Can We Outsmart The Smartest Bird?

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Ravens are extremely successful, adaptable, opportunistic birds whose population has exploded in the Mojave over the last 60 years. This has been bad news for the desert tortoise. The solution to this problem might just lay in the overlap of conservation and engineering with 3d printing, lasers, and grape flavoring.
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@BizarreBeasts 5 месяцев назад

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@Hextraordinary13 5 месяцев назад

I want the narrator's pendant!

@BizarreBeasts 5 месяцев назад

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@darthmeowry 5 месяцев назад

Sooo... you have to train ravens much like you train cats. It's not a punishment, it's a "this is too annoying to bother with".

@rkozakand 5 месяцев назад

Home alone? It seems obvious that a more appropriate comparison would be roadrunner and coyote.

@BizarreBeasts 5 месяцев назад

We had such a debate behind the scenes of which reference to go with and that was the other option!

@kiro9291 5 месяцев назад

that would imply humans are being foiled constantly though

@tiffanysandmeier4753 5 месяцев назад

I am sad to say that my kids are not so familiar with Looney Tunes, so they wouldn't get the Coyote vs. Roadrunner reference. They are, however, familiar with Home Alone.

@thomashaapalainen4108 2 месяца назад

@kiro9291 I mean one only has to look at the emu war.

@Dokushin1989 5 месяцев назад

I worry they’ll just learn to avoid turtles that aren’t moving…

@dragonharris5465 5 месяцев назад

Maybe the fake tortoises could be rigged with wheels or legs to “walk” occasionally!

@Dokushin1989 5 месяцев назад

@@dragonharris5465 that would be good!

@sp00n 5 месяцев назад

There are already "drones" for documentary shows that look and (somewhat) move like the original animals, to get shots that wouldn't be possible otherwise. A slowly moving mechanical tortoise shouldn't be too hard to engineer.

@Dokushin1989 5 месяцев назад

@@sp00n true but those are expensive I think, usually deployed individually whereas these are deployed en masse. But yeah the tech exists.

@DasAntiNaziBroetchen 5 месяцев назад

@@sp00n Those tortoises had a gas canister buried under them. This makes this much harder.

@askthebubble28 5 месяцев назад

Honestly the raven is the bizzare beast in this story

@coreysimmons4519 Месяц назад

they just need to attach little green laser disco ball things to each tortoise, problem solved

@jamesonmoore1837 5 месяцев назад

In this case, the most bizarre beast of all... was man!

@kultur-vultur 5 месяцев назад

Yea blinding birds with lasers to save turtles.

@Adeith 5 месяцев назад

"Granpa, what weapons did you use in the great raven wars" "Mostly laser rifles and grape juice"

@askthebubble28 3 месяца назад

💀

@lucretius8050 5 месяцев назад

I wonder if they will figure out which are fake and get even better at spotting the real tortoises.

@TheGundamGirl17 5 месяцев назад

@gabriellesmith7453 5 месяцев назад

Chances are they won't want to risk it, if you ordered a burger from McDonalds, went for a bite got skunk sprayed, even if it's a one-off you're probably not going there anymore 😂

@jonathan0225 5 месяцев назад

@@gabriellesmith7453honestly decent odds of working.

@Insan1tyW0lf 5 месяцев назад

@@gabriellesmith7453 If that McDonald's was the only food you'd seen all day you might be more keen on adapting vs avoiding. Definitely makes any other options seem more appealing though.

@MySmileStillStaysOn 5 месяцев назад

Ravens are so smart. They will definitely start to figure it out. We do have tools that can learn along with the ravens, though - AI can adjust what it does in response to different raven behavior. So we would just need the funding to add AI to this battle :P

@douglasboyle6544 5 месяцев назад

I can't be the only one who shouted "GRAPE FLAVORING!" when they brought up methyl anthranilate because of NileRed?

@ChefChris223 5 месяцев назад

thank you for this comment thought I was the only one!

