Bear Expert Rates 9 Bear Attacks In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant rates nine bear attacks in movies and TV shows, such as "Cocaine Bear," for realism.

Wynn-Grant breaks down the accuracy of brown bear and grizzly-bear attacks, as well as the bears' physiology, in "The Revenant" (2015), starring Leonardo DiCaprio; "Game of Thrones" S3E7 (2013); "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004), with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd; and "The Edge" (1997), with Anthony Hopkins. She explains the realism of black-bear attacks and behavior in "Cocaine Bear" (2023) and "Backcountry" (2014). Wynn-Grant also looks at Po the giant panda in "Kung Fu Panda" (2008); the polar bears in "The Golden Compass" (2007), with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig; and the mutant bear in "Annihilation" (2018), with Natalie Portman.

Wynn-Grant is a large-carnivore ecologist who has been studying bears for the past 13 years. She has a doctorate in Ecology and Evolution. Her previous research includes human-carnivore conflict with grizzly bears in the Northern Great Plains and black bears in the Western Great Basin. She is a research faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also a research fellow with the National Geographic Society and a visiting scientist at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Bear Expert Rates 9 Bear Attacks In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

[ovidiuolaru]

I love how in cocaine bear they wanted to depict a bear with super speed and strenght but instead they just depicted the real life strenght and speed of a bear

[rollingmetal]

"This panda is learning martial arts which is ATYPICAL for pandas"😂 She is amazing❤

[WastelandBowman]

“Punching a bear in the face is a really good way to irritate them.”

Bears and people are more alike than we thought

[xassylax]

The Annihilation bear monster lives rent free in my nightmares. The idea of its last victims voice coming out of its mouth has always fucked with me and I love it.

[Cossack_Cobra]

The reason the scene from The Revenant was so accurate is because when the movie was being made, the director spoke with people who have been attacked by bears and what it was like. They used that information for the scene in the movie.

[shinybernard]

I love how usually experts here would say “nah this is way too exagerating” while here she’s saying they were totally underestimating the powers of bears 😂

[klooks]

Bro, I burst out laughing when KUNG FU PANDA appeared on the screen

[TylerFitton]

I had to lol at "this panda is learning martial arts, which is....atypical for wild pandas".
Her sense of humor is on point 😂😂😂

[moooavila]

a bear expert talking about how much she loves yogi bear is so wholesome

[aaronhumphrey]

The bear attack in The Revenant is one of the most brutal and realistic animal attacks ever seen in a movie. The first time I saw it filled me with anxiety just like she said.

[GeeWrld]

I could hear this woman talk about bears all day

[saltedllama]

Oh, The Edge. An underrated movie, and Bart the Bear's last main screen appearance (RIP). There were actors who believed Bart should have gotten an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for that film...no joke. They described how good he was on set, how well he got into character once "action" was shouted, and how he never deviated from doing what he was asked to do. From the menacing face, to standing up, to miming the roars (as a bear can only roar when genuinely upset or frightened), to the chuffs and swats...everything. Anthony Hopkins said he would spend hours sitting near Bart's pen and respecting him as an actor. Mike Myers was one of the hosts at that year's Academy Awards and gave him an honorary award because the Academy refused to recognize Bart in any category. Handlers and production teams described that there has never been an animal so wonderful to work with in cinematic history.

And what a presence! He was over 9'7" tall standing, and weighed 1500 pounds, yet wasn't "captivity fat". Just a strong, glorious specimen, but who worked well with humans.

[medusastone]

This is literally the first time I've heard that about bear spray, and I'm kind of mad about that. Because people always say "take bear spray" and never mention how to use it! I would've used it the same way the girl did, and gotten mauled. Luckily, my strategy of never being in a place I'm likely to encounter a bear is working very nicely.

[AliveIsAll_I_am]

please invite her to do more bear content, I could listen to her all day long

[lexinicole]

And THIS is a great example of why I was bothered by the survival expert commenting on the animal scenes. In “The Edge” bear scene he said what a great idea getting into that small space to get away from the bear was—and here we have an actual bear expert saying it’s a terrible idea. That is why he should have stuck to HIS area of expertise and left the wildlife commentary to someone more knowledgeable

[ronnie_]

That she gave the attack in "The Revenant" 10/10 shows she really knows what she is talking about as they actually consulted with people who had been attacked by bears for that scene.

[Butterflyeffect-eupf]

"if it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, goodnight"

[semoremo]

Gotta love that she pointed out that the "if it's black fight back, if it's brown lay down, if it's white goodnight" saying is only for when the attack is actually happening, as well as pointing out that the bear charging at you isn't *yet* classified as an attack. Love that she also pointed out how to properly use beaf spray. Real life-saving tips.

[WitheringWilly]

I saw a video of a hunter in a tree waiting for deer when a black bear came into the area. He was just sniffing around and ANOTHER bear showed up (maybe the hunters hade bait out?) and the first bear freaked out and FLEW up the tree that the hunter was in. He seemed startled to see the hunter but they both just froze and looked at each other and waited for the other bear to leave

[birdgvee]

I love her energy and you can feel the love she has for these animals, while also retaining the knowledge about them being wild, potentially dangerous, animals. The right kind of attitude.