Cub: "Mom, they're pointing something at us." Mom: "Is it long and thin, or short and fat?" Cub: "Umm. . . The second one, I guess. . . And now one of them is pointing it at her own face-" Mom: "Tourists. They're not dangerous. Just annoying enough to prove that evolution is a lie." Honestly, the more stuff like this I see, the more convinced I am that all the animals in the wild think humanity is actually a bunch of different sub-species. Cub: "Aren't those humans?" Mom: "Yes, but it's only the hunter humans we fear. Those are tourist humans. And we're safe in proximity to them. They're annoying as all Hell, yes, but that's what keeps the hunter humans away from here."
Who else cringed when the mother was looking right at them at 0:39. Anything could had gone wrong in a second. Human arrogance and foolishness has no bounds.
Not really. Bears in that area know humans are not a threat. The ONLY people in that park that are armed are the Rangers, the rest of pepper spray. Bears are not hunted there, and the bears know this. As long as you don't make yourself a threat, the bear will leave you alone. They remained calm, didn't act stupid or tried to threaten the bear. You will notice that the bear didn't act threatening towards the humans, made sure that her cubs were on the other side of her. Most bears wont care if there is a human around. It's when someone makes a move towards her that things go bad. Bears don't go around attacking humans for no good reason. They don't want to spend the energy doing that. The park has about 80,000 people every year and there has only been one minor incident. Timothy Treadwell ignored the Ranger and wasn't even where this bear was. Understanding bear language is one of the best ways to avoid conflict. A bear rearing up on its hind legs is not preparing to devour hikers, it is simply getting a better perspective on what kind of bi-pedal, lime-green-polar fleece-wearing creature is approaching. Avoid eye contact and back away slowly while speaking loudly, but calmly. Do not run, bears like many animals, will instinctively chase fleeing creatures, including humans. If you back away calmly and give the bear its space, more than likely it will make a hasty retreat. Almost every single Ranger in Denali, Katmai, and Glacier say the same thing.
"stop copypasting comments" That's all Leijona Oneiroi can do all day long in his wheelchair - his legs were bitten off by a bear couple of years ago ...
Aragiss well it not really "safe" i dont think they where trying to get that close but when a bear is coming close to you the best thing to do is stand there. cuz if you run or freak out its not gonna end well
CrAzY SaSqUaTcH Someone in the group should have seen that bear from hundreds of meters away and moved well away from the beach. It's a huge animal, can't miss it ;)
Everyone in this video should be thankful they're still alive. That was an unbelievably amazing and just as dangerous of a bear encounter a human can have. Thank you for sharing!
357lockdown And are you assuming the elderly lady is saved and knows the Lord? What if she wasn't, was shredded up only to awaken in hell? You need to repent and call upon Jesus Christ for salvation yourself!
Are you serious? I was joking about the old lady. I don't know if she believes in the same superstitious bullshit that you do. I "need to repent"? You need to step into the real world and forget that man made crap that you believe in. I was once like you, living in a fairytale world...worshipping some big guy in the sky. Then I woke up.
G C Tf? Everyone advanced at relatively the same pace. There were no cavemen while Egyptians were ruling, there were no Neanderthals while caliphate rose.
If you ever do visit Alaska, don't be like these people. Bears are much faster than they look, and if they do decide to go after you it's not going to be pretty.
Humans are not as slow as you think. Humans evolved to be endurance hunters and successful ones at that. Marathons where people, even those who are considered geriatric, run twenty miles or more by training to do so. Basically practice. No other animal is capable or physiologically built to do this. Almost any human can take advantage of this evolutionary adaptation if they choose to.
Yeah a human could have a good shot in a marathon against a bear. But if you're on a beach next to a mother and her cubs, you're going to lose if she charges, regardless of your amazing endurance.
Although mama Bear looked relaxed, she could’ve in a split second switched to attack mode, Bears are unpredictable to say the least You can see her at 0:50 doing that move with her jaws, Bears do that chomping move when they get nervous, that’s an aggressive move and shows that she was actually thinking about it.
@@littlebird8837 I just can’t believe what I just saw! Those people got luckier than hitting the Mega Millions and Powerball on the same week! They just don’t know.
@@willnot3297 I mean these people didn’t do anything wrong. They just remained calm and the bears knew they weren’t a threat. These bears are so confident around people, mother bears have sometimes left their cubs near people while they go get food, as they expect the humans to provide great protection.
