I used to think as a kid "how do bears pick all the bees out of honey when they eat it?" Now as an adult I realise bears just eat the bees like badasses
Often the bear is going after the hive for the larvae, not the honey. It likes the honey, of course, but the bee larvae are where the nutrients are as far as the bear is concerned.
Yeah, that's true, but they actually just like his other guy said, preferred the honey and the larvae more, and they still get stung quite a lot still....
@@Gilgamesh54 yes but therefore we shouldn’t treat them as cute puppies or anything we should treat them with respect not get close and let it be. We get close n start trying to take a selfie with it we deserve to get eaten. All I think is treat animals with respect and especially treat predators with it cuh they can kill us like nothing if we’re stupid
I thought the most recent species is the Bear Grylls, identified by its British accent, extremely risk-taking behavior and borderline insanity combined with a peculiar determination to be on camera.
Whenever I see a picture of a badger now, I will always remember that facebook meme that went around: European badgers look like they are about to invite you over for tea and crumpets, American bagers look like they are about to mug you in a dark alley to support their meth addiction. Or something to that effect.
They are not very closely related at all though, american and European badgers that is, also honey badger are not even ‘true’ badgers either. Basically badger is just the word we use to refer to fear and violence in furry squat form.
A lot of native Americans don’t want to kill them and worship them on account if you skin their paw it looks like a human hand and they are viewed as guardians/protectors
Fact: In 2014, Archaelogists have dug up a giant polar bear skull measured 16 inch long in Northern Alaska which could inspired the Inuit legend of King Bear or Weasel Bear. The skull is 1300 years old and scientists believed that it is a subspecies of modern polar bear.
@@sebastianhunter144 i've found a 17.5" long skull on Google that apparently "is a replica of a specimen believed to be the second largest ever found." You are right. Other skulls are around 16"
I'm happy to see the evolution of bears getting more attention. It is truly remarkeable on how divers this group was and still is. A good combination of brains and brawn.
@@WintJames your head looks like an egg with a fungal infection. Also keep your selfish thought for yourself evolution is a proven fact that is observable.
The closest I can get to walking through these fascinating habitats - I’m well aware that it wouldn’t be the safest place to wander , but you can’t help but marvel at how extraordinary and mesmerising some of these ancient beasts must have been to look at. Nature is incredible
You might be surprised by how safe it probably was for early humans to walk among large predators like these thousands of years ago. It wouldn't be safe alone, but one of the major contributing factors behind every major large mammal going extinct since the end of the Ice Age was mankind. When we socialize in large groups, we're practically unstoppable as a species. It's also why, when you look out your window every morning, you don't see any of these extinct animals. We conquered them all or hunted them to extinction.
@Joske Vermeulen so you don't think that humans are responsible for the current rise in temperature? Interesting, please elaborate on your argumentation. However one thing that humans do cause and that is for certain is pollution. The mass amounts of plastic in the ocean and along the road are not created by nature I believe.
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It isn't like the animals are totally incompetent habitat loss and fragmentation is the biggest factor and one unfortunately not getting resolved as development spreads like wildfires through China. Basically they have been reduced to isolated islands of habitat and as bamboo colonies live a century or so before flowering going to seed and dying without a large territory with multiple generations of bamboo they can starve to death. As such with the loss of their habitat (which originally spanned over much of east-southeast Asia) the animals are basically only left alive in zoos and have lost much of their wild behavior. From what I have read it seems that rather than the animals being unwilling to mate entirely it may have more to do with the attempts to restore genetic fitness i.e. the bears want to reproduce with genetic close relatives from their same isolated inbred subpopulations. So it looks to be a far more messy situation and barring the restoration of sufficiently large ranges of bamboo forest habitat one unlikely to ever improve.
Thank you for an unbearably high quality video on bear evolution. This channel is top notch and you produce very good and interesting videos. Thank you!
I can remember all text books used to claim that Pandas were not true bears but more closely related to raccoons. I guess they are now bears. Like Pluto. Was a planet and then it wasn't and now it is.
I have an amusing theory of how bison invented rattlesnakes. If you’ve ever seen a bison leap safely away from the first sound of a rattle, you can see how a rattle would keep both populations alive. No poisoned bison, no squashed snakes. Win/win.
hey man, thanks for producing this awesome content. i'm studying biology, & one of the easiest ways to get the examiners to like your essays is to use examples that aren't in the notes. this channel is a gold mine for those
Bears pretty much evolved in a similar pattern to tyrannosaurids,by first appearing as small humble carnivores only to get huge quickly afterwards to dominate their habitats.
Except tyrannosaurids got big after all the other big predatory theropods in Laurasia died out, while bears evolved alongside competition (though they managed fine regardless)
I remember seeing a raccoon in the day light and thinking that it moved and ran like a bear. And I looked it up and sure enough it is a close cousin. Very nice video. Thank you.
Apparently the artic ice sheet shrinking away has led to a lot of crossbreeding of polar bears with grizzlies. I wonder if the crossbreeds are going to end up with the best of all worlds... the ability to break fat down more efficiently along with the ability to eat nuts and fruits again
My uni has a short faced bear and it's a thing of beauty. It makes sense they went extinct because holy hell the amount of food it would have taken to keep that thing running..
