[RumiDude]

Forget about griz reintroduction in North Cascades, beware of bears in Japan.

Rumi

[ale_capone]

I just recently learned about the Sankebetsu bear attack in Japan. Sounds horrific! Don't know how I've never heard. Sounds like they are like the Kodiak brown bears and can get pretty big. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident

[Cyclopath]

Cougar attacks too. And orcas. It's like the world is trying to tell us something.

[RumiDude]

Truthfully, I was not even aware that there were bears in Japan. To discover that not only were there bears in Japan but that their population was increasing was a delight. Not to dismiss the seriousness of the attacks and even fatalities, but we humans need to find a way to live with wildlife rather than crowd it out and extirpate species. Rumi

[Malachai Constant]

Asian bears are supposedly more aggressive than our black bears, least that is what the sign at Woodland a park said.

[catsp]

Let me ask you something this may seem like a silly question. You get a French bear a Japanese bear a German bear do they all growl the same? They all sound the same when they, you know, "grrr"? Or is it a different language? And it doesn't matter the country, the boundaries doesn't make any difference there?

[Malachai Constant]

French and German bears are considered brown bears but smaller than Griz ans Alaskan brownies Asian bears are a separate species.

[BigBrunyon]

Many believe that grizzlies have recently been introduced to Japan after several grizzlies somehow ended up on a cargo ship undetected. The crew was not aware of the grizzlies until there were way out at sea!! Then the crew had to just barricade themselves in the captain's room with grizzlies clawing at the doors out there in the middle of the ocean.

[RumiDude]

[Sky Hiker]

Here a bear, there a bear everywhere a bear bear! Bears have to eat too. If you cross a French bear with a German bear what do you get?

[coldrain108]

[Yogi Bear]