The Evolution of the Bear

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[@PaigeRobins-ky4qc]

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[@PaigeRobins-ky4qc]

Thanks for replying.🧸🐻🐨🐼🐻‍❄️

[@A-martial-artist19]

Shut up

[@GeorgiosGkrintas]

Koalas are not bears!!! That's like saying shrews are rats

[@PaigeRobins-ky4qc]

@@GeorgiosGkrintas I didn't mean to use koala emoji that was by accident.🐻🐼🐻‍❄️🆚🐨

[@brianedwards7142]

As an Aussie it intrigues me about how people from other countries go on about how scary our spiders and snakes are when they have full on bears in their forests.

[@bustavonnutz]

Those are the animals most likely to grab you by the meat & two veg while you're sitting on the john.

[@trashman4500]

Those animals kill more often than bears do, there’s more of them than bears, some would say bears are cute, and it’s only really the Grizzlies and polar bears you have to look out for. (That and TBF spiders are weird in that the scarier, big hairy ones are harmless while the smaller ones have a small chance of being lethal.)

[@mrmagoo4134]

As an Aussie I would rather go camping in Australia than forests in America that have bears. I've heard to many horror stories from bear attacks which evolved campers, hikers etc.

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Another Aussie, and can concur. I live in an area with saltwater crocs, and it always amazed me when Americans get terrified about how we can live near these animals. Thing is, if you keep out of the water, no croc will get you. Bears, however, will get you while you are out walking your dog in the "woods"...

[@tessat338]

@@generaldissatisfaction5397 The local black bears are more of a danger to the trash bins and to pets than they are to people. People are more dangerous to bears than bears are to people as well. Bears sometimes get hit by cars on lonely roads on dark nights out in forested areas.

[@t0xictm201]

Bears are absolute *UNITS*

[@nuusponge]

Fr chain

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

I still remember watching as a little kid a documentary about the Short-faced bear that stuck with me to this day. It had a very silly fight between the bear and a Ground sloth that veguely resembled a boxing match.

[@kylecollier7569]

You mean Prehistoric Predators: Short-Faced Bear. Yeah that's the one.

[@natebrodeur1765]

Yeah it was oddly memorable considering how bad it was. Who knows, maybe one day we'll get a documentary about the largest specimen of Arctotherium augustidens, a very large, old male with numerous injuries sustained throughout his life.

[@kylecollier7569]

@@natebrodeur1765 I don't think Prehistoric Predators was that bad, sure it had repeated footage a lot of the time but then again other TV documentaries did that before like The Most Extreme on Animal Planet.

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

@@kylecollier7569 Yeah that was it. I loved it as a kid even now I would not call it bad just standard for the time.

[@kylecollier7569]

@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 yeah I know what you mean. I miss the days when Animal Planet was exactly what it was actually about until they took down all those fun, educational, and silly programs like Planet's Funniest Animals or The Jeff Corwin Experience or even the OG 4 seasons of Meerkat Manor (though admittedly season 3 was pretty dark because of the deaths in that season as we all know why) in 2012.

[@lunalunaluna666]

damn u rly went to bat for pandas and i’m honestly here for it

[@Autistic-Noice-Panda-2023]

Same dude

[@trashman4500]

4:30 I don’t question it because the Koala exists and makes the Panda look like the ultimate lifeform by comparison.

[@AdamsBrew78]

“Only trained accredited rangers are allowed to hold a koala. This is a sensible law as it protects koalas from being stressed because a human wants to give it a hug” Lol. I can’t think of many bears have that problem. You’ve definitely failed at bearhood if humans want to hug you.

[@ravenouself4181]

@@AdamsBrew78 Meanwhile Slavs when they see a bear: Is big dog.

[@agentepolaris4914]

I hate both

[@agentepolaris4914]

​@@ravenouself4181 in Russia, Siberian Tigers are like stray cats

[@tessat338]

Bears have an amazing sense of smell. They can detect prey and carrion from miles away. It is one of their most important survival adaptations.

[@Gamerafighter76]

Eeyup.

[@freightshayker]

What caused the adaptation?

