@@sunsetsilliest They exist because eucalyptus is so poisonous and poor in nutrients that nobody else wants to eat it, giving them no competition for food. And all the Australian predators are either landbound, not very fast, or too small to take on a full grown koala.
the fact that people think they're pulling up on sea monsters only for it to be a whale's love noodle that is just really offensive and we really got memed.
I get it no one was trying to see that and especially if your a sailor always talking about how great it is to live on the open seas and have adventures the last thing your gona say or wanna remember is oh ya a saw a whales ding a ling so that happened or that they saw it and it's absurdly large like too large to think that it exists on an animal so totally understand but also you can't unsee it ↁ_ↁↁ_ↁↁ_ↁ
"why do you KNOW that" ah yes my favorite kind of animal facts to have on hand. I remember making one of my coworkers SO upset by mentioning that squirrels have such a low terminal velocity that it's essentially nonexistent. They kept saying "that can't be true" "I'm gonna Google it" and then about 10 minutes later I just heard them go "NO WAY." Got a giggle out of me. Love your facts so much, because even when they're ones I know you always present things in such a fun way.
Bonus lion fact: A lot of people have realized Simba and Nala are related because lion prides are family units, but most animals don't give half a shit about incest so it's actually extremely realistic for them to become mates
@@livesinbin5830 Look dude considering the point you're making here the fact that you are writing *cough cough* at the start of every sentence gives off a *very peculiar* impression
"8 minutes to eat a human" IS very specific, and the fact every source repeats that figure reminds me of the famous case of the prehistoric horse that was "about the size of a fox terrier." An evolutionary biologist noticed that multiple books described this extinct animal as "about the size of a fox terrier." He found this suspiciously specific. He traced back all the citations and they all led to one book that used the phrase "about the size of a fox terrier." Authors quoted that book, then other authors quoted those authors. So I'm betting just a dollar that "can consume a human corpse in 8 minutes" can all eventually be traced back to one psychotic paper.
To be fair, it's human fallacy to assume that 8 minutes is more specific than 5 or 10. We assume that any number ending in a 5 or 0 was rounded and is thus less accurate, but 20% of numbers end in a 5 or 0.
Well keep in mind too there is a place called "the body farm" that is for forensic scientists that studies decay rates in various circumstances so the original quote may have been "5 to 10 minutes" and then the body farm said "we can get more accurate than that" and probably used various sized groups of pigs and an assortment of corpses to find out that on average a group of pigs ( assuming no less than 10) could eat an average sized (210lb) human in 8 minutes. Now of course thats a theory of the only legal way I can think of to get this very specific number.
@@phalenleigh There's another way. A friend of mine is an RVT (basically an animal nurse), and during her education, she had to do a rotation on her school's training farm. Day one on the farm had a safety briefing, which included the sentence, "Never fall down in the pig pen." A student asked why. The answer? "Farmers have had heart attacks in pig pens, and the pigs did what they do." So all you'd need is a livestock pen with a security camera and a farmer with heart trouble.
@@onbearfeet except for it to be a scientifically accepted sentence, and not just a precautionary anecdote, they would have to have it in a quantifiable and observed form. A farmer having a heart attack in such conditions would be rescued by the observer ( hopefully lol) where as the farmer who goes down alone is eaten in an intangible amount of time because no one was there to observe. I come from a long line of farmers, and we were always told to be careful and to never go into the pig barns alone because if you went down before feeding time you would be the food, but we were never told "in 8 minutes there will be nothing left" lol because no one at that point had quantified it by observing how long it took for x amount of pigs to devour enough bone meat and organ tissue to constitute a fully grown average adult.
In the Immortal words of Dr. Ian Malcolm: "Your scientists were so wrapped up in whether or not you could, you never stopped to think about whether or not you should."
The reason we know how long it takes a pig to eat a human corpse is because we have pig farms. Thats a dangerous place to slip and fall during feeding time.... Also, a lot of murderers use pigs to dispose of bodies. Its common knowledge where im from. Edit: I should clarify that the farm info is common knowledge, not the murder thing, I just watch a lot of crime shows.
