Yes there are no bears in Australia either! Like I mentioned in the video, I'm looking for a video editor to help me out, hopefully with the additional help I'll make less dumb mistakes (but don't quote me on this 🙈). So if you have a passion for paleontology and extinct animals feel free to submit your application here! forms.gle/jdkhJ9Q27e2u7pJZ6
You get so much right, we can forgive the odd faux pas every now and again. Your honesty and dedication in the quest to enlighten us is most admirable. 🤓💚♾️
This does help with a question in my head I had for a while. In Asia, elephants are known to be aggressive towards bears, even though none of the existing bear species they currently live with hunt them and aren't very predatory to begin with. So it makes sense that if there was a big predatory bear in africa, there was likely an Asian equivalent that hunted young elephants, and elephants got generational trauma.
"Nah that giant bear that is confirmed to be omnivorous definitely only scavanges. Its too big and bulky to hunt prey." Where have i heard that before? *looks at T-Rex*
@@stickboianimations2273 What do you mean "most likely hunted when it could"? T-rex is the most powerful and dangerous terrestrial land predator of all time.
Damn poor Australopithecus 🤣 in every document they always end up pray to Giant Bears, Giant Otters, Giant Birds, Giant Cats, Giant Primates, Giant Snakes….
A bear like that would have to be very careful, because hippopotamus’s are extremely dangerous like the male’s, who are very pugnacious and aggressive.
Saying guns let you hunt bears "without risk" is a massive overstatement. Even today, with vastly superior firearms technology, hunting bears is extremely dangerous.
Yeah people forget even regular old Deer Hunting can be dangerous even with the guns. Mad people got maimed or killed by the antlers on a Buck doing a death wail thinking they were dead all the way.
Saying guns don't give us a huge advantage over animals is a massive pile of crap. The Assyrians and Romans wiped out their fair share of animals with spears and bows but they got nothing on humans with guns.
Australia doesn't have bears either. Indeed, the Carnivora aren't represented here at all as none made it across the Wallace Line. Their niche was occupied by carnivorous marsupials like the Thylacoleo, Thylacine, Tasmanian Devil, etc..
@@edmondantes4338 it’s been considered a native species for a while now as even the most agreed upon arrival of 5,000 years is old enough for them to be considered native, as for the origins of their arrival, that is still a challenged theory today. We have fossils from about 5,000 years that’s true but Australia does not have great conditions for fossil preservation, so let’s look at some other proof, mitochondrial DNA tests suggests their separation from dogs and/or wolves around 8,500 years ago and rock art of canines have been seen which could date back to 30,000 years. As to how they got there is again still debated but some other theories suggest that they walked to Australia from Papua New Guinea as a land bridge opened up between them between 6,000 and 8,500 years ago, it could have also been brought over by the first humans that came to Australia 30,000-50,000 years ago. Dingoes are a very important apex predator that Australia might have greatly needed for thousands of years (Even the thylacine is now actually considered to have only had jaws strong enough to kill possum sized animals or smaller, meaning they most likely had a much more fox-like niche). Dingoes greatly contribute to the overall health of the ecosystem, not only by keeping the population of native species down but also because they target and keep the numbers of true invasive species down, they go after anything from rabbits, cats, and foxes to even feral hogs and young camels, sambar deer and buffalo.
@@edmondantes4338The dingo is not an invasive species and it’s origins of when and how it got to Australia are still heavily debated, mitochondrial DNA tests suggest that dingoes branched off from wolves and/or dogs 8,500 years ago, and rock paintings found also depict a canine-like animal that could be 30,000 years old, it is also suggested that dingoes actually crossed a land bridge that had formed 8,500 years ago from New Guinea to Australia or either swam or were taken to Australia by aboriginals tens of thousands of years ago. They are a very important apex predator that keeps the populations of both large native and feral animals down. Especially since Australia has no other apex predators and seemed to not have any since the extinctions of Thylacoleo and Megalania (The thylacine is now thought to be much more like a fox in niche, only being able to take down things as large as a possum or smaller)
We need an animated movie called “The Bear King” where a father bear is overthrown by a jealous lion who wants to be King of the Beasts. Only for the bear’s son to return to Africa and go full John Wick on the lion.
The Atlas Bear being there remind me of the origin of the Ethiopian Wolf, which is a/related to the Grey Wolf that somehow found its way to Africa, similar to the bear.
