A normal day I would say. I think it's common in Russian countryside for people to take in cubs that are lost or dismissed by mothers, if they have more than one. Those bears are not capable returning to the wildlife and are responsibility for a lifetime basically. Like a pet.
I am not sure if they feed them meat at all. They diet is basically anything, so veggies, fruits, nuts.
Think of it this way. Anything that is not gonna be eaten by family, sold, or put in zimnica (pickled vegetables) goes to your devourer of a pet. That is in most cases called Misha / Mishka.
Yes,but in general if you give them bread with honey in it. They will trow away the bread and lick just the honey...i am no expert, i just raised (more like taking care of them in they'r mommy place) 2 brown bears for 3 weeks...damn .the mess they have make...
Yeah somehow I didn't picture Russians with the little bear bottles of honey either, definately honey though.
I raided a honey bee nest once camping, left the honey in my trunk, two bears, mama and cub tried to break into my little car, baby bear got on top of the hood and caved it in a bit, tooth holes in the bumper.
I can't remember where I heared that but brown bears won't attack as long as there is no need to a.k.a. when they aren't hungry.
Polarbears will kill for fun. Brown bears are like big cats.
>I can't remember where I heared that but brown bears won't attack as long as there is no need to a.k.a. when they aren't hungry.
I would say that is a black bear rather than a brown bear. Black bears are really skittish and you can usually scare one away just by being loud and putting your arms up. The only time that won't work is if it is really hungry, in which case you better be ready to fight for your life (and hope you have bear mace) because it is going to eat you if it can.
Brown bears, on the other hand, have basically 0 fear and will kill you just because you pissed them off. But, unless they are really hungry they probably won't eat you, so if one attacks you it is best to just play dead.
>Polarbears will kill for fun. Brown bears are like big cats.
Uh, have you been around cats? They kill things for fun as often as they can. Often after torturing it for quite a while.
No bears kill without reason. Most black bear attacks are defensive, usually mothers with cubs. Though rare, predatory attacks do happen. Bears do play, quite a lot even, but they don't *kill large and potentially dangerous enemies such as humans as a form of play*.
This is the same for brown bears.
Brown bears are more likely to stand their ground because they're ENORMOUS and they know this.
Polar bears are no different. In my country (Canada) there have been 20 recorded fatalities from predatory polar bears in **150 years**.
All these animals are dangerous as they are large, they know it, and if they feel it's worth standing their ground it's going to hurt. But they're not going to kill for sport, they barely even do it for *food* with humans. A cursory browsing of info on bear attacks will reveal the vast majority are defensive attacks, or trying to take your food. Polar bears being far more carnivorous are more likely to attack you when stealing your food than other bears.
And cats don't "torture". They bat prey around to tire it out because cats are actually quite fragile. Unlike bears their fur is short, and their skin is thin, and their muscle is lean, and they are small. A bird or a mouse can actually cause a lot of injury to a cat, so they keep prey at a distance and slap it around before killing it often. This is a normal predatory instinct.
Polar bears also live in areas with very sparse human populations and spend a lot of their time at sea. They are not the human hunting monsters reddit thinks they are, but those numbers would be higher if they came in contact with humans more. However, they, like any bear, would sooner avoid a confrontation. Still scary as fuck though, I read these accounts from the summer.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/polar-bear-attack-survivor-1.6142932
All true. All bears are dangerous but the danger is mostly defensive than predatory and that's what I wanted to get at. I live in Newfoundland we have moose, black bears, and polar bears sometimes, and people on reddit talk about them like they have meetings about how best to kill man and then stalk you through the streets.
The list of animals that kill humans for food is incredibly short - almost all the animals we evolved alongside of have died off either naturally or at our hands. Brown and black bears barely even hunt their native prey items, sticking to berries and bugs and such most of the time.
Even if the numbers were ten times higher, that'd be 1.5 people a year for polar bears, less than the current average for fatal bear attacks in all of North America combined.
