Viral Video: How a 12-year-old dealt with a wild bear during encounter in Italy

In the video, a bear is seen suddenly emerging from bushes behind Franzoi but the 12-year-old can be seen slowly walking away from the animal.

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Shared on Twitter by user Loris Calliari, the video has gone viral and prompted many reactions online.

A boy in Italy has won praise online for calmly handling an encounter with a wild bear in the woods in Italy. The encounter happened when 12-year-old Alessandro Franzoi was hiking with his family near a village of Sporminore in northern Italy.

In the video, a bear is seen suddenly emerging from bushes behind Franzoi but the 12-year-old can be seen slowly walking away from the animal, displaying nerves of steel and an icy cool demeanor.

In the 45-second clip, the boy’s mother repeatedly asks him to not turn back or panic but to slowly move forward without startling the animal, The Telegraph reported.

Watch the video here:

A voi il mio incontro con @‘orso di sta mattina sopra la malga Sporminore… pic.twitter.com/VN6QmAV9oV

— Loris Calliari (@loriscalliari) May 24, 2020

According to a DailyMail report, the boy had studied about bears and how to respond during an encounter.

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Talking about the incident, Alessandro told the news website, “It was important to leave quickly but without making the bear feel it was in danger. I did not look it in the eye and the bear understood I was not its enemy.”

Shared on Twitter by user Loris Calliari, the video has gone viral and prompted many reactions online.

I would’ve died right there and then. My legs wouldn’t have allowed me to move. https://t.co/oB0MbS49cr

— ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕠𝕗𝕥 (@dtx89) May 25, 2020

Lucky chap, #GoSlow

— TrollBuster (@TrollBusty) May 26, 2020

🐻 https://t.co/YB8ZG4m2RT

— Roy G (@Arsodendro) May 26, 2020

Thanks, I wasn’t quite tense enough today. https://t.co/UMio8Jm9sG

— Daniel Sperling (@dan_sperling) May 26, 2020

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