@@McJibbin We love you too Connor ❤️ You're so interested in learning, and it makes me sad when you think you have to apologise for not understanding things, or pausing to ask questions , because you don't have to apologise, and you're a lovely person *Hugs*
@@neilgayleard3842 yes and no. They taste like one that’s been torched alive on bonfire night but not like one that’s been mashed on the A23 by a Ford Focus.
A common misconception, but they weren't hedgehog flavoured, I think they were chicken or beef, but they were called hedgehog crisps because with every sale a penny or two was donated to hedgehog rescue.
I had a hedgehog come to live with me several years ago. It stayed with me for 3 weeks. It was really tame and got on well with my cats and even managed to get upstairs! It was a lovely little thing.
Hedgehog rescues are saying we should feed hedgehogs all year round now because they’re starving to death and on the brink of extinction. 😢They need about 20 wild gardens a night to get enough food but can’t get through fencing, so they tell us to put a hole about the size of a CD in our fences to make a hedgehog highway to allow them to roam. They tell us to feed complete cat food with meat as the top ingredient as they don’t digest cereal and not wet food as that encourages flies to lay maggots and then they get in the hedgehogs eyes and ears. Poor things.
If you want to see the strange deep ocean creatures, Connor, take a look at David Attenborough The Blue Planet. One of the episodes is about that very subject. I believe the episode is called The Deep. Absolutely brilliant episode; In Fact my favourite of all the David Attenborough episodes.
We're really into Conservation and re-wilding in the UK - here is a Species we've re-introduced - The Beaver - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CKr0vYnIJs0.html
@ 9:13 in case anyone's wondering why the bluethroat doesn't seem to have a blue throat, this one is a male in non-breeding plumage. The breeding ones have a much bolder colour in the summer.
Interesting questions around 17 minutes in... to let species go extinct. I studied under a wildlife documentary maker, who chaired an ethics committee. Their approach was just to document and not to intervene in what they were observing. Let nature do what it does, was the approach. If you intervene to save a human from a crocodile, why wouldn't you intervene to save a fly from a reptile? We put different values on different species. Who decides which species are worth saving? Could saving a fungus be worth more than saving a panda? Maybe it produces a pharmaceutically useful chemical, while the panda is just cute?
Havjng damaged the habitat of every species on the planet, I'd say we owe them help. If we can save them, we should. Look at it this way, starvation is natural too, so if you were starving, would you want people to offer you food or not?
I finally figured out why I enjoy your videos so much: it's because I can "argue" with you while still feeling no animosity toward you. I REALLY appreciate the curiosity and thoughtfulness you show in your videos. It's nice - almost Canadian - of you to apologize for various things as often as you do in your videos, but it's really not necessary. And most of the time when you end a train of thought with something like "I don't know what I'm trying to say" or "Do you guys even understand what I'm trying to say" - we get it. Carry on with the good work.
The good thing about the uk is you can go and enjoy the wilderness with out being eaten by a bear,lion ,tiger,wolf and so on,scotland its the midgies a small fly in some areas of scotland,am scottish and they dont seem to bother me by biting me,yes they swarm in numbers,maybe my blood type is not good for them,but for sure you wont get any diseases like what mosquitos can give ,you get a itchy lumps thats it.
In grass, if your legs are not protected - even in the south of England - there is a danger of contracting Lyme disease from being bitten by a tick. This is a very nasty disease.
Don’t you hate it when you think you’re going to get the first comment, and not only are you beaten to it, they have your comment too! Damn you Master of Parsnips, and damn you for your brilliant name, and I really like parsnips. My day has gone to hell.
We've also got :- Porbeagal, Blue Sharks, Threshers, Smooth Hammerhead and Mako these all grow upto about 12feet in length. We also have various other smaller species 🇬🇧
@18:11 Skellig Michael has been used as a filming location a few times, such as the place Luke Skywalker disappears to in his "hermit" phase in later _Star Wars_ films.
The reason porgs were added to starwars was because of the amount of puffins on the island that got in the shots while filming, and they couldn't take them all out of the shots so they added porgs to the movie by cgi in place of the photo bombing puffins.
@nick7076 Ireland is not a British Isle/Island and hasn't been since 1922. The Irish Government has stated that there is no legal basis to the term British Isles when referring to the Island of Ireland. Ireland is not a British Island. Ireland is a European Island Geographically and geologically. I am an Irish citizen and I certainly do not live on a British Island. The term is an outdated Geographical term when referring to Ireland 🇮🇪.
