I have always lived in the northeast US so there are a lot of animals I have never seen, or have only seen in the sizes they get to around here.
On my one and only trip through Yellowstone, I was in a bumper- to- bumper line of cars, stop and go, when I noticed a female bear and her cub in the woods to my left. She was not close- maybe 100 feet away or more but she was huge and pounding on the ground with her front paws; I assume she was trying to dig something up or cave it its den. I was confused though because of her size- in my mind, only brown bears get that big but she was obviously a black bear. Of course I found out later that western blacks get much, much bigger than the ones local to me. The whole thing was a bit unnerving; had she shown any aggression I would have gladly traded her my bike but then it occured to me, what if she was more of a Honda riding bear and would not be satisfied with a Kawasaki?
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Brian
Many, many years ago in a time long forgotten, I was checking in to a state camping area in upper PA. There were many signs warning leave The Bears, alone. There seemed to be a bit of a log jam with the cars on the small road. We got out to see what was going on and it was a bear, ambling parallel to the road minding his/her business. A moron had got out of his car to photograph said bear and was creeping steadily towards it. I would say he was within 20 ft or so when said moron snapped the picture. The flash went off. The bear stood up and roared. Scared the 
out of the photographer. The camera went airborne and landed on the tarmac and smashed into a bazillion pieces. The Bear then went back on to it's business ambling merrily along parallel to the highway. I've never laughed so hard in my life as did most of the other people stuck in the log jam.
