THE GIGANTIC PREHISTORIC BEAR Agriotherium (and another "short-faced" bear, the Arctodus simus) is by any measure among the largest known members of terrestrial Carnivora. These "terror bears" had longer legs (and shorter faces) than other bears, and were more lightly built, even gracile-- by bear standards. Their wide, short jaws could generate enormous bite force. It is not certain how this tremendous force was used by the living animal; a study designed to determine how the genus fed discovered, intriguingly, that among living bears the lowest bite force belongs to the predatory Polar bear, which feeds largely on blubber, and the highest bite force belongs to the Giant Panda, a herbivore which uses it to crush bamboo. Oh, well-- shortened jaws with high bite forces are found in other mammals, like certain Gelada baboons that eat grasses but evolved from non-grazing ancestors. And you find them in bone-crushing scavengers, like jibbering Spotted Hyenas and slavering Borphagine dogs. This extinct Show has as much Animal Magnetism as may be derived-- from a re-run.