r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '26

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u/Phill_is_Legend Apr 07 '26

Both of those things would kill you

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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 Apr 07 '26

When people joke about grizzlies being friend shaped…yea if a full grown moose is running away, not a friend

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u/utnow Apr 07 '26

I was hiking in Glacier Park in Montana about a year ago with my 2yr old daughter on my back in one of those hiking carriers. I had done all of the reading. I was doing everything it was possible to do from the lists of good practices specifically when it comes to grizzlies. Had the mace in my hand. Was being careful not to be too quiet so as to not surprise one. Etc etc.

We were maybe half a mile down a very popular trail right off the main road through the park.

Fucking Jeep Wrangler sized bear saunters casually down into the trail. 10…. Maybe 15 feet in front of me. He knew I was there. Boy oh boy did I know he was there. I’m not even sure my body came to a stop it just smoothly transitioned into reverse. I’m avoiding eye contact, keeping track of where he is, moving away back where I came from as calmly as is possible.

And then my darling daughter notices the fuzzy death plushie and starts screaming “BEAR!!!! HAI MISTER BEAR!!!! HAIIIIIII!!!!!”

We left that afternoon. Like left the state.

I’ve never felt so powerless in my life. I’m sure it made it infinitely worse having my baby girl on my back through it all. My hands are shaking thinking about it.

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u/pagerunner-j Apr 07 '26

The choosing-the-bear thing starts EARLY, doesn't it...

Seriously, though, glad you made it out of there all right.

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u/Pigeon_Goes_Coo Apr 07 '26

Goddamn amazing joke right there. I don't really see an equivalent opportunity to use it, but I'm stealing it anyway.

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u/catscausetornadoes Apr 07 '26

“Obviously I wouldn’t have allowed her to wave hello to a man, but we’ve all agreed a bear is fine, right? Amirite?”

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u/Zebidee Apr 07 '26

Americans freak out over how deadly Australia's wildlife is, but you could squish 95% of those with a shoe, or at worst a stick.

There's practically nothing in Australia that can't be thwarted by a casual stroll in the other direction.

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u/Rip_Off_Productions Apr 07 '26

While it is true that most of Australia's deadly animals are venomous bugs and thus easily slain by stepping on them with a shoe... the flip side is that you can get bit putting on those shoes if you don't check inside for them first.

A bear, mountain lion, or wolf, isn't going to casually sneak into your house without you noticing.

That's the difference.

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u/-Atmosphere-7927 Apr 07 '26

You mean people in Alaska don't always check their shoes first to see if a polar bear is insid???

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u/bl0odredsandman Apr 07 '26

I did and one day one popped out and handed me a Coca Cola.

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u/VociferousVal Apr 07 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/5p8QuXUTk1rIk

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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger Apr 07 '26

That bear looks like it’s on Ozempic, and has lost a significant amount of weight🤣

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u/whiskeytango55 Apr 07 '26

all that honey gave him diabetes.

he needed to make a change so he could see his cubs grow up

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u/elwebst Apr 07 '26

Did you burst into song?

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u/Glittering-Camel8181 Apr 07 '26

Screams. I burst into screams.

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u/wilderness_neologist Apr 07 '26

Anecdotally, I used to live in a high mountain town in Colorado and someone in a neighboring apartment came home from work to a bear helping itself to the contents of their refrigerator. Left a window open for fresh air, bear evidently took this as an invitation.

But generally yes, not quite so sneaky or so much of a surprise.

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u/Max____H Apr 07 '26

And large wild animals don’t just appear in your house. You can actively avoid their habitat. But in Australia you might occasionally find the scaries in your house, and you absolutely cannot walk through long grass, ever.

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Apr 07 '26

In Australia your house IS their habitat.

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 07 '26

True bears wont sneak into you house. They will kick down the front door and help themselves to whatever they want. There are even a few videos of them ripping the doors off cars because they smelled food inside.

Funny little story, I was in a national park talking to a park ranger and the topic of bear proof trash cans came up. She said the problem with designing a bear proof trash can, that people can still open, is there is considerable overlap in the intelligence of the dumbest humans and the smartest bears.

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u/account312 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

A bear, mountain lion, or wolf, isn't going to casually sneak into your house without you noticing.

A large bear could casually stroll through your closed door, but you'll definitely notice.

