{"id":121942,"date":"2021-04-20T10:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=121942"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:24:28","slug":"stay-there-good-bear-runner-keeps-cool-as-hungry-bear-stalks-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/stay-there-good-bear-runner-keeps-cool-as-hungry-bear-stalks-him\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;Stay there\u2026 good bear&apos;: Runner keeps cool as hungry bear stalks him"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;Stay there\u2026 good bear&#8217;: Runner keeps his cool as hungry bear stalks him in terrifying close encounter in national park<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Evan Matthews filmed chase through Grand Teton National Park,\u00a0Wyoming<\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The runner noticed he was being followed by the bear and started filming<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Mr Matthews is heard calmly reasoning with the bear who he thinks is hungry<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the nail-biting moment a bear chases a runner for half a mile through the woods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evan Matthews filmed the slow but scary chase through\u00a0Grand Teton National Park,\u00a0Wyoming, earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After noticing that the hungry\u00a0cinnamon black bear was following him Mr Matthews pulled out his camera and bear spray and began to talk to the bear.<\/p>\n<p>In his footage Mr Matthews, from\u00a0Teton Valley, Idaho, is heard reasoning with the bear telling him: &#8216;You stay there. Good bear. Hey, no, I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re hungry. I&#8217;m not your food.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When the bear makes an advance, coming within 20 yards of Mr Matthews, the runner tries to scare it away by loudly shouting &#8216;no&#8217; and &#8216;stay back&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Armed with bear spray, which he says he doesn&#8217;t want to use, the runner calmly walks backwards.<\/p>\n<p>He keeps his eyes on the bear which continues to follow him for half a mile back to his car.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Matthews said: &#8216;Went for a casual run today in the park and ended up being run at and followed for about half a mile by this hungry little cinnamon black bear who was fresh out of the den.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8216;I&#8217;ve seen plenty of bears in the wild, but this was the first time one had shown any interest in me.\u00a0He must have been extra hungry!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The runner said that he had avoided running away as he believed the bear would have seen him as prey and chased him down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/04\/20\/10\/41982560-9490399-image-m-2_1618910945820.jpg\" height=\"760\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Runner Evan Matthews filmed the pursuit through Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, after going for a run earlier this month. Pictured, the cinnamon black bear ventures out of the trees and onto the road<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/04\/20\/10\/41982566-9490399-image-m-9_1618911007654.jpg\" height=\"532\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/04\/20\/10\/41982570-9490399-image-m-11_1618911026861.jpg\" height=\"532\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>When the bear makes an advance, coming within 20 yards of Mr Matthews, he tries to scare it away by loudly shouting &#8216;no&#8217; and &#8216;stay back&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/04\/20\/10\/41982572-9490399-image-m-6_1618910989292.jpg\" height=\"943\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Armed with bear spray, which he says he doesn&#8217;t want to use, Mr Matthews calmly walks backwards keeping his eyes on the bear until the bear changes his mind and runs off<\/p>\n<p>Mr Matthews stood his ground and said he did not play dead as the solo bear was &#8216;hungry&#8217; and looking for &#8216;an easy target&#8217; &#8211; rather than a mother bear trying to protect her cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The runner added: &#8216;I kept talking to it to show that I was a human and not to be mistaken for another animal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not all bear encounters are the same. In most cases, I&#8217;ve been able to just go around the animal. But this one was interested in me, so I had to change its mind.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the bear is brown in color Mr Matthews specified that the animal was a &#8216;cinnamon phase black bear&#8217;, meaning it has a coat that is brown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9490399\/Stay-good-bear-Runner-keeps-cool-hungry-bear-stalks-him.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Stay there\u2026 good bear&#8217;: Runner keeps his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&amp;apos;Stay there\u2026 good bear&amp;apos;: Runner keeps cool as hungry bear stalks him - 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