Brit Reacts To EVERY BEAR & ITS CHANCE OF RETIRING YOU FROM LIFE

[@WoodsWoman822]

Black Bears 🐻 live in almost all Forests in North America. Definitely a large Bear population in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks. Also Truckee/Lake Tahoe and the Coastal Redwoods. I've Lived amongst Black Bears 🐻 most of my life, if their not cornered, threatened, injured or with cubs they usually run away when you encounter them. But carrying bear spray and a small marine horn, when hiking in a forest is always a good idea, also put bells on your belt, make noise when approaching a bend in the trail so they hear you before they see you. If you encounter a Black Bear in the Wild and it doesn't Immediatly run and you feel threatened, clap your hands 👏🏼 loudly and yell Woa Bear Repeatedly till he runs, This works 99% of the time but there are always exceptions to every rule. If charged never run 🏃‍♀️ yell, throw something, a branch a Rock 🪨 A Backpack with food in it, the scent of the food may occupy him long enough for you to back away until you reach a safe distance. But if the bear keeps coming use your Bear spray, as a last resort play dead, stomach on the ground face to the ground and protect your head and neck with your arms keep still, he might bite, try to stay still, most of the time he will lose interest and leave. They're Beautiful Animals, I respect them but have never felt the need to fear them, they usually will give you no trouble. Take reasonable precautions, Enjoy the Forest and don't Worry.

[@user-wc8fp4cx6c]

I give you credit for making the effort to find new videos and explore unique topics instead of simply reacting to an endless loop of "isn't America Awesome" vids.

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks for noticing!

[@justinlansdell8336]

I completely agree with the O.P., also the creators video was the Casual Geographic. His channel has awesome animal content the guy knows his stuff. Good Luck & keep up the good work.

[@Hibbs4Prez]

Totally agree. As an American it annoys me how narcissistic we can be.

[@HJt-zi7ke]

Virtually nobody does that though

[@HJt-zi7ke]

And virtually nobody thinks that. Not even Americans themselves

[@jeffevers3732]

Polar Bear hands down! Hello from the Canadian North. Cheers

[@WhtCrstlJudgmntDrgn]

100% agree, I live in Alaska. I do *NOT* endorse getting close to them.

[@annefox926]

@@WhtCrstlJudgmntDrgn Viewing them from a Tundra Buggy out side of Churchill was a thrill but that was close enough. The scary thin was that you couldn't spot them as many of the bears were more brown/tan in color & when out on the tundra, they looked like rocks.

[@nerdcamel]

I live in the Smokies and see black bears all the time. They are usually shy and prefer to go away from people. They do become a problem if people feed them. I will walk out my door and see them in my yard passing through or eating my apples. I give them space and we coexist.

[@timbuktu8069]

The first time I saw a black bear I was backpacking alone in Pennsylvania. The thing was about the size of a large dog and took off as soon as it saw me, Later I was in the Smokies National Park. The bears there were the size of midsize cars. Some people would feed them-tourists. I saw one guy hop out of his car to get some up close and personal shots. It was then I realized that there was a Dairy Queen about a city blocks distance away.

[@andyloy7809]

Howdy neighbor 👋🏻

[@fausnaugh]

yeah, black bear trying to get into our tent, I confronted it with my $1 flash light while in my boxer shorts, only after my "false" charge did (She) leave, with cub in tow. I did not know the cub was there till then. whooo, could not go back to sleep. The two stayed in the area for the rest of the week that we were there. yeah.

[@Svensk7119]

Casual Geographic is an artist in his descriptions. "If it's brown, lie down, If it's black, you fight, And it it's white.... good night." That's a version of the rhyme for bears, telling you what to do. The polar bear is basically a sea-grizzly, and it's the only bear that is a pure carnivore. It could eat plants and insects, but there just aren't any except at the fringes of its range, and just in the summer. But they can still breed with grizzlybjørn.

[@julieallen9729]

It's back get back, not black you fight.

[@Svensk7119]

@julieallen9729 Black bears eat more folks than brown. Thus, the fight. Besides, that way, it rhymes, not just alliterates. If you make yourself bigger facing a black bear, you're more likely to scare it off. That's part of "fight".

[@MatthewC137]

I found myself about 40 feet from a grizzly back in 2008. I was elk hunting 50 miles from Yellowstone when the bear quietly came in to one of my elk calls. Luckily he was as surprised as I was when I faced him. He let out a big "woof" as he did a semi backflip and ran back up the hill that he had come from. He was shockingly fast. I've seen one other grizzly from across a meadow and many black bears in my life but like you, I had never heard of a spectacled bear! Love your videos and personality Kabir. I subscribed years ago.

[@laurainathunderstorm]

Spectacles only live in South America, specifically the Andes mountain chain and the areas surrounding them, and they don't go further south than northern Peru I think (I'm not too sure about that tho). So unless you've been around over there you won't really see one in the wild. I visited a place that was kinda like a zoo, except it was a whole small mountain that the animals lived in and there were fenced trails for observation, this was in Ecuador and I got to see one of them from somewhat up close. But I'm from further down south in Chile and we don't have any kind of bears over here.

[@kate2create738]

That is perhaps the funniest hunting stories I’ve ever heard lol 😆

[@kate2create738]

@@m0ar_b0ar Yellowstone is in Wyoming/Montana where there are some grizzly bears in the area, I think you were thinking this was in Yosemite which is in California.

[@MatthewC137]

@@m0ar_b0ar It was definitely a grizzly. This happened in Wyoming. Black bears look VERY different no matter their color phase.

[@MatthewC137]

@@kate2create738 Thank you. Northwestern Wyoming has a lot of grizzlies. Edit: I just googled it. The Wyoming Game and Fish Dept estimates that there are over 1,000 grizzlies in Wyoming. That of course means NW Wyoming since they aren't found anywhere else in the state.

[@angelag6667]

Kabir, when he showed the photo of the blonde guy and said "if you know you know" that man was eaten alive by a brown bear. He called himself The Grizzlie man and was filming a documentary when he was attacked. He recorded his death. 😮😢

[@Eijianthony]

if that audio was real. man that was sickening.

[@wolfe6220]

@@Eijianthony I was told that was a recreation. The original is much, much worse and in the hands of the guys mother, IIRC.

[@bruknorx]

@@wolfe6220 I heard they destroyed the recording. just was too traumatizing and understandably so.

[@wolfe6220]

@@bruknorx I think you are right. They gave it to his mother, told her not to play it, so she destroyed it. Poor woman.

[@operator0]

The bear killed the woman as well, who was his girlfriend and was with him at the time of the attack. They found half of her body buried in a shallow hole, presumably so the bear could come back and finish his meal after he digested what he had already eaten. This bear was not one of the regular bears the guy had been studying. It was an outsider that looked particularly scraggly. He had made a comment earlier in the day to his girlfriend that he didn't like the way the bear looked, and how it had been eying them and their camp earlier. The bear was underweight for the nearing hibernation period, and that's almost certainly why it attacked and ate them.

