Bears can run, swim, and climb faster than you. Which is why if a bear decides to attack you the only thing you can do is "play dead" which means you're going to get clawed, bitten (crushed) and you're going to be in a severe amount of pain. The only thing you can hope for is to pass out and pray the bear goes away before you come too and startle it into thinking you're a threat again.
Or it eats you like grizzly bear man was eaten.. and again hope you don't wake up.. or like the girl who had two cubs come and eat her alive while on the phone with her mom. Insane shit nature is
Yep. We can't keep fooling ourselves either. Human beings are just another part of nature. Everything here ...from microbes to the sperm whales (and everything in between) are all in this "game" of survival supremacy.
That game doesn't ever leave us . Any of us.
They tell you to play dead with grizz cause once they think youre dead theyll likely fuck off. Attacks are usually them just being assholes. "They" (state wildlife departments etc) tell you to fight back against black bears. Unlike grizz, the majority of fatal black bear attacks, like over 90%, are predatory in nature, and over 90% of those are boars. Playing dead is useless if its attacking you for the purpose of eating you. Youre just making yourself an easy meal.
You are correct.
It's not the only thing you can do, nor is playing dead the recommended first option. I was taught to stand ground, make lots of noise, look big / intimidating and strike at them (ideally with a blunt object or weapon) when/if they come at you as last resort.
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i thought you stripped down to your underwear, screamed at the top of your voice, and launched at them swinging fists....
or maybe that was just drop bears.
either way no one ever survives a dropbear attack so im not sure thats real.
Ideally with a gun
Near Jackson Hole Wyoming, there's a sign commemorating a man who won an unarmed fight with a bear. There's always a chance you will be lucky, albeit a small one.
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