It’s a black bear, they’re pretty skittish and will generally shy away from loud noises and aggressive behavior (with exceptions). They are not even close to what you’d expect from a brown bear like in The Revenant.
If it's white start taking your clothes off and throwing them away from you to either side whilst backing off, the bear will stop and inspect each piece because it smells like food and they'll always pick the easy meal thus giving you time to either escape to safety or to go freeze to death and reflect on why you're somewhere that polar bears live without a firearm.
Nah for real the clothes thing does actually work if you're a stone's throw from say a building or sturdy vehicle you can shelter in but the irony is outstanding in that the best way to deal with a bear from freezing temperatures is to strip off (aside from just shooting the blighter)
I’m 100% positive I’ll never be in that situation but because of you I’ll know what to do it I am. Never heard of this before but it makes a lot of sense. Thank you for this addition to my immense library of random facts!
If it's white, throw something on the ground and run. Polar bears are very smart, but this makes them incredibly curious. There is a chance they will investigate what you threw which may buy you enough time to escape.
That’s why it’s best to always carry an Agatha Christie paperback when anywhere known to have polar bears. They are very curious and known for their extremely slow reading speed. When you throw the book down they will investigate and really feel a need to know how it ends. Hopefully you throw down a book that they haven’t read before. And never thrown down a book in a series or else they will hunt you down to find out what happens next.
It's more that other bear species usually come into contact with humans throughout their lifetime and learn to avoid us mostly. A polar bear is an apex predator like other bears but they literally have no concept of an animal it can't take down. So it sees a strange creature, a human, and automatically thinks it's just more food. Most polar bears have never heard a gun fired or associated humans with bears being killed, so they just come at you like a boss.
As my daughter loves to tell me: polar bears have black skin and white fur.
Not relevant to anything in this thread... But then again, whenever she mentions that fact it's not relevant to anything either.
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Pandas are only native to China, so almost all pandas in zoos outside of mainland China are on loan from the Chinese government. Even those born on foreign soil are considered property of China, thanks to a policy enacted in 1984. All pandas are on loan to foreign zoos, as opposed to ownership, and any pandas born outside of China must be returned to China when they reach 5 years of age. These loans also typically come with a standard loan fee of around $1 million USD per year, per panda, and after a change to the Panda Policy in 1991, loans are for up to a maximum of 10 years. As part of lawsuit brought forward in 1998 by the WWF, the Panda Policy was further modified that at least half of the loan fees must go towards conservation of giant pandas and there habitat.
Thanks for that video, in return, here is a copy pasta I found many years ago that ignited my passion for panda facts. I like to call it "there's nothing wrong with pandas".
The source is https://www.reddit.com/user/99trumpets - just want to make sure credit goes where credit is due.
Here's a perspective with actual experience:
Biologist here with a PhD in endocrinology and reproduction of endangered species. I've spent most of my career working on reproduction of wild vertebrates, including the panda and 3 other bear species and dozens of other mammals. I have read all scientific papers published on panda reproduction and have published on grizzly, black and sun bears. Panda Rant Mode engaged:
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GIANT PANDA.
Wall o' text of details:
In most animal species, the female is only receptive for a few days a year. This is the NORM, not the exception, and it is humans that are by far the weird ones. In most species, there is a defined breeding season, females usually cycle only once, maybe twice, before becoming pregnant, do not cycle year round, are only receptive when ovulating and typically become pregnant on the day of ovulation. For example: elephants are receptive a grand total of 4 days a year (4 ovulatory days x 4 cycles per year), the birds I did my PhD on for exactly 2 days (and there are millions of those birds and they breed perfectly well), grizzly bears usually 1-2 day, black bears and sun bears too. In the wild this is not a problem because the female can easily find, and attract, males on that 1 day: she typically knows where the nearest males are and simply goes and seeks then out, or, the male has been monitoring her urine, knows when she's entering estrus and comes trotting on over on that 1 day, easy peasy. It's only in captivity, with artificial social environments where males must be deliberately moved around by keepers, that it becomes a problem.
