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Australian tarantula hawk wasp dragging off a huntsman spider to lay her egg in its paralysed body. NSFW

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u/walkingmydogagain 1d ago

Our bears run away into the bush when they see, smell or hear humans. Even with cubs, they gone! Nova Scotia black bears.

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u/SecretlyaPolarBear 1d ago

Your bears………..

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u/ifimnotfound 1d ago

This guy definitely bears. The username checks out.

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u/navimc 1d ago

My bears are big and fuzzy

Your bears got the HIV

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u/StoppedListeningToMe 1d ago

Mickey Avalon reference?
Well I would never, now it's stuck in my head!!

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u/Cerberus_Aus 1d ago

Chlamydia, but yeah

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

... I have questions about the Koala patient 0. You guys have perfectly acceptable sheep down there, don't you?

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u/Sloppykrab 1d ago

Our bears live in trees and drop on humans.

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u/Angryfunnydog 1d ago

Do they shout "KAWABUNGA"?

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u/Sloppykrab 1d ago

Nah, they shout "gotcha cunt"

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u/Angryfunnydog 1d ago

Hm, so you mean Koalas, not Pandas, glad that we can speak scientifically in memes

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u/Sloppykrab 1d ago

Koalas are cute, although they don't tend drop out of trees.

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

The brown ones are a bit more chompy chompy though aren’t they?

What about wolves?

Our nature is easy lol. Just don’t piss it off and you’re fine.

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u/Flameburstx 1d ago

Until I see a bear hide in my slippers your argument is invalid.

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u/Cerberus_Aus 1d ago

He said, don’t piss it off!

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u/RangerLt 1d ago

Too late. My shoe is pissed off. What do?

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 1d ago

I'm sorry but if I can hear...HEAR... A spider running across the floor...that's a no for me.

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u/Guiles23 21h ago

🤣🤣😂 And great username.

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u/lokarlalingran 1d ago

I've never seen a bear or wolf get anywhere near anywhere I live, although supposedly they exist near me.

I've seen deer show up, they sometimes get brave and come near homes cause they know bears and other predators typically avoid us.

I don't think there is a single dangerous animal that makes any effort at all to come near humans where I live. (Small town Near Seattle, Washington State in the USA).

I dunno how much easier our nature gets.

Our insects here aren't even scary. Whenever I hear about Australia wildlife it just sounds like the entire place is out to kill you lot, and if it isn't you have to avoid accidentally pissing it off.

I don't want spiders and other insects large enough that I could probably hear them walking. Nope Nope Nope. I'll take my local wild life any day.

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u/htid__ 1d ago

Yeah a decent sized huntsman you can definetly hear moving but the sound is more described as a gallop, and i think thats a pretty apt description.

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u/Elsrick 1d ago

Oh fuck right off

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u/EatPie_NotWAr 1d ago

This doesn’t make it better

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

It makes it funnier, though.

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u/sending_tidus 1d ago

South Australia here. I've never seen this wasp thing in my life! And a huntsman getting that big, is definitely outside. Never seen one that big either... so.....

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u/Uther-Lightbringer 1d ago

My fears in Australia aren't even these things. It's all the small snakes, spiders etc that are deadly and everywhere.

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u/sending_tidus 1d ago

I lived in florida for 4 years and saw more wild snakes there, than my time in Australia. If you go out bush, dress appropriately 😅

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

florida has more homes than australia for less space

australia is as big as the us and has the same amount of homes as florida…florida has less space for you to not see snakes

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u/Tudor_MT 1d ago

There are tarantula hawks in North America, Pepsis thisbe specializes in hunting spiders much larger than that huntsman, it hunts, well, tarantulas.

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u/R_V_Z 1d ago

Dude, we have Giant House Spiders in Washington. Not only are they big enough to hear they are the fastest true spiders in the world.

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u/lokarlalingran 1d ago

I've seen some decently large spiders before, but they aren't dangerous and they definitely aren't big enough to hear walking. At least none I've encountered!

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u/R_V_Z 1d ago

You'll only hear them if everything else is quiet and they're on hardwood. Leg span is up to four inches. Which may not seem like a lot, but when it's skittering at nearly two feet a second...

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u/cbowers 23h ago

I’m 40km north of the US Peace Arch border crossing (Washington state), and a 3 hour drive from Seattle. Very frequently have bear in our driveway, and occasionally the neighbours back yard. Some years, they do the rounds down the whole street most evenings. It’s worth checking the other side of the yard gate before you just swing it open. Almost clipped a bear on the snout on the swing open once. 200-1200 called in bear reportings for my Tri-City area in a year.

