What does that mean? Like tons of Disney princesses have nothing to do with animals. I can name maybe 2 that do. Maybe the OPERA or the almost 100 people who pushed the like button can explain.
When I was younger in BSA and when I went to my first camp, they had some of the little boys of another troop leave food in their tent. When the scouts came back it broke those tents with food and others in the lot, thinking food was in there too. With the camp being on a peninsula they would know if it left. It didn't. We had a call time of 9:00 am. Then our leaders woke us up earlier. We were all complaining about it until halfway to the cars we saw a giant cage being pulled by a truck. Before we got in the car our leaders told us that even that one troop's handful of boys were reckless and foolish. That we are still held responsible for the future. Even if we lose a girl to saying no to a bird. Helping an animal is different than feeding an animal. You help an animal by calling people whose job is to make sure wild animals are kept wild animals. Not for your clout.
It's scary how most people don't eat "food" food, but manufactured food-like products. I truly believe our diets are seriously influencing our mental health as well, our brain needs nutrients to operate properly.
The biggest part that gets me is that the humans who are doing this receive little to no punishment while it’s the animals getting put down for simply following their survival instincts.
The part that gets me, is that yt people are the reason most animals go instinct. Am I being Raysis? No it’s just what I’ve observed. I can’t name an animal that was killed off to the point of endangerment or extinction, that wasn’t done by or the result of, yt interference. How much more do we loose before you realize, your ways of life are wrong?
As the dominant species on this planet it is our responsibility to manage the lower species… so why not set up programs where these starving animals are fed? They have some sort of intelligence and pattern seeking brain its cruel to have the means to be able to feed other species but choose to let them starve instead. Man eff yall i get the reason why yall think we should’nt feed them but it just doesn’t add up.
Not feeding wild animals should be common sense. I live in Queens. During the pandemic, there were cases of squirrels actually attacking people in NY, because they were desperate for food and expected it from humans.
I was in the area, Yonkers, and we noticed an inordinate number of squirrels on the on ramps that year. Makes sense if they were scrambling to find food sources for the winter. Guess I never put two and two together.
I live in a small town in Idaho. We have an apartment complex filled with elderly people...mostly women. We have a deer herd that hangs out there due to the large grass fields in and around the apartments. However, even when told by Fish and Game to Not Feed the deer...some of the old ladies won't stop. One of the old lady fed a fawn some corn flakes. The poor thing ended up with fatal diarrhea....it laid on it's side for several days under a pine tree with crap covering it back side and kicking from stomach cramps. Fish and Game, finally came and put it to sleep, when they decided it was too weak to recover and the doe basically gave up on it. The deer have enough grass that they don't need any food, even in the winter...they know how to dig down through the snow and get to the grass.
Not to take this to some misogynist route, but from my experience, it's 9 out of 10 times women who will just ignore these advices because "but look how cute it is". On the pet side it's more balanced in terms of sexes, because most overweight cats and dogs I've seen are held by owners who just fill their bowls and can't be bothered to ration the healthy amounts, and I've seen both men and women do it. However, even in those cases, I've found it significantly easier to convince male owners that on the long run, their pet will die sooner because of it, while multiple times I've heard women owners say stuff like "But I just can't help it, he's a little hungry baby, are you saying I should starve him?" and think that's some sort of argument against it. I don't have any experience working with fat kids, but I wouldn't be surprised there's huge difference in obesity stats between children of single mothers and children of single fathers. Maybe there's even study like that I didn't Google it, but children aren't my field of work anyhow. Besides, I don't live in USA and where I live you're properly body shamed for being fat so it's not like it's part of my culture.
@@MrMrtvozornik I'm a 60 year old woman, and I find it sad that so many posters need preface statements they are not being hateful to some group or another. Too many people seem to go out of their way be be butthurt and they get their panties in a twist when they read something they think is hate speech towards this group or that. As a woman and an older one who has seen this drift towards everyone finding insult when there is none -- I am sorry you had to start your comment out that way. And on to what you pointed out. I absolutely agree with you, that it's more often than not, the women who are set on 'helping' those poor animals, in spite of being shown that they are doing more harm than good. I think some of it is a natural born mothering instinct, but still, at some point, restrictions need to be self-imposed. Both genders need to just leave the animals be in most situations. I don't mind seeing people help a buck who's antlers are tangled in wire fencing, or help a hawk or eagle that has somehow become water logged in a pond or something. But for the most part, there should be minimum interference with wild life.
Please tell me Fish And Game took photos of this dying deer who was shitting out his last breath and showed it to the grandmas to actually get them to fucking understand.
@@MrMrtvozornik I don't think it has much to do with gender though, yeah, women may be more "empathetic" and thus more likely to feed them in the first place, but it's mostly the lack of education.
Inviting predators to live closer to humans is like inviting a known kleptomaniac to a party and being surprised when everyone's missing something. Do you get mad at the thief or get mad at yourself for hanging out with a known thief?
Unfortunately we live in a world where even connecting two dots together with a straight line is too difficult for many people. They are not thinking about the consequences of their actions. It's literally like a child... "Oh animal, I give food maybe they will be my friend like in the jungle book! wee!" . This type of understanding of consequences requires basic competency in "if, then statements." Which requires the ability to perform basic logic. Which clearly many people are unable to do.