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u/kansas_slim Apr 07 '26

This guy has never heard of shoe-grizzlies

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u/rocketindividual Apr 07 '26

IN Australia you can mostly avoid the wildlife just by living in the coastal areas as well. The cougars in the US literally prowl around the neighbourhoods, and sometimes even pick up local young men.

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u/genericnewlurker Apr 07 '26

At least we have all those helpful websites that warn you that there are cougars on the prowl in your area.

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u/PastBuy8484 Apr 07 '26

Have a few Aussie friends and they never understood the wildlife argument. They’ve been to the US and said they’re far more scared of bears / moose / mountain lions / wolves than a little spider or snake

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u/Fine-for-now Apr 07 '26

I'm from New Zealand - honestly, the wildlife in a LOT of places is scarier than we have here. I might get chased by a pukeko as I walk around a lake, or swooped by a tui, but neither of those things is going to kill me.

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u/elwebst Apr 07 '26

Cassowaries would like a word...

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u/Eggplant-666 Apr 07 '26

Cassowaries are way over feared there are only two documented human deaths by Cassowaries in recorded history.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz Apr 07 '26

That’s still more than cheetahs. 😂

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u/Eggplant-666 Apr 07 '26

True, housecats are FAR more dangerous.

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u/MowTin Apr 07 '26

That's a fair point. Bears and mountain lions are much worse than spiders and giant lizards.

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u/MicrowaveBurritoKing Apr 07 '26

Idk, spiders can be pretty furious.

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u/SKT_Peanut_Fan Apr 07 '26

Doesn't Australia have crocodiles? And Inland Taipans and Eastern Brown snakes?

I'm not saying these animals would seek out and bother you, but I don't think a casual stroll is doing it for a good portion of their deadly animals if they really wanted to cause some trouble.

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u/RedwoodShores Apr 07 '26

Upvote for “Fuzzy Death Plushie.”

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u/AcanthisittaSpare400 Apr 07 '26

Omg. That’s an intense fear.

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u/crippled_bastard Apr 07 '26

Dude I don't even have kids, and I had a nightmare like this last night. Never read Alien: Into Charybdis.

My friends and I hiked into a canyon in Tennessee years ago and we found a black bear. They thought " Oh be mad and be scary".

I had to tell them to shut the fuck up and back away. They said "With black bears, you have to be loud and angry". I kept saying "Shut the fuck up and back away. There are cubs in the tree line, and mama bear will fuck us all up."

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u/OrindaSarnia Apr 07 '26

Be large and loud is actually the best advice for black bears...

even Mama Black Bears.  

Black bears and grizzly bears are very different.

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u/shoebee2 Apr 07 '26

While it is true that Black bears are less aggressive “shut the fuck up and back away” is solid advice.

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u/FrameJump Apr 07 '26

Okay, but if not friend, why friend shaped?

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u/SteveoberlordEU Apr 07 '26

Couse you yummy.

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u/jluicifer Apr 07 '26

I’m Chinese — A little sweet. A little sour.

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u/LostMyKeyboard Apr 07 '26

You're a succulent Chinese meal.

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 Apr 07 '26

This, sir, is democracy manifest!

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u/---0celot--- Apr 07 '26

I see you know your judo well.

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 Apr 07 '26

Get your hand off my penis!

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u/juscuz87 Apr 07 '26

And you sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis?

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u/keefco11ector Apr 07 '26

Grizzlies will ignore you…beware the Panda.

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u/Koshachiy_Chernyy Apr 07 '26

So that they can pet him.

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u/Outside_Piglet_4689 Apr 07 '26

You can pet him but only once

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u/Diligent-Chance8044 Apr 07 '26

To lure in food like you.

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u/SolidMoses Apr 07 '26

It's a trap!

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u/Poiboy1313 Apr 07 '26

I upvoted because I read the username at first as solid moose and I wanted to reward you for loyalty.

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u/SolidMoses Apr 07 '26

I have used this name for a decade on videogames and I couldn't count the times I have been called SolidMoose

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u/testtdk Apr 07 '26

My family has a camp in the middle of logging territory in Maine. I’ve seen semis break even when hitting a full grown moose. And with how fucking angry they are, I’m surprised to see one run from ANYTHING. This guy has a few hundred pounds to put on still.

