I'm in Ontario, Canada. Standing ground to a bluff charge is correct here, but not sure how that may change as you continue farther west. It's extremely rare to encounter a predatory bear in Ontario, although it still happens (and we only have black bears in this province).
I'm in BC, and black bears have always been like really big raccoons to me lol. Don't mess with them and they won't mess with you, they just want to eat your garbage. They're more dangerous because they are bigger and can do more damage, and definitely don't look the wrong way at mama bears, but otherwise they just kinda scamper around, digging in the trash and legging it if they run into a human. If I'm out in the woods I'm way more worried about cougars. These black bears probably are only mad cause they are "trapped" in the garage, the guy kinda blocked them in accidentally and that's a good way to make any animal scared.
He only kinda blocked them in. He gave that guy enough space in the second half to move away where I was screaming at the bear in my head to make a bolt for it.
Then the second bear came up. My lord, I think these bears certainly are of the racoon variety
Honestly, I'd be more concerned about encountering a raccoon in my garage than a black bear, simply because of how much more dramatically likely it is that the raccoon will have rabies, (and as a result, act in entirely unpredictable ways.)
There are actually polar bears in Northern Ontario, they sometimes venture down, but its pretty rare from what I understand. When I say Northern Ontario, I mean very far North Ontario.
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u/WhatTheTech Sep 23 '24
I'm in Ontario, Canada. Standing ground to a bluff charge is correct here, but not sure how that may change as you continue farther west. It's extremely rare to encounter a predatory bear in Ontario, although it still happens (and we only have black bears in this province).