@@elysainempire4628not every animal should be domesticated though. Plus, dogs are more manageable and even then, you see cases of aggressive dogs biting people or killing other animals. If a “domesticated” dog is already too much for people, then can you say you feel safe if somebody brings a black bear to a park as a “pet”.
The video was saying more than I think they intended. If human food is bad for other primates, it's bad for us. We're just as susceptible to the harms of carbs as the other animals we feed them to. They're empty calories (pure sugar) to the human body. Energy without nutrition. Wheat is only useful when you need extra energy for a strenuous job(like farming), not for general consumption in a sedentary society.
I came to the comments to point out as much. It changes their inner microorganisms. They can no longer break down fiber as easily. Why are we eating this crap!!!
I've been a warden in a french alpine national park for 12 years. Situation can be even worse than presented here. I've seen so many diseases on ibex, wild boars, marmots, foxes and even birds... When you come across an animal asking for food, it doesn't mean it needs it. It means it's addicted to it already, why giving it more? It will only lead it to fatal issue... I hope people looking at this video will keep it in mind! Much useful clip! Thanks a lot!
Damn, I never thought about it like this before. Thank you for the information. So, by giving Animals human food, we create adorable drug addicts. That is horrible. : (
@@hermeticinstrumentalist6804 he exaggerated it by far. many animals have the istinct to ask food to humans, is in their DNA code, look at cats, no matter if slim fit or fat, they will often try to ask food, cause they are a semi domesticated specie, even more normal for dogs.
@dagan8659 no animal will ignore the offering of food, especially when they know where to get it from and how accessible it is. That is the problem. Dogs have an ancestral predecessor in the canid line that split off from wolves, that line grew around humans, doesn't mean you should feed wolves. Once they associate humans with food, they begin expecting it from all people, if it doesn't receive an offering then it is likely to get aggressive and make you it's offering. Cats are also not domesticated, plenty of stray cat colonies everywhere to show they're capable of hunting their own food. People are just convenient
@@dagan8659 not much exagerated. Marmots doesn’t feed on anyrhing else than carrot once they are accustomed to it. They end with diseases due to sugar excess (which is a drug for them) and loses their fur (we call it pelade in French). If the disease is important they can't recover the fur and don't manage to overwinter... I have examples like this for Ibex, wild boars, foxes, several species of birds... Sugar is a drug and it is present by excess in most of what we eat, and for animals which have very low sugar diet and which become addicted... that's a fatal issue.
@ameerabualeinein Thank you, why isn't this being mentioned? We need to find alternative solutions, not just brush it off as *one* thing being a problem
Yes. It's interference with the balance of nature and no good will come of it. No different than cutting down entire forests where animals live or blasting away hills to get to coal. Any assault on the environment is just as bad as another.
Tell that to the malnutrition little tortoise i saw on one of my jogs. Its shell was in bad condition due to lack of nutrition. I'm not saying we should feed animals. Just saying adding edible plants into the woods would help animals since we stole all the veggies and fruits for ourselves.
My brother just told me the other day about that one man who lived alongside bears. Key word lived. He was happily befriending them and probably feeding them too, until one day a hungry bear he thought of as one of his best buddies came close and ate him to prepare for the next winter.
The Grizzly man? That guy is famous. He recorded everything including his last moments and that is lost footage a lot of people want to get their hands on. There are a lot of documentaries about him. He insisted the grizzlies loved him.
I rescued a baby squirrel I found in the city and raised her. I did A TON of research and had to have special food shipped internationally so she would have as close to a natural diet as possible. It was so expensive. Once she matured I ended up giving her to a wildlife rehabber who released her on 100ac of private land. If you want to have an experience with wild animals, become a rehabber or work with a rescue organization that takes in orphaned and injured wildlife. They're almost always looking for volunteers. That was you're saving a life, not endangering one. Also, STOP GIVING ANIMALS BREAD!
Yeah but part of the video concerned how human food fucks up digestive systems and causes obesity.... Arguably something humans also deal with yet refuse to Acknowledgei@@ButUrWrongTho
@@crappyPatty235 No the bunnies will just be hit by cars and die. Do all simple things need to be explained to you in detail? The only one coming of as ignorant here is you.
I rescued a wolf cub. I was allowed to keep it but it had to be desexed, be in a special containment, had to have a tracking collar on it, and is not allowed to stay out for the night. I had to sign all sorts of contracts. But, Mighty Rayzar had been with me for five years now.
@donttrythisathome2690 Many people are full of it on here... not saying the person is lying... but I see all kinds of posts of heroic stories all the time, and no videos. Or the person is brand new to youtube..
I really am loosing my faith in humanity rn. In Japan where I am currently, so many people are leaving out their trash, as the towns in the mountains are greatly expanding. The habitat of the wild bears are shrinking, and yet some locals decide to leave food for them outside. It’s no mystery why there are literally bear attack news almost every day. And when these things happen, the bears are hunted down and killed. To make matters even worse, the subspecies of asiatic black bear in Japan are considered threatened, and the sheer stupidity of humans is causing a species decline. I 100% agree with this video, and I am really glad that there are people out there who are trying to spread awareness about these things❤.
Perfect example of how victimizing others and ourselves only disempowers us, pitying and the urge to save others ends up being more harmful than helpful 🙏🏼 we are meant to learn and grow through our life’s challenges
@@Gloverfield who told you so? perhaps the ones who sell industrially produced garbage via funding corrupt medical practicioners studies? follow the money, dude.
