The Predators of History

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[@neilbodwell9172]

The wolves being rabid and their victims not succumbing to rabbies until up to a year later might explain the myth behind wearwolves. Think about it, your neighbor fends off a wolf attack but all the sudden a year later becomes rabid himself, naturally your average person didn't fully understand rabbies so the end result is they're gonna think some sort of curse is at work.

[@kristiskinner8542]

Yeah but it doesnt effect people in that way & most people wouldnt last a year with rabies. Last person I heard of that unknowingly had it only lived 2-4 weeks. Rabies is agressive & attacks the brain. Of course I guess it could have just been a much less agressive strain those people contracted back then?

[@hungdaddy5004]

A loud, smelly fart 4 u sir

[@chuckleezodiac24]

also feral humans could have led to werewolf myths. how many children wandered off or got lost in ancient times and grew up wild or raised by wolves or apes....? if they managed to survive, encounters with them would have inspired many legends and folktales.

[@hungdaddy5004]

@@chuckleezodiac24 i would fart on a wearwolf

[@chuckleezodiac24]

@@hungdaddy5004 in Soviet Russia, verewolf fart on you!

[@johnhoelzeman6683]

People need to have more respect for nature, and that includes a healthy fear of it

[@kaseycesena3996]

Lol yes 100% I've gotten in arguments with people who say humans are the strongest deadliest creatures on the planet. We are not I joined the army after high school in 2009 1st platoon A.Co 126 I've been deployed I think most animals that are as heavy as us or more are far stronger we just know how to make and use weapons that's what makes us dangerous

[@wildlife9003]

The only nature we need to fear is our own.

[@johnhoelzeman6683]

@@wildlife9003 why not both?

[@wildlife9003]

I have lived my whole life close to nature, and had quite a few close calls with bears. Last week a co-worker got bluff charged by a grizzly so we had to leave the block we were working in. I live in the Canadian Rockies, most people I know who work in the bush have stories, but we're all still here. When I was growing up a kid got mauled by a bear while he was fishing, but survived because he stabbed it with his knife. You know, maybe you are right.

[@leggonarm9835]

Nature tried to stop our existence, is it so wrong to say we do the same?

[@LadyAsmodeus]

belief: lions are so merciful they spare women and children - in reality: lions kill baby cheetahs and attack anything that moves

[@titfortat5727]

You can't compare a wild lions that do its own natural thing to a one that is life as completely change living hell on earth.

[@titfortat5727]

@@lemonblossom0 yes of course what I'm saying that those circumstances changed drastically their behavior probably knowing that's someone can hurt them constantly.

[@ImSpun13]

Reality: Lions will grab the baby first knowing the mother will stay to try to get baby back, then lions will kill and eat mother next.

[@mandiemoore3272]

They have a natural instinct to protect something weaker that is being attacked by something stronger other than themselves though I think we call that anthropy but I'm not exactly sure

[@OkMi-ml7of]

Thats why we call them predetor

[@sirisrex7542]

The idea of a predator silently observing the ways of man and modifying its behavior to hunt us exclusively is fascinating. Strange how an animal can know us better than we know ourselves, good enough to rack up triple digit kill counts and evade capture for years even when we mobilize massive efforts to seek vengeance. I swear we vastly underestimate the intelligence of animals we directly compete with

[@theredknight9314]

Its what crocodiles do

[@Clairei7zr]

😊

[@bigboi7404]

Let’s be honest the lions haven’t done to well recently

[@bigboi7404]

Sad but true

[@petersmythe6462]

In many ways, the optimal terrestrial human predator is the leopard. It's light enough that a human is a pretty good size prey, but strong enough it can usually kill an unarmed human with fairly low risk to its survival, and it is both fast and stealthy, attacking from surprising angles that give the target little chance to put up a fight.

[@juliusfucik4011]

Also, it has the strongest bite of the big cats.

[@MultiWolfstorm]

I'd rather deal with a charging leapord than a charging grizzly, I think the average adult brown bear is easily a far more optimal predator when you really compare the two without bias. With that said, I still wouldn't want to deal with either of them without a gun, and they both scare the shit outta me.

[@shayh.3556]

​@@juliusfucik4011thats a jaguar, different animals although they look alike

[@shayh.3556]

​@@MultiWolfstormwell the thing is you usually know the bear is coming while the leopard may stalk you for miles and you never even know its there

[@MultiWolfstorm]

@@shayh.3556 Ill just stay here in Australia and keep my bug spray close mate 🤣

[@TyrionLannister83]

In my home town in Switzerland, a man got attacked by a bear in the 17th century. During the fight, both fell down a 500 foot cliff. Miraculously, the man survived, though he lost both legs.

[@punkrock1.]

Your point being?

[@angelr-t7608]

​@@punkrock1.His point being that you lack male genitalia

[@TheWizardYeof]

@@punkrock1.Why would it need a point? They’re simply sharing an interesting story.

[@punkrock1.]

@@TheWizardYeof and who are you?

[@hankjohnson5986]

Jesus Christ. Did he fall on the bear? I honestly find that nearly impossible to believe but if there’s first hand accounts of his story maybe it was an exaggerated story

[@loke6664]

About Wolf attacks: In Sweden we do have wolves, sometimes where I live. They do attack a lot of cattle but wild wolves attacking humans is exceedingly rare. We do have the case of one wolf who killed 9 children in 1821 but that one had been kept as a pet before it escaped. Then we have 4 kids getting killed by wolves between 1727-1731, all during cold winters (and one of those cases are disputed if it ever happened). All of them happened in a relatively small area and it is very possible it was the same wolf who did it, possibly due to rabies. Before the mid 1600s we don't really have any good sources so that is anybody's guess. I think it do gives us some information though. All attacks happened during winter against kids and almost all of them were younger then 10 years old. Likely every attack was made by 2 wolves and one of them had once been tamed. We also had an attack a few years back when tames wolves killed a 20 year old female zoo keeper who went into the wolf habitat alone. But it also lead to some questions about those French wolves, Romania have 2500 wolves and attack on humans is very rare there but France had 4 times as many wolves and many times the attacks. In either case, bears kill 1-3 people in Sweden every year while it was 200 years ago any human got killed by a wolf so they are the most dangerous predator we have. Ticks might be the most animal though since it spread some really nasty diseases that kills a handful of people every year. World wide the mosquito is by far the most dangerous animal but maybe don't let your 9 year old kid go into the forest alone in the winter just to be safe. At home I am more worried about running into an angry boar then a wolf though (we don't have bears this far south). Boars rarely kill anyone but they can rough you up pretty badly if you get between a sow and her kids.