[@wolfe6220]

I love this guy. 😁 Sun bears are pretty awesome. I worked as a zookeeper several decades ago. The sun bars got out of their enclosure a few times at night. When it was discovered, the bears were found right by the door they escaped from, patiently waiting for breakfast.

[@haseulibae7083]

Love Casual Geographic, and would love to see more reactions to him! ❤️

[@brianrigsby7900]

Watch more of this guy please. He’s really funny

[@steeljawX]

Casual Geographics is great. I feel like I learn a whole lot more from watching his videos than watching all of the hours of the stuff David Attenborough narrates. It's a bit more direct and that works for me.

[@sassytbc7923]

A polar bears paw is about a foot across. They go after anything that moves

[@Rkenton48]

Considering where they live, can you blame them?

[@bskec2177]

For comparison, most human feet are about 1 foot long...

[@anitapeludat256]

@@sassytbc7923 There is no surviving a Polar bear attack.

[@OrysB-po1fy]

Yeah because there is no 13,000lb African bush elephant bull or white rhino to fuck their worlds up. It’s easy being tough when you’re hiding from the largest creatures on earth. A bulls tusk can be 7 feet long. How bout that. Try your little 1 foot paw on that.

[@OrysB-po1fy]

@@anitapeludat256Sure there is. If they could actually survive on the African bush what the hell was some polar bear going to do to someone riding their 12,000lb elephant bull with 7ft tusk 😂 what’s the lil polar bear gonna do to something that can roll a 2000lb jeep as easy at it’ll roll the little bear? You all do understand people rode elephants into battle right? I mean you do comprehend that right? You’ve heard of Hannibal and Carthage and taking elephants across the alps right?

[@marygeiger7409]

Dad was a biologist. He took us camping on an island in the Willapa Bay in Washington State. It was a refuge the University and State used to study bear. I went on a hike with my older sister. I was 11 and she was 22. We found tracks and fresh sign. She wanted to show where they were and keep a safe distance. When we caught sight of them, they were a football field away. Mama black bear with 4 cubs. We enjoyed them for a time and then the winds shifted so we left them. Dad worked in Alaska counting salmon. On Kodiak Island he stood up next to a river after counting and he startled a male Kodiak bear. It charged him from eight feet away. Dad had to shoot him. It was far too close a call.

[@ganggreen9012]

My father had two brown bear encounters while hunting in Alaska. The first one my father's hunting partner had shot a deer and they were hiking a logging road to their boat when a bear stood up about 50 yards away from them. My father had both rifles and his friend was carrying the deer, by the time the friend dropped the deer and my father gave him his rifle the bear had run 100 yards in the opposite direction and disappeared into the woods. The second time he was skirting a swampy area and came to a small creek bed, when he dropped into the creek bed a bear stood up on the opposite bank, with a small tree between them. After a short period of looking at each other, the bear turned away and walked off in the woods.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Kabir, let me explain it this way... I live in a large, densely populated metro area in Southern New England. Black Bears have been caught on security cameras raiding trash cans and bird feeders in suburban backyards. You may take it for granted that virtually anywhere in North America outside of actual city centers, there is a chance you might encounter a Black Bear. And, yes, there are hundreds of Black Bears living in Yosemite and Sequoia.

[@anitapeludat256]

Connecticut here. Black bear are very common and will occasionally roam into neighborhoods and are capable of burrowing beneath certain houses to hibernate . We humans leave them alone. If a bear needs to be removed from a city, the Wildlife agencies are in charge of tranquilizing the bear and safely transport it to a forest area . We must remove bird feeders and garbage cans when bears are about. We don't want them use to human food .

[@ThreshmanEntertainment]

@@anitapeludat256Connecticut as well. Quite frequent to see evidence of their passing through in many of the regular hiking trails that are popular around me. All the claw marks in the bark and all that. Definitely sobering walking around a corner and seeing those on the next tree you walk by

[@margaretspignardo5588]

Hudson Valley in New York same.

[@ashleydixon4613]

Yeah, I don’t think true “city folk” (and Europeans who really aren’t used to much wild nature) realize the close proximity to potentially dangerous wildlife that most of us across the US actually live in. I say “potentially” bc they COULD harm a human if they really wanted to. I live in Arkansas-certainly more wildlife, fewer humans, but I’m not way out in the sticks, I’m in Benton, in the Little Rock metro area. But in the two nicest (most expensive) areas of Little Rock itself-the Pulaski Heights/Hillcrest area, an older neighborhood full of gorgeous 1920s-40s homes, and Chenal Valley/WLR, newer homes, McMansions, gated communities, you’re likely to see foxes, coyotes, bobcats, even bears wandering through quite often.

[@anitapeludat256]

@@ThreshmanEntertainment We also have spiders that can be really unpleasant if they bite. Like a brown recluse. If disturbed, they can bite, but the bite is not always felt. But boy can they spread damage and create spreading flesh eating type of injury. We have more insects here in the states than in Europe and the UK. And we get laughed at for having window screens ! 😅 The UK does not have many mosquitoes for example. Or our ticks. Which are everywhere here in CT. You and I know to always prevent and check all the time. There was a joke making fun of Americans on an English chat show. (That gets annoying because it's fine to criticize in some cases , however, ), the big laugh was that "Americans are afraid to walk in the forest" ( the bit was, we don't travel, we don't walk, we only drive cars, etc. ) overall that is so untrue. However, WE have creatures, critters, reptiles and insects, everywhere in every state. Just different varieties. So, we must do common sense research before we hike anywhere or when in a different state for common sense caution. They don't have anywhere near the numbers of varieties of species that can cause harm to any degree . Many think we don't know geography, there are a lot of Europeans and English that know very little about the states beyond when some like to tell us we only exist because of them. Factually, not true . But, I'm not so sure they could understand the distance between the Grand canyon and NYC . Many visit Florida, but, don't understand an alligator can live in a puddle. It's a next level of jumanji down there. And we look up to Australians with badass respect. 😂

[@briangoss8062]

"If you know, you know". The guy and his girl friend momentarily pictured went into the wilds in Alaska to live and study wild bears. They managed to come to a uneasy understanding with a small group of wild bears. They continuously moved their camp closer and closer to the bears over many months until they were camping several hundred feet from the bears and their bedding area. One day the bears simply said "blank this stuff" and they came for them. This guy and his girl ALWAYS had cameras rolling monitoring the bears and their routines. This one day they I believe had a camera rolling and if nothing else audio rolling. He captured the attack on himself and girl friend on audio and/or video. A party looking for them after they didn't report in found what was left of them in their camp being guarded by the hungry bears.

[@wolfe6220]

It was actually a bear that was a stranger to the ones they were more familiar with that killed them. But, they were fools for taking such risks in the first place. Wild apex predators are not your friend.

[@circuitd942]

@@wolfe6220that’s correct. Dude was familiar with some bears. It was a migratory male that killed him

[@wolfe6220]

@@briangoss8062 The pics are pretty gross...

