Last Mexican Grizzly Bear

The Mexican Silver Grizzly was a subspecies of Brown Bear that once lived in Southwestern United States and parts of Mexico. Sometime in the 1960s, it was presumed to be extinct...
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[@shafqatishan437]

Mexican grizzly and Atlas bear are two brown bear subspecies I really wish hadn't gone extinct. Wonderful animals.

[@loquat44-40]

All of Europe had big game animals including places like what is now England. Brown bears existed on four continents at one time. It is a shame it is no longer true.

[@shafqatishan437]

@@loquat44-40 I don't want to put fingers but most of the animal extinction is the direct result of the colonialism.

[@loquat44-40]

@@shafqatishan437 ​ @Shafqat Ishan This has not always been true relative to megafauna over the last 10,000 years. In the americas if man was responsible, the early americans were involved. What the more recent invading/immigrating europeans did was greatly reduce game and now those species that survived are coming back in many cases. In africa today it is poachers, farmers, and ranchers that are exterminating game. The extermination of tigers and lions from Iran were likely done by Iranians for example. Some history of lions and extinction: the lion is not only native to Africa. Even today there is a wild lion population in the Gir Forest, Western India. And I say "even today", because up the the early 20th century lions also lived in North Africa and the Middle East. The last one in Morocco was killed in 1922 and the last one in Iran was seen around 1940. In the Middle Ages, lions were also present in Anatolia and the Caucasus, and in Ancient times they inhabited what is now Greece and Bulgaria. Tigers: The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea, Central Asia to northern Afghanistan, and the Xinjiang region in western China.[2] Until the Middle Ages, it was also present in Ukraine and southern Russia.[3] It inhabited sparse forests and riverine corridors in this region until the 1970s.[1] This population was regarded as a distinct subspecies and assessed as extinct in 2003.[4] Results of a phylogeographic analysis evinces that the Caspian and Siberian tiger populations shared a common continuous geographic distribution until the early 19th century.[5] Some Caspian tigers were intermediate in size between Siberian and Bengal tigers.[3][6][7] It was also called Balkhash tiger, Hyrcanian tiger, Turanian tiger,[4] and Mazandaran tiger (Persian: ببرِ مازندران).[8]

[@shafqatishan437]

@@loquat44-40 I'm not talking about late Pleistocene megafauna extinction or any natural event. I'm not denying anything you mentioned, but the fact remains same. The British, French and other colonials as well as the much later soviets, they killed off most of these species that existed for thousands of years. Before them, most of the species did survive for a long time despite humans hunting them.

[@brodyhess5553]

@@shafqatishan437 so you mean humans through out time have killed off populations,Not just white guys ? Your not helping whatever cause you have bringing stuff up like that when it doesn’t apply

[@axolotl9114]

In the state of Chihuahua in the Sierra Madre Occidental, there is a protected natural area called "Campo Verde" where more than 100 american black bears have been counted and many of them have brown fur. A couple of years ago a camera trap set up by a rancher took a picture of a large brown bear that could easily be mistaken for a grizzly bear.

[@geechyguy3441]

@John Jones Some think that Grizzlies were creating hybrids with black bears and that's why so many of them are brown now, they used to actually call them like "little grizzlies" or something. Dont quote me on it

[@calgal5752]

Interesting……

[@matthewzito6130]

This is especially sad when you consider how sparsely populated much of the Southwest still is.

[@big_steve_o5129]

Largest grizzly bear ever recorded was not in Alaska, but California, where bears didn't hibernate and ate all year 'round. It was shot near Valley Center (San Diego area) in 1866 and weighted 2200lbs.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

There are still reports of them in the Mexican mountains, I pray to God this is true

[@ntamsma]

"Thereafter, for a while, it would never be seen again." This time-bending bear has been debating rational math lately.

[@jordirubies5575]

In the 80's my father saw 2 of them alive. Male and female, they were beeing transported to some location in Chihuahua to breed them for further release. In the El Nido mountains is where they have been seen by ranchers.

[@comediantedivino6535]

Hello. Are you sure they were mexican grizzly bears and not black bears?. Black bears can also have brown color. Soy mexicano y creo que es muy interesante pero dificil.

[@AbiDinoLover]

I'm from Mexico and that's for me so sad it's sadly has no grizzly bears here

[@jamesellis2784]

Hey in a book .Jerry Jennings . author.explains a king from from Mex .received a gift from az was a bear fur . Because of size .

[@KarimMuhammed2001]

maybe Mexican government can rewild grizzlies in mexico again ?

[@jamesellis2784]

@@KarimMuhammed2001 mexico salmon too .colorado water falls on border with all the rewild . Got spiders .

[@KarimMuhammed2001]

@@jamesellis2784 This will be good chance .

[@luisalbertomartinez96]

@@KarimMuhammed2001 Really? Sorry this goverment ( the actual president) is not a cultured person and he is not interested un nature. What a shame. I was a deer hunter for many years, and have many friends in Chihuahua ( almost senior citizens some of them . some already dead ) I was in that state for hunting in 1988 and they informed me that these year a foreign hunter haz hunted the last Mexicano brown bear. It das not in 1957_ was in 1987. A crimen indicated by mexican law was commited.

