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The bear that would rather dumpster-dive than fight you, but checks first.
means A medium-sized North American bear, usually shy of humans and more interested in your trash than your throat, though it will stand its ground if cornered.
from Named simply for color — though black bears actually range from black to brown to cinnamon to even pale blonde. 'Bear' itself traces back to Old English 'bera,' possibly related to a root meaning 'the brown one,' since many old Germanic cultures avoided saying the animal's 'true' name aloud for fear of summoning it — a linguistic habit called a taboo avoidance euphemism.
- color
- often brown, sometimes blond, rarely black
- climbing
- scales trees faster than most humans run
- bluff charges
- usually theater, not an actual attack
- population
- outnumbers all other bear species combined