The Kodiak bear founded Kodax and thus has more capital with his international presence. Now the Polar bear did once kill Rudolph and have to help Santa when I was younger which was very much appreciated. I did receive the Atari system that year. None the less, I'm going with Kodiak Bear because Cash Rules Everything Around Me (CREAM) 
 
 
 
Get the money, 
 
el pres

Hogwash, all howgwash.

The commentating on the bear vs kobiashi video is problem some of the best I've heard. Very in depth, very riviting.

i feel like the polar bear is more vicious for some reason... 
 
 
 
...like the kind of bear that would have sex with it's identical twin brothers wife.

Non sence talk...kodiak will win absolutely

Kodiak bears would murder a polar bear Kodiaks are way bigger and way more pounds also since it has more fat it can take more injuries. 
 

wait it says polars are bigger but still kodiak would win 
 

kodiak bear wins

LOL ! the first pics tell everything ! 
 
the kodiak simply looks bad a** ! 
unfortunately in this pic the polar bear looks like pakistan.

Polar Bears are the largest bears on earth, Kodiaks are the largest subspecies of Brown Bear. End of story. 
 
As for the fight, the weight difference is not huge, both animals could kill each other. This might be the only fight on this site that would last more than 30 seconds. To the polar bear it would just be like fighting another polar bear, vice versa. The polar bear would have an advantage in its home turf, blending in with the snow.

Polar wins !! Kodiak's claws may look big but they are quite blunt , also Polar bears have the molars of a carnivore Kodiaks have the molars of an omnivore , so the big white guy has a more powerful bite.

Polar bears are the largest land carnivores on earth, they way 11oo pounds. It would be a close fight but polar WINS. End.

The Polar bear's neck is so strong it can drag a 4000lb Walrus carcass across a small distance of snow. It can also kill virtually any species in its native habitat. While the same can be said of the Kodiak, its diet, which consists mostly of shrubs, berries, plants and miscellaneous like tree bark, makes its jaw and teeth less dangerous than the white bear. The Polar's long neck also gives it an advantage in reaching out and biting the Kodiak.

White bear? Do you read Seekers?

Polar bears are longer longer and skinnier then kodiac.Kodiacs have thicker necks,thicker arms and their back muscles are alot bigger then the polar.I know polars are slightly larger but they are not as strong as a kodiac.Kodiac will win the fight.

Everyone here is talking about the physical features of both bears, including me in my earlier comment, but think about it, the kodiac mainly eats plants. While the polar bear is strictly carnivore. Kodiac may have thicker legs and arms, but will it realy be so good at using them?

The Kodiak bear has more body muscle, that's what the hump on it's back is, it's muscle. And for your information, the kodiak bear doesn't mainly eat plants, they will take on a full grown moose with their paws, that's my two cents for you!

Oh yeah I almost forgot, Kodiak Bears are the most common bear to attack people, of course it's gonna know how to use those arms bobcat.

Polar Bears win because unlike Kodiak, Polar Bear is 100% carnivore! So 100% hunter! A powerful hunter! While the Kodiak is omnivorous, it does not hunt large prey such as the polar bear. Scientists have seen polar bears kill beluga whales that breathing on the surface of the water in a ice hole! Can you imagine? A polar bear, who happens to kill a whale of a tonne? wow! 
 
PS : sorry for my english. :'). I am french.

You forgot a couple things. Polar bears are left handed, which gives them an advantage since the strike coming from the toher side is unexpected. 
 
 
 
Second, polar bears are the mascot of Bowdoin College, and therefore smarter, and can use thier superior intelligence to win the fight. 
 

Polar Bear, of course!! BTW-they weigh in at way more than 1100 lbs, try adding several hundred more pounds to that. There have been some weighing more than 2400 lbs in captivity, so in th ewild, they have that potential if they find food source to get to that massive weight. Fighting-wise, I still will go with the Polar Bear.

ok, i'll start of by saying that most sources list the kodiak to be longer. Im not sure if that is right as they average less weight but are more stout with wider heads ect. the largest recorded kodiaks were much larger than the largest recorded polar. people seem to think that what it eats has any efect on the outcome of the fight, need i remind you that one of the biggest killers of humans is the hippo which is a veg. In all actuality, sometimes kodiaks and polars encounter each other in the wild and polar bears will either retreat or be killed by the kodiaks(yes kodiaks have been known to kill polar bears). kodiaks are much more agressive and are better suited for a fight with a larger head, stronger jaws ect. while the polar bear is a carnivore the kodiak will at times actively hunt and run down large game. strangely enough there have even been a case or a few cases of male kodiaks mating with polar bears resulting in a hybrid polar bear with larger head so maybe thats the one to put your money on.

its true polar bears can kill a buluga whale in one hit to th skull if a polar bear got a good hit in with all its might it would kill the kodiak in one hit aswell polar bear all the way they r the most dangerus predators living today on land unlike the brown bear secies that mainly eats berries and other plants taking meat seldomly they r omnivourus but there diet is mostly plant based

Its hard to say which would win. Again its about 50/50. Who says they'd even fight to the death? Its probably about the same as fighting another one of their species, so its equal.

