So my dog is super friendly but also big and scares coyotes away. So one day a mating pair of ravens figured him out and whenever they needed a break didn’t want to worry about predators they’d go chill out with him in his area, and they’d borderline cuddle him, that’s how much they trusted him.
@@returnedtomonkey8886 this intelligence is almost entirely just in pattern recognition and problem solving, but that can get an animal pretty damn far.
KPassionate, who is a marine biologist who works with marine mammals, did a video about this. You could see her simmering with rage about what happened with Freya, which isn't surprising considering that walruses are one of her favorites to work with. Like I said in a comment on KPassionate's video about Freya: we should start arresting and heavily fining people who harass wild animals. And if the idiot human gets hurt, arrest them the moment they get discharged from the hospital.
Eh, save the money and like Darwinism takes its course. I mean, if you got close enough to where a walrus injured you, I really have no sympathy except for the family.
some places do, like when i was stationed in Hawaii, idk what the exact rules are but i know they DO NOT fuck around with people messing with wildlife or nature in general.
Typically, I try to understand the thought process of people who do bad things, and I can usually kind of get an idea. But with the people who kicked and threw things at docile animals, I can't even begin to see how they can reason with themselves that it was the right thing to do. It's deplorable
people don't even have to think it's a good thing to do, they may just do it anyway for a myriad of different reasons, so while their reasoning can be sound their motives can be way off.
And to about 1.36bn people in the world they're also technically fish. 😳 (They're another creature that the cataholics recategorised so that they could eat them on meatless days.)
dunno who's gonna read this but crows WILL not only memorize faces for negative reasons- the entire corvid population in my town has memorized my mother because she always makes sure to crush whatever nuts they drop on the road whenever she can! it doesn't matter what car she's in, as she's a bus driver as well!
I do the same and iv dyed my hair a few times and they still know its me I have actually changed my lunch to more crow friendly Options because i think bread can't be healthy for them :D
@@ItsAweeb you're correct on the bread thing. bread and rice bloat in a birds stomach, which can cause their stomach to burst and then to die. birds and all animals really, have a habit of eating till the food is gone, doesn't matter if they're full or not cause they don't know what their next meal might be. so yeah, really dangerous to feed anything that isn't human bread or rice.
@@sk3l387 I don't think bread is dangerous as is, i was more worried about the crows being young and needing a better diet I want them to grow healthy wings and iv seen enough birds that are fed with bad diet and cant fly, so iv been giving them salmon from my lunch bread and some nuts :D
@@sk3l387 yeah, and it can swell in their krop (don't know the English but it's basically like a food sack in their throat) and the yeast isn't good for them either. You can sometimes see young, dead birds with swollen or burst kroppe. Although the pigeons here seem to have adapted since they live mostly off of bread and stay quite healthy.
Back when I worked at a factory gate house crows and magpies used the mirrored glass of the gate house as a weapon when chasing small birds. They chased them at the glass and at the last minute turned away while the small birds crashed against the glass. Saw this happen multiple times.
Honestly, the thylacine’s extinction is one of those that I’m just never going to get over. I would really, really, love to believe that there’s an isolated population out there like the new guinea singing dogs, even though I really think that’s ridiculously unlikely. Hope springs eternal, I guess.
the exctintion of therapsids really angers me. i know they're like 50 million years old but artist renditions of them make them look really cool. you get a hairy lizard mammal thingy the size of a wolf with the snout of a wolf. they were like a proper fusion of mammals and reptiles and its amazing they'd be cool today
I feel like 95% of all incidents where a human is killed by a dangerous animal is because they couldn't leave it alone. Seriously I knew a guy who was flatlined by a crocodile because he wanted to get a selfie with it and no I'm not kidding the last thing he did before he got eaten was take a selfie with his head in a sleeping Crocs jaws. I didn't even cry at the funeral and neither did several other people there. I continuously told him don't do anything stupid when we left highschool.
And this is the vast majority of the shark “attacks” too. They’re literally sea dogs. But the movie Jaws genuinely ruined them to the point that there were witch hunts for them in the 80s and we are suffering the consequences of killing off the apex predator in a food chain.
@@therealspeedwagon1451No. people are incapable of harassing something they can neither catch or see. Sharks bite and wait for you to bleed out. I have little patience with shark apologists.
@@Tempusverum they are literally sea dogs. Sharks are curious creatures and they bite because they think we are seals and then they regret it. 100 million sharks are killed each year, either by genocidal manics that we are or for the shark fin soup industry. You are far more likely to be bit by a dog or even a New Yorker than you are to be bitten by a shark. The movie Jaws and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the ocean
@@Tempusverum and I have less for shark haters. Step in their turf, they don't know what you are, they nibble to figure it out. That's when they don't mistake you as a seal.
