# Tiger vs. Grizzly Bear..who would win **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 5, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188 "2000-03-05T20:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/21 "2000-03-06T14:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t know about down there in America, but here in Alaska… You don’t consider yourself an American? I didn’t know AK was _that_ different. And yes, I do believe you grow bears bigger up there. The Kodiak is bigger than your smaller brown bear, which I believe we mistakenly call “grizzly.” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Masterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Michael\_Masterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Masterson)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/22 "2000-03-06T15:30:00Z")
The Tiger doesn’t stand a chance to a Grizzly, a tiger just cannot produce near the force of a Grizzly, or even a black bear. …And an Alligator’s jaws have 3,000lbs/sq in. closing pressure (retract your hand now!), but a good rubber band will hold their mouth shut. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/23 "2000-03-06T16:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > …And an Alligator’s jaws have 3,000lbs/sq in. closing pressure (retract your hand now!), but a good rubber band will hold their mouth shut. …but make darned sure the rubber band isn’t frayed before you go gator-hunting with it. Too many lives have been lost due to inadequate rubber-band maintenence. * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/24 "2000-03-06T16:49:00Z")
African swallow vs. European swallow… neither has significant attacking abilities, as they rely on their flight abilities to escape dangerous situations So says I, self-proclaimed bird expert! * * * “Whenever a man hears it he is young, and Nature is in her spring; whenever he hears it, it is a new world and a free country, and the gates of heaven are not shut against him” –Thoreau, on the song of the wood thrush ---
**Author:** ![Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diver)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/25 "2000-03-06T20:01:00Z")
I think the grizzly would win because the tiger normally kills by a suffocating throat hold. The grizzly has great upper body strength and would simply crush the tiger as it applied the choke hold. The tiger’s secondary harm mode is the strong rear legs and claws raking the stomach open while holding the throat. My bet is the grizzly would crush the tiger before it could be seriously hurt. Although the tiger is a heck of a carnivore, it’s adapted to killing herd animals, not other large carnivores/omnivores. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@My\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Lord)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/26 "2013-09-15T22:55:50Z")
Huh? Why did you close a more recent thread on topic called tiger vs polar bear, just to link to a different topic of tiger vs grizzly bear? Polar and grizzly bears are two different species…not to mention this thread is like 13 years in…oh wells. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188/27 "2013-09-15T23:50:56Z")
**Moderator Action** I don’t know what other thread is being referred to, but I don’t see much point in reviving this one. Closing thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-grizzly-bear-who-would-win/8188.md?page=1)