Brit Reacts To EVERY BEAR & ITS CHANCE OF RETIRING YOU FROM LIFE
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m Going to React To EVERY BEAR & ITS CHANCE OF RETIRING YOU FROM LIFE
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I give you credit for making the effort to find new videos and explore unique topics instead of simply reacting to an endless loop of "isn't America Awesome" vids.
Thanks for noticing!
I completely agree with the O.P., also the creators video was the Casual Geographic. His channel has awesome animal content the guy knows his stuff. Good Luck & keep up the good work.
Totally agree. As an American it annoys me how narcissistic we can be.
Virtually nobody does that though
And virtually nobody thinks that. Not even Americans themselves
Kabir, when he showed the photo of the blonde guy and said "if you know you know" that man was eaten alive by a brown bear. He called himself The Grizzlie man and was filming a documentary when he was attacked. He recorded his death. 😮😢
if that audio was real. man that was sickening.
@@Eijianthony I was told that was a recreation. The original is much, much worse and in the hands of the guys mother, IIRC.
I live in the Smokies and see black bears all the time. They are usually shy and prefer to go away from people. They do become a problem if people feed them. I will walk out my door and see them in my yard passing through or eating my apples. I give them space and we coexist.
Watch more of this guy please. He’s really funny
Casual Geographics is great. I feel like I learn a whole lot more from watching his videos than watching all of the hours of the stuff David Attenborough narrates. It's a bit more direct and that works for me.
August 17, 1959 I was 15 years old. My parents, my little sister and I were camped at Mammoth Mountain in Yellowstone National Park. A grizzly bear kept coming to our tent site, just walking around and sniffing things. This was unusual behavior and I wanted to leave immediately. Father wanted to stay even though he had to chase the bear away several times. That night I could hear it breathing near my spot in the tent when it suddenly moved slightly and I felt his weight on me. Dad chased it away again and I begged to leave. A bit later we heard the sound of wood being ripped. The bear was tearing our small hauling trailer apart. That convinced my parents to leave but not until all equipment and supplies were put into the back of the pickup. Dad put his railroad lantern into my hands and told me to shine it in his eyes. Trembling and crying, I did it, even as the bear walked closer to me. When Dad finally pulled me away, the bear was standing over me and I felt his saliva drip on my head. There was no explaining that bear's behavior. We went to a motel for a few hours of sleep and turned on the news early in the morning. An earthquake had hit Mammoth Mountain, collapsing the entire thing to the campground. Everyone camped there was buried under tons of rock, soil and debris. We were alive because of that bear. Why did the bear choose us?? One swipe of his paw and I would have been dead.
Damn! You all were so lucky!
@@rebo2610 Yes, and I have been so thankful for that bear for 65 years, since I am now 80. But I still do not have an answer as to why me/us? Just luck or maybe something else?
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It was probably an early stage of rabies. You are incredibly lucky to have gotten out of that situation.
@@ajwhitworth8803Early stage rabies sounds like a possibility that I hadn't thought of. Yes, extremely lucky. I still ask the question of why were we chosen to survive when so many, probably including the bear, died. There was nothing special about us.
I firmly believe in the verse in the Bible that says a time to live a time to die. Everything happens for a reason. You may never have any idea who or what you may have influenced in your life, making it necessary for you to be here to this day. I also have another theory, other than the rabies one. Animals sense things like earthquakes and other natural disasters. Why your family he chose to show any panic to is hard to say, but aren't you glad he was persistent?
Kabir, let me explain it this way... I live in a large, densely populated metro area in Southern New England. Black Bears have been caught on security cameras raiding trash cans and bird feeders in suburban backyards. You may take it for granted that virtually anywhere in North America outside of actual city centers, there is a chance you might encounter a Black Bear. And, yes, there are hundreds of Black Bears living in Yosemite and Sequoia.
Connecticut here. Black bear are very common and will occasionally roam into neighborhoods and are capable of burrowing beneath certain houses to
hibernate . We humans leave them alone. If a bear needs to be removed from a city, the Wildlife agencies are in charge of tranquilizing the bear and safely transport it to a forest area . We must remove bird feeders and garbage cans when bears are about. We don't want them use to human food .
I saw a video once a couple years ago about that Churchill Polar Bear Detention Center! They hold them in there until they can be relocated because they have become troublesome bears by the time they are put in there. It was created in 1983, after a person on the street was mauled by a bear. It holds 24 single bears and 4 family groups for anywhere between 2-30 days. If the bear is a repeat offender its held longer in hopes of making it reluctant to return to the town.
The man in the picture of the couple together was Timothy Treadwell who was a bear enthusiast who was eaten alive by Alaskan grizzly bears during a routine expedition in October 2003. Treadwell believed he had developed a special bond with the bears. (Yes that explanation came from google) but the crazy thing is there’s video but mainly audio that was being recorded at his campsite at the time so you can hear the attack happening.
his girlfriend also
@@eTraxx right, I forgot to add that 😅
It was too close to hibernation to be that chummy with the grizzlies.
