In Alaska, a bear tried to attack tourists: he was driven away by a growl and screams

Tourists on a bear-watching tour in Alaska fought off an aggressive animal by screaming and holding on in a tight group, reports USAToday.

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In a video posted on Instagram on June 17, Scenic Bear Viewing hosted a bear-watching tour of Chinitna Bay at Lake Clark's Cook Inlet. In the video, tourists watch a pair of brown bears that are nearby, but do not show aggression.

Suddenly the camera pans to show one of the bears running towards the group of tourists. Tourists begin to growl and shout. The handler waits until the aggressive bear stops attacking and then takes a few steps forward to force the bear to run away.

“Never run from a charging bear, even if your instinct is to run,” the caption reads. “The bears are just trying to make you run.” They have an innate instinct to chase.”

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The post says that tourists never come closer than 47m to bears on tours, and that the company has been running bear tours in the area for 10 years. It also states that people have been visiting brown bears in the region for 30 years and the bears are accustomed to being watched by tourists.

“Bears rarely try to attack, this is the first time I’ve seen such behavior from an adult male,” said Martin Boland, a guide who was in the video. - Usually little bear cubs who have not reached puberty behave this way. Now it’s mating season for bears, so the aggressive male was not from this territory.”

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“It was a bear I had never seen before. He was simply in the area to mate with females and move on down the coast. Perhaps he had not seen people before this meeting. We see female bears in this area every year and they know we are not a threat. You can see in the video that the female brown bear is not paying attention to us and is calmly digging up shellfish,” he said.

The purpose of these tours is only to observe and photograph the bears and their surroundings. Hunting and feeding of bears is prohibited. According to Scenic Bear Viewing, in the 30 years the tours have existed, bears have never attacked people.

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