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You’d have to use brown bears from Spain or Italy. It’s damn near the same habitat as the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Brown bears have several subspecies of bears that are adapted to hotter n dryer ecosystems. The Mexican Grizzly (extinct), the Gobi bear, the Atlas was another one, but also the brown bears that live in Southern Europe along the Mediterranean Sea already live in an almost identical habitat as the Atlas Mountains already
Atlas mountains was also home to North African elephants that were used in the invasion of roman republic by Hannibal of Carthage. They also went extinct during Roman times.
It sounds like the bear in the description was a cub/juvenile. It makes sense that the Atlas Bear was described as a herbivore, since Brown Bears in general eat more plant matter than animal food. Also, adult Brown Bears don't usually do much climbing, partly because of their size and partly because their claws are made for digging (as opposed to an American Black Bear that has shorter, hooked claws).
@@matplayer1232 That's possible, but I doubt anyone studied the Atlas Bear enough to make any reliable conclusions. Meanwhile, surviving Brown Bears vary their diet depending on food availability. For example, those living near salmon streams eat salmon (seasonally), while those living in coastal areas eat mollusks. I would expect the Atlas Bear made use of all available food sources.
@@matthewzito6130 I doubt that salmon is available in Africa And yeah the atlas bear was not much studied,but the Wiki says that it was the most vegetarian bear,because if You think about it,it didn't have a lot of choices regarding on live prey Yes it would've definitely fed on carcasses If it had the chance for that sweet extra protein,but when it comes to hunting things get a Little head-scratching You see,the grizzly bear has a lot of choices regarding his diet Besides vegetation,there are a lot of prey animals that he would hunt Elk,Deer,moose,etc. But what about the atlas bear? What is he going to find? A gellada baboon Well,yes there are animals in the atlas mountains,but the point is that prey is much more scarce around there. So the atlas bear would've fed primarily on vegetation and insects And ocasionally small mamalls And carrion I am not saying that the atlas bear is capable of eating meat I am just pointing the fact that he fed mostly in vegetation and a lot less on meat
@@matplayer1232 The relative scarcity of large animals is largely the result of overhunting. Large ungulates like Barbary Red Deer and Barbary Sheep would have been more common in the past (numerous enough to support both lions and leopards). Atlas Bears could have preyed on their young, and stollen leopard kills (the same way they steal wolf kills in Yellowstone). They also could have preyed on any small mammals they could catch. I'm not sure if North Africa has anything equivalent to ground squirrels or marmots, but small mammals are an important food source for some Brown Bear populations.
I'd never noticed the passive sentence construction before but it really does feel like shifting the blame from humans wiping a species out to the silly animal just couldn't cut it in the harsh world. Thanks for pointing that out.
In this video, the description of the Atlas bear having had a short face brings to mind the extinct cave bear and its closest-related living descendant--the Andean bear.
Andean Bears are related to the extinct Short-faced Bears found in the Americas. Cave Bears were found in Europe and more closely related to modern Brown Bears.
There were also bears in the southernmost tip of Spain until 500 years ago, just at the other side of the Gibraltar Strait, where the climate and vegetation are not too much different. They went extinct here because they were harmful for the goats shepherds, who went high up to the mountains with their cattle, were the bears lived. In northern Spain there are still bears because the main cattle there are cows, and the shepherds does not go to high mountain with his cattle. I can imagine that could occur the same in the Atlas, besides other factors.
Yes. The people there grew numerous and were everywhere on the mountains. They kept coming across the bears, and they didn't like it, so they killed them all. So saddening! Now they say they wouldn't want them back. Also now, mining is being proposed there. The remaining wildlife is being hunted to extinction. People are triing to stop the mine and to save the animals, but they may go extinct! They should be preserved, as they may be prey for the Barbery lion and the Atlas bear, one day! I hope they are!
Since polar bears are evolved brown bears (well, it's a little more complicated than that involving a genetic bottleneck and several hybridization events among brown and polar bears, but that's basically the gist of it) and atlas bears are a subspecies of brown bear, it would make sense that they are related. Interesting video.
Actually, polar bears are not descended from brown bears, in fact, the polar bear is actually a separate species and is more closely related to the asiatic black bear than either is to the brown bear, the silver bear and blue bear are both different enough to be classified as separate species from the brown bear and are considered most closely related to the asiatic black bear/polar bear clade, thus, the genus Ursus contains only five extant species, the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus).
@@indyreno2933 False, polar bears are most closely related to brown bears, and are the most recent species of bear to have evolved, having diverged from the brown bear 150,000 years ago. And there are only four extant species of Ursus. Brown Bear, Polar Bear, American Black Bear, and Asiatic Black Bear. How can you be in so many different videos and ALWAYS be wrong about everything you say?
@MinutemanSam, actually, the Ursus genus contains five extant species now, the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) is actually the most basal of the five species, with the polar bear and asiatic black bear to be most closely related to each other and the silver bear and blue bear are no longer conspecific with the brown bear, instead being separate species within their own subgenera under the Ursus genus closer to the clade comprising of both the asiatic black bear and polar bear, the polar bear shared a more recent common asian ancestor with the asiatic black bear, while the brown bear is the most basal extant species of the genus Ursus (Old World Common Bears), also, the american black bear does not belong to the Ursus genus anymore, neither do the other three North American species formerly conspecific with it being the glacier bear, the cinnamon bear, and the kermode bear, all four of those species that are found only in North America are relocated to a separate genus that originated exclusively from the New World, being the genus Euarctos, with the scientific names of these four species now being Euarctos americanus, Euarctos emmonsii, Euarctos cinnamomum, and Euarctos kermodei respectively.
Polar Bears are genetically adapted from Browns no different then dogs are from wolves = all the genetic variability's were/are always there which is of "natural" or of "human directed" "Animal Husbandry" ~ nothing more...!
The Arabic word for bear is: دب. The Arabic word for hyena is: ضبع. They are similar in pronunciation but aren't the same word and aren't used interchangeably.
Another factor against the Middle East being the route by which brown bears entered Africa is the fact that they are completely absent from Ancient Egyptian art. The Nile Valley was the perfect habitat for them, and you would have at least expected to see a statue of a bear-headed god if that had been the case.
Africa is not harsher than the other continents. Bears are highly adaptable and incredibly tough animals. You see them surviving all across Asia, Europe and America in a range of habitats, climates and live among many other dangerous predators and herbivores. They can adapt in Africa quite easily.
The Atlas Bears historic range was limited by the Sahara Desert to the south. Meanwhile, being isolated in a relatively small area made them more vulnerable to overhunting. The same vulnerability applied to other recently extinct species that historically lived in the Atlas Mountains, including some (like lions) that still exist south of the Sahara.