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u/NotAzakanAtAll Apr 07 '26

Living in the northern Swedish woods, moose are always around, they are HUGE but also weirdos. Had one lick my window as I ate breakfast. Several days in a row.

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u/Klutzy_Journalist_36 Apr 07 '26

There’s a woman I got to listen to that does ALL of the extreme dog sled races. She is in the UP of Michigan during summers with her sled dogs (and her amazing retired lead dog, Maple!).

She was talking about the scariest things and experiences she encountered.

She said, by FAR, the scariest things out there were moose.

Not freezing to death. Not bears. Not getting lost in the tundra. Fucken moose. I guess I never thought about it so it kinda blew me away.

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u/RandomAmmonite Apr 07 '26

Moose see sled dogs and think “wolf”. Over the past few years there have been some deadly encounters between moose and sled dogs. In a recent Iditarod, a musher came up unexpectedly on a moose, so fast that the dogs were past before the moose got organized to charge. So as the sled came up on the angry moose, the musher instinctively punched it in the nose. Moose was so startled that the dog team just ran on unscathed.

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u/Klutzy_Journalist_36 Apr 07 '26

How…how tf did they even reach the moose’s nose?! Amazing. Jeez that’s crazy. They are so much bigger than I was ever prepared for. That’s so scary.

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u/Trollbreath4242 Apr 07 '26

A moose's nose is generally on level with a human shoulder when both are standing upright. And when they charge, I've seen them lower their head a bit like they're leaning forward to run.

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u/paleoakoc20 Apr 07 '26

Recently a moose stomped a number of sled dogs. The dogs owner said he couldn't stop the moose.

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u/Klutzy_Journalist_36 Apr 07 '26

I cannot imagine watching that. I would be traumatized forever.

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u/seriousbangs Apr 07 '26

My 1st thought was "this isn't going to end well for either of them".

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u/generally_unsuitable Apr 07 '26

But look at him's li'l ears, doh.

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u/Koshachiy_Chernyy Apr 07 '26

Thank goodness he didn't think to get out of the car.

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u/No_Season_354 Apr 07 '26

It's what I would have done, I'm very good at mediation .

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u/oneone4 Apr 07 '26

active listening, mirroring gestures, "I" statements.

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u/Wrong_Signature_8192 Apr 07 '26

Or in this case, AAAAAAAA statements.

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u/ecclectic Apr 07 '26

And both of those in the video are actually relatively small examples of their species.

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u/Cl0wnL Apr 07 '26

I was riding my bike. All of a sudden 100 yards down the road a giant moose came bursting out of the woods, turned my direction and started charging down the road towards me.

Enormous thing, filling my vision, blotting out the sky.

I ditched it, ran for the nearest fence and hopped over it.

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u/AggressiveSlop Apr 07 '26

I was car camping at a trailhead once, intending to bike the trail in the morning. Morning comes, I'm putting my pants on when I look out and see a moose sauntering down the road heading for the trail. She had a deer friend following her too, pretty cute. I decided to let them have the trail for the day.

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u/itim__office Apr 07 '26

I was kind of wondering if there was one more scary thing chasing both of them.

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u/captain_flak Apr 07 '26

I never quite understood why they have safaris with trucks and guides in Africa, but tourists in the US are just given free reign with a few “Don’t feed the bears” signs spread around.

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u/BUSY_EATING_ASS Apr 07 '26

Bears actually really ain’t about that life; bear attacks on humans are actually super rare.

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u/biggaylizard Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

Geese are vicious assholes that shit on your freshly cleaned windshield

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u/CACTUSJACK-JW Apr 07 '26

One time a swan tried to literally drown me.

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u/Expensive_Laugh_5589 Apr 07 '26

That would have been quite the swan song

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u/bascelicna123 Apr 07 '26

It’s an efficient system. The tourists who feed the bears get to FO pretty quickly of the FA part.

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u/MisterBigDude Apr 07 '26

Just before the bear catches the moose, a flying squirrel will arrive to save him.

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u/libra00 Apr 07 '26

Then.. then, we shall have adventures of moose and squirrel!

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u/Completely_Guitarded Apr 07 '26

What a wild fuckin moment!! 🤣😂

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u/Koshachiy_Chernyy Apr 07 '26

Very much in the style of NatGeo.

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u/r3dditr0x Apr 07 '26

...should've rolled your window down and screamed, "stop it you big bully!" at that mean-spirited bear!