I couldn’t tell but it looks like at 0:50 or so it started smacking its jaw, which is a sign of agitation. I don’t think these people know how lucky they were. I am assuming the sheer number of people is what prevented an attack, and no one moved suddenly but even still lucky.
Not really. Bears in that area know humans are not a threat. The ONLY people in that park that are armed are the Rangers, the rest of pepper spray. Bears are not hunted there, and the bears know this. As long as you don't make yourself a threat, the bear will leave you alone. They remained calm, didn't act stupid or tried to threaten the bear. You will notice that the bear didn't act threatening towards the humans, made sure that her cubs were on the other side of her. Most bears wont care if there is a human around. It's when someone makes a move towards her that things go bad. Bears don't go around attacking humans for no good reason. They don't want to spend the energy doing that. The park has about 80,000 people every year and there has only been one minor incident. Timothy Treadwell ignored the Ranger and wasn't even where this bear was. Understanding bear language is one of the best ways to avoid conflict. A bear rearing up on its hind legs is not preparing to devour hikers, it is simply getting a better perspective on what kind of bi-pedal, lime-green-polar fleece-wearing creature is approaching. Avoid eye contact and back away slowly while speaking loudly, but calmly. Do not run, bears like many animals, will instinctively chase fleeing creatures, including humans. If you back away calmly and give the bear its space, more than likely it will make a hasty retreat. Almost every single Ranger in Denali, Katmai, and Glacier say the same thing. Notice the first phrase Understanding bear language...that's how you can tell this bear wasn't worried about the humans. It appears to me that you might be someone who just automatically jumps to conclusions without actually knowing anything.
"Bears in that area know humans are not a threat." Wow, how do you know, do you send bears in the area a shot survey every month or something? This is just stupid, these are wild animals, they don't "know", they use their instinct and react to the environment. What if one of the humans can not keep their cool and starts running, or one of the bear cubs runs towards the humans? You have a powerful and not fully predictable wild animal, that can kill all of these idiots in seconds, especially with the bears cubs around as well.
One swipe would have taken out the mom leaving two more swipes for the other two. Then the state would come in and shoot the sow and we would have cute videos on how the cubs are being hand fed. Reminds me of when the kayakers get right on top of the whales all the time. Aren't there Federal laws to maintain a certain distance? How clueless was the women looking into the camera. That's not Winnie the phooh.
I am speechless. Most reckless thing I have ever seen. Grizzly bear mothers, with cubs are about the most dangerous thing walking around. That could have gone very bad, very fast.
Thats a brown bear, the coastal river version of the grizzly. They are very chill because they don't compete for food like the skinner inland grizzlies do. Let alone the fact that this is a tourist location so these bears are very used to people. But this is also a fact about all bears. They will not charge into a group of people, it's not like in movies where they're just mindless raging machines that don't care how much they get hurt. They'll only take fights they can reasonably win with little to no injuries. It's not going to charge into a group of humans or a couple moose or a herd of caribou, they just won't.
+SamScareCrow They acted correctly according to the situation they found themselves in. Animals, just like dogs often pick up your intentions. If they would have started to run away in panic, the bear would probably be unsettled and put her guard up. As the guy mentioned in the beginning, just relax and leave her room to pass by. The bear didn't identify the tourist as threats to begin with, that's why she walked towards them, she would never bring her cubs towards them otherwise. But as you say though, you don't want to startle a bear with cubs. But I don't think they were lucky, that's a word I wouldn't use.
Bears usually avoid large groups of people, but it seems that mother bear had no natural fear for humans. Otherwise it wouldn't have gotten so close with her cubs. Dangerous situation nevertheless.