@@Tempusverum Wrong, Sharks bite out of curiosity, most let go when they realise you're not a seal. Contrast videos of sharks attacking actual seals, they hit them like a car and explode them out of the water. If sharks actually hunted humans, there would be far fewer shark attack survivors
One time I was at the beach and I caught a turtle. It was on the wrong side of the rocks. We contacted the authorities to take it back. But before they could get there a swarm of people took the turtle away and started taking pictures and passing it around like it was a toy :( I felt horrible. I felt like I saved it at first and then I doomed it when I saw how the crowd handled it.
You did the right thing. trying to. help. Its not. your fault. a majority of humans. don't. believe the concept of personal space. should apply to other animals.
Something similar happen in a beach in my country, I don't remember what animal was, but I remember he was stuck out off the water , while some people try to help, some morons keep graving him and taking pictures,like it is a marine animal that needs to be in the water to BREATHE!!!!, you can guess what happened
On behalf of the norwegian people. My sincerest apologies! The people who could not follow the simple message of "Leave Freya alone!" should have paid the price.
@@pedrokantor3997 yes but the people who didnt leave her alone too. Without them there wasnt any threat and Freya could’ve just lived there. But people see a walrus and apparently think you can pet it like a dog? Our ancestors who lived amongst animals and relied on their natural instincts are rolling in their grave
I just have to ask someone that lives there but if you don't have/want to answer it's fine. I am not a huge fan of Zoos and such but I definitely would have preferred to hear about her getting moved a shorter distance to an aquarium of some kind. Was that option considered that you are aware of? I know those types of facilities are few and overcrowded.
I live inEast London and have 4 - 6 nightly vulpine visitors, who come if I call on them. I lived my first 35 years mostly in the Scottish Highlands and never laid eyes on one so the feral London type of red fox is very different to the rural fox. I love them all, the feral cats in my area play with them, hang out with them and occasionally hide and jump out on them which is hilarious and usually ends up with them taking turns of chasing each other around the gardens. I feel honoured to see these guys at night and my family of crows and flock of pigeons and other wild birds daily. They certainly made lockdown more bearable! My crow family already call on me to make sure I know they are outside and really like cat treats, cheese and nuts.
*A Few Years Back* a couple of tourists went to Australia and set fire to an animal - the news broke out - and they said to the media, “We now fear for our lives with all these death threats” 🤦🏽♂️ animals deserve their own separate world from us - i swear
Every few years wolves in Yellowstone get euthanized for trusting people. Sometimes it's because the wolves grew up near people, but that usually results in them simply not being horribly afraid of being within 100 yards of people, or they aren't very afraid at all but can be easily turned to being afraid of people. The majority of wolves that aren't afraid of people that get euthanized aren't afraid because people FED THEM and they couldn't resist going back. None of these wolves ever hurt people Also a wolf once stole someone's tripod back in 2020 or 2019 and as far as I know he's still alive Edit: Holy spaghetti this is a lot more popular than I remember
I've heard about this. The wolf population gets murked, the deer population explodes, the landscape itself starts breaking down from overgrazing, and wolves are reintroduced to fix the issue. And repeat forever.
How much do you want to bet when the wolf population goes extinction and the environment goes to shit those same incompetent people are gonna be like "wHaT hApPeNeD" like they didn't just hunt the wolf population to an oblivion
@@Chubbasaurus This is kind of different. I'm not talking about the wolves being hunted; that's a whole other can of worms. I'm talking about wolves being euthanized because people feed them and they trust them. I don't blame the park rangers and such for euthanizing wolves, because of multiple things. They always start with scaring the wolves into being afraid of people so they don't possibly hurt someone or trust people when they leave Yellowstone and get killed. Also, wolves can hurt people, and more often steal things from people. No wolf has ever attacked anyone in Yellowstone but that's because they never let the wolf get to that point. Plus, it's a lot better for a wolf to be euthanized peacefully than shot and left to die or be made into someone's trophy, which is what could happen if a wolf was around people if they left Yellowstone. I blame the people throwing food at the wolves and making them comfortable. On another similar note, a wolf pup once died because of people. A wolf pack had a rendezvous site (a place where wolf packs move puppies after they get too big for the den) in Lamar Valley that was about a mile from the road. A few people started walking towards the rendezvous site. The pack quickly moved to another rendezvous up in the mountains. This wolf pack had moved other puppies to this rendezvous site before, but usually a few puppies at a time. A wolf puppy was separated from the group, and started to wander, probably making it hard for the pack to find him. He was never seen again after that, and he likely starved or was killed by an animal. All because some idiots weren't happy with their view. That's all I have to say right now, there are plenty other times wolves have been screwed over by people in the last 27 years in Yellowstone specifically but this is some of the more related stuff
The wolf population in Yellowstone is only about 100. Probably less now that they were taken off of the endangered species list and are being legally hunted again. I don’t recall ever hearing anything about a wolf being killed for the reasons you stated. Wolves are notoriously shy of people and avoid them. I guess it’s possible that an unhealthy wolf could become habituated to humans in order to secure an easy predictable food source, but I think that scenario would be very, very rare. Stories, or videos, about black bears in neighborhoods pop up occasionally and usually get broadly covered. I would imagine an event like you describe, especially as wolves just came of the endangered species list, would be much bigger news. Maybe it was and I just missed it. I guess that’s possible.
