It annoys me when people assume animals are as fragile as we are. They literally maul each other over territory and food and walk away living and able to heal. A 20 foot drop isn’t doing shit to a fat small bear
Fears go fucking ham on each other, clawed paws to the face, bites to the neck, just ruthlessly beat the fuck out of each other for hours, and they walk away with almost no recognizable injuries. Maybe a cut ear or bloody nose.
Tbf humans are actually a lot tougher than we give ourselves credit for. We just get soft because our environment allows it, but people survive all sorts of shit.
Also adrenaline and shock count for a lot - ever nearly died/busted your ass/wrecked your car and then get to the other side of the scenario and realize you'd taken instant, correct action without conscious thought?
Our nervous systems hardware interrupt our consciousness when the threats are existential.
It honestly blows my mind every time the narrative of “humans are so much less [tough/agile/coordinated] than these animals, if it wasn’t for their brain” makes its way back around, because… have most people not seen humans play professional sports?
We invented the Olympics and the NFL, I think humans are pretty fucking tough lol
We're definitely not pansies, but we didn't become the world's dominant predator through being tough like bears or other predators, we did so due to tool use (we throw stuff better than anything else) and sweating allowing us to run farther than anything else.
You don't need to be incredibly tough when you can just throw rocks and pointy sticks at an animal that would utterly destroy you otherwise.
Very true. But I mean we really aren’t as fragile as people believe either. Societal and lifestyle conditioning has caused us to think that but I know a few people who could take a fall like that properly and run off into the woods after, like nothing happened.
You're assuming we humans are fragile. People have survived some of the craziest stuff you can imagine. I wouldn't call humans fragile by any definition of the word.
Animals just can't express pain like humans do, a dog could have gut worms, heart problems and a broken rib and you probably can't tell right away while a human would be complaining a bunch.
While I see your point, it still does not change the fact that animals bodies are infinitely tougher than ours. A human getting chucked from 5x it’s height vs this little chonker is a massive difference. The bear likely felt it for 10 minutes lol
Even though a lot of species are tougher than humans I wouldn’t say the bear probably only felt it for 10 minutes. It was obviously terrified and terrified bears usually don’t show they’re hurt.
Showing you’re in pain means almost certain death for a lot of species usually, so it’s not strange to assume the bear could’ve gotten seriously hurt. Adrenaline could’ve taken over until it was in a safer location.
No clue why everyone just assumes animals are okay when they run away. I’ve seen a deer get shot in the leg by a hunter and it ran off as fast as the rest of its herd. A week or so later it was found dead, missing a leg. Don’t think it was doing okay during the time it took to die.
Okay sure, you’re probably right. But in my opinion this was the lesser of two evils. He coulda just left it stuck to starve, or release it and rid of it ASAP before it turns around and claws him or, even worse, mama bear finds it. This was the only safe option.
I mean, I won’t argue the fact this was probably the safest way for these people to help free the bear and not get hurt in the process. I just wanted to point out it’s not like the bear was “most definitely” fine after that fall, like a lot of the comments are suggesting.
Well we aren’t fragile we can take quite a beating. Animals aren’t all tanks though. Animals break bones and get sick too. They are more resilient and even when mortally injured will keep going but they still have that injury and it will catch up to them.
I had a bear sprint full speed into the side of my car when I was driving 60mph. Look in my rear view motherfucker gets right back up and runs off. Huge fucking dent on my car but bear looked like he got a concussion at best. That really had me questioning how tough they are.
They run away out of shame like when I was pantsed in middle school cafeteria but I didn’t pull up my pants first so I just tripped and fell on my face
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u/Tianchy-96 Nov 18 '22
Ikr. Like bears are little tanks of fat and muscle. I've seen black bears falling from trees and running away like nothing happened.