[@tessat338]

@@freightshayker Bears are tanky animals that often steal kills from other predators. They come up on a kill after another large animal has expended the energy to take down the prey and run the killer off and eat the food with less effort. The bears that could smell food more quickly and easily could find it faster, eat more, put on weight and were able to survive their rather rough mating season to have more offspring which carry the trait for a better sense of smell. The trait was naturally selected along with the bears' other successful survival traits, such as being big omnivores with a long reach and a scary maw.

[@freightshayker]

@@tessat338 So adaptation is also like apes evolving into human beings?

[@tessat338]

​@@freightshayker Ohhhh! You're one of THOSE evolution deniers. Pumpkin, human beings and modern apes had a common ancestor, that yes, was an ape. Modern apes will not evolve into human beings, they will evolve into a more derived apes. Just like dogs will not evolve into foxes, even though they both have a common cainid ancestor. Will modern apes evolve into a more derived form that has some of the same traits as human beings? Possibly, but that would depend on what kinds of environmental pressures the species encounter over time and if a population can survive those pressures. We don't have a great track record on that score. That would then be convergent evolution, like penguins and cormorants...or like bears and wolverines! If you're going to swim in the big kids pool, try to be civil. If you can't be, go back to the baby pool but don't pee here.

[@GGabe_]

Plot twist: Polar bears feed on seals and walruses because they shared a common ancestor.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

"Polar bears feed on seals and walruses because they shared a common ancestor." - not reality, though

[@aleksanderpopov5060]

It’s like Africans in Congo eating chimpanzees as bushmeat even though over 98% of our genome is shared with chimps/bonobos. And in turn it’s like me eating my neighbor across the street and not in the good way… lol

[@genghiskhan6809]

@@aleksanderpopov5060”and not in a good way” 😂

[@justarandomperson6401]

@@aleksanderpopov5060 foxes and hounds are both canines

[@richardthompson6366]

@@aleksanderpopov5060 What about the Pygmies?

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I only recently found your channel. Your videos are really well put together, straight forward visuals and even though you are a fast talker the narration is very clear. Your early video on the different branches of the mammal family tree was also really good.

[@ood9700]

I love and appreciate the fast narration…when a narrator speaks too slowly, I find it hard to concentrate, especially if there aren’t subtitles to string the words together more closely. People say it’s relaxing but it just frustrates me

[@freddie6307]

maybe it's bc i also talk fast but i thought he was just talking normal speed lol

[@matthewtyppo5727]

Would be cool to see an evolution of horses to continue looking at the large mammals

[@alansujansky8591]

Ben G Thomas has a good horse evolution vid

[@matthewtyppo5727]

@@alansujansky8591 I've seen that one but I just want to see how he does after seeing the Tapan video

[@JJ-oq3tz]

Grizzly bears are one of my favorite species of bear in the world🐻

[@Dr.IanPlect]

Subspecies, not species.

[@JJ-oq3tz]

@@Dr.IanPlect Oh sorry. Thanks

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@JJ-oq3tz 👍

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

@@Dr.IanPlect you're a subspecies, now get back to the sexdungeon

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@youtubestudiosucks978 The bucket of vomit is muted.

[@Morthral]

Honestly more bear videos, they're the best!

[@theghidorahwithmanynames6016]

Was waiting for you to cover bears, as they are one of my favorite groups of mammals! They're such cool and interesting animals that can both be cute and terrifying haha! (And funny if you find the right videos.) Also damn, was not expecting the complete and utter destruction of panda haters when discussing them. That was legendary lmao. Great video as always, but I wonder if you'll do seals next. Would like to see you cover them and talk about their prehistoric relatives like Pontolis and Pelagiarctos!

[@MastemaJack]

It was a great video. One fact I wish he would have included was that bears are cannibals

[@theghidorahwithmanynames6016]

@@MastemaJack Ehh, don't think it's that needed to be said, since most animals will resort to cannibalism in dire situations.

