German reacts to the Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals in America
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I do America Reaction, some call it Reaction US, Reaction USA. I love to get to know the USA, My videos arent British Reaction or Brit reacts videos. I am also very interested in the usa military reaction as well as us military reaction. I have a passion for us sports reaction, like nfl reaction or nba reaction. I am not brit reacts to america. I do European reacts videos. I also do reaction to america and reaction to us and reaction to usa videos. In this video we cover
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Tip for traveling in Florida; To tell if a body of water has alligators in it, very carefully tap the edge of the water. If it's wet, it has alligators in it. You're welcome.
Including hotel pools. I saw a gator resting in the bottom. 5 foot long. Not swimming in Florida again. (It was safer in the 1970s, when they were still endangered species)
Just need Garrett around to help with the swamp puppies.
Mississippi and Alabama on the coast as well. Any fresh water. You’re welcome.
I live in Florida. Gators are literally freaking everywhere. They love golf courses because of the water traps. They can actually run really fast 😅
@@Salicat99"yoink"
1- Mojo is not the best source. 2- The top 10 most dangerous is NOT the most aggressive by any means. Badgers, Wolverines are aggressive, but nothing tops a pissed off Rooster
The males of any species often have vicious tempers. But. Birds descended from dinosaurs. Think velociraptors. And T-Rex.
I agree.The hens aren't much better. My son has had his arm sliced open several times by our hens.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 lol I like this idea. I'm going to have some kentuky fried t-rex for lunch.
Or a Canada goose
Exactly! I just found this channel and although I detest Mojo, I watched a little bit of this... Had to stop when they went into dogs and specific breeds. It's all about the owner, much how a Human parent is the root of their child being a bully.
Wild pigs are mean as hell.
That's why I never got married
No kidding. Here in Texas they kill tons of people, mostly in auto accidents. Between deer and wild hogs, driving in the country at night can get real scary real fast.
@@clairethompson5549 my bother used to torment me by hanging me over the “pig area”, they lived in a field. He yell to them for dinner then torment them and me, swinging me over the fence. Till my dad caught him, then he got a whoppin! 🤣🤣🤣
Those male hogs are vicious!
@@storminight oh my god, that’s a nightmare!! 😳😆I can only imagine how pissed your dad must have been. I’m glad you came out of it ok!
@@clairethompson5549 at three it was pretty traumatic! They’d jump up tying to get me snapping. There was about 10 of them. He held me my wrists and feet. You know if I slipped they would have eaten me gone. My dad was furious! And he never reprimanded us. Him saying wild pigs reminded me! 🤣🤣🤣
I think people from outside the US don't always realize that the US is a huge land mass nearly the size of Europe that has a large variety of natural climates due to having a central position within the North American continent and long coastlines along both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The country span from the tundra (Alaska) to the tropics (Hawaii), and even the continental 48 states range from cold temperate rain forests to warm dry Mediterranean-type scrublands, from arid deserts to humid wetlands, and from tall snowy mountains to flat grassy plains. The terrain is just as diverse as the plants and wildlife it holds.
I saw a video that also described that because of the river system the USA was an economic giant in the world. The vast array of navigable rivers is unique in the world. Same advantage the ancient Egyptians had on the rest of the human population at the time.
It's why many Americans see little reason in going abroad. All we have to do is drive a couple states over and it's like being in a new country, weather and geology-wise. Even laws, animals, and plants are often different from state to state and our states are the size of European countries soooo...why spend that money on a plane trip and go through the hassle of all that international red tape? *shrugs*
Before the video starts: Yes, there will be snakes. During the video: Yes, it's dangerous for that guy to be close to a grizzly. He thought he was some kind of grizzly bear whisperer, until he and his girlfriend got eaten by one, really.
@SirTrollerDerby Yellowstone National Park tells these Stupid Tourists not to get too close to the Bears and Bison all the time. Darwin (Natural Selection) will Eliminate Stupidity out of the Gene Pool Eventually. like the Grizzly Whisperer, or this famous clip of lady and the Bison. then again maybe Stupidity WILL Always be in the Human Gene Pool. 'Bison Tosses Woman Out of Her Pants' czcams.com/video/iKpPwxu14EU/video.html
That reminded me of that family of grizzlys killed a bunch of people and one of them was texting her mom for hours while being eaten.
He is from documentary GRIZZLY MAN by Werner Herzog. Great show. He lived in AK , eventually lost his life (and that of his girlfriend) to grizzly bears. You never can decide if he was crazy orh ust really passionate about the grizzlies
When I think of dangerous animals in Germany, I think of boars. I don't know if that's just from some fairytale or what. As far as the U.S. goes, it really depends on the region you are in. The majority of snakes and spiders here are harmless. Helpful, even. This must be similar to how Australians feel when people talk about their wildlife.
@@vertyisprobablydeadThe girl wasn’t texting her mom, she was calling her mom. The woman heard her daughter’s screams as she was eaten alive.
American here,on the bear quote. “If it’s black fight back. If it’s brown lay down. If it’s white, say ‘goodnight’.” You had it right as far as I know.
I’ve heard that too in the last few years. I could be wrong, but it makes me think of the different ways we’re taught about bears and what to do if you encounter one, but the saying clarifies when to do what. That’s how I thought of it at least.
-Make loud noise, stand tall as you can and put arms out /up etc to appear as big and threatening as possible (black bear=fight back).
-Lay down in the fetal position with arms behind your head and covering back of your neck, and play dead, protecting as much of your body /vital points as possible (brown bear= lay down).
-And polar bears speaks for itself, apparently there’s nothing you can do to stop or end an attack, if one can and wants to attack you (white bear= say goodnight).
As a side note, we’re also taught to never turn your back and run with many large predators that have the “chase prey” instinct (like the Mountain Lion, wolves etc). If you haven’t seen it, I tripped out on the video of the hiker being stalked by a mountain lion when alone on a trail run. He does his best to keep facing it and appear big and scary as much as possible (like I had been taught to do from a young age in CA).
The challenge method with brown bears might be a very bad idea. If it's a male bear during the grumpy season (mating season) bears are spoiling for a fight.
There is a CZcams video of a photography party in Alaska. They were staking out a moose or elk carcass to film a grizzly (brown) bear. The bear came back. And the lead got his bear spray ready. The carcass had been left in the tidal range. And I guess it got swept out to sea. But the bear came back, and the carcass was gone. And within a quarter mile (or a half mile) was this group of people. The bear got worked up. And aggressively approached. The leader told the group to crouch down and avoid meeting it's gaze. It smelled them. And it realized they hadn't eaten its food cache. None of them challenged it. It broke off contact. Because the calculus was they weren't guilty of theft. None of them increased the bear's anger. None of them challenged it. So the bear spray wasn't used right then. And no bears were shot. If I'd've been there, i'd've shot the bear. Because a charging angry grizzly would have raised terror in me. Terrified me reacts it doesn't think beyond maximum chance for survival.
But some black bears are brown or tan, and some brown bears are black, and some polar bears breed with grizzlies and are light tan.
Polar bears will actually hunt humans. And they have the bite force to crack a skull.
There's a video by a BBC photographer of him in a glass and metal container like a barometric chamber outside in polar bear country. A polar bear comes up and tries to bite its way into the chamber for the meat inside (the photographer). It's wild. And scary.
If you can't flee, fight for your life or at least make it work for its meal.
That blonde guy with the sunglasses who was next to the grizzly bear at the river was killed and eaten by a grizzly bear not long after he filmed that segment, along with his girlfriend. 😮
I thought he looked familiar. If I’m not wrong they also recorded their own deaths.
