Africa Once Had Bears...

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  • @ExtinctZoo
    @ExtinctZoo  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +454

    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

    • @ExtinctZoo
      @ExtinctZoo  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      And if you want to check out the new channel www.youtube.com/@livingzoo :)

    • @Anicsn
      @Anicsn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ExtinctZoojust followed you on living zoo too👍

    • @ric.6415
      @ric.6415 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      that mistake made me question my existence

    • @robertomontini5479
      @robertomontini5479 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      triassic Gojirasaurus video in future? Please Please Please

    • @andyoates8392
      @andyoates8392 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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. 🤓💚♾️

  • @frankv7068
    @frankv7068 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +778

    Damn poor Australopithecus 🤣 in every document they always end up pray to Giant Bears, Giant Otters, Giant Birds, Giant Cats, Giant Primates, Giant Snakes….

    • @GrinchLite
      @GrinchLite 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      Giant crocodile

    • @Miah-j5z
      @Miah-j5z 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      Don't forget inflation

    • @NotaScrimp
      @NotaScrimp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Probs each other too

    • @Facetiously.Esoteric
      @Facetiously.Esoteric 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Prey. But true.

    • @scienceuser99
      @scienceuser99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      It's a damn miracle our ancestors survived to outlive these beasts💀

  • @Persona6Blue
    @Persona6Blue 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +566

    "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
      @stickboianimations2273 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      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

    • @Monchegorx
      @Monchegorx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@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.

    • @stickboianimations2273
      @stickboianimations2273 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@Monchegorx it was but it had challenges like Hadrosaurus Ankys and trikes

    • @drewfromyay882
      @drewfromyay882 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      The T-Rex is nothing like the movies, if humans had existed back then we could have easily outran it.

    • @stickboianimations2273
      @stickboianimations2273 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@drewfromyay882 it ran around 10 to 25 mph easily is a stretch

  • @singingcrow439
    @singingcrow439 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    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.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      All elephantids also came from Africa, so maybe the generational trauma started even earlier.

  • @jugadug
    @jugadug 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1404

    no bears in australia too the koala is a marsupial lol

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Ditto.

    • @eetjebordop1487
      @eetjebordop1487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

      the Asiatic Black Bear lives in oceania aka the continent of australia just not austalia it self

    • @jugadug
      @jugadug 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      @@eetjebordop1487 yeah that is what i mean and i don't know what counts as oceania as continent australia is though

    • @Fede_99
      @Fede_99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      ​@@eetjebordop1487 no it doesn't lmao

    • @ahabduennschitz7670
      @ahabduennschitz7670 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I've got multiple Strokes reading this

  • @warriors1313
    @warriors1313 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +641

    The idea of a bear big enough to kill hippos is terrifying

    • @19megamustaine85
      @19megamustaine85 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      dont believe anything you see !

    • @rorysearle5013
      @rorysearle5013 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      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.

    • @rajivsporkslede7860
      @rajivsporkslede7860 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      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

    • @darthsidius9631
      @darthsidius9631 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Did they weight something like 750kg? I think that's not enough to take down adult hippo

    • @arianlatifi5492
      @arianlatifi5492 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      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.

  • @FriendChicken
    @FriendChicken 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    06:13 why is the Gorgopithecus looks like the painting of Ivan the terrible after accidentally killing his son?

    • @jasonberryman1035
      @jasonberryman1035 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      The artist Joschua Knüppe did that on purpose it’s part of several prehistoric primate artworks meant to mirror well known meaningful human paintings

    • @FriendChicken
      @FriendChicken 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@jasonberryman1035 Okay I understand now! Thank You!

  • @CthonicSoulChicken
    @CthonicSoulChicken 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    Saying guns let you hunt bears "without risk" is a massive overstatement. Even today, with vastly superior firearms technology, hunting bears is extremely dangerous.

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Some of the bigger ones can keep on trucking, even when shot.

    • @lpdb1995
      @lpdb1995 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      They can move quiet AF when they want to. They are incredibly smart and have keen senses. Bears are insanely dangerous

    • @destynova4512
      @destynova4512 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      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.

    • @TJ-hg6op
      @TJ-hg6op 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah, people overestimate themselves too much.

    • @jimmmount3287
      @jimmmount3287 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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.

  • @joshuastrittmatter4188
    @joshuastrittmatter4188 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    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.

