Without Otters, The World Would Be On Fire 

What playground would you hear that?

@no way Nigga if u dont

@@gnategarta1612 all jokes aside listen to a video of a gang of otters jumping a caiman. It LITERALLY sounds like a bunch of kids laughing and playing

@@wutthabuck8772 I've seen it before, but in what realm would you here that in a playground? Hell?

Low tier crocodilians vs highest tier water rat

He was always well-read.

@@Gr8tBlueHeron what I mean is he used to just be "this thing can kill you in 2 seconds and is realy poisonous" to getting into the deeper more intricate detail of animals

He became full time animal channel. I like it

@@zousssnotzeus5341 His views are becoming less though but I love his channel way more now personally. Not like he didn't provide great facts in his previous videos tho

@@ostrichcum9369 No they aren't? Looks like there becoming consistently high actually.

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I read this at exactly the same time he said it

bro im sure he put all his Stat points into language and speech

he would be a great rapper

aww he seems like he was an amazing man :( i hope he rests peacefully and i’m sorry for your loss. luckily, he has left a very good and large impact on the world and many animals can thank him for their survival :)

Bob Paine of 'starfish in rock pools' fame! We learned about his work all the way over here in North Wales when we were talking about the importance of keystone species..

I mean if he was 6'6" I wouldn't call him little lol

That's so neat, thank you so much for sharing this!

@@SaralisaL facts

Really, that's lit

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@@nenmaster5218 outspoken atheists too.. I like it

@@allthingsconsideredaa have you ever played Among Us?

@@2goober4u no, I haven't.

thank you for this, very interesting. Reminds me of similar thing that happened in sweden, only that cause in the reserve area there was no natural predators, the number of deer skyrocketed but after a while came down dramatically and almost whole ecpsystem was destroyed as they ate everythin literally.

Link?

@@DirtyFiST69 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VEeVv7Sx4X4.html

It's called a trophic cascade Thank you for bringing this up I was just about to

If im recalling correctly, they've also been extremely detrimental to elk populations partially due to the 70 year gap between the exterpation and reintroduction and partially due to the stock of wolves reintroduced being from Northern Canada and being much bigger than what a grey wolves in the area should be. The limited management options for the park feed into it as well. But from what I've seen, reintroduction of red wolves on the east coast has had an opposite effect on deer populations because red wolves are extremely good at managing coyote populations in areas where they have enough room. A pack of 5 red wolves might hold the same territory as 30+ coyote and be extremely intolerant of coyotes in their territory. They are much more efficient at controlling coyote populations than any hunter could hope to be.

I've tried sea urchin once; mouthfeel of a fresh loogie and stinks like low tide behind a cannery. The sea otters are more than welcome to my share of the urchins. God bless those adorable fluffy little psychopaths~

@@alexisgrunden1556 Yeah northern sea urchins tend to be lean and bitter it seems. You have to go closer to the equator to get good ones

So....how many oil spills have you seen? For real. Love my beautiful environments, but people like you cause many people to write off your experiences as invalid

The moral of the story is: It's the humans' livelihoods that get fucked.

No, the moral of the story, as told by the Cult of the Blue Oyster is: History shows, again and again, how nature winds up the folly of man. 😎

I see what you mean. Like I’m kinda arachnophobic but I’ll let a spider chill if it’s in a spot that I don’t frequent. Unless venomous. Then I have to burn shit down jk.

My home used to have garter snakes. But everyone else in this town was prejudiced and would deliberately run the poor things over with lawn mowers. I remember once upon a time if you went in my family's basement you could find dozens of snakes hanging out on the cool concrete. But it's been literal years since I've seen a single snake. Meanwhile, all the local houses are experiencing mouse problems.

In my area I suggest folks visiting our many neighborhood parks look up toward the tops of tall trees (at least 3 stories high) and watch for Cooper's Hawks (also to wear hats if it is nesting season because hawks don't like monkey-like people attempting to climb up to see baby hawks, so hawks will dive bomb humans; I think hawks have that much imagination, to protect the kids). Sometimes folks are afraid of hawks, so I ask if they like pigeons better. people think about their cars covered by pigeon droppings. I tell them that hawks like pigeons (and doves)... for dinner! and suddenly people have a new appreciation for the hunting birds (and become aware of nests). The city also fences off small parks to protect nesting hawks from being bothered. My tax dollars at work! 😊🤠

Well just like the otter i could also down 50 of them in a day if my wallet can afford it😂

​@@NormalSpeedGamer if you can kill them underwater... It's not like you can use the american way to solve any problem and just shoot it, because it is underwater.

