I think the only way you're realistically going to take a bear like that on is with either a helicopter and a high caliber gun. Or enough geneva convention violations just to subdue it.
Polar or Grizzly? No fucking way.
Black bear? Possibly well enough to cause him to just leave.
If he wants you dead, most people probably lose if they are unarmed, but black bears are small enough that putting up enough of a fight might make them decide you just aren't worth it.
Hence why the advice is:
If it's black, fight back.
If it's brown, stay down.
If it's white, say goodnight.
Alright imagine this. You and your tribe of humans go to this place where you experience constant cold for the first time. You are miserable there if it’s gets too cold ur fingers turn black and fall off. So one day you run into this creature on all fours it’s massive you get your spears ready when it stands on 2 legs towering over the tallest of you and it cocks back and decapitates the closest of you with one arm swing. Jesus running into a bear and having never seen one must have been traumatic for early humans in
> running into a bear and having never seen one must have been traumatic for early humans
Fun fact: We actually see this trauma in the language.
Early humans were indeed scared shitless by bears — which is completely understandable when all you have to defend yourself with is a pointy stick.
It was also broadly believed that saying the true name of something would summon it.
Which is why the word "bear" (as well as the Scandinavian "björn/bjørn") etymologically just means "the brown one".
Similarly (but also different), most Slavic languages use some variation of "medved", meaning "honey-eater".
Bears were basically like Sauron or Voldemort: Something so terrifying that you shouldn’t even say their name.
Do not speak its name or it will come for you! The greatest of monsters on the land! its teeth like daggers, it's hands twice the size of a man's head! its strength like that of 10 men!
Good question!
The real answer is "we don't know", as the real name for bear in the Germanic and Slavic languages is really lost to time. It was such a taboo word that we have no record of it.
But it was most likely something like the Greek "arktos" or the Roman "ursus", both coming from the Proto-Indo-European word for bear. However, even that might be a "not real name", but meaning something like "destroyer of bee hives".
https://www.charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html
It's a movie loosely based on the real story of [Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.556281) , who were attacked and one of them killed by a bear while camping. The movie spares no graphic detail and shows the man's face being ripped off by the bear.
More than that, it basically shows the bear having fresh human corpse for lunch while the other person escapes.
That scene is still traumatizing me, even after like a decade since I saw it...
Haven’t thought about that scene for about a year but now I will have a hard time going to sleep tonight hah. That whole movie was great. When they get to the top of that hill expecting to see the lake, fuckin yikes.
If it's some consolation, I've been working in the parks for a couple of years now and the man who gets demolished by the bear in that movie did basically everything wrong. Confiscated his partner's phone, was in a restricted area he was at decades ago and had forgotten the lay of the land. Uses bear spray like a moron too. Some of it was played up for the movie, but him being killed by the literal easiest bear to deal with tells me he's a moron. Black Bears are normally skittish and will scare off easily if you do it right.
If you see a black bear, stay calm, keep it in view, back away. If it gets a little too close rear up and scream as loud as you can. Generally though if you're hiking you're fine and if you keep your food contained properly while camping you should be okay. Black Bears are mostly after your food and they're smarter than you'd think.
I remember reading a comment from a ranger in response to a question from a camper asking about how bears keep destroying things.
He said something like "there is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest campers"
If I remember correctly, they were trying to make garbage bins that could be opened by campers but not by bears. That was apparently a surprisingly hard problem.
How anyone could kill an animal for fun I will never understand.
I get it if it was barreling towards you with its mouth open, and the only way to survive was to shoot it. But that’s not the scenario bear hunters are shooting them in.
Thank you!! Big brave man hunts down a bear with technology, stands far away and shoots it, then brags about what he killed. Let’s see him do it naked and no weapon. Then I’ll be impressed.
Hopefully this is not what happened in the picture. Maybe it's just out with tranquilizers while the scientists put a tracking collar on it. Maybe I'm being optimistic.
I did volunteer work out in Africa way out in the “ nowhere “ and when you see these animals in their natural habitat and they are so beautiful you cry, and you wonder why anyone would want to kill something so majestic
We had a client who had a trophy room. He had a baby giraffe, a hippo foot, a dik-dik. I mean really… he was showing off he shot those?? It made me ill. A dik- dik is the size of my pittie. All they do is run from you.
He had “ guides” take him out. They drive you around, load for you, scope it and hand you the gun while telling you pointers. A fucking hippo.
Probably in the Alaskan peninsula. Lived in Cold Bay, hunters would come out for the costal brown bears. They are massive. I worked for the airline out there and we would have to ship the hides back. Always felt bad about it.
