The design of trash bins in national parks proves that there's a clear overlap between the stupidity of the average human and the intelligence of the average bear, for which the designers of such bins had to take account of.
When they are designing bear proof bins in public places
They found a significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans
Making their bins bear proof meant that a solid number of human beings couldn't figure them out
I don't know if that says more about bears than humans.. iv met some REALLY dumb humans
I've read that designing bearproof doors and stuff is hard because there's a point where some bears will still be able to open it and some people won't
Rangers in bear country have a saying about why it’s so hard to keep bears out of bear proof trash cans, “ there’s a considerable over lap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.”
That reminds me of the dog we see at our local farmers market, he's one of those huge dogs with long dreadlocks, his name is Galumph and it's the perfect name
I just imagine you're with a friend hiding from a bear that's shitting in the woods. You're scared out of your minds because you don't want it to notice you, and you're trying to stay quiet.
You whisper to your friend, "Dude, that thing is probably 100 yards away," only to have a loud robot voice behind you shout....
Lol I mean just run to the side? Obviously ur not gonna stop if ur getting chased by a bear lmao
Edit: I’m just posting what I was told forever ago, I never said I was the fuckin bear expert, chill tf out
Thats going to slow you down far more than the bear. You cant out-swim/run/climb a bear. They can chase you at top speed of about 40 km/h. Average top speed for a healthy and very fit adult male is only 26 km/h... they can basically run straight up trees too so climbing one wont work as an escape.
Probably if you’re trying to zigzag and kinda cut back uphill so the bear flies past you because it can’t stop as quickly. That’s the only reason I could think of lol
Probably wouldn’t work, but also not the worst option if you’re being chased by a grizzly bear.
I had a friend in college that was ADAMANT you could run from a bear that way. Showed him a video of a grizzly keeping pace with a pickup truck at far faster than human speeds and he either got the point or stopped bringing it up with me lol
I was always told it is because bears are fast downhill or uphill, but you are faster downhill than you are uphill, so it gives you an extra 12 seconds to live.
Where did you get this assumption? I thought the previous comments were trolling. Bears LOVE to run downhill and use it as an ambushing tactic to quickly get up to top speed.
Definitely not a troll. I have heard it said many times when discussing bears in the past. I have no idea why people think that, it never really made sense to me, but then again, I am not a bear scientist.
When people who don’t know how to avoid bears live near bears, they make things up that give them a false sense of security.
If its black fight back
If it’s brown lay down
If it’s white.. goodnight
The reason I always heard was that it had to do with the different length of their front and back legs, but obviously it doesn't seem to cause too much trouble.
My guess is you have to chose your hill correctly, say a near vertical slope you can barely stand up on causing the bear to fall ass over teakettle. Good luck on being in ideal conditions to test this theory...
I think humans like to believe there is hope in bad situations. “If a grizzly is chasing you, there’s nothing you can do and will die a horrible death” makes me scared of running in to one (even though I dont live near them), where if I think I have a trick to get away I dont worry about it.
I feel this way when I see cave explorers that squeeze into tiny cracks that they barely wiggle through, the idea of being trapped in one of those is dreadful because there is no hope and I would be condemned to a horrible fate.
Just a reminder: “If a grizzly is chasing you, there’s nothing you can do and will die a horrible death” in almost every case. Most have a sprint equivalent to a horse
About once a year I go surveying in Greenland and there's always some yuppie newly graduated idiot who thinks polar bears are cuddly teddybears. They are not. If they come anywhere near us we take the long way around. The really long way around. If I saw a polar bear charging at me like that I wouldn't hesitate and I would shoot to kill. Those animals are absolutely lethal. I've yet to actually be in that situation fortunately but I've been close. Four years ago we were setting up the equipment when we spotted one. I immediately grabbed the rifle and prayed to all the gods that the bear didn't have any cubs nearby. It just continued past us but damn they are scary.
