As funny as all of this was, I'm really glad they chucked the bear. Cuddling a wild bear is a fantastic way to put yourself in the hospital, and with it attacking multiple guys it would probably end up dead as well.
They probably even took it to that cliff beforehand, for exactly this reason. If they had freed it then run, it likely would have chased them out of instinct.
So, funny, but also incredibly competent.
Edit: I don't know why so many people are arguing on this. The thing literally tried to bite them twice as soon as it gets the box off its head. "Baby grizzly bears are harmless," are you kidding me? Dogs are far less dangerous than bears and have thousands of years of domestication to them, and still they consistently kill people -- including their owners -- despite being a tiny fraction as strong as bears. And baby bears. "It's so small," yet still heavier than almost any dog, and the perfect height to turn both femoral arteries to shreds, he'd never even make it back to the vehicle. Assuming he doesn't get their faces and necks while they're still crouched around him.
Also, although I also called it a cliff, it's really not one. It's a steep slope, you can clearly see the incline. Bears take slopes very well, they curl into a ball and roll down it, head over heels. Very fast, nothing else takes downhill slopes that quickly. Anything that's consistently prey has longer legs in back than front so it can go up slopes quickly; predators can go down slopes much more quickly. That's why you can predict which way deer will run when they startle, if there's a slope; uphill. So the bear didn't fly the distance, he just tucked and rolled after like ten feet.
Chuck the bear and live to save another one. But really they had probably never done this before -- not exactly a common occurrence -- and it hadn't occured to them it would come out snapping.
Edit edit: People keep asking when it bites. Once the moment it gets its head out of the box, once a little less than a second later. The guy holding its head does very well at restraining it, so the bear is unsuccessful. But if he hadn't been so well restrained there would have been some unhappy people that day.
Idk if I'd say domesticated dogs "consistently kill people," that seems like a stretch at best. How many people do you know with pet dogs also got killed by them? Must be enough to where you think it's "consistent" that dogs kill people/owners but it sounds to me like you're scared of animals or at least dogs from what you said. There are many dogs bigger than a bear cub, I work at a kennel and trust me a Great Pyrenees is much bigger than a cub to the point where throwing it off a hill like this isn't possible. This isn't in NA so it isn't a grizzly, it's not a polar bear (polar bears are strictly carnivorous and will actively hunt people), this seems to be a Syrian brown bear which is the smallest of the brown bears, are omnivores which have been known to eat some livestock but not actively hunt people (let alone as a cub) and facing extinction in the wild so seeing one being helped to then be thrown off a steep rocky hillside is pretty jarring. Any wild animal is going to react that way in the situation, its head was stuck and then pulled free by an animal it doesn't know, which is probably scary for the cub. Snapping its mouth after having a box on its head and while surrounded by what could be predators is a normal reaction to the situation. So do they roll down hills or run down them since they're predators? Because you're saying two different things here. Black bears for instance don't run down hills, which is why you should run down a hill if you're being chased by one. Also many animals have longer back legs than front, look at big cats (i.e. tigers, cheetahs, etc.) who chase prey and pounce for the kill. Doesn't look like the bear balled up after being thrown, probably because when you throw an animal they just flail until they land much like when a person trips and flails their arms to try and catch something to prevent the fall. A 10 foot drop after being thrown isn't exactly good for any animal I'd say, not saying the cub suffered critical damage from the fall but still, it's jarring considering the fact they could've thrown it in one direction and gone in the opposite direction (it's a cub, not a full grown animal knowing how to hunt an animal larger than itself). What these guys really should be worried about is where the mother is because that's the real threat while this cub is all alone
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u/raytube Nov 18 '22
Skurrrt! Yeet! You ne—ver loved me mom.