[@shelaughs185]

Saw a black bear wander across my golf course last year. We let him play through. I actually saw him twice in about a month's time.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Hi Kabir, there aren't very many bears left in Texas, and I think there are a few left in the south, but it's nothing like the situation up north, especially in the national parks. In our old family photo albums there are some pictures of bears my parents took up in British Columbia during the early 1950's. Some show my dad feeding bears. You can tell that he was kind of afraid, because he and this bear are both standing up, and my dad's arm is fully outstretched. The bear, standing on it's back feet is as tall as my dad.

[@reneemaciag3084]

We had an encounter with a black bear in a campground in Western Pennsylvania. We had been cooking over and open fire outside. Later, as we were enjoying some coffee and conversation, it ambled up toward us, then sat down on the other side of the fire pit watching us scramble for the safety of the cabin. Later, as we described the encounter to the owners of the property they said, "Oh yeah, that must have been Suzie." Apparently, the campground was along a "migratory highway" for black bears and they knew many of the regulars and had named them.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

I love that guy! I follow him and he has great videos. I’ve seen a bear in the wild several times. It’s heart stopping for me. lol🤗❤️🐝

[@ImYourFather21]

The man in the picture of the couple together was Timothy Treadwell who was a bear enthusiast who was eaten alive by Alaskan grizzly bears during a routine expedition in October 2003. Treadwell believed he had developed a special bond with the bears. (Yes that explanation came from google) but the crazy thing is there’s video but mainly audio that was being recorded at his campsite at the time so you can hear the attack happening.

[@eTraxx]

his girlfriend also

[@ImYourFather21]

@@eTraxx right, I forgot to add that 😅

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

It was too close to hibernation to be that chummy with the grizzlies.

[@LexyThomas134]

He shouldn't have listened to his girlfriend. It already attacked them once and left and she said the chances of it coming back were slim so she wanted to stay...

[@wolfe6220]

​@@LexyThomas134Oh yeah, blame it on HER....🙄

[@gotham61]

There are polar bears in Alaska, but only on the north and west coasts where very few people live. Polar bears have become more aggressive towards humans because shrinking sea ice cover has made it much harder for them to find food. I visited Alaska in 2011 and saw many grizzly bears from as close as 10 feet. Here in the NYC area, black bears are seen frequently in suburban neighborhoods, especially in New Jersey, walking through back yards and rummaging through the garbage cans.

[@filrabat1965]

Jaw drops: Even in the Northeast??? I know you all have problems with deer, and probably coyotes, but bears is new to me.

[@gotham61]

@@filrabat1965 lots of black bears in the Northeast. New Jersey has an annual bear hunt to try and keep the numbers down.

[@hisownfool1]

@@filrabat1965 I live in New York and I have bears, coyotes, and deer in my neighborhood. People living less than 25 miles from Central Park can say the same thing

[@hisownfool1]

@@gotham61Tony Soprano had to deal with a bear in his swimming pool in North Caldwell.

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

August 17, 1959 I was 15 years old. My parents, my little sister and I were camped at Mammoth Mountain in Yellowstone National Park. A grizzly bear kept coming to our tent site, just walking around and sniffing things. This was unusual behavior and I wanted to leave immediately. Father wanted to stay even though he had to chase the bear away several times. That night I could hear it breathing near my spot in the tent when it suddenly moved slightly and I felt his weight on me. Dad chased it away again and I begged to leave. A bit later we heard the sound of wood being ripped. The bear was tearing our small hauling trailer apart. That convinced my parents to leave but not until all equipment and supplies were put into the back of the pickup. Dad put his railroad lantern into my hands and told me to shine it in his eyes. Trembling and crying, I did it, even as the bear walked closer to me. When Dad finally pulled me away, the bear was standing over me and I felt his saliva drip on my head. There was no explaining that bear's behavior. We went to a motel for a few hours of sleep and turned on the news early in the morning. An earthquake had hit Mammoth Mountain, collapsing the entire thing to the campground. Everyone camped there was buried under tons of rock, soil and debris. We were alive because of that bear. Why did the bear choose us?? One swipe of his paw and I would have been dead.

[@rebo2610]

Damn! You all were so lucky!

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

@@rebo2610 Yes, and I have been so thankful for that bear for 65 years, since I am now 80. But I still do not have an answer as to why me/us? Just luck or maybe something else?

[@ajwhitworth8803]

​@@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu It was probably an early stage of rabies. You are incredibly lucky to have gotten out of that situation.

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

@@ajwhitworth8803Early stage rabies sounds like a possibility that I hadn't thought of. Yes, extremely lucky. I still ask the question of why were we chosen to survive when so many, probably including the bear, died. There was nothing special about us.

[@curlyque2717]

I firmly believe in the verse in the Bible that says a time to live a time to die. Everything happens for a reason. You may never have any idea who or what you may have influenced in your life, making it necessary for you to be here to this day. I also have another theory, other than the rabies one. Animals sense things like earthquakes and other natural disasters. Why your family he chose to show any panic to is hard to say, but aren't you glad he was persistent?

[@k1sfd1974]

Yes, I have had the misfortune of seeing a Black Bear in Maine when I was a late teen. We were in the back of a truck, heading on some logging roads to get to a camping site when we saw her. We immediately knew we messed up when we saw the cub on the drivers side of the road in the bushes, which meant that we were between a mom & her cub. Mom wasn’t happy or amused… at all! We yelled for the driver to get us out of there as she started running towards us. Just barely got moving in time. I needed new boxers after that. I do feel lucky it was a black bear and not a New England Brown Bear. I’m pretty sure she would have caught us and kept the tailgate as a souvenir if that was the case. I’m in New Hampshire now, and we’ve had a significant increase in human/bear conflict since the end of 2022 (increases started around August, I think). That was a drought year, and it’s not unheard of for bears to not get enough food for hibernation; so they go looking elsewhere. Thanks for the video!

[@chrisbera7952]

New England doesn't have Brown bears anymore. they killed them off a long time ago

[@filrabat1965]

These days, bears are everywhere, even more so than in the past. During the 90s, the state of Louisiana did a reintroduction program into the state's rural areas. Result: farmland, particularly in the northern part of the state, where bears were previously rare are now much more common. My nieces' mom, who has horses, had to give tips on how to avoid startling bears when riding around corn fields (when the corn was tall and just about ready for harvesting).

[@StacyBaldwin-qv5cj]

Your nieces mom, so your sister

[@stevegirard-voiceaudiopodcasts]

When I was 15, my Dad & I lived in a small town at the base of a mountain range in Pennsylvania. My older brother & his wife lived about 400 yards from us through the woods. To walk the roads to his house was about 2 miles, so I’d walk through the woods. We were always in the woods as kids… playing, exploring, riding motorbikes and snowmobiles, and shooting. One evening at dusk, I walked those wood home and about midway through… there was a bear about 60 feet to my left. Gotta say I was a HS sprinter, and I hadn’t learned any bear ‘tactics’… so I ran! Hurdling over downed branches, ducking under trees, getting skin ripped by brush with thorns - I was flying fueled by Adrenalin! I thought I heard something in the the brush behind me as I ran, but didn’t look back! When I burst out of the tree line and onto the cleared property, I scared the crap out of a woman taking laundry off of the line - I yelled, “Bear!” But didn’t make eye contact, and didn’t stop til I got to my backyard. The bear hadn’t come out of the woods, luckily… and I was never so happy to walk through our door!