[@MastemaJack]

@@theghidorahwithmanynames6016 that's not bears tho. They do it just because

[@theghidorahwithmanynames6016]

@@MastemaJack Okay? Still don't think it is something to bring up in a video talk about bear evolution, as he never done it in any of the others. Feels out of place here and is better suited for someone like Casual Geographic to bring up.

[@pedrocampos691]

Dertfrlo.

[@bossaudio12]

Longer videos please I love your content

[@dinohall2595]

I agree calling any animal "stupid" for adapting to a particular lifestyle makes no sense. I do think it's sad though that so many other endangered animals are usually snubbed in terms of conservation money in favor of the giant panda, which is almost certainly going extinct in the not-too-distant future. I wish people would realize that just because an animal isn't cute and cuddly doesn't mean it's not ecologically important to conserve. Still gonna be a sad day when we lose pandas though :(

[@artemesiagentileschini7348]

It is called charismatic species, conservation for charismatic species would protect their natural habitat in turn protect everything where they supposed to live. This is a well known conservation tactic, this is why animals like Elephants, Tigers, Rhinos etc... are the faces of conservation even if white rhinos are plenty in the wild. They have wide ranges and they protect many species in turn. A real example would be Tiger reserves in India, despite having billion people that needs resources, they managed to protect large pockets of forests for tiger habitat because tigers are charismatic.

[@saphire1sababy378]

There’s multiple factors that make pandas stupid mind you, they don’t really care about their offspring, they aren’t very cute, they’re mean, and I don’t think it’s fair that he’s calling people who simply dislike a species of animal fat :/

[@saphire1sababy378]

And I know most species are essential for environments but honestly besides cutting down on bamboo spreading what do pandas do

[@RsFrag3d]

@@saphire1sababy378they’re cute so they are the poster child for conservation efforts. Easier to gain support if people think cute animals are threatened, unfortunately.

[@saphire1sababy378]

@@RsFrag3d idk why people find them cute tbh but I guess so, there’s so many other cute animals it could be though. I still dislike that he is just going on about how people are fat dumb people just bc they dislike a certain animal. It’s very weird.

[@elijahoconnell]

im so glad i got to grow up with bears

[@Abstract.Sylence]

That part about pandas felt personal lol 😂

[@saphire1sababy378]

Yeah it hurt :( I was enjoying the video till he decided to call people who don’t like pandas fat lazy people

[@la_la5216]

Me: is that you? Bear: yes, but that picture was a long time ago

[@WilhelmDrake]

A Panda's diet isn't actually that poor and contains about the same amount of protein as most other bears. This is due to the fact that they eat different parts of the plant at different times of the year.

[@oliverguenther6360]

Plus from what I've heard, Bamboo is a fast growing plant species( a type of Woody grass?) So the Pandas have food that doesn't take months or years to grow like a tree.

[@SIVICHI]

I would like to see the evolution of mustelid family👀 and thank you for this video too!

[@Jeffersonsandson]

I loved your defence of the panda.

[@jerdog333]

Great video. Thank you! I'm subscribing.

[@FirstnameLastname-nm2ix]

Kolopnomos be looking like a weird ass capy

[@SpikeRazzor]

4:51 - Shots fired.

[@enricotoesca3941]

Awesome video 😍😍😍😍

[@Smiffies_Dangles]

5:45 good god it’s a Rune Bear

[@Autistic-Noice-Panda-2023]

One thing I’ve noticed about pandas is because of their herbivorous bamboo diet they’ve unfortunately ended up in the prey category along with other herbivores like sheep and zebras and are frequently hunted by snow leopards clouded leopards wolfs and surprisingly asiatic black bears. Poor cuddly bamboo eaters I send them all my love to them as they after all are my fav animal plus animal origins if your seeing this comment then I suggest you atta make a video about the pandas subfamily in greater detail it would be amazing for everyone like myself great job dude you rock😉👍

[@soldatheero]

Not really.. only when they are infants or not yet fully grown. "Although adult giant pandas have few natural predators other than humans, young cubs are vulnerable to attacks by snow leopards, yellow-throated martens,[76] eagles, feral dogs, and the Asian black bear. Sub-adults weighing up to 50 kg (110 lb) may be vulnerable to predation by leopards.[" wiki

[@imutia]

Awesome, thanks 🙏

[@bhami]

4:50 Great comments about people who insult bears! 😂😂😂

[@Eye_Exist]

4:51 that was lethal 😂

[@christianchauhan23]

I just 🤎 BIG BRUTAL BROWN #BEARS🐻 & 💛 all your videos mate👍

[@drpatristic9575]

“First, that’s really mean to Pandas.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@snow-brayedits]

I can’t wait

[@weshard1]

4:45 Pandas “…bearly move around".

