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who'da thought?

Good old healthy natural selection in action. Stupidity is a quickly weeded out trait.

Too bad humans aren't subject to it anymore.

Reminds me of the John West fish ad where the fisherman fights the bear for a fish.

That must be a beer cub, wait untill mamma comes around...

Deerburger anyone?

Faram wrote:That must be a beer cub, wait untill mamma comes around...

Deerburger anyone?

The bear won didn't it?

Faram wrote:That must be a beer cub, wait untill mamma comes around...

Deerburger anyone?

That's not a cub. It's a black bear. They don't get that big. And yes, the bear won. The last picture only shows it standing on the dead deer.

2000AD wrote:

Faram wrote:That must be a beer cub, wait untill mamma comes around...

Deerburger anyone?

The bear won didn't it?

Yep. That's one bear that had venison that night. But I think Faram is right; it doesn't look full grown.

Reminds me of some stories from when wolves were first reintroduced to Yellowstone. At first the moose and elk didn't know what they were and just stood there, letting themselves be slaughtered by the wolves. It took them a few months to learn to be wary.

Rogue 9 wrote:

Faram wrote:That must be a beer cub, wait untill mamma comes around...

Deerburger anyone?

That's not a cub. It's a black bear. They don't get that big. And yes, the bear won. The last picture only shows it standing on the dead deer.

I thought black bears were usually bigger than that. Deer aren't exactly huge. Maybe that was just a large cocky one.

Heh. Let that be a lesson to anyone who thinks they can whoop up on Smokey.

Mayabird wrote:

Rogue 9 wrote:

Faram wrote:That must be a beer cub, wait untill mamma comes around...

Deerburger anyone?

That's not a cub. It's a black bear. They don't get that big. And yes, the bear won. The last picture only shows it standing on the dead deer.

I thought black bears were usually bigger than that. Deer aren't exactly huge. Maybe that was just a large cocky one.

It's definitely not a cub. I meant black bears don't get as big as, say, grizzlies, not that they don't get as big as the bear in the picture.

How did they get it from two angles like that?

That's from three angles at least, possibly four. I dunno. Photographer decided to live dangerously and risk moving to get a better shot?

A half-decent telephoto lens woulda let him snap those without being in too much danger.

He wouldn't have been in too much anyway. The bear was otherwise occupied. But the other problem is that the farther away he is, the longer it takes him to circle around.

Rogue 9 wrote:He wouldn't have been in too much anyway. The bear was otherwise occupied. But the other problem is that the farther away he is, the longer it takes him to circle around.

Alternately, there may have been more than one photographer.

Could we have here a nomination for a Darwin Award?

Seeing as the cameraman was not either killed or permanently disabled from reproducing, no. And before you ask, no, deer can't be nominated for Darwin Awards.

That second one makes them look like they're playing pattycake.