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I mean, it's a hungry cub, but oh boy did they got lucky. The bear even sniffs at boy's head. Father is happily filming the whole scene.

This happened a few days ago at Chipinque park in Monterrey Mexico.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Its a black bear, aren't these the ones you can scare off pretty easily and are quite docile?

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Black fight back. Brown lay down. White good night.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Black and white? Don't fight. Grey? Stay away. Green? Remain unseen. Plaid? That's real bad. Red? That's just Fred. Clear? Oh dear... Orange? Make some...more...whinge?

[–] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, black bears are the more docile compared to grizzlies. You are supposed to try to scare them off if you aren’t able to avoid them.

This one looks young enough that it’s 50/50 on whether mom is near by though. They should have gotten up and left while it was distracted by their food.

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Usually yes, but it kinda depends on the bear. Some are so habituated to humans that they won't actually give much of a shit if you start shouting at them. I wouldn't be surprised if this bear has spent a lot of time dumpster diving and/or stealing food from campsites, to the point where it doesn't bother wild foraging anymore and it is not longer concerned by humans and the noises they make. For a bear like that it might be necessary for a game warden or park ranger to tranquilize the bear so it can be relocated to a more remote area. Such a relocation might actually be a death sentence for the bear though, if it never really learned how to survive in the wild.

Edit: I'm actually staying in an area right now that has a significant black bear population. All of the garbage cans are bear-proof, and there are stiff fines for leaving unsecured food or waste accessible to the bears. It's all part of an effort to avoid having bears end up like the one in the video.

[–] baruchin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, being myself Mexican, and this incident happening in Mexico, we as a country and as population are totally uneducated in wild life matters, so I can almost assure you that this type of incidents surely happen quite frequently, so that's why I think the bear is so chill eating besides humans.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago
[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oppisite, black bears are the ones you cannot play dead with and require you to either hide or fight back

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I sense some bullets in that bear's future. It's generally not good for the bears to be that comfortable around humans when they're fully grown.

I live in Alaska, and if a bear starts getting in close to town too much it gets killed. A bit of behavioral evolution in real time, since they rarely come into town now, and generally only briefly (still not comfortable around humans).

[–] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They easily could have and should have scared that little cub off. I live near Yellowstone and every year some dunderhead tries to get a selfie with a bear or a wolf or whatever so I'm not sure why I'm surprised. A few years ago some folks even put a bison calf in their car on a cold night to help keep it warm? I guess? And the herd ended up rejecting him and they put him down to spare him starvation.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, that's sad and all but I will note that there's a hotel restaurant in Yellowstone that serves bison veal.

[–] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well the hospitality is managed by a private corporation and they definitely aren't using any animals from the park but the irony of that is pretty excellent lmao

[–] Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a pathetic father. Both people in the video are clearly distressed, but dad's gotta get those Twitter likes or some shit.

[–] Mang@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you know it's father?

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Another mother..?