Grizzley Bear Climbs tree To Get Hunter.

"You think those bears didn't smell the person long before he got there..?
You don't know much about bears."


The humans were up in trees, not exactly in the path of a prevailing ground breeze for the bear, and also many hunters use scent block while hunting, sold in any sport shop.

That sounds racis, if you will.

Yeah... ok. Whatever you say...

[link to www.americanbear.org]

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Is it true that a bear's sense of smell is 7 times greater than that of a bloodhound?
Indeed it is. There is perhaps no other animal with a keener sense of smell. Bears rely on their sense of smell to locate mates, detect and avoid danger in the form of other bears and humans, identify cubs, and FIND FOOD. Although the region of the brain devoted to the sense of smell is average in size, the area of nasal mucous membrane in a bear's head is one hundred times larger than in a human's. This gives a bear a sense of smell that is 7 times greater than a bloodhound's. In addition, they have an organ called a Jacobson's organ, in the roof of the mouth, that further enhances their sense of smell.
Here are some accounts of how truly well a bear can smell:

"A black bear in California was once seen to travel upwind three miles in a straight line to
reach the carcass of a dead deer."

". . . male polar bears march in a straight line, over the tops of pressure ridges of uplifted ice . . .
up to 40 miles to reach a prey animal they have detected."

"A bear has been known to detect a human scent more than fourteen hours after the person passed along the trail."

"A male can detect which way a breeding female is traveling just by sniffing her tracks."

In these videos, the bears looked surprised to find the humans. They did not look to me as though they were climbing BECAUSE they smelled a human. Perhaps they smelled the lunch bucket moreso than the man? At any rate, neither of these videos convinces me those bears knew a man was up there. The second video looks like there may have been some sort of automatic corn dispenser placed behind the upper rungs of that ladder.

You people are missing the fact that the bears depicted have lost their fear of humans.

They are used to humans being in the woods.

Tell me.. how does a bear express surprise, anyway..?

"Tell me.. how does a bear express surprise, anyway..?"

They quickly backed down and left?

How do you know he was not just checking him out..?
Bears are near-sighted, you know.

Last Edited by Waterbug on 06/20/2013 08:59 PM

Yeah... ok. Whatever you say...

Grizzly Bears don't climb trees. It is a black bear!

Not that I care that much.. but.. the fact is.. if he smelled human scent every day of his life.. he wouldn't be shy about going where he smelled humans.

There could have been human scent all around the stand, from where the dude walked from his truck. Probably pop bottles and trash laying around..
To say the bear was unaware of a human in the vicinity is asinine.

Would have been nice if it pulled him out the fucking tree and ripped his face off give him a taste of his own medicine fucking murdering prick.

I can't bear this thread anymore, I quit!

Is this is thread bear?

screwed up

That bear was merely curious. Their behaviors and mannerisms are very similar to dogs (both wild and domesticated).

He was looking to see if there was food left over, and realized there was a human there, then kinda went, oh, ok, I'll just go now.

The cameraman wasnt too scared, as he would have a lethal weapon as his disposal.

Only 1 sane way to deal with a bear.

Exactly... The hunter was probably wearing some form of scent mask and this confused the bear.

The look on the bear's face was fucking priceless... he looked at the guy like "This is awkward" before he got back down. I had to have watched this video at least 5 times just to see the bear's expression.

I hate to say it, but I would have blown his shit away.

Funny how some people repost good stuff like this as though it was their own find.