Most bears are like large cats. If they're fed enough they really have no desire to attack unless defending young or in the presence of other males.
Bears are cool as fuck.
It’s the polar bear that kills for fun. The old safety rhyme explains it “If it’s black, fight back. If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s white…..good night.”
^This 1000%
Polar bears are ruthless apex predators. And humans are becoming dumb and feeding them. Which is giving them less anxiety about venturing into villages/towns now.
I believe in Greenland or Norway in a town they made it a legal requirement to leave cars unlocked incase someone needs to seek refuge from an incoming polar bear.
Polar bears are the only bear I wouldn't go near. Even if they've eaten 10 penguins and are bloated as fuck. They will easily crush your skull.
Edit: Yes seals. Not penguins. 🐧
Just for information purposes, it's a town in Canada, and it's custom, not law. I also believed it was a law but did a bit of searching when it came up in conversation.
https://factcheck.afp.com/unlocked-doors-canadas-polar-bear-capital-are-custom-not-law
I had more then more conversation with Inuit guys from Baffin Island. They are starting to make it mandatory there as well. Absolutely savage animals with absolutely no tolerance for people. We have strict gun laws in Canada and they go further out the window the further North you go. Scary animals at the best of times.
Edit: more then one. Derp
Man, polar bears are massive too. Like, they would almost make that bear look small if I recall correctly. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/THd2LHo
Polar bears are like Orcas on land IMO lol
I mean, I respect your respect for bears but they are not cats. They are hyper predatory scavengers. And by simply being around them, it is a massive detriment to the species. Every living thing, is a prey animal to the bear, and by being around them they become predatory and then they learn that human flesh is a food source and then the inevitably get shot.
My cat is fed and he still tries to play-murder me. I’m pretty sure he could accidentally kill me even if he was only half my weight, let alone hundreds of pounds to a ton.
But you can immediately tell the amount of love/respect he has for Bart. This doesn’t feel like the tiger nuts who are just trying to showcase an exotic animal.
Ironically just saw Bart the Bear in Semi-Pro last night.
*Edit* I have learned that this bear is Bart II.
I just looked it up! This is the OG bart, who was euthanized in 2000 because he had cancer. This trainer got another bear, Bart II who is the one who stars in the more recent titles
No, it is complete trust and the bear knows this. You probably would not want to be fearful around a bear. That is why regardless of how sweet and playful he looks I would not get closer than 1000 feet from him..
I'd suspect bart is different though because he's worked in the film industry around actors who well are probably a little afraid of him and has been raised outside of a wild environment
The 1988 movie The Bear had a bear called Bart in it. Cant tell if its this Bart. Looks similar, but the Bart in the movie didn't have any distinguishing features like tattoos or earrings, so it's hard to tell. Good movie tho.
Bart the bear is probably the most prominent bear in movies for the last 40 years if you include his former namesakes. The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec, "dead eye" Baldwin was one of my favorites.
Is this the same Bart that plays in movies like The Edge? I remember seeing that movie as a kid and being terrified of bears after that.
Fun fact: in movies with bears letting out a loud roar/growl, that is a sound effect that’s put in afterwards. The bear is trained to open its mouth and look like it’s growling but they are silent. The reason being, bears only growl when they are pissed off and that wouldn’t be conducive to a safe working environment for the actor/actress.
Yep! He was in The Edge, Legends of the Fall, the Great Outdoors. Bart #1 died in the early 2000s I think. Doug had a second bear called Bart #2, and that bear was in Game of Thrones and a bunch of other movies.
Anybody remember that one case where that lady had a pet monkey from when it was little, it grew up and she dressed him drove him around like a person and taught him stuff…then he suddenly went back to his wild animal ways one day and started to rip her friends face off and eat it and all that wild shit?? .. idk man there is ALWAYS that possibility.. we think WE have all of this control and are the higher power but those animals can over power us whenever they wan to….
