Yeah, I figure that into it.
However, from the animal’s prospective, the loudest thing they usually hear is thunder.
Thunder, accompanied with painful impacts, energy transfer...
Considering these are animals, I would think that instinct would cause them to think twice?
I dunno. Just wondering out loud.
Speculating about this is safer, I guess.
Wouldn’t want to test these thoughts at all.
Me neither. lol...
I've read the Lewis and Clark accounts of their first encounters with these bears. The first couple were small, and they got a little cocky. Lewis wrote in his journal: "Well, you know, I can understand how the Indians...armed as they are with just some bows and arrows, might be frightened of this monster. But in the hands of an experienced woodsman with a good rifle, they’re nothing to be afraid of." But then they started to meet the big ones. The third one took seven or eight balls and still wouldn't come down and chased them into a river. One of them had to climb a tree to get away from one. They had all kinds of fun, until finally, Lewis wrote in his journal, "I find the curiosity of our men with respect to this animal is pretty much satisfied."
:-)