See a Massive Bear Climb Up on a Roof and Chase His Captors Away

We know that when it comes down to it, bears aren’t like what we see in the movies. Hollywood has seriously dramatized how bears are in real life. The films like to show a bear hunting down a person for no reason and chasing them through the woods to kill them. However, the reality is that bears don’t typically chase people unless there is a reason. Unless they feel threatened in some way or their cub’s lives are in danger. Let’s see just one of these instances in the video below.

Watch This Wild Video Below! 

Massive Bear Chase 

The Instagram video at the top of this blog post shares footage of a wild bear chase. The Angry Animals Instagram page posted this video last month, and has already received more than 44,000 likes! This channel regularly posts weeks of various animals, such as warthogs, eagles, lions, zebras, black bears, and buffaloes. 

Wild Bear on the Loose

As the video starts, we see several grown men on the roof of this small shed or house. They are trying to capture this bear, as seen below. The men have various tools to catch the bear. We also saw a policeman and fireman who were called to the scene. 

This video takes place about halfway into this interaction. Because, at this point, this bear has quite frankly had enough. He has decided his life is in danger, and his only hope is to use his strength to get out of it. 

The bear shocks us all, climbs onto the roof, and runs across, chasing all these men straight off the roof! One Instagram follower comically adds, “That’s what running for your life looks like.” 

How Fast Can Bears Run?

There are eight species of bear: the American black bear, Asiatic black bear, brown bear, giant panda, polar bear, sloth bear, Andean bear, and sun bear. 

These bears are of various sizes depending on their species. For instance, the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is the smallest, weighing anywhere from 60 to 130 pounds. The largest bear is the Kodiak brown bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), weighing anywhere from 600 to 1,400 pounds. 

Just because they are large doesn’t mean that they can’t run fast. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Bears are known to run anywhere from 25-35  miles per hour, depending on their species. No wonder these men were trying to get out of there so fast as the bear leaped up the side of the house like it was nothing. 

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