3 American Animals VS 3 European Animals - Which Animals Are More Dangerous?
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Even though Europe and North America Are separated by quite a large ocean, these two continents do share quite a lot of wildlife. North america and Europe share quite a few species of birds and large herbivores but today i will be focusing on the large predators. Brown bears, gray wolves, and polar bears can be found in both north america and Europe and today i will be trying to figure out if these predators are more dangerous in north america or Europe. I will hopefully be answering all you questions about wolf and bear attacks on both continents and hopefully you'll learn something along the way.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Brown Bears
4:24 Gray Wolves
6:17 Polar Bears
Attributions
Gray wolf footage:
Wyoming Untrapped
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Bear sign image:
Moosealope
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Brown bear footage:
Jukka Lämsä
/ @jukkalamsa
Brown bear distribution map:
Hannu & IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature); see above
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Brown bear images:
Marco Tersigni
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A. Marciszak, K. Stefaniak, & W. Gornig
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Rabies image:
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Pizzly and Grolar bear images:
windfuchs
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I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
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Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf
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I’d compare moose. Typically, large herbivores kill more people than predators do.
That's only because we they have a tendency to cross highways at night.
I love hearing from city people
I don't know about the moose in Norway, but in North America moose are usually only aggressive to people if it's a large male drunk from eating fermented fruits.
I hardly know anything about moose in Europe. Not even if they're imported/invasive
@@wolfpackpete6408 ya know, I looked it up on a couple of wildlife sites….not wikipedia, who believes Wikipedia? They confirm that they aren’t aggressive……UNLESS it’s mating season OR they’re tired or hungry. Can anyone tell me where to find an eating/napping schedule for moose?
@@debbylou5729 I think all the grown males of every herbivorous species are more aggressive and therefore dangerous in the mating season. The danger aspect obviously moreso the bigger the species and in the case of deer species their antlers have numerous sharp spikes.
Polar bears will polar bear. They literally look at humans as a source of food and will not hesitate doesn’t matter what hemisphere you’re on. Any encounter with a polar bear in their natural habitat will most likely be your last.
Just too add on to your point, polar bears will eat any animal without hesitation and doesn't matter what habitat you are in, if you see one that isn't enclosed and you are not in a durable enclosure then it is over.
Bear is black fight back
Bear is brown lie down
Bear is white good night
@@dreamexxx so fucking true 😂😂😂😂
In the U.S. we have a lot of people who for some reason think nature is a Disney film. And so they act accordingly and get their asses handed to them. Lol.
Truth. Seems like every time I checked out national news last year somebody was doing something stupid in Yellowstone.
Mainly it seems it's with large herbivores. People think they are harmless because they eat plants. In reality large herbivores kill far more people than large carnivores. Tourists at iconic parks like Yellowstone will try and take pictures with bison or elk.
That’s great news for us. Let nature take the stupid ones and the ones with common sense live.
@@stoda01I mean Bisons are the only large wild herbivores I'd ever dare to get close too, but that's European Bisons only.
This is quite literally the concept of natural selection at work. A perfect example! The smart survive, the stupid die off
I would have liked you to compare American and European bison.
This video was exclusively about predators, he'll likely cover herbivores in a later video.
@@bustavonnutzYou drunk?
@@SMACKTHEBLUE North america and Europe share quite a few species of birds and large herbivores but today i will be focusing on the large predators.
-the description
The wolf has showed up down in Stockholm area. I saw one when i was out
on a walk with my dog. It was in the evening and dark. Had a headlamp and just when the light was on the wolf, the brightness was lowered but I could see it clearly. It came up the dirt road, stopped and looked at me and the dog, turned around and went back into the forest.It was so cool to see a wolf. I walked a little further. Although I have a 40kg Alaskan Malamute, he did not survived a fight with a wolf.
He just came to check out his relative
@@rampagesmackssons508 probably 😄
How do you mean he didn't survive? Did he fight a wolf, or did you just want to write that he wouldn't survive?
@@jannovy7229 auto correct. Sorry, he wouldnt survive a meeting with a wolf.
He's still alive.
it's not the bear population that got out of hand...
if you really think the population is out of hand, you have the power to reduce it by 1 at any time.
@@JoJoZaka Ok if you want, tell me your address honey, I will. pay you a visit.
@@JoJoZaka I'll gladly start with you if you insist.
