How do I survive if I come across a real bear while hiking???
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If you encounter a bear: \nRemain calm and avoid sudden movements. \nGive the bear plenty of room, allowing it to continue its activities undisturbed. Every bear has a zone of danger or personal space -- that is, the distance within which a bear feels threatened. If it changes its natural behavior (feeding, foraging or movement) because of your presence, you are too close. If you stray within that comfort zone, a bear may react aggressively in the form of a bluff charge, bodily contact, or even an outright attack. \nIf you spot a bear and the bear is unaware of you, detour quickly and quietly away. \nIf spotted by a bear, try to get its attention while it is a good distance away. Help the bear to recognize that you are human, by talking to it in a normal voice or waving your arms. If a bear cannot tell what you are, it may come closer or stand on its hind legs to get a better look or smell. A standing bear is usually curious, not threatening. \nSome bears will bluff their way out of a threatening situation by charging, then veering off or stopping abruptly at the last second. Bear experts generally recommend standing still until the bear stops and then slowly backing away. \nNever run from a bear. Running may elicit a chase from an otherwise non-aggressive bear, and since they can run faster than 30 mph, you have no chance of outrunning them. \nNever feed or toss food to a bear. \nClimbing a tree to avoid bears is popular advice but not very practical in many circumstances. All black bears, all grizzly cubs, and some adult grizzlies can climb trees. Running to a tree may provoke an otherwise uncertain bear to chase you. \nThrow something onto the ground (like a camera) if the bear pursues you, as it may be distracted by this and allow you to escape. \nIf you carry pepper spray, be sure that you have trained with it before trusting it during an attack.
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I'm afraid of someone I love falling from something tall & I'm not able to save them.  Can you imagine me at the grand canyon?  I'd ruin the trip for everyone :)
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That would depend on when you check.  Hibernation is a special form of torpor, a state of low activity and decreased metabolism.  Now, in hibernating bears the temperature drops about the same level as the ambient temperature of the burrow.  In some species that would be somewhere between 0 qand 5 degrees Celsius.  However, hibernation is a specialized torpor in that the bear will now and then spike up its temperature to its normal level of about 37 degrees Celsius.  These spikes are equally spaced over the course of hibernation.  By doing this, the animal can conserve energy in a time that otherwise might not provide enough food to maintain high energy consumption rates around the clock.  what you have to remember is that endothermia is rather expensive.  To maintain your core body temp, you need to consume a lot of food.  While ectotherms convert about 50% of the energy they take up into biomass, endotherms convert only 1.4%.  The rest goes into body heat etc.  So, if you don't have enough food throughout the winter, and you do not preserve your energy, you are - as thgey say - up the creek without a pedal. \n\nHope that helps...
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Here, 'cause this poor guy said he is bored.\nI would prefer to fight a polar bear.\nAt least they are mammals.. AND can be tamed..\nBut I think we'll be disadvantaged by the weather. Noone can think straight when the air is too cold.\n\nI can't envisage a hairy 8-legged hard-skinned thingy crawling through my throat.\nBut one thing though, how could someone eats when there's a snake wrapping his head and block his mouth from any air least a spider.\n\nHope the less-than-livid imagination could propel your boredom away..\nHave a  nice day!
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Spider do not senses like insects, so insect repellent is no good. You just have to see and avoid. What you can do is to carry a stick in front of you so that you get rid of any potential webs that may be across your path. And spider along the way. This is good against spider on web on trees. Ground spider will be harder to see and avoid. Wear boots or high cut shoes.\nBut you should relax, they are more scared of you than you of them! You are so much larger in size! Anyway most spiders are harmless to humans except for a couple, so don't get too worried about them.
