Slightly off topic but I'm fascinated by the cave paintings in France and Spain, its amazing what they could do with such limited painting tools compared to what we have today and gives us an insight into the kind of the animals they encountered during this time period.
Have you heard of the "god-bear" killed in the Soviet Far East? Supposedly its skin covered the entire exterior wall of the cabin the hunter was living in while hunting it.
@@thegreatbearwolf2915 It's been a couple years since I saw it, but I believe it was a Documentary about Bears on like Discovery. The event took place during the mid-60's to early 70's I believe. Anyways reports started coming in about a bear, a really big bear in the far east (Siberia) a bear the size of a horse that killed other bears so a Soviet Zoologist mounted a hunting expedition to find it. He spent something like 3 years tracking and searching finally killing it. The local Natives referred to the bear as "the God-bear". Like most reports of unusual occurrences from the former Soviet Union the information is sketchy at best.
@@jameswells554 I remember the story. It was supposed to be the only reported short faced bear. They were extremely fast and large . Their hair wasn't long like other bears either. It was black but short like a polar bears. It was a very interesting doc.
I’ve heard of it. There used to be a series on discovery channel years ago called (Into the Unknown) and one episode they spoke of a giant bear in the Russian province of Kamchatka.
Ref. the title, in regard to the brown bear species, cave bears are not that species, they are a distinct species. Cave bear; Ursus spelaeus Brown bear; Ursus arctos
No, cave bears are the ancestors of brown bears such as the grizzly, Kodiak and the Eurasian brown. You are mistaking it for the short faced bear Wich only ancestor is the spectacle bear.
Ursus arctos is the name for modern brown bear species. Ursus spelaeus is the ancestor species, kinda like modern humans are different to their ancestors, I mean modern Europeans (even Americans who's ancestory hails from Europe) are descended from Neanderthals & Cromagnons. Basically why I am saying is that modern day brown bears (ursus arctos) are direct descendants of the Cave Bears (Ursus spelaeus).
No, Cave bear. Prehistoric bears in europe and asia. It has resemblence with modern brown bears while Short faced bears had that with extant spectacled bears.
A worthy rival for the Amur tiger
Slightly off topic but I'm fascinated by the cave paintings in France and Spain, its amazing what they could do with such limited painting tools compared to what we have today and gives us an insight into the kind of the animals they encountered during this time period.
Also found in North America.
Nah that’s the short face bear
I just 🤎 BIG BRUTAL BROWN BULKY #BEARS🐻.
Have you heard of the "god-bear" killed in the Soviet Far East? Supposedly its skin covered the entire exterior wall of the cabin the hunter was living in while hunting it.
No i havn't. Have you do any source for that? I want see about this.
@@thegreatbearwolf2915 It's been a couple years since I saw it, but I believe it was a Documentary about Bears on like Discovery. The event took place during the mid-60's to early 70's I believe. Anyways reports started coming in about a bear, a really big bear in the far east (Siberia) a bear the size of a horse that killed other bears so a Soviet Zoologist mounted a hunting expedition to find it. He spent something like 3 years tracking and searching finally killing it. The local Natives referred to the bear as "the God-bear". Like most reports of unusual occurrences from the former Soviet Union the information is sketchy at best.
@@jameswells554 I remember the story. It was supposed to be the only reported short faced bear. They were extremely fast and large . Their hair wasn't long like other bears either. It was black but short like a polar bears. It was a very interesting doc.
I’ve heard of it. There used to be a series on discovery channel years ago called (Into the Unknown) and one episode they spoke of a giant bear in the Russian province of Kamchatka.
@@jonathanthomas4182 that's the one
That would be the Kodiak bear with evidence of individuals of up to 1000kg.
That was a cool video.👍
Ref. the title, in regard to the brown bear species, cave bears are not that species, they are a distinct species.
Cave bear; Ursus spelaeus
Brown bear; Ursus arctos
No, cave bears are the ancestors of brown bears such as the grizzly, Kodiak and the Eurasian brown.
You are mistaking it for the short faced bear Wich only ancestor is the spectacle bear.
Ursus arctos is the name for modern brown bear species.
Ursus spelaeus is the ancestor species, kinda like modern humans are different to their ancestors, I mean modern Europeans (even Americans who's ancestory hails from Europe) are descended from Neanderthals & Cromagnons.
Basically why I am saying is that modern day brown bears (ursus arctos) are direct descendants of the Cave Bears (Ursus spelaeus).
@@Thunor93 Dude, I'm pretty sure Cave Bears and Brown Bears evolved at the same time.
I thought that short-faced bear is bigger?
It is Bigger! Especially the South American one!
Is this the short face?
No, Cave bear. Prehistoric bears in europe and asia. It has resemblence with modern brown bears while Short faced bears had that with extant spectacled bears.
It was not a brown bear, cave bear.