Normally people don’t get that close to grizzly bears would u say all those people have no natural sense of fear of the bear. They just knew not to fuck with her, Maybe the bear was intelligent to know not to fuck with them
She was popping her jaw after she passed. Kind of her way of saying "you are too close, and I don't like it". "Bear puppies are so cute".-Mandy Baxter; the Last Man Standing
Not a bear-human relations expert, but I think the key distinctions between this very close encounter with a mother bear and her cubs and more eventful instances (besides what some others have commented about this particular National Park, Katmai, hosting bears that are used to human presence, which I have no comment on) are that here: (1) it would seem the mother bear was continuously very aware of the humans presence from a long distance/time leading up to this, due to clear line-of-sight environment (2) the mother freely, pretty calmly (some chewing motions but no grunts) walked in the direction of the humans, of all possible directions she could choose to walk in, _with her cubs_ mind you. (3) the humans were relatively numerous and more densely packed into a group (less worth the bears energy and perceived safety to antagonize preemptively), and (4) the humans safely stayed put as and after the bears approached and importantly did not approach the bears at any time (the one lady shouldn't have elevated herself to look into the camera imo tho). Had the humans suddenly moved location/walked in a way that seemed like an advance to the bear, or the cubs by extremely bad luck investigated them, disaster was more likely, but none of that happened. This is all to refute a lot of the simplistic comments that confidently state how 'totally stupid' these people apparently are for 'getting that close to a mother bear and her cubs'. The only stupid things were the people splitting into two opposite groups for the bear to pay attention to, potentially making it feel more cornered, and the light chatter/camera noises. Almost all bear attacks on humans who are not literally hunting/chasing bears (they get what's coming to them as a risk) happen because the human (or humanS; though they're probably usually disparate enough to be seen as smaller single threats) has unknowingly or foolishly advanced on and so threatened the bear, since bears do NOT hunt humans, and then failed to do the proper defensive bear safety protocol. The victims in those scenarios are also likely up and moving around up until they see the bear/her cubs and/or the bear sees them, which comes as a sudden surprise to either party at what is now deemed a threatening distance to the bear, filling the encounter with much additional stress and uncertainty for both parties. None of that happens in this video.
No you are not the only one who noticed it, it bothered me slightly. However, it seemed to me to be a normal emotional reaction to what was essentially a deadly encounter for many people. They were too uninformed to realize the danger they were in until it passed. That is how I view it.
Almost as annoying as some moron(@Juan Z) making it a race thing. Bet you have a shit ton of other brilliant comments out there in the ether. Dirty Sanchez nailed it.
Hamish Sutherland exit strategy? you think you can outrun the bear :P. They carry bear spray but didn't seem in any immediate danger. If a bear is threatened it will give off warnings first by by barking are growling or showing some kind of aggressive behaviour.
This group filming saw the bear coming from far away, so they could have moved away, but instead, they stayed on the bear's path, and you could tell the bear wasn't comfortable. It turned around to make sure that the guignol was not following them.
Love it how people and nature can just co-exist sometimes. Like here, where the bears just mind their own business and the people keep to themselves, keeping peace between groups and allowing 'deadly closeups' like this, to be possible with no real fear for safety. Now had the cubs wandered to the humans, there might've been a different story. But you never know.
Those are coastal brown bears. They are pretty docile. There is plenty of fish. So the adults don't get to snacking on the kiddos. Trying doing that to inland grizzly mamas. Unfortunately someone is going to that and dye after watching this. They should take this video down. Not a good idea to get close to grizzly mamas.
Telling people that a wild animal like a bear is less dangerous than a DOMESTIC dog is wildly irresponsible. Every animal has the potential to snap, and just because you follow the proper procedure does not make you completely safe. This is especially true when offspring are involved
can't cure stupid. especially when they kept clicking that camera, thankfully the clicking didn't scare the cubs or it would have been a whole different ending to this video
Don't try to explain complex or complicated to a liberal. In her own little world she believes those people were in great danger because bears don't like white people.
In the end it would have been the bear doing the filming: talking about how the situation was so crazy and how she and her Cubs ended up with the camera.
I love the people's reaction, like "All cool! We got to see a massive mama bear with her cubs up close!". In reality, more like Mama bear didn't perceive you as a threat and as such did not destroy your faces and rip you to shreds.
It is a wonderful video with the exception of the woman who felt she was more important than those bears. If you have the need to stick your face in the photos when something this magical is taking place, then just stay home and take pictures of yourself.
Real smart, have groups of people on either side of a Grizzly with cubs. Damn lucky you didn't get mauled, that bear must have just had the best meal of it's life prior to seeing you.
Especially the ones sitting or laying down who couldn't get away if they needed to. Seems stupid to me. Then when they get attacked or killed, you only see headlines about a "Bear Mauling" not how they were provoked or their territory invaded by a group of dummies. It's always the vicious bear. Never the dumbass humans fault. Here's their sign ?
FuckGoogle+ Got what he deserved? He didn't do anything bad to deserve death. Was he asking for it? Sure. But didn't deserve it. Btw, where did you hear the audio tape? I've never heard it, the woman who had it apparently destroyed it.
