it's scientifically proven that one of the best ways to see how a guy's mind works to really see what type of person you're dealing with ask one question what's the biggest animal you can beat in the fight you ask that and you'll learn a whole lot in a short time and in 2021 British firm yugov did a survey there's a lot to unpack here but mostly the 6% of Americans that think they could handle a Grizzly without getting their existence abolished 3 2 1 and that's how long it would take bears are inevitable enough to be one of the few animals I have a one shot rule against as in if they're coming at me full force and I have one shot in the chamber I'm using it to self-medicate my exit off the Mortal coil I might not survive a hippo attack but I'm for sure not surviving my reaction to one I'll same day ship myself to the Lord's door before I let a chimp handle me and I'll selfs Subtract with the quickness before a bear makes me part of its business bears are the most conceptually inconsiderate creatures in nature basically a giant unhinged dog with every possible attribute maxed think about it nature dropped an apex allterrain CrossFit Predator that can out everything you and just let the rest of the population deal with it but what's the most dangerous bear actually well today we're going to be talking about every breed of bear and its chances of putting you on a shirt each bear will get a Merc rating Merc standing for might eviscerate ravage or just cancel you yeah that's definitely the k word that was supposed to be there and as always each rating will be in my very biased opinion but yeah call me Joe Rogan or a grinder Gladiator either way we are going down to bearhole starting with the sunbear named after the thing he spent way too long looking at those eyes stared at the void and the void blinked for first and yes they're built like they barely qualify to be here he looks like a bear with crippling social anxiety that got told to act natural they were recently involved in a controversy in China the controversy was nobody believed that wasn't a man in costume to be fair they're easily the least coated ursus out there they're the smallest in the world at no heavier than a buck 40 and be honest how long would it take for you to guess that foot was attached to a Grizzly's cousin those bare feet helped them climb trees and some bears are the most tree climbing of them all but how dangerous is this identity crisis well they're shy reclusive and mostly eat fruits and plants they're also trigger happy nearly blind and they share real estate with tigers sunbears are known to attack people when caught off guard and their poor eyesight means they can easily get jump scared by humans they also have one of the strongest bite forces relative to body size of any bear but probably only because they use teeth to rip through tree bark there was even one case where a sunbear tiger Showdown ended up with both of them becoming past tense so what could they do to a human well from 2000 to 2010 there were 33 sunbear attacks on humans with the most common injuries being facial but all the attacks were accidental encounters where the sunbears will probably argue self-defense and to my knowledge there are no recorded cases of a sunbear killing a person so with no body count and being the smallest but also being neurotic enough to be a threat I'll give the sunbear a Merc rating of five next you have the andian also known as the spectacle bear for obvious reasons on paper he's the biggest land predator in that part of South America only technically cuz only 5% of four I's diet is meat like the sunbear they're only really a Jihad to fruits and plants also like the sunbear The Walking spectacle is very tree climing and they'll even bu build their version of a treehouse to sleep in to be fair you don't really have a choice when your hall monitor a Jaguar but don't think Buddy's sweet cuz he got glasses they've been known to take out llamas cows and even tapers twice their size but how dangerous are they to people well in 2004 an Andy and bear escaped from a Berlin Zoo and made a beine for the children's area what followed was one of the most gruesome displays ever caught on camera viewer discretion is advised apparently the spectacled bear only has one human body on his record and technically it was a hunter who shot the bear out of a tree only for the bear to land on him I'm sorry but if you fail physics that hard you deserve to get packed up by Paddington and yes Paddington was indeed a spectacle spectacles are also the closest living relative of yeah the short-face bear oh The Duality but considering the only casualty was more a slapstick than a homicidal bear I give the spectacled Beast a Merc rating of two and now we're at the panda portion which might confuse some since there's a genuine corner of the internet that'll tell you that pandas aren't actually Bears those sooner believe China has an obese biracial Geral waddling around to be fair being a bear but identifying as a bamboo processing plan is a questionable life choice but one bamboo is so protein packed that ursus Oreo actually ends up getting just as much as wolves and feral cats and two binging bamboo all day means pandas actually have one of the strongest bite forces of any land mammal wild pandas usually avoid people and there's currently no record of a plus-size eyeshadow cotton ball killing a human the pandas will 100% lash out if they think you deserve it often with life-altering consequences nobody demonstrated Panda potential more than straight at the Beijing Zoo a young Panda named goooo in 2006 a drunk dude climbed into the enclosure to give gooo a hug and goooo gave him an attitude adjustment with his teeth after several minutes of biting each other yes drunkie bit the bear they were eventually separated with a fire hose in 2007 a teenager tried gooo and got chunks ripped out of his legs