[@DM-ql6ps]

Historically most wolf attacks are due to rabies, and in Sweden the rabies vaccine is now legally required for domestic pets, and your government almost certainly uses oral wild animal vaccines as well. Even if not all of the susceptible animals are vaccinated, this creates massive herd immunity that reduces the chances of outbreaks.

[@loke6664]

@@DM-ql6ps That is true and likely limit the chances of wolfs getting rabies now but we are talking about a period of 350 years and while Pasteur invented the rabies vaccine in 1885 I have a feeling domestic animals weren't vaccinated to a large degree until the 1950s and that was about the same time the Swedish wold population dropped to a handful of animals. Now it is up to about 350 again but that is just in the last 20-30 years. Still, in the 1700s and 1800s there were thousand of wolves so one would think there should have been more attacks during that time if you compare it to France number of attacks. So there should be some logical reason to why France had so much more problems, likely something spread rabies like mad over there or something else was going on. France is larger, sure but Sweden was far more wild at the time and have more forested areas. It could be something so simple as the French hunted the wolves prey animals very heavily so they had to focus on domestic animals and people got in the way.

[@DM-ql6ps]

@@loke6664 it sounds like it could be either more rabies in France, or less natural prey in France, or both. A lot of wolf rabies comes from feral dogs, so maybe France had more feral dogs if rabies is the answer. A lot of the terrifying attacks were multiple people attacked at once are almost certainly rabies. Could also be that France was just much more intensely farmed at the time, leaving little wild prey available for a carnivore to eat.

[@loke6664]

@@DM-ql6ps That is certainly a possibility. It might also be that some of the attacks were perpetrated by wild dogs, wild dogs tend to be pretty dangerous. It is also possible that some bandits killed people and blamed wolves which also would increase the number of attacks. France did certainly have a lot more dogs then Sweden. It might also have to do with what animals the farmers had, Wolves do often attack sheep but cows are almost unheard of (most predators prefer to attack animals their own size or smaller since a bull can easily maim an unlucky wolf but sheep are very unlikely to do so. A goatherd are far more likely to get between a wolf and his sheep then a farmer with cows. It is certainly a topic that could use some research but I admit to not be so interested I want to dig through all those old records. :)

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

probably not rabies. or it wasnt the same wolf. because i dont think i have ever heard of a rabbit animal surviving for years. they usually die pretty fast.

[@Puddlef1sh]

The domestication of wolves changed literally everything. With dogs you can protect and area from your animals or clan being taken by predators. Therefore, agriculture. Which boomed the human population.

[@culbinator]

Bingo! When ranchers bitch about their livestock being taken but then you find out often times they have no guard dogs. These ranchers want to kill every last wolf because they don’t want to take the proper steps to protect their herds.

[@uabforfindingthisbutalr6464]

did agriculture boom the human population? or did human population boom the need for agriculture? js

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@uabforfindingthisbutalr6464 no agriculture definitely made the human population boom, agriculture was way too slow and unproductive at the beginning for it to be started because the human population was already higher than what could be sustained through hunting and gethering, they'd have starved to death and reached a natural equilibrium way before the crops would be ready to harvest and eat.

[@MrCmon113]

No. How tf did you even come up with this bullshit?

[@lanegarcia4899]

North 02s vids are the best. So calming, just laying down at night at home... Thinking about history and what life is.

[@bzorbbob817]

Yess

[@batspidey7611]

There's one more croc attack you forgot to mention: Several saltwater crocs from Ramree Island slaughtered 520 out of 1,000 Japanese soldiers while they were battling the British during WW2.

[@markshort9098]

It would have been a lot more than several crocs, several crocs just wouldn't be able to eat that much.. it was probably more like hundreds of crocs

[@wolfzmusic9706]

@@markshort9098 I looked it up and some died from disease, dehydration etc so those 520 weren't all from crocodiles.

[@MrCmon113]

Almost certainly bullshit.

[@MediumDSpeaks]

This man really put "Ser Penius" in the thumbnail of a serious historical biology and archeology video essay

[@petersmythe6462]

"Killed 10% of the village's population." Wow. That's pretty serious.

[@Algolxxxxxx]

4:18 _“Romans crucified lions to send a message to other lions stop eating humans or this is what you're gonna get!”_

[@terrancemyles3843]

Reminds me of my African friend's talk about leopards in his country. They will kill wild dogs, but rarely attack humans due to their behavior after an incident. If an incident occurs, for a period of time they'd kill every single leopard they'd see making examples to the others for them. Many leopards know not to mess with humans because their retaliation is fatal.

[@juliusfucik4011]

Leopards also tend to hunt at night, which is when people are inside. Only severely desperate leopards will enter homes to snatch a human. I read a book a while back about a hunter in the early 1900s who went to India to hunt the maneaters, both tigers and leopards. A very well written book.

[@petersmythe6462]

There's a case of a horse terrorizing a village and eating people. It also broke a tiger's jaw in a cage match after capture, and then scared off three water buffalo with several kicks to the ribs.

[@jasonberryman1035]

That’s likely fabricated. Speaking as someone who owns horses asdies from the fact that even a small black bear can kill an adult horse and large dogs have survived their kicks let alone a tiger or a buffalo meat consumption to such a high degree has never once been scientifically recorded in horses, they’ll eat small portions of meat opportunistically but no more than that.