@@berserkerchief The lense was still covered, but the audio of it was recorded.
I saw pictures of his body. Not much meat left.
Yeah and if I remember correctly this happened around the time bears start preparing to hibernate and become more aggressive then usual
OMG! THE Grizzly whisperer. What a clown. It was filming his video camera. No lie GI!
Im a retired nurse in Texas. I've treated many people who were injured by cattle. Usually they are crushed against a fence or vehicle. Where I live we technically have black bears, but they are very rare. Deer and hogs cause many car accidents. My son was bitten by a Copperhead snake in his yard. No long term effects, but he said it was horribly painful. All of those "large cats" he listed are the same animal. I didn't mean to write a book! 😂
Yup, its the domesticated animals or the wildlife that are in frequent contact with people (deer, vermin, birds, possums, raccoons) that are most likely to harm you, and its most likely to be unintentional than intentional. Those larger, more dangerous animals prefer to avoid humans generally (except for bears going after trash).
"Wait... I'm a 150lb animal." 🤣
This was the very best reactionary part of this whole video!!!! I cracked up at that response! 🤣
4:53 - "is it safe to be there while a bear is around?" - NO, he died! (that guy was later found dead, mauled by a bear. Bears usually dont care about you being there, but when they do, you will not know until its too late)
Older American here. Your reaction to spiders & snakes was priceless! While typically not fatal, don't forget about scorpions. They are fairly common around the desert southwest. We get them in the house sometimes. Look before you grab when you're in the garage & check your shoes before you put them on!
And don't forget the giant centipedes! They are usually about a foot long, and have formidable biting jaws and a venomous sting. Very aggressive, and very good at slithering through cracks.
I live in the SW and never go barefoot, even at home!
Brown recluses are vastly overstated as a danger. That's not to say that they're not dangerous at all, but here in the central U.S. they're fairly common spiders in houses. They're incredibly shy and the risk from them is mostly only if you accidentally crush one against your body. Even then, most bites are insignificant. The number of confirmed fatalities that are definitely the result of a bite from one of these is going to be very low.
During Vegas Summers me and my friends would shake our boots to make sure scorpions didn't crawl inside 😂 😭 😂 😭 The fear is real
@@bobbun9630 I wouldn't call having a pound of flesh rot away around the bite area insignificant!
As a cattleman from the back woods of Florida, I've spent a lot of time around domesticated and wild animals. If you're attacked by a wild animal that isn't rabid, it's probably your fault. The only animals that caused me any harm was the cattle. Getting horned hurts. Getting butted really doesn't as long as you keep your feet. The most painful thing was working with a calf, who decided to run while bucking, and he stomped my foot. That really hurt. I wear steel toed boots now.
In my home state of Wisconsin, a favorite thing to say to someone leaving your house and driving away is, "Watch out for deer." We call it the Wisconsin aloha.
We say that in Kentucky too 😂😂
@@Kentuckyhunter58I was looking for this comment b4 I said it.
Same in PA😅
Heard it plenty of times in Iowa too.
Aloha from whitewater
It's super funny hearing you say the whole, "If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lie down. If it's white, goodnight." because I was always told this growing up here in WV (West Virginia). From as early as I can remember, ever time we went hiking, AT LEAST 4 people would say this before we ever got onto a trail. And when I was in middle school, nobody I ever talked to online from the bigger cities knew what I was talking about, and quite often they thought I was talking about people when I said that lol
Not having watched the Video yet. You are talking about bears, right? 😂
I'm also from WV and heard that saying since I was a 4-5 years old. I was also told to always go into the woods armed; even if it's only a strong stick.
I was an exchange student to Germany. We had a gathering one weekend with all the American students in the area. There was going to be a bon fire and they asked us to get wood off a brush pile. All of us were being very careful, watching for snakes. Our German hosts got a good laugh as they explained to us that there really wasn't a big snake danger in Germany! I found that amazing, but also a bit suspicious. I have always wondered if they were joking about that. I guess after watching your video, thirty plus years later, you cleared up that mystery for me! 😂 Thanks!
Well, wo do have some venomous snakes naturally occuring here, but they are more like "Aw fuck ive been bitten by a snake, thats going to hurt for a few weeks." And thats that. Ofc getting the bites checked out in case infection arises or one is allergic is a good idea, but i mean, if all went well it wouldnt even be neccessarily neccessary to visit a doc for our snakes here 😂
It just feels so weird, the idea that you just don't have to be afraid of animals.
@@rosesweetcharlotte yeah, the biggest danger here is propably untrained dogs or something. The likelihood of encountering wild animals here that can actually be really dangerous is pretty slim. Except for wild boars. We have tons of those and they are not to be fucked with. But thats usually only a problem after sunset
While hiking in northern arizona doing work for the az conservation corps, I was 1 step away from being sent to the ER from a rattlesnake. It was my first time hearing the rattle in person, and the sounds you hear on TV don't do it justice. It's a terrifying and ominous sound that makes you stop dead in your tracks. I have great respect for them, but always keep your distance
9:54 "secondary cause" would probably imply the cow was a major contributing factor to a death, but not the "exact" cause. For instance...mmm..if a cow got spooked and knocked you off of something, or trampled you and you later died of an infection - the "primary" cause would be the infection or the fall, but the secondary cause would be the cow itself. I hope I'm explaining that well - there are probably better examples!
Or if a cow knocked over say, a propane lantern and it caused a fire, if the resulting inferno killed you then the cow would be the secondary cause.
When I was very young, I found that Angus bulls do not like to be petted. Fortunatly there was barbed wire fence and an electric wire between the bull and me.
Or while chasing a cow, you slip and fall in a fatal way.
Or dying from obesity due to eating too many delicious cheeseburgers.
@lordnul1708
Technically, that cow was attempting to get her mistress, but her poor aimed practically nuked Chicago.
0:07 We got some people who try taming wolves too, or wolf hybrids. My neighbor had a wolf malamute mix. She was massive, but a total cuddlebug. Had this little shitzu brother who would hide between her front paws when outside. She’d defend him to no end. Only if he approached you first would she be fine with you.
We have wolves also, but usually the only danger with the wolf's is the wolf pack. One wolf will run away from people.
They artificially introduced Wolfes in germany
@@ravenmills7777 A quick clarification, they were reintroduced in 2000. Wolves existed in Germany until 1904.
Wolves are typically no danger to humans, coyotes on the other hand..
@@krisspringer1568 maybe the wolves can help take care of the raccoons that have proliferated out of control there lol
@@krisfinley6706 IKR!? My cat is an indoor only. Too dangerous with bald eagles, bear, raccoons, coyotes, and the neighbor's pigs. The elk don't come our way.
Born and raised in Virginia, USA here. I currently live in the suburbs of Richmond (Virginia's Capitol). We definitely have a problem with copperhead snakes here during summer. The bears are more in the mountains here in Virginia, but have been spotted on the flat lands. I once hit a deer in my SUV in the country where I grew up visiting my parents. His horns almost got me, but thankfully I survived.
A secondary cause would be something that creates the conditions that lead to death. Being trampled by a cow, primary cause. Being pinned behind a gate by a cow that doesn't realize you're there, and suffocating, that would be secondary.
or running off the road due to a herd suddenly apearing in front of you . the dear didnt do it your dumb butt did driving 90 in a 55 lol i just love Newton's third law of motion lol
I think the scariest animal I saw in Germany was a rly rly large slug in the first 😂
In this case the primary cause was some dipsh*t from Long Island New York moving to Alaska and fancying himself as a "Bear Whisperer"
The secondary cause is his dumb @ss not going back to California and presenting himself as a meal by VERY dangerous tent camping in Bear country.