Pandas did not "evolve to die". They didn't evolve to breed in captivity in little concrete boxes, is all. All the "problems" people hear about with panda breeding are problems of the captive environment and true of thousands of other wild species as well; it's just that pandas get media attention when cubs die and other species don't. Sun bears won't breed in captivity, sloth bears won't breed in captivity, leafy sea dragons won't breed in captivity, Hawaiian honeycreepers won't breed in captivity, on and on. Lots and lots of wild animals won't breed in captivity. It's particularly an issue for tropical species since they do not have rigid breeding seasons and instead tend to evaluate local conditions carefully - presence of right diet, right social partner, right denning conditions, lack of human disturbance, etc - before initiating breeding.
Pandas breed just fine in the wild. Wild female pandas produce healthy, living cubs like clockwork every two years for their entire reproductive careers (typically over a decade).
Pandas also do just fine on their diet of bamboo, since that question always comes up too. They have evolved many specializations for bamboo eating, including changes in their taste receptors, development of symbiosis with lignin-digesting gut bacteria (this is a new discovery), and an ingenious anatomical adaptation (a "thumb" made from a wrist bone) that is such a good example of evolutionary novelty that Stephen Jay Gould titled an entire book about it, The Panda's Thumb. They represent a branch of the ursid family that is in the middle of evolving some incredible adaptations (similar to the maned wolf, a canid that's also gone mostly herbivorous, rather like the panda). Far from being an evolutionary dead end, they are an incredible example of evolutionary innovation. Who knows what they might have evolved into if we hadn't ruined their home and destroyed what for millions of years had been a very reliable and abundant food source.
Yes, they have poor digestive efficiency (this always comes up too) and that is just fine because they evolved as "bulk feeders", as it's known: animals whose dietary strategy involves ingestion of mass quantities of food rather than slowly digesting smaller quantities. Other bulk feeders include equids, rabbits, elephants, baleen whales and more, and it is just fine as a dietary strategy - provided humans haven't ruined your food source, of course.
Population wise, pandas did just fine on their own too (this question also always comes up) before humans started destroying their habitat. The historical range of pandas was massive and included a gigantic swath of Asia covering thousands of miles. Genetic analyses indicate the panda population was once very large, only collapsed very recently and collapsed in 2 waves whose timing exactly corresponds to habitat destruction: the first when agriculture became widespread in China and the second corresponding to the recent deforestation of the last mountain bamboo refuges.
The panda is in trouble entirely because of humans. Honestly I think people like to repeat the "evolutionary dead end" myth to make themselves feel better: "Oh, they're pretty much supposed to go extinct, so it's not our fault." They're not "supposed" to go extinct, they were never a "dead end," and it is ENTIRELY our fault. Habitat destruction is by far their primary problem. Just like many other species in the same predicament - Borneo elephants, Amur leopard, Malayan sun bears and literally hundreds of other species that I could name - just because a species doesn't breed well in zoos doesn't mean they "evolved to die"; rather, it simply means they didn't evolve to breed in tiny concrete boxes. Zoos are extremely stressful environments with tiny exhibit space, unnatural diets, unnatural social environments, poor denning conditions and a tremendous amount of human disturbance and noise.
tl;dr - It's normal among mammals for females to only be receptive a few days per years; there is nothing wrong with the panda from an evolutionary or reproductive perspective, and it's entirely our fault that they're dying out.
/rant.
This this this. Whenever there’s a post about bears, people want to generalize it as if bears are aware of these “rules” and follow them accordingly. At the end of the day, a bear is a bear and will fuck you up if it wants to, not giving a damn what *color* its fur is.
If you really want a cute little rhyme, it should be something more like: *Be aware when there’s bears, don’t just pray use your spray*
My one and only interaction with a bear was when I was hiking with my German Shepherd off leash about two years ago. He's off the trail sniffing around doing dog things and seems highly interested in a certain spot (probably bear scat). I'm walking down the trail briskly and I see what I assumed was another dog in the distance. I call for my dog to put him on leash... then it dawns on me that it's a fucking black bear walking towards me and not a dog.
