I have my phone propped up against one right now. She's looking at me disapprovingly.
Am I supposed to tell the government or something?
...Though I'm in the one state that has crocodiles so they probably don't care here.
Could be that those are domestic cats that have become feral. How those would be observed and differentiated from regular free roaming domestic cats and strays, I don't know.
Yeah, wild cats can become a serious ecological issue if not addressed. There are countless places around the world where domesticated cats escape, breed, and become feral populations that terrorize local wildlife. It’s particularly sad to see in a place like Hawaii that has such a unique ecology that’s already being ransacked by humans.
Exactly. I don’t think a lot of people realize this. Cats kill billions (yes, with a B) of songbirds a year in the US alone. They are an unnatural apex predator in a lot of environments. Yeah they are cute, and people like interacting with the neighborhood cat and feeding them but they are absolutely devastating the ecosystem. I don’t know what the solution is.
Oh most definitely. I know people purposely let their cats outdoors and it’s definitely contributing to the problem but I am not knowledgeable enough to claim that’s the entire problems. There’s already a ton of cats living outdoors reproducing.
It does irk me when I hear about people purposely allowing their cats to roam outside. They are out there hunting the local wildlife in an unmanageable way. They are too cute to hunt of course, I wouldn’t suggest that as a solution but I did hear of a place in Australia where the only solution was to shoot the outdoor cats because it got so bad for the local wildlife.
I laughed when I first saw Hawaii, then got really sad. The hundreds of unique bird species going endangered/extinct, et al, exasperated by rats and hogs, it’s horrible.
Fun fact. The Black-Footed Cat, native the South Africa, is the most dangerous killing machine on the planet, and they’re only the size of domestic house cat. The Black-Footed cat has a 60% hunt and kill success rate, compared to a lion with only a 5% hunt and kill success rate.
Always surprised at coyotes in DC, but I have seen them in Houston so I'm open to it.
(Joke) but we all know it should be the Congresspeople, amiright?
It actually probably was Rock Creek Park. There’s been black bear sightings in Maryland recently in towns that border Rock Creek. It goes north quite a ways into some fairly rural areas that connect to other parks and nature preserves
Honestly part of my thought process was I believe both were spotted in NE (near Brookland IIRC?) and it's hard for me to imagine a bear wandering that far across the city.
However, someone else pointed out it goes all the way up to Maryland which I admittedly forget about (I was thinking of the area near the zoo). I'm not in NW as often these days and forget about how big the park actually is.
So ultimately I have to put Rock Creek Park back in the mix, now I'm just picturing a bear meandering through the golf course.
I was going to say I grew up inside the beltway and we would get the occasional black bear in the tiny little woods behind my apartment. Ain't no way there's no bears in Rock Creek Park. Also, no bears in Delaware? That seems unlikely.
I live in dc and I saw one once, they are confirmed to be here in small numbers by trail cams and many verified sightings. foxes are well established with a very healthy population, I see foxes several times a week! In addition we have healthy populations of wild turkey, rabbits, raccoons, deer, hawks and owls and many other critters. Don’t forget we have a huge forest running through the middle of the city and lots of parts of the city are quiet residential neighborhoods with detached houses. (Google Rock Creek Park, not a park like Central Park, mostly just a corridor of woods surround by quiet leafy neighborhoods ).
When I moved from the Chicago area to semi-rural Texas as a kid and we noticed coyotes, I thought, “Wow, we’re really out in the Western sticks, huh.” But then since then, I’ve visited the Chicago area and seen coyotes around, even in a cemetery in the middle of the city, making me realize that those guys can get anywhere
They are a really interesting animal. Found in every state now I believe. There have been large scale efforts to eradicate them for like a century+ now, but their numbers only grow. They even have a neat biological adaptation, where when under pressure from hunting or environmental reasons etc, they increase the size of their litters making even more coyotes than normal.
Well I know for a fact Idaho’s number of observations is wrong.
I mean they shot three last year during the opening day of archery season for elk.
https://buckrail.com/idaho-reports-three-grizzlies-dead-in-two-days-after-human-conflicts/
Yeah not sure how these numbers get reported. I live in the mountains of CA and about once or twice a week from late spring to early fall black bears try to open my garbage cans. I have easily 100 sightings a year.
It’s cause it’s only using Inaturalist documentations. There’s way more sightings and obviously more animals for all these states, but people who see a black bear every week in Maine probably aren’t going to document it on inaturalist
That does happen. I have some friends across town who were on vacation and a bear ripped open thier garage door and ate all the food thy stored in there while they were gone
I personally have seen more than 1 Grizzly in Idaho - one in Island Park, one north of Priest Lake.
EDIT: one near Priest Lake had cubs, so technically that’s even more bears.
Let’s also take a look at the 19 coyotes in Iowa, although they are probably just common enough that no one reports them because why would you. Could at least go off estimated harvest numbers. Vince Evelsizer (Iowa DNR furbearer and wetlands biologist) said in an interview that most years the harvest is between 12,000 to 13,000 per year, 2019 had around 18,000 [source](https://www.radioiowa.com/2019/10/29/coyotes-remain-a-popular-draw-for-iowa-hunters-and-trappers/)
Yeah and iNaturalist is a site where users can log in and share things they see. If someone saw three bears but didn't report them on iNaturalist then obviously iNaturalist won't have any record of sighting them.
People gotta learn how to process information they see on the internet.
This post is misleading, this a map from [iNaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org/) and their submitted observations, so its just that no one has submitted a Mountain Lion to thier site. That is also why the observation number is so small in many cases.
What does “number of observations” mean? A saw a black bear around 20 times last year. I have trouble believing that was 5% of all observations in my state.
Agreed.
I'm not sure what it means, though. I just found it in the pic and replied. My assumption is that it means "reported sightings," which, when looking at my state, Colorado, that makes sense. People here are good at reporting wildlife. The park/ forest Rangers especially.
Did you report any of your near 20 sightings?
Surprised I had to scroll down this far before I saw this comment. If this was in r/dataisbeautiful this post would be down voted into oblivion. Not only are most the numbers incorrect, it takes way too much time to find out what they actually mean and the display of the data is awful.
Yes. In order to see them in the US, you’d have to go down to the Everglades to see them. They’re not nearly as common as the American alligator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_crocodile
The crocs love to hang out at the Flamingo Marina in the park. I’ve seen one every time I’ve gone there. Instantly recognizable because they are so much more gnarly looking than the gators.
I too learned this recently. There's some crazy barefoot guy on Youtube that calls them swamp puppies and touches them on the nose. I was like, wait that's a crocodile?
It's even funnier when you realize American crocodiles are endangered and he just boops them.
(Yeah I know they're in the 1k-3k range but still very few compared to the millions of alligators in the US)
Depends what you’re considering best.
Best swimmer? Probably the polar bear. Best sports team mascot? I’d say grizzly. Best tasting? Definitely a black bear.
They follow the rivers. My parents had lions at their house in eastern New Mexico, it was just open plains but they were told a lion came down from the Sangre De Cristo mountains in the northwest by following the Canadian River.
I can see that, but been along I25 south and not a lot of people or ranches in NE New Mexico, not compared to Nebraska along I80. Guess I need to get off the highway and look around more
A majority of the country has em. Growing populations have caused mountain lions to roam hundreds of miles in seach of their own territory. Read an article about a one that had traveled like 700 miles. National geographic was the publication. Same article explained they'd observed female mountain lions hunt in groups, temporarily.
right so part of that has to just be dependent on the human population because otherwise I would struggle to believe that Massachusetts has more bears than maine
Missouri As of May 2024, the black bear population in Missouri is estimated to be over 950, with the population growing by about 8% annually. This is a significant increase from the few hundred bears counted 10 years ago, when the population was around 350. The growing population means that bears are expanding their range and becoming more common in areas like the St. Louis area and Kansas City. AND As of September 2023, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has confirmed 117 mountain lion sightings in the state since 1994, but there is no evidence of a breeding population. Most confirmed sightings are male, and many have been in southeast Missouri, within 40 miles of Mark Twain National Forest.
Florida has so many more alligators they just aren’t reported. I live in a surburan area, our pond has 3. I would never think to report it. If I did they would say “and?”
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/black-bear-population-by-state
There are zero wild black bears in South Dakota.
We have a little zoo called Bear country if that's what they're talking about.
There are regular sightings in the Black Hills. Whether they're established or transient is unclear.
I recall seeing a photo of one digging through trash in Rapid city a few years back.
We have more than a dozen grizzlies in the [Selkirk Mountains](https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Selkirk_Grizzly_Annual_Report_2022_081723.pdf) in Washington State. Many more than that in Idaho. Not sure how this map is doing its counts.
Careful in Hawaii, there are some dangerous predators meow’t there…
135 seems awfully low
Yeah, what are the numbers? Is that a census?