@@condorone1501 ii did not say Ireland was a British Isle. I said it was part of the British Isles. The two are different. The British Isles encompasses Great Britain and Ireland as the 2 major islands, plus he multitude of other islands, Isle of Wight, Anglesey, Isle of Man, the Scottish Islands and the many islands that surround Ireland. British Isles is a geographical description and has nothing to do with the individual countries situated on those islands. Understanding the difference between Great Britain/British as a political descriptor and British Isles as a geographic descriptor is a problem usually reserved for Americans not a native of this wonderful island group.
I toooootaly recommend you watch Planet Earth lll.!!!! Unfortunately you might need to pay for the 3rd series with 8 episodes. The episodes 1 hour long. It's narrated by David Attenborough again (he's 97 now!). You would LOVE this!!!!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Fascinating!!!! You won't be disappointed .................... 😁👍
In terms of human caused extinctions, most humans live outside of nature and aren’t a part of the ecosystem, but still negatively affect it. I.e. it isn’t a “natural” process in how modern humans are causing extinctions. Even just when it comes to timescale, extinctions don’t naturally happen at the rate that they’ve happened due to relatively recent human activity. Ecosystems have a natural/gradual selection process over a very long period of time. Within the last few hundred years the extinction rate has spiked to, at the very least, 100x greater than the regular extinction rate at any other time in history (bar mass extinction events)
There are lots of components to birds' migratory planning. Many can use the sun's position as a compass, or use the position of landmarks they're flying over, and some can even "see" the Earth's magnetic field thanks to traces of magnetic minerals in their heads.
By the way, Connor, those seasbirds called (what sounds like "Chuffs") are actually _spelt_(/spelled, to you) "_Choughs_" but are _still_ pronounced "_chuffs_" (like being chuffed if 'pleased' or 'happy' about something), okay?😊
Not possible way too late as Bears had died out centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain so around 5th century. Apparently bone evidence of a bear were found at a cave in the Yorkshire Dales from that time!
Over hunting and using wild animals for food in times of shortages have been the main reasons for animal extinction.. or the introduction of similar animals, like the red and grey squirrels, or even one case where a cat was living on an Island and ate the last of the birds there... So no there is little to be said of extinction... We are big on conservation of animals and plants here in UK...
Up to now there has been no confirmed sightings of the Great White in these waters. It is suspected that it has been here as Britain has the largest breeding Seal population in the whole of Europe, I believe. So, it would make sense. There is a growing concern that it will become a regular visitor due to the warming of the ocean and the Seals, obviously.
3:51 no, there are no Great White sharks around the UK, not enough food for them for a start. Nor Bull sharks, they’re found in warm seas. The biggest around the UK are the Thresher, Mako and Porbeagle, but non would go for a seal, and you’re correct, orcas do live around GB, there’s a few pods that frequent the areas around Scotland. 0:10 my home!
@@iangudgin6536 Ireland 🇮🇪 is not a British Isle/Island since the British were kicked out in 1922. Its an outdated Geographical term. The Irish Government has stated that there is no legal basis to the term British Isles when referring to the Island of Ireland. The UK Government no longer uses the term when referring to Ireland. I'm afraid you only have what's left of the UK. The British seem to have a problem with calling these Islands Great Britain and Ireland. Maybe its embarrassing for the British that they no longer have control over Ireland.
@@condorone1501 The British Isles might be an "outdated geographical term" but it is the current internationally recognised term. Sorry. Obviously , Great Britain does not include Ireland! No one should confuse that!!!
@iangudgin6536 The term is certainly not recognised by the United Nations or by any International legal treaty. It's 2023 have a look at Google maps and Google earth and you won't find any trace of the term British Isles. The only people that still use the term are the British. I wonder if the Falkland Islanders would be happy to be told that they live on Argintinian Islands Geographically speaking. It's no longer an acceptable term. It's not accepted by the Irish Government which represents the vast majority of people who live on the Island of Ireland. You have your UK. You don't have Ireland. Ireland 🇮🇪 is not British and to call it so is absurd. It really is the true definition of British cakeism.
I like the fact that the maps use the local language. Seals are fairly safe from predators in the UK. There are occasional visiting sharks and orca around Cornwall, but most of the UK's orca population is around Scotland. Birds navigate with a magnetic sense, but are far better judges of north/south than east/west, so if they're blown across the world rather than up or down, they can get confused. And sea urchins are eaten as a delicacy in some cultures (such as the Māori food kina).
