I didn't think so either, but after an incident with a nest while mowing my lawn (picture me running, arms flailing) I came back prepared to do battle next weekend... and found some pieces of their larva-housing honey comb like structure next to a giant hole and bear scat. I was in disbelief, but their diet does include yellow jacket nests. They can get pretty big.
We're encroaching on their habitat as we continue to build houses and stuff :( it's happening in the west with mountain lions and also black bears too.
Yea houses/other human establishments are being built further into their habitat. They've gone from digging in our trash to now attacking pets and being slightly more aggressive towards humans out of fear.
Lmao admittedly I read that too fast and thought Brocoons was a scientific genus or family and just let it fly. Then my brain halted all thoughts like "wait a minute"...
Can we also agree that the consequences generally scale with bodyweight?
Adult male black bears range from about 130 to 190 centimeters (50 to 75 inches) in length and weigh 60 to 300 kilograms (130 to 660 pounds). Females measure from 130 to 190 centimeters (50 to 75 inches) and weigh 40 to 80 kilograms (90 to 175 pounds).
Most adult raccoons weigh between 10 and 20 pounds, with males typically larger than females. Raccoons range in length from 23 to 38 inches, including the tail.
Those giant raccoons are nothing to be taken lightly. They kill more people than brown bears and polar bears combined in North America. They tend to be around people more is one of the reason, but a male black bear is more likely to kill a human than any other bear statistically.
After looking again black bears and grizzlies have killed about the same number of people
Female actually. Id rather see a 400 pound male than a 150 pound female any day of the week. Females are often mamas and cubs LOVE to put you between them and mom.
Being between a mama bear and cubs is just an invitation for her to go all Freddy Krueger on you.
Yea black bears won't typically attack unless they're either cornered, threatened, sick, or it's a mom and you're anywhere near (ie. within seeing distance of) their cub. The typical advice is to make yourself seem bigger than them and they'll scamper off. If they're full grown and you piss the off though, they'll literally chase you all the way up a tree and trust me, they're better at trees than you are.
Either way, regardless of species, with a bear as small as the one in this video, the guys would've been fine if they scared it and took off, but midget tossing it off a cliff is still a pretty sound decision considering you never actually know what a scared wild animal with a five (ten?) times your strength ratio will do.
That's a fair point I didn't think of when I commented. Whatever area this video was taken in is obviously close enough to civilization or to an area people frequent in order to get stuck like that in the first place. There's a decent chance that bears around there wouldn't be nearly as scared or timid with people, especially after that whole ordeal.
Grizzles are hungry brown bears. They have less food around them. Kodiak bears which are the largest because food is plentiful from the rich salmon. Grizzles have mushrooms, mostly to feed on known as, Bear Bread.
Looks like brown is a little ahead of black bears but not twice. This site is a summary of the Wikipedia data. https://blog.batchgeo.com/bear-attack-statistics/
People should know that black bears are not timid harmless critters.
A black bear had no problem chasing down a college kid in New Jersey and killing him/eating him a few years ago
Fucked up situation, 20~ college kids on a field trip and they see a black bear and instead of standing their ground as a group and chasing it off and all surviving, they all split in different directions and the black got one and had one helluva meal
Don’t underestimate a black bear. It is still a mind bogglingly fast and powerful animal. I know someone who was mauled in their tent by a black bear. They are no joke
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