bluesypicky
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In which case the T may have saved my life.... thank you Guild!
Anyone into Kayaking ?
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Man, I can't even deal with garter snakes much less water Moccasins and gators. No thanks. I'm good with the bears, bobcats, coyotes and occasional cougar..
Opsimath
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Bears?? No!
bluesypicky
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I'll take gators every day over bears..... all it takes is you getting a little too close and they dash away.
Try it with a bear.
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rampside
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This Brute had no interest in me . . .
Disrespectful B'tard!
Yeah, you need to respect the bears but I've come across them several times in my hikes and haven't had a problem. Now, if you run into a mama with her cubs well, that can be problematic. Or, if you intrude on a berry patch of other food source they feel is theirs then it could get tense. I think I just like bears more than gators. but of course, I've never met a gator so.....
Cougar
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bluesypicky
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You were luckier than this surveyor (no mama bears with cubs and no food source intrusion, just minding his own surveying business):
Alaska man survives mauling by large brown bear he says put its mouth over his head
"I was like, 'Holy s---, this is a big bear. It's still very vivid in my mind," Allen Minish said from an Anchorage hospital bed.
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You were luckier than this surveyor (no mama bears with cubs and no food source intrusion, just minding his own surveying business):
Alaska man survives mauling by large brown bear he says put its mouth over his head
"I was like, 'Holy s---, this is a big bear. It's still very vivid in my mind," Allen Minish said from an Anchorage hospital bed.
Well, yeah but Alaskan Grizzly/Brown Bears are a whole lot more aggressive than typical Black Bears
bluesypicky
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....and I'll still take a gator encounter over a "typical black bear" any day, but we all have our preferences don't we?
