Question of the Day - Sunday, July 27th, 2025

[Indio Gigante Lover]

I hit a bear with my van while driving around dusk a few years ago here. I saw it dash across the road median but I was going about 65 & couldn't stop in time. It rolled down embankment on side of road, so not sure if it survived or not, but it left huge claw marks on my bumper

 

[R2elk]

No to both. I have smelled a bear.

I have had a bear "woof" at me.

 

[jxp]

Yes to both. Black bears, brown bears, grizzlies, moose, elk, reindeer, bobcat, lynx, mountain lions, mountain goats, mountain sheep, bald eagles, golden eagles, at least 4 different types of hawks, and a whole slew of fluffy critters further down the food chain.

I need to amend this. I've seen reindeer at a farm outside of Anchorage but in the wild, they're caribou. Those I've seen in Denali.

 

[muddy75]

I’ve seen a bear but not a moose

 

[azurbanclucker]

I need to amend this. I've seen reindeer at a farm outside of Anchorage but in the wild, they're caribou. Those I've seen in Denali.

Reindeer and caribou are the same thing.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Both

 

[jxp]

Reindeer and caribou are the same thing.

That's what I said.

 

[azurbanclucker]

That's what I said.

But they're also reindeer in the wild? That's what they call 'em in Europe.

I guess I am saying I don't think you need to correct yourself, you were right either way.

 

[Gill-b]

No to seeing a bear first hand in the wild (I've only seen bears in captivity) but if the bear is the largest land carnivore in America, then I have seen first hand the largest land carnivore in Africa, in the wild, which is the lion.

And no to ever seeing a moose neither wild nor in captivity, but if the moose is the largest in America, then I have seen the largest in Africa, in the wild, which is the eland.

 

[C Siena]

Yes to both...
and the bear defecated in the woods True