@@AclockworkPurple I was curious and decided to do some googling on the subject, and while I agree that wolves aren't being killed specifically because they got comfortable around humans, they are still being overhunted at an alarming rate for scientists and conversationists. And the reason for them being overhunted is just as garbage as the ones mentioned in the video: it's all for the sake of sticking it to the libs. Republicans are refusing to follow the advice of scientists and other experts in the field purely for the sake of 'defying liberals' (and basic common sense). There are even stories of people killing wolves just to use their corpses to flank a "Trump Pence 2020" banner for a facebook photo. It's a different kind of human bullshit, but it's definitely still human bullshit.
Foxes may "mate for life", but they are far from monogamous. That being said, they're still better dads than about half the human race. Even when a male fox has multiple mates, he'll travel between dens to visit them all and stay with the family for a few days to play with his kids and care for them. Seeing how a vixen can have about a dozen dens to take her kids to, I think that's dedication for dad to not only track his family down, but multiple families down to make sure his kids are alright.
Fun fact: the Thylacine was nicknamed the Tasmanian wolf due to how they resemblance to wolves. If you know about the Yellowstone Wolves, the story’s very similar. What hurts even more is that there was a popular photo from 1921, which allegedly showed a Taz Tiger eating a chicken, except the photograph was cropped and the actual image was staged. The original non modified photo, it shows it’s in a fenced area meaning it was captive, though some theorize the animal was actually stuffed and posed to look like that. Regardless, much like the Yellowstone wolves, Taz tigers got gaslit HARD
Tbh, I knew Freya was gonna die when I read the headline that she had to be euthanized if people didn't stop aproching her. People are idiots and dont usually care unless it affects them directly
Fun Fact: The Blue Jay is a member of the Corvid family, and have been known to learn the cries of hawks and falcons to spook other birds away from food sources.
I live in central London (England) and we have loads of foxes here! They're soooo cute. The mum seems to birth two at a time and the two siblings play fight a lot at night and it sounds like a humans screaming. At first I found the noises alarming, but now I find it really cute hearing (and seeing) the siblings play.
I'm in Melbourne, Australia. We've seen foxes all over the place here. As cute as they are, they aren't viewed as anything but a pest here. They have had a huge impact on native wildlife. I had one walk across my back yard early one morning. It then reached up the back fence, pulled in self up and over. That fence was 6ft high! He/She was huge!
I have watched hours of your content and for the first time man I couldn't finish it... It's too depressing to see how some people treat the natural world. Keep up the hard work.
Man I love these videos! As an animal lover myself I love to watch this guy support and stick up for misunderstood and awesome and sometimes sus🤨 animal facts!
I just bought the game Endlings: Extinction is Forever just a few hours ago after playing the demo. All these mentions about the Extinctions of various animals in real life just kicks me straight in feels. I just feel at this point that we are the most invasive species on this planet.
It's a good game but one RU-vidr who played it said "ugh it's disappointing because they're making everything sad and hopeless and didn't explain why the world is like this!!" They completely missed the point of that game, the point is that is the future we are going towards. Stuff being hopeless and being brought back to a more primitive and doomed society.
Wait till we start spreading across the solar system and then beyond. A time will come that we'll chuck a few hundred people in deep freeze on to a space ship and send them out to other solar systems.
I think it's a beautiful game,i haven't played it myself but i remember watching a youtuber called "seri the pixel biologist" who played the full game^^
One of the worst things about the Taz tiger is recently there have been talks of bringing it back from extinction with DNA. The las Taz tiger was lost until 2022... When they found his remains in a f*****g draw!
The tasmanian wolf, could still exist, and one thing that has become apparent, is that the patterns on the fur has changed, and they seem to be hunting in packs more then alone.
@ ༒☬༒ ᴀᴛʜᴇɴᴀ ༒☬༒ 😤your right Dingos get the edge and there’s no way you’d cross breed those marsupial pups with anything other than a marsupial so rarely does an apex predator have this little time to evolve surely it’s only been 90-100 yrs. But that wouldn’t have been enough time to completely evolve into a dog with pack mentality.