I highly doubt it's that long of a lifespan.

@@andyfriederichsen According to Google, they generally top out at about 100, but some have been known to break 200.

​@@andyfriederichsenthe fact is a fact like it or not

*Whale

@@marknut9741 thanks

Yea, I watched that recently and its actually pretty fascinating to see.

Sounds like fun. 🤡

Aren't even live whales a pretty big deal because they help their environment by pooping? I seem to recall hearing about that in SciShow.

It took me a while to get that one lol

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KEEP MY WIFES NAME

OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!

@@pangolinh Nobody can complete that sentence thanks to RU-vid's retarded censors.

True lol when children says bad and insult the predator I try to explain why they r important and why we humans have to play god

Sometimes I imagine that the herbivores are the "bad guys" and the predators are protecting the plants. Lol

another fun fact. Wombats are closely related to koalas. But where koalas use their armoured butt plate to avoid death if they fall out of a tree, wombats use it to crush fox skulls. They charge out of burrows ass first and crush the fox against the walls of the burrow with the armoured butt plate. (and I'm pretty sure I only know this because my animal anatomy teacher basically said 'never stick your arm in a wombat burrow or you'll get this demonstration up close and personal')

@@Arya-is4cv That's a disturbing thing to imagine happening Jesus christ

@@galaxyvulture6649 I also hear that in Australia it's a semi-regular occurrence that when cars hit wombats, the cars get absolutely torn apart at the front while on the other hand the wombat sometimes even comes out of the accident unscathed.

@@Arya-is4cv basically they will twerk you to death

@@easonyeung2779 Haha I heard this from my dad, I belive its a common myth as living in curvey roads I see dead wombats on the side of the road with mange that were hit by cars,

True. 👍

Much appreciated

Dang it, I was going to like this but it's at 69.

Agreed! I was student teaching this last fall and we had an entire unit on Keystone Species and we talked about a few of the animals in this video. I was thinking that this would have been a better video to show than a few other ones we showed (or in addition to those videos) because it's informative yet fun to watch :)

Aye. My fellow environmentalists.

@@SergeantSniper not anymore

Same bro

Welcome to Life. It's a fight to stay alive...

Check out the ringtail (Bassariscus astutus), for example. To put it in perspective, one of its common names in English is the ring-tailed cat, and since "ring-tailed" in 1800's US slang meant "exceptional" or "remarkable"...the fact that they made that comparison with this species to cats should tell you all you need to know about why they were used as mousers in Gold Rush mines, earning them another common name: the miner's cat. I still love them, but just watch one eat a rat: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NMlDGwcW2H8.html Fricking brutal, man.

Nature can be pretty messed up at times.

Tell the truth and shame the devil. I personally think that it was a Bunny Rabbit that fooled Eve !

Well, not exactly. Taking away any stone would cause an arch to fail. According to Wikipedia, it's "key" because it's the last one placed, so it completes the structure.

@@sandormagyar2715 never base your hill on Wikipedia.

@@dnisey64 What do you mean?

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis they're saying not to use a wikipedia page as evidence to support or refute a claim

@@donttouchb00uwo82 Why not?

XD 💀

I vaguely remember learning that something similar happened with jellyfish. Fishermen were slashing apart jellies’ bodies to kill them but this actually ended up being a stimulus for the jellies to release their reproductive cells (I’m forgetting what they are called exactly) and now the jelly problem is way worse

@@clarisaxpianist and one of the only natural predators of jellyfish are leatherbacks

Damn so they helped them multiply

Ha ha, I remember that marine-biology-Sorcerer's-Apprentice story. Classic.

Red wolves have been replaced by really big coyotes.

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Well if you killed all of the elk then it wouldn't really matter that you'd killed off all the wolves too

@@lahlybird895 Amazing reasoning, just kill everything - problem solved.

@@lahlybird895 Removing both would probably collapse the entire ecosystem, elk clear foliage and that's very necessary, it's only an issue when they stay consolidated in one area, if any large animal is entirely removed from an ecosystem it would have a large impact, the combo of two major players in an ecosystem would be much worse.