[@Jondantic]

An entertaining reminder to remain at the top of the food chain but can’t help wondering how terrifying our ancestors journey would have been 20 thousand years ago with the plethora of nasty predators around then. Now that was evolutionary pressure

[@shibalikchakraborty5344]

When talking about human-predator interactions people often focus on how many humans were killed only . But if you compare the number of those animals humans have killed ,it might just change your idea of how dangerous those animals are compared to us .

[@davynhainstock7503]

True but if a cat eats my buddy I don't care how majestic it is its getting dead

[@shibalikchakraborty5344]

@@davynhainstock7503 same applies for the cat . doesn't it ?

[@davynhainstock7503]

@@shibalikchakraborty5344 not it wants to live

[@dexterrr9163]

@@davynhainstock7503 unless you are the next victim. Tiger sees you 100 times before you see him

[@jasonberryman1035]

No not really. It’s no surprise that humans kill more tigers than tigers kill humans. We have weapons of metal and steel that break the sound barrier, the fact that despite that wild animals still get around to killing any humans sometimes in the modern day and how they still have a cultural impact on us is very impressive and frightening.

[@fullmetaljackalope8408]

I had no idea crocodiles got that big! Holy crap! That’s terrifying. I’ve seen 3 alligators here by my house but they were pretty small.

[@shibalikchakraborty5344]

The champawat tigress actually hunted people cause some poachers killed her cubs . Tigers are extremely vengeful animals like humans .

[@zachprows2691]

What's more likely eating humans because it's teeth are F'd off or because of some kinda vengeful agenda? Yes I know about the poacher that got killed by the tiger he shot but didn't kill.... I don't believe it happened that way either

[@johnhoney5089]

@@zachprows2691 Both seem plausible to me. I don't think one has to pick between one or the other with no in-between. The vengefulness theory does make some sense. Given even non-mammals like crows and ravens are known to possess the trait of vengefulness, I wouldn't be surprised that a creature like the tiger would as well. It may also explain why even man-eaters with perfectly fine health turn to it (though a minority, those do occur occasionally).

[@timothyfagan6086]

Great video. Brought to mind the French saying: "Entre chien et loup (“between a dog and a wolf”) - because at that time in the day, one can't see the difference. Traditional sentiment, dating to antiquity"

[@bwanaugonjwa2445]

My uncle is a predator. I’ve always wondered what he hunts

[@aa-vk6hd]

Kids?

[@LanMandragon1720]

This is obviously a joke but the thing is humans are definitely preadators..

[@edwardfletcher7790]

This video is wonderful ! Thank you. Love the music & style of the intro 👍 The Roman games are why, among other species, Aurochs & Barbary lions are extinct.

[@kaixlotl_7296]

aurochs went extinct in the 1600s fam

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@@kaixlotl_7296 Because so many were killed in the games. Barbary lions were still hanging on until the 1900's. The problem is THOUSANDS on THOUSANDS were killed in the games. If that hadn't happened both species would have had a MUCH larger diversity and range, protecting them in the future.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@kaixlotl_7296 yes but extinction doesnt happen all at once, the point was that these animals were being hunted and killed for thousands of years, eventually leading to their extinction

[@stanmuso]

Awesome video, I've been waiting on this one for a hot minute. I would love a gladiator series from you! Ancient Rome is incredibly fascinating

[@Sanguicat]

Been waiting for this! Amazing! I love these, very interesting and informative. Good on you for making us this content 👍

[@petersmythe6462]

Also keep in mind that a fatal shark attack rarely involves the shark eating the victim. Not for lack of ability but because the shark generally loses interest.

[@purplehaze2358]

"and never upon children, unless when greatly pressed by hunger" Do you think they were aware lions brutally murdered the cubs of former pride leaders after conquering their prides?

[@beastmaster0934]

I wouldn’t be surprised if a few lions even ate the dead cubs. I mean, It’d be a waste of meat otherwise.

[@ToastyGhosty666]

Found your videos a few weeks ago looking for something to unwind to and i gotta say i love your videos

[@tballstaedt7807]

I love your presentations. Interesting, logical and informative!

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

I love your passion for history. And your knowledge of ancient Rome is impressive as well. This channel is a treasure to me. Thanks for the knowledge. And for the hard work. Making videos at this level is extremely difficult and time consuming. Kudos. And merry Christmas.

[@armandoaguilera2969]

This video brings me memories about a bicycle tour of 12 days i made around Washington state in which at times i was ridind thru forest spots where there was nobody around just my primal fear of wild beasts that kept me pedaling and never the less im still here. Thanks for your videos.

[@tehjow]

Love these videos my man, keep up the good work!

[@kyoku1982]

Charging lion: "ROOOAARRR!!!!" (Throws sheet over its head).... "Hey where'd you go?"

[@logangautreaux8363]

Wonderful, as usual. Keep It Up!

[@tavish4699]

I love your videos I like to listen to them when going to sleep Its pretty meditating especially because of your smooth calm voice and the music It immerses you in a long gone time

[@jetcat00]

Please do more like this . Very interesting and well put together video

[@OriginalChicagoKrawZ]

Your videos continue to get better and better. You could have easily gone on for an hour or more with this one. It's been great watching you and your channel evolve. I look forward to your next and all future videos. Keep up the great work.

[@bossaudio12]

Wish he did go longer video, can't get enough of his videos!

[@Dell-ol6hb]

That story with the 40 clergymen being killed by a pack of wolves is hard for me to believe, not that I don’t think wolves couldn’t or wouldn’t hunt or kill people they definitely can and did, but this story doesn’t really make much sense to me. Like how did a whole pack of wolves make it all the way to the plaza of Notre Dame and kill 40 clergymen? Did no one see them? How did they manage to kill 40 clergymen in the same event? Surely this must be a legend or urban myth of the time, maybe I’m wrong though idk.

[@MrCmon113]

It was an alliance of 10 protestant wolf packs led by a Swedish officer.

[@aengusmitchell7356]

Amazing video - could do one on lesson known predators? Eagles, hippos, elephants, as well as polar bear attacks in Inuit culture!

