Strangely applies to American police, too
So racist.
Do you even know the whites are the least privileged?
/s (but also really sad)
If it’s white, stick try to lunge your head into the bear’s mouth to make it quick.
Rhymes don’t matter if it’s a polar bear.
“If it’s white, goodnight.” is the way I learned it.
So are polar bears considered more dangerous and aggro than grizzlies? I mean it wouldn’t be too crazy, particularly since it’s probably rare to encounter one, compare to grizzlies. But just had never really heard that.
Polar bears will most likely hunt you, even if they don’t immediately attack. They are terrifyingly good at it.
Polar bears, because of their location, see everything as food. Black bears and grizzlies, while omnivores, are more specific.
And I feel like I have to say to counter this weird perception online, black bears and grizzlies do not hunt humans. They generally don’t like humans and will stay away. But carry bear spray.
Polar bears don’t find food as readily as Grizzly bears. If a Grizzly hesitates on a salmon, it’ll find another salmon.
If a Polar hesitates on a penguin, it could starve.
Gotcha so the idea is they’re just gonna give it a shot and try to eat you, regardless, because the stakes, they are high?
To be fair, in a moral sense, they should absolutely try and eat every human they can get their claws on; we have done a bang up job on making their habitat and food sources disappear.
because the stakes, they are high?
I also heard it’s because a typical polar bear has never encountered anything that moves that isn’t food.
So they don’t have any mental category for “moving things on the ice I should flee from” or even “moving things on the ice that isn’t totally delicious”.
because the stakes, they are high?
I guess it depends on how much you smoked that day.
Their habitat has also shrunk so much, and their population dwindled so much, that they have gotten fairly inbred and that is causing more aggression and insanity.
There is also a female polar that keeps breeding with grizzlies, and those offspring are consistently more aggressive and dangerous.
Inbreeding causing aggression.
Cross-breeding causing aggression.
Dammit biology
There is also a female polar that keeps breeding with grizzlies
what do those look like? light brown but still big af?
Your point is correct, but for accuracy’s sake penguins live in the Antarctic and polar bears live in the Arctic.
That’d make penguin an exotic delicacy,
So it’s really unlikely they’ll get a second one in time
Brown bears and black bears see you as a potential threat.
Polar bears see you as food.
If it’s black, panic. If it’s brown, panic. If it’s white, panic.
Always panic.
What if it’s black and white? And what about the gray one with a bag?
ALWAYS PANIC
Good thing black is all we’ve ever seen in our yard.
Pet it. Boop that snoot.
You could try, but odds are it would run away before you could get close enough.
If you boop the snoot, will it droop?
If it’s white, chances are I already died of hypothermia.
If it’s white good night.
Who taught you to rime?
Vanilla Ice. Now stop. Collaborate and listen!
No no no, I have it on good authority that it is hammer time.
I just know that you can’t touch this.
Ice pun you got there.
Polar bears.
rime
The ancient mariner did
Taught me about ice?
Unless you’re Brian Blessed.
No thyme for that when a polar bear is on you.
Response to a bear attack depends on the type of attack, not the type of bear.
If it’s a defensive attack, play dead. If it’s a predatory attack, then fight back.
If it’s a defensive attack then stop being offensive towards bears. If it’s a predatory attack then start being more offensive towards bears.
What do you think would be the most offensive thing to say to a bear? Or maybe there’s a hand gesture or something that’s really taboo?
I just want to be prepared in case I ever need to know.
What do you think would be the most offensive thing to say to a bear?
“There’s nothing but lite beer left in the cooler.”
“Your mama was a rug!”
“Your momma is my rug”
Or possibly
“DJ Vance’s couch is made out of your momma. Allegedlys”
Fight back? O rly?
The real answer for a black bear is make yourself look as big as possible, back away slowly, and tell it to fuck off in a deep voice. If it charges you it’s hopefully feinting, but if not whack it right in the snout with whatever you have.
give 'em dinner and a show!
Black Bears mostly want a nice berry, or a poorly placed bear cooler.
Most Black Bear attacks seem to be because, in their mind, they’re buying time for their cubs to run away.
An average Black Bear is not looking for a prolonged fight. They’re still quite good at if, if they get the idea they need to.
So the prevailing wisdom, for Black Bears, is do whatever it takes to avoid them. But if attacked, do whatever it takes to make the bear think twice about whether they really want to fight. Because unlike Grizzlies and Polar Bears, a Black Bear may well change it’s mind.
https://youtu.be/v6iDtvGbIOU (Polar Bear vs Walrus Colony)
If your going into polar bear country bring along your pet walrus to protect you
:'(
Is laying down really a thing with a grizzly? What’s that do?
Yes, they will fight to the death
They will fight you back and aren’t afraid… But if you’re dead/they think you’re dead, they probably won’t bother and will continue what they were doing.
This video while long does a great job teaching you how to act in active bear territory.
The TLDW is: -
- In active bear territory carry bear spray and be ready to use it
- You can’t out run a bear don’t try
- bear bells don’t work
- playing dead makes it easier for the bear to maul you
- when hiking with a group and encounter an aggressive bear stand shoulder to shoulder wave your arms and prepare your bear spray
- let the bear decide how they want to leave the encounter (if they are not attacking you)
- outside of a momma bear, most “attacks” are bluffs but can be scary as shit.
- guns work but you better be a good and quick shot cuz bears run fast and are very intimidating doing so
- a gun shot can help scare away most bears
My chance at pedantry! Also, some black bears are brown, and some grizzlies are black. If you live in overlapping territory, it may be easier to know them by shape… but if you’re close enough to discern shape, you’re already in a bad spot.
I’ve heard the best way to tell the difference is to check your pants. If you crapped your pants it’s probably a grizzly.
Ooh bear facts! My favorite bear fact is that there is no grizzly bear species. Sure, there’s regional genetic variation, but they are all genetically brown bears.
What they are named for is the grey hairs on their pelt, which are caused by the stress of malnutrition. This is why they are so much more aggressive than the other bears: they are literally starving because there is not enough calories in their environment to keep so many land sharks happy and healthy.
Part of me wonders if the gunshot helps whether it would be worth the trouble to carry an air horn.
Maybe, but really when you are in bear territory, and close to areas where bear congregate (rivers being one), just a few loud claps and a couple of loud “HEYS” is good enough to flush most bears.
Great video!
https://youtu.be/1KWSJ3piSfM?t=2003
We tried (bear spray) on polar bear and they run like crazy… They are scaredy cats, if I had to be stuck with any bear it would be a polar bear.
Sir, You were almost mouled to death, You are lucky You only lost one arm. Why the hell, did You try to punch that bear? I saw it in a meme once…