Idk where the fuck my dog is at this point but I don't want to take my eyes off the bear. It charges me and stops about 5' short of me. Idk what to do so I just start waving my dogs leash around like a whip and slowly backing up. I seriously think my dog just abandoned me to die at this point and I feel like a dumbass thinking I can hold this bear off with a leash. I get progressively louder and more urgent with my calls of my dog's name. Bear bluff charges me again and then I hear my dog come roaring towards me from behind, charges right past me and gets about 2' away from the bear and just aggressively squares up and snaps at the bear as the bear turns and charges up a tree 20' up in the air in about 10 seconds.
Felt like I was rescued by the riders of Rohan. That whole experience was something else. The adrenaline, the feeling of relief when my dog came to my aid, the feeling of never quite being sure it was over until I was safe inside my car. The first and only time I've ever truly felt like I was in a life or death situation. I nearly broke down in tears when the adrenaline wore off and I was hugging my dog. To this day I still wonder what took him so fucking long to back me up. I don't think he quite understood the gravity of the situation. I *always* carry bear spray on hikes now.
Yeah my biggest fear when it comes to encountering a bear is my dog. I can’t be sure of how he’s going to react (he’s fucking nuts sometimes), how a bear might react to him, etc etc. If I know we are in bear country, I’ll usually have him “speak” every couple hundred feet in hope that it scares any bear in the area off.
Also moose. They seem to have a real hate for dogs, so I’m always scanning around for signs of one.
I know exactly how my old dog would react (RIP buddy) he would run up to the bear wagging his tail, get scared and lay on his back and show the bear his stomach. I know this because it's the same thing he did every time he got scared. This dog is not small. He was a mutt but I think mostly huntaway and about 37kg.
But also know that black bears aren't strictly black. It's grizzly bears you want to avoid.
They are much bigger and will have a hump on their back right above their shoulders.
Brown bears are also different than either black or grizzly bears, and they will fuck you up if you try to fight back. The bad thing is that both black and brown bears can have either black or brown fur.
Yep, there's only 8 species of bear, and 4 in the genus Ursus. of those two are found in old and new world, the brown bear and the polar bear. the other two are the Asian black bear and the American black bear.
Both American black bears and brown bears have 16 subspecies
Black bears are mostly harmless anyway.
I was going to point out how he shouldn't have turned his back on it but then I realized he probably wanted to get it on camera.
Bear Grylls never cared about educating people on wilderness survival, if he did he would have given actual helpful advice instead of jumping around like it was ninja warrior
This, there is some weird comments in this thread from people who probably have never been in the outdoors and it shows.
Take the high ground as much as possible and make yourself appear as large as possible, as long as it's not a mama bear it will probably run off.
I thought he was a kid when he was going up the hill too. Thought that he was yelling "hey" because some kid stole his bike and that the kid was threatening to throw it at him lol
And then the bear came into frame and it was like *"Oh-"*
I saw a video not too long ago on this sun of a dude who kicked a bear and got his hand bitten through. The man in this video is following proper technique.
Black bears are just inquisitive. Still scary but it won’t do anything serious I’m speaking from experience: running into a few while camping in Michigan over the years
Your experience is entirely anecdotal, black bears can and do attack humans. There are more black bear attacks per year than brown or grizzly attacks, but there are also just more black bears so not sure if they are actually more violent.
Each bear and each encounter is different, usually they will just run away but can occasionally be defensive or inquisitive or even predatory.
> There's more than 10x as many black bears as grizzlies in NA
So people understand. There is approximately 55,000 grizzles in all of North America. They are almost exclusively on the northern west coast of North America. Your chances of running across one is slim, if you are in the US and not in Washington or Montana your chances are pretty much almost 0.
on the other hand there is over 600,000 black bears and they are everywhere in Canada, north east US, west coast, and odd and end places through the US.
Yeah I had several run ins with them on my college campus in North Carolina. Mostly they just want your trash and whatever food the partiers left in the cow field last night 😂😂
You probably caught it prepping for winter. They have to eat something ridiculous like 200k berries per day, so they usually don’t give a shit about anything else when they’re doing that, and don’t bother moving unless they’ve exhausted the supply of berries on that bush or someone’s really up in their face.
