Grandpa used to work radio on Jan Mayen and many of the islands north of Norway. Islands towards the north pole where polar bears operate. (We're Norwegian). He has pictures only 20 meters or less with polar bears. They carried rifles, but never used them as just charging would often be enough! In many cases running at them with timer or wood would work wonders, though your rifle was ALWAYS on your back no matter what. They were like 4 - 5 guys max, and during winter wouldnt see people for 4+ months. He gave me nightmares when he said that the polar bears at night would peel hundreds of kilos of timber and wood (houses or huts walls) right off the foundation like they were toothpicks! He has so many good photographs from 60 - 80 maybe, of polar bears! It's fun to think about, nobody else in the world has those pictures, and those bears are long gone by now! They are not digital. I'll ask him if I can inherit them!
“You just gotta pray it doesn’t happen really”, is the best thing he said in the video. You are not winning a fight with a bear even if your muscles have muscles. It’s either you’ll survive because of a miracle, or it’s lights out!
Without rigor. I've been practicing MMA for 6 years now, boxing in parallel for 7 years, I could. As well as bodybuilding for 4 years, 1m87 for 86 kg I have crazy speed, and reflexes identical to my speed. I just have to wait for him to charge at me, dodge him and hit him in the head. I won't let go of him at the slightest mistake, the gorilla is finished. You'll always have virgins from here who think it's impossible. Nothing is impossible with willpower, friends, and 2) it's not with your cowardly body that you're going to do anything. Any man with a minimum of training can defeat a polar bear with a knife. With bare hands it's not necessarily more complicated, it just requires technique.
@@ismbks you're delusional. A bear charges so fast and their shoulders are so wide it doesn't matter if you trick it with a dodge, because the dodge can't get you out of their reach. You'd be lucky to be decapitated quickly. But you'll likely get eaten alive. But hey, I admire your confidence and would love to watch you try! ❤
I remember a news piece when I was a kid that talked about 2 hunters tracking a bear. The brown or grizzly bear "back tracked" on them and surprised them from behind. One man ran, the other "played dead." The bear used the "dead" guy as a toy crushing almost every bone in his body. He survived.
My buddy's grandpa was hunting polar bear in the 1950's when the bear backtracked its own footprints after they had been tracking him for a little over an hour. Once they realized what had happened, they got out of there as soon as they could knowing they had become the hunted. Ended up scoring a nice polar bear rug on the next days hunt. Hearing his account always made me think of a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Elmer Fudd getting tricked in a similar fashion.
@@jackwhitbread4583 do you realise polar bears are going into populated areas now and will eat you, there are reasons to hunt predators. Stop living life in black and white.
The basic rule of thumb about bears is that you never want to see a bear when there's snow on the ground. If there's snow on the ground, they're hungry enough to eat you.
Don’t get too comfortable. There’s actually a large portion of mentally stunted people in the UK who are advocating for bears to be re-introduced to the countryside. Wolves too.
It is very, very rare for a black bear to ever want to harm a human. I run into them all the time and I mostly see their butts as they run away when they hear me approach. Best advice is to look bigger and make noise (not screaming, just talk really loud).
@@michellechaychayughhh maybe because it’ll attract too much attention, you don’t want to attract an angry tiger hearing a noisy intruder is coming to his territory, do you? I’m from India, so the tiger is our biggest fear here
I remember arguing with someone about whether a male polar bear or male lion would win in a battle. I still believe, its the polar, and it’s not even close, I believe the lion would even crouch down and submit to the polar bear. There is footage of Tigers submitting to Black Bears. Such a beautiful/ brutal force of nature.
Grandpa used to work radio on Jan Mayen and many of the islands north of Norway. Islands towards the north pole where polar bears operate. (We're Norwegian). He has pictures only 20 meters or less with polar bears. They carried rifles, but never used them as just charging would often be enough! In many cases running at them with timer or wood would work wonders, though your rifle was ALWAYS on your back no matter what. They were like 4 - 5 guys max, and during winter wouldnt see people for 4+ months. He gave me nightmares when he said that the polar bears at night would peel hundreds of kilos of timber and wood (houses or huts walls) right off the foundation like they were toothpicks! He has so many good photographs from 60 - 80 maybe, of polar bears! It's fun to think about, nobody else in the world has those pictures, and those bears are long gone by now! They are not digital. I'll ask him if I can inherit them!
As someone who sees black bears regularly, you can basically take a broom to a single black bear without cubs and they will not want to deal with you. Most of the time just the sight of a human is enough to make the bear not want to deal with you. If you have a large dog, the black bear will be even less inclined to deal with you. Black bears are fierce when their cubs are concerned and the males can get really kinda uncomfortably large but basically they don’t want to interact with humans.
I once saw a 35 pound dog chasing off a black bear… But every now and then a black bear is built different and remembers it’s 300 pounds of muscle, tooth, and claw.
@@nickm8874 no, he outright said that if they want you, you’re screwed. I’m gonna believe an animal expert, over a UA-cam one. 🤷♀️ Your issue is you’re trying to get into semantics that aren’t actually there.