[@IFHA23]

I saw a giant brown bear in northern Arizona while hiking... I was told that only black bears were in the area. I saw it 10 ft away. It was definitely brown. And massive. Amazing experience.

[@comediantedivino6535]

Hi. It sounds amazing but are you sure it was a brown (Grizzly) bear? I mean, Black bears can also have brown fur. Brown bears have a dish-face with short ears and longer claws (5 - 10 cm long). Grizzlies are bigger than black bears and they have a big hump on their backs

[@IFHA23]

@@comediantedivino6535 hi sorry. I'm not claiming it to be a grizzly. It was just an amazing experience. I agree could've been a retarded black bear.

[@elqueobserva7663]

​@@comediantedivino6535 Es casi una broma cruel lo similares que son los osos negros de Chihuahua a los osos pardos/grizzlys comunes La mayoría conoce la apariencia de un oso canela (un tipo de pelaje que a veces presentan) pero al ver imágenes de osos negros en Chihuahua es casi cómico lo "rubios" que se ven, además de que a veces tienen pequeñas jorobas, por lo que sí, tristemente es probable que la mayoría de avistamientos sean solo osos negros que resultan ser inusualmente rubios

[@LeChristEstRoi]

In Chihuahua and Sonora states there are still vast extent of mountainous area very sparsely populated. It wouldn't be totally out of the realm of possibility that a relictual population of mexican grizzly bears still persists in these areas.

[@loquat44-40]

We always can hope, but cattle men/ranchers usually have their way and kill large bears.

[@LeChristEstRoi]

@@loquat44-40 They kill bears messing around their property and livestock. Ranchers aren't hikers, usually they don't venture into remote and difficult to access areas. In the region where I live black bears were thought to be exctinct even by some natives living in the mountains, but actually they persisted in remote areas with rugged terrain, unaccessible by vehicle not even on horseback. Getting in those areas is so difficult and potentially dangerous that poachers don't think that it's worth the risk, the time and the effort just to get a bear that you'll probably fail to catch or kill anyway! When the density of a species gets very low, its population becomes cryptic, especially with smart species which can adopt conflict-avoidance strategy. This being said I agree the probability of the grizzly persistence over there is very low...

[@loquat44-40]

@@LeChristEstRoi Yes it can happen if for some reason the ranches do not run cattle in a certain remote area and do not lease it out for hunting. A significant amount of grazing land in the USA is owned by the national forest service and the cattle are driven normally out of the mountain grazing areas before winter. If bears are able to hibernate they can avoid the winter when detection from a plane or just from the tracks is easier. That always leaves open the question of bigfoot.

[@geechyguy3441]

@@LeChristEstRoi Im interested where in the USA are you referring to? Where the black bears were found to be alive

[@LeChristEstRoi]

@@geechyguy3441 Not in the US! On the island of Taiwan!

[@elrojo4379]

Great channel for learning about nature. This channel deserves many more subscribers and viewers.

[@AegleCreations]

Thank you!

[@PMN65]

This was unheard of for years. Amazing literature survey. Thanks !

[@jameschrist7007]

Man kills everything. I fear the Mexican Jaguar will follow. People just don't seem to care about conservation.

[@TedH71]

Mexico has many jaguars to the point some of them have gone into Arizona. Mostly mature males though.

[@jamesellis2784]

Mexico rolls royce .

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

Love that channel.

[@shatnermohanty6678]

I never knew Mexico had Grizzly Bears . Thanks for the video 👍 🇮🇳♥️🇱🇰

[@jamessparkman6604]

Hey you know I bet if a generation of grizzly bears adapted to Mexico maybe the species that evolved there can do so a second time You know like the bird that evolved twice into existence

[@shatnermohanty6678]

@@jamessparkman6604 it's worth a try 👍

[@danaranstrom3396]

Not since 1899 that's when the last asshole killed one

[@Screwstone713HTX]

They are still @ I've seen in my state SLP sierra madre

[@dannybright8708]

My home town of Keller, Texas has a park known as Bear Creek. In elementary school, I learned that it’s called that because there used to be bears living there. Could they have been talking about the Mexican Grizzly Bear?

[@gouldenstateofmind94]

More than likely, they could’ve been referring to black bears. Black bears used to be common throughout much of Texas, and still live in the southwest corner of the state, in and around Big Bend National Park As far as I know, there’s only been one report of a grizzly bear in Texas, which was shot back in 1890 in the Davis Mountains of west TX.

[@FMO_entertainment]

R.I.P Mexican Grizzly 💯

[@josephlongbone4255]

Do you think that the bears might of been spread even further south originally, but was unable just survive in concert with the much more densely populated MesoAmerican cultures?

[@carolinejayes157]

Interesting ,wish they could bring the bears back.!

[@alistairjamesheaton9155]

You would think if they wanted to have the spaces back they would simply import specimens from the United States and release them into remote areas.