Ok the kodiak bear is the largest land carnivore beacuse it set the record of 1782lbs. the largest polar bear was 1200lbs. the kodiak bear stands 13ft and the polar bear stands 11ft. the kodiak bear wins the fight every time.

Not correct sizes there Grizzly kid, the largest bears were polar bear @ 2,200 lbs and a kodiak @ a little over 2,500 lbs. 
 
The largest wild Kodiak bear on record weighed over 1,100 kilograms (2,400 lb).[10] Bears raised in zoos are often heavier than wild bears because of regular feeding and limited movement. In zoos, bears may weigh up to 900 kilograms (2,000 lb), one example being "Goliath" from New Jersey's Space Farms Zoo and Museum. Another example is Kodiak brown bear "Barbucha" at the zoo in Duisburg, who weighs 1000 kilograms (2200 lb).[15] Size seems related to food availability, and subspecies distinctions is more related to nutrition than geographical location.[16]  
 
 
 
Despite their size, some brown bears have been clocked at speeds in excess of 64 km/h (40 mph).[17]  
 
 
 
One of the subspecies of the brown bear, the Kodiak bear, which is native to Kodiak Island, matches the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family,[2] and as the largest land predator.[3] The hides and skulls of the two species are comparable in size, thus making morphological comparisons difficult as it is often difficult to weigh wild specimens.[3]  
 
Here is another important link: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/bear.html  
 
 
 
Polar Bear Brown Bear  
 
 
 
Average Weight of Mature Male 900-1,500 pounds 500-900 pounds  
 
 
 
Heaviest Recorded 2,210 pounds 2,500+ pounds  
 
 
 
Average Length of Mature Male 8-8.4 feet >7-10 feet  
 
 
 
 
 
Source: The Great Bear Almanac by Gary Brown  
 

OK folks, this is the way it is. I have hunted these critters for years and can tell you that most of the comments on here are trash. When we talk about 10 foot bears....thats the square of the bear...meaning you measure the hide from claw to claw and from nose to tail, then you figure the average. The very largest Kodiak bears can go in access of 1400 lbs..........very very few of these bear actually make 1400 lbs. A Kodiak brown bear has never and will never reach 2000 lbs and neither will a polar bear. All these silly reports about 2000 lb bears are nothing but hyper exaggerated trash. Despite being built differently both bears square and weigh about the same. I believe the two largest Kodiak bears killed on Kodiak were under 1500 lbs (estimated by experienced hunters)and squared just over 11 feet. An 11 foot brown bear from Kodiak island, the pennisula or Kamchatka (Russian brown bear) are extremely rare. When bears are measured for scoring purposes the skull is measured....not the hide because people can cheat by stretching them. Kodiak Brown bears are not necessarily aggressive, they primarily eat fish, vegetation and an occasional black tail sitka dear. (not native to Kodiak island) Brown bears and grizzly's are the same bears....the difference in size is due to genetics, amount of food and hybernation times. The further into the interior you go, the smaller and more aggressive the bears can be because food is more difficult to come by. If a bear is shot on the south side of the Alaska range it will be considered a Brown Bear.....if it is shot on the North Side....it will be considered a Grizzly. So, location of the bear can also be a deciding factor on what type of bear it is considered to be. Now, the Polar bear is typically a more aggressive bear and anything that moves in the arctic is food to them. They are fearless and can be very aggressive, however that is not necessarily the deciding factor on who would win. A while back I talked to a friend that watched a young, but considerably bigger polar bear get run off a kill by an interior sow grizzly with cubs! (yes folks, their ranges do cross) Very, very rarely do the large brown bears and polar bear cross paths.....and when they do, they are just like humans...some bears are aggressive by nature and some are not. Who would win in this fight......I would say the polar bear probably has an advantage but wouldn't necessarily put any money on it. The polar bear has evolved from the brown bear and probably has evolved into a more efficient hunter whereas the brown bears are typically sloppy killers. But, the bears typically hunt different types of game for food. Both bears are absolutely increadible animals.

By the way.........one of the absolute largest Kodiak brown bears in history was in the zoo in Bismarck North Dakota....his name was Clyde, he was brought to North Dakota back in 1966.....He weighed just over 2100 lbs when he died, but all he did was lay around and eat donuts. They dont get near that heavy in the wild.

Actually Fred, the largest was over 2,500 lbs, and the largest in the wild was approx. 2,100 lbs-polar bear that stood 11 ft tall.

My vote is for the polar bear, although its a good match. The picture of th epolar bear is very deceptive, they have thick limbs with which to drag huge prey onto the ice, the picture makes it look thin. Look at the youtube vid or on animal planet of the australian lady who was attacked due to her own stupidity at a zoo by a polar bear, you can see how massive its arms are-they are the size of the woman's body and she wasn't "skinney minney".

Without a doubt the polar bear, it is far more agressive, and usually weighs more on average, they hunt bigger and heavier, and more powerful animals than any other land mammal and this will most likely end up very bad for the less agressive and less experienced kodiak bear.