It’s so beautiful how we can look back at the history of life on this planet and realize just how small our existence is on the time scale. Makes me feel like a small part of something bigger.
you took the words right out of my mouth fam. Mustardloidea and canibisforms.. Inafraorder. I mean you’d have to be an idiot not to understand this stuff... (nervous laughter) 😬
It actually does not, instead Procyonidae and the other families Nasuidae, Ailuridae, and Mephitidae make up a separate superfamily based on some features that are not found in the families Mustelidae, Melidae, Ictonychidae, or Lutridae, members of the family Mephitidae evolved to look like badgers and ictonychids due to convergent evolution
@@prowlbeast1959 Yeah.. They're kinda annoying, since I'm an over thinker, and I can't prove that they're wrong because, *its hard to argue with someone who's dumb, than smart*
Living carnivorans are divided into twenty-five extant families: Canidae (dogs), Ursidae (bears), Ailuropodidae (giant panda), Phocidae (seals), Cystophoridae (hooded seal and elephant seals), Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals), Odobenidae (walrus), Procyonidae (raccoons, ringtail, and cacomistle), Nasuidae (coatis, olingos, olinguito, and kinkajou), Ailuridae (red panda), Mephitidae (skunks and stink badgers), Mustelidae (weasels, ferrets, and minks), Melidae (badgers), Ictonychidae (zorillas, marbled polecat, african striped weasel, patagonian weasel, grisons, wolverine, tayra, martens, and fisher), Lutridae (otters), Felidae (cats), Hyaenidae (hyenas), Protelidae (aardwolf), Viverridae (civets and binturong), Herpestidae (mongooses), Eupleridae (malagasy carnivorans), Genettidae (genets), Poianidae (oyans), Prionodontidae (linsangs), and Nandiniidae (african palm civet), the latter ten families are in the suborder Feliformia while the former fifteen families are in the suborder Caniformia.
@Weasel Here in NZ, unfortunately, with our native species which evolved in the absence of mammals, Mustelids, all introduced by colonists are, as a whole, considered pests to ideally be completely eradicated. www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/predator-free-2050/ I'm sceptical whether this can be achieved, but all for the effort. Mustelids are successful and persistent survivors here, penetrating almost everywhere pretty quickly. Our native birds are just a Mustelid smorgasbord!
P.S.: I'd love to learn more about the extinct Giant Cave Bear. It seems like such an iconic/archetypical/legendary/mythical/fantastical idea. To learn that there is actually a species embodying that idea (though sadly extinct 😥) really piques my curiosity! What do we know about them?!
Bears are the scariest terrestrial animals, IMO. As a backpacker, bears are the only animals in my region (The Rocky Mountains) that really frighten me while traveling in the backcountry. Incredibly strong, intelligent, and increasingly become unafraid of humans due to habitat competition. Fascinating predators, but I never enter the backcountry without being armed.
I don’t know if they are around where you live but I would be more worried for mountain lions, a bear wouldn’t actually want to try to eat a human but still dangerous.
@@e9cw196 If a bear is hungry than yes also they are in the Rockies, mainly black bears(if I recall, I’m not super confident on it) smaller but still no push over, also if you near the Cubs a mother will rush you to protect them, warranted or not.
Lived in the backcountry for years. I've encountered black bears out on hikes but have not been close enough to be interesting to them, thankfully. Personally though, if I'm alone I'm more scared of a mountain lion or grizzly.
That makes so much sense. When I used to run on my toes for fun, I'd go way faster than on my full foot. I also felt like I had a better way of stopping
Thank you for covering so much in this video! It's great how you make these fascinating creatures look even more interesting by raising points that I want to learn more about!
Bears are in the caniform infraorder Cynofacia (meaning dog-faced) the same infraorder as dogs and pinnipeds, the cynofacia infraorder is divided into two parvorders Eufissipedia and Pinnipedia, bears and dogs are in the former parvorder
I love bears. They are beatiful, strong, solitary, mysterious, have incredible sense of smell and they are a central part of folklore and mythology here in Norway. I wonder how we could best sum up the video? The bears evolved from creatures living in more forest covered environments, but as climate changed, evolved to have a more omnivorous diet and as far as we know seals are the closest relative? And the different kinds of bears we have today evolved from a common ancestor around 5 million years ago? What else? Thanks for great video!
Probably, just imagine how screwed up of a body that would look, unless the key to the honey badger's loose skin is the size of its body Not sure, but hey the intimidation will still be there lol
Please do a Video on figs and fig-wasps (Agaonidae) and their symbiosis! Like how and why these fruits often kill their pollinators, but the wasps need the fruit for reproduction!
I still would have expected to have polar bears to have a very high bite force. After all they need to be able to bite through the fur and blubber of seals. I'd also expect that cracking bones for marrow is a good adaptation to an environment where food is extemely scarce and for that you need a good bite.
I miss my bear I had as a child I lost him one Halloween night rest in peace teddy should of kept him home that night I'd still have him to this day. 🙏😞😔
I really enjoy the style of your videos. It makes it easy to catch up on what have been learned since I did biology in High School. I feel much better informed every time I watch one. Thank you for your hard work.
I'm not sure if the teeth was the most important part of their diet adaptivity as much as their digestive system and metabolism. I would think the teeth was the only factor that was observable in the fossil record.