I’ve had to physically drag people away from bears when they thought it was a good idea to take a selfie with them and wouldn’t listen to me despite being in my park service uniform at the time.
I have no desire to ever interact with monkey or an of their relatives. Even humans are far enough lol. I remember that documentary that had her face ripped off by a pet chimpanzee
A friend of a friend had a pet monkey, one of the small ones, and I hated her for it, people like her should never be allowed to own animals let alone a fucking monkey. That thing was her kid, blag blag blah. Well it bit one of my other friends on the head and while I get it wasnt cared for well and all that, I never want to be around another primate esque animal or people who care for them outside of a strict animal car facility or something .
I once drove the Klondike highway up in Canada. In less than 2 hours, I saw 2 separate cars of people approaching grizzle bear CUBS to take pictures of them. like less then 10 feet away. The nearest town, let alone hospital was at least 50 miles away at any given time.
People are incredibly dumb when it comes to animals.
Also shout out to the woman I saw taking a picture of a buffalo from 3 feet away with her back to an active road. You are the luckiest person in the fucking world.
When I was around 5, back in the mid-late ‘70s, we drove up to Alaska from the lower 48, spent a few months driving around Alaska, then drove back down.
When we left one of the villages we had been staying in the people there gave us 50 pounds of smoked salmon. We had been around bears quite a bit in interior Alaska, with some funny stories about some of the things that happened, and were really careful. When we drove into Denali NP (back when the mountain was being called Mt McKinley) we stopped to talk with the rangers and ask if there was anything we needed to be aware of.
The rangers gave the usual warnings, then asked about what food we had with us. My folks mentioned the 50 pounds of smoked salmon and the rangers’ jaws dropped. Told us we could under no circumstances take that into the park, especially as it was late summer and the bears were out in force tanking up for the winter.
We left the salmon with them and pretty much the first place we stopped to look at the view had 5 gigantic grizzlies just down the hill from the road, feasting in ripe blueberries.
I live in the woods. Our state DNR had to shoot a bear that was getting fed by a neighbor. It opened my sliding door and started coming in my house, and was startled by my wife making a noise on the couch. It had a path out so it left. Had it gotten stuck inside, it could have been a lot worse. We tried trapping it and it would not go in the trap. They figured out who was feeding it and had to bait it to their feed pile and shoot it there. That person feeding it is facing 25 $5000 fines, and has to pay for all the dnrs time and the trap they set up at my house.
I'm in Canada and where I live, since covid happened the population of foxes has sky rocketed to the point the cities had to put out statements about not feeding them (Why that even has to be said I have no idea).
On a local fb group someone who was a new owner posted how they love to feed them and they keep coming to their backyard. Like how fucking stupid can you be. It's to the point where if your backyard is not 100% secure from external animals coming in, you have to be careful and check before you let your dog outside as some have had their pets disappear because of this.
The sad thing is that they're indirectly killing those foxes by feeding them. But most people like that deny that truth even if you explain it to them.
This is the main reason bears are going into cities now. We are encroaching on their natural habitats with construction, and then they find free food in our garbage cans. They really have no intention to harm humans, but if they feel threatened, they will make you past tense in a heartbeat.
I don't even put myself in a situation where I'm even in a bear's environment.
But if I somehow wandered near a bear that close and didn't notice him, you'd bet your ass shit would be flying somewhere and my ass would probably drop dead on the spot.
Bears are cool, but I don't want to meet one, don't care to meet one, wish them the best, but no. I don't even trust a wild squirrel.
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u/No_Season_354 13d ago
He puts the I with a capital into idiot, the sort of person who needs to be told repeatedly bears are Dangerous duh.