American Reacts to British Bears!
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2024
- Let's dive into the fascinating history and reasons behind why there are no bears in Britain! From ancient times when bears roamed the British Isles to the factors that led to their disappearance, we'll explore this intriguing topic and the efforts to bring bears back to Britain!
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I'm absolutely fine with there not being any bears in Britain.
yes. It's one thing getting rabbits in your garden, and squirrels on your bird feeder, but ''I think we can do without bears.
These wildlife nutters are trying to reintroduce wolves...there is a reason Britain flourished in the 1000's. No predators.
No bears please, I like the woods as my peaceful place, badgers are the worst animal I have to worry about and if it's daytime there's not really a problem, maybe a rabies fox or something like that but it's as dangerous as a dog with rabies or just a big dog in general
Plus who wants bear shit in their garden
Although you could build some walls round London and Bradford and places like that
Then put the bears INSIDE 😂
We do have a Paddington bear who emigrated to England but he 😊😂❤won't hurt you as long as you give him a jar of Marmalade
Go to any town centre on a Friday or Saturday night to spot herds of truly majestic British Bison.
A few bears too, if you know where to look.
Don't ever leave...
He just called us Brits weak, noodley armed, fish and chip eating viruses on this planet.
Ouch 😂😂😂
He’s not wrong…
And the virus part goes for all humans, let’s be honest 🤷🏻♂️
He is correct.
I felt seen.
@@Kerazzy. Finally a correct stereotype. I’ve always considered myself “noodley armed”.
'You're a weak, noodly armed, fish & chip eating, virus on this planet' 😂
That's what the world thinks about us to be fair 😅
@@pem... true about me , arms so noodly
Best part of the uk is that there are no dangerous animals really and theres not even many bugs too, no snakes, nothing particularly poisionous or venemous we dont really have mosquitos either. Camping is so safe.
Adders?
@@weeddegree Scorpions, Hornets, Wasps, Bee's, Woodlice Spiders, White Widows and the mighty Cow.
All bite, sting and trample... and all have fatality's and much pain linked to them.
mosquitos over here don't carry malaria but they're still no fun if you get bit.
@@cst039 Not yet at least, but maybe in the future. I read only this week that the tiger mosquito has become well established in France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. And has recently been sighted In Belgium, the Netherlands and even in the very south east of England. They carry dengue fever,
chikungunya, and Zika virus. Who knows, the ones that carry malaria could be next.
You ever try getting a cat off your knee? Ever tried acupuncture? Same thing!
The only bears we have in the UK are mostly in Manchester, Brighton and London, and usually come out more during June - September: Pride Season
Tell me you're a nasty person without telling me.
Ahh a knuckle dragging I see
I'm starting a campaign... *No Bears in Britain*
What? Deport Paddington?
@@junior602002I just pictured a full Paddington bear film were nigel farage was the bad guy 😂
10:00 so basically three quarters of the population are like HELL NO to the idea. Got it!😂
I'm one of them, sod that, no thanks!
We saw them all off once with spears and arrows. You guys all have AR15s and there are bears running around all over the place. Now who’s noodle-armed? Eh?!
Exactly, they weren't hunted to extinction as food. It was self defence. Although to be fair to Americans, they did manage to erradicate the Passenger Pigeon. But I think erradicating bears is more impressive.
i assume we aren't including Paddington or Winnie the Pooh.
Or Rupert
Britain is famous for it's now extinct sabretooth Bison. The bears were all slaughtered at exactly the same time, because they were caught having a picnic in the woods. All except Paddington. He went on to have tea with the Queen!
We also had dinosaurs at one time.
I know a few dinosaurs!
“Squirrels aren’t gonna hunt you down in packs.” Al Murray (the Pub Landlord.)
They do if no one sees it. Little bastards !
Paddington Bear, Rupert the Bear, Sooty, Winnie the Pooh, who says we don’t have bears in England?
There are plenty of bears in Britain, they just happen to be of the gay variety. A lot less dangerous than the wild type.
😂😂😂
Often found in dark car parks, lol
@@johnritter6864 what car parks have you been hanging out in? 🤣🤣🤣
@@SPierced lol
Tell me you're a nasty person without telling me.
We have wolves still here in Spain and i have a family of wild boars who live in the mountain behind us and come down into our fields at night.
Italy has both bears and wolves. They are doing fine.
Americans even try to claim animals as " their own " !!
