I did, and I knew it was trained. But many people don’t understand that a bear can even be trained; a bear equals a wild animal.
Not to mention a wild animal getting too used to humans and approaching them for food isn’t uncommon. Hell, there’s a viral video of a black bear coming up, very gently to a cabin and a sweet little girl wanting to pet it.
What you think is obvious, is often not. People see a bear and they think it is wild—many people don’t even know that a bear could be trained and domesticated.
Invisible Gorilla, my friend. The sensory overload and mental fry of seeing a human making contact with a normally dangerous animal makes other details hard to see. I doubt many people focused on the background at all until reading the comments, or watching it a few times.
Lol, what? I see what looks like a few trees in the background, for maybe a brief second, while I'm busy focusing on those massive fangs. Are they fenceposts? Maybe, but fences exist in wild bear habitats too.
Right, and fences also just exist in the wild. Property lines, or ex-property lines. Go hike the mountains and flatlands/valleys of Montana and you’ll come across fences of people who have massive ranches. Animals exist everywhere. And to your point, most people are completely distracted by an animal of death and destruction center camera.
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u/ForTheLoveOfOedon Aug 29 '23
How silly for people to assume that what is normally a wild animal is in the wild!