Chinese → English transcript

Only when I recently saw Tibetans speaking out about

the rampant destruction caused by Tibetan brown bears did I finally realize this.

Ding Zhen was really not joking with this line:“ Who is the hero in your heart?

The hero in my heart…” “ My hero… is Bald Qiang.

No matter how much he gets beaten, he never dies.”

First, both Ding Zhen and Ding Liang have the surname Ding,

but Ding Liang directs animated films,

while what Ding Zhen watches is documentaries. Ding Zhen has seen bears.

He knows what it means that Bald Qiang, all alone, can survive in the Da Hinggan

Mountains, that kind of extremely desolate land where it is minus 50 degrees.

To fight bare- handed for three hundred rounds against two brown bears that are two

meters tall and can shatter a yak’s skull with a single slap— what that really

means. That is not a simple lumberjack, that is a superhuman,

the ultimate guardian deity that herders in Tibetan areas dream of.

We, who live in safe places, simply cannot feel how terrifying bears are,

and how frightening Tibetan brown bears really are in reality.

The nails and iron spikes many Tibetans install on their doors and windows— do not

think they are just local customs. They

are actually all to prevent this kind of animal from coming in to look for food.

Tibetan brown bears are also called the Tibetan brown bear.

They are apex predators of the Qinghai- Tibet Plateau.

If one day you travel to Tibet and see this kind of bear, never go near it.

And do not open your car window to feed it, because it is the most cunning bear and

the best at disguising itself to lure and kill humans.

There have already been many cases of Tibetan brown bears eating people,

and they were all eaten alive.

Before attacking humans, they pretend to be nonchalant and slowly approach.

Once they reach a certain distance, they suddenly launch an attack on you.

A small car window cannot possibly withstand the force of its paw.

Even though it looks clumsy, its sprinting speed can reach 60 kilometers per hour.

Even if Bolt were there, he could not outrun it. And the most terrifying

thing is that they will even put dried cow dung on their heads, like wearing a hat.

From a distance they imitate humans and wave.

If at that moment you think someone might need help,

and you go up without any vigilance, then you really will never come back.

Although to guard against bears,

Tibetans deliberately install anti- bear devices on their doors,

ordinary doors and windows still cannot stop them.

They are called“ human bears” by Tibetans because they not only imitate

human behavior, pretending to knock on the door to lure you into opening it,

they can even twist the doorknob themselves and come inside. So some herders,

to guard against them, deliberately install two doorknobs on the door,

so opening it is like opening a safe.

Even if the safety measures seem very thorough,

they still cannot prevent night raids.

Tibetans say that almost every night bears come to pay a visit.

Imagine if it were you, sleeping soundly in a Tibetan area at night.

When you are half asleep and hear someone knocking on the door,

you walk to the door bleary- eyed, ready to open it,

but suddenly you hear an abnormally heavy breathing sound coming from outside.

And with that faint, low growl, you suddenly snap awake,

with only one door between you and the terrifying Tibetan brown bear.