[@Brenda-f9y]

I saw a video once a couple years ago about that Churchill Polar Bear Detention Center! They hold them in there until they can be relocated because they have become troublesome bears by the time they are put in there. It was created in 1983, after a person on the street was mauled by a bear. It holds 24 single bears and 4 family groups for anywhere between 2-30 days. If the bear is a repeat offender its held longer in hopes of making it reluctant to return to the town.

[@annefox926]

The Polar Bear Jail is made from old huts that the US erected when they were researching Aurora Borealis before satellites & more modern equipment was available. The road leading to it is called Launch road as it was the longest road out of town ( 5 Mi) & was were rockets were launched . The bears don't eat consistently during the summer/ Fall while waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze over & (then can hunt seals for the winter), so the bears aren't fed. When the Bay freezes over, they are sedated & carried by helicopter miles away & dropped off on the ice.

[@stevechitty5861]

Bamboo is actually a type of grass.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

The polar bear is more dangerous because it doesn't eat any plants, it eats meat only. People make the mistake of thinking the black bear is like a big dog. The black bears in southern Appalachia don't go into complete hibernation. A black bear unlived a nine year old girl. They come out of the woods and get a easy meal from your garbage. My sister called me scared. She was afraid the bear would get into her house. Our garbage cans heavy. The bear picked up her garbage can and carried it across the road. It walked upright. We don't confront the bears. If something weighs 350 pounds and have big claws and big teeth you stay away. I think pepper spray just pisses a bear off and it will attack you. A black bear killed my son's boxer dog.

[@mildredpierce4506]

"if you know, you know". He was referring to Timothy Treadwell (also known as Grizzly Man) and his girlfriend. They were both eaten alive by a grizzly bear in Alaska because of Timothy's foolishness. They had already been on their yearly trek to a national park in Alaska. Just before hibernation season, no one is supposed to be in the park. Timothy and his girlfriend had left the park and they usually would at that time of year but went back when they couldn't get a flight back home (it had something to do with a bogus ticket) Timothy though the grizzlies respected him. He had been make the trek for 13 years. This last time, he was there during hibernation season and he purposely camped in an area where the bears would be stocking up on food before they hibernate. Timothy was in an area that no one was supposed to set up camp in. It is normal to take bear spray and set up an electric fence around you campsite but Timothy had neither spray nor fence. Two bears went to the campsite and Timothy and his girlfriend tried to fight them off but they were no match for the bears. Since Timothy would take videos and pictures, there was an audio recording of the attacks. It is my understanding that the audio was given to a friend and the friend destroyed it because of the horrific nature of the sounds of two people being attacked and eaten alive.

[@xenotbbbeats7209]

I'm an animal lover, and I had never previously heard of the spectacled bear.

[@catbyte0679]

I live in Michigan. When I was a kd, I was in the woods in the Upper Peninsula and almost ran head-first into a big ol' black bear. He was more startled than I was and he hightailed it out of there.

[@valwhelan3533]

black bears quite common in rural towns/areas of Cda. They usually try to avoid encounters with people.

[@Beckidoglover]

I live in an area where we just coexist with black bears and see them frequently. We dont feed them or put garbage out the night before pickup (We do it in the morning). We just turn on outdoor lights, say hello, and take a long pause to look around and listen before taking the dog out at night. This helps significantly reduce any chance of tangling with any wild animals like bears, skunks, possums, raccons, coyotes, etc. They all move to a safer distance from the house when given a moment so we can all share the land and mind our own business. Except for white tailed deer, they are cute jerks who don't move more than 6 feet away, and sometimes purposely move closer depending on their mood.

[@bebedenham362]

There are Black bears everywhere almost in the U.S. they basically roam freely in wooded areas in most states.

[@kentgrady9226]

I went to college in Central Minnesota. The campus is densely wooded and lies at the edge of the natural territory of black bears in the state. Once, while hiking in the woods (which is also registered as a wildlife preserve - IE, no hunting), I saw a female black bear (females are called "sows") with three cubs. They were frolicking in a clearing within the woods. They were a fair distance away, perhaps 300-400 meters. I made some noise and blew the whistle I had, for once, remembered to bring along. The momma bear looked up in my direction, gathered her babies, and shuffled off in the other direction. I'm not certain this event rises to the level of "bear encounter". But it is, to the best of my knowledge, the closest I've ever been to one, outside of a zoo. Bears are remarkable animals. They're highly intelligent and immensely capable. For example, despite their huge paws and lack of opposable thumbs, they can turn doorknobs, open car doors, and unscrew the lids on jars. And as the video touched on, their sense of smell is incredible - much stronger than even dogs that are selectively bred for sensitive sniffers, like bloodhounds. For example, on a dead still day, a grizzly bear can smell a deer carcass from several miles away.

[@matchu.j]

Yeah we have alotta black bears in Central Minnesota...they're less aggressive than reported...a cub use to my porch and eat out of my my hand while mom watched, they're still dangerous...keep a calm demeaner, WALK DONT RUN.

[@clinthowe7629]

The terrifying thing about little brown bear cubbies is they are probably curious, and friendly and will run up to you to say “hi! have you met our mama?” 😱💩 cue Family Guy’s Mort Goldman’s assurances “don’t worry! Im the fastest jew in the world” as mama quickly overtakes you and shows you what a mother’s love is really all about. “and you get a man steak, and you get a man steak, and you get a man steak.

[@SusietheNewf]

I live in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, and love to hike. I’ve been incredibly lucky- I’ve seen my fair share of black and brown bears, but never had an incident. I always carry bear spray, but I’ve never even felt the urge to use it. Every brown bear I’ve encountered just ignored me, and every black bear I’ve encountered, I just scared off by screaming like a demon and flailing my arms around. They run like scared little rabbits. Though, last month, ten minutes north of my house, a black bear (that they later confirmed had killed a researcher last year) put another person in the hospital. Just goes to show you should never get complacent. I’m probably too comfortable with bears for my own good, honestly.

[@Nick-nm8om]

Yes ! I had the pleasure of visiting Kodiak Island. There are no words to describe the size and power of a Kodiak ( male ) bear.

[@briankirchhoefer]

I saw a brown bear at Yellowstone in 1986. It was by the loop road. People in cars taking pictures it was pretty cool as a young man.

[@willy102073]

I will NEVER put myself in a situation that has wild animals that will end me. No backpacking, hiking,climing mountains. Nothing near all those killing machines.

[@RickZackExploreOffroad]

I feel the same way...only about going into a city. Wild animals are far more predictable and there are no legal repercussions for shooting them.

[@testodude]

Sugar Bear and Winnie the Pooh are the friendliest bears. So, if you see a bear wearing a shirt or sweater, you're probably ok. If the bear is wearing no shirt, but a hat and tie, he'll rob you.

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

He is smarter than the average bear.

[@cptchaotic]

@kabirconsiders @14:24 in your video he stops on a couple. Well On October 5, 2003, documentary maker Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were mauled to death by a grizzly bear.. The whole attack was caught on tape. He used to go up to Kodiak Island every year to film the bears. That time they didn't make it back.