It does make sense that the Atlas bear came from Europe originally and not the Middle East (Syrian bear). There are no records of them either present or crossing Egypt, Lybia and Algeria, Tunisia is a possibility. They may have survived in a few locations but not the desert ones. One thing I don't agree with is that the Atlas bear was a herbivore. I crossed the Atlas mountains, the High Atlas by car, 9000 feet and saw sheep in quite a few locations. If that bear existed it must have been omnivorous like all other species of bears. I hardly saw any vegetation in those mountains, it's possible that in order to survive that bear was more of a carnivore. In order for these bears to be used in gladiators' arenas they had to have had an inclination towards meat or their level of aggression would have been substantially diminished. To come to a conclusion calling them herbivores is hasty an innacurate, akin to calling wolves herbivores...Or horses, meat eaters. Lastly; the disappearance of the Atlas bear like the Barbary lion from North Africa are the result of extensive hunting, cultural attitudes and total lack of long term preservation views, not of "global warming". These two have disappeared long before there was any talk of global warming. The lion a century ago and the bear more than that. Nothing to do with global warming. Everything to do with lack of interest in conservation and brutish attitudes towards all animals in general, if not people. A tribal mindset in remote areas far more geared towards extermination than conservation.
@@luisvelez1952 No, they cannot. North Africa is a mixture of hot and cold. Hot for the Sahara and cold for the four mountain ranges in North Africa. All habitats have different climes.
Paul Homsy, having a tough time controlling your racism towards those "brutish tribes", aren't you? The extermination was done by European invaders, not the native tribes. Indigenous peoples all over the world generally have an innate sense of conservation.
relative to diet, bears are highly opportunistic relative to diet. I saw where Grizzly bears in yellowstone will eat swarms of a moth that emerges above the timberline in mountains. One really has to take a look at potential food sources, but not much point for an extinct bear. Population increases and improvement and availability of more efficient firearms would be enough to exterminated bears.
@@arkamukhopadhyay9111 Native tribes did, in fact, exterminate other tribes. You are perpetuate the racist 'noble savage' myth. They were humans, and they behaved like humans do.
In that region of Morocco there are red deer and wolf, they come from the Iberian Peninsula. During the last glaciation period, the sea level was much lower than now, due to the huge amounts of water stored in the ice across the continents and many species took advantage of this. In Spain, short after that period until 7000 years ago aprox, there where still living lions, hyenas or leopards, the same species we find today in Africa. But the human preassure was higher across Europe than in Africa, although the lions have recently gone extinct in the Atlas too.
Actually, there are no red deer in Africa, there is another deer species within the same genus as the red deer, which is the Barbary Deer (Cervus barbarus), which is actually now thought to be a separate species, the Cervus genus, where members are called common deer contains only five extant species, the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), the Corsican Deer (Cervus corsicanus), the Barbary Deer (Cervus barbarus), the Tarim Deer (Cervus hanglu), and the Elk (Cervus canadensis).
@@indyreno2933 interesting point, but all the information I find on the Internet refers to that animal as a subspecies of the red deer, Cervus elaphus barbarus. Anyways, it still would have come from the iberian red deer population.
Actually, the only five extant deer species of the Cervus genus are the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), the Corsican Deer (Cervus corsicanus), the Barbary Deer (Cervus barbarus), the Tarim Deer (Cervus hanglu), and the Elk/Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), all the four other extant species were traditionally conspecific with Cervus elaphus, but recent studies have found that the Asiatic and North American populations of subspecies are reclassified under Cervus hanglu and Cervus canadensis, with the Tarim Deer (Cervus hanglu) and Elk (Cervus canadensis) being most closely related to each other, interestingly, the corsican deer and barbary deer are actually both reranked as full species, with their scientific names now being Cervus corsicanus and Cervus barbarus respectively, both species are actually more closely related to the Tarim Deer + Elk clade than to the red deer, making the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) the most basal extant representative of the Cervus genus, members of the Cervus genus are called "common deer".
For every animal we drive into extinction we push closer to our own demise. Only thing that sucks though is many people today don't care about an extinction of a animal and/or the unbalance of eco systems unless it will directly effect their way of life within their lifetime.
If their habitat still exists, and if the local human population supports the idea. Along with lions maybe? This seems very far fetched but who knows...
The Romans also depleted the great Aurochs, European Leopard, and Barbary Lions to barely sustainable numbers thus they to became extinct by the industrial revolution.
Why no Greek lions? I never understand that. People always so keen to say that there were never lions in Europe, but they're just wrong. God, I can't take this any more.
I think they could survive in Southern part of Africa due to the weather and it snows there too. The weather was great for Europeans that's why they made it their home plus is sparsely populated.
One minor linguistic correction, the Arabic word for bear is not pronounced as "debb" (with an e which represents the Arabic vowel Kasra) but close enough as "dobb" (In British English not American accent where the o is the Arabic vowel for Damma, similar to a French E but short and sharp)
As they say the last knows atlas bear was killed in Morocco in 1870 .. in 2017 a full intact skeleton if atlas bear was found in a cave in Djordjora mountain -tizi ouzou Algeria .
Wasn't there rumours of bears occupying areas near the DC in Africa and in East Africa in places such as Ethiopia and Kenya back in the 1900's? There were descriptions of tail-less hyena dogs the locals described to the European setters which sounded eerily like bears. There were also sightings in South Africa and Central Southern Africa of bear-like animals by European settlers. Some of these sightings are still reported today.
@@AegleCreations Ah. Perhaps it was a sub-species of Atlas Bear that was found further South. There are so many places left in Africa that are sparsely populated, especially Ethiopia and so perhaps the African Bears live on?
you said the atlas bear was not only related to brown bears. but also polar bears. thats because polar bears share a common anchestor with brown bears. they are technically a subspecies of brown bear. just like grizzly's
@the flying dutchguy, actually, the polar bear is not a subspecies of brown bear, the polar bear is a separate species within a separate subgenus being Thalassarctos, Ursus contains only five extant species with five monotypic subgenera, the Brown Bear (Ursus (Ursus) arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus (Argentarctos) syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus (Cyanarctos) pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus (Selenarctos) thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus (Thalassarctos) maritimus), the closest living relative of the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) is actually the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), both the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) and Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) shared a common ancestor in Asia, there are now only fifteen extant bear species within five genera Taxonomy: • Family: Ursidae (Bears) •• Subfamily: Tremarctinae (Short-Faced Bears) ••• Genus: Tremarctos (Common Short-Faced Bears) •••• Species: Tremarctos ornatus (Spectacled Bear) •• Subfamily: Ursinae (Long-Snouted Bear) ••• Tribe: Melursini (Sloth Bears and Fossil Relatives) •••• Genus: Melursus (Sloth Bears) ••••• Species: Melursus ursinus (Indian Sloth Bear) ••••• Species: Melursus inornatus (Sri Lanka Sloth Bear) ••• Tribe: Ursini (Small-Eared Bears) •••• Subtribe: Helarctina (Sun Bears and Fossil Relatives) ••••• Genus: Helarctos (Sun Bears) •••••• Species: Helarctos indochinensis (Indochinese Sun Bear) •••••• Species: Helarctos malayanus (Sumatran Sun Bear) •••••• Species: Helarctos euryspilus (Bornean Sun Bear) •••• Subtribe: Ursina (Common Bears) ••••• Genus: Euarctos (New World Common Bears) •••••• Species: Euarctos americanus (American Black Bear) •••••• Species: Euarctos emmonsii (Glacier Bear) •••••• Species: Euarctos cinnamomum (Cinnamon Bear) •••••• Species: Euarctos kermodei (Kermode Bear) ••••• Genus: Ursus (Old World Common Bears) •••••• Subgenus: Ursus (Brown Bear Lineage) ••••••• Species: Ursus arctos (Brown Bear) •••••• Subgenus: Argentarctos (Silver Bear Lineage) ••••••• Species: Ursus syriacus (Silver Bear) •••••• Subgenus: Cyanarctos (Blue Bear Lineage) ••••••• Species: Ursus pruinosus (Blue Bear) •••••• Subgenus: Selenarctos (Asiatic Black Bear Lineage) ••••••• Species: Ursus thibetanus (Asiatic Black Bear) •••••• Subgenus: Thalassarctos (Polar Bear Lineage) ••••••• Species: Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear)
Just horrific what we humans did, and do, to animals…it’s unforgivable! No wonder most bears today, try to run from us, or react with intense rage ! Can we blame them? The sad thing is, it continues.. we won’t be happy till we drive current species to extinction!