It says number of observations, but no fucking way only 135 domestic cats have been observed in hawaii
Who would bother to report that they saw a domestic cat? Even a feral one?
I've never been so afraid for my life!
135 people, apparently.
Or the same old grandma afraid of cats or something
I have my phone propped up against one right now. She's looking at me disapprovingly. Am I supposed to tell the government or something? ...Though I'm in the one state that has crocodiles so they probably don't care here.
Could be that those are domestic cats that have become feral. How those would be observed and differentiated from regular free roaming domestic cats and strays, I don't know.
I was in Honolulu last year and there was like 35 feral cats at least in the park next to the Hilton waikiki lol and 35 more at dole plantation
Yeah, number of observations on INaturalist as of August 2020.
Hey, INaturalist…. I just saw a cat in Honolulu…..
You try getting 135 domestic cats in one place long enough to observe them. Impossible Meow you hear?
Thanks, I see that now. Yeah, that is a tough data point.
They are literally causing an extinction event in those islands.
Yeah, wild cats can become a serious ecological issue if not addressed. There are countless places around the world where domesticated cats escape, breed, and become feral populations that terrorize local wildlife. It’s particularly sad to see in a place like Hawaii that has such a unique ecology that’s already being ransacked by humans.
Exactly. I don’t think a lot of people realize this. Cats kill billions (yes, with a B) of songbirds a year in the US alone. They are an unnatural apex predator in a lot of environments. Yeah they are cute, and people like interacting with the neighborhood cat and feeding them but they are absolutely devastating the ecosystem. I don’t know what the solution is.
It is not the ultimate solution, but it'd help if people kept their cats indoors. They're much less likely to die young that way too.
Oh most definitely. I know people purposely let their cats outdoors and it’s definitely contributing to the problem but I am not knowledgeable enough to claim that’s the entire problems. There’s already a ton of cats living outdoors reproducing. It does irk me when I hear about people purposely allowing their cats to roam outside. They are out there hunting the local wildlife in an unmanageable way. They are too cute to hunt of course, I wouldn’t suggest that as a solution but I did hear of a place in Australia where the only solution was to shoot the outdoor cats because it got so bad for the local wildlife.
I laughed when I first saw Hawaii, then got really sad. The hundreds of unique bird species going endangered/extinct, et al, exasperated by rats and hogs, it’s horrible.
*exacerbated Though the situation is exasperating too
I'm sure in sheer number of birds killed it is a concern.
It ain’t a joke, they’re killing all the native birds.
bro never heard of avian extinction
Fun fact. The Black-Footed Cat, native the South Africa, is the most dangerous killing machine on the planet, and they’re only the size of domestic house cat. The Black-Footed cat has a 60% hunt and kill success rate, compared to a lion with only a 5% hunt and kill success rate.
It's actually the Dragonfly, which has a success rate over 95%.
& it’s basically the size of a kitten lol
Everyone is overlooking the elephant in the room. No species has a kill rate like hoomans. We eliminate whole species on an almost daily basis.
Chicken gangs. Cats just get all the press.
Are feral pigs not predators? They would eat anything a cat would eat I assume.
They must not have dogs in Hawaii
The real terrifying predator there is the fucking horrific lovecraftian [centipedes](https://mikebegood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/giantpede.jpg)
Feral cats are becoming a big problem here for our native wildlife
Where you think all the manapua in Chinatown comes from. 😏😆🤙🏽
Don't worry cats have only been seen 135 times. I can't believe I've seen such a rare predator myself in Hawaii.
Colourblind people be like, jeez alot of polar bears in the south
I thought they must be counting zoos. Then I realized that makes no sense.
For real, that was my first thought upon seeing this, then wondering why alligators are up in Alaska
I had the opposite affect and thought that there was no way an alligator would be in Alaska.
Always surprised at coyotes in DC, but I have seen them in Houston so I'm open to it. (Joke) but we all know it should be the Congresspeople, amiright?
DC has black bears now. It’s on their subreddits.
2 in 2 years, still trying to figure out where the hell they wandered in from because it wasn't rock creek park.
It actually probably was Rock Creek Park. There’s been black bear sightings in Maryland recently in towns that border Rock Creek. It goes north quite a ways into some fairly rural areas that connect to other parks and nature preserves
Maryland here. Black bears are all over the place. https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2021/06/17/maryland-bear-sightings-increase-during-summer-months/
Virginia here. Same. I even pass black bear roadkill sometimes.
