Ranking 7 North American Predators Based On How Likely They Are To Become Man-Eaters

Most of north America's large predators can and in some very rare cases do hunt humans, but of course some animals are more dangerous than others. In todays video I'll be trying to uncover which of north Americas top predators are most likely to claim human lives, but I'm fully aware that this is almost impossible to do. There are so many factors that can affect the results, such as how many of them there are in north America, where in north America they are found, and how many attacks have been fatal. To try and get a clearer picture I have sifted through the available data, and I've hopefully found a way to make the information a little clearer. We'll be totting up all of the fatal attacks from each of the deadliest predators in north America since the year 2000, and we'll be comparing this the their overall population across the continent. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:02 Coyote 3:18 Alligator 5:02 Wolves 6:30 Black Bear 8:20 Cougar 10:29 Polar Bear 12:21 Brown Bear Attributions: Coyote range map over the decades: James W. Hody and Roland Kays https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 Coywolf images: TwoWild https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 ForestWander https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 US John Stockla https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 American Alligator range map: Textbook Travel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... CC BY-SA 3.0 American alligator images: Clément Bardot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 American black bear images: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... CC BY-SA 3.0 Cougar range map: Kokosdieb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar#... CC BY-SA 3.0 Cougar images: National Park Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar#... Public Domain National Park Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-22#/m... Public Domain Fort steele images: Dietmar Rabich https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licecnes: https://creativecommons.org/share-you... Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed :) Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... http://www.bearconservation.org.uk/gr.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_... https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201... https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.... https://cranbrooktownsman.com/2025/10... https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-... https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/202... https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/ho... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35913715 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2... https://canadiangeographic.ca/article... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...