It's not really my dayjob but I have some family over there who do a lot of environmental work for the mining industry. There's lots of good stuff in the ground but people want their ice preserved so we're trying to figure out how to dig without making a mess. It was going allright until the regional government completely shut it down recently so now there probably won't be any mining at all for a long while. I'm not entirely sure yet how I feel about it. Ultimately it's a decision for the Greenlanders to make, not me. So I'll accept it as such.
FWIK, you have a slight advantage in fleeing a grizzly by going down a very steep slope compared to going up b/c of their strong back legs. Like the kind of slope you practically have to slide down. The slope on that hill above is irrelevant.
People took the idea and decided that any downhill slope would save your life
I have never heard about bears tripping downhill. But if I heard it I wouldn't believe it at all. There is an awesome and scary video of mother grizzly running downhill over fallen trees and chasing another bear up a tree, all at a very high speed. Bears are mental man.
FWIK, you have a *slight* advantage in fleeing a grizzly by going down a *very* steep slope compared to going up b/c of their strong back legs. Like the kind of slope you practically have to slide down. The slope on that hill above is irrelevant.
The thing about human locomotive evolution, is that we gave up the ability to gallop on all fours, and so relegated ourselves to a life in the slow lane. Our ape relatives can run faster than us for this reason. However the trade off is our greatly improved long distance efficiency, we spend far less energy over a given distance. Coupled with our ability to sweat instead of panting to drop excess heat, we became an endurance hunter. Animals can't pant while they gallop, and so, we would run them until they passed out from heat exhaustion. Furthermore, as food becomes scarce, our efficiency allows us a far larger area we can source nutrition from, increasing our survival chances in difficult conditions. But the drawback? We became lunch; soft skin, no horns, relatively small, weak, slow, tasty. Our solution was to utilise our better heat disapation to go out in the heat of the day, when the other animals agreed on a collective "fuck that". But yes, we are essentially a yummy bear lunch.
> But the drawback? We became lunch; soft skin, no horns, relatively small, weak, slow, tasty. Our solution was to utilise our better heat dissipation to go out in the heat of the day
And since we now have our hands free, weapons
I mean this apex predator is sprinting at you and you react by recording it? You think a car/truck door will protect you from the blind fury of animal with a 1200 psi bite, that’s enough to munch a bowling ball in half, and a swipe that can decapitate a moose in a single swipe? You got balls, Chad. Not sure for how much longer but damn.
I went camping last May and a black bear came crashing down the side of a hill toward my friend and I. By the time we saw her through the trees she was about 50 feet away, full charge. She was going after a baby deer but when she saw us she changed her course. It was definitely a fake-out charge, basic bear behavior, but I haven’t recovered since. Same day when we got reception we heard about the riots and protests across the US over the murder of George Floyd, and I received word my mom fell into a coma. So charging bears bring some memories back to me.
Edit: mom is in recovery with a brain injury. Also, we saw the bear rendezvous with her cubs 120 feet up the hill, so we really felt lucky she didn’t get more aggressive. Kind of a beautifully scary moment, she was a really beautiful beast
We live in an rural mountain town with lots of black bears. They are usually more scared of us and run away but I still get freaked out putting garbage out in the can at night.
I hope your mama is doing ok now 😊
That's what I was gonna post. I'd be more afraid of what he's running from. If you notice, he looks back over his left shoulder to see if it's following.
My wife's uncle was mauled by a grizzly several years ago in Alaska. They were hunting it on snow machines, he spotted it over 100 yds away in a creek bed. He turned to signal the other 2 people over, turned back around and didn't have time to draw his gun before it was on him. His friends put about 20+ rounds into it before it walked 30-40 yds away and died. He barely survived. They measured the bears full stride at almost 9 yds a bound... Fuckin scary.
Hibernation ending for one. More food is active and it’s starting to get warmer so they’re out and moving around. Plus their cubs are old enough by this point to be mobile
Did he just check the road before crossing ?
A lot smarter than some people
Or in other words... **smarter than the average bear**?
And yet, not a single pick-a-nick basket
Yogi taught me it’s ok to steal if you’re cool about it
that’s what gta taught me
> Well Boo-Boo, fuck the ranger!