The problem with comparing lightning strikes and shark attacks is that the entire population is around lightning and only a small percentage around sharks.
A wild pig is usually called a boar although technically a boar is any male pig.
@foxphilesg1fan454, are you sure? I thought they're called wild boars.
Male bears are also referred to as boars too.
Interesting that they mentioned cows and horses but not domestic pigs. Supposedly it can be pretty dangerous to be in a pig pen at feeding time.
@@nightgazer1330 If you fall in the pen when feeding them, they will eat you. That's one of the dangers of farming. Farm hands don't necessarily know that going into a seasonal job.
Feral swine.
Boars are male, sow is female, piglet for babies. A group of females and babies is a sounder
I grew up in Wurzburg and Augsburg in Germany as a kid , 4 years each , with a couple places in between since my father was in the American Military. I love Germany so much . Ich liebe Deutschland!
I personally love that we have plenty of wild animals and nature. It's one of the many things I like about the USA. We have so many state and national parks, you could spend your whole life exploring them and never run out of beauty to explore.
We have alligators.
Who needs a passport when you have all of *this* to explore?
@@susanstein6604, and the USA is the only place in the world that also has crocodiles.
Which is one reason we don't travel outside the US as much as Europeans travel outside their countries. They sneer at us until they come here and realize how truly Vast the US is.
I live in Florida and alligators are getting out of control. I wish they'd be taken off the endangered species list and their population could go back to the way it used to be.
I had an Uncle who shot at a dear and it fell unconscious, he thought he’d hit it. When he arrived and grabbed its antlers it gored him, punctured his intestines and stomach, he survived and lived a long life.
My grandfather was a farmer who had a Charolais Bull who gored him 16 times and again later 12 times, he survived both. Later when trying to extract the bull, the bull had been tranquilized with 3 appropriate darts and 2 elephant and still managed to lift a Medium tractors front bucket, we now believe the previous owner had given him steroids which does not a cow good. In hindsight that poor animal was just abused and was then sold off to us. He was Approximately 3000lbs (a car with legs) when we sold him
Florida resident, the gators are larger than the crocodile here. The rule around here is if there is water, it has a gator in it.
Even true of hotel outdoor pools. My desire to swim in Florida was extinguished when I spotted a gator in the bottom of the pool. I'm glad we make pools so light in colour. The contrast made spitting it easy.
One reason for not visiting Florida/Louisanna. Not a fan of the animal flora in those states.
Oh boy, i hope geese are on this list. My grandmother used to feed generations of geese every year, and they were only nice to us, as they nested on our property for generations. Anything else got attacked. Nothing dared to come onto our property, barely even the mailman.
Bears are scary-they learn to open doors, break windows, etc to get food. In Tahoe some bears know how to use automatic opening doors and get in to grocery or convenience stores. Scary.
Bears definitely have problem solving ability, bears have also learned that if they destroy the ticking box(the control box for electric fences)by an electric fence that the fence stops hurting them and will destroy them before plowing through electric fences.
@@Zenshu1Makes me wonder: Will bears be left after the AI takes over the world? They may be smart enough to survive the apocalypse.
And the Poles in WW II had a bear totting ammo at Monte Casino.
@@nancyjanzen5676 Apparently, they also gave the bear beer. And there's a story that the bear ended up in a zoo. One of the Poles from WW2 saw the bear and jumped into the bear area where they hugged, scaring everyone watching.
I love your wholesome reactions. Hello from America. New subscriber haha
Sometimes people do stupid things. A buffalo can be a dangerous animal, but some people want to try petting one or take a selfie with one. Other people try feeding bears and end up getting attacked.
Rottweilers are very gentle, affectionate dogs by nature. They act to protect against perceived threats, especially threats to their families. A properly raised, trained and treated dog of any breed is no danger.
Not the one my neighbor's had. He was nasty and hated everyone that wasn't part of their family. He bit the neighbor kid unprovoked, who was a bleeder. Kid was okay in the end. They gave the dog to someone else who actually knew how to train them to keep them under control. The original owners didn't do that, and would just make excuses for his dangerous behavior leading up to the bite. They're lucky that dog didn't kill someone, as he'd tried to hunt me down, and tried to bite my brother's throat out. Yet they would continuously let him out off leash with no fence. *facepalm*
Here is another rhyme native Floridians know:
Red on black, friend of Jack.
Red on yellow, kill a fellow.
That is to help you tell a deadly coral snake from a harmless scarlet king snake. They both have red, yellow, and black bands. The difference is the red and black stripes touch on the non-venomous scarlet king. The red and yellow stripes touch on the deadly venomous coral snake.
Florida, my home state, is like the US' own little mini Australia. We have gators and crocs, lots of venomous snakes and spiders, and we have sharks... Well, the ocean has all kinds of crazy stuff in it. If you go to a beach on low tide, be careful walking through tide pools because you might step on a stingray hiding under the sand and water. Jellyfish is the other big one of you go swimming at the beach. Anyway, there's also big cats like panthers, bears, and monkeys. Yes, we even have wild monkeys because they broke out of a small theme park called Silver Springs and they've lived in the woods in the area ever since. There are two species, Rhesus macaques and vervet monkeys. Both species are considered invasive and have been introduced to Florida. We also have a Burmese python issue because people get them as pets, they get too big for the person to care for, and they just release them into a swamp where they thrive. The biggest one ever caught in Florida was 17.7 feet which is 5.3 meters and 215 lbs or 97.5 kg. And now they're a huge issue as an invasive species. We have six deadly venomous snake species: coral snakes, copperheads, cottonmouth, pygmy rattlers, timber rattlers, and eastern diamondback rattlers. The cottonmouth is the one I hate because I love swimming and another name for the cottonmouth is water moccasin because they live in and around water like lakes.
Oh, did I mention the snapping turtles that can easily take off your fingers or toes? The alligator snapping turtle can grow to some 80 to 100 cm (31.5 to 39.3 inches) and weigh about 70 to 90 kg (about 154.3 to 198.4 pounds). They're called alligator snapping turtles because the snap their jaws shut like an alligator does.
Don't get me started on the insects. Mosquitos the size of your head (I'm exaggerating) spread diseases like encephalitis.
Florida is also the lightning capital of the US. We also have hurricanes and tornados every summer. And my aunt's house was swallowed by a sinkhole back in the 1990s. And don't forget the infamous "Florida Man". He is probably the most dangerous species of all. One day he is a machete wielding meth addict running through CVS naked and the next day he gets hopped up on bath salts and eats another man's face off. Florida is a mini Australia, for real. And I love it. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
The coral snake rhyme is good for north America, but apparently, don't take it to Central or South America. Seems down there red on black corals can be venomous
This is a comment section, not an editorial section.
Hello from Volusia, where we had a Kansas couple sue us because there wasnt a sign at the beach warning of sharks...in the ocean...😅
Also, the capital of shark attacks...so proud lol.
Nah, jokes aside, the heat is getting crazy, but yea.. this is home. ❤
@@krisfinley6706 Exactly! The weird part is, the snake that they show in the video to demonstrate one with red and black touching (while giving their version of the rhyme) is actually a South American coral snake! Google image search to see comparison photos. They typically have two yellow bands inside a much larger black band, and the black is the only part that touches the red (I'm not sure of any mimics that have that pattern). So whoever made the video seemingly didn't do their research and not only showed a coral snake as a "non-venomous" example, but they didn't even use a US species.
There are a few harmless milk snakes that have red touch yellow at times, but it works the majority of the time in the US and, when it comes to identifying venomous snakes, a false positive is safer than a false negative.
