They really are, but it seemed like they were especially thick at my folks’ place! Our neighbors were a lovely older lady couple who refused to let anyone hunt on their property. The deer seemed to somehow know that, so it was like year-round whitetail Spring Break there. They were so sure of themselves that they…

I bumped into two while I was walking in the trees around my house. I had my two small children and dog with me. They charge dogs pretty easily. I got her out of there before she saw them, thank goodness. Scared the fuck out of me. If it was a bear, my dog would probably manage to scare it or failing that - become the…

Grizzly bears scare me, I hike a few times a year, and have all my bear awareness training, pepper spray, ect, but I still usually like to go with 3+ other people. There are areas near me that you actually have to be in groups of 4 or more because of the grizzlys in the area or you can get big fines.

Way back in the days before dirt, our family went on a trip to Yellowstone with my uncle’s family. My uncle was usually pretty cool, but he decided to be a dick and scare the crap out of his wife. We were stuck waiting to enter Yellowstone after having been outside the park for a day trip (we were in cabins at…

No. They are scary fuckers.

I volunteer at a science museum on my days off. I spend most of my time either in the space or paleontology halls, teaching guests about the exhibits. We call this “getting bibled”. The last time it happened, I was describing the evolution of birds, and an indignant guest said, “How do you know? You weren’t there.”

My 4 year schooled me at the zoo -

Oh my god I can’t even handle it. adultosaur wants to be my friend!
Horseshoe crabs might just be my favorite animal. Their blood is bright blue-green because they have hemocynanin, not hemoglobin, in their blood. So it uses copper instead of iron. And it has amazing antibacterial properties, we use it in all kinds of…

I was driving through Banf national park (Canada), and I saw a family of tourists pulled over on the side of the road, because there was a mama bear AND HER CUB nearby. They were just parking their small child on the tiny fence for a cutesy photo op with the two vicious wild animals, when a park ranger came to a…

um if i saw a moose i’d be stoked. take your blase moositude ELSEWHERE.

Oh crap, really? I was afraid that was going to happen because the mother was ignoring it, and they do that when one is sick sometimes. Poor thing.

My body is ready for this new direction.

Shoulda set a pic-a-nic basket trap for them.

shouldn’t “confuse my beliefs(!) with scientific fact”

I fully support Jezebel’s new direction of being a bear-centric website.

I had an internship at a zoo in undergrad, and there was a note left about me one time. I explained that horseshoe crabs were an ancient species and you could see their relatives, the trilobites, in fossils from the Cambrian period. The dad got all huffy and asked how I knew it was “millions of years”, and I responded…

These are probably the same assholes that tap on the glass on aquariums and gets angry and shouts at animals in a zoo to come closer to the bars so they can see them better.

well i mean i paid to see bears, and they provided me with zero bears

“I lugged this archaic camera all the way out here and didn’t have one Kodiak moment!”