The fact foxes are such underrated predators is part of why they are my favorite animal. I volunteered at a wildlife rehab so I know all the negatives about their smell, offspring killing, etc. Still my favorite. Because no creature can be perfect, so I can accept my favorite animal with both the good and the bad.
“The excitment they dont get in bed” is WILD😂 and the “ cause its kinda english like tea crumpets and losing the world cup” WHAT! I wanted to watch animal facts but i get the annual roasting battle😂😂😂
Your unrivaled humorous narration is, as always, fantastic and much appreciated! The general topic was very sad. A shameful exposure of human self righteousness and stupidity. Sadly, humans continue their brutal journey into chaotic murder of any creature who is no longer deemed worthy. Thanks for the video!🏆 Live long and prosper, my friend. 💕 🖖🐾
Poor Freya. People should’ve just left her alone. We’re an awful species. Also, can I get a couple of mins with those people kicked the quokkas? I just want to talk 😡
yea i agree, those people kicking those poor cute animals are the worst. i wana high five em, multiple times, in the face, with a chair, made of metal.
Side note: WE aren't an aweful species it's just A holes exist and our brains are wired to focus on negativity so when these a fore mentioned jerks do something bad we all notice it way more.
This was a hard one but you're right about each. Diferent tragedies but the same human hubris. Thank you for these vids as well as your regular content because it's a needed balance.
The Harpy Eagle is one of my favorite birds. They're just so beautiful, powerful, and awe inspiring. Belugas are also one of my favorite animals, and with all the murder Oreo talk, I think it would be fun to hear about belugas :D
Harpy Eagles are one of my favorite birds ever next to Red-Winged Blackbirds (one of which actually landed on my head once, probably thinking my hair was a nest!) Birds are funky little nerds but they are so cool too.
I guess there was a logical reason why Noah first used the crow to scout for new life and for whatever reason it didn't complete the assignment. I can understand why crows are revered as mystical creatures. I swear they can read thoughts. I accidentally killed one and got nothing but bad luck for it. Whoops.
I see Fox's when I notice my cats looking out the window shocked. I live near a river. Canal path and bushed paths. You're right they are right beside you all the time. You just never see em hahaha
Y'know, I have moments where I think, "Eh, humanity isn't THAT bad. Sure, we have some flaws, but we can't be all that bad, right?" And then I see videos like this and the thoughts that come to mind, if spoken aloud, would definitely put me on a watch list. In short, it's incidents like Freya and Harambe that put me one step closer to be a total misanthrope.
yeah same... I had to stop watching because it was making me too upset. Killing any animal is sad, but killing an animal that trusts you is downright diabolical (I include cattle in that statement). I really wish I could tell all animals to stay away from us.
@@michaelmurdock4607 it will survive, but I think we will be the nail in the coffin for all life that isn’t cockroach, rats and bacteria. Humans truly are a cancer to Earth
god the kawakas just kill me with their endlessly happy looking mug I just wanna cuddle him so bad. I think it would be hard for me to keep to my own beliefs about letting nature be nature without snuggles but let this little guy grin at me one time and I know damn well I'm going to melt
Good to see Casual still on the warpath on idiots messing with animals. Also I'd love to see him talk more about extinct animals. Especially Cenozoic animals because as sick and crazy as dinosaurs are, the Cenozoic is home to a lot of weird animals.
On the topic of animals we did dirty like the Tas Tiger and Quokka; The Newfoundland Wolf from my knowledge of it was thought to be a problem in Newfoundland, their only home, and was hunted to extinction even thought their only crime was being a carnivore who saw free fish being hooked up by humans on land. Speaking of fish the Atlantic Cod and Salmon are both fish I think deserve a spot in the "Done Dirty" hall as, while not extinct, they were once almost extinct thanks to fisherman from Europe thinking there were infinite numbers of them when they first settled in Newfoundland as there were a whole lot of them and you could walk into the sea and pick one up. There's a bunch more Newfoundland stories I got like why Moose are actually on an island named after a famous wrestler or how Coyotes are some how the best and worst hunters on the island and also how the rabbits and hares are treated here like their trophies and have no families or how Newfoundlanders have single handedly hunted multiple species to extinction. And people wonder why I call it the Australia of North America, we have the animal part with humans and have the insane wildlife to a T.
I think the human chimp hybrid was an experiment to breed very strong soldiers. I'm very pleased this didn't work out for a number of reasons. As for the Tasmanian Tiger, I don't think the natives of Tasmania fared any better.
Ahhh I agree so much with foxes being so underrated!! I just don’t understand why so many kill them,, they’re so lovely. They’ve been my special interest for a while now and a few hours ago I actually got to see one for the first time in my life! It was crossing the road and I couldn’t help but smile. Also like, holy the Tasmanian tiger’s mouths are so big and they can’t even kill a sheep. Wonder if god was just messing with us on that one.
