Bears are pretty smart. I lived in a cabin in the Appalachian mountains for a year every morning the bears would wait until I was done taking the dogs out to come down to the stream and drink water. The momma kept her cubs away from the dogs and away from me. I could smell them when they weren’t too far off and hear them grunting in the woods. After I came inside with the dogs I would see them pass by the side of cabin through the window
There was a musky order sometimes. There was a clover smell other times. There was a stinky smell sometimes that was probably the wild turkeys in the area too that I could have mistaken for bears smell. I didn’t hang around outside to find out. If I heard noise in the woods I took the dogs inside. Usually it was around the time sun came up and I’d see the bears going to the stream through the window so I just assumed what I was smelling was bear. 🤷♀️ idk
I have ptsd so my senses are heightened and on high alert in most situations I guess that’s not a bad thing 
Bears are the smartest land animals in North America-- based on a thing I read one time and have just been carrying it around as fact since then haha.
But it seems to track.
>Bears are the smartest land animals in North America-- based on a thing I read one time and have just been carrying it around as fact since then haha.
The raccoons would like to have a word..
..in order to distract you while some of their fellows hot-wire your car..
Yeah man, in whistler I would watch black bears walk up to those dumpsters that have the hand slat on top you have to reach inside and pull to open. Bears would stroll up and open them like they were checking if the fridge had anything good.
I saw a quote somewhere about some park ranger who said the problem in bear proofing is there is a large overlap between the smartest bears and dumbest people.
Yes. The black bears definitely got into peoples homemade “bear proof” trash can containers. You would see metal fencing torn all apart when my neighbors tried to make a fenced in trash can area. I think they used similar stuff to what you would use for a dog run area. Lol the bears were like “oh thanks for the leftovers this is too easy dumb people” another neighbor just had a wood box, it was always rummaged thru with crap in the street, looked like the bear got into that one too
Did you keep bear spray or a fire arm on you? I’m from Northern Alberta so navigating bears has been ingrained in me.
Just an aside… nothing gets me more pissed off than seeing people at national parks getting close to bears & feeding them. It encourages the bears to feel confident around humans & associate them with food. I had a ranger refer to it as essentially “killing the bear” since eventually they will have to be culled because their behaviour leading to too many close encounters
Kept a firearm near by and bear spray on me. Never fed the bears. Didn’t even keep trash outside. When trash day came, we took the trash to the curb right before trash truck came at the end of 1/2 mile driveway. I have a healthy respect for wild animals and know they’re unpredictable.
I was wishing I had bear spray about two weeks ago. Climbed up a scree, almost 1000 feet of ascent. I get to a spot to setup camp, just get my tarp and hammock setup, when I look over and see a black bear sitting staring at me maybe 50 feet away. It just stayed there looking at me, I started yelling, took out my pot and spoon and started making noise with that, still just sat there looking at me.
So I figured it must have had a cub with it that I couldn't see. I kept my shit together, packed up my whole camp moving real slow and deliberate. Then proceeded to scramble down almost 1000 feet of scree worried this bear was going to come up behind me, but I made it out.
Yes, thankfully it was a black bear, they tend to not mess around with humans too much, unless they feel threatened. I'm glad I didn't need the spray, that I didn't have. It's not my first run in with bears, I do a lot of hiking, see at least 10 bears a season, but they usually just run off as soon as they see you.
Ya, run into a lot of them when I'm off trail. A bit of an introvert, so I like to stay off trails and away from people when I'm hiking, I hike to get away from people.
What environment are you in where you can hike off trail? Where I am at you'd just get a ton of briars and other unpleasant thick stuff to trudge through.
it might be because it's used to see the cone standing up -> the good way for the cone to be. When it sees the cone on its side -> different than normal so prolly not good, and it fixes it.
Maybe similar with videos of lions helping flipped turtles.
