I once read that a polar bear sees anything on the ice as either another polar bear or something to eat, and if you're there, see one, then don't, start looking behind you, because it's circling around behind!
@@melodiefrances3898He didn't say don't start looking. He said if you see one and then don't, start looking behind you. Notice the use of a comma, that's why punctuation is important.
The Cuban Crocodile is probably the most unique. They’re endangered and so cool. In few swamps in Cuba that they’re found they leap out of the water to grab prey out of hanging trees and branches
Humans only to be more the exact the regime making money out of their skin and organizations that give money to Cuba help the "endanger Cuban croc"@@AncientWildTV
One of the very few animals I truly depise. People can think what they like, but to me there's something evil and malignant about the Komodo Dragon, making them - as you say - nasty things.
@@TsukiCove the climate deniers never stop it’s infuriating but I also can’t be mad at them more just sad they can’t seem to open their minds to the world being smaller and more connected than they realize
The "skin and bones" bears are a bit of a meme to be honest, as are the fat, chubby ones, and certain individuals like to hold up the first as an example of what the latter has become because of humans. It's misleading at best and downright dishonest at worst. I've spent a lot of my working life in the far north dating back to the 60s and I've seen thousands of bears. Even in the old days, you'd see skinny ones and even today you'll see fat ones. Neither is or ever was, the norm. Most bears are of average size because most of them are average hunters. The really fat ones are exceptional hunters and the skinny ones are poor hunters. These are traits you'll find throughout the animal kingdom. Spend enough time on the African savannah and you're bound to see a few skinny lions as well as a few fat ones but the majority you'll see are average size.
@@gustidd166 Polar Bears are an incredibly durable and adaptive species. There was something called the medieval warm period that they survived through, it roughly coincided with the Norse exploration and expansion into Greenland and northeast Canada. During this time, it was possible to grow grapes for wine in northern France and in southern England, which is not feasible today. If the bears were able to survive the climate of that time, with protection and banning or highly regulating hunting I believe they will survive, though not without any challenges. The best thing they have going for them is the fact that the arctic is incredibly sparsely populated with virtually 0 chance of it ever seeing droves of humans populating. Much of it is also protected land, national parks, etc.
Climate control to climate deniers hahaha. Al Gore said the Florida sea would be in Iowa and he bought houses in Florida and California. Climate control got us Diesel Exhaust Fluid DEF. Truck still dump all of their soot in the air while in the move. S t op t h a t B s.
@@stellarwind1946 - polar bears weigh up to about 1700 lbs, brown bears usually top out around 1300. they can both get larger/heavier, of course. the issue as I understand it is polar bears are at much greater risk of overheating during a struggle.
Watching animal videos, I've noticed something about humans that might explain why most predators avoid us: We humans fancy ourselves as apex predators, but over our long evolutionary history, we've been mostly mid-level predators! It might explain why we feel emotionally connected to cats and dogs, but the point here is that mid-level predators probably pose a significant threat to apex predators. No predator wants to prey on something that is willing and able to fight back. If the predated animal is weaker but dangerous, this will likely result in it becoming extremely aggressive towards potential threats. If a bear wants to prey on a human and gets punched hard, chances are that it will look for another animal that doesn't fight back as hard. Meanwhile, attacking e.g. a cat will cause it to fight with all limbs until its death no matter the injuries. I've seen cats fight off dogs 12 times their weight and there's a video of a single cat keeping 7 large dogs at bay. Recently, one guy went nuts in Germany and ran around with a machete randomly attacking people and it took little time for the civilians around to get pieces of wood and iron pipes as clubs and find all sorts of objects to throw at him until the police arrived. They didn't try to close in for a melee fight and apparently didn't know each other, but they worked as a team. I think that it shows how fast our inner caveman can reactivate... So, our best defense against eaten are probably the following points: 1) not much meat and perhaps not the most tasty looking 2) ability to call in reinforcements and fight as a group 3) our ability to throw objects and use ranged weapons 4) our aggression level and likelihood to fight until the end even if no victory can be achieved. 5) our upright posture making us appear as a different weight class. 6) our tendency to stand and fixate an animal rather than trying to escape may make us look more dangerous than we actually are.
@@edi9892 I can't speak for our mindset, only our behavior, in support of not having apex predator mindsets most people in first world countries don't appear to act like predators of any sort, but on the other hand I saw a video of tribal people in Africa hunting lions, hippo, elephants and a host of less dangerous animals with nothing but throwing spears and noise. I would guess that our mindset in predator hierarchy depends much more on our culture than on our humanity. Worldwide for hundreds or thousands of years mankind has killed more other apex predators than the other way around wherever we have settled, with the possible exception of the polar bear. Maybe we do have the mindset of mid-level predators, but if so it hasn't stopped us from behaving like apex predators.
“If a bear wants to prey on a human and gets punched hard…it will look for another animal…” Bears have a much different type of head than other predators like sharks (where punching would actually work more often). The thicker skull and muscle around a bear’s head is such that hitting it does virtually nothing, regardless of how strong the person is. Unless it’s a small bear and it’s hit in the nose, but even then that would probably just make it mad. In general, if a bear wants to prey on a human, that human had better be lucky or have a firearm on hand, because otherwise they are a goner no matter how many times they punch it
@@brandonveltri2825 I've heard of multiple incidents where a single punch deterred a bear. One guy was bitten pretty badly and still managed to dissuade the bear and in two more incidents it was without bloodshed.
