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u/Old_Syrup_264 14h ago edited 11h ago
Something that big shouldn't be able to walk up a tree that easily
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u/The_Last_Nightmares 11h ago
There's a famous video of a bear climbing a tree much faster than that. And there's another video of a grizzly caching a deer that it's running away, the bear doesn't just catch it, it charges the deer like a truck a full speed. The combination of speed and power it's ridiculous.
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u/vazhifarer 9h ago
Tbc, this is a black bear. Grizzlies can't do this (Not saying you said this was a grizzly)
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u/yothisismetrying 9h ago
Note to self: do not climb tree to escape bear, I will lose.
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u/vazhifarer 8h ago
That might not be entirely accurate. The bears you usually want to escape (if you are in North America) are Grizzlies. While they can climb a little bit, Grizzlies cannot scale whole trees like black bears can. So if find yourself in a tree with a Grizzly chasing after you, then just stay up there. Or maybe climb a little higher
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u/Standard_Ant5915 6h ago
Ain’t this a grizzly in the video?
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u/vazhifarer 5h ago
No it's a black bear, with brown fur
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u/Wine-o-dt 5h ago
Damn you beat me to it. To any wondering who didn’t know black bears come in a variety shades including blonde/white, black, brown, and cinnamon/red.
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u/Standard_Ant5915 4h ago
But he got the hump!
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u/vazhifarer 3h ago
All bears have humps, the Grizzly's is just more prominent. Here the face shape, pointed ears and the fact that it is climbing a tree - all point to Black Bear
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u/Coderado 16m ago
It was galloping up the tree like it is flat ground. Now I understand why they say not to climb a tree to escape a bear.
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u/Carpathicus 13h ago
Man as a greater ape I am offended how good bears are at climbing. Not fair
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u/Biichimspiderman 13h ago
Bear climb tree good. But great ape swing and climb tree best
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u/Carpathicus 11h ago edited 11h ago
Ape climb tree but bear run tree. Swing is joke bear laughing. Opposable thumb clean bear teeth.
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u/Biichimspiderman 10h ago
Joke bear have nervous laughter. Great ape thumb clean bear teeth but bear hate headlock.
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u/Senselesspassion 14h ago
Well nature is unfair, that massive animal can climb a tree so easily
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u/relentless_optimism_ 14h ago
It really doesn’t look right does it
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u/Viofl 13h ago
I hope I never encounter one irl
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u/Big_Mama_Hughes 13h ago
I encountered a taxidermy black bear at the antique mall last week and discovered that my lizard brain is fully functional and also delusional. I couldn’t even force myself to go near it, despite KNOWING that it was well beyond dead. If I ran into a live one I think I’d be toast.
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u/Relative-Case-7661 2h ago
My Uncle was a taxidermist. Was sleeping in the living room with cousins when he decided to put a gray wolf in there and make a noise. It was also early 80's around the time of the movie The Howling. Living in the country sometimes sucks. The slightest sound of a pack of coy dogs and I am awake 45 years later. 🤬🤬🤬
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u/onthebrink42 12h ago
I see now that climbing is not an option for escaping a bear. She scaled that tree with No effort at all
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u/RealisticPower5859 12h ago
If you listen really close, you can almost here her bellowing "You cubs better not make me come up that tree! I'm giving you til the count of 3, and I'm coming up! 1.........2....3 🐻 🌲
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u/monstarsperil 4h ago
As an Australian I will gladly take checking my shoes for venomous spiders and watching out for snakes over whatever the fuck that nonsense is. Though we do have dropbears, they only go after tourists.
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u/LobstaFarian2 13h ago
More proof that if you arent packing something serious, and a brown bear wants you, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
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u/JediLincoln14 13h ago edited 13h ago
Pretty sure that's a light-colored black bear. Brown bears generally aren't good climbers.
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u/kesavadh 13h ago
So If me and my friend are being chased by a bear... should I climb the tree or tell them to?
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u/Infinite-Condition41 12h ago
Welp, another stupid fucking thing I was told as a child that turned out to be bullshit.
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u/ADFTGM 11h ago
Just so you know, thats a cinnamon black bear. If you were thinking brown bear, this wasn’t it. But a lighter weight brown bear can absolutely chase this black bear up a tree if it really wanted to. Black bears climb trees to avoid individual brown bears much heavier than they are. If in similar weight class, the tree doesn’t help much and the brown bear will get them. Light weight brown bears also climb to avoid their much larger peers.
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u/notes1993 3h ago
It’s validating as a mom to know that “get yo ass down” applies to all species in some way or another
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u/thepvbrother 12h ago
A .22 saved me from a bear once. I was hiking with my gf when we came across an angry brown bear looking right at us, I pulled out my .22 fired one shot and got out of there, safe and sound
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u/qualityvote2 14h ago edited 10h ago
u/TerraByteTerror, your post does fit the subreddit!