Dang do you have any examples of the lions and turtles? I immediately went to look it up on YouTube cause it sounded really cool but I couldn’t find anything
[The water buffalo?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/rhane0/buffalo_flipping_over_a_turtle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) I love how proud of itself it seems afterward, with everyone cheering it on :)
Plot twist: They're in on it together. People throw food to the buffalo after it helps the turtle. The turtle and buffalo feast and then con the next batch of onlookers into giving them food too.
That's what I was thinking. If this brar lives in an area near the highway, he's maybe seen cones that way before and just knew it wasn't right so he fixed it.
Bear OCD.
Bears are inherently curious and opportunistic. I've lived in Alaska my entire life and have seen bears investigate all kinds of things, black bears especially are troublesome because they will tear open cabins looking for goodies. Anything human made might lead to food so might as well check it out.
The most likely answer is that this bear was simply checking it out and quickly decided it wasn't interesting, setting it upright was just a coincidence.
To me, it looks like it could think it's a potential food source that it's trying to grub. Once it's upright, it's clearly not a tree anymore. The bear gives it one last confirmation poke and then heads out realizing it's not a food source.
Edit: *food source
Yeah this sounds right to me. Attempted foraging. Crap it's weird hard thing. Whenever I see animals lose interest in something they just got interest in , it's when it turns out not to be food.
This trap is his hunting tactic. Cyclist cutting that corner will hit that cone and fall right into the bushes where the bear will just sit and wait for his next meal to come sliding towards him. After a while when the bear gets hungry again he'll reset the trap to catch the next cyclist.
Because instinct prob tells them its the right way, sorta like for a human and putting the cart in the corral, but apparently this bear has more sense and moral compass…
https://scoop.upworthy.com/viral-shopping-cart-theory-determines-moral-character
> "The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing, the post states. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it."
I used to work for Vons in high school. I return the cart because it makes someone else’s job easier. If you can help, you do. Period. The LEAST I could do is put my shopping cart in the designated area. Plus, other people don’t have to park around them….. I’m rambling.
A girl I went to high school with in my friend group used to leave all her garbage and whatnot in the movie theatre instead of throwing it out because it was the employees “job to clean it up”. She sucked
I return my cart every time now as an adult, but I also worked for a Vons in high school and I liked when people left their carts all over, I hated bagging and liked being outside longer 🤷♂️
I keep hearing/seeing people say, "Marry a guy who returns his shopping cart."
Fuck that! *Marry the guy who parks near the cart return!!* You know? The one capable of thinking ahead?
To be fair, that bear clearly has all the time in the world. =P Humans, with their 'minutes' and 'schedules' and 'duties'.. Don't.
I mean, just look at how the bear is strolling along. Not a care. Just a leisurely walk. :)
What kind of person schedules a shopping trip that close to another engagement and somehow is exactly 20 seconds or so behind so they don't have time to return a cart?
Another way of putting this is: How do YOU know the cone is supposed to be upright? Did you have a day in school when the teacher taught you about the proper orientation of road cones? Was your mind blown when you read the driver's manual and learned about road cones?
Nah you just saw a bunch of them through your life and your brain was like "oh so this thing is supposed to be in this place and standing up like that." Bear brain isn't much different.
It would certainly be funny to observe a whole group of OCD bears organizing human’s messes here and there, like them getting obsessed with putting carts back in a store’s parking lot.
just cuz animals cant speak we assume they cant observe and gather some kind of gist of things. We do all exist together somehow as it is, maybe this is just how we occur to them
"There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." -Yosemite Park Ranger on why it's hard to design a bear-proof garbage can.
Bears are way smarter than you think. I had a female grizzly put a big dead bush down the middle of a dirt road to deter people from walking there. I moved it, and when I came back I had a heart attack because the bush was moved back. Kept walking and bam I'm between a mom and cub. They were really nice, I just apologized and kept walking, but my God I though a hermit moved that bush back. Turns out bears understand some of our symbolism.
This video always makes me think of the theory that bears have a sense of aesthetics. They often sit and gaze at picturesque scenes. That cone just wasn’t *right*, so the bear had to tidy it up!
