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Lewis, you can see the seals, but don't try to befriend them. We locals don't like tourists messing with our animals. Not being mean. We've had tourists try to ride on our honu (turtles), pick them up and pass them around for pictures; and even injure or unalive some of them. So, we are very protective!
Agreed. People are not allowed to harass them, especially during breeding or if they have babies. Sometimes the authorities rope off the area of the beach so that people don't bother them.
@@brianabc83 wow I don’t blame you at all for feeling that way. Why do some behave so poorly.
It is also VERY illegal and comes with a very hefty fine for touching them or sea turtles in Hawaii
I mean the term befriending doesn’t mean walking up to somthing right away and making friends. It takes time but yes seals are very easy to befriend
Couldn’t have said this in a more cringe way🤦🏻♂️
I dont think I have ever heard of "archipelago" pronounced the way the narrator did, ever. 😂
I was going to ask if anyone played with archa pa Legos when they were kids!
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I wanted to hurl something at the t.v. It was driving me nuts! Lol
I wonder if this is using an AI
@@bruces6778 I hear these types of mispronunciation all over CZcams. Many are a.i...this one I believe was legitimately just ignorant. Sadly literacy is in sharp decline, especially grammar as YT comments prove :)
The Hawaiian Monk seal (and Hawaiian Sea turtle) is a protected animal. Going up to the animal can get you a fine, jail time, or even beaten up by the locals!
You'd better believe it. Don't mess with the seals or the turtles here. You'll also end up on the evening news.
I saw a seal on a beach on south Oahu. There were many people on the beach with the sleeping seal. Someone (Life Guards?) put small posts in the sand surrounding the seal with a rope, or tape, strung between the posts. I was there for about an hour. In that time the seal did not move except for its flippers and to look around occasionally.
He's talking about how that otters are blind at birth but their sight comes in later on. Dogs are blind at birth there's a couple weeks before their eyes open.
*sight
Lol, I was going to ask how you navigate? Because you were also born blind and toothless.😂😂😂
Also, we are born toothless, lol. We don't stay toothless. 😂
@@t.j._fury Except... I think Brits are born with their nasty teeth. 😉😁
Cats are blind and toothless.
Humans are toothless and can't really see well at birth.
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to be fair, MOST animals are born blind and develop their sight as they grow. but they have full sight before they leave their nest/den...
Buffalo shedding it's winter hair.
My nephew had to wrestle an alligator in Florida to move it out of a residential area. I've seen bison, and they shed their winter hair/coats during the spring. It usually takes all summer. Bears are more common than some people think. We have moved into their habitat. We have special garbage cans to keep them out. For the bison, leave them alone, don't take pictures with them, it's not worth the injury.
Ask any of us Native “Americans” about how unwise it is to mess with Bison! lol
I live in Southwest Florida. Black bears are quite common here, and the reason that we can't leave our trash outside in unsecured bins. Alligators live in the canal at the end of my street, and can often be seen walking on thr street or in yards, especially during mating season. Panthers and bobcats are also neighbors, but less often seen. Raccoons, opossums and otters are very common, with raccoons sometimes becoming a nuisance due to their intelligence and curiosity.
Wow how did I never realize there were otters in Florida! That's so cool. I've never seen them there. I almost want to go back now 😂
True. You can live in FL your whole life and realistically never expect to see a panther or a bobcat, but you can see an alligator at any local body of freshwater--even a big ditch! Canals and ponds and lakes are full of them. Never wander too close to the reedy edges...they hide in there to hunt their food.
@@savannah7375 Otters can be found in the Northwestern part of Florida too. I saw a family of them cross the road heading to a beach park.
I have yet to see a black bear but I know they're here. I've seen them in the news. I have seen wild boar, deer, raccoons, opossums, owls, gators, both species of foxes, and coyotes just hanging out in neighborhoods. I have however worked at a local zoo and wildlife sanctuary but that really doesn't count as seeing them in the wild. Lol.