They also dump an inordinate amount of adrenaline into their systems during fight or flight, far more than a human does, it is part of why they are so much stronger. Also, if it wants to eat you, it will just pin you down and start ripping off pieces, it doesn't bother going for the kill so you don't struggle, because you aren't getting away and it knows it.
Another Canadian here who has dealt with a young woman who was partially eaten alive by a black bear. They are unpredictable and I’ll never look at one the same way again.
@@squangan tbh that's probably because the black bear was starving. This is like a 1 and a million chance. They don't typically even bite humans nvm eating parts lol.
There's behind the scenes footage of the team from one of David Attenborough's docos (the infamous one with the walruses falling from the cliff) and they are surrounded by half a dozen polar bears while filming the walrus scene. The polar bears are pretty close to them but are completely disinterested in attacking or even threatening them. Moral of the story, a well fed polar bear is significantly less dangerous than a hungry one obviously 😂
Yeah saw them falling like 70 feet to the rocks below, but I wondered how the hell they got up there. All totalled, I think over 200 Walruses died. They are HUGE, so I'm sure they didn't need to pay much attention to the guys with a very tiny amount of meat
Canadian here. At no point should you lie down and play dead with any bear. They will happily eat you anyway because they can smell and sense that you are not dead. See a bear, slowly walk away. Always carry bear spray. If you regularly go into the wilderness that contains bears, learn to fire a rifle, get a firearms license, buy and bring a rifle with you.
No, Steve Backshall is correct. I'm also Canadian and have ran into a Grizzly Bear in Canmore Alberta in a Mountain meadow and too many Black Bears to count. You play dead if a Grizzly attacks you, fetal position and cover the back of your neck with your hands. They are most likely seeing you as a threat and will quite often leave if they believe you are dead. If a Black bear attacks you, you fight and the reason is it is in predatory mode at this point and plans on making you it's Supper because 95% of Black bears run away when they bump into a human. Like he said, if a Polar Bear attacks you it's over, you are Supper.
@@ramijohteinen5034 most bear attacks from grizzlies and black bears happen from females with their cubs. in those cases, they're not looking for a meal, they just are protecting their cubs from a perceived threat. If you fight back against a grizzly, or try to run, you're absolutely toast. If you play dead, there is at least a chance that it will consider you're not a threat, and turn attention back to the cubs to move them out of sight.
Got taught at 5 years old: you go into bear country, you load heavy. There is an American saying: “loaded for bear”, which means you carry the most powerful weapon you’ve got, because you get between a cub and its mom, that gun is the only chance you’ve got.
@@Justin-yp1dzi've never understand why they teach kids in schools to play dead for a brown bear...i've heard of multiple people trying that and meeting a grizzly end (pun intended) atleast TRY and get away?! 🤷🏻♂️
Ooof I’m working on getting over some bear related trauma from 20 years ago. This video popped up. I was in Alaska, late summer, and I used to say I was attacked by a grizzly bear, but in truth, had I been attacked I’d be dead. I was merely…injured by a grizzly bear during an encounter that was due to a lack of situational awareness. We were camping, had been very very careful until the morning of the tenth day when I sleepily wandered to go potty and brush my teeth early in the morning without any precautions. I basically slammed into a momma bear and her cubs as my eyes weren’t really adjusted. She was NOT happy, I had nothing, so I had no time to think and used instincts. I went face down into a sort of fetal position or like a pillbug, covered my neck and head and let her do her thing. She shifted me around a bit, lots of sniffing and snorting, I can still smell and feel her breath. Her face fur snelled like death, I reckon there was clotted blood and fish stuck in it? Her breath was hot and her mass was significantly more than I would’ve thought having observed them at a distance before. It’s like seeing pictures of a draft horse then standing next to one, very different feelings as far as gravitational pull. She was massive and I just waited it out. I made no movements, no sound, nothing, in my head I was a goner, she pawed at me a bit, and I kept thinking any moment she’s gonna flip me and kill me. But she didn’t. She left. I was frozen in terror. It felt like hours but I think it was all over and done in 90-120 seconds? I was hurt, I do have some scars, and I had to go to the hospital and receive antibiotics for the lacerations. Doctors all agreed, had she wanted to hurt me I’d be dead. So now, I really just try to avoid bears. I made the mistake of watching grizzly man and had a very long and drawn out panic attack at the theater. It was packed and I just had my eyes and ears closed for most of it. I couldn’t even get up, there were people packed around me and I didn’t want to disturb them and choking that scream back was hell. There are black bears in my area, and I really do everything I can to avoid confrontation but I know they’re much easier to deter and less likely to want to get involved with us. The polar bear at the zoo had babies and I had to leave. I kept thinking I’d be fine because it’s a white bear, but the exhibit had them OVER us, so she was looking down with her cubs and I was hightailing it. Thank you for this video and reminding me to stay away!!
Thank you for sharing. Have you spoken to other bear attack survivors? It might help. Also, have you tried kundalini yoga? It’s effective for removing traumas from the body and mind. I’ve done it myself, so if you want to know more about it, feel free to dm. It’s possible to recover fully and live a normal life. All the best!
