Remember, this is a just a cartoon. In the real world, we are at the top of the food chain. Not the bears. We will never be “food” to any species of animals.
Maybe we’re no longer often food for large predators, but there are still lots of microscopic critters that can make a tasty meal of us. There are still millions of us that die each year due to their dining.
@Josh Lyons, the idea that humans are apex predators is a common misconception. Biologists have a food chain scale from 1 to 5 that can be applied to any environment. Biologically, humans are ranked at 3.
That’s raw nature. However, as we all know, humans use intelligence and the technology that has evolved from that intelligence to artificially raise themselves to 5’s.
Before technology, though, humans had to live in fear of true apex predators, such as tigers. Even today, some tigers revert to preying on humans, especially in environments where they come into conflict with humans due to human destruction of their habitat, making non-human prey scarce.
An unarmed, naked human is next to helpless against any true apex predator.
I heard recently that one way to improve your appetite is to take a photo of the dish; makes it more appealing….So Wiley’s tourists are whetting the bears appetite,by proxy.
Again WE are the dominate species on God’s green earth,not them! They haven’t evolve (yet) to think and act like us!But let’s go that far as to call them “dumb animals”! “Dumb”means they’re mute (cannot speak). Keep in mind that thereason why they attack us is because (and this is just a theory) our ancestors long ago may have abuse them the way their descendants (us today) abused their descendants now! Aside from the domesticated ones (dogs, cats, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks, etc.) and those that have adapted to our urban life (birds, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, mice, and rats). All others are considered feral (wild) unless they were raised in captivity (and there’s no guarantee of that). Again I’m sticking to the fact that we will always be at the top the food food chain, not them!!
In the conterminous US, bears have killed about 50 or so people, lions/Cougars 20 or so, wolves- zero but there was one documented human kill by wolves in Alaska, that historical totals. Bees, internal parasites, ticks, spiders, and scorpions are much better at killing, just a lot slower at eating the prey.
More people have died this year taking selfies than from shark (or bear) attacks:http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/selfies-are-killing-more-people-than-shark-attacks-10512449.html
Pointspread over 8 years ago
Wiley bears are always hungry!
Wilde Bill over 8 years ago
I support the right to Arm Bears. (Not that they need it).
Bilan over 8 years ago
If the Wiley bears put the picture into this app, MealSnap, it will tell them the calorie count.
moontime70 over 8 years ago
One last selfie before becoming bear food..
Aaberon over 8 years ago
HAHAhhahahahAHHahhhhaaa!
tinmanzzz over 8 years ago
I hope they have their pepper spray. Bears like seasoned food…
jreckard over 8 years ago
That food doesn’t have much of a shelfie life.
Plods with ...™ over 8 years ago
Best use of Instagram ever!
derfd15 over 8 years ago
lol!
whiteheron over 8 years ago
Wonder if they sang this song..Sing along
Lyons Group, Inc. over 8 years ago
Remember, this is a just a cartoon. In the real world, we are at the top of the food chain. Not the bears. We will never be “food” to any species of animals.
YokohamaMama over 8 years ago
Three people have become bear food here in the last week.
jc17 over 8 years ago
Maybe we’re no longer often food for large predators, but there are still lots of microscopic critters that can make a tasty meal of us. There are still millions of us that die each year due to their dining.
belgarathmth over 8 years ago
@Josh Lyons, the idea that humans are apex predators is a common misconception. Biologists have a food chain scale from 1 to 5 that can be applied to any environment. Biologically, humans are ranked at 3.
That’s raw nature. However, as we all know, humans use intelligence and the technology that has evolved from that intelligence to artificially raise themselves to 5’s.
Before technology, though, humans had to live in fear of true apex predators, such as tigers. Even today, some tigers revert to preying on humans, especially in environments where they come into conflict with humans due to human destruction of their habitat, making non-human prey scarce.
An unarmed, naked human is next to helpless against any true apex predator.
sarah413 Premium Member over 8 years ago
The selfie stick will be used to make shish-ka-bobs One of those two characters HAS to be a Bob!
kaffekup over 8 years ago
Now that I know I’m at the top of the food chain, I’m looking forward to a blue whale appetizer on crackers before I chow down on gorilla barbecue.
Ermine Notyours over 8 years ago
Guys, I think Josh Lyons was speaking as a lion. Nobody wants to eat a meat eater, nor can any animal catch one.
dabugger over 8 years ago
Just barely understand. Bears just don congregate like that; so must be Wiley species which arise out of an artist easel.So easy.
Packratjohn Premium Member over 8 years ago
I heard recently that one way to improve your appetite is to take a photo of the dish; makes it more appealing….So Wiley’s tourists are whetting the bears appetite,by proxy.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 8 years ago
Again WE are the dominate species on God’s green earth,not them! They haven’t evolve (yet) to think and act like us!But let’s go that far as to call them “dumb animals”! “Dumb”means they’re mute (cannot speak). Keep in mind that thereason why they attack us is because (and this is just a theory) our ancestors long ago may have abuse them the way their descendants (us today) abused their descendants now! Aside from the domesticated ones (dogs, cats, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks, etc.) and those that have adapted to our urban life (birds, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, mice, and rats). All others are considered feral (wild) unless they were raised in captivity (and there’s no guarantee of that). Again I’m sticking to the fact that we will always be at the top the food food chain, not them!!
dflak over 8 years ago
Some days, you eat the bear; some days the bear eats you.
Mr.doom over 8 years ago
We won’t be bear food but bacteria food.
marilynn25 over 8 years ago
I love it!!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 8 years ago
Well I guess we also can dismiss that rule of what our parents told us about stinging insects: “They won’t harm you if you don’t harm them”
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
In the conterminous US, bears have killed about 50 or so people, lions/Cougars 20 or so, wolves- zero but there was one documented human kill by wolves in Alaska, that historical totals. Bees, internal parasites, ticks, spiders, and scorpions are much better at killing, just a lot slower at eating the prey.
Richard V Anderson over 8 years ago
Is there ANYTHING better than a Wiley bear?? Answer: nothing is even close!
lindz.coop Premium Member over 8 years ago
Now go stand over by one of those bears and taken another selfie.
stanflouride Premium Member over 8 years ago
More people have died this year taking selfies than from shark (or bear) attacks:http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/selfies-are-killing-more-people-than-shark-attacks-10512449.html