Grizzly Makes Grizzly (Werner Herzog's <cite> Tour De Force Animal Rights Wacko Expose Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 08/28/05 | Debra Saunders

[benjaminjjones]

Darn!

When I read the first few lines, I was hoping 2 more idiots had gotten mauled. Turns out it was the same 2 idiots.

Oh well, I was good for a laugh in 2003, and it's still good for a laugh.

[Treader]

lol...Some bears, just naturally have to eat their pet project humans. I just wonder how the bears bid on these apparently auctioned idiots.

[DWar]

I'd want a BAR if I met One of these.

Check it out: http://www.blackbearheaven.com/world-record-grizzly-bear.htm

[Exton1]

Liberalism is a Mental disorder.

[freepatriot32]

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[pillbox_girl]

Every single liberal pro-wildlife anti-hunter anti-gun tree hugging hippy environmentalist I have ever had the misfortune to meet has had the same thing in common: They are all rabidly in favor of protecting the wilderness, but none of them have ever actually been there.

I guess I now know why.

[goldstategop]

Yes, apparently nature is something they've seen in Hollywood movie. They have no idea how harsh and unforgiving the wilds are when they encounter it for the first time.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[TXBSAFH]

A side arm is nice,ut I would also carry a marlin guide rifle in 45/70.

[riverrunner]

When a raccoon trys to bite you you shoot it. Then it doesn't come back to bite you again.

[MarkL]

Its easy to anthromorphize animals. But they're not humans in fur. They need to be seen and appreciated on their own terms.

Exactly. There was (that's the key word here) a highschool girl who decided that it would be cool to get her yearbook photo taken with a tiger. So she went to a wildlife reserve in southern Kansas, was having her picture taken, and the tiger went nuts and killed her. Of course, the tiger was killed too.

But people seemed shocked. To paraphrase Rush, "why are people surprised when a tiger does what a tiger does? This tiger was simply acting like a tiger."

In the case of treadwell, it was a bear acting like a bear. Reality isn't what's portrayed in the Yogi Bear cartoons.

Mark

[MarkL]

Most bad encounters have been surprise encounters. If you can see the bear at a distance, and he can see you, usually things are OK.

You hit the nail right on the head. You need to make sure that when you're in bear country, you don't accidentally come upon a bear, especially a female with cubs. There's a way to try to be sure of not surprising bears. It's by tying little bells to your clothing, so that you "jingle" when you walk through the wilderness. The bears will hear you, and know you're coming. Another thing to do is carry a spray bottle of pepper spray. Bears have very sensitive noses, and they don't care for pepper spray at all. But the most importand thing to do is to simply be aware: Know when you're in bear country. How do you know? Simply look for bear droppings that have little bells in them, and smell like pepper spray!

Thank you very much, be sure to tip your waitresses. I'll be here all week!

Mark

[Calpernia]

Fresh!



::giggles::

[monkey]

I would have thought that once a hunter cut open the bear's stomach, the two would have come out unscathed.

Here is a picture of them. She looks strained and older than her years. He is all California carefree.

[Kenton]

Ah, this is a wonderful story, I never tire of it. Never seen it analyzed this way though.

Note to pilgrims - Because of their relative seclusion from humans, grizzly bears have very simple worldviews. They know about hunters, so they fear them. But they also seem to know that not all humans are hunters.

Once they figure out that you aren't a threat, that puts you in the only other category they understand - food.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Ursus arctos Horribilis says it all!

[bboop]

Um, her dad was dumbfounded that she was eaten? It's a generational delusion, then.

[pillbox_girl]

There's a way to try to be sure of not surprising bears. It's by tying little bells to your clothing, so that you "jingle" when you walk through the wilderness.

My man has a better method of letting bears know we're coming while out and about that doesn't even require fancy high tech bells:

He sings. Badly.

It's free, always available, and has the added advantage of not only letting the bears know we're coming, but also drives the bears off before we're even close.