@@Atlas_21 Out of line
MY BOY IBERIAN WOLF !!!
How does this guy uploads videos so fast
That's what I call fast reporting. You also missed a fatal attack from 2021 when bear mauled a 57 years old man to dead in SVK. He was bitten on the head, neck and the back. It was first documented fatal attack in history of SVK and we were pretty shocked.
It's interesting how wolf attacks are more common in europe while they rarely id ever happen here in North america. Maybe its because the European wolves evolved with humans and learned to see us as a food source while the American populations were decimated by settlers, and had to learn to avoid us
The video mentioned that a lot of them were rabid animals. Maybe European populations just have more rabies.
Rabies is a factor. Also, it's possible that European Wolves have less prey available.
You're also forgetting that Europe is more densely populated. There's large swaths of North America where the human population is small (I was born and raised in such an area). I'm sure it takes less time to get to wolf areas in Europe than here.
@@trevinschaerr3732yep as a European i can confirm this.
Our wolves habitats are laughable small compared to America.
In my country wolves even got extinct at some point because of hunting them sown mercilessly but they wandered back in from other countries like Russia and Italy a few years ago.
Sadly in my country we have messed with woods density so much, that wolf encounters in some areas are just inevitable.
Bears are still extinct here and the one and only bear who had crossed the border, was shoot "just in case"
@@kurtwagner4663 I think biologists call that habitat fragmentation. It can certainly lead to increased conflict with humans, as well as the fragmentation of wildlife populations, and at times a reduction in genetic diversity through inbreeding.
In Canada there’s a small town named Churchhill where polar bears took over the town and people had to evacuate. Now no humans live there and people just go on tour buses to see the town that’s overrun with polar bears.
Lol there are 870 people still living there
What?!? Churchill has a thriving tourist industry focused around northern lights, beluga whales, and polar bears
I would say you could definitely include Moose as dangerous animals to compare between North America and Europe.
Maybe I’m weird, but shooting a bear for being a bear in its own habitat seems a bit strange. Sure, it killed and likely ate people, but like, that could happen at any time.
I feel the same. I get if its a diseased bear or a habitual hunter, but the thought of going out and killing bears or any animal after stepping it habitat and let's face it provoking the literally bear to then have a public outcry and call for it's death is weird. Imagine if humans were held to same lengthly standard in nature
I only feel bad for the bear, those people knew which habitat they were stepping into.
spoken like someone who has never lived near a forest or walked a trail. anywhere humans go is our habitat. if the bear wants to fuck around, it's going to find out.
@@deadhorse1391something tells me you’re not all that bright upstairs
The bear has developed a taste for human and is more likely to attack people in the future.
Brown trout and cutthroat trouts are kinda similar in behavior and shape also but both have differences also
but both aren't really dangerous apart from their teeth and parasites
Interesting concept for a vid idea keep up the good work tuski
thanks and will do :)
Fun fact: maybe it’s the town you mentioned in Norway but there’s a town in Scandinavia that lives very close to polar bears so they set up a tornado siren for when one was sighted near or in town.
Make MORE videos and I think ur the best nature related RUclipsr also do you think I should draw some animals from your videos? My name is Ari not michael.
thanks i appreciate the support and i'll make more like this :)
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Great video!
thanks i appreciate it :)
A fully grown male Grizzly bear just because of their aggression, the Russian Gray Wolf just because size and also aggression, I dont believe there is a difference between the European Polar bears and American.....although I could be wrong.
What about ticks? More precise which ones carry the most diseases?
I mean, thanks to Columbian Exchange, they all carry the same diseases in similar amounts
Great vid, thankyou 👍! Id love to see a video examining the reality of Australia's dangerous animals compared to those on other continents like the America's, Eurasia, and Africa please!! I'm an Aussie and the only animal i fear eating me are crocs, NOT bears, lions, tigers etc. Also we have potentially dangerous critters but is Australia really more dangerous than other places, in regards to wildlife? I dont think so, but so many do. Id love an in depth video proving or dispelling the facts and myths 😊
European brown bears are so tiny. Last week a brown bear run away next to my car, and first I though it was a huge stray dog.
It may have been a juvenile/sub-adult. Also, average size can vary by location. Many animals grow larger farther north (in the northern hemisphere), and North American Brown Bears generally grow larger in coast regions than they do in the interior.