I dont think this would be a contest. Polar Bears are more timid than grizzlies and have proven to be chased off prey by grizzlies.Besides they dont want to get their pretty white coats dirty

I agree with you 100%, Wing, the polar bear is far more aggressive than is the Kodiak bear, hunts larger prey so is probably stronger, and is a born killer. Also to be noted is, they do not run from Grizzly's-how the hell do you think the hybrid Grolar/Pizzly bears came to be in existance?

Polar bears are more curious not more aggresive.Let it be know that more than likely that the Grolar Bear is a cross between a MALE grizzly and a FEmale polar bear.

Polar bears are more curious AND more aggressive. Let it also be noted that male polar bears mate with Grizzly's are Pizzly bears which has happened frequently as both female and male Grizzlys are moving to more northern territories where encounters are more frequent.

I dont feel that the polar bear is more aggressive.They happen to be better opprotunists than grizzlies.They have no choice in the Frozen Tundra. That is why people are on their menu. A male Kodiak without question is the strongest North American carnavoir. Who gives a rip about the tallest bear.Tell that to football players.

This is not like the Siberian tiger vs grizzly face-off, where one animal obviously overpowers the other. 
 
This match could go either way. I would say that the polar bear and the Kodiak bear are pretty much evenly matched. I would not place a bet.

Chr1$t...The Kodiak bear would win probably 50% of the time. This is a fairly even match. Much unlike the Siberian tiger vs American grizzly match.

Chr1$t claims that Bengal tigers are hunting and eatting Asian elephants, Siberian tigers are hunting and eatting Asian brown bears, and American grizzly bears are choking to death on penguins.

polars are bigger and stronger it's neck is long and strong enough to reach and bite the kodiak bear's stomach

Kodiak bears and polar bears are evenly matched. In my opinion, the top 5 predators ( in a face-off ) are: 
 
#1- polar bear and brown bears. 
 
#2- tiger. 
 
#3- lion. 
 
#4- jaguar. 
 
#5- leopard and puma. 
 
I do not consider the American black bear to be a predator and certainly not the gorilla. But, in a face-off, I would place both together as equals between lion and jaguar.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#5- leopard and puma.

FIRST OF ALL THEY ARE BOTH HUGE BEARS IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHO STRIEKS FIRST AND WHO CAN HAVE THE MOST ENDURANCE AND JUST MY OPINION THE POLAR BEARS ATTACKS BELUGA WHALES KODIAK ONLY EATS THE CARCASS!

It's very close to call, but I think th ePolar Bear has the edge here. On an interesting note, however, I wonder just what the offspring of the Polar and Grizzly called "Grolar" and "Pizzly" bears are like-what are their temperments like and so forth. I think its an awesome combination-anyone have an opinion about this hybrid that is becomming more abundant as Grizzly's are moving north causing this phenomenon to happen more frequently?

this is wrong info, a kodiak can get just as big as a polar bear. Infact due climat change the largest kodiaks are probably bigger then the largest polar bears. 
 
Polar bear: 770-1500 lb 
 
Kodiak bear: 800-1500 lb

I am not going to argue over who is the biggest. A 1400 Kodiak bear would be stronger than a 1400 pound polar bear. Pound for pound, my bet is on Ursus arctos.

Hey ATTILA remeber me, this one is for you im lettin it all out! In zoos the kodiak bear on average is bigger then polar bears in zoos. And in the wild the same thing happens on average the kodiaks are larger then the polar bears and the largest kodiak is larger then the largest polar bear and not just because of its fat it has pound for pound much more muscle then the polar bear. Ya so a polar bear can drag a 4000lbs walrus and can kill a beluga whale but thats beacuse thats where it lives! If brown bears lived in the artic to then they would be doing the same thing plus they would be dominating all the polar bears. if u put a polar bear in the brown bears environment then i bet it wouldnt last a week for several reasons! 1. it would be to hot. 2. its endurence sucks so it couldnt chase down any prey. 3. its fur would stand out. 4. it would be gettin dominated by all the brown bears. You figure out the rest. A brown bear would claw the polar bears face off before the polar bear could land a hit. Do you want to give up yet or do u want some more! >:(

Grizzly kid-you've made errors on a few points as I see having studied bears for years-first one is the size factor, the largest bear was a polar bear at over 2,200 lbs. Second mistake you quoted was on stamina-polar bears have immense stamina-they swim up to 60 miles and work harder to get their food than do other bears and are true carnivores-the others are recognized as being omnivores, so the polar bear is the better killer. 
 
Though a polar bear holds the world record for largest land carnivore, the Kodiak bear holds a close second place. Kodiak bears are believed to be a sub-species of Brown bear (Ursus arctos) found living exclusively on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The average size of a Kodiak bear is usually not as big as the average polar bear, but because of the abundant food supply they can get pretty big. The largest Kodiak bear on record was a male taken in 1894 that weighed 1,656lbs/745kgs. (see the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game for more information on Brown Bears.) 
 
