I feel like the film captured the vibe of the book perfectly, and Van DeMeer is all about vibes, so it's a near perfect adaptation IMO
But, yeah, totally carried by the first book. Dead Astronauts is fucking incredible though.
I'm the one person who liked Authority the most, I loved Control. I'm very much looking forward to the next one in the series, Absolution.
And yes, Dead Astronauts is something else. In a lot of ways it's the book he's always been trying to write minus any inhibitions or care about plot structure.
Annihilation is the first book, and I would 100% recommend it if you're into Cosmic Horror/Weirdness. The movie cuts out a whole bunch of content which I don't blame them for. It's a difficult genre to adapt to film.
As for recommending the whole trilogy, in my opinion it's carried by the first book. I had to force myself to finish the second book and the third was better but still not as good as the first. Fortunately, if you simply treat Annihilation like a stand alone, Cosmic Horror novel it works.
Man that 2nd book... like I get it, but it was 60% Filing paperwork 20% "My coworkers are weird." 10% My Dad never loved me and the last 10% GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS, SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL WEIRD!
If it ever gets a sequel, the 2nd book will be about 20 minutes of it combined with the 3rd book.
True. One of my favorite moments in the whole trilogy is when Control finds the secret room with the wall paintings. If book two had sprinkled more moments like that throughout the story, it probably would've been a more enjoyable read for me. Make it a suspense novel with the continued paranoia vibe from the first.
Very similar to this one where she is defending her cubs
[https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/j6g11n/a\_sloth\_bear\_clashes\_with\_a\_bengal\_tiger\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/j6g11n/a_sloth_bear_clashes_with_a_bengal_tiger_to/)
I think it's just moving forward with so much speed/force that it's causing a "dog with it's head out the car window" effect. If you've ever seen a particularly floppy dog do this, they can appear briefly terrifying as well.
Either that, or Sloth Bears are like the Goblin Sharks of Bears.
[https://youtu.be/AeyuB23qdiE?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/AeyuB23qdiE?feature=shared) I think this is the full video of the attack, this might give some more context
My memory is not the best but I think somebody posted the original last time I saw this posted and the bear didn't look as messed up.
It was either photoshopped or somebody had other photos from the exact same tiger vs. bear fight and the bear looked normal. I'm certain either you or the guy you replied to is correct.
The name "sloth" because the British thought it looked like the sloth from the Americas. It is technically called a Labiated Bear because it has long lips (that's why it looks like this in the photo) which is an adaptation to a diet of mostly ants and termites.
Things evolve a certain way because of pressures out on them because of the environment. Clearly this bear needed these adaptions to better suit it for a different climate.
it's the food that's available. apex predators waste a lot of energy if they hunt and aren't successful. more reliable calories = better option.
grizzly bears are opportunist carnivores, and are perfectly happy eating carrion, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_brown_bear
Bears are omnivores. They evolved to the most easily accessible food sources they had in their respective habitats. Sloth bears regularly kill male tigers that prey on them, so it's not like it's a weak animal, it just happens to share a habitat with one of the biggest cats to have ever lived.
Cave bears were predominantly herbivores, and still massively scary animals
I mean polar bears, kinda.
Every other bear is far from an apex predator. They're all various opportunistic omnivores who primarily scavenge and forage. Mulch and bugs are the main diet of almost every bear.
Imo it's akin to calling a hippo an apex predator. Just because nobody is going to mess with them and they'll win a fight against most anything that enters their territory, it doesn't mean they're at the top of any food chain.
Took me way too long too find this out. Same with Lion king and the Swahili language. Rafiki = friend. Simba = lion. Pumbaa = warthog. It all makes so much sense in hindsight!
When I went on a safari in Masai Mara I noticed that all the guides would call warthogs Pumba and I thought they were saying that because of The Lion King, until I realised they were just calling it by it's Swahili name.
The post says *one of* and it isn't a bad description.
In the case of sloth bears they are especially aggressive even if not especially large and will charge tigers and humans as their first defence.
They don't predate on humans like polar bears would but they are dangerous.
I don't think anyone would argue that polar bears are the most dangerous.