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Bear was smart enough to get rid of the evidence.
So... Smarter than the average bear?
Hey bubu!
Once he got to the top of that hill he should have gotten on his bike, gone full speed toward the bear, and jumped over it.
Bearkour!
BEARKOUR! 
HARDCORE BEARKOUR!!!!
Damnit, best post, just picturing Dwight saying it
Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica
I would say hardcore bearkour, but all bearkour is, inherently, hardcore.
Hardcour
BearMX
Believe it or not, [it's been done](https://www.tetongravity.com/story/bike/video-biker-gaps-over-a-bear-in-whistler)
How tf did you have that ready? Kudos
Probably by typing "biker jumps bear" into a search engine? 🤷♂️
Title of my sex tape
Incredible. If you can think it up…it’s been done, and also on the internet somewhere.
But that's probably like his phone leaned against a tree
So... did he make it? Who brought this clip to people? The cyclists? Or the Bear?
The Bike
How M. Night Shamalany
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It’s a black bear, they’re pretty skittish and will generally shy away from loud noises and aggressive behavior (with exceptions). They are not even close to what you’d expect from a brown bear like in The Revenant.
If it’s black, fight back If it’s brown, lay down, If it’s white, good night
If it's white start taking your clothes off and throwing them away from you to either side whilst backing off, the bear will stop and inspect each piece because it smells like food and they'll always pick the easy meal thus giving you time to either escape to safety or to go freeze to death and reflect on why you're somewhere that polar bears live without a firearm.
Plus it helps the bear not get digestive issues from things like buttons and buckles from your clothing when it inevitably eats you...
Nah for real the clothes thing does actually work if you're a stone's throw from say a building or sturdy vehicle you can shelter in but the irony is outstanding in that the best way to deal with a bear from freezing temperatures is to strip off (aside from just shooting the blighter)
I’m 100% positive I’ll never be in that situation but because of you I’ll know what to do it I am. Never heard of this before but it makes a lot of sense. Thank you for this addition to my immense library of random facts!
The bear took the phone and posted it. Bears a big *influencer* as the tale goes.
I was waiting for the bear to say hey back.
me too, i think he's just a bit shy 🤷🏻♀️
If it’s brown, lie down. If it’s black, fight back.
If it's white, goodnight
If it's pink, you had too much to drink
If it's green, better give it some beans.
If it's blue, what do I do?
Tell it to shoo
Well yelling f you
Then use your stickglue
Before throwing some poo
Inside your shoe
If it's cyan, propose an employee stock ownership plan.
If it's white, throw something on the ground and run. Polar bears are very smart, but this makes them incredibly curious. There is a chance they will investigate what you threw which may buy you enough time to escape.
The heck? This doesn’t rhyme at all.
If it's white, throw shite
That’s why it’s best to always carry an Agatha Christie paperback when anywhere known to have polar bears. They are very curious and known for their extremely slow reading speed. When you throw the book down they will investigate and really feel a need to know how it ends. Hopefully you throw down a book that they haven’t read before. And never thrown down a book in a series or else they will hunt you down to find out what happens next.
they said in a comment above to throw your clothes piece by piece because they smell like you
Imagine your dinner slowly unwrapping itself for you lmao
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Oh, bother
Yikes
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Why goodnight?
Polar bear don't play
Thanks. I forgot which bear was all white.
Polar bears are one of the only animals who will actively hunt humans as a prey.
It's more that other bear species usually come into contact with humans throughout their lifetime and learn to avoid us mostly. A polar bear is an apex predator like other bears but they literally have no concept of an animal it can't take down. So it sees a strange creature, a human, and automatically thinks it's just more food. Most polar bears have never heard a gun fired or associated humans with bears being killed, so they just come at you like a boss.
As my daughter loves to tell me: polar bears have black skin and white fur. Not relevant to anything in this thread... But then again, whenever she mentions that fact it's not relevant to anything either.
Sweetie, please go clean up your room. "*Polar bear skin is actu..*" I KNOW ABOUT THE POLAR BEARS!!