[@Svensk7119]

One other thing: The footage of what happened was so graphic that it was never released. Basically, he thought he had a special relationship with the bears (he had been doing what he did for years), and even called bears "people with fur", I believe. He returned to watch the bears with the woman pictured during the most dangerous time of the year, and was eaten alive when a boar finally had enough. Then the bear ate her alive, some say because she made so much noise while it ate him. This was what was recorded.

[@trenae77]

Love you, Katie, and LOVE this creator!! Great combination!

[@katiegwynn4495]

About five years ago I was at a friend's house in northern Minnesota. I was laying in the back yard, trying to get a tan. I had dozed off and woke up to my friend's voice shouting "stay down! Stay still!" followed by three blasts of a shotgun. I lifted my head a couple of inches to see a mother black bear with two cubs running into the woods, maybe 20 feet away from me!

[@TonyM1961]

Please don't let them confuse you. While the coloration of a grizzly IS brown, they are not a brown bear. Brown bears are medium size, in between a black bear and a grizzly, but their body shape is more like a black bear. A grizzly is MUCH larger, is kinda has a hunchback look and isn't afraid of anything because they don't really HAVE any natural enemies. While they ARE apex predators, their preferred food sources are fish, berries, bugs and grubs. Best advice is to simply leave them as much alone as humanly possible because a momma grizzly with cubs nearby is possibly the most dangerous animal walking the earth. You're going to hear things like "make yourself as large ss possible and make noise". This is good advice for MOST species, I wouldn't want to draw attention to myself from a grizzly or polar bear. "Do not turn and run away"... true. Turning your back and running will trigger their hunting/pursuit response and you are screwed because they are faster than humans. If you see one in the wild and they have not spotted you, you're in luck as they have poor eyesight. Try to stay out of their line of sight as you, as carefully and quietly as possible, move to where the wind is moving from the bear and toward you. They may have poor eyesight, but their sense of smell is incredible. They hear very well too. That's why I said to move quietly. One other piece of advice: no matter how much you like bacon, do NOT take it out as part of your camp food. Bears love it and can smell it at huge distances. I promise you that you don't want even one of them searching through your camp

[@JIMBEARRI]

RE : the photo of the blond guy and girl... There's a genuine lesson in harsh reality in the story of Timothy Treadwell. [Look him up] There was some suggestion that he suffered from psychiatric problems but nothing definite. He believed that he could live with grizzly bears, and even talked to them and gave them names. Unfortunately, one of the bears gave him a name... DINNER !! The bear then ate Timothy's girlfriend for dessert.

[@sherylhenley1931]

I was at a resort in Western WA that was overun with bears. I counted 11 bears over the weekend, not counting cubs. I came back with a string of fish that a bear wanted, which I gladly gave up. One bear came in through the door of the cabin and my dog and I went out the window. The caretaker was feeding blueberry muffins to a yearling bear. I told him that was not a good idea at a resort with bear problems. He said "You city folk don't know shit. Then the bear swiped at him for stopping feeding him muffins. Laid his arm open from his shoulder to his elbow. I said I may be from the city but I know better than to take my eyes off a bear that I was stupid enough to feed. I put a tourniquet on him and called the medics.

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

Great story. Thanks for sharing a few chuckles and giggles

[@znail4675]

Yes, feeding bears is crazy, no matter the type as the main thing that prevents more attacks is their aversion to getting close to us. Take that away and expect attacks to shoot sky high. A bear that have been fed by humans will go looking for humans when hungry and if not given food then those humans will be food instead.

[@aaronhaupert3015]

Where I grew up in Northern Minnesota sometimes we'd have black bears in our neighborhood. Even more bobcats and wolves (heard them more than saw) and even more whitetail deer.

[@Species-lj8wh]

To put it in perspective, The Anchorage International airport has a record tallest Polar bear stuffed on display. It stands 14 feet upright. Meaning it could have stood up and looked into a 2nd story window.

[@touchstoneaf]

Yeah this on the Casual Geographic channel is hilarious. He's one of the best funny channels out there that's also educational. His whole section on killer birds is side-splittingly fantastic. Where I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Idaho, one day we were at a family friend's house down a side road in the type of rural area where dirt roads are common, and there was a baby black bear crying about 30ft up a pine tree. We called Fish and Game... and they said they weren't going to come out unless it was there for a couple of days, because the idea of messing with a bear cub was just not one that even wanted to entertain; and they were the professionals. After the baby bear was stuck clinging to that tree for almost 3 days, when was probably weak enough at that point that it might have fallen out at any moment, somebody finally came out to get him and put him in a bear kennel or whatever you do with a baby bear when you transport them to a place where they can be rehabilitated, because you know Mom is not coming back. But yeah, it's pretty intense when the people whose job it is to take care of wildlife are like, nope, we're not going to play with that one unless we're sure we're not going to die first. The sad thing was, the poor baby was sitting right outside this guy's house trailer house crying the whole time, and as a fellow mammal you feel pulled to help an infant of any species; but in that case nobody dared.

[@AlaskanGlitch]

Brown bears and grizzly bears are the same species. Their only difference is their diet. Brown bears feed primarily on salmon, and therefore get much bigger. As a general rule of thumb, if it is a grizzly bear living within ~50 miles of the coast, then it is a brown bear. Otherwise it is an inland grizzly bear. Both are equally dangerous, and both are terribly near-sighted. Which makes it easy to surprise them if you are walking against the wind and not paying attention to your surroundings. When surprised grizzly/brown bears will seek to ensure that whomever surprised them is not a threat. Which is why 90%+ of the people mauled by bear survive their attack. Which is also why it is important to show that you are submissive, and not a threat, if attacked. Contrary to popular belief, bear spray has no effect against an aggressive bear. Bear spray only works on non-aggressive bears, but so will a shout or a loud noise. Against an aggressive bear only a large caliber firearm will stop the bear.

[@schaddenkorp6977]

In incidents where a Hunter shot a brown bear, but did not kill it with the first shot, brown bears don’t normally run away, they will instead charge full tilt in the direction they were shot - ie at the Hunter. Long story short; you get a second shot off, but if it doesn’t go down then a brown bear isn’t going to give you time for a third.

[@znail4675]

Polar bears are classified as a different species, but are close enough to Brown bears that they can interbreed without issues. This is becoming an issue as Polar bears are moving south making them mix with Brown bears more and their predatory behavior is much more dangerous to humans.

[@AlaskanGlitch]

@@znail4675 : The polar bears are not moving south. It is just that polar bear and grizzly habitats overlap. You will find no polar bears south of the Brooks Range, but you can find grizzly bears north of the Brooks Range. Polar bears that breed with grizzly bears (not brown bears) are called a "grolar bear," or "pizzly bear," or "zebra bear," or "grizzlar bear," or "nanulak." The last name for the hybrid, "nanulak," comes from the Inuit language. Which should tell you that this interbreeding has been occurring for centuries.

