Bears and Cougars

Bears and Cougars

Bears and cougars are wild and unpredictable animals and deserve the right to be respected. If provoked both animals can cause serious harm and can inflict serious injuries if not cause death. So, when dealing with bears or cougars it is best to follow certain rules. Each animal has different territory issues and both have different ways of dealing with them if somehow one ends up face to face with a bear or cougar. This next paragraph will talk about bears and how one should deal with one if you encounter one. When encountering a bear one should take extreme caution as some bears can run up to 30 miles per hour and both the black and brown bear can climb trees. So if one is trying to get away from a bear they should climb up a tree at least 33 feet off of the ground. (Website 1) The rules and guidelines that The Great Outdoors website suggests to follow are number one: “When entering bear territory, don't go alone. Go with at least one other person, the more people the less likelihood of a grizzly attack. There is some security in numbers.” (Website 2) Secondly it is best to follow “When hiking in bear country, make noise! Talk, sing and wear bear bells or something along these lines. This helps to let bears know you are there and they will normally head in the opposite direction. This will keep you from coming up on a bear and surprising him or her or them. A good number of bear attacks happen when hikers or an individual walks up on a bear and surprise it. The bear doesn't know if you are a threat to them or their cubs, so they attack or bluff an attack.” (Website 2)
Thirdly, “If you come upon a kill, get out of the area. Bears are protective of their food and will normally stay in the general area until they have finished eating the kill. This may be several days or so. You may smell the kill before you see it. Stop, check the area by carefully looking around and go back out the way you came in.” Lastly, “If you come upon a...