How not to release a bear into the wild

When releasing a bear from a trap...



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Bears in ill-fitting hats

There seems to be a photo pool on flickr for bears in ill-fitting hats. It's called, perhaps surprisingly, the bears in ill-fitting hats photo pool.

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BEARFIGHT

You'll notice around 1:10 that the larger bear actually begins to defecate in the middle of the battle. Now, I've got to wonder - is he doing something akin to shitting your pants in terror, or is he so used to fighting that he can do it while taking a dump?

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Polar Bear vs. Walrus

It's a scientific fact that polar bears are absolutely terrifying. Sure, they might look cute from a distance, but that's about as close as you'd want to get. Walruses weigh up to two thousand kilograms, and a polar bear a third that size has absolutely no problem completely kicking its ass and dragging it out of the water.

This apparently isn't uncommon - check out this carved tusk from Russia.

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Horse vs. Everything Ever

I found this excellent blog the other day, and upon delving into the archives came across a comic that seems to be entirely about a black horse fighting everything it can lay its murderous hooves on. Opponents include wolves, snakes, vaguely murine bears and other horses, along with more formidable adversaries such as weather and gravity itself.

I'm not sure why Black Fury feels the need to engage in combat with, um, everything, or if he can indeed help himself, but I appreciate the spunk required to tell gravity to go fuck itself and (presumably) come out on top. In these times of subjugated, broken beasts of burden, it's important to remember that horses can, in fact, battle.

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