The wild pigs with tusks are called boars. Love this post.
This was not an attack per se but was frightening. When my children were small, we went to Sea World. There were rows of seats in a semi- circle around a large tank. My toddler was dressed in red. I lifted him up so he could see the walrus in the tank, and then we sat down in the first row across from the walrus.
A few minutes later, the walrus comes out of the tank and lands right in front of us. He looked right at us, I whispered to my kids, " Don't move."
Soon, other people saw him and started to panic. He turned his attention to the panicking people.
Oddly, I wasn't afraid, but if we had been alone and there was no one to distract him, there might have been an issue as he was only 10 feet away.
Moose and coyotes can mess you up too. And we also have wolves in the United States
Moose are a real issue and probably the animal I would least like to run across by surprise. . Coyotes aren't a threat to adult humans, I would worry more about "domestic" dogs. there's way more of them and some of them will attack you for really no reason. Coyotes will always run off as fast as they can go if you confront them. They are a risk to pets (cats, small dogs, etc).
@@brettbuck7362I had it happen a couple weeks ago, out hiking on old overgrown logging roads in NW Maine and a cow moose stepped out of the woods maybe 50-60 feet away. She saw me, her hackles went up, and just then her calf stepped onto the trail. I backed away slowly, keeping an eye on her without making eye contact. After they left I headed down the trail again and within 1/4 mile saw *another* moose in the trail. This time I backed away almost 200m before she lost sight of me, and waited about 20 minutes before heading out again., and made it to my pickup with no more encounters.
Wolves are so far down on the list of dangerous to humans in the US they probably rank below dogs.
Include bison.
German Sheppards are the King of being very well versed in their companionship.
Chris, it's not the Jaws brought sharks to our shores, but that they suddenly became a thing to fear, like, "If I go in the water here, I might die."--type of fear.
Interesting fact: Florida is the only place in the world which has both alligators (fresh water) and crocodiles (salt water).
They didn't do a very good job of explaining the deer problem. If a deer runs in front of your car, even at a city speed of 30mph/48kph, it's going to stop instantly, and the deer could even come through the windshield, or you could meet each other on the hood/bonnet.
More to the point, people were afraid of sharks before Jaws. The movie just made it a much more *active* and *widespread* fear.
@@brigidtheirish , actually that's what I meant to say, but it came out wrong.🤨
@@jimgreen5788 That can happen.
A phenomena I never saw coming is urban wildlife. Now, here in Colorado Springs, many herds of deer live inside the city. Some of them have even figured out how to use the crosswalks!
I live in Highlands Ranch and there’s been more deer and bears in the last 10 years. Took a pic of some near my house about a week ago.
When I lived in Japan I lived near Nara (close to Kyoto) for the last two years of my stay and the deer there basically own the city. I only came across a few that learned the bowing for food trick from a famous zoo where they’ll bow for treats. Of course I never fed any of them out of the park, but I did once wait at a crosswalk next to one!
When my husband and I visited Colorado Springs, we were amazed at all of the elk, too.
There is quite the menagerie in that beautiful city!
Coyotes live in big cities
Aw Chris, snakes are such friendly creatures! They're always there to give you a friendly hug!
We have wolves too, but they're so sweet and cuddly---and they'll sing to sleep every night.
Hört ihnen zu, Kinder der Nacht! Was für eine Musik machen sie!
Thank you, Vlad Dracul.
Some years ago when I lived in the Hollywood Hills (LA), I saw a mountain lion standing in front of my car one morning. It ran away. In the far north of Minnesota about 30 years ago while in a forest I was approached by a black bear that proceeded to strike me in the leg. As a boy growing up in south Florida we would throw rocks at alligators and then run away.
Lol I remember a video, I think it was from Lost in the Pond, but he was taking about one night in the local news there was a brief mention of a mountain lion in the area. And he's like, "okay, first of all, you have an animal called MOUNTAIN LION. That sounds scarier than a regular lion! It sounds like a lion but covered in big spikes and armor plates! And these things just wander into residential areas from time to time, and when they do, the news doesn't even spend ten minutes taking about it! They just say, yeah, here it is, if you see it, keep your distance. And then they move on to the next topic like this is just a normal thing! In Britain if something called a MOUNTAIN LION was roaming around a suburb we'd have a small army out there to tranquilize this beast and relocate it off our peaceful little island. Why do you live in such a terrifying place?"
I was born in LA and grew up between there and the Seattle area. My parents clearly told me that when we hiked in LA and the Sierras that I had to stay within 5 ft of them and never go around corners without them. Because 3 - 5 year old me was a tasty cougar snack. I also was taught all the important bear responses.
I live in the Salt Lake valley, about 8 miles from the Oquirrh Mountain range. It's urban/suburban all the way up to the foothills of the range, but despite that we had a mountain lion removed from a tree less than a half-mile south of my home earlier this spring. I was quite surprised that one had wandered so far into "human territory."
My boss lives on a mountainside about 20 miles south of Salt Lake proper, backing up onto a golf course which isn't separated from the "wild area" of the Wasatch range, and he says he's seems to have a mountain lion wandering the street in front of his house about every 2-3 years. Right now he talks a lot more about the family of falcons that have taken up residence in his back yard and how all his neighbors have vole infestations but he doesn't.....
@@MagsonDare I'm solidly in suburbia in the Seattle area but we have green belts and a lake in our HOA. During spring my neighbor had a black bear that wondered into his back yard.
I was fortunate enough to see a Florida panther during a tandem bicycle rally in 1987.
I thought at first it was a really big house cat crouched over the center-line noshing on a road kill, but the captain of the bike I was passing pointed out that the cat's overall length was wider than the lane of the road.
I can relate to you. I was attacked by a dog when I was three. It left a permanent impression on my life and I still struggle to overcome my fear all these years later
Most dogs are fine, but it's terrible when anyone is attacked, especially a little kid. Your fear is really common sense. There are some dog owners who just think their dogs are fine, but they aren't. Or they have the dog on a leash and when they see kids, tell the kids that the dog won't hurt them. As a mom, I still didn't let my kids pet the dog, as I didn't trust a stranger with a strange dog.
5:02 Considering the guy in that particular clip died from getting mauled by a bear, yes.
no* very unsafe
He wasn't mauled, he and his girlfriend were eaten alive by a bear. There is an audio recording of it that those who have heard it say it should never be released.
Is that the same guy? Lots of people have weird ideas about nature.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 Show clips from the Grizzly Man documentary, so it is.
@@joecrazy9896 Granted. It easily could be him. I watched videos about him that included the audio of his ending. But it was a long time ago. I forgot what he looked like.
See a polar bear ? Pray, it’s one of the few species that actively hunt humans
I'm in Columbus Ohio.. The most dangerous animal which may sound silly but DEER are the most dangerous animals where I live! Deer are numerous in the wooded areas of the city of Columbus. There are deer crossing warning signs also to be watchful for deer that maybe standing in the road or on the side of the road you are driving on. Deer often run across in front of your car. Deer are also hard to see because their camouflage body color blends in to the surroundings. Deer like to come out during sun rise and sun set. Deer can cost thousands of dollars of damage to your car if hit.
I worked 2 summers at a camp. You have snakes, ticks, leeches, tornadoes, lightning, and poison ivy. I’ll take cougars over your creatures.
To expand on what my fellow ohioan said, this is why in ohio at least we have deer hunting season. It might sound odd but proactively decreasing the deer population, with limits obviously, helps the ecosystem and deer from over running things.
