Why bears leave a human alive when they wounded it completely

[FrostNova]

Like an old bear part 1..

They just hunted a human ( and sandbox mode too) but they left a human alive, I am not sure.
Why they hunt? For having a fun? not sure...

[JiffyPopKids]

Realisticly, black bears aren't super agressive. they would likely run away if they saw you (unless they have cubs) but in this game, they maul you and Usually leave you alive. why? I have no idea. maybe they see you as a threat and you need to be put down?

[FrostNova]

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

Realisticly, black bears aren't super agressive. they would likely run away if they saw you (unless they have cubs) but in this game, they maul you and Usually leave you alive. why? I have no idea. maybe they see you as a threat and you need to be put down?

Black bear is not big animal ( not like maritimus ) and is not so aggressive yeah...
So bears see us as a threat and then they beat us like a smashed can so they lose interest in human? Do they think they don't need to hunt human completely and killing them is completely waste of the time? I am not sure... Weird...

If they hunt human, they will eat them, but they just keep us alive..... why...

[Nil Desperandum]

So you're nice a fresh - saving you for when they are really hungry - nothing like fresh meat on the hoof.

[FrostNova]

Originally posted by Fleurdyllis:

So you're nice a fresh - saving you for when they are really hungry - nothing like fresh meat on the hoof.

Ah.... so they just leave us there.... not even dragging us to their den.... lol

P.S I think they need to learn that keeping animals alive till they finally blood out makes us less delicious than killing us instantly..... lol Keeping them for long time will make us less fresh. lol

[{O|G} Erik the Red]

Heh, bears and wolves give up when they're tired and you're not dead yet. "This food struggles to much!" Its when you are already half dead that they decide "Oh, I can kill you and eat you this time."


Seriously though, I never really thought of the bears as ordinary black bears though, ingame they seem huge! Will Mackenzie probably weighs more than the average bear, although I guess averages also seem to vary by regions.... I always figured that black bears were small enough to climb trees (good thing they don't in The Long Dark!). Guess the bears eat well on Great Bear Island.

Black Bears are pretty small where I come from in the Northeast, and also pretty rare. One did destroy our compost bin one night when I was a kid years ago. Although apparently the Eastern Black Bear is actually pretty large...maybe all my area ever gets is the adolescent runts who come down far from the mountains to disturb rural Suburbia once every 20 years


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_black_bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_attack#American_black_bears

[CaptainCrunck]

humans have lots of bones too.

[FrostNova]

so I think they are just doing sport hunting by human. lol

Lots of bones and having something strange for them, so taking us down is a challenging one for them, I think.

[Slimpickins]

Bears (except polar bears) do not actively hunt humans.

[FrostNova]

Originally posted by CopperheadJake:

In real life, a bear usually leaves It's prey for later. It comes back to It's prey when It needs it, and unless they've just awaken from hibernation and are starving, they don't eat as soon as they kill their prey. Yes, black bears typically don't attack humans unless they're efending their youth, but because of the geomagnetic disruption that hits in The Long Dark universe, wildlife, in particular predators, are more hostile. At first I thought the bears in TLD were grizzly bears because of their hostile nature, but when I saw their fur color and didn't see the hump on their backs that all grizzly bears have, I realized they were just black bears. This surprised me until I realized the conditions of the TLD timeline.

I agree that bears don't eat the hunted animals early, but they are likely to drag them to the places where no animals cannot steal whether they eat or not, like their den or their secret places.

[FrostNova]

Originally posted by Slimpickins:

Bears (except polar bears) do not actively hunt humans.

Bears are smart enough not attack humans, rather they will go to smaller animals that have less bones. And they like Acorn so much so they want to eat that as much as possible.

[rhwilson1953]

The bears actually love humans. All they want is a hug. It's not their fault that their claws and teeth are sharp and do you damage. Being the dumb animals they are, they just don't know their own strength and get carried away.

Have you tried walking up to them with a pucker on your lips? They may go easier on you.

[FrostNova]

Originally posted by rhwilson1953:

The bears actually love humans. All they want is a hug. It's not their fault that their claws and teeth are sharp and do you damage. Being the dumb animals they are, they just don't know their own strength and get carried away.

Have you tried walking up to them with a pucker on your lips? They may go easier on you.

Oh, maybe they will try to ' hug ' on me with growling and looking at me like I am their foe.

[Carbon]

It's a game. ;/

[JiffyPopKids]

Originally posted by Carbon:

It's a game. ;/

+1.

[Rumors]

It's because the bears don't want to eat you. They're leaving you there to be smelly bait for their real prey: wolves.