An adult grizzly bear can decapitate a moose with one swipe of its paw

Wouldn't that be a interesting picture.

 

That would be among the coolest things ever put to film.

-P!-

 

I agree

 

How do you know this?

 

I looked it up.

 

OK... how do they know it? Is it common? Has it only been seen once?

I want answers!

 

That's CRAZY...

I'm Brian Fellows....

 

The claim that an adult grizzly bear can decapitate a moose with one swipe of its paw is an established fact. The first reported event took place in Alaska in 1895 by a Russian miner who was hiking through the wilderness. According to his account, he witnessed a moose drinking from a stream when a Grizzly bear approached from the other side. Mooses are very territorial, and they are especially known to attack anything they perceive to be a threat to their water source. The moose charged full speed across the stream, and just as it neared the bear, the bear stood up and with a quick motion swiped the moose in the side of the face. The mooses head became decapitated and flew a distance of fifteen to twenty feet.

...and quick as a spark on a fire the grizzly bear stood up and swatted the moose in the face. Why it was if you or I would swat a fly, but the impact seemed to me as loud as a gunshot. And then I was absolutely flabbergasted and discombobulated to see, a great upsplash of blood, and the mooses head detatched from the body and landed not three feet from where I was hidden, its eyes staring right at me. The bear sat down immediately and began drinking from the stream as if nothing had happened, as if it were a regular occurance to go decapitating the head of a moose. Never in my life will I forget the power of the grizzly bear...

The report was met by skepticism until noted American biologist Dr. Jacob MacDonaldson observed a similar event in the spring of 1954. MacDonaldson was observing the movements of a Grizzly bear when a moose walked into the same space. The grizzly bear perceived the moose to be a threat to the cubs, and roared to scare it off. But the moose began to graze. The bear then charged the moose, but again the moose did not move. The bear then lumbered over to the moose, and with a powerful swipe of its paw, decapitated the moose. Dr. MacDonaldson later retreived the moose head an autopsy found damage consistent with that of decapitation by impact.

Later studies contribute the phenomenon to both the relative weakness of a mooses upper neck and the power of a grizzly bears arm. Although a grizzly bear is very powerful, it does not have the strength to decapitate most creatures larger than a man. A moose however is peculiar in the structure of its upperneck, which is weak, and any force that puts a significant and sudden pressure on the weakest point of the neck will inevitably cause decapitation.

Since 1895, there have been 15 reported cases of Moose decapitation by Grizzly, and most scientists theorize it is a natural, albeit somewhat rare, event.

 

Even though Im puzzled as to why you'd look something like this up its still pretty cool.

 

I once saw a grizzly lop off a horse's head in a horror movie.

 

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Could a grizzly lop this beast's head off with one swipe?

 

See, this is the next step that reality TV should take. Animals vs. animals. An adult grizzly bear decapitating a moose would get huge ratings. And we can pit a lion against an alligator. A gorilla against a shark. And other such classic combinations.

I know I'd watch.

Amazing.

 

ME TWO

 

Oh god, PETA would have a field day with something like that.

The Discovery Channel did something similar a few months ago. Though it was with computer similated animals, it was still pretty cool.



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Ya they do those kinds of things a lot on the discovery channel. Once it was a shark against an aligator, and another time it was a Polar Bear versus a walrus. The shark won, i think, and then the walrus won. I was rooting for the bear, but then the walrus cheated and went underwater, where the dumb bear followed and he couldnt move around as well as the walrus. And then teh walrus sunk its tusks into the bear. About 4 times. poor little bear....


Anyway, i find that article to be completely false based on one important reason.


The plural to moose is fricken moose. Not mooses. Jeez... And they call themselves scientists... pfft

 

You're all just begging to face the moose!

Or the grizzly bear.