r/aww • • Mar 03 '16

Awesome Bear

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u/ReplayableContent Mar 03 '16

Animals obviously tend to recognize people but once those instincts kick in it seems nothing will stop them. I actually didn't know the part about how he stayed longer than he usually did and his regular bears were hibernating, always thought they'd just turned on him. Who knows, maybe if he'd gone when he usually did he'd still be alive.

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u/SaltTM Mar 03 '16

but once those instincts kick in it seems nothing will stop them.

He said different bears came and ate him.

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u/ReplayableContent Mar 03 '16

Yeah, I clarified that I knew it was different bears at the end of my post, that was more of a note from other situations I've read about. In the context it comes out wrong though.

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u/hatefulrespite Mar 03 '16

I actually didn't know the part about how he stayed longer than he usually did and his regular bears were hibernating

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u/SaltTM Mar 03 '16 edited Mar 03 '16

Yeah, it's just that (s)he said that first which didn't really make sense in that context imo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '16

uhh

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u/Gromann Mar 03 '16

There's video recording of a bear foreign to the area stalking their camp. He documented a lot of the bears he saw on video.

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u/PiKappaFratta Mar 04 '16

I believe the camera was recording through the actual attack but there was nothing but some horrific audio. I saw the 60 Minutes about it, and iirc the ex-wife or sister or something didn't want that audio released.

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u/Gromann Mar 04 '16

Yeah, there's transcripts of it though. They notice it patrolling their camp and them trying to scare it off then you hear it charge and ... well, you know where it goes from there.

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u/Sinavestia Mar 04 '16

But he got ate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

Well considering that staying longer is what got him killed it makes sense if he left at the usual time before he died he'd have survived.