He shouldn't have listened to his girlfriend. It already attacked them once and left and she said the chances of it coming back were slim so she wanted to stay...
@@LexyThomas134Oh yeah, blame it on HER....🙄
A polar bears paw is about a foot across. They go after anything that moves
Considering where they live, can you blame them?
For comparison, most human feet are about 1 foot long...
Saw a black bear wander across my golf course last year. We let him play through. I actually saw him twice in about a month's time.
Polar Bear hands down! Hello from the Canadian North. Cheers
Yes, I have had the misfortune of seeing a Black Bear in Maine when I was a late teen. We were in the back of a truck, heading on some logging roads to get to a camping site when we saw her. We immediately knew we messed up when we saw the cub on the drivers side of the road in the bushes, which meant that we were between a mom & her cub. Mom wasn’t happy or amused… at all! We yelled for the driver to get us out of there as she started running towards us. Just barely got moving in time. I needed new boxers after that.
I do feel lucky it was a black bear and not a New England Brown Bear. I’m pretty sure she would have caught us and kept the tailgate as a souvenir if that was the case.
I’m in New Hampshire now, and we’ve had a significant increase in human/bear conflict since the end of 2022 (increases started around August, I think). That was a drought year, and it’s not unheard of for bears to not get enough food for hibernation; so they go looking elsewhere.
Thanks for the video!
I found myself about 40 feet from a grizzly back in 2008. I was elk hunting 50 miles from Yellowstone when the bear quietly came in to one of my elk calls. Luckily he was as surprised as I was when I faced him. He let out a big "woof" as he did a semi backflip and ran back up the hill that he had come from. He was shockingly fast.
I've seen one other grizzly from across a meadow and many black bears in my life but like you, I had never heard of a spectacled bear!
Love your videos and personality Kabir. I subscribed years ago.
Spectacles only live in South America, specifically the Andes mountain chain and the areas surrounding them, and they don't go further south than northern Peru I think (I'm not too sure about that tho). So unless you've been around over there you won't really see one in the wild. I visited a place that was kinda like a zoo, except it was a whole small mountain that the animals lived in and there were fenced trails for observation, this was in Ecuador and I got to see one of them from somewhat up close. But I'm from further down south in Chile and we don't have any kind of bears over here.
That is perhaps the funniest hunting stories I’ve ever heard lol 😆
@@FoobusDoobus Yellowstone is in Wyoming/Montana where there are some grizzly bears in the area, I think you were thinking this was in Yosemite which is in California.
@@FoobusDoobus It was definitely a grizzly. This happened in Wyoming.
Black bears look VERY different no matter their color phase.
@@kate2create738 Thank you. Northwestern Wyoming has a lot of grizzlies.
Edit: I just googled it. The Wyoming Game and Fish Dept estimates that there are over 1,000 grizzlies in Wyoming. That of course means NW Wyoming since they aren't found anywhere else in the state.
"If you know, you know". The guy and his girl friend momentarily pictured went into the wilds in Alaska to live and study wild bears. They managed to come to a uneasy understanding with a small group of wild bears. They continuously moved their camp closer and closer to the bears over many months until they were camping several hundred feet from the bears and their bedding area. One day the bears simply said "blank this stuff" and they came for them. This guy and his girl ALWAYS had cameras rolling monitoring the bears and their routines. This one day they I believe had a camera rolling and if nothing else audio rolling. He captured the attack on himself and girl friend on audio and/or video. A party looking for them after they didn't report in found what was left of them in their camp being guarded by the hungry bears.
It was actually a bear that was a stranger to the ones they were more familiar with that killed them.
But, they were fools for taking such risks in the first place. Wild apex predators are not your friend.
@@wolfe6220that’s correct. Dude was familiar with some bears. It was a migratory male that killed him
@@briangoss8062 The pics are pretty gross...
These days, bears are everywhere, even more so than in the past. During the 90s, the state of Louisiana did a reintroduction program into the state's rural areas. Result: farmland, particularly in the northern part of the state, where bears were previously rare are now much more common. My nieces' mom, who has horses, had to give tips on how to avoid startling bears when riding around corn fields (when the corn was tall and just about ready for harvesting).
Your nieces mom, so your sister
We had an encounter with a black bear in a campground in Western Pennsylvania. We had been cooking over and open fire outside. Later, as we were enjoying some coffee and conversation, it ambled up toward us, then sat down on the other side of the fire pit watching us scramble for the safety of the cabin. Later, as we described the encounter to the owners of the property they said, "Oh yeah, that must have been Suzie." Apparently, the campground was along a "migratory highway" for black bears and they knew many of the regulars and had named them.
Hi Kabir, there aren't very many bears left in Texas, and I think there are a few left in the south, but it's nothing like the situation up north, especially in the national parks. In our old family photo albums there are some pictures of bears my parents took up in British Columbia during the early 1950's. Some show my dad feeding bears. You can tell that he was kind of afraid, because he and this bear are both standing up, and my dad's arm is fully outstretched. The bear, standing on it's back feet is as tall as my dad.
