philmurfin Loc: Bakewell, Derbyshire UK

What do you do when you meet a bear on a walk? Copy this 12-year-old
Best Phil

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/europe/what-do-you-do-when-you-meet-a-bear-on-a-walk-copy-this-12-year-old-1.4263939

Stephan G

Or flap your car doors while yelling at the top of your lungs. (Seen in a video yesterday!)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Lucky boy. Some types of bears are less hostile than others. The brown bears we have hear do not attack people - just food - and they can be chased away easily. You can't do that with a grizzly.

Rusty69 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

What a shame people still insist on holding their phones vertically, and missing half the scene. Am I the only one who finds this irritating? The BBC even encourages the submission of so-called "vertical videos". Go figure!

dave.speeking Loc: Brooklyn OH

Maybe the vertical format uses less "band-width".

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

I've mentioned this a lot of times so no, you are not the "only one who finds this irritating".

Stephan G

Would the design of the camera have something to do with it?

drobvit Loc: Southern NV

Personally...I think the parent is a _______ idiot! Probably more concerned about getting the "money shot" than being worried about the child. This kind of absurdity goes on way too much.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Jerry, with due respect, it is not that some bears are less hostile. It is that circumstances make the bear hostile or not. Get between any bear, black, grizzly or Kodiak brown bear and it will become hostile. Surprise it when it is feeding on a deer or elk carcass and it will become hostile. The bears in your area are not truly brown bears but black bears that have a brown coloration. Some are black, some brown, blonde or a reddish tint.

You can tell us that your bears do not attack people but when I lived in Colorado, a woodsman shot and wounded a black bear, same bears you have. It attacked and killed him, eating some of the body before it left. Grizzly bears will definitely attack you but after cuffing you around a bit and taking numerous bites from you the grizzly will generally speaking walk off and leave you alone. Black bears traditionally will not walk off and leave you. Once you are on the ground they will continue to kill and eat you. That is why if you are charged and attacked by a grizzly bear it is recommended you lie on the ground in a, Dead, position. Once it has taken its anger out on you it will normally leave. Black bear are the complete opposite. If attacked by a black bear it is recommended you kick, bite, scratch, anything you can do to fight it off.

This information is widely published. I also get my information from my ex brother in law who is one of the top bear specialists in America.

Dennis

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

Thank you. I was just going to post that a Brown bear is a grizzly and there are brown Black bears.

While working in Alaska decades ago I knew a search and rescue medic that had to take photos of people mauled by Grizzly's to document the incidents. He said they were so gruesome it made him sick. He never showed them to anyone, but had to file them in his report.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Welcome. Thank you.

Dennis

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

From my experience with Brown (Grizzly) bears this bear was simply curious about this thing (kid) in its territory. It could have been far more serious if there had been cubs involved!

bwa

DEBJENROB Loc: DELRAY BEACH FL

if I photograph in and area that is know to have bear population ..... I carry an air horn .....

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Great idea. Fish and game biologists that dispatch (kill) man eating bears generally find bits of air horns and bells from the people the bear has feasted on. If it was me I would consider a heavy handgun caliber starting with the number 4 or 5 and/or at least a huge container of bear spray.

Of course the choice would be up to you.

Dennis

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Bear spray is far more effective!

bwa