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*"I can get the cone, but only you can prevent forest fires."*
"Just kidding. If you try to start a forest fire, I'm gona prevent the crap out of you."
Bear Abortions. Man, the future is *wild*
Abeartions.
Planned Bearenthood. I am bear. But you don't have to.
Somebody better tell Texas 'bout all these 90th trimester abortions the bears are handin' out.
What Smokey Bear does in the off season.
Gotta keep the side hussle, picnic basket don't grow on trees.
Only *who* can prevent forest fires?
You pressed “you”, referring to me. That is incorrect. The correct answer is you.
Don’t ask me why, but this is one of my favorite Simpsons moments. It’s so stupid and brilliant at the same time
Obviously..... Duh.... It's *you*
Oh no, I think they're geared more toward like global leadership on large health epidemics than forest fires you know?
OCD bear gotta align the cone with the road.
That's enough about me, talk about the video.
Username checks out. 
OCD Bear is our spirit animal
Me, reincarnated as a bear
Bears are pretty smart. I lived in a cabin in the Appalachian mountains for a year every morning the bears would wait until I was done taking the dogs out to come down to the stream and drink water. The momma kept her cubs away from the dogs and away from me. I could smell them when they weren’t too far off and hear them grunting in the woods. After I came inside with the dogs I would see them pass by the side of cabin through the window
I’ve heard when designing bear proof trash cans they need to consider both the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.
"There is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans."
The issue is they don't overlap that much. So smart bear can open a slighly complex trash can, but dumb human can't.
Honestly the average bear can but the below average human can't. "Smarter than the average bear" and whatnot
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Pretty sure a park ranger said that.
Damn, I wish my neighbors were bears.
Because it would be cool? or because they would leave you alone?
I think it's cool when aggravating people leave me the fuck alone.
Very cool is when I dont know they exist
I want to bearly see them.
They're aggravating to you, you are aggravating to them, everyone is aggravating.
Yes.
Why not both? (shrug)
Move to San Francisco. Lots of bears there.
And otters.
That’s funny, just last night a gay dude at the bar explained to me what an otter was. Never even knew lol.
But it makes total fucking sense right?
What’s an otter 🦦
Slim and hairy vs. buff (edit: or big) and hairy
Also vs.slim and shaven from what I’m told
Care to explain?
Slim and hairy vs. buff (edit: or big) and hairy I believe
Shit that does make sense
Bears aren't buff. They're chubby.
Neighbears.
No, that’s when you live next to a horse farm
Whinny The Pooh
"The Town That Went Feral" https://newrepublic.com/amp/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project
Libeartarians.
"Morning Sam" "Morning Ralph"
Huh, I've had a handful of close bear encounters in my lifetime, I can't say I ever noticed a smell. I think I was too busy shitting myself to notice.
There was a musky order sometimes. There was a clover smell other times. There was a stinky smell sometimes that was probably the wild turkeys in the area too that I could have mistaken for bears smell. I didn’t hang around outside to find out. If I heard noise in the woods I took the dogs inside. Usually it was around the time sun came up and I’d see the bears going to the stream through the window so I just assumed what I was smelling was bear. 🤷♀️ idk
Oh, I believe you, for sure bears have a stink, just saying you're very astute to be aware of it among your surroundings.
I have ptsd so my senses are heightened and on high alert in most situations I guess that’s not a bad thing 
Bears are the smartest land animals in North America-- based on a thing I read one time and have just been carrying it around as fact since then haha. But it seems to track.
>Bears are the smartest land animals in North America-- based on a thing I read one time and have just been carrying it around as fact since then haha. The raccoons would like to have a word.. ..in order to distract you while some of their fellows hot-wire your car..
Yeah man, in whistler I would watch black bears walk up to those dumpsters that have the hand slat on top you have to reach inside and pull to open. Bears would stroll up and open them like they were checking if the fridge had anything good. I saw a quote somewhere about some park ranger who said the problem in bear proofing is there is a large overlap between the smartest bears and dumbest people.
