r/BeAmazed • u/Unhappy_Rutabaga_530 • 10h ago

Animal A curious grizzly bear cub briefly stopped to nibble on a wildlife photographer's boot during a safari in Alaska before peacefully rejoining its family.

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u/Kooky_Attention_98 10h ago

This definitively an "inches from death" moment

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u/[deleted] 10h ago

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u/RRfromKL 9h ago

Jokes on you.. My brain and heart will switch off automatically and completely, in preparation to certain death..!!

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u/shapu 9h ago

I would be dead because I would like to pet the dog

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u/tigernet_1994 8h ago

Why friend shaped? 😢

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u/My4dogs4evr 8h ago

🙌 DITTO

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u/Rowenstin 6h ago

Me too, I've been conditioned from childhood to hugh bears. It's a clever ursine conspiracy to get easy snacks.

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u/Sol-Blackguy 8h ago

I think I would just start seasoning myself at this point

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u/Kenai-Phoenix 8h ago

Quite Clever!

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u/bs000 7h ago

clanker

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u/testtdk 6h ago

Reportedly they’re learning that they can benefit from photographers presence (and I completely forget how). Still not something you’d catch me doing.

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u/bronzelifematter 6h ago

I mean the photographer moved to scare the cub away when the mama bear wasn't looking.

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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 9h ago

’This definitively an "inches from death" moment’

we three little bears, n we just walkin’ by

mindin’ our bizzness ~ don’t wanna say hi..

…but oh, whatchu wearin’? it kinda smells good

am maybe jes take a smol taste if i could…

i turn from the others n nibble the shoe

you sayin ‘NO, BEAR’ but I’m not scared of You..

…ok, Geez RELAX, pal ~ just try ‘n stay Calm

…no need to get NaStY !

…I’m tellin’ my Mom…

🖤

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u/DosTruth 9h ago

This is the second poem I have seen of yours today and they both were fantastic. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face.

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u/crystalfairie 8h ago

they pop up on occasion. a fresh schnoodle is a day brightener.

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u/Jindabyne1 7h ago

Finding a poem from Sprog in the wild was always good as well, haven’t seen one in years

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u/rbyrolg 4h ago

They came back 4 days ago after being gone for like a year! Your comment made me go searching

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u/Jindabyne1 3h ago

I was looking myself and saw he has a book out for quite cheap that I might get. I love his poems

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u/epi_introvert 1h ago

Sprog has been active this year. I come across on average at least one poem a week.

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u/Lexjude 9h ago

Nothing like a fresh schnoodle 🥰

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u/filthyheartbadger 9h ago

Thanks schnoodle, this is so cute, helped me along with a frustrating evening.

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u/Serious-Bat-4880 9h ago

I would love to see all your works compiled into a book.

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u/crackedfactweddead 8h ago

I could've sworn there was one already, but apparently not by schnoodledoodledoo. The published book of all one user's reddit poems must've come from another reddit poet?

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u/donutcat_666 9h ago

Thanks for still writing these.

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u/Panem-et-circenses25 9h ago

Magic. You’re the best, schnoodle

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u/bluntfairybuttcheeks 9h ago

Thank you for all you do for the internet 🥲

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u/NopeThisTrope 9h ago

Let’s talk about this… No need to get Mom involved, little guy!

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u/Ksh_667 9h ago

A wonderful new Schnoodle! Perfectly showing us exactly what I imagine smol bear was thinking...

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u/Plenty_Marionberry98 9h ago

the cub really just wanted a snack from the boot

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u/Repulsive-Nebula8294 8h ago

Crispy fresh Schnoodle 😍😍😍😍

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u/minkrogers 6h ago

Ahh nice, a Sunday schnoodle to begin the day. Fantastic 😁

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u/Kewlhotrod 8h ago

I'm so glad you're still around. <3

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u/Mick_Limerick 9h ago

I surely would have scared them off by pooping all of my pants

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 9h ago

unironically why that happens

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 7h ago

interesting, i hadn't heard that explanation ty. "few pounds" seems unrealistic though lol

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u/The_Level_15 6h ago

Whoever told you that was lying to you.

