Grizzly bear kills couple and their dog at Banff National Park in Canada

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Grizzly bear kills couple and their dog at Banff National Park in Canada - Lemmy.world

“only 14% of grizzly bear attacks are fatal” seems like this just downplays the danger. If a product on the shelves had “only 14%” chance of causing cancer people would be livid.

I would need to see the specifics of that statistic but understand that most people who are in a situation to be attacked by a bear have done the research on what to do.

For a grizzly? Play dead while protecting your vitals to the best of your ability. So you either play dead or get knocked unconscious and effectively ARE dead. And then you live.

It is mostly untrained people who have no business being in the back country who die. Or people who are unfortunate enough to get between mama and her cubs.

There’s actually an interesting statistic where bear attacks from black bears are more likely to happen from the males, whereas attacks from grizzlies are more likely to happen from the females.

Black bear cubs have a strategy to run up the nearest tree when threatened and the mama bear guards the base of the tree rather than going on the offensive, so you are able to back away and avoid an attack a lot easier than a female grizzly, since grizzly cubs don’t instinctually climb trees when threatened but inside rely on the mother to defend them by going on the offensive.