if the bears shoulder was broken he would be defenceless also if that happened 20 million years ago,,or a broken jaw and 2 broken legs,,sure somethings defenceless if its hurt
Did anybody else notice the HUGE weight estimation flaw???
The short faced bear is supposed to be 2 to 3 times bigger than the grizzly. Grizzly bear avg. 1,000 lbs.
The sloth supposedly 2,000 lbs and 800 lbs heavier than the short faced bear. Putting short face bear at 1,200 lbs which is only 200 lbs heavier than a grizzly bear.
How did they make such a huge mistake before making this video? And how come no else noticed? X-D
Please. If the sloth outweighed the bear by 800lbs, there's a strong chance it could crush or break bones with a swing of it's humongous paws. Especially considering it was also partially bipedal.
I don't think this was a very good fight demo. If a ground sloth landed a shot like that to the bear's face it would've been a goner. Or were they just trying to ignore it's gigantic claws?
@rsuriyop I was thinking that too, at the very least I can't imagine the bears would attack full grown ground sloths unless it was the last resort
A kick from a giraffe can decapitate a lion (grant it this genus of sloth weighed about 600pounds less then a giraffe - still 800 more pounds then the bear) so I can imagine a hit from a ground sloth would at least have a good chance of ripping out bone.
the short faced bear was more a scavenger then a predator when chasing if the prey made a sharp the would of short faced would force the bear to snap his leg because of the weight if he decided to make that sharp turn.
I don't think that short-face bear would waste its time with a ground sloth. Too much effort, very little chance of success, a high chance of getting itself f*cked up... there's a shitload of easier prey to go after in its environment... what can I say, its television =D
ive seen the full video and they say on average the short faced bear was 11ft tall and the biggest bear ever to walk the earth in 10ooo years but inthe 1980s there was a caostal brown bear kill that was 14ft tall and weighed in and 1060 pounds..... its a fact
Bullshit I don't think that's how it would go down. Is there a part two cause if this is it, it's retarded cause they don't explain how the sloth could win at all, so they're just saying this is how the bear Could win so that's how it would probably happen. I've read Ground sloths had huge claws scientist think could actually be used as daggers.
I dont think this fight would be that easy.Also ONE 350lb FEMALE lion can take down a 3,000lb water buffalo on her best day alone,so a 1,000lb smilodon populator could take down that ground sloth on his worse day easily.
Except for the fact that Ground Sloths have have two pairs of nasty claws for defense. This Ground Sloth also lived in North America, Smilodon Populator lived in South America. Smilodon Fatalis at 500 pounds here would be far to small to take down a ground sloth this size, unless they hunted in a pack of say 15 or more. However, Smilodon populator might have been able to take down a Sloth of similar size on rare occasions.
@N00bcrunch3r "Except for the fact that Ground Sloths have have two pairs of nasty claws for defense" And except that the buffalo is faster and has two three foot horns on each side.
3 foot horns? Maybe an Antelope, but a buffalo does not have horns totaling 6 feet long! And you must also remember, that while Smilodon fatalis weighed as much as a lion, it was only the size of a Black Bear, and was not suited for long fights, especially with those extremely fragile sabers. The Jefferson's Ground Sloth was simply to big for Smilodon.
@N00bcrunch3r "but a buffalo does not have horns totaling 6 feet long!" You dont know anything about buffolo do you? "Actually the record is 6ft 7 in long. So surely there are plenty of buffalo with 6 foot horn spans. Fatalis was bigger than a lion, Lions weigh "150–250 kg (330–550 lb) for males" And Fatalis was "160 to 280 kg (350 to 620 lb)". Where as populator could reach 1,000. And the fight doesn't have to be long anyway. The sloth is on the menu for Smilodons diet anyway on websites.
Yeah, record size! The average horn is not 6 feet long.
Key word "weight"! Lions are 10.8 feet long from nose to tail and stand 4 feet high at the shoulder. Smilodon was 8.5 feet long from nose to tail and about 40 inches at the shoulder. We are talking about size and dimensions, not weight.
I never said that Smilodon couldn't take down Jefferson's Ground Sloth, but you better have at least 10 Smilodon, and even then, the chances of them taking down the Sloth are 10 to 1.
@N00bcrunch3r The average adult male is not 6ft2 either, but I am. Lions have very long tails where as smilodon has a very short tail, but their bodies are nolonger than a smilodon. The smilodon had greater dimensions than the lion as far as depth and width. He would have had to in order to weigh that much more AND be shorter to. Yeah smilodon was bigger. Not ten to 1 more like 9 to one with 5 smilodon.
Guess what, we are talking average, NOT exceptional!
Body length for Smilodon was around 61/2 feet, a lion's is 8 feet. Yes Smilodon is more compact and muscular, BUT THAT DOES NOT make it bigger, just heavier.
Care to provide a source that Smilodon was THAT successful at capturing Ground Sloths, especially big ones?
@N00bcrunch3r YOU are talking about average,Just like you aren't talking to the average sized human who's to say it would be an averaged sized buffalo?The shorter the body the bigger If a seven foot 300lb human was shrunk to 5 ft he would be much bigger. Like I said the smilodon was deeper and wider than the lion,BIGGER. Wikipedia says it.If you want to claim thats an unreliable source I'll just say when you copy/paste what Wikipedia said on Google several other sources say the exact same thing.