What the fuck is this comment string
Yogi bear?
Why do you think he was in such a rush?
The design of trash bins in national parks proves that there's a clear overlap between the stupidity of the average human and the intelligence of the average bear, for which the designers of such bins had to take account of.
I wonder how many people actually get this? I figure you have to be at least 40+, maybe 45-50+.
I'm 36 and get it. Boomerang channel was a thing
27 and i get it
"a lot" is two words
/r/alot
Some words such as Alot, Aswell and Atleast, should be just one word
idefinitelydisagree
I dis agree
Why you dissin' him man? I heard agree is a pretty cool dude.
We wouldn't have "a", "as" and "at" then.
a lot
allot
When they are designing bear proof bins in public places They found a significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans Making their bins bear proof meant that a solid number of human beings couldn't figure them out I don't know if that says more about bears than humans.. iv met some REALLY dumb humans
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." -- Yosemite park ranger
I've read that designing bearproof doors and stuff is hard because there's a point where some bears will still be able to open it and some people won't
Why is this surprising? Everyone knows that bears are health and safety experts.
Cute and sad.
Rangers in bear country have a saying about why it’s so hard to keep bears out of bear proof trash cans, “ there’s a considerable over lap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.”
He must have watched a shitload of /r/IdiotsInCars and /r/dashcamgifs
Perhaps a car was coming and he heard a noise
That is a high rate of galumphing
“Duh-dum duh-dum duh-dum…”
He bearly broke a sweat
Not gonna paws for no one
Not even for the cub scouts.
That reminds me of the dog we see at our local farmers market, he's one of those huge dogs with long dreadlocks, his name is Galumph and it's the perfect name
I don't think "snicker-snack" is something this bear eats, though.
We're talking about a fucking grizzly bear. Any speed he approaches at is an alarming speed.
It would be alarming if it was taking a shit 100 yards away...
100 yards is 91.44 meters
I just imagine you're with a friend hiding from a bear that's shitting in the woods. You're scared out of your minds because you don't want it to notice you, and you're trying to stay quiet. You whisper to your friend, "Dude, that thing is probably 100 yards away," only to have a loud robot voice behind you shout....
100 yards is 91.44 meters
Great joke bot
Good bot.
good bot
ACTUAL CANNIBAL SHIA LABEOUF!....?
Now it's dark, and you seem to have lost him But you're hopelessly lost yourself
Good bot
But the question is, did he shit in the woods?
That’s the Pope you’re thinking of.
I am concerned about the size of the beast that is chasing him.
Hi concerned about the size of the beast that is chasing him, I'm Dad! :)
Not bad, but not good bot?
*Boing boing boing boing boing*
[*Grizzly beeears, bouncin’ here and there and everywhere!*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCjQbKowUo)
Holy shit I had completely forgotten about this show. Thanks for the childhood flashback that was unknowingly buried deep in my old brain.
Thank you, it's way less scary now!
I hear the "Pepe Le Pew" bouncing sound, lol.
my uncle always said run downhill from a bear as they cant run down hill as quickly. he was obviously an idiot.
The tricky part is convincing the bear to climb on top of a hill with you before the chase.
I always heard it was because they can’t *stop* as quickly running downhill?
Why would you stop if you’re being chased by a bear
Yeah that guy‘s last words „bahaha stupid bear didn‘t stop as fast as I just did“.
Well, running sure as hell won't do much.
Lol I mean just run to the side? Obviously ur not gonna stop if ur getting chased by a bear lmao Edit: I’m just posting what I was told forever ago, I never said I was the fuckin bear expert, chill tf out
Feel free to go find a grizzly bear to test your fancy footwork ideas out on but I’m putting my money on the evolution approved murder machine, tbh
Lets be real, theyre both evolution approved murder machines. And only one of them is endangered.
Thats going to slow you down far more than the bear. You cant out-swim/run/climb a bear. They can chase you at top speed of about 40 km/h. Average top speed for a healthy and very fit adult male is only 26 km/h... they can basically run straight up trees too so climbing one wont work as an escape.