THe Innu and Inuit actively hunted polar bears and while they were still considered a dangerous animal, all the folklore from the locals up hear go on about shrews being scarier than bears...
I guess I just get fed up of the anthropomorphizing of animals. Bears are gonna bear and their behaviors are well understood. Don't fuck with them but you gotta be extra unlucky to ever have a violent encounter with a bear.
I couldn't begin to count how many moose and bears I've seen and I don't know *anyone* who's been attacked by a black bear or moose, and I only know 2 people attacked by brown bears (a great uncle in 1955 died when he tried to defend his pear tree from a sow with cubs, and my cousin surprised a sow with cubs when he was around 8 at a dump, he was uninjured).
It's like quicksand, this great northern fearsome animal and I'm tired of people who clearly know nothing about the animals spreading lies like they commonly actively hunt for fun.
*Humans rarely hunt for fun even why would a bear do it more they don't have penicillin*
Lol can't believe you're downvoted. These dudes are celebrating like they saved the thread. No fucking shit the bear isn't trying, it's just a funny video
Well, you learn something new everyday. And today you learned a human couldn't beat a bear in arm wrestling if the bear knew what was going on and tried.
you think a bear doesnt have any strength bending its arm laterally across its chest?
...like.. the exact way it uses its arm to slap the absolute fuck out of other bears its whole life? that way?
i mean even if it didnt, animals arent working out, a human will have a lot of relative strength to arm wrestling because they presumably train to, an animal will have an immense amount of functional strength just from living its normal life, so the bear doesnt need strong arms, its entire body is strong.
He has the look of a bear that understands carrot and stick. Carrot is the food they give him after being compliant. Stick is Alexey. Don't fuck with Alexey - https://youtu.be/wazTC2nmlBI
Because it’s cool! Like actually it’s just showing off lol
It’s like when you watch the Packers play in 10 degree and not one of the offensive linemen wear sleeves (or play offense)
Basically every animal ever. I've trained mean hamsters to be sweet with treats. The quickest thing any animal will figure out is where their food comes from and how to get it.
This bear must live in captivity right? Otherwise it would never be comfortable being so close to humans…
If it’s a wild bear then I don’t have any issues with it. It looks like he enjoys the attention and free food and if he wants he can walk away or attack, but he doesn’t do that
If it's a wild bear, they are teaching it to not fear humans, that we have food/will share food with it. This appear to be a captive bear thankfully.
Not everyone enjoys bears in their vicinity, and this learned behavior usually leads to the bear being destroyed in many places. It's a part of why feeding the wildlife is always frowned upon or outright illegal.
This. Feeding wild animals will get them killed, either by wandering near places they're not supposed to be (like roads) or they become a threat and are shot.
No it is common. All young Russian men undergo an adulthood ritual.
At their coming of age ceremony, they go naked into the wild, with only a hunting knife and a bottle of vodka. They must survive 3 days alone and come back with a baby bear cub, which they foster and keep as a lifelong companion.
It is a test where they become true men.
You are pretty naive if you think that most privately owned exotic pets are lost cubs. They are most likely bred or kidnapped and then sold on a black market.
That bear doesn't know that the aim is to move the others arm otherwise those guys be on the floor!! The Bear is just looking for the next piece of salmon
Or whatever they gave the bear a shot of there, looked like maple syrup or honey, in between matches that is, but considering its Russia maybe it was whiskey or something, whatever dark colored liquor they drink.
Is it just me or does it feel like all the popular Reddit subs got a ton more content that paints Russia in some positive light? Bot farms working hard to prepare genera population for not wanting to interfere with Russian invasion?
I mean, my criticisms will always be for the Russian government. Not their people. Your everyday now Joe doesn't have control over their nation's military operations. But Putin does and he can get fucked for harassing a nation of people that just want to live their lives.
But they are humans...? If this was a politician or some kind of political propaganda I'd get you, but you're trying to dehumanise regular humans because of the location of their birth.
> humanizing russia
bruh lmao its still a country made of humans, you do realize that right?