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Gg3SlZHPgBgJwww.extremescience.com/PolarBear.htm+largest+polar+bear+ever&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us 
 
 
 
III. Physical Characteristics. 
 
A. Size.  
 
 
 
1. Polar bears are the largest land carnivore.  
 
 
 
2. Male polar bears (boars) grow two to three times the size of female polar bears (sows). Boars weigh about 350 to more than 650 kg (772-1,433 lb.) and are about 2.5 to 3 m (8.2-9.8 ft.) long (Stirling, 1988).  
 
 
 
3. Sows weigh about 150 to 250 kg (331-551 lb.) and are about 2 to 2.5 m (6.6-8.2 ft.) long. Pregnant females can weigh as much as 500 kg (1,102 lb.) (Stirling, 1988).  
 
 
 
4. The largest polar bear ever recorded was a male weighing 1,002 kg (2,209 lb.) and measuring 3.7 m (12 ft.) long (Domico, 1988 
 
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:68WgdAYZtgQJwww.seaworld.org/infobooks/PolarBears/pbphysical.html+largest+polar+bear+ever&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us 
 
It is a close call, but the polar bear is generally considered the largest bear on Earth. A close second is the brown bear, specifically the Kodiak bear. The Kodiak is a subspecies of the brown bear native to Alaska. 
 
 
 
The consensus among experts is that the polar bear is the largest, but some believe the Kodiak bear to be larger. Part of the dissension comes from the vagueness of the word "largest." The answer really depends on how "largest" is defined - Heaviest? Longest? Largest ever recorded? 
 
 
 
The following data, taken from Gary Brown's Great Bear Almanac (New York, 1993), compares the average measurements of the polar and brown bear. 
 
 
 
Have YOU had enough?? Get the facts straight before firing off your mouth, quickdraw mcgraw. 
 

What the hell just happened i tried to send a comment but nothing happened!!!?

Land-based super-predators of modern earth in order of strength and power: 
 
#1- Ursus arctos. 
 
#2- Ursus maritimus. 
 
#3- Panthera tigris. 
 
#4- Panthera leo.

I agree with you on the first 2 but not the last 2. The lion is bigger and stronger then the tiger and does win in fights 7 out of 10.

You could very well be right about the lion defeating the tiger. I have never felt too strongly either way. If not for the more powerful bears, it would be these two cats up for apex land predator. When it comes to lion vs tiger, I am just guessing.  
 
The reason some bear species grow so large is the fact that they are very aggresiive in fighting for females, for territory, or for feeding ground. Damon claims that the big cats have more testosterone. Do you agree?

I would say that today, the Kodiak bear would win. Because of global warming, polar bears wouldn't be as big as they used to, so a charge from the Kodiak bear would seriously injure it. A few more swipes from the Kodiak bear's claw, and the Polar bear is dead. 
 
However, go back a few hundred years. There isn't as much pollution, and the polar bear is still similar in size to the Kodiak bear. Now, a charge wouldn't do so much anymore. The polar bear would still have enough power to charge right back, and since they are more agile, the Polar bear wins instead. However, whether the battle takes place today or half a century ago, I'm pretty sure the looser would still put up a very good fight. 
 
I doubt that any other bear would do so well against either bear because the Polar bear and the Kodiak bear are so incredibly large. Even other brown bears.

Actually, grizzlykid the lion is not bigger nor stronger than a tiger-the tiger is reputed as being the largest cat on earth-excluding of course the liger which was created by the Germans over half a century ago, it doesn't grow in the wild and cannot reproduce, therefore it doesn't count. The lion stands taller than the tiger, however the tiger is longer than the lion and also has heavier recorded weights for records as well as average weights. Strength has been hotly debated, but again the tiger is said to be the stronger and as far as a fight goes, well there have been recorded winners on both lion and tigers against one another and is a hotbed for controversy as to a clearcut winner, so you cannot say that one will win x amount of times when this hotly debated issue rages on between studied individuals on both sides. 
 
Toby Ross, just a fact for you-did yiou know the animal with more testosterone than any other animal on the face of the earth or sea is a bull shark? It isn't even close-there is nothing that even comes close to having as much, and it has a testosterone count of 900! Thats why they kill more people than do lions per year-Florida is the shark capital of the world and the sharks doing that are bull sharks.

Well if were gonna argue over a lion vs tiger lets argue about it on the lion vs tiger link. But this is the kodiak vs polar bear link so lets argue over that.

WELL WHO CARES ABOUT THE KODIAK OR POLAR BEAR IM JUST REALLY SAD THAT A MALE LION CANT BEAT A POLAR BEAR OR KODIAK BEAR. BUT A PRIDE COULD.YES!!!!!!

How do people get so off topic? Where did this lion thing come from?

hmm, how did we get from Kodiak vs polar bear to tiger vs lion?  
 
I think we got a bit of topic.

Alright then lets get back on topic with me saying that the kodiak bear will win!

Very funny... I change my mind. I think today,, it'll be 51/49, 51 for the polar bear because it has longer reach, and it's actually pretty tough.

TriceratopsH, it would be a really good fight but the kodiak bear is stronger and its fat would help absorb the polar bears blows. It doesnt really matter who has the longer reach, the bears would be attacking each other not waiting for the other one to hit it.

This is a close one. I would lean towards the polar just because it is a carnivore and therefore it depends on hunting other animals (large or small) to survive.

