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Are Bears Dogs or Cats ?

  • Dogs

  • Cats

  • bears


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jelly

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
33,841
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Mochi

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
1,704
Seattle
Bears may be dogs, but hyenas are cats.

Or perhaps more to the point,
dogs may be bears, but cats are definitely hyenas.
 

Weltall Zero

Game Developer
Banned
Oct 26, 2017
19,343
Madrid
Between these two choices, they're dogs:
en.wikipedia.org

Bear - Wikipedia

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans.

Weasels, foxes, skunks, otters, raccoons, and even seals are also caniforms. Cats, appropriately enough, are kind of their own thing.

EDIT: anyone answering with taxonomy or phylogeny should answer with their heart not their mind

You're not my real mom, you can't tell me what to do.
 

ZiZ

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,716
Most closely related to Seals, actually.

www.quora.com

What animals are closely related to bears?

Answer (1 of 7): SEALS. That’s right, seals are the closest living relatives of bears. Bears belong to the Carnivoran suborder caniformia, which contains dogs, raccoons, mustelids (weasels, badgers, otters, and the like), skunks, and seals. Out of these, the ones bears share the most recent commo...

by that measure, the answer to OP's question specifically would then be dogs since they are also related to seals

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Wait, hyenas are closer to cats than dogs?
 

Imperfected

Member
Nov 9, 2017
11,737
I had to vote with my mind because my heart doesn't actually have strong opinions about bears?

Fun Fact: I once encountered a bear walking home through a suburban neighborhood after classes. The bear was frightened off by an SUV before it could become a more interesting story. Neither dogs nor cats are scared of SUVs, so I content bears are neither.
 

Qvoth

Member
Oct 26, 2017
11,876
Most closely related to Seals, actually.

www.quora.com

What animals are closely related to bears?

Answer (1 of 7): SEALS. That’s right, seals are the closest living relatives of bears. Bears belong to the Carnivoran suborder caniformia, which contains dogs, raccoons, mustelids (weasels, badgers, otters, and the like), skunks, and seals. Out of these, the ones bears share the most recent commo...

by that measure, the answer to OP's question specifically would then be dogs since they are also related to seals

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hyenas are closer to cats than to dogs?
the fuck?
 

Imperfected

Member
Nov 9, 2017
11,737
Hyenas are fucking weirdos, and if you don't know much about them take my advice and keep it that way.

You're heading into echnida territory all over again.
 

FaceHugger

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
13,949
USA
I went and Googled "bears" and every result including the little info portion is for the Chicago Bears US football team. Jesus Christ Google.
 

Tuorom

Member
Oct 30, 2017
10,888
The real question is who would win in a fight:

A Grizzly Bear or a Silverback Gorilla?
 

Heshinsi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
16,089
Bears are bears, but this species (Sloth Bears) of bears are really just humans in bear suits.

giphy.gif
 

bwahhhhh

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
3,160
Bears (big 'B') are bears (little 'b'), but bears (little 'b') are dogs. this is just scientific fact
 

MrKlaw

Member
Oct 25, 2017
33,028
Kind of big and lumbering like a shaggy dog. But they use their paws a lot and like fish..

it's a ponderer..
 

CaviarMeths

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
10,655
Western Canada
Most closely related to Seals, actually.

www.quora.com

What animals are closely related to bears?

Answer (1 of 7): SEALS. That’s right, seals are the closest living relatives of bears. Bears belong to the Carnivoran suborder caniformia, which contains dogs, raccoons, mustelids (weasels, badgers, otters, and the like), skunks, and seals. Out of these, the ones bears share the most recent commo...

by that measure, the answer to OP's question specifically would then be dogs since they are also related to seals

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It's kind of fucking with me that hyenas are on the cat branch. I've always thought of hyenas as dog-like, or maybe I'm just mentally conflating them with jackals and wild dogs since they all share the same general habitat, behavior, and diet.
 

19thCenturyFox

Prophet of Regret
Member
Oct 29, 2017
4,309
Sometimes the common people are ahead of science and scientist's rigid ways of seeing the world, sometimes you find the true answers to nature's mysteries by using your seven senses, by tossing a coin or by beating the answers out of our Reptilian invaders.

What I'm saying is, bears are dogs.

Who'd win in a fight?

1 bear, or a hundred ducks?

It depends on where they fight and how they use the environment to their advantage. Still I have a hard time seeing how a hundred -anything- is not going to defeat one -anything-.
 

iapetus

Member
Oct 26, 2017
3,078
For all you people who are wrong, explain to me the existence of the Binturong, or Asian Bearcat. QED.
 

AgentLampshade

Sweet Commander
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,285
It depends on where they fight and how they use the environment to their advantage. Still I have a hard time seeing how a hundred -anything- is not going to defeat one -anything-.
Plain ass room. No environmental advantage anywhere. See, my theory is the ducks would just all scatter, letting the bear tear into them one by one.