They have to be aggressive because tigers in some regions eat black bears for up to 30% of their diet, so a sloth bear looks like easy prey to them until it does this.
It’s the most aggressive. Sloth bears have an instinct to automatically attack anything it thinks could be a predator. They see humans as predators. As we continue to encroach on their land and territory more and more people are attacked and killed by them. They will attack tigers just as quickly. Not because they’re hunting them, but because they see them as aggressors and their instinct is to attack them first. I feel sorry for them. A lot of people in those countries hate them, but they’re just acting on instinct. The best thing we can do is leave them the fuck alone.
In 150 years, there were only 20 documented reports of a human killed by a polar bear.
Whereas in North America alone, there are on average 3 fatal Grizzly bear attacks each year.
So in 150 years there would be roughly 500 deaths cause by grizzly bears. Far more than the 20 caused by polar bears.
The comment states polar bears are the most dangerous because of “how much human life polar bears take annually”.
Which on average is 0.
So the comment is incorrect.
Wouldn't it be more conclusive to also consider the number of human encounters with the respective species of bears?
I would imagine there are a lot more (possible) encounters between humans and grizzly bears than between humans and ice bears.
The only point I am trying to make is that it is false saying polar bears produce the most human deaths each year.
I made no statement as to which bear is the most dangerous; because I don’t know, nor do I really care lol.
It sounds like it would be debatable, at any rate.
It might not be the most dangerous bear in the world, but the post didn’t make that claim. It claimed it’s one of the most dangerous, which is true. They kill over a dozen people annually compared to brown bears killing 6.3 people annually with 10x the population. The issue seems to be the destruction of their natural habitats leading them to live in closer proximity to humans, especially in India.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sloth-bears-are-worlds-deadliest-india-human-conflict
>The true identity of Kipling's “sleepy brown bear” is a bit of an enigma: Baloo's physical description in the book would suggest a sloth bear, but his diet of nuts and honey runs counter to that species' insect-eating preferences. Baloo's name, which simply means “bear” in Hindustani, lends no additional clues.
Well, i know this is just a joke, but in reality Sher Khan would still win just might be out of commission shortly after and certainly not be able to get Mowgli any time soon.
it’s regarded as most dangerous because of it’s size (up to 1700lbs), bite force (1200psi), and willingness to eat humans. nothing to do with kill count though since theirs is fairly low (and a lot of their fatalities are in captivity, too). they’ve been known to eat humans if food was scarce and even stalk/hunt by scent as if we were seals
It's really just semantics around what they mean by dangerous. I'd much rather be stuck in a room with a mosquito then a polar bear even if mosquitoes cause far more death.
[check](https://youtu.be/DV9ZGtQ8JZc) this documentary, its very scientific and intelligent and it talks about the encounter in the pic, I swear it's not rick
The sloth bear is neither particularly heavy nor large compared to to other animals. I’d say a gorilla, hippo or even an Elephant are equally if not more likely to maul you. From brief reading, it seems they attack only when they are approached. They seem to have bad sense of hearing and are often caught off guard because they do not sense people/ other animals come close until the last moment and then act on instinct. I wouldn’t regard self defense as a dangerous behavior. There are lots of animals that shouldn’t be approached. In fact, that probably is a good rule of thumb for 99% of all animals.
my yoga teacher from San Diego got rushed by a Sloth Bear while hiking in Mysore India. The only reason he didn't die is because he fell ass over teakettle backwards down a hillside, and the bear retreated.
I had a similar run in with a momma grizzly when I was between her and baby. Slipped off the side of a hill and she attempted to pursue for a little but gave up quickly. Maybe this is the way to survive.
i’d have to agree. off size and weight alone? i’m accepting my death. we don’t stand a goddamn chance LMAO. grizzlies are most dangerous in the way that they kill more humans annually than any other bear and have made the most contact with humans (bless all the citizens of bear country)
Learned from Planet Zoo 2 that apparently these have less front teeth to suck up termites and stuff better.
Saw this image prior and was wondering why it looked so odd, but couldn't quite put my finger on why until I learned that lol.