I would like to cite the Beast of Guevaudan for the europeans wolves but its dubious at best, However the wolf siege of Paris would support the claim of how more dangerous wolfs are in Europe. Wolves in Europe have a far more violent history with Europe than America. The spread of rabies would greatly contribute to it
No one is sure what the beast actually was. People in the area surely knew what wolves looked like, and it wasn’t described as looking like a wolf.
@@evilsharkey8954 some even speculated if the beast was actually escaped hyena from menagerie
there a lot of theories about either it being and escaped hyena pair from a private zoo or it could actually be a wolf but a hybrid one, since the double dewclaws suggested a mutation in the wolfs ancestry. one other could be the Italian wolf who is know for their redish brown fur@@evilsharkey8954
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@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434yeah the descriptions of the beast sounded a lot like a striped hyena.
Btw, I love your dog. That's a beauty! My dog, my dog,athena, says hi to yours
It’s bizarre how different wolf behavior is from their reputation. I had a 75% wolf dog when I was younger and it was the most shy/timid dog with strangers that I’ve ever been around but after you think about it, it makes sense. Domestic dogs were originally bred for protection. So even though domestic follow orders and are a lot more subservient than wolves, domestic dogs are far more aggressive
How old is your dog and can u make more videos like this
Did you know that the common brown bear although being the most common brown bear is very rarely seen in India? It is onlyand very rarepy seen in the Great Himalayan National Park in Kashmir/Ladakh.
It’s also found in Himachal Pradesh, uttarakhand, and I think sikkim or Arunachal Pradesh
Agree on everything except the polar bear one as you left out a HUGE detail “landyearbyen” it’s a place in Europe owned by Norway and it’s illegal to walk outside there without guns
Can you make a video about the most farmed fish in the world plz.
I love wolves, and I do hope they will call the UK home once again 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺
Same
@@deadhorse1391they are keeping the deer and elk population down it’s look like decimating because they were overpopulated
@@deadhorse1391Barely. They kill a handful of animals, and people act like they’re a plague. Deer populations are doing just fine.
That said, I doubt the UK will reintroduce them because the stuffy, entitled game farmers will shoot endangered raptors to protect their canned hunts. Their descendants wiped out the Tasmanian tiger… I won’t go into what happened to the Tasmanian people
Awww wish I could give that pole bear a nice warm hug 🫂 🤗 7:44
I remembered the movie, Grizzly Man, it's a documentary that tells of Timothy Treadwell who lived with grizzly bears for 13 summers. He was sadly killed by the animals he studied in 2003.
If you do another video like this you should include moose
Moose? Bison? ..... I know this video was only comparing North America and Europe, but there have been a number of predatory wolf attacks in India in recent history. Similarly, Striped Hyenas and Leopards seem to be more dangerous in India than elsewhere.
Cities in India have leopards roaming like other cities have foxes... it's very dangerous!
Were European moose imported by man, or are they a native species?
@@wolfpackpete6408 European Moose (also known as European Elk) are native to Scandinavia and parts of Russia.
I have a size question. Are North American predators generally bigger, or am I just getting the wrong impression because I'm not fully taking Russia's animals into account. Kind of off topic, since that isn't the most important factor to consider in the general dangerousness of animals. As a Canadian, it just seem to me that the European counterparts of things like lynx and wolf, maybe even bears are thinner and daintier. Maybe my feeling that all the North American animals are bigger and heavier doesn't take Russia into account enough? They get very cold weather, just like parts of Canada, so it only makes sense that some of the animals there would be comparable in heavy build and size to deal with the temperatures. Given that some parts of Russia have the heaviest possible species of tiger (the Amur/Siberian tiger), maybe it just seems that way to me because fewer people live where the big animals are in Europe. That is also true in North America, but it might be just slightly less so here, causing more animal encounters. Maybe, as with the far northern place in Canada, there are the animals in most places in Europe and then there are the BIG animals in far northern Russia which just have to be way bigger?
You’re not taking Russia into account. It’s a big country with a lot of cold wilderness. North America also has a lot of cold wilderness.
That said, there’s also size differences in different areas of North America. Coyotes in the American West are smaller than coyotes in the East.
@@evilsharkey8954large Coyotes in Michigan look like medium size wolves sometimes its scary
Balkans: oh no a bear run!!!