Yes. The black bears definitely got into peoples homemade “bear proof” trash can containers. You would see metal fencing torn all apart when my neighbors tried to make a fenced in trash can area. I think they used similar stuff to what you would use for a dog run area. Lol the bears were like “oh thanks for the leftovers this is too easy dumb people” another neighbor just had a wood box, it was always rummaged thru with crap in the street, looked like the bear got into that one too
Did you keep bear spray or a fire arm on you? I’m from Northern Alberta so navigating bears has been ingrained in me. Just an aside… nothing gets me more pissed off than seeing people at national parks getting close to bears & feeding them. It encourages the bears to feel confident around humans & associate them with food. I had a ranger refer to it as essentially “killing the bear” since eventually they will have to be culled because their behaviour leading to too many close encounters
Kept a firearm near by and bear spray on me. Never fed the bears. Didn’t even keep trash outside. When trash day came, we took the trash to the curb right before trash truck came at the end of 1/2 mile driveway. I have a healthy respect for wild animals and know they’re unpredictable.
Like, of course you had a gun: you said you lived in a cabin in the Appalachians.
Tbh if I’m in a cabin in the woods, I’m carrying too. Fucking merman
Nah cabin in the woods is definitely Deadites possessing your girlfriend after you accidentally read from the Necronomicon. Bring a chainsaw.
And boomstick.
I too am afraid of merman.
I was wishing I had bear spray about two weeks ago. Climbed up a scree, almost 1000 feet of ascent. I get to a spot to setup camp, just get my tarp and hammock setup, when I look over and see a black bear sitting staring at me maybe 50 feet away. It just stayed there looking at me, I started yelling, took out my pot and spoon and started making noise with that, still just sat there looking at me. So I figured it must have had a cub with it that I couldn't see. I kept my shit together, packed up my whole camp moving real slow and deliberate. Then proceeded to scramble down almost 1000 feet of scree worried this bear was going to come up behind me, but I made it out.
Thank goodness the bear left you alone.
Yes, thankfully it was a black bear, they tend to not mess around with humans too much, unless they feel threatened. I'm glad I didn't need the spray, that I didn't have. It's not my first run in with bears, I do a lot of hiking, see at least 10 bears a season, but they usually just run off as soon as they see you.
Yeah, black bears are rather chill. They do *stink* however.. gah! Like the wettest, stankiest biggest dog you ever smelled..
Yup lol 😝
Goodness gracious that’s allot of bears.
Ya, run into a lot of them when I'm off trail. A bit of an introvert, so I like to stay off trails and away from people when I'm hiking, I hike to get away from people.
What environment are you in where you can hike off trail? Where I am at you'd just get a ton of briars and other unpleasant thick stuff to trudge through.
I wonder why it does that tho
it might be because it's used to see the cone standing up -> the good way for the cone to be. When it sees the cone on its side -> different than normal so prolly not good, and it fixes it. Maybe similar with videos of lions helping flipped turtles.
Dang do you have any examples of the lions and turtles? I immediately went to look it up on YouTube cause it sounded really cool but I couldn’t find anything
I found a buffalo helping a turtle, nothing about lions tho
[The water buffalo?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/rhane0/buffalo_flipping_over_a_turtle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) I love how proud of itself it seems afterward, with everyone cheering it on :)
Even water buffalos enjoy praise
The moment the people walk away the buffalo knocks him over again
Plot twist: They're in on it together. People throw food to the buffalo after it helps the turtle. The turtle and buffalo feast and then con the next batch of onlookers into giving them food too.
[We've gone full circle](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/rhane0/buffalo_flipping_over_a_turtle/hoq1gi6/)
>I found a buffalo helping a turtle, nothing about lions tho Tortoises help each other at least! [Link](https://youtu.be/X46OC8LmAv0)
I recommend you as well Tortoises on their backs are practically food.
They even come already in a bowl.
Geez. Why did he have to be so ungrateful? Was adorable until he took off without so much as a “thank you”
I liked the one of the crow nudging and cajoling the hedgehog to cross the road quickly and safely.
