Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock.

The young grizzly's behavior reminded me of something. His reaction to the smell of danger - the presence of a larger boar or maybe the mating season in general - seemed to be to crawl back into the brush, hole up, and lie out this hazardous time. The same thing used to happen to me back in Southeast Asia: whenever the shit really hit the fan, when it looked as if we were about to be overrun and it became a matter of everyone for himself, my first impulse, or perhaps instinct, was to slide off alone into the jungle and keep going until I found vegetation thick enough to hide in, a sanctuary where I could ride out the hunt for Americans. So I thought I knew what it might feel like to be outgunned by bigger bears. 
 
( Doug Peacock - Viet Nam veteran ).  Reply