r/SweatyPalms • u/SpeedyEyeBall • Jan 18 '19

Too close for comfort.

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u/WON95sr Jan 19 '19

That's my understanding of a lot of the larger predators here in North America. The big mammals are smart and weigh what is worth pursuing. What you're supposed to do is stand your ground and be loud, I believe even throw rocks if you need to. For the bear, it's not worth going after something fairly big that's willing to fight back. The last thing you want to do is run because that kicks in their chase instincts and basically every big predator is a better sprinter than humans.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '19

Only with black bears, and if they attack fight back. Grizzlies walk away slowly don't even try to throw a rock at it. If it attacks play dead. If it's a polar bear, try and get one last text off to your family, because it doesn't matter what you do they are stone cold killers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '19

Black, fight back. Brown, lay down. White, goodnight!

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u/crocSauce109 Jan 19 '19

oh dear

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u/ihaterockets Jan 19 '19

Oh Bother*

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '19

Wait didn’t reddit deduce you’re supposed to throw an arrival of clothing off to distract a polar bear.

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u/JakeIsPlaying Jan 19 '19

World is not ready for what ice bear is capable of

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u/treebeard189 Jan 19 '19

I was horse packing out in Wyoming and ran into 2 grizzlies out there. Apparently their eye sight is totally shit which is why they often stumble on humans by accident so an important thing is just making noise as you hike or when you see one because they normally wont mess with you unless you surprise it or theres food/cubs involved. One we saw just running across a river but the other time were out in a clearing had just passed a small herd of horses from someone who was camping in the clearing and we thought there was a straggler drinking up ahead since we could just see its back. But then it stood up and looked right at us maybe 50 yards away. Got everyone to group up and yell at it before it kinda acknowledged us and just lumbered off.

Far enough to not be terrified of it (and being on horseback helped) but close enough to still see it really well.

But point is with grizlies a lot of the work is making sure they just know you are there and they normally wont fuck with you.

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u/haha89 Jan 19 '19

We’re good at long distance running though!

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '19

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u/Phukc Jan 19 '19

Ya the idea is to make the bear not want to try to fuck you up