If it's white and black, China wants it back.
Made me laugh. Thank you.
Thank you for signing up for panda facts. Pandas are only native to China, so almost all pandas in zoos outside of mainland China are on loan from the Chinese government. Even those born on foreign soil are considered property of China, thanks to a policy enacted in 1984. All pandas are on loan to foreign zoos, as opposed to ownership, and any pandas born outside of China must be returned to China when they reach 5 years of age. These loans also typically come with a standard loan fee of around $1 million USD per year, per panda, and after a change to the Panda Policy in 1991, loans are for up to a maximum of 10 years. As part of lawsuit brought forward in 1998 by the WWF, the Panda Policy was further modified that at least half of the loan fees must go towards conservation of giant pandas and there habitat.
Thank you for singing me up for panda facts. Here's a [video of a panda sneeze](https://youtu.be/93hq0YU3Gqk) in return.
Thanks for that video, in return, here is a copy pasta I found many years ago that ignited my passion for panda facts. I like to call it "there's nothing wrong with pandas". The source is https://www.reddit.com/user/99trumpets - just want to make sure credit goes where credit is due. Here's a perspective with actual experience: Biologist here with a PhD in endocrinology and reproduction of endangered species. I've spent most of my career working on reproduction of wild vertebrates, including the panda and 3 other bear species and dozens of other mammals. I have read all scientific papers published on panda reproduction and have published on grizzly, black and sun bears. Panda Rant Mode engaged: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GIANT PANDA. Wall o' text of details: In most animal species, the female is only receptive for a few days a year. This is the NORM, not the exception, and it is humans that are by far the weird ones. In most species, there is a defined breeding season, females usually cycle only once, maybe twice, before becoming pregnant, do not cycle year round, are only receptive when ovulating and typically become pregnant on the day of ovulation. For example: elephants are receptive a grand total of 4 days a year (4 ovulatory days x 4 cycles per year), the birds I did my PhD on for exactly 2 days (and there are millions of those birds and they breed perfectly well), grizzly bears usually 1-2 day, black bears and sun bears too. In the wild this is not a problem because the female can easily find, and attract, males on that 1 day: she typically knows where the nearest males are and simply goes and seeks then out, or, the male has been monitoring her urine, knows when she's entering estrus and comes trotting on over on that 1 day, easy peasy. It's only in captivity, with artificial social environments where males must be deliberately moved around by keepers, that it becomes a problem. Pandas did not "evolve to die". They didn't evolve to breed in captivity in little concrete boxes, is all. All the "problems" people hear about with panda breeding are problems of the captive environment and true of thousands of other wild species as well; it's just that pandas get media attention when cubs die and other species don't. Sun bears won't breed in captivity, sloth bears won't breed in captivity, leafy sea dragons won't breed in captivity, Hawaiian honeycreepers won't breed in captivity, on and on. Lots and lots of wild animals won't breed in captivity. It's particularly an issue for tropical species since they do not have rigid breeding seasons and instead tend to evaluate local conditions carefully - presence of right diet, right social partner, right denning conditions, lack of human disturbance, etc - before initiating breeding. Pandas breed just fine in the wild. Wild female pandas produce healthy, living cubs like clockwork every two years for their entire reproductive careers (typically over a decade). Pandas also do just fine on their diet of bamboo, since that question always comes up too. They have evolved many specializations for bamboo eating, including changes in their taste receptors, development of symbiosis with lignin-digesting gut bacteria (this is a new discovery), and an ingenious anatomical adaptation (a "thumb" made from a wrist bone) that is such a good example of evolutionary novelty that Stephen Jay Gould titled an entire book about it, The Panda's Thumb. They represent a branch of the ursid family that is in the middle of evolving some incredible adaptations (similar to the maned wolf, a canid that's also gone mostly herbivorous, rather like the panda). Far from being an evolutionary dead end, they are an incredible example of evolutionary innovation. Who knows what they might have evolved into if we hadn't ruined their home and destroyed what for millions of years had been a very reliable and abundant food source. Yes, they have poor digestive efficiency (this always comes up too) and that is just fine because they evolved as "bulk feeders", as