Great White Sharks have been spotted off Cornwell, a Mako has been spotted in the North Sea, the oil rig diver passed himself. Basking Sharks, no teeth, might give you a nasty suck. Yes Orca. We have a breed of pig called the Ancient pig, its basically green stripes coating its so rare that the breeder owner didn't want his location revealed. Shire horses, Punts and other breeds of pigs/cattle are being hopefully preserved.
Great White sharks don't live in cold water, one of the reasons that Australia has them, Orca don't live in in the English channel, preferring to live in the north of the world so seals only real danger is people, also when mentioning letting certain animals go extinct I think it depends on the animal, if certain bees for instance died out then 5 years later mankind would suffer because bees help pollinate a lot of plants and not just the flowers they take the nectar from
The red squirrels we have which are native are sadly being made extinct due to the gray squirrels from North America finding their way across on ships in the past. We are considering reintroducing the Lynx and Wolf back to the UK. The beaver was recently re-reintroduced to Britain.
British Isles include the Republic of Ireland England Nothern Ireland , Wales , and Scotland, and other Islands there.I know the Republic is not part of Britain, but all the Islands there are called the British isles.
@@duncancallum Yes, of course, but Connor’s video’s title is British Wildlife, not Wildlife of the British Isles (perhaps the original video was called that, but I didn’t notice). In any other context where British this or that is mentioned it’s only relevant to Great Britain, not the Republic of Ireland, so that’s what I’d expected. Being petty I just had to make a comment, but should’ve learnt not to!
I don't know about that therse evidence that humans did exist along side some dinosaurs maybe after the great extinction but some survived,they called them dragons.some Indian( Asian) temples depict dinosaurs in their sculpture,so must have seen them in with own eyes.
Not true at all 😆 Many modern extinctions are due to human activity, but there have been at least 5 mass extinction events throughout earth’s history, all of which happened long before humans even existed.
Not really true. There are over 800 definitions of a 'forest' used around the world but the UK doesn't have a definition. Instead we use 'woodland' which is an area under stands of trees with a canopy cover of at least 20%. (about 13% of Britain's land). So without a clear UK meaning of what a forest is, if we call it a forest then it's a forest.
Not sure what definition you're using there? The word 'forest' in an ordinary modern sense obviously refers to an area of wooded land, sure, but the original medieval word was actually akin to a ‘preserve’, i.e. land that's legally kept for specific purposes, like royal hunting. So ‘forests’ were big areas able to support species likes wolves and deer for game hunting. It's why you'll sometimes find areas on an OS map labelled as forests but that have very little to no actual trees (such as in Exmoor). They also include other habitats such as heath, grassland and farmland... all still under the classed definition of 'forest'. More recently, 'woodland' has become a defacto word for land covered with trees and vegetation of course, but although a 'wood' tends to smaller than the modern 'forest' we also now associate with trees, I'm not sure there is an agreed or set numeric division between the two in the UK. And such semantics may differ in other English speaking nations elsewhere.
There are recent additions of Big Cats lurking in rural areas around Britain too e.g panthers and possibly pumas. And thank god for that, as the British ecosystem have been desperate for large land based predators for centuries!
Pointless brining them back ,the UK don't have the same forests as in the past ,so larger predators will not have the food to thrive unless they eat farmers cattle and sheep...even humans.
@@belindakennedy5828 Actually there is plenty of prey for these big cats e.g deer, rodents and the odd sheep! Sure there is a shortage of forests but they can manage as they're not in large numbers anyway.
@@belindakennedy5828 That's why we have national parks here and there to ensure that the habitat is still around for a wide variety of species. Tree diseases have been very bad issue over the past few years so hopefully nature can recover again.
Oh no. As I've said it's a lovely video but I've got Trypophobia and underwater those thousands of tiny sea anemones that looked like zits on the rock ..... Yuk!! The thousands of nesting birds were bad enough, but I could watch. I know, I'm a bit weird 😳
Connor...did you not _hear_, or are you just _not_ listening (_or ?_reading_ your comments) ... The narrator clearly stated that the Islands off Cornwall are called "The Isles of Scilly" - and the "c" is _silent_ so, The Isles of "Silly" are how they _are_ _correctly_ pronounced ...just as your first commenter already tried to tell you. Okay?!