HEY, AWESOME CHANNEL DUDE! I'm always excited to watch another episode, and have Binged watched EVERY episode. Absolutely Spot on the best, this is "the edge of my seat intriguing" You never fail to deliver quality, up to date reporting on a already competitive informational niche that similar TH-cam channels just don't have that spark of ingredients you supply so effectively. Truly great work. Hopefully you can find yourself a good video editor and continue to guide others in exploring vast swaths of time these animals existed. You certainly are the cure to my curiosity. Also, it's just a developing interest, but check out the California Fence Lizard. These guys are in every back yard of California. Their subspecies are even found on islands off the coast. They are a very successful group. Might seem a bit mundane. However, they have been around since the Pleistocene. They survive by digging burrows and that is why they are here today. Just a thought, thank you again.
5:37 Wait, wait, what the heck IS that freakin' thing?!? Looks like some 18th century creationist reconstruction. I came for the bears, I stayed for the Elephantids.
The Atlas bear was another bear native to Africa and because the Atlas bear was closely related to European bears there have been many plans to reintroduce the bears to the Atlas mountains
There used to be subspecies of polar bears in Britain called Usrsus Maritimus Tyrannus that might be bigger than modern polar bears, although many scientists doubt its existence.
Incredible video as always! I have seen one of your other videos and have been fascinated by both videos! You're also an inspiration to some of my own videos! Keep up the great work!
If so, highly unlikely they are here anymore or really recently. More likely would be as cultural echoes of sightings of the dying out straggler population. Like smoke after the guttering candle finally snuffs out.
Let's not tell joe rogan about this Also i think lions and the bears could have lived together as this bear died out 2,5 million years ago and lions appeared about 2 million years ago. As a person from africa i would loved if this bear still existed or atleast the atlas bear
@@skunkapestories4622 They're speaking specifically about the African species of Agriotherium overlapping in time and territory with lions. Lions did start becoming distinct around 2 or so million years ago and scientists can only give time estimates and they say the African Agriotherium went extinct around 2.5 million years ago but it's possible that the two animal's populations could have interacted at some point.
Year but i mean mainly in africa also the babary lion and atlas bear coexisted and also in India but i mean the asiatic lion is not very populous@@skunkapestories4622
I have had two run-ins with very big black bears and one weighed over 600 lbs with the other close to 500. One charged at me in my yard because i spooked him. I cannot imagine one of these African bears coming at me! Thanks for the video!
@@kosmique He inconspicuously extended his right arm as though it were a hose, while he carried a weighing scale-as anyone does at all times-subsequently and covertly putting said scale beneath them...
4:36 thank goodness its not as well known this sounds exactly like the tres situation and I don't want to here that argument again for the next 5 years
Its so ironic me and a friend of mine were talking about our favorite bears, and I mentioned how Africa use to have bears(Atlas bear), but I didn't know about Agriotherium till know thank you very much for the video. Which anyone curious my favorite bear is the Grizzly(If I owned a zoo I'd feed mine peanut butter balls, soft boiled eggs, berries, and trout/catfish/salmon planks), and his is the Polar bear(Which I've seen in captivity, along with Asiatic Black Bears).
That's not irony. Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. "“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy irony" Similar: sarcasm sardonicism dryness causticity sharpness acerbity acid bitterness trenchancy mordancy cynicism mockery satire ridicule derision scorn sneering wryness backhandedness sarkiness Opposite: sincerity a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. plural noun: ironies "the irony is that I thought he could help me" Similar: paradox paradoxical nature incongruity incongruousness peculiarity Opposite: logic a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. noun: dramatic irony; plural noun: tragic
The Bears were subsequently and systematically eliminated from all of Africa by the Big Cats who moved in from Asia, Middle East and Mediterranean lands. The Bears were prayed upon by Lions just like Tigers feast on full grown Brown Bears and the Ussuri Bear which is as big as a Kodiak
Not in Australia, but in some islands of Oceania. Still some people say they are extinct in those islands too so maybe Oceania is already bearless anyways?
The agriotherium was not large or powerful enough to take down a healthy adult hippo or rhino. They were only slightly larger than polar bears and we know what would happen hypothetically if a polar bear were to fight either ungulate.
It’s weird how all the big cats used to be in north, and South America, but now almost all are in Asia, and Africa. To be more specific we used to have lions, cheetahs, and ect. I will add more but I can’t think right now.
