Thank you! I've done a bit of hiking on the Appalachian Trail and collected a few black bear stories. Still, I didn't realize how diverse the North American black bear population was. Great video!
I live in Massachusetts and for around ten years of my life there was a huge male black bear with a white chest marking and when i say huge i mean massive, i nicknamed him magnus and he lived in my area for a long time and i would see him every so often, havent seen him in a few years and i think time may have caught up to him, i love black bears and they are extremely important to the ecosystem and its always sad when i hear of someone killing one
@@caseymiddleton5534 Winnie was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada! Winnie was a black bear cub taken to England as a regimental mascot and donated to a zoo after the war. The real Winnie was black.
It's my favourite bear. I saw a taxidermied one at the post office in Atlin, BC. I hope to visit Tlingit area, maybe I'll get a visit from this special bear? I'm down on the west coast of V. Island, nuuchalnuth territory, near the hitatsoo res.
One subspecies of Black Bear I find rather interesting is the Eastern Black Bear/Ursus Americanus Americanus. In which thanks to the lack of competition from larger bear species is also much larger than other subspecies of black bear. Being naturally, the apex predator of the St. Lawrence Lowland forest.
Bad news for Florida Black Bears. On July 1, 2024 a new law went into effect allowing citizens to shoot a black bear in " self defense". I feel this is 🐂💩 due to the quickly rising human population displacing wilderness where bears and other animals live. There have been reports on televised news of black bears in neighborhoods looking for food. This is sad for the black bear.
If you like bears donate to the bear association of America. A few days ago I was up north in Minnesota at the Vince Shute bear reserve, I lost count at 75 wild bears. Cubs playing in the trees was incredible to see.
Me as well I came across the largest bear I’ve ever seen in my life that was all white with a hint of yellow while I was driving my truck up a long dirt roads on my way to my bosses property I’ve never seen a more massive glorious blonde bear
Nice video, I knew about Spirit/Kermode, Cinnamon and Glacier subspecies but not the other two. Weirdly I never thought about vehicle-bear collisions before but they must be pretty bad, for the bear and the driver too. By the way, what happened to your old intro?
@@johnkeith6375 Pure rock doves are not domesticated. However, most pigeons in Europe and Africa are descendants of domesticated pigeons, and all pigeons outside of Europe and Africa are descended from domesticated pigeons, making them technically domesticated.
@boxxxcars5672 So wild horses? Because something was once domestic doesn't mean it stays domestic when it returns to life in the wild. Not one or two generations obviously but several generations of living wild.
What I don’t get is how are are there extant black bear populations in densely populated places like New Jersey and Connecticut but they’re extinct in much more wild places like the Dakotas and Eastern Montana. What’s the story behind that?
My guess is that there's less available habitat for Black Bears in the Dakotas/Eastern Montana and that general region. Black Bears generally prefer more forested habitats where they can get more cover to hide from people. I've travelled across that part of the country before and it's very open and flat, with only marginal tree cover in ravines and along riverbanks (the Black Hills are an exception to this rule). That's very limited habitats for Black Bears. While New Jersey and Connecticut are quite populated, they also have stretches of untouched forest (especially New Jersey) that are more than enough habitat to support plenty of Black Bears. I hope this helps!
@@JDthegamer209 Good point. NJ is 40 percent forest. CT is more than 50 percent. NY, where I live, is more than 60 percent forest. Much the same is true of much of the eastern US.
@@JDthegamer209 correct. we have several black bear in town NOW, lots of cover, but the grizzly are up another 1,000 feet in grassland. historically, our Columbia valley was grassland: grizzly, elk, rocky mountain sheep. Now with planted trees were have black bears, very small mule deer, and no sheep.
@@JDthegamer209 the presence of large, relatively undisturbed forests in these areas provides the necessary cover and resources for Black Bears to thrive. but how might their behavior and diet shift in response to the transition from a densely forested habitat to a more open landscape with limited cover?