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depending on where in northern new jersey, i would have to strongly advise you against trying to best those kids up. they'll probably get their own posse, one thing leads to another, and before you know it, there'll be a miniature west side story goin down.\n\nno matter the place it was, dont stop goin back to your hiking spot. you were there before those gremlins, and you will be there after them. \n\nkeep in mind the reason why you were camping. did you have a long weekend?  maybe those kids had a thanksgiving vaction and, because they had nothing else better to do, decied to throw sh.it at you
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Try and look in your own backyards at home.\nLook out for little ET footprints coming out of the water and grew to like salt in planet of apes.\nIf you survive long enough will see ET leave with time in becoming a pillar of salt in planet of apes.
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Okay, you won't get lost, trust me. Don't leave the bunny hill, and I don't think you'll want to anyway, and there are maps everywhere. If you feel lost just keep going down, you'll end up somewhere. Also, NC mountains aren't that big so it won't be that easy to lose your way. If you have trouble getting o the lift, your lift operator will slow it down and you just hop on. You get on with one foot in the front binding and you scoot along with the other foot. It's kind of awkward at first and it'll fell uncomfortable but don't worry, you'll get on. If you meet someone in your snowboarding class that you get along with, ask them to spend the day with you. At the very least, they'll say no and then you can not worry about embarassing yourself around someone else, if your easily embarassed. Sometimes I like to go snowboarding by myself if all I'm doing is spending the day on the mountain. It's less embarassing than going slow and having to have people wait for you. That always sucks. The most important thing is to just have a good time. Make sure you have strong muscles in your chest, abs, arms, and legs because otherwise you'll be really, really sore.
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No, bears love this!  I think you should spend the weekend in the woods searching for bears that you can crap near.  I think you'll be surprised at just how affectionate a wild, hungry bear can be once you've made your presence known in this manner.
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i one had an ant cleaning my deposited bacteria.. oh how i loved that ant it was my pride and joy however 1 day i was walking in the forest and a giant bear attacked me... ill never forget that day when i lost my ant quite sad really...
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Just be patient and let nature take its course. You will be fine. Do not worry.\n\nChow!!
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I don't know if you saw Planet Earth recently, in one episode the camera men had a problem with a Polar bear hanging round the camp and they tried all kinds of things to scare him off (firing blanks etc) eventually the shot a couple of signal flares near him and he decided to shuffle off. These guys don't scare easily. If one is coming to attack pray to goodness you have a powerful gun and aim for the chest region not the head (the front of the skull is incredibly thick to allow it to break the ice by headbutting it so that is can then get at the seals underneath. A bullet shot at the head is liable to ricochet off the skull and just annoy the bear). \nHaving said that not as many people have been killed by Polar bears as you might be led to expect and in those cases the bears were either provoked or malnourished. Polar bears have been seen off by little old ladies whacking them with a broom (probably not advisable) and guys shouting and banging tin lids together. Check out this site for more facts:\nhttp://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/bear-attacks/
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Well...you should prepare before going out in the middle of nowhere, preferably by buying a red cross basic first aid manual and putting it in your glove box/backpack/saddlebags... These are probably easy to find at used book stores, and they have pictures and directions.\nI also suggest reading/investing in "the army survival manual," which is cool and has lots of other "middle of nowhere" survival tips and pictures, like of poisonous snakes and of different clouds. It also tells you how to build shelters and trap food if you have to (with pictures).\nWell good luck....just don't go out unprepared!
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Full grown male bears are the greatest threat to young bears.Aside from poachers of course.
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i am in Midwest America and i think the worst thing is the occasional bear.  then maybe the mosquitoes.  they swarm you and can eat you alive.  i have lost some good friends to mosquito swarms.
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Try to find the means for survival and do so until I'm found - dead or alive.\n\nOh... I might also grab some volley ball and paint a face on it.
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If you get lost in the wild first construct/secure shelter.  Stay put.  Let the search party find you.   If possible, set up some type of signal.  Conserve energy.  DRINK your water and EAT your food.  Depriving yourself of food and water will only make you dehydrated and famish-you'll make bad decisions.   You'll make better decisions if you have nourishment.  \n\nIf you must travel out, walk early in the morning and toward dusk.  Avoid the heat of the sun and walking in the dark.  Set up a base camp and hunt at night .  Most desert animals move about at night.