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A group of tourists managed to escape an encounter with a large grizzly bear in Alaska simply by keeping their cool, and not screaming and freaking out. Seriously, check out the video below.
Well, the current guidance for how to deal with a passing bear that isn't focused on you is to make sure the bear is aware of your presence, stand your ground, and don't make sudden moves that might be interpreted as a challenge or threat. Let the bear proceed. The elderly griz in the video is obviously habituated to the presence of humans in that area...which is very different from food-conditioned. The latter is bad news for everyone involved.
Last edited by Parnassia; 08-15-2021 at 01:50 PM..
The vast majority of bear encounters feature no actual physical contact between human and bear. This is normal. It takes a lot of foolish behavior and/or a ton of bad luck to end up getting whacked around by a bear. The fact that ~700 brown bears (and some number of black bears, too) share Yellowstone National Park with 4,000,000+ annual visitors and the average number of bear attacks/year is one tells the story.
These tourists got lucky and should have shut up instead of continuing to talk to it. He was aware of their presence. No need to keep drawing his attention.
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