5 Of The Most Distinctive Black Bear Subspecies In North America

Описание: The American black bear is north America's smallest and most widely distributed bear.
It has an estimated population of around 850,000 individuals and this trumps the brown bear population at around 200,000 individuals.
This may be more impressive that you first might think as brown bears are found across large areas of the northern hemisphere whereas black bears are only found in North America.
Black bears are not closely related to brown bears or polar bears as genetic studies have revealed that they split from common ancestor around 5 million years ago.
Because the black bear is much smaller than the other north American species it chooses to avoid them and if it's unlucky it can fall victim to them.
As the black bear has such a large population over such a large area, it has quite a few subspecies across it's range.
Each of these populations are adapted to a different way of life and they have evolved unique adaptations to help them to survive.
In today's video I will be focusing on the most distinctive black bear subspecies and to start off we will be heading to British Columbia.

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Spirit Bear
3:51 Queen Charlotte Islands Black Bear
6:00 Glacier Bear
7:12 Cinnamon Bear
8:56 Florida Black Bear

Attributions

Brown bear range map:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_b...
CC BY-SA 3.0

Black bear range map:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...
CC BY-SA 3.0

Cinnamon bear images:
ucumari photography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari...
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Florida black bear range map:
Nthnjustice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida...
CC BY-SA 4.0

Spirit bear images:
A.Davey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Maximilian Helm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_...
CC BY 2.0

Spirit bear range map:
Bear Conservation
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC BY-SA 3.0

Queen Charlotte Islands black bear images:
KimonBerlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursus_a...
CC BY-SA 2.0

Black bear skull images:
Acroterion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC BY-SA 4.0
J. N. Stuart
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartw...
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Haida people images:
Susan Clarke
https://www.flickr.com/photos/norther...
CC BY 2.0
Canadian Museum of History
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC BY-SA 4.0

Vancouver coastal sea wolf images:
A.Davey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Glacier bear images:
National Park Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier...
public domain

Glacier Bay National Park image:
Randy Roach
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC BY-SA 2.0

Florida black bear footage:
FWCnotinuse
   / @nolongerinusefwc  
MyFWC Florida Fish and Wildlife

Animal underpass footage:
Center for Biological Diversity
   / @biologicaldiversityorg  

I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
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Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed :)

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursus_a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier...