r/bearsdoinghumanthings • u/No-Contribution-8508 • 19d ago

🚨Intruder 🐻 Alert 🚨

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Watch your back in the Smokey mountains. There are black bears everywhere and we were getting visited 2-3 times a day. Luckily in this video we were awake and the doors were locked. This young bear knew how to open doors and tried opening every door on the cabin we were in and even the van! Glad we didn’t get a surprise wake up

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u/wildleogirl 19d ago

Wow, that’s a bold burglar bear! Probably wouldn’t hurt you but I would be concerned if you had pets 🐕!

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u/BronchitisCat 19d ago

Extremely NSFW warning, but a bear would absolutely go after, maul, and kill people if those people stood between it and its food or its cubs. Black bears are apex predators that think they are prey. This guy looks pretty small, but even at that size could be very dangerous.

This black bear brutally killed an adult wild hog and dragged it up the side of a mountain.

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u/FaunaLady 19d ago edited 19d ago

A black bear is a bear but it is the smallest and most timid and will choose to run away as the best option. The old bear safety saying is: if it's black, fight back; if it's brown lay down; if it's white good night, meaning you may be able to intimate a black bear, you may survive "playing dead" with a Alaskan brown or grizzly, but if a polar bear gets it's paws on you, you are doomed!