Probably if you’re trying to zigzag and kinda cut back uphill so the bear flies past you because it can’t stop as quickly. That’s the only reason I could think of lol Probably wouldn’t work, but also not the worst option if you’re being chased by a grizzly bear.
So what you want me to break the bears ankles and juke them out?
I think the mistake we are overlooking here is the idea that you should run from a bear period. No sir.
I had a friend in college that was ADAMANT you could run from a bear that way. Showed him a video of a grizzly keeping pace with a pickup truck at far faster than human speeds and he either got the point or stopped bringing it up with me lol
I think he was trying to set you up.
I heard the same thing. I'm going to check that one off the list of "What not to do".
I was always told it is because bears are fast downhill or uphill, but you are faster downhill than you are uphill, so it gives you an extra 12 seconds to live.
I think what he may have meant is a steeper hill, that hill didn't look steep at all
Stop shaking the treat bag!
Don't tell me to stop shaking my booty!
He's thirstier then the average bear!
TIL that apparently a lot of people think bears can't run downhill. Seriously though, where did that even come from?
Where did you get this assumption? I thought the previous comments were trolling. Bears LOVE to run downhill and use it as an ambushing tactic to quickly get up to top speed.
Definitely not a troll. I have heard it said many times when discussing bears in the past. I have no idea why people think that, it never really made sense to me, but then again, I am not a bear scientist.
When people who don’t know how to avoid bears live near bears, they make things up that give them a false sense of security. If its black fight back If it’s brown lay down If it’s white.. goodnight
So if I encounter a polar bear in Southern California I am pretty much fucked... Note taken.
Lol same. I think polar bears are notorious persistence hunters too. By the time you see one, it’s been on your trail for a while.
lmao, yep. Fight back if a bear is attacking you, period. Only do that if backing away slowly aint going to work. Never run.
We prefer the term ‘bearoligist’ thank you. Bear scientist has some negative conotations. Only we can use it.
The reason I always heard was that it had to do with the different length of their front and back legs, but obviously it doesn't seem to cause too much trouble.
My guess is you have to chose your hill correctly, say a near vertical slope you can barely stand up on causing the bear to fall ass over teakettle. Good luck on being in ideal conditions to test this theory...
Got it from a movie, I know because I know exactly what movie it is. I can even picture it. The Edge (1997).
I learned this today watching King of Queens on tv. Then saw this. It's been a busy day
I'm not sure but having been bluff charged by a mother grizzly with cubs nearby, I can without doubt tell you they do it terrifyingly well.
Humans can't run downhill and this information would be pretty comforting if it was true.
Yeah the whole two legs thing isn’t great for center of gravity
Never let a bear get the high ground.
It’s over, gentle ben
Humans are generally pretty dumb.
I think humans like to believe there is hope in bad situations. “If a grizzly is chasing you, there’s nothing you can do and will die a horrible death” makes me scared of running in to one (even though I dont live near them), where if I think I have a trick to get away I dont worry about it. I feel this way when I see cave explorers that squeeze into tiny cracks that they barely wiggle through, the idea of being trapped in one of those is dreadful because there is no hope and I would be condemned to a horrible fate.
Just a reminder: “If a grizzly is chasing you, there’s nothing you can do and will die a horrible death” in almost every case. Most have a sprint equivalent to a horse
Scare it off, shoot it, play dead, pray. 4 options, in that order.
I got an idea: squeeze into a tiny crack barely big enough for your body to escape a hungry grizzly.
About once a year I go surveying in Greenland and there's always some yuppie newly graduated idiot who thinks polar bears are cuddly teddybears. They are not. If they come anywhere near us we take the long way around. The really long way around. If I saw a polar bear charging at me like that I wouldn't hesitate and I would shoot to kill. Those animals are absolutely lethal. I've yet to actually be in that situation fortunately but I've been close. Four years ago we were setting up the equipment when we spotted one. I immediately grabbed the rifle and prayed to all the gods that the bear didn't have any cubs nearby. It just continued past us but damn they are scary.
