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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Vitaly Nikolayenko? "He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula (...) For
by oopsiforgot7 6y ago
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Vitaly Nikolayenko?
"He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula (...) For over 20 years, Nikolayenko followed an enormous male he named Dobrynya, forming such an easy bond that the bear would often curl up to sleep just a few feet from him."
Eventually he died of a bear mauling.
Moral of the story: it works until it doesn't.
- JackFr 6y ago"True Stories of Survivorship Bias"
- vecter 6y agoDid that bear maul him though?
- Udik 6y ago> Eventually he died of a bear mauling Wow, same year and two months later than Timothy Treadwell, "Grizzly Man". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
- dboreham 6y agoSee also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
- duck 6y agoTo save someone the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Nikolayenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Nikolayenko
- m463 6y agoI listen to Joe Rogan podcasts and he always mentions bears being very different than people think. He said they do all kinds of terrible things, even their own kind. (think how much food a large bear has to eat to stay alive)