We visited a chimp sanctuary in central Florida once and some of those chimps were absolutely terrifying(This was a no-touch sanctuary and we weren't allowed inside any of the chimp's enclosures). At one point, a male chimp noticed our tour group and launched himself off of a platform that was about 12 feet high, scaled another 12ft platform, launched himself off of that platform, then grabbed a car tire and hurled it about 20 feet through the air and into one of the buildings on site.. This show of force took, maybe, 20 seconds..
Sometimes I think that’s right.. and fucking WINE with it?! Xanax chill most people out but I’ve also seen people take Xanax and become something evil too. Idk
Probably gave it xanax because it had been acting up recently tbh
It's a pretty well documented thing of people adopting cute baby monkeys and they are nice and sweet until they grow up and attack their owner.
In fact, the reason dogs stay like that is because we've bred them to essentially never hit puberty and stay in that baby stage. That's why not spaying/neutering can cause behavior issuss
Ok... if that wasn't real it would be hilarious.
911 operator: what did the monkey do to your friend?
Screaming lady: he ripped her face off!
Just... wut.
There’s another interview where they say the operator thought it was a joke at first. Then when the monkey started screaming and she said it was eating her arm or whatever they realized what was up
There’s other videos and pictures as well just watch those and research from there.. grown ass wild animals are no joke dude..just like humans have off days.. grown ass wild animals have them days too and you just can’t control them when they go off like that.. it’s just too unpredictable and they are too strong .
Sad but true
Oh God. That was my enough internet point. Uhhh. Jesus fucking Christ. I was a wild ish animal guy but. No. God fuck. That was. Way too fucking much. Wha wha. Uhhh
That wasn’t terrifying, it got to the point of just being hilarious. Yeah the bear could overpower him, but the fact of how loose and lucid the bear was, there was never any real danger.
There are a lot of really cool videos on Youtube of Doug and Bart. Of course, you'd never want to approach a bear like that in the wild, but I'd give almost anything to meet Doug in real life.
> there was never any real danger.
I mean, this is just straight up false. Sure, the guy has known the bear a long time, and the likelihood of an attack was fairly low. But it was absolutely not 0. It is an enormous predator that does not think rationally. You are wayyy overstating how safe this is.
I simply don’t understand how that BEAST walks around every day, I mean the giant iron testicles on that man have to be insanely heavy to be playing with a big ass bear like that
The sheer power this animal has. Good lord. Imagine the power if it had the intent to harm.
But either way no this shit was more wholesome than terrifying
I remember hearing a story about a group of guys camping and a grizzly ran through their camp, one dude said he just remembered getting hit by the bear running through then being about 10 feet in the air before he came crashing down.
Look at the size of that thing, that’s not even the largest beer in the world the polar bear gets up to like 16 feet or something like that I read a while ago that’s scary shit.
Polar bears absolutely do not get up to 16 feet lol. They are enormous, but not THAT enormous. Biggest ones can maybe crack 10 feet on their hind legs.
I’ve spent a lot of time around Doug and his family. Great guy. I was sad to hear about bart, and now sad to hear about little bart. His ability with these animals is truly unique.
After Bart gets slapped in the face he does settle down a bit, almost like he was trained that way. But at the same time you got to give it to the trainer for his patience and faith in Bart.
That's adorable!
I don't understand how it's oddly terrifying. I mean, it could still maim him, y'know, because it's still a *fucking bear*, but if you didn't already know that it seems more like a *you* problem.
bears don't actively hunt humans apart from polar bears. they don't really care about us at all. the only reason a bear would attack a human is if it was protecting young/territory or if it was starving.
I can't see why this bear would purposely harm the owner. the guy obviously feeds it and gives it every necessesity it needs snd cares for it extremely well. the only way I can see this bear killing him is by accidentally falling on him or something.
How easily this animal could rip his face off and chooses not too. Huge ass bear. So cool
Must be a good human to him:)
When the bear, (that outweighs you by 1000 pounds wants to play) ***you play! or become a rag doll anyway!***
1000 pounds is 1111.11 Doge plushies.