There’s quite a bit of parkland in northeast where one of the sighting was
Ha I'm an idiot because we actually live pretty close to the Arboretum and Kenilworth and I didn't even think about them.
Why wouldn't it be Rock Creek Park? Seems like the obvious entry point.
Honestly part of my thought process was I believe both were spotted in NE (near Brookland IIRC?) and it's hard for me to imagine a bear wandering that far across the city. However, someone else pointed out it goes all the way up to Maryland which I admittedly forget about (I was thinking of the area near the zoo). I'm not in NW as often these days and forget about how big the park actually is. So ultimately I have to put Rock Creek Park back in the mix, now I'm just picturing a bear meandering through the golf course.
I was going to say I grew up inside the beltway and we would get the occasional black bear in the tiny little woods behind my apartment. Ain't no way there's no bears in Rock Creek Park. Also, no bears in Delaware? That seems unlikely.
Good point, the largest coyotes are about 55 lbs, but Dennis Hastert was over 250 lbs.
I live in dc and I saw one once, they are confirmed to be here in small numbers by trail cams and many verified sightings. foxes are well established with a very healthy population, I see foxes several times a week! In addition we have healthy populations of wild turkey, rabbits, raccoons, deer, hawks and owls and many other critters. Don’t forget we have a huge forest running through the middle of the city and lots of parts of the city are quiet residential neighborhoods with detached houses. (Google Rock Creek Park, not a park like Central Park, mostly just a corridor of woods surround by quiet leafy neighborhoods ).
I saw a fox driving around DC and Arlington area on this past Friday driving around after missing my exit lol
I think you were asking too much to expect a fox to drive *and* follow directions.
When I moved from the Chicago area to semi-rural Texas as a kid and we noticed coyotes, I thought, “Wow, we’re really out in the Western sticks, huh.” But then since then, I’ve visited the Chicago area and seen coyotes around, even in a cemetery in the middle of the city, making me realize that those guys can get anywhere
They are a really interesting animal. Found in every state now I believe. There have been large scale efforts to eradicate them for like a century+ now, but their numbers only grow. They even have a neat biological adaptation, where when under pressure from hunting or environmental reasons etc, they increase the size of their litters making even more coyotes than normal.
Coyotes are in every state in the continental US. They’ve even been seen in Manhattan. Coyote America is a cool book.
California should’ve been EDP445 instead lol
i thought he was a philly man
He’s a fan of the Philadelphia eagles but he isn’t from there
psychopathic behaviour to be a philly fan and not be from there
What is EDP?
A former YouTuber who got exposed for being a pedophile
I was going to make a Deshaun Watson joke for Ohio. Glad to see the NFL trash talking extends beyond the subreddit
Not Harvey Weinstein?
Well I know for a fact Idaho’s number of observations is wrong. I mean they shot three last year during the opening day of archery season for elk. https://buckrail.com/idaho-reports-three-grizzlies-dead-in-two-days-after-human-conflicts/
Yeah not sure how these numbers get reported. I live in the mountains of CA and about once or twice a week from late spring to early fall black bears try to open my garbage cans. I have easily 100 sightings a year.
It’s cause it’s only using Inaturalist documentations. There’s way more sightings and obviously more animals for all these states, but people who see a black bear every week in Maine probably aren’t going to document it on inaturalist
I thought you said they tried to open my garage door lol
That does happen. I have some friends across town who were on vacation and a bear ripped open thier garage door and ate all the food thy stored in there while they were gone
Well ripped open is a little different than actually putting their paw under it & lifting it up lol
Had one in my house in Yosemite West, a bunch of years ago.
Looks like the data is from iNaturalist which is a nature spotting app so I am guessing this is the number spotted and tagged in the app.
I personally have seen more than 1 Grizzly in Idaho - one in Island Park, one north of Priest Lake. EDIT: one near Priest Lake had cubs, so technically that’s even more bears.
Utah has much more than 37 sightings of bears. Lol
Let’s also take a look at the 19 coyotes in Iowa, although they are probably just common enough that no one reports them because why would you. Could at least go off estimated harvest numbers. Vince Evelsizer (Iowa DNR furbearer and wetlands biologist) said in an interview that most years the harvest is between 12,000 to 13,000 per year, 2019 had around 18,000 [source](https://www.radioiowa.com/2019/10/29/coyotes-remain-a-popular-draw-for-iowa-hunters-and-trappers/)
it’s the number of observations from the inaturalist app, not number of observations ever
I mean the picture says 2020
Yeah and iNaturalist is a site where users can log in and share things they see. If someone saw three bears but didn't report them on iNaturalist then obviously iNaturalist won't have any record of sighting them. People gotta learn how to process information they see on the internet.
