GRIZZLY BEAR vs SMILODON - Who Wins A Fight?

Subscribe:    / creaturechallenge   Who would win in a fight between a Grizzly bear and a Smilodon populator (one of the largest prehistoric cats?) watch to the end to find out :) Smilodon popular info: The Smilodon populator is often regarded as one of the LARGEST cats to ever exist, and the largest saber-toothed felid. People are used to calling the Smilodon a saber-toothed tiger, but it's actually not a tiger. And while the modern grizzly is out here bullying wolves, cougars, and eating berries, this prehistoric cat was dominating Pleistocene (Ice Age) South America. It was a continent filled with giant ground sloths, massive armored mammals, and enough walking prehistoric megafauna to make a modern zoo look like a petting zoo. And Smilodon populator was built specifically to hunt in that world. So no, this is not a grizzly bullying a house cat. Most scientists regard it as one of, if not the largest natural felid to ever roam the Earth, and for good reason. Modern estimates put Smilodon populator anywhere from 485 to 793 pounds, with the average adult sitting around 20% larger than a modern Bengal tiger, putting it around that 600-ish pound range (570 lbs to 617 lbs). Think about that. This cat was in the same weight class as a grizzly bear. Smilodon was not built like a modern-day big cat. In fact, did y’all know its posture convergently evolved to mimic a bear? Yeah, the smilodon was insanely stocky, and stupidly front-loaded with a sloped posture—resembling a bear-hyena hybrid on steroids. And because it hunted Ice Age tanks, its bone thickness was about 15% denser than modern lions and tigers. In fact was literally engineered to absorb the thrashing of a one-ton herbivore without snapping its own limbs. And do you know why that is? Well, it’s because of those teeth. Those famous sabers were devastating, but highly vulnerable to side-to-side twisting. So, if a massive herbivore violently jerked during a bite, those teeth would snap right off inside the cat's skull. Now, to prevent that, Smilodon packed extreme, bear-like robusticity directly into its arms. This extra bulk made them relatively slow, forcing them to rely on explosive, spring-loaded ambushes. Basically the entire game plan was to use those freakishly thick arms to completely stabilize the prey's movement before ever sinking the teeth in. Grizzly bear stats: This is the animal that made bear spray a required consumer product. That alone should tell you everything. When an animal gets its own dedicated aisle at the hardware store, nature has already filed the paperwork. We are talking about a bear that casually flips 700-pound dumpsters, drags bison carcasses through deep snow, and literally shrugs off bullets like they’re minor inconveniences. There’s a reason why their scientific name, Ursus arctos horribilis, literally translates to "the horrible brown bear." So, just how massive is the bear our prehistoric cat is stepping up to? Well, it totally depends on the zip code. Your standard Interior Grizzlies—the ones you see judging tourists in Yellowstone—clock in around 600 pounds for mature males. But the really large ones are the Coastal brown bears of Alaska, which average closer to 860 pounds. But the thing about bears is that their danger is not just weight. A cow can be heavy, and so can your uncle after Thanksgiving. But that does not mean either of them is optimized for violence. A grizzly is different because that mass is packaged like a demolition machine with anger issues. For starters, bears are plantigrade. They walk with their full foot flat on the ground like us. Combine that flat-footed base with incredibly wide, square-like hips, and you get an animal that can stand upright and balance better than almost any other four-legged creature out there. And because their base is so broad and stupidly stable, they aren't spring-loaded like a cat. A grizzly is more of a refrigerator that learned how to hate. Oh, and you see that classic shoulder hump? That’s actually a knot of muscle specifically designed for digging, uprooting, and disrespecting the structural integrity of anything in front of it. And when evolution gives you muscles for wrestling, you know the bear is an absolute unit. And defensively, they're just as annoying. Grizzlies are wrapped in thick fur, plenty of fat, and loose skin. It's basically the animal equivalent of bubble wrap armor. Now, that does not make it invincible, because this is biology, not anime. But it does mean bites and claws don’t always land clean. The skin shifts and bunches up, causing grips to slip and leaving attackers with a mouthful of fur rather than vital organs. Tags: bears, cats, grizzly bear, smilodon, saber-tooth cat, saber-tooth tiger, grizzly bears, brown bears, bear fight, big cat, grizzly attack, grizzly fight, prehistoric, ice age, prehistoric cats,