Animal attack on a human by a bear. Rules of conduct in the forest when meeting a bear

As a rule, a bear attacks a person only if it is provoked: to encroach on the territory, offspring, prey. In the high-risk zone, mostly unlucky tourists, travelers or zookeepers. Staying alive, having been in the arms of an angry bear, is not a trivial task and few people have succeeded...
12 bear attacks on humans caught on film wild animals, bear attack, predator attack

1. Grizzly attack on the huntsman in Yellowstone Park, 1987


In 1987, employees of the Yellowstone National Park (USA) transported a young grizzly bear. When the truck stopped to release the bear, the bear did not run into the forest, but attacked the huntsman Lu Ki. Nearby was photographer Richard Smith, who managed to take several pictures of this surprise attack. Fortunately, the attack resulted in only a laceration and a broken leg. The bear could have killed Lu Ki, but the huntsman had a gun and shot the animal for his life. The man was quickly taken to the hospital and given the necessary assistance.


2. Attack of a brown bear on a man in the Swiss Bear Park, 2009


The capital of Switzerland, Bern, is famous for its Bear Park, where several bear families live on an area of ​​6,000 square meters. good conditions. And people can watch them from a distance, and no one interferes with anyone. However, in 2009, an unpleasant incident occurred when a mentally retarded (and this is not a figure of speech) citizen decided to visit the bears. A 4-year-old brown bear named Finn did not like this - he attacked the uninvited guest and managed to beat him up properly. Rescuing a man, the park staff had to shoot the bear. The man was taken to the hospital to stitch up lacerations to his head and legs; the bear, on the other hand, suffered more severely, having received a serious wound in the right side. I must say that the inhabitants of Bern in this situation were more sympathetic to the bear Finn - everyone wished him a speedy recovery and sent pots of honey as a gift.

3. Assault polar bear on a zoo visitor in Anchorage, 1994

In 1994, 29-year-old Australian tourist Katherine Warburton did not think of anything better than to climb over two fences and climb onto the fence, behind which there was a polar bear enclosure. It took place at the zoo in Anchorage, Alaska. Katherine really wanted to take good pictures of the bears. As a result, the bear was beaten off by people passing by. They fought off with some sticks found nearby - fortunately, successfully: the woman received only a few serious bites and a broken leg. The bear miraculously did not bite her femoral artery - she most likely would not have survived this.

4. Polar bear attack on a woman at the Berlin Zoo, 2009

One April morning in 2009, a 32-year-old visitor to the Berlin Zoo decided it would be great to swim with polar bears. The woman climbed over the fence and flopped into the water, where four hefty polar bears were just waiting to be fed. Despite all the attempts of the zoo staff to calm and distract the animals, one of them - the leader of the bear gang - bit the woman several times. Fortunately, they managed to pull her out of the water quite quickly with a rope. Later it turned out that the woman jumped to the bears for a reason: she was a teacher who lost her job and suffered from severe depression. In a moment of weakness, she came up with such a wild idea to end her life.

5. Attack of a trained bear on a woman on the set of a TV program, 2016

Most recently, on December 26, 2016, a tragedy almost occurred on the set of the program “About Love”: for some reason, an employee of the film crew came close to the trained bear from behind and handed her something. The reaction of the beast was instant: she grabbed the girl with one paw and threw her to the floor. It's good that there was a trainer nearby who managed to quickly put things in order. The victim escaped with bruises and fright and for a long time asked for forgiveness from the trainer, who warned everyone that the bear should not be touched without permission.

6. Grizzly attack on a trainer with a fatal outcome, 2008

In April 2008, a grizzly bear thought to be very docile attacked and killed its trainer, 39-year-old Stefan Miller. It happened in California. A huge grizzly named Rocky was eminent, famous, he was filmed several times in films - feature films and scientific documentaries. He obeyed commands very well and did not attack people before this incident. Unfortunately, Stefan Miller had no chance against such a colossus. He received a fatal bite to the neck and died 25 minutes later. They couldn't help him.

7. Grizzly attack on an employee of the center for wild animals in Montana, 2012


Another tragedy occurred at the Animals of Montana center, which is dedicated to keeping wild animals and offering to use them for photography and video filming. In the enclosure where the grizzly bear lived, found dead 24-year-old trainer Benjamin Cloutier. The man had been working with wild animals for four years and knew about all the security measures. Center staff believe that something unforeseen happened and he fell there by accident, which led to the attack of the animal.

8. Bear attack on a forester in the state of Chhattisgarh, India, 2014

In December 2014 in Indian state In Chhattisgarh, a bear attacked a man - alas, with a fatal outcome. It was a she-bear who got into the habit of raiding a village adjacent to the forest. She caused great damage with her raids. To catch and pacify the bear, employees of the forest service were called there. However, she attacked them as well, killing a man in the process. Eyewitnesses said that the animal was unusually aggressive - no one had observed such cases in this area before. It was decided to shoot the Mad Bear.

