Monitor Lizard Fights Mother Possum for Her Babies | BBC 

DWL lol

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Lizard was like, with these upgrades your babies never stood a chance.

Lol was thinking about a joke like that

Hahaha that was good

Haha I know 🤣

Daniel Reyes that’s not funny sir

awdawd awdawdad Why did you watch this video then?

Daniel Reyes because I like animals

@@awdawdawdawdad7110 GAY

Sounds about what the police due to my people.

Possums rip each others heads off. They do have weapons it's just these lizards are powerful

@@brazillo19 Ha! Good one. And so true. ✊😄

@@brazillo19 Yee, more shit? Bad police, "your" good special people? Try to not be fucking shit that is the whole story. Fucking western scumbags looking for excuse. You just fucking up any place you appear.

@@mravecsk1 2hehrhr. @mravecsk1 The only western scumbags looking for excuses are the same ones that stormed the US capital, claiming that their rights were violated because Trump lost the election, AND those white supremacist race soldiers claiming they feared for their diabolic miserable lives by murdering unarmed innocent black people who are simply living their lives, minding their own business. Now stfu dumbass because you will not win this moral ethical argument.

he should hired Comodo Dragon of Indonesia

How? HAHAHA

Nature is not a happy ending movie

Opossums try to bluff their predators but they aren't very dangerous.

I think the lizard has won

Isaiah Jones That shits over now

@Isaiah Jones 😐 how does animals eating other animals for survival remind you of Slavery?

Isaiah Jones Still all happening in AFRICA this VERY day

@@adammiller1909 will get rid of you first

@Isaiah Jones im hispanic and just the fact thst you said "you people" makes your whole argument racist

cfltitan me too dude 🤦‍♂️

Many of the Animals in nature lose their babies. Like ostriches.

Yeah, me too

I know it's ignorance and lack of consideration but I felt bad for the name of Jesus people so randomly and uselessly use on a daily basis.

@Christopher Pussies who built western civilization as we know it

If your kids get eaten in front of you and someone says but nature has its own laws you will wanna 💀them

only a part of them, majority die from a evil asteroid crash

me too bruh, sad times.

Spur-of-the-Mountain It was definitely the school shooting for me

Bruh, they have plenty more like this with other animals. All equally depressing.

Yep.

Really? Well, good for you coz i just watched a teenager killed himself using a KSG while streaming here on youtube.

Actually, having dealt with my fair share of goannas over the years, I believe that you are correct. IMHO the best chance she had was to pursue and chase the lizard on that initial success and then quickly move the family elsewhere. Goannas are unbelievably persistent. Giving up is not in their DNA. We have learned from others who live in the bush, to catch them and relocate them a very long way away. Otherwise, they will just keep on returning. The only real option for the possum was to grab the kids and move away a.s.a.p.

They have no sense to move from their nest like humans...that's a simple animal..

That's right! If there's an intruder in your house, shoot first and ask question later.

@@spikeng ok.you can shoot..

Yes best example king Prithiviraj Chauhan

My cat likes to kill some ratbabies every time; the opossum also is a rat - so what? "Incredibly sad" ... OMG!

@@thorexander7720 theres no need for overreaction.. OMG and that stuff... you don't have to feel the same way as others.

@@ShakilHashmi Well said Shakil

@@sammysooby5685 thank you very much Sammy 🙏

OoOhHhh, Dear.... *boo who*

the circle of LIFE! dun-dun-dun-dun

Marlin from Nemo can relate.

Relax

They don't think like humans.

well it is harder for a whale and elephant because it is harder for them to have babies and take care them

Mist'er Johnson that’s why I stay with the strap

@@mfcannoncannon4597 Damn now I'm imagining the possum pulling out a glock

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The lizard's skin is very tough, unlike that of other predators, so he couldn't feel her bite. The possum did all she could. She knew she couldn't fight him.

Didn't too. But with their claw and small size. Not a doubt

@@Idowu_Balogun I think that tree was on a slant, considering how easily it walked up the tree without really gripping it...

With that streamlined flat body structure, the extremely long tail and those huge talons Varanus is more than capable of scaling most terrains, they're expert swimmers also.

Each day u learn something new

Some monitor luxards are arboreal

It’s ironic that the lizard is somehow the more manageable right pet.

@@reubencaldwell8494 Laceys can be really difficult as pets, they're not like ackies or water monitors, their attitudes are shitty. They can also be really good, but i've seen some really bad attacks on good reptile keepers from laceys, but yeah possums are absolute assholes.