@StonedtotheBones13 5 месяцев назад

Imma be honest I only thought it was familiar until they said grape and then shouted "bird stop!" 😂

@jobriq5 5 месяцев назад

NileGreen

@Aaaaaaarrrpirate 5 месяцев назад

Ravens now think tortoises have evolved grape skunk spray

@sohopedeco 5 месяцев назад

A person with a mask carrying a corpse might be one of the scariest things those ravens have ever seen.

@adamant5381 3 месяца назад

Bro think of a giant using a mask carrying a human corpse, he doesn't attack you, just stares at you, i would be traumatized

@Algorithmicgeneratedwordsalad 5 месяцев назад

I know exactly what that chemical was when I watched Nile Reds video on the grape flavored Apple the other day if it's safe enough for him to eat I'm sure it's safe enough to be sprayed on the birds

@YamiChip 5 месяцев назад

Have the researchers observed any real tortoises interacting with the fake tortoises? I just wonder how many have come across one and gone "Friend? ...Ahhh grape spitting friend!!"

@Insan1tyW0lf 5 месяцев назад

Would the grape spray be off-putting to the actual tortoises or make the fakes even more appealing?

@claraclear5665 5 месяцев назад

It could also reduce the number of successful matings. I'm excited to see what their results will be

@bethn2836 5 месяцев назад

@@claraclear5665 they're fake juvenile tortoises. So I don't think it would mess with matings encounters.

@claraclear5665 5 месяцев назад

@@bethn2836 If they are mating with plastic they aren't using the time and energy to mate with real ones 😅

@bethn2836 5 месяцев назад

@@claraclear5665 but they're plastic JUVENILE tortoises, so they wouldn't be trying to make with them, because they don't resemble a sexually mature tortoise.

@kellyroper5256 5 месяцев назад

Next logical step in tortoise raven warfare is obviously laser armed tortoises. Laser tortoise tank, god I love the future.

@torreywhiting5402 3 месяца назад

Next evolution of this is Sheer Heart Attack from Jojo

@Treeplanter73 5 месяцев назад

In areas where hunting is allowed, ravens will even take on bald eagles for gut piles. They're a large bold bird.

@jonathan0225 5 месяцев назад

They aint unkindness for nothing lol

@YunxiaoChu 5 месяцев назад

@@jonathan0225lol

@victory8928 5 месяцев назад

They are family animals they stick together and rarely tolerate larger birds that can threaten them doesn’t mean they wouldn’t flee from a hawk or the like though

@achristiananarchist2509 4 месяца назад

When I was a kid I saw a group of crows drive a falcon into the side of a concrete ditch just by harrassing it and flying away over and over again. It broke a wing and we called a rescue out to get it. I always wondered what all that was even about. It's like a bunch of humans going "Hey let's screw with that tiger and see if we can get it to run off a cliff chasing us" and it actually ending with a wile e tiger moment instead of a mauling.

@KxNOxUTA 5 месяцев назад

Glad they're fighting for the lives of tortoises while not killing offs ravens but rather making them uncomfortable enough to eat sth. else or migrate to places where food is less of a problem, all while regulating the population back to more "normal"..... after messing up the habitat

@Rararawr 5 месяцев назад

How long until they learn and share that lasers mean food? Would certainly make open air raves in the region more fun

@FairMiles 4 месяца назад

Raven: pecks "tortoise" Techno-tort: sprays grapejuice Raven: "Nevermore"

@archionblu 5 месяцев назад

I'm sure it's been an idea that's been suggested before, but I would love it if bizarre beasts could switch to to the scishow pin-of-the-month style format! i.e. Where you can preorder throughout the month (I'm personally happy with the random colorway staying!), but you can pick month-to-month what to get rather than committing to a continuing subscription. The art style and my interest in the various animals just varies too much for me to be able to justify blind buying.

@danielrockett4434 5 месяцев назад

I saw both these guys in the Mojave Desert in the mid 2010s. I saw only two Desert Tortoises, (both beautiful) but I saw dozens of the massive desert ravens. Me and the other soldiers called them "Crowdactyles" and they's straight up eat our MRE's.

@hunterG60k 5 месяцев назад

I'm sorry if someone else has already said this but....These scientists are literally going to be selecting for the smartest birds and thinking they're getting rid of them? How could this possibly go wrong? lol They'll learn to ignore the laser at some point, they're smarter than 7 year olds!