The large land mass that used to attach Britain to mainland Europe was called DOGGERLAND. That area of the sea is still called DOGGER BANK in the daily shipping forecasts.
The sea area in the forecasts is simply referred to as Dogger. Although it is of course in the same area as the Dogger Bank.
There was a guy called Andy Robin who had a performing bear called Hercules. He treated the bear like he was his child. They lived about ten miles from my home when I was a kid. He was very famous in Scotland in the eighties. Andy used to wrestle with him at events like Medieval Markets and community fairs. An older friend of mine was walking in the local hills one day, and saw Herc charging towards her. As you can imagine she got quite a shock,😮. The Robins reaĺly loved Hercules but I wish he had been able to live free...not in the UK though😂, I'd rather have a sea between me and a wild bear😂
I've met a few bears in Earl's Court but they always took their shoes off before going to bed
A polar bear was given as a gift and the Tower of London used to be a zoo where some animals that were gifted to the monarch were taken care of, problem is they didn’t know how to take care of these animals. For example an elephant was given and they apparently they fed the elephant wine and food they had for dinner since they didn’t know what to feed it.
I heard they did try their best to take care of them since they were seen as special gifts from abroad but they didn’t know what they were doing which lead these animals to suffer
I don't think it would be fair on the bears to reintroduce them into Britain. We are an island where will they go when there's not enough room for them, would we cull them like we do with deer? That doesn't sound fair on them. Plus isn't that natural selection, they died out for a reason or multiple reasons. We should be doing more to look after the wildlife we do have, hedgehogs are on the at risk register.
I loved the expression on your face when you saw the pic of the bears dancing.
Tens of thousands of years ago Britain looked a lot like the African savanna. Hippopotamus bones were found under Nelson’s column
In Europe we used to try animals in court for crimes in a similar way to people. In France, a court even sentenced some mice for eating a sack of food.
There's a (apocryphal but fun) story that a village here in England once put a Chimp on trial as a French soldier during the Napoleonic wars. The issue being that the chimp had washed up as the only survivor of a ship wreck, dressed as a French soldier (for his crew's amusement), and the locals had never seen a) a chimp or b) a French person. But the stereotypes about the French were that they were short and hairy and obviously a Frenchman wouldn't be able to answer their questions because he wouldn't understand and thus the story goes that the chimp was put to death as an enemy of the realm.
@@ChickenOfAwesome"ohh eeh ohh ahh ahh!"
HE'S SPEAKING FRENCH!!!
We ain't afraid of no bears.
Black bears wild in Britain, insanity, definitely change the mindset of taking your dog for a walk. It's a crazy idea, especially for people who live in the countryside like myself.🤨😲😸🐈👍
I love bears.. they’re absolutely gorgeous🥰💕 But wouldn’t want them reintroduced here. Don’t think it’d be fair on them at all, they’d end up just getting hunted😑
IMO the narrator could've mentioned that the Eurasian populations of the moose were the original animal to be called 'elk' in English (and it's names in Germanic, Romance and Hellenic languages remain it's cognates to this day) and that it was their extinction in Britain and nearby that rendered the word vague and 'available' to be given to whatever larger-that-in-Britain deer English colonists happened to face first overseas - which of course was the larger cousin of the Europan red deer called 'wapiti' by the Algonquian natives, who, incidentally, also called the "original elk's" North American populations 'moosuh,' explaining it's currently most used name in English together with the overwhelming inertia of American media during the age of the Internet.
I watched a documentary on the Siberian tigers and how some people were trying to preserve and increase their numbers. I was dismayed when the commentator stated they only kill a few people a year and that it was a small price to pay for, to save those beautiful animals.
3:57 but there is good news for the European bison; as of 2022, we have reintroduced the species to England in a specially made reserve in Kent.
We have bear in Europe.
When have you ever heard of a bear attack in Europe!
An Italian jogger is believed to have been killed by a bear quite recently, I believe. It is very unusual though. Bear attacks on livestock in the Pyrenees are a growing problem, though.
We have brought back beavers , and there is also talk of reintroducing lynx again . But bringing back bears might be a bit worrying , see the chocolate bar ads on TV to see why !
There are loads of bears in the UK. Rupert, Pooh, Bungle and Paddington and Pudsey to name but five; and Mr Grylls of course.
I met Hercules the bear as a kid
The wolf has returned to the Netherlands. We have learned since then that they eat around 30 sheep per day.