I went out on a hiking excursion and we had to be outfitted before the hike. They gave us little jingle bells to wear on our belts. This was so we didn’t surprise any bears along the trails and they also gave us pepper spray in the event of a bear attack. The guide told us that we might encounter different types of bears and we should know how to determine what kind of bears were around by examining any scat, poop, that we came across on the trails. The guide told us that black bear scary would have fur and berries and grizzly bear scat would have little bells and smell like pepper…😳
I know I’m glad we ain’t got these type of animals in the uk even though it would be nice and majestic to see but I would forget to take bear spray with me and end up in a pickle so I’m glad they ain’t around here 😂😂
@@Justin-yp1dzif he's a scared little girl, sure, he'll want to use a gun. I have encountered dozens of bears and scare them away with ease. His advise was sound.
with black bears you want to be as big and aggressively loud if they start running at you. with a grizzly your options involve bear spray/gun or a really good backpack that might just protect your vital organs whilst you pray.
The best thing to do in bear country is making noise, if your with someone else, talk abit louder, bears will usually stay out of your way, if they know your there, if you happen to cross paths suddenly at short distance it depends on the bears fight or flight instinct, hence making noise is a good way to let them know your there.
The utility of bear spray is really under appreciated. Not only is it non-lethal for the animal, it gives them a profoundly unpleasant experience to associate with humans, and will discourage future contact.
Every clip I see him either getting bitten or stung by whatever he's haphazardly handling it started to feel like it was a character from a 90s comedy sketch show
I grew up in polar bear country. A bear attack survivor came to our school and showed us pictures of the aftermath, as well as the surgery that stabled him back together. I still have nightmares about it.
@@mspaint93 I choose to believe that zoologists have tested a variety of different animal and drug combinations, until they landed on one that produces the exact equivalent threat level of a male panda during mating season i.e. cats on opioids.
@@anthonyrobino145 in the last 150 years there’s been only 70 polar bear attacks WORLDWIDE. Only 20 deaths. Alaskans don’t encounter polar bears enough to have that opinion. Also we’ve done studies on how efficacious bear spray is against polar bears and it was show to be almost 100% effective. You’re actually warned specifically AGAINST shooting bears. Bears can take a lot of bullets before going down. Especially a polar bear, they’re huge. Shooting a bear is likely to enrage it, making its behavior much more erratic and unpredictable
@@vegahimsa randomly pointless statistic was random and pointless, and yes they can tank shots which is why the caliber matters 44 magnum 357 things like that they are not tanking, 10 mm also carries the force and stopping power to stop a charge. Much much much more range of effectiveness. I never said Alaskans deal with polar bears just bears if they don’t trust their lives on bear spray with a smaller, less aggressive bear, you can see the point being made, no?
@@anthonyrobino145 no I can’t see the point you’re making at all because the experts quite literally disagree. If bear spray didn’t work, it wouldn’t exist and wouldn’t be so heavily recommended by experts. It’s also much more reasonable for hikers to carry bear spray than every hiker carry around a magnum firearm. What you’re saying is not only disputed by experts- it’s also insensible and illogical. Nothing I stated was “random”, it’s just in direct opposition to what you’re saying so you don’t like it
@@itskarl7575 it’s a joke amigo..you’d have to place your shot into the bears eye to be effective..and if you’re scared and it’s running at you, yeah you’re most likely fahked
brown get down can get you eaten alive, brown bears have the most random personalities out of any bear, in fact im pretty sure more people scared them off more than surviving after getting in a compromised position
I’ve found that staying at home in the UK has been incredibly effective
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Me too
Yeah buddy😅
Loser
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" if its brown get down, if its black attack, if its white goodnight"
I think most will "run away in chaos" or go "night night" 😴😂🙈
Same as with people really
This is how American police look at people 😅
😮😂 @@richiewinters7242
Grandpa used to work radio on Jan Mayen and many of the islands north of Norway. Islands towards the north pole where polar bears operate. (We're Norwegian).
He has pictures only 20 meters or less with polar bears. They carried rifles, but never used them as just charging would often be enough! In many cases running at them with timer or wood would work wonders, though your rifle was ALWAYS on your back no matter what.
They were like 4 - 5 guys max, and during winter wouldnt see people for 4+ months.
He gave me nightmares when he said that the polar bears at night would peel hundreds of kilos of timber and wood (houses or huts walls) right off the foundation like they were toothpicks!
He has so many good photographs from 60 - 80 maybe, of polar bears! It's fun to think about, nobody else in the world has those pictures, and those bears are long gone by now! They are not digital.
I'll ask him if I can inherit them!
"You're stuffed" seems like a very polite way of saying "you're fu***d".
😂exactly😂
Seems like it.
No. He meant "stuffed" as in what a taxidermist does. Because you are a corpse-to-be.
@@ismailabdelirada9073 No. 'Stuffed' is just another worked for 'fucked' in British slang.
@@Theo-yo8ph: I think you have missed my (humorous) point.
“You just gotta pray it doesn’t happen really”, is the best thing he said in the video. You are not winning a fight with a bear even if your muscles have muscles. It’s either you’ll survive because of a miracle, or it’s lights out!
Without rigor.
I've been practicing MMA for 6 years now, boxing in parallel for 7 years, I could.