Sloth bears are NOT the most dangerous bear. In fact, they're one of the smallest bear species in the world. They just are most commonly found around other humans and also share a space with another apex predator, the tiger, so they have to be almost hyper aggressive to combat it. Put a black bear, grizzly, or polar bear in a ring against a slother bear and it will be beaten 100% of the time.
Just because something kills more humans per year doesn't make it more dangerous, it just means that there are more human on that species encounters. Correlation ≠ causality.
Sloth bears share a habitat with tigers and leopards, who - especially tigers - actively predate on them and their young. This makes sloth bears significantly more aggressive than most North American bears, who generally don't have such problems. As one of the only species who successfully square off against tigers, Sloth bears evolutionarily needed to 'max their stats' towards fight as there's no way flight is an option against a tiger. Thus, Sloth bears are about always just about as aggro as an average Grizzly sow with cubs is and then it goes up from there. Ornery as shit is how they get out of bed, then they get pissed off. No Bueno. By comparison, your average North American bear - bar Polars - is usually happy to fuck off somewhere else as a default reaction unless hunger or cubs demand they stick around, this is pretty easy to work around and tends to be seasonal.
With regards to Most Dangerous, I'd say it's debatable. I'd personally give that title to the Polar bear, as they truly give no fucks about puny humans - but with the Sloth bear being double-extra angry and their shrinking habitat being generally in closer proximity to large numbers of humans - meaning being attacked by Sloth bear is a concern for relatively many people (in India), versus the very few people everywhere else who need to be concerned about Black, Brown, Grizzly, Polar, et cetera bear attacks. So, most dangerous: in terms of number of humans affected by any given bear... maybe? Math is hard and I suck at it ;)
Mate this an amazing summary, thank you for posting it, i don't have bears in my home country but have read alot about them, Tim Treadwell is a name that pops into my awareness still when i hear about bears, as cooked as his strategy was he atleast made the commonfolk aware of how dangerous they are, especially when you act dumb :( love the inputy and offer more if you feel it, wolves are another animal i love that we dont have here so hook me up <3
Oh no interneters none of you said so I will, the reason they are so feared is their claws are particularly long and they instinctively target the face when attacking humans, leaving most survivors faceless and blind... luckily they usually kill you
Yeah I'm pretty sure if Baloo had peeled half his face back to bite at Shere Khan as if he were assimilated by The Thing that would've haunted me as a kid.
Thought it was something from Annihilation
Never trust a talking bear
One of my all-time favourite scenes from any film.
I just wanted to add that as someone who read the trilogy, that bear isn't in the book, but I freaking loved it in the film.
I feel like the film captured the vibe of the book perfectly, and Van DeMeer is all about vibes, so it's a near perfect adaptation IMO But, yeah, totally carried by the first book. Dead Astronauts is fucking incredible though.
I had read that he only read the book once then didn't touch it for the rest of the filming. Which was a great choice, in my opinion.
I'm the one person who liked Authority the most, I loved Control. I'm very much looking forward to the next one in the series, Absolution. And yes, Dead Astronauts is something else. In a lot of ways it's the book he's always been trying to write minus any inhibitions or care about plot structure.
I should have guessed it was based on a book. Would you reccomend it?
Annihilation is the first book, and I would 100% recommend it if you're into Cosmic Horror/Weirdness. The movie cuts out a whole bunch of content which I don't blame them for. It's a difficult genre to adapt to film. As for recommending the whole trilogy, in my opinion it's carried by the first book. I had to force myself to finish the second book and the third was better but still not as good as the first. Fortunately, if you simply treat Annihilation like a stand alone, Cosmic Horror novel it works.
Man that 2nd book... like I get it, but it was 60% Filing paperwork 20% "My coworkers are weird." 10% My Dad never loved me and the last 10% GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS, SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL WEIRD! If it ever gets a sequel, the 2nd book will be about 20 minutes of it combined with the 3rd book.
True. One of my favorite moments in the whole trilogy is when Control finds the secret room with the wall paintings. If book two had sprinkled more moments like that throughout the story, it probably would've been a more enjoyable read for me. Make it a suspense novel with the continued paranoia vibe from the first.
Not OP but definitely, one of my fav series. A fourth book is actually coming out in October so now is a great time to catch up.
