Did bears live in Africa? If so, what happened to them? #africa #bear #wildlife #wildlifedocumentary #nature #naturedocumentary #documentary #naturalhistory #bears #atlasbear
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@touremuhammad59832 жыл бұрын
The Atlas Mountains were literally the only place where brown bears could survive in Africa due to the mountain range’s alpine climate.
@carltonbanks54702 жыл бұрын
That is literally incorrect.
@KMcirca822 жыл бұрын
false
@bearclaw10512 жыл бұрын
What about Sun bears and Sloth bears living in tropical climate ?
@lt26722 жыл бұрын
@@carltonbanks5470 They probably wouldn't be able to survive in sub-Saharan Africa due to competition.
@paulhomsy27512 жыл бұрын
@@carltonbanks5470 Perhaps but in general the alpine climate would have been far more favorable to the bears survival.
@samdegoeij65762 жыл бұрын
Bears, hyenas, lions and leopards, the Atlas was a very wild place!
@jasperforever75492 жыл бұрын
Hyenas still here bro.. And they are still looking for barbary leopard if there's some
@georgetitsworth89192 жыл бұрын
@Spencer York oh wow lol cool story bro tell me more
@LeChristEstRoi2 жыл бұрын
Stripped hyenas and barbary leopards are still there.
@cardboardbox57042 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
@battlekingad82912 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.
@jabu1591 Жыл бұрын
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.
@waser2583 ай бұрын
just a week ago, a female bear and two grown cubs were filmed in TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA. they're not extinct yet
@jabu15913 ай бұрын
@@waser258 Where can I watch the video
@sabermachhour2 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
@skooled67522 жыл бұрын
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
@theflyingdutchguy98702 жыл бұрын
polar bears diversed from the common anchestor with brown bears around the same time as grizzly's did
@skooled67522 жыл бұрын
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 grizzlies are brown bears. All it is is the American name for the subspecies of brown bear in North America
@titfortat57272 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.
@spurs5412 жыл бұрын
Still bears in Spain
@joxepojoxepin27522 жыл бұрын
@@spurs541 but only in the north
@leesenger30942 жыл бұрын
Lets be real. The Atlas Bear didn't "went extinct". It was annihilated by man for sport!
@matthewblackwelder64872 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.
@Nature_is_metal2 жыл бұрын
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
@lionfox53432 жыл бұрын
The French occupation was the final end of the wildlife in North Africa
@vijayvijay41232 жыл бұрын
Wendigo 👹
@_pdz12 Жыл бұрын
@@vijayvijay4123 the wendingo
@NotMyWarАй бұрын
Final end, you can just say the end.
@matthewzito61302 жыл бұрын
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).
@matplayer12322 жыл бұрын
Yes but i think that he was reffering to the fact that this bear had the most herbivorous diet of all bears
@matthewzito61302 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.
@matplayer12322 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
@matthewzito61302 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.
@matplayer12322 жыл бұрын
@@matthewzito6130 yes but they were also overshadowed by leopards or barbary lions Keep in mind that these bears were pretty small....
@caloocanboy58007 ай бұрын
Imagine a Barbary Lion and an Atlas bear fighting each other
@treqdubu60656 ай бұрын
Vote bear all day long
@pedropauloguilhardi75222 жыл бұрын
This is a sad story beautifully told.
@kristofwynants2 жыл бұрын
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.
@indyreno29332 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).
@minutemansam12142 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?
@kevinwalker68402 жыл бұрын
@@indyreno2933 Then why are polar bears and brown bears able to interbreed?
@indyreno29332 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 Жыл 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...!
@elyzsabethahne21162 жыл бұрын
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.
@matthewzito61302 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.
@jeffspicoli53992 жыл бұрын
@@matthewzito6130 yep they found short faced bear bones near Yellowstone national park
@beneficent25572 жыл бұрын
There was a short-faced bear species in Africa during the pleistocene or pliocene.
@matthewzito61302 жыл бұрын
@@beneficent2557 I'm not sure which species you're referring to, but I was talking about the sub-family Tremarctinae.