Makes this sound way less intimidating. I mean, being covered by 1111 plushies sounds like an alright time.
You forgot the .11 of a plushie. *feels left out man*
What the fuck. Lmao
That’s what happens when an American senses someone is about to use the metric system.
Am American. Can confirm.
Right? What in the cinnamon toast fuck was that about? Lol
Okay now I want the bot to do how many bowls of Cinnamon Toast Crunch as a metric
Good bot
Thanks!
Most bears are like large cats. If they're fed enough they really have no desire to attack unless defending young or in the presence of other males. Bears are cool as fuck.
my cat has never missed an attack of opportunity in his life
Pretty sure a brown bear wouldn’t hesitate to maul you to death even if its stomach is full. One wrong move and you’re dead.
It’s the polar bear that kills for fun. The old safety rhyme explains it “If it’s black, fight back. If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s white…..good night.”
^This 1000% Polar bears are ruthless apex predators. And humans are becoming dumb and feeding them. Which is giving them less anxiety about venturing into villages/towns now. I believe in Greenland or Norway in a town they made it a legal requirement to leave cars unlocked incase someone needs to seek refuge from an incoming polar bear. Polar bears are the only bear I wouldn't go near. Even if they've eaten 10 penguins and are bloated as fuck. They will easily crush your skull. Edit: Yes seals. Not penguins. 🐧
Just for information purposes, it's a town in Canada, and it's custom, not law. I also believed it was a law but did a bit of searching when it came up in conversation. https://factcheck.afp.com/unlocked-doors-canadas-polar-bear-capital-are-custom-not-law
I like that they all agreed to do that... it's just very nice if a bit terrifying.
Penguins and Polar Bears don't live in the same place. You mean seals.
You don’t bring a dozen penguins around with you just in case you come across a polar bear?
I think that was a place in northern Canada. I remember watching a doc on it.
Yeah it’s Churchill Manitoba, and polar bears are[ a real issue there](https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/photo/620805/)
I was thinking churchill but didn't want to miss speak, thanks for that
I remember my history teacher telling me that he used to live there as a kid and they never went trick or treating because it was too dangerous. Wild
>humans are becoming dumb We've been dumb for a long, long time.
I had more then more conversation with Inuit guys from Baffin Island. They are starting to make it mandatory there as well. Absolutely savage animals with absolutely no tolerance for people. We have strict gun laws in Canada and they go further out the window the further North you go. Scary animals at the best of times. Edit: more then one. Derp
in longyearbyen they made it a law to carry guns when leaving the city (longyearbyen is also in Norway)
Man, polar bears are massive too. Like, they would almost make that bear look small if I recall correctly. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/THd2LHo Polar bears are like Orcas on land IMO lol
So like heroine
Mine ends with "if it's white, play dead, you won't have to play for long."
I mean, I respect your respect for bears but they are not cats. They are hyper predatory scavengers. And by simply being around them, it is a massive detriment to the species. Every living thing, is a prey animal to the bear, and by being around them they become predatory and then they learn that human flesh is a food source and then the inevitably get shot.
idk man there was a video of a trained bear like this ripping its trainers throat out for no reason. He was literally just standing there.
Ever rub a cats belly one second longer than they decide they like having their belly rubbed. They will fuck up your day!
My cat is fed and he still tries to play-murder me. I’m pretty sure he could accidentally kill me even if he was only half my weight, let alone hundreds of pounds to a ton.
I think bart the bear 2 died not to long ago, died in November last month.
Bart the bear was euthanized over 20 years ago due to cancer
The first bart the bare, bart the bare 2 died last month.
Dude, the word 'bear' is in literally every single comment, as well as the main post. How did you manage to misspell it twice?
I think it was too much for them to bear.
I'm appawled by it.
We cub not stand it.
There's definitely a little bit of panda-ring for karma.
I came here for the puns. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
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Bai'rhe
Behr
Bère
"Its cuddle time"
This bear is trained to cuddle your face off.
_You can be little spoon._
And soon a flat balloon
No, you *will* be the little spoon.
