How Wolves Change Rivers 

Note most importantly this is the REintroduction of wolves. They had been removed by a misguided intervention into a natural ecosystem, which was later undone, returning the ecosystem to its former richness and sophistication.

*woof*

Buahahahahahaha

@@HUMANEXCELLENCE210 ?

Wolves rather avoid confrontion when they feel they don't have advantage in number. So when they hear a recording of a bigger pack than they they usually avoid areas where they hear howling of a bigger wolfpack

already full of wolves

more like snakes

Then add some mad as hell mama bears to kill the wolves!

couldn't be any worse than the people already running the major world powers.

Hopefully they kill everyone there.

And we call it ecosystem..

and we have nothing better to do than destroying it :-(((

@@BW-og1vu Yes because humans are op, we dominate everything.

@@skyj451 And just because we are the dominant species, it is our responsibility.

Yet the scientists are trying to make mosquitoes extinct

AHHAHAHAHA

@@hey8133 nice

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Lol

Haha it was my geography teacher 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣

Well said, it's sad in a way. I came back to this today after a few years and feel like there is no hope for humankind, even tho it is the youth replying

With the introduction of an invasive species, Studenticus maximus, the ecosystem of the comment section was changed forever.

@@d.b.cooper5695 Maybe it will change. With younger generations learning about the horrible consequences of our actions, perhaps they will try to change that. Only the future can tell, but don’t lose hope yet.

I come back to this video for like umpteenth time, this video make you understand the value of life and everything connected to it. ♥️

@@WhatAGuy lmao

Yea,,I want one as my personal trainer

@@garethifan1034 My last name is wolf lol

😂😂

Watch out, though. If he changes your physical geography, you might find it impossible to get your car out of the driveway.

AHHHHHH

its my geo teacher for me

same

I hope your teachers mentioned that there wasn’t a single deer in this video. They are all elk

@@TinMan445 Elk are Deer. He doesn’t say Red Deer or Reindeer, he says Deer which include A few different spiecies or subspecies.. I dunno. But I had a feeling Deer could be used like that , looked it up before commenting. You should have done the same. We all learned something though eh? X

same

I also watched documentary about beavers and seeing this rodents do the jobs without some human interference is soothing on my brain. It relaxes me to realize that there is still hope for earth. We don't need Mars as a second home if we can't protect our home first from human destruction.

@@connordrake5713 They're called keystone species and there are many other species which I think you will also find interesting.

me too man. I come back to this video every 6 months or so

same. the first time I saw this video was back in 2017-18. i'm still coming back because of the narrator.

been coming back for six years now x

I can tell 😂

@@jinjekang4300 lol

Me using this video for a pursuasive speech.

Yessir

I'm just obsessed with the story!

This story has been debunked. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debunk-myth-that-yellowstone-wolves-changed-entire-ecosystem-flow-of-rivers/70004699

Amazing

@@Epsylon21 You need to learn the difference between "debunked" and "challenged".

@@Epsylon21 In the article stated within your article, Hobbs is saying, that wolves had an impact, but without beavers, it either wouldn't happen so fast or that it might would have never happened. The regenerating willows need swampy water to rise up so quick and they get it from the water ponded by beaver dams. It is always important to know about all point of views about a process to built up your own. So thank you for posting that article. But be careful with the words you are using, as Born Villain mentioned, there is a difference between "debunked" and "challenged"

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oh dear! lol

z Thanks, I shall fix that right now.

Ian9toes hahaha😂😂😂

@In All Honesty What the hell is a 30 ot 6? =P

Hahaha

yo, ima just migrate, n'.... hol up. that is one friggity-friggity FRESH valley ova' 'der. i'ma live der.

Nobody: Free real state meets woolfpack. English speaking online students: Wolves know it better. Go Wolverines!

Me too

Nature is awesome, man is ignorant for slaughtering the wolves.

@@dennisguethe8296 Agreed

An amazing and beautiful video which should be shown all over the world to show just how the natural eco system can be obtained that clearly shows that the wolves have their very important part to play in obtaining this. X

Me too

omit the word "like", it IS an organism and humans are like a parasite living on it's skin

Omit the word lie. humans ARE a parasite living on its skin

this video showed us how EVERY thing is connected. You may believe us to be parasites, yet we too are a part of the eco-system.

J no this video showed us how a few animals are connected. it said nothing about humans. We are destroying the planet, take a look around mate. Agriculture and commercial fishing will be the end of us.