I agree, the fact that we know that an elephant's "fun trunk" can lay out a fully grown man is way too specific to just be something that was witnessed.
The pigs eating corpses thing comes from Gettysburg. Union soldiers witnessed pigs from local abandoned farms eating bodies and apparently timed a few.
I mean, sure, but also, corpse farms are a thing. Like, people will donate their bodies to science, and many forensic scientists will put bodies in varying conditions to study decomposition rate, damages, etc. So feeding one to a pig/wild boar wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility.
I'd like to add context for two facts about the wolves. One: they will only resort to cannibalism in times of extreme starvation. Two: the reason wolves in Yellowstone kill each other is because Yellowstone said "fuck it", threw a bunch of strangers together, and expected it to go well. In the wild, packs are exclusively families. The rest of it though, yeah. Wolves are fucked
@@nettewilson853 we make all animals lives even harder. As for any species that once felt left out, we fixed that with climate change. Now we can make species extinct before we even know they exist 👏
My next door neighbor had a wolf dog hybrid....she was skittish around EVERYONE she didn't see on the regular. Beautiful dog. I miss those neighbors. Elara would be out with the full moon signing the song of her ancestors lol. It was beautiful to hear!
Fun fact: some cheetah breeding/preservation programs run by zoos pair them with service/therapy dogs to calm their anxiety enough they're actually able to, uh, perform. Cheetahs also expend so much energy on a hunt that they're basically always one failure away from starvation, so yeah, I'd be an anxious mess to.
4:39 Fun fact, the first time I saw a timber wolf in person, I was surprised by how much _smaller_ it was than I expected. I grew up around _very_ large dogs, so I was expecting something closer to 200 lbs than 100. Also, their fur is a _lot_ coarser than it looks, you go in expecting the consistency of husky fur but it's more like human hair. Like, _dry_ human hair. Even my hair is softer than wolf fur.
Fun fact: humans have a fused chromosome right in the middle of our genes. This does nothing, except make our genes incompatible with anything that lacks this mutation. This means that a humanzee is not naturally possible. The question of why this fused chromosome exists is an interesting question.
@@medusastone2725 some people point to this as a piece if evidence that humanity might be an engineered species. It just doesnt make sense from a natural selection point of view.
@@krofgninut5984 There's a way it could have happened:- 1. Animals in general tend to have violent mating habits. And while humans were a lot more durable back then, clearly during evolution they exchanged their strength for brain capacity. It's possible people who didn't have that mutation died either during mating or due to just a generally hostile environment. 2. Maybe anything that resulted from such a ...union basically cheetah-ed themselves out of existence? I don't know much about this (and probably went wrong somewhere with my assumptions) but these are just my thoughts.
well humans do kill other humans and to hide it from other humans and being put in jail with other humans they will put the dead human in a Pig pen and get rid of the evidence. Its actually poopular among killers, a few cases druged up parents who accidently killed their kids by abuse or neglect have tossed the bopdy in the pun and they eat everything including bones, for a crazy case that was on tape look up adrian jones child abuse
I think your blunt tone when telling disturbing animal facts is the key to your success bc it always gets me rolling with laughter. Like you aren't even affected by the craziness of nature anymore.
@@Doublemonk0506 perhaps but she hasn’t. She’s very gentle, she even takes her treats in a gentle/delicate way where has my other two lil dogs will bite your fingers for it
@@oliverbires5106, she probably wouldn't harm you as you are the top dog. However, if someone threatened her pack (her fam), she would maul that sucker into ribbons.
@@Doublemonk0506 she’s definitely more afraid of my father she watched him punch a hole in a door. Also she pretty old now and her hearing & sight aren’t great anymore so I doubt she’d maul a person
That statistic about pigs is actually for a different reason then you'd think but it's just as dark. The fact is if your in a pig farm the first rule is to never ever fall down in the pig enclosure with pigs inside.... They will not hesitate to try and eat you alive
I've raised pigs; just entering the enclosure will have them nipping to see if you are food or not. They will eat literally anything slow enough to catch, and they can be impressively fast when motivated.