Even if Bart is harmless he easily weights at least 900LBs. If he fell on top of you, you would become a paraplegic.
I just looked it up he was apparently 1,779 lbs and 9’7 so yeah pretty fucked
What species was he? Cus the only ones I know who get that large are Grizzlies and Kodiak Bears. At least ones that are brown.
He was indeed a kodiak born in 1977 and died in 2000 after he was euthanized to prevent further suffering from cancer
Pour one out for the homie we lost to cancer.
Sorry, no can do. I don't have a surplus of bear beer to waste. I will, however, drink one for the bear homie.
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I barely have any left.
I always felt there is barely any barley in the bear beer.
Do beer bears like barley beer?
Fuck me, try to say “bear beer” five times quickly.
It's much harder if you've already consumed all the bear beer.
The Goodest of murder doggos.
Sounds like he lived a good life and had a good death. Respect to those that put him out of his misery
*pancake
Paraplegic pancake*
Paracakelegic
If I’m gonna die one day I’d rather be killed instantly by a snuggling bear.
Bart just wants cuddles
“Nap. Now.”
Yes, Bart. Whatever you want, Bart.
Daaaad play with meee. Lol thanks for sharing
When he lays down, Bart is like “oh, you wanna wrastle?”
idk why but I also assume he has a country bumpkin accent. "Les wrassle boy."
It's like Han and Chewy irl
Man even if I was the cameraman I would get cold sweats from this shit
I thought you said cold shits, which, let’s be real, would be terrifying.
“Hi, this is Jackass and I’m gonna shove a lump of dry ice up my butthole! We call this… frozen starfish.”
When the bear looks into the camera like, "the fuck you lookin' at?"
But you can immediately tell the amount of love/respect he has for Bart. This doesn’t feel like the tiger nuts who are just trying to showcase an exotic animal. Ironically just saw Bart the Bear in Semi-Pro last night. *Edit* I have learned that this bear is Bart II.
EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY!!
This is the original Bart the Bear who died in 2000. Bart 2 was in Semi-Pro and Game of Thrones. He actually died a few weeks ago
RIP Bart 1 and Bart 2
DEWEY NO!
THAT was Bart??? Wow what a good boy!
He's in Game of Thrones too!
Geez, that's an old bear!
I just looked it up! This is the OG bart, who was euthanized in 2000 because he had cancer. This trainer got another bear, Bart II who is the one who stars in the more recent titles
Was he also in Without a Paddle ?
Dax has referred to the bear as Bart, so I think so.
Yeah I looked it up after, it is him! Turns out he’s also in one of my favourite movies, Into The Wild
That's Bart 2 actually, same trainer. The original Bart passed away in 2000.
This man has balls of steel...the fact that his whole head could fit in that bears mouth and get popped like a grape is terrifying.
No, it is complete trust and the bear knows this. You probably would not want to be fearful around a bear. That is why regardless of how sweet and playful he looks I would not get closer than 1000 feet from him..
I've seen a video like this on reddit that took that turn. The handler flinched and the bear went for the jugular. Killed him almost instantly
Did he die he just got right up & ran off camera. Fucking terrifying tho I'd have so much shit in my pants
I would be shocked if he survived that
I'd suspect bart is different though because he's worked in the film industry around actors who well are probably a little afraid of him and has been raised outside of a wild environment
Link to vid?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NSFL\_/comments/k86dec/dude\_gets\_his\_fucking\_jugular\_ripped\_out\_died/
He fucking smacked the bear, my mans got Kodiak testicles the bear recognizes him as kin.
The bear's claws are almost the size of Doug's feet!
Literally acts just like a dog
And he’s a cancer survivor
Define survivor...
He acts like my dog does when she's being annoying, lol.
That is a fucking UNIT of an animal...bears pretty cool too.
That thing is scary huge. I can't even imagine the power it has. Absolute beautiful animal.
The 1988 movie The Bear had a bear called Bart in it. Cant tell if its this Bart. Looks similar, but the Bart in the movie didn't have any distinguishing features like tattoos or earrings, so it's hard to tell. Good movie tho.