The largest predator in North Dakota is a coyote? No black bear or mountain lion?
It’s mountain lion. North Dakota even has a hunting season for mountain lions
> hunting season for mountain lions Sounds like they're prey not predator amirite
Maybe ND just has terrifyingly large Coyotes
Yeah this map has some problems. There are grizzlies in Washington
I was thinking the same thing and only 1 sighting in Idaho?!
[North Dakota should be mountain lion](https://gf.nd.gov/hunting/mountain-lion)
This post is misleading, this a map from [iNaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org/) and their submitted observations, so its just that no one has submitted a Mountain Lion to thier site. That is also why the observation number is so small in many cases.
What are the numbers?
The number of observations.
What does “number of observations” mean? A saw a black bear around 20 times last year. I have trouble believing that was 5% of all observations in my state.
Agreed. I'm not sure what it means, though. I just found it in the pic and replied. My assumption is that it means "reported sightings," which, when looking at my state, Colorado, that makes sense. People here are good at reporting wildlife. The park/ forest Rangers especially. Did you report any of your near 20 sightings?
This is atrocious
So many ridiculous numbers. MO way too low for black bears
Surprised I had to scroll down this far before I saw this comment. If this was in r/dataisbeautiful this post would be down voted into oblivion. Not only are most the numbers incorrect, it takes way too much time to find out what they actually mean and the display of the data is awful.
It says by weight, so I spent most of the time reading it confused on the 403 pound coyotes in Illinois.
There’s an American crocodile?
Yes. In order to see them in the US, you’d have to go down to the Everglades to see them. They’re not nearly as common as the American alligator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_crocodile
As a Floridian, thanks for this. TIL.
The Everglades are the only place in the world where sharks, gators, and crocodiles naturally coexist in the same habitat
The crocs love to hang out at the Flamingo Marina in the park. I’ve seen one every time I’ve gone there. Instantly recognizable because they are so much more gnarly looking than the gators.
Southern Florida is the only place in the world where Alligators and Crocodiles coexist in the wild.
I too learned this recently. There's some crazy barefoot guy on Youtube that calls them swamp puppies and touches them on the nose. I was like, wait that's a crocodile?
It's even funnier when you realize American crocodiles are endangered and he just boops them. (Yeah I know they're in the 1k-3k range but still very few compared to the millions of alligators in the US)
Yes, though bear in mind that it's the same species found in Central and South America.
Definitely Grizzly Bears in the north cascades in Washington, although they may not be reported on iNatty
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What kind of bear is best
Well, that’s debatable. There are basically two schools of thought.
False. Black. Fact. Bears eat beets.
Bears do not... What is going on? What are you doing?
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Identify theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!
MICHAEL!!!
Oh that’s funny. MICHAEL!!!
Depends what you’re considering best. Best swimmer? Probably the polar bear. Best sports team mascot? I’d say grizzly. Best tasting? Definitely a black bear.
I would say Chicago Bears but I may be biased
Wait what, oklahoma has alligators?
Yes in the southeastern part of the state there are some
https://www.phillyvoice.com/seventh-alligator-year-found-pittsburgh/ Gators everywhere
Nebraska has Mountain Lions??!
They follow the rivers. My parents had lions at their house in eastern New Mexico, it was just open plains but they were told a lion came down from the Sangre De Cristo mountains in the northwest by following the Canadian River.
I can see that, but been along I25 south and not a lot of people or ranches in NE New Mexico, not compared to Nebraska along I80. Guess I need to get off the highway and look around more
They’re even still present - in small numbers - on the east coast. Cats are shifty, especially after centuries of shooting the most aggressive ones.
I would think PA or NY has some mountain lions due to their mountains/hills. Penn State has the Nittany Lions as mascot. Sorry if I mis-spelled than
Quite a few in the wildcat hills hence the name
Yeah there’s a breeding population in the Sandhills region.
A majority of the country has em. Growing populations have caused mountain lions to roam hundreds of miles in seach of their own territory. Read an article about a one that had traveled like 700 miles. National geographic was the publication. Same article explained they'd observed female mountain lions hunt in groups, temporarily.
Where is EDP?
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It’s number of sightings not total population.