As you said it..."most" bears run from us....not the grizzly and neither some adult black bears, they will follow you and attack you if they are hungry or wounded.
@@bluedeep1707 not all grizzlies either! We have been around them when up camping and they step back 99% of the time. They are not senseless killers out to find a human to chew on! Every black bear we have seen runs as fast as they can. Any animal who is wounded, or starving can be dangerous ! And of course act unpredictably
And even after they go extinct the people will then complain about over population and why " for some mysterious reason " there are so many deer while also chopping down the forest and building more houses that are IN the deer's habitat and then complain about seeing them in the streets..
Polar Bears are no longer the largest bear . The Kodiak Coastal Grizzly are now getting up to 1500 - 2000lbs since they have a great amount of constant protein food source .
1. Polar bears have decreased in size, but you need to substantiate your claim 2. 'Kodiak Coastal Grizzly' is a nonsense, invalid name. Grizzlies and Kodiaks are distinct species, you can't combine the names. 3. Your upper weight ranges are unsubstantiated claims.
It’s a possibility that they crossed by land from Europe as we know that when the last ice age ended you could walk from the U.K. to Africa and before the sea rose I’m sure that some of the deep water of the Med would at worse been no more than a short swim for these creatures
Thanks for info...just wondering about the plight of allllllllll or most animals trees plants etc that once thrived among aboriginal tribal people. Lots n lots of questions..habitat? Economics? Livelihood? Greed? gentrification? Hmmmmm..Smh
The Middle East bears were Brown Bears same as described in the Old Testament so of easily have spread Westward along the Mediterranian coast of North Africa(far different geology then 1,000+miles South below the scorched Saharan Desert to the African interior and Southward...!
A bear is any carnivoran that belongs to the family Ursidae, there are over fifteen extant species within 5 genera and two subfamilies, all of which are known for the ability to roar, bears are usually omnivorous, bears are native everywhere except for Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica, although, the former used to have bears, but are extinct there Taxonomy: • Family: Ursidae (Bears) •• Subfamily: Tremarctinae (Short-Faced Bears) ••• Genus: Tremarctos (Modern Short-Faced Bears) •••• Species: Tremarctos ornatus (Spectacled Bear) •• Subfamily: Ursinae (Long-Snouted Bears) ••• Tribe: Melursini (Sloth Bears and Fossil Relatives) •••• Genus: Melursus (Sloth Bears) ••••• Species: Melursus ursinus (Indian Sloth Bear) ••••• Species: Melursus inornatus (Sri Lanka Sloth Bear) ••• Tribe: Ursini (Small-Eared Bears) •••• Subtribe: Helarctina (Sun Bears and Fossil Relatives) ••••• Genus: Helarctos (Sun Bears) •••••• Species: Helarctos indochinensis (Indochinese Sun Bear) •••••• Species: Helarctos malayanus (Sumatran Sun Bear) •••••• Species: Helarctos euryspilus (Bornean Sun Bear) •••• Subtribe: Ursina (Common Bears) ••••• Genus: Euarctos (New World Common Bears) •••••• Species: Euarctos americanus (American Black Bear) •••••• Species: Euarctos emmonsii (Glacier Bear) •••••• Species: Euarctos cinnamomum (Cinnamon Bear) •••••• Species: Euarctos kermodei (Kermode Bear) ••••• Genus: Ursus (Old World Common Bears) •••••• Species: Ursus arctos (Brown Bear) •••••• Species: Ursus syriacus (Silver Bear) •••••• Species: Ursus pruinosus (Blue Bear) •••••• Species: Ursus thibetanus (Asiatic Black Bear) •••••• Species: Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear)
IF there is evidence that the last species dissapeared early to late 1800s is it not possible with modern dna science to bring back extinct species of animals that once roamed this planet but were exterminated by us for a multitude of reasons I hope that advances in science can restore all extinct and endagered animals /that would be so good for humanity and all species .
Actually, the polar bear is more closely related to the asiatic black bear and shared a common asiatic ancestor with it, the Ursus genus now contains only five extant species within five monotypic subgenera, the Brown Bear (Ursus (Ursus) arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus (Argentarctos) syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus (Cyanarctos) pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus (Selenarctos) thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus (Thalassarctos) maritimus), the nominate subgenus of the Ursus genus is the most basal extant subgenus and contains just one species, the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), the subgenera Selenarctos and Thalassarctos share a more recent common ancestor in Asia during the Pliocene, the second most basal extant subgenus is Argentarctos and the third most basal extant subgenus is Cyanarctos.
A few years back, there was a short video of a animal who was spotted in Algeria and people said that was an Atlas bear here is the title of the video on youtube if you want to watch it "إكتشاف دب الأطلس بأحد غابات تيسمسيلت".
If there was only one bear observed and it was already dead, who knows what it could have been. Isn't that the same route that the Romans and others used to transport Barbary Lions and other African animals into Europe? Animals could have been brought from Europe into Africa as well. Not saying it can't be true but it sounds like a lot of speculation.
Even such rumors at 1900's as Brown Bears sighted in places such as Ethiopia and Kenya? I don't know bro, i think they did exist back in the day at some places in Africa either South or North.
@@The_Explorer_Slash That's just it, we don't know for sure. It seems like there would be a lot more evidence over the years. Remember, these routes were used quite often and animals could have been brought into Africa to try and use them for fighting spectacles and gambling against other animals. They could have brought in to try and establish them in a new continent, like was done in the Americas. That's all I'm saying, we just don't know for sure.
