I got it stung three times by a Bark Scorpion that was in my glove here in Arizona! It didn't kill me as you can see, but my hand went numb for about a week! It was small just a little over 1 1/2" long!
I live in central Illinois and we have Bull Sharks in the Mississippi River that runs past St. Louis. They’ve found them in smaller rivers as well. Around here we swim in creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. Most of our lakes are fed by the rivers. When I was a kid we used to not worry about swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. Everyone swam in these types of water but nowadays you don’t know what’s in the water. To many people with exotic animals as pets that they shouldn’t have and then they get to big or they can’t afford to feed them so they just dump them out in a pond, lake or creek and then you don’t know what’s in the water. When I was a kid, there was a very wealthy but strange guy who bought a zoo out and brought the animals to his property in our small town of 700 people. Every now and then one of them would get loose and you would have a buffalo roaming the streets or a bear. He also had an alligator, snakes and I’m not sure what else. The guy ended up doing drugs and became even more strange and once he passed away his animals couldn’t be found. So there was always this speculation that he let them go or dropped them off in various places. People were always concerned after that that maybe his alligator or snakes were living in a pond, lake, creek or river around us somewhere. Before that guy people felt safe to swim any where. The only thing we had to look out for were water moccasins. After that guy you couldn’t help but wonder if maybe there was something else in the water with you that didn’t belong there? As the years have rolled by and more and more people get these crazy animals that should never ever be a pet and are not indigenous to the USA, it makes me ever more wary about swimming in water that I can’t see the bottom. I pretty much stick to pools nowadays but even that’s not safe in certain areas. Went on vacation to Gatlinburg Tennessee in May of this year. The resort we were staying at had 3 different pools. One of the pools was getting a lot of bear action. The bears were coming out of the woods and swimming in the pool! These bears were huge and the Bear Patrol people told us they were only half grown. They look fairly small until they get up closer to you and they’re fast. Lucky for us we were not in the pool when they decided to swim every day and they didn’t seem that interested in us for the most part. We daily bear encounters at our cabin where they were ripping the wood off of our cabin trying to get to the carpenter bees which was scary. It sounded like they were coming right through the wall and floor. They were using their claws and mouths to break wood off our cabin, I had never seen anything like it. The resort people said they had never had this much bear activity ever and never had bears tearing up the cabins before. We had up close and personal video footage of them through the window tearing wood off our cabin and we had one incident where we had a bear try to get up on our elevated walkway from our door to the parking lot while I was outside on the walkway with the Bear Patrol guy. The walkways were about 6-7 feet off the ground. The bear stood up and had his nose between the spindles on the side railings and then tried to reach through with his huge claws to reach me. At that point I went inside the cabin and left the Bear Patrol guy out there on the walkway by himself but I got some great footage of the bears while I was out there and I was literally a couple feet from them. But if they had really wanted to get up on the walkway then they could have climbed it and climbed over the rail in a heartbeat. I stayed close to my open door which was 2 feet away. You don’t really understand how big they are (even the half grown ones) until they’re up close. The claws were absolutely terrifying. You wouldn’t stand a chance against those claws. I wish I had a way to share my video footage with you guys so you could see what I mean.
I used to wrangle buffalo and they are not cooperative creatures. They don't like people and you have no idea how fast and strong they can be when mad.
I have lived in Alaska for the last 32 years and I have have dozens of close brown and black bear encounters, but I have only been attacked by one critter and that was a moose. Moose are completely psychotic. They may allow you to get close enough to feed them and do absolutely nothing, or they may decide that they don't like you being 100 yards away and walking away from them and suddenly attack you for no reason. You can never predict what the reaction of a moose will be. If you ever seen a moose lower their ears flat against their neck and then lower their head, that would be a very good time to find a large tree and put it between you and the moose. Because you would be just seconds away from being stomped to death. Hitting a moose with a vehicle is also more dangerous than hitting deer. Not only are moose eight to ten times heavier than other deer, they are also much taller. Meaning the vehicle will take out the legs of the moose, while the one ton body goes through the windshield of the vehicle. Often killing the occupants in the front-seat.
You can't walk out your front door without getting it, stung, or gnawed on. We have cougars here and black and brown bears. And gators. Gators love to get in people's swimming pools.. Not a joke. And can't forget the lovely mosquitos. They bite your dog and can give them heartworms! Whoops, forgot about sharks. And all the other water animals that are dangerous. Like jelly fish and stingrays and crocodiles. They're more in the Everglades but still in Florida. Forgot about all the poisonous snakes too. I'll never forget when I was growing up having to look out the windows next to the front door to make sure there were no diamondback rattlers on the front porch. There were..6 times. We lived out in the sticks. Now there is no place to build it's so packed there. We were the 5th house. I started this out kind of as a joke but it's kind of a lot.
