Comments on: Another bear maneno in Yellowstone https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521343 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:32:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521343 Did they eat that guy? Or was that some other guy.

]]> By: elle https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521342 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:51:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521342 remember the crazy malibou-based bear whisperer that went up to alaska to save bears in a national forest (Katmai in 2003)? yeah, he ended up getting 2 bears killed as well, because his dumb ass was habituating the creatures to humans and wastefulness as well. sad day for bears when timothy treadwell decided to save them.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521341 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:32:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521341 @Hank: Bears are extremely dangerous; at the very least if you catch one on a bad hair day it will mangle you very badly. Their claws are razor-sharp and of course they’ve got a nasty bite too. If people feed wild animals, those animals tend to get very aggressive; you can see that behavior in anything from seagulls to humans (but domestic animals have been largely selected to not have that behavior). So while there is no evidence for (and a hell of a lot of evidence against) the claim that an animal that has tasted humans will want more human on its menu, there is no doubt that they do get aggressive and will attack humans for food if they become conditioned to getting food off humans. I can put you up against a dog which barely weighs more than half a sack of feed and I’ll bet on the dog winning. Same goes for some apes. Don’t screw with bears. Contrary to biblical claims, the other animals were not created to be servile, or even nice, to humans.

]]> By: Ray Ingles https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521340 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:48:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521340 We were just in the Smoky Mountains (not Yellowstone) over the weekend. Plenty of signage warning about feeding bears and leaving food behind. We cleaned up our food and didn’t leave anything for bears or other wildlife to consume.

Hank, even 100 pounds is a lot bigger than our three-year-old son, or even our five-year-old, and comfortably more than our seven-year-old. I’m glad we didn’t see any human-habituated bears, and we did our part to keep things that way. It’s a shame others are more careless.

]]> By: Hank Fox https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521339 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:47:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/another-bear-maneno-in-yellows/#comment-521339 So … a bear that weighs about as much as two sacks of feed — about the mass of a medium-sized dog — is so dangerous it has to be killed? Gah.

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