Also drivers ed they showed a video of a driver who crashed Into a deer and went to check on it. Deer was still alive and got him with the antlers. They are dangerous
@@gregcourtney751 True.. however most of the deer that seem to dart in front of cars are usually fawns or female Does .. I have never seen male bucks.
Plus, venison is tasty. @@gregcourtney751
50 years ago our family truck collided with a deer at twilight as we drove on a rural highway in BC Canada. Deer are a problem in Canada too.
Worse for those in Ontario and Manitoba: Moose. They are much bigger. In western Ontario Moose can be driven mad by black flies biting them. They can be very dangerous when they run blindly from the bugs!
To tell if there's alligators in the water, wear polarizing sunglasses. They block the glare, and as long as the gater is just under the surface, the glasses will block the glare enough that you can see into the water. No joke
We have wolves, too, but they are shy. They avoid people.
The problem is the hybrids, mixed with domestic dogs. They pack like wolves, sometimes with hybrid coyotes, but don't fear humans, and often weigh well over 100pounds.
Plenty of people have them as pets as well. Wolves I mean.
That's what I was just about to say because my friend has one......
How shy the wolves are, depends on where you are. My ex's cousin lives in Alaska, and had a hair raising story about how he and his Malamute dog nearly got jumped by a pack of nearly forty wolves at the beginning of a winter season. He repeatedly shot his gun into the ground in front of them, to keep them back, as he and his dog retreated to the beach where they were scheduled to get picked up by boat, to head back into Juneau for the winter. Thank God the boat was not late!
Why be scared of wolves?
I’m from Florida and we don’t think about gators or panthers. I’ve had the rare privilege of seeing a female panther in the wild. Had an interesting encounter with a Bobcat that was very interested in attacking our male outdoor cat.
Yes, we do have wild boars here. They’re an invasive, feral species and cause a lot of damage to native ecosystems in North and South America. They’re also dangerous because they can rip you up with their tusks.
In most states of the USA they can be hunted any time of year since they’re considered invasive. There are people who hunt them from helicopters with machine guns.
It's a weird idea to think that a terrestrial animal is invasive. Every animal belongs where it can thrive. It is artificial to think life won't try to thrive wherever it can. Life is a constant competition. Winners get to compete again. Losers become food. That's nature. The pervasive idea that the state of things as it is now is how it should be is a forest versus the trees idea. Looking too closely. Most animals that t have ever existed are extinct. And. The sea is constantly making new life. That process is billions of years old. And ongoing.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 you don't know how ecosystems work if you think like that. The giant asian hornet is a great example. In Japan, the native honey bees have evolved a defense against the hornet. They'll swarm the hornet until it's completely wrapped up in a ball of bees, and the bees will rapidly vibrate to increase their body temperature and they literally cook the hornet. American honey bees have no such defense. If giant asian hornets were to become common in the US, they could easily decimate the bee population (which already has enough problems). If we lost such a major pollinator, it would be devastating not just to the environment but to the agricultural industry as well.
@@samvimes9510 Exactly. The local bees would either figure it out, or go under. The ones in Japan figured it out. Because they had to. So will the north american bees. Because we will help. With controlled attacks by the invasive species in controlled environments: labs. Since this is an extant threat to our planetary way of life you can bet that most advanced countries are working on this issue right now. Because it's a threat to the G7. Military isn't just about army, navy, air force. And all new technology has national defense implications.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 There are so many examples of how invasive species have caused problems to both local wildlife and people in multiple countries. There are species that have gone extinct because of invasive species.
We also have female wild pig. A boar is a male wild pig lol
Swimming with alligators is normal growing up in Florida. I was seven swimming in a river, when I heard a splash noise in the water, without even looking I knew it was an alligator. I looked over to my left and there was a seven foot alligator swimming over to me. I stayed calm kept my ground and didnt swim away. As it neared me it slowed down and stopped next to me. I looked it dead in the eyes, it was so close as I was doggy paddling to swim, I was hitting the body of the alligator. It floated next to me for about two minutes then slowly dived down, disappearing into the depths, I then swam slowly out. I will never forget the look in its eyes, it looked at me with confusion, like what type of alligator is this. Because I stayed calm and didnt try to leave, it knew i wasnt an injured animal, so it wouldnt risk injury by attacking me. Most people dont realize how smart animals are. Injury mean death they dont have hospitals. So they go after the weak or the injured not the healthy.
yes we do have wild hogs some have tusks
In my yard so far this year I have had a 10 foot alligator, several Cotton Mouths, one huge Eastern Diamond Back, one Copper Head, four Armidillos, many deer, hawks and I see eagles flying over a lot.
Heh, I almost stepped on a Copperhead around a year ago. Their color/pattern makes for ridiculously good camouflage, plus it was dark out.
It will get your heart pumping, that's for sure.
Oh my gosh! At night? 😳
@@maureenjohnson2886 Indeed, was quite the chunky danger noodle
I live in North Carolina, which is in the US. And it’s stated the biggest predators were alligators but I always assumed it was black bears because I’ve never seen a wild gator in the Smokies my entire life.
The wild pig with the teeth thing - boars with tusks. We have those, too.
The deer population problem is why we hunt so much. Boars are free to hunt in lots of places to keep the invasive species in check. That kind of explains the access we have to hunting weaponry.
The most dangerous land animal in Hawaii is human. Then feral pigs.
Lol. Best advice is to always expect the deer to do the stupidest thing every time. Like giant squirrels. That way, if the deer does the smart thing you can be pleasantly surprised instead of dangerously surprised. I had a faun pop up, halfway onto the road the other morning, turn and look at me, and dart back the way it had come instead of farther into the road. "Usually" they bolt forward across the road instead.
Last year I had a group of deer dart across the road right in front of me on two different occasions. Nearly had a heart attack both times.
The most annoying encounters were when a doe wandered the neighborhood with her faun for a few days. Made me paranoid every time I spotted them when I was driving, just waiting for them to bolt the wrong direction. Had her run down the road away from me once as I slowly rolled after her, going: "Just get off the road." "Cars don't drive on the grass." "Go on the GRASS." "Scary predator won't chase you if you get off the road."😮💨 I know she couldn't hear me, but still.
secondary death refers to if the cow gores/wounds you but you live through the initial attack, only to die to bacterial infection or some such.
Thanks for the cow info! 😊
My college had a cougar mascot. Twice I was able to go into the habitat with her. Loved that cat.
America has wolves too. Lots of wild boar in the South ... an imported invasive species that destroys biomes. Hogzilla, shot in 2004, was 800 lbs and 8 ft long ;-)) Crocodiles much less common than alligators. We had a puma trapped in someone's back yard last year. Animal Control was able to relocate it safely ;-) I hit a full buck dear at 65 mph on the way to work ... but escaped. My boss hit a rutting male deer on the way to work at 50 mph. I was in a big heavy car. My boss was on a moped but was wearing his helmet. He nearly died ;-(
I'm from Florida. We have all manners of snakes, venomous snakes, constrictor snakes, and invasive pythons. We have alligators and crocodiles, and they are not hard to find. We have Panthers. We have bears. We just had a bear removed from downtown where I live. We also have wolves. Yes, Florida has a native species of wolf that most Floridians do not even know exist, but yes, the Florida Red Wolf is real, and i see a pack every day 1/4 mile from my house at night. We've got every dangerous spider, black windows, brown recluse, huntsman, whatever flavor of spider scares you, we have it in Florida. Florida also has the wild pigs you were talking about with big tusks, the wild boar, and they can and will kill a person. We have deer, very scary deer. Last but not least, we have the most dangerous creature in all of America, retired old people who still drive long after they should have been made to surrender their licenses.
I think I know what you are talking about, we call them Wild Hogs and they are EVERYWHERE especially in the south. The U.S also has Wolves to,Timber wolves, Coy wolves etc.
Wild hogs are now becoming established up and down the Pacific coast. They’re so bad in Texas and New Mexico that the hunting season for them is year round with no bag limit and the wild hogs still keep expanding their territory.
A.K.A. "boars" (with tusks).
Coy wolves are bad because they dont mate and raise cubs the way pure wolves do. It endangers the wolf species survival.
I'm originally from East Texas in swamp country. The two most common on this list you will see is alligators and snakes. I have stories about both but since i liked your reaction to the snakes the most, ill tell you a snake story. I was walking to the gym where i worked out. My options were to stay on the road (about 1.5 mile walk) or cut through the woods (about 100 yards). I chose the shorter that day. I was walking on a path and not really looking up at what i was walking over and lost in thought, but i noticed a branch of a tree had fallen across the path. I didnt think anything of it until i got close enough to the "tree branch" coiled up in a defensive posture. This tree branch was actually a timber rattlesnake, and by the time i realized it was a snake i was within striking distance. For whatever reason i knew in the moment if i just calmly keep pace and not make any sudden moves the snake wouldn't strike and so i did. His eyes followed me the whole time but he didnt strike at me. I got past him and continued at the same pace only looking back to see if he was going to follow me (he didnt). When i got where i was going and had time to think about what just happened was when i got scared. First and only time i broke into a cold sweat.
When I was 9 years old, I was bitten on the arm and dragged by a friend's dog.
I have known close friends who have been bitten by family pet dogs. Almost all were young children... but also teenagers and a few adults. One 2 year old was disfigured when a friend very small indoor pet bit her 9n the mouth and ripped her upper lip... it ended up looking like a cletf lip requiring many many surgeries. My husband's cousin at the age of 6 was bitten by a family pet and completely severed his ear from his head.
As soon as someone tells me (as their dog is violently barking, growling, and jumping at me), not to worry, it's just a big teddy bear... I'm out of there. I'm back in my car!!!
Deer certainly are dangerous. I've been in 3 car accidents in my life, and two of them involved deer. I remember one time I was driving a night, and a deer ran out into the road right behind a minivan as I was passing it. No way I could have seen it coming, fortunately I was driving slow enough to be able to stop before hitting the deer.
They didn't even mention that the deer are also generally carriers for ticks that can carry disease like Lyme Disease. Those things are a menace!
Pitbulls get a little bit of a bad rap because it depends on the owner and what they train them to do. If they're guard dog's chances are they will be viscious. Pitbulls are very powerful, and they have the ability to lock on to whatever they're biting. My sister owns a pitbull that she rescued from a shelter. This dog was treated horribly, her ears cut, many of her teeth were yanked out. You would this dog would hate people, but she's super friendly and playful. Rottweilers are massive dogs, all the ones I've met have been very friendly. German Shepherds are my favorite, beautiful, smart, and friendly, but with any animal, it matters how they're trained.
I live in New Mexico and we have many wild animals: Mule deer, Bobcat, Coyote, Cougar, Black Bear, Elk, Bighorn sheep, Gila monster (the g is silent), Roadrunner(our state bird), Gray wolf, Red-tailed hawk, Western diamondback rattlesnake and many other species, Spiders (Brown Recluse, Black Widow(female has the red hourglass), Wolf spiders and many more. Im definitely not a snake fan, but they are an important part of the ecosystem.
Pitbulls rap is bogus. The breed is not aggressive. Any large dog has a potential to be deadly. The issue is that idiots get a dog that looks scary and teach it to be aggressive. Then the breed gets a bad rap. According to many studies Pits rate just as low on human aggression as golden retrievers. The stats about attacks are from the 80 when cdc still did them and they stopped taking stats because people can’t tell a difference between a Pit and any other large short haired breed. I’ve seen people call a lab a pit.
Yes, because there is first of all. NO such breed as pit bull.
They literally come from the Terrier family.
I am honestly so sick of this lack of basic education.
@alricaneshama ok, sorry, I didn't put the word terrier there, everything else I said was correct.
A neighbor had two Rottweilers and they thought they were lap dogs (150 and 190 pounds).
I have a friend whose mini-horses think they're lap dogs, too. And my Norwegian Elkhound.
@@alricaneshama Not exactly. There's the American *pit bull* terrier and the related American Staffordshire terrier and Staffordshire bull terrier. American bulldogs are sometimes lumped in because of similar appearance.
And, yeah, my sister's father-in-law is convinced that all pitbulls are baby-eating monsters waiting to happen because the neighborhoods he worked in (for the power company) were controlled by gangs. Thus, he ran into pitbulls that had been "trained" for dog fights and to *kill* trespassers. *Any* dog treated that way is dangerous. Hell, I've *worked* with dogs of *many* breeds and the ones I've had the worst injuries from weighed less than ten pounds. No amount of facts will change his mind, though.
People in the US stopped going to the beach because of how scared everyone was. Shark attacks were relatively rare, noone was worried.
I live in a very small town in Colorado and bears periodically walk through town and raid trash cans. On the plus side there's no street crime.
I live in Highlands Ranch and about two weeks ago my next door neighbor had one in her front lawn and called the police. It got startled, ran up into her tree and not long after the police left it got down, did a number two and ran off. 😂
@@starparodier91 lol The day after I moved here, about 10 years ago, a young bear panicked and ran up the tree across the street and got stuck on my neighbors roof.
@@wawaweweb1811 I’ve lived here all 33 years of my life (minus 6 in Japan lol) and I’ve seen a lot of wildlife. My family has a second home in Fairplay and moose just casually walk around the houses and don’t startle too easily and wanna check out what’s going on. I learned from a young age to be very respectful and cautious of wildlife so I’ve never had any problems, but seeing certain animals in suburbia can be a bit of shock at times!
Growing up in the Rocky Mountains of Montana I've seen virtually all of these animals. The most terrifying thing I've experienced was waking up in my sleeping bag while camping and realizing that a rattlesnake was also in my bag. I slowly unzipped the bag and got out, and then freaked out when I was several yards away. As far as telling which snakes are venomous I was told if the head is an inverted triangle shape, then it's venomous. Snakes whose head is the same size as its body are generally harmless to people. Of course, coral snakes are the exception to this rule. Boa constrictors & anacondas are big enough to see well in advance, but they will go after children. Did you know that in Minneapolis there is a German immersion school where only German is spoken? There are lots of Spanish immersion schools, but the German immersion school I guess is unique.
Given the extreame weather events (hurricanes, tornados, floods),animals/insects that scare all the Europeans (bears, cougars, wolves, coyotes, alligators, snakes, spiders, moose etc), Earthquakes, and gun toting citizens you can easily see why Americans, in general, have to be a tough bunch of folks. You can see it in our sports, our military, and in the can-do attitude of the people. We have troubles in this country, just like all countries do, but when you get past all the rhetoric, BS, and the occasional crybabies, the people of the USA know how to do the hard work. We are not afraid to get knocked down because we know how to get back up again. We fight the "bears", rebuild the houses, and help our neighbors.
You think out critters make us tough? Ha, tell that to an Aussie. They've got a lot more deadly animals than we do. And if you think their sports aren't tough, challenge them to a rugby match.
Well said. You also need to remember how big the USA is in land area. Compared to Germany the USA is massive. In order to try to put it into perspective the closest state as far as land mass to Germany is Montana which is slightly larger and also holds the 4th place as far as biggest states are concerned.
