Re: [Paddlewise] Bears psychology.

I had kept my mouth shut reading all the different opinions about bear 
encounters. I even made a joke about, what is a bear?
But.. I can´t stay quiet anymore.

I have just been through a course in human resources selection and I was 
refreshed on the fact that  many human´s (mammals) behavior has a lot to do 
with the way they were treated by their mother on their first year. 
Secondly their behavior is strongly conditioned to how they react to this 
first mammal encounters. Depending on the mother approach and the view of 
the mother towards the father appears the possibility of hysterical, 
neurotic, perverse, pathological, depressive, aggressive, criminal or 
sexual behavior (homosexual - heterosexual).

Being this not an exact rule but a very acceptable statistical behavior, 
and being bears mammals exposed to mothers that may have been strongly 
loving, depreciative, authoritative or absent will also condition bears, 
and their later influences enhance or reduce the first behavior patterns. 
Furthermore, for years they may have had all kinds of experiences, like 
having its close relatives shot by hunters, having been shot themselves, 
having been helped from traps by humans, having eaten human meet, or none 
of those, etc. Therefore, it seems to me, not knowing about bears, but 
trying to use some common sense, that it is very likely to have bears of 
all natures, like there are kind, brave, tamed, astute, aggressive and 
murderer dogs.

For that reason I don´t think I would take any of the suggestions that are 
based on patterns of behavior. It would be kind of difficult also to stop 
and try to determine from the bear´s body language the patterns of his 
childhood and his relationship with his mother, in order to determine if 
playing big will develop his depression,  tenderness, fear, anger or killer 
instincts. Maybe that is why statistics in different places yield such 
different results.

Since I wouldn´t know what to do, I can only finish by telling the story of 
the Hunter in Africa who faced a Lion and his rifle failed. He got a very 
small 1inch long knife and started praying: "Oh God, if you are in the 
Lions side, please have him kill me immediately with the first strike. If 
you are on my side, let me hit his heart with the first stroke. Now if you 
are neutral, sit comfortable because you´ll see a heck of a fight."

Best Regards,
Rafael
el cayucochief
www.mayanseas.com
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