9. Bear attack on a hunter in Montana, 2016

A 50-year-old hunter from Montana named Todd Orr was attacked by a grizzly bear twice within minutes. The man was hunting an elk, but then a bear attacked him, behind which two bear cubs were hiding. Toddoo pulled out a can of bear-repelling gas and sprayed it in her direction, but it didn't slow her attack speed in the slightest. The she-bear grabbed him by the neck, and he fell on his face to the ground. She then released him and left. Todd was able to move, so he went to his car - there were several kilometers to go. But then this bear attacked him again. This time, she tore his arms, his back, injured his head - in general, she scratched him specifically, but did not kill him. In shock, the man made his way to the car and drove to the nearest hospital to stitch up and heal his wounds.

10. Attack of a disturbed bear on an amateur photographer, New Jersey, 2014


Darsh Patel, 22, was walking through the forest with a camera with three friends. It was in New Jersey and nothing foreshadowed fatality, because this is not the place where big black bears pounce on you. Unfortunately, however, that is exactly what happened. Walking, friends came across a bear's lair. Instead of quickly getting out of there, they decided that it would be nice to capture an interesting plot for the story. On the camera of the murdered guy there were pictures of an animal approaching him - bigger and bigger. When the bear was already at a distance of four meters, everyone rushed in all directions. The bear chose Patel as a victim - he caught up with him and attacked. The bear was later killed by the police.

11. Grizzly attack on people in national park Katmai, Alaska, 2003


Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amy Hoogenard were the biggest grizzly bear lovers imaginable. It was downright passion and obsession. Timothy was an activist and wildlife researcher, filming documentaries about the grizzly and 13 years in a row for the whole summer went to national park Katmai in Alaska to live among the grizzlies. At the end of the thirteenth summer, he and his girlfriend were killed and gnawed by bears. The network has an audio recording of the last minutes of the life of this couple, but they say that this is a fake. Either way, the story is creepy.

12. Bear attack on a woman in the Amur region, 2015


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How to behave when meeting a bear.

The bear (Brown bear) inhabits the entire Urals, Northern Ural, Subpolar Urals and Polar Urals.

The brown bear is the most large predator living in the Ural taiga. Its weight can exceed 600 kg. Powerful forelimbs, equipped with long claws, have great destructive power - with a blow of the front paw, the bear is able to break the backbone, tear out the ribs or break the skull bones of the moose. With its teeth, a bear can bite through the trunks of a smoothbore gun.
With apparent massiveness, the bear is a very "agile" animal. In a jerk, it reaches a speed of 60 km / h, and from a standstill.

On the lower part of the paws, the bear has peculiar calloused formations. These calluses leave footprints on the ground that are characteristic only of a bear. The complete imprint of the hind foot somewhat resembles that of a human foot. The color of the fur varies widely from black to straw-red.

There are a lot of bears in the subpolar Urals. Especially along the river banks. This is his country. his hunting grounds. And there is only one owner here - BEAR. We are visiting him, do not forget about it. If you are traveling alone through the domain of a bear, and even more so along the river bank, where there is a lot of willow, let us know about you. Especially where the landscape or vegetation makes it difficult to see. Make noise, sing, talk loudly, or tie a bell to your backpack. If possible, travel with a group. Groups make more noise and are easier for bears to recognize. Avoid dense bushes. If you can't, then try to walk so that the wind blows from your back, and the bear can smell you. Contrary to popular belief, bears see almost as well as humans, but trust their noses more than their eyes or ears. Always let the bear know you are here.

Like people, bears use paths and roads. Don't pitch your tent near a path they can walk on. Go around those places where you smell dead fish, an animal, or see animals that feed on carrion. There may also be bear food, and if it is nearby, it can aggressively defend the hiding place (nick). As a rule, in such places, a bear has a rookery - lying down.

Don't push the bears!
Give the bear as much free space as possible. Some bears are more tolerant than others, but each bear has its own "personal space" - the distance within which the bear feels threatened. If you are in this zone, the bear may react aggressively. When photographing bears, use telephoto lenses; approaching for close-up shots, you may be in this danger zone.

Bears are always looking for something to eat!
Bears only have 7 months to accumulate fat before their long hibernation. Don't let them know that human food or garbage is easy prey. It is foolish and dangerous to feed bears, or to leave food or garbage to attract them.
Cook food away from your tent. Keep all groceries and food away from the camp. Hang food so that the bear cannot reach it. If there are no trees, store food in airtight or special containers. Remember that dogs and their food can also attract bears.
Keep the camp clean. Wash dishes. Don't use strong smelling foods like bacon or smoked fish. Don't let your clothes smell like food. Burn garbage at the stake, burn cans. Bears are equally attracted to food and trash, so handle them properly. Waste disposal is a waste of time. Bears have a keen sense of smell and are good at digging.

If a bear approaches you while fishing, stop fishing. If there is a fish on the line, do not let it splash. If this is not possible, cut the line. If the bear realizes that he can get the fish only by approaching the fisherman, he will return again. A bear can also mistake you for another bear - a stranger that hunts (fishes) in its territory and reacts very aggressively.

