Have you ever wondered about bears and their characteristics? If you have, read this article and you will have bear knowledge flooding your mind. If you haven’t, read it anyway, because knowledge is always good. There are many types of bears. Let’s talk about black bears, and a grizzly bears. Both bears have different ways of attacking, and different methods of surviving attacks. Here’s a bit about the bears:

About the Black Bear

A black bear is a bear that is black in color, and attacks by slowly walking and creeping towards you, and then pounces on you. You can scare them, by waving your arms around, and slowly backing away. 

How to survive an encounter with a black bear

Have you ever heard the phrase, “playing dead”? Playing dead means to hold your breath, lie on your stomach, protect your back, and protect your head. If you heard that you do that when you see a black bear, DON’T DO IT! It is a myth to play dead when seeing a black bear. Black bears like to eat dead things, so if you play dead, it will claw on you.

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Now let’s learn a bit about grizzly bears.

About the Grizzly Bear

A grizzly bear is a bear that is brown in color, and attacks by charging and chasing after you aggressively. Grizzlies are pretty much the opposite of black bears. They hate dead things! If a grizzly sees something dead, it will walk away, and ignore it.

How to survive an encounter with a Grizzly Bear

To survive a grizzly bear, you need to play dead! Since they hate dead things, they won’t want to come and claw on you. If you don’t play dead, and do the same things you do for a black bear, for a grizzly bear, that won’t do so well for you. Grizzlies would probably just see you jumping and screaming, and think you are about to attack them, even if you aren’t. It’ll do nothing but try to fight back, so it will claw on you. That’s not so good news for you. You will face serious consequences if you don’t play dead during an encounter with a grizzly.

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