It's almost impossible to accurately estimate the population of a wild animal but scientists have done their best. In this video i will be focusing on animals that are in the order carnivora and these animals are often referred to as carnivorans. I will be going through some carnivorans with the largest populations as i will be going through 5 carnivorans with the largest wild populations.

Chapters
0:00 Introductions
1:28 American Black Bear
3:08 Northern Fur Seal
4:39 Brown Fur Seal
5:47 Crabeater Seal
7:20 Harp Seal

Attributions

Black bear images:
Tim Lumley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_lum...
CC BYNCND 2.0 DEED
Wade Tregaskis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wadetre...
CC BYNC 2.0 DEED
ucumari photography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/
CC BYNCND 2.0 DEED

Alaska images:
Diego Delso
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...
CC BYSA 4.0 DEED

Northern fur seal images:
Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith
https://www.flickr.com/photos/slobirdr/
CC BYSA 2.0 DEED
Greg Thompson/USFWS
https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaMariti...
Public domain
Kingfisher500
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birdtra...
CC BYNCND 2.0 DEED
Adam Searcy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7756658...
CC BYSA 2.0 DEED

Northern fur seal footage:
Ocean Media Institute
https://vimeo.com/jeffreed
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Brown fur seal images:
Peter Steward
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pete_st...
CC BYNC 2.0 DEED
Summer J. Smentek
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/23...
CC BY 4.0 DEED
Thomas & Olivia Williams
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomass...
CC BY 2.0 DEED
Bernard Spragg. NZ
https://www.flickr.com/photos/volvob12b/
CC0 1.0 DEED

Crabeater seal images:
GRIDArendal
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gridare...
CC BYNCSA 2.0 DEED
Dave Johnston
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dioptrica/
CC BYNCND 2.0 DEED
Liam Quinn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/liamq/
CC BYSA 2.0 DEED
Pepijn Kamminga
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
CC BYSA 4.0 DEED

Krill images:
NOAA Photo Library
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaapho...
CC BY 2.0 DEED

Other seal images:
Victor Burolla
https://www.flickr.com/photos/3827564...
CC BYSA 2.0 DEED
Charles J. Sharp
http://www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
CC BYSA 4.0 DEED

I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/shareyou...

Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)