Bloody dangerous place Canada...
the bears are huge and very curious...see what happens when a huge brown bear
decides to take a closer look at a film shoot for a washing
machine...
CLICK HERE or http://www.youtube.com/embed/eryxAcsTcOA?rel=0
CLICK HERE or http://www.youtube.com/embed/eryxAcsTcOA?rel=0
I thought dumb and dumber was only in USA.
If you want to read about a persistent bear and an even more persistent person, you need go no further than reading our own Joyce Reiss's account of the bear who invaded her mobile home trailer this past summer. It's in the October issue of the Reporter, page B2. There were four episodes in all. In the first, when the bear breaks through the screen door to get some food, Joyce screams--and does what? Goes for her camera to take a picture! Twice more when she is not home, the bear breaks in, getting more disruptive each time. In the final encounter, the bear is looking in her window, she goes outside (!) and stares him down, and he hightails it. Granted, Joyce's bear was a black bear and not one of the very dangerous brown bears, but no bear is predictable. Joyce wrote her article when she was still up in MA and said "Looking forward to returning to CV where we have only raccoons, ducks and the occasional alligator." The title of her article is “My Summer with Yogi.”
ReplyDeleteThanks Lanny and Joyce. If the extra-smart CT bears know where refrigerators live I think you are in trouble. In Alaska we were told to shout 'Ho Bear' and wave our arms so grizzlies knew we were people not bears. I did not have to test that.
ReplyDeleteGrizzlies are very unpredictable. From what I've read, no matter what kind of bear it is, it's usually best to back away slowly, but do NOT run. It may help, they say, to try to appear larger than you are, which may be what extending your arms accomplishes. I don't think grizzlies can climb trees well, so IF there's a climbable tree at hand and you can get up it (big question marks), this might work. Black bears, if I remember correctly, can climb trees. I know the cubs can. Never get between a mother bear and cubs if you can help it. One time when hiking in the Green Mountains, we came across a hiker who had earlier come across a mother bear and cubs, the mother and the cubs going to different side of the trail. The hiker knew enough to not proceed and began backtracking. When he met our hiking group of about seven, it was a half-hour later. With our large group and making a lot of noise, we figured it was okay to go ahead and did. The bears were long gone. If a bear really goes after you, they say it's best to roll into a ball, face down, protecting your neck and back of your head with your hands. No one can outrun a bear.
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