Do yall have armadillos down there like we do in the panhandle?
They are born blind and toothless, but not forever. The video implied that they grow out of this after 2 months. Cats are born blind also.
So are humans 😂
Most mammals are
I’ve got a fantastic video of a black bear breaking into our heavy duty trash bin. We had a few-day battle trying to outsmart (or outmuscle) each other. Replacement of all nails with screws, reinforcement with metal & the application of a heavy duty chain & lock finally saw the humans as the victors.
i see bison everyday, im next to the Wichita mountains in oklahoma and they have bison, longhorns, mountain lions, panthers, otters and sometimes wolves in their wildlife reserve
I myself have had black bear with her cubs and a bobcat right to my patio. I stay away when they are near. Have lots of deer and rabbit, along with other creatures
Most black bear will avoid human confortation. But if they decide you are after their cubs or are very hungery they are more than capible of killing adult men when push comes to shove.
@ViolentKisses87 Yeah, there's that viral video of the guy rock climbing and accidentally ended up between a mama bear and cub. Scary!
Alligators and crocs basically ARE dinosaurs. They've been largely unchanged since the time of dinos. One of few animals to cross between these periods, they've been so successful, they haven't had to change much to adapt.
But we do have existing dinosaurs - birds. That Prince of Wales spruce grouse is literally in the dinosaur clade.
Haha! I keep hearing paleontologists say they are NOT dinosaurs! Kept thinking, “Who says they are?” Now I know. 💡
I once visited a wild bison park in Canada. The person driving the truck we were in stopped the vehicle and pointed. "Look! A Buffalo!" I asked him if it was behind the hill (one as high as the truck's roof) just to one side of the road. After a few seconds I realized that the bison wasn't behind the "hill". It WAS the hill! Bison are not as big as elephants, but in the absence of elephants to compare them with, they are amazingly huge!
The birds that hang around buffaloes are called cowbirds, they hang around the herds and eat the insects that the buffaloes attract, they also do so to cows.
Land remoras
Did you notice the ground the alligator was walking on? The bit of sand he was walking past was a sand trap on a golf course. They have alligators in the water hazards in Florida.
Yeah. Just ask chubbs and Happy Gilmore 😂😂
Camping at Crater Lake National Park in the 60's, we experienced gangs of black bears strolling into our camp. We were reduced to locking ourselves in the car... and had to watch while they ate all of our breakfast. They know how to open a Coleman cooler too, and also ate what we were hoping to have for lunch.
When I took a trip to Colorado for a week, I saw 2 of the cutest black bear cubs while sitting on a deck come up and start playing on the wood pile close by. I went inside to watch through the glass door. I knew Mama bear was down in the woods, not too far away. I didn't want to be close by when she came. LOL
Yeah. I think it would’ve been hard to explain that you were there first.
What I’ve learned by watching videos and stuff if you see a baby bear mountain lion or anything like that your best bet is to go back the way you came very quietly and quickly because mama’s probably already seen you
@@subnoizesoldier2 Or smelled you. You want to move downwind if possible.
Florida native here. Any body of fresh water has a gator in it. During mating season, the males travel, and people often find them in swimming pools or even sometimes in their house through an open door.
@dorysmith2776 I'm KY and I have seen so many news stories about gators in people pools and wandering in their houses. That would freak me out. I've only seen one once and luckily not close up.
Yeah..those buffalo are shedding their winter coats. They have a super dense heavy winter coat because they live on the COLD plains in winter. Many mammals are BORN blind and toothless, including dogs and cats. :) Doesn't mean they stay that way. I've been around black bears and buffalo. Some of these others are pretty rare - only live in a small area.
types of bears and how to act if you see one. the black bear- fightback. the brown bear- act dead. the polar bear- kiss your 2-2 goodby.🙈🙉🙊
Black, fight back. Brown, lay down and white, goodnight it's over.
and ffs don't feed them. that doesn't end well for you OR the bear
@@sianne79 ... I don't know, that seems like a win-win situation for the bear, unless it is caught or shot at later on
@@swedishshortsnout5610 You feed them, they'll see humans as food and attacks rise. When I was game warden so many bears had to be relocated or killed because of people feeding them
In the 80's I was driving at about 4AM through a rural area of the Willamette valley in Oregon when a bunch of polecats crossed the road in front of me. There were 2-3 adults and a whole bunch of babies. They were all really fast and when they looked at the car their eyes glowed like little flashlights from the headlights. It was a wonderful thing to see.
