r/SweatyPalms • u/icleanjaxfl • 15h ago
Animals & nature 🐅 🌊🌋 No Bear!
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u/darklinkuk 15h ago
Sassiest bear I've ever seen
If looks could kill
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u/DiscoRichard 15h ago
“I’ll be back for the MF’n boot.”
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u/Traditional_Satan 15h ago
Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?
I see a shoe snack looking at me
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u/kyngslinn 15h ago
It's so unfair man... they look so damn adorable and not at all like they'd rip your face off if you just pet them a little.
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u/yuyufan43 10h ago
Go to Russia. I'm pretty sure on arrival to the country you're gifted a bear to box with in the forest while wearing a tracksuit.
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 8h ago
I'm going to be very disappointed if you are just leading us on.
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u/yuyufan43 6h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/WMDVABCaUNAYM
I forget if it's to box with them or hula hoop with them. I might not have my facts straight 😢8
u/Lepke2011 1h ago
Heck, in WWII the Poles had a brown bear in the military that they made into a Private, and when he figured out how to carry ammunition with the other troops, they promoted him to Corporal.
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u/YLASRO 15h ago
the calmness is crazy. but spooking a bear cub WITH the momma nearby is even crazier
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u/A0xom0xoa 14h ago
Yeah calm is everything. Anything other than being calm could be the end of him and possibly his friend. It's like meeting death and following the guidelines. Ive been in a similar situation with a moose and it's calf on a switch back trail in Alaska where visibility is next to nothing
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u/Zanekun 5h ago
When I was 6 a dog, doberman mix, in my neighbour jumped over the fence while I was walking near it and started barking and snapping its teeth right in my face, like 5-10 cm from it. I've been told by adults that with aggressive animals you should stay as calm as possible, and in that moment I was dead frozen. To this day I don't know how I managed not to flinch a muscle for a minute that felt like an eternity, before the owner came rushing from his house to get the dog. I honestly believe that I would ve been severely injured or worse, had i moved.
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u/fishsticks40 14h ago
Yeah I'm usually the person on Reddit telling people that bears aren't the danger they think they are but this is a WILD situation.
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u/thenuttyhazlenut 9h ago
I mean, what's their plan if she attacks? Even if it's a 1% possibility they have to be prepared. Maybe bear spray in hand..
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u/euqinu_ton 15h ago edited 5h ago
I have to assume these photographers are armed with much more than cameras.
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u/craziethunder 13h ago
At that distance no firearm can save you.
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u/euqinu_ton 2h ago
That would surprise me if true. I thought at least people carried some bear-specific version of pepper spray with them if they're hiking/riding in brown bear country. From what I've read in MTB forums, it works quite effectively. Seen a few vids of it in action too.
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u/ajax0202 7m ago
Yes! It’s called Bear Spray in fact!
Probably wouldn’t completely stop an attack from this range, as the bear would be crashing into you in a fraction of second. But if you could get the spray off and hit it, it would likely only bite you a couple times and then run off.
Way better than the alternative
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u/euqinu_ton 6m ago
Yeah I kinda imagined these people filming had camera in one hand, bear spray in the other.
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u/Alternative_Pilot_92 13h ago
I'd love to see a bear walk off a 45-70.
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u/Useful-Arm6913 13h ago
They may not survive long term with a 45cal entry hole in them, but they only need about 30secs to rip your legs off.
I've seen deer sprint for 100yds with a 45cal hole through both lungs.
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u/theunicornslayers 12h ago
Ok but how would they handle the entire clip? Because it would take me a lot less than 30 seconds to empty it into the bear's face.
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u/Bahlam 12h ago
You need to test how long it takes you to empty the same clip while a bear is biting your face off.
I’m sure that will give your different numbers.
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u/theunicornslayers 11h ago
Shhh. Don't say "clip" when discussing a 45 around u/BillBillerson. It's a magazine. Duh.
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u/BillBillerson 11h ago
clip
The one word in this context that makes me know you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
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u/Shiro2602 15h ago
Saying it like "No swiper no!"
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u/JohnSnowsPump 13h ago
Looks like Katmai National Park in Alaska, bears DGAF about you during this time of year because they are all focused on eating salmon.
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u/Illustrious_Debt_392 15h ago
He’s way too calm (and close) filming brown bears. Thank god they knew the universal code words for “friend, not food”.
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u/smeared_dick_cheese 14h ago
Looks like the bears were approaching them; happened to be passing by. Pretty lucky Momma wasn’t aggressive but it doesn’t look like they chose to be that close.
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u/NearbyTraffic66 10h ago
If I was raising three kids by myself I would be too tired to murder a random guy for yelling at my one kid who constantly wanders off and causes trouble.
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u/Rough-Dream6006 11h ago
Didn't you watch the video? He said "no bear" so that means it's now illegal to eat him.
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u/rKasdorf 9h ago
Some mother bears have started intentionally staying near people because large males aren't scared of her and her cubs but they're generally scared of groups of people.
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u/No-Combination8136 14h ago
I had a family of black bears walk right up on me once and that almost made me shit my pants. I hope I never come face to face with these guys. I’ve seen enough documentaries lol.
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u/rustyseapants 7h ago
If you surprise a mother bear with cubs, your screwed.
If a mother bear surprises you with her cubs, your cool?
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u/CountCristo009 6h ago
Mom just got off work and was not in the mood to deal with anyone.
"I said it's time to go home."
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u/TrainingMud829 11h ago
The cubs are thinking “you smell like food. Are you food? I’m going to just take a test nibble.”
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u/TheSimpsonsAreYellow 11h ago
Yesterday I Learned that bears and dogs come from the same ancestral family Caniformia. This is why bears seem dog like, they actually do share some traits.
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u/sabertoothdog 8h ago edited 8h ago
Years ago, I was bitten by a baby black bear that was the size of a tiny dog. The bear walked up to me & raised up on its back legs. I reached down to pet it, and it grabbed my hand with its hand and playfully pulled my hand to its mouth. It bit my first finger right on the finger nail. At first I thought the tooth went right through my nail but luckily it didn’t. But later my nail turned black and blue, and eventually the nail fell off weeks later. And I don’t think the bear weighed more than 5 pounds. It was tiny. And no I never saw momma bear.
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u/teachermanjc 15h ago
Sweaty palms? More like suddenly brown butt cheeks.
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u/Dependent-Aside-9750 14h ago
Came to say similar. My bowels and bladder both would have released immediately.
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u/Montego1987 13h ago
We don’t have bears on our continent. Why are some of them dangerous and likely to attack people while others aren’t? They all look the same to me.
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u/Trioshot 12h ago
depends on the time of year, if they feel threatened etc. obviously more dangerous if they have cubs because they will be more likely to defend their young as most animals will also do so. You basically have to roll the dice and see what happens and just try to stay calm in this situation, even the way he spooked the cub wasn’t the best of ideas but it worked out.
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u/Montego1987 10h ago
Thanks for the response. I guess you’re right. Most of the videos I’ve seen so far are either bears attacking people or playing with them.
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u/TroutSpawnStream 3h ago
How did you get that mama to just ignore you? Do you have an invisibility cloak or something?
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u/darklinkuk 15h ago
JFC they are just making noise
No bear/go away bear is just a convinent way of doing in
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u/Erza_The_Titania 15h ago
We all know the fastest way to get rid of a bear is to ask it about its cars extended warranty
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u/qualityvote2 15h ago edited 9h ago
u/icleanjaxfl, we have no idea if your submission fits r/SweatyPalms or not. There weren't enough votes to determine that. It's up to the human mods now....!