Dad was a biologist. He took us camping on an island in the Willapa Bay in Washington State. It was a refuge the University and State used to study bear. I went on a hike with my older sister. I was 11 and she was 22. We found tracks and fresh sign. She wanted to show where they were and keep a safe distance. When we caught sight of them, they were a football field away. Mama black bear with 4 cubs. We enjoyed them for a time and then the winds shifted so we left them. Dad worked in Alaska counting salmon. On Kodiak Island he stood up next to a river after counting and he startled a male Kodiak bear. It charged him from eight feet away. Dad had to shoot him. It was far too close a call.
I love that guy! I follow him and he has great videos.
I’ve seen a bear in the wild several times. It’s heart stopping for me. lol🤗❤️🐝
There are polar bears in Alaska, but only on the north and west coasts where very few people live.
Polar bears have become more aggressive towards humans because shrinking sea ice cover has made it much harder for them to find food.
I visited Alaska in 2011 and saw many grizzly bears from as close as 10 feet.
Here in the NYC area, black bears are seen frequently in suburban neighborhoods, especially in New Jersey, walking through back yards and rummaging through the garbage cans.
Jaw drops: Even in the Northeast??? I know you all have problems with deer, and probably coyotes, but bears is new to me.
@@filrabat1965 lots of black bears in the Northeast. New Jersey has an annual bear hunt to try and keep the numbers down.
@@filrabat1965 I live in New York and I have bears, coyotes, and deer in my neighborhood. People living less than 25 miles from Central Park can say the same thing
@@gotham61Tony Soprano had to deal with a bear in his swimming pool in North Caldwell.
Bamboo is actually a type of grass.
black bears quite common in rural towns/areas of Cda. They usually try to avoid encounters with people.
I love this guy. 😁
Sun bears are pretty awesome.
I worked as a zookeeper several decades ago. The sun bars got out of their enclosure a few times at night. When it was discovered, the bears were found right by the door they escaped from, patiently waiting for breakfast.
2 summers ago, a lady hiker near a town called Ovando in Montana, was attacked by a Grizzly, while sleeping in her tent, it pulled her out, stripped off a bite or two, retreated, giving the lady hiker enough time to call her Mom and say goodbye, then it came back and ate the rest of her, while she was on the phone with her Mom. This lady was at peace with what was about to happen, told her Mother this. There is a Grizzly, with 2 cubs roaming my area, she has charged a few people, luckily no one has been hurt. You do not just step outside here, you have to look outside 1st, having dogs to raise the alarm helps. Go on ladys, pick the bear.
About five years ago I was at a friend's house in northern Minnesota. I was laying in the back yard, trying to get a tan. I had dozed off and woke up to my friend's voice shouting "stay down! Stay still!" followed by three blasts of a shotgun. I lifted my head a couple of inches to see a mother black bear with two cubs running into the woods, maybe 20 feet away from me!
I went to college in Central Minnesota. The campus is densely wooded and lies at the edge of the natural territory of black bears in the state.
Once, while hiking in the woods (which is also registered as a wildlife preserve - IE, no hunting), I saw a female black bear (females are called "sows") with three cubs. They were frolicking in a clearing within the woods.
They were a fair distance away, perhaps 300-400 meters. I made some noise and blew the whistle I had, for once, remembered to bring along. The momma bear looked up in my direction, gathered her babies, and shuffled off in the other direction.
I'm not certain this event rises to the level of "bear encounter". But it is, to the best of my knowledge, the closest I've ever been to one, outside of a zoo.
Bears are remarkable animals. They're highly intelligent and immensely capable. For example, despite their huge paws and lack of opposable thumbs, they can turn doorknobs, open car doors, and unscrew the lids on jars. And as the video touched on, their sense of smell is incredible - much stronger than even dogs that are selectively bred for sensitive sniffers, like bloodhounds. For example, on a dead still day, a grizzly bear can smell a deer carcass from several miles away.
Yeah we have alotta black bears in Central Minnesota...they're less aggressive than reported...a cub use to my porch and eat out of my my hand while mom watched, they're still dangerous...keep a calm demeaner, WALK DONT RUN.
I'm an animal lover, and I had never previously heard of the spectacled bear.
Brown bears and grizzly bears are the same species. Their only difference is their diet. Brown bears feed primarily on salmon, and therefore get much bigger. As a general rule of thumb, if it is a grizzly bear living within ~50 miles of the coast, then it is a brown bear. Otherwise it is an inland grizzly bear. Both are equally dangerous, and both are terribly near-sighted. Which makes it easy to surprise them if you are walking against the wind and not paying attention to your surroundings.
When surprised grizzly/brown bears will seek to ensure that whomever surprised them is not a threat. Which is why 90%+ of the people mauled by bear survive their attack. Which is also why it is important to show that you are submissive, and not a threat, if attacked. Contrary to popular belief, bear spray has no effect against an aggressive bear. Bear spray only works on non-aggressive bears, but so will a shout or a loud noise. Against an aggressive bear only a large caliber firearm will stop the bear.