I'm in Northern California, not far from where a young man was killed by a mountain lion...We have bear quite often roaming around our place. We don't put the garbage out at night, we wait until the morning and can hear the garbage trucks garbage truck is near our road. Bears have litterally clawed our garbage can to pieces trying to get what is in it..I don't go out on my property without a fireearm on my belt. We did put up an 8" fence, which keeps the coyotes out but mtn lions can jump 16 ft. I think the bears are too lazy to even attempt to go over the fence...We do not let our mid size dogs go outside alone. And don't forget we have rattlesnakes where I live....
Same where I live. My little dog has a small grassy area right at the back door. And it has a fence around it. She is never alone outside. The fence is to keep her in, but predators can just hop over it.
Bison probably shed a lot of fur in warmer seasons
Bison shed their fur in the spring, and it doesn't all come off evenly. It tends to clump before eventually falling off.
The ferret in the video of a ferret "chewing" on someone's ear is a pet ferret, the species Mustela putorius furo. The wild black-footed ferret species is Mustela nigripes. I spent a summer working with black-footed ferret pre-conditioning program - basically exposing young captive-bred ferrets to live prairie dogs and the elements, so hopefully when they are released they can hunt and survive on their own.
A few years ago a black bear was found up a tree on the grounds of a local public library here in Utah. They're sometimes found in the mountains east from there. What baffled everyone was that this library was nowhere near those mountains. The bear would have had to wander through five or six miles of residential areas, and no one saw it. I imagine every dog in the vicinity probably went nuts though.
I live in Florida and I kayak rivers with gators. I've also encountered bears in North Carolina and Colorado in the wild, while hiking, as well as long horn sheep, a cougar, moose and elk in Colordao. Florida panthers while trail biking and a couple of snake encounters here and there. Respect, awareness and spatial distancing have kept me unscathed, so far!
You'll LOVE this one Lewis! You were surprised that ppl existed that kept a wolf as a pet, that's Nothing! There was a guy in New York City that had a full grown Tiger in a tiny NYC apartment!! Ppl only found out because the cops were after the guy and came across the tiger lol There's video of it & everything 😂
I was fortunate enough to get to live in Kodiak Alaska twice. The Island has a lot of REALLY neat wildlife. The Kodiak river otters are adorable, but I'm surprized the Kodiak Brown Bear didn't make the list... they're the largest of all bears. The males can stand 10 feet tall and weigh an average of 1300 to 1500 pounds (however, some weighing over 2000 lbs have been seen). On average the females are only about 20% smaller. In a somewhat remote area of the island called Pasagshak, there's a large herd of Buffalo that roam and graze right along the dirt road that leads there, on a clift above the beach. They're very docile and will walk right up to your vehicle for a little head scratch. Such majestic animals.
A friend and I were backpacking in Teton National Park. My friend was up ahead and had just rounded a switchback on the trail. Suddenly there was a scream and a ruckus in the forest. Next thing I saw was my friend crab walking/scrambling backward down the mountain though the brush and rocks on his back with a full pack on.
Yes,...he ran face to face with a black bear. The bear was tearing hell out of the forest in the opposite direction. I haven't laughed like that before XD
Your friend was very fortunate. We had out of state outdoorsman get malled by grizzlies and we carried out in a body bag while venturing in the mountains of Montana by Idaho.
It was a black bear. They rarely attack people.