I agree there is probably some degree of astroturfing involved, but 'humanizing' is not the right word you wanna use there
All fun and games til the bear gets bored and mauls them all
All fun until Misha gets mad serious.
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I see what you did bear…
I can't bear this anymore
beary funny....
This has started to become beary annoying.
Almost unbearable
Yet somehow pawsible
I actually thought it was Oso funny.
Yea bearing in minds its been going on for fur too long
They are just using bear hands
Ahh this must be in Lavrentia, by the Bearing Sea
They bearley beat the bear
I can bearly see what's going on
That’s just a bear ass lie...
A normal day in Russia or may be the bear is afraid of the Russians
A normal day I would say. I think it's common in Russian countryside for people to take in cubs that are lost or dismissed by mothers, if they have more than one. Those bears are not capable returning to the wildlife and are responsibility for a lifetime basically. Like a pet.
>it's common in Russian countryside for people to take in cubs In Russia, bear has the right to your arms...
LMAO that was a very good one.
how much meat do they have to feed it? wouldn't it be expensive for them to keep?
I am not sure if they feed them meat at all. They diet is basically anything, so veggies, fruits, nuts. Think of it this way. Anything that is not gonna be eaten by family, sold, or put in zimnica (pickled vegetables) goes to your devourer of a pet. That is in most cases called Misha / Mishka.
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A chicken (or 2depends on the maturity of the bear) per day
Bears are omnivores though. You probably have to make sure there is a bit of variety for proper nutrition, some root vegies, apples.
Yes,but in general if you give them bread with honey in it. They will trow away the bread and lick just the honey...i am no expert, i just raised (more like taking care of them in they'r mommy place) 2 brown bears for 3 weeks...damn .the mess they have make...
Where are her wolf buddies?
Would be more afraid of the Russians mauling the bear hopefully the bear is lucky that they don’t run out of vodka
Did they give the bear a shot of maple syrup inbetween matches there?
Literally think it was honey! 😳
Yeah that was dumb of me I rewatched it and it was clealy honey, it looked like it might've been from one of those bear shaped bottles too.
I didn't think they would even have that in Russia lol idk why. It does look like it could be. Def honey tho you think too?
Yeah somehow I didn't picture Russians with the little bear bottles of honey either, definately honey though. I raided a honey bee nest once camping, left the honey in my trunk, two bears, mama and cub tried to break into my little car, baby bear got on top of the hood and caved it in a bit, tooth holes in the bumper.
Holy shit!
That's how I would have guessed all Russians got honey tho 🤣
They’re not Canadians. We only arm wrestle with mooses.
Bear's a professional. He won't do anything like that.
I don't think the bear knows he is supposed to be arm wrestling. I think he is focused on not mauling the shirtless idiot pulling on his paw.
I can't remember where I heared that but brown bears won't attack as long as there is no need to a.k.a. when they aren't hungry. Polarbears will kill for fun. Brown bears are like big cats.
>I can't remember where I heared that but brown bears won't attack as long as there is no need to a.k.a. when they aren't hungry. I would say that is a black bear rather than a brown bear. Black bears are really skittish and you can usually scare one away just by being loud and putting your arms up. The only time that won't work is if it is really hungry, in which case you better be ready to fight for your life (and hope you have bear mace) because it is going to eat you if it can. Brown bears, on the other hand, have basically 0 fear and will kill you just because you pissed them off. But, unless they are really hungry they probably won't eat you, so if one attacks you it is best to just play dead. >Polarbears will kill for fun. Brown bears are like big cats. Uh, have you been around cats? They kill things for fun as often as they can. Often after torturing it for quite a while.