Trippy Buisness End or no, destruction or no. Everything is connected. i have shared the info, it is up to you to take it. :)

How do you type dark letters

@@pecfree * before and after what you want to say *hello*

@@natclo9229 *hello

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Before and after * hello * Without spaces

They are very elusive of people ,they know people are bad news

@@jeffreyhusack2400 We human are bad news for sure...We wiped out all the wolves in yellowstone & now we had to bring them from the Canada.

Carlos Flores same

Carlos Flores same

Mystic Wolf woah I responded to this video 2 months ago wow. I remember this in science class. Man I miss that class but hey it’s summer now

[CPT] xMistx i remember watching this in 4th grade science

Mankind isn't connected to any other living being out there at all. We're just connected with facebook, with your supermarket and most important with your online wallet. Humanity lost the connection with the invention of electricity. Thats my thought.

Corey Lu hell ye

StripedFN how?

me sadly

😂

hell yeah

It's not so much just wolves but the vid shows how small changes to an eco system has huge impacts

So its kind true that godzilla and the titans were doing the same

tsbm9 it not just wolves 🐺, every living being...

Will4theking &LIFEonTheWORLD Yep! Titans would help us out too, if they existed.

There is another cool one about a guy in Texas who reintroduced grass into an area and it totally revitalize the area turning it from arid to lots of water. Really fascinating.

Um yeah, like you can see, they did in fact re-introduce wolves. sooooo But where we've truly dropped the ball is forest management. Ask natives about that too. They used to burn the prairies and forests on a regular basis. Less catostrophic that way. What do we do? Let the forest build up with detritus until when there is a fire it just destroys everything because there's too much fuel.

@Guitar but we're still too arrogant to believe we should just keep our hands off to begin with.

Ah yes, the wise natives that were so one with nature, they hunted a good portion of the megafauna of north america into extinction.

@@Gauntlet1212 Don't bring your mother into this pal.

@@nr126 Now I feel really sorry for you.

May God help your students, and it has nothing to do with them watching this video.

Right? :3

yes it does. it's now four years old.

I'm more worried about the potential of societal collapse before we destroy the environment. Most Americans don't understand our country is not failproof and that civilizations older and larger (geographically and % of world population at the time) than ours have failed. We cannot sustain the spending, entitlements, frivolous foreign aid and trade deficit with China. I'm not a nut-job survivalist, but believe this kind of collapse is far more imminent threat than anything environmental for the next generation or three.

There's nothing inherently wrong with changing things in nature. We were always bound to make our mark, but man we need to not kill ourselves. So I agree with you in that sense

You can't exist without making some sort of impact in some way. Which is your choice? An uninhabited planet with nothing changed, or one that has inevitable change that comes with living?

renger6002 Very good point. I would add that humans have always caused mass extinctions wherever they moved as a result of our success in exploiting the environment. So changing nature is not a new phenomenon, nor is it bad. Mother Nature is a pretty bad caretaker; you can't rely on her to provide you with a comfortable and long life.

The Earth has been changing since it formed 4.54 BILLION years ago, and it will continue to change for a long time to come. Many typed of floral, faunu and many other types of life have come and gone long before man was around. Even if we were to go extinct it will continue to change. Get over it.

yeah but what bout wolves now

NO

truly a remarkable video.

Agree, my favorite video ever.

It's very incorrect though

Except humans

shadow _sprite beat me to it lol

Careful you don't get too hippy-dippy. People have to achieve a certain level of wealth and material security before they can reach a point where they have the luxury of caring about things like this. When people are poor and struggling to survive, wolves to them are just creatures who kill their source of livelihood. Elephants are creatures who destroy their crops. Lions are creatures that eat them. Forest is just something that needs to be cleared to make room to grow crops that will keep them alive. If we want to give nature the best shot we can, we have to help people become wealthier and more productive, so they don't need to trample over nature to get what they need just to survive.

@@Marmocet What a nice comment, if only more people responded like this to each other instead of being hostile all the time

@Beast Mode Go say that to the people who need to feed their children at the cost of the forests. Everyone would do the same thing if you had no choice

Also, humans are the only known species in the world that protects the species and environment. We develop new ways of getting energy for our activities, each time more and more efficiently and with less impact (nuclear or renewal, for example). We created programs that studies, controls or protects other species in order to prevent their disappearance or overpopulation. Yes, there's been a negative print in the planet due to our presence, but we also work in order to mitigate it.

@@Marmocet no we do not own this planet, we are destroying it. The need to survive does not justify this.

Sharing this experience with you! I wish you lots of fun at eLearining!

Same my 8th grade teacher made me watch this

Hahhaha well said :) but relly make sense born leader of the jungle, wolfs hehehe

Not tarzan hahaha

My professor sent me here as well.