@@The_Explorer_Slash Yes, we both have a good point and we are both willing to listen to other people. That's the best way for all of us to learn. Best wishes my friend.
The amount of animals we have drove to extinction is sickening and really shows how fucked up we can be as a species. The same video will be made about lions & tigers in a few hundred years
Not just north western north America..we have brown bears all over west America. If they are in California, Wyoming, Montana, ect then it's more then just north western north
I am sure the Romans had access to larger Bears from Germania and Gaul, there is no reason to believe that the Romans got their Bears from North Africa. I am sure they got Lions from North Africa, that is for sure.
You know that's what kills me about the humans on this planet I'm Red Stick People and Cherokee and my soul hurts when I see an animal mistreated or hurt in any way I do hunt but it is the take out the old that way they don't suffer in they're final moments I always ask them to forgive me for taking they're spirit I can't stand a trophy hunter they have no morals and no understanding of the spirit we tend to forget when God wanted the animals rounded up for the flood it wasn't man he was worried about
@Spencer York well you must be what they call a heater hunter riding the back roads and drinking cold beer and shooting from the road hell probably even at night dip I don't wonder the woods first of all I have a lazy boy climber and I've got a platform when I'm bow hunting which 9 times out of 10 I do most of cause it wasn't much sport shooting deer at 180-200 yrds out with a mark 2 300 ruger mag so I kill 90% of my spikes and older bucks and yes I can tell when a deer is old by the sag in his belly after the age of 6 I've probably killed bigger deer with my pse than you've ever looked at through your scope hell my first buck with my pse was a 13 point non typical dressed at 195 and I can take that deer and bleed him at the throat and cut up and tenderize it with my seasonings put it in the freezer in my vacuum sealed bags and 3 days later cook some tenderloin and gravy with some onions cut up with some cat head biscuits that will taste a lot better than that 2 yr old doe that you shot in the truck lol
The be fair, the colonization of North Africa by Europeans coincided with an increase in human population and the local people getting increasingly modern firearms.
@@manuelo55 1) Native Americans still exist. 2) There were never very many European settlers in North Africa competing for land, game and other resources (unlike North America). 3) It was a combination of factors. Hunting by colonists was one, but so were increased hunting by locals and advances in weapons (some of which obviously came from Europe).
The Atlas Mountains were literally the only place where brown bears could survive in Africa due to the mountain range’s alpine climate.
That is literally incorrect.
false
What about Sun bears and Sloth bears living in tropical climate ?
@@carltonbanks5470 They probably wouldn't be able to survive in sub-Saharan Africa due to competition.
@@carltonbanks5470 Perhaps but in general the alpine climate would have been far more favorable to the bears survival.
The last sighting of an Atlas Bear was in the 1950s in the Kayble region of Algeria. women were picking olives when they spotted a bear with Cubs.
You’d have to use brown bears from Spain or Italy. It’s damn near the same habitat as the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Brown bears have several subspecies of bears that are adapted to hotter n dryer ecosystems. The Mexican Grizzly (extinct), the Gobi bear, the Atlas was another one, but also the brown bears that live in Southern Europe along the Mediterranean Sea already live in an almost identical habitat as the Atlas Mountains already
polar bears diversed from the common anchestor with brown bears around the same time as grizzly's did
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 grizzlies are brown bears. All it is is the American name for the subspecies of brown bear in North America
The problem is most of those bears that are in Italy now come from Romania and eastern Europe, only one species living in Central could adapt.
Still bears in Spain
@@spurs541 but only in the north
Bears, hyenas, lions and leopards, the Atlas was a very wild place!
Hyenas still here bro.. And they are still looking for barbary leopard if there's some
@Spencer York oh wow lol cool story bro tell me more
Stripped hyenas and barbary leopards are still there.
Long ago all the animals in the Atlas Mountains lived together in harmony. But then, everything changed when the Roman Empire attacked.
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Atlas mountains was also home to North African elephants that were used in the invasion of roman republic by Hannibal of Carthage. They also went extinct during Roman times.
Atlas? Isn't that where Barbary lions were found 😯? Damn, quite a confrontation it would be.
Barbary Leopards also live across the Atlas Mountains as well
It sounds like the bear in the description was a cub/juvenile. It makes sense that the Atlas Bear was described as a herbivore, since Brown Bears in general eat more plant matter than animal food. Also, adult Brown Bears don't usually do much climbing, partly because of their size and partly because their claws are made for digging (as opposed to an American Black Bear that has shorter, hooked claws).
Yes but i think that he was reffering to the fact that this bear had the most herbivorous diet of all bears
@@matplayer1232 That's possible, but I doubt anyone studied the Atlas Bear enough to make any reliable conclusions. Meanwhile, surviving Brown Bears vary their diet depending on food availability. For example, those living near salmon streams eat salmon (seasonally), while those living in coastal areas eat mollusks. I would expect the Atlas Bear made use of all available food sources.
@@matthewzito6130 I doubt that salmon is available in Africa
And yeah the atlas bear was not much studied,but the Wiki says that it was the most vegetarian bear,because if You think about it,it didn't have a lot of choices regarding on live prey
Yes it would've definitely fed on carcasses If it had the chance for that sweet extra protein,but when it comes to hunting things get a Little head-scratching
You see,the grizzly bear has a lot of choices regarding his diet
Besides vegetation,there are a lot of prey animals that he would hunt
Elk,Deer,moose,etc.
But what about the atlas bear?
What is he going to find?
A gellada baboon
Well,yes there are animals in the atlas mountains,but the point is that prey is much more scarce around there.
So the atlas bear would've fed primarily on vegetation and insects
And ocasionally small mamalls
And carrion
I am not saying that the atlas bear is capable of eating meat
I am just pointing the fact that he fed mostly in vegetation and a lot less on meat
@@matplayer1232 The relative scarcity of large animals is largely the result of overhunting. Large ungulates like Barbary Red Deer and Barbary Sheep would have been more common in the past (numerous enough to support both lions and leopards). Atlas Bears could have preyed on their young, and stollen leopard kills (the same way they steal wolf kills in Yellowstone). They also could have preyed on any small mammals they could catch. I'm not sure if North Africa has anything equivalent to ground squirrels or marmots, but small mammals are an important food source for some Brown Bear populations.
@@matthewzito6130 yes but they were also overshadowed by leopards or barbary lions
Keep in mind that these bears were pretty small....
Lets be real. The Atlas Bear didn't "went extinct". It was annihilated by man for sport!
I'd never noticed the passive sentence construction before but it really does feel like shifting the blame from humans wiping a species out to the silly animal just couldn't cut it in the harsh world.
Thanks for pointing that out.
In this video, the description of the Atlas bear having had a short face brings to mind the extinct cave bear and its closest-related living descendant--the Andean bear.
Andean Bears are related to the extinct Short-faced Bears found in the Americas. Cave Bears were found in Europe and more closely related to modern Brown Bears.
