals onto ice
      • Dragged a lifeless narwhal onto stone from a body of water
    • Can hold onto a diving and resurfacing bowhead whale with it's jaws
    • Wrestled down and killed a similarly sized walrus
    • Hauled up a bearded seal it caught onto sea ice
    • Easily slammed a husky while it was grabbing it in it's mouth
    • Has the strength to break teeth from another male's jaw by play fighting
  • Against Materials/structures
    • Can use it's fore paws to break through a ringed seal's birth lair, which is made of snow and 1 m (3.3 ft) deep
      • Nearly would've broken through a film crew's vehicle's side windows by pushing it
        • Is stated to be capable of striking through ice, thick snow and the film crew's side windows
      • Broke through sea ice to reach a seal
    • Regularly destroys the windows and doors of homes in order to enter them
      • Is implied to push open a door with it's 2 front paws and break in doors
      • Can rip and push a door off it's hinges (another supported image)
      • An unknown bear ripped off a refridgerator door, fragmented a rocking chair, and casually moved an antique cook stove 6 ft
    • Climbed onto a person's roof from a higher elevation on the side of a hill
    • Can break through glass walls of polar bear enclosures by throwing a boulder at it
    • Leapt over a river of water longer in width than itself
    • Broke BBC spy cameras twice
• Piercing
  • Bites
    • Can crush seal skulls, which should include the largest seals [bearded seals]
    • Their teeth are made for a hypercarnivorous diet, having sharper teeth and more spaced out canines than grizzly bears
      • "They have 34–42 teeth including 12 incisors, 4 canines, 8–16 premolars and 10 molars"
      • Can exert 1200 PSI of bite force
      • A canine is comparable in length to it's claws
    • Easily raided a cabin and even bit through a metal can
    • Can eat into an artifical ice block
    • Against Humans
      • Can bite a man's head hard enough to split it open, bite through the cervical spine and greatly crack it's jaw even though it's bite is stated to not be particularly strong due to regularly hunting smaller animals
        • Tore a man's head into pieces, although this could be exaggerated
        • Bit a man's head hard enough to render him lifeless
        • Bit through a man's neck hard enough to mostly render him unconscious
      • Binky (who was a mischievous 1,200lbs (544kg) bear) was able to easily grab and bite through a woman's leg to where it was broken and had a lost shoe
        • Could bite through a zookeeper's finger
      • Caused a man's amputation of his arm by biting it through an unspecified mean of damage
      • Bit off a 29-year-old woman's arm
  • Claws
    • Slashed a 19-year-old student's throat open
    • Can be used in mobility by putting their paws on ice to move on it normally
    • Uses claws for prey
    • Can easily mark wood
    • Can break and tear bear-sized holes in wooden walls of cabins
    • Can tear through beluga whale skin
    • Males can cut through polar bear males' fur
    • Can claw into bowhead whale skin, albeit the latter is mostly fine after a single bite
  • Other
    • Superior to regular humans
      • Overpowers men and can eat them until there are only remains of them (1, 2)
      • Is stated that they could kill a man with one swipe of it's paw
      • Can eat through a bowhead whale carcass
      • Easily flipped and destroyed a snowmachine
    • Against Non-human Animals
      • Easily killed a sheep
      • Big bill (a male polar bear) was able to kill his female mate twice
      • Killed a sledge dog
      • Can eat through adult beluga whale skin
      • Can injure narwhals
      • Can scar and cut other bears by simply play fighting
      • (Ditto) Can fight large cats despite both animals being abused and in a more temperate climate
        • Killed 2 African lions through unspecified conditions
        • Fought with an evenly weighed lion and was badly mingled alongside him, who weighed 500 lb
• Weight & Size
  • Males
    • Averages to be 300–800 kg (660–1,760 lb) and 2–2.5 m (6.6–8.2 ft) long
  • Females
    • Averages to be 150–300 kg (330–660 lb) and 1.8–2 m (5.9–6.6 ft) long
    • Fattened, pregnant ones can weigh up to 500 kg (1100 lb)
  • Adults stand 1.3–1.6 m (4.3–5.2 ft) tall at the shoulder
    • Males can reach over 3 m (10 ft) tall when standing
  • Is the largest land carnivore
  • The largest polar bear on record weighed 1.002 tonnes (2209 lb) and measured 3.7 m (12 ft) long and even on their hindlegs.
  • Can have fat make up 50% of their body weight

Durability

• Can fight and take hits from other polar bears and ignore any potential cuts from each strike
• Superior to regular humans, which are usually aren't able to use their strength to harm the bear
  • Effortlessly can withstand strikes from a tourist using a broken off branch as a weapon
  • Was only annoyed after getting punched in the nose by a struggling Patrick Flinders, who was a 17-year-old teenager that was having his skull bitten through in the process
• Willem Barentsz's voyages
  • Despite it's piercing potential, a polar bear ignored a shot to the face by a primitive musket by one of Willem Barentsz's men
  • Sharp, metallic, melee weapons of the 1500s often broke or bent when the men tried to harm the bear, albeit the temperature was already bitterly cold and the weapons likely pierced the bear.
• Withstood most of the damage of the first strike of Roosevelt the lion in the first round, who weighed 60 lb less than Peary the bear

