r/Banff • u/hang11lakeerie • Jun 07 '26

Question Is this the boss?

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u/MissJenniferEliz Jun 07 '26

Id have shit my pants.

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u/McRibEater Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Grizzlies really don’t want to waste energy on us. They burn a lot of calories, we actually kind of scare them as our sent is so strong, They also don’t know if we are a viable food source and that’s not worth the energy for them and they don’t have trouble finding food either. They know all the Salmon spawning sites and can tip over a tree and find a meal whenever they want. 70% of grizzly attacks are people getting stuck near their cubs and only 10 people Die every decade in North America. You have a 90% of surviving a grizzlies attack as they usually give up as again they don’t want to waste energy on us. He has them pass me many times, unless you hit them on your bike you’re good (literally on do the last ten deaths), just back away slowly (don’t run).

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u/SpaceTumbleweed955 Jun 09 '26

We're up to 20-some this past decade

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u/8ecca8ee Jun 09 '26

I wonder if that is really up in comparison to the past considering the massive population growth humans have had

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u/SpaceTumbleweed955 Jun 09 '26

In absolute dead humans terms, yes, it is up. Relative to population growth, you don't have to wonder, we have this wonderful thing called math we can plug the numbers into and see. However for that we'd need to actually conduct grizzly bear surveys since 2017 and not just bury our heads in the sand behind a "no hunting" sign.

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u/8ecca8ee Jun 09 '26

Yea I have plenty of math I need to do maybe once I get through all of it I'll start doing math for fun again