By size I mean size! If you mean "mass", sure, but not size. And on I couldn't say Wikipedia is unreliable because I use it myself.
Size: "The physical dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or 'extent' of an object." That means under at least one definition, a Lion is bigger than Smilodon.
@N00bcrunch3r if you gain more mass you gain more size. yes it say dimension and proportions, the smilodon would be deep and wider (dimensions ) and it would be proportionally more musculars and bulky. Smilodon would be bigger than the lion, and thats just the fatalis alone, populator is estimated to have weighed up to 1,000 by Wikipedia, So if a 400lb male lion can take down a water buffalo well over 2,000lb alone surely a populator weighing 1,000 can take down a slow ass sloth.
Is it just me or is it ridiculous that a bear would take on prey BIGGER than it, alone, when the prey is also very dangerous? That's not what predators do, they don't hunt for extremely dangerous prey like that, cause if they get hurt that's more or less a death sentence.
I find the ridiculous part being that it basically got into a boxing match with it, which in real life I think it would probably lose since the sloth is bigger and bigger claws. There is some evidence showing the bear would sometimes eat ground sloths, but it probably circled around and tried getting at them from the sides or behind.
@105km Yeah I understand now. However it just wasn't humans that killed them off. We were one of the reasons. It was a result of two things. Climate change and Human Hunting. Even if Humans didn't hunt them to extinction. Climate would still kill them. So yeah climate change, human hunting, and changes in the environment and not being able to adapt to it is what caused their demise.
For a great book on the killing methods of smilodon and other saber toothed cats read the book The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives, with text by Alan Turner and amazing illustrations by Mauricio Anton. We don't know if they hunted in packs but there is evidence that some of them may have. Just as big cats today use a variety of methods among the different species so it may have been with the saber tooths. I hope someone writes a similar book about prehistoric bears.
"boxing match"? i'd be wearing a bear-head hat and a sloth coat 20 minutes after seeing that fiasco. they don't even step into their punches, keep their paws up or understand footwork.
Actually WasLilChrisnowbigish, I believe the Megatherium was the biggest known ground sloth ever found. But maybe in the last few years they have found bigger ones that I have missed news about.
the sloth uses the mega slap that could minus 2000 hp
but the bear counters with a neon slap that takes4000 pp and uauaua owww
its a box ing match to the death and the ear hits the chest hard giving him a free finisher knowen as the bear bite 'n hug and the slothe was fucked hard!!!!!
I'm confused here. The slothes in the video weighs 2000lbs. This bear is 2-3 times bigger than a grizzly. Grizzlys can weigh 1000lbs, so that would make this bear 2500lbs giver or take 500lbs. Yet this sloth somehow out weighs it by 800lbs? There saying this 2000lbs sloth weighs more than the bear thats3 times the size of a grizzly.. Wtf kind of logic is that? Must have been a baby LOL.
Ground Sloth: *Stands up* HAH! I'm bigger than you! Bear: Oh yeah *Stands up* How do you like THAT! *SLAP* Ground Sloth: DON'T SLAP ME! *SLAP* Bear:GRRRR *SLAP* Ground Sloth:*SLAP* Bear:*SLAP Ground Sloth:*SLAP* Later on... Ground Sloth:*SLAP* Bear:*SLAP BITE* Ground Sloth:*Dead* Bear: HAH! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT SUCKER! THE END
@thehantavirus its not the megatherium because it says that the bear was out weighed by about 800 lbs. The short faced bear weighed around 2,000 lbs, and the megatherium weighed around 8 tons 0_0
@cleanurpants Actually, I believe according to binomial nomenclature rules the species name is always uncapitalized; so it would be Tyrannosaurus rex.
i think the way that humans made it to North and South America by boat was both following the shores along the West side of North and South America, and also by traveling along kelp forests that had kelp weeds floating near the surface. just a theory, that's all.
*@Nunger28? U have to Look at THE BIGGER PICTURE? After all, Ground Sloths, and Terror Birds were Tough Enough to fight their out of South America to North America. What common Denominator curtailed countless Ice Age Beasts Extinction? MAN!
im sick of how people think that carnivores always win. they do very often, but i think a ground sloth had pretty strong arms and could discourage a short faced bear from attacking again. it couldnt kill it but just repel it
i thought it was really funny when the grizzly and the short faced bear were walking together then stood up like synchronised dancers waiting for comments from the audience!
@GamerGod991 It is believed the reason everything was bigger back then was because their was more oxygen. The more oxygen there is. The bigger things can get. So if there was more oxygen today. Many animals would be bigger. Including us.
megatheruim the south american sloth would have killed that bear in 1 strike meegatherium was 3 times as big as the jefferson sloth scientists say they might be able to clone these animals in around 15 years
WTF? The short faced bear was well over 2000lbs not 1500lbs. Its not uncommon for some costal bears to exceed 1500lbs so this is inaccurate. Plus the history channel supports what I just said.
Rock em Sock em robots in fur coats! My problem with battlescenes like these is that they always depict mammal predators such as bears and dogs as WINNERS, while the South American giant sloths and thunderbirds *Titanis, as the chronic LOSERS! If so, how did they make it all the way up to North America???