Close encounters with a bear. What to do?
If you see a bear, try to get away from it. Give the bear every opportunity to avoid meeting you. If you encounter a bear, stay calm. Attacks are rare. There is a chance you are not in danger. Most bears (she-bears) are interested in protecting their food, cubs or their personal space. When the threat has passed, they will pass by.

Let me know!
Let the bear know that you are a human. Talk to the bear in a normal voice. Wave your hands. Help the bear recognize you. If the bear cannot recognize who you are, it may come closer or stand on its hind legs to get a better look or sniff. A standing bear is usually curious and not dangerous. You can try to slowly back away diagonally, but if the bear starts to follow you, stop and stay where you are.

Don't run!
Do NOT RUN under any circumstances. You won't be able to run away from the bear. They have been found to run at about 60 km/h and, like dogs, they will chase a fleeing animal or person. This animal takes an animal running from it as a victim, and easily kills in 90% of cases out of 100. Often bears intimidate, terrify, sometimes 3 meters from their enemy, without trying to attack. Keep waving your arms and talking to the bear. If the bear gets too close, raise your voice and become more aggressive. Knock on pots and pans. Use loud instruments. Never imitate a bear's growl or squawk.

If the bear attacks.
If the bear starts to attack, give up! Fall to the ground and pretend to be dead. Lie on your stomach or curl up in a ball with your hands behind your head. It is typical for a bear to stop attacking if it feels that the threat has been eliminated. Stay still for as long as possible. If you move and the bear sees or hears you, it may return and renew its attack. In rare cases, an attacking bear may mistake a person for food.

Protection.
Use weapons with caution as an alternative to a sensible approach to dealing with close encounters with a bear. If you are not experienced with firearms in an emergency, you are more likely to get hurt by a gun than a bear.

You can shoot a bear ONLY in self-defense during an attack, if you did not provoke the attack, and if there is no other way out. In all other cases, a warning shot must be fired into the air to frighten the bear. If you are not a hunter, but a fisherman and you do not have a gun, take a traumatic (gas) pistol with light-noise cartridges with you. It should always be at hand (on the belt in a belt holster, in the bosom, in a body holster). If there is no such thing, ordinary firecrackers or a rocket launcher are quite suitable. On no account leave the camp without a means of guaranteeing, if necessary, a shot or noise clap.

In ordinary life, collisions with people with bears are milder. Usually, whoever is smarter is the first to give way. Bears almost always do this. If the bear does try to get close, 90 percent of the time, a sharp whistle or an unexpected pop in the palm of the hand is enough to make the beast run away. If he continues to approach, the next remedy is to throw a pebble at him. As a rule, it works. Some hunters claim that it helps from a good bear mat.
Bears are afraid of the unexpected. For example, unexpectedly opening umbrellas, especially if two big eyes. An unexpectedly open floor of a raincoat or a backpack suddenly thrown up. Any unexpected behavior.

The greatest troubles have to be endured by young, actively exploring the world bears, as well as from mature males-dominants who do not have enemies in wild nature and forgetting how to give way.
One last tip: when in bearish places, don't forget to look back sometimes!

There is nothing worse than being confronted by a beast suddenly - it may take it as an act of aggression.

A protective aerosol spray containing capsicum (red pepper extract) is available in some hunting shops and has been used successfully to repel bears. These sprays are effective at a distance of about 5-6 meters. If sprayed upwards or in a car, they may injure the user. Take precautions. If you carry a spray, keep it handy and know how to use it.

Bears can be ardent protectors of their cubs. Standing between a she-bear and her cubs is a big mistake. A mother bear can react violently to anything she considers a threat to her cub.

The bear's rutting period begins in June and ends in late July - early August. During this period, the animals are excited, often there are groups of adult animals. Demonstrative competitions and fights arise between males, as a result, the female remains with one male, while the others stay nearby. Males show high activity and aggressiveness, and the entire period of estrus is near the female.

Bear cubs appear in January-February. In the Urals, it is not uncommon to meet a female with three cubs.

The daily activity of a bear is determined by the season of the year, the availability of food and the general life cycle of the animal. In spring and the first half of summer, bears can feed around the clock, especially in cloudy weather. The high daily activity of the bear persists until the start of the run of salmon and grayling. During the day, the bears lie down without going far from the feeding place, usually in thickets of shrubs, in closed glades, in small forest clumps, on hot days they can be located in the floodplain high grass or willow of the river.

During the mass run of salmonids, daytime activity decreases and shifts to the evening, morning and night hours. With a lack of food (especially with a weak course of fish), the activity of bears increases, and they feed on berry fields, in cedar dwarf forests or in mountain meadows at almost any time of the day. For rest, the bear usually settles under the canopy coniferous trees, and beds can be used repeatedly. In the twilight and in the forest thicket, the bear feels much more confident than a person.

