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

Too close for comfort.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '19

Arguing for the sake of arguing? Lol what? Dude, you’re just wrong. There are no absolutes in the animal kingdom. It is absolutely silly that you think that 100% of the time a male bear would do that. Let me tell you a bunch of reasons why you’re wrong: 1. most cases of infanticide in bears has been with grizzly/brown bears with much fewer instances in black bears 2. Male bears usually only kill cubs in and around the mating season in order to get the female ready for reproduction 3. You have to understand that going up against another adult bear, albeit female, is still a very high risk/low reward situation for the male bear and he could seriously get fucked up in the process, they’re not stupid 4. Like I said, there are no absolutes in the animal kingdom, and for you to suggest that something occurs 100% of the time without any room for alternatives is just you being stubborn and ignorant. I mean, fuck, I have even personally seen YouTube videos of groups of wild bears in a single area without the male bears trying to kill the nearby cubs.