@oxyaena I agree, just because the bear has teeth don't mean it would had beat the sloth. The Sloth was bigger and had Bigger claws. It should have won. Scientist arm normally one sided, mostly in favor of the Carnivores. Why couldn't the sloth attack the bear abdominal area, but no only Carnivores are that smart......
@oxyaena while i agree that the terror bird and ground sloths were aggressive opponents i don't think they would be able to comepte with wolves and bears. after all wolves and bears are still here, but terrorbirds and groundsloths went extinct
@WasLilChrisnowbigish Yes, I know. If this is a Megatherium then it is a young one as they grew to maybe 18 feet tall and the Arctodus topped out supposedly at 15 feet. The Arctodus may have weighed up to about 2500 lbs and the sloth maybe in a full grown specimen I would think nearly twice that much as it was also more massively built than the lanky bear. By the way you mean "they're," not "there."
@Dondragmer No, Smilodon was not the undiputed "King" of anything. There were several competitors for that crown; American lions, Dire wolves, Homotherium, and Arctodus,even Jaguars! And there were several DANGEROUS prey animals such as Mammoths, Ground Sloths, Bison, etc. Smilodon fossils show alot more injuries than other carnivores...
@oxyaena You must be replying to someone else's message, not mine. I did not say nor imply that Smilodon was the king of anything. But being injured more often does not argue against their meriting the crown for King. Lions likely are injured most because of the size of their prey, but maybe tigers even more so since they hunt solitarily. As applied to lions and other candidates for "King" the title is really just an honorific, in lions' case because of their appearance and assumed courage.
@Dondragmer ??? I don't remember addressing you- atleast not recently... Anyhoo, Smilodon, Homotherium, Dinofelis, Cave Lion, Chasmaporthetes, Pachycrocuta, the American cheetah, and Arctodus were ALL Contenders for the tile of "King". No doubt, they all sat on that throne at various moments in their lives. Smilodon could have killed a lion- which could have killed a jaguar-which killed a bobcat-which could have killed an opossum-which could have killed a rattlesnake etc. NOBODY STAYS KING
@oxyaena You did send me a message 2 or 3 weeks ago and it appeared in my private email. So maybe it was just misaddressed. Anyway I quite agree with all you say. There were many kings. Only the mammoths, like today's elephants, were emperors, which outranked kings.
@razor014445673 the other two smilodons were mature but they backed off. That sloth was big as an elephant so I doubt even 3 smilos would have killed it, unless they were crafty and surrounded it. Watch how modern lions kill buffalos or even giraffes and young elephants. They could have killed a young or old or sick sloth. But probably they would have gone after easier prey like a smaller sloth such as mylodon, about the size of a grizzly. Pants? What pants?
@Dondragmer no they were females and plus the male smilodon was bigger and no the hunting tactics of smilodon were diff from lions and a male smilo could alone kill a sloth if in killing rage smilos were famous for that once they got pissed they woulden't back down
@razor014445673 I did not say they were not females. I just said they were mature. We don't know for sure what the hunting tactics of smilos were. I am just saying that the most effective way for them to kill the sloth would have been to surround it. I do agree that an experienced healthy smilo could have killed an adult sloth that big if it had ambushed it and avoided its claws. In hunting prey there is no killing "rage." Predators are calm and focused, though high on adrenaline when killing
@Dondragmer so you are trying to say that if you went and smaked a smilo oh its head it wouldent get pissed and yes smilos had a killing rage but only when angry
@razor014445673 No, I am not saying that at all. I am saying that when on the hunt and in the act of killing prey for food there is no killing range. It is like when a human hunter shoots a duck or a deer he is not in a rage, killing or otherwise. He is not angry at his quarry; he is just killing for food. Of course in the act of killing if the predator is attacked in return he will get angry because he is in danger then; so yes I agree smilos had a killing rage but only when angry.
@Dondragmer now you get the point i was trying to say that if the smilo was angrey there was no way the sloth could have won cause once the smilos got angrey they would only take breath after killing
if the bears shoulder was broken he would be defenceless also if that happened 20 million years ago,,or a broken jaw and 2 broken legs,,sure somethings defenceless if its hurt
sarcasticoldbastard 6 days ago
Did anybody else notice the HUGE weight estimation flaw???
The short faced bear is supposed to be 2 to 3 times bigger than the grizzly. Grizzly bear avg. 1,000 lbs.
The sloth supposedly 2,000 lbs and 800 lbs heavier than the short faced bear. Putting short face bear at 1,200 lbs which is only 200 lbs heavier than a grizzly bear.
How did they make such a huge mistake before making this video? And how come no else noticed? X-D
Urhoboman5 2 weeks ago 2
i came here to watch the fight, instead i watched the full 6-pack-shortcuts ad...
jasoncsh 3 weeks ago
Wow, Guess they cant make another ice-age now that sid's out of the picture.
Dan17234 1 month ago
These guys can take out Amir Khan for sure!
IphoneWise 1 month ago
It's like they're having a bitch slap fight
strandedbandit 1 month ago
Please. If the sloth outweighed the bear by 800lbs, there's a strong chance it could crush or break bones with a swing of it's humongous paws. Especially considering it was also partially bipedal.