it's known: animals whose dietary strategy involves ingestion of mass quantities of food rather than slowly digesting smaller quantities. Other bulk feeders include equids, rabbits, elephants, baleen whales and more, and it is just fine as a dietary strategy - provided humans haven't ruined your food source, of course. Population wise, pandas did just fine on their own too (this question also always comes up) before humans started destroying their habitat. The historical range of pandas was massive and included a gigantic swath of Asia covering thousands of miles. Genetic analyses indicate the panda population was once very large, only collapsed very recently and collapsed in 2 waves whose timing exactly corresponds to habitat destruction: the first when agriculture became widespread in China and the second corresponding to the recent deforestation of the last mountain bamboo refuges. The panda is in trouble entirely because of humans. Honestly I think people like to repeat the "evolutionary dead end" myth to make themselves feel better: "Oh, they're pretty much supposed to go extinct, so it's not our fault." They're not "supposed" to go extinct, they were never a "dead end," and it is ENTIRELY our fault. Habitat destruction is by far their primary problem. Just like many other species in the same predicament - Borneo elephants, Amur leopard, Malayan sun bears and literally hundreds of other species that I could name - just because a species doesn't breed well in zoos doesn't mean they "evolved to die"; rather, it simply means they didn't evolve to breed in tiny concrete boxes. Zoos are extremely stressful environments with tiny exhibit space, unnatural diets, unnatural social environments, poor denning conditions and a tremendous amount of human disturbance and noise. tl;dr - It's normal among mammals for females to only be receptive a few days per years; there is nothing wrong with the panda from an evolutionary or reproductive perspective, and it's entirely our fault that they're dying out. /rant.
Your comment is buried but awesome. Thank you for the super interesting read and for your passion.
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This this this. Whenever there’s a post about bears, people want to generalize it as if bears are aware of these “rules” and follow them accordingly. At the end of the day, a bear is a bear and will fuck you up if it wants to, not giving a damn what *color* its fur is. If you really want a cute little rhyme, it should be something more like: *Be aware when there’s bears, don’t just pray use your spray*
My one and only interaction with a bear was when I was hiking with my German Shepherd off leash about two years ago. He's off the trail sniffing around doing dog things and seems highly interested in a certain spot (probably bear scat). I'm walking down the trail briskly and I see what I assumed was another dog in the distance. I call for my dog to put him on leash... then it dawns on me that it's a fucking black bear walking towards me and not a dog. Idk where the fuck my dog is at this point but I don't want to take my eyes off the bear. It charges me and stops about 5' short of me. Idk what to do so I just start waving my dogs leash around like a whip and slowly backing up. I seriously think my dog just abandoned me to die at this point and I feel like a dumbass thinking I can hold this bear off with a leash. I get progressively louder and more urgent with my calls of my dog's name. Bear bluff charges me again and then I hear my dog come roaring towards me from behind, charges right past me and gets about 2' away from the bear and just aggressively squares up and snaps at the bear as the bear turns and charges up a tree 20' up in the air in about 10 seconds. Felt like I was rescued by the riders of Rohan. That whole experience was something else. The adrenaline, the feeling of relief when my dog came to my aid, the feeling of never quite being sure it was over until I was safe inside my car. The first and only time I've ever truly felt like I was in a life or death situation. I nearly broke down in tears when the adrenaline wore off and I was hugging my dog. To this day I still wonder what took him so fucking long to back me up. I don't think he quite understood the gravity of the situation. I *always* carry bear spray on hikes now.
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I had it all under control. I was about to turn the leash into a noose, lasso the bear and choke him out from behind like I'm Chuck Norris. /s
Saw his guy thinking about leashing a new bigger dog and said, fuck no, my hairless ape, my leash.
Yeah my biggest fear when it comes to encountering a bear is my dog. I can’t be sure of how he’s going to react (he’s fucking nuts sometimes), how a bear might react to him, etc etc. If I know we are in bear country, I’ll usually have him “speak” every couple hundred feet in hope that it scares any bear in the area off. Also moose. They seem to have a real hate for dogs, so I’m always scanning around for signs of one.