Yep in Paynes prairie outside Gainesville a small heard roam free. They used to live all over the state especially in the savannahs and prairies in the panhandle until they were hunted to extinction here around 300 years ago. The population in Paynes prairie was reintroduced from Nebraska back in the 70s and have played an important role on the landscape. Hopefully someday more bison will roam the state as they did before Europeans wiped em out.
I’ve lived in Berea Ky 30 years this summer was the first time I’ve seen a black bear in town. Somethings pushing these bears further north I things it’s the wild pig problem down south competition for food. Packs off wolves would most likely clean that mess up fast.
Wow thank you for the video. I didn’t know there’s more other colors of black bears. That reminds me I saw a cinnamon bear in sequoia national park long time ago. He was pretty big! He even came to our car and smelled us then walked away.
i know that here in Ontario Canada there are also bears, in fact i know of 3 species, the Black bear, the Polar bear and the Teddy bear, in our area of Ontario 200 miles north of Toronto bears are sometimes seen, but i am not sure if there is a fixed population, i do know that several cities in the area are now using security with flash-bangs to scare them of the garbage/waste depot's and that in town the garbage bins are sometimes raided , but that's not always a bear but sometimes a "trash panda" (raccoon).
I am on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. I am very, very familiar with having bears be something you consider when you start leaving the beaten path. And even a few times where they decided to visit us. Look, respect but don't even think of touching. And leash your dogs.
These bears are incredibly elusive. Here in Maine we have the largest concentration of black bears in the US and I have only seen 1 in the wild in over 40 years living here. And I spend a lot of time in the outdoors
7:40 "....there are a few good ways to tell them apart..." ...if it raises its nose to drink in your delicious aroma and opens its mouth to let the drool out then its a cinnamon bear. If it seems to smile and strike a cute pose like its looking for a hug then its a brown bear just trying to lure you closer.
I guess people are actually seeing freaking bears near me in Ohio, we have this little section left that's actually green in the NE part (due to all the parks or whatever) but they apparently found it along with fishers (a huge weasel) and they're moving back in after being locally extinct since the mid-1800's. I guess trappers/hunters just killed the stragglers way back then because I'm sure these spots existed then and everything was just generally a million times healthier, I'm glad we're mostly over killing everything in sight... well those people still exist but there are more laws now.
I think another reason why some black bears are brown is to deal with warmer climates such as Arizona and California with can get warmer than say Michigan and Canada
Is the cinnamon bear actually its own subspecies or just a color phase? I hunted and spent as much time as possible outside of almost 40 years in northern California and I’ve seen blonde, brown, cinnamon and black bears. I’d say brown/cinnamon are the most common at least in the areas I frequented.
I live in the part of Arkansas (Amity near Hot Springs) that the map says there's no bears, it's wrong. I've seen several and every few years in Hot Springs one has to be tranquilized and moved out of Hot Springs. My sister (and others) has lots in Hot Springs Village) see a couple yearly. To the point the HOA is considering requiring trash cans to be kept in the garage
@@TsukiCoveyes they might be but I’ll have to look it up the moon bear might be a subspecies Also here’s a video recommendation Ranking the largest old world monkeys Colobus Barbary ape Gelada Sacred baboon Gray langur Tibetan macaque Olive baboon Drill Proboscis monkey Golden subnose monkey Chacma baboon Mandrill
It's an apt comparison. Both have survived, and even thrived in, human encroachment. They have even spread into suburban areas. I live in western New York in a metro area of a million people and there are coyotes and black bears in my neighbor, along with deer. The same is true of areas less than twenty-five miles from Central Park.
Sorry i put the wrong scientific name for the coastal sea wolf. The scientific name is for a frog and i use it as a place holder, please ignore :)
Fun fact: Spirit bears, although much more rarely, have also been found in the olx growth forests on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state‼️👍
Cool! I live in King County. I'd love to go see the Olympic Peninsula again.
