Interesting.
It has been recommended practice for years in Alaska to put your hands up to make yourself look bigger around bears. Professor Tom Smith from Brigham Young University is now studying that tactic and beginning to have some doubts about it, but his research is not complete.
Also interesting.
He described them as “safety conscious,” and said “this (attack) is like one of those complete outliers.”
But in Alaska, outliers are sometimes almost the norm.
