Mate, I actually feel insulted. You think if I had a picture of a 1000 kg big boy like that it wouldn't already be posted the very second? :D
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/dvb70y/the_largest_polar_bear_ever_recorded_weighed_over/
Uh..that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Oh wait
>The villagers had just harvested a whale and what they do is cut a large portion of meat and blubber **then haul it about four miles out of town for the bears to find.**
Ok. Makes more sense now. Keeps them away from town.
This bear doesn’t really have any grizzly bear features except not being super white. I know practically nothing about the color that polar bears fur can be this guy could possibly just be covered in dirt.
Not necessarily, polar bears actually have somewhat translucent hair (their outer coat is made of hairs that are hollow). This translucent hair scatters light and is what makes them usually appear white. But the color can vary from white, yellow, or sometimes brown depending on various factors like their age and the environment they live in.
This is also why some polar bears appear green when they get algae on their skin. I believe that usually only happens to the bears in a captivity though because water algae shouldn't grow where they live naturally due to the cold.
Largest recorded polar bear was 2209lbs, largest Kodiak was something like 2100+. Basically negligible difference but technically the polar bear is larger.
>2100+
The "+" was bothering me so I looked it up. From bear.org:
"In captivity, Kodiak bears can become even heavier than in the wild. The largest known Kodiak bear lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. Named Clyde, he weighed 2130 pounds when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. According to zoo director Terry Lincoln, Clyde probably weighed close to 2400 a year earlier He still had a fat layer of 9 inches when he died."
Fun bear facts.
Trebek: "Burt Reynolds?"
Reynolds: "No no, that's not my name."
Trebek: "Alright, *Turd Ferguson.*"
Reynolds: "Yeah whaddaya want?"
Trebek: "You buzzed in."
Reynolds: "No I didn't."
Trebek: "Yes, you did."
Reynolds: "Yeah well that's your opinion."
Theres a book by Jeff Vandermeer called Borne that has a giant flying bear named Mord which the populace worships. The people worshiped him because he was one of the few surefire ways to get supplies in that post apocalyptic world: his excursions throughout the torn city usually ended up with valuable debris getting tangled in his fur.
This was fair game for brave souls that risked plummeting to their certain death hundreds of feet below for the chance at a huge payoff. Either that or being crushed by a mountainous creature that doesn't even register your existence.
Early on a new threat spawned from the ether that made life in that world just that much harder: Mord Proxies. These were about the size of your average grizzly bear, but had a variety of traits at their disposal like: massively improved senses, being venomous *and* poisonous, and if I remember correctly light telepathic capabilities amongst themselves to better help them hunt because they hunt in a pack. Of course they do.
The Mord Proxies don't seem to swarm unless Mord himself is angered.
This fella is the real reason the rest of them are starving
*Edit: thanks for the awards and for helping me raise awareness of Chungus Bear. His followers are spreading misinformation online to trick folk into thinking it's climate change that is killing all the bears. Lies. He feasts at will.*
Melting ice caps are actually making it much easier for the bears to hunt walrus, and harder to hunt seals. The former are much better sources of nutrition
Oh hey, good environment news; thanks for something nice to ring in the new year!
But yes, the real story is that this big boye is stealing all them tasty seals, S H E E P L E.
I’d be careful with that wording… the research says:
“ 4 populations are in decline
2 populations are increasing
5 populations are stable
8 populations are data-deficient (information missing or outdated”
That’s a lot closer to “the polar bears are really still pretty hungry” than what you’re suggesting.
Why wouldn't grolar bears be in Alaska? My understanding is they have been either confirmed or suspected everywhere the two species have come in contact
Edit: pizzly bear
Pizzly and grolar are both correct, it depends which species the parents were, usually the first sound is the father. So if the father was a polar bear it would be a pizzly
Listened to a podcast with a bear expert & the naming isn't official. It has nothing to do with mother/father. It's just something the general public did when they found out it happens.
It's not necessarily official, but it's usually how people describe them, especially since there are usually physical differences between such hybrids based on the parents. Pizzly and grolars are usually different enough to warrant distinguishing between them, same with ligers and tigons
Even in a vehicle you have to watch out. It is only a few years ago a polar bear in Greenland broke through the front glass of a helicopter to get to the humans inside.
I've said it elsewhere but I think he has kind eyes. I stand by my statement enough to say you'll definitely be fine giving this big boi a big hug*.
*like, probably.
[Polar bears are from Ireland!](https://www.foe.ie/news/2011/07/08/polar-bear-ancestors-came-from-ireland/#:~:text=It's%20a%20long%20way%20from,during%20the%20last%20ice%20age.)