to the point where bones were showing and in 2009 a father climbed over a barrier to retrieve a toy his son dropped his reward was his leg cotton goo's vice grip Jaws at Keepers literally had to pry open I really think if panas didn't wear the makeup y'all would not be trying them like this the worst part about getting mauled by something so goofy is it probably takes a long time for bystanders to realize you're in trouble they're the epitome of I'm not a killer but don't push me and for that they get a Merc rating of four cuz really if you get flatlined by a panda you probably deserved it now we got the black bear aka the fightback part of the rhyme which is kind of true black bears are more likely to run away than run a fade and after seeing them climb trees thank the natural order for that although they probably only learned that from dealing with another bear down the list black bears are highkey Champion generalists they're smart enough and adaptable enough to live almost anywhere in America also they're not always black but that's besides the point Moonlighting as a giant raccoon means they run into people more than the average bear and if you look at the numbers they might not be as harmless as the nursery rhyme suggests since 1784 there have been 66 times where a black bear and a human resulted in one less human pretty low but there's more there's just under 12 black bear conflicts a year 52% are are typically defensive 33% were food motivated and 15% were predatory that number is interesting cuz that's actually higher than what you would see in brown bears folks now believe there's a slow but very real rise in predatory male black bears murking people in fact the first ever fatal black bear attack in California just happened last month male blacks but black bears that is they have a wider range which means a desperate down bad male is more likely to try his luck on a hiker the last stat I have is 88% of black bear assisted sensus subtraction were predatory and 92% of those predatory pastimes were done by males but when I say slow rise we are still talking about one person getting clapped a year also apparently none of those casualties carried pepper spray so if you do that hike in groups and put food in garbage away you probably won't get cooked by Smokey in fact the majority of black bear encounters end like a Mormon in leaon where neither side gets touched so their flight over fight and statistically harmless but they live in close proximity with people and are technically more likely to see you as free pizza than Grizzlies so I'll give them a six five six Final Answer not unlike their Asian cousins and disclaimer we're getting into the legitimately dangerous territory the Asiatic black bear also called the moon bear is the first honest threat to human way of life they're way more on sight than American black bears and for that matter even your raisan brown bears to be fair neither of them have to deal with a certain big cat like most Bears they're most dangerous when people run into them in the barefields cornered and for that reason attacks are on the rise from April 2023 to just November 20 112 people caught the wrong end of Asiatic aggression from a black bear six died and food scarcity means those numbers are probably going up in fact that's why there are problem in Japan you see in Japan there's a shift with young people leaving the countryside to go make bread in the big city and food feeding bears moving into the now less crowded human neighborhoods now it's never been easier to find problems with an Asian bear and from 2000 to 2020 2,357 black bear attacks have been recorded 42.4% suffered severe injury 1.2% ended up with permanent disability and 4.8% lost the ability to exist they're dead and over 20% of those attacks happened in August I.E right around the time they're getting ready to hibernate there was even a case earlier this year where a man had to negotiate his arm with a Swiss knife after the Asian variety refused to let him go since this is the first bear that is a somewhat regular threat to people I'm going to give the Asiatic black bear a 7.5 although with the whole Bare bof farming thing ah we probably had it coming and now we get to my honest inspiration for this video the brown bear but honestly first I'm going to clear something up the grizzly bear is a subspecies of the brown bear kind of like how the Arctic Wolf is an off Street of the gray guy the grizzly is basically a landlocked brown bear they're further Inland and their grocery list is a lot shorter which is why even though they're the most famous Grizzlies aren't even the biggest bears Brown in around they're smaller than the K what the Kamchatka bear dwarfs Grizzlies mostly because of the fresh supply of salmon they get from shacking up on the chatka peninsula which actually has the highest density of brown bears on the planet there's like 20,000 of them there and of course what y'all know about the Kodiak bear named after the Kodiak Islands nature was forced to Vault it on they can outweigh a Grizzly by almost 500 lb and that's purely off the pescatarian that is a whole mountain of a bear grizzly bears are smaller but the higher competition and being gate kept from Coastal calories makes them that much more aggressive which makes them and I don't like to curse that much my mom watches me but that is aing problem they're like a predatory Thanos your demise is inevitable if they Greenlight it they have Jaws that can crush a bowling ball pause that I mean you're a high five away from balling like em manual Handel I've seen them punk entire wolf packs out of food and they might be the only thing alive that can choke slam a moose there's only one video that truly encapsulates how fornicated you are if a Grizzly chases you well other than this here you have a Grizzly running and way way way way wow we's we're still going way way oh right there there