Well, no. In Victoria (an Australian state), we have about a population of introduced black bears that is 20 in the snowy river region, that thankfully actually help! But I don’t blame you for thinking that.
Um, I live in Australia and didn't know we had bears?!!!! KOALA BEARS and the more Infamous DROP BEARS are usually found in deep forest bushland of Australia.
Amazing! First time I hear of this mega-bear. It should definitely have posed a serious threat to our australopithecine ancestors, especially if it could climb trees -- doubts here because such a large size could have been a handicap for that, maybe our kin were safe on trees anyhow... until lions and leopards arrived, when not evolving into masters of fire and tools/weapons was not anymore an option.
He says that in the video if you watch the prehistoric dolphin video. He's pretty thorough in his videos. He covers a lot of related species that overlap into groups of whales. Summarizing the contents as whales is still correct. If he used the word "cetaceans". It's going to possibly confuse the viewer not familiar with the scientific language of the group it belongs to. So, yeah he's trying to communicate effectively and try his best not to alienate younger, or populations of viewers that speak a different language and viewers that don't recognize the word. The word whale, you can picture in your head, if I say "Rorquals" which is the largest group of baleen whales. You're not going to be interested because it's statistically lower even for a fluent English speaker to create a mental picture. It's called communication theory. Now you get it? 😉
There's been at least THREE different times, that I've had a bear just walk up on me while working on a job (building cabins in the mountains). Even TWO AT ONCE, this one time!! Nothing gets your heart jumpstarted in the morning, like it will to look back down on a FKKKING BLACK BEAR, that's done snuck up RIGHT BEHIND YOU at the bottom of the damn ladder that YOU'RE ON!! 😂
Polar bear vs Kodiak...it all depends. Polar bears on average are bigger and heavier, but the biggest and heaviest bear recorded (at least current species) is the Kodiak. The largest Kodiak bear on record has almost 2 1/2 feet in length and almost 300 pounds in weight over the largest Polar bear -- weighing in at an astonishing 2500 lbs or 1134 kg.
I’m kinda confused. Surely these were bigger right? Kodiak brown bears and polar bears get longer than that regularly and over 1650lbs on many occasions.
...I saw a small brown bear in the forest near Ifrane, Morocco, in 2003. What the hell did I saw? I was picnicking with my husband and he cames too close for comfort so we left but we observed him for more than an hour
If there is both _Extinct Zoo_ and _Living Zoo,_ why not do a chanel which focuses on items where now extinct taxa lived together with taxa which are still around?
Keep in mind that Agriotherium's tooth root surface area was lower than that in solitary cats that hunt prey as big as or bigger than themselves. In this regard it was more like pack hunting canids, which can hunt prey larger than themselves, despite their relatively low tooth root surface areas, because they hunt in packs (Stynder & Kupczik, 2013). Also, unlike Arctodus, Agriotherium and its close relative Huracan were cursorial bears with elongated/gracile limb bones and a humerus with weakly developed epicondyles. This suggests Agriotherium was not a powerful forelimb grappler either (Jiangzuo et al., 2023). That said, even solitary canids have killed prey larger than themselves on occasion, so there's no reason Agriotherium couldn't do the same. It's just that this was probably not its usual schtick.
Interestingly, the modern African lion wasn't the largest cat around in Africa at the time. A giant lion skull from Natodomeri Kenya rivalled in size to large members of P. Atrox. A morphological study suggested that the skull shared more similarities to the giant mosbach lion than to modern lions or P. spelea. So giant mosbach lions may have undergone a reverse migration back into Africa, giving Africa both today's lions and its giant cousin.
Yes there are no bears in Australia either! Like I mentioned in the video, I'm looking for a video editor to help me out, hopefully with the additional help I'll make less dumb mistakes (but don't quote me on this 🙈). So if you have a passion for paleontology and extinct animals feel free to submit your application here! forms.gle/jdkhJ9Q27e2u7pJZ6
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@@ExtinctZoojust followed you on living zoo too👍
that mistake made me question my existence
triassic Gojirasaurus video in future? Please Please Please
You get so much right, we can forgive the odd faux pas every now and again. Your honesty and dedication in the quest to enlighten us is most admirable. 🤓💚♾️
This does help with a question in my head I had for a while.