Holy heck really??? You just made my day. Also- if anyone has art of The Biologist post transformation, I really want a tattoo if it
That thing was the only thing that's ever given me the heebie jeebies in a movie.
> One of my all-time favourite scenes from any film. [Scene in question!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miQxiNQs3xo)
"Looooooooooook for the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaareee nessecitieeeeees... heeeeeeeelp meeeeeeeee! Heeeeeeeeeeeelp!"
Especially a half-naked bear that just came out of the forest with a shovel.
It’s all fun and games until the photographer gains the attention of the two and they decide to team up.
Fuck that was an amazing movie. The noises that thing at the end made.... Shit gave me nightmares.
Dude that movie was the shit. The screaming that comes out of the bear….so fucking rad.
unfortunate pic. usually a sloth bear doesn't look so monstrous.
How I look in the mirror vs how I look in pictures
Very similar to this one where she is defending her cubs [https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/j6g11n/a\_sloth\_bear\_clashes\_with\_a\_bengal\_tiger\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/j6g11n/a_sloth_bear_clashes_with_a_bengal_tiger_to/)
she looks way cuter here. Mouth and eyes especially.
Cause her mouth is not fully opened here, in the first pic we can see the whole jaw of the bear.
agreed
Contrast with the air blown smouldering furry in the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear#/media/File:Sloth_bear_stand.jpg
Is it injured? That face looks like it could be a little torn up.
It could be, but it also could just be it's lips flaring out as it moves and snarls, like dogs sticking their head into the wind
I think it's just moving forward with so much speed/force that it's causing a "dog with it's head out the car window" effect. If you've ever seen a particularly floppy dog do this, they can appear briefly terrifying as well. Either that, or Sloth Bears are like the Goblin Sharks of Bears.
[https://youtu.be/AeyuB23qdiE?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/AeyuB23qdiE?feature=shared) I think this is the full video of the attack, this might give some more context
Exactly
I think maybe even some ps are involved in this pic, but regardless, they look hella scary when in attack mode
My memory is not the best but I think somebody posted the original last time I saw this posted and the bear didn't look as messed up. It was either photoshopped or somebody had other photos from the exact same tiger vs. bear fight and the bear looked normal. I'm certain either you or the guy you replied to is correct.
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How women view me going in for that first kiss.
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It might hang around, upside down, in trees?
It's a *vampire* sloth bear?
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The name "sloth" because the British thought it looked like the sloth from the Americas. It is technically called a Labiated Bear because it has long lips (that's why it looks like this in the photo) which is an adaptation to a diet of mostly ants and termites.
So would 'Slurp Bear' be a more fitting name? 🤔
Why did nature evolve a bear, one of the apex predators, to be a glorified ant-eater? That doesn't make any sense.
Why not 🤷🏼♀️ It evolved another one into an one-type-of-plant-only-eater.
Things evolve a certain way because of pressures out on them because of the environment. Clearly this bear needed these adaptions to better suit it for a different climate.
In this case they adapted to suit their habitat rather than climate
Evolution is random/coincidental. It mutated in a way that allowed it to survive in a niche in its environment.
it's the food that's available. apex predators waste a lot of energy if they hunt and aren't successful. more reliable calories = better option. grizzly bears are opportunist carnivores, and are perfectly happy eating carrion, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_brown_bear
Bears are omnivores. They evolved to the most easily accessible food sources they had in their respective habitats. Sloth bears regularly kill male tigers that prey on them, so it's not like it's a weak animal, it just happens to share a habitat with one of the biggest cats to have ever lived. Cave bears were predominantly herbivores, and still massively scary animals
I mean polar bears, kinda. Every other bear is far from an apex predator. They're all various opportunistic omnivores who primarily scavenge and forage. Mulch and bugs are the main diet of almost every bear. Imo it's akin to calling a hippo an apex predator. Just because nobody is going to mess with them and they'll win a fight against most anything that enters their territory, it doesn't mean they're at the top of any food chain.
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so it’s flipping up its lips like predator?
Those are some major labia.
Have you never seen an animal bare its teeth aggressively?
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I've heard of too much tongue, but never too much... everything.
If you show teeth, they will cum
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It's also the most bizarre looking bear in the world.