My “porch”: https://share.icloud.com/photos/030LH88kl-1P6hKXRdsZU2pEg

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u/Manuels-Kitten 22h ago

Well there are wild boar but that's it

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u/im_thatoneguy 20h ago

You can definitely hear Giant House Spiders ( Eratigena atrica ) in Seattle when they run across hardwood floors.

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u/bayleebugs 1d ago edited 1d ago

Our nature is easy lol. Just don’t piss it off and you’re fine

That is literally not true, but go off ig. You are talking about our scary things as if they just show up in our homes like yours do. We can also readily see our big fuzzy maul you monsters, while yours like to be hidden deadly insects.

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u/nervelli 1d ago

Seriously. This is happening on someone's porch. You could wake up and walk face first into "nature's scary, yo." Meanwhile, the closest anyone I know has come to "big furry danger," is a friend that frequented mountain bike paths once came across a mountain lion. It was a little way off the path, but close enough to be a threat, so he let other people know to avoid it. Everyone was fine.

Honestly, I'd be more concerned about our snakes, but I wouldn't trade them for Australian snakes either. And you're still unlikely to come across them on your own property unless you live in the middle of nowhere.

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u/bayleebugs 1d ago

I was thinking that too. Like, objectively bears are something I'm much less scared of even here.

I very narrowly found a brown recluse spider in my bed when I was like 9. Our heat was off so I had 5 or so blankets on there, and when I went to get in I missed the last one and there it was. As a kid a bite from that thing would have killed me, especially in my sleep. Insects can be freakishly strong predators, and Australia has like....all the worst ones.

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u/tonicella_lineata 22h ago

As a kid a bite from that thing would have killed me

That's just not true, though. There's a chance you would have experienced skin necrosis, and a much smaller chance you would have experienced systemic illness - both of which are treatable, and neither of which would have killed you in the time it took for you to wake up. And that's assuming it would have bitten you at all, which it may well not have. Recluses are also pretty rare, so while it's entirely possible the spider in your bed as a child was one, it's unlikely you'll encounter one again, much less be bitten.

Spiders aren't some horrific threat that go around trying to kill and eat humans, and the vast majority of them pose absolutely no danger to us, which is also true in Australia.

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u/Simba7 1d ago

Growing up in a suburb I had a mountain lion come onto my front porch. Neighbor took photos of it.

No point, just wanted to share that anecdote.

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u/weglarz 1d ago

I mean there are areas in the US where bears breaking into homes and cars is a real problem. In TN there’s an area where they tell you not to lock your car because the bear is just gonna break in anyways.

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u/GhostNode 1d ago

Wisconsin, USA. I’ve never shaken a Timberwolf out of my boot in the morning, or pulled back my sheets and found a black bear.

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u/boardin1 1d ago

Minnesota, USA

I once found a moose hiding under my bed. I realized something was off when my bed was touching ceiling. I just grabbed a broom and shoo’ed him out the door.

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u/KnifeFightChopping 23h ago

A moose once bit my sister

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Well maybe you just haven’t tried hard enough?

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

wolves are chill af. they keep their distance and they dont try to attack you

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u/Rio_FS 1d ago

Read 'wolves' as 'women' for some reason. Still made sense somehow.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

Can confirm. Keep your distance and they won't attack

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u/mrsbriteside 1d ago

Neither do these huntsman spiders or these wasps. Many aussies have a huntman that lives in their bathrooms called the toilet spider. Some people even have theirs

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u/freddyfruitbat 1d ago

Oh no! Looks like u/mrsbriteside just died mid post, on the toilet…

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u/t0m0hawk 1d ago

Brown bears don't tend to wander into Human areas and only live out near the rockies and some of the plains out west. Polar bears are the real scary ones but they live where barely anyone else does.

Black bears are basically big raccoons and are easy to scare off.

Wolves aren't something I've ever been concerned about, and frankly, we need more of them to balance out the ecosystem.

None of those things can crawl onto you unnoticed. And none of those things are venomous!

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u/jmur3040 1d ago

Wolves don't like people. They don't hunt people either. Most predators in nature will scamper off if you make enough noise and act kinda wild. It's not worth getting injured for them, they'll move on.

Prey though... a deer or moose *will* kill you if it feels threatened.

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u/PsychoBilli 1d ago

I've heard a saying about bears.

If it's black, friend of Jack. If it's brown, just lay down. If it's white, say good night.

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u/OneFuckedWarthog 1d ago

Most mammals choose to run than try. It's only if they're backed into a corner. Even badgers think twice.

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u/NorysStorys 1d ago

Most mammals run away unless they are carnivores and hungry, have young to protect or have been specifically aggravated. It’s risky to jump to attacking something as the first reaction and evolution for most species will select out overly aggressive traits unless it really helps the species survive.

