I knew they were big bears but not TWICE A HUMAN size! I didn't even google this image for the polar bear I wanted to see how big a black bear is.

guess I'm never going to Antarctica!

edit: okay we got ANOTHER TIL. Apparently polar bears don't live in Antarctica!

...I need to watch more nature documentaries...

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[–] -2 points 1 month ago (23 children)

I've seen black bears. that's a huge fucking black bear.

normally they could be mistaken for a really big raccoon in the dark. smaller than a Dane/mastiff in height

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    OK so TIL black bears are way smaller than I thought. But "really big raccoon"? That's got to be an exaggeration... right?

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    guys pls stop downvoting this comment, it made me feel good to see it in my inbox, i dont want people to feel afraid to give one or two word nice comments.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You are noticing a very weird phenomenon that's been ongoing for about a month now. I'm the target of 3-4 bots that downvote most things I comment. It's a very weird thing someone is doing and the instance admins who could stop it have ignored me so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    did you say something bad about russia/china/iran/israel?

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    I have. I suspect though that it was because of this one day a weird mod was banning people en masse for downvoting their accusatory post where they listed a bunch of users they claimed are Zionists. With no evidence at all. Everyone who downvoted it got banned from their community immediately. Then I noticed the weird bot behavior a day or two later. I saw another user complaining about the same bots doing this to them also. If it's that mod, it's a very strange and spiteful thing to do but it wouldn't surprise me. People are strange.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That has to be an exaggeration. That or we're all thinking of different kinds of black bears. I'm assuming they can vary a lot in size based on age and other factors, but the ones I've seen in my area are definitely about the size depicted in the photo.

    Also never fight back against Asiatic black bears. They will kill you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Almost all bears will kill you under circumstances. A 200lb man is nothing against a 500 lb or more bear.

    And yet some 7% of men think they can take a bear.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    I’m pretty sure I could take Winnie the Pooh. That mfer would be too busy getting his head stuck in a honey pot or singing songs about Heffalumps and Woozles… He’d never see me coming.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    This would only be accurate for a cub. Why are you saying it with such confidence?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    maybe all the ones I've seen are cubs, fair point... i don't live in the woods

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    From what I'm reading now, I've seen some big ones. Comparing the adults to dogs or raccoons though, to me still seems fairlly incorrect. Dogs can be really big, but a 7 foot nose to toes bear isn't super rare from what I can tell.

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