As well as bodybuilding for 4 years, 1m87 for 86 kg
I have crazy speed, and reflexes identical to my speed. I just have to wait for him to charge at me, dodge him and hit him in the head. I won't let go of him at the slightest mistake, the gorilla is finished. You'll always have virgins from here who think it's impossible. Nothing is impossible with willpower, friends, and 2) it's not with your cowardly body that you're going to do anything.
Any man with a minimum of training can defeat a polar bear with a knife. With bare hands it's not necessarily more complicated, it just requires technique.
Is this an old copypasta? @@ismbks
@@ismbks you're delusional. A bear charges so fast and their shoulders are so wide it doesn't matter if you trick it with a dodge, because the dodge can't get you out of their reach.
You'd be lucky to be decapitated quickly. But you'll likely get eaten alive.
But hey, I admire your confidence and would love to watch you try! ❤
@ismbks either you're trolling, or you're just plain stupid.
@@ismbkswhere do you get your weed bro?
I remember a news piece when I was a kid that talked about 2 hunters tracking a bear. The brown or grizzly bear "back tracked" on them and surprised them from behind. One man ran, the other "played dead." The bear used the "dead" guy as a toy crushing almost every bone in his body. He survived.
My buddy's grandpa was hunting polar bear in the 1950's when the bear backtracked its own footprints after they had been tracking him for a little over an hour. Once they realized what had happened, they got out of there as soon as they could knowing they had become the hunted. Ended up scoring a nice polar bear rug on the next days hunt. Hearing his account always made me think of a Bugs
Bunny cartoon with Elmer Fudd getting tricked in a similar fashion.
Glad the hunters got what was coming to them!
@@jackwhitbread4583 do you realise polar bears are going into populated areas now and will eat you, there are reasons to hunt predators. Stop living life in black and white.
@@jackwhitbread4583bro
@@jackwhitbread4583 I mean the bear was hunted and killed later on so yeah.
The basic rule of thumb about bears is that you never want to see a bear when there's snow on the ground. If there's snow on the ground, they're hungry enough to eat you.
True it's getting close to sleep time
That’s pretty interesting didn’t think abt that at all
So anytime for polar bears
@@huntrichardson Yup. Pretty much. Polar Bears will eat you on sight.
This is facts
Received loud and clear here in Yorkshire 🇬🇧
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Gods own county
Don’t get too comfortable. There’s actually a large portion of mentally stunted people in the UK who are advocating for bears to be re-introduced to the countryside. Wolves too.
😂😂😂😂😂 @dellwright1407
😂 and in Birmingham. Really useful information I thought 😂
“Jamie pull up that clip of me fighting a bear”
Pull it up, J mo!
Ok here it is
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Fingers
It is very, very rare for a black bear to ever want to harm a human. I run into them all the time and I mostly see their butts as they run away when they hear me approach. Best advice is to look bigger and make noise (not screaming, just talk really loud).
You can carry a little bell too! Maybe strap on to your backpack or belt loop.
What region u live?
Why shouldn’t we scream?
Black bears cause more fatalities than brown or polar bears.
@@michellechaychayughhh maybe because it’ll attract too much attention, you don’t want to attract an angry tiger hearing a noisy intruder is coming to his territory, do you? I’m from India, so the tiger is our biggest fear here
I remember arguing with someone about whether a male polar bear or male lion would win in a battle. I still believe, its the polar, and it’s not even close, I believe the lion would even crouch down and submit to the polar bear. There is footage of Tigers submitting to Black Bears. Such a beautiful/ brutal force of nature.
Disregarding armed humans, you’d have to look to long extinct animals to find an animal able to take on the polar bear on land.
@@honestitisim pretty sure that a hippo can win a fight against a polar bear rather easily.
@@rodsmonster4470 Agreed.
The polar bear would eat the lion.
@hippo vs polar bear would be interesting… you can’t drop a polar bear in the middle of Africa. It would overheat and die in minutes
The best way is to always travel with someone who is slower than you.
Very wise. ✌️
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Good idea, but at my age, it's difficult to find a slower person. If I took a turtle with me, would that help?😊
@@donnatate458 best not go out lol, you might be the slow friend unfortunately
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Grandpa used to work radio on Jan Mayen and many of the islands north of Norway. Islands towards the north pole where polar bears operate. (We're Norwegian).
He has pictures only 20 meters or less with polar bears. They carried rifles, but never used them as just charging would often be enough! In many cases running at them with timer or wood would work wonders, though your rifle was ALWAYS on your back no matter what.
They were like 4 - 5 guys max, and during winter wouldnt see people for 4+ months.
He gave me nightmares when he said that the polar bears at night would peel hundreds of kilos of timber and wood (houses or huts walls) right off the foundation like they were toothpicks!
He has so many good photographs from 60 - 80 maybe, of polar bears! It's fun to think about, nobody else in the world has those pictures, and those bears are long gone by now! They are not digital.
I'll ask him if I can inherit them!
Yes, banging a saucepan can make them run away. Lying down will get you eaten though because they are not fussy eaters like most carnivores.
Give them to Joe Rogan who is always talking about bears
Jesus. Polar bears with rifles! 😳
Are you saying that the bears tore into the houses to get to the people inside?
Bæd-æs!