There's actually an account of famed British admiral Horatio Nelson surviving an attack by a polar bear during an expedition to the Arctic. The bear was scared off when a nearby ship fired its cannons.
I believe Komodo dragons are another apex predator that will routinely predate upon humans. I dont think there's a whole lot of regular cohabitation with komodos around human settlements, but there seem to be a lot of accounts of people ending up on islands they inhabit and being almost immediately targeted by them. Absolutely no fear whatsoever.
This is because komodo's never learned to fear humans like they should. And in fact it cost them very dearly. Did you know komodo's are actually native to Australia? They used to be everywhere there, and there were even bigger species. Their extinction coincides with the arrival of humans, and they only survived on a little island off Australia (an island that used to be part of Australia).
just this week, a report from Borneo revealed the remains of a 6-year-old girl found in the stomach of a dead saltwater crocodile. Tragic and terrifying.
Just wanna put this out there: J.H. Patterson did NOT kill the lions. He hunted the lions with several of his men and claimed that he was the one who killed the lions. Additionally, the reason for the death count being that high is BECAUSE of him. He was in charge of building the railway, had people work in poor and horrible conditions (often camping out with very little security and necessities), and when the first few deaths due to the lions were reported to him, he didn't care at all until enough people died and left due to unsafe working environments. That's when he and his people set out to hunt the lions.
At the time there was a severe drought in the region and the lions were seemingly hunting humans to drink the blood, there was also dental problems for those lions.
Even in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Shere Khan was an elderly feeble tiger (not the powerful beast in the movies). Humans were probably just a bunch of weak pussies and an easy meal for him.
I would certainly add the Oceanic whitetip shark to this list as they definitely see humans as prey out in the open ocean - they are extremely aggressive and are the sharks that prey on shipwreck victims, like the infamous USS Indianapolis sinking. I would also mention Bull sharks and Tiger sharks as well - Bull sharks are extremely aggressive and will attack anything they think they can eat and Tiger sharks will infamously eat anything and certainly do see humans as just another source of prey if they have the opportunity. I know it's not PC to see sharks as being dangerous to humans but the reality is that some species will attack and eat humans if they can.
It's not about being "PC" or not. Sharks being potential threats to us is a fact. The problem is humans have over exaggerated the danger and used it as an excuse to nearly wipe them out
I came here to mention this. Oceanic white tips, bull and tiger sharks (by this orther) scare me way more than great whites. And at least the first 2 species consider us food
I was thinking the same thing especially about Bull Sharks and the Oceanic Whitetip. With Tiger Sharks it’s more of a gamble. I was kayaking in Kauai once and a beacon went off telling everyone in the water to come to shore because of a bunch of Tiger Sharks spotted in the area. This was either later 90s or early 2000s
An extended discussion on the Siberian Tiger would have been nice. I recall one story where it systematically hunted one dude who (unknowingly I think) stole a carcass from it. Wild
These are accurate picks But imagine if we had our own natural predator, I mean as in one where it specialized mainly on humans kinda like how leopard seals prey on penguins majorly And I know most of you are gonna say something like the Mimic from Vita Carnis lol
@@KonnorHermannpractically human was a suitable prey for any large land or freshwater predator since wild pig,deer, and large ape too have similar sized range with human and theyre often preyed by such predators too
I have seen speculations around that there was a big cat specialized on hominids. I think it was Bruce Chatwin that elaborated around this, in which of his books I don´t remember. It makes sense there should have been one. As for proof - I have none. In which way, it is now extinct. Perhaps one of the first dangers we eradicated?
Scary Also this video is very monstrous very nice Exited for Halloween? I’ll be a buffalo for Halloween Can you do videos on ranking the largest seals sea lions, also ranking the most impressive weirdest old world monkeys
This may not be an Apex predator, but it's got a higher body count than all the Apex Predators combined. The Mosquito! 🦟 Millions apon millions lay dead in their way.
Its not the mosquito that kills you its the mirco organisms it carries within itself. Claiming that the spreading Malaria Yellow Fever.. is an active form of killing is the same as saying every HIV or Passive smoking related death should be classified as murder
Polar bears are so cute and fuzzy. I've seen them in Alaska and they were more interested in swatting at traffic cones than swatting at humans. I can't understand why people would think that a lion would be a more capable predator than a polar bear, although the lion would be a much better domestic pet.
There was a string of human attacks on people in France in the 1700’s called the Beast of Gevaudan. It’s often described as “like a wolf” but having been around wolves, the behavior of the Beast is nothing like a wolf, like even if a wolf developed a taste for humans, it wouldn’t hunt in that way. Like it struck me as feline behavior. Anyway the point is the tsavo man eaters made me think of it because the behavior was so similar, like even down to the fact where they thought they killed it but the attacks went on until someone else thinks they killed it. So it’s possible it was a pair. Only problem is the physical description but it was being described by people who have never seen a lion. And the other problem is that there aren’t lions in France. Anyway just thought the similarities were interesting
It might have been a captured big cat brought to Europe by some explorer to put in a zoo, but it escaped and began hunting people. The people who brought it must have realized how bad they f’ed up and killed it and got rid of the evidence so they wouldn’t be charged. Maybe 🤷♂️
Sometimes it's also about whether people are acting like a prey item such as in the Savo railroad case, where during initial attacks about half a dozen local African labourers were killed before they abandoned their contracts and went back to their tribes claiming a cursed project, the British response was to send a massive supplant of indentured Indian labourers to build it instead and it is Indians which comprised virtually all of the 81-135 fatalities attributed to the two lions, depending on sources. Specifically characterised, the local African tribal labourers reacted to attacks proactively, making loud noises and attempting to chase them out of a fortified encampment, whilst the Indian semi-slaves huddled in tents screaming and squealing and so were slaughtered en masse. It maybe this is what you do with tigers, which are solitary hunters and so would be cautious about a gathering, however lions are organised pack hunters and routinely deal with cooperative defensive circles by herd animal prey items. This would simply convince them you're a prey item to be charged for disruption and singling out targets. In any case only about 6 Africans were killed by the "horrific maneaters", and something like 120 Indians indentured to the British. I don't think it's really about the lions here.
