Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Top 100 Facts That Might Save Your Life One Day" video.
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Not true. Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend were attacked and eaten alive when they were soundly sleeping in their tent when a big male had been foraging for scarce food before hibernating. In some cases (like with grizzly bear attacks), the bears will attack anything they come across to eat it. In Yellowstone, where many people have been killed by bears, people are taught in some cases to appear bigger and louder to make them go somewhere else, but it really depends! If you are inadvertently between a bear and her cubs, or out when they are very active (right before hibernating or after they emerge from hibernation) or just somewhere nearby, you better have a can of bear spray and a gun, and neither always works. Hugh Glass, the famous mountain man in the 1800s who tried to shoot a bear and her cubs for food, shot AND knifed the bear several times, which did not slow it down until it had torn him to shreds, then died. The fact that Glass survived is just unimaginable, he spent two years out by himself trying to heal and get back to the fort he had been hired by. He must have had an unbelievably strong physical (and mental!) constitution!!!
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