You would have a better chance of living after getting hit by a freight train than getting bit by a dire bear.

When running from one don't run in a straight line they get faster the longer they run so try to go through a heavily wooded area since it will hit the trees and it will its speed will reset

Consider them as if they are a real life bear...

Very powerful creature will destroy your armor and hunt you down if aggro...if other bears in area they will also attack , they are territorial so keep your distance.

If you're unlucky enough to have one aggro on you get in a door frame cage or get on a flyer FAST because they gain speed over timeif your hunting them just use a door frame cage at least stone

For taming a dire Bear I would recommend you get on a rock

Bear traps works on bears but this one is dire you'll need a large bear trap

Apparently, the BEAR TRAP doesn't work for the frickin BEAR??????!?!?!??!!?!?!?

Unless you have a very powerful character/mount, I would suggest to keep a good distance away from these magnificent beasts. They have a surprisingly small aggro range, but their melee damage is IMMENSE, and can kill even high level mounts with relative ease. It is honestly best to just leave them alone, as they don't even give that many resources when you harvest them, and you can easily lose an extremely valuable tame. Take it from me: I've lost two amazing wolves to these beasts, once from inexperience, once from being unable to escape due to having no stamina.

Direbear has no pause time between hits. The attack has no push back on its end no matter the level. Just think of it as non-stop hit for hit if you're cornered. End result death. But can be avoided because Agro circle is very small (3 foot away from direbear will be its agro circle.) making it easy for a head start run in case you try to tame.

If they start to run after a first few shots stay where you are and stay on a rock or somewhere it can't get you it will deal massive damage I lost a lv 129 baryonyx to a level 50 run in a zig zag it gains speed faster it runs straight

Whilst walking through the redwoods I saw a Thylacoleo went to hide in a shrub and... super surprise dire bear outa nowhere

Hey look a teddy let give a hug. Wait not a good idea

They don’t attack you unless you get really close to them, but just as a warning, they will kill your tamed dinos without hesitation... me and my friend lost about eight parasaurs and two trikes overtime to them. Just make sure to avoid them the best you can until you have the resources to either kill, or tame one.

If there is a large pack of them, run for your life

Diif you want to find direbears I recommend going to the redwood forest they're pretty common there I also recommend Taming a Pteranodon( if you're low level and you already have the saddle ) cuz its much easier to got out of danger when you have a flyer

The most insane thing just happened to me! I was up the entire ark night defending my dire bear while taming it with my tappy and then I had to take out an Anky that was trying to kill it and then the raptors I lost started attacking the bear then I killed one of them and then the other pounded on me and then the anky swung and hit it off! Then I used the tappy to kill it. Thanks anky lol.

Be careful when encountering these. Keep your distance because if agro, they hit like a bus. Two swipes with hide armor and you are dead. Shotguns take them out well.

YOU NEED A BIG BEAR TRAP FOR THIS BIG BEAR

You can use the 4 gate trap to tame it.