Yep. Most everything thrives in the Florida environment. Especially the dangerous things. I can't help but think how challenging it must have been for the Native Americans and early European settlers enduring the elements day to day.
@@1thomson haven’t heard of any but they are putting some of Florida’s indigenous species in jeopardy of extinction. I think you’re right though. Only a matter of time.
Most all of these animals can be found in urban cities & towns on a fairly regular basis, as they're often attracted to elements of a human environment. Scorpions are arachnids, not insects, but they do EAT insects, as well as other small animals. Along the coastlines, in rivers, & lakes which have access to the oceans via rivers & canals, simply standing knee-deep in water can cause a human to be bitten by a shark. For large sharks like bulls & great whites, hip-deep will do. Thanks for your reaction.
I am from California and Cougars wander down into neighborhoods looking for food -- they kill little dogs and cats. I have seen them in a neighborhood in the LA area trotting down the street in the middle of the day with small pets in their mouth. I have had one on my street in a neighbor's yard up in a tree. Bears also. Bears in certain areas of California and also in the East in the Blue Ridge Mountains break into houses and ransack them for food. Buffalo are nothing like cows -- they are wild and very bad tempered. Moose are the same. Both Buffalo and Moose will attack for no reason. I lost a car to a Moose when I worked in Yellowstone at age 19.
LA native here, yup, just recently my sister's dog was spazzing out in the back yard. When she opened the back door a cougar was reading to pounce on the dog, which got in the door thank God! Then sis heard the ghetto birds above, channel 7, 5, and 4 plus the sheriff copter were following the cat.
I’m in Sacramento and they’re up here too. Wandering into a newly developed neighborhood caught on ring camera, narrowly missing interaction with a soccer mom lol. It’s especially common during fire season they’ll venture into the valley from the hills….
I'm in Arizona. The bark scorpion is very small and blends into the dirt, twigs and rocks on the ground, so they are really hard to spot. Scorpions can hide for a long time with no food or water. I suppose they hunt down insects around their size or smaller. They are really ancient as species go and are closer to spiders than insects.
gotta say that I've read on a Charlie Russell documentary called Edge of Eden, in the 100 years fron 1900-2000 95 humans have been killed by Grizzly bears with some 600 being severly injured but during that same time period, man has killed 200,000 Grizzlies. If you can find Edge of Eden check it out, its about Charlie Russel who is a Albertan, Canadian Naturalist, late unfortunately but if you want to truly learn about bears check him out. In the early years he only carried a canoe oar for protection and Pepper spray in his later years. Chheers Brits Pops! Love your stuff
Yeah, we've got some scary animals over here in the USA for sure. But I've heard of a mysterious and frightening animal over in the UK called the Paddington Bear. I wouldn't want to run into one of those in the wild! 😉
Being bitten by a black widow depends. A small child or someone very old might be in big trouble. There is the red widow also which is very rare. Not as deadly it can give you symptoms for a very long time. So a morbidity not mortality. Also the Hobo spider. But none of these are as dangerous as spiders elsewhere.
Some of the southern states such as Arizona and maybe Texas also have jaguars, which are much larger than cougars and significantly more dangerous. Luckily there are fewer of them.
OK, let's not forget about the small, yet deadly snipe. We even keep their numbers down by doing some snipe hunting. Little bastards will suck your blood through the webbing between your toes. Nasty little creatures. 😁Google snipe, it's horrifying! BP2, "How close have you got to get to see that though!?!" 😂😂😂😂😂
Gators are ingenious in the Deep South, mostly in Florida, Louisiana, etc. From what I've been told they are pretty docile and not aggressive the way Nile Crocs are. Florida also has American Crocodiles as well.
@@firefighterchick We recently had an elderly woman walking her small dog close to a body of water here in Florida. A gator lurched onto land going after the dog. The woman tried to fend off the gator, but the gator grabbed her and drug her into the water. They found her body sometime later. The event was captured on film. We've had a few similar incidents over the past couple of years. Seems people never learn to stay away from the edge of pond, rivers and lakes down here.
@jameshawkins2984 Oh that's sad. I take it the little dog died too? Not that I don't feel for the lady either.😉 They usually hang by the water's edge, right? Other than the Everglades. So unless you're near those areas for the most part you won't encounter them?
@@firefighterchick I think the dog survived. Not sure though. Yes. The gators lay motionless next to the water’s edge and sometimes amongst tall grass in those areas. If you’re lucky you may spot just their eyes above the water but usually they are totally submerged inches below the water and looking up for unsuspecting prey. We have some small ponds near our home next to a golf course and we do see a gator in them now and again.
