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Originally Posted by Hektore
The bear you saw was a black bear.
It may well have weighed less than you, been shorter than you, and black bears are particularly skittish, they generally flee any loud noise or intimidating display, it's safer that way when you only weight 150 lbs. I have frequently chased bears out of garbage cans near campsites and hunting cabins.
That is not the same thing as a grizzly bear, which is about the same size/weight as a small car. You do not, ever, stand down a grizzly (at least not more than once).
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Actually, although it is a little off topic, I think in many cases grizzlies DO fear men... simply because they link man to death. I saw a show where a guy stayed out in the wild and looked after young abandoned bears.... a couple of times bigger bears would get in position to attack the younger bears, until they saw the man (who only carried a noise grenade and a long wooden stick) and the bigger bears would run off.
I think I'd say again - most animals with any intelligence learn to fear man as the most violent and deadly of all predators.