[@ChauncyFatsack]

Im loving you series on all this Bro ! Excellent

[@purgatorygoblin]

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[@hyd3n376]

I love history and nature, this channel is great

[@hannahguss5999]

awesome video!! would love to see an exploration on prehistoric interactions with venomous snakes and insects! great work!

[@daniell1483]

The crocodile definitely is the animal I'm most afraid of on this list. There is the American Alligator from the US, which is comparable to Nile crocodiles, though admittedly much smaller than Saltwater crocodiles. Still, the point remains that alligators share most of the traits that make Nile crocodiles so dangerous. Incredible endurance, amazing swimmers, incredible jaw strength, and an infinite supply of teeth. There is this amazing channel, Florida's Wildest, where habituated alligators are swimming, both in captivity and in the wild. A truly unique look at the living fossils.

[@ireneconnell4488]

My opinion salt water crocodiles are a little bigger but to me a Nile seems more tougher

[@suchasin]

Alligator are far less aggressive than Nile Crocodiles..and much smaller too. American Crocodile is more simular

[@kenneth9874]

@@suchasin they're not as aggressive, but they are capable of getting pretty big if it were not for hunting

[@jasonjohinke5651]

Alligators ain't shit

[@IngloriousBastard616]

Can't believe I missed this upload 😭 this was amazing

[@dab-daddy5388]

Thank you for the amazing content you doing a great job really appreciate you brotha

[@eacalvert]

This was really cool ty for making it

[@RMONEY2555]

This man is single-handedly cataloging all of human history

[@Spongebrain97]

Ah yes I remember Timothy Treadwell from the Grizzly Man documentary film made about him in 2005 by Werner Herzog which came out on the Discovery Channel. It was stated that Timothy's camera was actually on and it literally recorded 6 minutes of he and his girlfriend getting attacked however the lense cap was left on so only audio was picked up. I remember in the 2000s, much like as with Steve Irwin, there were lots of videos floating around claiming to be the orignal but were all fake as they were never publicly released, I think at the request of the families

[@ojseph]

just discovered your channel recently, I can't believe I only learnt of it recently

[@Raventooth]

Mountain lions occasionally attack people out here in California

[@tballstaedt7807]

I was familiar with the stories of the champawat tigris and the punar leopard John Henry Patterson and James Corbet were men of serious courage and resolve. As a boy I was given 2 books by Peter Hathaway Capstick. A Stock broker/ writer who in mid life decided to become an African big game hunter. The books are, Death in Silent places and Death In The Long Grass. Both I highly recommended.

[@maud3444]

It amazes me how fast evolution works, seeing most animals instinctively know to run away from humans, or to at least make sure to get out of the way. Even the bigger preditors like big cats, wolves and bears. Sure there are incidents and people get attacked, but those are rare nowadays. Animals have evolved these last 10 000 years to avoid humans. The animals that avoided the humans the most, got to pass on their genes and so their offspring avoided humans aswell..

[@MediumDSpeaks]

I mean, that's not so much evolution as artificial selection. But artificial selection, just like engineering and consciousness, thus all activities of man, are stil products of evolution and thus natural. The man/nature dichotomy only works until evolution is understood, then the absolute gobstopping power of nature, man the 100% product of nature and thus all our actions natural can truly be understood. We ARE nature, so are our buildings and smartphones

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

not really evolution. its learned behavior. there are still bears in some places that have never seen a human before. and those dont instantly run away. even bears that have seen people before will often stand up and start clapping their jaws to try to intimidate people. and if you start acting like prey. they will come at you. its not like beavers who you can raise without others. put into a river and it will instinctively start building a dam. its not like they are instinctively afraid of people. they are instinctively carefull with anything they dont know.

[@Bitchslapper316]

@@MediumDSpeaks It's also evolution and direct observable evolution at that. Animals that are bold enough to hunt humans will be the animals hunted down and killed first. That gives them a shorter time to reproduce and pass on that aggressiveness. Much like the tuskless elephants that are becoming more abundant. These are the elephants that normally wouldn't reproduce often because they can't rival the elephants with the big tusks in mating rituals. The elephants with the big tusks get hunted and killed giving openings for the tuskless elephants to reproduce and pass down thier tuskless genes. In short it was a genetic advantage to have large tusks and after humans it became a genetic advantage to not have tusks. Evolution at work.

[@sirisrex7542]

People dont give credit to the fact that the lack of animal attacks from wolves and other apex predators is partially the result of 10,000+ years of active extermination. Prehistoric animal interactions were likely much more aggressive to humans and what we have left are the wise, timid members who left us alone. Any animal that attacked a human in the past was likely to have every other member of its species in the area ritually murdered, even now any bear attack near civilization is met with swift revenge and a pile of bodies.

[@caesar7786]

Humans are animals too, lol

[@alexdobrogost9503]

Yea.. incredible episode. At first I wasn't to sure about the subject, but after watching it I really feel connected, especially to, the French peoples struggles with La Lupin. Something about 1600-1900 feels same, same, but different, but truth is it was an incredibly different time.

[@slaterbrazeal3396]

Love the subject of this video but also love how it compares to its companion video about the predators of prehistory. The contrast in the perspectives of people before and after "history" and our ability to leave records of our experiences is truly the threhhold of modern humanity and it is a beautiful thing to live in a time where glimpses into our ancestors reality like this are poasible. Thank you!

[@DM-ql6ps]

I find it interesting that alot of all of the wolf attacks were due to rabies, which is now extremely rare in Europe and America thanks to vaccines. However worldwide rabies is still a serious problem and about 55,000 people die every year, usually from feral dogs. Just the act vaccinating our pets reduces rates of wildlife transmission, because wolves often catch it from domestic dogs and in many countries we now vaccinate wildlife as well through oral vaccines. Wolf attacks humans are a lot lower in regions where rabies has been eliminated or reduced due to vaccination. It would be interesting to do a history on this virus and our reactions to it.