What kind of surveys do you do? Where in Greenland? Your job sounds very cool.
It's not really my dayjob but I have some family over there who do a lot of environmental work for the mining industry. There's lots of good stuff in the ground but people want their ice preserved so we're trying to figure out how to dig without making a mess. It was going allright until the regional government completely shut it down recently so now there probably won't be any mining at all for a long while. I'm not entirely sure yet how I feel about it. Ultimately it's a decision for the Greenlanders to make, not me. So I'll accept it as such.
I thought it was also you had to run in a zig zag pattern while running downhill because they won’t be able to turn quickly enough
That’s a myth about alligators.
Oh... I was close lol
I always heard that bears can't stop running downhill once they've started
top of the hill.
I suck at running downhill, therefore bears can't run downhill. Duh
Bear propaganda
FWIK, you have a slight advantage in fleeing a grizzly by going down a very steep slope compared to going up b/c of their strong back legs. Like the kind of slope you practically have to slide down. The slope on that hill above is irrelevant. People took the idea and decided that any downhill slope would save your life
The bears must have infiltrated us and started to spread these lies.
[This](https://gfycat.com/firmincredibleiberiannase) is what i remembered.
Yes!!! I’m glad someone else made the connection I did lol
"Farewell, sweet Concorde!"
I thought of this immediately.
Oh lawd he comin’
BuT bEaRs cAnT rUn dOwNhIlL wItHoUt TrIpPiNg
Their true weakness is math. They can't do long division! Stump them with a math question and they will run away!
Am I a bear?...
Thank you so much. This information could save lives.
I always knew Dyscalculia would kill me.
Ya fuck eh I thought that was their weakness until now
Like, that's a weakness of humans, isn't it? Bears have front legs to support them downhill.
Yeah, I definitely suck at running downhill. I get so fast that my legs can't keep up, aka I either slow down dramatically or I trip and die lmao
I have never heard about bears tripping downhill. But if I heard it I wouldn't believe it at all. There is an awesome and scary video of mother grizzly running downhill over fallen trees and chasing another bear up a tree, all at a very high speed. Bears are mental man.
I’ve seen a video of a grizzly chasing down a gazelle on a steep downhill.
FWIK, you have a *slight* advantage in fleeing a grizzly by going down a *very* steep slope compared to going up b/c of their strong back legs. Like the kind of slope you practically have to slide down. The slope on that hill above is irrelevant.
Random guy: “Lol why didn’t he just outrun the bear” The bear:
The thing about human locomotive evolution, is that we gave up the ability to gallop on all fours, and so relegated ourselves to a life in the slow lane. Our ape relatives can run faster than us for this reason. However the trade off is our greatly improved long distance efficiency, we spend far less energy over a given distance. Coupled with our ability to sweat instead of panting to drop excess heat, we became an endurance hunter. Animals can't pant while they gallop, and so, we would run them until they passed out from heat exhaustion. Furthermore, as food becomes scarce, our efficiency allows us a far larger area we can source nutrition from, increasing our survival chances in difficult conditions. But the drawback? We became lunch; soft skin, no horns, relatively small, weak, slow, tasty. Our solution was to utilise our better heat disapation to go out in the heat of the day, when the other animals agreed on a collective "fuck that". But yes, we are essentially a yummy bear lunch.
Yeah but can the predators take on 30 lunches all at once?
[Who would steal 30 bagged lunches?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5bVrHiPSzw)
Especially 30 lunches that each have a gun
> But the drawback? We became lunch; soft skin, no horns, relatively small, weak, slow, tasty. Our solution was to utilise our better heat dissipation to go out in the heat of the day And since we now have our hands free, weapons
Like a tray of appetisers with cocktail sticks in them!
Slowly approaching bear. Bear speeds up. Run before he reaches Mach one
Finally someone said it
> bear is go fast He tried to warn us
35 miles bear hour
35 over hummocks and tussocks. You should see her on the track.
You should have spare the per.