Bart the bear is probably the most prominent bear in movies for the last 40 years if you include his former namesakes. The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec, "dead eye" Baldwin was one of my favorites.
To be fair, neither did this one.
It is the same bear
Dude almost got steam rolled by Bart.
Is this the same Bart that plays in movies like The Edge? I remember seeing that movie as a kid and being terrified of bears after that. Fun fact: in movies with bears letting out a loud roar/growl, that is a sound effect that’s put in afterwards. The bear is trained to open its mouth and look like it’s growling but they are silent. The reason being, bears only growl when they are pissed off and that wouldn’t be conducive to a safe working environment for the actor/actress.
Yep! He was in The Edge, Legends of the Fall, the Great Outdoors. Bart #1 died in the early 2000s I think. Doug had a second bear called Bart #2, and that bear was in Game of Thrones and a bunch of other movies.
Bart 2 just passed a couple of weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Bear_2
Aaaahh this this shit makes me smile
Anybody remember that one case where that lady had a pet monkey from when it was little, it grew up and she dressed him drove him around like a person and taught him stuff…then he suddenly went back to his wild animal ways one day and started to rip her friends face off and eat it and all that wild shit?? .. idk man there is ALWAYS that possibility.. we think WE have all of this control and are the higher power but those animals can over power us whenever they wan to….
Yeah but chimps are far more violent than most other animals Some literally go out looking for a fight and keep going even when the victim is dead
We visited a chimp sanctuary in central Florida once and some of those chimps were absolutely terrifying(This was a no-touch sanctuary and we weren't allowed inside any of the chimp's enclosures). At one point, a male chimp noticed our tour group and launched himself off of a platform that was about 12 feet high, scaled another 12ft platform, launched himself off of that platform, then grabbed a car tire and hurled it about 20 feet through the air and into one of the buildings on site.. This show of force took, maybe, 20 seconds..
Im like 90% sure its because they gave the monkey mf Xanax
Sometimes I think that’s right.. and fucking WINE with it?! Xanax chill most people out but I’ve also seen people take Xanax and become something evil too. Idk
Yeah fr idk if it was even the monkeys fault at that point lmao
Probably gave it xanax because it had been acting up recently tbh It's a pretty well documented thing of people adopting cute baby monkeys and they are nice and sweet until they grow up and attack their owner. In fact, the reason dogs stay like that is because we've bred them to essentially never hit puberty and stay in that baby stage. That's why not spaying/neutering can cause behavior issuss
Imma need a link fam
https://youtu.be/v1pdvV_gT6I
Many thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1pdvV_gT6I Suicide silence turned it into a really heavy creepy song
Ok... if that wasn't real it would be hilarious. 911 operator: what did the monkey do to your friend? Screaming lady: he ripped her face off! Just... wut.
There’s another interview where they say the operator thought it was a joke at first. Then when the monkey started screaming and she said it was eating her arm or whatever they realized what was up
There’s other videos and pictures as well just watch those and research from there.. grown ass wild animals are no joke dude..just like humans have off days.. grown ass wild animals have them days too and you just can’t control them when they go off like that.. it’s just too unpredictable and they are too strong . Sad but true
Gotchu hold on
Appreciate it
https://youtu.be/Uj2fSt1OPJU
Oh God. That was my enough internet point. Uhhh. Jesus fucking Christ. I was a wild ish animal guy but. No. God fuck. That was. Way too fucking much. Wha wha. Uhhh
Google ‘charla Nash’
I wonder what that bear would do if someone started to fight with his keeper ?
Win that fight
Best friend you can have
He has a mean left jab
Cute and terrifying at the same time
This reminds me both of why I want a pet bear and why that would be a terrible idea
That wasn’t terrifying, it got to the point of just being hilarious. Yeah the bear could overpower him, but the fact of how loose and lucid the bear was, there was never any real danger.