@@matthewzito6130 yep they found short faced bear bones near Yellowstone national park
There was a short-faced bear species in Africa during the pleistocene or pliocene.
@@beneficent2557 I'm not sure which species you're referring to, but I was talking about the sub-family Tremarctinae.
@@matthewzito6130 Agriotherium Africanus.
Check it out, might be fun. 😁
There were also bears in the southernmost tip of Spain until 500 years ago, just at the other side of the Gibraltar Strait, where the climate and vegetation are not too much different. They went extinct here because they were harmful for the goats shepherds, who went high up to the mountains with their cattle, were the bears lived.
In northern Spain there are still bears because the main cattle there are cows, and the shepherds does not go to high mountain with his cattle.
I can imagine that could occur the same in the Atlas, besides other factors.
Yes. The people there grew numerous and were everywhere on the mountains. They kept coming across the bears, and they didn't like it, so they killed them all. So saddening! Now they say they wouldn't want them back. Also now, mining is being proposed there. The remaining wildlife is being hunted to extinction. People are triing to stop the mine and to save the animals, but they may go extinct! They should be preserved, as they may be prey for the Barbery lion and the Atlas bear, one day! I hope they are!
Since polar bears are evolved brown bears (well, it's a little more complicated than that involving a genetic bottleneck and several hybridization events among brown and polar bears, but that's basically the gist of it) and atlas bears are a subspecies of brown bear, it would make sense that they are related. Interesting video.
Actually, polar bears are not descended from brown bears, in fact, the polar bear is actually a separate species and is more closely related to the asiatic black bear than either is to the brown bear, the silver bear and blue bear are both different enough to be classified as separate species from the brown bear and are considered most closely related to the asiatic black bear/polar bear clade, thus, the genus Ursus contains only five extant species, the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus).
@@indyreno2933 False, polar bears are most closely related to brown bears, and are the most recent species of bear to have evolved, having diverged from the brown bear 150,000 years ago.
And there are only four extant species of Ursus. Brown Bear, Polar Bear, American Black Bear, and Asiatic Black Bear.
How can you be in so many different videos and ALWAYS be wrong about everything you say?
@@indyreno2933 Then why are polar bears and brown bears able to interbreed?
@MinutemanSam, actually, the Ursus genus contains five extant species now, the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) is actually the most basal of the five species, with the polar bear and asiatic black bear to be most closely related to each other and the silver bear and blue bear are no longer conspecific with the brown bear, instead being separate species within their own subgenera under the Ursus genus closer to the clade comprising of both the asiatic black bear and polar bear, the polar bear shared a more recent common asian ancestor with the asiatic black bear, while the brown bear is the most basal extant species of the genus Ursus (Old World Common Bears), also, the american black bear does not belong to the Ursus genus anymore, neither do the other three North American species formerly conspecific with it being the glacier bear, the cinnamon bear, and the kermode bear, all four of those species that are found only in North America are relocated to a separate genus that originated exclusively from the New World, being the genus Euarctos, with the scientific names of these four species now being Euarctos americanus, Euarctos emmonsii, Euarctos cinnamomum, and Euarctos kermodei respectively.
Polar Bears are genetically adapted from Browns no different then dogs are from wolves = all the genetic variability's were/are always there which is of "natural" or of "human directed" "Animal Husbandry" ~ nothing more...!
The Arabic word for bear is: دب.
The Arabic word for hyena is: ضبع.
They are similar in pronunciation but aren't the same word and aren't used interchangeably.
Yeap dubb for bear.
Dab' for Hyena, the first and last letter here has no equivalent in English the two words are different for sure
Indeed!
In north african maghrebi dialects, we use debb for both animals
Another factor against the Middle East being the route by which brown bears entered Africa is the fact that they are completely absent from Ancient Egyptian art. The Nile Valley was the perfect habitat for them, and you would have at least expected to see a statue of a bear-headed god if that had been the case.
That's just stupid
@@PerfectionInMotion69 Why?
@@samrizzardi2213 they could have entered in prehistoric times, and gone extinct before the growth of human civilization in the Nile valley.
Africa is not harsher than the other continents.
Bears are highly adaptable and incredibly tough animals. You see them surviving all across Asia, Europe and America in a range of habitats, climates and live among many other dangerous predators and herbivores. They can adapt in Africa quite easily.
Regardless of how adaptable they are, there are no bears in Africa now…
The Atlas Bears historic range was limited by the Sahara Desert to the south. Meanwhile, being isolated in a relatively small area made them more vulnerable to overhunting. The same vulnerability applied to other recently extinct species that historically lived in the Atlas Mountains, including some (like lions) that still exist south of the Sahara.
@@AegleCreations But if introduced they could exist. There is no reason why a sloth bear couldn't get along in the congo.
This is a sad story beautifully told.
It does make sense that the Atlas bear came from Europe originally and not the Middle East (Syrian bear). There are no records of them either present or crossing Egypt, Lybia and Algeria, Tunisia is a possibility. They may have survived in a few locations but not the desert ones. One thing I don't agree with is that the Atlas bear was a herbivore. I crossed the Atlas mountains, the High Atlas by car, 9000 feet and saw sheep in quite a few locations. If that bear existed it must have been omnivorous like all other species of bears. I hardly saw any vegetation in those mountains, it's possible that in order to survive that bear was more of a carnivore. In order for these bears to be used in gladiators' arenas they had to have had an inclination towards meat or their level of aggression would have been substantially diminished. To come to a conclusion calling them herbivores is hasty an innacurate, akin to calling wolves herbivores...Or horses, meat eaters.
Lastly; the disappearance of the Atlas bear like the Barbary lion from North Africa are the result of extensive hunting, cultural attitudes and total lack of long term preservation views, not of "global warming". These two have disappeared long before there was any talk of global warming. The lion a century ago and the bear more than that. Nothing to do with global warming. Everything to do with lack of interest in conservation and brutish attitudes towards all animals in general, if not people. A tribal mindset in remote areas far more geared towards extermination than conservation.
One question: can a Black Bear or the most tropical bear subspecies survive in North Africa today?
@@luisvelez1952
No, they cannot. North Africa is a mixture of hot and cold. Hot for the Sahara and cold for the four mountain ranges in North Africa.
All habitats have different climes.
Paul Homsy, having a tough time controlling your racism towards those "brutish tribes", aren't you? The extermination was done by European invaders, not the native tribes. Indigenous peoples all over the world generally have an innate sense of conservation.
relative to diet, bears are highly opportunistic relative to diet. I saw where Grizzly bears in yellowstone will eat swarms of a moth that emerges above the timberline in mountains. One really has to take a look at potential food sources, but not much point for an extinct bear. Population increases and improvement and availability of more efficient firearms would be enough to exterminated bears.
@@arkamukhopadhyay9111 Native tribes did, in fact, exterminate other tribes. You are perpetuate the racist 'noble savage' myth. They were humans, and they behaved like humans do.