On the foxes: hunters in my area claim that due to them having no locally available natural enemies and them being able to loot food from humans, they are prone to overpopulation, which leads to diseases spreading among them. No clue bout the truth of this.
@@Mongan01 Given the fact that foxes are found on the majority of the Northern Hemisphere, natively? Odds are pretty good they're lying out their asses, or 'conveniently' leaving out the fact that there's not natural predators in the area _because humans overhunted them._ Unless you live in Australia, they're giving a bullshit excuse so they can keep murdering an animal for no reason except their ego.
@@alchemysaga3745 Wolf, lynx, eagle and bear have not yet graced my corner Central Europe. Ofc these hunters are aware of this and expect me to be aware of this as well. What I cannot judge is how true the overpopulation/illness factor is true, furthermore it might be subjective or depend on the region itself too.
@@Mongan01 Overpopulation is, realistically, mostly a non-issue when it comes to foxes due to a number of factors- and even if it were, sightings wouldn't actually serve as an indication of this, as the two have been proven to be poorly correlated when it comes to foxes, due to a variety of reasons. While disease arguably _could_ be considered a 'reason' for hunting, there are some notable issues with it. The first is that disease is one of the main limitations to fox populations, with available territories and prey populations being the other. The second is that of the diseases that act as a limitation to fox populations, mange is one of the primary diseases. This means that not only is disease itself the factor that would naturally restrict the population and prevent overpopulation, but it also means that the majority of the foxes hunted would not be those with diseases, as they would be less desirable targets. In particular, the only thing that foxes are hunted for (other than the personal pleasure from chasing and killing an animal, frequently doing so with tools and methods that mean it isn't actually a challenge or going to end in failure) is their fur- something that would be of lower quality in afflicted animals. If they aren't hunting the afflicted animals, then the reality would be that they are nearly guaranteed to be increasing the death count within the species to excessive levels by hunting those who are healthy, and leaving those who are ill to infect the specimens who are yet to be ill. Studies by experts on the subject have near universally come to the same conclusion: Fox populations, both rural and urban, are ecologically stable and acceptable- because the population of a predatory animal is under very strict limits defined by the population of both prey *AND* viable and available territory. However, the 'socially acceptable' population of predator or 'nuisance' animals tends to be far lower than both the reality, and even the ecologically needed minimum. Thus people tend to overexaggerate the problems used to justify hunting. Something that ultimately causes more ecological harm than good. An example of this was- and *still IS-* the overhunting of wolves in the USA, particularly in the area of Yellowstone National Park. Despite the fact that wolves are needed to keep the population of prey animals stable, hunters and farmers always overstate the impact of the current population upon their own livelihoods, insisting that the population is high enough to 'justify' culling. In reality, not only are the populations of wolves in the area barely at the level needed for genetic stability, but the lack of wolves has contributed to at least one incident of a near-total ecological collapse, due to local prey animals experiencing massive population booms. The fact that the kill limits for wolves in those killing sessions are set higher than even overestimations of the populations would justify, and are _inevitably_ gone over due to the failure of hunters to reliably report their kills in a reasonable time frame, means that the social clamor for murdering the animals inevitably exceeds any claims of 'neccessity' and land firmly in 'greed and vanity.' Both civilians and hunters- or at least those who practice hunting with modern techniques and tools- are seldom a valid (let alone _good)_ judge of the necessity of hunting a specific species. In particular, those who self identify as "hunters" should perhaps be taken with more suspicion than others, given that they have a very personal interest (whether it be solely due to a need for food, or the more common case of personal pleasure and feelings of success) in making sure that their hunting is considered both socially and ecologically appropriate. Of course, those who identify as a specific form of hunter such as a fox hunter or big game hunters should be taken as having the least credibility of all. Those who are not hunters are often those who have been culturally indoctrinated into perceiving predatory species as being 'evil' for their role in the ecosystem, ignoring the fact that humans- and even our domestic companions such as cats and dogs- have caused infinitely more destabilizations of ecology systems. Many that have resulted in the total extinction of one or more species. Given these trends, I can seldom see the hunting of any predatory animal as being anywhere near being 'necessary,' and any incident of 'neccessary' hunting of predators can inevitably be traced back to being the blame of humans, and often the blame of humans doing something that was blatantly wrong. ...But, in particular, I find that being the 'reason' to be nothing more than an excuse due to the fact that surveys have shown an alarming number of fox hunts to involve foxes that were bred and 'raised' in captivity, in horrifying conditions for the sole purpose of being hunted. Often by fox hunting groups that are either outright illegal, or only legal when the hunters don't use certain methods- only for the hunters to be frequently be caught using those methods for the hunts, with one of the major violations of this nature being the use of hunting hounds. Obviously you yourself aren't personally involved in the hunts, nor am I accusing you of supporting them. I am also fully aware that your friends may genuinely be unaware of the fact that the reasoning they give for fox hunts is overwhelmingly based on hunting propaganda, rather than reality. I'm attempting to explain the flaws in their explanation, as well as the potential consequences of the belief in that reason, as it is highly frustrating that humanity seems to repeat the same tragedies while driven by the same misinformation that is frequently driven by the same selfish desires.