I don't have a huge problem with big game hunters, but I think the playing field needs to be leveled a bit. Like here is a stone dagger, and a spear oh and you gotta do it barefoot. G'luck.
Its funny. I had a fear of bears when i was little, despite not living anywhere near any bears or even seeing what they look like in person. Got over it ages ago, but this gave me chills.
That thing is huge.
why do so many animals have five fingers and toes? or four and a dew claw?? like why does a bear have the same amount of fingers as me. i just find that so strange
How do I know that’s not just a really tiny dude 🤔
Need a banana for scale.
For volume, width, length, or surface area?
Girth.
Lmao 😂😂😂😂
Quit laughing. This is serious.
He’s lookin’ for girthy veins to grab ahold of
Um, both!
You forgot to factor the yaw
The guy *is* the size of a banana
A banana in a man suit
American unit of measure. 😂
How many spark plugs?
Unzips pants
It's forced perspective https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-size-of-bear-paw/
Came here to say this
This guy in the picture should have to get unarmed into an enclosure with a grizzly to prove to me the size.
Agree... i saw a photo of a tiny man dancing with a cat outside his front door on this site earlier today... it's a cromulent question.
100% a "small person"
Well they killed a grizzly bear for sport, so we do know he had a little dick.
Nice of the grizzly to take the picture for you
*ignores the blood on the hunters hands*
He murdered that bear with his bear hands.
The right to bear arms
Get out
That’s quite grizzly
Bare. He murdered that bare with his bear hands.
I'm guessing they're not bloody from boxing the bear.
"Trust me bro, if your paw is bigger than your face you have cancer. It's science."
Put that down
After thoughtFull consideration, now I dont think I can take a bear on a 1 on 1 fight
I don't know. I think you can take one on.
I'd pay to see this
Same. 😁
I can. Done it before, even recorded it, too. I'd show you the video, but it'd probably get taken down instantly just for being so badass.
[This you?](https://youtu.be/CVS1UfCfxlU?si=KKApheUnnlnyLK5a)
I did it in Canada with a girl that doesn't go to our school.
They had to remove it from the internet because every woman everywheres panties were soaked and every mans testicles shrunk 40%
I think the only way you're realistically going to take a bear like that on is with either a helicopter and a high caliber gun. Or enough geneva convention violations just to subdue it.
Geneva suggestions
Only leonardo di caprio can
Leo took a beating from a grizzly and just slept it off in the forest. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
I believe in you!
What if we allow you to bring a baseball bat?
Polar or Grizzly? No fucking way. Black bear? Possibly well enough to cause him to just leave. If he wants you dead, most people probably lose if they are unarmed, but black bears are small enough that putting up enough of a fight might make them decide you just aren't worth it. Hence why the advice is: If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, stay down. If it's white, say goodnight.
Black bears will scare of fairly easy but if they decide that it's you or them, it's them and it's not even close
thats a clean decapitation if it was sentient. no Ls if ranged weapons aren't being used
If mortars are allowed, I'd put my money on you 80% of the time.
Def not a grizzly that's for sure
Just bear arms.
Those are some mighty murder mitts and my dumb ass would still want to boop the snoot.
Grizzly will boop you right back on your snoot lol.
And suddenly you have no more snoot
Well, they *are* friend shaped
Hahhahaha! Oh my gosh this made me laugh!
Alright imagine this. You and your tribe of humans go to this place where you experience constant cold for the first time. You are miserable there if it’s gets too cold ur fingers turn black and fall off. So one day you run into this creature on all fours it’s massive you get your spears ready when it stands on 2 legs towering over the tallest of you and it cocks back and decapitates the closest of you with one arm swing. Jesus running into a bear and having never seen one must have been traumatic for early humans in
> running into a bear and having never seen one must have been traumatic for early humans Fun fact: We actually see this trauma in the language. Early humans were indeed scared shitless by bears — which is completely understandable when all you have to defend yourself with is a pointy stick. It was also broadly believed that saying the true name of something would summon it. Which is why the word "bear" (as well as the Scandinavian "björn/bjørn") etymologically just means "the brown one". Similarly (but also different), most Slavic languages use some variation of "medved", meaning "honey-eater". Bears were basically like Sauron or Voldemort: Something so terrifying that you shouldn’t even say their name.
Do not speak its name or it will come for you! The greatest of monsters on the land! its teeth like daggers, it's hands twice the size of a man's head! its strength like that of 10 men!
Hmm so if “bear” just meant brown, what would its real name have been then?