@@jettser17UK The Isles of Scilly are very old and how words were spelt or pronounced may have changed over time...or, may not but in learning how various place-names are spelt or pronounced only enriches our languages and general or specific knowledge so I for one am okay with learning how to say and spell different words. There are, for example, the many and varied Native American place-names in the Americas, which may confuse or befuddle non-natives but that is no reason to change them to suit our lack of knowledge. We learn as we come to know differences and thus widen our education and improve ourselves, whilst in doing so, honour those who went before us. Surely that in and of itself, is a good thing. Why else would we have people who specialise in linguistics etc?! 🤔😊💙❤️🏴🇮🇪🏴🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
Yes Connor, we should allow animals to go extinct if is because of human activity, the only way we should save them is to change our activity, not reintroduction upsetting what is left of the existing natural wildlife populations. Our continuous interference in their environment through killing and culls of specific species upsets natural selection and development of new species.
I am very fortunate to live on a highly protected tidal Lough called Strangford, I see a lot of Dolphins, basking sharks and seals in the summer months, the lough is famous for its unique wildlife and is home to many species of birds and fish.
I am very sorry if I look miles away tonight looking at your video just that my friend was telling me today about my ex-boyfriend was asking about me she taught me he would like to see me I am so confused
Re Extinctions. There is not a species anywhere or on land , air or in the sea (except maybe extremophiles etc in the deepest depths) that has not been affected by human activity ... pollution, climate change, land usage etc,
It’s human activity that often causes extinction, for example the hedgehogs are on the brink purely due to us taking their habitats to build and they need to roam a mile or two a night to get enough food. We put up fences that stop them roaming to feed and find a mate. The wolf became extinct in the UK because they were hunted to extinction. Other species too have become extinct because of humans and we should do everything we can to save them.
Great White sharks are not yet recorded around the UK - officially. There have been a few potential large shark sightings in the south west of the UK and a few shark bites to seals - but nothing that can be proved to be Great Whites. Ecologically we should get Great Whites in the UK - but populations in the Mediterranean and off the Spanish coast do not travel far enough north to reach us - however temperatures and prey species are not stopping them if they tried to get here. We do get Orca but generally they do not attack seals in European waters - and only eat fish. Orca in other regions do take seals - but the two populations appear to live separate lives.
Lovely video. About "natural extinction" , my opinion in as short a way as I can type is that who is to say that humans don't / won't have a hand in future animal extinction? The way the planet is going according to some, ( re climate change), surely then it is because of humans in certain circumstances. Just my thoughts. ✌
Most small sea life like lobsters,crabs etc look like bugs on dry land all look like bugs to me but one lives below water the other on dry land,i wont eat them unless its fish.haddock and cod preferably.
I have a hedgehog in my garden every night been coming since spring and even there tonight we also have two foxes and sometimes they eat together 😊leftover cat biscuits
most extinctions are the result of human activity, all life on earth except human life, live within the frame work of nature it's self, only humans since their arrival in the British isles have changed the habitat in such extreme ways, deforestation and farming, pollution and over fishing, human activity that impacts all other life forms, we live beyond the boundaries of nature and at a cost to nature, deforestation and farming has existed here for thousands of years, extinction of the Bear, the Wolf, Wild Boar, Elk, and Beaver all the result of human interference, there are so many if's but's and maybe's ,question now too late to be answered, the only question is how do we put it right knowing we can not turn back time!
We have never had a confirmed great white sighting in the British Isles. The furthest north one has been verified is the bay of Biscay in the 90s. Orcas are more common around Northern Scotland but have been spotted all over Britain at various times.
Ireland 🇮🇪 is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Geographical term when referring to Ireland. I'm afraid you only have the UK. The British lost Ireland 🇮🇪 in 1922.
@@condorone1501 It is not an outdated term in the UK, it is still used. It is also a geographic term and has no political connection. It certainly is not a claim of any sort, truthfully most British people forget Ireland is even there but the same is probably true for the channel islands.
@maxisussex The term is no longer used by the UK Government since the signing of the Good Friday agreement. It's an incorrect geographical term that is still used by the British. Geographically Ireland 🇮🇪 is a European Island not a British Island. Ireland lies on the European continental shelf not the British continental shelf. The Continent is Europe not Britain. Britain is simply an Island just like Ireland. There is absolutely no justification in Calling Ireland a British Isle Geographically. Ireland 🇮🇪 can no longer be called a British Isle/Island since regaining its Independence and Territorial waters in 1922. It really does come down to Geography and Logic.
Yes we have, one was spotted 9miles off the coast of Guernsey last summer. Which is in the British Isles. And they’re heading farther north as our seas are warming up.
I am talking about confirmed sightings, the further north with a confirmed sighting is the bay of Biscay. Lots of people claim to see great whites but only confirmed sightings count. @@dannjp75
