A silly influencer spoke of the moment he found himself inches from death when he went into a bear’s cave.
The Serbian influencer Stefan Janković showed himself in a social media post inside the home of the animal. He can be seen inside the den as a curious and alarmed looking bear sniffed and scowled at the intruder.
In one part of the first clip, the bear was seen smelling Stefan up close in a situation the popular internet user said was “on the edge of life”. Stefan did not explain how he got into the situation.
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(Image: Stefan Janković)
Captioning one clip ‘The one where you have nowhere to run’ Stefan showed two bears at the bottom of a tree the blogger had climbed up.
A rough translation on a Serbian news site said Stefan told his followers: “You won’t believe what happened to me. I spend 24 hours in the forest and a bear attacks me… It’s waiting for me, and there’s another one – finished Janković and stayed on the tree until the danger was gone.”
In reaction to the clip, which was distributed on the social media app X by Belarusian media outlet Nexta, some people were sceptical of the bear-to-man meeting.
One person suggested Stefan was actually well-acquainted with his furry friends.
They wrote: “Nah, you can tell the bears know him! He would have gotten his head snapped otherwise.”
(Image: Stefan Janković)
Another person said the clip showed that mother nature was far more friendly than humans They said: “Shows you once again… I’d prefer the kind bear. I think a lot of animals are much more decent than us humans.”
But others were quick to point out the dangers of coming up close with bears in the wild.
One X user said: “Maybe the next edition of the famous tale “Goldilocks and the 3 Bears” should add “Don’t try this at home”.”
Another wrote: “I have never encountered someone as foolish as this individual in my [whole] life.”
It is not immediately clear where the video was taken, but there are brown bears native to Serbia. A-Z Animals said the population of brown bears in Serbia is believed to be around 700 to 800 individuals.
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