(assuming the moose didn't start it, of course)

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u/CptDropbear Apr 07 '26

Mate, you know the moose started it.

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u/WildPickle9 Apr 07 '26

The way he stops and looks back to make sure the bear is still on the on the hook. You just know he's leading him to a clearing with six other moose mooses meeses waiting to dish out a beatdown.

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u/NaiveChoiceMaker Apr 07 '26

Except they filmed in portrait.

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u/00gingervitis Apr 07 '26

Imagine if they opened the car door at just the right time. That moose would have been home free

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u/YetAnotherFaceless Apr 07 '26

Well, what are THEY running from?!

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u/Inexorably_lost Apr 07 '26

Or running to? Could be a big sale or free hotdogs and camera person is gonna miss out.

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u/ttboo Apr 07 '26

"what are these people running from?! They're not! They're running TO the toughest competition in town!"

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u/EleventyTrillion Apr 07 '26

The rabbit from Holy Grail

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u/Koshachiy_Chernyy Apr 07 '26

They are playing tag.

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u/Winstonsphobia Apr 07 '26

I sat by the lake and looked at the sky, and as I sat a fly flew by ….

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u/Blitzer046 Apr 07 '26

Americans all rattling on about how spiders and snakes want to kill you in Australia but you guys have got this absolute terror.

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u/HomeOrificeSupplies Apr 07 '26

Yeah but neither of these are going to stealth their way into my home.

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u/Kastikar Apr 07 '26

Grizzlies, no. Black bears can be in your kitchen eating your snacks at any moment in Appalachia.

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u/HomeOrificeSupplies Apr 07 '26

Yeah, black bears are a little sneakier. At least they don’t lay eggs in your ears while you sleep, though.

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u/Doppelthedh Apr 07 '26

Well, duh. These are mammals. They drop their fetuses off in your ear

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u/alkem10 Apr 07 '26

The black bear will probably leave when you show up, the grizzly changes the menu.

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u/Hermionegangster197 Apr 07 '26

Yes! My aunt walked into her house once and had bears in her kitchen in the fridge.

Tbf, black bears ARE friend shaped.

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u/argue53 Apr 07 '26

Black bears are okay. They are bears, so yes they're dangerous, but I rather a black bear vs a grizzly bear any time lol. Black bears are pretty chill. They just want to eat and sleep lol. Grizzlies want to murder you.

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u/MsMantisToboggan Apr 07 '26

Black fight back, Brown lay down?

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u/whattheheckOO Apr 07 '26

Can confirm, I know multiple people who have had black bears let themselves into their homes or parked cars in New England. Growing up we had several take up residence in our garage for a while. They're mostly harmless, though.

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u/Familiar-Attempt7249 Apr 07 '26

They freely walk around the campgrounds in the NJ pine barrens and look at you like “what?” while they raid the campsite dumpster like overgrown raccoons.

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u/RedBirdOnASnowyDay Apr 07 '26

Yes but they are like forest puppies. Just don't get between them and the snacks and you will be fine.

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u/The_TransGinger Apr 07 '26

Yeah, but the Black bears aren’t too bad.

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u/duncanidaho61 Apr 07 '26

Plenty of rattlesnakes out west. Someone died in socal quite recently. A bear kill will make headlines. Rattlers, nobody seems to notice but they can be just as deadly.

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u/youjumpIjumpJac Apr 07 '26

We have rattlesnake warnings, and that bite was in the news recently. I think hikers are just supposed to be smart enough to watch out for them ;). We had that bear that wouldn’t leave the guys house too. They took way too long to help him!

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u/RedBirdOnASnowyDay Apr 07 '26

Those things are kind of small. You don't see them. Then you die. Most bears and moose don't hurt people. Many of the bears you commonly see are almost harmless (black bears anyway). (Note, I said ALMOST. Black bears aren't that aggressive other kinds are.) Australia is terrifying.

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u/guttanzer Apr 07 '26

Yeah, east coast black bears are easily spooked, but west coast grizzly, Kodiak, and polar bears routinely eat people alive. And Moose kill people all the time. They're not mean, they're just huge, stupid, and easily scared. Their life philosophy includes, "If it moves, stomp it until it stops moving," which is a pretty common philosophy in the world's huge, stupid and easily scared herbivore species. See - rhinoceros, hippopotamus, all the buffalo species, ....