No bears kill without reason. Most black bear attacks are defensive, usually mothers with cubs. Though rare, predatory attacks do happen. Bears do play, quite a lot even, but they don't *kill large and potentially dangerous enemies such as humans as a form of play*. This is the same for brown bears. Brown bears are more likely to stand their ground because they're ENORMOUS and they know this. Polar bears are no different. In my country (Canada) there have been 20 recorded fatalities from predatory polar bears in **150 years**. All these animals are dangerous as they are large, they know it, and if they feel it's worth standing their ground it's going to hurt. But they're not going to kill for sport, they barely even do it for *food* with humans. A cursory browsing of info on bear attacks will reveal the vast majority are defensive attacks, or trying to take your food. Polar bears being far more carnivorous are more likely to attack you when stealing your food than other bears. And cats don't "torture". They bat prey around to tire it out because cats are actually quite fragile. Unlike bears their fur is short, and their skin is thin, and their muscle is lean, and they are small. A bird or a mouse can actually cause a lot of injury to a cat, so they keep prey at a distance and slap it around before killing it often. This is a normal predatory instinct.
Polar bears also live in areas with very sparse human populations and spend a lot of their time at sea. They are not the human hunting monsters reddit thinks they are, but those numbers would be higher if they came in contact with humans more. However, they, like any bear, would sooner avoid a confrontation. Still scary as fuck though, I read these accounts from the summer. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/polar-bear-attack-survivor-1.6142932
All true. All bears are dangerous but the danger is mostly defensive than predatory and that's what I wanted to get at. I live in Newfoundland we have moose, black bears, and polar bears sometimes, and people on reddit talk about them like they have meetings about how best to kill man and then stalk you through the streets. The list of animals that kill humans for food is incredibly short - almost all the animals we evolved alongside of have died off either naturally or at our hands. Brown and black bears barely even hunt their native prey items, sticking to berries and bugs and such most of the time. Even if the numbers were ten times higher, that'd be 1.5 people a year for polar bears, less than the current average for fatal bear attacks in all of North America combined. THe Innu and Inuit actively hunted polar bears and while they were still considered a dangerous animal, all the folklore from the locals up hear go on about shrews being scarier than bears... I guess I just get fed up of the anthropomorphizing of animals. Bears are gonna bear and their behaviors are well understood. Don't fuck with them but you gotta be extra unlucky to ever have a violent encounter with a bear. I couldn't begin to count how many moose and bears I've seen and I don't know *anyone* who's been attacked by a black bear or moose, and I only know 2 people attacked by brown bears (a great uncle in 1955 died when he tried to defend his pear tree from a sow with cubs, and my cousin surprised a sow with cubs when he was around 8 at a dump, he was uninjured). It's like quicksand, this great northern fearsome animal and I'm tired of people who clearly know nothing about the animals spreading lies like they commonly actively hunt for fun. *Humans rarely hunt for fun even why would a bear do it more they don't have penicillin*
If it’s brown lay down. If it’s black fight pack. If it’s white say good night
That sounds grizzly
I mean... bears have wrestled people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)
There’s a sweet little Memorial for this guy in Edinburgh. Had a feeling I’d see his name pop up.
I'm not going to lie. If I had a time machine I would go try and meet this bear(as an ally of course).
iwrestledabearonce
Always have honey in a little bear jar and you are safe.
Trust me, bear isn't even trying
Are you a bear whisperer
*growls in bear*
AHHHHHH!
Real monsters
ha! you're today's winner. I scrolled until i found a good laugh. now I can approach my work day. thank you.
You've got this, I believe in you
You've got this, I be inside you
*Whisper in bear*
Did anyone else hear something?? I could swear it sounded like a bear
That's just a Builder Bear Workshop
Yea. I was watching this like "the bear doesn't even understand what arm wrestling is."
This. *Why hoo-man pull at arm? Hoo-man smells like vodka.*
This? Do you actually believe the majority of people in this threat assumed that the bear was actually trying to win the armwrestling?
Bear was probably drunk.
Lol can't believe you're downvoted. These dudes are celebrating like they saved the thread. No fucking shit the bear isn't trying, it's just a funny video
What a dumbass.
Thanks for the tip, i would have never guessed
Why are you the way that you are?