Caqui 1 month ago
lol its a boxing match
Hokuten1640 2 months ago
Wow I didn't see that coming
juddi90 2 months ago
these two would be funny wrestlers
Big Show as the bear & Mark Henry as the sloth.
CascadeFreak 3 months ago
I don't think this was a very good fight demo. If a ground sloth landed a shot like that to the bear's face it would've been a goner. Or were they just trying to ignore it's gigantic claws?
rsuriyop 3 months ago
@rsuriyop I was thinking that too, at the very least I can't imagine the bears would attack full grown ground sloths unless it was the last resort
A kick from a giraffe can decapitate a lion (grant it this genus of sloth weighed about 600pounds less then a giraffe - still 800 more pounds then the bear) so I can imagine a hit from a ground sloth would at least have a good chance of ripping out bone.
Airicks1 2 months ago
I lol'd when they showed the bear running @ 0:13
PHILLYHEAT215 3 months ago
BOXING MATCH!!!!!!!GIANT GROUND SLOTH VS. SHORT FACED BEAR!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAANDD FIGHT!
narutonamikazuzamaki 3 months ago
the freak of nature short face bear bigger than a grizzly bear
vargo65 3 months ago
2:08 lol
Norwegian733 3 months ago
Oh my god Teddy killed ALF lol
TallandAsian89 4 months ago
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Josh360 4 months ago
DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!!
FiendofDA 4 months ago
Just Google it: Prehistoric Mammals Collection by Guruzen. They ALL there to see and enjoy.
guruzin 5 months ago
What 6 people Possibly disliked a Bear-Sloth slap fight?
those people are probably terrorists.
Lokisden 5 months ago
@Lokisden They could have been sloth groupies. Not all people like to accept the facts: the short-faced bear is just plain awesome.
NavyDogfish 5 months ago
Slap slap bear: fuck this! (BITE)
reptoslicer 5 months ago
Beast boxing hahaha
boxrugby 5 months ago
lol bitch slap fight
mp31196 5 months ago
what makes them think a sloth could move that fast. todays sloths cant.
philagon 5 months ago
Sid! Nooooooo!
AnAngryMosher 5 months ago
weight*
SasukeSucksBadly 6 months ago
the short faced bear was more a scavenger then a predator when chasing if the prey made a sharp the would of short faced would force the bear to snap his leg because of the weight if he decided to make that sharp turn.
SasukeSucksBadly 6 months ago
If that was a Megatherium, Arctodus would have been finished.
Octagonapus97 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Sloth: You want a piece of me or what?
Bear: Bring it on bitch!
thephenon724 6 months ago
its not really the best battle i have seen but still good. Jurassic fight club has awesome battles!
SurfStationReports 6 months ago
This is an epic documentary show. its really cool
EragonLego 7 months ago
hmm... that dude looks like the book keeper in Fantasia LOL
MrSyntheticDesign 7 months ago
@MrSyntheticDesign oops sorry i ment Never ending story sorry i was thinking about the book inside the movie :D
MrSyntheticDesign 7 months ago
I don't think that short-face bear would waste its time with a ground sloth. Too much effort, very little chance of success, a high chance of getting itself f*cked up... there's a shitload of easier prey to go after in its environment... what can I say, its television =D
potsmokindino 8 months ago 10
@potsmokindino short faced bear would kick the sloths ass anyday
SasukeSucksBadly 6 months ago
Cat fight Maowwww!!!!!!!!
Theboxer500 8 months ago
It`s looks like fight of 2 strong humans
BaganSmashBros 8 months ago
ive seen the full video and they say on average the short faced bear was 11ft tall and the biggest bear ever to walk the earth in 10ooo years but inthe 1980s there was a caostal brown bear kill that was 14ft tall and weighed in and 1060 pounds..... its a fact
PitlockEntertainment 8 months ago
Dang that bear took that sloth down those giant sloths can kill a sabre tooth cat in one hit
deshotgunner360 9 months ago
Wow, Lennox Lewis vs Muhammad Ali
MrTheGrabber 9 months ago
Damn nature, You scary!
EliteWraith 9 months ago 8
"hey get up bitch, im not finished with you yet!!!!"
MtGuyful 9 months ago
Seems like the eye-poking technique wasn't fully developed yet.
Corbon440 9 months ago
awesome.
mythplatypuspwned 10 months ago
????????????????????????????????
11jxherrera 10 months ago
@JakeBIX1 yeah I was gonna say that
FlippingToes 10 months ago
the bear B slapped the sloth at the end :3
JakeBIX1 10 months ago
Poor sloth... minding it's own business.
theaudieriggs 10 months ago
A lot of people still say a ground sloth exists in south america very rare people say they have seen an animal like it.
lilsm555 10 months ago
SUCK IT BEAR. THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR FUCKING WITH THE LION
Empororscorpion1 11 months ago
@Empororscorpion1
what the hell are you even talking bout?
Tarbtano 10 months ago
@Tarbtano
in another video the short faced bear killed the lion.
Empororscorpion1 10 months ago
OMG IT'S AN EPIC SLOTH ^^
wolfhugger99 11 months ago
This is stupid. I think pikachu fighting squirttle is a bit more realistic.
