The BBC article, "The man who walk with bears", surprises me about wild black bears' behaviors that I've incorrectly perceived since I was young because in fact they are controversial.
The article talks about wild black bears' behaviors that most of people have misunderstood for a long time. Most of us understand that wild bears are the most dangerous animal in the North America because of their fierceness. However, in fact wild bears are not dangerous as people thought. According to the studies of Professor Lynn Rogers about wild bears, they are very calm and cheerful animals. He has never been attacked or threatened by wild bears since he stayed with them more than 40 years. Moreover, he also said that "In the eastern US, there have been only three fatalities caused by black bears in the last hundred years," (2009,¶12)In addition, wild bears like to hum when they are satisfied. On the contrary, some people attack wild bears by shooting because people just are afraid of them. Furthermore, people also hunt them even it is illegal.
In my opinion, most of wild animals, including black bears, love to be peaceful. If human doesn't disturb or threaten them first, they will not hurt or attack human too. However, some people do like that with wild black bears. People shoot and hunt them for their own purposes, so wild bears have to response them with aggressive actions that cause people are afraid of them. Anyway, most of people might think that wild bears are dangerous animals because they have bigger size and more power than human. Human cannot fight with them barehanded. Therefore, most people percieved wrongly about wild bears' behaviors. However, if we fairly think about the action that people act to wild bears as Prof Roger said in his article about shooting and hunting them without suitable reasons, we all will realize that why wild bears are fierce in people's view. This is because when people try to hurt or kill them, they have to do something fiercely to protect themselves as their basic instinct. Therefore, if people wanted to see these animals in their nice natural way, people must not hurt them.
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References
Walker,M. (2009,October 27). The man who walks with bears. BBC News. Retrived October 27, 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8320414.stm.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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When I read, it reminds me of person who stays with snack. I think they are similar. Normally, if we don't disturb them, they won't attack us. However, they cannot think and don't have ethic, so on one day they maybe attack us. Anyway, I agree with you that we shouldn't hurt it.
ReplyDeleteAll animal have natural instrict to survive. if we dont harm or invade them, they not harm you. However, nowdays we have a lot of population in the world, some people invade to the place that they live. with natural instrince to survive, who know may be one day we can pet black bear as a pet animal or may be one day they harm us to protect their boundery.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I remember that when I was a child I was very afraid of dogs. When I saw a dog I always look at it and it became runs to me, but now I get better, because someone told me that if you look at the dog, it thinks that you want to attack it, so I try to keep my self to stay clam and don't look at it and now the dog don't go to me. Therefore I think every animal is the same if we don't attack them first, they won't attack us.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all of you. I think if we don't disturb,attack or make them frighten, they will not attack us.
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