What To Do When A Bear Charges You? Video Sparks Debate With Hilarious Comments

Seeing a bear can be exhilarating, and observing animals might be one of the reasons you choose to go into the woods. Bear assaults are not common, but they do occur. If you are in the wilderness and see a bear rushing at you, the most instinctive reaction is to run. There is no way you could persuade someone otherwise. In any case, the question is: How far can you run? Despite the bear safety proverb, “If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, goodnight” is a bit of sound advice, but before you can determine how best to respond, you need to know why the bear is attacking you. Or is it really attacking you?

An Instagram page demonstrated what we call a bluff charge. In the footage, a bear charges towards a group of men at high speed. Even if it appears like the bear is going to attack, this is not the case. Instead of running, men in the video yelled at the bear and retaliated by charging back. As soon as the bear noticed the individuals did not flee, it immediately retreated.

The accompanying caption read, “Never run from a charging bear, even though your instinct is to run. This is a bluff charge. They are just trying to get you to run. They have a natural chase instinct.”

It went on to explain that you should always have an expert guide with you and avoid approaching bears in the wild. “We do not get closer than 50 yards. These bears came to us.”

The video has more than 13 million views on the social media platform with users making humorous remarks.

A user commented, “Cameraman never dies.”

Another user humorously stated, “Never be in a position where you have to decide what to do about a charging bear.”

A user added, “Unless bears start showing up in Target or office buildings, I’m pretty sure I’ll NEVER need this advice but thanks.”

“Sorry but I think I’ll run,” said a user.

“I would black out,” a user remarked.

The most prevalent kind of charges are bluff charges. When a bear is attempting to frighten or intimidate you, it will bluff charge. Its head will be erect and looking forward, as will its ears. It will inflate itself to give the impression of being larger. It will charge towards you with great bounds, but at the last second, it will either halt or swerve off. After that, it can produce loud noises.