In that region of Morocco there are red deer and wolf, they come from the Iberian Peninsula. During the last glaciation period, the sea level was much lower than now, due to the huge amounts of water stored in the ice across the continents and many species took advantage of this. In Spain, short after that period until 7000 years ago aprox, there where still living lions, hyenas or leopards, the same species we find today in Africa. But the human preassure was higher across Europe than in Africa, although the lions have recently gone extinct in the Atlas too.
Actually, there are no red deer in Africa, there is another deer species within the same genus as the red deer, which is the Barbary Deer (Cervus barbarus), which is actually now thought to be a separate species, the Cervus genus, where members are called common deer contains only five extant species, the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), the Corsican Deer (Cervus corsicanus), the Barbary Deer (Cervus barbarus), the Tarim Deer (Cervus hanglu), and the Elk (Cervus canadensis).
@@indyreno2933 interesting point, but all the information I find on the Internet refers to that animal as a subspecies of the red deer, Cervus elaphus barbarus. Anyways, it still would have come from the iberian red deer population.
Actually, the only five extant deer species of the Cervus genus are the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), the Corsican Deer (Cervus corsicanus), the Barbary Deer (Cervus barbarus), the Tarim Deer (Cervus hanglu), and the Elk/Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), all the four other extant species were traditionally conspecific with Cervus elaphus, but recent studies have found that the Asiatic and North American populations of subspecies are reclassified under Cervus hanglu and Cervus canadensis, with the Tarim Deer (Cervus hanglu) and Elk (Cervus canadensis) being most closely related to each other, interestingly, the corsican deer and barbary deer are actually both reranked as full species, with their scientific names now being Cervus corsicanus and Cervus barbarus respectively, both species are actually more closely related to the Tarim Deer + Elk clade than to the red deer, making the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) the most basal extant representative of the Cervus genus, members of the Cervus genus are called "common deer".
@@indyreno2933 really interesting!
@@indyreno2933 sika are Cervus too
A Mexican Grizzly Bear could survive the harsh dry conditions in Africa, but like the Atlas, they're no longer around too.😩
Randolph , the temperatures in Mexico, soufh of spain, dominican repb are the same as most of the southern hemisphere .
Great mini documentary Aegle Creations, as always. Keep up the good work !!!!
Thank you!
For every animal we drive into extinction we push closer to our own demise. Only thing that sucks though is many people today don't care about an extinction of a animal and/or the unbalance of eco systems unless it will directly effect their way of life within their lifetime.
Bingo 🎯you nailed it
Important to point out far and away 100's more species have gone extinct on their own then caused by man...!
The French occupation was the final end of the wildlife in North Africa
Wendigo 👹
@@vijayvijay4123 the wendingo
I believe the Atlas Bear wasn’t the only bear species native to Africa. In prehistory I believe there was an African Short Faced Bear Species.
Yes, there were some prehistoric bears…
Agriotherium africanum
Interesting....
That not bear
Nandi bear?
Brown bears can be relocated in atlas mountains. They can stay there.
If their habitat still exists, and if the local human population supports the idea. Along with lions maybe? This seems very far fetched but who knows...
The Romans also depleted the great Aurochs, European Leopard, and Barbary Lions to barely sustainable numbers thus they to became extinct by the industrial revolution.
Why no Greek lions? I never understand that. People always so keen to say that there were never lions in Europe, but they're just wrong. God, I can't take this any more.
Greek lions? @@dominicyelin
Humans have eradicated and destroyed so many unique animal species on earth, it is overwhelming.
Only Whites
Love your work
Mexican Grizzly would do fine. Or maybe some Rocky Mountain Grizzly or American Black Bear in mountainous areas.
It's impossible for bears to survive in sub-saharan Africa.. It's not an ideal environment..
Again, completely incorrect and false.
Yes you are correct. They cannot tolerate that weather.
@@carltonbanks5470 there if literature cases evidence.
@@PMN65 No it's not correct. It's pure ignorance. There is no singular type weather on that vast continent including "sub-saharan."
@@carltonbanks5470 what does this even mean?
Thank you for your hard work. Plz continue do it
Amazing creation.
Cute video!
I think they could survive in Southern part of Africa due to the weather and it snows there too.
The weather was great for Europeans that's why they made it their home plus is sparsely populated.
There is no snow in africa bruh
Check out Capetown, mountains in Kenya and Tunisa lol...
There's a lot of Snow in Africa. There's even a spot where it snows in Australia 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@michaelanthony4949 there is, bruh
For follow up video, please research on fossil or recent bone evidence. Thanks for sharing!
That was done beautifully
One minor linguistic correction, the Arabic word for bear is not pronounced as "debb" (with an e which represents the Arabic vowel Kasra) but close enough as "dobb" (In British English not American accent where the o is the Arabic vowel for Damma, similar to a French E but short and sharp)
I wanted to correct it, but thanks to you already corrected 👍🏻
The California state flag features an extinct brown bear subspecies.
The way things are going on....pretty soon it will be also the "last lions in Africa". They used to be found also in North Africa. Sad.
Middle Eastern bears like the syrian brown bear i think would survive the north african climat
I don't know why but an African bear sorta makes me happy, like their everywhere
Imagine a Barbary Lion and an Atlas bear fighting each other
Vote bear all day long
Superb camera work.
As they say the last knows atlas bear was killed in Morocco in 1870 .. in 2017 a full intact skeleton if atlas bear was found in a cave in Djordjora mountain -tizi ouzou Algeria .
Here's hoping that the bear can make a comeback! Somehow.
Wasn't there rumours of bears occupying areas near the DC in Africa and in East Africa in places such as Ethiopia and Kenya back in the 1900's? There were descriptions of tail-less hyena dogs the locals described to the European setters which sounded eerily like bears. There were also sightings in South Africa and Central Southern Africa of bear-like animals by European settlers. Some of these sightings are still reported today.
That’s the mythical ‘Nandi Bear’
@@AegleCreations Ah. Perhaps it was a sub-species of Atlas Bear that was found further South. There are so many places left in Africa that are sparsely populated, especially Ethiopia and so perhaps the African Bears live on?
An Interesting video
Thx!