This explains SOOOOOOOO much about that first scene in The Wizard of Oz ……… I always wondered why they all were literally freaking TF out about her falling in and I was just thinking it was like some kind of overdramatic reaction like all women must be saved from even muddy pig sties because they are weak little delicate precious things and it’s the farm gentlemen knights in shining armor to the rescue type idea lolololol 🤷🏻♀️🥴🤦🏻♀️🌈🐖
where i live there are feral pigs everywhere, they havnt tried to attack ppl, cuz our trash is tastier to them and they memorize the times and places ppl dispose of garbage, why eat a person when u can eat the dude's trash every day so most ppl leave em alone, and they return the favor some trash cans are reinforced, but pigs are crazy smart, and figure out ways to open the trash cans, its like a game for em ur legally not allowed to hunt em as well, but city officials have been neutering them on-site to keep them from overpopulating just keep ur pets at home, cuz they will eat smaller dogs, it happened only 3 times tho, cuz ppl ae careful edit: as for me, i have a magazine-fed crossbow, cuz even tho hunting them is illegal w/o paperwork, if one attacks u or ur dog, ur allowed to retaliate i did have some bacon a while ago after one has decided to try and attack my dog while i walked him, my aim is good enough to hit the bastard in the head while he's charging, and why waste a perfectly edible pig, he's already dead, and it wasnt a painful death, it hit him straight through the brain, cuz i didnt wanna needlessly hurt him
@@blare4470 you have yo consider just cause there is credit doesn't mean its still not copied this dude is literally screen recording someones tiktok it be a real problem if he never wanted these videos on yt
Oh so that’s why I love cheetahs, just like them I too have severe anxiety, can die if I run for up to three minutes and need to pretend to be something I’m not to survive
I believe i may know the story behind the 8 minute fact: A farmer once was feeding his pigs and suffered a heart attack, falling unconcious Police where called by his brother cause the farmer went to feed his pigs and didnt return, the brother went to see why he hadnt returned yet and hu... the scene would make the worst horror scene of any movie look like beta minecraft in comparison
I know this video came out years ago but here in canada there was a serial killer robert pickton and its believed that he fed his victims to the pigs. some pretty messed up stuff
Something every Canadian learns from childhood is "don't fuck with the geese or the moose" they will turn you into a statistic without hesitation or remorse
Yeah cheetahs are fast but if a lions behind it it still isn’t guaranteed to survive because of its trash stamina. If a lion or anything sees them and chooses violence, they have about 45 seconds to shake the pursuer or next place they are running is heaven
“What they really see is the whale’s Free Willy” Okay, alright, listen. I did NOT ask you to ruin one of my favourite childhood movies. It’s bad enough that the Orca in that movie was so mishandled it’s just messed up. But now you make me think of a whale’s nonsense level oversized ding dong every time I think of Free Willy. The movie. What’s wrong with you?! Here, have another subscriber!
The horse fact comes from the fact that so many people work with horses daily and when a colt or stallion gets sexually frustrated, they tend not to care who’s around
For wolves, I'm fairly certain the "adopting cubs" thing doesn't extend to the cubs of enemy wolf packs. The cannibalism is only ever done as a last resort. A dead pack member doesn't always mean "instant meal" for the rest of the wolves.
@@yesyouarecorrect1315 Asking such question these days, when nowadays' generaion grew up watching Game of Thrones, kinda makes me think it still could be worse.
6:14 For the context behind the photo of the puppy and cheetah: A cheetah was depressed and very lonely, so he was gifted a puppy to have as a friend. They play together and are very good pals. So cute❤
My man is just smthn else, he just comes up with comedic and yet confusing terms, maybe he just said these terms to be a little bit child friendly but also gives a clue to people on what it meant
The reason we know that pigs can eat humans in 8 minutes is actually due to forensic scientists studying different body disposal methods at a place called a Body Farm.
Normally, I just skip the adds, but there was something simply priceless about getting one of those "Kay" diamond commercials just before it got to the seal and penguin.
