If you can't handle the way nature operates, then don't watch videos like these. I for one find it fascinating how such a small predator can take out prey three times its size.
The next step in evolution for rabbits SHOULD be some, any, instinct of self defense. Its sad that Bugs Bunny IS the only rabbit with more intelligence.
Now that's what I call, determination. That ermine had some serious endurance to take on a much larger hare. It may have been stronger and faster, but the ermine endured to the very end. Because a that, it got rewarded.
I live in NZ, in a rural environment, where we have hares (like the one in this video), rabbits, weasels (ferrets) and stoats. It is highly unusual to see what I think is a stoat, the smallest of the mustelids in NZ, going for prey as large as a hare. It must have been very hungry, or had a litter to feed. This is a very good film catch - well done! [Hear the call of the shining cuckoo in the background?] People ask why it bites the back of the neck. Mostly to avoid getting kicked and raked by the legs of its prey, also to avoid being bitten.
No b-f ferrets here in NZ, they are native to Nth America. Ours is the common ferret or polecat, which interbreed naturally. A major pest, especially to flightless birds and poultry, but not as bad as the stoat (or weasel) that is shown in the video.
Here in the UK, it's not a ermine but a Ferret or a stout. My brother in law used it to hunt rabbits in the countryside back in my younger days in the 1970s. Others still used them nowadays.
Being a rabbit isn't funny, but have you ever seen an impala/gazelle being teared apart alive by a pack of hyenas? Dude, those little shits have the worst death imaginable.
Man those things are cute. If I hadn't seen this video and came upon one of those, I'd probably be like Will Ferrell in Elf where he meets a raccoon and thinks it's so cute and tries to pet it and it attacks his face.
@User If you try to pick up a wild rabbit without controlling the head, it will bite you to the bone, then bolt when you drop it. It can defend itself to a first order, but herbivores did not evolve to defeat apex predators and are completely outclassed when they meet one.
"They are capable of taking down prey 5-10 times their own weight, which is the equivalent to a male lion taking down a female Asian elephant." Macdonald, David (1992). The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores. New York: Parkwest. Awesome! go weasels!
@@giornogiovanna3888 "Where am I!? What am I doing here!? I can't move... My fingers... my body! What in the world!? What are you doing!? Why won't my body move?? The pain... IT HURTS!! AAAAAHHHHHHHH"
Never saw a rabbit that strong that was able to flip the stoat in the air that many times while under attack. The rabbit was strong and died a warrior. Most other rabbits just lay there helplessly screaming and crying while having it's organs ripped out their bodies.
@Tiniuc it's probably just muscle reflexes, rabbits usually die from shock in such a situation - ask someone who caught a wild rabbit in his barn, they start breathing really quickly, then faint, sometimes euthanizing themselves.
question: the whole time the ermine seemed to nibble at the back of the rabbits neck, how did it managed to kill it like that. did you cut part of the video? at the end it shows wounds on the throat but we did not see the ermine bite the throat. just aksing
Just to prove I could earn a good living as the world's greatest bore: 1. It's a hare not a rabbit (rabbits are silent) 2. It's a stoat, it is only an ermine when it turns white. (apart from the tip of it's tail)
@@pebblethecrazycockatoo2148 it's somewhat different animals:there are stoats,ermines,weasels-the lightest ones,there are slightly bigger minks that are the most aggressive of all mustelids and much more aggressive than honey badger and wolverine,than there is marten,and the biggest are honey badger and wolverine!
@@pebblethecrazycockatoo2148 btw I live in Canada as well and here I know a guy who somewhat uses quite an unusual and unbelievably rare(only 30 adults exist currently;through entire history there were seen only 9 individuals in the wild,6 were either critically malnourished and didn't make it or already dead:only 3 were rescued and only one of them gave offspring!)animal friend to chop rabbits and bunnies on his property in summer!Although he was meant to be perfectly camouflaged for hunting in winter but unfortunately lacks the mechanism of adaptation to climate,and that makes him looking like a 50 times larger than usual white sphynx cat!And that is a white stripeless Bengal tiger Frosty!Well,named that way due to coloration but nobody expected that he will be unable to get out in winter!Yet in summer he greatly does that job!Interestingly enough but he never unearths the nest when detects one:he waits until they grow up and are almost ready to go their separate ways,and than he usually waits for the mother to arrive for one of the final feedings and than takes out both mother and unearths bunnies one by one making a snack out of them all! By the way thankfully I live in Ontario where you can own any animals you want!So I am going to get a Siberian tiger cub to raise like a hunting comrade and life long friend as well as grandad did long ago!
An ermine's canines are not long enough to bite through a rabbit's spinal cord unless it were to pretty much chew through its neck. most prey larger than the ermine die from shock and partial nerve damage than actually having their spinal cord being severed. In prey equal to or smaller than the ermine in size, the spinal cord is severed by a proper bite.
Rex Wort It could fight or not fight. Either way, it knew it would die. Any animal that's in a situation where it's being attacked by a predator, deserves to die. Obviously they are somewhere they probably know they shouldn't be. Most of the time, the animals that get eaten by predators are stupid young juvenile animals or babies that don't listen to it's mother. I'm sure this rabbit was young and dumb. The smart prey animals stay clear of predators.
Actually, when killing prey like that rabbit, they actually can't sink their teeth deep enough to damage the spinal cord. However, the rabbit would flail in shock until it pretty much over-worked itself and had a heart attack or something similar.
They don't sink their teeth deep enough to break the neck they definitely do damage the spinal cord sometimes they even sever the spinal cord from the head they definitely damage the spinal cord
The rabbit may be thrice the size but its also thrice as dumb and the stoat has thrice the stamina. The rabbit could be double that size and still get killed.
Actually a creature about 20 times smaller can kill a rabbit stoats prefer to kill rabbits about 5 to 6 times bigger than they are but if they really push themselves they can go for 10 times bigger than they are
Soisses Glaubsmir WHAT! I know this comment was two years ago, but 1) it’s not a raptor, it’s a mammal. 2) I KNOW you didn’t say RAPE! This isn’t rape, this is nature unfolding 🤦🏽♂️
***** My sweet dear little girl ! No, no, no ! A hare is very different from a rabbit -- it can be 3 sizes more from a rabbit, it have very long hears, with black at the top. It run faster and longer than a rabbit. It cannot mate with a rabbit. It does not dig holes to go inside, but sleeps outside all the year...and so and so.
The feeling that the rabbit has is similar to if an animal with four hands comes to you and hugs you on your back and bites you with huge fangs at the nape of your neck making enormous pressure
It is too fucking dumb and weak to do anything!A wolverine in relation to a human being weight is about as large as a stoat for a rabbit!Yet if the wolverine would have dared bouncing on me-I would have had a couple small lacerations,a sarcastic smile and a wolverine for next dinner!
El mundo está lleno de gente malvada igual al que los creo. Porque se complacen en el sufrimiento de ese lindo conejito que no queria morir. Luchó 💔🥺😭 y no logró escapar, mis niños lindos cómo son victimas de tanto depredador. Ellos no merecen esa vida desgraciada que les toca vivir.
@Emeengor I agree. Any animal that eats meat can do whatever they please to a rabbit. Even animals way smaller like a stoat can kill them pretty much without the rabbit making any resistance. Rabbits seemingly only exist to become food to other animals in the wild.
Wow. I mean, yeah, its nature and all but that has got to be like one of the most painful and slow ways to die I can imagine. Hey nature, think you could like, I dunno, speed up the whole predator and prey process a little cuz yikes.
Fatal Foxtrot Yea. That's was one of the most brutal attacks I've seen in regards to mother nature. Getting your spine severed while screaming and crying to get away is a brutal situation for any living thing. I think this was worst than a lion hunting a wilderbee.
Ryan Heard you guys have not seen hyenas hunt have you..... they eat their preys guts alive and eat the ass until the animal dies of shock and blood loss.
Trust me. Watch video of hyenas eating a buffalo. First they bite your anus/dick and rip out the soft parts. After that they start eating you alive starting from the soft bellie.
@@User38237 the lady at that channel is always praising these animals that have low intelligence and low affection for humans. Her channel should be called "lorelei the rabbit lover" bec her black rabbit never follows her around and the vids are just her talking. The black animal has little interest in her and is probably sleeping or pooing/peeing nonstop when shes filming. Sad.
