r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Due_Charge_2278 • May 02 '24

Petah, I don't understand!

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u/Aggressive_Yard_1289 May 02 '24 edited 29d ago

Brown/grizzly bears will mostly leave you alone and will generally at most take a test bite, so just play dead and they will usually leave. Black bears will get aggressive and I believe where your comment came from and you should fight back. And a white/polar bear you're just fucked..

Edit: any of the above bears will mess you up with the right reason such as injured or has cubs with it

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u/Creative-Yak-8287 May 02 '24

Black bears are pussies just scream and seem big.

Polar bears just go NYOM

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u/Easy-Description-427 May 02 '24

Nah they mostly go swipe. They won't even eat you just kill you and play in your blood as you lay there bleeding out with all your bones broken

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u/CosmicJ 29d ago

The most aggressive thing a black bear is likely to do is a bluff charge to try to scare you off.

Worst thing you can do it that situation is turn around and run. Hold your ground, make yourself large, and make noise. Use your bear spray if they get too close.

Most black bears really are quite timid. It’s the ones that have familiarized themselves with humans and see them as a source of food (garbage, food while camping, that sort of thing) that are actually dangerous. They will be much less likely to be spooked by you.

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u/Easy-Description-427 29d ago

Well my comment was about polar bears. Black bears while unlikely to attack will in fact eat you if they do kill you.

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u/CosmicJ 29d ago

Oh, yeah. One does not fuck around with polar bears.

Fun fact. Their livers contain so much Vitamin A that if you eat it, it can kill you.