@jameshawkins2984 Well if I understand correctly Australia has a lake at a golf course that has Bull Sharks. Apparently, they had a record-breaking flood in 1999 and Sharks were swept from the Ocean to the lake. When the water receded the Sharks were still there. Which would you rather deal with? Lol
I lived in Colorado. Went to put my dogs out saw something dangling from lower tree branch. Looked closer realized it was a mountain lion napping on the lower branch. Tail hanging down. So they come right onto the neighborhood.
Ah, don't think all of these predators stay in the wild. Once in a while they do show up in cities or towns. There's been a mountain lion roaming in an area or two of a good sized city here lately.
@@Kojak024I'm in SoCal and yes we have coyotes here. They are mainly nocturnal and when they have attacked some small prey or pet you can hear the pack howling in the night.
There are those who will go surfing when barred because of an incoming hurricane so going in water which could possibly have a shark is not far fetched. Having said that...fools abound. 🦈
B2, with the cougars and children, it happens. Growing up in the foothills of Los Angeles I know many people including my sibling that have had cougars quickly appear in their yards. You get a hungry cat, a kid in the sand box and mom on the patio.....BOOM! Kid gone. It happened with coyotes and a toddler about 30-40 years ago. A mother was in her kitchen and her kids were outside where she could see them. All of a sudden her 3 year old was in a mouth and over a 6 foot fence. Right in front of her. They only found his arm. B1, flip flops are safer than shoes with scorpions! If you slip your foot in an unchecked shoe, BAM! you're stung! I used to go with my cousin to collect rattle snakes. He milked them for the venom and sold it, this was in the 1970's and early 80's.
Native to North Carolina here - have been bitten by a brown recluse before. It started as just a small bite like a mosquito bite but the next day it was as big as a saucer. I got a huge black ring around the interior of the bite and had a horrible fever and vomitting. I had to go to the hospital. They are no joke.
Great list, but obviously not comprehensive. Everybody knows the most dangerous animal in the U.S.A. is a woman who asks her husband, "Do these pants make my butt look big?" and he replies, "Not as big as the pants you were wearing yesterday."
I said it was the best one I could find, not that it wasn't a bit corny at spots! Some of the pictures as I told you on Patreon aren't correct either. The skinny looking things in the Buffalo section aren't American Bison. The skinny antlers in the Moose section aren't correct that's probably Elk which are huge as well. I HATE that they included pictures of those poor injured deer! It hurts my heart to think of any animal suffering. I've learned to scan the brush and tree line when I'm driving. More than once I've caught a glimpse so I could slow to a stop and let them cross the road. A friend of mine in Canada told me when a car hits a moose the moose stands up and looks at the car like are you kidding me and just walks off while the vehicle is totaled!😅 This one still better than the other video(not your reation to it)! 😁 So his accent is called Posh? It's probably the most stereotypical British accent that Americans think of when you mention Brits.😅😂 I prefer both of your accents a lot more.😊 With pretty much all of these, with the exception of the Brown Recluse and Black Widow Spiders you'll rarely encounter. Even those spiders it's not every day. According to friends I have that hunt we have some cougars back in Northwest Pennsylvania. They migrated from Canada. We haven't had wolves or cougars in Pennsylvania for many, many decades. Shark attacks are exceedingly rare. You figure between Americans and foreign tourists every year there's at least tens of millions of people in the water a good part of the year, especially the west coast and the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. Bison attacks virtually all of those happen because of what was the word you told me? Wallies....the idiots try to take selfies with wild animals! That's called thinning out the herd. *fully admits that's a dad joke.😅 Thanks for doing this one guys. There is a top 10 Most Beautiful States video if you want to try that one. I think I gave you a link in Patreon 🙂
It really bugs me, when "information" videos can't be bothered to get things right. I figure they're just trying to churn out lots of videos, so aren't really concerned about it.
Here in SoCal we have brown recluse spiders. You can tell their webs immediately because they're all tangled up they're not symmetrical or beautiful whatsoever.
My opinion, if i was to come within 40 ft of the danger, i would back up facing it. Most animals will just watch or run off. If any animal was to charge i think you would not have a chance to survive against a grizzly,moose,elk,polar bear(from Canada),buffalo. A slight chance against a cougar, wolf, black bear, coyote, to a lesser degree, still dangerous, a lynx, deer. I think my worst fear would be a grizzly bear. When it comes to animals you can run away from if an encounter occurs, you have a great chance of getting away, snakes, insects etc. In cases like these, it may be too late when damage already done.
The black widow's reputation is more vestigial than current. In the 19th century, they were outhouse nightmares, as flies congregating anywhere will trigger web-building. The seclusion of much of the population made most bites worse, as they went untreated. A bull shark was determined to be the culprit in a string of freshwater attacks/fatalities in New Jersey in the early 20th century.
My mother was bit by a brown recluse spider on her thigh, it was on a cardboard box she was moving. The tissue in her thigh died and you could see her bone. She luckily did not have to get it amputated but there was a round scar on her leg.