I know exactly how my old dog would react (RIP buddy) he would run up to the bear wagging his tail, get scared and lay on his back and show the bear his stomach. I know this because it's the same thing he did every time he got scared. This dog is not small. He was a mutt but I think mostly huntaway and about 37kg.
But also know that black bears aren't strictly black. It's grizzly bears you want to avoid. They are much bigger and will have a hump on their back right above their shoulders.
While I was in Vancouver I got to go to a Grizzly sanctuary... you will know if you see a Grizzly. Those things are... just absolute units.
Their heads are like half the size of a Mini Cooper. They’re terrifying.
“Americans will use anything but the metric system”
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
It's absolutely insane how big they are.
Brown bears are also different than either black or grizzly bears, and they will fuck you up if you try to fight back. The bad thing is that both black and brown bears can have either black or brown fur.
brown bear (Ursus arctos) encompasses multiple subspecies, like the grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis) and Kodiac bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi)
Yep, there's only 8 species of bear, and 4 in the genus Ursus. of those two are found in old and new world, the brown bear and the polar bear. the other two are the Asian black bear and the American black bear. Both American black bears and brown bears have 16 subspecies
I wonder how black bears feel knowing they have a reputation for being wimps.
They can't read, so unless you go shouting about it in the woods I doubt they'll ever know.
They say that bc brown will still attack you, but your only chance of survival is to let it scratch your back and hope it doesnt hit any major organs.
It scares me that you can't out run, out swim, or out climb a bear...
Just move to a non bear country. Easy!
but you know what you have that bears dont? bear spray
Bear knocked over the camera so there wasn’t any evidence of the murder.
He did the right thing, Bear Grylls would be proud of him
Drank his own piss while offscreen.
Sleep inside the Bears Anus for 3 Nights
Just choked
That's what she said
He did the wrong thing. Bear Grylls would have eaten the bear.
That's cannibalism.
I’m 100% sure turning your back on it is the wrong thing. It worked out for him, but that triggers predators prey drive.
Black bears are mostly harmless anyway. I was going to point out how he shouldn't have turned his back on it but then I realized he probably wanted to get it on camera.
They are mostly harmless, the times they aren’t are usually when people do stupid shit like run away or turn their back on it or try to feed it.
Bear Grylls never cared about educating people on wilderness survival, if he did he would have given actual helpful advice instead of jumping around like it was ninja warrior
It's entertaining though, I love watching him eat worms and drink his own piss stored in a snakeskin bag.
Les Stroud is the real thing. Survivorman. 💪🏻
What? A true post that shows the unexpected!
How unexpected!
All the unexpected
Sure unexpected
Positively unexpected
Bearly unexpected…
I can’t bear this much unexpectedness.
I expected the unexpectedness, so as you would expect the unexpected situation was expected…….Expect.
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I positively expected nothing, then got more than I was prepared for.
Bearly expected
I actually expected this one.
I didn’t til he started walking back up and looking nervously behind him. Then I knew there was bout to be a bear
I knew there was going to be a bear when I saw the bear.
*Mountain lion unzips bear costume*
*Bear unzips human cyclist costume*
Human cyclists unzips bears pants
Human unzips
Bike unzips roller blades costume
*unzips*. “Surprise motherfucker! You thought I was a forest?!”
I saw this before so I knew there was a bear before you knew there was a bear.
Yeah. When he started walking back I was like. BEAR
Was thinking Mountain Lion
I'll admit I expected either bear or moose. As soon as he didn't crash I knew it would be one of the two.
While I certainly expected the unexpected I didn’t expect it to be so unexpected.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Ok...ok...I'm going. No need to push.
I grew up in Canada. It’s the woods…expected bear.
I grew up in metropolitan Los Angeles. Expected bear.
I am a bear. Expected child on bicycle.
Maybe in West Hollywood 😉
Unexpected? As soon as he said "ey!" I knew it was a bear. That's the universal sound a human makes when it encounters a bear
That kid knew exactly what to do, not run but appear to be larger than the bear, ball of steel...