...and as soon as he finishes his last sentence defending your innocence, he starts howling...OOOOoooooo~~!

Ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa that was a good one.

you should watch a scent of a woman 'Woohaaaaaa'

I'm sorry you had to go through that difficult situation mate.

www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-real-american-hero.html

It’s propaganda mate.

www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-real-american-hero.html

@Diego Tapanes Dogs were created when hunters adopted wolf pups into their tribes, so dogs are technically offbrand wolves

Cap

www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debunk-myth-that-yellowstone-wolves-changed-entire-ecosystem-flow-of-rivers/349988

Or at least stop killing wolves. A rancher loses half a dozen sheep one year, and their answer is to slaughter the local wolf population. Because apparently it never occurred to anyone that losing some livestock might be the cost of doing business in wolf country.

Using fences and guard dogs should solve that problem, should it?

@@stefan1924 A pack of wolves would easily kill the dogs. Some are very agile and cunning and they will find a way in

I have not heard of a pack of wolves outsmarting an electric fence xd

@@blackfang1217 😂

It's great they are NOT following New Zealand's practice of deer control; spreading 1080 poison over the land, forests and waterways by helicopter. youtube search- watch and share: - New Zealand Rivers - The Fight to Keep Them Poison-Free - Poisoning Paradise fest version

***** If we stop ignoring a simple fact, that human beings are also natural beings, your argument becomes invalid in every way. It's a matter of perspective.

Guilherme Sena We may be natural beings, But Parasites are also natural.

***** I've checked out your discussion line, buddy. You're rude and use your words in an absurd manner, but I guess this "balances out" with those who know how to use their's accordingly.

Sunyata I prefer to live in a world where humans respect the role of all creatures and not just the ones that don't inconvenience us. When discussing the semantics of 'balance' it is simple. It's a situation where many species compliment the existence of others. When there is an explosion of population in nature (this is common) it is not often sustainable and it usually balanced out. Humans can't exploit the natural system without the earth taking back eventually. A lifetime for us is a few moments for the planet. Humans, as large mammals may find things will get more difficult with time. Of course, for most of humanity it already is. Climate issues,resources management and population growth should be at the forefront of discussions today but most leaders can't see beyond their terms.

I never even knew their was wolves in Yellowstone.

JJM Hicks :d

+Robbie Morrison by some reports, Britain has a big cat problem to get fixed first. The documentaries and reports don't say so, but it sounds like some old private menagerie cats have escaped and have been living wild for generations.

+Robbie Morrison Because Europe doesn't have the same landscapes. In US they have such huge national parks that they can reintroduce wolves without having to worry about their interactions with the human society... They did it in France and it's a big problem because they're too close to the men and in particular the sheep farms. They prefer hunting the sheeps that are a very easy prey. So it's catastrophic for the farmers and shows no benefit for the ecosystem as they don't have to make the effort to hunt wild preys. In Britain, the sheep industry is bigger than in France and the lack of space too... So I guess it's just not thinkable to do it in Britain... :/ I hope I gave you a sattisfying answer in a not too bad english!

+tg97432 The man in this video speaking is George Monbiot he has written a book called Feral which talks about the reintroduction of the wolf to the British landscape. Not only is the reintroduction of the wolf feasible, but it is necessary, your wildlife and natural landscapes are dying you need an apex predator in the ecosystem again. About the reintroduction of the wolf to France, their population is far too small to be have any significant impact on livestock, and there's no evidence to say they prefer Livestock over natural prey. And besides sheep overgraze the landscape and are out of control throughout Europe and the British Isles, lowering the numbers of a non-native invasive species would do a lot of good for the environment and it would finally teach people to rely less on sheep.

md97432 so Europe is just the UK and France? We (Europeans) have beautiful, wild, nature in Scandinavia (among others). We also have wolves living here. However, stupid humans (our nature, stupidity) want to shoot them ones again. We tend to to shoot/kill/destroy everything that's in our way.

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me to

Yep

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Me too

This is actually only because, presently, schools all over the place in multiple districts, have shown children this for homework.

Even then. That is still eyes viewing this information.

Damned skippy but that's a good thing

Now it has 44

Sheena Lundy me too

you're not alone

yep

Yep me to

Not me lol

We're here to mine gold for aliens :)

@@OuRtUBe2 no, we're here to become the aliens, to bring life to all corners of the universe

@@dinosaurusrex1482 cant do that when the government oppressing people tho??

I'm afraid humanity is more like the deers in this story...

...and hate people

@@MikeGyorgyiMMG you know your people yourself, right?