A lot of reviewers have been thinking that the reason the narrator says that "Children are most likely to be attacked" by Cougars, it's not because a child is small, etc... It's because children are most likely to run away. The moment you turn your back, you're done for... I've seen cool videos online of people at a Zoo where Cougars are behind them seperated by thick glass. The cougar just layed there on a ledge staring at her, the MOMENT she turned her back to it, it pounced and smashed up against the glass. It's AMAZING how fast it went from laying there looking at here from several feet away to behind literally inches from her in a split second. On the other hand, I've seen videos of kids (Who have obviously grown up around them or have learned about them, stare a cougar down and scream, and the cougar took off running.
I live in Texas, while working part-time for Lowe's garden dept years ago, I was watering some new palm trees that just came in. I didn't feel the scorpion crawling up my leg (under my pants). It stung me in my upper front leg. It hurt like a bi**h! I still carry the puncture scar today
When I was younger I lived further out in the country side of San Antonio and a regular incounter were snakes and scorpions and loads of spiders. Checking shoes before putting them on and not lifting things up in the yard to close to you that they can hide under is still a habit. 😂
I don't know how it is over yonder in England, but here in the US the deer can't recognize pictures of themselves. They don't know that the signs on the side of the road are trying to show them where to cross. It's a miscommunication thing really. :) lmao
Heh, You mentioned that not all Deer Accidents are directly from the Deer, you could swerve into a tree, etc... Great Point, In fact I Michigan where I live and raised, the Highway Safety Administration have a HUGE annual campaign with billboards all along the highway with the slogan "Don't Veer for Deer"... Meaning if you're going to hit one, don't hit the break, don;t turn the wheel... MANY times a deer will jump out of the way at the last moment and IF you are swerving, there a MUCH larger chance you'll collide as the Deer jumps in the direction you're turning.... You know, like when two people are walking in a hallway toward each other and you do that "Dance" of what way you're going to go around each other? Well, same thing, but at 70 Miles per hour and you only get ONE chance to swerve, not several like the hallway analogy. It's not intuitive, but it's statistically safer to keep going straight and don't spped up or slow down.,
I live in San Diego, CA and yes we do have mountain lions. They do not usually come down into residential areas but it does happen. They will usually go after your pets and small animals. Larger dogs are usually able to scare them off depending on the dog. We have a larger problem with Coyotes and birds of prey like red tailed hawks. I have lost a number of pets over the years because of them.
Florida has alligators, crocodiles, Florida Panther, Bobcats, Scorpions, Coral snakes, water moccasin snakes, cottonmouth snakes, pythons and rattle snakes, Black bears, fire ants and many sea creatures like all kinds of sharks and Jellyfish along with the black widow spider and the recluse spider.
Bull sharks have killed in rivers many miles from any beach. I swam and fished in rivers hundreds of times as a kid before the internet so we didn't know it was a possibility back in the 80s and 90s until the internet became a thing.
Hilarious video….. the last one they can’t seem to tell the difference between an elk and a moose and keep interchanging their pictures. In Canada it’s not unusual to wake up to a moose in your backyard pool or playing in your water sprinklers, they have even wandered into schools, convenience stores, and public building. If you think there’s a peeping Tom in the neighbourhood……..check again, it’s probably just a moose looking in.
But if we hunt bear, we gotta have a back matter walk because I want your hot and then they’re coming back from you, so I carry a 50 caliber rifle and 15 but you don’t have a Shock W will be on top of you. You will be probably lunch.
For the scorpion... I could take a few seconds of feeling like I'm being electrocuted...But SEVENTY-TWO HOURS??? And what does he mean by "Temporary disfunction of the effected area"??? Does it paralyze you or something?
I got it stung three times by a Bark Scorpion that was in my glove here in Arizona! It didn't kill me as you can see, but my hand went numb for about a week! It was small just a little over 1 1/2" long!
I live in central Illinois and we have Bull Sharks in the Mississippi River that runs past St. Louis. They’ve found them in smaller rivers as well. Around here we swim in creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. Most of our lakes are fed by the rivers. When I was a kid we used to not worry about swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. Everyone swam in these types of water but nowadays you don’t know what’s in the water. To many people with exotic animals as pets that they shouldn’t have and then they get to big or they can’t afford to feed them so they just dump them out in a pond, lake or creek and then you don’t know what’s in the water.
