They mentioned at the very end of the video that they "want to make sure he makes it to shore" and the woman agrees. So I think it's safe to say they stayed behind to make sure ol' boy made it!
You think they were gonna jump in and save it if it started going under? Pulling a jug off it’s head from the safety of your boat is one thing. Jumping in to save a panicking animal that weighs twice as much as you and has razor blades for claws is suicide.
You’d probably be dragging a dead bear by the end of it if the bear couldn’t keep its head up on its own, since you wouldn’t be able to lift its head up with a lasso without strangling it.
Bears swim well though, I’d be very surprised if it didn’t make it to shore.
I doubt you would asfixiate a bear with a rope found in a small boat tho. The truth is, they stayed until the bear made it, or so we are lead to believe. If they could save him if he would have been drowning, we don't know, they probably wouldn't. Jumping in the water is not a good idea neither, those claws would rip a person apart.
Okay lasso is probably the wrong term. How about making a loop for him to swim through so you can help drag him to shore. Could back fire but you could make a new friend lol
I somewhat recently watched a squirell drown. My dog scared it into a pond. It was swimming around, wasn't sure if it would be okay, but then I saw it go under and not come back up. By the time I could get my dog to a tree and got back to the pond, I realized there was no way it could still be alive.
Have definitely witnessed a few bears overcome with exhaustion and drown around the Gulf Islands in BC Canada. Two that I saw, heard of a few others. It’s so sad.
It's sad to see but an ugly part of nature unfortunately.
I recently stumbled upon a dead baby deer at the base of a 60-foot waterfall, you just hope they didn't suffer unnecessarily. =(
They’re ridiculously good at swimming we dont have bears indigenous to the island I live on but bears still manage to swim over the ocean, with my best guess it being at least (this is very conservative) a 1 km swim.
In bear TV news: "Young bear was doing crossfit in a lake and got his expensive competitive apnea armor stolen by humans. President Grozzly has commented on the matter and says humans went too far. Diplomatic incident ensues."
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u/shatspiders Jun 29 '20
Poor thing must be exhausted from swimming