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The Week contest: Bear chase

This week's question:  The National Park Service recently tweeted advising park visitors not to "push a slower friend down" if a bear is chasing them. What real or invented term could be used to describe this extreme form of self-preservation?

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Art dog

RESULTS:

THE WINNER: "Ursine Bolt"

Rob Schultz, Los Angeles

SECOND PLACE: "Fleet, Pray, Shove"

Sid Burgreen, Garden City, N.Y.

THIRD PLACE: "Lions and Tigers and Bears: Here's Mike!"

Joe Scott, Indianapolis

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"One-downmanship"

Glenn McNichol, Mount Laurel, N.J.

"The Heisman Maneuver"

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts

"Feeding Friendsy"

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Updated Priorities"

Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, N.C.

"A Maul Out of Love"

Hunter Burgan, Los Angeles, California

"BFF (Being the Faster Friend)"

Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, N.Y.

"Stop, Drop the Relationship, and Roll"

Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia

"Throw Pokey to Smokey"

Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts

"The Escape Claws"

Kevin Gillogly, Thousand Oaks, California

"The Code of Shove-lry"

Fran Freeman, Mill Valley, California

"Ultimate Bear-Baiting"

John Oberholtzer, West Lafayette, Indiana

"Tag, You're Et"

Leland Fishman, Petaluma, California

"Bear With Thee"

Rosalind Singer, Arlington, Virginia

"Pop Goes the Wheezer"

Nancy Owen-Farrell, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

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