@@Gigan-tp5wi yea agreed but another very common good species would be the Nile monitor and blue tail monitor ( joke)

@@monitorcrazy9410 Yeah, they're very easy pets, but I prefer to recommend croc monitors to beginners (joke)

@@Gigan-tp5wi definitely not varanus salvador but varanus salvadorii

Really

And then the eagle ate the possum too

@@Roy_Dudson Aww

painful circle of life ...

If You think an eagle can handle a monitor....you're an idiot

No, they just didn't want to give away the ending.

Lol....I had the impression the possum won.....clickbait

How is it misleading it fought to protect it's babies and failed like a loser

Not so misleading. She fought the lizard. Only the description doesn't reveal the ending...

@KakarotSsj potato Why? Do movie titles should reveal the ending also?

@Gio Moscol it’s a family guy joke stop trying to be a know it all that’s why he has likes cuz some people actually got it. And I didn’t even like the comment thought it was outdated but yea.

Their rough skin didn’t take a bit from the possum.

It's just a possum. They don't have super sharp teeth or insane bite force.

@@Bitchslapper316 yet they would bite your finger off if they wanted to

⁠@@Bitchslapper316 Alright? They still have pretty strong jaws, along with some pretty sharp teeth.

Me too😓

Same man

Me three🙁

Me four

Me five

Only if she had a 500 magnum or an AR 15

Azmeri Liza A 9mm is too weak to stop an intruder.

Enceladus sorry kid animals don't know how to use guns

Enceladus what about if the iguana had a gun as well?

There was an iguana there too?

Great fact

nice one

not really monitors are like the john wick of africa

I’m sure glad there’s no giant lizards invading my home and eating my family.

asdg199 For sure, I'm moving, not raising my children in a tree anymore.... too dangerous!!!

asdg199 macro evolution is just a myth.

Allan Brown i sometimes wish a giant lizard would come and eat my family. They drive me CRAZY lol

imran876339 and we would have a much larger population than it.

Yeah, we must appreciate how dinosaur extinct

I agree I would pull that lil shit out and tell him what’s up

What if it bit damn that would hurt lol

You must have a hatred for animals and nature then?

Georgios Kalivatsis no I have 2 cats I don’t hate animals and I used to live in the forest so I don’t hate nature try again

@@masteryoda535 My friend, wanting to invade and utterly destroy the natural relationship between predator and prey in an ecosystem you do not belong in and therefore cannot contribute to, does imply a form of disrespect towards the vitality of the natural world. This alone, regardless of anything else, makes me skeptical.

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nah he allready ate like 6 hamsters worth of food, that boy is sated

especially small

Yup, that poor lizard had to get bitten and assaulted just to get breakfast.

Lol I know 🤣

"Doom music plays in background"

Let's see that piece of ship do that against a honey badger and her cub. Mama badger will smack that ship so hard, it will end up landing in the north pole.

@@junofranco6638 A Komodo dragon will easily kill a honey badger. And perenti too.

@@Polosatiy_Varan it would be hard but not impossible

@@junofranco6638 i feel you bro, but that's nature. If you want, there are videos of monitors getting mauled to death by pitbulls

Had to reset the run one time though, so no world record possible anymore. Still a good run.

She should've turned on the in-game ads.

today I learned real life was developed by EA

Hey, no spoilers!

give props to the mom, she showed a valiant effort...

Let the lizard starve!

Hahah

@@nightlightabcd shush your freaking mouth dweeb.

This is how they were created. Kill in order to live.

I want nature to take its course and if that means the monitor lizard gets to eat then so be it.

Reptile scales serve as armor and most of the time some tuffer than others

Don't assume the lizard's gender. Rest is ok.

Exactly

@Stock Name and worms dont sympathise with you unless you were charred.

Lol

didn't look like it was doing any fighting it was doing a lot of eating

@Stock Name ahh, in your perfect little world only the "cute" animals survive, yeah? What a pathetic mindset, I urge you to look deeper than that and grow up....

Better watch how big the mama is if ar9und but prolly won't be because they don't guard their nest

@@monitorcrazy9410 Some monitor lizards and Komodo guard the nest. In addition, monitor lizards usually lay their eggs in durable termite mounds.

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SATOR Photo awesome explanation! Thanks for this 😀

more informative than the actual video

You probably have an ecology degree.if not you deserve an honorary one becauss from what i read here you are well read. 100%

"The brushtail possum mother's bite is ineffective" You've obviously never hard a brushtail possum hanging off your forearm. In all honesty, I was barracking for the lace monitor.

Yeah I was pulling for the possum. 😔

Badum tsss

Thanks not watching it.

And you are laughing 😡😡

Elijah Davis some shameless people like it. These are the kind of psychopaths who join dictator armies and do brutality on civilians.