@beneficent25572 жыл бұрын
@@matthewzito6130 Agriotherium Africanus. Check it out, might be fun. 😁
@g.g.16632 жыл бұрын
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.
@lucykelly71522 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!
@samrizzardi22132 жыл бұрын
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.
@PerfectionInMotion692 жыл бұрын
That's just stupid
@samrizzardi22132 жыл бұрын
@@PerfectionInMotion69 Why?
@ulfricstormcloak82419 ай бұрын
@@samrizzardi2213 they could have entered in prehistoric times, and gone extinct before the growth of human civilization in the Nile valley.
@sabermachhour2 ай бұрын
Egypte Sahara but Algéria Tunisia Morocco other things
@makarand19852 жыл бұрын
Great mini documentary Aegle Creations, as always. Keep up the good work !!!!
@AegleCreations2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@romerosignatus2 жыл бұрын
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.
@indyreno29332 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).
@romerosignatus2 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.
@indyreno29332 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".
@romerosignatus2 жыл бұрын
@@indyreno2933 really interesting!
@mimorisenpai85402 жыл бұрын
@@indyreno2933 sika are Cervus too
@MuaadElSharif2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ahmd52 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
@mooronice2 жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@nazeem8680 Жыл бұрын
In north african maghrebi dialects, we use debb for both animals
@randybarnett23082 жыл бұрын
A Mexican Grizzly Bear could survive the harsh dry conditions in Africa, but like the Atlas, they're no longer around too.😩
@PHlophe2 жыл бұрын
Randolph , the temperatures in Mexico, soufh of spain, dominican repb are the same as most of the southern hemisphere .
@cryptidhunter99012 жыл бұрын
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.
@AegleCreations2 жыл бұрын
Regardless of how adaptable they are, there are no bears in Africa now…
@matthewzito61302 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.
@minutemansam12142 жыл бұрын
@@AegleCreations But if introduced they could exist. There is no reason why a sloth bear couldn't get along in the congo.
@infomotionfittv8372 жыл бұрын
Brown bears can be relocated in atlas mountains. They can stay there.
@tomm40732 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...
@saber5032 жыл бұрын
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 .
@paulhomsy27512 жыл бұрын
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.
@luisvelez19522 жыл бұрын
One question: can a Black Bear or the most tropical bear subspecies survive in North Africa today?
@ianlim44042 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.
@arkamukhopadhyay91112 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.
@loquat44-402 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.
@minutemansam12142 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.
@seigedrakonera56892 жыл бұрын
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.
@jkkennedy89192 жыл бұрын
Bingo 🎯you nailed it
@mtman2 Жыл бұрын
Important to point out far and away 100's more species have gone extinct on their own then caused by man...!
@Frenchylikeshikes2 жыл бұрын
Humans have eradicated and destroyed so many unique animal species on earth, it is overwhelming.
@vijayvijay41232 жыл бұрын
Only Whites
@OliverReynolds1232 жыл бұрын
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.
@AegleCreations2 жыл бұрын
Yes, there were some prehistoric bears…
@brandonhill17512 жыл бұрын
Agriotherium africanum
@corvusglaive48042 жыл бұрын
Interesting....
@mimorisenpai85402 жыл бұрын
That not bear
@user-xz4eq2ci6h Жыл бұрын
Nandi bear?
@ArawnsFire2 жыл бұрын
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.
@dominicyelin2 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-dv8jj6 ай бұрын
Greek lions? @@dominicyelin
@malinanjana2 жыл бұрын
Love your work
@dick94722 жыл бұрын
That was done beautifully
@fgialcgorge73922 жыл бұрын
Mexican Grizzly would do fine. Or maybe some Rocky Mountain Grizzly or American Black Bear in mountainous areas.
@hellekimery95372 жыл бұрын
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!
@bluedeep17072 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.
@hellekimery94162 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
@NightScaped2 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..
@hellekimery94162 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!
@change4better3262 жыл бұрын
Europeans* Humanity didnt do it, a certain group did it
@rajatparashar80162 жыл бұрын
It's impossible for bears to survive in sub-saharan Africa.. It's not an ideal environment..
@carltonbanks54702 жыл бұрын
Again, completely incorrect and false.