Thank you! I've done a bit of hiking on the Appalachian Trail and collected a few black bear stories. Still, I didn't realize how diverse the North American black bear population was. Great video!
thank you the support is much appreciated :)
In my 37 years living in Florida I personally have only seen one
Same but if seen they're tracks so ik they're here and we don't have a big population
I see them pretty regularly in my part of FL
@@mandoblast503 that's cool tbh there's one that lives near me cause I've found its tracks but they're pretty rare in central
Well Florida is populated by a billion huhmerican humanoids so……..
I live in Massachusetts and for around ten years of my life there was a huge male black bear with a white chest marking and when i say huge i mean massive, i nicknamed him magnus and he lived in my area for a long time and i would see him every so often, havent seen him in a few years and i think time may have caught up to him, i love black bears and they are extremely important to the ecosystem and its always sad when i hear of someone killing one
i couldn't agree more
Winnie the Pooh is probably a yellow spirit bear.
Given that the 100 Acre Wood is in England, he’d be a blonde brown bear
@@caseymiddleton5534 Winnie was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada! Winnie was a black bear cub taken to England as a regimental mascot and donated to a zoo after the war. The real Winnie was black.
You are the Man to watch Sir
thank you very much :)
@Tsuki, could you please upload a video about 3 proposed animal reintroductions?
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i'll do some research :)
@@TsukiCove one idea I have is the proposed reintroduction of komodo dragons to Australia.
I'm Tsimshian and Tlingit, glad to hear about animals from Southeast Alaska and British Columbia (I live in the only reservation in Alaska) =>
It's my favourite bear. I saw a taxidermied one at the post office in Atlin, BC. I hope to visit Tlingit area, maybe I'll get a visit from this special bear? I'm down on the west coast of V. Island, nuuchalnuth territory, near the hitatsoo res.
One subspecies of Black Bear I find rather interesting is the Eastern Black Bear/Ursus Americanus Americanus. In which thanks to the lack of competition from larger bear species is also much larger than other subspecies of black bear.
Being naturally, the apex predator of the St. Lawrence Lowland forest.
Bad news for Florida Black Bears. On July 1, 2024 a new law went into effect allowing citizens to shoot a black bear in " self defense". I feel this is 🐂💩 due to the quickly rising human population displacing wilderness where bears and other animals live. There have been reports on televised news of black bears in neighborhoods looking for food. This is sad for the black bear.
yeah i was reading about this when i was researching, it's not a good situation at all
Just use bear spray
Yeah and that American seem to shoot animals for fun.
"It's comin' right for us!"
South Park is right again.
Soon all of the East and Southeastern states will not have bears like how they don’t have cougars lol
If you like bears donate to the bear association of America.
A few days ago I was up north in Minnesota at the Vince Shute bear reserve, I lost count at 75 wild bears. Cubs playing in the trees was incredible to see.
A few years ago I was hiking in the Sierra Nevadas when I came across a blonde black bear.
Me as well I came across the largest bear I’ve ever seen in my life that was all white with a hint of yellow while I was driving my truck up a long dirt roads on my way to my bosses property I’ve never seen a more massive glorious blonde bear
Mr. Tsuki, you’re amazing! ❤
thank you i appreciate it :)
Nice video, I knew about Spirit/Kermode, Cinnamon and Glacier subspecies but not the other two.
Weirdly I never thought about vehicle-bear collisions before but they must be pretty bad, for the bear and the driver too.
By the way, what happened to your old intro?
Hey Tsuki! Big fan! I have a suggestion for a video. Would you be interested in “Non-domestic Animals that Couldn’t Survive Without Humans?”
Pigeons end of video
@@johnkeith6375 Pigeons are actually domesticated. Pandas, on the other hand...
@sorreldislikespotatoes9882 Pigeons all over the planet except Antarctic are not domesticed. Some sure but not all.
@@johnkeith6375 Pure rock doves are not domesticated. However, most pigeons in Europe and Africa are descendants of domesticated pigeons, and all pigeons outside of Europe and Africa are descended from domesticated pigeons, making them technically domesticated.