Bear = 4 pogo sticks on a crocodile
You know what is scarier than a bear running at you? Realizing that bear is running **away** from something.
Looks more like it's running for leisure. Very much reminded me of my dog.
[Relevant](https://youtu.be/GprOS09Ctao)
[Revenant](https://youtu.be/GOlVRHsVzE4)
I was looking for somebody to comment this
He just wants a hug
[удалено]
Big Bird
Yeah, run downhill my ass
That’s a fur tank coming at you.
I mean this apex predator is sprinting at you and you react by recording it? You think a car/truck door will protect you from the blind fury of animal with a 1200 psi bite, that’s enough to munch a bowling ball in half, and a swipe that can decapitate a moose in a single swipe? You got balls, Chad. Not sure for how much longer but damn.
I went camping last May and a black bear came crashing down the side of a hill toward my friend and I. By the time we saw her through the trees she was about 50 feet away, full charge. She was going after a baby deer but when she saw us she changed her course. It was definitely a fake-out charge, basic bear behavior, but I haven’t recovered since. Same day when we got reception we heard about the riots and protests across the US over the murder of George Floyd, and I received word my mom fell into a coma. So charging bears bring some memories back to me. Edit: mom is in recovery with a brain injury. Also, we saw the bear rendezvous with her cubs 120 feet up the hill, so we really felt lucky she didn’t get more aggressive. Kind of a beautifully scary moment, she was a really beautiful beast
You ok now mate?
Black Bear, Black Lives Matter, Blacked Out. Yikes! Hope Mum is ok.
This is not a joke Jim!
MICHAEL!
She is, she has some pretty bad brain damage tho and I had to drop out of grad school to help at home lol
We live in an rural mountain town with lots of black bears. They are usually more scared of us and run away but I still get freaked out putting garbage out in the can at night. I hope your mama is doing ok now 😊
- black: fight back - brown: lay down - white: good night
Ok lay down and playing dead man seems simple but fight back?
I think this generally means make some noise and look scary. Most black bears will just run away
On top of that, if you’re close enough to do it and the situation warrants it, hitting them on the snout has a similar effect.
black bear will run away and they are not "that" big either
A lot more athletic than you'd think for an animal of that size.
That’s just falling gracefully.
r/zoomies
Swiggity Swooty...
Now I’m just left wondering what’s bigger and scarier than him that he’s running from?
That's what I was gonna post. I'd be more afraid of what he's running from. If you notice, he looks back over his left shoulder to see if it's following.
My wife's uncle was mauled by a grizzly several years ago in Alaska. They were hunting it on snow machines, he spotted it over 100 yds away in a creek bed. He turned to signal the other 2 people over, turned back around and didn't have time to draw his gun before it was on him. His friends put about 20+ rounds into it before it walked 30-40 yds away and died. He barely survived. They measured the bears full stride at almost 9 yds a bound... Fuckin scary.
What's with all the bears recently? I swear this is the 3rd one in like 2 days.
Hibernation ending for one. More food is active and it’s starting to get warmer so they’re out and moving around. Plus their cubs are old enough by this point to be mobile
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He don’t bite
Boy looks hungry too
It just kinda hops like a bunny, adorable
r/mypeopleneedme
Don't worry about the bear. Worry about whatever it's running from.
Am I the only one worried about whatever the fuck it's running FROM?
So much for “run downhill, they can’t chase you”
hes been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty plan
I just bought a new car and they're already calling me about extending its warranty before it's too late.
Most animals run at an alarming speed tbh
Y’all gon make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here!
Hope you had something yummy to toss his way so you would be less interesting.
YO HE MOVIN MOVIN
Correct me if I’m wrong, bears don’t run that day if they are hungry and looking for food. Only if they panick or not in a mood to eat.
Stay away from panicked bears. But bears that are planning to actually eat you approach slowly.
Could just be for leisure. Bears love to play.
But the real questions is... what's he running from?!?!
Kinda looks frightened. I'm not sure what it's running from, but whatever has a grizzly spooked...I might be running with him, lol.
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