When I was a kid, there was a very wealthy but strange guy who bought a zoo out and brought the animals to his property in our small town of 700 people. Every now and then one of them would get loose and you would have a buffalo roaming the streets or a bear. He also had an alligator, snakes and I’m not sure what else. The guy ended up doing drugs and became even more strange and once he passed away his animals couldn’t be found. So there was always this speculation that he let them go or dropped them off in various places. People were always concerned after that that maybe his alligator or snakes were living in a pond, lake, creek or river around us somewhere. Before that guy people felt safe to swim any where. The only thing we had to look out for were water moccasins. After that guy you couldn’t help but wonder if maybe there was something else in the water with you that didn’t belong there? As the years have rolled by and more and more people get these crazy animals that should never ever be a pet and are not indigenous to the USA, it makes me ever more wary about swimming in water that I can’t see the bottom. I pretty much stick to pools nowadays but even that’s not safe in certain areas. Went on vacation to Gatlinburg Tennessee in May of this year. The resort we were staying at had 3 different pools. One of the pools was getting a lot of bear action. The bears were coming out of the woods and swimming in the pool! These bears were huge and the Bear Patrol people told us they were only half grown. They look fairly small until they get up closer to you and they’re fast. Lucky for us we were not in the pool when they decided to swim every day and they didn’t seem that interested in us for the most part. We daily bear encounters at our cabin where they were ripping the wood off of our cabin trying to get to the carpenter bees which was scary. It sounded like they were coming right through the wall and floor. They were using their claws and mouths to break wood off our cabin, I had never seen anything like it. The resort people said they had never had this much bear activity ever and never had bears tearing up the cabins before. We had up close and personal video footage of them through the window tearing wood off our cabin and we had one incident where we had a bear try to get up on our elevated walkway from our door to the parking lot while I was outside on the walkway with the Bear Patrol guy. The walkways were about 6-7 feet off the ground. The bear stood up and had his nose between the spindles on the side railings and then tried to reach through with his huge claws to reach me. At that point I went inside the cabin and left the Bear Patrol guy out there on the walkway by himself but I got some great footage of the bears while I was out there and I was literally a couple feet from them. But if they had really wanted to get up on the walkway then they could have climbed it and climbed over the rail in a heartbeat. I stayed close to my open door which was 2 feet away. You don’t really understand how big they are (even the half grown ones) until they’re up close. The claws were absolutely terrifying. You wouldn’t stand a chance against those claws. I wish I had a way to share my video footage with you guys so you could see what I mean.
I used to wrangle buffalo and they are not cooperative creatures. They don't like people and you have no idea how fast and strong they can be when mad.
Man, that's a unique job. Can't image how difficult that would be, but interesting and challenging.
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Now there's a job we never see advertised over here!
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I have lived in Alaska for the last 32 years and I have have dozens of close brown and black bear encounters, but I have only been attacked by one critter and that was a moose. Moose are completely psychotic. They may allow you to get close enough to feed them and do absolutely nothing, or they may decide that they don't like you being 100 yards away and walking away from them and suddenly attack you for no reason. You can never predict what the reaction of a moose will be.
If you ever seen a moose lower their ears flat against their neck and then lower their head, that would be a very good time to find a large tree and put it between you and the moose. Because you would be just seconds away from being stomped to death.
Hitting a moose with a vehicle is also more dangerous than hitting deer. Not only are moose eight to ten times heavier than other deer, they are also much taller. Meaning the vehicle will take out the legs of the moose, while the one ton body goes through the windshield of the vehicle. Often killing the occupants in the front-seat.
You can't walk out your front door without getting it, stung, or gnawed on. We have cougars here and black and brown bears. And gators. Gators love to get in people's swimming pools.. Not a joke. And can't forget the lovely mosquitos. They bite your dog and can give them heartworms! Whoops, forgot about sharks. And all the other water animals that are dangerous. Like jelly fish and stingrays and crocodiles. They're more in the Everglades but still in Florida. Forgot about all the poisonous snakes too. I'll never forget when I was growing up having to look out the windows next to the front door to make sure there were no diamondback rattlers on the front porch. There were..6 times. We lived out in the sticks. Now there is no place to build it's so packed there. We were the 5th house. I started this out kind of as a joke but it's kind of a lot.
Yep. Most everything thrives in the Florida environment. Especially the dangerous things. I can't help but think how challenging it must have been for the Native Americans and early European settlers enduring the elements day to day.
@@Hawk-ODA212 Have any children been swallowed by a Burmese python, yet? That's gonna happen sooner or later. Sigh.
@@1thomson haven’t heard of any but they are putting some of Florida’s indigenous species in jeopardy of extinction. I think you’re right though. Only a matter of time.
Most all of these animals can be found in urban cities & towns on a fairly regular basis, as they're often attracted to elements of a human environment. Scorpions are arachnids, not insects, but they do EAT insects, as well as other small animals. Along the coastlines, in rivers, & lakes which have access to the oceans via rivers & canals, simply standing knee-deep in water can cause a human to be bitten by a shark. For large sharks like bulls & great whites, hip-deep will do. Thanks for your reaction.