Basically depending on the encounter you need one of 3 sticks. Black bear, big stick. Brown bear, be a stick. Polar bear, boom stick.
Broom stick
@@jm9841 Also known as the universal or all in one anti-bear stick. Don't skimp on the caliber.
I apply one of those sticks to all bears
Thanks for the advice Ash 👍
Just bring a Russian.
As someone who sees black bears regularly, you can basically take a broom to a single black bear without cubs and they will not want to deal with you. Most of the time just the sight of a human is enough to make the bear not want to deal with you. If you have a large dog, the black bear will be even less inclined to deal with you. Black bears are fierce when their cubs are concerned and the males can get really kinda uncomfortably large but basically they don’t want to interact with humans.
I once saw a 35 pound dog chasing off a black bear… But every now and then a black bear is built different and remembers it’s 300 pounds of muscle, tooth, and claw.
because bears are smart, they know that hurting you without the intent for food isnt worth the risk of injury as it means death in most cases
My understanding of "gets really kinda uncomfortably large" is that the bear gets an erection and does an unspeakable deed
The ones I’ve seen seemed to be more interested in donuts than any human in the area 😂
If you bring a dog and run into a mother and cub you can kiss your dog goodbye.
Polar bears love when you fight back too! They don't mind playing with their meal LMAO
So he’s basically saying it doesn’t matter what you do you’re screwed either way? Weirdly comforting
No. You have half a chance of brown and black bears losing interest, if you play dead / fight back respectively with those two.
Reality
Unless you have a massive gun a polar bear will eat you. Probably while you're still alive.
Basically he's saying carry bear spray and a .45 if you're in bear country
@@nickm8874 no, he outright said that if they want you, you’re screwed. I’m gonna believe an animal expert, over a UA-cam one. 🤷♀️ Your issue is you’re trying to get into semantics that aren’t actually there.
They also dump an inordinate amount of adrenaline into their systems during fight or flight, far more than a human does, it is part of why they are so much stronger.
Also, if it wants to eat you, it will just pin you down and start ripping off pieces, it doesn't bother going for the kill so you don't struggle, because you aren't getting away and it knows it.
All wild animals do this.
@@Zas695 Big cats kill their prey promptly and they keep their prey quiet.
For a bear, your screams are like dinner music.
This is terrifying
It could have zero adrenaline and still outmatch us 1000 to 1 it is proper a monster
A wild boar is a million times worse! You get no chances regardless of if you're a bear or human. 🤣
Basically carry a big ass gun if your going near bears 😂
british people arent allowed to talk about guns or advocate for guns😂 "you need bear spray" he says.. no, we carry shotguns here in canada😂
Never surrender your rights like we did here 🇬🇧
@@tarzanstricklandI wouldn't feel safe around a bear with anything less than a machine gun. Maybe a cannon but I'd fear I'd miss.
@@tarzanstrickland aha yeah but we also have no bears to worry about we hunted them to extinction
@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617
Mr. Churchill said once & you didn't listen to him.🤔🙄😡.
Cunning after....?!
I love his slang.
I could listen to that for hours.
Canadian here. GRIZZLIES EAT HUMANS TOO. Its the Black Bears that are scared of you more than you are scared of it.
Another Canadian here who has dealt with a young woman who was partially eaten alive by a black bear. They are unpredictable and I’ll never look at one the same way again.
@@squangan tbh that's probably because the black bear was starving. This is like a 1 and a million chance. They don't typically even bite humans nvm eating parts lol.
not normal but sure it can happen
@@anonymous134y Google Dawson City bear attack 1999.
@@anonymous134y a 1 in a million chance is still a chance so no thank you
There's behind the scenes footage of the team from one of David Attenborough's docos (the infamous one with the walruses falling from the cliff) and they are surrounded by half a dozen polar bears while filming the walrus scene. The polar bears are pretty close to them but are completely disinterested in attacking or even threatening them. Moral of the story, a well fed polar bear is significantly less dangerous than a hungry one obviously 😂
wasnt there a story where they were being "hunted by polar bears"
Yeah saw them falling like 70 feet to the rocks below, but I wondered how the hell they got up there. All totalled, I think over 200 Walruses died. They are HUGE, so I'm sure they didn't need to pay much attention to the guys with a very tiny amount of meat
That scene was absolutely heartbreaking...they didn't know how to go back down. I'm sad all over again, now.
Canadian here. At no point should you lie down and play dead with any bear. They will happily eat you anyway because they can smell and sense that you are not dead. See a bear, slowly walk away. Always carry bear spray. If you regularly go into the wilderness that contains bears, learn to fire a rifle, get a firearms license, buy and bring a rifle with you.
What do you do with these new grizzly/ polar bear crosses?
While they ear you you will be alive for at least 15 minutes. Horrible
No, Steve Backshall is correct. I'm also Canadian and have ran into a Grizzly Bear in Canmore Alberta in a Mountain meadow and too many Black Bears to count. You play dead if a Grizzly attacks you, fetal position and cover the back of your neck with your hands. They are most likely seeing you as a threat and will quite often leave if they believe you are dead. If a Black bear attacks you, you fight and the reason is it is in predatory mode at this point and plans on making you it's Supper because 95% of Black bears run away when they bump into a human. Like he said, if a Polar Bear attacks you it's over, you are Supper.
