{"id":2176848,"date":"2024-07-22T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2176848"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:28:33","slug":"shaking-hiker-films-scarily-close-encounter-with-grizzly-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/shaking-hiker-films-scarily-close-encounter-with-grizzly-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking hiker films scarily close encounter with grizzly bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can hear the fear in this female hiker\u2019s voice as pleads with a grizzly not to come any closer; \u201cPlease don\u2019t come here. Thank you, please go,\u201d she quivers with a politeness that\u2019s at odds with the scary encounter.<\/p>\n<p>And yet she captures it all on video. Brave? Daft? Or just how we\u2019re hard-wired to react in the social media age?<\/p>\n<p>The woman ran into the bear \u2013 which at time looks to be just a few feet away \u2013 at Glacier National Park in Montana. While it clearly shows some interest in her, it luckily didn\u2019t ultimately engage with her.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Watch: Hiker films as grizzly bear gets dangerously close #Shorts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CV0kDSmC7B8\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hiker in this instance seems to have done all the right things. A caption says that she, \u201cgot low, got out her bear spray\u201d, which goes along with the advice our expert gives about a grizzly encounter in our article What to do if you meet a bear, which is:<\/p>\n<p>1) Don&#8217;t try to run \u2013 a grizzly or brown bear can easily outrun you and it may trigger an aggressive response<\/p>\n<p>2) Play dead \u2013 if you are approached by a grizzly or brown bear, lay flat on your stomach with your hands clasped around your neck<\/p>\n<p>3) Spread your legs \u2013 this makes it more difficult for the bear to turn you over<\/p>\n<p>4) Fight back \u2013 if the attack becomes overly aggressive and if you have no other choice, fight back, ideally with bear spray<\/p>\n<p>You can see the bear spray creep into the frame right at the end of the clip, when, thankfully, the bear heads off and away. 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