    • @zachariahkelley5298
      @zachariahkelley5298 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      i would pay to watch that bruh

    • @KingKunta-og2jl
      @KingKunta-og2jl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      you took a few bong rips huh? thats some outta world plot, i'd pay to watch that

    • @E-E.ADVENTUREGEARS
      @E-E.ADVENTUREGEARS 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's childish

    • @duke7037
      @duke7037 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Maby a prequel before the lion king

    • @data007studios2
      @data007studios2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Honestly, if you know how to use CGI that’s available to the public you might be able to make that movie yourself

  • @danielmalinen6337
    @danielmalinen6337 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    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

    • @saadhajib6294
      @saadhajib6294 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Plans to reintroduce bears in atlas moutains ? I heard of Plans to reintroduce lions and crocodiles but never bears

  • @Royal_Muffin
    @Royal_Muffin 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    Is it just me or are the thumbnails getting more and more brutal with each video

    • @SoulDelSol
      @SoulDelSol 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I didnt even notice that and just checked when i read this. I almost choked on my mackerel!

    • @alonsoarana5307
      @alonsoarana5307 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Literally something out of Garth Ennis

    • @AwesomeReshiram
      @AwesomeReshiram 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      it's very clickbaity but the videos are cool so whatever it's all good

    • @ngrjordi2352
      @ngrjordi2352 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@AwesomeReshiramat least it's not ai art monstrosity

    • @SinethembaNgqiba
      @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He changed it for some reason

  • @CollinDavis-jd1qr
    @CollinDavis-jd1qr 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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 😳😳

  • @rickicoughlan8299
    @rickicoughlan8299 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    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..

    • @richardtruckner2203
      @richardtruckner2203 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Papua New Guinea natives ate them first…. the poor Bears wouldn’t stand a chance

    • @nojorooney
      @nojorooney 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Dingoes

    • @edmondantes4338
      @edmondantes4338 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@nojorooney That's an invasive species brought to Australia by humans in canoes some 6000 years ago.

    • @nojorooney
      @nojorooney 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

    • @nojorooney
      @nojorooney 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@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)

  • @ac_muncher
    @ac_muncher 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    African lion : *exists*
    Agriotherium : hey its me , agriotherium ! I heard youre a pretty strong apex , so square the f##k up

    • @SinethembaNgqiba
      @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I mean african lions do live in prides soo

    • @ac_muncher
      @ac_muncher 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@SinethembaNgqiba i meant 1v1 tho

    • @chadgorosaurus4898
      @chadgorosaurus4898 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Hippos: Hey it's me, Goku!

    • @ac_muncher
      @ac_muncher 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Agriotherium: pluh

    • @SinethembaNgqiba
      @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@ac_muncherwell the lion would get demolished

  • @Konmonachi
    @Konmonachi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    6:14 was that a reference to ivan the terrible painting?

    • @SinethembaNgqiba
      @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Woah that's actually pretty cool

    • @LeonardoDaSquishy
      @LeonardoDaSquishy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I looked it up, and yep it 100% is. Pretty slick 😆

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Joshua Knuppe has a lot of paleoart based on old painting.

  • @thokozaniskosana6391
    @thokozaniskosana6391 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    South Africa has laws for bears and they are hilarious. One of them is that It is illegal to bring your bears to any private or public beaches. I wonder who these laws were made for.

  • @pickles3128
    @pickles3128 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    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.

    • @theguywithadifferentopinio9060
      @theguywithadifferentopinio9060 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Might be Deinotherium

    • @isra3638
      @isra3638 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@theguywithadifferentopinio9060
      Not maybe it’s that one 😂😂😂

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    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.

    • @Aethuviel
      @Aethuviel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Ethiopian wolves actually aren't wolves, but more closely related to jackals. Golden jackals/wolves however, are tiny African wolf+coyote relatives. 🙃

  • @matthewgregg3979
    @matthewgregg3979 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I think the Roman Province date was probably 146 BC not AD as that's when Carthage was destroyed.

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I think it's hilarious that half of the largest land predators are bears and the other half are big cats.

    • @Davserban
      @Davserban หลายเดือนก่อน

      What kind of predator? What about sharks

    • @TechnoGamer2626-e6x
      @TechnoGamer2626-e6x หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah 😅

    • @MrBeenus
      @MrBeenus หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why is that hilarious?

  • @UnwantedGhost1-anz25
    @UnwantedGhost1-anz25 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Is that art at 4:28 by "OLMAGON" of an Agriotherium exiting a dead Megaldon's mouth?