I live in Michigan. When I was a kd, I was in the woods in the Upper Peninsula and almost ran head-first into a big ol' black bear. He was more startled than I was and he hightailed it out of there.
Yosemite is a black bear haven. I haven't been for several years but when they say they often behave like racoons it is true. Garbage cans in Yosemite have the lids chained on and you always want to approach dumpsters with caution ,even if the lids is down. Tourism is very dense these days so bears generally prowl through park/people areas in evening but also you see them more often during the day now ,depending on the time of year, because of more people meaning more chances of encountering them.
BTW: the photo that flashed of the young couple is /was Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. He left civilization to live among the bears. He stayed too long one season after the bears were getting ready for that food gorging, they do before hibernation and both Timothy and his girl friend were eaten alive by the same bear.
Polar bear encounters are happening because these bears need ice to hunt their prey effectively. With ice receding bears are having harder times getting food.They prowl along dump area and like other bears ,they now scavenger among people areas too.Though the colder waters do help them regular their body temperatures it is ice that is needed. When the ice is fully gone and water temperature rise these bears may die out if they can't adapt to the changes.
I saw a brown bear at Yellowstone in 1986. It was by the loop road. People in cars taking pictures it was pretty cool as a young man.
Love Casual Geographic, and would love to see more reactions to him! ❤️
Black Bears 🐻 live in almost all Forests in North America. Definitely a large Bear population in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks. Also Truckee/Lake Tahoe and the Coastal Redwoods.
I've Lived amongst Black Bears 🐻 most of my life, if their not cornered, threatened, injured or with cubs they usually run away when you encounter them. But carrying bear spray and a small marine horn, when hiking in a forest is always a good idea, also put bells on your belt, make noise when approaching a bend in the trail so they hear you before they see you. If you encounter a Black Bear in the Wild and it doesn't Immediatly run and you feel threatened, clap your hands 👏🏼 loudly and yell Woa Bear Repeatedly till he runs, This works 99% of the time but there are always exceptions to every rule. If charged never run 🏃♀️ yell, throw something, a branch a Rock 🪨 A Backpack with food in it, the scent of the food may occupy him long enough for you to back away until you reach a safe distance. But if the bear keeps coming use your Bear spray, as a last resort play dead, stomach on the ground face to the ground and protect your head and neck with your arms keep still, he might bite, try to stay still, most of the time he will lose interest and leave.
They're Beautiful Animals, I respect them but have never felt the need to fear them, they usually will give you no trouble.
Take reasonable precautions, Enjoy the Forest and don't Worry.
Where I grew up in Northern Minnesota sometimes we'd have black bears in our neighborhood. Even more bobcats and wolves (heard them more than saw) and even more whitetail deer.
Like the man says, grizzlies ARE a type of brown bear. So are Kodiak bears, which are larger.
I live in Colorado Springs, formerly in an apartment by Cheyenne mountain. I was walking my dog around the apartment complex one morning and started heading down towards the mail room because I hadn't checked mail in a couple days. I got to the corner of the parking lot where I would cross over to the mailroom, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a big mass of fur off to my left, a fully grown black bear. I froze, and before i could respond properly my dog, still attached to his leash thankfully, lunged at it and it took off. It was my only real experience with a bear where i was in its line of sight and on foot, nothing serious but a little unnerving when one is still waking up.
I had a Canadian forest ranger once tell me that a black bear is too stupid to kill you before eating you
I grew up near the Great Dismal Swamp & we’d occasionally get black bears turning up in the neighborhood. Or on the interstate. They were usually juveniles who had just left mom’s care
Leave em alone & they move on. If they don’t or get themselves in trouble call the game warden & they’ll send someone out to remove & relocate
A few years back a juvenile got himself stuck in a tree near a busy section of the interstate for a few days before he was removed. They thought he was scared of the traffic & didn’t want to get out of the tree
If it’s possible to experience uncanny valley from an animal--sunbears give it to me
I live in Connecticut and I see them regularly in the spring and fall. Only worry about them if they're with cubs.
I've had a few black bear encounters and never had a sign of aggression from any of them. They usually walk towards you, sniffing the air and grunting, then walk away unless you have food on you.
Whenever bears are sighted in the neighborhood, I make sure to carry some extra beef jerky, dog treats, or other snacks with me as a peace offering when I'm out walking dogs just incase I come across one who may be a little too interested in the dog, which they usually tend to be scared of anyway, but you never know how they will react every time.
And as long as they don't have cubs in the area and aren't sick, there's never really a reason to be nervous. Sometimes, in the woods, they just walk along with you about 20-30 feet away for a couple of minutes, then get bored with you a go about their day.
The only time I ever saw one be aggressive was while camping in Maine. There were a couple of cubs in the campground, and people started getting closer to take pictures of them, with no signs of the mother around they climbed up a tree and people walked right up to the tree. I was about 5 or 6 years old, and my parents kept me back from the idiots. I mean the other campers. After about 5 minutes you could hear leaves and twigs getting crushed as the mother came charging out of the woods and scattered everyone who was by the tree.
