If it feels like bear attacks have become more common in recent years, it's because they actually have. Unfortunately, however, more bear-human encounters usually spells bad news for the bears, but not addressing the issue can cause more problems for unlucky humans, too. It isn't easy to share the natural world with animals that can kill us, as while we hope to appreciate them only from a safe distance, encounters between our two species are inevitably going to happen.
In the video below, we see one of the crazier encounters to be caught on camera, which luckily didn't end in any kind of injury. Cody Kunau, a 32-year-old fishing guide at the Yakutat Lodge in Southeast Alaska, experienced one of the scariest moments of his life when he encountered a charging grizzly on an Alaskan road back in 2017. As close as he came to this bear, he's probably thankful that he was in a car, as this thrilling clip looks as though it would've had a much different ending had this happened while Kunau was on foot.
Here's the video:
Yeah, it goes without saying that this experience will probably stick with Kunau for the rest of his life. It's hard to know what made the bear turn around and charge the car, as it seemed as though it was bolting for the woods when first approached by the car. However, it's possible there are circumstances the camera simply couldn't capture, the most likely being nearby cubs, possibly right near the road.
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