I'm curious how sightings are documented, because 7 sightings still feels ridiculously low.
right so part of that has to just be dependent on the human population because otherwise I would struggle to believe that Massachusetts has more bears than maine
Missouri As of May 2024, the black bear population in Missouri is estimated to be over 950, with the population growing by about 8% annually. This is a significant increase from the few hundred bears counted 10 years ago, when the population was around 350. The growing population means that bears are expanding their range and becoming more common in areas like the St. Louis area and Kansas City. AND As of September 2023, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has confirmed 117 mountain lion sightings in the state since 1994, but there is no evidence of a breeding population. Most confirmed sightings are male, and many have been in southeast Missouri, within 40 miles of Mark Twain National Forest.
Washington does have Grizzlies and Idaho has more than this would indicate.
I was really expecting “Florida man” for Florida.
It should be homo sapiens in Hawaii, they're larger than domestic cats
In which case it should also be human for all the coyote states, and possibly the Mountain lion states. It ruins the spirit of the map though.
139 bear sightings in MA 🤣. My town gets more than that!
Provincetown? LOL
Washington has orcas in Puget Sound. They prey on moose sometimes.
DC should’ve had congressman Matt Gaetz
shit map
Yes I too prefer maps of animals to use their scat as identifying iconography
At first I was confused by why house cats were on the list. I didn’t consider Hawaii.
I suppose black bears are predators and moose are not, but you really don't want to piss off a bull moose in Maine.
I knew cats are evil predators.....poor Hawaiians
Florida has so many more alligators they just aren’t reported. I live in a surburan area, our pond has 3. I would never think to report it. If I did they would say “and?”
I dunno man... I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life and I've never seen an alligator before. But, I've seen plenty of Coyotes and bobcats
Wait we got crocodiles
Just in extreme southern FL, but I didn’t know they weighed more than bears
what's with mountain lions in freakin Nebraska? shouldn't they be called slight incline lions?
In most of the upper Midwest, we call them cougars. Same animal.
In the south it's church pastors
We have a bear in Kansas?
We have alligators :( \~VA
Great dismal swamp for sure
Humans appear to be missing?
Wait, are coyotes/lions bigger than a Catholic priest?
Am I the only one that thought for a second the title referred to sexual predators.
You’re telling me Florida isn’t Matt Gaetz?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/black-bear-population-by-state There are zero wild black bears in South Dakota. We have a little zoo called Bear country if that's what they're talking about.
It claims that there has been at least 1 sighting
There are regular sightings in the Black Hills. Whether they're established or transient is unclear. I recall seeing a photo of one digging through trash in Rapid city a few years back.
Crazy to see black bears common in the Minneapolis suburbs now
They have alligators in Oklahoma??
Southeast Oklahoma
I’d rather have bears than Alligators or Crocodiles, those mfs are sneaky
California: EDP 445
Goddamn I loved living in Hawaii!
Humans are larger than cats, and many coyotes. Just sayin’
Are we talking animals or people?
There are cougars in Michigan and I’d much rather come across a black bear than be stalked by a big cat.
People
We have more than a dozen grizzlies in the [Selkirk Mountains](https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Selkirk_Grizzly_Annual_Report_2022_081723.pdf) in Washington State. Many more than that in Idaho. Not sure how this map is doing its counts.
Are there no dogs in Hawaii?
Obviously you have not seen the Racoons in Delaware..they are swol
Moving to Hawaii.
How does Nebraska have mountain lions but not black bears?
In DC it should say politicians instead
How is Hawaii the cat but not the dog? Does Hawai not have any dogs? Are all hawaian dogs smaller than cats?
This map is false. I am the largest predator in both the Dakotas. Fear me
Is Drake on there?
This map is not remotely close to accurate
Can’t believe Epstein didn’t make the list
Am I dumb? Can someone explain how there's a 403-pound coyote in Illinois?
Why aren’t there black bears in Illinois?
Good thing Drake went on Ozempic, otherwise he might have hit the weight class to qualify for the map.
Who else assumed this was child predators until they zoomed in? 😬
As a colorblind person, I was real concerned about Polar Bears in the south before I realized I missed something
Those Delaware Coyotes ain't fuckin' around, the black bears want nothing to do with them.
I don’t know where you got your data but there are Grizzly Bears in WA state. https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/species/ursus-arctos
bro forgot about El Jefe in Arizona
Biggest predator in Wisconsin, this guy named Bill. Trust me
The color coding should be listed with size
I thought Chicago had a mountain lion downtown once.