Video: Ever Wonder How Strong Bears Are?
OutdoorHub Reporters 12.11.14
There’s little doubt in anybody’s mind that bears are powerful creatures. The largest land predator in North America, bears can move around objects weighing several hundred to even a thousand pounds. If you ever wanted a demonstration of how strong bears can be, Alberta Parks recently released this video of a bear knocking around a metal trap like a toy.
In a similar study conducted by researchers at Montana State University, a group of grizzly bears also treated a 700-pound dumpster as a plaything.
“It was like a beach ball to them,” said professor Doug Cairns, who supervised the experiment. “They could roll it over and over. It took a minimum of two people a concerted effort to tip it.”
Cairns indicated that bears were actually much stronger outside of play.
“Our conclusion was a grizzly bear is equal to 2.5 to 5 humans in strength,” he said. “I’m certain if a bear were enraged it would be much, much higher. We never did get them ticked off. We didn’t want to.”
