Bears

[toobfreak]

Who would ever be stupid enough to feed the bears though?

People going to parks do it all the time despite warnings not to. Other than that, a brown bear can rip a door right off a cabin unless specially built, then ransack your cabin, trailer, or whatever for the food you have.

So people can attract bears, not because they see YOU as food and would kill and eat you, but because they might associate people WITH having sources of food in the area they might like to eat.

For the most part, most bear attacks are to maul you and subdue you from being any further perceived threat to them, then they go away, but a bear has incredible strength and claws, a bear attack is never a good thing, a swipe from a bear is like getting hit by a car--- with claws as big as common nails.

 

[riseabovethis]

I'm pretty sure that the bear just wasn't hungry.




Wow, two bears at one time, that's pretty scary. Then again, like the first video that you posted that I was also thinking about, if you don't bother them I've heard that a bear is pretty docile and usually will just mind his or her own business. Unless it's a mama bear with her cubs.

In some documentary I watched a man went out on a hike and nearly died because he encountered a mama and her (three I think) cubs. It's an extremely dangerous situation to be in. Angry mothers when it comes to their kids aren't just known as Mama bears for no reason.




In Ohio we have black bears. When I was a kid one was wandering around the neighborhood. I never saw it though.




That's funny, for the Ohio guidelines you AREN'T supposed to climb trees and yeah I don't know where I heard about the playing dead thing. It doesn't seem to be the right approach.





I don't know as I haven't heard about that before but God bless you as well!!





Yeah, you're the one who actually inspired this topic from my virtual camping thread. It also surprised me to find out that Bear Spray doesn't work.

Black bears can climb trees. Adult grizzlies and brown bears can't climb much cause their to heavy. Polar bears can't.

 

[ChristisKing]

People going to parks do it all the time despite warnings not to. Other than that, a brown bear can rip a door right off a cabin unless specially built, then ransack your cabin, trailer, or whatever for the food you have.

So people can attract bears, not because they see YOU as food and would kill and eat you, but because they might associate people WITH having sources of food in the area they might like to eat.

For the most part, most bear attacks are to maul you and subdue you from being any further perceived threat to them, then they go away, but a bear has incredible strength and claws, a bear attack is never a good thing, a swipe from a bear is like getting hit by a car--- with claws as big as common nails.

Interesting, but what about black bears?

Black bears can climb trees. Adult grizzlies and brown bears can't climb much cause their to heavy. Polar bears can't.

Oh okay that makes more sense to me now since Ohio only has black bears and not Grizzly bears.

 

[toobfreak]

Interesting, but what about black bears?

Black bears are the smallest and most docile. They try to avoid people usually. If you gotta run into a bear, best it be a black bear.

Brown bears are bigger, stronger and meaner, but generally farther into the wilderness away from people.

You really don't want to meet up with a brown bear. Good chance a black bear will run from people if confronted, much better chance a brown bear attacking you if you surprise it.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Are you afraid to go out in your yard if you don't have your dogs with you?

Yes. Not really afraid, but vigilant. There have been a couple of close calls.
One time, the dogs had her up a tree and she shit wild raspberry shit all over the dogs. You have never smelled anything like it.

 

[ChristisKing]

Black bears are the smallest and most docile. They try to avoid people usually. If you gotta run into a bear, best it be a black bear.

Brown bears are bigger, stronger and meaner, but generally farther into the wilderness away from people.

You really don't want to meet up with a brown bear. Good chance a black bear will run from people if confronted, much better chance a brown bear attacking you if you surprise it.

I'm lucky that Ohio only has black bears in that case. Although any mama (or possibly even papa) bear probably would be dangerous with cubs.

 

[The Irish Ram]

I've heard that Ohio has bobcats believe it or not, but only in certain areas of it.

I've never seen one here, but we have lots of coyotes. And one black bear, here in the woods and up on the highway to the mall, he's been sighted everywhere.

 

[ChristisKing]

I've never seen one here, but we have lots of coyotes. And one black bear, here in the woods and up on the highway to the mall, he's been sighted everywhere.

Oh yeah that's right you're an Ohioan too and yeah I never saw one either, I just heard that they're around. Coyotes probably are our biggest problem when it comes to pets besides the traffic where I live. That's one of the biggest reasons that we keep our cat inside. Coyotes will feast on cats and small dogs if given the chance to.

