Thank you so so so much mentioning the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombats. Wombats get often overlooked and they face many threats. They are beautiful, smart and just amazing animals ♡
I was thinking it kind of looks like a French Bulldog. Or maybe French Bulldogs kind of look like wombats. Either way, I decided if I ever get a Frenchie, I'll name it Wombat.
What's so insane to me is that a lot of these stories of rare/recently extinct animals have such small home ranges. Their ENTIRE WORLD is concentrated on one tiny Cliffside, or a little patch of rainforest, or just one little island in the ocean. It just makes learning about these animals feel all the more desperate 😔
There is a species of shrimp called Procaris ascensionis where the entire population is found in only 2 tiny rock pools on the remote island of ascension in the middle of the altantic
@@jordyb57 probably the water hole ever connected to bigger water body like river at some point in the past, but due to drying climate the river is disappear and the hole is the final refugium for the pupfish
this video is very nice. I've been watching videos about cryptids just for fun but it's always nice to see how actual animals are found describe and presented to the world even if not a lot of people know about them
8:39 I know there's also the Annamite striped rabbit (from the same genus), that was described the same year the Sumatran Striped Rabbit was rediscovered. There's camera trap footage from the World Land Trust that was uploaded back in 2016.
At 25:43 for clarification the poster did not actually claim it as Adam’s horseshoe bat but instead a expert who is a expert on African bats and even examined the voucher specimen
At the University of Auckand, there is a specimen of Metrosideros called Bartlett's rata that currently only has 50 wild individuals remaining in the very north of North Island
I would love to hear about the Blakiston’s Fish Owl sometime! Your videos are amazing and informative! I learned all about the Devils Hole Pupfish from this channel!
I've been doing a page on Facebook for some years now to make unknown animals known by posting a daily random animal. Can't save what isn't known about.
@@aDaewooLanos Thanks! I think the red wolf needs MUCH more attention than it gets. Gray/timber wolves are important too, but everyone knows about them and their numbers are so much better.
@@kubakielbasa5987 Predatory snail intentionally, predatory worm unintentionally. The first killed most species and the second prevented the remaining species from recovering.
In addition many partulas have tiny ranges. Partula cytherea is (was) found on a single mountainside. Partula labrusca was endemic to the Tehemani plateau in Raiatea.
Just a sugestion, a video specificly about endagered bird species from South America, like the Araripe Manakin, Brazilian Merganser, Kaempfer's Woodpecker and the Blue Eyed Ground Dove, etc., could be interesting. In special, Brazil is full of amazing bird species and unfortunatly a bunch of them are in a delicade situation.
Ooo. I LOVE the pink iguana. Especially because they were discovered relatively recently on a set of islands that are heavily studied. I'll add them to my list for a future video.
I have another one: the Gallotia intermedia of Tenerife. The giant lizards on this island were believed to be extinct but it was found one day in 1996 by a group of explorers. They found the lizard in an inaccessible cliff of the north and it lives there thanks to the seagull poops and the fact that there are no cats in such grounds.
I live in the heartland of America and I was shocked to hear there was an endemic beetle species that only lives in Kansas. The only known location for the Scott Riffle Beetle is in a spring area within Scott State Park in Scott County.
I don't think you've ever talked about the european hamster which is critically endangered. I see them often but most people outside of my village haven't heard of them, not to mention the whole country or continent. Very cute animal and they're unique compared to other hamsters. Love your videos and the effort you put into them
As a frequent user of iNaturalist in the USA I believe that you have mischaracterized the platform's reliability. While there are frequently users unfamiliar with taxa that ascribe an ID to their observation the role of the highly trained users in vetting observations results in a net positive in terms of accuracy. As pointed out in a comment below, the observer did not claim to have photographed an Adam's Horseshoe Bat, they uploaded the observation and a highly educated bat researcher suggested the ID. I love your videos immensely, I just felt compelled to weigh in on the reliability of iNaturalist.
i have a video recommendation! i saw another video on extinct animals ancient egyptians saw and was hoping u can do a similar video as i love your vid styles! ❤❤
@@liampowers8570i’ve not heard of that channel be4 but thanks for the recommendation! i saw the extinct animals ancient egyptians saw video from a channel extint zoo
I'd only heard of the hand fish and I didn't know that there were three species of wombat. The manner in which the scarcity of a species - and thereby potentially the protection given to it - is shockingly deficient. How can a species with only 200 individuals in existence be downgraded from critically endangered to merely endangered?
I wondered the same. But the justification was in the fact that the population had doubled, had a growing range, and seemed stable. There are a lot of political reasons that species have their status changed as well, though I'm not sure if any of that was happening in this case.
Its relative... If a species *only* ever existed on a single 🏔 that _literally couldn't support more_ than a population of 50? Those 50 animals are *definitely* endangered! But not "critical" if the species has stable population that's as big as its ever been/will be and there's no immediate risk of losing the habitat👍 Lmao I hope I explained it well enough
AAN I think you should add the Mariana Crow it's rare and less people are known about it, it is endemic in the Mariana Islands and Guam they are listed as(CR) critically endangered do to the loss habitat and the introduced brown tree snake
Possibly the wombat population may consist of mostly males due to the mothers protecting their newborn young opposed to fleeing a predator?subsequently ending them
Yes, usually mammal mothers have it harder compared to males. They are smaller, they need to eat more to be able to produce milk for their children and they have to protect them.
Joey Santoro from Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't is trying to establish a Thorne scrub habitat in Texas. What looks like weeds to some is actually important habitat for plants and animals. We can't save what we don't know about.
Hello, I once caught, well rather picked up what seemed to be a really small version of the hand fish. It was black in colour and measured only milimeters. Anyone perhaps knows about this species? My dad thinks it might have been a baby stonefish.
How did you think that? Australia is a big open land and animals can split into different regional populations across it. Unless you thought wombat was a unique species of burrowing koala
Why can’t we establish a captive population of hirola? They eat grass, shouldn’t it be easy? Then maybe we could start releasing them again once things are stable. Wasn’t there another antelope species we already did that with?
To @thatonepossum5766 It probably never has caught the attention of an individual or organization that wants to do that or has the resources to do it. It would definitely be a great idea to take some individuals into captivity and create a captive herd.
If the population is small enough and the animals are sensative enough, it might not be feasible... An example that comes to mind is the vaquita. We've known how critical their population is for a while now (since there was around 100 + or - a dozen left in the *one small place* they live in northern most corner Sea of Cortez) and we knew the mexican gov can't stop the cartel gillnetting totoaba which is _same_ size, in _same_ water as vaquita; so they'd continue to be rapidly wiped out from net drownings... Unfortunately all 2 or 3 attempts to capture a few vaquita to move to different suitable water for a lifeline population failed because they would die from stress at every capture attempt (really *not good* to lose even 1 or 2 with a population that only had _less than 30 breeding females_ left) so all we could do was try our best to stop the gillnetting and protect whats left! Now there's between 0-10 left and they are functionally extinct 💯
I saw a video that said the red handfish was a new discovery... I think the other video was lying because how would we know their number counts if they're a new discovery?
I am consistently shocked that dog clubs forbid outcrossing every other animal species is allowed to outbreed this weird purity obsession is terrible for the dogs and you can keep the same aesthetic standards without requiring inbreeding.