Similar to Australians. Also Russians have to be tough. Canadians too.
@@pyrovania Heartily agree to all of the above. What we all take in stride without a second thought is often sobering for folks from other countries. Nothing against other countries, particularly our EU friends... you have your own more civilized challenges (mostly cultural at the moment).
There's a BUNCH of countries that are "tough" not just the USA. Europe and most of the world endured CENTURIES of wars and the sword and shield kind too, not just "anyone can get a hold of them" guns. And let's not forget that part of what makes the USA great is precisely the years of influence and immigration from OTHER countries...
As someone who has had multiple dogs most of my life, including Pitbulls, its all about how they are raised, treated, and trained. Pitties are honestly one of my favorite breeds, the problem is they have the potential to do a lot of damage and fight, so people that do that with dogs favor them over many others. But trained and cared for well they are the biggest teddy bears and super intelligent for dogs. Of course if you attack their family they will defend their pack though.
I was wandering through a lovely field in Olympic National Park. All of a sudden a fellow tourist said you better be careful I saw a fawn in the high grass somewhere near where you are walking. Well, I looked down and no lie about 10 feet away from me was a fawn all covered with spots, so pretty young. I stopped dead, put both hands up, and walked slowly and backwards away from the fawn. When animals are that young, you know that Momma isn't too far away! I kept walking backwards and I didn't turn around until I got back to the road where there were lots of people. I thank that man who told me to watch where I was walking every day.
If you touch a newborn fawn, the mother may reject it and even possibly trample it or kill it when it is trying to feed.
@@jimmywoo3885 obviously I was not trying to touch the fawn. As soon as I saw it so close to me I stopped dead and walked backwards away from the fawn. I didn't want to get Momma upset in any way! I did not touch it or go any closer to it.
Smart.
I'd be more afraid of a male deer in rut. Like elephants and moose. Male deer are dangerous during the mating season.
Smart! Does have been known to attack people when they thought they were a danger to their babies. Sometimes the people didn't know there was a fawn close by.
@weirdredpanda if the fawn isn't running from you, Mama has told it to stay still so she can go eat. You did right by backing away though.
People didn't really comprehend sharks until the early 1900's, they knew of them but didn't fear them like after the incident. Bull sharks can travel and survive in rivers. I believe Jersey was the state where the panic started. The bull shark had picked off a few kids and I think an adult looking for one of the bodies. Thousands of sharks were killed off because of it.
they left out cottonmouths ( snake)
Well yes and no. They didn't mention cottonmouths but the snakes category does include them.
Those buggers will chase you. They are extremely aggressive.
They said cottonmouths under the snake category.
@@revpembroke3082 ok I missed it
@@revpembroke3082no they said coral snake in the water snake catagory.
7:50 When my Mom was a little girl in Mississippi, she caught a coral snake. It was in her bedroom and she prodded it into a cigar box with a pencil stub, and she took it to school with her the next day. She didn't know what kind it was, the teacher didn't know, the county forestry gent had never seen anything like it, finally took it to an expert in Jackson....
A few years ago on a cycling tour of the springs in north Florida near Live Oak I was sitting on a limestone rock next to where a lady was standing.
"Gitte, don't look down, but with your left foot first, slowly take two steps backward."
She did.
"Now, look down."
There was a pigmy rattler next to where her left foot had been. Don't remember her reaction, but I don't think _panic_ would describe it.
1:10 yeah, that's true, but mostly you'd ever REALLY have to worry if you're stranded out at sea IN shark territory and IN the water. They get curious about us and will bump us. But when people panic and start kicking, their predator instinct kicks in, and they think you're a group of fish
There were few recorded shark attacks until in the early 1900’s. Some claim its because with the amount of dead bodies in the ocean from naval warfare, especially WWI and WWII, the sharks started to view people as food. But in reality you are more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than a shark.
Most likely sharks will leave us alone. Swimmers are usually athletic. Not enough fat to be tasty.
The Malibu artist (on CZcams) has drone footage of lots of great white sharks interacting with people. People and sharks co-exist a lot more than the folks realize...
Sharks are little sea toddlers. They experience much of the world by putting things in their mouths. Unfortunately their mouths are filled with pointy teeth.
11:15 Funfact: Stray dogs are one of the few animals that will actively hunt humans.
Here in the States, we have one of the largest moths, it is called the Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia). As adults, they are unable to feed and can get a wingspan of 6 in (15.24 cm).
I saw one of those and thought I was HALLUCINATING! I still may have been...but it was larger than any of the common birds around!
It weird when you see a huge moth... Or a cicada. I didn't know they have cicadas in Canada too. (Winnipeg)
As i mentioned in previous comments. I live in Asheville, North Carolina. In the southern region of the Appalachian mountain. We have all the snkaes in this state. The city is small, about 250, 000 ppl in the Metropolitan. Bears will walk in to the city, across buy roads and into downtown. We have 2 of those snake spices mentioned. ( and all 3 in the state ). We have both spiders mentioned. The eastern part of this state, we have sharks and alagators.
I digress, i lived outside of Asheville. Our house was about 3000 ft up the mountains. Black bears were a near daily occurrence. We also had the biggest incects than normal. We have Wolf Spiders. They are about the size of a hand. They will cause necrosis if you are bitten by one.
Coyotes were a big issue up there, as well as gray wolves. It sounds wose that it is. Copperhead snakes are the worst hereo, as well as rattlesnake and water moccasins.
But withball that being said, the USA has nothing on Australia.
As for death and injury statistics, remember that USA is almost half a continent. (Canada has the other half.) USA is more than twice as large as the European Union. USA population is a few hundred million people. Therefore the numbers of deaths aren't as statistically terrifying. And a number of injuries come from stupid tourists trying to take pictures with bison.
And in urban environments you have very little wildlife to hurt you. The wild creatures usually keep to themselves.
The pumas (mountain lions, catamounts, cougars) hunt on the same land as ranch owners graze their cattle. It's a human encroachment problem. Pumas will hunt sheep and other animals ranchers take care of, and the ranchers are at constant war with pumas, coyotes, and wolves.
I used to take my late dog for an open run in the desert. He had a very good nose. One day it took a fast run to an area that I knew a pack of coyotes hung out at. I yelled out, "Hey Stupid! Come back!" My dog stopped, looked at me and trotted back. Smart dog.
MEXICO is also part of NORTH America, not just USA and Canada. 🙄
My Step Grandfather was a trapper. I think he did it to avoid military service during WW1 and 2. He was trying to trap a cougar once. It attacked him. He shot it. He was so angry, he had wanted the pelt to sell. Lucky for him. The bullet went in the open mouth. And out the other end. So he got his pelt after all. That was his story. To his "cuss-ed grandson".
Mom was watching him like a hawk all the time. I had no idea he had made her Mum give her up to her uncle's family. He was not her biological father. He didn't want a 6 year old kid around...
I encountered him 30 years after Mum had been sent away. Oblivious to family history.
To me he was a strong, jolly old guy with carpenter skills and lots of old, rusted tools. And an old yellow Mercury truck. Full of stories. Funny old stories.
North America consists of three countries: Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Mexico also exists and has some dangerous wildlife as well.
Hey, Chris! My name is Chris, too. I’m half German, born in America but I was raised the first few years of my life in Germany and my first language is German. Had to learn English when I came back to America to start school.
I love snakes, man! I’ve got a couple of my own. Two snakes, 6 tarantulas, 6 scorpions, a giant centipede, a rat, a whip scorpion, a vinegaroon, two praying mantises, three beetles, a jumping spider and a huntsman spider.
And, of course, a dog.