[@jimburg621]

2 summers ago, a lady hiker near a town called Ovando in Montana, was attacked by a Grizzly, while sleeping in her tent, it pulled her out, stripped off a bite or two, retreated, giving the lady hiker enough time to call her Mom and say goodbye, then it came back and ate the rest of her, while she was on the phone with her Mom. This lady was at peace with what was about to happen, told her Mother this. There is a Grizzly, with 2 cubs roaming my area, she has charged a few people, luckily no one has been hurt. You do not just step outside here, you have to look outside 1st, having dogs to raise the alarm helps. Go on ladys, pick the bear.

[@revaflowers3115]

Yosemite is a black bear haven. I haven't been for several years but when they say they often behave like racoons it is true. Garbage cans in Yosemite have the lids chained on and you always want to approach dumpsters with caution ,even if the lids is down. Tourism is very dense these days so bears generally prowl through park/people areas in evening but also you see them more often during the day now ,depending on the time of year, because of more people meaning more chances of encountering them. BTW: the photo that flashed of the young couple is /was Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. He left civilization to live among the bears. He stayed too long one season after the bears were getting ready for that food gorging, they do before hibernation and both Timothy and his girl friend were eaten alive by the same bear. Polar bear encounters are happening because these bears need ice to hunt their prey effectively. With ice receding bears are having harder times getting food.They prowl along dump area and like other bears ,they now scavenger among people areas too.Though the colder waters do help them regular their body temperatures it is ice that is needed. When the ice is fully gone and water temperature rise these bears may die out if they can't adapt to the changes.

[@sarahlipman7337]

Loving your reactions to the Casual Geographic videos. Please do more

[@tscully1504]

We have black bears patrol or travel thru our yard very frequently. We keep the trash in a strong bin held down with tie straps in the garage and only put it out the night before pickup day. But sometimes we forget to close the garage and I almost walk into a bear encounter in the garage. My Chihuahuas used to hear/sense them first and go bonkers but they are really really old now so I have to stand behind the closed door and bark, flick the light, etc to shush them out. Two weeks ago it was a bear and at least one cub. Beautiful animals. I feel blessed to live in this nature.

[@cheapskatepanic]

I LOVE that creator. He is always hilarious.

[@sandralorenz1796]

This man's presentations are so entertaining.

[@karenlynn6860]

My first hearing too!!❤

[@binxbolling]

Like the man says, grizzlies ARE a type of brown bear. So are Kodiak bears, which are larger.

[@invisigoth510]

I had a Canadian forest ranger once tell me that a black bear is too stupid to kill you before eating you I grew up near the Great Dismal Swamp & we’d occasionally get black bears turning up in the neighborhood. Or on the interstate. They were usually juveniles who had just left mom’s care Leave em alone & they move on. If they don’t or get themselves in trouble call the game warden & they’ll send someone out to remove & relocate A few years back a juvenile got himself stuck in a tree near a busy section of the interstate for a few days before he was removed. They thought he was scared of the traffic & didn’t want to get out of the tree If it’s possible to experience uncanny valley from an animal--sunbears give it to me

[@circuitd942]

I’m happy you found casual geographic. His videos and so good

[@NoBrakes23]

I saw a large Black Bear in Forest Falls, CA that was rummaging through the dumpster outside the Mexican restaurant. Moved on, no big deal. I've also seen a couple cinnamon bears, (Black Bear variety,) in Lassen NP and Oregon. Both of those were eating berries and were uninterested in me. In Tahoe, on a campground on the CA side, there was a MASSIVE black bear (Brown in color,) that was bigger than a dumpster. It would visit the campsite dumpsters at night. I carried a 44mag for every trip to the bathroom, but fortunately didn't see him. We definitely kept our food in the bear box at that campsite.

[@mcrib8330]

I saw a man get mauled by a black bear on the Alcan Hwy (Alaska-Canadian) when I was a kid. Traffic came to a halt (only 2 lanes) with a small black bear in the middle of the road, the vehicle closest to it unrolled his windows and threw out a bag of chips to the bear... bear looked at the chips, then the window. Only thing we saw next was the back half of the bear sticking out the window. Dude got it out luckily but took some major damage. This was a smaller dingy looking black bear (probably garbage bear). That was a crazy road trip

[@quellenathanar]

When I lived in Colorado, we encountered a larger-than-average momma Black Bear with 4 cubs. They were crossing Highway 24 in the mountains. Some dummies were tempting her with McDonald's. Her lack of fear of the people was a bit unsettling. 1 of her cubs couldn't climb the barrier that would have kept it safe from deadly traffic. Eventually, the idiots left, and momma collected the separated cub... and they went back into the Pinetree lines. We drove away after the encounter was over. While driving through Pennsylvania there were a LOT of dead animals on the shoulder of the Highway, and 1 of them was a Black Bear.

[@babyfry4775]

I’m from Pennsylvania where lots of black bears live (they’re the most common in the US) and my brother has seen one but I haven’t. I live in Colorado now. I’m more afraid of mountain lions than bears but up north in Wyoming and farther north are the grizzlies. They scare me a lot. Of course Polar bears will end you but they’re mostly in Canada and Alaska.

[@moniquechampagne6343]

Nice to see people reacting to Casual Geographic. He's such a wordsmith. I had to do a double take the first time I heard him speak😂

[@tiredandcranky]

I'm with you. Spectacled bear is the one I have not heard of.

[@johnwray393]

I think if we'd have heard of them, they'd be called short nose or short snout bear. I feel I've heard that before. Will have to give it a Google.

[@CherylVogler]

I've seen them at the Zoo (St. Louis Zoo to be exact).

[@clinthowe7629]

over the last century the number of grizzly attacks has increased as their numbers slowly recover from almost being wiped out in the nineteenth century, when I was a baby there were almost never any bear attacks outside if Alaska and northern montana, because their weren’t any grizzlies, slowly the frequency and number of attacks has increased, and there are those who want to reintroduce these killers into places our forefathers worked hard to extirpate them, just what we need, go out for a walk, a jog or a bike ride and become feast for a bear. the pioneers had the good sense to wipe these monsters out, leave it alone!

[@phoenixmichaels]

Hello from Oregon! We have bears and cougars right at the edge of town.

[@kevinhorgan6036]

I live in Colorado Springs, formerly in an apartment by Cheyenne mountain. I was walking my dog around the apartment complex one morning and started heading down towards the mail room because I hadn't checked mail in a couple days. I got to the corner of the parking lot where I would cross over to the mailroom, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a big mass of fur off to my left, a fully grown black bear. I froze, and before i could respond properly my dog, still attached to his leash thankfully, lunged at it and it took off. It was my only real experience with a bear where i was in its line of sight and on foot, nothing serious but a little unnerving when one is still waking up.

