Posted on 06/21/2014 10:38:15 AM PDT by navysealdad
Two Canadian runners encountered a black bear while on a nature jog and didn’t know what to do.
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Were they wearing their bells?
Does the bear s**t in the woods?
Maybe. Maybe not. But 2 skeered hikers sure did.
Boooo!
Wild guess but if someone has been feeding that black bear, it might have approached them expecting a treat but got different signals from the runners that confused it. Like all young predators, it will soon figure it out and know just what it wants to do in any situation...
Geez, we’ve got black bears roaming the neighborhood regularly, getting into bird feeders, apple trees, etc.
While wearing their tutus.
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos ssp.) is any North American subspecies of the brown bear, including the mainland grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis), the Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), the peninsular grizzly (Ursus arctos gyas) and the recently extinct California grizzly (U. a. californicus)[1] and Mexican grizzly bear (U. a. nelsoni).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bear
Brown bears are the aggressive variety. Black bears are just oversized raccoons. Raccoons can bite, of course.
It was like being stalked by somebody on Bath Salts. Who knows what the consequences could have been? Maybe he was just a nosey bear. When they sped up, he sped up. When they slowed down, so did he. After they left what the bear considers his territory, he was less in pursuit.
You can tell the were both terrified. The hikers are lucky this was a rather young bear who did not appear to be starving, and that he was alone. All this bear needed would be for an elder-bear to lead him into charging up to those two men. I would have thought they would be better prepared in the Canadian wilderness, no pepper spray, no pistols?. At the very least, bring a noisemaker like a cooking pan with a ladle to hit it.
Are most bears as Pigeon-Toed as this one? Look at him waddle.
Oversized ones can. I know we have black bears in my town, because the police circulated pictures of one eating at a bird feeder less than a mile from me. I've never seen one. Lots of dear, foxes, rabbits, the occasional weasel, once a bobcat, but never a bear.
As Woodie Allen once boasted to Diane Keaton "I've been killing spiders since I was 30."
You always find the bells in pepper-scented bear scat.
The California grizzly was said to be the meanest of the lot with longer legs and a real bad attitude.
Was mowing the ditch near my yard this morning and a black bear scooted from the woods about 30 yards from me. He took a quick glance at me and moved on across the field.
They should have offered it a beer in French.
While wearing their tutus.
LOL!
Don't know about the hikers but I saw just such a black bear in Canada while camping long ago. It was early summer and the small bear (150 lbs or so) wandered onto the trail snuffling on all fours about 15 yds away. Spotted us, reared up curious showing off the fuzzy winter coat scrape that started at his pelvis and continued downward. Think big dusty hairball projecting out 8 to 10 inches from the summer coat. Above that it was sleek and shiny. Looked like a cartoon bear with a tutu. Luckily for us, he turned and tore off back into the woods. Wish I'd had a photo.
We know what grandma Toot, as a typical White woman, would have done if she saw a BLACK bear!
You’re in the running! ;)
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