@@stellarwind1946 nope false Okavango delta Crocs have been documented attacking and fighting hippos and since 1800 humans have hunted the giant ones and takes 100 plus years to hit that size Gustave was one of the few true giants left
@@John-qb3sspeople? No 1000 people are estimated to be killed by crocodiles each year and that estimate is on the lower side, hippos kill about half that each year
Komodo Dragons in Indonesia are another fearsome Apex predator. There were cases in which they saw humans as prey. This is the most savage and ruthless apex predator on the planet
Can't believe you missed out the butterfly. Those colourful little critters are ferocious man-eaters. I once saw one bite off a woman's leg down at the local park.
Have any of y’all seen the cámara video of a thylacine I think it isn’t fake because it is from a channel that all the videos are about the thylacine and it’s termal cámara Wich means it’s harder to edit but it’s still amazing
Absolutely! Tigers are incredibly protective of their kills and territory, and they’re known to be one of the few big cats with little patience for any interference. In the wild, they’ll defend what’s theirs with all their strength and skill-settling the score, as you put it, in true tiger fashion!
I am convinced that every single animal no matter if it is a Polar Bear,Crocodile or Tiger,deep in their minds they know that they need to ignore humans if possible…it is impossible for them to not know what the human kind is capable of. Humans are the one and only apex predators on this earth!
The 'dragon' killed by St George may hav3e been a crocodile. He lived at Lydda in southern Judaea and was a member of the Roman Army. It is possible that he had to do a tour of duty in Egypt, where crocodiles occur and that one had come to terrorise a village and this was killed by George and in time the story became dramatised into the legend as we now know it.
Champawat Tigress; heavyweight champion maneater on record. 436 humans killed and consumed. Hunted and eventually killed by Jim Corbett. No other single animal killed so many. Panar Maneater (Leopard) #2 Worldwide with 400 recorded humans killed and consumed. Was active at the same time as the Champawat Tigress, also hunted and killed by James Corbett. Corbett hunted these two maneaters alternately during the same period from 1905-1910. Corbett killed the Champawat Tigress in 1907 and the Panar Leopard in 1910. Corbett pioneered the "sport" of hunting maneaters and killed several others, most famously, the Rudraprayag Leopard responsible for 125 human kills. In India, Sayeeb Corbett is a legend and their largest game preserve/national park is eponymously named the Jim Corbett Tiger Preserve/National Park. Don't mess with big cats.
Would almost say mosquitoes are the thing that takes out the most people....I'd almost argue they the deadliest predator of humans in the world even if they like the smallest sort of one that isn't a infection or disease
Also sharks. They most certainly see humans as an opportunity prey animal. There have been a number of shark fatalities here in Western Australia over the years including a couple from tiger sharks and bull sharks, with the majority being from the great white shark.
Both big cats and komodo dragons do not actively hunt humans without desperation bieng a factor that's what he means when saying "see humans as prey" although I don't understand why he included big cats🤔
Extinct Unique animal from each continent Falkland wolf :South America Tasmanian tiger:Australia Passenger pigeon :North America Pink headed duck :Asia Dodo:Africa Mega penguin:Antarctic Irish elk ;Europe
Let's see if I guess right. I got the first one correct so far, I have three other guesses for the other two. Number 2 was also a good guess, I'm torn between 2 still for what the last one might be, but pretty sure its the one similar to #2. Should've stuck with my gut
some types of squid will attack humans,wolves rarely but it has happened recently in Alaska,some sharks,especially after a disaster which sends a lot of people in to the ocean,WW2 ship attack sent many American sailors into the water,i believe oceanic white tip sharks killed quite a few of them
I don't know what to think about this creator. Sometimes it's spot on and sometimes it has stuff that is just bizzare. I am wondering if it's all done by one person that doesn't talk to experts.
How about cannibal tribes that view other humans as "prey"?? Not sure if that's a real thing but we do know there are "cannibals" in the world, just not sure if they actively target other tribes or humans or if they simply have a meal when someone happens to pass away?
The statement Polar bears fear no other animal is untrue. In a one-on-one confrontation, Polar bears will often flee from an Alaskan Brown Bear AKA a Kodiak bear. The Polar bear is larger but it's claws and fangs are shorter and it is less upper body strength.
