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

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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.

You can follow Rae here:
www.raewynngrant.com/
www.instagram.com/raewynngrant/

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

All Comments (21)
  • 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
  • @rollingmetal949
    "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
  • @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.
  • @moooavila
    a bear expert talking about how much she loves yogi bear is so wholesome
  • @theotv5522
    Bears are the living contradiction of the saying “Something that big should not be able to run that fast”
  • @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.
  • please invite her to do more bear content, I could listen to her all day long
  • 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.
  • @suchnothing
    A folk musician told a story at a show I went to, about a sort of hermit man in her rural community who was found dead on his property, half-eaten by a bear. She was like "the autopsy showed that he actually died of a heart attack and the bear ate him after. Which made us all feel better about his death for some reason." Something in her delivery was hilarious. So anyways I guess bears sometimes do sometimes eat humans, but it's pretty uncommon.
  • @ronnie_5150
    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.
  • 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.
  • @shinybernard0455
    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 😂
  • @saltedllama2759
    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.
  • @klooks1013
    Bro, I burst out laughing when KUNG FU PANDA appeared on the screen
  • @semoremo9548
    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.
  • @nwcoastlife
    The director of “The Edge” said the hardest part of shooting that movie was making the bear look scary. It was a bear that was very tame, trained, and had already appeared in a number of movies.
  • @lexinicole4317
    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
  • @GeeW0rld
    I could hear this woman talk about bears all day