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Originally Posted by Sliver
No offense at all, but you come across as beyond stupid to think it's trolling.
I hike with bear bangers and every single person in my family has bear spray. We carry it when walking to our dumpster in Canmore let alone going anywhere else. I fire off a bear banger before a hike to clear the trail.
My hiking stick is a literal spear.
I have a knife in a sheath on my front backpack strap.
I've been stalked by a mother bear with two cubs.
My daughter encountered a grizzly behind our condo by the golf course and I had to run over there to retrieve her.
I own four shotguns, one of which is a stubby (legal) for bear encounters.
You can't use shotguns in soooo many places and I don't trust bear spray 100%.
I get emails basically daily from "bearsmart" warning/notifying people of where bears are in the bow valley.
So...stfu about insinuating I'm trolling. I don't want to get eaten by a bear. Congratulations you don't go out in the woods or mountain bike around bear country. Or, maybe congratulations you haven't encountered catastrophic life-changing/life-ending events in your family so you think the world is a safe place. Let me handle the bear defenses and I'll leave you in charge of bad internet comments.
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Give it time. Some of us know you're not trolling. Many thought the rascal and garage parties and were trolling until it became more commonly accepted as others started doing similar things.
IMO no way Calgary Zoo would let you test stuff like that on their bears. It'd be a media fiasco for potential abuse of animals if it got out. You're better off seeing if there's some sanctuaries/bear rehabilitation facilities/park rangers you could go to ask them questions about whether your stuff will work/if it's against the rules.
Most likely they won't let you test it for personal purposes, but maybe you could ask if the design has components that would work to deter a bear.
The only way that maybe they might let you test if perhaps if you went to some of those places and asked if something like this could work as a method to steer a bear from a distance to somewhere they can more easily manage them (ie: Park rangers, trying to get a bear to leave populated areas in the parks vs telling people to go away for an unknown period of time) and if there's a need to design stuff like this. If they need a bigger idea, but then you quietly adapt it into a smaller one for personal use, you might get the answers you're looking for. Heck, ask what they do currently and try to incorporate those concepts into your existing designs.