Runner Meets Grizzly Bear - Neatorama

There's nothing like a good run to get rid of stress. At least until you meet your first grizzly bear on the trail, as YouTube user GTX449 did at the 3:10 mark in this video. Content warning: foul language. But who can blame him?

This is why I run on a treadmill.

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That's why running without a slightly slower friend is a bad idea.

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After seeing the puma, I bought a camera and taped all of my rides. Got some footage of a puma cub and some deer out of it.

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Who videos their daily runs? I don't want to sound off-base to runners ('cause I'm not one of you), but is this common?

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If he had run between the bear and some cubs, or the bear was simply hungry, he would have been dead by the 3:24 mark. . .

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Reminds of the day I came across a mountain lion while biking. It was in a county park surrounded by cities. That was also the day I recorded a personal best time for that route.

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When I read this, I almost expected to see a stage called "facehugger" and another called "chestburster".

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I remember hearing about this other specie that has a crazy reproduction cycle too. Something to do with rabbits, bugs, grass, rabbit's feces, etc. I can't remember the name of the specie for the life of me :-(.

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That is indeed very bizarre!

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@ hobbes3:
Many parasites have crazy reproductive cycles like this. I recently read "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer where he describes many strange parasitic species and their big and often underestimated influence on many ecosystems - quite an interesting book!

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Carl Zimmer is the "go-to" guy on parasites. He helped me with the Zombie Animals series at mental floss. Check out his blog The Loom at Discover Magazine.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/

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The world is just awesome. I love reading fascinating stuff like this.

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One again highlighting Nature's infinite capacity for ick.

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I've often thought that if parasites were ordering the tree of life, they would know that OBVIOUSLY the species with the most stages was the most superior.

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