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I also thought the guy did a job of evading, using trees to block, using the car, etc.

One thing is that the animal can feel you are intruding and provoking, even if you do not feel that way.

Adolescent male Grizz have a real bad ass attitude. In one attack, the bear was on one ridgeline and hikers were on another. The bear ran all the way down slope, across the effing valley, and then UP slope to the hikers, where he mauled them. I forget the total distance - but it was 2-4 miles. Think that incident is in Steve Herrero's book.

Also note that the one elk "won" every damn encounter - he gored and butted some cars and drove them off. He drove off other cars just by facing them down. That elk is certain that he is one bad mother and that cars are not dangerous.

My favorite scene in the vids above tho is the old guy in the black truck - he doesn't even bother to glance at the elk, but he turns and stares ate something unusual -- the guys with the video camera.

For a fun watch see if you can find some vids on musk oxen - great defensive formations, tho not up to Alexander's phalanx.