10 Dangerous Animals Living Among California's 39 Million People

📍 Subscribe for more: @wildnearyou California is the most crowded place in America. Nearly forty million people. Suburbs that run for sixty miles without a real gap. A driveway light, a trash bin at the curb, a sprinkler running at six in the morning — it all feels tame, and that is exactly why the real wildlife dangers here go unnoticed. In this video we're ranking 10 of the most dangerous animals in California by two things at once: what the animal can actually do to you, and how deeply it has moved into ordinary human life. This isn't a list for hikers and campers. In this state there is no clean line between the wild and the driveway, so these are the animals that show up around homes, roads, garages and school fields, whether you spend time in nature or not. Here's the shape of it: we start with a two-thousand-pound animal crossing a state highway, and we end at the trash cans, with the only animal on this list whose numbers are climbing because of the way we live. Along the way we cover the full reality of wildlife dangers here — a herd of American bison living inside Los Angeles County, five-thousand-pound elephant seals on beaches people visit, the stretch of Southern California coast that Fish and Wildlife calls a primary great white shark nursery, wild pigs in fifty-six of fifty-eight counties, the billion dollars in wildlife-vehicle collisions and the deadliest highway in the state for them, why coyotes stopped being afraid of us, the mountain lions living inside America's second largest city, seven venomous species of rattlesnake, and roughly sixty thousand black bears — up from about thirty-five thousand ten years ago. California never pushed the wild out. It built forty million lives around it. If you want to know which of these animals is actually near your street, this countdown is for you. And if stories like this are your thing, go ahead and subscribe — it takes two seconds and it tells me to keep making them. Which of these ten have you seen closest to your home? Drop it in the comments. I read them. Now, the countdown. #california #dangerousanimals #wildlife