In Asia, elephants are known to be aggressive towards bears, even though none of the existing bear species they currently live with hunt them and aren't very predatory to begin with.
So it makes sense that if there was a big predatory bear in africa, there was likely an Asian equivalent that hunted young elephants, and elephants got generational trauma.
All elephantids also came from Africa, so maybe the generational trauma started even earlier.
"Nah that giant bear that is confirmed to be omnivorous definitely only scavanges. Its too big and bulky to hunt prey."
Where have i heard that before? *looks at T-Rex*
Trex most likely hunted when it could it's just that many people think it was unstoppable, and ankys and trikes could kill one easily if not careful
@@stickboianimations2273 What do you mean "most likely hunted when it could"? T-rex is the most powerful and dangerous terrestrial land predator of all time.
@@Monchegorx it was but it had challenges like Hadrosaurus Ankys and trikes
The T-Rex is nothing like the movies, if humans had existed back then we could have easily outran it.
@@drewfromyay882 it ran around 10 to 25 mph easily is a stretch
Damn poor Australopithecus 🤣 in every document they always end up pray to Giant Bears, Giant Otters, Giant Birds, Giant Cats, Giant Primates, Giant Snakes….
Giant crocodile
Don't forget inflation
Probs each other too
Prey. But true.
@@Miah-j5z bro 😂😂😂🤝🏻
no bears in australia too the koala is a marsupial lol
Ditto.
the Asiatic Black Bear lives in oceania aka the continent of australia just not austalia it self
@@eetjebordop1487 yeah that is what i mean and i don't know what counts as oceania as continent australia is though
@@eetjebordop1487 no it doesn't lmao
I've got multiple Strokes reading this
The idea of a bear big enough to kill hippos is terrifying
dont believe anything you see !
A bear like that would have to be very careful, because hippopotamus’s are extremely dangerous like the male’s, who are very pugnacious and aggressive.
a bear that enorm size is not enough to take down a hippo and rhino. because hippo and rhino have very though skin that dont need even hair
Did they weight something like 750kg? I think that's not enough to take down adult hippo
I doubt that they were big enough to kill hippos. They were barely larger than polar bears and polar bears don’t stand a chance against hippos.
06:13 why is the Gorgopithecus looks like the painting of Ivan the terrible after accidentally killing his son?
The artist Joschua Knüppe did that on purpose it’s part of several prehistoric primate artworks meant to mirror well known meaningful human paintings
@@jasonberryman1035 Okay I understand now! Thank You!
Saying guns let you hunt bears "without risk" is a massive overstatement. Even today, with vastly superior firearms technology, hunting bears is extremely dangerous.
Some of the bigger ones can keep on trucking, even when shot.
They can move quiet AF when they want to. They are incredibly smart and have keen senses. Bears are insanely dangerous
Yeah people forget even regular old Deer Hunting can be dangerous even with the guns. Mad people got maimed or killed by the antlers on a Buck doing a death wail thinking they were dead all the way.
Yeah, people overestimate themselves too much.
Saying guns don't give us a huge advantage over animals is a massive pile of crap. The Assyrians and Romans wiped out their fair share of animals with spears and bows but they got nothing on humans with guns.
Glad I just recently discovered this page. It’s super informative and interesting to listen to 😊
Is it just me or are the thumbnails getting more and more brutal with each video
I didnt even notice that and just checked when i read this. I almost choked on my mackerel!
Literally something out of Garth Ennis
it's very clickbaity but the videos are cool so whatever it's all good
@@AwesomeReshiramat least it's not ai art monstrosity
He changed it for some reason
Australia doesn't have bears either. Indeed, the Carnivora aren't represented here at all as none made it across the Wallace Line. Their niche was occupied by carnivorous marsupials like the Thylacoleo, Thylacine, Tasmanian Devil, etc..
The Papua New Guinea natives ate them first…. the poor Bears wouldn’t stand a chance
Dingoes
@@nojorooney That's an invasive species brought to Australia by humans in canoes some 6000 years ago.
@@edmondantes4338 it’s been considered a native species for a while now as even the most agreed upon arrival of 5,000 years is old enough for them to be considered native, as for the origins of their arrival, that is still a challenged theory today. We have fossils from about 5,000 years that’s true but Australia does not have great conditions for fossil preservation, so let’s look at some other proof,
mitochondrial DNA tests suggests their separation from dogs and/or wolves around 8,500 years ago and rock art of canines have been seen which could date back to 30,000 years.
As to how they got there is again still debated but some other theories suggest that they walked to Australia from Papua New Guinea as a land bridge opened up between them between 6,000 and 8,500 years ago, it could have also been brought over by the first humans that came to Australia 30,000-50,000 years ago.
Dingoes are a very important apex predator that Australia might have greatly needed for thousands of years (Even the thylacine is now actually considered to have only had jaws strong enough to kill possum sized animals or smaller, meaning they most likely had a much more fox-like niche). Dingoes greatly contribute to the overall health of the ecosystem, not only by keeping the population of native species down but also because they target and keep the numbers of true invasive species down, they go after anything from rabbits, cats, and foxes to even feral hogs and young camels, sambar deer and buffalo.
@@edmondantes4338The dingo is not an invasive species and it’s origins of when and how it got to Australia are still heavily debated, mitochondrial DNA tests suggest that dingoes branched off from wolves and/or dogs 8,500 years ago, and rock paintings found also depict a canine-like animal that could be 30,000 years old, it is also suggested that dingoes actually crossed a land bridge that had formed 8,500 years ago from New Guinea to Australia or either swam or were taken to Australia by aboriginals tens of thousands of years ago.
They are a very important apex predator that keeps the populations of both large native and feral animals down. Especially since Australia has no other apex predators and seemed to not have any since the extinctions of Thylacoleo and Megalania (The thylacine is now thought to be much more like a fox in niche, only being able to take down things as large as a possum or smaller)
We need an animated movie called “The Bear King” where a father bear is overthrown by a jealous lion who wants to be King of the Beasts.
Only for the bear’s son to return to Africa and go full John Wick on the lion.
i would pay to watch that bruh
you took a few bong rips huh? thats some outta world plot, i'd pay to watch that
That's childish
Maby a prequel before the lion king
Honestly, if you know how to use CGI that’s available to the public you might be able to make that movie yourself
I think the Roman Province date was probably 146 BC not AD as that's when Carthage was destroyed.
The Atlas Bear being there remind me of the origin of the Ethiopian Wolf, which is a/related to the Grey Wolf that somehow found its way to Africa, similar to the bear.
Ethiopian wolves actually aren't wolves, but more closely related to jackals. Golden jackals/wolves however, are tiny African wolf+coyote relatives. 🙃
African lion : *exists*
Agriotherium : hey its me , agriotherium ! I heard youre a pretty strong apex , so square the f##k up
I mean african lions do live in prides soo
@@SinethembaNgqiba i meant 1v1 tho
Hippos: Hey it's me, Goku!
Agriotherium: pluh
@@ac_muncherwell the lion would get demolished
Joe Rogan would love this video.
Very on point! Give it time! :))) He'll get here eventually...
I swear to God that guy has a fetish on bears more than anyone else.
*Bear noises*
😂😂😂😂
“Jamie pull up that African bear video”
HEY, AWESOME CHANNEL DUDE! I'm always excited to watch another episode, and have Binged watched EVERY episode. Absolutely Spot on the best, this is "the edge of my seat intriguing" You never fail to deliver quality, up to date reporting on a already competitive informational niche that similar TH-cam channels just don't have that spark of ingredients you supply so effectively.
Truly great work. Hopefully you can find yourself a good video editor and continue to guide others in exploring vast swaths of time these animals existed. You certainly are the cure to my curiosity.
Also, it's just a developing interest, but check out the California Fence Lizard. These guys are in every back yard of California. Their subspecies are even found on islands off the coast. They are a very successful group. Might seem a bit mundane. However, they have been around since the Pleistocene. They survive by digging burrows and that is why they are here today. Just a thought, thank you again.
Thank you for such kind words! I'll have to check them out - sounds interesting!
6:14 was that a reference to ivan the terrible painting?
Woah that's actually pretty cool
I looked it up, and yep it 100% is. Pretty slick 😆
Joshua Knuppe has a lot of paleoart based on old painting.
5:37 Wait, wait, what the heck IS that freakin' thing?!? Looks like some 18th century creationist reconstruction. I came for the bears, I stayed for the Elephantids.
Might be Deinotherium
Can you imagine going back to prehistoric Africa seeing a bear taking down a hippo or a rhino that would have been an amazing scene to witness 😳😳
Is that art at 4:28 by "OLMAGON" of an Agriotherium exiting a dead Megaldon's mouth?