Polar bears are actually not afraid of people at all, in fact they are one of the few animals that see humans as prey and will actively track and hunt humans to try to eat them
As a hunter in Germany i'm completly with you. We had lots of problems with wild pigs in some cities and people who feed them, those pigs are really dangerous, they can literally kill you. The next are racoons which were feed by people 'cause they're "so cute". Please do not feed wild animals. In Germany you can also pay hefty fines for feeding doves or ducks.
In Louisiana, they had signs up with fines for feeding alligators. My husband and I both thought it was a “stupid person” tax because you’d have to be insane to feed a gator (we lived on a boat)
Thanks for educating me. Though I rarely go on trips where I would see wildlife, the times that I have, I have considered feeding them, thinking that’d be helping them. I’ve also fed geese and squirrels bread, feeling sorry for them. So I’ve now learned that it does more harm than good. I think most people like me who have fed wild animals think we’re doing something good and saving the animal from hunger so videos like this are extremely important. I admit I was one of these people and will definitely stop moving forward. It’s not like I feed wild animals regularly or anything but there have been rare times where I have “helped” them not knowing I’m making a negative impact on their lifespan and health. Sorry, animals.
Your response, as somebody who was part of the problem, is the pinnacle of maturity- gold star for you.⭐️Way too many people, when confronted with evidence that they're wrong about something, double down and dig their heels into their position, refusing to change their thinking and/or behavior. The ability to change your opinion in accordance with new information is also one of the hallmarks of being a true intellectual. Thanks for being one of the rare reasonable, civilized people on the internet.🌟💫✨
It's ok to help and feed some animals but ya know just do your research before doing so, feeding bread to birds and giving a dog a treat is ok as long as it is only a little bit and not often like every day obviously.
@@Quamo452did you learn anything from the video? What kind of research are you talking about? Do wild animals post what they're doing for you to know which one to feed and which one not to feed? What you're calling "a little bit" is what everyone else says, not knowing all of you are feeding the same animal. Just stop. You're not "helping" a wild animal by feeding it. You're changing its habits and making everything else that depends on it suffer.
@@Quamo452 I feel it's important that I mention: bread is actually a very unhealthy thing to feed birds. if you're going to do it (despite the video), feed them seeds, nuts or other healthier things.
Rats are a different matter entirely. For one, most people don't intentionally feed wild rats. They're not losing their natural fear of humans because they get snacks, they're just naturally moving closer to the most plentiful food source. Rats can sustain themselves on just about anything and while they technically do need a balanced diet to be truly healthy, that's not something a wild animal concerns itself with. Rats also have really short life cycles and can reproduce rapidly, so even if individuals life expectancy get lower due to a poor diet the pack can easily thrive.
When I was younger in BSA and when I went to my first camp, they had some of the little boys of another troop leave food in their tent. When the scouts came back it broke those tents with food and others in the lot, thinking food was in there too. With the camp being on a peninsula they would know if it left. It didn't. We had a call time of 9:00 am. Then our leaders woke us up earlier. We were all complaining about it until halfway to the cars we saw a giant cage being pulled by a truck. Before we got in the car our leaders told us that even that one troop's handful of boys were reckless and foolish. That we are still held responsible for the future. Even if we lose a girl to saying no to a bird. Helping an animal is different than feeding an animal. You help an animal by calling people whose job is to make sure wild animals are kept wild animals. Not for your clout.
@@billklatsch5058 If I have to choose between tossing my lunch at the polar bear or taking my chances running for my life, I'm throwing away the food first.
@@JustBuyTheWaywardsRealms Not necessarily. Plenty of animals want to get their food with as little effort on their part as possible. Why chase down prey wasting valuable energy when you can take the much easier and safer option of eating the food they left behind?
In Japan, these two influencers were purposefully camping out in a forest that had warning signs of bear sightings (which they claimed they didn’t see) because they wanted to film a bear on camera. They pretended to be surprised when the bear stumbled onto their camp (because it smelled their food) filmed themselves running away being scared of the bear. The bear ate their food and over the next few days, that bear showed up around human settlements looking for more food. The town had to euthanize the bear because of that. Worse of all, that bear had cubs too :( even though those two influencers were called by the town officials and other content creators, they still kept the video up and pretended that nothing happened.
A European tourist once touched a wild lion in my country's(Tanzania) Serengeti national park and the video went viral. Its a shame the govt just ended up giving a statement instead of prosecuting him!
Thank you for making such video because we get more examples shown from the aftermath of feeding wild animals. I still haven't fed any wild animal yet because I stand to the rules. Now I have more reasons not to do so.
One time fishing in the Okefenokee, I was constantly followed by a very large bull 'gator. I was not alone but every time I spoke he would move toward me so I had to move away. I can only surmise that someone with a voice similar to mine was feeding it regularly. I was constrained to report the behavior to the local game warden and they were forced to hunt it down. It is pure ignorance to feed wild animals, you are teaching them to come to humans and associate them with food. "Feeding animals" also includes dumping your food scraps in the lake or swamp or in the woods. Be conscious of what your actions could lead to. Know outdoor etiquette. Be smart and stay safe.
