You do NOT want to meet a Polar bear 😬 | Steve Backshall on Honesty Box

In this brilliant episode of Honesty Box, the legendary Steve Backshall came into the studio to answer your burning questions about the extraordinary world of wildlife! Is a great white shark more terrifying than a saltwater crocodile? What's the most dangerous animal in Britain? What's the best way to survive a snake bite? Steve also brought along some animal guests to help him out with his answers.

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00:00 - 00:33 - Intro
00:33 - 01:49 - Which animal could best survive a zombie apocalypse?
01:49 - 02:44 - What is the closest to death you’ve been?
02:44 - 03:57 - Which came first, snakes or lizards?
03:57 - 04:39 - Which animal would you lock in room with worst enemy?
04:39 - 06:01 - Are all spiders venomous?
06:01 - 06:56 -What’s the worst bite you’ve ever received?
06:56 - 10:05 - What’s the longest snake?
10:05 - 10:39 - What’s the most fascinating animal?
10:39 - 11:42 - What is an amphibian?
11:42 - 12:35 - What’s the best way to defend yourself against a bear in the wild?
12:35 - 13:15 - Should you run away from crocodiles in zigzags?
13:15 - 14:03 - Which animal has the most legs?
14:03 - 15:18 - Worst place you’ve gone to toilet?
15:18 - 16:06 - What should you do if someone is bitten by a snake?
16:06 - 17:27 - How can you tell if an animal is dangerous?
17:27 - 18:27 - In which interaction with an animal were you most scared?
18:27 - 19:26 - Are more dangerous creatures coming to Britain?
19:26 - 20:12 - Have you ever swum naked with sharks?
20:12 - 20:47 - Who would win, you Bear Grylls or Ross Kemp?
20:47-21:43 - What’s scarier, great white or salt water croc?
21:43 - 22:49 - How do animals camouflage themselves?
22:49 - 24:09 - Climate change?
24:09 - 25:20 - Why do female insects eat the males after sex?
25:20 - 26:04 -Who is your greatest hero?
26:04 - 26:40 - Most dangerous british animal?
26:40 - 27:47 - Opinion on zoos?
27:47 - 29:25 - Next animal to go extinct?

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[jackdavies]

I’ve found that staying at home in the UK has been incredibly effective

[IReaperWolfI]

" if its brown get down, if its black attack, if its white goodnight"

[Ria-sdex]

"You're stuffed" seems like a very polite way of saying "you're fu***d".

[TJohnson]

“You just gotta pray it doesn’t happen really”, is the best thing he said in the video. You are not winning a fight with a bear even if your muscles have muscles. It’s either you’ll survive because of a miracle, or it’s lights out!

[NathanShepard]

It is very, very rare for a black bear to ever want to harm a human. I run into them all the time and I mostly see their butts as they run away when they hear me approach. Best advice is to look bigger and make noise (not screaming, just talk really loud).

[Micklar]

“Jamie pull up that clip of me fighting a bear”

[jasonbauter]

The basic rule of thumb about bears is that you never want to see a bear when there's snow on the ground. If there's snow on the ground, they're hungry enough to eat you.

[thebazgaz]

The best way is to always travel with someone who is slower than you.

[KateCarew]

Ooof
I’m working on getting over some bear related trauma from 20 years ago.
This video popped up.
I was in Alaska, late summer, and I used to say I was attacked by a grizzly bear, but in truth, had I been attacked I’d be dead.
I was merely…injured by a grizzly bear during an encounter that was due to a lack of situational awareness.
We were camping, had been very very careful until the morning of the tenth day when I sleepily wandered to go potty and brush my teeth early in the morning without any precautions.
I basically slammed into a momma bear and her cubs as my eyes weren’t really adjusted.
She was NOT happy, I had nothing, so I had no time to think and used instincts.
I went face down into a sort of fetal position or like a pillbug, covered my neck and head and let her do her thing.
She shifted me around a bit, lots of sniffing and snorting, I can still smell and feel her breath.
Her face fur snelled like death, I reckon there was clotted blood and fish stuck in it?
Her breath was hot and her mass was significantly more than I would’ve thought having observed them at a distance before.
It’s like seeing pictures of a draft horse then standing next to one, very different feelings as far as gravitational pull.
She was massive and I just waited it out.
I made no movements, no sound, nothing, in my head I was a goner, she pawed at me a bit, and I kept thinking any moment she’s gonna flip me and kill me.
But she didn’t.
She left.
I was frozen in terror.
It felt like hours but I think it was all over and done in 90-120 seconds?
I was hurt, I do have some scars, and I had to go to the hospital and receive antibiotics for the lacerations.
Doctors all agreed, had she wanted to hurt me I’d be dead.
So now, I really just try to avoid bears.
I made the mistake of watching grizzly man and had a very long and drawn out panic attack at the theater.
It was packed and I just had my eyes and ears closed for most of it.
I couldn’t even get up, there were people packed around me and I didn’t want to disturb them and choking that scream back was hell.
There are black bears in my area, and I really do everything I can to avoid confrontation but I know they’re much easier to deter and less likely to want to get involved with us.
The polar bear at the zoo had babies and I had to leave.
I kept thinking I’d be fine because it’s a white bear, but the exhibit had them OVER us, so she was looking down with her cubs and I was hightailing it.
Thank you for this video and reminding me to stay away!!

[darienbrewer]

Polar bears love when you fight back too! They don't mind playing with their meal LMAO

[nickm]

Received loud and clear here in Yorkshire 🇬🇧

[viktorbirkeland]

Grandpa used to work radio on Jan Mayen and many of the islands north of Norway. Islands towards the north pole where polar bears operate. (We're Norwegian).

He has pictures only 20 meters or less with polar bears. They carried rifles, but never used them as just charging would often be enough! In many cases running at them with timer or wood would work wonders, though your rifle was ALWAYS on your back no matter what.
They were like 4 - 5 guys max, and during winter wouldnt see people for 4+ months.


He gave me nightmares when he said that the polar bears at night would peel hundreds of kilos of timber and wood (houses or huts walls) right off the foundation like they were toothpicks!

He has so many good photographs from 60 - 80 maybe, of polar bears! It's fun to think about, nobody else in the world has those pictures, and those bears are long gone by now! They are not digital.

I'll ask him if I can inherit them!

[Astrid-xlde]

So he’s basically saying it doesn’t matter what you do you’re screwed either way? Weirdly comforting

[thelittlelady]

As someone who sees black bears regularly, you can basically take a broom to a single black bear without cubs and they will not want to deal with you. Most of the time just the sight of a human is enough to make the bear not want to deal with you. If you have a large dog, the black bear will be even less inclined to deal with you. Black bears are fierce when their cubs are concerned and the males can get really kinda uncomfortably large but basically they don’t want to interact with humans.

[Geburtswehe]

I love his slang.
I could listen to that for hours.

[SammywiseG]

Basically depending on the encounter you need one of 3 sticks. Black bear, big stick. Brown bear, be a stick. Polar bear, boom stick.

[jb]

I remember a news piece when I was a kid that talked about 2 hunters tracking a bear. The brown or grizzly bear "back tracked" on them and surprised them from behind. One man ran, the other "played dead." The bear used the "dead" guy as a toy crushing almost every bone in his body. He survived.

[YouTubeMushyPeas]

Basically carry a big ass gun if your going near bears 😂

[MTRyan]

“Dear God. Please don’t let me get attacked by a bear. Thanks.”

[dearthofdoohickeys]

I grew up in polar bear country. A bear attack survivor came to our school and showed us pictures of the aftermath, as well as the surgery that stabled him back together. I still have nightmares about it.