Precisely. Although there are no confirmed cases, there is little doubt that orcas can kill polar bears in the water. This disqualifies polar bears from being apex predators
Technically silly humans we have BEEN prey for thousands of years so it's never stopped. Too much egos and conditioning to think that its " unnatural " that we are not or are not suppose to be. I think we are the only animals with crazy complexities and live life in abstract way of compulsive egocitrinicsm 😂 Also you cannot say that predators are on top because predators are prey too and the King of the Jungle is not a lion it's just Anthropomorphism so when a giraffe or a hippo kicks a lions narrow 🍎🐍🐍 well then, you have no reason to be shocked and dumbfounded to see a lions head turn 180 degrees from a powerful kick just from one hoof or being slung around like a rag doll or dogs chew toy 😂 What I'm saying is there is no such thing as top or who more : " dominating." Delusion just as the elements can destroy all life and prating to the Cosmos doesnt not make your existence above anothers. Humans are fundamentally insane
With that entrapped limb that is. They deserve much more man-eating credit because when you think 'man-eater' you think tigers and sharks when in reality crocodiles are the most commonly human-hunting animals in the world
Those morons with died green or blue hair that have been gluing themselves to roads and stuff lately.....you know those flat chested anorexic or obese women you would call ladies 😂😂😂
Wolves also ate people before our ancestors eradicated most of their numbers. There's a reason it's so ingrained in our mythology. The whole "animals don't want to eat you" is a post industrial product of academia, a perspective formed by and safely separated from our roots as prey by time, industrialization and urbanization..
Just this week there was a report from Borneo where remains of a 6 year old girl where found in the stomach of a dead salt water croc
I believe you
Shame she could have had better use than being crocs meal
@@iamdead2933No one is of “use.” We all are our own metas.
@@iamdead2933I want everyone to know, I’m just an animal too.
Believe it, humans are built like prey animals, we just have resourceful and global leverages keeping us mostly uneaten.
I once read that a polar bear sees anything on the ice as either another polar bear or something to eat, and if you're there, see one, then don't, start looking behind you, because it's circling around behind!
How does not looking behind help?
@@melodiefrances3898He didn't say don't start looking. He said if you see one and then don't, start looking behind you. Notice the use of a comma, that's why punctuation is important.
Ridiculous! They are as dumb and weak as any other animals and why they are stacked in our shops!
good to know but ain’t no way i’m going to antartica
Tigers tend to have zero tolerance for humans messing with their kills and have been known to settle the score tiger style
Advice: don’t get between a tiger and its food
@@stellarwind1946 it's like getting between a fat dude and a burger 😂
Good.
Shame they had the scales tipped against them when an outsider got involved
Yep, they actually take revenge according to some accounts.
The Cuban Crocodile is probably the most unique. They’re endangered and so cool. In few swamps in Cuba that they’re found they leap out of the water to grab prey out of hanging trees and branches
yeah i love them, they seem to have a big personality for a croc
what are the main threats to them
Aren't Cuban crocodiles more likely to gallop than other crocodilians?
Humans only to be more the exact the regime making money out of their skin and organizations that give money to Cuba help the "endanger Cuban croc"@@AncientWildTV
Yeah they can sprint I guess they have longer legs than others
Constrained by geography, but, Komodo Dragon adults, nasty things.
Komodos live alongside humans on their main Island and attacks are extremely rare
@@Qbliviens True, mainly due to awareness of locals, they live in houses on stilts for the very same reason.
People also live alongside polar bears and have for who knows how many millenia now.
@@Qbliviens
One of the very few animals I truly depise. People can think what they like, but to me there's something evil and malignant about the Komodo Dragon, making them - as you say - nasty things.
@@Jake-mf5sn the reason they are constrained is because of 2 other animals on this list 🐅🐊
I hate the reality of almost every polar bear clip being bears that are skin and bone cause they can barely keep themselves fed from the lack of ice 😭
Yeah it's tragic and whenever i mention it there are a ton of climate change deniers. It's such a shame that so many people refuse to trust science
@@TsukiCove the climate deniers never stop it’s infuriating but I also can’t be mad at them more just sad they can’t seem to open their minds to the world being smaller and more connected than they realize
The "skin and bones" bears are a bit of a meme to be honest, as are the fat, chubby ones, and certain individuals like to hold up the first as an example of what the latter has become because of humans. It's misleading at best and downright dishonest at worst.
I've spent a lot of my working life in the far north dating back to the 60s and I've seen thousands of bears. Even in the old days, you'd see skinny ones and even today you'll see fat ones. Neither is or ever was, the norm. Most bears are of average size because most of them are average hunters. The really fat ones are exceptional hunters and the skinny ones are poor hunters.
These are traits you'll find throughout the animal kingdom. Spend enough time on the African savannah and you're bound to see a few skinny lions as well as a few fat ones but the majority you'll see are average size.
@@gustidd166 Polar Bears are an incredibly durable and adaptive species. There was something called the medieval warm period that they survived through, it roughly coincided with the Norse exploration and expansion into Greenland and northeast Canada. During this time, it was possible to grow grapes for wine in northern France and in southern England, which is not feasible today. If the bears were able to survive the climate of that time, with protection and banning or highly regulating hunting I believe they will survive, though not without any challenges. The best thing they have going for them is the fact that the arctic is incredibly sparsely populated with virtually 0 chance of it ever seeing droves of humans populating. Much of it is also protected land, national parks, etc.
Climate control to climate deniers hahaha. Al Gore said the Florida sea would be in Iowa and he bought houses in Florida and California. Climate control got us Diesel Exhaust Fluid DEF. Truck still dump all of their soot in the air while in the move. S t op t h a t B s.
Where polar bear and brown bear ecosystems intersect, polar bears often run away to avoid conflict, even though they're larger.
Apparently brown bears are meaner, hence polar ran from it
Polar bears are more slenderly built. Browns are more muscular.
@@stellarwind1946 - polar bears weigh up to about 1700 lbs, brown bears usually top out around 1300. they can both get larger/heavier, of course. the issue as I understand it is polar bears are at much greater risk of overheating during a struggle.
