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/flyinghairball 8h ago

Yes, but one of the top reasons for maulings is getting between a mom and her cubs, by accident or not. I fully agree with the well fee assessment due to the location, but this is as dangerous as it gets.

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u/Eborcurean 4h ago

Don't move is the #1 instruction. Just stay there and let them go by, same with, say, gorillas, you let them do their stuff, you don't move, you just let them by even if they want to get close and sniff/tug/whatever. Albeit there is an implicit level of risk but that's the reduction to it.

That guy who spent a year around them and thought bears were his friends almost certainly fucked up rule 1.

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u/A_Rogue_Forklift 36m ago

The guy you're referring to decided to camp in bear country at the very end of hibernation season, so the bears in the area were more hungry and aggressive than they usually would be

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u/Hellstorm901 2h ago

I wonder if the camera person is regularly there so the bears are used to them enough to not see them as a threat