Alicia asked 1 year ago
A friend of mine recently watched the movie ‘backcountry’ recently and she can’t stop talking about ‘man-eating bears’. She also kept talking about how such incidents actually happened here in Ontario in the past.
Are ‘man eating bears’ a real thing?
If yes, how come there are still hundreds of campers venturing into Ontario backcountry every year?
Jean-Louis Poulin answered 1 year ago
No, the bears won’t attack or eat you. Unless you flavour yourself with spicy bear spray and wear bells that tinckle to catch their attention. Then you might get eaten…
Camper Christina answered 1 year ago
LOL, nope, not a real thing. Our bears in Ontario are fairly friendly. They only want food and they don’t like to see people or been seen by them.
John answered 11 months ago
There have been the occasional bear attack but this occurs about as often a lightening strike on a human sitting in a car. Those that are recorded are usually due to human/bear cub interaction where mama bear objects. Or during a post hibernation food search where humans are careless with camp food storage. Human/bear interaction is difficult to to participate in unless you bring along a dozen of Tim Horton’s finest.