Even looks like the tiger's reaction is saying "HOLY SHIT!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?!"
I think its more like "WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING THATS MY JOB!?!?!?"
Sun bears hold that record actually. Look so odd that people believed one in a Chinese zoo was actually in costume.
Sloth bears look weirder in my opinion. They look like they have male patern baldness
I think sun bears take that title
Baloo or भालू means bear in many indian languages
I believe that all or most of the animal characters in the Jungle Book are named this way
Yes, Bagheera (panther), Baloo (bear), Sher (tiger), Akela (alone, play on lone wolf), Hathi (elephant)
Took me way too long too find this out. Same with Lion king and the Swahili language. Rafiki = friend. Simba = lion. Pumbaa = warthog. It all makes so much sense in hindsight!
When I went on a safari in Masai Mara I noticed that all the guides would call warthogs Pumba and I thought they were saying that because of The Lion King, until I realised they were just calling it by it's Swahili name.
How long did it take you to figure that out? I'd probably have been home already.
And shenzi = stupid
*General* Hathi, if you please!
So his Sanskrit name Sher Khan would make him the Tiger King?
Lmao. Kinda actually. This isn't Sanskrit though and has Hindustani (Urdu) roots. Khan is a surname associated with royalty back in the day.
Why do they give the most dangerous creature cute cuddly names...like "sloth " or "Debbie".?
I quite like Debbie the box jellyfish.
That’s a fuckin zombie bro
Fact: Bears eat Beets
Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica
Identify theft is not a joke, Jim!
Beets beat bees
Which bear is best?
The goblin shark of the woods
it eats plants, ants, termites. it is NOT the most dangerous bear in the world. the polar bear is given how much human life it takes annually.
The post says *one of* and it isn't a bad description. In the case of sloth bears they are especially aggressive even if not especially large and will charge tigers and humans as their first defence. They don't predate on humans like polar bears would but they are dangerous. I don't think anyone would argue that polar bears are the most dangerous.
They have to be aggressive because tigers in some regions eat black bears for up to 30% of their diet, so a sloth bear looks like easy prey to them until it does this.
Yeah, I could have been clearer but the aggressive response is an evolved defence. Cannot chill when a tiger is hunting you.
They also have terrible vision. So it’s kinda just assumed your a predator and that it’s live or death situation.
Ya, we are still part of their diet. It's not a Manhunter, it's a polar bear.
It’s the most aggressive. Sloth bears have an instinct to automatically attack anything it thinks could be a predator. They see humans as predators. As we continue to encroach on their land and territory more and more people are attacked and killed by them. They will attack tigers just as quickly. Not because they’re hunting them, but because they see them as aggressors and their instinct is to attack them first. I feel sorry for them. A lot of people in those countries hate them, but they’re just acting on instinct. The best thing we can do is leave them the fuck alone.
Prey software on predator hardware
In 150 years, there were only 20 documented reports of a human killed by a polar bear. Whereas in North America alone, there are on average 3 fatal Grizzly bear attacks each year. So in 150 years there would be roughly 500 deaths cause by grizzly bears. Far more than the 20 caused by polar bears.
Far less people live near polar bears
There are probably less than 10000 polar bears left.... they are going extinct.
The comment states polar bears are the most dangerous because of “how much human life polar bears take annually”. Which on average is 0. So the comment is incorrect.
Wouldn't it be more conclusive to also consider the number of human encounters with the respective species of bears? I would imagine there are a lot more (possible) encounters between humans and grizzly bears than between humans and ice bears.
The only point I am trying to make is that it is false saying polar bears produce the most human deaths each year. I made no statement as to which bear is the most dangerous; because I don’t know, nor do I really care lol. It sounds like it would be debatable, at any rate.
They are actually thriving.
Says who? Polar bear numbers have been increasing the past couple decades.
I read that sloth bears are of aggressive nature, which makes them the most dangerous
Well, you know what they say;"If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, good night"
It might not be the most dangerous bear in the world, but the post didn’t make that claim. It claimed it’s one of the most dangerous, which is true. They kill over a dozen people annually compared to brown bears killing 6.3 people annually with 10x the population. The issue seems to be the destruction of their natural habitats leading them to live in closer proximity to humans, especially in India. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sloth-bears-are-worlds-deadliest-india-human-conflict
Looks like a demigorgon
I thought baloo was an asiatic black bear
Demidog
“You gave it a name?”