I am from California and Cougars wander down into neighborhoods looking for food -- they kill little dogs and cats. I have seen them in a neighborhood in the LA area trotting down the street in the middle of the day with small pets in their mouth. I have had one on my street in a neighbor's yard up in a tree. Bears also. Bears in certain areas of California and also in the East in the Blue Ridge Mountains break into houses and ransack them for food. Buffalo are nothing like cows -- they are wild and very bad tempered. Moose are the same. Both Buffalo and Moose will attack for no reason. I lost a car to a Moose when I worked in Yellowstone at age 19.
LA native here, yup, just recently my sister's dog was spazzing out in the back yard. When she opened the back door a cougar was reading to pounce on the dog, which got in the door thank God! Then sis heard the ghetto birds above, channel 7, 5, and 4 plus the sheriff copter were following the cat.
I’m in Sacramento and they’re up here too. Wandering into a newly developed neighborhood caught on ring camera, narrowly missing interaction with a soccer mom lol.
It’s especially common during fire season they’ll venture into the valley from the hills….
made eye contact w a cougar one night over here in the bay area (I was in a car tho)
I'm in Arizona. The bark scorpion is very small and blends into the dirt, twigs and rocks on the ground, so they are really hard to spot.
Scorpions can hide for a long time with no food or water. I suppose they hunt down insects around their size or smaller. They are really ancient as species go and are closer to spiders than insects.
gotta say that I've read on a Charlie Russell documentary called Edge of Eden, in the 100 years fron 1900-2000 95 humans have been killed by Grizzly bears with some 600 being severly injured but during that same time period, man has killed 200,000 Grizzlies. If you can find Edge of Eden check it out, its about Charlie Russel who is a Albertan, Canadian Naturalist, late unfortunately but if you want to truly learn about bears check him out. In the early years he only carried a canoe oar for protection and Pepper spray in his later years. Chheers Brits Pops! Love your stuff
Yeah, we've got some scary animals over here in the USA for sure. But I've heard of a mysterious and frightening animal over in the UK called the Paddington Bear. I wouldn't want to run into one of those in the wild! 😉
The rate of demise of species, I wouldn't wish any additional elimination.
Being bitten by a black widow depends. A small child or someone very old might be in big trouble. There is the red widow also which is very rare. Not as deadly it can give you symptoms for a very long time. So a morbidity not mortality. Also the Hobo spider. But none of these are as dangerous as spiders elsewhere.
Some of the southern states such as Arizona and maybe Texas also have jaguars, which are much larger than cougars and significantly more dangerous. Luckily there are fewer of them.
You don't have to be fast.. You just have to be faster then the person next to you!
OK, let's not forget about the small, yet deadly snipe. We even keep their numbers down by doing some snipe hunting. Little bastards will suck your blood through the webbing between your toes. Nasty little creatures. 😁Google snipe, it's horrifying!
BP2, "How close have you got to get to see that though!?!" 😂😂😂😂😂
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Great video, surprised there was no aligators mentioned, I guess they aren't much of a problem.
I bet the Aussies could top trump this lot.
Gators are ingenious in the Deep South, mostly in Florida, Louisiana, etc.
From what I've been told they are pretty docile and not aggressive the way Nile Crocs are.
Florida also has American Crocodiles as well.
@@firefighterchick We recently had an elderly woman walking her small dog close to a body of water here in Florida. A gator lurched onto land going after the dog. The woman tried to fend off the gator, but the gator grabbed her and drug her into the water. They found her body sometime later. The event was captured on film. We've had a few similar incidents over the past couple of years. Seems people never learn to stay away from the edge of pond, rivers and lakes down here.
@jameshawkins2984 Oh that's sad.
I take it the little dog died too?
Not that I don't feel for the lady either.😉
They usually hang by the water's edge, right? Other than the Everglades.
So unless you're near those areas for the most part you won't encounter them?
@@firefighterchick I think the dog survived. Not sure though. Yes. The gators lay motionless next to the water’s edge and sometimes amongst tall grass in those areas. If you’re lucky you may spot just their eyes above the water but usually they are totally submerged inches below the water and looking up for unsuspecting prey. We have some small ponds near our home next to a golf course and we do see a gator in them now and again.
@jameshawkins2984 Well if I understand correctly Australia has a lake at a golf course that has Bull Sharks.
Apparently, they had a record-breaking flood in 1999 and Sharks were swept from the Ocean to the lake. When the water receded the Sharks were still there.
Which would you rather deal with? Lol
I lived in Colorado. Went to put my dogs out saw something dangling from lower tree branch. Looked closer realized it was a mountain lion napping on the lower branch. Tail hanging down. So they come right onto the neighborhood.
