r/interestingasfuck • u/SnackSamurai • 2d ago

Women stand still to escape from a bear

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u/Ursus_the_Grim 2d ago

I don't understand how or why they let the bear get that close. You have at least four people on an open trail. Someone would have seen the thing. With black bears you shout and wave and it will run away, especially with that many people. I've never seen that fail unless there was a cub around, and this one isn't acting like there was a cub.

Tl;dr Make noise and make your presence known and it will run off long before you get that close. This screams 'lets be quiet and see how close it gets for the insta.'

Source: Lot of time in the Appalachian mountains. Dozens of black bear encounters. They never got that close.

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u/islandak 2d ago

If you've have dozen of encounters you also know that you can just come around the corner and see one. I've only had two encounters and one was pretty damn close. The bear crossed the path right in front of us. We're talking 10 yards. Not this close, but if the bear wanted to, it would have been.

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u/Ragged-but-Right 2d ago

that’s usually how I saw all my bear sightings. Usually we both surprise each other and the black bear runs off.

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u/whistlerite 2d ago

Me too but I’ve also had one start coming at me, that was the scariest bear encounter of my life.

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u/Jin-Gitaxias-Mom 2d ago

Yeah I don’t think people realize how quickly you can run into something in the wild.

I was hiking one of the more remote mountains in my region to cross it off a list, almost trail running down the ridge and I turn a corner to find myself right about 15-20 yards from the biggest goddamn horse I’ve ever seen in my life. Yeah, it was a moose, she (no antlers) could have probably killed me quite easily if she was in the mood. The top of her back was taller than me! Instead, we both froze and stared at each other for a second, then she bolted into the trees and I hiked back uphill a bit and warned the next group behind me.

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u/mattenthehat 2d ago

10 yards is nothing like this, though. At 10 yards, or even 3 yards, I yell at the bear and it runs away. Not a huge deal.

If the bear somehow got down to 0.3 yards like this then I guess it might be different. I wouldn't want to startle it when it's literally right on top of me.

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u/whistlerite 2d ago

Exactly, that’s why you never let it get this close.

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u/yrrkoon 2d ago

Asian black bears are significantly more dangerous then north american black bears. Different behaviors too.

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u/Gon-no-suke 2d ago

How do you know this is asia?

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u/Grymm315 2d ago

I think its just a random factoid, letting people know the ‘black fight back’ doesn’t apply to Asian Black Bears. 

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u/XchrisZ 2d ago

Well for 1 they're terrified and don't know what to do. 2 that's a tagged bear so it knows people and has probably lost a lot of fear of humans compared to most bears.

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u/Gon-no-suke 2d ago

They are speaking Spanish. I'd say this is somewhere in South America, but my GeoGuesser skillz aren't strong enough for this video.

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u/Knutbusta11 2d ago

No black bears in South America

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u/Gon-no-suke 2d ago edited 2d ago

You're right, just googled it myself! Perhaps Mexico?

Edit: Found the original on Youtube. Apparently it's was filmed in 2020 in San Pedro Garza García in Mexico.