I doubt that statement was meant to be some kind of absolute rule, big cats will definitely eat you alive if they feel like it. But at least you are perhaps more likely to get a quick death..
The advice I grew up with (in swedish bear country) is to do these things, in order:
1. Make noise while in the woods, bears will generally avoid you if they know you are there. You don’t want to startle a bear.
2. If charged, stay calm, make yourself big and talk to the bear, move slowly.
3. If attacked, play dead.
With luck, the bear will lose interest once it doesn’t perceive you as a threat. If it’s hungry, well, bad luck. There have been cases of people scaring bears off by punching them in the nose, so as a final resort I guess that’s something to try.
In the hierarchy of fucking with things and getting fucked with ,think of yourself as one of the first.
If your solution to problems is sentences that start with so, you are food. What can help is a warmup to kill display. Means,you show a little magic show of dexterity while moving forward. Throw a knife up and down,raise internal doubts.Suprises kill the predator mood.The predator being used to your presence is thus bad.
The advice I grew up with (in swedish bear country) is to do these things, in order:
1. Make noise while in the woods, bears will generally avoid you if they know you are there. You don’t want to startle a bear.
2. If charged, stay calm, make yourself big and talk to the bear, move slowly.
3. If attacked, play dead.
With luck, the bear will lose interest once it doesn’t perceive you as a threat. If it’s hungry, well, bad luck. There have been cases of people scaring bears off by punching them in the nose, so as a final resort I guess that’s something to try.