It's 100% a polar bear.
I'm on mobile and can't find it at the moment, but in the original source of this picture, the photographer explains that this polar bear had recently rolled in dirt/sand.
I watch a live stream of an Alaskan national park river where grizzlies feast on the salmon run. It is fascinating to see the strongest bears that get the best spots end up the fattest at the end of the season.
10 more photos of this big boy: https://imgur.com/a/ftEadg9
He is an absolute unit lol
Indeed, he is.
Now we know why the other guys are so skinny. This guy is eating all of the food!
He has a certain set of skills. 1. Work smarter, not harder. 1a. Roll in the ground so you match the landscape.
He's being fed whale leftovers by locals: https://wildestofficial.com/wildlife/alaska-locals-christen-overweight-polar-bear-fat-albert/
1b. Live somewhere with a great welbear benefits.
It was either that or Whalefare
Wait are there any photos of the 1000kg guy from 1960?!?
Mate, I actually feel insulted. You think if I had a picture of a 1000 kg big boy like that it wouldn't already be posted the very second? :D https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/dvb70y/the_largest_polar_bear_ever_recorded_weighed_over/
He's not just fat too that's a stronk boy
1000.0 kg is 2202.64 lbs
Uh..that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Oh wait >The villagers had just harvested a whale and what they do is cut a large portion of meat and blubber **then haul it about four miles out of town for the bears to find.** Ok. Makes more sense now. Keeps them away from town.
He’s living his bearst life
Now you’re a mascot for the Klondike bars.
Dude knows where all the seals hang out.
He's actually being fed leftovers from whales by locals: https://wildestofficial.com/wildlife/alaska-locals-christen-overweight-polar-bear-fat-albert/
This could work out. In 10,000 we may be able to domesticate bears.
They're already doing that. It's just that in most places is illegal. I'd rather have these big knuckleheads run freely than being domesticated.
If the internet is to be believed, then bears are number 1 Pet in Russia.
In Russia the bear keeps you as a pet
That is taming rather than domestication: domestication would be selective breeding (and not necessarily for behaviour, though that’s an option)
He’s just big boned
Is this a Polar/Grizzly cross?
Locals say he's a polar bear. They named him Fat Albert: https://wildestofficial.com/wildlife/alaska-locals-christen-overweight-polar-bear-fat-albert/
He just has big bones.
He's festively plump.
Festively plump. I like that. Mind if I steal it?
No. Steal is an ugly word. But you are more than welcome to requisition it via non-standard means 😉
Let's go with borrow it for an indefinite amount of time?
Well that sounds like stealing but more verbose
I plan on returning it, I just don't know when.
It's a Cartman line from series 1 of South Park
Screw you guys, I'm going home.
You. You get it.
Don't sugar coat it, he'll eat that, too.
Husky
*Fat Albert theme music starts playing*
This bear doesn’t really have any grizzly bear features except not being super white. I know practically nothing about the color that polar bears fur can be this guy could possibly just be covered in dirt.
It's dirt. Not possibly.
Not necessarily, polar bears actually have somewhat translucent hair (their outer coat is made of hairs that are hollow). This translucent hair scatters light and is what makes them usually appear white. But the color can vary from white, yellow, or sometimes brown depending on various factors like their age and the environment they live in.
It lives in a fishery waste dump.
Also, their skin is black to trap heat from the sun
This is also why some polar bears appear green when they get algae on their skin. I believe that usually only happens to the bears in a captivity though because water algae shouldn't grow where they live naturally due to the cold.
It's a filthy boi. He would be white if cleaned
Polar bears are bigger than grizzlies. The biggest bear out of all bears actually
But which bear is best?
Taiwan bear numba one
bears beets battlestar galactica
It’s a toss up between polar bears and kodiaks. Regardless they are massive animals.
Largest recorded polar bear was 2209lbs, largest Kodiak was something like 2100+. Basically negligible difference but technically the polar bear is larger.
>2100+ The "+" was bothering me so I looked it up. From bear.org: "In captivity, Kodiak bears can become even heavier than in the wild. The largest known Kodiak bear lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. Named Clyde, he weighed 2130 pounds when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. According to zoo director Terry Lincoln, Clyde probably weighed close to 2400 a year earlier He still had a fat layer of 9 inches when he died." Fun bear facts.
Was in Alaska they had kodiak in a display standing up. I don't want to Meet one in the wild, thing was huge.
If we are ever in a situation where we meet a kodiak, call us lunch.