[@Autistic-Noice-Panda-2023]

Lol!!!!!

[@frogglen6350]

4:50 This confirms that the narrator is a panda the whole time!!!

[@danieleskridge]

Love the thumbnail ;)

[@skaffatar7664]

I love how the video was chill and halfway through he decided destroy the whole carier of reddit users😂

[@chrisrus1965]

Pandas are the feral ancestors of bears domesticated by pre-humans. They has a cave bear religion and trapped and caged bears for so long they became pandas.

[@SoulDelSol]

I like your videos

[@givemeawand]

I’d like to see a video on the evolution of emus/kiwis.

[@user-sh1kj1sq4l]

7:37 bro was just chillin

[@GM-qn2mw]

Do You continue with new videos?

[@deeppurple883]

It's only in the last couple of years that scientists have descoverd something about the bamboo panda's eat. They descoverd that not all bamboo is the same in it's taste and nutrition. They also descoverd many other thing's about why the animals behave in certain ways. It's because of certain bambo shoots that are growing differently. It's also in other food Stuffs. It's fascinating insight into the relationship between food and every living creature on the planet. It's a thin line that devides us.✌🏾✌🏻

[@mikedowd6015]

Suggestion for the next one: Mustidelae

[@Vandal_Savage]

Bears are great, I really like bears.

[@-hemloyeno9119]

I want to caption your videos! How do i do that?

[@kingrahzar9351]

wonder what would happen if a kodiak and a polar mated?

[@Gayacegunslinger]

A grolar bear is what would happen! They're similar in size to both, and can look more grizzly like or polar like depending on the individual.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@Gayacegunslinger Not by name, though. Grolar is specific to a grizzly hybrid. Kodiaks are not grizzlies, both are brown bear subspecies. It could be Kolar or Podiak!

[@Gayacegunslinger]

@@Dr.IanPlect Good point!

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@Gayacegunslinger 👍

[@Svensk7119]

@@Dr.IanPlect Folks would still call it a Grolar.

[@RobotMushroomGrappler]

Please do a video on mustelids!

[@Gamerafighter76]

Bears are just that awesome on the food chain.

[@MastodonMann]

Aw hell naw 6:28 “U R sus”!

[@thingwhatever]

Cool... I love this shyt!!!

[@MunkeeMedia]

LOL not so casually throwing shade xD

[@lennarthagen3638]

I like the asian Sloth and sun bear. Your videos are great man.

[@Gigika313]

Joe rogan: heavy breathing

[@werewook]

You should credit the music you use. I don't think all of it is royalty free because I swear I hear Touhou remixes being played in your outro lol

[@anomalocaris_man]

can you do the evolution of invertebrates?

[@payrback6913]

great video , what about atlas bears in north africa

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

seeing many of these beasts in person at the zoo... they are legit terrifying in person. like 10x of a big dog

[@alilordoftheskies5079]

I thought I would be terrified of the bears when I went to the zoo as a kid but I ended up playing rock paper scissors with a grizzly and losing 😭

[@osobaum]

Quality! Bears are awesome!

[@oscarmarin92]

Super

[@user-op1co]

so they are giant seal dogs basically is what i took from this video

[@aaronu2951]

what bear species went extinct in Mexico? I know about the Californian bear that went extinct, Ursus Arctos Californicus, but I did not know about a Mexican Grizzly bear

[@owenfleet6151]

I would love to see an “evolution of pangolins” video

[@gattycroc8073]

Arctotherium Angustidens, Megistotherium, and Barinasuchus need more attention as the largest Cenozoic land carnivores.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

Arctotherium (a)ngustidens

[@P-C-Principle]

Bear keep bear in check. Not man. That always makes me respect them even more when I think about how cute they are. Real cute till there eating you alive, bears love to eat their prey while it’s alive, it’s what they do.