Sandworm*
The Atlas bear was another bear native to Africa and because the Atlas bear was closely related to European bears there have been many plans to reintroduce the bears to the Atlas mountains
Plans to reintroduce bears in atlas moutains ? I heard of Plans to reintroduce lions and crocodiles but never bears
There used to be subspecies of polar bears in Britain called Usrsus Maritimus Tyrannus that might be bigger than modern polar bears, although many scientists doubt its existence.
Incredible video as always! I have seen one of your other videos and have been fascinated by both videos! You're also an inspiration to some of my own videos! Keep up the great work!
5:52 - That's a Sun Bear (also known as a Honey Bear, the same species that the Rareware character, Banjo from the video game, Banjo-Kazooie). ☀️🐻
Was gonna point that out
Banjo’s based on a sun bear?
I didn’t know that.
@@beastmaster0934 it's pretty obvious with his size.
@@elmono6299
But Banjo has brown fur, while Sun bear’s have black fur with a pale yellow around the face and on the chest.
I thought he was a grizzly
I was thinking if the cryptid "Nandi Bear" actually being a surviving population of these bears.
If so, highly unlikely they are here anymore or really recently. More likely would be as cultural echoes of sightings of the dying out straggler population. Like smoke after the guttering candle finally snuffs out.
The Nandi Bear was a chalicothere, not a ursid!!!!😂❤😊
@@johnwomack8049 Why do you say that?
@@johnwomack8049 Given it is a cryptid its existence let alone classification is controversial.
Maybe
Let's not tell joe rogan about this
Also i think lions and the bears could have lived together as this bear died out 2,5 million years ago and lions appeared about 2 million years ago.
As a person from africa i would loved if this bear still existed or atleast the atlas bear
Lions and bears did exist together in other areas- lions were once found across Eurasia and even in North America!
@@skunkapestories4622 They're speaking specifically about the African species of Agriotherium overlapping in time and territory with lions. Lions did start becoming distinct around 2 or so million years ago and scientists can only give time estimates and they say the African Agriotherium went extinct around 2.5 million years ago but it's possible that the two animal's populations could have interacted at some point.
@@skunkapestories4622 lions and bears do exist together in present times too in India.
Year but i mean mainly in africa also the babary lion and atlas bear coexisted and also in India but i mean the asiatic lion is not very populous@@skunkapestories4622
Yeah but i mean africa also they coexisted in the atlas mountains with the atlas bear and babary lion and also in India @@skunkapestories4622
Africa: "Time for a game of Disappearing Bears."
I got the reference lol
6:12 is that Ivan the Terrifying reference?
I have had two run-ins with very big black bears and one weighed over 600 lbs with the other close to 500. One charged at me in my yard because i spooked him. I cannot imagine one of these African bears coming at me! Thanks for the video!
Obese bears
@@kosmique He inconspicuously extended his right arm as though it were a hose, while he carried a weighing scale-as anyone does at all times-subsequently and covertly putting said scale beneath them...
0:36 no, australia has no bears either
@@kosmique thank you😉😉
Love your content, delivery and editing. Wonderful channel(s) thank you
Good vid man you gave a idea for a book
4:36 thank goodness its not as well known this sounds exactly like the tres situation and I don't want to here that argument again for the next 5 years
I’m waiting to see more on the UrusKolaisGigantis from Australia…..
An absolute unit like agriotherium being related to pandas has similar energy to short-faced bears being related to spectacled bears.
I think it's hilarious that half of the largest predators are bears and the other half are big cats.
This is actually a very interesting video! Happy this was my first vid of yours.
Would like to know more about how a cooling climate would’ve changed things for bears. Did it create more open savannah?
Its so ironic me and a friend of mine were talking about our favorite bears, and I mentioned how Africa use to have bears(Atlas bear), but I didn't know about Agriotherium till know thank you very much for the video. Which anyone curious my favorite bear is the Grizzly(If I owned a zoo I'd feed mine peanut butter balls, soft boiled eggs, berries, and trout/catfish/salmon planks), and his is the Polar bear(Which I've seen in captivity, along with Asiatic Black Bears).
That's not irony.
Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
"“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy irony"
Similar:
sarcasm
sardonicism
dryness
causticity
sharpness
acerbity
acid
bitterness
trenchancy
mordancy
cynicism
mockery
satire
ridicule
derision
scorn
sneering
wryness
backhandedness
sarkiness
Opposite:
sincerity
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
plural noun: ironies
"the irony is that I thought he could help me"
Similar:
paradox
paradoxical nature
incongruity
incongruousness
peculiarity
Opposite:
logic
a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
noun: dramatic irony; plural noun: tragic
@@Facetiously.Esoteric I came to enjoy extinct animals, but you did pointed that Grammer is subject a fail in and will gladly do so.
@@sagittariusneptune9330 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is that English?
The Bears were subsequently and systematically eliminated from all of Africa by the Big Cats who moved in from Asia, Middle East and Mediterranean lands.
The Bears were prayed upon by Lions just like Tigers feast on full grown Brown Bears and the Ussuri Bear which is as big as a Kodiak
There are no bears in Australia
Other than the drop bear.
not for long
Not in Australia, but in some islands of Oceania. Still some people say they are extinct in those islands too so maybe Oceania is already bearless anyways?
@@fenrirggAustralia isn’t Oceania though?
@@fenrirggit’s in the region, but the country/continent is not haha
The three species of bears live in North America: were the biggest bears.
Agritherium africanum:hold my zebra.
The giant short faced bear was still larger at least, especially the South American variant (13ft length). It’s bye bye now too though
make a video about archaeopteryx
Interesting....🤔 Thank you for the information!
There were bears recently in Northern Africa. The Roman's captured these animals. Atlas bear. Australia also doesn't have bears.
If only he'd mentioned that in the video. Oh wait...
4:26 Easily the best moment of the entire video.
Has it been bitten by a Sand-Worm?
Bears are also not found in Australia.
Oh yeah, what about the drop bear
@@rosswilliams3310 Koalas are marsupials, not bears.
@@manlysoutherner3696 it's a joke
@@rosswilliams3310 My apologies. It’s hard to tell when someone is joking through text. You know what I mean?
@@manlysoutherner3696no because that guy is autistic af. his whole life is the internet
make a video about the fauna of rudyard kipling's the jungle book
The agriotherium was not large or powerful enough to take down a healthy adult hippo or rhino. They were only slightly larger than polar bears and we know what would happen hypothetically if a polar bear were to fight either ungulate.
But weren’t hippos and rhinos of the time (or whatever relatives of theirs were around) larger than contemporary ones?
Any bear in Australia would be transplanted.
That's really damn intresting.
Great video.
“They have also become earth’s biggest terrestrial predators”
Spinosaurus: Hold my beer, I gotta beat some ass.
He said around in Africa,not in the entire world.
Anytime I see a video of Africa I am amazed as how there are so many large herds. Teaming with life!
Should have called it ExtantZoo.
5:21 You scared me, man!
Man up michael
Gorgopithecus illustration is quite funny , reminds me of the Ivan the terrible painting
A big W for the caniforms 👑 🙏
😂
6:41 I actually never knew relatives of Deadpool’s Movie buddy used to live in Africa!
6:14 ? Ivan the great and his son reference??
Ursidae obviously are/were absent in Meganesia (Australia + Irian (="New Guinea") + Tasmania).
It’s weird how all the big cats used to be in north, and South America, but now almost all are in Asia, and Africa. To be more specific we used to have lions, cheetahs, and ect.
I will add more but I can’t think right now.
Wait till Joe Rogan finds out about this.
Rogan has rich boy brain rot
I have heard of Pre-historic Large Cave Bears.They must be a force to be reckoned with.
You spelled arctotherium wrong! (in your titles). Otherwise, a winner from beginning to end. Keep these coming.
Thank you for make this videm man ,i never see someone make long video about prihistoric africa bear
Last time I checked, it's Australia, and Antartica that had no bears. Africa had them in the North.
Ursus arctos crowtheri!!!! Lived in Africa till 1870 years!!!☝️
00:22 Cincinnati Bengals @ Chicago Bears
There’s Nandi bears in Africa
Well, no. In Victoria (an Australian state), we have about a population of introduced black bears that is 20 in the snowy river region, that thankfully actually help! But I don’t blame you for thinking that.
The bear build is the best meta
Bear vid? Big W
Not forgetting the atlas bear
I dont think theres any bears in Australia as well
7:10 it would have been a good idea to specify that timeframe at the beginning of the video imo. I liked it a lot otherwise!
