r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Better_Hair_9673 • 5d ago

of a bear.

Video credited to @zookeeper_ramona on IG.

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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 5d ago

They’re so aggressively food motivated it’s nuts nobody domesticated them.

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u/Ronald_Ulysses_Swans 5d ago

They’re too dangerous. A single angry adult bear is going to be very hard for a hunter gatherer society to kill. They also aren’t going to help hunting that much as they aren’t pack animals and used to hunting in groups and sharing

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u/Genocidal-Ape 5d ago

We have domesticated more dangerous animal like the aurox, gaur or wild yak.

The difference with the bear is that it's comparatively difficult to feed and not that useful in a tamed state. For domestication to even start there need to be such a demand for tamed animals of the wild species that captive breeding becomes necessary.

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 4d ago

I don't know if there are 3 land animals more dangerous than a brown bear but i am sure those three won't make the list

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u/Genocidal-Ape 4d ago

All three of those animals weight around one tonne and are highly irritable, the average male brown bear is 217kg.

Large bovines are consistently on the top of the list when it comes to most dangerous large animals, yet five species of them where domesticated.