bear say hi to me

Bear didn't learn to wave from this texting dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmhvdtX72eQ

good reflexes on that guy; i woulda stood and tried to figure out what was up

Situation 2 - Bear has detected your presence, but is more than 100 m (350 ft) distant.

Your goal here is to act in such a way as to allow the bear to identify you, but to also let it know that you are no threat. Speak calmly so that it knows you are a human (their eyesight is quite poor). They will often quickly give ground to you once they identify you as human. If the situation permits, back away slowly, keeping a close eye on the bear. Otherwise, you may wish to detour around the bear, but in this case, detour upwind so that the bear can get your scent. Keep talking calmly. Waving your arms may help it identify you as a human.

^^ that advice is otm, for black bears especially (the only common bears in lower 48)

Waving your arms may help it identify you as a human

me say hi to bear

Bears fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3d42xxNJm1r0vr70o1_500.jpg

bears say hi to us

that's not you is it?!?

no.

bear take instagram photo of me, other bears

i was going to say, whoever took that photo is a MENTALIST

like if mama bear wanders out the forest behind you while you're taking that photo and you're between it and baby bears begging for food you're dead meat

http://www.hamovhotov.com/fun/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/we-need-some-rest-before-the-chase.jpg

oh hi bear

Is he . . . is he scratching his balls?

He is like the bear Al Bundy.

*flush*

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/bear-swim-pool-monrovia.html

!!!

ALSO:

Fontana girl killed at her 16th-birthday party

well that's a cheery pairing

Wildfire kills flock of teenagers near Chevy Chase

The teens said the bear took its time and didn't seem too threatening, but that they weren't going to test that perception.

]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1r4dcoxWc

kinda find the bear the least interesting thing about this.

nice square bracket fizzles.

For those of you who have seen the infamous "cardboard bear" story from Cleveland's Fox 8 News: Fox 8 Does a Bear Story Without Embarrassing Themselves

http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83132/1133523/hi-bear.jpeg

OH MY GOD

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p5jsrCza1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

Wheeee!

http://bigstory.ap.org/content/heat-wave-26

http://binaryapi.ap.org/c9fd07e8ffe048608e79fcb2475aec78/512x.jpg

thread, bookmarked

SAIL

― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:03 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/3/18/15/enhanced-buzz-32475-1300478146-25.jpg

there was only one set of paw prints on the beach because I ate u

http://meetsebastian.com/mas56/files/gimgs/84_bear-fur-1-z.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/sunbear.jpg

^ and that's a sun bear

where is yr based god now

bearsed god

amanda bearsed god

I saw a very chill sun bear at the zoo in Chicago a couple months ago. They're awesome.

that bear looked like me after i spent six hours in central park today

http://i.imgur.com/ftrbi.gif

a+ for alignment with thread title

Omg

http://i.imgur.com/3WOZL.jpg

"You guys deliver?"

"Hey, you guys need any help with your garbage?"

bear get hi with me

A friend and I spent about 30 mins watching the various waving bear vids on youtube. They're so amazing. Makes me want to go to Seattle specifically so that a bear can say hi to me irl.

It is nonstop bear action here, it's true.

lol

LOL @ the People link upthread about the tourist bear mauling. Stock photo of bears. Stock photo of hospital gurney.

let's think....brown, American black, Andean (aka spectacled), polar, sloth, sun, Asian black, giant panda

Are giant pandas actually bears? or massive rodents

DNA sequencing finally proved that, yes, giant pandas are bears. They were originally thought to be bears, then placed in the raccoon family (Procyonidae), then in a family of their own together with the red panda and are now considered bears again.
No zoologist ever considered they were rodents iirc although rhino-sized capybara-like rodents did exist in prehistory.

Ahh, okay... I thought raccoons were rodents but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore: 'Distantly related to cats and dogs, they share a common evolutionary ancestor with bears.'

These incidences of bears breaking into cars and wreaking havoc seem to be becoming more and more common:

https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/bear-lamborghini-huracan/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/ontario-black-bear-car

xxp it gets confusing because old phenotypic classifications (and reclassifications) were often made on guesswork based on physiology and locale, whereas you can now slap some panda dna in a sequencer and figure out that their genotype says "bear"

This all went down about a mile away from me today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RngG-FWfhg

lmao at the lady explaining the frozen chicken theft

bear say drive to me

I’m a bit taken aback that apparently she plans to eat that chicken?

that was the part that killed me. maybe the bear only punctured the packaging or 1-2 pieces of meat and she’s like “still good!”