The bear is omnivorous. In the Urals in the spring, after leaving their dens, the animals come out onto the warm slopes of the mountains, warmed up and quickly freed from the snow cover, where they dig for rhizomes and bulbs. Later in May, they begin to go out to the rivers or to the berry fields, pick up carrion, eat the remains of berries. Animals often visit the coasts of rivers and lakes in search of animal and plant waste.

With the start of the fish to spawn, most of the bears are located near the spawning rivers. On the mountainous Ural rivers, fish is the main source of animal protein food. Having eaten on fish, the bears go to the berries or grass, in order to return to the river after some time. Thus, the menu diversifies, the diet becomes richer. In the autumn before the occurrence (October-November), the bears leave the rivers and gradually move, eating berries and nuts of the dwarf pines, go to the wintering grounds. In their environment, bears are cannibals. More big bear can catch and devour a bear cub (which most often happens during the mating season, when the cubs are not far from the bear). Cases of attacks and eating by bears of smaller (more often young) individuals have been registered.

Bear winter shelters are usually located in the ground or caves. Two or three animals can sleep in one lair. With an abundance of food, individuals of good fatness may not go to dens at all, arranging surface nests.

Bears live on average 25-30 years.

A person is not an object of food for a bear. Most bears under normal conditions try to avoid meeting a person, and, having found him first, they try to leave unnoticed. If the meeting took place, then the vast majority of bears take flight.

However, you should always remember and clearly know that the behavior of a particular bear that you meet in a particular situation is UNPREDICTABLE!

The main reasons for the attack brown bears on people.

In our desire to communicate with nature, we are getting further and further into the forests. We are beckoned by taiga distances, modern technology allows us to get in. The roar of helicopter engines and all-terrain vehicles scares away the forest inhabitants of the pristine taiga. But at the same time, we are accustoming the same bears to our presence for longer and longer, without knowing it.

The predator gets used to a person (becomes, without knowing it, the so-called "synanthropic" bear) in places where he constantly has to deal with. He gradually loses his fear of humans and, as a logical conclusion to the process, the aggressiveness of the bear increases, which by its nature does not like meeting humans. At the same time, some part of the population, perhaps insignificant, shows a tendency to hangover, adapts to life close to a person and at his expense. Harmless at first, these beasts become more and more aggressive. They are LOSE FEAR in front of a man!

Many researchers agree that aggressiveness towards a person is an extreme expression of "synanthropism". An important, if not the main reason for the entry of animals into camps, camps and settlements and conflict situations, is the careless maintenance of garbage dumps, various kinds of food waste dumps, leaving food waste, garbage in the forests, as well as careless storage of products. Animals in these cases are attracted by the smell and availability of food. Bears are attracted by fish, from which fishermen cook fish soup and fish waste, which tourists leave behind.

Thus, bears pose an increased danger to humans. :

For some reason, those who have lost the opportunity to get their usual food (sick, injured, old) or who have learned to pick up scraps, eat food waste left by a person;

Individuals adapted to contacts with people (including bears - "beggars"), often meeting with humans, living in the area of ​​​​permanent camps;

Animals with "torn behavior" - in one way or another "tried" to hunt a person - once killed him with impunity;

The degree of danger largely depends on the circumstances of the contacts.

The danger is extremely great if:

The beast is wounded (the bear is very strong on the wound, even a mortally wounded bear is able to attack and kill the hunter);

When meeting with a she-bear accompanying the cubs (especially if the person is between the cubs and the she-bear);

A bear protecting its prey;

If a person accidentally finds himself in the path of a bear running away from some kind of danger.

It is very dangerous when a person steps over the threshold of "rapprochement", i.e. is too close to the animal. The science of animal behavior - ethology, claims that predators have one feature - the so-called critical approach distance. All living creatures that find themselves closer to the predator than this critical distance are perceived by him as aggressors, that is, attackers. In this case, it is difficult to predict how a particular bear will behave.

Among the BEARS there are also " underpants"and unperturbed" Olympians", and aggressive " brawlers".

"Coward" runs away from the attacker;
The Olympian just stands there and watches what happens next;
Aggressive "Brawler" himself instantly attacks the "attacker".

Therefore, you can find yourself in the clutches of a bear not attacking, but defending! Absolute majority known cases attacks of bears on people can be explained by this feature of the behavior of predators, when he perceived a person as attacking him.

It is extremely dangerous to approach a bear caught in a snare (noose or trap), which poachers often set near food bait (fish, animal carcasses, or on a trail). A bear, caught in a loop fixed tightly (usually to a thick tree), tries to escape to the last, with a roar destroys everything around him in a radius depending on the length of the cable. If the samolov is attached to a sled (a log, chains with an anchor, and the like), then the bear, moving, pulls the stag behind it, leaving a furrow on the grass and soft ground. If you get close to such a beast, he will definitely attack. Woe to the one who meets with the enraged bear escaping from the dead grip of the noose.