I'm inclined to agree with you TheTruch based on that reason and that its also larger on average even though its close, plus, the Polar bear has the largest paws of any carnivore and the largest of all the bears, so their swipe delivers more surface area damage.

Attila, the kodiak bears fat would be able to absorb the polar bears blows more than the polar bears fat would absorb the kodiaks blow (which is stronger). In this fight the size of the paws are pretty even length and width wise. The kodiak bear has incredibly long and sharpe claws the longest of any carnivore today and the kodiak bear would be able to deliver the killing blow before the polar bear or the killing bite. But overall this fight would be a really good and even battle but i would say that the kodiak bear would have more kills then the polar bear.

hey!dis is not so easy a movie as u have made it.u should know that polar bears,on an average,weigh upto 800kg but kodiak bears only upto 600 kg.Also,d conditions in which polars live makes them damn tough.u said that kodiaks hav a blubber but idiots!blubber of a polar is way thicker due to the extreme temperatures.Every expert suggests that polar bear is d strongest flesh eater in the world but just aggression on the part of a Kodiak is not gonna win it any battle.Polars kill even walruses n hav a much stronger bite....so it will just fuck the kodiak!!

one more thing.....experts say that polars alwaz fight till death but d kodiaks just run away.

Hemant, you sound like an idiot! Kodiak bears dont average 600lbs. Heres a piece of info from wiki.[6] Mature males (larger than sub-prime males) average 477–534 kg (1,051–1,177 lb) over the course of the year,[7]. As for polar bears today will average 600lbs- 800lbs for males because of global warming. If there wasnt any global warming, scientists think that there weight would be alittle more like the kodiaks. And you say that just because a polar bear eats walrus makes it the strongest carnivore?! A kodiak can break the neck of a 1800lbs moose with one smack from its paw, and kill a bison the same way! If a kodiak bear saw a walrus it would make a meal of it to. Polar bears also get KILLED by walrus. As for polar bears and kodiak bears fighting, polar bears dont fight to the death and kodiaks dont run away, the submisive bear will back down from the dominant bear. That doesnt just mean the bigger kodiak will always win cuz even the smaller kodiaks can be more aggressive then the larger bears. Heres a video of brown bears chasing polar bears away from a whale carcus. 
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4kGrKy9pk 
 
 
 
So there you go, you need to study some more before you agrue with something you cant back up! 
 
 
 

Ursus arctos middendorffi, the Kodiak bear is the ultimate carnivore and the apex land predator. Although the polar bear would indeed be his greatest challenge, the biggest of the brown bears would likely be victorious. Lions and tigers would be no challenge at all.

A polar bear would beat a kodiak, they are more muscular and better hunters and fighters. they are also better armerd. this is a close battle but the polar bear wins 6 out of 10. and a tiger and lion can put up a great fight, cats are agile, fast and muscular while bears are heavy, bulkier and high on stamina. 
 
obviously a kodiak is far more supreme then a grizzly.

Actually, the Kodiak is more muscular. Open your eyes. Also, grizzly bears, which are smaller relatives of the Kodiak, are sometimes observed chasing polar bears away from garbage heaps. Ursus arctos is the apex carnivore.

That is sssoo true!! It has been seen, recorded and filmed that grizzlys chase polar bears away from food sources and there territory. A polar bear would be foolish to stay around and pick a fight with a grizzly, its just another word for suicide or instant death!! 
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4kGrKy9pk 
 
 
 
There you go.

the polar bear ran from a grizzly because it didn't want to pich a fight without a reason, if the polar bear really wanted to it could have easily killed a grizzly. And just because one animal is bulkier doesn't make them more muscular. polar bears have more muscle while a brown bears have more body fat. Polar bears kill bengula whales and walrus. To be fair I cannot see a kodiak doing that. 
 
And toby ross stop saying grizzly is the ultimate predator. you sound like an idiot. A grizzly almost never hunts, how can you even call it a predator? a polar bear, lion or tiger those are true predators.

Ursus arctos is the apex carnivore.

Actually mr animalia, a kodiak bear hunts 60% of the time and it would kill a beluga whale and walrus with ease. A kodiak bear can do anything a polar bear can do, if not better. After all, polar bears evolution starts with brown bears. The average kodiak bear kills the average polar bear more.

The polar bear is built very much like the American black bear. Although he is incredibly strong, he does not have the brute strength of Ursus arctos. The Kodiak would win, as long as he does not allow himself to be pulled into the water.

MrAnimalia. Being a predator does not make one stronger. The rhinoceras is a herbavore, but very strong. In fact, being a predator, an animal needs stealth and speed. To have these things, some strength must be sacrificed. A grizzly has a big broad frame because he does not have to slink quietly through the forest. A grizzly does not have to leap upon a deer or a cow. Ursus arctos is built like a bull. Pure brute strength. Being an omnivorous carnivore is the reason that a grizzly is so much stronger than a lion or a tiger.