ThisReallySuckz 11 months ago
nothing compares to manbearpig
protosyk11 11 months ago
Slap Fight!
Flubbergup 11 months ago
BEAR IS UNDEFEATED CHAMP
rodtorre7 11 months ago
@rodtorre7 give me a mini gun ill fuck all of them down with only 10 bullets.
nickysticky100 10 months ago
i fucking loved this
HittingJimmy 11 months ago
Bullshit I don't think that's how it would go down. Is there a part two cause if this is it, it's retarded cause they don't explain how the sloth could win at all, so they're just saying this is how the bear Could win so that's how it would probably happen. I've read Ground sloths had huge claws scientist think could actually be used as daggers.
MrEllisRedding 11 months ago
What is this show called?
pwdlabr 11 months ago 4
@pwdlabr
Its called Prehistoric Predators and its from National Geographic. I recommend you see it! Its awesome!
105km 11 months ago 9
lol pimp slap pimp slap pimp slap (they were good fighters)
ReaversPistol 1 year ago
WTF is this boxing just bite its neck
wannagoonsik 1 year ago
WTF?!?!Howcome ive never heard of these >.>.... this makes dinosaurs look un-impressive....
99BeepBeep 1 year ago
WTF?!?!Howcome ive never heard of these >.>.... this makes dinosaurs look un-impressive....
99BeepBeep 1 year ago
I dont think this fight would be that easy.Also ONE 350lb FEMALE lion can take down a 3,000lb water buffalo on her best day alone,so a 1,000lb smilodon populator could take down that ground sloth on his worse day easily.
RaytownSoClassof2010 1 year ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
wow I dont even know where to start - simply put, your comment is ridiculous
105km 1 year ago 18
@105km whatever
RaytownSoClassof2010 1 year ago
@105km HAHA I agree.
shagy2k5 6 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010 The Sloth was not so defenceeless as the buffalo!
diablomasterabg 1 year ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
Except for the fact that Ground Sloths have have two pairs of nasty claws for defense. This Ground Sloth also lived in North America, Smilodon Populator lived in South America. Smilodon Fatalis at 500 pounds here would be far to small to take down a ground sloth this size, unless they hunted in a pack of say 15 or more. However, Smilodon populator might have been able to take down a Sloth of similar size on rare occasions.
N00bcrunch3r 10 months ago
@N00bcrunch3r "Except for the fact that Ground Sloths have have two pairs of nasty claws for defense" And except that the buffalo is faster and has two three foot horns on each side.
RaytownSoClassof2010 10 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
3 foot horns? Maybe an Antelope, but a buffalo does not have horns totaling 6 feet long! And you must also remember, that while Smilodon fatalis weighed as much as a lion, it was only the size of a Black Bear, and was not suited for long fights, especially with those extremely fragile sabers. The Jefferson's Ground Sloth was simply to big for Smilodon.
N00bcrunch3r 10 months ago
@N00bcrunch3r "but a buffalo does not have horns totaling 6 feet long!" You dont know anything about buffolo do you? "Actually the record is 6ft 7 in long. So surely there are plenty of buffalo with 6 foot horn spans. Fatalis was bigger than a lion, Lions weigh "150–250 kg (330–550 lb) for males" And Fatalis was "160 to 280 kg (350 to 620 lb)". Where as populator could reach 1,000. And the fight doesn't have to be long anyway. The sloth is on the menu for Smilodons diet anyway on websites.
RaytownSoClassof2010 10 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
Yeah, record size! The average horn is not 6 feet long.
Key word "weight"! Lions are 10.8 feet long from nose to tail and stand 4 feet high at the shoulder. Smilodon was 8.5 feet long from nose to tail and about 40 inches at the shoulder. We are talking about size and dimensions, not weight.
I never said that Smilodon couldn't take down Jefferson's Ground Sloth, but you better have at least 10 Smilodon, and even then, the chances of them taking down the Sloth are 10 to 1.
N00bcrunch3r 10 months ago
@N00bcrunch3r The average adult male is not 6ft2 either, but I am. Lions have very long tails where as smilodon has a very short tail, but their bodies are nolonger than a smilodon. The smilodon had greater dimensions than the lion as far as depth and width. He would have had to in order to weigh that much more AND be shorter to. Yeah smilodon was bigger. Not ten to 1 more like 9 to one with 5 smilodon.
RaytownSoClassof2010 10 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
Guess what, we are talking average, NOT exceptional!
Body length for Smilodon was around 61/2 feet, a lion's is 8 feet. Yes Smilodon is more compact and muscular, BUT THAT DOES NOT make it bigger, just heavier.
Care to provide a source that Smilodon was THAT successful at capturing Ground Sloths, especially big ones?
N00bcrunch3r 10 months ago
@N00bcrunch3r YOU are talking about average,Just like you aren't talking to the average sized human who's to say it would be an averaged sized buffalo?The shorter the body the bigger If a seven foot 300lb human was shrunk to 5 ft he would be much bigger. Like I said the smilodon was deeper and wider than the lion,BIGGER. Wikipedia says it.If you want to claim thats an unreliable source I'll just say when you copy/paste what Wikipedia said on Google several other sources say the exact same thing.