Ah, don't think all of these predators stay in the wild. Once in a while they do show up in cities or towns. There's been a mountain lion roaming in an area or two of a good sized city here lately.
Not on the list but I’ve got coyotes running around my neighborhood
@@Kojak024I'm in SoCal and yes we have coyotes here. They are mainly nocturnal and when they have attacked some small prey or pet you can hear the pack howling in the night.
There are those who will go surfing when barred because of an incoming hurricane so going in water which could possibly have a shark is not far fetched. Having said that...fools abound. 🦈
Great video guys
And, it could be worse. At least spiders and scorpions don't fly. Yet......
B2, with the cougars and children, it happens. Growing up in the foothills of Los Angeles I know many people including my sibling that have had cougars quickly appear in their yards. You get a hungry cat, a kid in the sand box and mom on the patio.....BOOM! Kid gone.
It happened with coyotes and a toddler about 30-40 years ago. A mother was in her kitchen and her kids were outside where she could see them. All of a sudden her 3 year old was in a mouth and over a 6 foot fence. Right in front of her. They only found his arm.
B1, flip flops are safer than shoes with scorpions! If you slip your foot in an unchecked shoe, BAM! you're stung!
I used to go with my cousin to collect rattle snakes. He milked them for the venom and sold it, this was in the 1970's and early 80's.
You have no idea what destruction a moose can do on an American highway.
Native to North Carolina here - have been bitten by a brown recluse before. It started as just a small bite like a mosquito bite but the next day it was as big as a saucer. I got a huge black ring around the interior of the bite and had a horrible fever and vomitting. I had to go to the hospital. They are no joke.
Huh....I haven't heard from Firefighter Chick for awhile.
I'm always here....lol
Great list, but obviously not comprehensive. Everybody knows the most dangerous animal in the U.S.A. is a woman who asks her husband, "Do these pants make my butt look big?" and he replies, "Not as big as the pants you were wearing yesterday."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Preach it, Hawk!
@@chueysmama2622 😁
I said it was the best one I could find, not that it wasn't a bit corny at spots!
Some of the pictures as I told you on Patreon aren't correct either.
The skinny looking things in the Buffalo section aren't American Bison.
The skinny antlers in the Moose section aren't correct that's probably Elk which are huge as well.
I HATE that they included pictures of those poor injured deer!
It hurts my heart to think of any animal suffering.
I've learned to scan the brush and tree line when I'm driving. More than once I've caught a glimpse so I could slow to a stop and let them cross the road.
A friend of mine in Canada told me when a car hits a moose the moose stands up and looks at the car like are you kidding me and just walks off while the vehicle is totaled!😅
This one still better than the other video(not your reation to it)! 😁
So his accent is called Posh?
It's probably the most stereotypical British accent that Americans think of when you mention Brits.😅😂
I prefer both of your accents a lot more.😊
With pretty much all of these, with the exception of the Brown Recluse and Black Widow Spiders you'll rarely encounter.
Even those spiders it's not
every day.
According to friends I have that hunt we have some cougars back in Northwest Pennsylvania. They migrated from Canada.
We haven't had wolves or cougars in Pennsylvania for many, many decades.
Shark attacks are exceedingly rare.
You figure between Americans and foreign tourists every year there's at least tens of millions of people in the water a good part of the year, especially the west coast and the Gulf of Mexico and Florida.
Bison attacks virtually all of those happen because of what was the word you told me?
Wallies....the idiots try to take selfies with wild animals!
That's called thinning out the herd.
*fully admits that's a dad joke.😅
Thanks for doing this one guys.
There is a top 10 Most Beautiful States video if you want to try that one. I think I gave you a link in Patreon 🙂
It really bugs me, when "information" videos can't be bothered to get things right. I figure they're just trying to churn out lots of videos, so aren't really concerned about it.
@RogCBrand I know I agree but this was minor compared to a lot I've seen.
It's the best one on this topic I could find.😅
Great recommendation, FFC. And you're spot on with all your observations mentioned above.
@@firefighterchick LOL! You are so right, there are some REALLY bad ones out there!
Here in SoCal we have brown recluse spiders. You can tell their webs immediately because they're all tangled up they're not symmetrical or beautiful whatsoever.
My opinion, if i was to come within 40 ft of the danger, i would back up facing it. Most animals will just watch or run off. If any animal was to charge i think you would not have a
chance to survive against a grizzly,moose,elk,polar bear(from Canada),buffalo. A slight chance against a cougar, wolf, black bear, coyote, to a lesser degree, still dangerous,
a lynx, deer. I think my worst fear would be a grizzly bear. When it comes to animals you can run away from if an encounter occurs, you have a great chance of getting away,
snakes, insects etc. In cases like these, it may be too late when damage already done.