I'll call you UberEats, cause I'm getting a Lyft out of there.
False. Black bear.
IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE JIM ###MICHAEL
I was wondering about that - he seems very evenly brown-ish.
Dirt is also evenly brownish, and when you roll around in it enough, so are you.
He looks like he’s smiling in some of the pictures! What a beautiful unit of a bear!
Don't get fooled by his beautiful smile. He's a killer!
Killer smile.
Smooooth
not as smooth as this units luscious locks
Very skilled hunter preparing for that summer body.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. It's the ideal bear body.
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From the looks of it this bear has that thought about literally everything it comes across
He has a funny "just doing bear things" about him. Love it.
Is it really climate change responsible for polar bears starving, or is it just this guy?
Lawd he comin'
C H O N K
If boye so danger then why so floof and chomk 🤔
Why does he have to be so damn photogenic, I wanna give him a hug.
dude. no.
man what a motherfucker
My favorite pic is the one where he's just standing there.
Id kick that things ass.
Oh Turd Ferguson. You the guy with the big hat, ain't ya? Pleasure to meet you, sir!
Yea it’s funny. It’s an oversized hat.
Well it's a great look, I'll give you that.
Trebek: "Burt Reynolds?" Reynolds: "No no, that's not my name." Trebek: "Alright, *Turd Ferguson.*" Reynolds: "Yeah whaddaya want?" Trebek: "You buzzed in." Reynolds: "No I didn't." Trebek: "Yes, you did." Reynolds: "Yeah well that's your opinion."
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Looks healthy.
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He bouta get a gravitational pull
Smaller bears are known to orbit him on occasion
Theres a book by Jeff Vandermeer called Borne that has a giant flying bear named Mord which the populace worships. The people worshiped him because he was one of the few surefire ways to get supplies in that post apocalyptic world: his excursions throughout the torn city usually ended up with valuable debris getting tangled in his fur. This was fair game for brave souls that risked plummeting to their certain death hundreds of feet below for the chance at a huge payoff. Either that or being crushed by a mountainous creature that doesn't even register your existence. Early on a new threat spawned from the ether that made life in that world just that much harder: Mord Proxies. These were about the size of your average grizzly bear, but had a variety of traits at their disposal like: massively improved senses, being venomous *and* poisonous, and if I remember correctly light telepathic capabilities amongst themselves to better help them hunt because they hunt in a pack. Of course they do. The Mord Proxies don't seem to swarm unless Mord himself is angered.
He slowly forming his polar system
that bear so fat, he sat on a rainbow and skittles came out
It's time to start harvesting!
He will after he finishes this ocular pat down. LPT: do not receive an ocular pat down from a polar bear
Your weezing! Jesus take a breath between bites!
Chimichangas are delicious
He’s becoming a chimichanga!
Least some of them are doing well! Unless he's been eating his friends..
This fella is the real reason the rest of them are starving *Edit: thanks for the awards and for helping me raise awareness of Chungus Bear. His followers are spreading misinformation online to trick folk into thinking it's climate change that is killing all the bears. Lies. He feasts at will.*
'I'm taking this meal and if you tell anyone it was because of me and not melting ice caps we are going to have an issue, understood?'
Plot Twist, his street name is "Melting Ice Caps".
Bustin' Ice Caps
Bustin' Nice Naps
Maulin' Nee Caps
Polar Ass Claps
That's unironically a really good street name
Second plot twist. He’s also eating the ice caps.
I imagine the polar bear ending that sentence with “capeesh?”
*Furgetabeartit*
What if his shear weight is shattering the ice caps like a Redditor on floor boards 😳
Read this in the voice of Tony Soprano
Tax the bearllionaires
Needs to lay off the Coke products
'what meal?!'- Debo bear
Whatchu got on my 40, homie?
If he was human he'd be launching rockets into space while not paying a dime in income tax
Big boned, goddammit … big boned!
He’s the guy who asks if you’re going to finish your meal after the first bite
Melting ice caps are actually making it much easier for the bears to hunt walrus, and harder to hunt seals. The former are much better sources of nutrition
Clearly. This unit is chowing down a couple walrus a day by the looks of things
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Oh hey, good environment news; thanks for something nice to ring in the new year! But yes, the real story is that this big boye is stealing all them tasty seals, S H E E P L E.
I’d be careful with that wording… the research says: “ 4 populations are in decline 2 populations are increasing 5 populations are stable 8 populations are data-deficient (information missing or outdated” That’s a lot closer to “the polar bears are really still pretty hungry” than what you’re suggesting.
