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I have recurring nightmares in which my mom,dad, and two brothers are eaten by bears. I think they stem from back when i was a kid, when my mom, dad, and two brothers were eaten by bears.

Hell yeah. Who's pooping in their pants now? Well, no one, cause I guess they don't wear pants...

I'd show him my beary-hairy chest and he'd be like "It's cool bro, same team. No drama!" and move along peacefully.

That's one of the approved measures for handling bear close encounters.

Of course he was a bit careless to be filming like that in the first place.

That moment when you have to login just so you can upvote a comment of this quality.

I appreciate seeing actual footage of how to respond to a charging bear, Up to this point I've only heard various advice ranging from screaming/looking big to rolling into a ball. I seem to remember hearing that different types of bears require different responses, but at least a video is better than just relying on someone's word when dealing with a life and death situation.

I didn't realize until not too long ago that there was such confusion about how to respond to a bear attack. It struck me when I heard someone aghast at the very notion that you should curl into a ball and play dead as if he'd never heard that before. (He must've been living under a rock.)

I think the distinction, which doesn't seem to ever be made explicitly clear, is that if a bear charges you as in this video, then you are supposed to do your best to scare it off (by making yourself appear threatening, bigger, louder, etc.), BUT if a bear has already started attacking you, you obviously can't do that (while laying bloody on the ground), so it's at that time that you should play dead to make the bear think it successfully killed you so it will stop attacking you because there's likely no reason to fight a corpse.

The worst confusing part is that many people think your initial reaction when a bear charges or threatens you should be to lay down and play dead. That's very, very bad advice and I've heard of several cases of people doing that where the bear then just meanders up to the person and starts eating them.

If you just lay down the bear regards you as prey and their eating instincts kick in.

If you first try to fight the bear, it regards you as a threat that it needs to fight and kill, hence once you play dead and it thinks it won the battle, it's more likely to walk away. I think the natural instinct of creatures after a battle is to walk away victorious, not eat the opponent.

This also works great on dogs, though I advise keeping your hands closer to your face for protection, just in case.

the bear did shit in the woods that very day