@PMN652 жыл бұрын
Yes you are correct. They cannot tolerate that weather.
@PMN652 жыл бұрын
@@carltonbanks5470 there if literature cases evidence.
@carltonbanks54702 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."
@Squidward5582 жыл бұрын
@@carltonbanks5470 what does this even mean?
@PMN652 жыл бұрын
Amazing creation.
@KeyhaneBishomar2 жыл бұрын
Damn you ancient Romans ,barbary lions ,anatolian leopards and lions, Iberian rhinos some of the extinct precious animals of that era.
@privatesocialhandle2 жыл бұрын
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 👍🏻
@jeanfalconer6377 Жыл бұрын
Here's hoping that the bear can make a comeback! Somehow.
@bskiez2 жыл бұрын
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.
@michaelanthony49492 жыл бұрын
There is no snow in africa bruh
@bskiez2 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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ohivonmenisunuoya2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelanthony4949 there is, bruh
@nethulanimdiya20092 жыл бұрын
An Interesting video
@AegleCreations2 жыл бұрын
Thx!
@kikaa18842 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.
@ColonelCMAA2 жыл бұрын
Middle Eastern bears like the syrian brown bear i think would survive the north african climat
@bluedeep17072 жыл бұрын
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.
@robert480442 жыл бұрын
I don't know why but an African bear sorta makes me happy, like their everywhere
@sabermachhour2 ай бұрын
❤in Algéria there's squelette of these baire
@nawa2462 жыл бұрын
Cute video!
@fernquiroz2 жыл бұрын
The California state flag features an extinct brown bear subspecies.
@Williamwerenberg2 жыл бұрын
“In olden times…” ✅
@oliverm71382 жыл бұрын
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.
@AegleCreations2 жыл бұрын
That’s the mythical ‘Nandi Bear’
@oliverm71382 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?
@okformadrid2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your hard work. Plz continue do it
@javiercorreapr99772 жыл бұрын
For follow up video, please research on fossil or recent bone evidence. Thanks for sharing!
@mohittripathi57162 жыл бұрын
Not only atlas bear even atlas lion or the barbary lion was also killed by humans
@nopperaboo29812 жыл бұрын
fcck human who killed those poor creatures
@bearclaw10512 жыл бұрын
By white colonizers*
@theflyingdutchguy98702 жыл бұрын
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
@jkkennedy89192 жыл бұрын
When you say brown bear are you talking about the Kodak bear
@indyreno29332 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)
@williamblansett57862 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to do a of on the Mexican Bear.
@kbz3132 жыл бұрын
Superb camera work.
@emancipatedlionm92152 жыл бұрын
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
@alanwareham73912 жыл бұрын
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
@2roly2 Жыл бұрын
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-Plect11 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.
@Sebastianek19902 жыл бұрын
Let's introduce bears to Africa!
@THeEmperorsArmy2 жыл бұрын
Chance:atlast bears could still exist,cos of the remote mountain ranges make it difficult for people explore the entire mountain ranges.
@sabermachhour2 ай бұрын
In Algéria there's animal desperate and now they're these animals like barbar tigers and .... because in Algéria more jungle
@beneficent25572 жыл бұрын
There also was a short-faced African bear in the Pliocene or Pleistocene I believe
@geoffreyswan78662 жыл бұрын
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 .
@chichodormi47322 жыл бұрын
Rip Atlas bear 😢
@vaipocaraxo75812 жыл бұрын
The human stupity is definiltely infinite.
@sowhatitsjustme2 жыл бұрын
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
@UmamiPapi2 жыл бұрын
3:47 That's a very interesting description and must be an antiquated common word with Spanish, since fácil means easy in Spanish.
@arthurquintojr25752 жыл бұрын
how stupid people before kill all magnificent animals.
@louiseckstein32802 жыл бұрын
💯🔥
@johnschade902 жыл бұрын
There only one way animals have a chance and it if all humans are gone.
@ORagnar2 жыл бұрын
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
@lucykelly71522 жыл бұрын
Save animals!
@jadilzoca49712 жыл бұрын
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
@indyreno29332 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.
