Timeline for Why be passive while attacked by a brown bear?
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| Mar 17, 2022 at 15:40 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | Also species id while being attacked is not trivial: many black bears are in fact brown-colored and that species outnumbers browns (grizzlies). Except in Europe where they are all browns/grizzlies. | |
| Mar 17, 2022 at 15:31 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | The "black bear predatory" bit is oversold and so is fighting back. Black bears can be predatory and it can be useful to fight back in those circumstances. But the guidance generally goes to curl and protect your neck. If the attack is persistent and it's a black then you might want to switch to fighting back. Tricky? Sure. But better than this one size fits all scenario which can backfire quickly in the many cases where it's not predatory (cubs for example). Source: living in BC, with our 150k blacks and 12k browns. | |
| Mar 17, 2022 at 15:23 | comment | added | Chris H | Just hope you're not attacked by a polar bear. a very lost polar bear in the Dolomites! | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 16:44 | history | answered | Nuclear Hoagie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |