How did a seal get to a lake in the middle of Siberia 

Same here!!

*shooting stars starts playing*

flomp flomp floompf flomp flomp

most adorable migration ever

Undulating hops

Lol yes

hahaha

By far the bigger mystery! ;)

God

@@christiankalinkina239 the flying spaghetti monster

glory to saimaannorppa!

Long live saimaannorpat

Wow pro wrestlers from the 80’s are protecting seals now

Come on, the Baltic Sea is not really that far from this lake. They deserve their attention of course, but the distance to salt water is in no way comparable, comrade :D

Yes, and there are (closely related) Ringed-Seals in Lake Lagoda, also close to the Baltic sea, so clearly less confusing than the Baikal Seal.

Yeah It's so embedded in our finn culture that just today I saw in a store mugs where is artistic impression of the seal and the gains of the money got go to keep them thriving. It's actually quite cool mug, have to get one, they are sold pretty much everywhere you go right now.

See also the Wikipedia-article "Freshwater_seal". There are also small colonies of harbour seals in a few lakes of Canada and Alaska. BTW, Finnish "norppa" and Russian "нерпа" are related, both probably borrowed from Saami language(s).

Yep it’s also sad how it’s bal-calgoten in time

I wonder what they think of Brexit?

It's not so bad since they can listen to: Kiss from a Rose, by their favourite musician.

@@papakarrbear3767 I don't get it

@@edgarallenpoe8457 i guess that pun went ovblast your head

Lol. Good one

I'm picturing a baby seal clinging to a duck

That idea gets my "seal" of approval. But the truth is less romantic, the trans Siberian railway runs close by, they just took the train!!!

I tied my babies to trucks at truck stops. I figure if they make it they'll be strong and it spreads my seed.

Yes, but on a European or African swallow?

Plus seals now are actually often found up on the river, so they're not really bound to the lake.

☑️ I can personally verify the theory that they got there through an enormous inland sea that covered much of Europe and Russia 6 million years ago. I know, because my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great(x 10,000) grandfather was an early hominid who had a job in that area in the year 5,998,000 BC as a hunter-gatherer. He passed down the story of the giant inland sea through tens of thousands of generations of my family's history. He was paid just over minimum wage, which back then was 1¢ per lifetime. Adjusted for inflation, that equals $17/hr in 2023 dollars.

​@@HighlanderNorth1epic story. Your ancestors was a hero

NORAD REGION - negative affect results/ SKINWALKER RANCH. That is treacherous to face that shit in an a Apocalyptic Dimension like STAR WARS. We are in a MATRIX/HOLODECK though and maybe that is just a way to dress up the darkness. Of course there is no RAD and we are in a MATRIX. Such suffer.

The USA Rockies look like they went through a Nuclear War tens of thousands of years ago. If you look at the Toppgraphy it's waaay different there compared to Canada and Mexico up the Mountain Range. Gotta keep focused on healing and developing. Destruction is for JABRONIS.

@@derekknight9789 u okay?

God bless the world for having such fascinating ecosystems

Which god, and can you prove it exists?

Flying Spaghetti Monster bless

@@kellydalstok8900 one true God Allah, proven by the beauty of creation.

Who?

What is that even supposed to mean?

Wow so its 7km of sediment on top of depth

@@NotFlappy12 lakes die because sediment - decayed organic matter, and silt brought in from rivers - accumulates at the bottom, making them less shallow over time, until water no longer accumulates there and they dry up. Baikal has 7000 meters of sediment ... and still has 4000 of actual depth left to fill. It's ancient and giant. I'm not certain it was ever 11000 meters deep - as the sediment fills, the rift is also opening, giving it more time - but it's still an impressive comparison.

@@artembolshakov3901 Wonderful explanation 👏

@@artembolshakov3901 imagine the fossils

Much of the lowland area in northern Siberia was flooded after the last ice age, indeed there is a huge meltwater flood each spring that put huge areas of land under water, before the sea ice melts an all that water can drain out in the Arctic sea. After the ice age, there could have been a period where there was so much meltwater that it opened up a way from the sea to lake Baikal. Question is why seals would migrate through this, there wouldn't have been much fish in this water, since it was just melted snow and ice and old rotting Mammoth carcasses.

Nah, they weren't trapped. They opportunized on prime inland territory. Smart.

Among all those crazy fascinating peculiarities about the lake, this is the one which I always found most staggering.

Roughly the same amount as all the Great Lakes combined.

China trying to build the factory on that lake. Nothing could stop Asians

@@eg-draw isn’t it fairly isolated and entirely inside Russia tho?

@@eg-draw post source?

Given the amount of chunks it spans, it'll need more than a single water block. You could try, although I suspect you'll just end up with a squid game

They only spawn there because they also need vodka

You will need to hunt for the correct seed to get the spawn conditions of one water block. It is possible tho.

Wait are you saying there are seals in Minecraft now???

this needs more likes XD

it’s the second deepest lake in the world, too.

thank you for this, i have learned of Gustave

What about life in underground reservoirs hmm. I would love to see that kind no not cave ones I mean the ones we pump water out of. Thoughts on this being a video for him to do?.

Tanganyika is Kenya right?

@@Dean00001 no, Lake Tanganyika borders Tanzania, Congo, Burundi, and Zambia.

Oh fr

And the word "Baikal" literally means "nature" in Mongolian.

baikal sea is an outdated term for it too

Ancient Mongolia and Ugria, yeah

@@mareksicinski3726 no it isn't? I live in Irkutsk, the city closest to Baikal and we still call it море Байкал, meaning Baikal sea

He said freshwater species of seal. Ringed seal is not freshwater species. Saimaa and Ladoga ones are Ringed seals, trapped around 10 000 years ago at end of Ice Age. It's way too short time for speciation, they are merely subspecies.

Dont forget the Michigan Snow Lake Seal.

they are subspecies of the ringed seal though

@@suvi7641 fr?

They are still only subspecies of the ringed seal

It wasn't enough time to diversify from last Ice Age.

Even if they are only subspecies, they're still freshwater seals

did you swim in it

@@user-kg7zr3yl3n It is quite cold, even in summer.

@@user-kg7zr3yl3n it can be warm on the surface but it's very rare

Personally, I am waiting for Baikal 3 to come out before visiting.

@@VargVikernes1488 damn xD

haha stalin gulag fanee

@@sh22real and indeed it was the funny

@@sh22real KEKW 😂😂

Lol

Lmao those smooth sea puppers

Need at least two for a population though.

Hahahahahaa, soooo funnny 😂

@@callummunro5400 Someone threw stick and the female sea doggo chased it, the male sea doggo followed 😈

Wasup man! You been alright?.

I throughly enjoy both of your channels. Maybe a collab one day?

@@johngavin1175 I'm assuming you're not referring to my channel.

@@chancegivens9390 Eh? No but if you did get to collab with Polaris or Moth,it would be cool would it not?

@@johngavin1175 my content is a bit different but yeah that would be cool!

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@@bunkfoss50yearsago53 I bet you’re great at parties!

@@feargripper A minute ago some kid responded to my comment saying he was confused about the editor comments. Then I told him. I was just making sure people know, but you're righ. I am great at parties 😎😎😎😎😎😎

@@bunkfoss50yearsago53 why does he need a placeholder?

@@ThisIsThePlanet It's hard to explain.

That almost makes me want to introduce a few.

Lake Baikal holds as much water as the Great Lakes combined.

Huckleberry Finns?

Wow they are pretty

There are also seals in Lake Iliamna in Alaska. Not sure if they are technically their own species or not.