On another camping trip in NY, I was asleep in the tent and woke up because I heard noise outside. My father and a couple of his friends were cooking steaks on the fire when a black bear walked up, stuck his head right between them as they were sitting around the fire on some logs, looked around at them and grabbed one off the rack then walked back into woods as I watched from the tent. The next morning, the cooler with all the food in it that was right outside the tent was at the other side of the campsite with the top un-latched and only certain things missing. You could tell it wasn't their first time doing it. They were skilled.
This man's presentations are so entertaining.
I'm with you. Spectacled bear is the one I have not heard of.
I think if we'd have heard of them, they'd be called short nose or short snout bear. I feel I've heard that before. Will have to give it a Google.
Love you, Katie, and LOVE this creator!! Great combination!
Yes ! I had the pleasure of visiting Kodiak Island. There are no words to describe the size and power of a Kodiak ( male ) bear.
I’m happy you found casual geographic. His videos and so good
My back yard is a state park in NY, I see black bears all the time on my ring camera. Twice in person in 10 years. usually they are very scittish, and they are extreally fast runners
My oldest son lives in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania . He has black bears that come onto the deck of his house often . There was a huge old male bear that frequented the garbage bin at the restaurant he managed . He told me he saw it pick up a full 5 gallon can of used cooking oil they put in the garbage and drinking the whole thing like it was a glass of water .After several years , hunters killed it and it weighed about 600 pounds .
There was nothing more exciting for me as a young boy in the late 1980s than the experiences of my family and I yelling and banging on pots and pans while literally chasing a bear away from our campsite in the middle of the night in Kings Canyon National Park California
This happened a handful of times and each time I felt like total badass afterward. Good times.
I have seen a few. I lived on 15 acres about 5 miles back in the woods by a big river. One morning me and my kids went out the front door and there was the head of a large deer in the yard then a leg and back haunch under the porch but the black bear was in the back yard chewing on the rest. My daughter worked at a movie theater in a very busy area and a bear just walked through the parking lot. I also had one when I moved in my yard just chillin. I tend to live back in the woods. Hello from North Carolina.
My first hearing too!!❤
Ran into a black bear in Tennessee on a hike this June, ran into another one in Yellowstone in like 2022 or so, and have seen both on previous trips to Alaska, Montana and Wyoming from the car.
I saw grizzlies when we were in Yellowstone. My husband has seen several black bears in Big Bend in West Texas when camping with his friends.
Here in Southern California the black bears come into people’s yard and swim in their pools or sit in their hot tubs. It is just part of every day life in SoCal.
Casual Geographic is great, my kid got me into watching him back when his channel was still called Hood Nature. You should definitely check out more of his stuff! But also link the original vid.
I’m from Pennsylvania where lots of black bears live (they’re the most common in the US) and my brother has seen one but I haven’t. I live in Colorado now. I’m more afraid of mountain lions than bears but up north in Wyoming and farther north are the grizzlies. They scare me a lot. Of course Polar bears will end you but they’re mostly in Canada and Alaska.
Years ago, when I was 5 or so, we lived in southern Idaho and there was a bear hunting season. My older brother and I heard that a neighbor had bagged one and had brought it home. We sneaked over to his garage that had a window in the door. We peaked and saw the bear, fully skinned, hanging from a hook. That was chilling enough, but the thing that gave me nightmares afterwards was that the skinned bear looked uncannily like a human hanging there. Brrr.
I’m Californian; I’ve seen black bears while driving, hiking, and camping. I like to maintain a respectful distance from them. The bear population near me is sparse so it’s rare to see one; they’re very shy and don’t want to be near people either so no problem. But around popular campgrounds in bear country (such as in the Sierras), bears get too accustomed to people and to associating them with food - there’s always some idiot who intentionally gives them food or some inexperienced people who don’t secure their food properly - and bears will casually walk around campgrounds looking for food. I’ve seen a couple tents a bear walked through (ripped them open like nothing and walked through, one while people were in it sleeping) and a number of vehicles bears opened and raided (tore the door off one small car, popped windows out of the others). I quit tent camping in bear country after having bear walking around our campsite and sniffing our tent throughout the night.
We’ve had bears around our property in WV.
While living in NY state, I had a black bear bang on my back door. I was afraid it would get in and my malamute mix would take it on. After we sold our place in NY, two bears were taken and I heard one weighed 467 pounds.
My wife and I were hiking in the mountains in Tennessee. A cub and it's mama crossed the path in front of us. Maybe 20 yards
Ok, same dude did the cats one I love, and would like to see you consider: The Insane Plot Armor of Cats - do it man!
I've encountered about 20 bears in my lifetime, both Grizzly and Black Bears, and every single time, once the bear realized I was there, they ran away. Zero moments of aggression. One of those bears was a Grizzly sow with cubs, and it still ran away.
In parks or the wild I’ve seen black, brown and grizzly bears, but somehow it was seeing a black bear in town that scared me the most. Also, when my mom was a kid they had a polar bear cub for a pet! (For a little while)
I live near Nashville and we have black bears around us. Their range has been increasing every year.
