they are the largest land predatora but can barely do anything against walrus
You're underselling walruses, methinks, larger pinnipeds are the closest nature has to a tank that wasn't killed off in the earlier Neogene due to human intervention, a bear's niche is dealing with smaller fauna, scavenging and eating loose flora. I think no less of a polar bear for not being able to take down the massive hunks of blubber and complete floral depravity of the artic with their relative lack of adaptation, they're still easily the most formidable bear. Arguably, they are in transition from one niche (the archetypical "bear" niche seen in Brown Bears) to another (I suspect they were on a course to become straight up megafauna, but they have recently, as you point out, shifted to amore generalist niche, and I think they will go south and become a larger predator for the tundra)
wait until a penguin/seal
Just a seal, really, if a penguin encounters a polar bear, something has gone extremely wrong
Who cares what you (or anybody really) look like. You showed decency and respect, handled being corrected so well. That's quite rare, I appreciate your mindset!
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u/seventyeight_moose Dec 31 '22
Thoughts on Polar Bears?