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

its a huge problem with bats in south america too. once in a while there is an outbreak

[@DM-ql6ps]

@@theflyingdutchguy9870 yeah, the biting vampire bats transmit too, although they don't maul people like rabid wolves do, the disease is just as horrifying. All the problems with bats is also that we as of yet don't have an effective way to vaccinate large numbers of bats like we do with wild canines. All the statistically most human rabies is still from feral dogs in Southeast Asia and parts of Africa.

[@DivaMomochi]

One source of rabies is ranches and their cattle. Cows will look like they're choking as a sign of rabies and when the rancher sticks his hand down to manually remove the obstruction he gets bit by his rabid cow.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Rabies is a truly horrifying virus and if untreated it is almost ALWAYS lethal, that's why it is extremely crucial to get checked and vaccinated immediately after a potential bite from a rabies vector, because once you start noticing symptoms it is too late and you will literally have a 99.9% chance of death. Many people have forgotten about the dangers of rabies but it is really no joke and must be treated with the utmost urgency and care.

[@chug5136]

Love you’re videos you have a bright future ! please do a video on Australian aboriginals, so much history

[@robertayoder2063]

Good idea 👍

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

He partially covered them on his video of prehistory.

[@JasonGrimes-dm8fg]

Huffing petrol and sleeping in the road, that's all you need to know lol

[@violagentsch]

I strongly believe many ppl made up stories about these predators to have excuses to kill them. I ran into bears, 2 wolves, countless coyotes in colorado. They ran away before I could.

[@johnhoney5089]

Depends. In the case of the big cats, their attacks are well-documented. More seems to be known about the two Tsavo lions than about some human killers of the same era. With wolves, I'd say it varies. There are many subspecies of them, and some are more aggressive than others (the same goes for bears). Loss of habitat and prey would also make them more desperate hunters, ready to take risks they normally wouldn't. It is for that reason that I can see a medieval Eurasian wolf being more likely to hunt a human than the wolves living in Yellowstone. With bears the reverse happened - human pressure made the bears in Europe more herbivorous than before. They went from being 80% carnivorous in Antiquity to having it only be 10% of their diet in 2023.

[@garcia83viz]

Great video, glad I found this dude.

[@denahicks6197]

“Bears are not your friend” Why not friend, if friend shaped? Lol

[@tiportangeles2696]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@jamesrussell7760]

Regarding shark attacks, it has been speculated that humans may have been mistaken for seals, that after a first bite, the shark not experiencing the "correct" taste, would not persist in the attack. Whether or not that is true, that first bite could easily be fatal from bleed-out. The incidents that inspired the movie "Jaws" was found to not be from Great White sharks, but (if memory serves) from sand sharks that penetrated deep into New Jersey estuaries. The USS Indianapolis incident most likely was caused by oceanic Whitetip sharks. Finally, I call attention to the fact while Nile crocodiles are indeed deadly, far deadlier than lions, so are hippopotamus, both on land and in water.

[@justsomenuts]

Bullshark, not sandshark. Bullsharks are known to frequently swim deep into freshwater rivers and they're really not particular about what they eat.

[@jamesrussell7760]

@@justsomenuts YES! There you go. Thanks for the correction!

[@nateinky01]

Look forward to your videos everytime they are announced. Another banger my guy.

[@SteveC38]

Nicely Done!

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

Thanks again mate

[@SamuelJamesNary]

Part of the issues with maneaters in modern history will relate to a few factors and there is a lot of context around them, often relating to disease, injury, or habituation. And this might come in a few parts... Pt1. With wolves, a lot of the context around that relates to Europe where most of the wolf attacks have been reported. Some have occurred in North America, but nowhere near the scale of Europe. And while diseases like Rabies play a role, that's not the biggest one. The largest driving force relates more to human actions they farmed and built up cities and their population increased. This assured massive conflict with wolves. For the wolves in Europe typically prey on things ranging from rabbits to various species of deer. Some, like wild boar and deer can be damaging to farmer's crops in that they'll eat the things that farmers grow. Boar can be even more damaging in digging up the ground. This in turn lead to many farmers doing their best reduce the population of these animals to protect their crops. And in more densely populated countries like France, Spain, England, Ireland, and Italy, this then left the wolves in these regions with few of their natural prey and in turn would begin to bring them closer to towns where cattle, sheep, and pigs were available. The other factor was Europe's wars. With armies ranging through Europe's woods and killing each other, this often left a large number of bodies that were buried in shallow graves before the armies moved on. Wolves often trailed these armies and then scavenged the dead. This then left those wolves more accustomed to human flesh, which then when the wars ended, with their natural prey still in decline, the herders now seemed more 'attractive" to these wolves... Which were conflicts that were not present in North America, where Native Americans often had much smaller populations, didn't farm as heavily, and outside of dogs didn't have domesticated animals prior to European arrival. Their wars, at least so far as written records go, did not have as many people killed in these wars. Which has in turn lead to the difference of behavior in North American wolves from European wolves.

[@SamuelJamesNary]

Pt 2. With bears, a lot of the context will relate to surprise. For while bears have a great sense of smell and a good set of ears, their eyesight is relatively poor, which often means that in areas things are forested or with a lot of thick bush, men and bears have stumbled onto each other and the bear attacked because it was startled, which would be in line with what would happen with its interactions with other predators. And this is something that often affects the percentage of fatal bear attacks of total bear attacks. And in this, while brown bears can be deadly, the ratio of fatal attacks to total number of attacks is actually rather low. They aren't necessarily all that driven and in cases in which surprise on the bear's part was the only factor in the attack, once one plays dead or can get far enough away, the bear loses interest. A lot of this likely relates to the fact that the brown bear, throughout much of its range is the apex predator with no rival outside of man's guns. Wolves may surprise them from time to time, but brown bears have been known to drive entire packs off kills and outside of areas where wolves have their pups, the pack won't stand and fight to the death against brown bears. Thus, since the bear can't catch the wolves, a growl and a charge from the bear is enough to get the wolves to back off. Humans aren't as quick or agile and thus leading to mauling at least. The bear species that has a high rate of fatal attacks to attacks in general, and higher than the brown bear is the sloth bear... and a lot of that reasoning can be shown in the images you provided on the Mysore Bear. Bears throughout much of their range are the apex predators with no rival. In India, however, the largest carnivore in the "jungle" is the tiger and they have been known to hunt from ambush and to hunt bears from time to time. A 300+ pound sloth bear is big, but that's going to be a male's weight and will be of comparable weight to a tigress. A male tiger will be bigger. The sloth bear then instinctively knows that there are things that are big enough to eat it and thus MUST press home its attack. And I've seen a video that actually chronicles the Mysore Bear and from their reporting on the incidents... they think the bear and victims stumbled onto each other by accident and the bear, fearing an attack on it, attacked violently. The incidents in Hokkaido in 1914 relate more to timing than anything else. The bear woke up from hibernation early and much of the grasses and berries that it would have normally eaten weren't there at the time. Thus, it wandered onto the farm properties and raided the feed corn that was left out for livestock. Hunting parties were then dispatched and supposedly shot the bear, but a snowstorm prevented their ability to make sure the bear was dead. And if it was the same bear... that would then add being wounded to being hungry with no other source of food.