Nordics: hold my beer
I'm sure you did much research and your data is spot on. I've always felt like bears in Russia seem much more "friendly" than in other parts of the world. It's probably from all of the videos we see of Russian people interacting with bears and the bears not attacking them. Many times, the bears stop doing whatever it is that the humans don't want them to do or they run away when the people scold them. Lol. There are also the many "trained Russian bears" we saw decades ago. I don't know if that's true or not but it sure seems like it. Great job on the video.
Awesome
Wolves have lost a lot of ground in the US.
Mostly now they are only in rural areas, in the Rookies and west.
In the 1970s there were still gray wolves in northern California, north of Redding. But i believe by the mid 80s they were gone.
During the same period. You could still see Grizzly in the area. 1981 was the last Grizzly i know of. It was in the back of a truck tagged. And was weighing down the truck. So on guess over 1000 lbs.
Are any wolverine attacks on humans known? The wolverine can take down quite large ungulates after all...
"Non fatal" kirov wolf attacks
Grolar bear sounds much more intimidating than a pizzly bear 🐻 🧐
i'd kinda want to hear something about the american lynx and the eurasian lynx
Although this doesn't involve Europe, I wonder about alligators vs. crocodiles.
What about badgers? They're also in both. :)
For people who hasnt seen a polarbear in real life are in for a surprise...they are way bigger then you think!
Polar bears are opportunistic feeders, I worked in the NWT, Resolute Bay for a few month in the mid 1970s there were two attacks resulting in deaths that winter, one was a cook exiting the building and the bear was waiting by the door, the second was a rig worker walking along by the rail of a barge in the McKenzie delta, the bear lunged over the rail and grabbed him, the rest of the workers could do nothing until a game warden arrived with a rifle and interrupted the bears lunch. All bears will attack under the right circumstance, the average Grizzly and black bear will avoid contact with humans if given the choice, but there are exceptions, both have occasionally been know to actively hunt humans, with Polar Bears it works the other way, the white bear that won't attack a human given the opportunity is the exception. They have to work so hard to get enough to carry them over the summer that they will go after anything that looks edible. In all the original account of early explorers, if a Polar bear spotted you it would attack unless you shot it. I believe that some of them have developed a certain respect for humans because of the catch and release programs when bears invade towns and the more aggressive ones have been culled, but a bear in human territory is always on the lookout for a meal.
As a matter of fact, European brown bears, especially the further south and west you go, are much smaller than their American coutnerparts, and actually closer or similar in size to black bears.
The sheer aggressiveness of North American brown bears compared to their Europeans is further supported by range map. While they're more numerous in America than in Europe, brown bears tend to live in sparsely populated areas where they won't be too disturbed by human activities (this is especially true in North America). Such areas are considerably larger and more common in North America than in Europe, which mean human/bear encounters in Europe are actually more likely to happen. Despite this, European brown bears are repsonsible for much fewer human deaths.
Very interesting. I enjoy your videos, and I learn from them, but I admit to not enjoy seeing pictures of dead animals.
You should compare it to capita
The American Bison is responsible for attacks on tourists who get stupid at Yellowstone park. How about the European Bison?
We have one very aggressive species in North America that doesn't exist in Europe, the Mountain Lion, aka Puma. Here in Canada we also have a species of wolf that isn't aggressive towards humans, the Arctic Wolf. The only real attack on a human by an Arctic Wolf wasn't fatal and the animal was shot. It tested positive for rabies so it wasn't even really the wolf's fault.
With polar bears, it's only a question of which continent has given them more opportunities to feast on humans.
The wolves in europe are only more dangerous because of how large and fearless a pack can be. Lone wolves and timid packs are common but once you have a super pack of man killers and dog eaters then you need to stay indoors.
I wonder if Europe had alligators, would they be more dangerous than the American ones? It is interesting to note that Europe is the only continent without crocodilians.
It’s a bit chilly there, even in the warm parts. Crocodiles like it hot.
Perhaps it has something to do with the climate, also for the historical geological factor like during Pleistocene ice age entire European region becoming too harsh for warm and wet loving organism,while Asia, America, and Australia still have some refuge for such creatures
China has its own species of alligator. They're smaller than American Alligators and very rare. I've never heard of one attacking someone.