@@ashtoningram45 Dont feed wild birds either. Birds move a lot of seeds and if the wild birds only hang around in the park then this wont happen. An example is from my grandmas house who lives on a lake. There are a lot of Canadian geese there, and they were being fed by people on the lake, so they stayed there because they could get food and did not migrate for the winter at all. They end up coming onto peoples lawns to try to get food and poop on the lawns pretty much destroying them.
@@zacharykai6317 the only creature I feed are my foxes that live on My property besides my cats, I just curious why it a bad idea to feed birds, because I seen people do in in parks all the time, for years growing up as a kid
@ashtoningram45 they get bound to that place. They don't do whatever they're supposed to do, like searching for food and spreading seeds. They just become an attraction.
Oh dear god, the intro alone put me in a state of rage. And here's the thing, if "human artificial food" does this to MOST animals, that should give you a clue how bad they are for humans.
@@infinitehexington There's a reason a ton of food here in the USA is banned in other countries or modified. Our food is overly processed and it's leading to a ton of problems. Decrease in good gut bacteria, lower immune systems, crowded teeth, heart problems, etc...
I had this video (RU-vid channel:"James Blackwood", Video Title: "Mobbed by raccoons (25) Tuesday night 03, Nov 2020" video has 40 million views and I can only imagine the damage that it has done nationwide to local raccoon populatios.), it was an elderly man that was feeding about 30 raccoons daily, and this was exactly what I was thinking, and unfortunately in the comments there wasn't a single person that stated why feeding wild animals is bad, everyone was just "oh the raccoons are so cute!". But everything that you've said in this video was True in that video, the raccoons were fighting with each other and not looking for their own food, instead loitering on his property, looking for a handout.
And when the elderly man dies and the raccoons aren't fed any more, they're either a complete nuisance to the next owner of that house, or they go hungry.
Thank you for this information. It is sad how something so innocent can be so brutal. Haven't really fed wild animals, but it is very good to know the affect it will have if I were to do that. Will do my best to avoid that in the future.
All the corn we eat has been genetically modified, it cannot self sow. Even here on the River Murray people feed the pelicans which makes them aggressively seek food from tourists. They eventually get put down.
All my life I've been told not to feed wild animals or leave human food behind but no one ever explained why, this video explained PERFECTLY so thanks for that. Reminds me of my cat i used to let him live outside 100% of the time but when his leg got injured and we took him inside he lost his wild survival skills so he is an inside cat now.
Cats shouldn't be allowed outside in the first place. They've decimated so many birds and other small wildlife. Not to mention the influx of stray cats now found outdoors, it's sad.
First of all Domesticated Cats don't belong to nature! They can kill up to 15 birds a day + other small animals and not even bother eating any of them! They are good at destroying whole ecosystems! But as for feeding wild animals, don't. *unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey (but leave it to professionals if your not feeding just birds). Or if you happen to find an animal in distress (you should always first contact the right authorities/volunteers first)...we need to find long term ways to help animals, but we can't just brush it off like it's nothing because we humans also depend on the ecosystem and helping them is the right thing to do when it's done the right way. I have fed a baby wild animal in distress that I have rescued before, when waiting for the volunteers to pick it up and take to the shelter (for later release to the wild).
I was told this when I was 6 years old. The gist of it was Because if you feed them they get too used to being around humans which is bad for us and them. The big reason I was told is if we give them food they would get lazy and come to us for food rather than finding it in nature
"Our" food? We live in the golden age of information. Start a garden. Buy some chickens and learn how chicken reproduction works. My food is fine. . People love to complain about how f'd up society is. Yet they seem unwilling to do anything to prevent themselves from being reliant on that f'd up society. "We" don't need help. "We" need to learn to help ourselves. And we live in the best time throughout all of human history for learning how to do this. I went from completely useless to mostly self sufficient in a couple years through research, time and effort. Anyone with access to the internet and a willingness to learn can do this.
@@anthonyfaiell3263 I definitely agree we should grow and eat our own food but they should definitely stop making all this crappy food that lowers our life span and kills us quicker
Yet no man is an island. If you're really gonna be self-sufficient, will you make you own internet tower? Create your own computer? Find your own ores, process them, then manufacture the devices and tools you use on a daily basis? Everyone is dependent on society to some degree. Self-sufficiency has limits, and that's not bad. People are more effective as a group, and that includes as a group that seek change for the better via action, including demanding such change from others. A vote from 1 person is insignificant; votes from 1 group holds far more power.
@@jackychen7769 I agree and I'm not saying we should be completely off of the government but what I'm saying is that the government should probably take better care of the products that they put out that they call food that do nothing but harm us later on in life
@@anthonyfaiell3263yes “our food” food that was created by humans that doesn’t grow in the wild, that wild animals shouldn’t eat. It is “our” food because humans created it. Whether you eat like that or not the species that created this garbage food is the species you are a part of. So yes “our food”
Exactly. Greedy horrible human wolves are feeding other humans poison for "profits" and those same humans dying of this poison that has destroyed their brains so they think it's "okay" to feed this poison to harass abuse and murder wildlife. The whole thing is horrible 😞
Yeah absolutely. Corn, Bananas, nuts,seeds, carrots, absolutely awful, just poison. It's evil to feed anyone these things. It's definitely not that different species have different nutritional needs, it's those pesky carrots.