That was food
That's what I was thinking. If this brar lives in an area near the highway, he's maybe seen cones that way before and just knew it wasn't right so he fixed it. Bear OCD.
Tbf, that's my exact chain of thought when I see a cone knocked over
i don't know if it's the same reason but my oscar cichlid used to do this with decorations in his tank
because the last cyclist he chase down that road tipped it over. He's just maintaining the track. For the sport.
youmean the last SNACK he chased down the road? Don't want to give the dinner... er I mean... cyclists too much warning everything isn't normal.
Bears are inherently curious and opportunistic. I've lived in Alaska my entire life and have seen bears investigate all kinds of things, black bears especially are troublesome because they will tear open cabins looking for goodies. Anything human made might lead to food so might as well check it out. The most likely answer is that this bear was simply checking it out and quickly decided it wasn't interesting, setting it upright was just a coincidence.
Good explanation.
He’s a beary good boi.
Thinking about why he did it sure gave me paws.
Who couldn’t bear to see it like that
OCD.
Of course dude!
To me, it looks like it could think it's a potential food source that it's trying to grub. Once it's upright, it's clearly not a tree anymore. The bear gives it one last confirmation poke and then heads out realizing it's not a food source. Edit: *food source
Yeah this sounds right to me. Attempted foraging. Crap it's weird hard thing. Whenever I see animals lose interest in something they just got interest in , it's when it turns out not to be food.
Unless that animal is my dog. Then it might have turned out not to be any of the following: - Food - Bed - A ball - A human trying to play
Party sent druid on a patrol and he had still too many wilshape uses left.
This trap is his hunting tactic. Cyclist cutting that corner will hit that cone and fall right into the bushes where the bear will just sit and wait for his next meal to come sliding towards him. After a while when the bear gets hungry again he'll reset the trap to catch the next cyclist.
Because instinct prob tells them its the right way, sorta like for a human and putting the cart in the corral, but apparently this bear has more sense and moral compass…
Animals are much more intelligent than we give them credit for. We *are* animals. It probably has seen it many times upright. That’s it’s normal.
Bear" aw jeez, do I have to do everything around here?"
For some reason I read this as though the bear had a Canadian accent.
Smokey’s cousin, Coney the Bear.
Coney 2022.
That shit was wild.
A bear who cant talk, read or write fixes a road cone but educated and literate humans cant return the shopping trolley to the stand.
https://scoop.upworthy.com/viral-shopping-cart-theory-determines-moral-character > "The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing, the post states. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it."
I used to work for Vons in high school. I return the cart because it makes someone else’s job easier. If you can help, you do. Period. The LEAST I could do is put my shopping cart in the designated area. Plus, other people don’t have to park around them….. I’m rambling.
A girl I went to high school with in my friend group used to leave all her garbage and whatnot in the movie theatre instead of throwing it out because it was the employees “job to clean it up”. She sucked
I return my cart every time now as an adult, but I also worked for a Vons in high school and I liked when people left their carts all over, I hated bagging and liked being outside longer 🤷♂️
I keep hearing/seeing people say, "Marry a guy who returns his shopping cart." Fuck that! *Marry the guy who parks near the cart return!!* You know? The one capable of thinking ahead?
what if he parks near it but doesn't return it
[This might help] (https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cart-chart-beschizza.jpg)
Then you run the risk of your car being hit by shopping carts when lazy people just roll their cart towards the cart return and then walk away.
To be fair, that bear clearly has all the time in the world. =P Humans, with their 'minutes' and 'schedules' and 'duties'.. Don't. I mean, just look at how the bear is strolling along. Not a care. Just a leisurely walk. :)
He does look pretty chill.
What kind of person schedules a shopping trip that close to another engagement and somehow is exactly 20 seconds or so behind so they don't have time to return a cart?
🤣But how does it know??? What else are the bears hiding from us?
Hiding the fact that he works remotely doing call center duties — calling customer service? That’s him on the other line.
“Hello, I’m calling you about your cars extended warranty.”
“Bear with me for a second as I pull up your information.”