Antarctica?
well I'll comment on the polar bear. I don't think there is a difference between a North American Polar bear and the European Polar bear, there is just the Arctic Polar Bear. It doesn't matter which one you cross paths with it will contemplate eating you. In the Arctic you eat when you can , there is no pick and choose .
A couple of years ago, a bear attacked a man in Bosnia. The man (named Blažo Grković) killer the bear with his hatchet. Still, he sustained some injuries...
Meanwhile in Russia, bear is nearly a pet, as we can see on Russian video clips...
As for wolves... A lone wolf is more likely to attack humans because he is an opportunistic predator and will anything in his path since he has no pack for hunting. However, you are more likely to survive attack of a lone wolf than a pack. If pack attacks, your chances are pretty much 0. That jogger that was killed was most likely attacked cos he was running, which triggered predator instinct in wolves.
I'd say polar bears see any meat sack as food,
I'm sure the mosquito has them all beaten combined.
why not talk about wolverine in north america and eurasia
Is it me, or is this mathematically skewed? Greater numbers of a certain predator in any area will cause more deaths. This needs to be determined by percentage not actual numbers.
You have to realize you're going into their home. So if something happens it's shouldn't be anything done to the bears it's their home
Various people have said that the European wolf is more fierce than the American or Canadian wolf.
The European wolf will be more ready to hunt and attack people than the American wolf
In Sweden moose is the most dangerous animal. People killed in traffic accidents.
For some reason the rare bear attacks are mostly on men carrying guns.
Or accompanied by a dog.
You forgot Killer Whales..
The problem of polar bears versus other bears is, polar bears are exclusively carnivorous, while other big bears are omnivores. Therein lies the problem. Brown bears may kill to protect young, or because they feel threatened. At times the may kill humans for food when they are desperate. Polar bears will absolutely kill you for food. Lol the most beautiful bear on earth sees you as a big mac
5:27 There are only around 35,000 wolves in Russia not 300,000, & 15,000 are killed evey year. European wolves are smaller than their North American counterparts.
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Northern continental animals
why do they kill the bears after they kill people 😅 its not like a domestic dog that needs putting down, its a wild animal
You don’t realize they’ll see humans as an easy food source in the future? Humans are easy prey, especially without a firearm. Once a bear recognizes this they’ll continue hunting people.
@@ethanpeeler3147Exactly! Most predators avoid humans because we’re weird, but once they figure out we’re quite easy to kill, they can become man eaters. Culling those individuals protects humans and the rest of the species because frightened humans will kill what they’re afraid of, and they’re not always good at identifying which animal is killing people, resulting in non-maneaters being killed. It also prevents predators with less fear of humans from passing on their genes, and fewer interactions with humans is safer for most species.
I remember reading something like this in the Jurassic Park Novel for the Velicoraptors as it explained they figured out humans were easy prey.
@@CynderSpirit It’s true in nature, and it’s where Michael Crichton got the idea
wolverine, golden eagle
There are 8 billion people in the world. Maybe we need some predators.
So this is all about who pushes wild animals until they attack !! I think we will find it is human beings at fault ...as normal ..
Sadly people go to Yellowstone and go oh its cute, so its cuddly..... um no dummies they are wild not pets
If you wanna be more precise, say Eurasia. Europe doesn't really exist. Except from the small mountain range of the the Ural, nothing separates it from Asia. So it's still the same continent.
Wait bears live in Italy, spain and Romania??
Yes, there are mountains and forests in all those countries.
Yes, but they typically avoid humans because we’re weird and kill things that we’re scared of.
Right? Italy and Spain were shocking to me
The grizzly and all brown bear are the same animal they are not subspecies. Not sure how you came up with that crap. The difference is were they live and their diet.
Do snakes 🐍
And as far as the wolves send them to California
Hi t tuski
wild hogs, n deer
America Wins No Bald Eagle 🦅 in Europe
If you're in bear country don't take your dog. Your dog will get you both killed. These just piss em off
so that means that humans a re mcuh saver in europe than america im happy with this but i must say people are rly bitching to much because of wolfs live stock to protect get a large dog solved and those wolf attacks where in the last 50 years 14 or something and half of those where rabies while dogs without rabies attack alot more often but you dont hear anybody bitch about that
Did you just call Russia... Ukraine...?
Jk I don't give a fuck lol they're both corrupt as shit
Makes me wish Horses & Camels survived in North America so we could see how they would differ from their Eurasian/Domestic counterparts.