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Shatun bear
Shatun is Russian word for the bear, who didn’t fall into his usual winter sleep, or was awakened before spring. In one tale, the bear awakened by hunters, in his rage, the bear killed all the hunters by hunting them down. In a way one might call the bear a Zombie bear.I didn’t find the English analog .for this word, not sure why, may be western bears usually are not disturbed before the right time, or they behave themselves differently, I don’t know
I am not sure about the bears living in other countries, so this pic will refer to Russian Grey Bear (or Siberian bear) only. The bear is the most dangerous animal in the woods, or taiga, as they call it in Siberia. Adult bear is 450-500 kg, sometimes up to 750 kg. There is no other animal in the nature capable of hunting the bear. During the summer bear spends all his time looking for food (interrupted for reproduction only). Bear eats berries, nuts, likes honey very much. Sometimes bears go fishing. Usually wild bear doesn’t engage with human. He needs to accumulate enough fat. Then he falls asleep, or hibernates, in his den (berloga) for entire winter.
If something goes wrong, like, crop crisis, scarce food in the summer, or people invade the bear’s territory, destroy the food base and the bear is not able to accumulate enough fat to sleep till spring, he would wake up early in a very bad mood. He would start to wonder around the frozen winter forest looking for any possible food. Such bear called shatun in Russia. Bear can run faster than human, can climb trees, so if you meet him and he is in bad mood, there is absolutely no chance for escape, unless you have a big gun, and even the gun is not always helpful. Despite the common prejudice that the bear is not smart animal, there is evidence that this is only a prejudice. Bear, especially shatun, known to be very creative in his hunt. He can quietly track people and suddenly attack from behind. Sometimes he sets up ambush and you don’t know that he is waiting for you in the bush until the very last moment. Shatun is extremely dangerous.