These animals are too funny.
Sometimes bears seem to have a little bit too much personality. This is definitely one of those times.
As humans its easy to think of animals as been on a lower playing field and not having the same sense of awareness we have. Then you see a video like this that makes you question everything.
It’s not that we think animals are stupid, just that they don’t process things the way we do and that the don’t have the same sense of awareness to their surroundings.
Black bears have funny way of constantly doing things that seem so human like in nature. From sitting done to have a meal or standing up to look at things. They way they can break into a car or a garbage bin to lick one crumb. It is all just so intelligent, far more than most wildlife that it doesn’t seem right.
This bear cub had one of those human-like moments on an early winter evening.
The mother bear and her cub were caught on a security camera wandering through someone’s dooryard probably look for the last bit of garbage before their hibernation period.
The cub is walking along and notices that it is snowing and comes to a dead stop. It then starts batting at the air as if somethings there.
That’s when you realize it is trying to catch snowflakes… Just like any kid would.
This is some pretty cool stuff.
Black Bear Cubs Hilariously Try (And Fail) To Climb Into A Hammock
We’ve all been there as kids.
Your parents put up a cool swing in the backyard, and it looks like the ideal toy…
Until you try to climb into it and it flips over every single time because it’s a damn hammock.
Needless to say, that’s exactly what these black bears were going through once they noticed this contraption sitting in somebody’s backyard.
They appear to be relatively young black bear cubs, and out of curiosity, they decide to test it out for themselves.
And of course, it doesn’t end too well.
You see them try over and over again, attempting to keep their balance on the hammock, but they flip over every time.
Of course, as they say, if at first you don’t succeed, try again, so they keep going back until they figure it out (they don’t…)
This is the most pure thing you’ll see all day, and it further proves how innocent these creatures are whenever they aren’t threatened by a predator in some form or another.
Check it out:
Brave Man Slaps Black Bear Right Across The Face
One of the things about living in the country, or a rural area, a wooded area… you just never know what kind of critters are gonna be lurking in your barn, in your garage, or around the property.
Unfortunately for those in bear country, you’re dealing with one of the most dangerous predators, who also happens to be one of the most curious, COMBINED with the fact that it’s just tough to keep bears out of trouble.
Garbage cans, cars, sheds, barns… bears will find a way to bust into anything in search of food.
That being said, encounters are just bound to happen from time to time, and it’s all about knowing what to do when the situation presents itself.
Now, I’m aware that if you ever have a close encounter with a bear, especially a black bear, you shouldn’t run away from it, because that just gives it more of a reason to think you may be a threat and/or prey, and could trigger a chase response.
However, never in a million years would I have the guts to square up and throw hands with a bear…
But this guy did…
Video footage from a surveillance camera has gone viral featuring a man walking up to his barn, with a couple small dogs on a leash, only to find a young black bear hanging out inside.
Shocked at first, the man then appears to be overtaken, and goes full on demon mode on this massive creature.
A proper response to a black bear, he gets big, walks up, and starts roaring like he’d just gotten possessed in a scene from The Exorcist. But as the bear continues to approach, he delivers a swift slap across the bear’s face, and it immediately appears that the bear doesn’t want the smoke.
The guy continues to growl at it, which is enough to terrify just about anybody.
He gets a shovel and starts banging it to scare the bear off some more, before spotting some cubs and opting to hightail it out of there.
It’s uncertain where this happened at, but sheesh, you would’ve thought that this guy had been practicing for this moment his whole life.
He then turns around and proudly, yet shockingly, tells the woman he was with:
“I just sucker punched a bear.”
And she responds:
“Yeah, you did.”
Insanity.
For some reason, I just can’t get this John West Salmon Commercial from back in the day out of my mind:
