The Atlas Mountains were literally the only place where brown bears could survive in Africa due to the mountain range’s alpine climate.

@carltonbanks5470

2 жыл бұрын

That is literally incorrect.

@KMcirca82

2 жыл бұрын

false

@bearclaw1051

2 жыл бұрын

What about Sun bears and Sloth bears living in tropical climate ?

@lt2672

2 жыл бұрын

@@carltonbanks5470 They probably wouldn't be able to survive in sub-Saharan Africa due to competition.

@paulhomsy2751

2 жыл бұрын

@@carltonbanks5470 Perhaps but in general the alpine climate would have been far more favorable to the bears survival.

Bears, hyenas, lions and leopards, the Atlas was a very wild place!

@jasperforever7549

2 жыл бұрын

Hyenas still here bro.. And they are still looking for barbary leopard if there's some

@georgetitsworth8919

2 жыл бұрын

@Spencer York oh wow lol cool story bro tell me more

@LeChristEstRoi

2 жыл бұрын

Stripped hyenas and barbary leopards are still there.

@cardboardbox5704

2 жыл бұрын

Long ago all the animals in the Atlas Mountains lived together in harmony. But then, everything changed when the Roman Empire attacked. :"V

@battlekingad8291

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@theflyingdutchguy9870

2 жыл бұрын

polar bears diversed from the common anchestor with brown bears around the same time as grizzly's did

@skooled6752

2 жыл бұрын

@@theflyingdutchguy9870 grizzlies are brown bears. All it is is the American name for the subspecies of brown bear in North America

@titfortat5727

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@spurs541

2 жыл бұрын

Still bears in Spain

@joxepojoxepin2752

2 жыл бұрын

@@spurs541 but only in the north

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.

@waser258

Ай бұрын

just a week ago, a female bear and two grown cubs were filmed in TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA. they're not extinct yet

@jabu1591

Ай бұрын

@@waser258 Where can I watch the video

@sabermachhour

Ай бұрын

In Algéria some kind of animal desperate by European but no these space come from 00 like. Tiger 🐯 berbari and tchita and more space because jingle in Algéria more

Lets be real. The Atlas Bear didn't "went extinct". It was annihilated by man for sport!

@matthewblackwelder6487

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Atlas? Isn't that where Barbary lions were found 😯? Damn, quite a confrontation it would be.

@jabu1591

Жыл бұрын

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).

@matplayer1232

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but i think that he was reffering to the fact that this bear had the most herbivorous diet of all bears

@matthewzito6130

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@matplayer1232

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@matthewzito6130

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@matplayer1232

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewzito6130 yes but they were also overshadowed by leopards or barbary lions Keep in mind that these bears were pretty small....

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.

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

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).

@minutemansam1214

2 жыл бұрын

@@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?

@kevinwalker6840

2 жыл бұрын

@@indyreno2933 Then why are polar bears and brown bears able to interbreed?

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@mtman2

10 ай бұрын

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...!

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.

@matthewzito6130

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jeffspicoli5399

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewzito6130 yep they found short faced bear bones near Yellowstone national park

@beneficent2557

2 жыл бұрын

There was a short-faced bear species in Africa during the pleistocene or pliocene.

@matthewzito6130

2 жыл бұрын

@@beneficent2557 I'm not sure which species you're referring to, but I was talking about the sub-family Tremarctinae.

@beneficent2557

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@lucykelly7152

Жыл бұрын

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!

The French occupation was the final end of the wildlife in North Africa

@vijayvijay4123

Жыл бұрын

Wendigo 👹

@_pdz12

Жыл бұрын

@@vijayvijay4123 the wendingo

@NotMyWar

17 күн бұрын

Final end, you can just say the end.

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.

@PerfectionInMotion69

2 жыл бұрын

That's just stupid

@samrizzardi2213

2 жыл бұрын

@@PerfectionInMotion69 Why?

@ulfricstormcloak8241

8 ай бұрын

@@samrizzardi2213 they could have entered in prehistoric times, and gone extinct before the growth of human civilization in the Nile valley.

@sabermachhour

Ай бұрын

Egypte Sahara but Algéria Tunisia Morocco other things

This is a sad story beautifully told.

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.

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

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).

@romerosignatus

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

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".

@romerosignatus

2 жыл бұрын

@@indyreno2933 really interesting!

@mimorisenpai8540

Жыл бұрын

@@indyreno2933 sika are Cervus too

Great mini documentary Aegle Creations, as always. Keep up the good work !!!!

@AegleCreations

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Imagine a Barbary Lion and an Atlas bear fighting each other

@treqdubu6065

5 ай бұрын

Vote bear all day long

A Mexican Grizzly Bear could survive the harsh dry conditions in Africa, but like the Atlas, they're no longer around too.😩

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

Randolph , the temperatures in Mexico, soufh of spain, dominican repb are the same as most of the southern hemisphere .

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.

@AegleCreations

2 жыл бұрын

Regardless of how adaptable they are, there are no bears in Africa now…

@matthewzito6130

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@minutemansam1214

2 жыл бұрын

@@AegleCreations But if introduced they could exist. There is no reason why a sloth bear couldn't get along in the congo.

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.

@ahmd5

2 жыл бұрын

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

@mooronice

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@nazeem8680

Жыл бұрын

In north african maghrebi dialects, we use debb for both animals

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

2 жыл бұрын

One question: can a Black Bear or the most tropical bear subspecies survive in North Africa today?

@ianlim4404

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@arkamukhopadhyay9111

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@loquat44-40

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@minutemansam1214

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

@AegleCreations

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, there were some prehistoric bears…

@brandonhill1751

2 жыл бұрын

Agriotherium africanum

@corvusglaive4804

Жыл бұрын

Interesting....

@mimorisenpai8540

Жыл бұрын

That not bear

@user-xz4eq2ci6h

Жыл бұрын

Nandi bear?

Love your work

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.

@jkkennedy8919

2 жыл бұрын

Bingo 🎯you nailed it

@mtman2

10 ай бұрын

Important to point out far and away 100's more species have gone extinct on their own then caused by man...!

Brown bears can be relocated in atlas mountains. They can stay there.

@tomm4073

2 жыл бұрын

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...

Thank you for your hard work. Plz continue do it

Amazing creation.

That was done beautifully

Cute video!

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.

@dominicyelin

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Ron-dv8jj

5 ай бұрын

Greek lions? @@dominicyelin

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 .

Mexican Grizzly would do fine. Or maybe some Rocky Mountain Grizzly or American Black Bear in mountainous areas.

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)

@The_Explorer_Slash

Жыл бұрын

I wanted to correct it, but thanks to you already corrected 👍🏻

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.

@michaelanthony4949

2 жыл бұрын

There is no snow in africa bruh

@bskiez

2 жыл бұрын

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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ohivonmenisunuoya

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelanthony4949 there is, bruh

Humans have eradicated and destroyed so many unique animal species on earth, it is overwhelming.

@vijayvijay4123

Жыл бұрын

Only Whites

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.

It's impossible for bears to survive in sub-saharan Africa.. It's not an ideal environment..

@carltonbanks5470

2 жыл бұрын

Again, completely incorrect and false.

@PMN65

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you are correct. They cannot tolerate that weather.

@PMN65

2 жыл бұрын

@@carltonbanks5470 there if literature cases evidence.

@carltonbanks5470

2 жыл бұрын

@@PMN65 No it's not correct. It's pure ignorance. There is no singular type weather on that vast continent including "sub-saharan."

@Squidward558

2 жыл бұрын

@@carltonbanks5470 what does this even mean?

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

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the mythical ‘Nandi Bear’

@oliverm7138

2 жыл бұрын

@@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?

Superb camera work.

I don't know why but an African bear sorta makes me happy, like their everywhere

Damn you ancient Romans ,barbary lions ,anatolian leopards and lions, Iberian rhinos some of the extinct precious animals of that era.

For follow up video, please research on fossil or recent bone evidence. Thanks for sharing!

Here's hoping that the bear can make a comeback! Somehow.

The California state flag features an extinct brown bear subspecies.