RaytownSoClassof2010 10 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
By size I mean size! If you mean "mass", sure, but not size. And on I couldn't say Wikipedia is unreliable because I use it myself.
Size: "The physical dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or 'extent' of an object." That means under at least one definition, a Lion is bigger than Smilodon.
N00bcrunch3r 10 months ago
@N00bcrunch3r if you gain more mass you gain more size. yes it say dimension and proportions, the smilodon would be deep and wider (dimensions ) and it would be proportionally more musculars and bulky. Smilodon would be bigger than the lion, and thats just the fatalis alone, populator is estimated to have weighed up to 1,000 by Wikipedia, So if a 400lb male lion can take down a water buffalo well over 2,000lb alone surely a populator weighing 1,000 can take down a slow ass sloth.
RaytownSoClassof2010 10 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010
Alright, I stop the argument. But I will state the case was quite the opposite for Megatherium.
N00bcrunch3r 10 months ago
@RaytownSoClassof2010 umm smilo didnt even use its sabers in battle for fear of breaking them
Gamerfreak4445 9 months ago
bitch slapping at it`s finest
galaxymaster 1 year ago 47
@galaxymaster
lol
cutewithpoison 3 months ago
Is it just me or is it ridiculous that a bear would take on prey BIGGER than it, alone, when the prey is also very dangerous? That's not what predators do, they don't hunt for extremely dangerous prey like that, cause if they get hurt that's more or less a death sentence.
Protonpack 1 year ago 3
@Protonpack
I find the ridiculous part being that it basically got into a boxing match with it, which in real life I think it would probably lose since the sloth is bigger and bigger claws. There is some evidence showing the bear would sometimes eat ground sloths, but it probably circled around and tried getting at them from the sides or behind.
dragonstormx 1 year ago
@Dinospikester your definitely right.
Calordamor 1 year ago
@105km Yeah I understand now. However it just wasn't humans that killed them off. We were one of the reasons. It was a result of two things. Climate change and Human Hunting. Even if Humans didn't hunt them to extinction. Climate would still kill them. So yeah climate change, human hunting, and changes in the environment and not being able to adapt to it is what caused their demise.
Dinospikester 1 year ago
What a natural moves and behaviour of those animals... I realy dislike animation like that. BBC series "Walking with... " rules!
broookerek 1 year ago
What documentary is this?
FreePersiaForAll 1 year ago
@FreePersiaForAll It is called Prehistoric Predators.
Dinospikester 1 year ago
For a great book on the killing methods of smilodon and other saber toothed cats read the book The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives, with text by Alan Turner and amazing illustrations by Mauricio Anton. We don't know if they hunted in packs but there is evidence that some of them may have. Just as big cats today use a variety of methods among the different species so it may have been with the saber tooths. I hope someone writes a similar book about prehistoric bears.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
falcon punch at 1:51
monyta542 1 year ago
"boxing match"? i'd be wearing a bear-head hat and a sloth coat 20 minutes after seeing that fiasco. they don't even step into their punches, keep their paws up or understand footwork.
kenfo0 1 year ago
Actually WasLilChrisnowbigish, I believe the Megatherium was the biggest known ground sloth ever found. But maybe in the last few years they have found bigger ones that I have missed news about.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
Short Faced Bear Used Claw! ...
Its super effective!!!...
Sloth fainted....
Short Faced Bear gained 14982 exp!
chadspry 1 year ago
I saw a full fossil of the ground sloth man they are huge and there hands are so big
raoorz 1 year ago
the sloth uses the mega slap that could minus 2000 hp
but the bear counters with a neon slap that takes4000 pp and uauaua owww
its a box ing match to the death and the ear hits the chest hard giving him a free finisher knowen as the bear bite 'n hug and the slothe was fucked hard!!!!!
MegaTang1234 1 year ago
i'm sorry but the sloth would kick it's ass
falloutmanic32 1 year ago
noooooo , sid
jonas888ification 1 year ago
I'm confused here. The slothes in the video weighs 2000lbs. This bear is 2-3 times bigger than a grizzly. Grizzlys can weigh 1000lbs, so that would make this bear 2500lbs giver or take 500lbs. Yet this sloth somehow out weighs it by 800lbs? There saying this 2000lbs sloth weighs more than the bear thats3 times the size of a grizzly.. Wtf kind of logic is that? Must have been a baby LOL.
DwnNvr 1 year ago
@DwnNvr the ground sloth was bigger anyways since some says it was 1500lb
NWA90s 1 year ago
the bear and sloth are bitch slapping each other
wedgieholic54321 1 year ago
cleanurpants 1 year ago
Bears have never been fighters, and never will, except maybe polar bear
thenewgeneration123 1 year ago
they dint really indicate which species of ground sloth it is. If it was megatherium theres no way the bear woudlve won
thehantavirus 1 year ago 4
@thehantavirus
they did say Jefferson ground sloth
105km 1 year ago 3
@thehantavirus try to pay attention next time u dumbfuck.
