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It's amazing that the insect was discovered on such a small island in the middle of nowhere. I'm from Nova Scotia and there are literally thousands of tiny islands around the coast. This video makes me realize that if that place had such a unique creature, who knows what the small, "insignificant" islands could be hiding deep in their bushes/underground/on their hilltops

Man, I'm not exaggerating, your channel is the best for adventurous people. Man, can't figure out why only 34k subscribers. Really, often greatness is not understood by masses. I just hope you continue making the videos! Thank you)

I got here by watching jeb Corliss ? in a flight suit lol cool vid

I love this story, it just shows how a creature can come back from the brink.

Love these videos! Keep them coming, great work!

thumbs up for walking sausage party. I was about to make the joke.

This channel is great. Keep it up!

One of my favorite channels. Dylan you really nail the commentary :)

Love the video!

That is fucking awesome!!! Life will find a way if it’s given a fighting chance! I am strangely euphoric for these little creatures and their tenacity for clinging to a tenuous existence under a single bush in the middle of the ocean! Good on ya, little buggers! 🙌🏻

I know I'm kind of late but I think Cuddle Bug would be an appropriate and adorable nickname. In my family we use it to mean someone, usually a kid, who is super affectionate.

Great Video!! 👍👍

Thanks for spreading knowledge! Subscribed :)

Great video. You have only 2K subscribers! Channels like these deserve more promotion than they are getting.

This channel is a hidden gem

:) I just love how happy you sound talking about the walking sausages

you make informative nice videos..keep it up!!

love this channel! keep it up! c:

Wow very interesting. I love nature/science!!!

My boyfriend and I were told about the website, bought the huge world atlas ... and now a channel! YES! So cool. Thank you, from the perpetually curious. :)

Ok, the guy doing this vid is adorable hahah. Love your enthusiasm about the subject!

I saw some at the Melbourne Zoo. They are tremendous!

Thank you, skinny Russell Crowe

Just shows how resilient nature can be.

Great to hear

Fantastic story...and I'm creeped out by most insects. But that's irrelevant, what's important is they were saved

I remember reading about these a while back- that island is like something a pterodactyl would be seen flying over!

A good name would be something like "Bigus Nopus" Great video though! I really enjoy watching these :)

Amazing survival......Greetings from Phillip Island Victoria Australia

I was there before they died and, even though I'm living in Argentina now, I'm glad they came back because it is also as it was/is great to check them out, on a great day in your boat!!

I know I"m late to the game, but "The Lord Howe Walking Tree Sausage" has a nice ring to it.

I like these! My favorite local bugs are mosquito hawks, they actually let me pet them.

Hmph! A sausage fest on Balls Pyramid!

CHUCKLES Its really nice!

good video buddy... i love nature....

WONDERFUL! WONDERFUL! WONDERFUL!

The deratting of islands has proved exceedingly hard to accomplish. An experiment down Aussie way had the last rat not only avoid the food trap but commit himself to the ocean where one supposed he headed in the right direction for company.

Hahahaha this is to funny :) I love this story and the island, I wonder if it's hard to find. I dub thee Julius Stickarailius!

this guy tokes for sure!

I like this

Do the Palawan, Underground River.

Great videos---How about Lord Howe Spoon Stick Insect

interessante !

Cool programme. You can clearly see Balls Pyramid from Lord Howe Island which is totally idyllic by the way. Lord Howe is Paradise on Earth, so let the stick insects go back home. Totally sensible.

CoD Ghosts Extinction mode brought me here. Was not disappointed.

At the instructions of NSW Premier , Neville Wran , I was a member of the first reconnaissance team of 7 led by Dr John Disney ( Ornithologist) of Australian Museum , and included Dr John Pickard ( Ecologist National Herbarium) in 1975 to study the environment of the Woodhens on Lord Howe Island. We traversed the entire Island and could only find 18 remaining birds which we weighed measured and banded. Pickard and myself also climbed the almost inaccesible Mt Lidgbird where we did find a few Woodhens and also Balls Pyramid ( seeking Phasmids, stick insects which we did not find ). In the summation of the report to save the Woodhen it mentioned that the rat population had to be exterminated. I am pleased that after 45 years , this has finally been accomplished and the Woodhen & Phasmid population has increased substantially . Congratulations to all those involved

I think satan would be a great name

Mahogany Spooner. Interesting story.