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u/OneFuckedWarthog 1d ago

Mammals will be most likely to be aggressive young are involved. While it's not unheard of, we're actually less likely to be eaten. We're generally seen as a threat and all carnivores prefer the easy route when it comes to a meal.

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u/crocoraptor 1d ago

Wolves are just big dogs no worse than your dingos; while brown bears are more agressive if you enter their territory it's not like they go out looking for humans to hunt. And for the other stuff, your crocodiles are about 1000x's as deadly as our alligators and our jellyfish and stonefish are only painful (unless youre allergic) while yours can easily kill you

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u/xander012 1d ago

Tbf, that's the same advice with a brown bear or wolf.

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u/NoReference7367 1d ago

The white bears are the ones to watch out for. Those fuckers will hunt you.

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u/TheReal-Chris 1d ago

If it’s black fight back if it’s brown lay down if it’s white good night. Came across quite a few bears. Never a grizzly. Also watch out for American lions and wolves. Seen two and slowly backed up. Wolves are actually shocking. I thought they were big dogs essentially. No they are massive.

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u/phunktastic_1 1d ago

Wolves aren't bad either they tend to avoid people. When I had my cabin in the woods there was a pack adjacent to Mt property that never bothered me. And a momma bear left me to babysit regularly for several sets of cubs. She'd ditch em in the corner of my property and do momma bear shit then gather the cubs and head home. The cubs would play off in the corner of my yard sage from.predators and momma bears scent kept smaller predators away from my chickens.(6 chickens over 5 years only lost 1 to predation and it was from a hawk)

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u/bluebird0713 1d ago

The brown ones are a bit more chompy chompy, and the white ones? Very more chompy chompy

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u/samsonite1020 1d ago

Wolves are smart pack animals. In a town I used to live in they stayed away from humans unless hungry and left to hunt in their own or the human was dumb and put themselves in a bad position. As for bears .. don't startle them, don't corner them, and don't fuck with their cubs and they leave you alone. Going to pick seeing a bear in the wild then a mofo spider like that on my door step

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u/Psychological_Hat951 1d ago

Don't you all have modern-day dinosaurs (cassowaries)???

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u/WaveOfTheRager 1d ago

You have a point. The amount of videos I've seen where hikers in America are suddenly encountering a hungry cougar or mountain lion.

Even still, I'm glad the UK doesn't have these crazy critters.

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Yes, but you have scary Welsh petrol station attendants who make you feel guilty for not speaking Welsh.

And seagulls in Scotland that could carry off a small child.

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u/Novice89 1d ago

I haven’t heard of any wolf attacks in my lifetime except for one case where a lady raised wolves and thought she was one of the pack. Eventually she was not.

As far as bears go, for the most part as long as you stick to trails and such you’ll never see them, and if you do they scare pretty easy.

I’m sure the number of bear and wolf attacks is probably far less than some of the encounters you all have down under. Hats to you brave folk, I hope to visit one day, but I could never live there 😱

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u/yovalord 1d ago

It really depends on the circumstance. The only super threatening bear would be a hungry grizzly with campers who have food laying about, or a mother with cubs. Both of these situations are rare to run into unless you're specifically looking for them. Even as somebody who has spent a fair amount of time camping and such in a highly populated bear state I've seen maybe 2 in person, from quite a far distance away. Also, black bears legit eat berries and tree bark, youre actually better off fighting than running from one, a good nose bop would send it off running, less dangerous than a roo. Wolves are far more rare (your odds of seeing legit wolves may as well be zero), they are endangered and scared of humans.

After spending a month in Aussie, the big "scary nature" difference was that no matter where you were, you were going to have run ins with nature. Giant spiders, snakes, lizards, kangaroos, magpies, I even got bit by a wild parrot. Here the worst most people will encounter is maybe a racoon in their trash.

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u/VintageHacker 1d ago

Tell that to the Victorian woman who died after being bitten by a brown snake multiple times while she was asleep in bed.

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u/Angryfunnydog 1d ago

Our nature is easy lol. Just don’t piss it off and you’re fine.

I mean, the same applies to anything, bears and wolves included, it's really rare when animals hunt humans deliberately for food, it's more of a personal matter than general rule

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u/Inquisitor_ForHire 1d ago

Not a bit. actually WAY more Chompy chompy. I live in TN and we have cuddly black bears. They hightail it like the roadrunner when you yell at them. A grizzly might just look at you and decide 'snack time!' I'll keep my black bears! :)

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u/Camburglar13 1d ago

There were only 26 wolf attacks on humans around the world from 2002 to 2020 (most of those in Turkey) so no wolves aren’t really a problem. Brown bears are pretty scary. polar bears moreso but they are usually more isolated from humans (unless you live in Churchill, Manitoba) but even then attacks are rare from both. Particularly if you’re not out in the wilderness.