Severosrighthook 1 year ago
@thehantavirus its not the megatherium because it says that the bear was out weighed by about 800 lbs. The short faced bear weighed around 2,000 lbs, and the megatherium weighed around 8 tons 0_0
Nofatchicks99 1 year ago
@thehantavirus lol dont fuck with the elephant sized sloth
legh101 1 year ago
@thehantavirus true i think megatherium would've been about 3 times the bears height
jjjaaaccckkk 9 months ago
@jjjaaaccckkk i think it was supposed to be 6 metres long
caraxamage 7 months ago
@jjjaaaccckkk i think the sloth was supposed to be 6 metres long
caraxamage 7 months ago
The bear would useless against Thyranu Saurus Rex!
LBC638 1 year ago
@LBC638 It's Tyrannosaurus Rex, or T-Rex for short, in case you were having trouble with the spelling.
cleanurpants 1 year ago
@cleanurpants Actually, I believe according to binomial nomenclature rules the species name is always uncapitalized; so it would be Tyrannosaurus rex.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
*@Eraley44? Ur a GODDAMN FOOL! Lmfao! Wtf does Prehistoric animals have to do with ur wet dreams?
oxyaena 1 year ago
i think the way that humans made it to North and South America by boat was both following the shores along the West side of North and South America, and also by traveling along kelp forests that had kelp weeds floating near the surface. just a theory, that's all.
GunlessSnake 1 year ago
*@Nunger28? U have to Look at THE BIGGER PICTURE? After all, Ground Sloths, and Terror Birds were Tough Enough to fight their out of South America to North America. What common Denominator curtailed countless Ice Age Beasts Extinction? MAN!
oxyaena 1 year ago
he's like
"Bitch I can stand on two legs tooo, your not special."
Werebereus 1 year ago
Bitch slapping... "Bitch you broke my nail", "Oh no you don't"...
ICU2P 1 year ago
wow... they actually usd punching sounds.
MajorKirby9000 1 year ago
bullshit
makutalaser479 1 year ago
Bullshit
makutalaser479 1 year ago
the bear cheated
RioTxWarrior 1 year ago
Bears are very powerful for their size. I guess the outcome made sense. After all, Jefferson's ground sloths didn't even double the bear's size.
roarquackmoo 1 year ago
wow that would be one hell of a bitch slap
bennymental 1 year ago
ha slap match...
vkap77 1 year ago
Fist fight! ROTFL
goldblaze93 1 year ago
Now that's an one ancient boxing match!
N00bcrunch3r 1 year ago
im sick of how people think that carnivores always win. they do very often, but i think a ground sloth had pretty strong arms and could discourage a short faced bear from attacking again. it couldnt kill it but just repel it
hubjubjub 1 year ago
What show is this I wanna know!
leopardhunter99 1 year ago
bich slap fight
gooddarkjedi 1 year ago
why didnt the sloth just slash at the belly or push him down and then slash him
klaywaffle 1 year ago
the short-faced bear was no match for the large-buttocked baboon which killed by sitting on its enemy
BrokenneckYgor 1 year ago
i thought it was really funny when the grizzly and the short faced bear were walking together then stood up like synchronised dancers waiting for comments from the audience!
lazercrocdt 1 year ago
Why was everything so big back then!?
GamerGod991 1 year ago
@GamerGod991 It is believed the reason everything was bigger back then was because their was more oxygen. The more oxygen there is. The bigger things can get. So if there was more oxygen today. Many animals would be bigger. Including us.
Dinospikester 1 year ago
Looks like a bar fight at a furry convention.
Nobodywantsme 1 year ago
that was sweet. imagine a sloth that would dwarf elephants attacking you
matthewninja 1 year ago
damn that's a big ass sloth
BlackGrizzlyWarrior 1 year ago
SISSY FIGHT!!!!!!!
604nivlek86 1 year ago
i think tos two are females
m1n3t 1 year ago
megatheruim the south american sloth would have killed that bear in 1 strike meegatherium was 3 times as big as the jefferson sloth scientists say they might be able to clone these animals in around 15 years
JordoF6 1 year ago
@JordoF6 / 15yrs? jurassic park in real world? KOOL! i will surely go to see!
singularku 1 year ago
Why are the Giant Ground Sloth and the Giant Short Faced Bear bitch slapping eachother?
Apidium 1 year ago
WTF! this bear is massive!!
47lionking 1 year ago
bitch slaps! yay mammal cat figth.
shaymin123able 1 year ago
the largest mammal that ever lived is the slobo i saw in new jersey eating donuts
BrokenneckYgor 1 year ago
0:20 lol!run horsey,run for your life or u gonna die!!
megahawk46 1 year ago
i know that arctodus is very strong
but strong enough to kill a giant sloth with 1 bite!!!
IMPOSSIBLE
the sloth should kill the bear with 2 blows
but the video still AWESOME
right???
The2010Predator1 1 year ago
@The2010Predator1 yes that is true a giant sloth would be able to kill a bear with maybe 2 blows with its claws but now one knows
megahawk46 1 year ago
this is strangely funny O_O
5aznsandaSPAINishguy 1 year ago
WTF? The short faced bear was well over 2000lbs not 1500lbs. Its not uncommon for some costal bears to exceed 1500lbs so this is inaccurate. Plus the history channel supports what I just said.