  • @Prometheus_Phoenix_VR_Official
    @Prometheus_Phoenix_VR_Official 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “They have also become earth’s biggest terrestrial predators”
    Spinosaurus: Hold my beer, I gotta beat some ass.

    • @SmilingDraws-h7u
      @SmilingDraws-h7u 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He said around in Africa,not in the entire world.

  • @伊斯塔與艾蕾修卡都是
    @伊斯塔與艾蕾修卡都是 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I was thinking if the cryptid "Nandi Bear" actually being a surviving population of these bears.

    • @LostArchivist
      @LostArchivist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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.

    • @johnwomack8049
      @johnwomack8049 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Nandi Bear was a chalicothere, not a ursid!!!!😂❤😊

    • @LostArchivist
      @LostArchivist 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnwomack8049 Why do you say that?

    • @LostArchivist
      @LostArchivist 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@johnwomack8049 Given it is a cryptid its existence let alone classification is controversial.

    • @BatMax-mn4gd
      @BatMax-mn4gd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe

  • @taylorhawkins9568
    @taylorhawkins9568 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Glad I just recently discovered this page. It’s super informative and interesting to listen to 😊

  • @caesar5285
    @caesar5285 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    Joe Rogan would love this video.

    • @Screeach
      @Screeach 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Very on point! Give it time! :))) He'll get here eventually...

    • @yonghwanchoi4212
      @yonghwanchoi4212 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I swear to God that guy has a fetish on bears more than anyone else.

    • @TheAquariumDrizzle
      @TheAquariumDrizzle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      *Bear noises*

    • @simriths.s5976
      @simriths.s5976 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      😂😂😂😂

    • @TheFallen-ff4xn
      @TheFallen-ff4xn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      “Jamie pull up that African bear video”

  • @chaoticiannunez2419
    @chaoticiannunez2419 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Africa: "Time for a game of Disappearing Bears."

  • @veryunusual126
    @veryunusual126 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    0:36 no, australia has no bears either

    • @veryunusual126
      @veryunusual126 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kosmique thank you😉😉

  • @Pizza_Crusader
    @Pizza_Crusader 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @SinethembaNgqiba
    @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    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
      @skunkapestories4622 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Lions and bears did exist together in other areas- lions were once found across Eurasia and even in North America!

    • @QuartzVideozYT
      @QuartzVideozYT 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@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.

    • @sitproperlywhilewatchingph423
      @sitproperlywhilewatchingph423 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@skunkapestories4622 lions and bears do exist together in present times too in India.

    • @SinethembaNgqiba
      @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​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

    • @SinethembaNgqiba
      @SinethembaNgqiba 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah but i mean africa also they coexisted in the atlas mountains with the atlas bear and babary lion and also in India ​@@skunkapestories4622

  • @DzinkyDzink
    @DzinkyDzink 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    6:12 is that Ivan the Terrifying reference?

  • @notoriousbigmoai1125
    @notoriousbigmoai1125 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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.

  • @lemxminecraftandmemes4721
    @lemxminecraftandmemes4721 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    There are no bears in Australia

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Other than the drop bear.

    • @Kimberly-x2h
      @Kimberly-x2h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      not for long

    • @fenrirgg
      @fenrirgg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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?

    • @DookieNookie97
      @DookieNookie97 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@fenrirggAustralia isn’t Oceania though?

    • @DookieNookie97
      @DookieNookie97 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@fenrirggit’s in the region, but the country/continent is not haha

  • @elmono6299
    @elmono6299 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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). ☀️🐻

    • @KamikazeCarbine
      @KamikazeCarbine 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was gonna point that out

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Banjo’s based on a sun bear?
      I didn’t know that.

    • @elmono6299
      @elmono6299 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@beastmaster0934 it's pretty obvious with his size.

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@elmono6299
      But Banjo has brown fur, while Sun bear’s have black fur with a pale yellow around the face and on the chest.

    • @Kaprosuchus-99
      @Kaprosuchus-99 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought he was a grizzly

  • @loganus9114
    @loganus9114 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @Stellectis2014
    @Stellectis2014 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    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.

    • @ExtinctZoo
      @ExtinctZoo  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you for such kind words! I'll have to check them out - sounds interesting!

  • @dlmullins9054
    @dlmullins9054 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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!

    • @BeiremulenHandakuter
      @BeiremulenHandakuter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Obese bears

    • @teamfortress2sandvich
      @teamfortress2sandvich 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@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...

  • @manlysoutherner3696
    @manlysoutherner3696 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Bears are also not found in Australia.