[@SamuelJamesNary]

Pt 3. There are plenty of cases of big cats hunting man in the past... but in recorded history there is a lot of context that would indicate that with certain cats, like tigers, that man is not their prime target. As nearly every hunter that has hunted man eating tigers, from Corbett to Anderson has noted that man eating tigers tended to have some major injury or was of old age... or both. In India, it's really been the leopard that's been the bigger killer. Often because there are more leopards than tigers, they are more adaptable to human encroachment than tigers and thus can navigate towns and villages than tigers. For the Champawat Tigress mostly claimed her victims outside of villages and in the wild... stories of leopards coming into towns and encampments occur at a far greater rate. Which relates a lot to what these animals typically eat. Tigers typically prey on large ungulates with wild boar and medium sized deer being on the small side of their preferred prey and they can range up to large deer and guar. Leopards, filling the secondary predator niche, and having to remain more arboreal feed more on smaller game with very little in the way of overlap with what tiges typically hunt. This often puts various monkey species on a leopard's diet... which may explain a leopard's lengthy list of attacks on people as a species that often have not had age or injury being a factor in the start of attacks on man. Some of the context has seemed to relate more to becoming accustomed to human flesh for other reasons, and that Corbett notes that the Panar Leopard and Leopard of Rudraprayag turned maneater AFTER the Kumaon region had suffered from diseases that killed off a fair number of people... Cholera for the Panar Leopard and H1N1 (Spanish Flu) for the Leopard of Rudraprayag. Lions, though, have a different issue in that as social animals... they may learn behaviors that would be risky to man, and in a part of the world where man evolved, would also mean that the conflict... or at least potential for it... never ended with the ice ages. The Tsavo Maneaters are a good example, but they aren't the most deadly lions on record. That honor goes to a pride in Tanzania near the Njombe district where the pride killed more than 1,000 people over the course of a decade, and with the lionesses teaching the cubs to hunt men. And here, cases of diseases among the cattle (wild and domestic) might have been the initial flash point, as the years went on and the lionesses taught the cubs to hunt people... they would become accustomed to killing people rather than large antelope. Thus why the actions of this pride claimed so many and lasted for so long... with attacks only dying down after 15 lions were killed and the surviving lions driven into a region that had far fewer people in it.

[@Sapioso]

The "Big Cat Theory" says we "turtle" or necks and bring our elbows in close to protect our vital organs as a mechanism to protect ourselves from prehistoric felines. I believe it.

[@MrCmon113]

I don't. That would be just as effective against anything else. And people don't just roll into a ball at any threat.

[@peterszeug308]

