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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

This video while long does a great job teaching you how to act in active bear territory.

The TLDW is: -

  • In active bear territory carry bear spray and be ready to use it
  • You can't out run a bear don't try
  • bear bells don't work
  • playing dead makes it easier for the bear to maul you
  • when hiking with a group and encounter an aggressive bear stand shoulder to shoulder and prepare your bear spray
  • let the bear decide how they want to leave the encounter (if they are not attacking you)
  • outside of a momma bear, most "attacks" are bluffs but can be scary as shit.
  • guns work but you better be a good and quick shot cuz bears run fast and are very intimidating doing so
  • a gun shot can help scare away most bears
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is laying down really a thing with a grizzly? What's that do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, they will fight to the death

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

give 'em dinner and a show!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I read the title as "Oh beans" and somehow it still fits, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Sir, You were almost mouled to death, You are lucky You only lost one arm. Why the hell, did You try to punch that bear? I saw it in a meme once...

[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 months ago (6 children)

If it’s white good night.

Who taught you to rime?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Ice pun you got there.

Polar bears.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Response to a bear attack depends on the type of attack, not the type of bear.

If it’s a defensive attack, play dead. If it’s a predatory attack, then fight back.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

If it's white, chances are I already died of hypothermia.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Good thing black is all we've ever seen in our yard.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it's black, panic. If it's brown, panic. If it's white, panic.

Always panic.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rhymes don't matter if it's a polar bear.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"If it's white, goodnight." is the way I learned it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So are polar bears considered more dangerous and aggro than grizzlies? I mean it wouldn’t be too crazy, particularly since it’s probably rare to encounter one, compare to grizzlies. But just had never really heard that.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Polar bears, because of their location, see everything as food. Black bears and grizzlies, while omnivores, are more specific.

And I feel like I have to say this to counter this weird perception online: black bears and grizzlies do not hunt humans. They generally don't like humans and will stay away. But carry bear spray.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Polar bears don't find food as readily as Grizzly bears. If a Grizzly hesitates on a salmon, it'll find another salmon.

If a Polar hesitates on a penguin, it could starve.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Your point is correct, but for accuracy’s sake penguins live in the Antarctic and polar bears live in the Arctic.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

That'd make penguin an exotic delicacy,

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gotcha so the idea is they’re just gonna give it a shot and try to eat you, regardless, because the stakes, they are high?

To be fair, in a moral sense, they should absolutely try and eat every human they can get their claws on; we have done a bang up job on making their habitat and food sources disappear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Their habitat has also shrunk so much, and their population dwindled so much, that they have gotten fairly inbred and that is causing more aggression and insanity.

There is also a female polar that keeps breeding with grizzlies, and those offspring are consistently more aggressive and dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Inbreeding causing aggression.

Cross-breeding causing aggression.

Dammit biology

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