@Caterfree10 5 месяцев назад

I have never desired a rare version of the monthly pin as much as I have for this month’s pin

@Tser 5 месяцев назад

I saw the massive raven flocks and laser dispersal techniques on Extraordinary Birder... as a birder, seeing so many ravens congregating in one place is mind boggling! We've certainly made the habitats ideal for them. I love the fake tortoises that startle them to train them to stay away. Ravens are so smart, it seems like an excellent strategy. I live in Oregon so another battle is being waged here -- the range expansion of barred owls, helped by humans modifying habitat, and putting the spotted owls, suffering from the same habitat modifications, at further risk through interbreeding and out-competing. Unfortunately, culling may be the only option when it comes to barred owls.

@whiterabbit47 5 месяцев назад

Literally didn't know there were ravens down here, I really need to go outside more often LOL

@DeathsGarden-oz9gg 4 месяца назад

Me and the ravens and crows have an agreement on my garden. You eat fresh not ready or ready fruits or vegetables you lose the bird bath and bird feeder. There only allowed to pick bugs off and only eat the food that has ben eaten or infested with bugs. Oh ya any fruits above 20 feet there allowed to have regardless of bugs. Ps i never topped my trees so the smallest one is 43 feet tall. I do climb my trees up to 20 feet so the birds learned to deal with me and moved up to the lowest branch there ok with me getting up to is like 27 feet up. Yes i will have baby birds moms and dad birds at a minimum of 7 feet above my head.

@evolancer211 5 месяцев назад

Ravens are smart, they'll figure out that the tortoise is not real after awhile lol

@kultur-vultur 5 месяцев назад

Not the ones that get blinded by a laser tho.

@tiffanysandmeier4753 5 месяцев назад

The laser was protecting facilities, not the tortoises. Also, the laser is not blinding the ravens. I believe it is of a safe frequency. Not all lasers are the same.

@NewMessage 5 месяцев назад

But if they finally get together to take us down, man... We're in trouble!

@jim4859 5 месяцев назад

I hope you follow up on this. I'll bet on the ravens.

@turkeytrac1 5 месяцев назад

Raven, racoons, coyotes all animals that have followed people and seemingly prospered. Great vid.

@AyameFyuu 5 месяцев назад

I love this pin! Also Raven's really are smart so getting them to just associate tortoise with being sprayed at should discourage them. I can't wait for this pin, this is an interesting case of Native invasive. Where a native species invades ecosystem they wouldn't naturally invade so trying to discourage them to leave is definitely interesting method of combating. Especially since it kinda human fault that they even came to these ecosystem.

@brendanhoffmann8402 5 месяцев назад

Growing up I often thought of the ravens as powerful spirit animals. I still love to leave out food for them. My cats sit there chattering away.

@karenscigliano9787 5 месяцев назад

We live here in the Mojave and food habits aside, I've witnessed their extensive conversations they have with their mate, with hawks and one injured female that hung around all day close by the house-- and even closer once she knew there was going to be food when she saw me-- or even heard my voice. Once she healed I didn't see her without her mate for a while. But she would still stop briefly--to "chat"😅 or swing back for a quick hello--or her version of an acknowledgement of me. Watch out if they don 't like you, though......... So, long story even longer, the raven is smarter 😢than most people these days and will figure this scheme out😂

@alexroselle 5 месяцев назад

For anyone interested in this subject, I highly recommend the book “Fuzz” by Mary Roach. She included a few chapters on how humans have tried to alter bird behavior (with mixed results)

@marvinsandmann9441 5 месяцев назад

I know this is my first comment and it seems I'm only joined your members recently but I'm using most of the time my PC to watch RU-vid and I'm not logged in. I really love your videos and you still manage to astound me despite my vast knowledge as a taxidermist and animal freak. And I want to submit one little idea for a video: The really bizarre bests known as velvet worms, the onchychophora. These little creatures are beautiful and weird and have some incredible abilities which I won't spoil here. They're so cool they deserve their own video and - most importantly - their own pin.