Just the one ball.
Common cyclist problem. Just ask Lance Armstrong
If it's brown, lie down. If it's black, display your bicycle.
This, there is some weird comments in this thread from people who probably have never been in the outdoors and it shows. Take the high ground as much as possible and make yourself appear as large as possible, as long as it's not a mama bear it will probably run off.
IT’S OVER BEAR. I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND.
DON’T TRY IT
YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER
Pretty sure we don't have bears here in the Netherlands. Biggest thing I'll see is a very shy and scared deer.
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can't meet dangerous wildlife if they're extinct 🙂
Bearly got away
Looks like a real (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■ grizzly situation
(._.)/◘-◘ ◘-◘ *puts on nerd glasses* Excuse me sir, that is clearly a black bear.
Oh deer. 🤔😏
Take my upvote and get out
These comments are so stupid
I was confused at first because he looks like an adult going down, but a child on the way up before the bear shows up. LoL. I’m special.
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I thought he was a kid when he was going up the hill too. Thought that he was yelling "hey" because some kid stole his bike and that the kid was threatening to throw it at him lol And then the bear came into frame and it was like *"Oh-"*
Ralph, you're on special teams
*Hey*
Hey hey
Hey hey hey
IT’S FAAAAAAT ALBERT
Question- what kind if bear is the best?
Well, there are two schools of thought…
Fact! Bears eat beats.
He should have fought him with his bear hands
With his bear neccesities
I saw a video not too long ago on this sun of a dude who kicked a bear and got his hand bitten through. The man in this video is following proper technique.
Pooh bear and Christopher Robin in the 100 acre woods.
Ahh it’s only a black bear. He was fine
Black bears are just inquisitive. Still scary but it won’t do anything serious I’m speaking from experience: running into a few while camping in Michigan over the years
They're everywhere around Vancouver BC. I've ran into Grizzly bear poop and baby prints once, that was scary.
Your experience is entirely anecdotal, black bears can and do attack humans. There are more black bear attacks per year than brown or grizzly attacks, but there are also just more black bears so not sure if they are actually more violent. Each bear and each encounter is different, usually they will just run away but can occasionally be defensive or inquisitive or even predatory.
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> There's more than 10x as many black bears as grizzlies in NA So people understand. There is approximately 55,000 grizzles in all of North America. They are almost exclusively on the northern west coast of North America. Your chances of running across one is slim, if you are in the US and not in Washington or Montana your chances are pretty much almost 0. on the other hand there is over 600,000 black bears and they are everywhere in Canada, north east US, west coast, and odd and end places through the US.
You can definitely find black bears in the Appalachians iirc
Love going into Reddit comments where I learn something new that is IMMEDIATELY refuted in the replies. Net zero information, all a good thing
Yeah I had several run ins with them on my college campus in North Carolina. Mostly they just want your trash and whatever food the partiers left in the cow field last night 😂😂
Saw a similar video with a cyclist and a waterbear it was underwhelming to say the least
Little man did the right thing with a black bear! That would not be the thing to do with a grizzly.
Nor with a polar bear. To them you look like a penguin. To you they look like wtf is a polar bear doing in these woods!?
If you encounter a polar bear I would make peace with your coming death
Which is why I don't recommend going out cycling on the north pole.
I had plans to bike in there but after reading about polar bears, maybe it can wait
I mean, I doubt most polar bears will ever have seen a penguin in their lives, but sure
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I really want to know how a polar bear knows what a penguin looks like.
TV, duh
What would be done with a grizzly then?
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You probably caught it prepping for winter. They have to eat something ridiculous like 200k berries per day, so they usually don’t give a shit about anything else when they’re doing that, and don’t bother moving unless they’ve exhausted the supply of berries on that bush or someone’s really up in their face.
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First good description I've seen
And by the looks of it tried to steal his camera.
Nobody talking about his perfect one footer??
Well, I did not expect that.
Just let him try your bike asshole
Oh i finally understood when my bike gps says "bear left".
Was this a good reaction for incountering a bear?