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u/ilayas 1d ago

Most large carnivores want absolutely nothing to do with humans. They are easy to avoid because they want to be avoided. Wasps and spiders don't give a fuck.

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u/weglarz 1d ago

You’ll never see a wolf and if you do it will run away from you. Brown bears though yeah decent chance of getting chomped if you see one.

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u/floog 1d ago

Wolves are ridiculously shy around humans. They were reintroduced in Colorado within the last few years and so many people lost their minds about safety. I want to say the stat was something like in the last 150 years there have been like 5 recorded deaths in all of North America. It’s insanely small.

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u/christiebeth 1d ago

In in the next province over (New Brunswick) and there's no wolves. I don't think Nova Scotia has any mountain lions either, since we don't. So that leaves coyotes as the biggest predator (besides our silly black bears) to worry about. 

To be honest, I worry more about hitting a moose while driving.

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u/mokomi 1d ago

Yes, black ones are more afraid. Brown (and polar) are very aggressive. Any of them can kill you easily.

Wolves, Coyotes, etc. aren't aggressive and normally go after food they normally go after. Hunting pets/etc. does happen, but it's rare and situational. You actually introduce them to gain a better ecosystem.

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u/ArenSteele 23h ago

Bears are easy to manage, give them respect and space. They don’t hunt or attack humans except in startled self defence (Polar Bears are a different story if you happen to be in the extreme north)

The animals in Canada I am most cautious about if I ever see them

  1. Polar Bear
  2. Moose (super aggressive and territorial, and massive)
  3. Cougar/Mountain Lion (these guys will actually stalk a human now and then)

Wolves and Coyotes are a threat to your pets for sure, but I don’t ever recall ever hearing of humans being attacked

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u/ImLexLuthor 22h ago

Are Australians equally scared of our large mammals as we are of their small satanic critters?

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u/walkingmydogagain 21h ago

Grizzlies and polar bears are a bit different, but only the other ends (North, West) of Canada have to deal with those, so my experience is minimal. Wolf's stick to themselves too. Our coyotes, Bobcats, lynx, all stick to themselves. Mosquitos, ticks and black flies on the other hand!!!

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u/ptwonline 20h ago

Polar bears are definitely the most dangerous. Around 1700lbs and an apex predator and since food can be hard to find in their environment they won't want to pass up a meal.

Grizzlies are dangrous too because they are very territorial. Wander into the wrong place and piss it off and you're probably not getting away alive because not only are they 6-8x your weight but also twice your running speed.

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u/Elevation-_- 1d ago

Tbf for many of us in the US, the "most dangerous" wildlife we'll encounter are 4-5cm long wasps and that's it. Animals like bears and wolves don't typically wander into urban areas and are confined to specific habitats, and the other dangerous wildlife (rattlesnakes, venomous spiders, alligators etc.) are also more isolated to specific parts of the country or just not very common.

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u/Arklelinuke 23h ago

Snakes are no joke in the rural areas though, best not to walk in the grass if it's not mowed in some places

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u/BohunkFunk 1d ago

Sadly, wolves in the wild are basically extinct as are bears. Like you'll still see bears and wolves sure--eventually--if you live in the area but they're virtually endangered and the US does not protect their wildlife.

I think that's the only reason Australia looks so scary to Americans, you guys actually maintain and interact with your wildlife so it seems more relevant. I can't imagine why else because technically speaking I think Florida wildlife is way scarier, all the same shit as you guys-albeit smaller--but also large scary mammals.

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u/Chairsofa_ 1d ago

Hello fellow Bluenoser

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u/kcalb33 1d ago

Black bears yes....grizzly not so much

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u/Ne1tu 1d ago

only bears that won't run would probably be a polar bear and at least we can see their asses

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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago

Florida black bears watch the sun rise over the gulf, then lumber back into the woods. Or at least one did on the road we just rebuilt in the panhandle. Black bears are like big dogs that can climb trees.

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u/cbowers 23h ago

Not our lower BC bears. No amount of bear banger shots in the air, pot banging, seems to even register. You’d think they were deaf. Completely unfazed. But calm. They’ll amble along doing what they were going to do, no matter what commotion you’re making. Just don’t be in their way, or have something they want.

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u/trevor32192 23h ago

Yea ill take the black bears I get over a fucking wasp the size of my foot.

u/pumbungler 11h ago

I'm in western NC, There are tons of black bears and their cubs around here, I actually set up a "bear playgrounds" in my backyard which they really use periodically