@@reindeer7752 Thank you. My point was that the bear was tearing the hell out of there as fast and as panicked as my pal was. I still laugh about our backpacking escapades but this one takes the cake. Poor ×dwardo has a knack for finding trouble :)
@@brettmuir5679 I don't blame him for running or you for laughing.
@@reindeer7752 then there was the time poor ×dwardo was enjoying some wild onions along the trail. I asked, what are you eating?
Wild onions
DOOD!!! do you know the difference between wild onions and Death Camas?
watching him panic and force himself to vomit again and again was almost...almost... equally funny
Later that evening beside the campfire he asked contemplatively, "if you had not questioned me, what do you think would have happened?"
I told him I would right then be running a six hour marathon in the dark to climb out of the Desert Maze and get to my vehicle parked on the canyon rim then drive the hour back to civilization forto alert a search and rescue team. "By the time your rescue party would arrive tomorrow morning you would be dead"
The next morning only the tracks of a Ghilla Monster had come between us as it had come to cozy up next to the embers of our fire during the night
I live in a busy suburban area and we have a few black bears wandering around looking for food, like bird seeds, unattended bbq outside, and most definitely garbage. They can also go after small pets to if they are hungry enough.
The chunks of fur coming off the bison is their winter coat. They are shedding it since they don’t need it for the warmer months.
Many mammals like kittens and puppies, are born blind and toothless. But they gain sight and grow baby teeth over their first several weeks. So that is normal.
Took summers in Colorado every year for about 15 years at the grandparents cabin. Built on the side of a mountain, the ground sloped strongly down from back to front. At the front of the cabin (on the ground level) we had a large "family room" with very large "picture windows". Us kids were sleeping one night on the floor of the family room and one of my sisters woke us up by talking in her sleep. Looking up at the window, we could see a very large bear looking in at us. His front paws were at the top of a window, when we measured the height of the paw prints the next morning, they were 9 feet high! The back paw prints were easily 16 inches long.
We also saw mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and many types of deer and birds while "out West".
Two cool animals this list was missing are the mountain lion or cougar which you can find in the north west and Rocky Mountain goats which are found in the Rocky Mountains.
Mountain lions have begun to make a reappearance down here in Arkansas too. We’ve had confirmed sightings in recent years of multiple big cats in the state, and in more than one area. Hopefully we’re finally establishing a small breeding population again for the first time in years.
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gators have specialized muscles in their jaws. the ones that close the mouth are HIGHLY developed and extremely strong, BUT the ones that open the mouth are very small and weak. This allows handlers to close and tape the mouths shut if being careful. you just have to make sure that you don't get bit first....
Very much enjoy your enthusiasm and humor. I'm from California USA.
i'm a wildlife and landscape photographer and a grandmother from East Tennessee. if you ever make it over here, i could take you to sit in the woods with black bear and their cubs where you're safe and they're not scary... they're just beautiful and such good parents. no need to pass out. just walk away if you're scared. any kind of brown bear is a different story. i'm terrified of those myself.
About bats Lewis, You might think this is crazy but I want a bat house to draw bat around my home. They eat mosquitoes and other tormenting bugs. I have seen a couple in the evening flying around the street lights eating bugs. I don’t mind them as long as they don’t invite themselves in my house as happened one time lol.
When I lived in Florida, I had a little lake in my back yard. There a was an alligator there and I would sit on my boat dock and talk to Wallygator everyday. He would just float in the water with his head out and we would stare at each other for hours. Man, I miss Wallgater and I hope he grew up to be massive and had a great life! ❤
Oh I’ve stumbled on a few black bears in my day. On April 15th 2013 one snuck up on us while fishing a river and got about 10 feet from us before we noticed him. We just slowly backed down the trail away from it. He just strolled over to my buddies tackle box gave it a couple sniffs and then swam across the river. Pretty chill actually.
We have some bison in Texas, they have seasonal shedding like most mammals. My grandfather had lots of fun for years with one bison named Fred. Grampa was a tool pusher for the Sharp Drilling (oil field) they had a contract for a ranchers land, but each time they came through the gate they had to face off with Fred, the ranchers 6ft tall, 2,000 lb pet buffalo. Grampa had lots of stories to tell about ol' Fred lol.