If they are Vegetarians then Lions are Apex predator of Africa for sure
Only carnivorous animals can become Apex predator of Their region actually.
you said the atlas bear was not only related to brown bears. but also polar bears. thats because polar bears share a common anchestor with brown bears. they are technically a subspecies of brown bear. just like grizzly's
When you say brown bear are you talking about the Kodak bear
@the flying dutchguy, actually, the polar bear is not a subspecies of brown bear, the polar bear is a separate species within a separate subgenus being Thalassarctos, Ursus contains only five extant species with five monotypic subgenera, the Brown Bear (Ursus (Ursus) arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus (Argentarctos) syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus (Cyanarctos) pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus (Selenarctos) thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus (Thalassarctos) maritimus), the closest living relative of the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) is actually the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), both the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) and Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) shared a common ancestor in Asia, there are now only fifteen extant bear species within five genera
Taxonomy:
• Family: Ursidae (Bears)
•• Subfamily: Tremarctinae (Short-Faced Bears)
••• Genus: Tremarctos (Common Short-Faced Bears)
•••• Species: Tremarctos ornatus (Spectacled Bear)
•• Subfamily: Ursinae (Long-Snouted Bear)
••• Tribe: Melursini (Sloth Bears and Fossil Relatives)
•••• Genus: Melursus (Sloth Bears)
••••• Species: Melursus ursinus (Indian Sloth Bear)
••••• Species: Melursus inornatus (Sri Lanka Sloth Bear)
••• Tribe: Ursini (Small-Eared Bears)
•••• Subtribe: Helarctina (Sun Bears and Fossil Relatives)
••••• Genus: Helarctos (Sun Bears)
•••••• Species: Helarctos indochinensis (Indochinese Sun Bear)
•••••• Species: Helarctos malayanus (Sumatran Sun Bear)
•••••• Species: Helarctos euryspilus (Bornean Sun Bear)
•••• Subtribe: Ursina (Common Bears)
••••• Genus: Euarctos (New World Common Bears)
•••••• Species: Euarctos americanus (American Black Bear)
•••••• Species: Euarctos emmonsii (Glacier Bear)
•••••• Species: Euarctos cinnamomum (Cinnamon Bear)
•••••• Species: Euarctos kermodei (Kermode Bear)
••••• Genus: Ursus (Old World Common Bears)
•••••• Subgenus: Ursus (Brown Bear Lineage)
••••••• Species: Ursus arctos (Brown Bear)
•••••• Subgenus: Argentarctos (Silver Bear Lineage)
••••••• Species: Ursus syriacus (Silver Bear)
•••••• Subgenus: Cyanarctos (Blue Bear Lineage)
••••••• Species: Ursus pruinosus (Blue Bear)
•••••• Subgenus: Selenarctos (Asiatic Black Bear Lineage)
••••••• Species: Ursus thibetanus (Asiatic Black Bear)
•••••• Subgenus: Thalassarctos (Polar Bear Lineage)
••••••• Species: Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear)
Just horrific what we humans did, and do, to animals…it’s unforgivable! No wonder most bears today, try to run from us, or react with intense rage ! Can we blame them? The sad thing is, it continues.. we won’t be happy till we drive current species to extinction!
As you said it..."most" bears run from us....not the grizzly and neither some adult black bears, they will follow you and attack you if they are hungry or wounded.
@@bluedeep1707 not all grizzlies either! We have been around them when up camping and they step back 99% of the time. They are not senseless killers out to find a human to chew on! Every black bear we have seen runs as fast as they can. Any animal who is wounded, or starving can be dangerous ! And of course act unpredictably
And even after they go extinct the people will then complain about over population and why " for some mysterious reason " there are so many deer while also chopping down the forest and building more houses that are IN the deer's habitat and then complain about seeing them in the streets..
@@NightScaped so absolutely on point ! It’s so frustrating ! History is not supposed to repeat itself, but it does and seems like we never learn!
Europeans* Humanity didnt do it, a certain group did it
Polar Bears are no longer the largest bear . The Kodiak Coastal Grizzly are now getting up to 1500 - 2000lbs since they have a great amount of constant protein food source .
1. Polar bears have decreased in size, but you need to substantiate your claim
2. 'Kodiak Coastal Grizzly' is a nonsense, invalid name. Grizzlies and Kodiaks are distinct species, you can't combine the names.
3. Your upper weight ranges are unsubstantiated claims.
It would be interesting to do a of on the Mexican Bear.
Damn you ancient Romans ,barbary lions ,anatolian leopards and lions, Iberian rhinos some of the extinct precious animals of that era.
💯🔥
“In olden times…” ✅
Not only atlas bear even atlas lion or the barbary lion was also killed by humans
fcck human who killed those poor creatures
By white colonizers*
It’s a possibility that they crossed by land from Europe as we know that when the last ice age ended you could walk from the U.K. to Africa and before the sea rose I’m sure that some of the deep water of the Med would at worse been no more than a short swim for these creatures
Chance:atlast bears could still exist,cos of the remote mountain ranges make it difficult for people explore the entire mountain ranges.
There also was a short-faced African bear in the Pliocene or Pleistocene I believe
3:47 That's a very interesting description and must be an antiquated common word with Spanish, since fácil means easy in Spanish.
Thanks for info...just wondering about the plight of allllllllll or most animals trees plants etc that once thrived among aboriginal tribal people. Lots n lots of questions..habitat? Economics? Livelihood? Greed? gentrification? Hmmmmm..Smh
The Middle East bears were Brown Bears same as described in the Old Testament so of easily have spread Westward along the Mediterranian coast of North Africa(far different geology then 1,000+miles South below the scorched Saharan Desert to the African interior and Southward...!
A bear is any carnivoran that belongs to the family Ursidae, there are over fifteen extant species within 5 genera and two subfamilies, all of which are known for the ability to roar, bears are usually omnivorous, bears are native everywhere except for Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica, although, the former used to have bears, but are extinct there
Taxonomy:
• Family: Ursidae (Bears)
•• Subfamily: Tremarctinae (Short-Faced Bears)
••• Genus: Tremarctos (Modern Short-Faced Bears)
•••• Species: Tremarctos ornatus (Spectacled Bear)
•• Subfamily: Ursinae (Long-Snouted Bears)
••• Tribe: Melursini (Sloth Bears and Fossil Relatives)
•••• Genus: Melursus (Sloth Bears)
••••• Species: Melursus ursinus (Indian Sloth Bear)
••••• Species: Melursus inornatus (Sri Lanka Sloth Bear)
••• Tribe: Ursini (Small-Eared Bears)
•••• Subtribe: Helarctina (Sun Bears and Fossil Relatives)
••••• Genus: Helarctos (Sun Bears)
•••••• Species: Helarctos indochinensis (Indochinese Sun Bear)
•••••• Species: Helarctos malayanus (Sumatran Sun Bear)
•••••• Species: Helarctos euryspilus (Bornean Sun Bear)
•••• Subtribe: Ursina (Common Bears)
••••• Genus: Euarctos (New World Common Bears)
•••••• Species: Euarctos americanus (American Black Bear)
•••••• Species: Euarctos emmonsii (Glacier Bear)
•••••• Species: Euarctos cinnamomum (Cinnamon Bear)
•••••• Species: Euarctos kermodei (Kermode Bear)
••••• Genus: Ursus (Old World Common Bears)
•••••• Species: Ursus arctos (Brown Bear)
•••••• Species: Ursus syriacus (Silver Bear)
•••••• Species: Ursus pruinosus (Blue Bear)
•••••• Species: Ursus thibetanus (Asiatic Black Bear)
•••••• Species: Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear)
IF there is evidence that the last species dissapeared early to late 1800s is it not possible with modern dna science to bring back extinct species of animals that once roamed this planet but were exterminated by us for a multitude of reasons I hope that advances in science can restore all extinct and endagered animals /that would be so good for humanity and all species .