The polar bear is the world's largest terestrial carnivore, although he is, by some naturalists, considered aquatic. But, size is not everything. Ursus arctos is a more muscular and more powerful bear. The size difference is very slim. The coastal grizzly and the Kamchatka brown bears are in the same size range as the famous Kodiak. Any of these big brown bears are more than a match for a polar bear.

A polar bear is a warrior and fighter, a kodiak is not. A polar bear is muscular while the kodiak is bulkier and and has more body fat. A polar bear could easily kill a coastal grizzly, those only average 660 compared to 1000 pounds of polar bear. A kamchatka does stand a chance but will still lose. And the main reason why a rhino is so strong is because of its weight. if a tiger and rhino where equal in weight tht rhino would have now power advantage. pound for pound carnivores are stronger then vegie eaters. that is why a tiger can kill a deer, cow or brown bear at equal size so easily because it is a fierce predator. 
 
And a Kodiak cannot kill a walrus, unlike polar bear, lion and tiger its tooth and claws are not shark enough to do much damage to the walrusses 3 inch hide while the walrusses tusks can do a lot of samage to the bear. The polar bear is stronger and better armed, it could beat a kodiak bear. 
 
The tiger is the true apex carnivore, brown bears are so fat and lazy.

When a black bear wonders into grizzly country, he sometimes becomes a grizzly bear dinner. When a polar bear wonders too far South, he ends up as grizzly bear dinner. I'm not making this up. It is on the links I just posted. Brown bears regularly kill and eat polar bears.

According to Damon ( professor of accurate data ) any polar bear 1,000 pounds or more is an abnormally large bear.

this is gayyyyyyyyyyyy  
 
lets see some fighting

this is soooooooooo gaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy 
 
realy? 
 
 
 
lets see some fighting!!!!!!!  
 

damon is right, in the wild polar and kodiak bears average little over 900 pounds, the ones over 2000 pounds are ussualy the ones captive. and the polar bear is the king of bears, the tigers is the king of all carnivores and the elephant (or blue whale) is the king of beasts. 
 
a polar bear would beat a kodiak 7 out of 10

Polar bears are sometimes killed by American polar bears and by Asiatic brown bears. Both belong to the group "Ursus arctos". Therefore, it stands to reason that Ursus arctos middendorffi, The Kodiak bear, could easily kill a polar bear.

oops! typo. American grizzly bear.

The kodiak will have the advantage under my knowledge - today Kodiaks are equally large or even larger than polar bears 
 
 
 
But the kodiak is Bulkier, thicker and more durable to injurie 
 
The Kodiak also has more stanima as polar bears get excausted quickly even in their natural surroundings 
 
The kodiak is more fierce, the polar bear ios shy that dousn't risk injury toward other predators 
 
 
 
Kodiak 55% of the time

The Kodiak bear is of the family Ursus arctos, the ultimate carnivore. Polar bears have often been seen running from grizzlys, the smaller cousins of the Kodiak.  
 
But polar bears are bigger and they do not tire easily.

Toby, polar bears overheat quickly even in natural surroundings - unlike other bears. That is why males can only fight for a limited amount of time before excausting. 
 
A polar bear runs for a grizzly because it is less aggressive, if a Polar bear was cornered it will have little trouble likking the ursus actros half his size. 
 
But a kodiak will probably win 
 
And brown bear ain't the ultimate carnivores - 'cause they aren't even carnivores. they are onmivores.

*Killing* not likking, oops

Order carnivora which includes the wolves, big cats, and the ultimate carnivore, Ursus arctos.

Toby ross, you have your opinion, I have mine but you do not seem to understand. 
 
In My Opinion 
 
1- Orca 
 
2- Tiger 
 
3- Ratel 
 
4- Jaguar 
 
5- Wolverine 
 
6- Sharks 
 
7- Hyena 
 
8- Crocodile 
 
9- Polar Bear 
 
10- Octopus 
 
 
 
I do not consider an animal that is 85-90% herbivore as a true predator. 
 

Zack...You do not understand. 
 
I said that Ursus arctos is the ultimate carnivore. I never said that he is a true predator. When you true predators go extinct, the bears will find food and survive. 
 
By the way Zack...the orca, sharks, crocodiles, and the octopus you love so dearly are NOT carnivores of the order carivora.  
 
*The grizzly ( Ursus arctos ) is the apex carnivore. A big brown bear will take a fresh kill from a hungry tiger.

The Kodiak bear or any other large brown bear, such as a coastal grizzly or a Kamchatka bear could kill a big polar bear. However, no other carnivore lives that can do this.

http://jackjacksonj.webs.com/tigerpredationonbears.htm  
 
No toby, when a Brown bear sees a tiger, or even it's tracks - he will flee. And I list the top 10 predators. 
 
Top 10 most impressive land predators:  
 
1- Wolverine 
 
2- Jaguar 
 
3- Tiger 
 
4- Leopard 
 
5- Ratel 
 
6- Cougar 
 
7- Mongoose 
 
8- Lion 
 
9- Cheetah 
 
10- T.Devil 
 
IMO no bear deserves to be on the list

Zack...this is about bears. OK? 
 