Source?
@@dougalportree603 I was being sarcastic about the number of sheep. However the wolf has returned to the Netherlands. You can easily google this. You know how google works?
@@dougalportree603I fully believe him. Wolves went extinct in ireland because they were pests and hunted until they were wiped out. Now we have an out of control deer population. The problem is wolves will happily pick a flock of sheep to chase down rather than chase deer so reintroduction would be a problem. Let's not forget leaving your dog outside could be the end of it
If a bear saw you with a fork, it would know that it needed to fork off.
@JJLAReacts are you OK? 😂😂😂 I'm not weak with noodley arms but I do like fish n chips occasionally and I owed a number of folks!! 😂😂😂
Oh and my home town (Grimsby) used to be the biggest fishing port in the world 🐠 Maybe the bears ate all the fish and that's why Grimsby is no longer a fishing superpower 🤷🏼♀️😢
We actually do have guns, but you have to be licenced and keep it locked in a very secure lock box when not in use. Ex hubby had a shotgun, and a friend of mine enjoys the gun range with her friend. Only certain guns are permitted, and there are strict rules about carrying them around.
We have bears. In captivity in Wildlife Parks and modern Zoos. There are plans to try and have wolves as they could help the ecosystem.
I learn something every time I watch JJ I had no idea we had bears in the UK!! Damn educational system
We killed everything that was a possible threat. Cows are probably the most dangerous thing you will come across in the UK.
The reason there is a lot of talk about rewilding in the UK is because the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on the planet.
Though I think reintroducing them as pure wild animals free roam anywhere is wrong.
We could do more of those projects where they’re in an enclosed area. Make ones for Wolves and Lynxes aswell.
13:34 what he doesn’t mention about bear wood is that they share their enclosure with a pack of wolves. Also bear wood is in the bristol zoo project in South Gloucestershire. I drive past it all the time
It's amazing that relics from doggerland have been recovered.
Every farmer can get a gun and we have shooting ranges in which you can become a member of a club, but it is harder to get a license in the UK then in the USA.
There's an ongoing issue at the minute that the deer population is at risk of falling out of control in Britain because there's no natural predators of the adult deer. This is why wolves have been considered in certain parts but never got any traction. Last reports suggested something like 2.5m of the six species combined.
We have big cats in Britain.
I’ve personally seen 3 black cats (I think they’re Panthers), and I’ve been told we have Cougars as well, but I’m not sure where. I personally haven’t seen a Cougar.
I once spotted the beast of Bodmin. When I got closer it turned out to be a cow. They look very similar from a distance of about 4 miles.
Our island is so small and our country is so old that anything dangerous has been exterminated a long long time ago
Bears might go for your grandpa's face on certain
sites. Something for everyone. Not sure about in the wild...parks maybe.
someone's been watching toomany Simpson's episodes. All the bears I am in favour of are Peruvian marmelade sandwich eating ones
Pilgrims likely weren't persecuted, more recent understanding suggests the Puritans didn't agree with the CoE, and wanted to be free to exercise their very strict religious dogma, enforcing it on everyone in their community.
11:13 - That got dark,
I have to agree with you on the reintroduction of bears. NOT a good idea! lol!
If people and bears don't mix, they were here first.
What makes you think they were here first?
As an actor you must know the stage direction in act III "The Winters Tale" by Shakespeare ; "Exit, pursued by a bear"
The Winter's Tale is set in Bohemia, of course, not England.
@@carltaylor6452 Bugger, your right!
@@carltaylor6452 "you're" not "your" good god I'm getting worse.
@@mildandbitter The other interesting thing about A Winter's Tale that people always bring up is that in the play Bohemia has a coastline - when we know that it was a landlocked kingdom - but in fact Bohemia once owned ports on the Adriatic. So Shakespeare wasn't just employing poetic license - he knew what he was talking about. 🙂
Wait !! JJLA is an " actor" !? He can't get much work....he's terrible in front of the camera !!
I wish there were still wolves and bears over here in the wild, but as we're a small island I don't think it would be feasible. I've seen brown bears and wolves in the zoo, they're beautiful.
The blood sports in our history in Britain is so sad and incredibly shameful.
Wolves are just a threat to livestock they don't go for humans theybtend to flee and give a dirty look at the traitor dogs
The Revenant was enough for me it almost bored me to death, never ending film.
Dealing with bears is easy. You just put some of their favourite music on and they stop chasing you and start dancing.
