A bear fought in the Polish Army in WW2.
He carried shells to the front line and was taught to salute.
Wojtek
He was a Syrian brown bear purchased, as a young cub, by Polish II Corps soldiers who had been evacuated from the Soviet Union.
During WWII the bear was drafted into the Polish army.
The soldier bear assisted the 22nd Artillery Supply Company in Africa.
In the 1st century AD, polar bears fought seals in Roman amphitheaters flooded with water.
The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
The building’s opening ceremony in 80 AD was as impressive as the Colosseum itself, lasting for 100 days with games such as animal fighting and gladiator duels.
The Romans would often re-enact famous military victories.
Perhaps the most spectacular events at the Colosseum, though, were the mock naval battles in the flooded arena.
Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear.
Jonathan Edwards
He was President Theodore Roosevelt's pet bear.
He had been named by his children “partly out of compliment to their mother’s ancestor, and partly because they thought they detected Calvinistic traits in the bear’s character.”
As he grew, so did his temper and wildness.
In January of 1901 Roosevelt wrote to the Bronx Zoo, inquiring if they would be interested in giving Jonathan Edwards a home.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years
They live further north than any other shark species.
The sharks usually eat large seals but have even been known to eat polar bears and reindeer from time to time.
Grizzly bears have a bite-force of over 8,000,000 pascals, enough to crush a bowling ball.
Also grizzly's are big.
A grizzly bear from Alaska having an enormous weight of 1600 pounds.
The 12.6 foot tall bear had a massive head and teeth.
Its gigantic paws had impressive claws never before seen.
Polar bears can swim 60 miles (96 km) without stopping.
Polar bears are strong swimmers.
They swim across bays or wide leads without hesitation.
They can swim for several hours at a time over long distances.
Polar bears can obtain a swimming speed of 10 kph (6.2 mph).
A polar bear's nostrils close when under water.
Residents of Churchill, Canada, leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears.
Churchill Canada is known as the Polar Bear capital of the world.
Polar bear's skin is black.
Polar bears are largest land predator on earth 11 feet high and 1,700 lbs.
All polar bears ancestry brown female bear lived in Ireland 50,000 years ago.
Ireland was supposedly covered in ice then.
And scientists suggest they come from inbreeding.
Russians take guns into space to protect themselves against bears if they land off-course.
In March 1965, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov landed faulty Voskhod space capsule in the snowy forests of the Urals, 600 miles from his planned landing site.
For protection, Leonov had a nine-millimeter pistol.
He feared the bears and wolves that prowled the forest.
Later in his career, he made sure the Soviet military provided all its cosmonauts with a survival weapon.
His efforts culminated in the TP-82.
It was a sawed-off, double-barreled shotgun with a short-barreled rifle added onto it.
It was good for hunting small game, while packing a big enough punch to deter a 1,000-pound brown bear.
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