Playing dead is one of the stupidest "tactics" i've ever heard. Most predators eat their prey when their dead..
@@ramijohteinen5034 most bear attacks from grizzlies and black bears happen from females with their cubs. in those cases, they're not looking for a meal, they just are protecting their cubs from a perceived threat. If you fight back against a grizzly, or try to run, you're absolutely toast. If you play dead, there is at least a chance that it will consider you're not a threat, and turn attention back to the cubs to move them out of sight.
Got taught at 5 years old: you go into bear country, you load heavy. There is an American saying: “loaded for bear”, which means you carry the most powerful weapon you’ve got, because you get between a cub and its mom, that gun is the only chance you’ve got.
@@rolandbeliveau8379 pretty much.
That's an AMAZING saying😂😂
If That
Brown, Polar .416 Caliber like a Remington, Rigby, or Weatherby and good aim and control.
@@Justin-yp1dzi've never understand why they teach kids in schools to play dead for a brown bear...i've heard of multiple people trying that and meeting a grizzly end (pun intended) atleast TRY and get away?! 🤷🏻♂️
Bear Spray .... lol I was thinking more like a rocket launcher.
😂
My panicked ass would spray himself by mistake
Or a harpoon.
Ooof
I’m working on getting over some bear related trauma from 20 years ago.
This video popped up.
I was in Alaska, late summer, and I used to say I was attacked by a grizzly bear, but in truth, had I been attacked I’d be dead.
I was merely…injured by a grizzly bear during an encounter that was due to a lack of situational awareness.
We were camping, had been very very careful until the morning of the tenth day when I sleepily wandered to go potty and brush my teeth early in the morning without any precautions.
I basically slammed into a momma bear and her cubs as my eyes weren’t really adjusted.
She was NOT happy, I had nothing, so I had no time to think and used instincts.
I went face down into a sort of fetal position or like a pillbug, covered my neck and head and let her do her thing.
She shifted me around a bit, lots of sniffing and snorting, I can still smell and feel her breath.
Her face fur snelled like death, I reckon there was clotted blood and fish stuck in it?
Her breath was hot and her mass was significantly more than I would’ve thought having observed them at a distance before.
It’s like seeing pictures of a draft horse then standing next to one, very different feelings as far as gravitational pull.
She was massive and I just waited it out.
I made no movements, no sound, nothing, in my head I was a goner, she pawed at me a bit, and I kept thinking any moment she’s gonna flip me and kill me.
But she didn’t.
She left.
I was frozen in terror.
It felt like hours but I think it was all over and done in 90-120 seconds?
I was hurt, I do have some scars, and I had to go to the hospital and receive antibiotics for the lacerations.
Doctors all agreed, had she wanted to hurt me I’d be dead.
So now, I really just try to avoid bears.
I made the mistake of watching grizzly man and had a very long and drawn out panic attack at the theater.
It was packed and I just had my eyes and ears closed for most of it.
I couldn’t even get up, there were people packed around me and I didn’t want to disturb them and choking that scream back was hell.
There are black bears in my area, and I really do everything I can to avoid confrontation but I know they’re much easier to deter and less likely to want to get involved with us.
The polar bear at the zoo had babies and I had to leave.
I kept thinking I’d be fine because it’s a white bear, but the exhibit had them OVER us, so she was looking down with her cubs and I was hightailing it.
Thank you for this video and reminding me to stay away!!
Have you seen a therapist to help you overcome your phobia?
Crazy story 😮
Thank you for sharing. Have you spoken to other bear attack survivors? It might help. Also, have you tried kundalini yoga? It’s effective for removing traumas from the body and mind. I’ve done it myself, so if you want to know more about it, feel free to dm. It’s possible to recover fully and live a normal life. All the best!
I went out on a hiking excursion and we had to be outfitted before the hike.
They gave us little jingle bells to wear on our belts. This was so we didn’t surprise any bears along the trails and they also gave us pepper spray in the event of a bear attack.
The guide told us that we might encounter different types of bears and we should know how to determine what kind of bears were around by examining any scat, poop, that we came across on the trails.
The guide told us that black bear scary would have fur and berries and grizzly bear scat would have little bells and smell like pepper…😳
😂 🤔 😰
😂😂😂 I want my money back!
@@chubbypekingese maybe get a firearms license and then you can properly defend yourself against the bear like most people with brains.
Lol
Haha that’s rich
I live in Birmingham UK glad i have this survival knowledge now
The sea is also dangerous so you are doing well with that too
I know I’m glad we ain’t got these type of animals in the uk even though it would be nice and majestic to see but I would forget to take bear spray with me and end up in a pickle so I’m glad they ain’t around here 😂😂
😂. Are you in Handsworth, Newtown or Sutton Coldfield ?
You've got bigger worries than bears in Birmingham
@@Miss_Goldenweek-1What is a bigger worry than a bear trying to kill you?