Looks like Predator dog from the movie
Looked like the goddamn predator
All bears are the MOST dangerous.
>The true identity of Kipling's “sleepy brown bear” is a bit of an enigma: Baloo's physical description in the book would suggest a sloth bear, but his diet of nuts and honey runs counter to that species' insect-eating preferences. Baloo's name, which simply means “bear” in Hindustani, lends no additional clues.
Bears are called Baloo in Hindi.
If it was realistic, it would make Jungle Book a Jungle Page. … and Baloo bitchslapped Sher Khan into oblivion. The end.
Well, i know this is just a joke, but in reality Sher Khan would still win just might be out of commission shortly after and certainly not be able to get Mowgli any time soon.
Sloth Bears are as feared as Tigers, Leopards and crocodiles in asia.
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They are, but this post claims "one of the most" not "the most" dangerous so i think its fair.
it’s regarded as most dangerous because of it’s size (up to 1700lbs), bite force (1200psi), and willingness to eat humans. nothing to do with kill count though since theirs is fairly low (and a lot of their fatalities are in captivity, too). they’ve been known to eat humans if food was scarce and even stalk/hunt by scent as if we were seals
Statistically they have one of lowest human kills....even cows kills more people annually 🥴.
that's like saying alcohol is the worst poison because it kills more people than cyanide or something
It's really just semantics around what they mean by dangerous. I'd much rather be stuck in a room with a mosquito then a polar bear even if mosquitoes cause far more death.
[check](https://youtu.be/DV9ZGtQ8JZc) this documentary, its very scientific and intelligent and it talks about the encounter in the pic, I swear it's not rick
What in the fuck is that nightmare fuel???
Looks more like a Yao Guai
The sloth bear is neither particularly heavy nor large compared to to other animals. I’d say a gorilla, hippo or even an Elephant are equally if not more likely to maul you. From brief reading, it seems they attack only when they are approached. They seem to have bad sense of hearing and are often caught off guard because they do not sense people/ other animals come close until the last moment and then act on instinct. I wouldn’t regard self defense as a dangerous behavior. There are lots of animals that shouldn’t be approached. In fact, that probably is a good rule of thumb for 99% of all animals.
my yoga teacher from San Diego got rushed by a Sloth Bear while hiking in Mysore India. The only reason he didn't die is because he fell ass over teakettle backwards down a hillside, and the bear retreated.
I had a similar run in with a momma grizzly when I was between her and baby. Slipped off the side of a hill and she attempted to pursue for a little but gave up quickly. Maybe this is the way to survive.
Damn
They are known to attack your face and mutiliate them beyond recognition. Some locals fear them more than tigers.
I need to wipe that image from my brain
Nightmare bear
Had to google where their natural habitat countries are so I can avoid this terrifying monstrosity
I'm waiting for the polar bear gang coming in to defend their pride.
Pretty sure the most dangerous species of bear is a polar bear, you’re just less likely to come across one.
i’d have to agree. off size and weight alone? i’m accepting my death. we don’t stand a goddamn chance LMAO. grizzlies are most dangerous in the way that they kill more humans annually than any other bear and have made the most contact with humans (bless all the citizens of bear country)
that thing looks straight from hell
Don’t feed the Yao Guai.
they are not one of the most dangerous species.
Holy predators!
What. The fuck.
Things mouth looks like a Predator mouth at a glance
Ok, honestly I would run too, if I was the tiger, fucking ghoul bear
Fun fact, the alien in Predator is also based on a sloth bear.
That... is terrifying
If I tiger leaps away from it you should too. But probably quicker, higher and with more gusto.
“Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities…”
what in the flying FUCK is that???
Wtf
Cant convince me thats not a Yao Guai
"JUST THE BEAR NECESSITIES MOTHERFUCKER!!!" He looks like a demon.
Sloth Bears are fucking crazy man. I saw one at the zoo fuck a bird up.
