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I saw a poster warning of bears and advising wearing bells and carrying pepper spray. The poster went on to explain the difference between grizzly bears and black bears, and said black bear scat would be mostly fibrous plant material and grizzly bear crap might have bells in it and smell like pepper.

LOL...well, I don't live in the land of grizzlies, so black bears would be about the about the worst of it. But they can do some damage, especially if they have little ones around.
 
LOL...well, I don't live in the land of grizzlies, so black bears would be about the about the worst of it. But they can do some damage, especially if they have little ones around.

I do, and I don't. The island I live on has no bears but when I take the ferry to town I'm in the coastal BC ecosystem, and the griz are too. You have to get out in the bush to find them but the black bears are getting to be a problem in the towns. They seem to becoming more adapted to suburban areas here, and probably in Ontario too. There's a city in the Lower Mainland (what you would call the Greater Vancouver Area) called Coquitlam that has an alarming number of human-bear encounters. It's not just bears- coyotes have been spreading into the suburbs for years and cougars are being seen in proximity to neighbourhoods for awhile.
Me, I think it's encouraging. Let those city folks feel that hair on the back of the neck thing and realize their meatiness.
 
I do, and I don't. The island I live on has no bears but when I take the ferry to town I'm in the coastal BC ecosystem, and the griz are too. You have to get out in the bush to find them but the black bears are getting to be a problem in the towns. They seem to becoming more adapted to suburban areas here, and probably in Ontario too. There's a city in the Lower Mainland (what you would call the Greater Vancouver Area) called Coquitlam that has an alarming number of human-bear encounters. It's not just bears- coyotes have been spreading into the suburbs for years and cougars are being seen in proximity to neighbourhoods for awhile.
Me, I think it's encouraging. Let those city folks feel that hair on the back of the neck thing and realize their meatiness.

Haha...yes, a respect for nature is a good thing, and we are often too far from basic caveman fear to really understand it anymore. We have a lot of bears here (local Facebook group has been posting sightings of a beautiful 300 pounder around the neighborhood the last couple weeks actually), so it's smart to be smart. I grew up in Muskoka, on a dirt road in the bush, and our bus stop was also the street's garbage disposal (yup, classy, I know...lol). There were more than a couple mornings my sister and I had to turn back because the bears were having breakfast where we were supposed to be waiting for the bus. On the flip side, though, I had a dog that showed up as a puppy on our doorstep that was part husky, part wolf...most amazing pet I ever had. Can't get that at the downtown Toronto humane society...hehe...
 
Still though I know you have seen that there are tons of people walking every day. If they work they are going to do a lot of walking usually. I think its what pirate said. not many in SE asia would be using that app.
I sure as hell walk quite a bit more every time ive went to Manila. Even if I had a car there I wouldn't want to deal with the city traffic.

Some parts of Manila are walkable but most arent. Hong Kong and Singapore are very walkable cities.
 
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