I live in north louisiana about three years ago we've recently heard wolves out in our woods.
The reason we know its wolves and not coyotes is the difference in howls.
A wolf howl is long and almost no break.
A coyote howl sounds more like a pack of hyenas.
Eastern Missouri here. We have three or four packs of coyotes surrounding us. You are correct. They sound like hyenas.
When I was a kid, we used to see herds of Bison all the time in Colorado. Not the case anymore. But I also lived in Florida for a long time, so I've seen my fair share of gators. Both animals are quite delicious.
Up in the mountains of Tennessee, you see black bears all the time. They'll be walking down the road or crossing the road, passing through your yard, etc. They're usually fairly docile and get spooked easily. Never mess with one that has babies / cubs following it. They don't appreciate it :) I've also seen the Otters while on vacation but never any of the other animals.
8:14 The fur is "peeling off" because it is most likely the start of Spring. She is shedding her winter coat now that her spring coat, which is lighter and cooler has grown in.
Born and raised in Alaska. The best dogs I ever had were half sled dog and half arctic wolf.. Insanely Smart, Loyal, and Large. Loved those dogs… and my parents never worried about me roaming the tundra with them.. they could climb ladders and open doors… so smart… Miss them like a family member… more than some… 😖😜
My soul dog was 5/8 German shepherd, 1/8 Malamute, 1/8 Husky and 1/8 grey wolf. He was a gorgeous, sweet natured boy.
I have ran across 3 bears in Colorado while hiking. They just walk away. I was worried one time coming around a bend at the same time as a bear. We were within 10 feet of each other and both froze in our tracks. While I reached for my sidearms she just calmly stepped off the path and headed up the mountain. In Kodiak Alaska I saw more brown bears than I could count feasting on salmon in a river. I should also note that I have seen many mountain lions, elk, moose and mule deer in Colorado. I personally enjoy watching the marmots. Love your reaction videos bro. Your welcome at Sam’s anytime 👍
The Bison get a heavy coat of hair in the fall to keep them warm during the harsh snowy winter; in the spring they shed this fur off to cool them during the hot summers on the prairie where there are few trees. The river otters gain their eye sight and teeth as they grow;
The Crocodylidae family has been around since BEFORE the dinosaurs. Bonus: the Florida Cottonmouth (aka water moccasin) tends to be more aggressive than their rattler cousins due to having a significantly faster production of venom.
5:27 This gator that is on a golf course right next to a sand trap, I'm wondering if that golf course is in Jacksonville, I had to go to a convention that was on a golf course in Jacksonville and they had problems with Gators there and this looks just like the exact same place that they were having Gators walk through and a golfer decided "they're here all the time they're not going to bother me", Well he got bit. He could have easily avoided it but he just stood there as it walked towards him slowly and eventually it got right next to him and bit his leg.
I’m in the outdoors constantly. I’ve seen countless black bears & 1 grizzly. I’ve also seen a small pack of gray wolves, but not the kind in the video. The national parks out west have bison EVERYWHERE. In some places you can see them without even leaving your car.
I live in Colorado, much of my life in the rocky mountains. This is a very small list of wild things I've seen regularly in my life: bears, cougars, moose, elk, deer, bald eagles, bighorn sheep, and rattlesnakes, all of these common where I've lived. That The wildlife here is one of the big reasons I will always live in Colorado.
I've seen several types of weasels here up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In the winter they are so beautiful, I've seen ones that are all white with bits of light red almost pink markings and I can't even figure out what kind they are. One time a baby ermine walked into our house and we quietly got it to leave safely before our dogs realized. 🤣 I see bald eagles at least once a week. I see wild turkeys even more often. We've seen many black bears including baby bears up here, even right on our street. I've seen many coyotes and once I saw a large yellow wolf in Wyoming. I know there are wolves around here, but I've never seen them. We frequently hear them though, and our husky malamute dogs always howl back.