[@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284]

We lived in the Alaskan bush when I was a child. Near our cabin there was a truly massive berry patch. (I don't remember if they were blackberries, but something like that.) When the berries were ripe, my mother and I went down to pick our fill. That lasted about fifteen minutes. Out of nowhere, my mother grabbed the hell out of my arm and tugged me back to the wagon. Then we walked past the wagon. She kept whispering, "Be quiet. Don't speak." I looked back and there was a massive brown bear eating off the other side of the bush we were picking. It was standing on it's hind legs, paused to look at us, then went back to munching down. It was at least nine feet tall. My mother kept us at a calm, quiet walk all the way back to the cabin. She was trying not to trigger it's prey response. It seemed to work, but make no mistake, it let us go. We saw (and ate) moose, wolves, and every other animal while we lived there, but that was my only bear.

[@candybarney5469]

I never heard of a spectacled bear, Kabir! Lol!

[@tammyedwards-buchin3193]

I have seen a few. I lived on 15 acres about 5 miles back in the woods by a big river. One morning me and my kids went out the front door and there was the head of a large deer in the yard then a leg and back haunch under the porch but the black bear was in the back yard chewing on the rest. My daughter worked at a movie theater in a very busy area and a bear just walked through the parking lot. I also had one when I moved in my yard just chillin. I tend to live back in the woods. Hello from North Carolina.

[@angelablackwell900]

I really enjoyed this one sir!

[@corawheeler9355]

I live in the woods in northern Wisconsin and I often see black bears. A couple of years ago, one wondered up on my deck. It was Spring, and he was a young bear that probably had recently been chased off by his mother. I gave a holler and he ran off into the woods. It's just a good idea to keep your eyes open and make noise when walking in the woods so you don't surprise them.

[@TheValwood]

I saw grizzlies when we were in Yellowstone. My husband has seen several black bears in Big Bend in West Texas when camping with his friends.

[@KTKacer]

Ok, same dude did the cats one I love, and would like to see you consider: The Insane Plot Armor of Cats - do it man!

[@rpsnider85]

When I was a kid my brother and I were going up a mountain with a friend of the family and an enormous black bear (which was actually colored brown) just came strolling by us from out of nowhere. The thing about bears is that they are far quieter than you'd assume. We came around a rock formation on our way up and it seemed to just spawn right out the side of a boulder. Walked up to me and my brother, sniffed us, nudged us with its head lightly (for the bear, we got pushed back like we were air) to get us to move over a little bit and continued on its way. No growls, no teeth showing (other than a yawn), just a nose wiggle, some sniffs, and a light "lemme get past you two please, thank you, buhbye" nudge and it just kept on its merry little way. It was awesome. Scary at first when we first saw the damn thing, but something about its movement seemed peaceful and it's actions proved that, but the only time we touched it was to stabilize ourselves when it nudged us. And really that's most bear encounters, you leave them alone and they'll generally leave you alone as well. This was 25+ years ago though. But any bear who's on predatory timing is going to easily destroy any human no matter the size. They are just too powerful. If you survive it's because it wasn't predatory and they didn't want to kill you.

[@howhardcanitbe4270]

Enjoyed this one a lot. I came face-to-face with a black bear while hunting elk a couple years ago. I had left my pack at the base of a tree and had been stalking an elk that I saw walking down into a gully. I realized pretty quickly the elk was gone, and when I turned back to get my pack I saw a pair of round fuzzy ears sticking up from behind a bush, downhill from my pack. Those ears looked REALLY far apart. I made it almost back to my pack when he started uphill, saw me, and froze. We ended up facing each other in a stand-off maybe 10 yards apart. I had a rifle in my hands, but I really didn't want to find out who would win if he decided to charge. Bears are FAST, and I really wasn't confident I could get off a shot at him before he covered that distance. I avoided eye contact, made sure the rifle's safety was off, and tried to decided what to do. After what seemed like an hour (probably only a few seconds), he turned and scampered away. In retrospect, I probably should have left the pack, but at the time it seemed like a good idea to try and retrieve it. It's possible I had something important in there that I've forgotten.

[@tonycardone990]

I've had a few black bear encounters and never had a sign of aggression from any of them. They usually walk towards you, sniffing the air and grunting, then walk away unless you have food on you. Whenever bears are sighted in the neighborhood, I make sure to carry some extra beef jerky, dog treats, or other snacks with me as a peace offering when I'm out walking dogs just incase I come across one who may be a little too interested in the dog, which they usually tend to be scared of anyway, but you never know how they will react every time. And as long as they don't have cubs in the area and aren't sick, there's never really a reason to be nervous. Sometimes, in the woods, they just walk along with you about 20-30 feet away for a couple of minutes, then get bored with you a go about their day. The only time I ever saw one be aggressive was while camping in Maine. There were a couple of cubs in the campground, and people started getting closer to take pictures of them, with no signs of the mother around they climbed up a tree and people walked right up to the tree. I was about 5 or 6 years old, and my parents kept me back from the idiots. I mean the other campers. After about 5 minutes you could hear leaves and twigs getting crushed as the mother came charging out of the woods and scattered everyone who was by the tree. On another camping trip in NY, I was asleep in the tent and woke up because I heard noise outside. My father and a couple of his friends were cooking steaks on the fire when a black bear walked up, stuck his head right between them as they were sitting around the fire on some logs, looked around at them and grabbed one off the rack then walked back into woods as I watched from the tent. The next morning, the cooler with all the food in it that was right outside the tent was at the other side of the campsite with the top un-latched and only certain things missing. You could tell it wasn't their first time doing it. They were skilled.

[@Joshua-xe7rm]

That was fun thank you for your time.

[@TrineDaely]

Casual Geographic is great, my kid got me into watching him back when his channel was still called Hood Nature. You should definitely check out more of his stuff! But also link the original vid.

[@ajl278]

I've had two close black bear encounters in Yosemite. One where the bear walked into our campsite while we were sitting around playing games at night. It ran off after 10 people all jumped up freaking out. The other started walking towards my group while we having a picnic on the side of the Mist trail and we packed shop quick and left. Both times were startling as hell. Best way to keep them away is keep food in food lockers. The bears are notorious for breaking into cars and snagging bags (they know people often have snacks in them). They can smell a sealed bag of chips inside a car.

[@ursathrope2968]

I've never had any bear spray & I've been face to face with a bear 3 times scared 1 off & turned around and found another route the other 2 times

[@EdRoberts-rz1kk]

Yep they have them in Yosemite saw them ther and walked about 10 ft from a Bobcat, he was occupied so we snuck off.

[@sharielane]

Me looking at the Sunbear's physique: Jeez it looks like a cross between a bear and an ape, especially those arms. Video: Explains that the Sunbear has adapted to climb trees. Me: Oh ok. That checks out.

[@GrimrDirge]

I live around the very southern tip of the Puget sound and have seen black bears while mountain biking. We just keep our distance, and a firearm handy.

[@brewcrew574]

My back yard is a state park in NY, I see black bears all the time on my ring camera. Twice in person in 10 years. usually they are very scittish, and they are extreally fast runners

[@myowndrum286]

If you know, you know is a pic of Timothy Treadwell. He lived with bears in Alaska for several summers. A rogue male Kodiak ended his and his girlfriend's life. Tim had recorded just a day before that this was a new bear in the area, likely old and unable to hunt for itself successfully anymore. He cornered them in a cave. There is audio of the tragic event but it has never been released to the public as per a request by the Treadwell family.

