Imagine you’re walking deep in the woods when some kind of potentially aggressive wildlife appears. Ask yourself: Would you run? Would you freeze? So many of us have seen online videos where a bear, wolf, or cougar shows up in someone’s path and they have to think super quickly to avoid trouble—or even worse!

A viral video shared by Wilderness Escape Adventures and CBS News shows a bone-chillingly terrifying close encounter. A woman is walking with her large black dog on a leash in Alberta, Canada, when a grizzly spots them and starts toward them.

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Her survival instinct worked. While it seems she didn’t have a gun or bear spray, she did a lot of things correctly in their absence. She didn’t run or turn her back, which could have proven disastrous. Instead, she, in a sense, became an animal, choosing guttural growls and yelps to show aggression, but not fear.

As the bear continues coming toward her, it occasionally gets on its hind legs, which could be seen as an escalation. She loudly growls words like “stop,” “enough,” “go away,” and “No!” Even when it........

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