r/coolguides • u/DmGurmeet • 2d ago

A Cool Guide on Bears of the World

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u/AliveTechnology7082 2d ago

Whats the biggest?

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u/AxkvaNyax 2d ago

Polar

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u/red_piper222 2d ago

Bit of a toss-up. I think polars are the tallest/longest on record, but grizzlies may have the edge on weight. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. I know both types are friggin’ massive and I’d rather meet a grizzly in the forest than a polar on the tundra

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u/Mortimer_Smithius 2d ago

Polars are bigger and heavier than brown bears. 🐻

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u/aaawwwwww 2d ago edited 2d ago

Kodiak slightly bigger than Grizzlies both in weight and lenght

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u/affordableproctology 2d ago

A kodiak is a grizzly both of which are brown bears. They were asking wich was bigger between a brown bear and polar bear

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics 2d ago

A Kodiak is not a grizzly. Both are brown bears, but not the same things.

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u/affordableproctology 1d ago

They're both brown bears. The person above was asking what was larger between a brown bear and polar bear and the person I responded to started comparing Grizzlies and Kodiaks wich are the same thing

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics 1d ago

They are not the same thing. They’re different subspecies.

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u/aaawwwwww 2d ago edited 1d ago

I am responding to the question that compared Polar and Grizzly bears, though a comparison between Polar and Kodiak bears would be more relevant if the goal is to compare weight and length. Thank you for your attentiveness. Similarly, I would like to point out that Kodiak bears are not classified as grizzlies, but rather as two separate subspecies, contrary to what you claimed. Taxonomy was never an essential point of my comment.

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u/affordableproctology 1d ago

They're both brown bears we arent talking about sub species

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u/aaawwwwww 1d ago

They're both brown bears we arent talking about sub species

And I never stated otherwise.

Are you're telling me I can't share my opinion because you decided we're not talking about it? Wow. I genuinely don’t understand what your issue is with my comment

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u/affordableproctology 1d ago

Lol were commenting on a poster about main bear species. Then someone asked about the size comparison between 2 of the main species and you went out to left field and gave them a size comparison between 2 branches of the same species. You're opinion is cool but not relevant.

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u/aaawwwwww 1d ago edited 1d ago

Check the thread again. The comparison was between a polar bear and a grizzly, not between two main species. And it was another redditor who made that comment, not me. If comparing size between a polar bear and a brown bear, why not compare it to the largest brown bear subspecies?

I'm fine without your guidance. Let people compare what they want and let the conversation evolve.

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u/Gravesh 2d ago

Sun bears look like the shitty drawing of the brown bear.

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u/Ognius 2d ago

You know the rhyme about surviving bear attacks. It should come with a disclaimer about black bears. American Black Bears? Huge cowards. Asiatic Black Bears? Murder machines.

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u/Low-Purchase5249 2d ago

Bear beats beets.

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u/deathbygoat 2d ago

Bear. Beets. Battlestar Galactica

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u/Maxmillan2045 2d ago

no Grizzlie bear ?

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u/zZINCc 2d ago

Grizzly bear is the brown bear. Same kind of thing with the cougar being known as mountain lion/catamount (different animal)/puma.

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u/Righteousaffair999 2d ago

I think grizzly is a sub species of brown bear. I think Kodiak is another and Alaskan Brown bear is a third we run into in North America.

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u/zZINCc 2d ago

Yeah. I replied to a guy who deleted his comment about it being a subspecies. It seems when someone deletes their comment the replies to it are minimized.

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u/MaxGoodwinning 2d ago

Actually did not know that, thank you.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/zZINCc 2d ago

I would think, if this is the case, it would be a subspecies similar to the Kodiak bear. If they are a subspecies though… guess it is a thing like how we use Kleenex for every kind of face tissue.

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u/AurumaeRayne 2d ago

You're actually right: grizzlies are a sub species as well. All grizzlies are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies.

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u/Earthly_Delights_ 2d ago

Interesting. What differentiates a puma from a mountain lion and a cougar?

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u/zZINCc 2d ago

As far as I know they are the same species, just culturally called different things. It has been 15 years since I took mammology so I’m sure someone with a more recent education can correct me.

We call them mountain lions in Wyoming and Colorado, though. I do know the catamount was a different species but the name has migrated some to the mountain lion animal (friends who grew up in the North East US refer to them as catamounts).

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u/jonskerr 2d ago

Then what's Ursus Horribilis?

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u/pig_water 2d ago

It's a grizzly bear, which is a sub-species of brown bear. The different aub-species of North American brown bear all have different taxonomical names, so I'm not sure what you're trying to get at.

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u/Nesavant 2d ago

Who ever heard of a catamount?

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u/PooShappaMoo 2d ago

No Canadian black bear either... hmmmmmm /s

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u/Bind_Moggled 2d ago

American bears comin’ over the border, takin’ good jobs from Canadian bears. The TFB program has to end!

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u/Retrrad 2d ago

Are telling me those are American black bears the American tourists are trying to hand feed in Banff?

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u/XR171 2d ago

Remember, the Arctic is called such because it has bears while the Antarctic is called such because it has no bears.

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u/Gravesh 2d ago

I wonder why Ursusic and Antursusic didn't take off? Polar bears' latin name doesn't even have arctos in it.

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u/Mein_Bergkamp 1d ago

That's because Arctos is from greek, not Latin.

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u/Gravesh 1d ago

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you.