Or maybe he should be questioned, why he send you non-scientific propaganda!?!?

Exactly! Statistics shows that cows kill much more than sharks.

Rolands Jjj those shifty bastards

Rolands Jjj Furniture also kills more people than sharks lol

Humans kill more of literally everything than everything else combined.

yttrium that’s a big assumption especially considering science has discover less than 1% of the fossil record.

i have watched a documentary that all wolves were extinct in yellowstone and got introduced again, how did they introduce the timber wolf back in yellowstone when all of them (i think) were killed?

There actually talking of releasing wild lynx somewhere up north for a similar reason

I think in some places they just have to use the most closely related ones they can find.

I'm glad wolves are a thing. They're cool from a removed prospective. But introducing them to places where humans are is immensely terrible idea

Fine Art-Tips..........And you're making the assumption that changing the course rivers is a good thing....Why?

+hitty9 Do you have evidence to support your implicit claim that returning the river courses to conditions similar to what they have been for thousands of years might not be a good thing? Never show up armed only with rhetoric(i.e. dumb questions, which in spite of all claims to the contrary do actually exist) because sooner or later some smart ass is going to ask you for reason and evidence to support your claim.

Because it is returning it to it's original course. So it was restoration and not creation.

hi fine art tips :D

Matt Jones Whoa, everyone watch out, we have a super tough guy here.

Yup

that was truly beautiful & very enlightening!! Thanks

trina jean Jones Thank you for your very kind reply!! :P~~

I love the way you said wolves howling is like angels singing, because its true...wolves are such wonderful creatures

Paz Hernandez It's totally true!! To hear wolves howling can just relax me and put me to sleep! I used to love hearing it in real life.. Some of them had such beautiful howls.....

Clive Williams It's made me think back to the series Connection(s) by James Burke a few decades ago. I think of all the nature and conservation/ecology research that went into understanding this. How many streams of knowledge and wisdom are coming together? I am reminded again and again to walk humbly in my so called certainties and to realize that some of my knowledge is very rudimentary. It is so important to learn to listen well and hear the truths and stories of others and what their truths are. I am beginning to understand pretty deeply why some of the very best scientists and truth seekers I have known were so very humble and really knew how to frame good questions. I'm looking forward to Sunday evening and the new Cosmos series to begin on Fox and National Geographic Channels. I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a very bright human being. I hope he can pull the renewal of that famed Carl Sagan series off just as well as Sagan did. I know many millions of us are just counting the hours down to 9 pm on Sunday Night. I think that's when it is in Minneapolis (Central Time). And, yes. It is amazing and to think of all the cases where we don't understand the cascade of causality. It will come though if we learn to be more patient and thoughtful.

There is an alternative point of view to that depicted in this video, which was brought to my attention by Hans Havermann -- www.nature.com/news/rethinking-predators-legend-of-the-wolf-1.14841

Graeme McRae What a wonderful article. Thank you Graeme. I think what this article introduces very well is the idea of complexity. An ecosystem involves multiple streams of interrelated independent variables and streams of causation. When I see that the cause is just one variable like wolf reintroduction impacting elks and then causing them to graze less or in less volume, then I get very concerned. What I've learned through my experiences with survey research is that there are usually at least a few very important variables. It makes sense to me that an absolute control like fences around the Aspen will make those trees grow much higher generally. The Elk can't reach them anymore. Wolves on the other hand will control the eating of those saplings partially and intermittently. There are many times when the wolves will just not be around and others when they are full and not interested. If there's a very dry season, the Aspen will be stunted as a very cold growing period will do. Beavers are another important species. I think that great article says they are good for forests too. So, there is both top down and bottom up control and many scientists think we really need to look at the middle level. I enjoy this kind of reading very much and what it brings to mind is that it is really important here to have an ethnological study of the forest and biosphere in the park where citizen scientists observe careful, measure and record, and gather many, many data points. It's like some of the famous studies that have been done of native peoples and their culture like the famed anthropologist Margaret Mead did. Here's a good link to her work from a wonderful Library of Congress Exhibition: www.loc.gov/exhibits/mead/field-samoa.html In this case, we have the computing power and perhaps a large group of citizen scientists who could really help us understand that Yellowstone ecosystem. Citizen science as a way to augment the capabilities and data gathering power of scientists is becoming more and more important. Here's a blog about citizen science which I enjoy very much. There is a great deal of good information on recommended computer science projects, nature projects, and many new happenings in the science world where volunteers work with scientists to make science possible. www.openscientist.org/2014/02/big-news-from-openscientist.html?showComment=1394506391130#c8376365515129550555 I used to do quite a bit of this kind of thing by participating in a medicine discovery computing project on BOINC the University of California's backbone internet system for many citizen science projects for distributed computing for science.