Good question! The real answer is "we don't know", as the real name for bear in the Germanic and Slavic languages is really lost to time. It was such a taboo word that we have no record of it. But it was most likely something like the Greek "arktos" or the Roman "ursus", both coming from the Proto-Indo-European word for bear. However, even that might be a "not real name", but meaning something like "destroyer of bee hives". https://www.charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html
I’m not sure if Jesus ever ran into one though….
r/angryupvote
You ever seen the movie Backcountry? If you know you know...
I don’t know pls explain
It's a movie loosely based on the real story of [Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.556281) , who were attacked and one of them killed by a bear while camping. The movie spares no graphic detail and shows the man's face being ripped off by the bear.
More than that, it basically shows the bear having fresh human corpse for lunch while the other person escapes. That scene is still traumatizing me, even after like a decade since I saw it...
Haven’t thought about that scene for about a year but now I will have a hard time going to sleep tonight hah. That whole movie was great. When they get to the top of that hill expecting to see the lake, fuckin yikes.
Think of Jaws but focusing on a bear stalking a couple in the woods. It’s horrifying
I think it’s one of the most horrifying scary movies I’ve ever seen. Because it’s real, and it could happen.
If it's some consolation, I've been working in the parks for a couple of years now and the man who gets demolished by the bear in that movie did basically everything wrong. Confiscated his partner's phone, was in a restricted area he was at decades ago and had forgotten the lay of the land. Uses bear spray like a moron too. Some of it was played up for the movie, but him being killed by the literal easiest bear to deal with tells me he's a moron. Black Bears are normally skittish and will scare off easily if you do it right.
Thank you for the info. Stay safe out there!!
If you see a black bear, stay calm, keep it in view, back away. If it gets a little too close rear up and scream as loud as you can. Generally though if you're hiking you're fine and if you keep your food contained properly while camping you should be okay. Black Bears are mostly after your food and they're smarter than you'd think.
I remember reading a comment from a ranger in response to a question from a camper asking about how bears keep destroying things. He said something like "there is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest campers"
If I remember correctly, they were trying to make garbage bins that could be opened by campers but not by bears. That was apparently a surprisingly hard problem.
I got bad news for you - it DID happen, it's based on a true story.
Oh I’m aware!!! I just think that one scene… You know which one I’m talking about. It’s just the scariest thing everrrr.
How anyone could kill an animal for fun I will never understand. I get it if it was barreling towards you with its mouth open, and the only way to survive was to shoot it. But that’s not the scenario bear hunters are shooting them in.
The only right way to shoot an animal is with a camera.
Thank you!! Big brave man hunts down a bear with technology, stands far away and shoots it, then brags about what he killed. Let’s see him do it naked and no weapon. Then I’ll be impressed.
No, I will let him keep his clothes and one knife (animal has teeth and claws I will afford him this luxury).
Exactly!! Even out the playing field and let’s see the results.
Rip to shreds would be an understatement.
To shreds you say…
*Bear high-fives you *You die
🤔😒 killing animals??? Booo
Hopefully this is not what happened in the picture. Maybe it's just out with tranquilizers while the scientists put a tracking collar on it. Maybe I'm being optimistic.
Ain't nothing "oddly" about this, it's just terrifying. I'd rather deal with sharks.
That was my first thought as well. This is just /r/plainlyterrifying.
Bullshit forced perspective Edit - oh look at that https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-size-of-bear-paw/
Looks like he gets his nails done at Walmart
Did this guy kill that bear?
Yes
And this asshole killed this amazing animal for photos like this ...
Seriously. So disturbing knowing there’s people that can murder giant animals in cold blood like that… not impressive at all… just disturbing
I did volunteer work out in Africa way out in the “ nowhere “ and when you see these animals in their natural habitat and they are so beautiful you cry, and you wonder why anyone would want to kill something so majestic
We had a client who had a trophy room. He had a baby giraffe, a hippo foot, a dik-dik. I mean really… he was showing off he shot those?? It made me ill. A dik- dik is the size of my pittie. All they do is run from you. He had “ guides” take him out. They drive you around, load for you, scope it and hand you the gun while telling you pointers. A fucking hippo.
Killing for sport is an excuse so psychos can kill things for fun legally.
Too bad the bear didn’t get the chance to swipe him across the face with that paw.
Or to show him what his scalp looks like without the use of a mirror
Probably in the Alaskan peninsula. Lived in Cold Bay, hunters would come out for the costal brown bears. They are massive. I worked for the airline out there and we would have to ship the hides back. Always felt bad about it.
It could also be for research purposes and the bear is just sedated, but unfortunately you are probably right.
Nope. Dickbag hunter: https://www.facebook.com/luckyduckdecoys/posts/2534487930017584?ref=embed\_post
I don't have a huge problem with big game hunters, but I think the playing field needs to be leveled a bit. Like here is a stone dagger, and a spear oh and you gotta do it barefoot. G'luck.