Yep, because if you aren't well off, you aren't getting any nutritious food. You're forced into eating shit in a box because that'll keep the family from starving. Absolutely Infuriating.
Thank you for bringing awareness to the consequences of feeding wild animals! I will note that you CAN feed hummingbirds without messing up their feeding/migration habits but even then there's SO much you have to commit to for it to be safe for them. 1. Don't buy pre-made nectar, or give them juice, syrup, etc. It's full of artificial colors and additives that can harm them. 2. If you make them sugar water yourself you have to use granulated WHITE sugar, never brown (it's made with marmalade), and never powdered (it has corn starch in it). Organic granulated white cane sugar is a good option! 3. You have to be careful what kind of feeder you have! If it's glass and sits out in the sun it can ferment the sugar water more rapidly, so its best to keep it mostly or entirely in the shade if it's not plastic. 4. You have to clean your feeder thoroughly every. Single. Day. No exceptions! There's plenty of little nooks and crannies for mold to develop in and if it does the hummingbirds tongues will swell to the point they can't eat, and they'll be dead within a few hours. :( If you can commit to that, here's how to make the sugar water! :) • Take 1/4 cup granulated white sugar and put it in a heat-safe bowl. • Heat up 1/2 cup of (preferably filtered) water on the stove and while that's getting hot, get another 1/2 cup of cold water. • Pour the hot water in the bowl with the sugar and mix it up (the heat helps the sugar mix into the water). When the water looks clear, mix your 1/2 cup of cold water in to help it cool. Once the sugar water is cooled off enough your safe to put it out! If you have any extra sugar water it's safe to keep in the fridge for about 2 days. 👌
Perhaps the thing we could do to show our kindness to these children of Mother Nature is not destroying their home and try to improve and maintain the surrounding environments.
I sometimes feed the spiders in my garden, if I notice they haven’t caught anything in a while. Two of them ended up mating, I certainly didn’t intend to be a spider matchmaker
I do that on purpose and ended up with 7 argiope aurantia egg sacks this year. The garden spider. How I love them! And orb weavers, crab spiders and jumping spiders!
GREAT informative and enjoyable video Thank you (big time) !!! Its another KEY issue that Humans have destroyed almost ALL their natural and local food source environments... Humans vitally 🙏 need a healthy link to NATURE but it's not VALUED by enough people atm...
In my experience, both from my field of study (Animal Behaviour studies), 3 years as a zookeeper, along with years and years of study in zoology, people are ridiculously misinformed about animals and wildlife in general. People simply either don't know or don't care (often both). People can barely identify animals as they see them and their knowledge of a lot of animals goes about as far as something they heard or saw in a Disney movie. It's pretty sad. People can be very ignorant of the unpredictability of many animal species and the dangers posed by them. Add on top of the fact people anthropomorphize (Give human traits/emotions to animals) animals at almost every turn, people don't stop to think about the consequences of their actions or don't take the time to inform themselves on the truth of things. WIldlife is made to be admired from a distance, without human intervention. This may vary among certain species. But if you don't know, why not have the common sense of playing it safe? And yeah, do NOT FEED wild animals! As indicated in the video, you're doing more harm than good. Thank you for spreading more awareness and knowledge!
As a general rule sure. *unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey...we need to find long term ways to help animals, but we can't just brush it off like it's nothing because we humans also depend on the ecosystem.
The biggest problem is that people are little babies afraid of anything wild and immediately demand to shoot it. Imagine if Indians treated wild animals this way. There wouldnt be any elephants or tigers left!
I have a question. Is feeding birds or housing ones like purple martins and bluebirds also bad? There seems to be a much more robust tradition of these habits, and I haven't observed demonstrable harm from them, but I could be mistaken.
@@Sc0pee In this specific case I would agree, in the extreme circumstances an ecosystem in danger of breaking. Humans have the ability to improve an environment with the right practices, a healthy ecosystem is beneficial to us as well, after all. Which is important. Making sure the environment is well balanced. This does becomes more of a problem as wild lands are shrinking and humanities need for space and resources continues to grow, its a tough balancing act, for for every effort that is made to conserve wildlife, much is destroyed to satisfy human needs. In the case of theis video I was more making a case about people underestimating the inherent danger they put themselves in, feeding/interacting with wild animals in their space.
@@oswaldrabbit1409 I think it was mentioned a bit in the video. Though bird feeders in your backyard are mostly harmless it does create a dependency for those animals. If food is left in the open, even for certain species, you can be sure other species will take advantage of this as well (rodents, other birds, etc, etc). It removes the need for them to find food on their own from wild sources. Though very adaptable, animals can suffer quite a bit if this free access to food is suddenly removed or no longer available. However I can't be 100% sure on how much damage or harm it would cause as other factors have to play in (overall environment, distribution of wild spaces in the area, etc.) I am sure there are local wildlife services that could offer you better advice than I could!
