• s_s@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Also.

      Some black bears are brown.

      Some brown bears are black.

      Good luck everyone.

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      I remember somewhere they were saying you should remove your clothes (slowly piece by piece) with a polar bear. The bear will get distracted and start sniffing your clothes.

      I think it was a QI episode and then David Mitchell said something like that Polar Bear being happier in the fact that the human would be better to eat this time because it didn’t have a wrapper.

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      7 months ago

      Snapping out of your fantasy as you’re being eaten alive is a bad move.

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    Fun fact: Grizzlies and Polar Bears are the same species according to the Biological Species Concept.

    Meaning they interbreed in the wild (somewhat rare), and produce viable offspring that can have babies as well.

    We’re actually noticing this happening more and more with climate change. As Grizzly populations move further and further north, they’re encountering polar bears more often and are more likely to mate. Some scientists actually think within the next couple centuries due to arctic sea ice pretty much disappearing polar bears will either go extinct, or interbreed with grizzlies so much that there isn’t a “pure” polar bear left. Most likely a mix of both.

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        Close enough that we probably helped bred them out of existence. Neanderthal genetic markers show up with some regularity in certain modern human populations.

        Edit to add: While humans didn’t breed them out of existence, we certainly did intermix with them. And that does help to maintain their existence yet today.

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    7 months ago

    180 seconds (3 minutes) is a hilarious overestimation of any fighter’s ability. Unless you’re counting the time it takes to bleed out.

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    Fighting bears isn’t that common of an encounter. I’d be more worried about deer and coyotes or even a single cougar than the off chance of encountering a bear. They will definitely fuck you up but it’s not like they are starting their day to be like “Imma go murder a human” in the same way other urban-adjacent animals are—I think they just wanna get that sweet sweet pick-a-nic basket.

    dies from turkey assault

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    7 months ago

    Motorcycle helmets are purposefully not-hard. Odd comparison.

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      7 months ago

      Bear doesn’t view something our size as even remotely a threat. We’re assuming the bear isn’t hungry and just not that interested.

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    7 months ago

    Your survival time would depend on how far apart you and the bear are, how’s fast you can run, and how angry or hungry the bear is.

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    7 months ago

    *first floor windows don’t go nuts guys no way that lad is reaching all the way to the second floor

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      7 months ago

      Calling something a “second storey” just sounds weird, although at least because they spelt it “story” we know they mean in the US sense.