Would we hunt them?
It depends on what they offered us. Like if their fur was soft, sure, people would hunt them. If we could eat their meat and it was delicious, yes, we’d hunt them. If it was a challenge to kill them, they’d be hunted for sport.
We hunt many animals much more harmless than a slapping bear. We hunt fish, for god’s sake.
In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.
Well Bears are fucking massive so if they slapped you without claws they still have the ability to break bones and cause other severe injury.
We’ve hunted species to extinction for less. Why would this be any different?
We’re currently hunting ourselves to extinction both metaphorically and literally
if it slapped me in the face and threw the glove at my feet I would take it as an insult and demand a duel. pistols at dawn.
I’ve known a couple myself, pretty friendly guys!
Replace slaps with “kicks” and you basically have some Kangaroos which we DO fence away and sometimes kill
ask the giant sloth.
We’d probably try to domesticate them and use them to guard stuff.
there’d be a lot more bear rugs and parkas