Good comment. People can see that the animals are "dangerious" but they don't know that the hunters *might* not be good people? It's one thing to hunt a wild animal for being dangerous to people. It's a crime when it's turned into a reason to bypass hunting laws. We can't HUNT mountain lions... oh but the lion stole some food from a guy's backpack? "WE'RE EATING LION TONIGHT BOYS!" It's hilariously evil.
a basic summary is that human food can cause dangerous animals to come looking for humans and they could get mad if they aren't given food. weight gain entering populated areas less self sufficiency on their own fighting other animals for food negative changes in gut biome the lack of hunting and gathering makes it so the offspring aren't taught how to hunt/gather lack of necessary nutrients feeding a wild animal and then just leaving it is not how we domesticated dogs
Let's not act surprised. This was bound to happen as civilization expands and the natural world shrinks down. People are going to keep feeding wild animals. The unfortunate reality is we cannot expect the ancient natural order of things to persist in an ever more industrialized world. It's only when we start looking at macro-scale solutions to the problem and consider the possibility that our world will be-- and has been-- forever changed, that we will find something resembling closure.
My neighbour used to put loads of bird seed and peanuts out, and the consequence of that was a winter with mice in the attic, under the floorboards, in the wall cavity. New neighbour and it took until the second winter before we stopped getting all the gnawing and scratching and squeaking noises that would keep us awake. The place must have been full of old seed stores.
I chucked some big night crawlers over a bush in a city park to see if some geese would eat it. They stared at the worm on the ground wondering what the hell it was and waddled away. The feeding of wild geese with human food has gotten so bad that they're literally not eating earthworms off the ground............... If people really want to help wild animal populations they should plant wild sunflowers, corn, and plant native fish eggs in local ponds instead of feeding bread to birds.
I am sorry to say, geese are VEGETARIANS. They graze in parks like cows - one can see how fattening gras is ... If you want to feed earthworks to some animals you could do so with chicken, ducks, fish ....
To be fair, if they were Canada geese they mainly eat grass and grain, though they occasionally eat invertebrates like worms or fish it's not as common. Plus, seeing a weird thing flying at them can stress some animals out enough that they won't eat it even if they do recognize it as food.
About half of America and I believe all of Canada doesn’t have native earth worms. That could be a reason they didn’t go after them. Everywhere else they’re all invasive.
I walk my dogs @ The VETERANS Memorial Park in DE. It's nice, quiet & safe. Folks come there to eat their lunches, then instead of getting out & walking 5' to the trash can, they'll drop the food on the ground. I don't know if they are just lazy or they think they're feeding the squirrels, but my dogs find it and I'm not happy when they find chicken bones or moldy bread. At least I've been able to train one of them not to eat it, she brings it to me to throw away. So cute. At another park, there's a huge colony of feral cats. A man comes and dumps half a bag of kibble on the ground for them. EVERY DAY. My sister did the same at her house -it took about 3 yrs before it became a problem. I tried to explain to these people that hungry females do not reproduce, if they're hungry how do they feed babies? Cats with full bellies reproduce every 3 months. Stupid people. Are bird feeders in winter ok?
My husband and I were backpacking in the Grand Canyon years ago and had permits to camp for several days at several sites. On the descent we stopped at a stone rest station and day hikers were feeding the squirrels underneath posted signs not to feed wildlife. When several squirrels started climbing up our backpacks while they were still on us and attempting to get into them very aggressively, the others thought it was cute. No, it’s not cute to have an aggressive wild animal several inches away from your head, neck and face. This was in the late 70’s when more people respected posted signs so I’m sure that poor behavior is rampant. In Yosemite, deer were several feet from our car and people were trying to feed them. I have plenty of wildlife in my area and I don’t want them to become friends with them as wild animals can become unpredictable.
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@@Vsevolodbochkov2no they wouldn’t, they’d be dead XD more seriously though, you can feel sympathetic for the animals being killed while still agreeing that they aren’t safe living so close to people
Introverts like us that spend everyday at home, are watching this video. People that need to watch this video are out there doing all sort of activities every day and will never understand why they need to stop feeding wild animals.
Some people are just awful. I live in Florida, so we have A LOT of tourists visiting the beaches. So many of them will feed the seagulls and then get mad when you tell them not to. They're here temporarily, we have to deal with seagulls expecting humans to have food permanently. People won't change sadly.
@@IIMiikexDIIThe same thing happens in Venice with seagulls and pigeons. Why would anyone feed pigeons? They aren’t endangered. And why do tourists feed them only in Venice and not in their hometown? Why are pigeons a tourist attraction anyway? You’re in Venice, there are more interesting things to do than feeding animals, you could find at your doorstep. Might as well feed rats.
Aw hell nah you ain’t gunna put this on extroverts. IJT Roberta are far more likely to be the ones to feed wild animals for “companionship.” A lady in Whistler, BC was feeding bears from her backyard, spending hundreds of dollars on food to do it resulting in the bears being killed.
@@hongfeiwei2710 Wrong, you don't have to be corrupt, you just have to lie to people and speak what they want to hear, be innefficient, pretend nothing is wrong and then you can be corrupt.
@@human-vp6vsthey are distinguishing between something like a raw veggie, technically “human food” but which the bear would not get fat on, and junk full of filler that the FDA commonly passes as food
Thank you so much for this video. I love animals too and would love to feed them and take a cute selfie with me feeding them but I was taught not to feed wild animals for just these reasons. Great to see such awareness in this video and in the comments.
As native american and lover of untrouched nature, I'm greatful for this video, you've earned my family and I greatest repects for your video contribution and explantion to this problem as I'm tried of explain it.
@4kDeadMan1995 It’s crazy how simple truths can be so hard to explain. People have convictions based on superficial impressions and can’t think about them at any depth other than: yes I am correct.