I'm from Detroit, and the farthest north in Michigan is been is Bay City.
I'd LOVE to visit Mackinaw, then the UP! It looks so beautiful.
Had a Ferret for 8 years as a pet,her name was Angel she use to steal my McDonald's Fries all the time and steal and horde stuff all the time, she slept with me every night, she was like a daughter to me
Here in Florida,Also have a ton of gators couple blocks from my house, Passed a 7 foot gator on my bicycle it was just resting on the bank by the Swamp,I'm in New Port Richey, Florida
You had a domestic ferret. The black footed ferret is not a domestic breed, they are protected in protected land sanctuaries.
Yep
Once while on vacation in the Michigan upper peninsula, which has limited population, the locals warned us it wasn't a good idea to go out exploring the woods. We kind of brushed off the warning. The next morning while we were eating breakfast out on the deck of our rented cabin we saw 5 black bear come out of the woods and cross the field in front of us. Needless to say we never did go into the woods.
I used have an otter dance for me and she went and got her babies to show very cute.also i have Opossums, Racoons and Armadillos on my carport here in New Port Richey, Right now we have a bunch of ducks on our street in New Port Richey Florida
Plus Hawks,eagles ,owls, and bats on occasion, the Owls are super rare though think I have only seen one in the wild in over 30:years in Florida and I lived all over Florida, Marathon, Orlando, Ocala, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Hudson, Tarpon Springs, Bayonet Point, And Last 20 plus years in New Port Richey, Florida
I live in South Carolina and had a black bear in my yard... also when I worked in Florida, i watched alligators from my back porch in the ponds behind my apartment.
I was at Yellowstone in the early season, and there were bison and baby bison in the parking lot, 30-40 feet from me. I mean, totally stay away, but it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen to see those babies that close.
The buffalo fur is seasonal; they get very thick fur for the winter (which is extremely cold where they live, I know 'cause I lived there too, lol); in the spring it will start to drop off for a much shorter coat because the summers are ridiculously hot.
I've seen black bear quite a few times up in the Smokey Mountains. I saw an alligator in a creek about 5 miles from my house in Georgia,and I've seen Bison at Yellowstone
There are black bears here where I live, last year had one taking out all the hummingbird feeders for a sweet treat. 2 yrs ago we had a Mom with her two cubs come through down by the river, my neighbor got some pics on their trail cam.They are definitely around. lol
I grew up on Prince of Wales island in SE Alaska. Never saw that spruce grouse but plenty of black bears.
The black trade for wolves is actually a real thing. When I was in high school, my father brought home a couple of "puppies" from some woman living in our vicinity. One grew into the smaller black wolf in this video. The other was a female who attached herself to me, as she was afraid of all men, including my father. She was buffalo wolf. I'm the only person she would allow to care for her. She was with me through a portion of my 20s before she passed away.
Last time I was in Gatlinburg Tennessee we saw around six black bear. One was walking down the road while I was waiting for the Trolly. Bit too close for comfort.
When I was young, me and my cousins (my cousins and I) went camping on our own. We literally slept in the woods, on the ground, in just sleeping bags. Just before dawn I woke up to a black bear sniffing us. I just layed still, frozen in fear. After it inspected everything, it just sauntered off.
Buffalo aka Bison shed their think coats during spring to stay cool in the summer and regrow it in the fall for winter.
Ferrets are a common pet. They're part of the weasel family. That pet ferret was nibbling on its human affectionately, not eating. I've seen some black bears in New Jersey. I was born in Hawaii so I can't say I've seen monk seals or bats since I was there for a year, haha. Though, I'd love to go back there one day. But I have seen the nene at some zoos and got to feed some at a bird park in North Carolina.
I've run into Black Bear hiking lots of times. So long as they don't have any cubs to protect you are usually OK. We always small bells on out pack frames that tinkled as we walked and would let the bear know we were around. You would usually hear then crashing through the brush putting space between then and you.
