And they ride on them things like every day

colorado is listed as having 16,000 bears, that number is probably off but yes we have bears. wyoming is just embarrassingly incorrect.

No they don't, show me a source that says otherwise.

Edit: Unless you mean 10-15 sightings a year of probably the same black bear constitutes a "semi-permanent" population.

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There are more than 400 grizzlies in Spain alone.

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The number of bears is South Dakota is much too high, but the Black Hills Nations Forest does have a semi-permanent black bear population in recent years.

Pretty sure? The common joke about foreigners who don’t know anything about Sweden is “I bet you think polar bears walk on the street here”.

There are none of them in neither mainland Norway nor in Sweden or Finland.

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I thought black bears were also in Europe! Did they exist at one time or are they strictly an Americas specific species?

Definitely bears in Serbia and there have been bears in southern illinois

It's probably cobbled together from various incongruent data sources. I'm sure Germany and Wyoming have such databases, but getting them is probably not the easiest thing.

I agree. So few countries aren't part of it, you might as well show all of it so there aren't random holes. And I can't imagine many people care about political alliances when looking at stuff like bears.

That’s not how you win Risk; Africa is worth 3 troops a turn.

Now I wonder how many bears Russia has

France and Spain have wild bears. There are over 300 Cantabrian brown bears in the Picos de Europa park in Spain alone.

Alright bud, I'll read some more about it and figure what went wrong. Thanks for taking the time to reply though.

TBH, this is a really stupid take and makes me think you're not that familiar with the topic of defense.

You can't stop a main battle tank with your rifle, actually no armored vehicle - you'll at the very least want AT missiles for those. And if you haven't noticed yet: Russia has a lot of these vehicles.

Now, if you were talking about non-AT AG missiles like HARM, you need those for defense (and retaking territory) too, mainly for attacking behind the lines equipment like artillery and air defense, which both are extremely important for supporting your enemies offense.

In case you missed it, it's no longer WW1.

As a fellow Hoosier, I agree.

It could be more efficient but it isn’t that bad a large portion of the US budget goes into healthcare and r&d

Am you are after all writing this text against military spending against on a thing developed using military r&d, mainly the internet (and likely on a GPS enabled device)

Thanks for this point. I'm sure there are differences in the crime reporting methods between US and Canada, and frankly between each agency keeping and aggregating crime records from the lowest levels of policing orgs on up the hierarchy. It would take more time than I had to try and fully understand what difference there may be, though I would appreciate if you had a suggestion on a practical methodology to go about adjusting for biases in these sorts of comparisons.
The potential for bias in the gun violence data sets is why I chose to focus on comparisons between US and Canada, which share a lot of cultural norms, if that makes sense. All potential for bias aside, I think the data are at least interesting and informative, and most importantly to me, got some healthy debate going on several fronts.

I have to imagine numbers skew at the edges, people die or are born on planes.

EU data is from 2008... Enough said.

In Poland, there's currently 150 brown bears (up from 80). WWF hasn't updated their data and still they say there's 110.

I think a lot of the numbers are way off. Not only for Norway

I dont think the polar bears would want to join the EU either.