[@queasyRider3]

I've heard the same. Heck they showed that bear taking down a buffalo. I've also seen a video of a bear running uphill - gaining speed. Yea, I think I'll continue to stay out of their area if I'm only carrying 357.

[@alipiochristianandref.3336]

Can you make a video about the evolution of buffalo/bison?

[@curious5887]

That would be cool

[@nickzaytz5712]

Cuteness is very powerfull evolutionary adaptation - flowers, butterflies, etc. Just count how many wolfs are today and how many corgis - who is winning? Panda evolved to be protected by apes - cool adaptation)

[@Native722]

No wonder some bears look like dogs

[@tonkatruck8294]

7:36 😂😂😂😂

[@jacobdawn4735]

can you do evolution of the frog

[@Anhviet19]

Do man bear pig next

[@Svensk7119]

Just the be-ar ne-cess-ities, the simple bear ne-cess!-ities...

[@user-dr9jx9uu6u]

곰의 재진화

[@erichtomanek4739]

People always speak about the black and white panda and not the brown and white panda. Even the Chinese government hardly mentions them.

[@palamaro1603]

The Brown Bear has large populations in Southern Europe as well.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

I wouldn't say 'large'.

[@carliegriffin7229]

💝💝💝💝

[@veryunusual126]

This was awesome, 🐻🧸🐻🐻‍❄️

[@javiendavis2317]

I like to call the extinct ursavinae subfamily "musteloid-like bears"

[@Roaming_flooper_MK]

Can we get a kangaroo evolution video

[@aprameyananda1669]

Did you know there were bears in Africa up until pretty recently?

[@TheFoshaMan]

This video is a shot of light to the false idea that Pandas are idiots, they are not idiots, they are unique... and they have a low metabolism.

[@saphire1sababy378]

They’re bad parents too though :/

[@I-like-feet-pics]

Bear

[@SoulDelSol]

Agreed!

[@mattdowds8505]

🎵Foxes, Wolves & Red Panda all share the same relations, From Bears to Skunks & Walrus, they all spread from speciation. What's a word to class them all? It's Caniformiacatuon.🎵

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

can u do turtles

[@ooF-bf3ms]

🐨!

[@HassanMohamed-jy4kk]

Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about The Evolution Of The Hyenas on the next Animal Origins coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@stormevans6897]

Wow, we had bear dogs and dog bears.

[@luciasardo7728]

Woow

[@evan5844]

Wait I thought this was about the show the bear??????

[@fuge74]

I kind of wish fantasies (western/anime) would use more prehistoric animals as apart of the ecology. some of these would be cool animals "parallel world" animals that are actually real and tricks you into learning about real animals.

[@sarath9246]

അപ്പം അതാണ് കഥ

[@chheinrich8486]

Could have mentioned the atlas bear

[@ayrton7488]

Those who think that pandas are stupid because they eat bamboo sticks have not understood what evolution is. Many carnivorous animals they evolved into omnivores and then into herbivores, and other way round. Pandas didn't become vegetarians out of laziness but to survive. One example is Darwin's sloth, an ancient (and huge) cousin of modern sloths, which ate meat. While modern sloths eat sprouts and fruit.

[@andyhoughtaling6319]

So bears are woodland seals.

[@ondrastonis2944]

Could you do hyena please

[@michaelcooper1018]

I found this beary interesting. I had to paws the video many time to absorb the info. Bears ursa-ch fascinating animals. (I hope I'm not black now. That would be un-bear-able.) Ok, ok. Enough panda-ering.

[@crazytigerlee74]

@0:12 Dreaming of #Caniformia 🐻🐻‍❄️🐼

[@valiang8867]

The failed title of this video is "If you hate pandas, you can screw off"

[@The_Victorius_One]

Simping for pandas is a weird flex but ok

[@disturbedfan545]

I like bears