that's the Caribou he's after keep in mind this is a 30second mark of the video about 4 minutes was all it took for the SE said had to get packed up like a Christmas present and turned into part of the past but how dangerous are brown bears actually since 1784 there have been only 82 fatal brown bear conflicts in North America Yellowstone surprisingly only has eight from 2000 to 2015 there were a recorded 664 brown bear attacks around the world with 95 flatlines of these attacks 17% involves someone with a dog 10% were after a bear got shot or trapped aka the person had it coming 20% were sudden encounters and an overwhelming 47% involved a female with a cub proving that the only thing more dangerous than the bear boom a child no but really numbers say there's only 11 brown bear attacks in North America a year 40 if we're talking worldwide in fact the chances of getting merked by a brown bear and Yellowstone are 1 in 2.1 million I do think Bears suffer a lot from Shark syndrome where the attacks might not happen often but when they do they're usually graphic enough to go International at the same time the worst case scenario scares me more than death itself so brown bears specifically grizzly bears get a Merc rating of eight make that an 8.5 if you know you know now the sloth bear is a great example of something I always say you have to convince a predator you're worth the effort where prey will off you before you get the chance most Bears see humans as a fellow Predator the problem is here you got one that spends most of his life as prey sloth bears got tiger trauma in their bloodline they also get plenty of smoke from leopards problems from Dole packs and somehow the same elephants and rhinos that are chill is around tigers have zero tolerance for the bloos of the world add it all up you get a floppy face termite eater that's also one of the most L aggressive animals on the planet you basically have a giant honey badger with attitude and all the tools to follow through it's prey trauma with predatory Hardware they don't really know how to kill they just inflict as much pain as physically possible that's why many sloth bear victims end up with their faces torn off since that's their go-to move against tigers a trauma bear with chimpanzee Tendencies means they get a Merc rating of nine there's no good record of sloth bear attacks on people but it's the fact that they live on top of and kill more people than other bears that outnumber them this is technically the most dangerous bear per capita and it's the one named after a sloth in fact one sloth bear was called the Maneater of myor after he killed 12 people and severely mauled another two dozen in his defense something like that's pretty rare and it's believed the bear was injured by people first and then went on a rampage not like the last bear which is one of the few animals to see humans as prey I'm going to kill the suspense right now the polar bears ATT 10 from 1870 to 2014 only 20 people have been killed by polar bears out of 73 attacks but it's the frequency that's scary what do I mean well over 60 % of attacks happened between 1960 and 2009 20% happened from 2010 to 2014 that means in this study 20% of all polar bear attacks happened at less than 3% of the time and that less than 3% was in the last 4 years the polar bear is the only bear that classifies as a hyper carnivore and they'll try anything from walruses to reindeer and they'll even body a beluga whale as you know polar bears are one of the rare animals that'll actively hunt people it's true what they say if you see a polar bear in the wild your expiration dates already stamped they can smell a seal from almost 20 mi away so you know when ice bear pulls up it's no mistake the Arctic op is such a threat in Churchill Manitoba it's common courtesy to leave car doors unlocked in case someone needs a four-wheel Panic Room from a polar bear the same place by the way that has the Churchill polar bear detention center and it's exactly what it sounds like it's an aircond conditioned temporary holding cell for polar bears that get way too comfortable around people no other bear is more of a certified homicide once you make eye contact but they wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for seeding sea ice basically stranding a marine mammal on land and like with black bears it's a starving desperate Rogue males that are most likely to turn a human into a hash tag and that's kind of the thing every bear on this list would easily put humans out of 10 like I said Asiatic black bears are the most common victims of bear bile Farms sloth bears are often kept as dancing tourist straps which involves brutal Mings and shoving a rope through their nose literally through it and despite the memes Humanity has done more to pandas than for them also there's a fact that most bears want nothing to do with you literally one of the best ways to avoid a bear is to actually make noise to give the bear a chance to avoid you most bear brutalities come from a bear getting jump scared and making a decision also there's bear spray but bear spray is a lot like a seat belt you don't get into a car expecting to do a barrel roll down I 80 but the same way the seat belt makes the worst case better so does bear spray in fact you'll probably never use it moral of the story yeah honestly the bear wouldn't even choose us but yeah that's going to do it for this video If You rock with a Merk rating thing I actually have an entire book on the concept 100 animals that can you you can read the title and again each animal has a rating based on my personal bias and because today is my birthday the book will be 52% off on Amazon if you're interested the link will be in the description but other than that drink water cherish your parents remember if it's white like a beluga is the last time we'll talk to you and I'm going to see y'all in the next one nothing