Stevofxx 2 years ago
if u think this bear is big, check out Ursus maritimus tyrannus, it could weigh 3000lbs and maybe get even bigger
jakebaldacchino 1 year ago
what about the sloths other hand, legs, etc. -.-
azerliusanbu 2 years ago
Rock em Sock em robots in fur coats! My problem with battlescenes like these is that they always depict mammal predators such as bears and dogs as WINNERS, while the South American giant sloths and thunderbirds *Titanis, as the chronic LOSERS! If so, how did they make it all the way up to North America???
oxyaena 2 years ago 14
@oxyaena
I know what you mean. i saw that video with the wolves and the terrorbird too. Your totaly right
105km 2 years ago
@oxyaena I agree, just because the bear has teeth don't mean it would had beat the sloth. The Sloth was bigger and had Bigger claws. It should have won. Scientist arm normally one sided, mostly in favor of the Carnivores. Why couldn't the sloth attack the bear abdominal area, but no only Carnivores are that smart......
Bladeboy05 1 year ago
@oxyaena while i agree that the terror bird and ground sloths were aggressive opponents i don't think they would be able to comepte with wolves and bears. after all wolves and bears are still here, but terrorbirds and groundsloths went extinct
nunger28 1 year ago
@oxyaena because u touch urself at night
eraley44 1 year ago
@oxyaena The Walking with Prehistoric Beasts program did show a giant sloth killing a Smilodon with one swipe of its paw.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer
tht was a Megatherium sloth there even bigger than the sloth show here
WasLilChrisnowbigish 1 year ago
@WasLilChrisnowbigish Yes, I know. If this is a Megatherium then it is a young one as they grew to maybe 18 feet tall and the Arctodus topped out supposedly at 15 feet. The Arctodus may have weighed up to about 2500 lbs and the sloth maybe in a full grown specimen I would think nearly twice that much as it was also more massively built than the lanky bear. By the way you mean "they're," not "there."
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer No, Smilodon was not the undiputed "King" of anything. There were several competitors for that crown; American lions, Dire wolves, Homotherium, and Arctodus,even Jaguars! And there were several DANGEROUS prey animals such as Mammoths, Ground Sloths, Bison, etc. Smilodon fossils show alot more injuries than other carnivores...
oxyaena 1 year ago
@oxyaena smilodon was the warrior of that age but sadly nobody recognised it its a common thing today too
razor014445673 1 year ago
@oxyaena You must be replying to someone else's message, not mine. I did not say nor imply that Smilodon was the king of anything. But being injured more often does not argue against their meriting the crown for King. Lions likely are injured most because of the size of their prey, but maybe tigers even more so since they hunt solitarily. As applied to lions and other candidates for "King" the title is really just an honorific, in lions' case because of their appearance and assumed courage.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer ??? I don't remember addressing you- atleast not recently... Anyhoo, Smilodon, Homotherium, Dinofelis, Cave Lion, Chasmaporthetes, Pachycrocuta, the American cheetah, and Arctodus were ALL Contenders for the tile of "King". No doubt, they all sat on that throne at various moments in their lives. Smilodon could have killed a lion- which could have killed a jaguar-which killed a bobcat-which could have killed an opossum-which could have killed a rattlesnake etc. NOBODY STAYS KING
oxyaena 1 year ago
@oxyaena You did send me a message 2 or 3 weeks ago and it appeared in my private email. So maybe it was just misaddressed. Anyway I quite agree with all you say. There were many kings. Only the mammoths, like today's elephants, were emperors, which outranked kings.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer that silodon was immature had it been full grown that giant sloth would have peed his pants
razor014445673 1 year ago
@razor014445673 the other two smilodons were mature but they backed off. That sloth was big as an elephant so I doubt even 3 smilos would have killed it, unless they were crafty and surrounded it. Watch how modern lions kill buffalos or even giraffes and young elephants. They could have killed a young or old or sick sloth. But probably they would have gone after easier prey like a smaller sloth such as mylodon, about the size of a grizzly. Pants? What pants?
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer no they were females and plus the male smilodon was bigger and no the hunting tactics of smilodon were diff from lions and a male smilo could alone kill a sloth if in killing rage smilos were famous for that once they got pissed they woulden't back down
razor014445673 1 year ago
@razor014445673 I did not say they were not females. I just said they were mature. We don't know for sure what the hunting tactics of smilos were. I am just saying that the most effective way for them to kill the sloth would have been to surround it. I do agree that an experienced healthy smilo could have killed an adult sloth that big if it had ambushed it and avoided its claws. In hunting prey there is no killing "rage." Predators are calm and focused, though high on adrenaline when killing
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer so you are trying to say that if you went and smaked a smilo oh its head it wouldent get pissed and yes smilos had a killing rage but only when angry
razor014445673 1 year ago
@razor014445673 No, I am not saying that at all. I am saying that when on the hunt and in the act of killing prey for food there is no killing range. It is like when a human hunter shoots a duck or a deer he is not in a rage, killing or otherwise. He is not angry at his quarry; he is just killing for food. Of course in the act of killing if the predator is attacked in return he will get angry because he is in danger then; so yes I agree smilos had a killing rage but only when angry.
Dondragmer 1 year ago
@Dondragmer now you get the point i was trying to say that if the smilo was angrey there was no way the sloth could have won cause once the smilos got angrey they would only take breath after killing
razor014445673 1 year ago