@@smokedbrisket3033Alaskan brown bears are typically near the same size of polar bears, and have bigger skulls.
@@stellarwind1946 only the Kodiak bears which are only found on one island are as big as polar bears. The mainland Alaskan grizzlies are not as big.
Watching animal videos, I've noticed something about humans that might explain why most predators avoid us:
We humans fancy ourselves as apex predators, but over our long evolutionary history, we've been mostly mid-level predators! It might explain why we feel emotionally connected to cats and dogs, but the point here is that mid-level predators probably pose a significant threat to apex predators. No predator wants to prey on something that is willing and able to fight back. If the predated animal is weaker but dangerous, this will likely result in it becoming extremely aggressive towards potential threats. If a bear wants to prey on a human and gets punched hard, chances are that it will look for another animal that doesn't fight back as hard. Meanwhile, attacking e.g. a cat will cause it to fight with all limbs until its death no matter the injuries. I've seen cats fight off dogs 12 times their weight and there's a video of a single cat keeping 7 large dogs at bay.
Recently, one guy went nuts in Germany and ran around with a machete randomly attacking people and it took little time for the civilians around to get pieces of wood and iron pipes as clubs and find all sorts of objects to throw at him until the police arrived. They didn't try to close in for a melee fight and apparently didn't know each other, but they worked as a team. I think that it shows how fast our inner caveman can reactivate...
So, our best defense against eaten are probably the following points:
1) not much meat and perhaps not the most tasty looking
2) ability to call in reinforcements and fight as a group
3) our ability to throw objects and use ranged weapons
4) our aggression level and likelihood to fight until the end even if no victory can be achieved.
5) our upright posture making us appear as a different weight class.
6) our tendency to stand and fixate an animal rather than trying to escape may make us look more dangerous than we actually are.
People are apex predators, however it requires training, the majority of humans without a firearm, simply don't know how to hunt as an apex.
@@chadchamberlain6280 our mindset is for the most part still that of an opportunistic omnivore and mid-level predator.
@@edi9892 I can't speak for our mindset, only our behavior, in support of not having apex predator mindsets most people in first world countries don't appear to act like predators of any sort, but on the other hand I saw a video of tribal people in Africa hunting lions, hippo, elephants and a host of less dangerous animals with nothing but throwing spears and noise.
I would guess that our mindset in predator hierarchy depends much more on our culture than on our humanity.
Worldwide for hundreds or thousands of years mankind has killed more other apex predators than the other way around wherever we have settled, with the possible exception of the polar bear.
Maybe we do have the mindset of mid-level predators, but if so it hasn't stopped us from behaving like apex predators.
“If a bear wants to prey on a human and gets punched hard…it will look for another animal…” Bears have a much different type of head than other predators like sharks (where punching would actually work more often). The thicker skull and muscle around a bear’s head is such that hitting it does virtually nothing, regardless of how strong the person is. Unless it’s a small bear and it’s hit in the nose, but even then that would probably just make it mad.
In general, if a bear wants to prey on a human, that human had better be lucky or have a firearm on hand, because otherwise they are a goner no matter how many times they punch it
@@brandonveltri2825 I've heard of multiple incidents where a single punch deterred a bear. One guy was bitten pretty badly and still managed to dissuade the bear and in two more incidents it was without bloodshed.
There's actually an account of famed British admiral Horatio Nelson surviving an attack by a polar bear during an expedition to the Arctic. The bear was scared off when a nearby ship fired its cannons.
Never leaving my house for the Arctic without a Cannon
Incredible footage! The effort behind every scene really shows in the final product.
thank you i really appreciate it :)
I believe Komodo dragons are another apex predator that will routinely predate upon humans.
I dont think there's a whole lot of regular cohabitation with komodos around human settlements, but there seem to be a lot of accounts of people ending up on islands they inhabit and being almost immediately targeted by them.
Absolutely no fear whatsoever.
They will attack anything they believe they can eat lol. Theyre awesome
This is because komodo's never learned to fear humans like they should. And in fact it cost them very dearly. Did you know komodo's are actually native to Australia? They used to be everywhere there, and there were even bigger species. Their extinction coincides with the arrival of humans, and they only survived on a little island off Australia (an island that used to be part of Australia).
They are also in indonesia@@tosgem
Oh a apex predator video let’s do it
Excellent video as always!
My mom's uncle was attacked by a polar bear and lived and there's a book about him I believe
just this week, a report from Borneo revealed the remains of a 6-year-old girl found in the stomach of a dead saltwater crocodile. Tragic and terrifying.
I Love it when Tsuki uploads :)
14:56 hey uhm Tsuki…… has the Arnie just ever stared at you while licking his chops, or are there any unsolved missing people cases in your town……
i cannot comment on this, my lips are sealed
You always come up with the most interesting topics!
thank you i really appreciate the support :)
Just wanna put this out there:
J.H. Patterson did NOT kill the lions. He hunted the lions with several of his men and claimed that he was the one who killed the lions. Additionally, the reason for the death count being that high is BECAUSE of him.
He was in charge of building the railway, had people work in poor and horrible conditions (often camping out with very little security and necessities), and when the first few deaths due to the lions were reported to him, he didn't care at all until enough people died and left due to unsafe working environments. That's when he and his people set out to hunt the lions.
Yeah this seems about right for the time. A lot of the stories seem to be exaggerated and the local people were treated horribly
Sounds like a first class SOB
This sounds very believable.
