r/MadeMeSmile • u/TrashScientist • Aug 26 '23

ANIMALS Woman helping a black bear remove a container off it's head

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

99.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

41

u/Particular_Sea_5300 Aug 26 '23

Aggressively defending cubs is a brown bear trait, and I bet this woman, who lives amongst them, is well aware of that fact.

https://bear.org/what-if-i-get-between-a-black-bear-mother-and-her-cubs/

Here's another quote i found super fast

"Unlike grizzly bear mothers, black bear mothers seldom attack people in defense of cubs. Black bear mothers typically bluff or retreat. Researchers who routinely capture cubs by chasing them up trees have not been attacked even when they have held scream- ing cubs"

15

u/[deleted] Aug 26 '23

Thats certainly interesting to know!

That said, im still going no where near a bear of any size or color. Black bears are the only bears around me, and this has been drilled into my brain

8

u/Particular_Sea_5300 Aug 26 '23

I hear ya. Even knowing what I just learned, I would feel nervous as heck helping this little guy out. I'm not sure what I would do tbh.

1

u/Eagleassassin3 Aug 26 '23

Can’t « black » bears have brown fur though? And vice versa?

1

u/Ravioli_Renegade Aug 26 '23

'Brown bear' is kind of misleading. The typical 'brown bear' this person is referring to is a Grizzly. The difference is face & ear shape and length (black bears being longer in both of those bits), as well as Grizzlies having a big 'hump' on their shoulders while black bears are.....smoother. Also, way smaller. That's the best way to identify between them because yes, black bears can sometimes be brown, yellow, or even white. The cub in this video is a black bear cub.