The degree of danger to humans is different and in different seasons of the year: upon leaving the den, during the rut, as well as in winter period when "rods" appear - bears that have not accumulated a sufficient amount of fat, or are injured, and therefore do not lie down in the den.

The degree of danger also increases at night: it is more difficult to notice the beast, and at night the bears are more active and bold, there are cases when they went straight to the fires.

Cowardly, inexperienced, untrained dogs can also provoke a bear. Some bears not only actively defend themselves against dogs, but also chase them themselves. Cowardly dogs at the same time seek protection from a person, throw themselves at his feet, which can cause an accident. An attacking bear can be stopped only by dogs that are taunted by a bear and not afraid of it. Therefore, do not take your untrained pets with you to the forest, on an expedition to the taiga, they will not protect you from a bear, but they can provoke an attack. Only a dog can protect a person from a bear, capable of detaining him at the cost of his life.

Ways to reduce the chance of encounter and attack.

In order to avoid dangerous situations when meeting with a bear, the following rules can help you:

1. When moving along the route, hunting in the forest, picking mushrooms or berries, relaxing in picturesque taiga places, always remember that a meeting with a bear can happen at any time, in any place, and You must be mentally prepared for this.. Plan your possible actions in advance. Listen to the birds around you. Nutcrackers are especially talkative. By the behavior of birds, you can predict in advance the place and time of the appearance of the beast.

2 . To avoid the critical approach distance and not unexpectedly collide with a bear, it is necessary to move in the forest noisily talking freely and loudly, and preferably in a group of at least 3 people. Avoid close encounters with bears. Look out for signs of a bear that it is nearby and make as much noise as possible. Let's know about ourselves.

3 . To avoid the appearance of "synanthropic" (accustomed beggars) bears, it is important to ensure that not to create conditions for their complementary feeding. Food scraps and carcasses of slaughtered wild animals must be disposed of so that predators do not take advantage of them.

4 . Do not leave in the forest in places of your rest and intermediate stops food leftovers, garbage. You can not arrange near the bases, camps, trails, on halts and routes such objects as garbage dumps, dumps, warehouses of food waste. Do not attract the bear through improper storage of food and garbage.

5 . When moving through the taiga and river banks, the maximum try to avoid areas of high grass, willow trees, thickets of elfin cedar, closed cozy glades, thickets of "burdocks" in the floodplains of rivers and streams, places of possible rest for a bear on day trips. Move to open areas where you can see the bear far enough away.

6 . Seeing a bear in the distance don't get close to him, carefully leave this place, bypass it. Keep calm.

7 . Post camp in the open, With sufficient overview places. Carefully monitor the cleanliness of their territories, all food waste burn. Do not store food in accessible places, isolate them so that smells cannot attract animals.

8 . In no case do not stay overnight, do not put up tents and do not set up camp on bear and other forest trails.

9 . Avoid walking along river banks and streams during the spawning season of salmon in the evening and morning twilight and at night. Generally avoid walking in the taiga dull twilight and night. Remember, night is Bear time! If fate forced you to walk at night, you need to at least move around with an electric flashlight on.

10 . Under no circumstances don't come near in places where bears may be found the remains of dead animals, masses of abandoned fish, other possible baits. A bear disturbed on prey in most cases goes on the attack.

11 . Don't push the bear Please respect his "private space". In case of an unexpected meeting "short", even if you are unarmed, categorically it is impossible to run away from the beast(this is useless and can only additionally provoke the bear to pursue). It is necessary, trying to keep calm as much as possible, to remain in place (no matter how scary it is), calling for help with a loud cry, or, slowly backing away, retreat. In this case, you can try to scare away the bear with the ringing of metal objects, a loud cry, voice, shots in the air, rockets, hand flares.

13 . Never, do not, under any circumstances, approach bear cubs no matter how sweet and cute they seem to you. Do not try to feed or lure them. If you meet them by chance, or they come out to your resting place, stop immediately, look around quickly and look for an escape route as quickly as possible. Bear cubs are curious and if they are heading towards you, drive them away with loud cries. Remember - somewhere near the she-bear, and GOD FORBID You will find yourself between a she-bear and a bear cub. The attack of the Bear, if she considers that you are a threat to her baby, will be the last thing you will see in your life.

14 . Protect you, your camp only strong, brave and vicious dogs can. Even among the huskies, not everyone is able to attack a bear. Under no circumstances should dogs be used to guard against a bear without the skills, dexterity and strength to at least briefly detain a bear on the spot.

15 . Scaring away the bear with shots, don't try to shoot the bear itself. A wounded bear is extremely dangerous! Even if he leaves you, he can become a serious danger to other people. You can only kill a bear with a weapon large caliber and then not always even a shot "on the spot" can immediately stop the bear. Reliable shot exactly in the brain or spine.

16 . In extreme cases, you can escape from a bear on a tree if you manage to get on it. An adult large bear, due to its weight, will no longer be able to climb on it. Such cases of rescue, or rather sitting out, on trees are known. If there are several trees, try to choose the largest one.

