bear say hi to me

SO SAD

Really, quite a dumb bear, though.

I like to think he was maybe just a v unlucky bear.

first mca now bear wtf at this day already

Too soon?

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/295/576/503.gif

well there's my new display name

this bear needs no meme phild

seriously

You have no idea how many time I watched that when I first saw it. I love his delicate little wave. He looks either really effeminate or super proper and named Rupert or something. Perhaps he is both. In any event is is basically the best bear.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, May 4, 2012 4:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes it also looks like an aristocratically dismissive wave too. like ok fck off, next car please...

it is quite a wave, such a mocking bear

whatever otm it's just so amazing

That bear actually made The Today Show and I saw a segment about him. It wasn't a one off thing, he lives on a farm or something somewhere and learned to wave from all the people who would wave at him. People go there now specifically to get a wave from him.

Bear didn't learn to wave from this texting dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmhvdtX72eQ

good reflexes on that guy; i woulda stood and tried to figure out what was up

Situation 2 - Bear has detected your presence, but is more than 100 m (350 ft) distant.

Your goal here is to act in such a way as to allow the bear to identify you, but to also let it know that you are no threat. Speak calmly so that it knows you are a human (their eyesight is quite poor). They will often quickly give ground to you once they identify you as human. If the situation permits, back away slowly, keeping a close eye on the bear. Otherwise, you may wish to detour around the bear, but in this case, detour upwind so that the bear can get your scent. Keep talking calmly. Waving your arms may help it identify you as a human.

^^ that advice is otm, for black bears especially (the only common bears in lower 48)

Waving your arms may help it identify you as a human

me say hi to bear

Bears fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3d42xxNJm1r0vr70o1_500.jpg

bears say hi to us

that's not you is it?!?

no.

bear take instagram photo of me, other bears

i was going to say, whoever took that photo is a MENTALIST

like if mama bear wanders out the forest behind you while you're taking that photo and you're between it and baby bears begging for food you're dead meat

http://www.hamovhotov.com/fun/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/we-need-some-rest-before-the-chase.jpg

oh hi bear

Is he . . . is he scratching his balls?

He is like the bear Al Bundy.

*flush*

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/bear-swim-pool-monrovia.html

!!!

ALSO:

Fontana girl killed at her 16th-birthday party

well that's a cheery pairing

Wildfire kills flock of teenagers near Chevy Chase

The teens said the bear took its time and didn't seem too threatening, but that they weren't going to test that perception.

]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1r4dcoxWc

kinda find the bear the least interesting thing about this.

nice square bracket fizzles.

For those of you who have seen the infamous "cardboard bear" story from Cleveland's Fox 8 News: Fox 8 Does a Bear Story Without Embarrassing Themselves

http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83132/1133523/hi-bear.jpeg

OH MY GOD

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p5jsrCza1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

Wheeee!

http://bigstory.ap.org/content/heat-wave-26

http://binaryapi.ap.org/c9fd07e8ffe048608e79fcb2475aec78/512x.jpg

thread, bookmarked

SAIL

― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:03 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/3/18/15/enhanced-buzz-32475-1300478146-25.jpg

there was only one set of paw prints on the beach because I ate u

http://meetsebastian.com/mas56/files/gimgs/84_bear-fur-1-z.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/sunbear.jpg

^ and that's a sun bear

where is yr based god now

bearsed god

amanda bearsed god

I saw a very chill sun bear at the zoo in Chicago a couple months ago. They're awesome.

I recently saw a picture of a bear with tapeworms. Many many tapeworms. They were at least six feet long and trailing behind her protruding right from her butt. It was horrible.

well i know what i'll be dreaming about tonight!!

lol sorry

tapeworm say hi to me

Tourist Mauled After Rolling Down Window For Bear Selfie

A Scottish tourist is thankful to be alive after a close encounter with a wild bear sent her to the emergency room.

Moira Gallacher, 72, had been vacationing in Romania with her friend Charmian Widdowson when the women decided to go for a drive through the Carpathian Mountains.

During the outing, the women came across a couple of brown bears and did their best to get a photo of the wildlife.

“What happened was the bear came up to the window at my friend’s side, and no problem. It let us take a picture and went away,” Gallacher said in a video shared by Scottish outlet STV News on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, April 23. “But I didn’t get a proper picture, so we went back and it was at my side.”

...

“We saw these bears – a mummy bear, and a baby – they were gorgeous,” Widdowson said.
“But they weren’t gorgeous. The mummy bear was hungry, and thought my friend was going to be lunch,” she added.

Recounting the moments before the mauling, Widdowson said she parked her car to be able to get a better photo.

“I thought he wanted to be friends,” she said. “The bear came and wanted to get into the car, but he started getting into the car and bit my friend.”

“I thought he wanted to be friends,” she said.

she needs to watch Grizzly Man to see how those 'friendships' work out

There are way too many videos on Instagram of people petting and or play-wrestling with bears, with zero context. I feel like a lot of dumb motherfuckers are gonna start getting eaten before long.

"We're bears — Of course we're going to bite your friend."

Does she somehow know this "mummy" bear's pronoun is "he?"

mostly empty calories article
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-bears-friend-shaped/

but thumbs up on choice of stock photo:
https://static.scientificamerican.com/dam/m/120f13fd81870c89/original/GettyImages-1469738306.jpg?w=1350

LOL @ the People link upthread about the tourist bear mauling. Stock photo of bears. Stock photo of hospital gurney.

let's think....brown, American black, Andean (aka spectacled), polar, sloth, sun, Asian black, giant panda

Are giant pandas actually bears? or massive rodents

DNA sequencing finally proved that, yes, giant pandas are bears. They were originally thought to be bears, then placed in the raccoon family (Procyonidae), then in a family of their own together with the red panda and are now considered bears again.
No zoologist ever considered they were rodents iirc although rhino-sized capybara-like rodents did exist in prehistory.

Ahh, okay... I thought raccoons were rodents but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore: 'Distantly related to cats and dogs, they share a common evolutionary ancestor with bears.'

These incidences of bears breaking into cars and wreaking havoc seem to be becoming more and more common:

https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/bear-lamborghini-huracan/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/ontario-black-bear-car

xxp it gets confusing because old phenotypic classifications (and reclassifications) were often made on guesswork based on physiology and locale, whereas you can now slap some panda dna in a sequencer and figure out that their genotype says "bear"

This all went down about a mile away from me today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RngG-FWfhg

lmao at the lady explaining the frozen chicken theft

bear say drive to me

I’m a bit taken aback that apparently she plans to eat that chicken?

that was the part that killed me. maybe the bear only punctured the packaging or 1-2 pieces of meat and she’s like “still good!”

I'm sure she'll cook it first, it not like she's gonna get "bear germs" and turn into a crazed werebear.

no need to waste bear-stolen goods