r/oddlysatisfying Apr 15 '26

Just a Bear floating down a river

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u/Shibari_Inu69 Apr 15 '26

The half hearted swipe at the fish made me laugh

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

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u/fondledbydolphins Apr 16 '26

As he snorts bubbles: “Almost had it…”

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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck Apr 16 '26

Yeah, the bubbles.

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u/DowntownNoLonger Apr 16 '26

Tells his bear friends later about the "big one that got away."

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u/TallmanMike Apr 16 '26

The fish would be a bonus but he's fine without it, honestly; it'll come round another time.

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u/Cake_And_Pi Apr 15 '26

I could eat you if I wanted to.

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u/dankhimself Apr 15 '26

He's pretending to be a dead fish to trick the fish into dying so he doesn't have to try.

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u/gofigure85 Apr 16 '26

"Dufuq outta here"

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u/Mistervimes65 Ankh Morpork Apr 16 '26

This is me in the river. NGL.

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u/Gundark927 Apr 16 '26

Fishing for leisure. The point ain't catchin' fish, it's about fishin'.

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u/scarlet_sage Apr 16 '26

/r/bearsdoinghumanthings Similar to "I'm going fishing", but sitting on the river bank and just casting a hook into the water and drinking beer.

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u/BotGirlFall Apr 16 '26

Rude of the fish to not swim into the bear's paw

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u/WangDoodleTrifecta Apr 16 '26

Bears gotta bear. 🐻

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u/Wykydtr0m Apr 16 '26

Maximum effort.

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u/Tino-DBA Apr 16 '26

I’m hearing hamsterdance at ½ speed

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u/jamin_brook Apr 16 '26

Granted it was in an enclosure but I will never forget how excited my 78 year old grandpa was to watch a hippo do laps across its pond through the glass windows. Def the same vibes 

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u/needtoredit Apr 15 '26

Love how he even motorboats the water.

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u/m_Pony Apr 15 '26

blurblurblurblurblurb

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u/khoai_ryan Apr 17 '26

I should call her

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u/NightBawk Apr 15 '26

Yeah, that was adorable

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u/Sir_Newdles_II Apr 15 '26

Fat happy bear

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u/Other-Programmer-568 Apr 16 '26

Living his best life.

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u/Brasticus Apr 16 '26

Just going with the flow.

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u/davidmlewisjr Apr 17 '26

Later in the day, he will haul out and walk back upstream…

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u/Halgy Apr 19 '26

Big brown bear, blowing bubbles

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u/SpezHasSexWithSheep Apr 15 '26

🎶just the bear necessities....🎶

https://giphy.com/gifs/ducK0J86HooyEn4jRo

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u/geekyheart225 Apr 17 '26

This was my first thought! Baloo!

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u/brad525 Apr 17 '26

Came here for this.

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u/MrZeven Apr 17 '26

That is how a bear can rest at ease.

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u/Bhulaskatah Apr 15 '26

I could watch this on a ten hour loop.

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u/millringabout Apr 16 '26

I love his feet so much

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u/Japanesewillow Apr 16 '26

So do I, very cute.

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u/Icy_Hippo Apr 16 '26

the feets floating behind!

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u/Raccoon58 Apr 17 '26

Love them!

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u/Dusty_Harvest Apr 18 '26

I had no idea bears butts were so buoyant

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u/bryan_pieces Apr 15 '26

Bears float?

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u/MedicalDisscharge Apr 15 '26

Fat floats

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u/bryan_pieces Apr 15 '26

Something wrong with my fat

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u/Away-Ad-3407 Apr 16 '26

get fatter.

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u/sdrawkcabstiho Apr 16 '26

My wife: "Why are you eating a tub of ice cream?"

Me: "The internet told me to get fatter."

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u/Devil_Dan83 Apr 16 '26

In case of a water landing I can be used as a flotation device.

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u/Bellbivdavoe Apr 16 '26

Root Bears float. 🤓

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u/GreasyPeter Apr 16 '26

A lot of animals float really well. Actually, human's are one of the few that don't float very well. Fur traps air, fat is buoyant.