@jimmygarza8896 3 месяца назад

Ravens don't pay taxes. Humans do. I think we know who's really smarter. ;)

@askthebubble28 3 месяца назад

Why did the ravens go away, dad? “We sprayed ‘‘em with grape juice

@charlesdye8367 5 месяцев назад

I do believe that they will soon develop their own carbonated water. Grape flavored.

@Alice_Walker 5 месяцев назад

I love corvids, it's cool to see such creative ways of managing them

@sainjawoof3506 5 месяцев назад

Corvids and chelonians 🐦‍⬛🐢❤️

@pattheplanter 5 месяцев назад

Same problem with ravens eating Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoises in Morocco.

@paurushbhatnagar8100 5 месяцев назад

Waiting until ravens call this bluff

@SkunkySpinda 5 месяцев назад

"FIRE THE LAZER CROWINATOR!"

@TravellingTortuga 5 месяцев назад

How would OWCA react to this? Would they ignore it, since it is for a good cause?

@me0101001000 5 месяцев назад

@@TravellingTortuga as long as Rudy the Raven doesn't get caught in it, they're good

@kultur-vultur 5 месяцев назад

Blind crows better than dead turtles? 🐢

@capybaraswacreatures1428 5 месяцев назад

Raven during the bizarre beasts pin reveal: Food Desert Tortoise: n0-

@leongliyang6946 5 месяцев назад

Raven: mmmhhhh... yummy !!!, fresh baked cookies, let's fly down and grab some cookie 🍪🍪🍪 *Scientists make another type of cookie* Raven: woah , this tough cookie smell's like raisin. Wait !, a raisin cookie ? cool

@Bekindallways 4 месяца назад

Here in Fairbanks Alaska they've started stealing groceries from ppls carts while they're loading up their vehicles. They'll work in groups and try to distract the human while another snags meat steaks out of the cart. They also kick snow on ppl from the roof when they come and go in and out of the store, and then... they all laugh at us! No joke. Jerks I love them.

@MicroGuys14 Месяц назад

The new title is kinda over exaggerated because the title of the “smartest bird” was giving to the Kea. So smart that they can vandalize and destroy cars.

@lutilda 5 месяцев назад

If the mask-threat research is the study done at University of Washington: they actually extended the trail by having someone wear the mask about a decade later (past most of the birds' lifespan) and they still attacked! Which is evidence towards language among the birds!

@bp5257 3 месяца назад

A Raven walks into the a saloon and asks the bartender "Hey, got any grapes?" And the bartender says "No! This is a bar!, we don't sell grapes here!" So the raven says "Great!" and eats a tortoise.

@othergeorgea 4 месяца назад

but how will we deal with the deathclaws

@frazonedracaoo6981 4 месяца назад

Im sorry but this isn't going to work, and these scientists clearly dont know much about how living creatures actually work. To seriously belive that given the choice between starving and being mildly anoyed the bird would actually choose to starve is ridiculous. People try over and over and over again to get these animals to stop exploiting the easy food sorces we cause for them without harming and them and you know what, it fails again and again and again. You can not simply annoy an animal away from easy food.

@huldu 5 месяцев назад

I'm very skeptical, we have ravens up here in the north and like they say they're quite smart. It's an interesting approach to the problem but in the end I get the feeling we'll be culling them to extinction(in the vulnerable areas) sooner or later since that is proven to work. If anything we humans are very good at creating lethal traps.

@justaregularguy115 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, but if we can find efficient ways to control animal populations without killing, then that is a laudable aspiration (especially since us humans are causing the majority of these wildlife imbalances).

@Wingedshadowwolf 5 месяцев назад

At work, we run a small landfill. In winter we mostly have ravens and in summer the seagulls return and chase away the ravens. Unfortunately they do the same thing as the ravens; dig up trash and poo on the landfill vehicles! 🤦‍♀

@kidmohair8151 Месяц назад

in answer to the thumbnail question. no. ravens aren't collectively destroying their only home. and they've *not* been doing that for f.a.r. longer than we've been at that task.