Answering 2 questions at once, the times I’ve seen bears it was in… Kings Canyon. Sequoia National Park.
I remember early in high school waiting for the bus when I happend to look over down the road to an old quarry, saw a momma brown bear and her cubs and just went Nope not today and walked back up the hill to go home.
The answer at the beginning you weren't sure of is a Polar Bear. They're obligate carnivores (from general studies, but hasn't been universally determined [obligate carnivore means at least 70% of that animal's diet is meat.]) Black bears are more interested in surviving and are more likely to skidaddle out of town if you notice them. Brown/grizzlies will attack you if you're a perceived threat to them and that perception is up to THEIR digression, not yours.
[Edit: Casual Geographics classified Polar bears as a Hypercarnivore. The term has been interchangeable with obligate carnivore, bhe definition's the same of a diet consisting of at least 70% meat through hunting or scavenging. That is different from a diet that is at least 70% protein as protein is obtainable through other sources. Polar bears actively either go out and kill stuff or find something that hasn't completely rotted and that is what makes up at least if not more than 70% of their daily caloric intake.]
It's really the mentality that changes the level of danger. Black bears don't want anything to do with you. Brown/Grizzlies don't want you around and will choose violence if ever they're given an option of A. Run Away or B. Negotiate. They default to F. Violence, a choice never listed, but they'll still choose it. Polar bears are the only ones that would actually perceive a human as a food source and therefore isn't really looking to attack you per say; it's hunting you. The other's are out to possibly harm you. Polar bears are going to go the entire way in hurting you, killing you, and eating you. They really don't care because that's just their dietary nature. They're attacking you for different reasons and for polar bears its so you'll git in their belly.
That stat of being mauled in Yellowstone....I feel like that's if sane people are visiting. With so many Tourons needing to grab that selfie of them sticking their head in the bear's mouth regardless of what everyone's telling them (because "they know better than the people warning them) I feel like that chance is skyrocketing artificially. It's probably closer to 1 in 450,000 to get attacked with the chance increasing per person you're around and it also gets a higher chance if there's foreign young adults in the mix.
Look, all I'm going to point out is that yes, the US has some amazing nature as it's really still a bit untamed and unclaimed here and that's how we live. However, the joke is entirely on you when you make fun of our janked healthcare system and then volunteer yourself to go through it as a foreign citizen by having to go "touch the acidic hot spring to see if it's actually hot." or "get a selfie of you petting the fluffy bison that's stamping it's hooves and snorting and clearly looks uncomfortable with so many people making noise and approaching it when all it wants to do is f**k." I mean it's not the greatest health care system, but now you've got to be a participant in that system to get those burns treated, to get that hole in your gut stitched up, to get your leg sewn back together. It's either that or you can try waiting for a couple days to book a flight out of the US, try to make it through TSA, have to explain the same story several times, get thrown into coach, spend 13-18 hours crossing an ocean, catch some transfers, and then finally make it back to your free health care system...... I'm just pointing out that there's a lot of people playing a dumb game and the dumb prize is something they've been critiquing this entire time. It's not something that I wish any foreigner to ever have to get processed through, but that's what you're competing for when you keep doing dumb stuff in our national parks. And that kind of behavior just garners my apathy to any scenario.
It's the opposite for the reason for more polar bear attacks. It's not that we're going closer to polar bear territory, it's that polar bear territory is shrinking meaning the only place they have to go is off the ice and onto terrafirma. The real threat of global warming has and continues to erase the habitats the polar bears once kept to, so they're doing whatever they can to survive, and that's go where they're not drowning and expand their menu with the local fauna. It just happens to be that out reached towns, hikers, and researchers are part of that "local fauna."
AMEN!!!!!!!!!
I live in an area in Canada of about 650k. Couple hours from Toronto. We are a large, urban area. I have seen a few bears in the area over the years. Even in the parks in the middle of the city. More so they get into the garbages and stuff on the outskirts. Attacks are extremely uncommon, I'm not even sure we've had any in my area in my lifetime. But where I am, it is the ONLY animal I can come across that would scare me. Luckily, we have mostly Black Bears where I am. We've had a few camping, if you make a ton of noise they usually take off. I do not want to come across momma and her cubs though. I get the self medicating with a single bullet if thats coming at you. Plus, most bears will eat you alive. With Grizzlies they tell you to play dead because it will make you less interesting to them
Kabir, I don't say this from living all my life in bear country. Truth be told, I live in northern IL in a city of about 200M--not exactly crawling with bears. However, I've been told that the one with the greatest likelihood of chasing you down is a polar bear, and most attacks come when 1) campers eat and/or cook their food right by their tent (far better is to do those things several hundred yards/meters from the tent, and hand uneaten food from a tree via rope. 2) being startled, which can be avoided by constantly making noise, either via "Hey, bear.", or shaking a can of stones, etc., and 3) coming between mom and the kids, which refers back to #2. Personally, I've seen all 3, the first 2 in national parks, and #3 on a day tour to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada--self-proclaimed Polar Bear Capital of the World. We were on a wooden bus about 8 or 9 feet above the ground--totally safe. But, it was still a rush. I also drove past a black bear on my way to AK back in '84, and stopped on the side of the road for a few seconds to get a pic. Then, later in the trip, I and a campground full of people saw a grizzly and her 2 cubs, all of which waltzed into the campground. Great pix!
