I would like to give this the highest score out of all the videos on marine life ecology. The footage is truly amazing, and the narration and music are sophisticated. I would like to express my gratitude to the creators.
Who is more intelligent humans or mollusks? If it takes an intelligent human to figure out what these creatures are doing, wouldn't it make sense that someone more intelligent than us designed and created these wonderful creations?
Top-notch. just because a lifeform doesnt use artifical machines and tools it doesnt mean that they are stupid or uninteligent. as a matter of fact, uninteligent/stupid is the lifeform who needs artifical tools to get thru life. especially when they destroy the planet and other lifeforms with it in the process.
Just fyi, on the thumbnail, that’s some species or subspecies of musk deer… while they do live as far north as Siberia, Amur, and possibly Kamchatka, I don’t think they quite qualify as an “Arctic” species… most musk deer actually live in less frigid and hostile places, like the Himalayan foothills and the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, China, etc.
Arctic foxes have antifreeze blood? NO. They are warm-blooded and this would not help them. That only occurs in cold blooded organisms like fish. If the fox's blood came even close to freezing, they would be dead.
Actually, kasturis or vampirolens (genus Moschus) are not closely related to either deer (family Cervidae) or bovids (family Bovidae), both deer and bovids are more closely related to giraffes, okapis, and pronghorns than they are to either kasturis/vampirolens (genus Moschus), yoyongs (genus Hydropotes), or chevrotains (family Tragulidae), in addition to bovids, deer, giraffes, okapis, and pronghorns all being more closely related to camels than they are to the kasturis/vampirolens (genus Moschus), yoyongs (genus Hydropotes), or chevrotains (family Tragulidae), the kasturis or vampirolens, formerly called musk deer are the sole extant genus of the family Moschidae, yoyongs, formerly called water deer are the sole extant genus of the family Hydropotidae, both monotypic families Moschidae and Hydropotidae constitute the superfamily Moschoidea, which is the sole extant taxon of the infraorder Vampyrodonta, while chevrotains, formerly called mouse deer are the sole extant family of both the superfamily Traguloidea and the infraorder Tragulina, bovids, deer, giraffes, okapis, and pronghorns all belong to the infraorder Pecora, these three infraorders being Tragulina, Vampyrodonta, and Pecora are not closely related to each other at all, because of bovids, deer, giraffes, okapis, and pronghorns all being more closely related to camels than they are to kasturis/vampirolens, yoyongs, or chevrotains, the Pecora infraorder is the sister group to the infraorder Tylopoda, where the camels (family Camelidae) are the sole extant family, which officially makes Pecora and Tylopoda the most derived groups of the suborder Selenodontia, whereas Tragulina and Vampyrodonta are both considered basal offshoots of the Selenodontia suborder.
The Arctic Hare (Poecilolagus arcticus) is a species of hare native to the polar regions of eastern North America in addition to Greenland, it is one of the three extant species in the genus Poecilolagus, the other two being the Alaskan Hare (Poecilolagus othus) and the Snowshoe Hare (Poecilolagus americanus), the latter being its closest living relative.
The Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus) is a small dog native to the polar regions of Eurasia and North America, it known for its ability to seasonally change the color of its fur coat, in fall and winter it is white, while in spring and summer, it is blackish brown, it is one of the four extant species constituting the genus Alopex, the others are the Corsac Fox (Alopex corsac), the Swift Fox (Alopex velox), and the Kit Fox (Alopex macrotis), the former is its closest living relative as the corsac fox is very similar to the arctic fox.
Well, to be technical, foxes as a whole are small _canids_ or canine mammals of the _Canidae_ family, in the order Carnivora. Sure, canids could just be called “dogs”, I suppose it works, but their morphology and physiology is quite different from the “true” dogs, which are generally thought of as belonging to the genus _Canis_ (Latin word for ‘dog’), and includes- _Canis familiaris_ (domestic dogs, dingos) _C. lupus_ (gray wolves) _C. rufus_ (red wolves) _C. lycaon_ (Algonquin wolves) _C. lupaster_ (African golden wolves) _C. simensis_ (Ethiopian wolves) _C. latrans_ (coyotes) _C. aureus_ (golden jackals) _C. mesomelas_ (black-backed jackals) _C. adudatus_ (side-striped jackals)
@erikm8372, actually, the word "dog" refers to the family Canidae as a whole, just like the word "cat" refers to the family Felidae as a whole, also, you are out of date, there are now twenty extant genera of dogs and the Canis genus is now restricted only to the grey wolf and extant species that used to be conspecific with it and the only eight extant dog species of the Canis genus are now the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi), and the Dingo (Canis dingo), all of which are entirely absent from Africa, the other six extant species you mentioned are no longer in the Canis genus, the side-striped jackal, black-backed jackal, ethiopian golden wolf, common golden wolf, golden jackal, and coyote are all relocated to three separate genera which are Lupulella for both the side-striped jackal and black-backed jackal, Flavocyon for both the ethiopian golden wolf and common golden wolf, and Prolupus for both the golden jackal and coyote with their scientific names now being Lupulella adusta, Lupulella mesomelas, Flavocyon simensis, Flavocyon lupaster, Prolupus aureus, and Prolupus latrans respectively, with the Black-Backed Jackal (Lupulella mesomelas), Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon lupaster), and Golden Jackal (Prolupus aureus) being the type species of the respective genera.