Corey Taylor you can find that audio clip at various locations on the internet tho I suppose theres a chance its a hoax. Some of the scenes in grizzly man were too funny.
FuckGoogle+ T T got killed by a bear that had been severely molested twice by F&G personnel. He hated people and took it out on T T and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. Before you disrespect the dead at least get your story/facts right first!
tbh i highly doubt ...just cause all we heard was the sound of a camera doesn't mean thats all they were packing...anyone who ventures where they know there is bears will have bear spray and guns....and if you think these people going "awesome" wouldn't immediately shoot that mother in the face if she acts out...you're mistaken
Sprint Rollingon ARE GUYS STUPID THESE comments omfg. FIRST THE BEAR DECIDED TO GET CLOSE . She felt no threat because she came close. THE PEOPLE DIDNT GET CLOSE TO THE BEAR. The problem comes when u invade its space not the other way around. She didnt even care about the humans. They were in no danger what so ever
I had a similar encounter at the Denali Nationalpark 25 years ago. Bears are not aggressive - when they know you are there, minding your own business, they do not care about you to much. There was an airstrip close by, so the bears have likely seen humans before. Also, the video was shot in midst of july, salmon season just started, there is plenty of food, that is much more nutritious than humans.
YOU GUYS ARE. SO SILLY..SO HILARIOUS.....I DONT KNOW WHICH IS MORE ENTERTAINING..YOUR SHOCKED FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OR THOSE THREE ADORABLE BEARS ..OMG..LOL..LMAO.
Super happy those lil ones were well behaved. If just 1 would have been a bit more curious to come closer it would definetly ended in The Revenant part 2 Beach Edition!
I think this is a lot safer being out in the open because the Mother Bear can see the people from a far distance and know they aren't a threat. If you walked through the thick woods and happened to find yourself face to face with a surprised Mother Bear and 2 cubs she'll attack if she feels theatened.
That bear can out run, out swim and out climb the fitest humans on this planet. When you see a bear approaching on the horizon you should get very much out of the way. Fools with a capital F
Are you sure brown bears can climb at all? I know black bears are excellent climbers, but she looks way to heavy for climbing. On the other hand, climbing wouldnt be an option in this case^^
ok bud, go watch some bears attacking human videos and you'll see how violently unpredictable and spontaneous a bear can be,. especially if they get startled
Actually Bears don't give a crap who you are. These people did the right thing. They didn't bother her, didn't cause her to think they were a threat to her or her cubs. Goes to show how little you know of bears. I have been fishing with bears, and I would say 99% of the time, if you don't bother them, they wont bother you.
they made everything right, so you are fool with small f ) she is going very calm! In situation when so many people around - nobody moves, shes a mother, any movement in such situation can trigger her! Especially because they were sitting, standing up in this particular case could be a mistake!
Possibly not intelligent to keep clicking the camera! Oh! Let’s p**s off the huge Momma Grizzly even more by taking pictures of her babies and making strange noises!!
Clicking is nothing, the bear might think, those are the sounds humans are making, BUT if they accidentally turn flash on, bear and her cubs could be startled, leading them to even higher percentage of becoming a pretty finger-lickin' good meatloaf for the whole family!
OMG I would of been s g in my pants! :o) Nature is so beautiful close up & thank you for sharing! Her claws are MASSIVE! I kept looking at the adorable cubs saying to myself " keep going I do not want any trouble with your momma."
@@austindenotter19 So humans cant go out and explore? The greatest inventions and discoveries were all because people went out and explored. Jesus christ.
These people really don't understand what their dealing with, especially considering the cubs. The smallest gesture or sound can cause a mother to attack while guarding its young. Videos like this give the wrong impression to people on the correct attitude toward wild Grizzly/Brown bears. Should NEVER allow yourself to get this close by choice.
Yes, all it can take is a video to make them look approachable (like this clip). Next time you never know, someone may even attempt to pat one on the head, without being fully aware of what a bear is capable of doing.
Not sure this is still allowed in our national parks, but as a kid back in the 60's traveling through Yosemite & Yellowstone, 40-50 cars would park by the roadside to feed the bears through our windows. One bear jumped on our hood, while two more were at the back windows being fed cookies by myself, and my brothers. lol Probably not very safe, but what an experience!