[@lukesorce8660]

I’ve know about the Mexican grizzly for a little while because Forrest Galante talked a bit about wanting to seek one out in the Sierra Madres. They are almost certainly extinct though. If there’s any hope of genetically restarting extinct species, we should.

[@billiam6071]

Forrest will find one

[@ianlim4404]

I strongly believe that the Mexican grizzly is truly extinct. There is no grizzly in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Sometimes I think that Forrest Galante is theoretically incorrect.

[@geechyguy3441]

@@ianlim4404 The Sierra Madre is very isolated and most land isn't thoroughly explored or surveyed for numerous reasons. If you knew where to look you could find them

[@ianlim4404]

​​​@@geechyguy3441 The Sierra Madre were not part of the silver grizzly's home range. Even if the reason for the lack of exploration is that the area have challenging terrain, the thing is that silver grizzlies were not found in challenging terrain. Isolated means isolated from people or desolate of animals?

[@geechyguy3441]

@@ianlim4404 Isolated from people, where was their home range then?

[@yugijoe1483]

He said sorona instead of Sonora. He was probably thinking about his corona after work.

[@nawa246]

protect the grizzlies !

[@Hamzazgarage]

There are grizzlies in Mount Lemon in Tucson

[@jangamaster8677]

Another species wiped out by human hands. Have we destroyed more than we have created?

[@cjthebeesknees]

Yes, without a doubt. We’re a walking pestilence to nature itself and create utter devastation.

[@emilleostokes7721]

I was looking for information and got my heart broken. 😢😢 Why do humans have to kill the world's most amazing Creatures

[@TitoTitoTitoTito]

Go hug a grizzly bear then

[@user-th7od1bj5w]

فيديو جميل ورائع🌹🌹

[@AZdude]

How did you pronounce Sonora lol ? Love the channel but that had me cracking up

[@ralphpalmieri9565]

Yes, and several other odd, twisted pronunciations, too…

[@RS-lm1cz]

great. thx 😍

[@AegleCreations]

👍

[@undertakersspirit9810]

@@AegleCreations is there difference between Mexican grizzly bear and California bear

[@AegleCreations]

@@undertakersspirit9810 Yes, they are considered to be 2 different subspecies

[@undertakersspirit9810]

Mate could you tell me what is the difference between Mexican grizzly and California grizzly bear

[@barbabiagio2713]

California grizzly is much bigger. It had a size like a Kodiak bear

[@MadMax0331]

Sorona? Naaa

[@bluerascal370]

Con-quest-adors? Bruh.

[@californiagrizzly1808]

The California grizzly was declared extinct in 1924. Like the Mexican grizzly is was a distinct sub species of the brown bear. I rediscovered a California grizzly bear in a remote area in northwest California and took a video of it. You can see it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH-WeaGCetetarM

[@williamkouka208]

Could they bring them back in to mexico

[@BigJFindAWay]

I'd be in favor of selective breeding of grizzly bears to make them somewhat smaller and lighter with silver to recreate the Mexican grizzly. In the same way I think Siberian tigers should be selectively bred slightly smaller and with thinner stripes to recreate the Caspian tiger, and Australian black swans should be bred bigger to recreate the ones New Zealand once had.

[@Unleashed_bot]

Joe Rogan said they've been recently spotted somewhere in Mexico, hope so

[@luisalbertomartinez96]

Everywhere almost, some very close of large cities.

[@geechyguy3441]

@@luisalbertomartinez96 If you guys can give me any locations it would help greatly, I'm organizing an expedition to go find them!

[@bits9760]

It climbed the wall n got the hell out of dodge like everyone else does?

[@jonataseuuk]

Why do we have to fuck everything up ?

[@markgelk]

shouldn't the title be the last mexican grizzly

[@davidespinoza2687]

It's very sad 😥.

[@hades9337]

there sill alive, my grandpa saw one in Surutato, Sinaloa

[@jorgeadame5158]

Sad.

[@atf4920]

The last Mexican Grizzliy*

[@RohitSharma-vj1sw]

I have heard that they used to enjoy bear spray.

[@carlospedro5554]

Very good...a black-bear...? 😐

[@SMD1999]

What?

[@carlospedro5554]

'1.54...😐

[@BobbyBermuda1986]

You didn't mention California. We even still feature the bear still on our flag

[@AegleCreations]

I think that’s a different species - the California Grizzly Bear, which is also extinct.

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

Mexican grizzlys were smaller than eurasian Brown bear

[@jameshudson169]

are there no grizzlies in mexican circuses and zoos?

[@alfonsomunoz4424]

A notorious bah...are you sure they were in SORONA?

[@luisalbertomartinez96]

Sonora.

[@jamesreck8476]

It's SONORA not SORONA...

[@carlosalbertodominguezsiba6744]

State of "Sorona" wonder where that is......Maybe you he meant "Sonora"

[@Brandonson80]

Just goes to show how nasty humans are.

[@juckt0108]

Bro really needs to get his pronunciations right🥴