@@alchemysaga3745 I am not taking it as criticism of myself, nor of my friends, as they are not my friends just folk I talked about the wildlife in the area a few times. Still I feel the need to argue their case a bit. Ofc the problem overall is human involvement, everyone around me acknowledges this. The wolf examples are not really applicable to my situation, foxes do not take down sheep nor cows and that is really the only manner in which they could considered a nuisance in my area (no one ever made any noise over any cats they might kill) and in my country it is usually the farmers who make issues about them passing through. The hunters here are state licenced and need to report and dokument their kills, they are quotas and all and AFAIK none of them make a living off hunting (and there certainly are no foxes bred to be hunted here). Yes, ofc illness, food and territory are limiters to fox population - insofar overpopulation is impossible I guess, nevertheless, the question IMO needs to be asked whether it is more humane to kill a sick or wounded animal swiftly or wait till they die of starvation or illness while continuing to spread said illness. So we are back to human involvement which IMO cannot be avoided anyway in areas with a certain human population.
I feel like the harpy eagles weren't afraid of humans because they probably had a symbiotic relationship with the early ancestors of the land . Y'all remember adult swim had that clip "WE VE DONE IT ! WE HAVE CREATED THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE WORLD!" and out the machine step foot... A Human Man. In another universe that was Fry from Futurama . Lmao.
I've been trying to make friends with the crows in my neighborhood and I've been making progress lately. They know when I walk to my truck and come down to the upper branches to see if I have food. Seems like a few of them are more suspicious than others. Slow but steady process.
Fun fact: Red foxes are the raccoons of the UK. I see them every day, they're not scared of people and they're pretty friendly. Edit: found one tonight and he came and sniffed my boyfriends hand. They're so tame where I live.
I haven't actually seen one myself, but I do know one got into my back yard, somehow. The town I live in isn't even a big one, though it is/was an industrial town.
Thank you for your advocacy. I’ve enjoyed your videos for your humor, but I’m sure you’re conscious that you spread awareness of the threats to nature we wouldn’t otherwise be aware of. The information is never ending and your presentation is priceless. Prepare for your work to outlive you. Congratulations, well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌🏼
Europeans didn't bring the dingoes "The Dingo is Australia's wild dog. It is an ancient breed of domestic dog that was introduced to Australia, probably by Asian seafarers, about 4,000 years ago. Its origins have been traced back to early breeds of domestic dogs in south east Asia (Jackson et al. 2017)."
For the humanzees, Ilia Ivanov actually wanted to prove the evolution theory that Charles Darwin proposed a few decades prior; and while yes, the acts were absolutely unethical, if his experiments were actually successful, it would have changed the world and proved our link with apes (since creationism was still pretty popular at the time). It's kinda one of this "Should we go for the morals or the progress ?" situation
Man, being Tasmanian, I can't help but feel a certain tinge of shame over the thylacine's extinction. Obviously it's not something that I had any direct involvement in since I was born some 60 years after Benjamin breathed his last, but just knowing that my home state is responsible for the extinction of one its most unique and fascinating creatures makes me feel deeply remorseful. Rest in Power, Benjamin... to you and the rest of your kind.
Alright, there's probably no point in me saying this but imma say it anyway for the people who scroll through comments looking for more information. Dingoes were not introduced by settlers. This theory was disproven a while ago, at least 2 years but for some reason that is still the first thing that comes up when you google it, depending on what country you are in. They have found bones at least 10 000 years old and their closest relative is the Asian wolf and a similar species in Papua New Guinea. But settlers did bring dogs which inevitably escaped and wreaked havoc. Dingoes cop a lot of blame for things wild dogs do so I just thought I'd add this little segment for those interested.
Just for clarification coz maybe I missed something… weren’t dingoes in Australia long before European settlers? Like 4000 years or something, while the Tasmanian Tiger became extinct in the 1930s? Not saying dingoes helped TTs in any way but not sure that they contributed to their extinction after coexisting for literally thousands of years…
Most underrated carnivores: Fox Meanwhile, me who has never seen a fox irl, but only from anime and manga: :"3 (Indonesia doesn't have any fox species that live in the wild. But in some islands we have dholes, a kind of a wild dog.)