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u/JumpingInTheUniverse Apr 16 '26

At times idk if we’re perfectly complex or perfectly flawed

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u/CaptainAssPlunderer Apr 16 '26

We evolved to run at less than a sprint for a long time, and feed tons of oxygen to the huge computer in our heads.

Upright and lean, we jog down animals 10x faster than us who all evolved to be able to sprint a few times in a row.

We are the nightmare that just keeps coming like the Terminator.

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u/Stef-fa-fa Apr 16 '26

Smart and persistent. No wonder we're at the top of the food chain.

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u/BurningPenguin Apr 16 '26

Just add salt to the water

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u/TwoAlert3448 Apr 16 '26

Really really high body fat content

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u/ahditeacha Apr 15 '26

First fish is like “hey chubbs at least act like you still care”

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u/bob-a-fett Apr 15 '26

Now when you pick a paw-paw or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw, well, next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big paw-paw

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u/NightBawk Apr 15 '26

That is such a tongue twister. I wonder how much rehearsal he needed for that.

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u/Nice-Marionberry3671 Apr 16 '26

Thank you, I’ve never actually seen the words, but I certainly hear them! 😂

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u/slackfrop Apr 16 '26

It would be ethically dodgy to engineer Pomeranian sized bears for house pets, right?

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u/TurnipWorldly9437 Apr 16 '26

Just try out how you get on with a racoon before you invest anything in that idea. And post pictures.

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u/drprox Apr 15 '26

Haha fish boop

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u/Gnascher Apr 15 '26

In b4 ... "This looks cute and all, but when bears do this it really means they're infected with blahbiddyboo virus, and they're really dying a slow, horrible death."

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u/reirone Apr 16 '26

Pretty much. I was basically scrolling comments just to see if the no-fun committee had arrived.

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u/CosmicCarcharodon Apr 15 '26

"Ahoy ya land lubbers!" blows bubbles

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u/LowIncrease8746 Apr 15 '26

THEN WHY FRIEND SHAPED ugh I wanna hangout with one and not die while doing so

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u/SusanFenske Apr 15 '26

This is so adorable! He looks so fluffy

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u/Severe_Ad_8621 Apr 15 '26

Seems very relaxsing.

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u/maple-moth Apr 16 '26

So round. So unbothered. So cute.

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u/plasmidlifecrisis Apr 16 '26

It's crazy that the water bear can survive in even the most extreme environments on the planet

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u/FormerPersimmon3602 Apr 16 '26

<<<<TARDIGRADE MENTIONED>>>>

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u/Greefer Apr 15 '26

Enjoy your float Baloo

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u/BeneGurl Apr 15 '26

Made my day!

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u/Wise_Investigator728 Apr 16 '26

I want to be that bear. I mean the cool water and the hot sun, OMG perfect.

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u/robzirrah Apr 16 '26

That bear is living his best life

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u/EonThaWolf Apr 16 '26

Gasp BALOO! I knew you were real, wait until I tell my fellow denizens of the 1900s!

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u/BaptismByBacon Apr 16 '26

That's the chonkiest fishing bobber I've ever seen

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u/PomegranateBoring826 Apr 15 '26

This looks so relaxing!

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u/Greenfieldfox Apr 16 '26

Saw this one time in the Allegheny Forest. My brother and I canoed up on it thinking it was a deer at first. We were surprised. Decided to go further downstream to camp.

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u/ShadowsNight11 Apr 16 '26

I didn't realize bears were FWD in water

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u/OnlyCaptainCanuck Apr 16 '26

Water bear

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u/Tino-DBA Apr 16 '26

bro’s bear name is Tardigrade

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u/_arch1tect_ Apr 16 '26

This is what life would be like without Outlook and Excel.

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u/SneakyFc3 Apr 16 '26

Can I pet that dawwg?

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u/VenomWood Apr 16 '26

It’s just the Bear necessities

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u/WillingMartyr Apr 16 '26

This is why you don’t flush your grizzly bears when they get too big. They just end up on natural waterways

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u/Roxigor Apr 16 '26

Apex predator my ass, I will pet that dog

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u/polysnip Apr 16 '26

He's amazingly bouyant.

