Bear are incredible animals. Their movements are very deceiving and in my experience most people really do not understand them at all. They have a sense that they are sluggish or slothful, have no concept of the speed and power of even black bear, with grizzlys off the charts. Experience the absolute exhaustion when a bear outruns an entire pack of hounds ALL DAY thru the mountains, fresh dogs tossed in along the way and yet escapes to run or fight another day or stands and fights a pack or goes up a tree like a squirrel or takes a shot thru the chest, falls from a tree & hits the ground fighting, etc, etc.

I've killed quite a number of black bear and have been on hunts with all that and more and was involved in closeup fight w/ a smallish black bear I've described here before. They are incredible animals.

And...very tasty, too!