Love all the content, , never knew about the Freya story, so always learning something new from this channel. Keep up all the amazing work and can't wait to see what knowledge bomb you have ready to drop on us next. Have a great day
To me it really sad that the thylacine got hunted to extinction, because I’ve done a lot of research on it just for fun and it ended up as one of my favorite animals
Convergence evolution is not about ancestors but about future generations arriving to similar forms because of environment and what these animals do. A marsupial that hunts large a wolf will end up having a dog shape. Or mammals that live in the sea will start developing fins, a stream lined body and tail that helps them swim better.
Crows and foxes are my favorite animals, despite the literal plague of crows in my town. I've had my lunch stolen by those birds more often than by my bullies, and I respect that. Also, paying tribute to the crowverlords means they leave you alone, which is something I figured out in school, and the rest of my class didn't. I was the only one allowed to actually eat the fish and chips we got that one day. Everyone else got their hair pulled and bird poop all over them.
I grew up on a small farm with foxes living under our shed. Sometimes when our cat caught like 10 to 12 mice on a single day she would just let them lie around and the foxes would pick them up later. My dad insisted that foxes don't hunt too close to their home, and interestingly we lost a surprisingly low amount of chickens. A restaurant owner in the next town had a slightly less friendly agreement with a fox. The fox would regularly tear open the garbage bags, but if she left some treats out the fox would leave the bags alone. Basically she payed protection to the fox mafia
Wait that reminds me of stories of people leaving food out for mischievous spirits so that they wouldn't wreck stuff. If this is what foxes tend to be like, it makes sense.
@@campbell1446 facts living creatures in general are dangerous and unpredictable and humans are definitely no exception and in fact there worse cause they do do it to eat you they do it cause they either enjoy joy it or are just ignorant,
Well that's natural selection for ya... The traits that don't benefit survival are literally killed out a species or the whole species dies... Unlike us that have the privilege of selecting traits ourselves especially with the rise of Genetic Tech...
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I've got a few things to say A I'm sad to hear that Freya died just because she was friendly with people, B we really screwed up big time with just basic animal care and should definitely put people that harm animals for no reason on a watch list, and C I'm somewhere between crows and ants becoming the super predators if humans ever get murked
I don’t think ants will become “super predators” but they are definitely one of the most successful species on earth and im fully with crows becoming the gods of the new world.
mostly them thinking hey lets make this into ours by fucking over the current ecosystem into something unsustainable in this area because we're white and right, like yknow lawns being the ideal for houses even in the damn desert.
People are stupid and entitled. I blame it on pet culture since people seem to think wild animals are no different than their domestic dog or cat. I work in the park system and people genuinely act surprised when a Bison flips them over a car.
The Freya story just pisses me off to no end, it's infuriating that those people who abused and threw stuff at that sweet walrus got to walk off Scott free while the only crime Freya ever committed was being nice, fucking horrible
It reminded me that in elementary school, one of the people that "make sure kids don't bash each others with rocks outside during recess" brought her dog with her at work. It was known by the officials and everybody loved the dog because it was a dog and a Retriever. The amount of kids that needed to be told "Don't throw rocks at the dog or else the dog might be mad at you because *you* attacked the dog and after that the dog will get killed because *you attacked the dog* and it was defending itself." Basically drill in their head that they will be the reason the dog dies and everyone will hate them for it. Edit for clarification : I spoke in past tense of the dog because it was like 5-6yo, 15years ago. I am just assuming it passed away from old age at this point.
@@Q_Tura it’s depressing af. A person attacks a person, and person B defends themselves, there’s a case there for self-defence. A dog defends itself and it’s dangerous
@@darko-man8549 Even then someone defending themselves, especially against a bully, would probably be more likely to be punished than the bully themselves.
Norway has a history of doing this with animals. It's common knowledge to many especially if one does research. Not to mention their kids laws, almost taking it away from parents to the state. The same guy that shot her in the head has done it to other animals before.
And the town that capped Freya didn't even contact any zoologists, they just decided they didn't want to deal with her anymore, and one of the cops shot her. The main scientists that took care of Freya ended up learning when everyone else did. Freya wasn't killed because she trusted humans, she got killed because she got viewed as a nuisance. No wonder God killed people left and right in the Bible, if this is how we act and we were made in his "image"
True to be said their is a saying in my country in awadhi language- "Bhay bin hoye na preet" Translating "their is no harmony without fear", seems pretty good fit here, and that some humans seriously don't deserve the beauty and support from mother nature. And the thing about Humans betraying trust not only hurts animals but also fellow humans, various instances in history, specifically from the colonial times, when complete civilization of natives is wiped out.