I take it you didn't like "The Ghost and the Darkness."
At the time there was a severe drought in the region and the lions were seemingly hunting humans to drink the blood, there was also dental problems for those lions.
Even in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Shere Khan was an elderly feeble tiger (not the powerful beast in the movies). Humans were probably just a bunch of weak pussies and an easy meal for him.
He was also lame in the books
Every predator who is hungry enough could see human as prey if they're big enough.
I would certainly add the Oceanic whitetip shark to this list as they definitely see humans as prey out in the open ocean - they are extremely aggressive and are the sharks that prey on shipwreck victims, like the infamous USS Indianapolis sinking. I would also mention Bull sharks and Tiger sharks as well - Bull sharks are extremely aggressive and will attack anything they think they can eat and Tiger sharks will infamously eat anything and certainly do see humans as just another source of prey if they have the opportunity. I know it's not PC to see sharks as being dangerous to humans but the reality is that some species will attack and eat humans if they can.
It's not about being "PC" or not. Sharks being potential threats to us is a fact. The problem is humans have over exaggerated the danger and used it as an excuse to nearly wipe them out
yeah the Oceanic whitetip shark...its known for its aggressive tendencies and has a history of attacks
I came here to mention this. Oceanic white tips, bull and tiger sharks (by this orther) scare me way more than great whites. And at least the first 2 species consider us food
Jacques Cousteau said longimanus was the most dangerous shark in the ocean. He would know.
I was thinking the same thing especially about Bull Sharks and the Oceanic Whitetip. With Tiger Sharks it’s more of a gamble. I was kayaking in Kauai once and a beacon went off telling everyone in the water to come to shore because of a bunch of Tiger Sharks spotted in the area. This was either later 90s or early 2000s
Excellent video, keep the hard work going.
An extended discussion on the Siberian Tiger would have been nice. I recall one story where it systematically hunted one dude who (unknowingly I think) stole a carcass from it. Wild
Next video title "3 apex predators that went extinct because they saw humans as pray."
I second this notion
These are accurate picks
But imagine if we had our own natural predator, I mean as in one where it specialized mainly on humans kinda like how leopard seals prey on penguins majorly
And I know most of you are gonna say something like the Mimic from Vita Carnis lol
Our ancestors had a natural predator. Of course, it was a dirked toothed cat.
mosquitoes lol
We would probably counter it at some point
@@KonnorHermannpractically human was a suitable prey for any large land or freshwater predator since wild pig,deer, and large ape too have similar sized range with human and theyre often preyed by such predators too
I have seen speculations around that there was a big cat specialized on hominids. I think it was Bruce Chatwin that elaborated around this, in which of his books I don´t remember. It makes sense there should have been one. As for proof - I have none. In which way, it is now extinct. Perhaps one of the first dangers we eradicated?
Scary
Also this video is very monstrous very nice
Exited for Halloween? I’ll be a buffalo for Halloween
Can you do videos on ranking the largest seals sea lions, also ranking the most impressive weirdest old world monkeys
I like that video, thanks! how about some more.
Mr. Tsuki is awesome! ❤
This may not be an Apex predator, but it's got a higher body count than all the Apex Predators combined. The Mosquito! 🦟 Millions apon millions lay dead in their way.
Its not the mosquito that kills you its the mirco organisms it carries within itself.
Claiming that the spreading Malaria Yellow Fever.. is an active form of killing is the same as saying every HIV or Passive smoking related death should be classified as murder
Polar bears are so cute and fuzzy. I've seen them in Alaska and they were more interested in swatting at traffic cones than swatting at humans. I can't understand why people would think that a lion would be a more capable predator than a polar bear, although the lion would be a much better domestic pet.
There was a string of human attacks on people in France in the 1700’s called the Beast of Gevaudan. It’s often described as “like a wolf” but having been around wolves, the behavior of the Beast is nothing like a wolf, like even if a wolf developed a taste for humans, it wouldn’t hunt in that way. Like it struck me as feline behavior. Anyway the point is the tsavo man eaters made me think of it because the behavior was so similar, like even down to the fact where they thought they killed it but the attacks went on until someone else thinks they killed it. So it’s possible it was a pair. Only problem is the physical description but it was being described by people who have never seen a lion. And the other problem is that there aren’t lions in France. Anyway just thought the similarities were interesting
It might have been a captured big cat brought to Europe by some explorer to put in a zoo, but it escaped and began hunting people. The people who brought it must have realized how bad they f’ed up and killed it and got rid of the evidence so they wouldn’t be charged. Maybe 🤷♂️
Well you should watch The Brotherhood of the Wolf
What a great video! You really know how to entertain your audience.
First haha! You know it's a great day when tsuki uploads ^^
Last ha ha ...how STUPID just to get attention
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN attention? Lmao what are you on? Tsuki is highly underrated this isn't Mr beast kiddo.
0:14 what is that cat mouse looking fella?
A fossa it lives in the Amazon I think
Fossa
@@a.l.pittman1762 Madagascar
@@a.l.pittman1762 *Madagascar*
A fossa there from Madagascar they are the primary predators of lemurs.