@boxxxcars5672 So wild horses? Because something was once domestic doesn't mean it stays domestic when it returns to life in the wild. Not one or two generations obviously but several generations of living wild.
What I don’t get is how are are there extant black bear populations in densely populated places like New Jersey and Connecticut but they’re extinct in much more wild places like the Dakotas and Eastern Montana. What’s the story behind that?
NJ made it illegal to kill them so they thrived to the point of too many now.
My guess is that there's less available habitat for Black Bears in the Dakotas/Eastern Montana and that general region. Black Bears generally prefer more forested habitats where they can get more cover to hide from people. I've travelled across that part of the country before and it's very open and flat, with only marginal tree cover in ravines and along riverbanks (the Black Hills are an exception to this rule). That's very limited habitats for Black Bears. While New Jersey and Connecticut are quite populated, they also have stretches of untouched forest (especially New Jersey) that are more than enough habitat to support plenty of Black Bears. I hope this helps!
@@JDthegamer209 Good point. NJ is 40 percent forest. CT is more than 50 percent. NY, where I live, is more than 60 percent forest. Much the same is true of much of the eastern US.
@@JDthegamer209 correct. we have several black bear in town NOW, lots of cover, but the grizzly are up another 1,000 feet in grassland. historically, our Columbia valley was grassland: grizzly, elk, rocky mountain sheep. Now with planted trees were have black bears, very small mule deer, and no sheep.
@@JDthegamer209 the presence of large, relatively undisturbed forests in these areas provides the necessary cover and resources for Black Bears to thrive. but how might their behavior and diet shift in response to the transition from a densely forested habitat to a more open landscape with limited cover?
There's bison in Florida?!
Yep in Paynes prairie outside Gainesville a small heard roam free. They used to live all over the state especially in the savannahs and prairies in the panhandle until they were hunted to extinction here around 300 years ago. The population in Paynes prairie was reintroduced from Nebraska back in the 70s and have played an important role on the landscape. Hopefully someday more bison will roam the state as they did before Europeans wiped em out.
You should make a video about brown bear subspecies next. There's some really interesting ones out there.
I’ve lived in Berea Ky 30 years this summer was the first time I’ve seen a black bear in town. Somethings pushing these bears further north I things it’s the wild pig problem down south competition for food. Packs off wolves would most likely clean that mess up fast.
Wow thank you for the video. I didn’t know there’s more other colors of black bears. That reminds me I saw a cinnamon bear in sequoia national park long time ago. He was pretty big! He even came to our car and smelled us then walked away.
i know that here in Ontario Canada there are also bears, in fact i know of 3 species, the Black bear, the Polar bear and the Teddy bear, in our area of Ontario 200 miles north of Toronto bears are sometimes seen, but i am not sure if there is a fixed population, i do know that several cities in the area are now using security with flash-bangs to scare them of the garbage/waste depot's and that in town the garbage bins are sometimes raided , but that's not always a bear but sometimes a "trash panda" (raccoon).
Ray Stevens: "Every bear is beautiful, in its own way..."
3:19 Yaaayyy bear racism
Looooooool
How is that racism?
@@donaldseigel4101 Its sarcasm.
@@theodoreavdikos9804 These days I never know
Hey I love your content❤
thanks i appreciate it :)
I am on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. I am very, very familiar with having bears be something you consider when you start leaving the beaten path. And even a few times where they decided to visit us.
Look, respect but don't even think of touching. And leash your dogs.
Bears some of the Most underrated and story book-analyzed animals
Excellent video 😊
Glacier bears are my favorite. It's too bad they're not protected like spirit bears.💙
Would a male sport bear and a female sport bear birth only spirit bears? Either way that’s cool and shouldn’t ever be hunted.
These bears are incredibly elusive. Here in Maine we have the largest concentration of black bears in the US and I have only seen 1 in the wild in over 40 years living here. And I spend a lot of time in the outdoors
Cinnamon bears are NOT a subspecies but are found among black and brown colored black bears across their range.