Lake Baikal is one of the most amazing environments on the planet, you really should do some reading/viewing on it! Really hope that at some point I'll be able to visit myself. It's by far the world's deepest lake, and is the largest lake by total volume (though only the 7th largest by surface area). Baikal thus represents the largest freshwater habitat in the world. And unlike other giant bodies of water like the Black Sea, it isn't oxygen-stratified! There's still tons of oxygen on the sea floor, further increasing the biodiversity. Thousands of both plant and animal species are exclusively found in Baikal, and these endemic creatures greatly outnumber other species with wider range. Perhaps most notably, it is host to by far the world's largest array of unique freshwater crustaceans-notably including giant members of usually tiny species. A few species of amphipods and ostracods, groups of crustaceans which are typically so small that they're almost microscopic, can reach sizes of more than 3 centimeters in length. It also has an interesting dynamic in which sculpins, a fairly unimportant group of fish which live as 4-6 inch long ambush predators, have diversified into a number of unusual forms, while several other niches normally held by small fish in other bodies of water are instead occupied by invertebrates.

arctic ocean you mena? the north sea is the one between germany, scandinavia and britain

@@mareksicinski3726 😅 yeah, you are right. Much more awkward, since I new that, and have been to the North sea many times... thanks for pointing out.

There is evidence fish was planted into lakes in the Scandinavian mountains

@@mattiasdahlstrom2024 true, same for some alpine lakes. But that makes sense for hunter and gatherers, and would be fairly easy to do with roe or small fish. With seals I don't see that... way to complicated over that distance.

@@MrChillerNo1 you'd only need a few, but yea, seems unlikely

Yeah, Moth Light is bout to be "enthusiastically educated" by dedicated Finnish saimaannorppa fans.

It appears that both of those are classified as subspecies of the Ringed seal instead of their own species.

@@jika327 oh do not fret, the norppa fans know this :D

I have never known there are any seals in Ladoga, although it is unlikely I would have seen them anyway, since I haven't been on that lake often. I have seen seals only on White Sea

@@HeapOfBones then why would they comment anything? moth light said only species of freshwater seal and he was right

Like a Star Trek movie with whales...

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And same.

What's all that stuff about "editor"? I don't understand

@@Absinthis You're late. The title of the video was a placeholder when it first released. It remained "Editor" for a few minutes, then it was corrected.

I've never seen anything about this incredible place. It's fascinating! Not only did I learn there are landlocked freshwater seals there's also a 25 MILLION year old lake in Siberia. So cool.

After all, taxonomy is governed by the principle of parsimony

Same

I was hoping we’d get the big reveal that these videos have all been edited by a seal 😔

Me too

I thought it was a recorded voice call with the editor and the seal picture was his pfp.

its a subspecies of the ringed seal tho

@@ok1025 it's still a freshwater seal

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@@bunkfoss50yearsago53 I know but my comment was a bad joke.

@@trabantfreak2370 It was funny.

@@bunkfoss50yearsago53 ok thx.

Did you say Finland? … yea sorry Russia won that war and declared their seal the only one in Fresh water.

Don't you know the difference between species and SUBspecies? Lol

Your average use of the word "endemic" is 1.33 times per sentence.

You like endemic? Heard about New Zealand, Australia, Madagascar, and Socotra island?

@@ganjafi59 yes, and the Galápagos Islands. As I said they're awesome, no matter where they are. What's super crazy is some biologists think the biosphere may go much deeper into the lithosphere than previously thought and life has been found over a kilometer down. There may be species that only reside in a space no more than a few cubic meters. If this is true there are likely many instances of this.

There is this one cave in Romania you might be interested in. It had been sealed off from the outside world for so long that it has its own endemic species

@@SupahTrunks7 amazing. There are entomologists here in the states studying a phenomenon where insects and arachnids lose pigment and eyesight the deeper into the earth they live. Sometimes to the point the eyes are vestigial and subdermal.

No, there are two other species of freshwater seals in lake Ladoga (Finland-Russia) and lake Saimen (Finland). Both are subspecies of ringed seal. These are however much closer to the sea and was cut off by land rise after the last ice age.

You're punny!

I think they may try to bite

I'd let them

Being a fresh water seal, makes them perfect for an attempt at domestication in my opinion. I'd rather have a seal than a dog.

Yes duh. That's a placeholder.

You're wrong. All other seals breed with ocean based seals. They are not land locked. Duh.