• HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I would also like to add, actually educating people about average bear behaviour would help.

    Most bears will flee if given a choice, and are very unlikely to attack. Globally, there’s only around 40 bear attacks a year, and less than 5% are deadly. A lot of how they react is driven by how the encounter starts, if you’re within 60m before it notices you, you’re significantly more likely to be attacked.

    Meaning that seeing a bear from a distance off is basically always just going to be neat and maybe a nice photo.

    They are huge dangerous creatures, but so are people, and they’d rather not take the risk.

    Knowing that makes the argument a bit more reasonable than just pointing out how bad/unpredictable men are

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      6 months ago

      Bear-havior.

      Puns away, I take my kids hiking from time to time and the conversation of bears comes up naturally (I bring it up), and I try to tell them about what to do, what to look for, this and that. It’s almost like literally everything else, education is a key to understanding.

      And bears, for all intents and purposes, are robots, they tend to do what bears do. Now people, on the other hand, they’re a mystery.

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        6 months ago

        tending to do something is not being a robot, a robot does what it is programmed to do, theres no might in that equation.

        there is no IF DISTANCE > 60m DO NOT CHARGE or IF CHILD(WITH[BERRIES]) (EAT)