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

@jkkennedy8919

2 жыл бұрын

When you say brown bear are you talking about the Kodak bear

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

@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)

Middle Eastern bears like the syrian brown bear i think would survive the north african climat

It would be interesting to do a of on the Mexican Bear.

An Interesting video

@AegleCreations

2 жыл бұрын

Thx!

@kikaa1884

2 жыл бұрын

If they are Vegetarians then Lions are Apex predator of Africa for sure Only carnivorous animals can become Apex predator of Their region actually.

💯🔥

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!

@bluedeep1707

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@hellekimery9416

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@NightScaped

2 жыл бұрын

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..

@hellekimery9416

2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@change4better326

2 жыл бұрын

Europeans* Humanity didnt do it, a certain group did it

“In olden times…” ✅

❤in Algéria there's squelette of these baire

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

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 .

@Dr.Ian-Plect

10 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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 .

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

Not only atlas bear even atlas lion or the barbary lion was also killed by humans

@nopperaboo2981

2 жыл бұрын

fcck human who killed those poor creatures

@bearclaw1051

2 жыл бұрын

By white colonizers*

Let's introduce bears to Africa!

In Algéria there's animal desperate and now they're these animals like barbar tigers and .... because in Algéria more jungle

The human stupity is definiltely infinite.

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

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Rip Atlas bear 😢

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".

@mediocreman6323

Жыл бұрын

And, since Arabic is read from right to left, here is the Link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoh7rNyGprC-pqg.html

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.

@The_Explorer_Slash

Жыл бұрын

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.

@notsosilentmajority1

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

Yea you're right, You have a point though

@notsosilentmajority1

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

British ship brought bear in Somaliland coast in eighteen century. But a years later all vanished

1:49 my man Heinrich Rudolf Schinz looking like Ellen

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...!

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 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

@bestsatisfyingcompilations

2 жыл бұрын

The atlas Lion extinct already

@mediocreman6323

Жыл бұрын

In a few hundred years? I commend your optimism.

The Syrian Bear could cope with the warm climate, if Morocco wanted to reintroduce a brown bear species.

There only one way animals have a chance and it if all humans are gone.

Are there are skeletons of them? Has their DNA being tested?

Atlas BEH

Nice 👍

Save animals!

in terms of biogeography the maghreb coast is a part of temperate Eurasia instead of Africa

@alich4961

2 жыл бұрын

True

It was smaller than a black bear but weighted 1000 lbs....hard to believe probably no more than a few hundred pounds

Bring in italian bears! And berberlions

I came here after playing DKC3

the only bear to live in Africa

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)

There is a bear in Kenya. Ol jogi reserve.

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.

@eldrishpuza8512

Жыл бұрын

Lions existed in Europe in the Balkans.

@Rebelconformist82

Жыл бұрын

@@eldrishpuza8512 Romans used Barbara lions

What about the north American cheetahs and the desert lions in Iran and Iraq?

Couldn't they theoretically survive in the jungles of mid and west Africa?

yo theres an animal in west africa that looks exactly like a tasmanian devil . am like wtf

Lol in the 1800s there is no way they could know if they were extinct.

Lets bring it back. Its a sub species what is the closes gebetic subspecies. Put those in the atlas mountain.

But what about Agriotherium Africanum?....

These was probably the bears mention in the Bible

There is a bear in kenya nanyuki

@janbruin4662

2 жыл бұрын

Is it an escapee or refusee of a circus? I think so

@PMN65

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. It’s an escape.

@munenejoe6682

2 жыл бұрын

@@janbruin4662 no it was a barter trade exchange between Russia and Kenya, Russia got a giraffe and kenya got a bear

@vick7186

2 жыл бұрын

It's in Ol Jogi game reserve.

@munenejoe6682

2 жыл бұрын

@@vick7186 correct

Why no wolves in Africa?

@waragque

11 ай бұрын

Ethiopian wolf?

Same fate as the Barbary Lions

It would be wonderful if the goverment ,and wildlife orginisations could introduce a hardy bear to the Atlas region.

🇩🇿♓👑👍🏽❤

Not Competition with lions or hyenas at least I don’t think so