🦈 Great white shark vs Grizzly bear 🐻

Which one? Great white shark or grizzly bear

11 things to know about Great white shark vs Grizzly bear

1. The great white shark: The biggest fish that hunts, with rows of spare teeth waiting.
2. The grizzly bear: A big brown bear with a shoulder hump, strong enough to dig.
3. They are different kinds of animal. The great white shark is a fish, so it breathes with gills; the grizzly bear is a mammal, so it breathes air with lungs and feeds its babies milk.
4. The great white shark is about 3 times as long as the grizzly bear: 1 against 2.
5. The great white shark weighs about 9 times as much as the grizzly bear. That is 1 for the great white shark and 5 for the grizzly bear.
6. They are about the same. Top speeds: 3 for the great white shark and 4 for the grizzly bear.
7. The great white shark usually lives about twice as long as the grizzly bear. Usual lifespans: 1 for the great white shark and 5 for the grizzly bear.
8. The great white shark eats seals, sea lions, fish and dead whales. The grizzly bear eats roots, berries, grasses, nuts, fish, insects and meat.
9. The great white shark lives in cool coastal seas around the world. The grizzly bear lives in the mountains and forests of western North America, from Alaska to Wyoming. They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet.
10. The great white shark: needs help (Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List). 6
11. The grizzly bear: doing fine (Least Concern on the IUCN Red List). 7

Wow facts

🦈 Great white shark

• A great white keeps growing new teeth its whole life.
• It can feel the tiny electric signals of other animals.
• Its body stays warmer than the water around it.

🐻 Grizzly bear

• The hump on its back is a big shoulder muscle for digging.
• Its cubs are born tiny, in the middle of winter.
• Many grizzlies eat more plants than meat.

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