Mmmmm. I bet they tasted good tho! 😀

The emoji was to the fact it said there was a fight but it was actually a slaughter you mongs

Azmeri Liza THIS MONSTER JUST RUINED MY WEEK END.....😒

It ruined my good night sleep 😪

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Azmeri Liza thats how nature works😊

Azmeri Liza Not sad because now the spirit from that possum vessel is released. It was only there to learn what it needed to learn, once learned, it was released from the vessel it first obtained. Sure it looks awful, but death is the only way we let go of the vessel we were given. Hopefully, their next vessel is the human form where it can achieve enlightenment....

yep just like de white english british empire they robbed, raped and killed innocent kids and that is even worse

Puhhh I could write a book now xD what you mentioned is happening all over the planet... Humans animals, don't separate them its life. Imagine your life is a dream of God, and he lives that dream a septillion times. First 1000s are for sure without problems and all of the best. But then it's getting boring and he wants some unpredictable surprises. No matter if good or bad, it's definitely more exciting. And you are developing this dream to the ultimate experience... Guess what, that's what life is... An unpredictable box of surprises. That's why you love to live... If everything is fine.. Life would be boring. Sound weird but think about it. So it's actually not that bad or our fault if we don't help the opossom... It's life in all his fascination

@@bottoysex1957 this bitch lmao fuck you

excwpt that sauron sucessfully liberated middle earth from the elf and hobbit abmoniations and manbeasts.

@@t-love8351 Begone fiend!

Honey badgers dont fuck around

NO ITS NOT

Why! That was beautiful mother nature at work.

@@Rocketpower713 yep... the circle of life.

You soft!!!

Then you better not watch any vids of crocodiles eating zebras!

Guru Mohan Yea. The mother could have easily became food for the lizard too by protecting her babies. Usually possums run like hell from monitor lizards. The mother possum didn't stand a chance. Those babies possums had death written all over them when the lizard made the 1st attempt at the babies.

Makes me thankful God have us to tools to protect ourselves and our families.

Guru Mohan Well "DUH" of course a mother's length to protect her babies from any type of treat of danger that might happen in any case!!! That also applies to the emotions of a human female species as well!!!

Gurumayum Madan Not sad because now the spirit from that possum vessel is released. It was only there to learn what it needed to learn, once learned, it was released from the vessel it first obtained. Sure it looks awful, but death is the only way we let go of the vessel we were given. Hopefully, their next vessel is the human form where it can achieve enlightenment....

Gurumayum Madan that’s not true for a lot of human mothers

Fax

Badgers are assholes. There's a video of badgers doing this to a poor fox family.

Doubtful, monitor lizards pack the same weapons honey badgers do, plus a whip for a tail, honey badgers also aren’t as big as monitors and quite frankly big monitors don’t care how scary you are, if they think they can eat you, they’ll try to do it.

@ that’s a tiny monitor dude lmao, an adult wouldn’t be scared of a honey badger, you do realize that they can get almost 8 feet long?

Yup, the lizard being fed is the happiest ending this scenario could have had.

I mean yeah it just wanted a snack

You mean opossum?

@@darkseid7799 some people cut the "O" out.

You mean the ones that are commonly devoured by snakes, owls, and hawks? Monitors grow to up to 10 feet in length. You must have bumped your head.

@@gazanever6291 Komodo's grow up to 9ft and they're the largest lizards...

@@able76 largest, not the longest, crocodile monitors grow from 10-11 feet.

That’s the monitors trick.. they seem slow and docile until they explode..

@@zacha8934 Very dangerous. I was attacked by a small monkey and it sat a 7 feet away. Without even seeing it move, it had grabbed both my wrists. Don’t know how we survived in nature.

@@parmmohan4603 agreed. I like to believe we must have lost a lot of our instincts over the years.. I’m sure our brains played the big difference back then too..

@@zacha8934 Not sure if you know this but it was fire that made us smarter. When humans began using fire, the jaw muscle shrank and gave room in the head for brain growth. Apes and monkeys don’t have brains as big as ours bcuz they still have huge jaw muscles.

nizar pk Its sad, but we gotta prepare ourselves. Mind, Capaldi sounds all kinds of niceness.

M Morrison Capaldi's doing this one?

Kenneth Satria Yeah, cant you hear him. Close your eyes and listen. Its 12.

Oh yeah... he sounds uncharacteristically calmer than 12 though...

Kenneth Satria maybe cos he not running around saving the silly old universe. Hes not on that treadmill at the mo.

lol. damn you're good

Were you referencing TierZoo?

Ea sucks, but Zerglings still are cute. It wasn't supposed to be funny it WAS funny.