The black widow's reputation is more vestigial than current. In the 19th century, they were outhouse nightmares, as flies congregating anywhere will trigger web-building. The seclusion of much of the population made most bites worse, as they went untreated.
A bull shark was determined to be the culprit in a string of freshwater attacks/fatalities in New Jersey in the early 20th century.
My mother was bit by a brown recluse spider on her thigh, it was on a cardboard box she was moving. The tissue in her thigh died and you could see her bone. She luckily did not have to get it amputated but there was a round scar on her leg.
A lot of reviewers have been thinking that the reason the narrator says that "Children are most likely to be attacked" by Cougars, it's not because a child is small, etc... It's because children are most likely to run away. The moment you turn your back, you're done for... I've seen cool videos online of people at a Zoo where Cougars are behind them seperated by thick glass. The cougar just layed there on a ledge staring at her, the MOMENT she turned her back to it, it pounced and smashed up against the glass. It's AMAZING how fast it went from laying there looking at here from several feet away to behind literally inches from her in a split second. On the other hand, I've seen videos of kids (Who have obviously grown up around them or have learned about them, stare a cougar down and scream, and the cougar took off running.
I live in Texas, while working part-time for Lowe's garden dept years ago, I was watering some new palm trees that just came in. I didn't feel the scorpion crawling up my leg (under my pants). It stung me in my upper front leg. It hurt like a bi**h! I still carry the puncture scar today
When I was younger I lived further out in the country side of San Antonio and a regular incounter were snakes and scorpions and loads of spiders. Checking shoes before putting them on and not lifting things up in the yard to close to you that they can hide under is still a habit. 😂
I don't know how it is over yonder in England, but here in the US the deer can't recognize pictures of themselves. They don't know that the signs on the side of the road are trying to show them where to cross. It's a miscommunication thing really. :) lmao
Heh, You mentioned that not all Deer Accidents are directly from the Deer, you could swerve into a tree, etc... Great Point, In fact I Michigan where I live and raised, the Highway Safety Administration have a HUGE annual campaign with billboards all along the highway with the slogan "Don't Veer for Deer"... Meaning if you're going to hit one, don't hit the break, don;t turn the wheel... MANY times a deer will jump out of the way at the last moment and IF you are swerving, there a MUCH larger chance you'll collide as the Deer jumps in the direction you're turning.... You know, like when two people are walking in a hallway toward each other and you do that "Dance" of what way you're going to go around each other? Well, same thing, but at 70 Miles per hour and you only get ONE chance to swerve, not several like the hallway analogy. It's not intuitive, but it's statistically safer to keep going straight and don't spped up or slow down.,
I live in San Diego, CA and yes we do have mountain lions. They do not usually come down into residential areas but it does happen. They will usually go after your pets and small animals. Larger dogs are usually able to scare them off depending on the dog. We have a larger problem with Coyotes and birds of prey like red tailed hawks. I have lost a number of pets over the years because of them.
I've heard that a Black Widow bite causes your muscles to contract giving you a feeling of a " charlie horse" in all your muscles at once.
The builder hit much car front in car with bye-bye didn’t kill me and my wife but I told my car up it was about 750 pounds
Florida has alligators, crocodiles, Florida Panther, Bobcats, Scorpions, Coral snakes, water moccasin snakes, cottonmouth snakes, pythons and rattle snakes, Black bears, fire ants and many sea creatures like all kinds of sharks and Jellyfish along with the black widow spider and the recluse spider.
Gators get no respect.
Bull sharks have killed in rivers many miles from any beach. I swam and fished in rivers hundreds of times as a kid before the internet so we didn't know it was a possibility back in the 80s and 90s until the internet became a thing.
Hilarious video….. the last one they can’t seem to tell the difference between an elk and a moose and keep interchanging their pictures. In Canada it’s not unusual to wake up to a moose in your backyard pool or playing in your water sprinklers, they have even wandered into schools, convenience stores, and public building. If you think there’s a peeping Tom in the neighbourhood……..check again, it’s probably just a moose looking in.
But if we hunt bear, we gotta have a back matter walk because I want your hot and then they’re coming back from you, so I carry a 50 caliber rifle and 15 but you don’t have a Shock W will be on top of you. You will be probably lunch.
If you were bitten by a Brown Recluse spider, the poison starts to rot the tissues down to the bone
Here's a shocker for ya'. Man is more dangerous than any animal. Animals won't hurt you unless they are threatened - not so with humans.
Me: Bull shark
Benny Hill: No, it's true!
Brown recluse spiders are mean as shit
For the scorpion... I could take a few seconds of feeling like I'm being electrocuted...But SEVENTY-TWO HOURS??? And what does he mean by "Temporary disfunction of the effected area"??? Does it paralyze you or something?
I would love to send you a photo of a rattler killed near us!
What about the alligators in the south?
Don't pet the fluffy cows