Timeline for What species of bear are most and least dangerous to humans?
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackOutdoors/status/1036630243187089410 | ||
| Sep 2, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @ab2 Didn't see your question, although it's an obvious answer. The other alternative is the drop bear. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 20:54 | comment | added | ab2 | @Loren Pechtel Did you read my meta question (See last paragraph) or is this a case of great minds drifting in the same channel? | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 20:33 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Teddy bears, perhaps? | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 18:04 | comment | added | James Jenkins | @ab2 added, missed that one when I was browsing. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 18:03 | history | edited | James Jenkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | ab2 | you may want to reference the question about whether some subspecies (of which there are 16) of black bear are more aggressive than others. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 14:01 | comment | added | ab2 | @Monster I disagree with your characterization of black bears. Black bears in the California Sierra and the Colorado Rockies (the only ones I know well) avoid or retreat from people. The saying among the hikers I knew in CA was that black bears think humans are large animals; brown bears think humans are small animals. Of course, one has to respect black bears and be cautious when in the vicinity of one. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | It mostly depend on where you are. Here the biggest risk is an escaped zoo animal, when in Churchill Canada, it was a polar bear and farther south the risk was of a darker shaded bear. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 11:26 | comment | added | Monster | (Giant pandas are in that last category as well by the way, they are the exception among large herbivores for not being equally dangerous to predators.) | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 11:01 | comment | added | Monster | Doing this as a comment because not detailed and sourced enough. Generally medium sized bears like black bears are most aggressive, because they aren't big enough to be safe from say a moose or a wolf family. Large brown bears are less likely to attack, except when with young. Polar Bears are more predatory than others, and more likely to attack out of a lack of food. Small species like sun bears, spectacled bears and sloth bears are of least concern as far as bears go, they only fight something our size if it attacks them. These bears can still kill a person, but are much less likely to try. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 9:40 | history | asked | James Jenkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |