What was this bear doing?

I don't blame the bear at all.

Humans beings on this earth are the real viruses. We have invaded every nook and corner and displaced or destroyed the habitats of all animals.
These animals are struggling to find home, food and just to survive.

I think there is a way for all beings to exist peacefully on this earth. I hope they don't kill that bear!
 
That is how bears play - swat each other with their paws then wrestle and roll around. That bear was young. Unfortunately we humans are not built like bears, lack the thick claw resistant fur and can't play with them.
When I'm on the cargo bike out of town I have lonely myoptic horses mid-identify me as a horse and run up to the fence to be with me. What they want to do is stand next me and swat me in the face with their tail to keep off the flies. Had a icelandic horse (that don't bite or kick) do that to me at lunch at the icelandic horse congress regional meet. Just being friendly.
 
indianajo said:
That is how bears play - swat each other with their paws then wrestle and roll around. That bear was young. Unfortunately we humans are not built like bears, lack the thick claw resistant fur and can't play with them.
When I'm on the cargo bike out of town I have lonely myoptic horses mid-identify me as a horse and run up to the fence to be with me. What they want to do is stand next me and swat me in the face with their tail to keep off the flies. Had a icelandic horse (that don't bite or kick) do that to me at lunch at the icelandic horse congress regional meet. Just being friendly.
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Playing of course! ...I never thought of that but it makes sense and it is a small bear. I thought it was maybe begging for food as I have heard some idiots feed them on rare occasion .
 
Ravi Kempaiah said:
I don't blame the bear at all.

Humans beings on this earth are the real viruses. We have invaded every nook and corner and displaced or destroyed the habitats of all animals.
These animals are struggling to find home, food and just to survive.

I think there is a way for all beings to exist peacefully on this earth. I hope they don't kill that bear!
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I have had the same thought a few months ago...that humanity is the virus and the planet is perhaps simply trying to heal itself.
 
Ravi Kempaiah said:
I don't blame the bear at all.

Humans beings on this earth are the real viruses. We have invaded every nook and corner and displaced or destroyed the habitats of all animals.
These animals are struggling to find home...
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You meditate? Repeat this mantra 10 times: "There's no bliss like OM"
 
Makes me wonder if maybe that bear might not have been hand raised and then returned to the wild. It happens. The bear obviously has no fear of humans. That's not natural. Also not aggressive. He liked that girls smell.
 
steve mercier said:
"Hey ...I'm walkin here "...
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Exactly!
We used to frequently see bears along that same trail and spent a lot of time sharing camping space with them while kayaking on the North Pacific Coast. That was just a bear giving notice that he was tired of having to keep moving out of his front yard because oblivious pack animals keep taking short cuts through it.
 
While on a ride a couple of years ago, I came across this sow with her two cubs in a field beside the trail. I was down wind so she didn't notice me at first. I took a few pics until she picked up my scent. She started toward me and I got out of there fast! I don't think she wanted to play.

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My partner & I were once storm stayed on a kayaking trip for days on a small Northern beach with a mother bear and her cub. All parties agreed to just pretend there was no one else on that beach. It all worked out well.

In another more memorable time in Haida territory, my head that was pushing out against the tent fabric got an exploratory Bear lick in the middle of the night. I reached for the hand axe that was in the tent, only to find that I'd been sleeping on my arm which was now so dead asleep I couldn't even feel it to pick it up. My wife, beside me, unaware at how helpless I really was whispered "what should we do?" My sage advise at that time for her to "go back to sleep" can still get thrown back in my face 20 years later when ever I offer advise that she's not overly fond of.

Much of our summers are usually spent wilderness kayaking on the North Coast which means sharing a lot of real estate space with bears. From much research and personal interactions, the only thing I am sure about with bears is they have all the complexity of personality differences that your average human has. This means you should treat them with the deference that they deserve, that bears usually act out of a level of self interest that has allowed them to survive the wilderness into adulthood but one is foolish to not remain mindful that not only can anything on the personality scale from saintly to psychotic be offered back in return but a bear can do it 4 times faster & stronger than any of us.
 
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