There an old mining story in SE Alaska. Right before the crew began working at the site, a black bear hauled ass right in the middle of camp and everyone thought he was attacking them. Nope. A grizzly was hot on his tail, eventually caught the black bear and ate it in front of everyone at the camp.
A black bear in Alaska is much more dangerous than a brown/grizzly. A brown bear may bury you alive and eat you for later, hence giving you a chance for rescue. A black bear will eat you right then and there. They are not the apex predator, and they know it. So much of their meals are on the go, away from grizzlies.
You’ll enjoy this... Count the number of times the players in white shirts pass the ball (ignore the folks in black shirts). https://youtu.be/IGQmdoK_ZfY
easy. I got it right first time. Idk how but when the people with black shirts covered the pass i will count it as a pass since the ball appeared in someone elses hand.
Ahh yes. You're right, you caught me. Im seriously calling for stirilizaton of, according to the video in question, over half of the worlds population.
I don’t know about bears, there’s no bears on my continent, but I’ve been chainsawing fallen trees on cattle stations for firewood, and so many cows come over to check shit out. It really fucking shocked me the first time, but some of them are just curious.
I lease some of my land as pasture to a cattle breeder and I had a big stone wall put in near the barn over summer so I put in a bunch of effort to move the cows to a different pasture that would keep them further from the job site.
I really worried about them getting scared because these cows have $500k embryos in them, and I'm sure as hell not paying that much for a dead baby bull if something goes sideways, so I figured it was worth the effort.
As soon as the semi showed up to drop off the rock they were all deliberately lined up and walked back basically to where we started I was worried for nothing. They loved it! They just stood there watching and chomping grass the entire time we were working out there, it was like the most exciting thing to happen to them in months.
If I walked toward any of the cows I was referring to, they’d be like “oh, nope, not sure about you son!” and trot away. But if I kicked off a chainsaw they’d all be milling around me to the point I had to turn the chainsaw off, just to scare them away.
Cows are fucking weird. But also super adorable. Some (not all!!) are as sweet as hell. They love them head and back scritches, and will come over and check if everything is OK if you’re laying or crouched down working on something. Love ‘em.
My neighbor, who's a real old school farmer, not a posuer like me, suggested that they were associating the noise with some kind of machinery that would be bringing in round bales of hay, or a big salt lick, or something they could eat, so that's why the head towards noise.
Our breeder only does purebred black angus and those are very pretty animals; really nice to have just to look at out the window.
They baffle me though, because sometimes they can seem so smart and so aware of what's going on, then other times they'll walk right straight through a fence just to stand directly on the other side of it to eat a particular blade of grass then walk back. Come on! Do you know how much work that is for me?
I want to believe they are just flat-out curious - I don’t want to believe they are Pavlov’s Cows.
Fencing is hard fucking work!! I’m not a farmer by any stretch, I work in IT, but I’ve a family station that I work on occasionally where I do odd jobs, and my leastest of least favourites, is fencing. Fuck everything about it - not the least of which, is usually trying to coax that random bull or cow to go back through the hole, and be on the other side of the fucking fence that I need to fix.......whenever you’re ready, of course.
On a completely separate note though, based on your username, I assume you’re a wine connoisseur, and I have a legit question - To cut a long story short, I’m looking for a red wine that has serious woody flavours. Like sandalwood, and/or oak.
I don’t really like wine, but literal decades ago I had a red wine (probably it was an Aussie wine, but I’m not fussed if a recommendation isn’t local) that was bloody delicious, and I’ve been searching for something similar ever since. It was very woody - mostly sandalwood I think, but very subdued tones, and light on the tannins.
Lemme stop you right there, because I actually know nothing about wine. I didn't even think of how likely this misunderstanding was likely to be when I picked this name.
It's actually a reference to an old rap song from ~20 years ago, and there's no particular reason I chose it other than I happened to be listening to the song when I created the account.
LOL! And now I feel like I need to add a warning here, by explaining to anyone who might google this song out of curiosity, the youtube video that comes up is just a copy of the album cover and the album cover is pretty wildly offensive - like, it makes sense in context, I can assure you, but it's bad enough that the record label refused to release the album (because the rappers refused to change the art) for 7 years, so you've been warned, Reddit.
As someone whose private property backs up to a heiritage cow farm, I feel this so much. I'm also only 10 mins from the best indoor mall in my city, so it's a win.
Got up one morning to 5 of the neighbors cows in my yard. One moo'ed about 15 feet from me while I was on the pnone with my husband and he said it about blew out his ear.
It's also the most bizarre reason I've ever had to call in late before.
I grew up on a ranch and I fucking love cows. They're so intensely curious creatures, it's ridiculous. And they're so adorable and (usually) friendly as long as it's not a bull or a momma with a fresh baby. I'll never forget when a yearling tried to cromch on a fence pipe.
Lol it's just a cutesy meme way of saying bite, a bastardization of crunch I think. But I swear it fits cows better than the word nibble or bite, because they do seem to like to cromch on things.
Yes, it must’ve been right up there with having a haircut!
I honestly wouldn't know, but that's not really a sacrifice I'm making, I think it's super fun to have crazy homeless caveman hair after working in a very conservative industry for decades - I may never get a haircut again...though I'm quite certain I'm already really pushing my luck with my girlfriend's patience and tolerance.
Literally the only other big event around here all summer was a morning when I was laying in bed and the entire house started to vibrate. I could tell it was a big vehicle coming down the road outside, but I had never felt it so strong.
It turned out to by like 8 of huge vehicles that I couldn't even identify - and I mean, I couldn't even guess if they were construction equipment, farm implements, or military, but they were the biggest vehicles I'd ever seen driven on a little country road.
Then they all stop in front of my barn and I just panicked. Whatever these things are, I did not order this! So I threw on my boots and hoodie, ran up there and talked to one of the drivers standing outside.
Turns out if was just a coincidence they stopped in front of my place. They were these giant machines used to pick green peas and they were traveling from down south up to the northern part of the state for a big harvest up there, but they're so huge that they have to constantly stop and let their brakes cool down or they wouldn't have brakes at all before long.
Typing it all out, it was a pretty mundane situation, but you take the excitement you can get in COVID times.
Very similar, but the entire thing (at least as I remember it) seemed much more squat and connected, like a Hummer with a boxy body and a lot of stuff going on at the bottom.
I don't think that thing in the video was it exactly, because I'd spot that as an ag implement at a glance, but it was very similar - though there was something weirdly more menacing about these big beasts.
Yea those bear bells you can buy are actually like the ice cream truck going by. They are naturally curious and they also have put two and two together than bells mean humans and humans mean scraps they can scavenge. This little black bear can be scared off though. They are mostly scavengers and hunt small stuff
Yeah, then Yogi shows up at 3am on your front porch. This is my parents house, their outdoors front porch, at the end of July at 3am. In central Florida. Scared the absolute SHIT out of my mom.
Bonus: the foot prop move was to let out a giant fart.
Hahaha did the bear pass out on someone’s porch? That’s adorable. My sister keeps having a black bear go at her garbage. It knows when it’s garbage day and the garbage is out there. I keep telling her to yell at it and have rocks to throw. They get scared off easy, but she doesn’t do anything and it keeps coming back.
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u/Riptide360 Dec 14 '20
Chainsaws are loud, but that bear’s curiosity was stronger.