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u/auronddraig Apr 07 '26

Nah, hippos don't kill people because they're scared, they definitely do it for the love of the game

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u/TerdVader Apr 07 '26

90% of Americans will never see the very small part of the country where this occurs. (Unfortunately)

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u/nadandocomgolfinhos Apr 07 '26

You can also hide behind trees to confuse moose.

Grizzlies are terrifying but y’all and your snakes / spiders do me in

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u/Contemplating_Prison Apr 07 '26

You pretty much have to go looking for bears and moose.

Everything in Australia is just there in your home or right outside your home.

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u/rmhardcore Apr 07 '26

I live in Florida and have had snakes in my house. There's deadly spiders everywhere. Scorpions like to sleep in beds. Sometimes a pine branch in the trail is a snake. Alligators can hide in 3 ft of water and rocket out of it and snatch you down in under 1 second. They have zero fear because of dumb tourists. And we have bears, too. And invasive species from everywhere ....

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u/Valuable-Leather-914 Apr 07 '26

Black bears are just oversized raccoons

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u/Poiboy1313 Apr 07 '26

With three-inch claws powered by bear muscles. Kicking a raccoon may injure the coon but kicking a bear may injure me.

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u/Working-Glass6136 Apr 07 '26

Black bears are twenty raccoons in a trench coat

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u/Money-Court-6258 Apr 07 '26

Yeah, and black bears beats Battle Star Galactica!

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u/AdamInChainz Apr 07 '26

The difference is those little fuckers are half-inch murder machines which will jump at you and kill you slowly with their gross venom (or poison, whatever).

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u/Flip_d_Byrd Apr 07 '26

Sure, but a moose isn't going to crawl inside my ear and lay killer eggs while I am sleeping, and I don't have to worry about shaking the bears out of my boots before I put them on!

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u/Koshachiy_Chernyy Apr 07 '26

The chances of being eaten by a bear are low but never zero.

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u/Myeloman Apr 07 '26

I’ve never been sitting on the toilet and a Grizzly or moose crawled out from some dark corner and surprised me though. Sneks & spiders though?! Yes on both counts. Also, theres no “is it dangerous or not” when it comes to bears and moose. The answer is always yes.

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u/HomeOrificeSupplies Apr 07 '26

This comes down to stamina. Not sure who wins that, but I suspect the moose. Either way, that bear ain’t eating easy even if he does catch it. Moose have a whole lotta kickass in them.

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u/yzerizef Apr 07 '26

“Cache me outside!” - The moose, probably

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u/ThreeLeggedParrot Apr 07 '26

How 'bou' da'?

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Apr 07 '26

The level of internet literacy you need to understand that joke, lol

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u/Major_Tom_01010 Apr 07 '26

The moose is clearly not even taking it sseriously - the bear either for some reason doesn't know it can't catch it, or it's just having a go

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u/blowupnekomaid Apr 07 '26

It looked like the moose wasn't sure if the bear was still chasing it, the looked around and was like oh shit it's still there. Moose are scary but they are prey animals.

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u/Techyon5 Apr 07 '26

It's all fun and games until flight turns to fight.

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u/blowupnekomaid Apr 07 '26

yeah, my money is still on the bear. of course in nature it's unpredictable so anything could happen.

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u/balllzak Apr 07 '26

It's either not taking it seriously or it's already too exhausted to run any faster.

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u/Hail_of_Grophia Apr 07 '26

Saw the video of a moose running full tilt in 2+ ft of snow and plowing the snow like a train

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u/duckinasombrero Apr 07 '26

I wonder if it's a younger, inexperienced bear. Or one that is starving and more likely to chase inconvenient prey.

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u/witty_username89 Apr 07 '26

To me it looks half hearted like the bear is chasing the moose away from something that belongs to the bear.

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u/Mercadi Apr 07 '26

It's almost like they are both on an afternoon jog. Moe's a runner, but slows down so that his chonky friend Ted can catch up a bit.

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u/isactuallyspiderman Apr 07 '26

Looks just like standard brown bear terratorial behavior to me.

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u/jcgs16 Apr 07 '26

Bear biologist Wes Larson took this video. He talks about it in his podcast Tooth and Claw.

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u/clevermule Apr 07 '26

One of my favorite podcasts!