Graeme McRae good find, gives way more detail

Same :)

The trees qwintupled in just 6 yaaaaers.

Likewise!

cuz it is tha shit mon

Everyone loves a good fairy tail.

Hope they see this video! I am sure those 2.8k downvotes are from ranchers, free grazers, and some uneducated hunters.

A maybe your the narrow minded one

I saw it myself there. Sheep on roadways and cars expected to be careful of them. Gardens fencing them out. There must be a balance between what the sweater makers need and everyone else. I saw sorry-looking little potater available until all the Nor ones sold so out of country ones could come in. That was at Obs i Næroset south of Lillehammer

Its well documented science in Yellowstone National Park. I'm sure you can get the information if you want it to have for those in your government who don't believe this video. It would be sad if you all had to make the same mistakes we made in the US when we made the wolf extinct in the lower 48 states. As you saw in the video - we fixed it 70 years later. And the ranchers, the hunters and the farmers were 90% of the reason the wolf was removed from the equation to start with - so it was the same people you are dealing with. But now we know - it might make life easier on them this year - but slowly the habitat changes will make the hunters unhappy, the lack of beaver will make the watersheds less beneficial to wildlife and distant stock animals, the rivers and lack of grazing beside them will become an issue for the ranchers, the deer will become a problem.... well. Your government will listen or they will learn the hard way. Same with the farmers, hunters and ranchers. We learn to work with nature or we suffer for it.

Julie Enslow I disagree with your hypothesis. Hunters took the place of wolves everywhere but the parks. The problems associated with a lack of a large predator were only in the parks. Now we have greatly diminished hunting opportunities because of the needs of wolves. Too bad you might say, except now there are roads that lead down to the urban rural interface and the wolves after they exhaust prey at the ends of the roads walk down and kill farm and ranch animals and pets. Think I’m exaggerating? Here in Western Washington we now have confirmed wolf kills one hour from Seattle. Wolves kill and that’s why we decided to not exist on even terms seventy years ago. If you live along this border you’ll come to regret this decision with wolves.

We have wolves in Norway, about 63-67 actually. The problem is the goverment issued a license to kill up to 47 of them. Even the ones living in the designated wolf zones. One pack is planned to be wiped out, even though they havent killed any livestock. The livestock (sheep) are let out in the mountains and sourounding areas without any supervision (no dogs, no humans, no nothing). The farmers on top of that get double off what they would get paid from the butcher if a sheep is killed by a predator. Wolves stand for about 10% of the sheep that die while out in the summer months, the rest die from a broken leg, falls, falling and not being abel to get up... No farmer screams about the pain those sheep go through. But they scream about the wolves. They say that if the sheep dont roam free the landscape will grow wild and that is aparantly a bad thing in they`r heads. Tourists dont want to see that, or the wolves, or any wildlife if we listen to the ppl against the wolves. It`s just sad. I saw a wolf this spring on the field by our house. One was spotted a few kilometers from here a few days ago. I hope it lives!

deviantan021 The only place I traveled to is Alaska. I'm too young to reintroduce wolves. Hopefully, they'll be reintroduced in a couple of years. I'd love wolves and lynxes to be back in the UK. Please bring them back.

Red wolves roam the Carolinas and Mexican wolves roam Arizona and New Mexico

ROSEMOON I know. The red wolf is either a subspecies of gray wolf or a hybrid of a gray wolf or coyote. The Mexican wolf is a subspecies of gray wolf. Red wolves and Mexican wolves are both very endangered.

Abe The Cool Guy. I am from Tn and they reintroduced the black timber wolf there about 15 yrs ago

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Oh deer.

Brandy Jackson you nailed it. Those timber wolfs are bigger than the original grey wolf. I live in Arkansas and we didn’t have cwd or zombie deers until the reintroduction of elk to the state. Are game and fish here blame it on us hunters using doe piss. But the first case of cwd didn’t show until after the reintroduction of the elk.

The chimps have already hit the stone age, it would take a few more hundred thousand years at most for intelligent life to give the same challenge. Humans aren't evil, we're just at an awkward juncture between instinct and intelligence.

now... there are like 1000000x more isects then there are humans also in Biomass so obviously its way worse. also no. not ALL life would flourish if humans died. we are also part of an ecosystem (even if its artificial), animals live in and with it.

The nuclear reactors will go off killing everyone

Many farm and pet animals will die also

charles hedberg I’m not claiming it’d be beneficial.