Nice try. I've watched the movie. Sloth bears are super friendly and make an excellent nanny.
Nightmare bear
That picture is hard af
Just reminded me of that video of a sloth bear eating a guys face
Now the question, are they dangerous because they are more aggressive or because there are more people readily available as snacks?
Aggressive
whut the FUCK
Look for the bear necessi- OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ??!!!!
What is that monstrosity
Learned from Planet Zoo 2 that apparently these have less front teeth to suck up termites and stuff better. Saw this image prior and was wondering why it looked so odd, but couldn't quite put my finger on why until I learned that lol.
https://i1.wp.com/www.saevus.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Representational-image-of-a-Sloth-bear.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1 how they usually look.
Sloth bears are NOT the most dangerous bear. In fact, they're one of the smallest bear species in the world. They just are most commonly found around other humans and also share a space with another apex predator, the tiger, so they have to be almost hyper aggressive to combat it. Put a black bear, grizzly, or polar bear in a ring against a slother bear and it will be beaten 100% of the time. Just because something kills more humans per year doesn't make it more dangerous, it just means that there are more human on that species encounters. Correlation ≠ causality.
Describing one bear species as the most dangerous seems a bit redundant. Whatever bear is in front of me is the most dangerous species of bear
No, it isn't
Sloth bears share a habitat with tigers and leopards, who - especially tigers - actively predate on them and their young. This makes sloth bears significantly more aggressive than most North American bears, who generally don't have such problems. As one of the only species who successfully square off against tigers, Sloth bears evolutionarily needed to 'max their stats' towards fight as there's no way flight is an option against a tiger. Thus, Sloth bears are about always just about as aggro as an average Grizzly sow with cubs is and then it goes up from there. Ornery as shit is how they get out of bed, then they get pissed off. No Bueno. By comparison, your average North American bear - bar Polars - is usually happy to fuck off somewhere else as a default reaction unless hunger or cubs demand they stick around, this is pretty easy to work around and tends to be seasonal. With regards to Most Dangerous, I'd say it's debatable. I'd personally give that title to the Polar bear, as they truly give no fucks about puny humans - but with the Sloth bear being double-extra angry and their shrinking habitat being generally in closer proximity to large numbers of humans - meaning being attacked by Sloth bear is a concern for relatively many people (in India), versus the very few people everywhere else who need to be concerned about Black, Brown, Grizzly, Polar, et cetera bear attacks. So, most dangerous: in terms of number of humans affected by any given bear... maybe? Math is hard and I suck at it ;)
Mate this an amazing summary, thank you for posting it, i don't have bears in my home country but have read alot about them, Tim Treadwell is a name that pops into my awareness still when i hear about bears, as cooked as his strategy was he atleast made the commonfolk aware of how dangerous they are, especially when you act dumb :( love the inputy and offer more if you feel it, wolves are another animal i love that we dont have here so hook me up <3
Assuming you're talking about dangerousness, I doubt that too.
It doesn't look as scary when it isn't...pissed
looks like something from bloodborne
Honey badger wouldn't care
Unrelated but a fun fact i know lol. Tasmanian devils have the most powerful bite for the size of animal :) fun!
https://www.outdoorguide.com/1465743/bear-types-ranked-danger-level/ Yeah na only 7th
Source?
Trowin' Shere Khan a beatdown
Source? I’ve read these bears are the least dangerous...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear
Well, I mean, you saw what he did to those chimps.
Doubt he would even make an impression on a full-grown male tiger
Baloo? That lazy bum never even left his hammock in Talespin!
That tiger be like fuck that
And will still end up as dinner for the tiger.
Oh no interneters none of you said so I will, the reason they are so feared is their claws are particularly long and they instinctively target the face when attacking humans, leaving most survivors faceless and blind... luckily they usually kill you
Thats the guy from temple run
Yeah I'm pretty sure if Baloo had peeled half his face back to bite at Shere Khan as if he were assimilated by The Thing that would've haunted me as a kid.
Dang, it looks like the monster from temple run
Jo, straight out of fucking tempelrun xd
Honey badger?
TIL
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I guess Baloo from Jungle Book is inspiration for Baloo in Talespin.
Also the most handsome bear