Sometimes it's also about whether people are acting like a prey item such as in the Savo railroad case, where during initial attacks about half a dozen local African labourers were killed before they abandoned their contracts and went back to their tribes claiming a cursed project, the British response was to send a massive supplant of indentured Indian labourers to build it instead and it is Indians which comprised virtually all of the 81-135 fatalities attributed to the two lions, depending on sources. Specifically characterised, the local African tribal labourers reacted to attacks proactively, making loud noises and attempting to chase them out of a fortified encampment, whilst the Indian semi-slaves huddled in tents screaming and squealing and so were slaughtered en masse. It maybe this is what you do with tigers, which are solitary hunters and so would be cautious about a gathering, however lions are organised pack hunters and routinely deal with cooperative defensive circles by herd animal prey items. This would simply convince them you're a prey item to be charged for disruption and singling out targets. In any case only about 6 Africans were killed by the "horrific maneaters", and something like 120 Indians indentured to the British. I don't think it's really about the lions here.
@@jasonmorahan7450 didn't they make a movie based on that with Michael Douglas The Ghost and the Darkness (1996).
PB has way lower numbers than I expected, wow.
I LOVE your stuff. keep it up
WOW! Interesting
It's crazy how many animals there are that could f*ck with humans a lot more but they just don't..
They haven't tasted Human flesh so don't automatically see us as prey. This is why corpse-scavengers often become maneaters.
That's cuz humans can literally end their species within a month
Gustave and crocs his size have killed hippos
Gustave was an outlier. A typical adult Nile Crocodile is not a threat to a hippo.
@@stellarwind1946 nope false Okavango delta Crocs have been documented attacking and fighting hippos and since 1800 humans have hunted the giant ones and takes 100 plus years to hit that size Gustave was one of the few true giants left
Hippos kill more than crocs
@@John-qb3sspeople? No 1000 people are estimated to be killed by crocodiles each year and that estimate is on the lower side, hippos kill about half that each year
Let's not forget about Cannibal humans.
Komodo Dragons in Indonesia are another fearsome Apex predator. There were cases in which they saw humans as prey. This is the most savage and ruthless apex predator on the planet
Ya know they're restricted to the islands there on because of competition crocodiles and tigers right?
Can't believe you missed out the butterfly. Those colourful little critters are ferocious man-eaters. I once saw one bite off a woman's leg down at the local park.
Have any of y’all seen the cámara video of a thylacine I think it isn’t fake because it is from a channel that all the videos are about the thylacine and it’s termal cámara Wich means it’s harder to edit but it’s still amazing
There are actually 4. Humans should top the list.
Some humans* Ones that live off others scavenger style don't coumt.
Excellent video 😊
Komodo dragon will eat humans
Video idea : most dangerous animals in the Middle East
My fav. Episode
Absolutely! Tigers are incredibly protective of their kills and territory, and they’re known to be one of the few big cats with little patience for any interference. In the wild, they’ll defend what’s theirs with all their strength and skill-settling the score, as you put it, in true tiger fashion!
Tiger, Shark, Bear, Lion and Wolf: WE'RE APEX PREDATORS!
*Homo Sapiens enters the chat*
All of them: 💀💀💀
You changed your farewell 😮
Cool video
you know an animal is a threat when there is a place to check to make sure you rifle fires.
Before even watching it, I guess Nile crocodile, tiger, and well of course the polar bear in the thumbnail.
Well considering that crocodiles and polar bears are the only two animals that actively hunt humans in modern times that seems pretty fair
Good show
I am convinced that every single animal no matter if it is a Polar Bear,Crocodile or Tiger,deep in their minds they know that they need to ignore humans if possible…it is impossible for them to not know what the human kind is capable of.
Humans are the one and only apex predators on this earth!
I've always said that with sharks it's mistaken identity or an exploratory bite but, with crocs, you're fair game!
The 'dragon' killed by St George may hav3e been a crocodile. He lived at Lydda in southern Judaea and was a member of the Roman Army. It is possible that he had to do a tour of duty in Egypt, where crocodiles occur and that one had come to terrorise a village and this was killed by George and in time the story became dramatised into the legend as we now know it.
being in the food chain fight is scary stuff
every predator will see a human as prey if they're hungry enough.
in australia up north you just know to not go in the water cause theres monster crocs out there
Champawat Tigress; heavyweight champion maneater on record. 436 humans killed and consumed. Hunted and eventually killed by Jim Corbett. No other single animal killed so many.
Panar Maneater (Leopard) #2 Worldwide with 400 recorded humans killed and consumed. Was active at the same time as the Champawat Tigress, also hunted and killed by James Corbett.
Corbett hunted these two maneaters alternately during the same period from 1905-1910. Corbett killed the Champawat Tigress in 1907 and the Panar Leopard in 1910.
Corbett pioneered the "sport" of hunting maneaters and killed several others, most famously, the Rudraprayag Leopard responsible for 125 human kills.
In India, Sayeeb Corbett is a legend and their largest game preserve/national park is eponymously named the Jim Corbett Tiger Preserve/National Park. Don't mess with big cats.
Would almost say mosquitoes are the thing that takes out the most people....I'd almost argue they the deadliest predator of humans in the world even if they like the smallest sort of one that isn't a infection or disease
For all the animals humans have killed or completely made extinct, I don’t mind these animals extracting some revenge
Also sharks. They most certainly see humans as an opportunity prey animal. There have been a number of shark fatalities here in Western Australia over the years including a couple from tiger sharks and bull sharks, with the majority being from the great white shark.
Why do you think public perception of sharks tends to be so negative?
@AncientWildTV idc if they just take a bite out of youll still bleed to death its wild animal at the end of the day dont trust
how has arnie been doing recant?
He's good, he's still acting like a puppy even though he's old. I'm getting a new camera in January so there will be new Arnie end clips soon
Polar Bears
Tigers
Lions
Hyenas
Leopard
Crocodiles
Pythons.