Never run from a predator, you will be so much more vulnerable than you already are. Consider flight only if very easily possible, because, remember: getting bitten in the toes won't necessarily keep you from kicking or moving, especially with adrenaline pumping throughout the body. The predator might be convinced to look for easier prey, even if he unknowingly got close to incapacitating you. Getting bitten in the ankle on the other hand is basically as debilitating as losing the whole goddamn leg except for it doesn't cause that much blood loss. If you have a foot fetish, avoid anywhere outside, just in case. edit: This generally also applies to the black sheep of humans (usually men) who sexually assault women (or other men, or worse, children). The allegory of sexual predation exists for a reason, although being gobbled up for substinence and getting savoured for one-sided pleasure is not the same thing, perishing on the spot might even be preferable to surviving psychologically debilitated, which consequently also impairs physiologically. If under attack or assault by an entity (sentient or not) who is probably able to dominate you in either fight or flight, try your hardest to be as vicious as a rabid badger on crack and steroids, or just yield immediately like a buddhist monk and just accept your fate, if any chance for survival is more meaningful to you than a chance for survival AND a satisfactory chance for recovery. Flight will most likely literally get you nowhere, as finding a space that you can enter and seal tightly in seconds, where another human or a bear, wolf, big cat etc can't follow you, is a completely utopian notion. Humans lack the abilities to perform efficient flight in general, except for highly trained AND gifted athletes. Humans excel in planning, production, forced marches and so on, our reaction time might be okay, but what good does it for you realizing you should probably react, but lack the biological necessities to have any options besides sluggish (though extraordinarily sustainable) movement, too sluggish for a safe escape way in most cases, and intimidation tactics. Bluffing. Such does not work out so well performed with even or inferior numbers. There is no trump card in such a precarious situation, just honourable resistance with 1% chance of survival (and a 99% chance for Valhalla), prudently bending the knee hoping to be spared, though if not, advance into nirvana. Last but totally least a laughable attempt at saving your filthy skin, with quite situational chance of success, averaging below the alternatives. If you find a safe escape route, good for you, you might as well win the lottery seven times in a row, while you're at it. I speak from personal experience, I've had stand-offs with people, feral and wild animals. Intimidation worked with even numbers, but never with inferior numbers. I could have been dealt with piecemeal, but wasn't. Intimidating lone feral dogs or packs never worked, I always had to use force to not get mauled. Wild animals always seemed to prefer avoidance over any interaction. Wild boars do occasionally hunt for food, but not humans, we are neither tasteful nor bite-sized. I didn't experience them to be particularly aggressive, compared to dogs. They are more lethal but seem to have quite alien incentives to violence, compared to dogs. What reassures a boar to stay peaceful emboldens a canine for an attack. What appears like a serene and sound neighbour to a boar, seems a passive and therefore sitting duck to a hungry dog. If you don't run, boar can tell you are neither hunter nor prey to them, just passing by. They are smarter than dogs (and probably wolves, as dogs are descended from them, but don't quote me on that). I never witnessed irrational or ultra behaviour by a boar, but with dogs, more times than I could have kept track off. Helpless babies or pushy beasts they are to me, a middle ground between those extremes is hard to come by. When I was assaulted by other people, I never had an escape route, at least none that I knew off. Desperate violence to protect my integrity when assaulted by other (more powerful) human adversaries worked surprisingly well, I would recommend it. There was a single time when this did not produce the desired result, when overwhelmed by a group of armed people intending to take advantage of me in unspeakable, abusive ways. But they didn't have as easy a time they had hoped for either. Bluffing others into withdrawal by intimidation or an unexpected counter-attack is a gamble, but a much safer gamble than a torn Achilles tendon. Breaking each and every bone in your hand is preferable, it's not like your giving away any noticeable offensive or defensive value anyway, as they basically are the inverse to being armoured or clawed. The Achilles tendon is your most vital non-essential body part, and contrary to the eyes, you need both of them in full working order to be of use. Your vision is not impaired too much with just one eye, but crawling away or hopping on a single leg? Seriously? That's a risk NOT to be taken. Shattered kneecap? Shit happens, but there is hope you will be able to walk again. Torn Achilles tendon? Doesn't heal, and completely knocks you off your feet, no matter how muscular, jacked and dangerous you are. Falling over onto your face (the stronger your leg muscles, the harder the impact) is worse than dropping onto your back after taking a hit. It even gives unexpected room for the most powerful unarmed signature attack move the human body has to offer if you are athletic enough to leap up into a jump kick. This attack has low accuracy but makes you quite hard to hit in return as you present a much smaller target, compared to when standing upright. You have to open your defenses to attack, in general, you rarely can keep up your defenses to the same degree while commencing an offensive move. But reducing your hitbox, by what, 80%, while simultaneously maximizing your damage output, that's a rare feat in the animal kingdom, not that this is much use if the absolute maximum damage output possible is not that huge after all, but, more use than a paralyzed leg. Hopping away from a puma, or crawling before a rapist? For what? Pacifism works differently. All vital organs are more fragile from your back side, than from the front. Brain, lungs, spinal cords, I dare anybody to lecture me on the exception, an important body part that is easier to critically hit from the front than from the back. All biological capabilities and advantages humans have take WAY too long to kick into gear in time, except for the great apes' special ability of non-pathological delusions of grandeur, notoriously trying to fool everybody and everything into believing they are in charge.

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

yeah and when you stumble on a pride of lions in the middle of a hot day. its probably best to go for a run as well. when its that hot they wont go after you. definately when you clearly spotted them.

[@peterszeug308]

@@theflyingdutchguy9870 That's a different kind of situation than what I meant. What scenario I had in mind was being confronted, or worse, already facing an imminent charge while being unarmed and on foot, by an animal that considers one a decent meal. In that case one's "best" bet of self preservation is a kick, or a dodge, depending on the predator's size and the surrounding area. Kicking as hard as you can might break your foot, but also the jaw of a wolf-sized predator, a very favourable trade-off. Dodging could rather unlikely cause the attacker to injure itself, for example hitting it's head on a rock, tree etc. It's not like wild animals are perfect, everybody hit their heads now and then. This is more likely to happen if one dodge than if one flees, as there is a minor element of surprise. Losing a bear suffering from a concussion sounds much more viable than losing one without a concussion LOL. I DO NOT mean best in the sense of good in general, only relatively speaking. Better than being pathetically run down with the victorious hunter being like GG EZ.

[@MrCmon113]

I'd say the average woman has a better chance outrunning the average man than fighting him. At my gym pretty much everyone can escape from me by running and pretty much no one can fight me off. In a real world situation the "predator" would probably close the gap first anyways.

[@peterszeug308]

@@MrCmon113 Confined spaces even make firearms or pikes somewhat underwhelming in performance although they are pretty much unbeatable on open ground.

[@shaleikwilliams6491]

amazing timed and sounding doorbell ring , I actually had a mini heart drop .

[@michaelhermans4753]

Living in the shark attack capital of the world and being an avid scuba diver I encounter them often, my fear of sharks has diminished greatly the more I understand them Most humans have lost the art of reading wild animals I know when a shark behaves a certain way it’s time to get out of the water

[@Dell-ol6hb]

yea people don't realize because they basically never interact with these types of animals normally, that these animals give signs and warnings that indicate that they are going to attack before they attack.

[@MrCmon113]

Are you completely nuts? You act as if there was an ancestral "art" of "reading" sharks. Do you buy into the aquatic ape theory or sth?

[@michaelhermans4753]

@@MrCmon113 most people are scared of sharks yet have never seen one, let alone been in the water with one If you do it often enough you will realise your fear was imagined and they are not the deadly creatures portrayed in movies

[@ShukakuTheCrazy1]

The brown bear in Japan reminded me of a story I heard about, it was a bear that was friends with an old steam locomotive. I forget the name

[@IderbatAriuna]

Big fan. Keep going!

[@joodhepa3450]

Thanks again that was very awesome to see

[@p.d.nickthielen6600]

Black bear sightings in my neighborhood of Plymouth, MN. Last week typical suburban neighborhood. 8 years ago it was a Cougar. Expect wolf next. My brother lives 3 hours north of Minneapolis has up to 5 bears , groups of wolves in his yard regularly. Can't say I blame him for always caring a high powered pistol.