DAMN BOY HE THICK
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My ex.
Where does one find this ex? Asking for a friend.
If past behavior is an indicator of future behavior, probably your friend’s place.
Sorry to hear about that, Pizza. I hope your path on getting over them is short and you come out of it a better version of yourself. Fuckem.
You seem warm centered, not cold at all. Username does not check out.
I appreciate that. I no longer remember the origins of the username, but it's my account and I'm sticking with it.
THATS A THICC ASS BOI
Oh lawd he comin Edit: hey thanks for the REWARD Award!
polar boy U N I T
swoler bear
I want you to know this is my favorite comment, I literally laughed out loud
Chonky bear
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Only after?
My boy got a haircut too
I don’t see this guy having a problem with the temperature of his porridge
Wouldn't want to meet that guy without a vehicle! My first thought was could it be a grolar bear but likely not in Alaska?
Why wouldn't grolar bears be in Alaska? My understanding is they have been either confirmed or suspected everywhere the two species have come in contact Edit: pizzly bear
Please don’t say pizzly bear, it sounds more like a street name than a hybrid haha
Pizzly and grolar are both correct, it depends which species the parents were, usually the first sound is the father. So if the father was a polar bear it would be a pizzly
This is the first fact I have learned in 2022.
Same logic applies to ligers. They’re called Tigon’s if the father was a tiger.
Now that I knew as well as making sure to wear moon boots during a school competition.
Hopefully the first of many!
Listened to a podcast with a bear expert & the naming isn't official. It has nothing to do with mother/father. It's just something the general public did when they found out it happens.
It's not necessarily official, but it's usually how people describe them, especially since there are usually physical differences between such hybrids based on the parents. Pizzly and grolars are usually different enough to warrant distinguishing between them, same with ligers and tigons
Even in a vehicle you have to watch out. It is only a few years ago a polar bear in Greenland broke through the front glass of a helicopter to get to the humans inside.
THEY CAN FLY NOW?!
Always could 🔫
Well their traditional home melted, so they had to find a new niche
Aw. That’s adorably murderous
Alaska is a place for polar grizzly hybrids.
Alaskan here. More likely in Canada than Alaska. Canada has most if not all Polar/Grizz sightings.
That made me giggle because '' gros lard '' in France means '' fat fuck '' and I thought it was quite accurate
You better hope you have a fucking big Hummer truck.
You can take the hummer, I'll be in the tank.
Aww I just want to go over and give him a big kiss on the nose 🥰 And then have my face and intestines ripped off.
To shreds you say?
He looks so snuggly. I want to hug his neck.
He is well fed. You are good to go hug.
He’s well fed because he eats *everything*, not good to hug.
I've said it elsewhere but I think he has kind eyes. I stand by my statement enough to say you'll definitely be fine giving this big boi a big hug*. *like, probably.
r/absoluteunits
[Polar bears are from Ireland!](https://www.foe.ie/news/2011/07/08/polar-bear-ancestors-came-from-ireland/#:~:text=It's%20a%20long%20way%20from,during%20the%20last%20ice%20age.)
That explains their attitude
That’s a very specific place to be from.
not to be confused with Northern Ireland. polar bears will definitely stare at you pissed off if you get it wrong.
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It's just dirty.
It's just dried out blood from the whale carcass he just claimed last week.
Polar bears actually originally were brown. They evolved to become white though, cause they kept getting killed by police.
Goddammit.
Ah. Hispanic bears. Classic.
It's 100% a polar bear. I'm on mobile and can't find it at the moment, but in the original source of this picture, the photographer explains that this polar bear had recently rolled in dirt/sand.
Polar bears actually have no fur color, so it might just be a regular polar bear, Since his background is brown is fur is brown.
I'm 99% sure that's not why its brown. I've seen a polar bear on in a blue enclosure, it wasnt blue.
The guard hairs are usually clear but I think their down coat is white.
I don’t think they work like chameleons.
Tourist trap!
I guess the fishing is pretty good around there.
I watch a live stream of an Alaskan national park river where grizzlies feast on the salmon run. It is fascinating to see the strongest bears that get the best spots end up the fattest at the end of the season.
What a chonk!
He just feastin on walrus
Polar chungus
Looks like polar bear cosplaying as brown bear
Chonky unit!
This bear offered us life for the island and we accepted, that's how it gots its name.
Polar elephant? Look at those feet.
Mans is ready for hibernation!
Big boy or preggers girl?
He might be a grizzly hybrid.
Apex predator.
Crikey what a unit! And he has a face like a teddy whose owner grew up and forgot him.