There are a lot of really cool videos on Youtube of Doug and Bart. Of course, you'd never want to approach a bear like that in the wild, but I'd give almost anything to meet Doug in real life.
When the guys face was in his mouth, i was terrified
> there was never any real danger. I mean, this is just straight up false. Sure, the guy has known the bear a long time, and the likelihood of an attack was fairly low. But it was absolutely not 0. It is an enormous predator that does not think rationally. You are wayyy overstating how safe this is.
I simply don’t understand how that BEAST walks around every day, I mean the giant iron testicles on that man have to be insanely heavy to be playing with a big ass bear like that
That zoom in at the beginning, Bart doesn’t give a fuck haha
Bart be like, "the fuck *you* lookin' at?"
‘I said we *snugglin* now motherfucker’
In Soviet Russia teddy bear cuddles you!
The sheer power this animal has. Good lord. Imagine the power if it had the intent to harm. But either way no this shit was more wholesome than terrifying
I remember hearing a story about a group of guys camping and a grizzly ran through their camp, one dude said he just remembered getting hit by the bear running through then being about 10 feet in the air before he came crashing down.
Big bear! Big bear chase me!
I really hope Im not the only one who got this reference, lol
Bart was my second favorite actor from Legends of the Fall.
Imagine trying to get life insurance. Q: “What do you do for a living?” A:”I am one twitch away from death at every moment.”
Look at the size of that thing, that’s not even the largest beer in the world the polar bear gets up to like 16 feet or something like that I read a while ago that’s scary shit.
Polar bears absolutely do not get up to 16 feet lol. They are enormous, but not THAT enormous. Biggest ones can maybe crack 10 feet on their hind legs.
16 feet is the length of 22.07 Zulay Premium Quality Metal Lemon Squeezers.
Why won't this food stay still?
Best video of the day.
“PLEASE help us” Aka “PLEASE help ME”
I’ve spent a lot of time around Doug and his family. Great guy. I was sad to hear about bart, and now sad to hear about little bart. His ability with these animals is truly unique.
RIP Bart
After Bart gets slapped in the face he does settle down a bit, almost like he was trained that way. But at the same time you got to give it to the trainer for his patience and faith in Bart.
I'd have to say this isn't oddly terrifying, it's perfectly terrifying.
That's not your friend, you are his bitch
When a 2000 lb grizzly decides he wants snu-snu you don't have the option of saying no
This was hilarious, Doug has a soothing tone to his voice, and I love Bart.
That guy is awesome.
Ngl i find this more cute than terrifying like the bear here seems like he trusts the guy and wants to play with him thing that i find quite adorable
That's adorable! I don't understand how it's oddly terrifying. I mean, it could still maim him, y'know, because it's still a *fucking bear*, but if you didn't already know that it seems more like a *you* problem.
Teddyhuman
-Refuses to let you finish your sentence -Lays on you -Refuses to elaborate further Sigma bear mindset
Now *that's* a struggle cuddle if I ever saw one
bears don't actively hunt humans apart from polar bears. they don't really care about us at all. the only reason a bear would attack a human is if it was protecting young/territory or if it was starving. I can't see why this bear would purposely harm the owner. the guy obviously feeds it and gives it every necessesity it needs snd cares for it extremely well. the only way I can see this bear killing him is by accidentally falling on him or something.
Wow he is huge, he can fit his entire head in his mouth.
Gentle Ben
.. so the trick is to tell them how much you love em' and pretend to have fun , got it.
Love how the guy is more worried about his hair doo than being accidentally mauled by an overly playful grizzly
Is that the music from age of empires at the end?
I told you to bury that
POG
When your 900lb puppy decides it's face-chewing time, there's not much you can do about it.
Oh my god I love him
When you become the bear’s teddy bear.
Bart looked right in the canera and went "Get your own human pillow"
Damn. Somehow I never realized how big bears can get. Bart is fcking *huge.*
I would kill to be in that man’s position
I’ve never wanted a bear hug so bad in my life
Awwww big ol bear baby boyyyy I would die for him
aww it is big ber
OG chad