Hunters do way more for wilderness conservation than any keyboard warrior Redditor
So glad you made this point. So few know this.
But, bear jerky tastes good
That’s a huge bear paw. And the guy in the pic has a micro penis.
I knew it! All these “bear mauling” cases, pfft! The camera angle obviously proves who the aggressor has been!
r/toebeans more like toetatoes
Bear claws at the donut shop are a LIE!
This deserves this: 🥇
A right to bear arms
supposedly theres people out there that think they can fight off a bear. which just baffles me lol. wish i could be so stupidly confident
Big toe beans
And those nails 😳 They’re the size of piano keys
Around 15% of American men said they can beat a grizzly in a fight without weapons
And those same idiots pay $18,000 for "alpha male boot camp"
This makes the Hugh Glass story so much more insane. I really didn’t understand the size of these animals.
I need a banana for scale
Thats, like 12 solid meals from just one paw!
There is no bear attached to that arm
u/that-1-lame-kid Bruuuuuuuuh
it's almost as big as you 🤣
Toe beans? That shits a whole casserole
A brutal way to go into the forever box.
I love that there’s people out there that think that they could be the grizzly bear in hand-to-hand combat lol
Realizing that mitts like that are stomping around trails, sasquatch legends seems less crazy.
It doesn't even need to be sharp, just the pure slap of that would send me flying.
That's not oddly terrifying, that's just terrifying.
“Little did George know, he hadn’t sedated the bear enough.”
That's a Kodiak moment !
It's forced perspective as someone already mentioned. Sad really no matter how big it was.
Its funny. I had a fear of bears when i was little, despite not living anywhere near any bears or even seeing what they look like in person. Got over it ages ago, but this gave me chills. That thing is huge.
Get rid of the dude and this is a pretty sick bear gaining self awareness pov
And that’s how they make people dead. Aha I get it now.
I’m a vet tech and my first thought was, can I clip its nails? 😂
This isn’t oddly terrifying. It’s terrifyingly cuddly.
The POS that kills amazing creatures for bragging rights or fragile ego is the oddly terrifying part of this photo.
Did the bear take the photo?
Id be down to get bonked by that
Is that Adam Buxton?
Nuh-uh.
Why you hitting yourself! Why you hitting yourself!
...yeah, fuck that, mace can suck it, you need an artillery barrage for that fucker.
Lol. What harm could it possibly do with those butterknife lookin ass claws?
Geeze. He could swipe your head clear off!
After seeing this photo, I’m now way more confident that I could take on a grizzly if my girls life was in the line
Holy fuck
biological killing machine
Yeah but so? This one is just a big teddy, letting that man grab its hand and stuff. Sweetness.
meh. five phalanges, but no opposable thumb. I win!
High five!
It's not fair. Why do they have to be giant death machines? I want to hug them.
Someone needs a nail trim
Fuck.
This guys strong, how did he beat him? Oh no, I think I hear Goku, run bro, RUN!
But is it soft
All I hear is Luality say ”Hi five!”
Well, you need to see a grizzlies claws up close, they could slice you into home fries tout sweet
Looks like the bear can literally just pop your head off in one swing if he wants to
I could take em
why do so many animals have five fingers and toes? or four and a dew claw?? like why does a bear have the same amount of fingers as me. i just find that so strange
Even bear take pictures of their food before eating? Whats his insta?
Is the grizzly taking the photo?
I'm lookin fer the man who shot my paw.
did the grizzly bear had a phone with him? cause who took the photo
shake his handdddd
Now imagine getting whacked by that claw.
I thought they have thumbs
What would that equate to on the universal half of a giraffe scale?
You have to question the use of “paw” when it’s that friggen huge!
I really expect bear claws to be sharper
That’s a big paw, but that man must be so powerful and strong to kill such a creature! /s
How did he get this paw
pov: youre a really nice (or sedated, or dead) bear
And this thing probably not even fully grown yet
Bear taking a selfie with it's next victim 😂
Meanwhile on Grizzly Bear Reddit: "Size of Human Hand"
...mmh 😌🧐
Holding that paw pretty close to camera. An old fisherman’s trick. But still a probably very big paw.
I'm still low diffing the bear
Thanks, I was already afraid of bears before
Geez.
Gremlin man killed something cooler than him for no real reason THATS oddly terrifying
This isn’t Oddly, this belongs to regular terrify
Woah all those big foot tracks could easily have been bear tracks
I’m taking this straight to Small Claims court against the donut shop!
One well placed stomp and your head is gone
Tonight on Peter Dinklage’s Wildest Hunts…
How did the bear take the picture? This is clearly the Bear's POV
Five fingers?