17 . Being in the taiga always be very careful, do not go into thickets of elfin, tall grass. Do not climb in floodplain thickets of bushes. Settling down to rest, carefully look around for signs of the presence of a bear. On clay outcrops, swamps, banks of streams, you can see traces of a bear, and in floodplain places, feeding places (kopanki), where he dug marsh plants. If you suspect that a bear has been here, leave the area immediately and look elsewhere.

18 . Even if the bear nevertheless went to you, there is still hope that he will turn aside. Never DO NOT turn your back on an attacking bear! The man who escaped is almost certainly doomed. When attacked by a bear, you cannot manifest external signs fear. If there is no reliable shelter or shelter nearby, it is necessary to face the danger by standing face to face. There are more people who survived the attack of the bear in this way than those who were able to flee. Don't run.

19 . Seeing a bear that accidentally entered the path (road), never, never feed them no matter how harmless and cute they seem. The bear does not need your feeding, but starting to feed the bear you bring up a beggar in him, who will very quickly begin to demand food, and if he doesn’t get it, he becomes aggressive and is able to attack a person, the fear of which he loses. Remember that by your actions you endanger the lives of others.

20 . Upon detection of a bear showing aggression, a wounded bear, a bear caught in a samolov (loop), a bear attacking dogs and people, other people should be warned immediately located in the same place or in close proximity to it.

21 . And last - ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE: Having met a bear, regardless of its size, behavior and appearance treat him like a formidable and powerful predator, with unpredictable behavior.

Studies conducted in our country and abroad have shown that there is no single universal means of protection against bears, and the above recommendations cannot be considered as an absolute guarantee against an accident, but to reduce the likelihood conflict situation they will help.

In many cases, bears do not pose a threat, but they deserve your respect and attention. When traveling through the taiga, be vigilant and take the opportunity to see these amazing animals in natural environment their habitats.

Unfortunately, even full compliance with the recommendations cannot completely exclude the possibility of a bear attack, because it is impossible to foresee the circumstances of each specific case of a meeting with a bear. Bear behavior is unpredictable. But we will be sincerely glad if, after reading the recommendations, you become more careful in taiga expeditions.

The main reference material is taken from open sources information.
Prepared by Evgeniy Svitov.

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Try not to meet the bear

The best encounter with a bear is the one that never happened. Therefore, it is reasonable to do everything to scare him away.

1. Make as much noise as possible. If you are in a company - talk to each other. If alone - tie a bell to your backpack or find a stick and knock on the trees with it. Yes, you may look stupid from the outside, but you know what else is stupid? Die when attacked by a bear!
2. If there is a chance that the bear will not hear you, make sure that he smells you. To do this, try to walk so that the wind blows in the back. The bear does not really want to date you - let the poor introvert do it.
3. Do not attract the bear with the smell of food. To do this, it is better not to cook strong-smelling foods on a hike and pack all food leftovers very carefully before going to bed. If you have food supplies - leave them away from the camp, ideally hanging on a tree. By the way, it is useless to bury waste - it is better to burn it.
4. Take your dog with you. We are talking about a dog now, not a dog fur sampler that gets a million likes but fades as soon as it smells a real animal. The smell of a dog can scare away a bear, but for this it must weigh more than ten kilograms and be minimally similar to a rat.
5. Look at the footprints. Yes, you are not an Indian chief and you are unlikely to be able to read the history of the forest over the past two weeks, but this is not necessary. It is enough to remember what bear tracks look like. See them - look in which direction they are going and go to reverse side. Go around the "bear paths" - these are two parallel chains of holes at a distance of about 20 cm from each other.
6. If you suddenly find a dead animal, leave. The bear does with its prey the same as a person on a diet with pizza - it protects in all available ways. In this case, people can get hurt!

Bear, in general, he is not an idiot, and usually does not climb on people. But sometimes there are chance encounters. You are walking through the woods, and suddenly he To minimize the likelihood of such contact with a predator, it is recommended to actively make noise. We were given whistles. You walk through the forest and whistle every 5-10 seconds. And all bears are scavengers. In no case should food be left open, otherwise the bears may smell at night.

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Determine which bear you stumbled upon

In a situation where you still met a bear, it is better to determine what kind of species it is as quickly as possible. This is what your next strategy will depend on. The easiest way to tell one bear from another is by the color of the skin.

You will most likely encounter one of three types of bears:

Brown bear (they also include grizzlies)

Big brown bear. It has a noticeable "hump" on the neck. They live in Eurasia, Canada and the USA. If you have met such - it is better to slowly but surely dump away.

Black bear

Relatively small bear, most commonly found in the US and Canada. This type of bear is the easiest to scare away, so when you meet, get the whole arsenal of noises - "Mood color blue" is also suitable as a means of psychological attack.

Polar bear

The largest land predator. Bad news - if you met him and are unarmed, most likely you are in trouble. The good news is that polar bears live in the circumpolar regions, so the easiest way to avoid them is not to climb that far.

What to do if you meet a bear?

