Bloody battle for mating 🐻🔥

Ever wondered how female bears choose their mates? It's not exactly cut and dry, as in the first five seconds of this clip, she looks to have already chosen. But at the end of the day it's not about charm or ravishing good looks, but a raw display of power and strength. Males fight fiercely for the right to be with a female, and these contests are anything but gentle.

The battles can last a while, leaving the contenders bruised, exhausted and in this case, ripped wide open. But for the winner, it's all worth it in the end. The female bear, safely observing from a distance, is bound by nature's law to select the victor. In the wild, the strongest, most dominant male correlates to the strongest most dominant genes, and thats really all that counts. While we may struggle to pick the winner, she has no trouble making her choice.

This is mate selection in its most primal form, a brutal, yet fascinating spectacle of nature's selection process