The only one I didn't know about was the Asiatic black bear.
He hinted at, but didn't really explain, where the Kodiak bear is from. There's an archipelago of islands several hundred miles SW of Anchorage, AK by that name. Check google maps.
The "If you know, you know!" comment at 14:24 was referring to a couple who'd lived with bears for years somewhere on the back side of nowhere. Then, 1 day 1 of the bears turned on them, and they were found dead.
In the case of the polar bear, the ice is melting, so they can't wait at ice holes for a seal to poke its head out. As a result, they're now coming on land, many times it's town land.
I will NEVER put myself in a situation that has wild animals that will end me. No backpacking, hiking,climing mountains. Nothing near all those killing machines.
I feel the same way...only about going into a city. Wild animals are far more predictable and there are no legal repercussions for shooting them.
I live right near downtown Colorado Springs but my neighborhood is considered black bear territory to the point where we're technically required to have bearproof rubbish bins.
I was up at Denny Creek in western Washington and followed a large black bear up a hill like a moron. I was actually mesmerised and firgot about the danger until it turned its head and glanced over its shoulder at me. When I looked it in the eye, I was reminded of what I was doing and slowly backed down and sat in the car with my heart pounding. My boyfriend asked me why I did that. I didn’t even answer.
When I was a kid we would go to the upper peninsula of Michigan for vacation. At sunset every night we would drive to the dump and watch the bears come out to eat the garbage.
Yeah this on the Casual Geographic channel is hilarious. He's one of the best funny channels out there that's also educational. His whole section on killer birds is side-splittingly fantastic.
Where I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Idaho, one day we were at a family friend's house down a side road in the type of rural area where dirt roads are common, and there was a baby black bear crying about 30ft up a pine tree. We called Fish and Game... and they said they weren't going to come out unless it was there for a couple of days, because the idea of messing with a bear cub was just not one that even wanted to entertain; and they were the professionals. After the baby bear was stuck clinging to that tree for almost 3 days, when was probably weak enough at that point that it might have fallen out at any moment, somebody finally came out to get him and put him in a bear kennel or whatever you do with a baby bear when you transport them to a place where they can be rehabilitated, because you know Mom is not coming back. But yeah, it's pretty intense when the people whose job it is to take care of wildlife are like, nope, we're not going to play with that one unless we're sure we're not going to die first.
The sad thing was, the poor baby was sitting right outside this guy's house trailer house crying the whole time, and as a fellow mammal you feel pulled to help an infant of any species; but in that case nobody dared.
I never heard of a spectacled bear, Kabir! Lol!
"if you know, you know". He was referring to Timothy Treadwell (also known as Grizzly Man) and his girlfriend. They were both eaten alive by a grizzly bear in Alaska because of Timothy's foolishness.
They had already been on their yearly trek to a national park in Alaska. Just before hibernation season, no one is supposed to be in the park. Timothy and his girlfriend had left the park and they usually would at that time of year but went back when they couldn't get a flight back home (it had something to do with a bogus ticket)
Timothy though the grizzlies respected him. He had been make the trek for 13 years. This last time, he was there during hibernation season and he purposely camped in an area where the bears would be stocking up on food before they hibernate. Timothy was in an area that no one was supposed to set up camp in.
It is normal to take bear spray and set up an electric fence around you campsite but Timothy had neither spray nor fence.
Two bears went to the campsite and Timothy and his girlfriend tried to fight them off but they were no match for the bears.
Since Timothy would take videos and pictures, there was an audio recording of the attacks. It is my understanding that the audio was given to a friend and the friend destroyed it because of the horrific nature of the sounds of two people being attacked and eaten alive.
Live in northern California surrounded by the different mountain ranges where black bears can be prevalent but mostly common around the coast. I think we have a more of a concern for mountain lions than the bears, the bears are around but they do their part to not be sighted. The mountain lions are a different matter where they hide to pounce at the right time.
I was at a resort in Western WA that was overun with bears. I counted 11 bears over the weekend, not counting cubs. I came back with a string of fish that a bear wanted, which I gladly gave up. One bear came in through the door of the cabin and my dog and I went out the window. The caretaker was feeding blueberry muffins to a yearling bear. I told him that was not a good idea at a resort with bear problems. He said "You city folk don't know shit. Then the bear swiped at him for stopping feeding him muffins. Laid his arm open from his shoulder to his elbow. I said I may be from the city but I know better than to take my eyes off a bear that I was stupid enough to feed. I put a tourniquet on him and called the medics.
Great story. Thanks for sharing a few chuckles and giggles
Check out Kodiak Island. The largest bears in the world. The most beautiful vacation i ever went on!
to bad polar bears are
Hey man I'm canadian and a animal nut. Had never heard of a spectacle bear before. So you're all good buddy.