@garymcguire85294 ай бұрын
The Syrian Bear could cope with the warm climate, if Morocco wanted to reintroduce a brown bear species.
@notsosilentmajority12 жыл бұрын
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.
@brute98672 жыл бұрын
Bring in italian bears! And berberlions
@mohamudissa46982 жыл бұрын
British ship brought bear in Somaliland coast in eighteen century. But a years later all vanished
@EFCDKZ2 жыл бұрын
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
@bestsatisfyingcompilations2 жыл бұрын
The atlas Lion extinct already
@mediocreman63232 жыл бұрын
In a few hundred years? I commend your optimism.
@theprotagonist93842 жыл бұрын
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".
@mediocreman63232 жыл бұрын
And, since Arabic is read from right to left, here is the Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irp3fd1-27O8pnk.html
@mtman2 Жыл бұрын
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...!
@indyreno29332 жыл бұрын
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)
@raphlvlogs2712 жыл бұрын
in terms of biogeography the maghreb coast is a part of temperate Eurasia instead of Africa
@alich49612 жыл бұрын
True
@Cathras2 жыл бұрын
1:49 my man Heinrich Rudolf Schinz looking like Ellen
@thatindigenousromaguy87392 жыл бұрын
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
@jantzfitzgerald61152 жыл бұрын
Too bad, humans killed these bears. Not other predators.
@hailheaven43722 жыл бұрын
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.
@eldrishpuza85122 жыл бұрын
Lions existed in Europe in the Balkans.
@Rebelconformist82 Жыл бұрын
@@eldrishpuza8512 Romans used Barbara lions
@jesusmejia792 жыл бұрын
the only bear to live in Africa
@Issachar-northern-kingdom2 жыл бұрын
I came here after playing DKC3
@dictionaryzzz2 жыл бұрын
It was smaller than a black bear but weighted 1000 lbs....hard to believe probably no more than a few hundred pounds
@munenejoe66822 жыл бұрын
There is a bear in kenya nanyuki
@janbruin46622 жыл бұрын
Is it an escapee or refusee of a circus? I think so
@PMN652 жыл бұрын
Yes. It’s an escape.
@munenejoe66822 жыл бұрын
@@janbruin4662 no it was a barter trade exchange between Russia and Kenya, Russia got a giraffe and kenya got a bear
@vick71862 жыл бұрын
It's in Ol Jogi game reserve.
@munenejoe66822 жыл бұрын
@@vick7186 correct
@louiiliffe81602 жыл бұрын
Couldn't they theoretically survive in the jungles of mid and west Africa?
@lucykelly71522 жыл бұрын
Are there are skeletons of them? Has their DNA being tested?
@adamradziwill2 жыл бұрын
mostly based on myths. the reality : 1) wight 60-150 Kg 2) could climb 3) omnivor for sure
@lestervillogaofficial2 жыл бұрын
Atlas BEH
@bataafeub24722 жыл бұрын
Lets bring it back. Its a sub species what is the closes gebetic subspecies. Put those in the atlas mountain.
@jameslund26582 жыл бұрын
What about the north American cheetahs and the desert lions in Iran and Iraq?
@carolinejayes1572 жыл бұрын
It would be wonderful if the goverment ,and wildlife orginisations could introduce a hardy bear to the Atlas region.
@mjsmith8641 Жыл бұрын
I swear, every animal extinct were killed off when the Europeans invaded foreign lands
@Yahya-sb1yo11 ай бұрын
they mainly went extinct because of north african desertation but yeah the romans and french also played singificant role in this
@johnschade902 жыл бұрын
Lol in the 1800s there is no way they could know if they were extinct.
@youngboy6808 Жыл бұрын
These was probably the bears mention in the Bible
@tyrannotherium78732 жыл бұрын
Not Competition with lions or hyenas at least I don’t think so
@Belleville1972 жыл бұрын
pretty sure the clip at 2:04 shows a black bear
@vlazt19412 жыл бұрын
But what about Agriotherium Africanum?....
@smokeclub4162 Жыл бұрын
yo theres an animal in west africa that looks exactly like a tasmanian devil . am like wtf