I see videos of bears standing on two feet and they look a bit uncomfortable and seem not to like standing like that for too long. It’s obviously not only bears but I just used it as an example.
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4 legged animals’ body is build to be on fore legs, this means that the blood pressure will be different when they stand on two legs, a bit the opposite of you making a hand stand, instead of the blood going to their head, is it going away from the head.
Also, it is not the normal way to keep the balance but more like if you stood on one leg, so imagine if you had to stand on one leg while simultaneously being a bit dizzy in the first couple of minutes.
It is simply uncomfortable and harder. 🙂
They are likely not in pain initially but it is uncomfortable to stand long on two legs. The hips are shaped differently so the back legs naturally point forwards instead of down when standing on two legs. So they can not stand straight up. They are basically doing a squat. And just like when you are doing a squat it is a bit uncomfortable and you would not want to do it for long. But it is not actually painful until you do it for too long.
Of course it is different for different animals. Bears seams to be more comfortable on two legs then most animals. A lot of animals can not even get their legs bent far enough to balance over them and are therefore unable to stand on two legs at all.
Bears stand up frequently to see better and to display threat, to acquire something they want, or even to rub themselves on trees. I recall a famous bear from New Jersey named Pedals that would walk on his hind legs because his front paws were burnt in a forest fire. So to answer your question, it is unlikely that it is painful given that they do stand up on their hind legs frequently if they have reason to. Bears and other such animals that walk on fours are quadrupeds, so they walk on fours as their skeletal structure favours it. Humans are bipeds, and so they walk on two by comparison.
Bears stand up frequently to see better and to display threat, to acquire something they want, or even to rub themselves on trees. I recall a famous bear from New Jersey named Pedals that would walk on his hind legs because his front paws were burnt in a forest fire. So to answer your question, it is unlikely that it is painful given that they do stand up on their hind legs frequently if they have reason to. Bears and other such animals that walk on fours are quadrupeds, so they walk on fours as their skeletal structure favours it. Humans are bipeds, and so they walk on two by comparison.
4 legged animals’ body is build to be on fore legs, this means that the blood pressure will be different when they stand on two legs, a bit the opposite of you making a hand stand, instead of the blood going to their head, is it going away from the head.
Also, it is not the normal way to keep the balance but more like if you stood on one leg, so imagine if you had to stand on one leg while simultaneously being a bit dizzy in the first couple of minutes.
It is simply uncomfortable and harder. 🙂
4 legged animals’ body is build to be on fore legs, this means that the blood pressure will be different when they stand on two legs, a bit the opposite of you making a hand stand, instead of the blood going to their head, is it going away from the head.
Also, it is not the normal way to keep the balance but more like if you stood on one leg, so imagine if you had to stand on one leg while simultaneously being a bit dizzy in the first couple of minutes.
It is simply uncomfortable and harder. 🙂
TLDR: it’s uncomfortable. Like using your off-hand.
So this is going to be a sort of off-handedness. We spend our whole lives working with our dominant hand but the moment we decide we’re gonna try and throw with our left hand (or right hand, whichever isn’t dominant) it’s very uncomfortable and we look ridiculous. Well most animals, such as bears, have spent their whole lives on all fours so once they hop up to their two hind legs they’re uncomfortable and can’t balance as well as they’d like.
Bears, for instance have had to reason to adapt physically to be able to comfortably walk on 2 legs so it’s just not something they do very often. But, gorillas can be seen walking on 2 legs on occasion because their evolution process, in simple terms, created humans so walking on 2 feet was the way to go.
They are likely not in pain initially but it is uncomfortable to stand long on two legs. The hips are shaped differently so the back legs naturally point forwards instead of down when standing on two legs. So they can not stand straight up. They are basically doing a squat. And just like when you are doing a squat it is a bit uncomfortable and you would not want to do it for long. But it is not actually painful until you do it for too long.
Of course it is different for different animals. Bears seams to be more comfortable on two legs then most animals. A lot of animals can not even get their legs bent far enough to balance over them and are therefore unable to stand on two legs at all.
Bears stand up frequently to see better and to display threat, to acquire something they want, or even to rub themselves on trees. I recall a famous bear from New Jersey named Pedals that would walk on his hind legs because his front paws were burnt in a forest fire. So to answer your question, it is unlikely that it is painful given that they do stand up on their hind legs frequently if they have reason to. Bears and other such animals that walk on fours are quadrupeds, so they walk on fours as their skeletal structure favours it. Humans are bipeds, and so they walk on two by comparison.
They are likely not in pain initially but it is uncomfortable to stand long on two legs. The hips are shaped differently so the back legs naturally point forwards instead of down when standing on two legs. So they can not stand straight up. They are basically doing a squat. And just like when you are doing a squat it is a bit uncomfortable and you would not want to do it for long. But it is not actually painful until you do it for too long.
Of course it is different for different animals. Bears seams to be more comfortable on two legs then most animals. A lot of animals can not even get their legs bent far enough to balance over them and are therefore unable to stand on two legs at all.
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