Thank u
Mountain lions
Canada geese will fk u up
@@jesses9347you ain' lie !
@@cbrown8814 lol when I was a youngen in the trailer park there was a grass dealer that used a goose to keep an eye on his stash .....never got robbed
Komodo Dragons😊
Both big cats and komodo dragons do not actively hunt humans without desperation bieng a factor that's what he means when saying "see humans as prey" although I don't understand why he included big cats🤔
Thank you Mr tsuki
Extinct Unique animal from each continent
Falkland wolf :South America
Tasmanian tiger:Australia
Passenger pigeon :North America
Pink headed duck :Asia
Dodo:Africa
Mega penguin:Antarctic
Irish elk ;Europe
4: Other Humans
The great late Hannibal Lecter.
-Rump.
VILLAGERS KIDS DOGS AND TOURISTS HAVE BEEN ON THE KOMODO DRAGONS MENU FOR YRS.
No they're not? komodos do not actively hunt people because we are roughly the same size as them and unfamiliar prey.
They’re eating the dogs they’re eating the cats.
Im a simple man, tskui posts i watch.
They only see humans as prey because we allow them to.
Humans mercilessly target them, why shouldn't they target us?
Honestly animals like sharks, wolfs, gorillas are far kinder than humans.
Let's see if I guess right. I got the first one correct so far, I have three other guesses for the other two. Number 2 was also a good guess, I'm torn between 2 still for what the last one might be, but pretty sure its the one similar to #2. Should've stuck with my gut
Tiger bullshark and polar bears? Haven't watched the whole thing yet
As far as I know white fin sharks are much more aggressive as the other well known sharks.
Probably nile croc/ salt water croc, the tiger, and the polar bear.
some types of squid will attack humans,wolves rarely but it has happened recently in Alaska,some sharks,especially after a disaster which sends a lot of people in to the ocean,WW2 ship attack sent many American sailors into the water,i believe oceanic white tip sharks killed quite a few of them
I don't know what to think about this creator. Sometimes it's spot on and sometimes it has stuff that is just bizzare.
I am wondering if it's all done by one person that doesn't talk to experts.
How about cannibal tribes that view other humans as "prey"?? Not sure if that's a real thing but we do know there are "cannibals" in the world, just not sure if they actively target other tribes or humans or if they simply have a meal when someone happens to pass away?
wonder what would happen if a tiger, polar bear, orca, croc and a hippo got into a fight.
As a crocodile lover myself id still have to say that the orca is 100% winning that. Unbeatable size strength and intellectual advantage
It all depends of the animal hunger scale tolerence.
This applies to humans also.
Good
The statement Polar bears fear no other animal is untrue. In a one-on-one confrontation, Polar bears will often flee from an Alaskan Brown Bear AKA a Kodiak bear. The Polar bear is larger but it's claws and fangs are shorter and it is less upper body strength.
@@larrystone9474 Kodiak bears are only from Kodiak island. It’s not the same sub species as the mainland Alaskan grizzlies.
Nope many Brown bears won't go near a polar bear
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Your 'research' is faulty.
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN They have been filmed doing so. They chase away the polar bears, despite being smaller.
Polar bears genrally run from orcas
Precisely. Although there are no confirmed cases, there is little doubt that orcas can kill polar bears in the water. This disqualifies polar bears from being apex predators
Probably a good idea
I would, too. :)
Lol, yea some people might be happy for a chance to get close to killer whales, but with a phobia I get nervous swimming with sunfish and trout.
@@chadchamberlain6280 do we actually know this? Has it ever been proved that orcas eat polar bears? They might leave them alone like they do to humans
Technically silly humans we have BEEN prey for thousands of years so it's never stopped.
Too much egos and conditioning to think that its " unnatural " that we are not or are not suppose to be.
I think we are the only animals with crazy complexities and live life in abstract way of compulsive egocitrinicsm 😂
Also you cannot say that predators are on top because predators are prey too and the King of the Jungle is not a lion it's just Anthropomorphism so when a giraffe or a hippo kicks a lions narrow 🍎🐍🐍 well then, you have no reason to be shocked and dumbfounded to see a lions head turn 180 degrees from a powerful kick just from one hoof or being slung around like a rag doll or dogs chew toy 😂
What I'm saying is there is no such thing as top or who more :
" dominating."
Delusion just as the elements can destroy all life and prating to the Cosmos doesnt not make your existence above anothers.
Humans are fundamentally insane
Crocodiles also have the strongest jaws of any animal. If one gets a hold of you you’re not going anywhere.
With that entrapped limb that is. They deserve much more man-eating credit because when you think 'man-eater' you think tigers and sharks when in reality crocodiles are the most commonly human-hunting animals in the world
Polar bears also feed on birds there eggs
Mosquitos
Yeah I'd say that too
What exactly is an eco-feminist?
An animal loving feminist
Those morons with died green or blue hair that have been gluing themselves to roads and stuff lately.....you know those flat chested anorexic or obese women you would call ladies 😂😂😂
Imagine humans without artificial weapons. Even dogs would eat us
Crocodiles are definitely mind less killers
Wolves also ate people before our ancestors eradicated most of their numbers. There's a reason it's so ingrained in our mythology. The whole "animals don't want to eat you" is a post industrial product of academia, a perspective formed by and safely separated from our roots as prey by time, industrialization and urbanization..
Snakehead update please🙋🏻♂️
I'd like to see them try.