@takenname8053 5 месяцев назад

Crows fear the purple flavor

@liriodendronlasianthus 5 месяцев назад

Grimace Shake Challenge

@ntm4 3 месяца назад

"Will I ever feast again, upon the tortoise I adore?" Quoth the Human: "Nevermore."

@Nevermore101 5 месяцев назад

Raven proxy wars! It's almost like we've developed a defense mechanism for the tortoises. It's only a matter of time before the tortoises use their superior numbers to take up arms against the ravens. I hope we will be able to live with ourselves, once the raven enslavement beings and the tortoise empire rises.

@tobylegion6913 5 месяцев назад

I love ravens. However: for this ecosystem they are a dangerous invasive species and need to be eradicated, not inconvenienced. Like other ecosystem wrecking species, and they don't deserve special treatment. They are adaptable and learn. Its only a matter of time till they leant that those tricks aren't a real threat. As stated

@Catastropheshe 4 месяца назад

Imagine momma raven telling nesttime story to chicks about how tortoises are bad and should avoid them or you get grapes farted 😂😂😂

@cuddlepaws4423 3 месяца назад

Terminator Tortoise. " I want your shell, your lettuce, and your motorcycle. Give them to me ".

@FrankBoston 3 месяца назад

I was drinking a grape sports drink while watching, but it doesn't have that methyl whatever stuff in it. I'm a grape freak Love me some turtles too.

@CalanReichel Месяц назад

I don't doubt anyone who thinks a raven is smarter than themselves. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@emafink3018 3 месяца назад

Can we make a competition out of this? Typical people who make the world worse. thx for nothing

@nolaprevost8912 5 месяцев назад

Ok the Techno-Tort looks like something Mark Rober would come up with and I kinda want to see that collab video

@nickrider5220 Месяц назад

Wherever we go we change the environment, only the most adaptable species that can live along side us can do well.

@annvaughan4091 5 месяцев назад

Loving bizarre beasts, I live in England I wish there was a way to get your merchandise.

@childofpluto3994 5 месяцев назад

Humans are hilarious, paying taxes for ravens to learn to differentiate between fake and real, good job !

@Hootymchootsifer 3 месяца назад

Im all too familiar with using a laser rifle to ward off highly intelligent creatures in the Mohave ☢️☢️

@ВасильевСвятослав-д9м 5 месяцев назад

Poor tortoises😢

@daqq 4 месяца назад

Ravens are going to steal a laser pointer and scare the other ravens off... and the raven quoth, "friggin' lasers." 😂

@Coral_skies 5 месяцев назад

I love everything about this story so much. It's so much funnier than it should be hahaha

@thehellezell 2 месяца назад

I think ravens are cool but just came here to post that, yes, I am, in fact, smarter than a bird.

@trexboy55 4 месяца назад

Bet you that laser rifle hurts a bit more when you’re black. What race was the guy they tested it on? 😂

@kiro9291 5 месяцев назад

this video would read like a children's book in the funnest way possible

@Youtube221B 5 месяцев назад

I imagine bird laser is something you'll see in a remake of The Birds.

@amiekp 5 месяцев назад

Good information to know, woah. I had no idea. Thank you for the video

@DragoniteSpam 5 месяцев назад

missed a golden opportunity to call this "conservation through irritation"

@franciscorosa1498 5 месяцев назад

Ravens are too smart, they'll take over

@MandieKearns-Moore 4 месяца назад

Hey, I live in the Mojave Desert. Victorville to be precise

@spencerevans8719 5 месяцев назад

I’m thinking the ravens will figure this out.

@lorenzo8495 5 месяцев назад

haha, that's really cool! Save the Desert Tortoise! 🌵🐢 ❤

@AlbertWolfe-p9v 5 месяцев назад

bro i leave walnuts out for them but they seem to prefer a flat burrito on the road someone ran over

@YunxiaoChu 5 месяцев назад

Won’t the ravens just learn to identify fake tortoises

@chrisprescott2273 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video. I used to live 8n Las Vegas and my neighbors had a tortoise dig under their fence into their yard and stayed there for 16 years until one day it dug a new fence hole and was gone.