[oopsiforgot7]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Vitaly Nikolayenko?

"He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula (...) For over 20 years, Nikolayenko followed an enormous male he named Dobrynya, forming such an easy bond that the bear would often curl up to sleep just a few feet from him."

Eventually he died of a bear mauling.

Moral of the story: it works until it doesn't.

[JackFr]

"True Stories of Survivorship Bias"

[Udik]

> Eventually he died of a bear mauling

Wow, same year and two months later than Timothy Treadwell, "Grizzly Man".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell

[mcguire]

Please don't tell the Discovery Channel about this. We'll be inundated by bear-related conspiracy theories. Or "Bear Week".

[sildur]

An unbearable week.

[vecter]

Did that bear maul him though?

[m463]

I listen to Joe Rogan podcasts and he always mentions bears being very different than people think. He said they do all kinds of terrible things, even their own kind. (think how much food a large bear has to eat to stay alive)

[duck]

To save someone the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Nikolayenko

[dboreham]

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell