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Who would in in a fight between a Tiger and Polar Bear?

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hypn0tik

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Some of my fellow grad. students and I were having this discussion and I was the only one that thought that a Tiger could take out a Polar bear. Am I crazy?

Discuss

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Tiger

Polar bear
 
by "terrain", do you mean how hot/cold it is?
because if this fight was in -10F weather the bear wins, if it is in 90F weather, the tiger wins
 
Originally posted by: G Wizard
where is the fight being held?

the jungles of sumatra?

the frozen tundra of alaska?

a neutral site?
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For the sake of argument, let's say neutral site, wherever that may be.


Originally posted by: FoBoT
by "terrain", do you mean how hot/cold it is?
because if this fight was in -10F weather the bear wins, if it is in 90F weather, the tiger wins
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Well, the temperature is dependent on the terrain to some degree. See my reply to the question above. A neutral site where both animals would be comfortable.
 
Even at 90 degrees F, the only way that tiger is going to win is if the bear has been forced to sit in the 90 degree heat for hours before the fight. The claws on the tiger aren't going to make it through that thick coat to where it matters.

Is there any animal on earth that a polar bear can't beat simply with one swipe to the side of the head? (well, I guess technically it can't reach the head of a giraffe.)
 
A Tiger can be killed with one round of a shotgun.

A Polar Bear can take several hits from said shotgun before going down.

The Polar Bear weighs several times as much as the tiger. If the tiger get's on the Bear's back, all the bear has to do is roll over. Any other direction and the tiger is pwned.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
(well, I guess technically it can't reach the head of a giraffe.)
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[King Arthur has just cut the Black Knight's last leg off]
Black Knight: Okay, we'll call it a draw.
King Arthur: [Preparing to leave] Come, Patsy.
[King Arthur and Patsy ride off]
Black Knight: [calling after King Arthur] Oh! Had enough, eh? Come back and take what's coming to you, you yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
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even in the tiger's environment bear would win. simply much stronger and able to withstand punishment...
scenario:
tiger jumps out of tree and claws/bites polar bear...
polar bear gets hurt...grabs the tiger and bites/claws
polar bear uses enormous strength and snaps tiger's neck or breaks back...
/fight
 
Wikipedia quote:

In the wild, tigers mostly feed on larger ungulates, but they also take smaller prey and tigers have been known to kill crocodiles on occasion, [11][12][13] although predation is rare and the predators typically avoid one another. Siberian tigers and brown bears are a serious threat to each other and both tend to avoid each other; however, tigers can and do kill larger brown bears. Even female tigers, which are considerably smaller than male tigers, are capable of taking down and killing adult gaurs by themselves. Sambar, wild boar and gaur are the tiger's favoured prey in India. Like many predators, they are opportunistic and have shown the capability to eat much smaller prey such as as langurs, peacocks and hares. They also may kill such formidable predators as sloth bear, canids, leopards, crocodiles and pythons as prey. Old and injured tigers have been known to attack humans or domestic cattle and are then termed as man-eaters or cattle-lifters which often leads to them being captured, shot or poisoned. The Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bengal, where some healthy tigers have been known to hunt humans, have had a higher incidence of man-eaters.

Adult elephants are too dangerous to tigers to serve as common prey, but conflicts between elephants and tigers do sometimes take place. Young elephant and rhino calves are occasionally taken when they are left unprotected by their herds. A case where a tiger killed an adult female Indian rhino has been observed. [14] In all of their range, tigers are the top predators and do not compete with other carnivores other than the dhole or Indian wild dog, which makes up for its relative lack of strength by numbers. They do not prey on large animals such as adult elephants and rhinos, although they will prey on their young whenever they have an opportunity. However, a desperate tiger will attack anything it regards as potential food, including humans.
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They have been known to take out larger brown bears. I think they can take out Polar bears as well.
 
im still withholding judgment until more questions about this fight are answered.

halogen / fluorescent lighting vs natural lighting?
natural grass, artificial turf?
how big is the ring?
is it a cage match?
How trained is the chimp that will be reffing the fight? Is the chimp incorruptible?
 
If environmental conditions are ignored then I would go with the Polar Bear, but a lot of it depends on who gets the first hit in since Tigers lunge for the neck. If environmental conditions are a factor and it is really cold out then the Tiger doesn't stand much of a chance at all.
 
I'm surprised so many picked polar bear. I chose tiger cause it's more manouverable/agile. However, bear would probably crush it just by trying to maul it...
 
bear would own the tiger, i doubt it would be much diff then a lion
http://underscorebleach.net/jo.../2006/06/animal-fights

The Californians of the late 19th century staged well-documented pit fights with grizzlies and spanish bulls. The grizzlies, using their paw as a club, shattered the unfortunate bull?s skull or shoulder bones so easily that the betting became poor.

Eventually, and at considerable cost, African lions were brought in to raise the stakes. The most fierce of the adult males was sent in whilst the grizzly was already waiting in the pits. 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.
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see also this pic
 
bears may be big, but they're a lot more agile that some of you seem to think. And, they're certainly not slow.
 
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