My father told me a year ago that in the resort we had recently visited (in Hurghada, Egypt), a man was bitten by a reef shark. It was reported that this shark was repeatedly being fed by visitors of the place, which one really shouldn't do. This led to the shark habitually seeking out humans expecting food. The man might have provoked a bite due to a panic response, I don't really know though . To clarify, I forgot whether it was that resort or the bay Sharm El Naga or another place we've visited, but the point is that shark attacks boil down to human error, such as treating those sharks inconsiderately.
You guys forget that we are PART of nature. Just because we've created a separate society doesn't mean we aren't allowed to interact with the rest of nature. There's no such rule, except the ones we made ourselves
I think it's perfectly fine to feed birds in your garden, or swans and ducks in rivers or lakes. As long as you feed them the appropriate foods. It is actually super beneficial to the birds during spring when they're all nesting. I am from the UK though, so the rules are a little different here. No bears crocks or wolves 🤷 Edit: If you have a dog, you can gather up its fur and tie it to your bird feeder. They will take it and use it for their nests.
ducks cant break down bread, bread is filled with fibers, fibers make you feel full when you aren't, causing them to not feed topping off the fact that they hardly get any nutrients at all from the food we eat
In the states this is frowned upon. The reason being is we have a big problem with people dumping domestic ducks they no longer want at the parks. Keeping them alive puts significant stress on the native species. Not only that, there tend to be more males than females and they will breed the females to death. It has become such a problem from irresponsible parents buying their kids ducklings for Easter than dumping them that people are actually encouraged to eliminate or take the domestic ones home. Still, it doesn't stop people from being irresponsible, though. I used to work for the park service and it was a hoot ( sarcasm) every year when parents dump the geese and bunnies off at the park. For staff to get screamed at by other people for not protecting them when they would get picked off by coyotes and foxes. Still don't see anyone address the sale of them to non-farmers, though.
What's interesting about man made feeders and turning animals violent against each other. Is that it occurs naturally with hummingbirds and flowers, big and strong humming birds gatekeep and claim a huge area with flowers on them and they fight against smaller hummingbirds in turn making the smaller hummingbirds an endangered specie in a completely wild environment.
It's called habituated. A young boy here in Louisiana had his arm completely ripped off by an alligator bc of this. They shot the gator cut its stomach open in a attempt to get his arm back and surgically reattach it but were unsuccessful. He was lucky to have survived. The gator wasn't so lucky.
First place i ever saw an obese bear was BEAR COUNTY park or whatever in South Dakota. The owners of the place were feeding them wonder bread to the point their stomachs are dragging on the ground. The whole place is a drive-through park that lets tourists feed them anything.... the place is disgusting. Sad to see how little humans know.
2/3 of Americans are obese. They probably saw the fat bear and thought “wooohoo, now that’s an American bear! YEEHAW!!,” Can’t expect people to know that obesity for animals is bad when they don’t know that obesity in general is bad, even for humans. I blame Haes
There’s some idiot in town that has a “slow down, community pet deer in area” and I’ve twice taped over it “the deer are WILD, not a community pet. More people get killed in a year by deer than by bears and sharks combined”
200 people die every year from deer, however that's from car accidents, WHICH DON'T HAPPEN IF YOU SLOW DOWN AND TAKE CAUTION (specifically deer car accidents) It is easy to avoid bears and sharks (be loud and don't go into the ocean, bam, bears know you're there and will leave you alone unless it's a polar bear and then you're fucked and sharks don't walk on land), it is NOT easy to avoid a deer jumping out while you're going 45, so in reality you're not helping and are in fact possibly getting people hurt because now they can't see the sign that warns them to slow down because deer are around, also taping over private property (no matter the intention) is illegal No matter how you slice it, you trying to do good is not only putting you in the wrong because you're going about it the wrong way, but is also putting other people in danger
Uh dude, you might think youre helping but you're in the wrong. Your facts are right but deer accidents only happen due to people NOT slowing down. You're endangering people with harmful advice rather than helping people. If anything, that guy is helping the deer more than you. If you really want to help, tape over the sign with something else. Maybe say, "Slow down! Deer in the area." That way you're helping people and also insinuating the deer is not a pet. Plus, it's shorter than what youre already saying which means people are more likely to read it since it's not a big paragraph. Sorry, man, but you really need to change how youre doing this since it isn't very helpful right now. You have a good heart but a bad method.
@@husoldiers2221 I definitely was not talking about car accidents involving deer creating fatalities. During the rut and with people getting too close to fawns, deer do in fact gore and stomp people to death Thinking it’s just car accidents is actually your issue, not mine
Alligators store their food under water for weeks at a time to allow it to rot before eating it. Maybe we should try that? If it's fine for them, it should be fine for us too right? Because all living species on earth have exactly the same digestive systems right? Oh and definitely watch out for chocolate and onions. I heard that can kill dogs, so it probably kills humans too right? . Logic is hard.
@@dalton2845 yet it's still not always healthy for us to eat it. Junk food is still junk at the end of the day, and while we may tolerate and even enjoy ingesting it, that doesn't mean you won't pay for every meal you've had later on in your life.
