grassie 0 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 HAHA that panda sneeze is funny. the huge mumma panda is freakin out! Link to post Share on other sites
torihada 2 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Walking in Hokkaido a few years ago I couldn't understand why all the hikers had bells on their sacks. Then found out why but didn't think I needed one. Walking a couple of years later in Gunma prefacture by myself, coming down a mountain along a deserted path through dense forest I stated thinking about bears and wondered if there were any there (didn't see any). Got to my destination of a tiny deserted station with an enormous warning sign in Kanji. I got the meaning by the very graphic image of a vicous bear. I bought a bell the next day. Can't imagine the terror (or pain) that boy felt; I got the fear from just thinking about bumping into a bear. Link to post Share on other sites
Rag-Doll 0 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Isn't the Hokkas bear a fair bit bigger than the Honshu bear? Getting roughed up by one of those would hurt. I saw a bear from the dragondola between Naeba and Kagura - it added another factor to consider when thinking about ducking the ropes. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Isn't the bear under the dragondola fake? Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidX 0 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 There is a fake one, yes, about half way along and near to where the gondola cars go by. But there are also real ones up there I hear. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Is that like a fake bear decoy to keep skiers in bounds? I wonder if it works. Link to post Share on other sites
lin 0 Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Don't think so, it is way off the courses and on the edge of a wood I think. I think it's just a joke. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Could be worth a try though. Or maybe something more ominous. (off topic) A cardboard picture of a fighting monk would probably keep me out of the BC. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Aren't monks peaceloving people? Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 missed this link bagofcrisps?? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 There have been some bears spotted very close to where I live the last few days. Just down the road. First time ever apparently. Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 I saw that on the news muika, seems to be almost every day now - be careful. Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 My work/research involves going a lot in the mountains and setting up instruments. Last year wile setting up instruments in Atotsugawa area (its in Hida takayama, Takayama prefecture), I had my first encounter with the big furry animals. Here are some picks that my colleague managed to take before our car scared them away. They are not aggressive animals, and as soon as they sense someone’s presence, they flee in the woods. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 I bought a bell to have on for myself to walk around outside. Try to stay home at night. I am behaving now. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Not aggressive. Except when they are. Enough people get attacked by them to make me question their lack of aggression... Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Funny people round here are telling me I must take a little bell out with me if I dare to go outside when it is dark. Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 they finally caught the bear that was terrorizing Tateyama the last 10 days, I think. It jumped two old guys coming out of their houses, ripped their faces off and actually fractured their skulls! We had the firefighters driving around with their damn bells at 5 in the morning talking on loudspeakers 'we have not yet found the bear. If you see a bear please call city hall' Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 And I bet they really were LOUDspeakers. Ripped their faces off, wow. Link to post Share on other sites
nagpants 1 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Anyone else see that bear on the news today, higuma it was I think, 250kg. Looked like King Kong!! Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 oh, I didn't know they were that big. I think Japan will kill them off in short order, or perhaps encase them in concrete. They are abunai, a threat to the people in a small country, like the ocean, hills, rivers, snow, rainfall, earthquake. Living there must be stressful what with all these killer bears now roaming around. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 nagpants - yes. It was huge! Wouldn't like to meet that out on an evening walk. Link to post Share on other sites
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