• Try to leave. Don't run or move too fast, but you can move away calmly and confidently enough so as not to put pressure on the bear's personal space.
• Make some noise - a saucepan and a stick are perfect. It is better not to imitate a growl and not to scream - this can provoke him. In this case, you can talk, but in a normal voice. You can try to negotiate and promise him that his relatives will no longer be filmed in Russian cinema about superheroes!
• If the bear came very close, it's not the time to back out. So he will perceive you as prey and begin to hunt, and your chances of getting out of the situation unscathed will decrease dramatically. Retreat when the bear has calmed down and stopped moving - only very carefully.
• If the bear does attack, fall to the ground. Try to curl up in a ball and close your head, clasping your fingers around your neck - it is up to the head that the bear will try to get. A backpack on your back will help protect you. If the bear tries to roll you onto your back, roll on the ground until you are face down - this will protect your stomach and internal organs. In this situation, it is better not to fight or shout - this way the bear will quickly lose interest and leave.

When meeting with a bear, it is worth pretending that you did not notice him (ha ha), and move away from him in the opposite direction (quickly, but not running), making a lot of noise. I would have already prepared a false flare at the same time. It makes no sense to run because a bear runs much faster than a person, climbing a tree, of course, is also not an option.

I have been drawn to nature since childhood. A friend had an old gun, we went with him - I don’t remember, maybe I was the first to get a hare or a hazel grouse. From the age of five or six, he began to try to make the first stuffed animals from rats, mice, fish, and birds. Something turned out - being in nature makes it possible to show the character of the animal in working with taxidermy more accurately than even very Good photo. In general, when the time came to choose a business for adulthood, I went to the hunters-traders.

Many believe that the hunter is the enemy of nature. But here I have been assigned a site since 1986, probably. And anyone will tell you that the animal lives with me no worse than in any reserve. At the same time, I never keep livestock - for meat, lard, etc. People often came to me and asked me to help slaughter a cow or a dog - I always refused, because it is impossible for me to kill the one you fed, watered, who trusted you. Moreover, many times I nursed the wounded animals. Nurtured and released. To shoot such an animal is murder for me, not hunting.

For me, hunting is not just about shooting someone and taking a picture with the trophy. It is a way of life, it is a way of earning food and income. And of course, this is a very high emotional level of existence, referring to our ancestors - after all, if there were no hunters, there would be no modern man. From there come the commandments and signs that make up the ritual of the life of a modern hunter. Once again I want to say that the goal of running around the taiga and shooting as many animals as possible is not worth it to a real hunter. Moreover, if such a person appears in the taiga, then the hunters themselves try to send him home as soon as possible.

In other words, what is important for me in hunting is not the extraction of some piece of meat, but the beauty of nature, communication with it, spending the night near the fire. I somehow figured that in my whole life I ran several times to Moscow and back - so many kilometers were covered in the taiga. During the day I walked up to sixty kilometers in full gear. This is what hunting is for me, and not to have prey in a bag. Often you see an animal and understand that it is not necessary to get it: young or female - why? I get only males that have already lived properly and left offspring. Or sick animals - the horns change their configuration in a certain way, indicating that the beast has turned into a killer, crippling relatives.

As for the bear, if he starts to engage in robbery and cannibalism, then here you want it or not, it's not scary, but you have to go and get it. Otherwise, it will come out sideways either to you personally, or to the taiga. There are other cases. For example, people sometimes drive along logging roads now who are afraid to walk through the taiga on foot, but they still take guns to the car. And here he was riding, he saw the beast, shot, but did not kill, but the beast remembered. Such an animal also becomes dangerous for every passer-by; a person who has nothing to do with it can fall under such a situation. And the tigers clearly remember the offender and begin a targeted hunt.

It is also important to understand that the animals that you see in the zoo are not at all the same animals that can be found in the taiga. A swollen tiger behind bars has little in common with a sparkling beast that you see eight meters away from you, realizing that now it will either tear you apart or pass you by. Emotions run high. An animal in its natural habitat is very sensitive, it sees everything, competes with you. Animals are the subtlest psychologists. They feel everything, read minds, and if the beast senses your fear, then this is already half of your loss.

Alexander Danevich

A bear is always a test of oneself. Testing that you're still a man, that you can handle it. The fight with the bear takes place on an equal footing.

It is difficult to get a deer - it is sensitive, you need to walk through the mountains for a long time to track it down. But at my age it doesn't work anymore.

I always go to bear alone. There are people who gather in twos or threes, but in such cases bad shooting often begins. Sometimes it turns out that the beast is gone, and the hunters are dented. If you go alone, then you can only rely on yourself, and this is a different concentration, you are ready to tear with your hands and teeth. At the same time, one must understand that when a bear has a normal food supply, it does not behave aggressively. Now the situation is different. Simply put, if a person is thrown out of an apartment and sent to live under a fence, then there is no guarantee that after a month of such a life he will not cling to someone's throat. Here is a similar situation.

Do not think that we have a bear sitting under every bush, ready to devour gaping guests. The trouble lies in the fact that nature is being destroyed very much, the habitat of animals is being destroyed, which causes disruptions in their behavior. This has been happening for over a year now. Last autumn, a tiger ate a man who was just walking and collecting pine cones, almost nothing was left of him. Bears come to cities in search of food. Recently there was a story in the news about a bear that bullied a man who was just leaving his porch. And it is important to understand that this is not the norm, it is a failure caused by human activity. Our government says that it is necessary to cut more forest to sell more to China - and here is the result.

I protect their lives as best I can, as I fight against logging - although these are already semi-gangster cases in which my word does not have much weight. Under the Union, there were commercial hunting farms with plots assigned to hunters - then the taiga lived. And along with perestroika, a mess began with these semi-legal logging, and the results of this are also on my face. Now we have to regulate the number of predators. In addition to people, they are increasingly crushing and eating each other, it's just a nightmare, it definitely won't end well. Hunters do what they can, but it's not enough, and my story is proof of that.

In early October 2016, as usual, I drove to my site.

We have the first snow at this time, I make preparations, clean the trails. On October 22, I was preparing firewood in one of the huts, I got tired, I had to stay overnight, but I wanted to do something else. I decided to go to another hut so that the next day I could immediately do business there. I took with me an old bolt carbine instead of a semi-automatic one, relaxed, walked along the path and heard the crunch of branches at the last moment. He turned around, threw up a carbine, but only a few meters remained, and this white-breasted man flew ( Himalayan bear. - Note. ed.) at high speed. I managed to shoot once, but the beast did not even move - the bullet entered somewhere, but it could have been seriously hurt only by hooking the spine.

In general, he fell on me - and it's like putting a cow on you - and began to choke me. I closed my throat, he immediately bit both my hands and began to tear my face - nose, eye, cheeks. But the thought at that moment continued to work, I tried to figure out how to get out of this situation. In the meantime, the bear grabbed me by the neck with his teeth, but I did not let him pull out the spine, I twisted away. I understand that there is very little left to live, but I realized that somewhere nearby there should be a carbine. Dal left hand back into his teeth, and with his right, by some miracle, he found the front sight of the carbine, pulled it up, aimed with one eye, rested his bolt and shot him under the chin. He began to fight in agony, I realized that he was a khan.

If I got out half an hour later, I would have stayed on this road. But fortunately, when I got to the track, a timber truck was just walking along it. The driver, seeing me, almost left the road - I just realized from the eyes of the timber carrier how I look. In general, they took me out of the taiga, although the first operation was performed only the next morning.

It's funny that already in the hospital in Moscow, having learned my story, my friends showed the film "The Revenant". What can I say, the very moment of the attack is shown there realistically, but when the she-bear began to growl and lick her face - this does not happen, the first thing he had to do was to remain headless. Now my hands began to come to life little by little, although only on the left I had 25 holes from fangs. It is difficult to do taxidermy now - after all, a very sharp eye is needed there. But I think that as I continued, I will continue to do so. And I can proudly say that this autumn I have already returned to my hunting ground and spent the whole season there. In many ways, I can’t get through it, but still it is the taiga for me that is life.

The film "The Revenant", which harvested the harvest of awards at all film awards in 2016 and brought Leonardo DiCaprio the long-awaited "Oscar", made many viewers wince while watching it. This is largely due to perhaps the film's most hardcore scene, in which a bear attacked mountain guide Hugh Glass, played by the incomparable Leo.

Our readers have already appreciated the realistic makeup of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, but 64-year-old Allena Hansen (Allena Hansen) believes that Leo's character still got off lightly. The fact is that Allena herself was attacked by a bear, so she knows firsthand what a person looks like after bear claws. Attention, not for the faint of heart! The article contains a photo of a woman after a bear attack! We warned you..

In 2008, Allena Hansen was attacked by a bear at her ranch in California. This is what she looked like before the attack.

So Allena began to look after a bear attack, as a result of which she lost her nose, ears and 14 teeth. The woman managed to fight off the bear with the help of two huge dogs

So 64-year-old Allena began to look after several plastic surgeries. In total, since then she has undergone dozens of plastic surgeries and it took her years of rehabilitation.

By publishing these photos, Allen did not want to draw attention to herself or gain pity from the Internet. She just wanted to show how implausible and "ridiculous" what was shown in The Revenant is.

"In this photo, you can see me after I was taken to the hospital, so Leo actually got off easy. And since we are here, I would like to point out that such a big bear will not fall dead from three stabs in the shoulder," she jokingly signed her photos

She was also quite amused by the scene in the film in which Leo fell off a cliff on his horse while trying to get away from the chase:

"After jumping off a cliff while sitting on the back of a horse, I can assure you that: 1. Leo couldn't ride cross country like that and 2. Appaloosa (the breed of horse he rode) is too smart to jump from rocks"

Now Allena continues to live on her ranch in California with her four horses and two dogs.