Mabey the problem is that you even get surprised for having feelings for an animal, especially one who got killed by the only truly evil animal there is. I know you were probably just joking, but we need to have the same feeling for animals as we have for humans, especially as we could not even SURVIVE without them 💔😭
@@NathalieCwiekSwiercz I'm finna be honest, i really like animals, i think they bring life to this world and without them this world would be just a rock in space. and even thought walruses kinda scare me, even they are important. it's just that it's hard to see through their polar bear slaying tusks
When I was working in Yellowstone I was standing outside the shop talking to some of the guys waiting for my shift to start and this badger just walked by us with no fear at all. Tourists at the hotel had been feeding it and it had associated humans as a source of food. This was bad because the humans all go away in the winter, when food is hard to find. Also an animal like a badger can be quite dangerous to humans. This is an animal that will pick a fight with a grizzly bear and win. Imagine what an animal that can kick a grizzly bears ass could do to a person! So, NPS set up a live trap and transported the badger 50 miles away and let it go into the wilderness. The next night it was back. NPS set out another trap, planning to release the badger much farther away but badgers are smart, and he was not about to go into that trap again. In the end NPS had to put the badger down. Think about what you are doing if you feed an animal in the National Park. You are literally killing it. Because by feeding it you are showing it that humans are a source of food. When that happens, they expect all humans to provide food. Maybe they will become cranky of they don't get any and they might hurt the person. For this reason, the NPS can't allow these animals to stay near where people are. If they can't get the animal away from people they have to put it down. So, aside from the health reasons not to feed the animals, you may be killing the animal as effectively as if you smash its head with a hammer. Our National Parks are wild places. The animals that live in these parks survive without human intervention. And they do not survive with it. You don't need no stinking badger selfies. Leave these animals alone.
In the UK our badgers are blamed for carring a bovine disease known as TB and is culled because of it. They literally get killed on roads by cars and you can see their bodies just decaying in a pile of skin, fur and organs being eaten by maggets
But then I can't show off how "cool" and "into nature" I am if I don't mess around with said nature and get that "selfie". Social media has made people more egotistical and sefl centered. Look at me and give me attention kind of crap.
"NPS set up a live trap and transported the badger 50 miles away and let it go into the wilderness. The next night it was back." I truly don't mean to discredit your story, but fifty miles in one day? That's one hell of a badger. Honestly curious.
those are the people i dream about. just stringing them by the necks and going on a joyride in their vehicles with them attached to the bumper. all while sticking them with the poisonous fish that keeps people awake and aware of everything
Ngl Freya story kinda reminded me of Wally the Walrus that stayed in the Tenby Harbour in South West Wales. Although he didn't end up becoming a past tense his story is a little similar. With him arriving from somewhere up north (Newfoundland way I think) he swam to the British Isles from Scotland and then took up residence in South West Wales. For a pretty long time, he became quite a celebrity to the point where (like Freya) gained a following of locals and tourists gathering to him just to watch him be like any Walrus. He got that popular he basically became the towns new mascot, with his own merch being sold, from books to clothes and even poetry (I have seen this when I went to holiday there)😅 However he did cause problems by resting directly by the Lifeguard boat ramp (they used a method of playing Polar bear noises to scare him off) and him chasing boats. He did eventually leave further to Spain before apparently heading back up north where he hasn't been seen since. Sorry for the long comment I just thought I'd share this as Freya kinda reminds me of Wally, albeit less tragic than what happened to poor Freya, thanks you, you are amazing👍
A walrus showed up here in Ireland recently, but thankfully he just hung around for a bit and then left. I hope we don't get a Freya incident in future.
Had a black bear wander down to northern Indiana from Michigan. Lot of people were curious and perhaps a bit excited, but fortunately we all knew that a bear is a bear. He wandered himself back up to Michigan.
Freya's story just shows that we have a huge problem with educating people on wildlife, as this other comment said, people see a wild animal and think it's the same as their dog or cat. People should learn to respect the wild more than themselves.
Yeah it took literally thousands of years to domesticate dogs and we're still not quite there with cats after also thousands of years (at least since Ancient Egypt) - think about the likelihood of a housecat doing tricks or generally anything you want it to - they do their own thing like wild animals do Sadly we've lost the idea of being the stewards/ custodians/ guardians of nature (I think in the Bible it says 'wardens' or something to that effect) and decided to destroy and exploit nature instead. Very sad.
This is a problem with whales too. People have been so friendly with them they will swim up to any kind of boat. Even military or large fishing vessels.
like, I get it, I wanna pet them too... but we should also be educated enough to know it's not a good idea. You're putting them in danger. It's kinda different, if u wanna catch a ladybug for a picture, neither of you is in much danger. But if the animal is large, putting yourself at risk is also risking them to be harmed.
Education is not the problem at all, it's people flat out rejecting it because they think they are special. We need to collectively stop blaming education and start holding morons accountable for their actions. Nearly all information known to mankind is in everyone's pocket yet people are still just as clueless as they have always been.
