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rsdfdfdfdf | 1 year ago

I don't think there's a much difference in behavior between the species, probably Romania just has more bears living close to humans, which makes them less afraid and conflicts more likely. For the record, my home country (Finland) has about 2000 brown bears, and they have killed only a single person during past 100 years. Most of the time they try their best to avoid humans, and the majority of people living in the countryside have never even seen one.

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lupusreal|1 year ago

Eurasian brown bears and North American brown bears are ostensibly the same species of bear, but you'd never guess it from the attack statistics. Eurasian brown bears are considerably less likely to attack than their North American counterparts. I think the Eurasian brown bears have been subjected to more evolutionary pressure to be more docile (from people hunting down the aggressive ones more comprehensively and probably for longer than in America.)

lukan|1 year ago

Romania has more than 2 persons killed each year and many more injured.

"Between 2016 and 2021, there were 154 bear attacks on humans, resulting in 158 injuries and 14 deaths"

https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-bear-attacks-on-huma...

olddustytrail|1 year ago

Just for comparison, how many persons are killed by humans each year?

BodyCulture|1 year ago

There you have it! Romanian people taste much better than Finish!

Rinzler89|1 year ago

>Romania has more than 2 persons killed each year and many more injured.

Statistics can be misleading without context. Especially when you see dumbfucks in Romania film themselves pulling over and get out of their cars so they can get close to bears to feed them biscuits and pet them as if they're stray cats/dogs. How can you blame the bears then? At that point such deaths are just natural selection at work.

At least in the past when we were cavemen, some member of the tribe would get mauled by a wild animal and the rest of the tribe would take note not to fuck around with those animals and pass that knowledge to their offspring, but somewhere along the way, we seem to have lost commons sense and personal responsibility and if some idiot engages with a wild animal and gets killed it's now the animal's fault for being "dangerous" and not his fault for being a dumbass who's now been thankfully erased from the gene pool.

pvaldes|1 year ago

I bet that a fair quote of them were hunting bears