[@NORTH02]

Heyyy I’m from the same general area. My mom and brother saw a mountain lion by our highschool and this guy I know saw one in his neighborhood by tonka

[@p.d.nickthielen6600]

@@NORTH02 I drove between Garrison and Walker up highway 6 and saw a mountain lion early in the morning yesterday a first for me crazy . Thank you for your videos you do a remarkable job.

[@hamhead2765]

Your docs rank up there with sagans cosmos. High praise indeed my friend

[@saltycreole2673]

You have a great channel brother. 👍

[@peterpisani4749]

Love your expertise.

[@niharg2011]

I feel it was a great disservice that you didn't mention Jim Corbett (Yeah it was him in those photos along side the Champavat Tigress and the Rudraprayag Leopard)... All of the 3 Man-eating big cats from India you mentioned were all shot by him. And he might have been born a caucasian but he was born and raised in India and spoke our languages. Once a hunter who saved multiple lives, he later turned into a photographer and a conservationist, after whom the first Tiger reserve in India is named.

[@xe4330]

Awesome vid loved it ❤️‍🔥

[@fj1879]

The most scary thing about wolfs is the fact that so many people seem to be hell-bent on portraying them as harmless puppies. 9/10 videos about wolf attacks will say something along the line "In actuality, there hasn't been any case of wolfs attacking humans in the last 200 years", when the reality is somewhere closer to a few dozens per year. I want wolves to exist, but I wan't the public to know what they are dealing with to help prevent needles confontations between wolf and man, as they will often end bad for man, and then even worse for the wolves.

[@electricpiggy301]

I Looove all animals however that love comes with a healthy amount of respect and a caution and fear that comes with that. The only two animals that i am actually afraid of are large cats and crocodiles. Fortunately no crocs where i live but i have been stalked by a mountain lion before. That said mountain lions are still some of my absolutely favorite animals and i find crocodiles greatly fascinating.

[@shelleymclaughlin3069]

Wonderful video!!!

[@josephrobinson6171]

I saw a video of a sloth bear that had snatched a baby from a house in india being beaten to death with coconuts and rocks and sticks by villagers. It initially attacked those pursuing it but once it catches one villager the rest all descend on it and best the ever living shit out of it. First time i’ve ever seen a bear being beaten to death with sticks. It was almost sad but the thing ate a fucking baby so I say the villagers had every right to be angry. It was just strange seeing a large bear killed not by gunshot but by a bunch of angry apes with sticks. They continued beating it after it was knocked out and it honestly looked like a bag of marbles afterwards. It was just strange seeing these guys not care about self preservation to beat up a bear with nothing but sticks and rocks and coconuts Don’t eat human babies, animals, the adult humans get REALLY angry.

[@kevinwilkinson7558]

These are great videos. Lots of info. Very well done. Only problem is if you don't have KZbin premium your watching an ad every 3 minutes

[@Pertusetian]

You covered a LOT of ground with this video! Very entertaining and well presented. I'm thinking our ancestors had a flair for the dramatic/sensationalized/imagination running wild. Nevertheless, we should all be wary of what's just beyond the campfire light.

[@TrySomeFentanyl]

Its absolutely insane, how children today, even ones without any traumatic experiences in the dark, or even hearing of any stories of them, still have a natural fear/uncomfortableness with the dark. Should makes you remember how embedded we are with our natural instincts.

[@juliusfucik4011]

My daughter does not fear the dark. She does fear spiders and I can point at the exact moment in time she acquired this fear. It was her older sister who caused it. I believe these fears are taught early on and not based on any facts or experience.

[@ZAYAZOfficial]

Yes!!!!!! Thanks for this

[@deusvultpictures6550]

There was also the Man Eaters of Njombe, a pride of lions estimated to have eaten up to 1500 people between 1932 and 1947

[@revolvermaster4939]

Great production! I know this was about predators, but I’ve always wondered how people throughout history dealt with insects which have killed more people than any other animal.

[@EugenioFilippi]

Great content as always! Would advise checking the pronunciation of Pliny the elder, cheers

[@patrickbush9526]

Excellent video

[@travhammer]

Speaking of ur mammoth tusk. i acquired a chunk to make grips for my Combat Commander. The colors are beautiful blue, yellow and orange. Use, Mane and Hoof on them for 4 days before u cut too keep any top layers from splintering. Good luck.

[@repetemyname842]

I agree 100%, as cruel as it may be Id love to go back to the coliseum days to watch certain animals battle each other. It would be fascinating to watch a bear take on other large predators like the big cats or large reptiles.

[@ireneconnell4488]

I always wondered that until I read about the California gold rush and guts with money would get lions from Africa and but then against grizzly bears but stopped wasting their money because it would 90 percent end the same way with the bear smashing the lions soft upper part of the skulls. Look it up very interesting.

[@jasonberryman1035]

@@ireneconnell4488 I don’t trust the validity of an account like this or the one you mentioned much. Natural interactions between large predators rarely are ever so one sided and it is generally assured that some level of exaggeration is at play which is pretty common for things involving animals pre-internet where information is more heavily scrutinized and easily proven. Like numerous similar stories are told of whatever animal is being hyped up at the time, I’ve seen stories where leopards supposedly wipe the floor with bears, stories of Gorillas killing lions with ease, tigers defeating elephants, bears defeating rhinos, etc etc. All embellished at best.

[@vanishingfolklore]

Great content

[@ScaleHunt]

This is why whenever I got out hiking or any outdoor activity I go with a group of people.

[@thomasgumersell9607]

Very informative and interesting video. I had heard of a few of these man eaters before. One truly realizes that in some parts of the world to this day. Humans are being stalked and killed by wildlife. It makes one think about our distant ansestors huddled together around a fire. Telling tales and always being aware of the danger of the natural world. 💪🏼🙏🏻

[@westcoastcarver4328]

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[@brandonmitchell2374]

Coke, Pizza, Hot Wings and a new North 02 video. Amazing :)

[@kim9wang]

Your voice help me to sleep calmly ❤️ I always watch your videos on bed until I fall asleep.

[@thaprofessa2296]

Seeing North 02 with a sponsorship is nice

[@rafarig1574]

Another banger