Had a young fox roaming the area. It was quite tame, curious, sometimes sat like a dog watching people. I already had heard, that this may cause problems and wanted to scare it away in order to save it. I didn't. About a week later I heard from a neighbour about its demise. It had been comfortable with humans being close, had been fed, ate leftovers from the local fast food restaurant. Until someone seemingly had enough of it and poisoned the poor thing. I feel guilty even today, maybe 6 or 7 years later. Had I thrown a fire cracker at it, it might have lived. There sure are foxes hiding somewhere, eating garbage. Difference is that they hide.
dont do the what ifs man for all you know it could of died another way alot sooner had it not been fed by humans or you throwing said fire cracker could of injured it.
I can relate to not being able to save creature, we rescued a baby bird who was on road we put it outside got busy, then there arrived a crow i was the once most close to it, i could have made crow flee but i was little and shunned, afterwards crow managed to snatch little baby took it around neighborhood's tree devour it completely when i reached there all i had was looking up in sky for the poor bird my mistake my incompetence 😢
It's not your fault & whoever poisoned that poor creature is evil. Foxes behave more like cats than dogs, but aren't as threatening as coyotes or wolves that are larger & move on groups. Foxes usually are shy towards humans & the only threat they present is rabies, but dogs or any other mammal can carry it. So it's not fair. It takes more effort to relocate the animals than you know... delete them. It's so bad.
@@lagopusvulpuz1571 if they relocated the Fox It would have came back or dying, still the person who poison It Is evil since he should have left the authorities to deal with the fox
You missed some important parts of this video. It's not "just" because human food is "bad". They specifically said that by being near humans, Bears find food more easily and spend less time moving. More calories in and less calories out means a fatter bear. This would apply to bears who eat healthy food as well. It's "human" food in that it's food facilitated by humans. This includes fruit and vegetables in people's backyards, people's pets, trash and food left out for them. I feel like you think it strictly means they are eating McDonald's somehow. There were much better examples in the video for your point. Like processed bread messing up deer metabolism.
I've been propagating and planting the local Native North American Persimmons for my deer. Found an old growth tree deep in a swamp. I've found more spread by the deer since then. But it's a good way to make sure they have a decent food source and have no interaction with me.
As a former employee of a company in Grand canyon... The squirrel is indeed considered the deadliest/most dangerous animal there. Bites are frequent, rabies is a thing... As are other diseases like the literal plague. Fear the friendly tree rat! (Not actually a tree rat, separate species, but the nickname fits...)
I think that the comment or possibly meant to imply that rabies is like a squirrel plague but not literally the bubonic plague … pray that the bubonic plague never resurfaces again.
I was fishing on a bayou here in Louisiana. I watched a woman pull in to a parking lot across the bayou from were i was. Sh pulled a trash bag out of the truck of her car and started dragging it to the water. I literally stopped fishing to see a couple of things. 1. I wanted to make sure it wasnt a human body. 2. To see if she was feeding the gator that had been seen. A couple of dogs have come up missing in the last month. Sure enough, i see her start calling something. So i took my phone and started recording. I took photos of her plate and her. And just like i thought, she was calling a gator. She starts pulling what looks like a deer skeleton out and throwing it to the gator. I screamed across the bayou, hey woman, you cant do that, its illegal. The woman told me to worry about myself and get out of her business. I said ok, so i called the cops. She left before the cops got there and they were happy to see all the evidence i had. They made me E-Mail the video. 3 days later it was on the news. What happened to the woman? Oh she got probation and that was it!!! What happened to the gator. Oh, they made her call it to the bank. When the gator got to the bank, a gun shot was heard. No more gator in that bayou. There were some upset people and they talked about the gator never bothered anyone. Well it only takes 1 time and someone loses a child. I brought my 3 year old son with me to that spot. So yeah, that is hitting very very close to home. Personally i think that woman should have spent a minimum of 6 months in jail for it. Flordia doesnt play that crap. Anyway tbis video is spot on. Thanks for posting it.
@@ThegreatblazingsunDo you realize what happens when wild animals associate humans with food? They can become aggressive when they don't get the food they're expecting. It's annoying when a squirrel or seagull does it, now imagine a gator with its massive bite force and a tail that can break your legs if it smacks you getting pissy at you because you didn't bring it a snack 💀
I'm genuinely curious, how does this apply to birds? Because I've always hated feeding mammals or reptiles, where them being fed tends to end quite badly, but people have been birds for centuries, and are known to put up houses for them, especially purple martins and bluebirds, where significant portions of the populations rely on human housing. Is this bad for the birds as well, or are they something of an exception to this rule? Anybody with serious knowledge know?
I'm no expert. But I will share what I do know. Generally it's not the best. Best way to feed birds is by growing something like native shrubs. And to stay away from the birds. Feeding stations can spread diseases, grow invasive species, provide predators like cats with an easy place to prey on, and alter bird behavior. For example an endangered bird species was given food by humans. Lead to the babies hatching earlier, which meant less food available. So those babies were less likely to survive. Properly maintained feeding stations do provide benefits too, but it's a hard task. Like cleaning in a safe way, food that the birds can eat without concern, in their local area, and not over feeding. Also being far enough from roads or humans. I've fed birds when we got a sudden winter storm that lasted about 4 days in spring. Birds not used to the weather had already returned. Did research on what was safe to feed, then put it high above from the ground, and changed the location. In cases like that human intervention can be of help. So feeding birds has pros and cons
