• binarytobis
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    1 day ago

    I used to live in Alaska and people do the same around bears and moose. I think they have a feeling of “Animals won’t hurt me, I’m on vacation!”

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      A moose almost did this to my stepmom is Yellowstone when I was a kid. it chased her around out far for 30 seconds before my dad was able to quickly open the door and snatch her in.

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      21 hours ago

      I’ve watched people get out of their cars and chase bears in the Smokies to get a photo. People are crazy. It’s amazing more people don’t die from bear attacks

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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        2 hours ago

        Ironically chasing the bear is probably the safer option. It’s a predator so it will actually avoid wastes of calories. Prey animals will resort to “one or both of us is dieing here.”