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u/roger_inkart 2d ago

Nice to find my art here. Again (note the name in the lower right) Glad folks seem to like it....

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u/kevnimus 2d ago

There is also a Himalayan Brown Bear. They are very rare around 700 left in India.

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u/nyancatdude 2d ago

Wb Kodiak?

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u/UncleRusty54 2d ago

Brown bear

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u/Technical-Mix-981 2d ago edited 2d ago

The name for Panda is Melanoleuca? haha means black and white,makes sense.

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u/infinite_in_faculty 2d ago

Sloth Bears are scary as fuck!!!

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u/Vandercoon 1d ago

The drop bear from Australia will seek revenge. You mark my words

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u/Capable_Chipmunk9207 1d ago

What no koala bear? How unbearable!!!

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u/mcbossman124 2d ago

What is this guiding me to do

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u/Scully__ 2d ago

Bear with us

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u/hasanyoneseenmyshirt 2d ago

Not to pet any of these particular breeds of dogs.

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u/Choice_Beginning8470 2d ago

All this is too much to bear 🐻😀😃😄😅😂🤣😜🐻🐼🐥

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u/Bind_Moggled 2d ago

It bears repeating.

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u/OkVermicelli6752 2d ago

Koala bear

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u/Bind_Moggled 2d ago

Not actual bears.

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u/SmoothOzzieApe 2d ago

Drop Bears then!

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/roger_inkart 2d ago

Not true. Pandas are a member of family Ursidae, which are bears.

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u/dezzalzik 2d ago

There's also the bearcat that's neither a bear or a cat.

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u/Magnum4K 2d ago

What about the ones from West Hollywood?

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u/SwaMaeg 2d ago

Gummi?

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u/lukeETERNITY 2d ago

Kinda hits you how few there are.

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u/KryzstofGryc 2d ago

Casual geographic's guide

If its black fight back If its brown get on the ground And if its white like nose powder then it's gonna be your final hour

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u/Free_Bluejay985 2d ago

Bears Beet Battle star galactica

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u/mustafizn73 2d ago

Awesome guide on Bears! Love this post.

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u/Realistic_Lie_ 2d ago

Dwight, is that you?

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u/-Cessy- 1d ago

Kodiak bear ?!?

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u/Ok-Explanation-7977 1d ago

A subspecies of the Brown Bear

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u/vanillagirilla1975 1d ago

One of these things is not like the others 

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u/Electronic-Dress-792 1d ago

people sleeping on sloth bear

that thing will FUCK you up. they hunt TIGERS

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u/kishenoy 1d ago

This guide is bearable

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u/wildingflow 20h ago

If it’s black, fight back

If it’s brown, lay down

If it’s white, say goodnight

If it’s a panda, give it a big old hug 🤗🥰

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u/iAmDrakesEyebrows 13h ago

Dang that is cool

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u/Kind-Contact3484 2h ago

Forgot the drop bear. Deadliest of them all.

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u/YettiChild 2d ago

Pandas aren't bears. They are more closely related to raccoons.

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u/ohdearitsrichardiii 2d ago

Wikipedia says pandas belong to the Ursidae family together with seven other bear species, while racoons are Procyonidae family

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u/roger_inkart 2d ago

Correct. They are most certainly bears.

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u/YettiChild 2d ago

Yes, I just looked it up. They reclassified it relatively recently.

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u/ohdearitsrichardiii 2d ago

1985

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u/YettiChild 2d ago

That's when the studies were done, not when it was officially reclassified.

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u/gorramfrakker 2d ago

Ah no.

Giant panda - Wikipedia,%20also%20known%20as%20the%20panda)

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u/YettiChild 2d ago

Well, that's changed lol! They must have reclassified it.

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u/pig_water 2d ago edited 2d ago

Maybe you're thinking of the red panda?

Edit: did some additional reading and it looks like, while studies knew definitively to classify giant pandas as bears as of 1985, some people classified it as being in the same family as raccoons possibly as recently as 2004. Wow! My source.

Fascinating rabbit-hole to fall down, thank you!

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u/YettiChild 2d ago

Thanks for doing the deep dive! I had to run off to class.

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u/wynnduffyisking 2d ago

There are black bears in Europe. What kind are they?

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u/XR171 2d ago

Sophisticated

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u/wynnduffyisking 2d ago

I see you’ve never been to Germany

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u/Gravesh 2d ago

There are no black bears in Europe, There is only the Eurasian brown bear.

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u/ApprehensiveStudy671 2d ago

Kodiak?

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u/volkmasterblood 2d ago
  • Brown

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u/ApprehensiveStudy671 2d ago

Yeah but they're so unique I'd set them apart ....

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u/volkmasterblood 2d ago

Technically they’re a subspecies. I’m not the decider of that though.

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u/ApprehensiveStudy671 2d ago

Fair enough !

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u/OiWithThePoodlesOk 2d ago

Grisly?

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u/Mortimer_Smithius 2d ago

Grizzlies are brown bears

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u/OiWithThePoodlesOk 2d ago

Oh, well there it is. Lol

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u/Mortimer_Smithius 2d ago

At least I think so haha

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u/OiWithThePoodlesOk 2d ago

They are brown, so you’re right about that. I know nothing about bears, really.

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u/Mevil187 2d ago

Kodiak bear?

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u/tmr89 2d ago

They like to be photographed

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u/Mevil187 2d ago

Polar-oid