Bears live in the harshest climates, but the extremes are very cold, not hot, like Africa. They probably aren’t adapted to such heat.
7/17/22, 4:16 pm
The Syrian Bear could cope with the warm climate, if Morocco wanted to reintroduce a brown bear species.
3:03 thats because polar bears are the closest living relative of the brown bears they diverged 500 thousand years ago a blink of an eye in evolution
Actually, the polar bear is more closely related to the asiatic black bear and shared a common asiatic ancestor with it, the Ursus genus now contains only five extant species within five monotypic subgenera, the Brown Bear (Ursus (Ursus) arctos), the Silver Bear (Ursus (Argentarctos) syriacus), the Blue Bear (Ursus (Cyanarctos) pruinosus), the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus (Selenarctos) thibetanus), and the Polar Bear (Ursus (Thalassarctos) maritimus), the nominate subgenus of the Ursus genus is the most basal extant subgenus and contains just one species, the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), the subgenera Selenarctos and Thalassarctos share a more recent common ancestor in Asia during the Pliocene, the second most basal extant subgenus is Argentarctos and the third most basal extant subgenus is Cyanarctos.
Are there are skeletons of them? Has their DNA being tested?
Nice 👍
Let's introduce bears to Africa!
A few years back, there was a short video of a animal who was spotted in Algeria and people said that was an Atlas bear here is the title of the video on youtube if you want to watch it "إكتشاف دب الأطلس بأحد غابات تيسمسيلت".
And, since Arabic is read from right to left, here is the Link: th-cam.com/video/TTGJzMvMXvE/w-d-xo.html
Rip Atlas bear 😢
British ship brought bear in Somaliland coast in eighteen century. But a years later all vanished
If there was only one bear observed and it was already dead, who knows what it could have been. Isn't that the same route that the Romans and others used to transport Barbary Lions and other African animals into Europe? Animals could have been brought from Europe into Africa as well. Not saying it can't be true but it sounds like a lot of speculation.
Even such rumors at 1900's as Brown Bears sighted in places such as Ethiopia and Kenya? I don't know bro, i think they did exist back in the day at some places in Africa either South or North.
@@The_Explorer_Slash
That's just it, we don't know for sure. It seems like there would be a lot more evidence over the years. Remember, these routes were used quite often and animals could have been brought into Africa to try and use them for fighting spectacles and gambling against other animals. They could have brought in to try and establish them in a new continent, like was done in the Americas. That's all I'm saying, we just don't know for sure.
Yea you're right, You have a point though
@@The_Explorer_Slash
Yes, we both have a good point and we are both willing to listen to other people. That's the best way for all of us to learn. Best wishes my friend.
how stupid people before kill all magnificent animals.
The amount of animals we have drove to extinction is sickening and really shows how fucked up we can be as a species. The same video will be made about lions & tigers in a few hundred years
The atlas Lion extinct already
In a few hundred years? I commend your optimism.
Not just north western north America..we have brown bears all over west America. If they are in California, Wyoming, Montana, ect then it's more then just north western north
The human stupity is definiltely infinite.
It was smaller than a black bear but weighted 1000 lbs....hard to believe probably no more than a few hundred pounds
What about the north American cheetahs and the desert lions in Iran and Iraq?
There only one way animals have a chance and it if all humans are gone.
in terms of biogeography the maghreb coast is a part of temperate Eurasia instead of Africa
True
Save animals!
I am sure the Romans had access to larger Bears from Germania and Gaul, there is no reason to believe that the Romans got their Bears from North Africa. I am sure they got Lions from North Africa, that is for sure.
Lions existed in Europe in the Balkans.
@@eldrishpuza8512 Romans used Barbara lions
I came here after playing DKC3
mostly based on myths. the reality : 1) wight 60-150 Kg 2) could climb 3) omnivor for sure
There is a bear in Kenya. Ol jogi reserve.
Couldn't they theoretically survive in the jungles of mid and west Africa?
1:49 my man Heinrich Rudolf Schinz looking like Ellen
There is a bear in kenya nanyuki
Is it an escapee or refusee of a circus? I think so
Yes. It’s an escape.
@@janbruin4662 no it was a barter trade exchange between Russia and Kenya, Russia got a giraffe and kenya got a bear
It's in Ol Jogi game reserve.
@@vick7186 correct
These was probably the bears mention in the Bible
Atlas BEH
But what about Agriotherium Africanum?....
yo theres an animal in west africa that looks exactly like a tasmanian devil . am like wtf
Lets bring it back. Its a sub species what is the closes gebetic subspecies. Put those in the atlas mountain.
Why no wolves in Africa?
Ethiopian wolf?
pretty sure the clip at 2:04 shows a black bear
It would be wonderful if the goverment ,and wildlife orginisations could introduce a hardy bear to the Atlas region.
Lol in the 1800s there is no way they could know if they were extinct.
Bring in italian bears!
And berberlions
the only bear to live in Africa
You know that's what kills me about the humans on this planet I'm Red Stick People and Cherokee and my soul hurts when I see an animal mistreated or hurt in any way I do hunt but it is the take out the old that way they don't suffer in they're final moments I always ask them to forgive me for taking they're spirit I can't stand a trophy hunter they have no morals and no understanding of the spirit we tend to forget when God wanted the animals rounded up for the flood it wasn't man he was worried about
@Spencer York well you must be what they call a heater hunter riding the back roads and drinking cold beer and shooting from the road hell probably even at night dip I don't wonder the woods first of all I have a lazy boy climber and I've got a platform when I'm bow hunting which 9 times out of 10 I do most of cause it wasn't much sport shooting deer at 180-200 yrds out with a mark 2 300 ruger mag so I kill 90% of my spikes and older bucks and yes I can tell when a deer is old by the sag in his belly after the age of 6 I've probably killed bigger deer with my pse than you've ever looked at through your scope hell my first buck with my pse was a 13 point non typical dressed at 195 and I can take that deer and bleed him at the throat and cut up and tenderize it with my seasonings put it in the freezer in my vacuum sealed bags and 3 days later cook some tenderloin and gravy with some onions cut up with some cat head biscuits that will taste a lot better than that 2 yr old doe that you shot in the truck lol
Not Competition with lions or hyenas at least I don’t think so
Also Barbary Lions have been exterminated during colonization of North Africa
The be fair, the colonization of North Africa by Europeans coincided with an increase in human population and the local people getting increasingly modern firearms.
@@matthewzito6130 Basically you mean that it was the local people who exterminated the fauna? like you exterminated the american natives?
@@manuelo55 1) Native Americans still exist.
2) There were never very many European settlers in North Africa competing for land, game and other resources (unlike North America).
3) It was a combination of factors. Hunting by colonists was one, but so were increased hunting by locals and advances in weapons (some of which obviously came from Europe).