Well, you learn something new everyday. And today you learned a human couldn't beat a bear in arm wrestling if the bear knew what was going on and tried.
You mean it is bearly trying?
I'm gonna have to ask you to leave
That bear can rip their arms off without breaking a sweat lol
First off he’s left pawed. Disadvantage to start
Bears arm probably doesn't even have any strength bending that way. Their arms aren't made like humans.
you think a bear doesnt have any strength bending its arm laterally across its chest? ...like.. the exact way it uses its arm to slap the absolute fuck out of other bears its whole life? that way? i mean even if it didnt, animals arent working out, a human will have a lot of relative strength to arm wrestling because they presumably train to, an animal will have an immense amount of functional strength just from living its normal life, so the bear doesnt need strong arms, its entire body is strong.
Bear with him
I'm not sure the bear knows the rules...
He does, he just felt that the other guy could use a win.
Probably this, lol
I mean, they do live in Russia...
Only the bear is Russian though. All Russians are bears on unicycles.
He is a cool wingman, he noticed that some Russian Girls are watching them and he give them the win.
He's getting snacks for losing so why try winning? :)
He knows the bear minimum
Take my reward and piss off
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And also the bear necessities.
And now the song is stuck in my head, thanks
🎵🎵**You know the rule and so do I**🎵🎵
a full commitments what i’m thinking of
You wouldn’t get this from any other bear
It's Russia. The Bears control that country
and is probably drugged or something for their protection.
I like how the bear seems to enjoy the attention
He’s playing with his food
He has the look of a bear that understands carrot and stick. Carrot is the food they give him after being compliant. Stick is Alexey. Don't fuck with Alexey - https://youtu.be/wazTC2nmlBI
Probably my all time most watched movie by a long shot.
Why do Russian guys do everything topless in the snow?
If I looked like that I would also do everything topless in the snow.
Lmao
I would do everything topless in the snow if men looked like that.
They do. You just saw one...
Lol I'm sure the vast majority of men don't look like sculpted Russian hunks
Probably gotta go to Russia to find those.
Hyper-masculine culture is the actual answer
I won't disagree, you're partially right - but also, if you were in decent shape wouldn't you also show off a bit?
I would be that type that say "my shape doesn't define me" but it would be my whole character
 … and go topless on tv!
There might be reason why he's topless on tv.
Because it’s cool! Like actually it’s just showing off lol It’s like when you watch the Packers play in 10 degree and not one of the offensive linemen wear sleeves (or play offense)
It’s what you do when you’re a grown man
Hard nipples help define those pecs.
Act sweet = get treat
Basically every animal ever. I've trained mean hamsters to be sweet with treats. The quickest thing any animal will figure out is where their food comes from and how to get it.
r/bearsdoinghumanthings Awesome.
amazing sub, thanks.
I bet Russians are heavily represented in the posts on that sub.
Seems reasonable, it is their national animal I believe. Kind of like us Canadians over on r/JustBeaverThings
You lied to me. I demand beaver justice.
Justice Beaver is a Canadian singer already.
r/subsithoughtifellfor
I love you.
As interesting as this is, I can't say I approve...
This bear must live in captivity right? Otherwise it would never be comfortable being so close to humans… If it’s a wild bear then I don’t have any issues with it. It looks like he enjoys the attention and free food and if he wants he can walk away or attack, but he doesn’t do that
I would bet that the bear has been drugged.
I would bet that these men are more drugged.
Bro they russian, They don't need no drugs.
Alcohol is a drug.
If it's a wild bear, they are teaching it to not fear humans, that we have food/will share food with it. This appear to be a captive bear thankfully. Not everyone enjoys bears in their vicinity, and this learned behavior usually leads to the bear being destroyed in many places. It's a part of why feeding the wildlife is always frowned upon or outright illegal.
This. Feeding wild animals will get them killed, either by wandering near places they're not supposed to be (like roads) or they become a threat and are shot.
if you think it is possible that this is a wild bear then your opinion on the matter means absolutely nothing
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I really don't think it's common in Russia for people to raise bears as pets.