    • @rosswilliams3310
      @rosswilliams3310 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Oh yeah, what about the drop bear

    • @manlysoutherner3696
      @manlysoutherner3696 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@rosswilliams3310 Koalas are marsupials, not bears.

    • @rosswilliams3310
      @rosswilliams3310 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@manlysoutherner3696 it's a joke

    • @manlysoutherner3696
      @manlysoutherner3696 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@rosswilliams3310 My apologies. It’s hard to tell when someone is joking through text. You know what I mean?

    • @StopYTShorts
      @StopYTShorts 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@manlysoutherner3696no because that guy is autistic af. his whole life is the internet

  • @AnimalClubOfficial
    @AnimalClubOfficial 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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!

  • @Antony01501
    @Antony01501 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Good vid man you gave a idea for a book

  • @AhDollar
    @AhDollar 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    00:22 Cincinnati Bengals @ Chicago Bears

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    An absolute unit like agriotherium being related to pandas has similar energy to short-faced bears being related to spectacled bears.

  • @sherryelder9511
    @sherryelder9511 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    The three species of bears live in North America: were the biggest bears.
    Agritherium africanum:hold my zebra.

    • @Joyride37
      @Joyride37 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The giant short faced bear was still larger at least, especially the South American variant (13ft length). It’s bye bye now too though

  • @JPMgeo
    @JPMgeo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brown bears were also present in North Africa very recently and were hunted into extinction.

  • @matthewgootman5990
    @matthewgootman5990 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:53 The secretary bird and damselfly picks are top notch 🗣️
    This man has game

  • @jazelgalaviz9450
    @jazelgalaviz9450 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Bear vid? Big W

  • @Jack-s2x7o
    @Jack-s2x7o 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:45 funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

  • @Polarsunsets
    @Polarsunsets 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    6:14 ? Ivan the great and his son reference??

  • @sallahfaiselel-kahir651
    @sallahfaiselel-kahir651 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Wait till Joe Rogan finds out about this.

    • @cameronwalton8270
      @cameronwalton8270 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rogan has rich boy brain rot

  • @richardtruckner2203
    @richardtruckner2203 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I’m waiting to see more on the UrusKolaisGigantis from Australia…..

  • @jamesgordley5000
    @jamesgordley5000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Would like to know more about how a cooling climate would’ve changed things for bears. Did it create more open savannah?

  • @girlbuu9403
    @girlbuu9403 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Should have called it ExtantZoo.

  • @GoblinOfGygaxinor
    @GoblinOfGygaxinor 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    4:26 Easily the best moment of the entire video.

    • @TheWirksworthGunroom
      @TheWirksworthGunroom 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Has it been bitten by a Sand-Worm?

    • @TechnoGamer2626-e6x
      @TechnoGamer2626-e6x หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is eating inside megalodon anyways are you hating or is this just a joke

    • @TechnoGamer2626-e6x
      @TechnoGamer2626-e6x หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well if you are hating then f*ck your dad

  • @pedrogabrielduarte4544
    @pedrogabrielduarte4544 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    make a video about the fauna of rudyard kipling's the jungle book

  • @mlat3141
    @mlat3141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There were bears recently in Northern Africa. The Roman's captured these animals. Atlas bear. Australia also doesn't have bears.

    • @jimmmount3287
      @jimmmount3287 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If only he'd mentioned that in the video. Oh wait...

  • @gamereditor59ner22
    @gamereditor59ner22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Interesting....🤔 Thank you for the information!

  • @SYKim_94
    @SYKim_94 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    A big W for the caniforms 👑 🙏

  • @pedrogabrielduarte4544
    @pedrogabrielduarte4544 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    make a video about archaeopteryx

  • @mugwugthemagnificful
    @mugwugthemagnificful 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Any bear in Australia would be transplanted.

  • @jameschristophercirujano6650
    @jameschristophercirujano6650 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Last time I checked, it's Australia, and Antartica that had no bears. Africa had them in the North.

  • @DantexSmith
    @DantexSmith 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I dont think theres any bears in Australia as well

  • @HomeSlice97
    @HomeSlice97 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:25 I know this is a video about bears, but hippos running at that speed will never not be terrifying

  • @jamesivie5717
    @jamesivie5717 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great video.

  • @L.E.F.T.E
    @L.E.F.T.E 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    This is actually a very interesting video! Happy this was my first vid of yours.