Bears may be my favorite mammal group, they are so unique.
Um, I live in Australia and didn't know we had bears?!!!! KOALA BEARS and the more Infamous DROP BEARS are usually found in deep forest bushland of Australia.
6.20 I've seen things you bears wouldn't believe....
Amazing! First time I hear of this mega-bear. It should definitely have posed a serious threat to our australopithecine ancestors, especially if it could climb trees -- doubts here because such a large size could have been a handicap for that, maybe our kin were safe on trees anyhow... until lions and leopards arrived, when not evolving into masters of fire and tools/weapons was not anymore an option.
0:45 funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
About your end teaser on the "terrifying" ancient dolphins, remember that orcas are actually dolphins and not whales.
He says that in the video if you watch the prehistoric dolphin video. He's pretty thorough in his videos. He covers a lot of related species that overlap into groups of whales. Summarizing the contents as whales is still correct. If he used the word "cetaceans". It's going to possibly confuse the viewer not familiar with the scientific language of the group it belongs to. So, yeah he's trying to communicate effectively and try his best not to alienate younger, or populations of viewers that speak a different language and viewers that don't recognize the word. The word whale, you can picture in your head, if I say "Rorquals" which is the largest group of baleen whales. You're not going to be interested because it's statistically lower even for a fluent English speaker to create a mental picture. It's called communication theory. Now you get it? 😉
Dolphins are a subset of whales.
There's been at least THREE different times, that I've had a bear just walk up on me while working on a job (building cabins in the mountains). Even TWO AT ONCE, this one time!! Nothing gets your heart jumpstarted in the morning, like it will to look back down on a FKKKING BLACK BEAR, that's done snuck up RIGHT BEHIND YOU at the bottom of the damn ladder that YOU'RE ON!! 😂
Is this rhe origin of the Nandi Bear Crypid of Kenya?.
There are many species of bears, some are small while others are very big
So we’re not gonna talk about the gorgopithecus picture?
Damn u fr changed the thumbnail after people said it was grusome lol (love ur vids)
5:25 I know this is a video about bears, but hippos running at that speed will never not be terrifying
6:14 ... is this a gorgopithecus version of Ilya Repin's "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"?
Who needs museums anymore, when you got youtube
Africa then: was dominated by bears.
Africa now: has no bears at all.
I didn't know bears were able to scavenge or take down prey in Africa.
Polar bear vs Kodiak...it all depends. Polar bears on average are bigger and heavier, but the biggest and heaviest bear recorded (at least current species) is the Kodiak. The largest Kodiak bear on record has almost 2 1/2 feet in length and almost 300 pounds in weight over the largest Polar bear -- weighing in at an astonishing 2500 lbs or 1134 kg.
I’m kinda confused. Surely these were bigger right? Kodiak brown bears and polar bears get longer than that regularly and over 1650lbs on many occasions.
...I saw a small brown bear in the forest near Ifrane, Morocco, in 2003. What the hell did I saw? I was picnicking with my husband and he cames too close for comfort so we left but we observed him for more than an hour
If there is both _Extinct Zoo_ and _Living Zoo,_ why not do a chanel which focuses on items where now extinct taxa lived together with taxa which are still around?
Keep in mind that Agriotherium's tooth root surface area was lower than that in solitary cats that hunt prey as big as or bigger than themselves. In this regard it was more like pack hunting canids, which can hunt prey larger than themselves, despite their relatively low tooth root surface areas, because they hunt in packs (Stynder & Kupczik, 2013). Also, unlike Arctodus, Agriotherium and its close relative Huracan were cursorial bears with elongated/gracile limb bones and a humerus with weakly developed epicondyles. This suggests Agriotherium was not a powerful forelimb grappler either (Jiangzuo et al., 2023). That said, even solitary canids have killed prey larger than themselves on occasion, so there's no reason Agriotherium couldn't do the same. It's just that this was probably not its usual schtick.
Interestingly, the modern African lion wasn't the largest cat around in Africa at the time. A giant lion skull from Natodomeri Kenya rivalled in size to large members of P. Atrox. A morphological study suggested that the skull shared more similarities to the giant mosbach lion than to modern lions or P. spelea. So giant mosbach lions may have undergone a reverse migration back into Africa, giving Africa both today's lions and its giant cousin.
Brown bears were also present in North Africa very recently and were hunted into extinction.