Lions are considerably more social than the large bears. Female lions gather in packs of ten or more, often with one or two males to augment their power. The males who are not lucky enough to be invited into a pack of females nonetheless typically travel in pairs or threesomes.
Neither grizzly bears nor polar bears gather in groups, except females with cubs--which makes them more vulnerable, not less.
You mean bears dont cooperate in combative hunts/fights? Brown bears and polar bears do gather in groups:
Pretty much everything you've stated so far has been wrong, from females do the hunting and fighting and are more dominant (Biologist George schaller, Craig packer and Jim joubert not only wrote the opposite, they would all laugh at that claim,) to the lion is the largest in size of the big cats, taller, heavier on average, the tiger is just the longer, tigers are also longer than polar bears at maximum, so should I say tigers are bigger than the largest polar bears? No, you seem too like most, cherry pick the statistics to suit your bias point of views and agenda, to tigers are larger than lions, then you cites no credible source that actually is shown weighing them or measuring their height with photos of videos. You claim bears are infinitely bigger and stronger, yet cant provide a single polar bear with a neck circumference as large as that male lion I just showed.
Even the worlds largest polar bear at 2,225 lbs doesnt not have the same width and size neck and upper body compared to the lion, the lions uses his upper body in combat, he strikes from there, the bears weight is all at his lower body, bears do not strike with their lower half, nor do they use their paws as blunt force weapons to swipe a blow, they wrestle, grapple and use their claws to shred, unlike the lion, who uses his paws like a mace, a club, or a steam hammer to completely obliterate his opponents.
The lion knocked Gedo's bull down with a sideways blow of his paw, and then bit the animal through the back of the neck, killing it instantly.
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q="The lion knocked Gedo's bull down with a sideways blow of his paw, and then bit the animal through the back of the neck, killing it instantly."
he delivers that to a zebra or a kongoni would be a death stroke — a blow on the neck from his paw. the most powerful striking arm in the
animal kingdom.
https://www.google.com/search?q="lion" "knocked it down" paw blow&biw=1083&bih=587&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_qMj_rsXNAhVV8GMKHW4xBQgQ_AUIBygA&dpr=1#tbm=bks&q="animal kingdom. that blow is delivered with such force and scientific"
prey to the ground by biting through the back of the neck, or by striking the animal a terrific blow with the paw, smashing the skull.
The Wide World
One blow of his paw can break a zebra's neck or tear rhino skin. The lion remains by his prey until he has eaten his fill
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q="One blow of his paw can break a zebra's neck or tear a rhino skin. The lion remains by his prey until he has eaten his fill"
You keep saying a bear can do that, a bear can whack things to death, a bear can have a stronger blow than a lion, yet you haven't provided anything to even suggest they can kill something as small as a puma with one blow of the paw. No one is saying they are incapable or moving their arms two and fro, swat or strike, but are they any skillful with it? You've yet to prove so.
I dont need to take your opinions for anything, the biologist have noted this alleged bone crushing common paw swipe you bear fanatics speak of are nearly non-existent:
Out of 300+ sheep killed, not one was by blow of the paw
https://books.google.com/books?id=MeYe-Ls4EW4C&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=grizzly bears crushing blow sheep&source=bl&ots=ICKTFAznPY&sig=HLwQ-UnZ3NF2p-eNc1fGaQQVjKw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-_p_IxsXNAhVIzGMKHTtcCjsQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=grizzly bears crushing blow sheep&f=false
Bears do not use their paws as striking weapons:
Lions not only use it nearly every time, the lion has knock out power:
youtu.be/Ite9n38wvG4?t=61
This is proven by 6 times lions have killed bears with a single blow, you haven't shown anything of a brown bear or polar bear doing anything to a maned lion. Yet lions have been documented killing 700, 900, to even 1,700 lb bears, why would this be un-achievable? Lions kill zebra, buffalo and eland regularly, theres some 100+ documents of lone males doing this, with photos, videos, and book abstracts with lions killing these animals with one blow of the paw, who some elands can reach 4,000 lbs, twice as big as the worlds largest bear...in the exact opposite of those animals horses , moose , bison its vice versa, these animals kill bears more than the opposite. So again, I see your arguments as weak conjectures, baseless, feat-less, and empty, this forum is called science forum, yet you have brought in nothing in the lines of true science, all you've provided was pseudo science.