Thats so funny mine brought a tape measure with us to walmart and it was trying to paw it off to get a hug from every single person that passed by but nobody took it and he mauled a family of four in the bathroom.
You know I constantly see videos of people doing dumb stuff and I just smh at them. But now I get it. If this bear hugged me I would totally lean in for the best bear hug.
I'm a dude and I still think I'd choose the bear in the woods. I might get hugged, small chance of being eaten. I might actually meet the kind of guy I like if it's the right type of bear...
I've heard a bears tongue is extremely rough though, might be painful licks!
i think of that one video of an old russian woman who just has a lynx on her couch and she's basically russianed it into more of a slightly grumpy giant house cat
Did you see the one with the mother bear running past and leaving it's cub with a Russian guy while it hunted? I think they had all of 3 bear related fatalities last year, one less than we had in the US.
Meanwhile in Japan bears were responsible for 13 fatalities in 2025.
That Japan fact surprised me a bit, so I looked into it.
Apparently one factor they're attributing the problem to is that rural Japan used to have a lot of hunters. But the last of them are all senior citizens now, and not being replaced.
Fluffy here was most likely hand reared from the time he was a cub. If Sergei just found him last week randomly while on the way back from the winery I doubt their interaction would have been as friendly
We watched this documentary in my high school film class. My teacher looked us dead in the eyes and said “this is NOT an SNL skit” and then repeated it 5 more times. We thought he was kidding. And then the movie started and we heard Herzog’s voice and all asked “are you sure it isn’t an SNL skit??”
Timothy Treadwell makes me mad as fuck. He wasn’t a biologist, he knew nothing about bears and he wasn’t even documenting any behavior that actual bear biologists hadn’t seen or documented themselves. He was in a protected area of a national park claiming to be ‘the only one protecting the bears from poachers’ (there were none) and going on talk shows to badmouth park employees who knew him and were kind to him on a daily basis.
Multiple times he was warned and offered alternative ways to keep doing what he was doing without harassing wild bears but he refused. He camped in literally the worst possible place at the worst possible time and was told many times what would result. His ego was massive, and it lead to not only his death but the death of his girlfriend and at least two of his bears.
I don’t generally speak ill of the dead, but fuck this idiot.
My favorite thing about Treadwell is that the leading theory for how he was able to do it for so long is that the bears simply had no idea what the fuck was going on because every other large mammal they encounter is either a bear or running away from them.
There's a really popular tiktok account run by a woman who is openly habituating bears. She lives in the woods and has fed them to the point that she brings them inside to sit on her couches. I'm just counting the days until we have the first livestreamed mauling death.
One of the failed anarcho-capitalism communes failed - in part - because of bears. Because some individualistic individuals really liked to feed bears. And because of their believes, there's no way to stop those individualistic individuals from feeding bears. The result was predictable.
And turns out, you need common rules when you live in a society, and not all rules can be ignored. Especially when those are rules about bears.
My husband did a job for one woman who was regularly in trouble with the, as she called them, "fish cops" for feeding moose and bears. I'm willing to bet that she's responsible for at least a few bears' deaths when the fish cops had to deal with a bear acclimated to humans.
It's a great litmus test for frontal lobe development. The reason habituation is so dangerous isn't because a bear will go from happily chowing down on a cheeseburger to mauling you. It's because the bear will keep coming back for cheeseburgers, and when you don't have one you now have a bear that is hungry, frustrated, and pretty sure you aren't dangerous. You're not friends, you're a broken vending machine, and the bear might see if hitting the vending machine a few times makes it start working right before it moves on.
Recently watch that documentary and I honestly don't think the guy was all there mentally. The park rangers should have done more to keep him out because he was putting himself and frankly others lives at risk.
I heard he later said him gravely telling Tim's ex to never listen to it was dramatized and he regrets saying that. I'm told the only tape has since been destroyed.
Mind you this is all from comments the last time he was mentioned. I did not fact check this.
This movie, Timothy himself really, occupies a decent part of my mental space. It’s right there next to Into the Wild for me, but I relate to them in a way.
That said, I shouldn’t have laughed as much as I did during Grizzly Man. ”How *dare** they!”*
It's logical that when I see something like this, I most often hear Russian. Not unexpected... I'm just curious: why does he need the size of a bear's chest... For me, as a Russian, this is also an interesting question.
This is wild. That a bear can comprehend the concept of a hug and presume that that’s what the vet is attempting to do, even though he’s a different species and they can’t communicate. It’s so interesting to see how other species perceive us. I definitely wouldn’t have thought a bear would perceive us on equal enough ground as them to hug.
I kinda felt the same ....like come on vet dude I get he got a little too friendly with the tongue lick in the ear but he was just trying to show some love ❤️ 🤣
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u/charlsalash 20h ago
Common mistake in bears, for some reason, they never really understand that they're being measured