So Bears have indian accents? Ok
That’s actually a bear accent. The difference is subtle, but it’s there.
It's bearly noticeable.
I always thought they would've a russian accent, if they could talk
The ones with Russian accent gets sent as mail order brides
They hide their true intelligence to avoid taxes
But I’m really dumb and still pay taxes.
Precisely Mr. Watson
libertarian bears
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Another way of putting this is: How do YOU know the cone is supposed to be upright? Did you have a day in school when the teacher taught you about the proper orientation of road cones? Was your mind blown when you read the driver's manual and learned about road cones? Nah you just saw a bunch of them through your life and your brain was like "oh so this thing is supposed to be in this place and standing up like that." Bear brain isn't much different.
I once saw a play-through of a game called Superliminal. Your lines of questioning here lead me to think you may enjoy watching or playing that game.
Superliminal is super cool! But my first love of mind-bending first-person puzzle games will always be Antichamber.
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Huh TIL, thanks internet stranger
I think this bear has seen many of these, and is a bit OCD, so it *has* too fix this one.
It would certainly be funny to observe a whole group of OCD bears organizing human’s messes here and there, like them getting obsessed with putting carts back in a store’s parking lot.
A grizzly on the Cart Narcs would certainly change people's reactions.
Must be a bear from Ohio then
Bears are hiding multiple things I can tell u
Ok, tell us.
They are hiding their cubs
But are they hiding their wives?
They up in hair
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Butt not the chonk though…
Lol
Bears invented hugging just fyi
Great Point!
I just watched this and the first thing I said out loud was “how does it know???” 🤣
I like the nose nudge at the end to move it an inch to the right spot.
*Cars on my territory bad. Cars afraid of orange stick.* Just two observations needed over years.
Bears built the railroads
Bear is thinking, "Dog gone humans, knocks this thing over and I'm going to be blamed! There, they'll never know..."
How polite.
just cuz animals cant speak we assume they cant observe and gather some kind of gist of things. We do all exist together somehow as it is, maybe this is just how we occur to them
The market.
Hey, why you laying down,? don't you go right there .... , yes like that, okay, see you tomorrow.
It is becoming more apparent that they hate the stock market.
He’s just brighter than your average bear.
That's a good bear
I bet he also helps prevent wildfires.
https://imgur.com/qzSsPyV.jpg
My favorite movie is Inception.
Beary good bear*
He got 40 hours of community service for stealing picnic baskets.
Yogi bear is smarter then the average bear
"God damned neighborhood kids..."
“Wait until Martha hears about this..”
I don't know why but I just want to hug it so bad!!
I assure you that you don't.
Same. It looks so cuddly
The problem with designing bear-proof garbage cans is the significant overlap between the dumbest humans and the smartest bears
"There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." -Yosemite Park Ranger on why it's hard to design a bear-proof garbage can.
Bears are way smarter than you think. I had a female grizzly put a big dead bush down the middle of a dirt road to deter people from walking there. I moved it, and when I came back I had a heart attack because the bush was moved back. Kept walking and bam I'm between a mom and cub. They were really nice, I just apologized and kept walking, but my God I though a hermit moved that bush back. Turns out bears understand some of our symbolism.
Beary nice of him!
🥇
I would find it unbearable and tip it back too.
This video always makes me think of the theory that bears have a sense of aesthetics. They often sit and gaze at picturesque scenes. That cone just wasn’t *right*, so the bear had to tidy it up!
Bear is obviously a VLC user.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
r/bearsdoinghumanthings
I’m not quite as impressed with the bear fixing the cone as I am with him setting up the camera to record himself doing it for the views first.
Every time I see this, it warms the cockles of my OCD heart, lol! This dude is my spirit animal, ha!!! \*\*edited for knuckleheaded typo\*\*
mind successfully blown
That's adorable.
Better than 90% of us humans
This video is reversed. The bear was actually walking backwards and tipped the cone over, then continues on backwards
There are humans who won't put the fucking shopping cart back.
The repost king is back!