Laying Bare the Bear Threat

It's time we got some objective, quantitative evidence. It's time our fear-mongering had the selective statistics to back it up. It's time for massive charts to scroll past in search of one single number that we can use to measure how afraid we should be. It's time, for you to scroll down really far so I can tell you what to think after pretending to give you the facts.

Zone	Bears	Furbolgs	Either
Alterac Mountains	Yes	No	Yes
Arathi Highlands	No	No	No
Ashenvale	Yes	Yes	Yes
Azshara	No	Yes	Yes
Azuremyst	No	Yes	Yes
Badlands	No	No	No
Blades Edge Mountains	No	No	No
Blasted Lands	No	No	No
Bloodmyst Isle	Yes	Yes	Yes
Borean Tundra	No	No	No
Burning Steppes	No	No	No
Crystalsong Forest	No	No	No
Darkshore	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deadwind Pass	No	No	No
Desolace	No	No	No
Dragonblight	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dun Morogh	Yes	No	Yes
Duskwood	No	No	No
Dustwallow Marsh	No	No	No
Eastern Plaguelands	No	No	No
Elwynn Forest	Yes	No	Yes
Eversong Woods	No	No	No
Felwood	Yes	Yes	Yes
Feralas	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ghostlands	No	No	No
Grizzly Hills	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hellfire Peninsula	No	No	No
Hillsbrad Foothills	Yes	No	Yes
Howling Fjord	Yes	Yes	Yes
Icecrown	No	No	No
Isle of Quel'danas	No	No	No
Loch Modan	Yes	No	Yes
Moonglade	No	Yes	Yes
Mulgore	No	No	No
Nagrand	No	No	No
Netherstorm	No	No	No
Searing Gorge	No	No	No
Sholazar Basin	No	No	No
Silithus	No	No	No
Silverpine Forest	Yes	No	Yes
Stonetalon Mountains	No	No	No
Stranglethorn Vale	No	No	No
Swamp of Sorrows	No	No	No
Tanaris	No	No	No
Terokkar Forest	No	No	No
The Barrens	No	No	No
The Hinterlands	No	No	No
Storm Peaks	No	No	No
Thousand Needles	No	No	No
Tirisfal Glades	No	No	No
Un'Goro Crater	No	No	No
Western Plaguelands	Yes	No	Yes
Westfall	No	No	No
Wetlands	No	No	No
Winterspring	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zangarmarsh	No	No	No
Zul'Drak	Yes	No	Yes
Yes	17	12	20
No	40	45	37
Ratio	0.425	0.267	0.541
Percentage	0.298	0.211	0.351

without Outland

0.333

0.235

0.392

Over 35% of zones have either bears, furbolgs, or both. That's over a third of the zones. While we may take some comfort in the fact that Outland is free of bears and furbolgs, that also means that in our native Azeroth, the ratio is even higher, reaching nearly 40%. In some areas the bears are even more deadly than normal, carrying the corrupting influence of the Scourge or Burning Legion.

Even if we could simply kill all of them, a difficult feat requiring major coordination, they would all come back, possibly in mere seconds.