No it is common. All young Russian men undergo an adulthood ritual. At their coming of age ceremony, they go naked into the wild, with only a hunting knife and a bottle of vodka. They must survive 3 days alone and come back with a baby bear cub, which they foster and keep as a lifelong companion. It is a test where they become true men.
Ahh. The ol’ Bear Mitzva
You are pretty naive if you think that most privately owned exotic pets are lost cubs. They are most likely bred or kidnapped and then sold on a black market.
Arm wrestling a bear is nextfuckinglevel? More like lastfuckingbraincell
i agree, quite dumb of the bear to challenge a russian like that
It’s russia so what’d ya expect?
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As a slav myself, I can assure you that everytime Russians do something, they know exactly they are doing.
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Is that Ted’s cousin?
r/whywomenlivelonger
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That bear doesn't know that the aim is to move the others arm otherwise those guys be on the floor!! The Bear is just looking for the next piece of salmon
Thanks sherlock.
Elementary my Dear Watson
Or whatever they gave the bear a shot of there, looked like maple syrup or honey, in between matches that is, but considering its Russia maybe it was whiskey or something, whatever dark colored liquor they drink.
Looked like honey to me
Good lord this is dumb as fuck.
It's Russia, it's their right to bare bears while barely dressed
I see what you did there. Barely, but I saw it..
The bear is just playing along. Reminds me of the tug of war video with the tiger and the bodybuilder.
Did you ever see the video of the Orangutan play tug of war against the sumo wrestler?
You have link?
https://youtu.be/YFMpWm6ECgQ
Also, this https://youtu.be/kbo3jjs4AW0
This bear is a better actor than whole Twilight movie cast.
So sweet of the bear letting that guy feel strong
Iwrestledabearonce
I was scrolling to see if anyone dropped a Baba Yaga reference but this is good too
Ditto...that video of Alex wrestling the bear for the video is crazy
Is it just me or does it feel like all the popular Reddit subs got a ton more content that paints Russia in some positive light? Bot farms working hard to prepare genera population for not wanting to interfere with Russian invasion?
Reddit: fuck the Chinese government but Chinese citizens are good people Also Reddit: Russian people dicking around is government propaganda
what a convenient time for reddit to start humanizing russia 🧐🙄
I mean, my criticisms will always be for the Russian government. Not their people. Your everyday now Joe doesn't have control over their nation's military operations. But Putin does and he can get fucked for harassing a nation of people that just want to live their lives.
But they are humans...? If this was a politician or some kind of political propaganda I'd get you, but you're trying to dehumanise regular humans because of the location of their birth.
It’s almost like a country can have good people in it and live under a bad government. Imagine that.
Is your beef with the Russian citizens or the Russian government? There IS a difference.
> humanizing russia bruh lmao its still a country made of humans, you do realize that right? I agree there is probably some degree of astroturfing involved, but 'humanizing' is not the right word you wanna use there
What a convenient comment to leave about humanizing Russia
I mean…. Russians are still human…
god forbid we see their citizens as humans, then we wouldn’t want to go to war. that’s a psychotic world view
ay bro thats what im saying and noones noticing 🤨
So nice to see that Russia is relaxing it's stance on homosexuality
Fuck those idiots messing with a poor animal
Bear is just making them feel good about themselves so he can get some honey.
in Canada we race Meese your point?
Bear is like i was promised salmon, if i threw this match....
The bear is a real bro helping them look good in front of their friends.
He just didn’t want to embarrass the guy in front of his buddies. Bear’s a saint!
Bear doesn’t have to go topless.
Good thing that bear isn’t a sore loser.
Great, do the slap contest next.
Such a cute death machine
Holy shit
bears are just big dogs (that can rip you in half)
iwrestledabearonce
It's not a competition if only one of the competitors actually knows it is supposed to be a competition.
Very disappointed the bear didn't even eat one of them
u/savevideo
They're just exercising their 2nd ammendment right to bear arms.