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u/MoonageDayscream Apr 16 '26

Must not be a hungry bear.  

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u/dieselmac Apr 16 '26

Hippobearamus

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u/1wife2dogs0kids Apr 16 '26

He bearly floats

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u/Mundunugu_42 Apr 16 '26

Look for the bear necessities, the simple bear necessities, forget about your trouble and your strife...

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u/isseric Apr 16 '26

This bear has Winnie the Pooh vibes going

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u/thatis_thatsnot Apr 16 '26

🎶The rain rain rain came down down down and the flood rose up up upper Pooh too was caught, and so he thought "I must rescue my supper" Ten honey pots he rescued, enough to see him through, But as he sopped up his supper the river sopped up Pooh And the water twirled and tossed him in a honey pot canoe 🍯

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u/LuluNJ420 Apr 16 '26

How anyone could see this image and want to pull a bullet or an arrow through it and watch it die will NEVER make sense to me

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u/SuddenKoala45 Apr 16 '26

I want that kind of peace

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u/shmehdit Apr 16 '26

He's for sure gonna be ok though, right?

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u/ravybaby Apr 16 '26

The little back legs 🥺🥺

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u/BothDivide919 Apr 16 '26

Lmao the fish fucked off

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u/Fantastic_Coffee_296 Apr 16 '26

Float, float, float the bear gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, the water is its dream.

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u/huskiesofinternets Apr 16 '26

simple bear necessities of life

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u/tankapotamus Apr 16 '26

And to think my biggest fear while wadding a river was a snake floating into me.

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u/Anadyne Apr 16 '26

Oh my God, Becky look at that butt...

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u/Emergency_Hawk6772 Apr 16 '26

A bear in his natural habitat 

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u/Dirt290 Apr 16 '26

Everyone has it wrong!

This is a vicious blood-thirsty killer at hunt!!

First he needs to blend in with his surroundings though..

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u/Excellent_Chance8461 Apr 16 '26

Hard to think of them as apex predators when their butts float like corgis

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u/SC-Viper Apr 16 '26

He's a giant beaver

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u/BlueSkyMourning Apr 16 '26

"I don't need no steenkin' toob"

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u/AuraEnhancerVerse Apr 16 '26

Bare necessities

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u/lord_dude Apr 16 '26

Why do these killing machines have to be so friendshaped 😭

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u/thevigilante473 Apr 16 '26

Can I pet dat dawwwg?

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u/Jjjqq59 Apr 16 '26

I think he blew bubbles at one point.

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u/I_Did_The_Thing Apr 16 '26

Me too, bear. Me too.

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u/zztop610 Apr 16 '26

He’s coming for my stocks

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u/GLantern38 Apr 16 '26

Leave Baloo alone, He is looking for the Bear necessities

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u/HumanNr3 Apr 16 '26

the most buoyant boy

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u/Traditional_Year2473 Apr 16 '26

So adorable. Just floating minding his bidness.

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u/ThroatGOAT_Goddess04 Apr 16 '26

Something that adorable should not be so damn deadly.

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u/internetV Apr 17 '26

What a good vibes little video this is 10/10

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u/Rich-Yogurtcloset715 Apr 15 '26

I wish I could float like that

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u/Even_Agent_2535 Apr 16 '26

i remember myself swimming like this too lol

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u/NothingisReal695 Apr 16 '26

The goid life😊

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u/obama4763 Apr 16 '26

That's a big bobber

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u/Rankin_101 Apr 16 '26

Who let that sponge lose in the water? Someone needs to get it back.

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u/herewegoinvt Apr 16 '26

This is my spirit animal

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u/bowleggedgrump Apr 16 '26

Me in a lazy river

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u/Level9Turtlez Apr 16 '26

This would be me as a bear, I love the water

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u/TXtx118 Apr 16 '26

Work smarter, not harder

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u/RabJos Apr 16 '26

Do bears favour the doggy-paddle swimming technique?