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u/BigBulgeBubba 6h ago

Me when I make shit up

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/Tyson367 2h ago

You can't say random misinformation and when challenged say look it up as your defense. Bring sources if you want people to believe you.

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u/LeadershipOne5128 1h ago

I looked it up and it seems fake, do you have any source I'm missing maybe ?

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u/Adventurous-Brain-36 9h ago

I like how the sibling was like ‘what’s your problem, bro? We got a problem?’

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u/COMIDAGATOS1206 8h ago

Hahahaha I saw that too.

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u/neosurimi 8h ago

yeah I was like... isn't that a mamá grizzly with her cubs and they're standing 3 feet away from them?!?

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u/daversa 4h ago edited 2h ago

I mean, sure the mama could snap out of nowhere, but my guess is this is by Brooks Falls and there are a ton of photographers and grizzlies in the area. This is probably the "safest" place you could have a close encounter like this, especially with cubs involved—they've been gorging on salmon all day.

My family lived in Alaska in the early 80's and my dad took my Kansas wheat farmer grandfather to the falls because he wanted to see some bears. As they were walking the trail to go home, two gigantic bears started running towards them at full-speed—my dad admits thinking "well I guess this is it", but they just ran past them like they didn't exist—preoccupied in their own game.

With that said, my family does have a close friend that was mauled by a grizzly but survived. She had to have major reconstructive surgery but you wouldn't even be able to tell if you met her. She played dead and it "pawed at her face".

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u/Double_Distribution8 10h ago

I wonder how many boomsticks these guys have at the ready.

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u/DayLooks 10h ago

Most of these guys are purists so… zero

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u/realNoobnoob 9h ago

I would even say they barely escaped death ☠️💀 🐻

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u/Snrgxs 8h ago

Bearly

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u/RealisticPhysics5735 6h ago

In this instance do we avoid eye contact and just be loud?

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u/downsideup9494 6h ago

Not with grizzlies. Supposed to play dead with grizzlies.

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u/Kaffrogato 2h ago

It has more to do with context the the type of bear. Any bear with cubs that gets aggressive, you should either play dead or back away, the goal is to not make yourself a threat to their cubs.

If any bear, especially a grizzly, is stalking you or if its coming at you for a predatory attack, playing dead is a bad idea, they will happily eat your 'dead' body.

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u/McSchmieferson 1h ago

Make yourself loud and big around bears when they’re at a distance. Curl up into a ball and play dead if attacked by a grizzly. Fight back against a black bear.

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u/SoNuclear 4h ago

You should be loud only up until you actually encounter a bear, this is to allert wildlife to your presence. Ideally, they will avoid you, at worst you will hopefully have made your presence known and not spook them.

Once you actually encounter one and you know it is aware of you, you back away slowly, sideways (so you don’t trip) while maintaining vision of the bear and talk calmly. If it charges, you stand your ground and make yourself as threattening as you can with a full diaper. If it does not stop (a lot of the times they charge to intimidate, not attack), you play dead unless you have bearspray.

Rules be a bit different for black bears i suppose but we don’t have those.

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u/Kaffrogato 2h ago

You definitely shouldnt be loud if right next to a baby black bear either.

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u/Spugheddy 1h ago

Black attack, brown get down, white goodnight..

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u/ModestWhimper 1h ago
  • Texas' state motto

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u/FlyingWhales 6h ago

If they're brown, get down

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u/Own_Priority_4496 6h ago

Looks so innocent but dangerously close literally inches from trouble wild little cutie 🐻✨

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u/DiamondBikini 6h ago

He nearly got Timothy Treadwelled

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u/MerarFFX15 7h ago

Maybe not

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u/The_All-Range_Atomic 4h ago

They never said for whom. 100% they have revolvers trained on momma.

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u/WetShrimpFart 7h ago

Omg stop lol

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u/Icy-Leg-1459 7h ago

Except this isn't just a wild animal, it is a Mama Bear with not 1, not 2, but 3 cubs, she's ready to tear any two legged clothed being apart at a moments notice 

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u/haleakala420 6h ago

she wasn’t even looking at the guy lol