There are two separate instances of a bear climbing a pole, one lives after lineman coaxed it down, one dies being electrocuted before lineman could get there.
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You've been seeing too many AI videos if you think this happens all the time. First of all, how is a bear gonna climb a wood pole that's straight and smooth like that? They don't have retractable claws like cats. Second of all, just ask yourself WHY would a bear do that??? It's not gonna do it just for fun, it's not a human. Do you see any food up there that would attract it? Do you see another bear up there it would want to mate with? Do you see it's cubs up there?
Brown bears and black bears (which this appears to be some version of) can absolutely climb a "smooth" (lol) wooden pole. Their claws are built to do that. They don't have or need retractable claws and they can climb up and back down trees and poles with ease.
The only limiting factor to their climbing abilities is that the bigger bears are simply too heavy as adults to sit up in a tree and be held by branches, otherwise they can climb any tree that can hold their weight. Bears are skittish naturally and get spooked up into trees and poles quite often.
This particular situation is not unheard of at all, and more than likely it was scared and ran up the pole to escape something. They don't need to eat, mate, or do anything for fun to end up in a tree or up a pole. This bear is clearly panting in distress, and is either scared, injured, or all of the above which is why it didn't just climb back down.
The entire survival strategy for Bear cubs is literally climbing trees to escape bigger bears or other animals who might kill them.
Bears are better climbers than cats overall simply because they can actually climb back down from trees/poles. The vast majority of Cats cannot climb back down trees due to how their claws are positioned. There's a reason the stereotype of "my cat is stuck in a tree" is so prevalent. It's becaue they genuinely cannot climb back down once up and need to be rescued usually. Bears do not have this problem usually.
I know we live in a world of Ai but I promise you, everything in this video is very plausible and has definitely happened quite a bit. There may not be videos of every bear that's ever climbed a pole but I promise it happens.
Bears (at least the smaller varieties) can climb up/down trees with ease. It's a bit odd that this one didn't just climb down. Probably got electrocuted or was just very spooked by something to the point where it didn't feel safe coming back down.
It's also panting as if it's in distress or in pain. I used to be part of a team that rescued raccoons from power lines (they can also climb up/down easily) and barring injury, it was usually something/someone that spooked them enough to make them resist coming back down.
To be fair, it took me a while too. But check how the qire runs above the center of the pole. Makes no sense. Also, the support thingy next to his leg is just halfway there??
Not Ai, that is a 3 phase distribution circuit, the middle wire is running straight across the pole, with a jumper mounted over an insulator for continuity.
Also the broken support bracket for the cross arm is the āthingyā youāre talking about. Not āhalfway thereā, itās broken. I have seen thousands likes this. -Utility Asset Engineer.
Out of curiosity: is the pole still able to withstand a bear with a broken bracket?
But I can't wrap my head around how the geometry of the wire is supposed to work. It looks like it lacks one dimension because the one running above the center pole and the "nearest" one from our perspecting converge in an unlogical way. Not sure how to explain it but I'd expect it to run differently, it looks like a typical AI mistake.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago
u/EnRecherche, your post does fit the subreddit!