>>1346053 >>1341631listen to these anons and a vast majority of the time nothing will happen to you near blacks and cougars
>>1341628I have never seen a mtn lion irl which really sucks, they're one of my favorite north american animals. I've seen a black bear tho..
>be me, years ago as a teen in yellowstone>standing with other tourists on a trail that overlooks a large valley/washout>from the other side of the valley, a fairly small black bear approaches>moving in a lumbering, almost 'lazy' way which gets all the tourists excited and they move closer to the edge>the bear walks through the center of the valley and it is at this point that I realized the sheer amount of ground this 'lazy' looking animal is covering >I felt confident tho cuz group mentality, got close to the edge and took pics with everyone else>black bear foraged for a bit, then continued on uninterrupted>dad tells me later that even though the hillside I was on was maybe 80 degree slope incline, the bear could have decided that it wanted to be up near the people at any moment and advanced so quickly I would not be able to react wellthey really are beautiful, but people need to not be retards and FEED them.
>>1343953would love to see one, they are not really a huge threat to humans so observing one would be very cool. There are a bunch of young rabbits around my house and I hope I one day witness an act of bobcat predation