How do you get the headphones on the bear?
@@geoffpriestley7310 You hand them over to your mate and say "Don't worry, it'll be just fine. He's more scared of you than you are of him."
Plenty of bears in Manchester's gay village, they're big & friendly for a particular kind of fella
Currently. our largest land predator is the Badger, bigger and far better looking than its American cousin, followed in size and weight by the fox?
They're actually an omnivore, our Badgers tend to prefer earthworms so there's no need to worry?
Were you scared when you saw the Coyote? I just looked up Coyote and most attacks on humans occur in California!! Where you live 😮
I'm a brit and I know Britain has bears you can find them on grinder 😂
We have crazy squirrels😵
Shhh. They're secret 😃
I think you will find they are pronounce mice in English, not mooses.
British Isles are small compared to the USA the United States is approximately 40 times the size of the United Kingdom.
save the pets and pensioners. totally up for spreading bear awareness. we are talking about streaking though, aye?
I still want bears and wolves to be reintroduced here.
Despite there being rifles in most country-side areas in Britain for farmers/vets needing to put down horses or other legal endevours and every Farmer has a shotgun; bears are indeed a step too far for re-wilding. Bring back the eurasian lynx though we do need an apex preditor back to keep the deer in check.
We don't need guns. Your flag needs a yellow streak down the middle. 😆
You did a video about dogger bank recently didn't you 😉
Have bears in schools - the only defence against bad bears is a good bear. That's how American logic goes, isn't it?
Hi. Just a quick comment on your own quick comment on the pilgrims. It seems that hardly any Americans actually know the truth about the reasons the so called pilgrim fathers left Britain for the colonies. It's a complete myth that they left to escape religious persecution. They were puritans. They actually left because England was too religiously liberal for their puritanical ideologies. In other words. They were the would be religious persecutors but they were on to a losing battle. Ergo. Leave for somewhere where they can practice their austere, even Draconian ideology... As you say in the states. "The more you know"....😜
The European Bison could beat up the American Bison.
All polar bears trace their their lineage back to a female irish brown bear.
I love black bears. I think they're adorable and will probably be unalived by one when I try to befriend it.
Bears in Britain yes. I love them. Shush Merica. T
React to a rewilding britian video
We've reintroduced beavers, wolves and bustards. Lynx will be next, but bears have to be on the list too.
wolves have not yet been reintroduced to the UK , but might be soon in Scotland to prey on red deer
DAMN THATS CRAZY IT'S ALMOST AS IF THERES TWO DIFFERENT SPECIES OF THE SAME ANIMAL. ONE EUROPEAN AND ONE AMERICAN WHATTTTT CRAZYYYY UNHEARD OF THIS IS SO ALIENNNNN BUT EVERYTHING IS AMERICAN!!?!!!!?!?!?
We have gun permits so that wouldn't be an issue for people having local bears. A limited population, properly tracked and controlled in the highlands or something, might be feasible but i fail to see any reason to do that.
Bears are pretty horrible in my book, no bears thank you. Many Brits seem to have no idea about how deadly bears are. NO to bears.
Stick with beavers.
15:03 skips to th end of the video skipping all the arguments, then saying no… smh Americans
Make your mind up commentator. If they went extinct 6000 years, ago, they were not roaming mediaeval woodlands...
I've watched Cocaine Bear yep not a good idea at all! …… However…
Boy, you're really afraid of bears 😂
We don't need guns to fight off bears were British lol
The only way bears are coming back is if guns are coming back. In other words it's not gonna happen!
We do have guns .
Who watches the livestream of the Bears in Alaska. It’s fascinating. I’m very well aware of what bears can do. It baffles me to see people fishing in Katmai, down river from the bears but they do encounter them from time to time. Apparently the risk is small when the bears have enough food but even so!!
No we did not kill all the Bears we sold them to the second generation of Americans..... lol
The Romans really were total bastards
Apart from the aqueducts!
@se4307 yeah they had some good ideas. . I'll give em that
Yeah, what did they ever do for us?. I'll get me coat...
@@se4307 and the irrigation!
And the roads. Don’t forget the roads!
There is no way bears will be imported into Britain, that part of the video is bollocks.
Like the recent feminist thought-experiment about a woman preferring to encounter a bear in the woods than a strange man, I think most Brits would prefer to encounter an immigrant bear in the city centre than more immigrant Islamists.