That's a matter of opinion. Just because you lack a sense of humor doesn't mean the joke isn't funny. 116 people say otherwise.

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Zhaksylyk Toktaukhan poor Comment

Zhaksylyk Toktaukhan Not sad because now the spirit from that possum vessel is released. It was only there to learn what it needed to learn, once learned, it was released from the vessel it first obtained. Sure it looks awful, but death is the only way we let go of the vessel we were given. Hopefully, their next vessel is the human form where it can achieve enlightenment....

She'll get over it.

Dr Boom Because it is well known that lizards are chivalrous and will not acost a lady. The male baby was fair game, however.

Depends where I guess, monitors are pretty common throughout Asia

Leftover Food lizard does Fortnite default dance

Chill out pokemon lol

Because it is beautiful and loving but also cruel and brutal, just like people can be. Possum is courageous trying to defend the babies but lizard just wants to eat, would you say his behavior was 'ugly'? Perhaps possum could have build it's nest somewhere safer than this, not the open tree trunk, perhaps lizard could have adapt his diet but evolution and instinct decided differently and that's an end result. Nothing loving or hateful about it.

Dawid to have carnivorous animals whose prey is sentient, and sometimes they're devoured while they're still alive, is cruel. especially when they're just newborns.

Badry so what's you point, I can't see it adding or arguing with the points I made?

Dawid my bad, i skimmed through your reply and for some reason thought you were disagreeing with him. now i see you reiterated what he said. indeed it's cruel.

Dawid It's a joke at the expense of nature lovers who forget that it can be cruel and brutal. Of course it can also be beautiful and loving at times. In a way, even the act of the lizard eating the babies can be viewed as "beautiful" in how primal and horrific nature often is.

Possum TV basically what I'm thinking, this guy has no knowledge of animals, he's just a narrator. A monitor this size could probably kill a young possum large enough to not be back-riding but I doubt it'd only take less than a minute

Possum TV even your account name is Possum TV, you win. BBC set it up wrongly.

conspiracy theory or not, it was still worth watching

Lace monitors are anything but small, and they can swallow fairly large objects(I’ve seen a monitor lizard swallow a fish 1/3 it’s size whole) and I don’t think the mother will be bringing her offspring into a fight with a giant venomous lizard that could rip it to shreds. Also the baby probably didn’t even see the lizard until it was already in the nest and if it did grab it out the pouch then the possum would’t be able to actually do anything about it as monitor lizards are armoured so it’s would be like attacking a rhino with a plastic spoon and she was backed into a corner with no were to go so the fact it grabbed the baby probably saved her life as it was probably trying to eat her. Also monitor lizards have very good sense of smell so it probably smelt the possums from a good distance away. Also the do you think she would stay around and fight if she didn’t have a baby with her, it’s a tiny little possum vs a giant venomous lizard that can rip her apart in a few seconds, I don’t think she would hang around if there wasn’t a baby in that nest.

It's probably futile to get into an Internet debate on what might have happened inside a hollow where we can't see; it comes down to one person's speculation against another's and there's no way to prove anything. I personally think that if a baby possum was present it must have been of back-riding size (or it would have been in the mother's pouch when she first left the hollow) and it didn't look to me that it would have either been cornered or taken by surprise when then monitor attacked and we should have seen it leave the hollow. Baby possums of back-riding age are alert and can move very fast. But this aside, consider that there is *nothing at all visible* in the video to indicate that a baby possum was ever present. The fact that the narrator repeatedly refers to babies (plural) - which is almost certainly wrong - implies that the film makers didn't actually witness the presence of a baby either. Wildlife documentaries are frequently falsified to some extent and if you think about it, this makes sense; there are deadlines to be met and animals don't perform on cue. You can't be paying for a camera crew to wait around for months just for the sake of a few minutes of film that will probably bring in less revenue than footage of some idiot getting kicked in the groin. In this case, the attack of a monitor lizard on a brushtail is a relatively rare event. Very few brushtail babies die while under the protection of their mothers and the greatest mortality occurs when they become independent and disperse to other areas. The fact that brushtails have only one baby at a time is evidence of this - smaller and more vulnerable ringtails have two or three and American opossums have more like ten or so. Even dogs and cats have a litter of up to half a dozen. So it seems unlikely that a film crew would just happen to be there - with ladders or whatever positioned to be able to film from a good angle - at exactly the moment an attack occurred. You could quite easily follow a possum continuously for years and never see anything like this happen. I myself have filmed somewhere around 50 possums over a period of 12 years, and on only occasion did I capture an attack (by a carpet python on ringtails) on film - and that was recorded automatically by a motion detecting camera when I wasn't present.