  • @Hanz13171
    @Hanz13171 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "And that's why goldilocks and the three bears don't talk about their ancestors"
    Little timmy: what in the actual fu-💀

  • @cdtv3602
    @cdtv3602 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4:04 what is that red zone on the baboon's chest?

  • @arianlatifi5492
    @arianlatifi5492 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But weren’t hippos and rhinos of the time (or whatever relatives of theirs were around) larger than contemporary ones?

  • @kurtfinguerra1712
    @kurtfinguerra1712 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Who needs museums anymore, when you got youtube

  • @MattCarvin
    @MattCarvin 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There’s Nandi bears in Africa

  • @asaphuntthemunk5243
    @asaphuntthemunk5243 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @kalaszbuda6236
    @kalaszbuda6236 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ursus arctos crowtheri!!!! Lived in Africa till 1870 years!!!☝️

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bears may be my favorite mammal group, they are so unique.

  • @BermudaHawk47
    @BermudaHawk47 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:41 I actually never knew relatives of Deadpool’s Movie buddy used to live in Africa!

  • @emila6
    @emila6 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    9:50 the large animals of the Atlas mountains were hunted to extinction specifically due to French colonialists, not due to the introduction of fire arms to the region

  • @JammedClipper
    @JammedClipper 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Love your content, delivery and editing. Wonderful channel(s) thank you

  • @ikengaspirit3063
    @ikengaspirit3063 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Is this rhe origin of the Nandi Bear Crypid of Kenya?.

  • @babakbabak5329
    @babakbabak5329 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anytime I see a video of Africa I am amazed as how there are so many large herds. Teaming with life!

  • @22steve5150
    @22steve5150 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    About your end teaser on the "terrifying" ancient dolphins, remember that orcas are actually dolphins and not whales.

    • @Stellectis2014
      @Stellectis2014 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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? 😉

    • @Dr.Ian-Plect
      @Dr.Ian-Plect 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dolphins are a subset of whales.

  • @great_hermetika
    @great_hermetika 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @FreyjaYngling
    @FreyjaYngling 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:14 ... is this a gorgopithecus version of Ilya Repin's "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"?

  • @Finch-y5c
    @Finch-y5c 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @melenmaster4237
    @melenmaster4237 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The bear build is the best meta

  • @philippemineau2015
    @philippemineau2015 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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!

  • @ARSLENE
    @ARSLENE 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That's really damn intresting.

  • @colinmccarthy7921
    @colinmccarthy7921 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have heard of Pre-historic Large Cave Bears.They must be a force to be reckoned with.

  • @michaelwave863
    @michaelwave863 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    5:21 You scared me, man!

    • @8luntTrauma
      @8luntTrauma 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Man up michael

  • @dr_drago
    @dr_drago 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @JJ-oq3tz
    @JJ-oq3tz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There are many species of bears, some are small while others are very big

  • @AndrewDavis-sj6mb
    @AndrewDavis-sj6mb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I didn't know bears were able to scavenge or take down prey in Africa.

  • @TheWirksworthGunroom
    @TheWirksworthGunroom 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    6.20 I've seen things you bears wouldn't believe....

  • @oppaloopa3698
    @oppaloopa3698 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So we’re not gonna talk about the gorgopithecus picture?

  • @taha_warfare
    @taha_warfare 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember seeing a video 1 year ago where they found a north African bear walking in the road with her cubs in Algeria in jijel mountain.

  • @jensphiliphohmann1876
    @jensphiliphohmann1876 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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?

  • @Tryno4390
    @Tryno4390 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    8:08 why only the half of Morocco is showed here ?

  • @sketchified8064
    @sketchified8064 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really hope that Extict Zoo makes new TH-cam channels. Crypidzoo, Mythozoo and Aquazoo

  • @andreasgiasiranis5206
    @andreasgiasiranis5206 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gorgopithecus illustration is quite funny , reminds me of the Ivan the terrible painting

  • @robotboy719
    @robotboy719 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You spelled arctotherium wrong! (in your titles). Otherwise, a winner from beginning to end. Keep these coming.

  • @Firefocus-fz2we
    @Firefocus-fz2we 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:32 Since when does the Australia have bears? 🤔

  • @sophistacate7612
    @sophistacate7612 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @simonecappiello3937
    @simonecappiello3937 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Which Bear is on Minute 5:05-5:08? His Colour is very cute for bears Standards.

    • @Dr.Ian-Plect
      @Dr.Ian-Plect 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Brown bear.

  • @daytenchu1222
    @daytenchu1222 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.