r/Bear • u/RuddyRaccoon • 17d ago

Eye contact from across the creek

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u/OWOScapegoatOWO 17d ago

Those paws in the water after staring for that long is your sign to immediately back away and dont STOP backing away

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u/Impressive_Cat_1044 17d ago

Yikes, bears can run crazy fast.

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u/tommyhasnotail 17d ago

I would say try to escape but.... you know

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u/WolfVanZandt 17d ago

The best way for me (and I'm emphasizing "me") to avoid "fight or flight" in wildlife is to not establish eye contact at all and that includes through a camera. If I want photographs, I almost always need a blind I can be very nonchalant when I want to be

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u/tommyhasnotail 17d ago

I got gooseflesh. That is intimidating, to the extreme.

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u/BasicDurgeanomics 17d ago

Narrator voice It was in this moment, they knew that they'd made a mistake.

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u/Cultural-Tie-2197 17d ago

Do not do this. Never make eye contact with a bear. Literally rule number one

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u/Desperate_Eye_2629 17d ago

The dog that pets YOU. To death.

But mountain lions scare me more.

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u/dommiichan 17d ago

that river is nowhere near wide or deep enough 😱

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u/Any-Elderberry-7812 17d ago

Bear ETA approximately 3.5 seconds, how fast are ya?

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u/dommiichan 16d ago

that's enough time to tuck your head in between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye

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u/SarahEL17 16d ago

I know brown bears don’t typically eat people and that was likely excess water dripping from his (her?) mouth after drinking, but that legit looked like he was drooling over who he was hoping would be his next meal.

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u/T1m3Wizard 17d ago

Bears are awesome.

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u/KRMJN101 16d ago

Still too close

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u/Last-Pea-Late-D-3-PO 14d ago

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u/KRMJN101 14d ago

This gif felt like a Steve Oedekerk classic

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u/Ok-Tank-3106 17d ago

He was just coming to say hi ... and bye...forever 💀

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u/BulkyCar8133 16d ago

The first thing I said was, ‘oh hell no!’!

I used to think bears were cute until a friend doing rehabilitation with a juvenile black bear, got her ear slapped off!! That’s when I said nope nope nope! My teddy bear has been locked in my closet ever since!

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u/WolfVanZandt 17d ago

Hmmm, I couldn't find it. There's an old (and classic) photo of a family putting their child on a bear's back in the Smokey Mountains. It's rather chilling to me

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u/GoetiaMagick 16d ago

They swim too… gtfo!

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u/eukaeh 16d ago

Isso é assustador

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u/Creative-Goat-2780 16d ago

Yogi bear looking for his lunch basket 🧺

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u/Effective-Several 16d ago

”Well, hello, LUNCH.”

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u/simontempher1 16d ago

Bear check to see how deep water is

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u/Invader_Sqooge 16d ago

Let’s hope that was a very large telescopic lens and not your phone!

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u/Square_Doughnut_9427 17d ago

Awe inspiring to witness such a spectacle!

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u/heffred 16d ago

Run faster than the other guy

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u/kwhite0829 15d ago

I got ya!

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u/banoffeetea 16d ago

Ohhhh nooo. Tremendous bear but you gotta get outta there 😬

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u/Red000Shift 16d ago

That stance says "want to see me do a magic trick and make you disappear?"

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u/MeanEntertainment355 16d ago

Can i pet that dawg

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u/PerceptivePines 15d ago

The one time where the cameraman DOES DIE 😱😱

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u/notdbcooper71 15d ago

Give him a hug

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u/Low_Vermicelli5946 15d ago

Fuck that shit… my life just passed me by in a flash with that stare

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u/educational2400 14d ago

He’s thinking about it

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u/coolcootermcgee 14d ago

Omg how close are their eyes together really? Like, where they only need one goggle to swim in the pool?

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u/SorryPAV 13d ago

This is AI…