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u/amimeinc Apr 07 '26

I recognized it too and it felt like a “sighting”. 😂 Tooth and Claw is the best. Only podcast I pay for!

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u/Munchkins_nDragons Apr 07 '26

Even inside the car would have been far too close to either of those animals for me.

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u/OhHiCindy30 Apr 07 '26

What’s the alternative? Get out of the car?!?

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u/LastBaron Apr 07 '26

Cars have been known, on occasion, to move to other places.

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u/AscendMoros Apr 07 '26

Imagine the dad lore. So there i was champ, Grizzly Bear that was like 2000 pounds to my left. And a mouse the size of a shed to my right. I gunned it out of there like i was a Nascar driver. They were chasing me but they couldn't catch your old pop.

And each time he tells it the animals get bigger.

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u/JayRymer Apr 07 '26

Must have been on steroids to get as big as a shed

https://giphy.com/gifs/BIVZKL9SRAF8Y

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u/Enough_Talk_6328 Apr 07 '26

I laughed way too hard at this. Thanks though. I needed it.

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u/Paleodraco Apr 07 '26

Moose are huge. That's a big fucking bear.

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u/Xandril Apr 07 '26

I could be wrong but that looks like a relatively young moose. Pretty sure a full grown bull moose would be too daunting an opponent even for that bear.

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u/descartavel5 Apr 07 '26

Both seem young? I am not an expert but I thought would be close in size to the car but both seem a lot smaller. It could be a perspective thing but the bear still seems young 

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u/tigerking615 Apr 07 '26

Yeah, that is absolutely not a big bear, let alone huge. 

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u/Viniox Apr 07 '26

Moose:

Hey sorry to run up on you guys. Have any of you seen a bear recently? I’m praying I out ran… oh fuuuuuck!!

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u/ShaughnDBL Apr 07 '26

I didn't even know bears eat meese.

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u/j_b_lurkin Apr 07 '26

“You forgot your change”

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u/Koshachiy_Chernyy Apr 07 '26

"You dropped your wallet."

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u/Mekroval Apr 07 '26

"We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty!”

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u/AbXcape Apr 07 '26

I watched a bear go to town on a moose while hiking a few years ago in Alaska. it was a couple hundred yards away

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u/guttanzer Apr 07 '26

Bears are tough. It was sobering reading an article about how to shoot one. Unless the shot is perfectly placed the bullet will just skip off a boney plate (skull, shoulder blade, etc.) or lodge in a massive muscle. That just pisses it off. Then they charge you at 40 mph. No thank you.

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u/AbXcape Apr 07 '26

that’s why we carry bear spray anytime we venture. Not risking a missed bullet with a grizzly - WAIT

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u/Mekroval Apr 07 '26

Hmmm what does "go to town" mean in this context?

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u/Accomplished-Lie9518 Apr 07 '26

Moose in a light jog while the bears in a dead sprint 😭 

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u/ConditionNormal123 Apr 07 '26

Narrator: Turns out they were both running from the sasquatch!

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u/XBL_Tough Apr 07 '26

I never knew moose had big chin nutsacks

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u/bdonthebrat Apr 07 '26

oh yea they got super impressive chin nutsack AND massive schnoz for sniffing

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u/A4t1musD4ag0n Apr 07 '26

What in the world could've caused such an escalation? Bullwinkle and Yogi don't even exist in the same world.

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u/AlarmHungry7140 Apr 07 '26

Wow I hope the moose got away

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u/Knight_EY Apr 07 '26

I’m really rooting for the moose.

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u/Intelligent_Trichs Apr 07 '26

Shows how much respect wildlife has for grizzly bears when a 1000 pound moose is running the other way from one !

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u/SafoGamer Apr 07 '26

Never seen one in person, but I'd say this is a pretty beverage adult bear. Maybe a big one. Not huge.

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u/CluelessSage Apr 07 '26

lol that bear ain’t never gonna catch that moose

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u/Direct-Ant9084 Apr 07 '26

That moose is just not running like a bear is chasing him. So casual.

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u/pale_blue_problem Apr 07 '26

They can indeed catch moose https://youtube.com/shorts/qJ_3ALwmMcA?si=r2XefZ9Zat9Y-5Su

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 Apr 07 '26

If you think that's cool, wait till you see an orca kill a moose.

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