A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)

Re:A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WW... by duaneb on Sunday August 28, 2016 @02:35PM (#12377773)

Brown bears don't generally like human, as I have found repeatedly when seeing them in the wild. Your fear is ungrounded and irrational. Step one: don't interact with bear. Step two: don't smell like dead animal. Neither of these are hugely difficult and are easy to grasp lessons.

At no point was predation a major problem for humans. Again, nutrition and infection would most likely dominate hunter gatherer mortality.

How many remains have we found of mauled humans?

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Re:A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WW... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday August 28, 2016 @03:12PM (#12377973)

And yet a few people get killed by brown bears every year in glacier national park through no fault of their own.

Also as a PSA, playing dead works (better) for brown bears since they aren't so interested in dead things, never try that with a black bear who are more like scavengers. If you saw a bear in he states outside of northern Montana or Alaska (or yellow stone), it was just a black bear.

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