 

[dblack]

Has anybody ever had any experience with them? I hike a lot, but thankfully I've never run into any of them. I heard mixed responses on what you're supposed to do if you ever run into a bear. One response is you're supposed to play dead. The other is you're supposed to raise your arms above your head to make yourself look bigger and make a lot of noise. So which is it? Or does either work?

We ran into one hiking a couple of years ago. Big old Rocky Mountain black bear, only about fifty feet away. We did the "make noise and look big" thing for a little while. It just stared at us for a what seemed like several minutes, and then wandered off looking for berries.

We get a lot of moose here too, which can be quite dangerous in their own right.

 

[The Irish Ram]

I wasn't here in Ohio when it happened, but the farmer next to us walked out of his house and couldn't believe his eyes. There was a monkey in a tree.
It had escaped from a zoo two states away.

 

[yidnar]

thats a baby .. or at least a very young juvenile ..

 

[ChristisKing]

thats a baby .. or at least a very young juvenile ..

I would have to say young juvenile because he (or she) looks big enough that he (or she) could easily eat me if he (or she) wanted to.

 

[yidnar]

Out on the mountain, we have a mama bear and her cubs in the yard nearly every day. Her cave is on the other side of the driveway. The only thing she's afraid of are the dogs.

stay away from those cubs !

 

[yidnar]

check out how fast and agile they are ! she dove through those barbed wire strands like a an olympic gymnast !

 

[ChristisKing]

stay away from those cubs !

I know. As I can't remember what documentary that I saw, but a man just barely survived being mauled by an angry mama bear.

 

[Thinker101]

Who would ever be stupid enough to feed the bears though?

Yikes, that would be me. When I was about 10, we went on vacation to Yellowstone. I thought it would be nice to had feed it a piece of bread. As I got closer the cubs ran up a tree, the mother was watching me and did a stiff legged grunt. My dad came running with an axe and chased it up a tree.

I've had a couple other bear encounters since then. Once in Yosemite, I was sleeping in the tent and heard a licking sound. Didn't think much of it, then heard the picnic table creak from a pretty heavy weight. I had to see what it was. Unzipped the tent enough to stick my head out. The bear was at the picnic table and staring at me. Hell, now I have to do something. Grabbed a couple pans, threw open the zipper on the tent and started yelling and banging the pan...in my underwear. The bear took off.

 

[egp320i]

Has anybody ever had any experience with them? I hike a lot, but thankfully I've never run into any of them. I heard mixed responses on what you're supposed to do if you ever run into a bear. One response is you're supposed to play dead. The other is you're supposed to raise your arms above your head to make yourself look bigger and make a lot of noise. So which is it? Or does either work?

never ran across a bear hiking/hunting
brother lives in the country, has security cams and caught mom and two cubs wandering through
they did not damage/disturb anything.....just moving along somewhere better

This was spring, if later summer, huge raspberry patch, they would have stopped for snacks, I would

 

[Rambunctious]

I took my kids to a national park in California to camp out... This was years ago when they were young... as we checked in the rangers gave me a slingshot to defend an attack from a bear...
We turned around and went to Disneyland...

 

[yidnar]

I would have to say young juvenile because he (or she) looks big enough that he (or she) could easily eat me if he (or she) wanted to.

lol ! yeah .. but they get a lot bigger ! below is film star Bart the Bear with his trainer and human companion Doug Seus.

 

[ChristisKing]

Yikes, that would be me.

Oops sorry about that my bad.

never ran across a bear hiking/hunting
brother lives in the country, has security cams and caught mom and two cubs wandering through
they did not damage/disturb anything.....just moving along somewhere better

We have a wildlife webcam at our house and we usually catch the deer, raccoons, skunks, and opossums, but one night a coyote was in our driveway.

I took my kids to a national park in California to camp out... This was years ago when they were young... as we checked in they gave me a slingshot to defend an attack from a bear...
We turned around and went to Disneyland...

Umm yeah, I can definitely see why.

lol ! yeah .. but they get a lot bigger ! below is filom star Bart the Bear with his trainer and human companion ..


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Isn't that Gentle Ben?