who hasn't seen a bear
i saw a few at pride last year, but is a parade really "the wild?"
Was 30 ft from a black bear on a hike this past summer. Was a big tough guy to scare it off, but then saw it had two baby bears 😱🐻
Also was working at a hotel when they had a bear 🧔 conference, so more than 3, but this was 15 years ago or so
Yeah I’m way more scared of cougars than I am of bears
I feel like pumas are way more interested in attacking humans than most bears are.
Bobcats def want to fuck up house cats, but I've never heard of them going after humans.
Really? Here they always stay as far away from human trails as possible, and run away if you see them. What I heard of bears is that they seek people, eat their food, and if you try to shoo them away you get mauled.
Huh, the occasional mountain lion in northeastern US gets a ton of news because they tend to be pretty aggressive, but perhaps that's more because they are lower populations than bears.
Northeastern US mountain lions get news because there's a huge debate about whether or not they exist east of the Mississippi. If you want to go down a rabbit hole, give it a google.
I believe it too, probably just in very small numbers. Fairly certain there was a sighting here in NJ near the Pennsylvania border a year or two ago.
Of course I don't want you to dox yourself, but what region of the country do you live in? I live in the Southwest and we call them mountain lions. I've never met a person who uses the term puma.
She wasn't afraid of humans which I think helped because she never attacked. She stole some of our food though :/
Yes but getting close to a predators cubs is geberally a bad idea
I've had a bunch of close encounters with bears. Never in the wild though...
have seen in the wild both polar bears with cubs and black bears with cubs
My uncle lived in deep Appalachia, and had a bear eating his sweet corn one year. So he grabbed his shotgun and shot at the gravel near it to scare it off, but he fucked up and one of the pellets bounced and hit the valve to his propane tank.
So he had to call the gas company out, and then they called DNR or something because apparently bears were protected at the time. Ended up getting a huge ticket for it.
I have seen six black bears in the wild.
There are six sides to a hexbear.
Coincidence?
I got my car locked in a public park area after nightfall on a work night and had a choice between sleeping in my car and hoping that the state parks and rec people unlocked the gate at the time they promised, which was before I had to show up to my shift, or walk home several miles in the dark forest and get a cab to work the next day.
I tried to wait it out because the police said they'd dispatch someone to let me out, which they never did lol, I tried to unlock the gate by trying to bypass the locking mechanism with a soda can, didn't work because the state invested in special locks resistant to basic bypasses and didn't I have any prybars to simply overpower the locking mechanism. So I decided to say "fuck this, I can't risk not showing up to work because of the likely chance these state park dweebs will be late opening the grate because they're hung over as fuck. So I started walking through the dark forest park at night.
Shits kinda creepy when it's pitch black as fuck and all you got is a dying phone's flashlight, a granola bar, a water bottle, a bayonet knife, and a backpack full of everything valuable from your car (just in case hooligans take the opportunity to pop my car for loot). But I'm used to trawling through the great outdoors with less shit on me when I was doing landnav courses on base.
Of fucking course halfway through my nature walk, I hear some rustling in the woods and in front of me runs a shitty fucking black bear with a cub in town and I'm going "fuck me I don't want to die because of a angry dumpster-diving momma bear got surprised and decided to eat my face" so zi backed up a bit, started blasting some death metal at full blast on my phone, and went around the long way around where they ran from while making a lot of noise. When I got out of the park and back into suburbia I also came across a moose enjoying a walk through the streets and had to again start moving through peoples property so I wouldn't get my ass stomped by a possibly ornery-ass moose.
Got home at like 6 in the morning, got short nap, and then got a phonecard from work saying I got the day off since there's not enough work today. Went back to my car, and lo and behold it took them until 4:30 pm to open the gate, we'll over 6 hours after they were supposed to open it. My lesson learned was to pay attention to the closing time of parks and to carry a "locking mechanism physical bypass" tool from now on.
started blasting some death metal at full blast on my phone
lmao that rules
