Ein Bär rührt keinen toten Körper an.

[details=“English Translation”]A bear will not touch a dead body.[/details] @zzcguns, just though I would point out this other sentence with anrühren, and yet another corpse to be avoided.

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Ah yes, very good - and in this case I expect that it won’t touch it even with a pair of gloves on!

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Yes, but again, the dead body is not mandatory.

Ein Bär rührt ein Stinktier kein zweites Mal an.
A bear won’t touch a skunk a second time.

The point is the disgust.

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Yes, the disgust, just coincidentally another corpse. Weirdly, I have had two dogs that really should have learned German, specifically anrühren. They both have been skunked multiple times, never seemed to learn. One of the two also had a few porcupine encounters…etwas Schreckliches zu bewältigen.

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