# Who Would Win: A Bear or a Tiger? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006 "2016-11-14T21:57:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/41 "2016-11-17T05:10:44Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > \*Seriously? Does no one actually read the thread? I’m half expecting this post to go invisible as well. WTF? I _said_ I’d bet on the Tiger (because the first thing I _also_ did was Wiki “Baloo” then “sloth bear” too), what’s this snark for? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/42 "2016-11-17T06:01:03Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Unless you intend to fight the hypothetical, you have to restrict yourself to the average Indian bear versus the average Indian tiger… > > \*Seriously? Does no one actually read the thread? I’m half expecting this post to go invisible as well. Yes, a cartoon bear-tiger fight is clearly something where it’s critically important that we stick to the narrow parameters of the OP, and don’t drift off into wild speculation about completely unrelated topics involving _other_ kinds of bears fighting _other_ kinds of tigers. Where will it end? Koala vs Bengal cat? Madness! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/43 "2016-11-17T14:29:47Z")
Again, I never said “Who would win, Baloo or Shere Khan?”, I said “Who would win, a bear or a tiger?”. The thought was inspired by the Jungle Book, but it was never intended to be about those characters. I even said in a previous post “I intended it to be a brown bear vs a bengal” because, mostly due to ignorance, I didn’t know exactly WHAT Baloo was and figured he was a brown bear or whatever So there isn’t really a hypothetical to fight ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/44 "2016-11-17T15:14:47Z")
So who wins in a fight between a hypothetical bear vs. tiger fight and an actual one? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/45 "2016-11-17T16:19:26Z")
How about a [grolar bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hybrid) vs a [liger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger)? The fight will take place at that place in Argentina where there’s a glacier in the jungle. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/46 "2016-11-17T17:28:46Z")
In reality they would, after a brief struggle, look deeply into each other’s eyes and fall madly in love. They would leave the ring, set up a homestead and have many Beager cubs. [sub]I should be a writer for the Hallmark channel…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/47 "2016-11-17T17:39:21Z")
These guys did. [http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/09/02/famous-tiger-and-bear-say-goodbye-to-their-beloved-lion-brother/21464368/](http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/09/02/famous-tiger-and-bear-say-goodbye-to-their-beloved-lion-brother/21464368/) ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/48 "2016-11-17T17:47:05Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > Tigers do not fight - they knock down prey and kill by a bite to the neck. > > Bears love to wrestle, claw and bite. > > If the tiger can’t take it down very quickly AND get its mouth over the bear’s neck, the fight goes to the bear. Yeah, this right here. There’s a big thread around here somewhere about Lions and Tigers fighting, and someone linked to a long list of Lion Vs. Tiger incidents. Can’t look it up right now. But, the Lions pretty much always win. And if you think about it, Lions have a society that encourages fighting for dominance. The Tigers not so much. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006/49 "2016-11-17T18:15:18Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Where will it end? Koala vs Bengal cat? Madness! A bengal cat is so damn smart and fast he wont even _bother_ fighting the koala.😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-a-bear-or-a-tiger/772006.md?page=2)