I've seen 100s of gators and a few river otters in Mississippi
Black Bears are pretty common in the Appalachian Range. If you hike there much, you run into them. They typically run from humans unless they have cubs nearby or become used to human food in tourist areas.
That huge alligator is on a golf course in Florida. Almost every neighborhood has a pond (not connected to a river) just a pond. And we have seen them everywhere! If I lived there I would freak out to have my kids playing outside. But I live in another State -New Mexico, we have black bears (many times they are brown) plus mountain lions and all forest creatures.
The American bison, like most animals that live in the wild during summer and winter, sheds its winter coat beginning in spring through early summer. It then begins to regrow a winter coat in fall.
Grew up near the Appalachian Mountains, and have seen many black bears, whether they were in the forest guarding cubs, or walking down the street just a few feet away, they are magnificent creatures. I even remember as a kid going to see one that was in captivity and you could buy it Cokes to drink, now that's not allowed though, he drank more then you do lol
I live in NW Washington State, we have black bears and cougars that come right into our yard. Bears can be scared away like you would shoo a dog out of your yard, usually. Cougar scare the hell out of me. Saw one in the back yard a few weeks ago. We can the yard before going out, always.
I live in Kodiak.
🤣 River otter are only BORN toothless and blind. They quickly gain both before leaving the den.
And they are great fun to watch by a lake shoreline.
And of course Kodiak has the biggest subspecies of brown bear in the world.
@5:23 There's a longer video on CZcams about that huge gator on the golf course. (Google large gators in Florida) There's a couple of people in the vid so you can gage how big it is...and it's humungous. It's almost prehistoric. Saw a baby gator once. (From the safety of an elevated boardwalk.)
I live in Minnesota and have seen many black bears camping , also in the smoky mountains of Tennessee I saw tons of them, they are really nothing to worry about and are just looking for easy food like garbage or things left in cars and whatnot but very unlikely to attack a person unprovoked for the most part it’s just the grizzly bears you have to watch out for
Ive seen bison , elk and a black bear with cubs while driving
Also have lived in places where there were many raccoons, opossums and skunks in my yard at night! Sometimes coyotes! And once, in Washington State, a mountain beaver
A cool thing I've witnessed is an eastern blue jay imiating a hawk and scaring the other birds away from the food we put out for them
Also in Ohio were fireflies. One species would glow for several seconds while another species would flash like mini-papparazzi
I live in a the Appalachian Mountains, Bears aren't that uncommon. We had a Mom and 3 cubs living on our property last year, but that property is just undeveloped forest so it's not unheard of. We only knew they were there because we set out cameras in a few spots with feeders. The big thing with bears is keep your distance. If you see a Cub, Mom is close. Don't get between the Mom and her Cub. If she can't see her baby she'll come after you.
yes tourist season is getting ready to open here in west Yellowstone. the baby bison are called red dogs. its just getting into birthing season now that winter is over. it did snow a little the other day. they do put on a lot of fur but for -50f you have to. lol
Where I grew up in New Jersey we had so many Black Bears that the schools had bear drills on the playground (an adult would blow a special whistle and the kids were to get inside the building ASAP) because the bears where coming to eat out of the dumpsters.
I used to work some spot jobs around and in bison and beefalo ranches in Wyoming. The matted fur is shedding after winter. I've also seen some wild in Yellowstone. Here in Tennessee we do have black bears, mostly in the eastern half of the State. I've seen a few around some of the roads I travel in trucking and once saw one after it was road killed on interstate 40.
I'm 5 minutes above America. One day, we had 7 black bears in our yard going after our apple crop lol I'm surprisingly not super scared of them anymore.
Depending on where (or how many places you've) lived in the USA, an average or above nature enthusiast will have seen many of these impressive animals and more. Seeing them in combinations (eg, owls and alligators, or otters and pelicans, or bears and whales at the same time), rare ones (humpback, and right whales, kaleidoscopic color pulsating squid), unexpected encounters with big (my car vs an elk) and/or dangerous (black widow spiders, poisonous snakes, barracuda) ones that are the most memorable.
