I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
Not sure if this is the case in Canada (and with black bears), but I know that in Scandanavia, they’ve found that female brown bears with cubs move closer to human-populated areas– areas that normally, bears avoid.
Which, it turns out, is why they go there. Male brown bears will kill cubs, so mama bears move into less bear-friendly areas to get away from them. Humans are risky to get close to… just less risky (if you’re a female bear with young cubs), than getting too close to a male brown bear.
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