7:40 "....there are a few good ways to tell them apart..." ...if it raises its nose to drink in your delicious aroma and opens its mouth to let the drool out then its a cinnamon bear. If it seems to smile and strike a cute pose like its looking for a hug then its a brown bear just trying to lure you closer.
I guess people are actually seeing freaking bears near me in Ohio, we have this little section left that's actually green in the NE part (due to all the parks or whatever) but they apparently found it along with fishers (a huge weasel) and they're moving back in after being locally extinct since the mid-1800's. I guess trappers/hunters just killed the stragglers way back then because I'm sure these spots existed then and everything was just generally a million times healthier, I'm glad we're mostly over killing everything in sight... well those people still exist but there are more laws now.
I ❤️ tuski!
What happened to ur older videos? Can u please re-upload them?
Years ago my sister saw a very large cinnamon black bear in northern Maine not far from our camp.
Can you do African vs European animals
I ❤ Bears and Salmon
Nice video, but are there bears that used to be in Africa?😅👋🌫️🐩
Could deinosuchus take down a orca?
If it could get one bite in, I'd say so. Would be a hard bite to get though, considering the orca's speed and the fact it would be in a pod.
I think another reason why some black bears are brown is to deal with warmer climates such as Arizona and California with can get warmer than say Michigan and Canada
Is the cinnamon bear actually its own subspecies or just a color phase? I hunted and spent as much time as possible outside of almost 40 years in northern California and I’ve seen blonde, brown, cinnamon and black bears. I’d say brown/cinnamon are the most common at least in the areas I frequented.
Spirit bears have Oedipus complex. 😂
Not him calling my brown butt a color morph
My sister lives outside Phillipe, West Virginia and had a cinnamon bear visit her backyard.
I live in the part of Arkansas (Amity near Hot Springs) that the map says there's no bears, it's wrong. I've seen several and every few years in Hot Springs one has to be tranquilized and moved out of Hot Springs. My sister (and others) has lots in Hot Springs Village) see a couple yearly. To the point the HOA is considering requiring trash cans to be kept in the garage
Always knew the Battlestar Galactica chose black bears for a reason
Let’s go the biggest black bear
What sub species are in New Mexico,???
Black bear variants are found in Asia. Theres the Sun Bear for one.
I live in northeastern NC we got black bears boy they be out here
Black Bears also live in Asia, where they're nicknamed Moon Bears due to the white crest on their chest. 😁
Yes but they are a completely different species and there are a few different species of black bear in Asia
Sorry, spirit bears are also in northern Alberta. I know I had a close encounter with one when I was 12.
Why haven’t you gotten your channel gotten verified yet? You have over 100k subscribers.
i've never tried to sort it out, i'll look into it
There are black bears in Russia and japan
A Spirit Bear is only 495 LB's? The average Texan is bigger than that.
Keystonespecies VERY 🫡
I carry in the woods, Im not foolish. Hope I never need it.
First!
nice one :)
100th
Racist bears who knew
@Tsuki moon bears are black bears so black bears are not only found in North America chief
Asian black bears
Diffrent species sorry
That's a different species?
@@TsukiCoveyes they might be but I’ll have to look it up the moon bear might be a subspecies
Also here’s a video recommendation
Ranking the largest old world monkeys
Colobus
Barbary ape
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Sacred baboon
Gray langur
Tibetan macaque
Olive baboon
Drill
Proboscis monkey
Golden subnose monkey
Chacma baboon
Mandrill
My bad chief was thinking it was a sub
I always think of the black bear as the coyote of bears
It's an apt comparison. Both have survived, and even thrived in, human encroachment. They have even spread into suburban areas. I live in western New York in a metro area of a million people and there are coyotes and black bears in my neighbor, along with deer. The same is true of areas less than twenty-five miles from Central Park.
So it is not racist to prefer your own race?