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Originally Posted by buzzbaiter
Bears are not hunters, they are scavengers. This whole story sounds off to me. What five guys you know go for hikes together??? Pretty sure none of you call up your buddies on wednesday and say "hey, lets go hiking this weekend. I'll make sandwiches!"
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They were five college guys. I used to do a lot of camping and hiking with my friends when I was that age.
The statistical probability of encountering a bear that has made the decision to kill and eat a person is very low, but any bear is physically capable of killing a person in seconds.
Bears are intelligent and very capable predators when they find something they can catch. Here is a video of a bear killing a moose calf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVkaMqD5mI
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