Intelligence

• Binky used a 29-year-old woman's naive motive to get a closer picture of the former by baiting her closer
• Is implied to be independant and hunting ever since the age of 2.5 years old
  • Caught seals since the age of 2 and at that age, they could catch a seal every 5-7 days
• A hunter knew from growing up that polar bears play dead to try and bait a hunter closer in order to surprise attack them
• Can hide their own seal kills
• Males can harass ice-entrapped whales to the point of exhaustion
• Can bait reindeer into the ocean to negate a reindeer's superior stamina and speed
• Can be brave and conditioned enough to travel through human territory
• A male deceptively made itself look like it was sleeping, and leapt onto a beluga whale before it could swim away
• Can assess the risk and reward between fighting against another bear for food
• Can beg humans for help; one asked a human to get a tin can out of it's mouth

Miscellaneous

• The species existed since around 130 thousand, or potentially 150 thousand years ago
• While typically solitary aside from mothers and cubs, polar bears have a dominance hierarchy
• Comparable and closely related to brown bears

Speed

• Running
  • Stated they can give a snowmobile a good chase
  • Younger ones could outrun arctic wolves for a brief distance despite potentially overheating, with the latter not running at top speed despite their faster top speed
  • Attacks seals before they could react
    • Caught up to a seal underwater while being skinnier than usual
    • Caught a seal after covering a significant distance
• Close Combat
  • Binky grabbed Kathryn Warburton (a 29-year-old) tourist before she could react despite the former's weight
  • Easily snatched a 21-year-old woman sketching them from a 12 ft stone column before she could react
  • Caught salmon before it could swim away
  • Virginia Citizen, Volume 11, Number 12, 20 December 1901
    • In the first round, Peary swatted Roosevelt the lion before he could land on or deal significant damage to his throat
    • In the third round, Peary cleverly dodged Roosevelt the lion, who had a 60 lb weight disadvantage
• Defined numbers
  • Has a top speed of 25 mph (40 km/h)
    • Can run up to 8 m/s for a minute and a half
  • Can swim up to 3.7 mph (6 km/h)

Stamina

• Walks up to an average of 12 km (7.5 mi) a day
• Can swim up to an average of 3.4 days and 154.2 km (95.8 mi)
  • Can hold their breath for 2 minutes
  • Can dive for 3 minutes
• Can eat trash, albeit they still suffer the effects of disease and potentially fatal blockages in their organs
• Regularly resists the cold temperatures of the arctic and camouflauges through it with it's fur up to -37°C (-34°F)
  • Can sleep through blizzards and use blocks of ice as a pillow
• Could chase reindeer for 3 minutes and 50 seconds
  • Does it again after an unsepcified amount of time
• Surviving gunshots/bullet wounds
  • Could endure 2 shots to the torso from the muskets of Willem Barentsz's men with some pain before dying
  • Endured the pain of getting shot by an unspecified firearm, only dying moments later
  • Kept moving after getting shot by a rifle, albeit the bear's reaction was unknown
• Gets most, if not all of their fresh water from fat
• Is protected from snow blindness
• Can fast for at least 180 days
  • Can normally fast for four months while pregnant females can go up to twice as long without food
  • Can pack up to twice their body weight to prepare for a long fast
  • They don't hibernate in a true sens and just fast like any other animal
    • Male polar bears are active during the winter
    • Females rest for months at a time in dens

Standard Fighting/Hunting Tactics: These are the predatory tactics of the bear. When they catch prey like seals or humans, they try to crush their skulls, albeit being unable to do the same for the latter.

• Fighting other bears: When fighting other comparable bears, they go onto their hindlegs in short sessions to wrestle, push and swipe at each other until either one flees
• Stalking: Predatory bears may sneak up on potential prey, and may go to a specific prey item at a striaght line at a steady speed without showing curious/threatened behaviors.
  • Birth Lairs: Once a bear identifies a birth lair (which are snow drifts next to an ice hole), it rises on it's hind legs and crashes down with it's hind legs one or more times. This method of hunting is common with females with cubs under a year old.
  • Land: When seals are on the ice, the bear tends to slowly stalk the seal, at 15-30 m (49-98 ft) away, the bear rushes and grabs the seal before it could escape. When stalking reindeer, they wait in vegetation before ambushing the animal.
    • Aquatic stalk: A bear swims near the edge of a hauled up seal's ice platform and grabs the seal before it could escape. Unlike on land, they can swim with their nose exposed. On rare occasions, polar bears may try to sneak up and catch seals and bird by swimming under them.
• Still Hunting: This is the most common method of hunting. The bear stays still for an hour or more at an ice breathing hole or lead edge for a seal to surface. Once the seal surfaces, it bites them in the head/upper body and filps them onto sea ice.
• Walrus Hunting: They provoke walrus into stampeding to look for young walrus to eat, and they may try and injure stronger walrus with throwing ice/stones.
• Whale Hunting: Due to their superior size, bears tend to hunt adults isolated in breathing holes and as stated in the strength feats section, may be weakened.
• When Threatened/angered: The bear may stare at the object it's agitated at, lower it's head below the shoulder level as it sways side by side. As it does this, it may press it's ears back as it huffs and snaps it's jaws together

Other notes

• Behaviors

Weaknesses

• Tends to overheat
• Is more likely to attack people if they're inexperienced or starving

 

[Flashlight237]

Is the sloth bear thing really an anti-feat considering that sloth bears are aggressive bastards that can fend off tigers?

 

[H3110l12345I20]

Is the sloth bear thing really an anti-feat considering that sloth bears are aggressive bastards that can fend off tigers?

Polar bears could fight and overpower lions in circus conditions like if it were in more colder conditions, so I'd say the PB was using at the very least 70-80% of it's strength in temperate conditions. TL;DR: Yes, though if there's context to suggest why the PB was maimed by the sloth bear, be my guest.