The Kodiak is a sure winner here. Ursus arctos is the ultimate carnivore. A grizzly bear can kill a polar bear. In fact, polar bears fear grizzlys. 
 
en.allexperts.com/q/Wild-Animals-705/Polar-Bear-grizzly-bears.htm

top-10-list.org/2010/02/24/top-ten-largest-carnivores/  
 
Quote: bears possess the largest and most convoluted brains relative to their size of any land mammal.  
 
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/arctic-bears/bear-intelligence/779/

OK,toby, if you think allexperts is so accurate, I actually kind of agree. But first of all, your link doesn't actually work, but I'm guessing that it's something about how whenever a polar bear encounters a grizzly it goes like "oh noeys" and runs away, am I correct? I've seen them. But remember, this is a fight where NEITHER OF THEM CAN RUN AWAY, so that screws everything up.  
 
 
 
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Interspecies-Conflict-3754/2010/7/Conflicts-24.htm 
 
 
 
notice the last sentence of the first answer. 
 
 
 
 
 
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Interspecies-Conflict-3754/2010/6/Top-6-predators-land.htm 
 
 
 
 
 
notice the description of the polar bear in the answer. 
 
 
 
If the links don't work, you can find the answers under Jonathan's previous answers list under "Conflicts" and "Top 6 predators on land".

Sorry if I wasn't clear on the last answer, I haven't seen polar bears run away from grizzlies in real life, I've seen those answers on allexperts.

To zack: I hope by "impressive" you don't mean powerful, because then there would be something wrong about putting wolverines in front of tigers, and not including any bears at all.  
 
 
 
 
 
To Zackerdy: 
 
 
 
Are you sure a ratel can defeat a Jaguar/monstrous brown/polar bear? I would think they would have a hard penetrating through a bear's skin, fat and rock-hard muscle at all, let alone kill it. Also, you shouldn't compare entirely aquatic animals such as sharks and orcas (polar bears are OK because they live on land half the time) because the water helps weaken gravity so animals can get bigger, that's why most whales die from their own weight when they beach. 
 
A large bear (polar, kodiak, etc. bear) could kill any of the other land animals, they are just so large and their powerful arms will crush their skull instantly, even the hyena, and the bear WILL have a chance to strike because they are MUCH more agile than they look.

No, I do not believe everything I read at all-experts and even less at wiki. But, yes I watched a grizzly chase away a polar bear on a documentary. I believe that a coastal grizzly, Kamchatka bear, or a Kodiak could kill a polar bear in a face-off. Ussuri brown bears are big enough too. 
 
If the brown bear is even close to polar bear size, he is likely to have the strength advantage. His lifestyle of digging in hard ground and turning over huge boulders and fallen trees has caused the grizzly ( brownie ) to develope that hump of muscle on his shoulders which makes the brown bear pound for pound the stronger bear.

The polar bear evolved roughly 200,000 years ago when a group of Kamchatka brown bears were stranded and seperated from others of their kind. They evolved into Ursus maritimus tyrannus, which is called the giant polar bear. But, this biggest of bears was actually much more like a giant grizzly than a polar bear. The modern polar bear appeared roughly 100,000 years ago. He is more stream-lined for an aquatic lifestyle. 
 
Ursus maritimus tyrannus was 6 feet shoulder height and weighed well over a ton. I do not know how tall he might have been standing upright. But, he was 12 feet long. 
 
The brown bears are the polar bears closest relatives.

I don't know what Ursus maritimus tyrannus has to do with anything, but I certainly know about it. Of course it's more powerful than either animal, it's larger! In my point of view, it's the strongest predatory mammal to live on land. After all, bears have a natural adavantage over other predators in terms of pound-for-pound strength, even more so than the great cats, that's unmistakable. Being larger than all meat-eating land mammals but Megistotherium helps, too. (Maybe there's more, but they probably aren't pound-for-pound as strong as bears.) 
 
I'm pretty sure your information about Ursus maritimus tyrannus is mostly correct, toby, although I think that ursus maritimus tyrannus was more along the lines of 1.9 meters tall and 3.8 meters long, but close enough!

About your first answer, toby, this Jonathan guy says he's seen animals IN REAL LIFE, not just in some half-imaginary documentary.

I don't know who Jonathan is, but I don't live in brown bear/polar bear country. So, I go with nature documentaries. 
 
My point with the giant polar bear was: It was as much brown bear as it was polar bear. Intermidiate. The polar bear, in adapting to a semi-aquatic lifestyle, lost much of it's brute strength. 
 
If you venture over to Siberian Tiger vs Grizzly, our friends Zink, Zack, and Damon believe that the big cats were stronger than a brown bear.

Maybe the polar bear GAINED strength when it evolved from grizzlies. 
 
And now that we think about it, we shouldn't be arguing about animals we've never seen fight before. 
 