[@desiv1170]

I remember talking to an old guy about bears once... He was talking about what people can do to try to be safe: Like wearing bells so the bears can hear you coming. And/or having pepper (bear) spray in case of an encounter... He said the best thing to do is to learn to recognize bear scat so you know to avoid them. I asked him how to know which is bear scat... He said it smells like pepper and has bells in it...

[@GarrettNewman-u5v]

Ran into a black bear in Tennessee on a hike this June, ran into another one in Yellowstone in like 2022 or so, and have seen both on previous trips to Alaska, Montana and Wyoming from the car.

[@steeljawX]

The answer at the beginning you weren't sure of is a Polar Bear. They're obligate carnivores (from general studies, but hasn't been universally determined [obligate carnivore means at least 70% of that animal's diet is meat.]) Black bears are more interested in surviving and are more likely to skidaddle out of town if you notice them. Brown/grizzlies will attack you if you're a perceived threat to them and that perception is up to THEIR digression, not yours. [Edit: Casual Geographics classified Polar bears as a Hypercarnivore. The term has been interchangeable with obligate carnivore, bhe definition's the same of a diet consisting of at least 70% meat through hunting or scavenging. That is different from a diet that is at least 70% protein as protein is obtainable through other sources. Polar bears actively either go out and kill stuff or find something that hasn't completely rotted and that is what makes up at least if not more than 70% of their daily caloric intake.] It's really the mentality that changes the level of danger. Black bears don't want anything to do with you. Brown/Grizzlies don't want you around and will choose violence if ever they're given an option of A. Run Away or B. Negotiate. They default to F. Violence, a choice never listed, but they'll still choose it. Polar bears are the only ones that would actually perceive a human as a food source and therefore isn't really looking to attack you per say; it's hunting you. The other's are out to possibly harm you. Polar bears are going to go the entire way in hurting you, killing you, and eating you. They really don't care because that's just their dietary nature. They're attacking you for different reasons and for polar bears its so you'll git in their belly. That stat of being mauled in Yellowstone....I feel like that's if sane people are visiting. With so many Tourons needing to grab that selfie of them sticking their head in the bear's mouth regardless of what everyone's telling them (because "they know better than the people warning them) I feel like that chance is skyrocketing artificially. It's probably closer to 1 in 450,000 to get attacked with the chance increasing per person you're around and it also gets a higher chance if there's foreign young adults in the mix. Look, all I'm going to point out is that yes, the US has some amazing nature as it's really still a bit untamed and unclaimed here and that's how we live. However, the joke is entirely on you when you make fun of our janked healthcare system and then volunteer yourself to go through it as a foreign citizen by having to go "touch the acidic hot spring to see if it's actually hot." or "get a selfie of you petting the fluffy bison that's stamping it's hooves and snorting and clearly looks uncomfortable with so many people making noise and approaching it when all it wants to do is f**k." I mean it's not the greatest health care system, but now you've got to be a participant in that system to get those burns treated, to get that hole in your gut stitched up, to get your leg sewn back together. It's either that or you can try waiting for a couple days to book a flight out of the US, try to make it through TSA, have to explain the same story several times, get thrown into coach, spend 13-18 hours crossing an ocean, catch some transfers, and then finally make it back to your free health care system...... I'm just pointing out that there's a lot of people playing a dumb game and the dumb prize is something they've been critiquing this entire time. It's not something that I wish any foreigner to ever have to get processed through, but that's what you're competing for when you keep doing dumb stuff in our national parks. And that kind of behavior just garners my apathy to any scenario.

[@steeljawX]

It's the opposite for the reason for more polar bear attacks. It's not that we're going closer to polar bear territory, it's that polar bear territory is shrinking meaning the only place they have to go is off the ice and onto terrafirma. The real threat of global warming has and continues to erase the habitats the polar bears once kept to, so they're doing whatever they can to survive, and that's go where they're not drowning and expand their menu with the local fauna. It just happens to be that out reached towns, hikers, and researchers are part of that "local fauna."

[@crazymom8316]

AMEN!!!!!!!!!

[@joe10852003]

My wife and I were hiking in the mountains in Tennessee. A cub and it's mama crossed the path in front of us. Maybe 20 yards

[@cjbloyer4137]

My maternal family lives in the far north of Minnesota. When I was a kid, we were up there in late summer and visiting my aunt and uncle's house. They live "outside of town", which means "out in the woods" to a city dweller. There were reports of a "rogue" grizzly in the neighborhood, so when we were playing outside, my uncle sat on the porch with his hunting rifle to watch us, just in case.

[@ericbailey6779]

Moon bears are delicious, btw. I found an old guy in Gunma that hunts and prepares wild game for you at the table. He specializes in wild boar and deer, but if you catch him at the right time, his bear steaks are legendary. Not to mention onsen tofu and grasshopper appetizers. He's one of Japan's few true national treasures left alive. I make the journey up there once a year to make sure the old guy is still kicking and to pay a weeks wages for a meal that could never be replaced.

[@Tbone1492]

Check out Kodiak Island. The largest bears in the world. The most beautiful vacation i ever went on!

[@MichaelTheArchAngel444]

to bad polar bears are

[@Samaelthekind]

in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my father was fishing in a stream, catching trout...and was noticed by a large female black bear that was attracted by the scent of multiple fresh dead fish. The bear was actually very shy, but couldn;t overcome the desire for food...so she shambled up and started eating the fish while my dad sat perfectly still and talked to her. When the fish were eaten, she looked at him hoping for more, and wandered off. We've all seen the occasional black bear, but I've never met anyone harmed by them...mostly because we all know enough not to frighten them. If they aren't worried, you are probably safe as houses...but...if they are scared...you really should be. I get on well with most any critter...but...I NEVER push my luck. Some things should just be left to their own devices.

[@GrungeNY]

We live in the Adirondack Mountains in Northern NY State and have black bears all around. I have a video from our security camera of one walking up our driveway to the window and scaring the hell out of the cats that were sitting there. 🤣

[@Moetastic]

@14:25 Thats a story about an overconfident couple of bear enthusiasts that despite all the warnings decided to camp out with grizzlies during the time of the season when bears bulk up for hibernation during late fall. If you're morbidly curious, there names are Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard.

[@christianlodolce]

I live out in Washington and I've seen 4 black bears so far. I went camping with my dad and brother, we were there for about 45 minutes until some college kids came up to party. The noise they made drove a black bear out of the valley that was hanging out near by. We didn't even know it was there until we saw it walking up the hill. It was just hanging out 200 feet away while my dad, brother and I were setting up camping and talking.

[@badassmalificent]

Winter is not what it used to be here in Canada, so the Arctic isn't in a deep freeze until summer, like it used to be. There's a lot more of early spring melt. Polar bears have had to adapt and migrate further south to hunt or float south on an ice pan in the ocean, starving, until they spot land. I never saw one growing up in Newfoundland, but 40 years later, they are all over the island. They're now having cubs on the island, too. They're also mating with Kodiaks and Grizzlies throughout northern Canada, creating new species. Look up polar bear in Griquet, NL on youtube.