I heard it described that with black bears you fight like hell, grizzlies you submit, and polar bears you pray haha
“If it’s black fight back, if it’s brown stay down, and if it’s white goodnight” 💀
@@roadkillanonymous4807 buy a firearm legally and then maybe you won't need to pray or hope. And instead you can take charge. Ever think of that?
polar bears, you prey
@@Justin-yp1dzif he's a scared little girl, sure, he'll want to use a gun. I have encountered dozens of bears and scare them away with ease. His advise was sound.
@@thorr18BEM That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. "I've scared off dozens of bears" LMFAO 😂😭
“Dear God. Please don’t let me get attacked by a bear. Thanks.”
Makes me feel old that Steve looks older, i remember running home from school and watching his show ‘Deadly 60’
with black bears you want to be as big and aggressively loud if they start running at you. with a grizzly your options involve bear spray/gun or a really good backpack that might just protect your vital organs whilst you pray.
Knowledge is always a humans best defence.
If you go hiking, look at the threats, be as ready as you can for them etc etc
“Screwed regardless “ feels appropriate
“Guy on UA-cam said to play dead”
Famous last words
Overwhelming firepower always works.
The best thing to do in bear country is making noise, if your with someone else, talk abit louder, bears will usually stay out of your way, if they know your there, if you happen to cross paths suddenly at short distance it depends on the bears fight or flight instinct, hence making noise is a good way to let them know your there.
Then my wife should keep you safe...
I think I'll stick with holidays in Scarborough 😂
Best to play it safe 😂
I like Filey.
Screw the bear, do Scarborough fair!
They've introduced grizzly bears in East Yorkshire, Scarborough in particular. Good luck
Are you going to Scarborough bear?
I was hoping for a discussion of calibers.....
I appreciate his honest dose of reality at the end.❤
Living in Arizona has proved to be a great polar bear deterrent
Maybe no polar bears but y’all just had a guy get attacked/killed by a bear recently sitting in a lawn chair in his front yard.
The utility of bear spray is really under appreciated. Not only is it non-lethal for the animal, it gives them a profoundly unpleasant experience to associate with humans, and will discourage future contact.
People have emptied their bear spray cannisters on brown bears and still been ripped to shreds.
they won't have any future contact with anybody if you are the last human they will see.
@@reCatalogue why would you want to kill them? Bears are usually not aggressive to humans without cause.
@@UnleashthePhury the cause is that It wants to eat you.
@@reCatalogue unless you’re encountering a polar bear, the vast majority of other bears want nothing to do with humans as a food source
"unless you have a deterrent, then you are stuffed"
Yeah and the polar bear will be stuffed with you.
“Bigger claws than you” sir I do not have claws
Yes you do
@timmyt1293 what do you think your nails are
Dude skipped claw day.
😂 💅😂
Trimmed / Chewed em off ay? Females make ours more pronounced as a warning lol
Or teeth! Oh, wait. 😆😆
My generation "What caliber are you carrying"?
Now " Bear spray"!! 😂
Most logical answer i seen on internet surprisingly
That's why I love the UK, none of this nonsense 😂
You got to watch out for the bears around Soho though 😂
@@_Rustodianat least they wont kill you, your just have a sore arse lol
Different kinds of wild animals in the UK, and much more dangerous than bears.
You just gotta pray it doesn't happen. Best advice on this subject yet😂😂😂😂😂
Loved this guy growing up what a great bloke
Every clip I see him either getting bitten or stung by whatever he's haphazardly handling it started to feel like it was a character from a 90s comedy sketch show
I grew up in polar bear country. A bear attack survivor came to our school and showed us pictures of the aftermath, as well as the surgery that stabled him back together. I still have nightmares about it.
"You just gotta pray it doesn't happen, really,"
Great, good advice coach
Panda or Koala: Admire how cute they are, you’re safe
Male Koalas are kind aholes during mating season, but it's about the equivalent of dealing with an angry cat on opioids
@@mspaint93so I've heard 😅
@@mspaint93 I choose to believe that zoologists have tested a variety of different animal and drug combinations, until they landed on one that produces the exact equivalent threat level of a male panda during mating season i.e. cats on opioids.
@@jacob8949 jrjdjjdjdjdhe exactly
Pandas can fuck you up too
“If a bear tries to eat me what do I do?” ….. “get eaten”
Repent. 😬🤦🏽♀️✌🏽
"You gotta pray it really doesn't happen" PRICELESS
He's kind of optimistic, but he keeps it real.
Advice based in reality. No sugar coat. About time.
I would love to hear this guy talk with rogan about bears.
That conversation would be worthy of an oscar ! Very epic dynamic i imagine😅
Some of you guys commenting are wildly overestimating how tough you are from the safety of your mobile device 😅
I don't see anybody here acting like Bertie Big Bollocks.
I’m literally a orange belt in karate, bears would poo themselves if they saw me
@@GarnishedSalad😂😂😂❤❤
@@GarnishedSaladexactly. One swift chop to the cock of a Polar Bear and you’re home free 😎
naw bro, I’d walk it off
If you’re stupid enough to put yourself in the situation of being “food” for a bear,just remember they don’t kill before they eat…
Not right away.... they tend to play with their food first, then eat it.
thats why smart people carry firearms in bear country
So gnarly!! 😳
Well, thanks for the tips. Really helpful.
Honey Bears were not mentioned.
Thanks mate. That was incredibly informative.