These zink, Zack and Damon people don't seem very well informed, do they? No dissagreeing on that. Wild cats ARE strong, that's undeniable, 
 
but when compared with bears, they're like house cats.

polar bears love to eat peaches from cans so they are far more dominate then the wimpy little Kodiak like girl piece of crap thing so gay 
 
laters fag boys

YOU'RE AN IDIOT PEACHES 
 
 
 
Like, peaches taste good and everything, but 
 
 
 
1. This is NOT ABOUT how polar bears eat canned peaches. 
 
2. peaches don't grow in the arctic, let alone grow in a can in the arctic.

i think a polar bear would win because its bigger,kodiak brown bear is just a alaskin grizzly bear

1. I live in Norway and know for a fact there are many Polar Bears weighing over 800 kg (1700 pounds), since I work as a scientist flying around in helicopter and take samples of these animals. The largest we have found while I have been a part of the team the past 4 years was probably over 900 kg (2000 pounds). 
 
 
 
2. About a fight between a Kodiak and a Polar. I see lots of strange arguments on the top here. One actually claim Polar Bears are left handed, and therefor could win because of the surprice (!!!??). Well, no comment to that one... 
 
A big issue is tha Polar Bears problemwith overheating. It can smash the scull in on a large bull Moose, but it would overheat if it should fight another bear for 5 minutes. Because its not easy to kill a Bear. It would most often last for some time before one really dies. 
 
3. I see an argument that Polar Bears are hunters and killers and therefor it would win. Well, its not a very valid argument, since Polar Bears are not used to hunt and fight other land animals other than other Polar bears. Same as Kodiak Bears. Becides, the Polar are very sceptic to other land animals. Its unknown to them.  
 
So it has not any advantage there. 
 
4. The head and scull of the Kodiak are much more massive than the Polar Bears. It can take more beating there. 
 
5. There are actually a number of accounts of Grizzlies meeting polar Bears in northern Alaska during summer. The much more aggressive Grizzly often chase away the Polar. But that does NOT mean it would win an actually fight.  
 
 
 
To conclude about what I know and believe, a fight between a 1500 pound Kodiak and a 1600 pound polar Bear could go both ways of course.  
 
But if it drags out, the kodiak would probably win due to the Polar Bears overheating.  
 
 
 
I see there is a discussion of Tigers and Brown Bears. A Siberian Tiger has no chance on either one in a fight. Russian scientists I work with have the same view as us and are very clear that it would be a disaster for a Tiger to fight an adult Brown or Polar Bear. The Polar would have finished the game long before overheating. Brown Bears often go after Polar Bears and take over their kills by intimidating the Siberian Tigers with its size. And those Bears sharing the same habitat as the Siberian Tigers are actually much smaller than the coastal Siberian Brown Bear. The rarely reach 300 kg. But Siberian Tigers will sometimes kill cubs and smaller Brown Bears less than 120- 130 kg.

Unique to bears: a puzzling issue for taxonomists... any species of bear can interbreed with any other species of bear and produce fertile offspring. 
 
Unique to bears: no bear has facial vibrissae / no facial expression.  
 
Unique to bears: a newborn bear is smaller in proportion to the size of the mother ( less than 1% ) than is the case with any other placental mammal. 
 
Unique to bears: bears are both the smartest and the strongest of carnivores.  
 
 
 

strongest: no doubt whatsoever, bears are intensely powerful. 
 
smartest: not sure, bears are insane geniuses but they're not alone.

Of all the carnivores, bears have the highest brain-to-body mass ratio. Bears are the most intelligent mammals in North America. Bears are near great ape intelligence.

Polar bear claws... 2.75 inches ( equal to a lion's claws ) 
 
Brown bear claws... 5 inches.

myth: bears have poor eyesight. 
 
fact: bears see in color and have good vision similar to a human's. Their night vision is excellent and they are particularly attuned to detecting movement. 
 
A bear's hearing is excellent, equal to a canine. Like dogs, bears hear high pitches, exceeding human frequency range and sensitivity. 
 
A bear's sence of smell is even greater than any canine. Few animals in all nature has better.

true, bears ARE natural wonders, great senses and everything. 
 
About the intelligence thing, where did you read it? I want to check it out.

I read it in a book. But, the book listed this site which I haven't checked out yet. I have been off line for a couple of weeks. 
 
Book: Bear-ology by Sylvia Delson. 
 
www.bearsmart.com

Just as it is debatable whether the Siberian tiger or the Bengal tiger is the biggest, the same holds true for the polar bear and the Kodiak bear. The size difference is just too close to call.  
 
But as for strength and raw power, there is little room for debate. The Kodiak bear is the stronger of these two giants. That shoulder hump of solid muscle is for digging into rock-hard ground for roots, grubs, and ground squirrels. It also gives his already incredible bear strength a boost in pure physical power. Enough to overturn huge boulders and fallen trees, and to rip open stumps.  
 
The polar bear lost this when he adapted to a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Take a good look at the two bruins. Perception.

thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/largest12.html

weldonlee.blogspot.com/2008/06/inside-bears-brain.html 
 
Bears just might have the best sense of smell of any creature on earth.

www.hungryhorsenews.com/articles/2005/08/03/news/ 
 
sectionhiker.com/bears_sense_of_smell/

See King Grizzly at: 
 
www.myspace.com/539693522

evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/100401_polarbears 
 
Both the Kodiak and the polar bears are brown bears ( species, not color ). This has been proven by DNA results. Also, by the fact that grizzlys and polar bears breed freely in the wild.