I live in western Washington and we’ve been getting 2-3 a week for the last few months at our house. Way more than usual. 🐻
There are bears in most National Parks (obviously, not the ones in the desert). The bears know what coolers hold and will break a car window to get a cooler! You have to keep them covered.
I have never seen a bear in the wild.
Look up Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. It is the undisputed Polar Bear Capital of the World. If you go to Churchill in the Summer, they actually run Polar Bear Tours. Some of the vehicles look like a school bus crossed with a monster truck.
@kabirconsiders @14:24 in your video he stops on a couple. Well On October 5, 2003, documentary maker Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were mauled to death by a grizzly bear.. The whole attack was caught on tape. He used to go up to Kodiak Island every year to film the bears. That time they didn't make it back.
I really enjoyed this one sir!
I had a bear crawl into my Ford Escort in Yosemite. I’d left the window down and came back to a bear eating an apple in my car.
Strangely enough I just this second had a black bear walk past me on my porch in my backyard! I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains so it’s not uncommon for that to happen
RE : the photo of the blond guy and girl...
There's a genuine lesson in harsh reality in the story of Timothy Treadwell. [Look him up] There was some suggestion that he suffered from psychiatric problems but nothing definite. He believed that he could live with grizzly bears, and even talked to them and gave them names. Unfortunately, one of the bears gave him a name... DINNER !! The bear then ate Timothy's girlfriend for dessert.
I grew up in Alaska where we do have brown bears. I only seen a bear in some drive through zoo like thing that confused me. My friend wanted to get out of my car and look at the bears through a chain link fence. I refused. I would not get near a bear with only a chain link fence for protection. I remember having a planned hiking trip to this state park where I love to hike just outside of Anchorage and while driving to the park my friends and I decided we did not want to drive so far and we went hiking at some trail closer to my home. This decision cut out about 160 miles of driving time. When I got home that night, I found out on the news that same day at the trail I was planning on hiking a man and his mother were killed by a brown bear with only the teenage son living because he ran off. You don't mess with bears. Any kind of bear. Polar bears are the worse. They will stalk you will the sole purpose of eating you.
Do more of his videos! Two good ones are: Why Moose are the Biggest Threat to National Security and How not to get Deleted by Animals
I live in the state of Michigan we've had bears in our yard my whole life I've run into a half a dozen out in the woods mostly they go about their business or run off.
You can feel just fine. I've never heard of the first two species either.
Black bears are actually the smallest species and the least likely to attack a human... unless it's a female guarding her cubs.
600 700 lbs is not small
Yosemite has had a problem with bear destroying cars to get food campers left in those cars.
Me looking at the Sunbear's physique: Jeez it looks like a cross between a bear and an ape, especially those arms.
Video: Explains that the Sunbear has adapted to climb trees.
Me: Oh ok. That checks out.
Pizzly bears are missing from the list. Mother nature had a hold my beer and watch this moment giving way for polar and grizzly bears to mix it up. Hybrids usually get larger than their parents add that with the other traits what could possibly go wrong 😂
That paw went shoulder to shoulder
Yes at 12 years old i walked into a black bear behind my house. My dog chased it away.
I've only come across black bears. They come in yard during the spring and eat grass out of our field. Never had a problem with them. They always take off running as soon as they see or smell you. I mean there's always a chance, I'm just saying my experience with them.
14:24 thats timothy treadwell a guy who thought bears were his family and went out to alaska and got himself and his wife eaten by a bear and they recorded the whole audio from start to finish and someone went and posted the audio online.
I saw a bear in the woods, but I was hunting with a rifle so I was not concerned at all. The bear didn't really pay attention to me it just did its thing and I watched it for a few minutes before it left.
Please don't let them confuse you. While the coloration of a grizzly IS brown, they are not a brown bear. Brown bears are medium size, in between a black bear and a grizzly, but their body shape is more like a black bear. A grizzly is MUCH larger, is kinda has a hunchback look and isn't afraid of anything because they don't really HAVE any natural enemies. While they ARE apex predators, their preferred food sources are fish, berries, bugs and grubs. Best advice is to simply leave them as much alone as humanly possible because a momma grizzly with cubs nearby is possibly the most dangerous animal walking the earth. You're going to hear things like "make yourself as large ss possible and make noise". This is good advice for MOST species, I wouldn't want to draw attention to myself from a grizzly or polar bear. "Do not turn and run away"... true. Turning your back and running will trigger their hunting/pursuit response and you are screwed because they are faster than humans. If you see one in the wild and they have not spotted you, you're in luck as they have poor eyesight. Try to stay out of their line of sight as you, as carefully and quietly as possible, move to where the wind is moving from the bear and toward you. They may have poor eyesight, but their sense of smell is incredible. They hear very well too. That's why I said to move quietly. One other piece of advice: no matter how much you like bacon, do NOT take it out as part of your camp food. Bears love it and can smell it at huge distances. I promise you that you don't want even one of them searching through your camp