Basically make sure you’ve got a gun and distance and prey you’ll hit the bear before it wrecks you 😂
Or basically get bear spray which is precisely what he suggested
@@vegahimsaI took a trip to Alaska, Alaskans laugh at bear spray, 10mm pal
@@anthonyrobino145 in the last 150 years there’s been only 70 polar bear attacks WORLDWIDE. Only 20 deaths.
Alaskans don’t encounter polar bears enough to have that opinion. Also we’ve done studies on how efficacious bear spray is against polar bears and it was show to be almost 100% effective. You’re actually warned specifically AGAINST shooting bears. Bears can take a lot of bullets before going down. Especially a polar bear, they’re huge. Shooting a bear is likely to enrage it, making its behavior much more erratic and unpredictable
@@vegahimsa randomly pointless statistic was random and pointless, and yes they can tank shots which is why the caliber matters 44 magnum 357 things like that they are not tanking, 10 mm also carries the force and stopping power to stop a charge. Much much much more range of effectiveness. I never said Alaskans deal with polar bears just bears if they don’t trust their lives on bear spray with a smaller, less aggressive bear, you can see the point being made, no?
@@anthonyrobino145 no I can’t see the point you’re making at all because the experts quite literally disagree. If bear spray didn’t work, it wouldn’t exist and wouldn’t be so heavily recommended by experts. It’s also much more reasonable for hikers to carry bear spray than every hiker carry around a magnum firearm. What you’re saying is not only disputed by experts- it’s also insensible and illogical. Nothing I stated was “random”, it’s just in direct opposition to what you’re saying so you don’t like it
TLDR: If you're in bear country, make sure you're packing!
correct
I got ‘attacked’ by a Bear in a nightclub. At least he cuddled afterwards.
Thanks for given me some hope!!!🤬🤬🤬
Bro I remember watching the deadly 60 all the time as a kid. This guys a legend
Instructions unclear. I am now a Koala bear King.
Koalas aren’t bears bud. Enough idiots called it a koala bear until it became a nickname. They’re marsupials though.
I'm not worried about polar bears. I've been doing karate since i was 13.
I hope Kung fu panda 🐼 trained you
Better know that Wuxi Finger Hold.
@@ezmoney79 I'm not in a position to disclose who my Sensei was.
@@JamCie It would be difficult to employ that technique on a polar bear. That would be a last resort.
@@GhastlyCretin😂😂
"What's the best way to survive a bear attack?"
" Don't be attacked"
* Noted 📝
Very reassuring for anyone who’s hiking and adventurous
Timothy Treadwell begs to differ.
I love you Steve backshots
Aussie: you’re screwed
Americans: .308 racking..hold my beer
Damn right lol
I think a .308 would count as a deterrent - which he mentions.
@@itskarl7575 it’s a joke amigo..you’d have to place your shot into the bears eye to be effective..and if you’re scared and it’s running at you, yeah you’re most likely fahked
Conclusion: Basically if bears really want to get u, ur fucked
"What should you do if attacked by a bear?"
"Hope it's quick."
Hope he’s only hungry and not horny. Or both. 😆😆
I found that avoiding places where you can encounter one can be best.
So basically if you want to survive a bear attack, you won't.
This is why when I hike I always carry. I mean, I carry pretty much always, even when I'm not hiking, but I won't even consider a hike without my 🔫.
Get Alex Terrible to talk to the bear and get him to calm down! 😂😂
YES to Prayer!!!!
So in summary, if any type of bear wants you, you're a sitting duck
“If you ever see me fighting in the forest with a grizzly bear, Help the Bear “
Technically you would be the opposite of stuffed if you ran into a polar bear
Luckily I live in black bear country, where the majority of black bears are basically big, scared puppy dogs.
Panda: 🐼 hey, i can be dangerous too 😤, being cute is tough.
That bear gon’ know I ain’t dead when he smell me shitting myself- I forget what comedian said that
😮Thank You ! ! !
If u ever see me in the forest fighting a grizzly bear HELP THE BEAR! 😂
That picture of the Polar Bear eviscerating that fuckin Walrus is wiiiiiiiild brah
What's the best way to defend yourself against a bear in the wild?
Me: Stay tf home...😂
Me quickly googling if it’s a black bear or a grizzly chasing me so I can plan my next move.!
Remember: never go into polar bear areas without your rocket launcher.
So basically Steve, we’re f*cked 😂.
I remember watching this guy as a kid
brown get down can get you eaten alive, brown bears have the most random personalities out of any bear, in fact im pretty sure more people scared them off more than surviving after getting in a compromised position
I always bring a Chuck Norris mask with me when I'm hiking... Safest way!
I should try that, I wear my Rod Stewart mask everywhere and even kids try beating me up
I live in Pennsylvania. I'm safe from polar bears and grizzlies. Saw plenty of black bears. Unless they have their cubs they will run from you.
“Ice Bear, is hungry for justice.”
"If it's black, fight back.
If it's brown, lay down.
Now if it's white, good night."
Heard this one many years ago and never forgot it. Fitting.
So basically Polar bear = you’re screwed….. I like the honesty haha
This video is something that Dwight have watched 891750 times over and over again