Hope you can one day get over your fear of snakes. Maybe it’d be a cool CZcams video if you challenged your fear by visiting a local reptile convention (if there are any).
Just subscribed to your channel. Prost, aus Amerika!
The fact that we live within such a crazy dangerous ecosystem yet still managed to conquer and tame it speaks volumes about how tough of a people we are.
if the guy with the bear is who I think he is he got eating by a bear but not at this time
Yep, that's him.
Yep, it's Timothy Treadwell.
He over-stayed. He would visit for the salmon run. But he wanted to stay a bit longer that year. When food is plentiful, the calculus is: go for the easy food. When it gets scarce, you eat anything that moves... Which risks the prey fighting back. The tragedy is his gf loved him so much she went with him and thus also became bear food too. I was in India when I realized we humans (me too) are Tiger food. Tigers would happily eat us. I made a joke about it. But it's serious. We generally aren't going to win against any predator our size or bigger. We are too used to being safe to have the mental mindset to adapt quickly.
I'm a native born Floridian and grew up completely used to gators, bull sharks, horses, cows, deer and water moccassins...very venomous snakes that can swim.
Remember, with US snakes you pretty much just have to avoid stepping on them. They won't chance you down like a Back Momba.
With the rattlesnake it even warns you "hey I'm right here, go away now"
@@Some_who_call_me_Tiim I almost stepped on a diamondback a few weeks back and he never made a sound. Would've nailed me if I didn't see him.
I know of one snake that WILL go after you: Cotton-mouth water moccasin. I know this because I watched one go after my brother and take a huge leap in order to bite him right through his shoe. He almost lost his foot from the venom and still has a huge scar. And just as a side note, that same brother (years later) got bitten by a rattlesnake. It had somehow lost its rattle so he didn't get the usual warning. I guess you could say he's "been snakebit"
I worked with a guy who lived in a very dodgy neighborhood and his home protection was a seven foot long snake. He kept it in a terrarium in his front window and there were people that would cross the street to avoid walking past his house. They would see the snake and just freak out. He would let it wrap around his arm and carry it around the block on nice sunny days.
The spitting snakes in Kenya can blind you. And are very ready to do so. My safari driver quickly rolled up his window when the snake reared up in threat posture from 20 feet away.
You show them respect and they will generally leave you alone.
There’s no whining in the USA. We take the bad for the best life…worth every minute of being an American.
Amen Suzy.. (from another Suzy!) xo
@@suefantastic4584no whining??? Americans dudes are whiners. A hangnail and whine, whine, whine. Stubs a toe, call an ambulance.
There was a hefty amount of whining in 2020 when Trump lost the election.
@@SurvivorBri theres a hefty amount of whining about racism from racists
@@SurvivorBri Even more when he won in 2016. People literally crying. We must have different definitions of “lost.”
We mostly forget that we have these dangerous animals because we're too busy scaring ourselves with reading about the creatures in Australia. 😂
Zeus and Thor get a bit itchy trigger fingers at times. Big angry kitties are my favorite animals. Gators are angry swamp chickens. Now we just fish them each year legally. To keep the numbers safe. Bears are not to be gone near.
Here is WV we have primarily black bears and a few cats but they don't bother us as much as the snakes do.
A lot of Americans live interior of the country so they didn’t have to fear sharks. Seeing Jaws in 1975 brought a real fear to many Americans who had never considered the idea.
As a boy in Florida I almost stepped on a diamond back rattle snake
When I was a child in the 1960s, a leash was not mandatory for dogs. Dogs, just sort of walked around feely. Never been attacked, and I think dogs have a special affinity for me, often coming toward me in a friendly manner. Yeah, dogs love me.
The most dangerous animal is man himself. That is the one that I fear most.
"Everyone here is afraid of wolves"
The people of Colorado "You know how we intentionally got rid of those things? We should bring them back and forbid any management of them"
I really hate the lightning vs shark attacks comparison. Way fewer people go into water that could have sharks than people who go into a storm that has lightning. So ofc more people get struck by lightning.
And I would think there are more lightning strikes per year than sharks that go to the shore per year
Except for Florida which has the most shark attacks and lightning attacks in the US.
People are way more likely to be eaten by pigs (farmers are the people), and car accidents deaths are way more likely than animal interactions deaths.
Hi, I'm a new subscriber. I've watched 2 of your videos and I love your reactions. I leave in a very wild natural area in the USA and I have Bobcats, Pumas, Coyotes that come on my property periodically when they a hunting. I let them walk on through no problems. I have a family of crows that leave in my trees and I do feed and care for them but in return they give me a warning when something is on my property. Living in America is always interesting 😊 stay healthy, happy and safe always.
More people die by bee stings and car crashes than shark attacks. That guy that goes by the name Grizzly man died shortly after ( he didn't know enough to stay safe ) a Deer jump right in front of me at night.
Worldwide the mosquito is the most dangerous. Malaria and other infectious diseases carrier.
I'm 71 years old, so I remember all about Sharks and the movie Jaws. Before the movie Jaws in 1975, yes we knew about sharks and the danger of them, but it was always way back in the dark part of our brains, we never really thought about it or had any worry of being bit or eaten by a shark . After the movie, just the thought of going to the beach and into the water is terrifying for many of us because of that movie. For me? I will NOT go in the water. Not even ankle deep. No Thank You.
These animals are why pet culture is so different in most parts of the US. We don’t let cats and dogs roam around freely, especially cats. We have large birds of prey also.
I feel like for the most part that has more to do with cars... (and people actually caring more about their pets now than in the past - kinda like how they used to send kids outside and not care where they were until it was supper time or sundown 😅)
@@caiawren6100Exactly. I remember very well about being outside playing until dark, when our moms called us, standing on the front porch. Are you a fellow boomer? Those were the days!
We have rad tailed hawks where I live that have taken quite a few Chihuahua puppies right out of people's yards. Right size for the babies I guess.
In Winnipeg Canada they made a by-law, cats were to be kept indoors. To curb the feral cat population.
The rabbit population exploded in the city. I bet the birds did better too. But the rabbits were everywhere.
Recently my friend in Nanaimo got a new dog. It's part chihuahua. He found a rabbit den in the yard. He'd killed them by the time my friend noticed. Very very poor den choice. Right in the middle of the yard on an exposed hill. Eagles or herons would've got them if the dog hadn't. He's very very fast. And strong. His whole body vibrates with energy.
That bear is so cute until it rips your face off 😂
Keep in mind there are over 350 million people here and a lot of wilderness, so having more animal fatalities than a single European country isn't all that surprising.
Cougars/pumas/panthers/mountain lions are all the same thing. They are cats though and react exactly like every other cat; if you're not prey and you're big enough to be dangerous, they're almost always afraid of you. Even if you do wind up finding one that thinks you might make a good breakfast, an adult male with a knife vs. a puma is going to come out in favor of the human more often than the puma, though both will likely sustain injuries. And we still have guns here if necessary.
Wolves don't make the list because we don't have many left. We hunted them pretty much to extinction over the past few hundred years. Or turned them into dogs, which are wolves with better table manners. That said, I'd rather face a mountain lion any day over wolves, because wolves hunt in packs and an adult wolf can break your arm just with the force of a single bite.
Dogs do make the list because we have a LOT of dogs.
Cows? Cows are just thousands of pounds of very stupid and sometimes cranky muscle. Treat them like heavy machinery, with the respect something thousands of pounds more than you that can move in unexpected ways deserves.
Do not screw with bears. If you're going to be near where bears live, always remember the buddy system: push your buddy down and run like hell while they eat him.
His face when the snakes came out to play 😂