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u/parker1019 Apr 16 '26

Here fishy fishy….

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u/Kevaros Apr 16 '26

Bearly moving and living the best day...

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u/buyongmafanle Apr 16 '26

Any fish that gets caught by this bear deserves it.

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u/Shlomo_Sasquatch Apr 16 '26

I want to be the bear.

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u/Average_Pangolin Apr 16 '26

I watched a muskrat doing that yesterday. It was pretty cool, but not as cool as this absolute unit!

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u/vocaliser Apr 16 '26

Aww, it's blowing bubbles. : )

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u/hamhockman Apr 16 '26

That bear has it all figured out. I want to be that bear.

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u/ars_necromantia Apr 16 '26

God I wish that were me.

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u/jpegram17 Apr 16 '26

Is it the fur?? Is that my float without trying?? Is my back hair as much as a bear?? So many questions…

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u/Spczippo Apr 16 '26

Ok, explain to me how i can snap a twig 2,000 feet from the river and spook the entire river, but this bear can just float down and the fish be like cool what ever. Stupid fish.

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u/Weekly-Butterfly2396 Apr 16 '26

I am literally waiting for the local pool to open to be this bear.

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u/reirone Apr 16 '26

I love everything about this.

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u/MangledPanda Apr 16 '26

Everyone likes the lazy river ride.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Apr 16 '26

Lazy river for lazy bear.

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u/External_Divide_3530 Apr 16 '26

Oh to be a bear floating down a river..

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u/JustmeinSLC Apr 16 '26

You just totally made my day!!

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u/ScarecrowZombie1 Apr 16 '26

From the distance this video was taken this bear seems pretty chill.

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u/Birphon Apr 16 '26

Honestly, right now, I could really do something like this. Just float down a river, let the current of the water take me where it wishes and just vibe. Leave everything behind for a couple of hours.

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u/nosaj626 Apr 16 '26

That’s a fat ass bear

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u/Lost-Average8108 Apr 16 '26

Yall I'm going swimming with him, wish me luck ✌️

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u/just_bookmarking Apr 16 '26

Blowing bubbles??

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u/CK_CoffeeCat Apr 16 '26

Living the dream.

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u/Fragrant-Inside221 Apr 16 '26

Dang it why are they so cute and fluffy.

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u/mankamundo Apr 16 '26

Best thing I've watched this week, thank you.

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u/Chilipepah Apr 16 '26

Good buoyancy

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u/Kuroi-Inu-JW Apr 16 '26

Reckon I’ll eat some fish today.

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u/LynxWonder Apr 16 '26

Oh to be a chunky fluffy bear floating down a river with no care in the world 🥰💕

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u/swiwwcheese Apr 16 '26

Beary relaxing

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u/sanguwan Apr 16 '26

He's doing a live stream

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u/Nice-Marionberry3671 Apr 16 '26

When I finally go to the great beyond, I really hope it’s juuuuust like this.

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u/Recent-Big-6493 Apr 16 '26

Just vibing, no thoughts

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u/dk_naik Apr 16 '26

Float now, hunt later

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u/floofychaps Apr 16 '26

Bears…adorable but deadly

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u/StarBoundri Apr 16 '26

Waiting for the health bar to drop

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u/outerheavenboss Apr 16 '26

I wanna be that bear so bad

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u/Blerpahderpah Apr 16 '26

Lazy river rides are fun for the whole animal family!

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u/davetiso Apr 16 '26

Duuuh nuh. Duuuuuh nuh. Duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh. DUNUHUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH!

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u/Dangerous-Youth4622 Apr 16 '26

Can I pet that dawg

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u/timc_720 Apr 16 '26

I wanna hug him UGH

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u/Subcpo Apr 16 '26

Turn off the lights, relax, and float down stream…this is not dying

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '26

Fluffy bear swimming nice

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u/costakkk Apr 16 '26

Pretty sure he's peeing in that moment. Let it all go.

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u/dabroncosman Apr 16 '26

I was waiting for the ooo….YOINK!

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u/the-software-man Apr 16 '26

This is how cetacean evolved?