shitposting

Black bears are kinda surprisingly small and a bit skittish. Their food doesn't often fight back, so if you can make yourself large enough and threatening enough, you can make yourself look like more trouble than your worth and get the bear to fuck off. I think a lotta people just hear bear and instantly think of the monster that is a grizzly, but there are scales.

Of course, all bets are off if the bear is starving. If you get into combat with even a black bear, it will fuck you up, but that's basically true of all wild animals.