Was this a video about balls pyramid or stick insect?

That one bush saved the insect. Luckily there were no drunk drivers around!

Might've been HP Lovecraft's inspiration for the island of R'lyeh in The Call of Cthulhu

Walking Weiner is what I would have named it…

It should be called, "Brown Stick"

But wait, in the illustration of the lord howe island stick insect, you can clearly see why it's called a "tree lobster" or a "walking sausage" based on coloring, etc., yet the balls pyramid stick insect looks very different, such as, not being red. Has someone proven that these aren't actually two different species of stick insects?

I love that the male sleeps holding the female... 😍🥰

One Bush on Balls Pyramid Saved the Sausage party

I vote we call them scare sticks

I thought Ball's pyramid was uninhabited. I'd be very surprised to see someone live there.

This was less about Ball's Island and more about the insect. Not really what I was looking for, but okay.

Even for stick insects I find playing some Barry White generally does the trick

due to their sleeping habits i think they should be renamed the Snuggle Bug

I now have nightmares for the rest of my life

How about: "Lord Howe & Ball's giant walking tree sausage with incestuous tendencies and a dislike of rats"

I would call that a Grassroach (Grasshopper and a Cockroach together)

so they all lived under that same tiny bush, wouldn't there have been loads of dead ones too though? i guess the wind could have blown them away or something

Yeah, been some hits and misses. Mainly the misses come from the muppets from the LHIB. Like throwing out the display case they had the Phasmids in at the museum, which still had leaves and twigs in it. Anyway, a responsible individual saw this at the dump, had a closer look and saw that it still had a large number of live adults and eggs in it. Said person collected the live insects and eggs, made a home for them and let them keep living in his yard. The LHIB found out and got officers to remove the insects from his property and are currently involved in legal proceedings with him. The LHIB. If something is being done right, well or efficiently, it's not being done by the bureaucratically bloated, common sense lacking, pocket stuffing leaches, of the LHIB.

Contrary to the opinions of humans, declaration of species extinction has no bearing on whether or not a species is actually extinct.

So when they cuddle are they a Spoonful of Sausage?

chub beatle... that is my nick name for them...

Never remind me of that cursed movie "sausage party" ever again.

Did the invaders survived after their food became extinct?

Stick it where the sun don't shine ♨😎♨

Love how ignorant we are. "Oh, it's extinct" then "back from the dead"?! It's always been there!! It never died, we just called them out for the count. Explains humanity perfectly

When he said “Lord Howe,” I actually thought.. “Wait, what?” “Lord, how?” Were the people who first found these insects asking God how He created them? But then I went back 10 seconds to go through the video again and realized how stupid I was.

I'd call it the NOPUS NOPUS :)

Wouldn’t they be more safe on Ball’s Pyramid? They were eaten to extinction on Lord Howe Island.

Also know as Godzillas fin.

WHY WHY WHYYYYY!!!

Call it the Walking Turd

I wonder if the insects are edible for humans

So this solves the food crisis…

24 km, not 11 km.

*Tasman sea not Pacific ocean

Interesting but hastily compiled with some basically incorrect statements about Balls Pyramid. It’s a fascinating place alright and there are quite a few other videos and short docs that are better researched. Thanks for posting though.

Yuck bug is a good name for it. LOL What purpose is there to bring these things back from extinction? re-introducing it to an area may not be a good idea. Invasive species issues come to mind.

How fascinating. In breeding be dammed.

Rattus Rattus dude. There's 2 "T".

Why

Surely they will be eaten by the rats on lord Howe island again when they are reintroduced there....unless rats have been eliminated from lord Howe island?

I can feel how heavy his teeth are.

Australian men are AMERICAN men with accents. O_o

Bermuda triangle

Nickname: finger creeper

This (somehow) reminds me of Azkaban

okay who is here from the octonauts?

So they went to Ball's, dug around in the bush, and found it crawling with weiners? Sounds like a good time.

Them damn rats should be eliminated, we have plenty of them all over the world anyway but not the rare insects. A commendation medal to all those dedicated entomologists.

We need to stop messing with nature.

I bet they taste GR8 with tobasco!

He’s hot