I'm a salmon and steelhead trout fisherman in Oregon and I've never seen a bear. Even during spawning season.
Some animals are born "blind". It means their eyes are closed when they are born, like kittens. The eyes do open and they are dependent on their mothers until then.
In California and Hawaii the domesticated ferret (which is what was shown nibbling on the persons ear) is illegal, other states do sell them but NOT the black footed ferret as that is federally protected and can only be found in protected land/sanctuaries.
In southern CA, if you live close to the Sierra mountains you’ll see mountain lions or Bears on your surveillance camera’s maybe even out at sunset 😬 not common but happens.
Rattlesnakes from April-Nov are seen on hikes during peak heat temperatures.
Ok so our dog treed a black bear in our back yard once but we lived up in the mountains at the time. Ferrets are pretty common pets it’s just that specific type that are endangered. I had a friend that sold poisonous snakes and baby alligators and had a full grown one in his basement terrarium. It was a big baby that would run away if you yelled too loud. Also another friend whose parents had a wolf (not that specific breed)for a pet. You weren’t allowed to even act like you were gonna sit on his couch. And he wouldn’t let you pet him until he was comfortable around you(it took months but sooo worth it) 😁
been with buffalo, elk, moose, black bear, alligator in many trips over the years to national parks. Its great to see them up close,
Black nears are common to see in my area, I see them atleast twice a week.
I have video of me and like 3 or 4 other guys feeding fruit loops (yes, the cereal) to a black bear in Sanford, Florida from a house window. We also set a cup of cool aid on the porch and the bear picked it up with his teeth and accidentally dropped it. Then the bear was staring at the spilled cool aid as if it was in disbelief that it was all gone 😂
I also saw a black bear running across the highway in New Jersey
In Arkansas, we used to pick wild blueberries. So did black bears. When we were little, it seemed like a family safe outing until…
We came up against a black bear. Luckily, it was just as afraid as us.
We had a friend that was so afraid that he huffed and puffed every “B” word before he said “bbbbb bear!” 😂 He was almost fainted.
In St. Augustine Florida there is an alligator farm that you can visit and see gators up close and feed them.. of course you are kept safe lol
I was surprised to learn that black bears lived in Mexico too. There was a viral video of a bear standing next to a few women waiting at a bus stop in a Mexican national park. The bear gently pawed one of the women, who stood there bravely. I'm guessing the bear was used to being fed.
I have alligators in a pond I own and encounter them while I'm in my canoe all the time. I periodically will charge the big ones with the canoe so that they learn to keep their distance. When you charge one, they just go under and pop back up on the other side of the pond.
There is a long list of animals here in the U.S. that they didn't even mention - such as deer, elk, bobcats, giant kangaroo rat, prairie dogs, Gila monsters, occasional jaguars, hellbenders (mud puppies), antelope, moose, just to name a few.
My buddy found a black puppy on the side of the road and took it home and it grew up into a grey wolf LOL But yes I have ran into grey wolves here in California a couple times and it is not a big deal. Just like the Great whites where we surf they are super well fed and wolves being social animals they either run or come up and check you out.
I have done a fare amount of hiking on the East Coast, and I have only ever seen one black bear. It was while hiking through West Virginia, and I only saw his butt running up a hill to get away from me. That is their usual response, but they have been known to kill in predatory attacks and when defending cubs. Black bear attacks aren't common but they do happen.
Stumbled on a black bear, camping in TN, opened the door and a black bear was roaming a few yards away. I live in FL have seen gators in ponds on my walks, and finally was out west visiting Yosemite, Grand Tetons and Buffalo would just cross in front of your car
There are a lot of black bears in North Carolina. I've had uneventful encounters with them but its still awesome.
My great-grandfather and his dad had a black bear trained to dance and do tricks; they toured around the South in the 1880s.