@@BenCDawson oh

Yup, which is why it might be best to help wolf populations (timber wolves in the north and red wolves in the south) recover, so they can put the coyote back in its place as a mesocarnivore. Jaguars and pumas would probably also help, although I doubt most people in that area would welcome big cats.

@@dynamoterror7077 Gonna have to get new people in charge of helping the red wolves for that to happen. The current ones are so terrified of them hybridizing with coyotes (apparently they never learned about evolution) that the only place they'll release them is a tiny ass park with an ocean to the right and human development to the left. Oh, and a bombing range cutting it in half. And because that "island" is so small it can't actually support a population of large predators so the conservationists keep acting confused when the population inevitably crashes and has to be restocked. The state's game management policies haven't helped either, but it's mostly the people trying to help red wolves that have held them back.

I live in the Eastern US... (Appalachian mountains). Coyotes killed my cat... I ended up just getting a new coat instead... really warm.

@@bolbyballinger Where can I learn more about this?

Coyotes WERE common on the East Coast in the pre-Colonial and Colonial days. The East Coast (and the Mid-West/Plains States, for that matter) IS part of the Coyotes historical range. Same for the Puma/Mountain Lion/Bobcat.

That made me cry happy tears knowing kids look up to this smart man 🥹

@@Tonyhouse1168 thanks. Time spent in the woods with my kids means so much to me (though my son is less enthusiastic) and I just love their excitement and sense of wonder. I hope they never ever lose it.

@@Gr8tBlueHeron do you bring guns or bear spray with you? Or is it safe there?

@@vcommandarv5916 there's always a chance of a bear being around, but I don't carry spray unless I'm going into a more remote area. I can only carry a gun during hunting season. Really, I'm more wary of Moosiah, because I know there's a cow who frequents the area. She's likely to be more dangerous to encounter than a bear!

@@Gr8tBlueHeron I want you to be safe, please carry protection tools, better safe than sorry ☺

@@vcommandarv5916 Aww, thanks for your concern. I usually travel with a 130 lb dog. I was not far from my home - where I live having big game animals in your backyard is kinda just how life is; if we were afraid to run into anything we wouldn't leave the house! Most of them are more afraid of us than not.

And both are vital to preventing sea urchin populations from going haywire and razing kelp forests like the Romans claim to have razed Carthage…

Compared to the fucked up shit which otters are capable of doing.....yeah they make wolf eels look like absolute gentlemen

ayo, lobsters also eat the little pests.

@@Oueenazolatigressgina I like wolf eels more now

I want a wolfeel plushie

wow I didnt think otters are Apex predators

TIL river otters are apex predators

@@AryadiSubagio those otters need to take a seat

Aren’t river otters the ones that can grow up to six feet tall?

@@BigRedShadevil South American ones can, and even up to 7 feet! North American and European otters are maybe 1-2 feet shorter nose to tail. The smallest living species is the Asian Small Clawed Otter.

And when humans tried reintroducing wolves to some national park (possibly Yellowstone), not only did biodiversity increase, but A FUCKING RIVER CHANGED COURSE, AT LEAST SLIGHTLY.

Hmmm. Guess it depends on their mood that way.

Well...duh. What would you expect?

They are also one of the few animals that can eat jellyfish. So without them and turtles we would be over run by jellyfish

@@kureaz Well birds, crabs, and some fish also eat jellyfish, they just aren’t specialized like some sea turtles.

@@kureaz I can also do it if i wanted to, but i aint getting paid enough. Turtles aint that special.

that hunk of muscle aint worth for nothin

@@DecisionsAreQuestionable What? No. No, that's not the case at all. Buffalos help in keeping fertilized soil. They make drinking sources. They heal grass. God's sake, Buffalos are one of the important reasons why birds still exist.

Kansas is already messed up with no natural predators. Thinking about what it must have been like before we wiped out the bison it must have been a completely different place

Exactly this. Apex predators aren't hunted by other species for a reason, and that's not so we can have open season on them for shits and giggles.

In some countries the government has to pay people to hunt animals to keep the populations of herbivores in check instead of just allowing the predators to control those populations for free. Pretty stupid.

I'm honestly confused everytime someone argues like your roommate... like, when wolves came back in germany, we legit had hunters go "They have no place here, we built an eco system without them, they'll disrupt it!". Fun fact, same hunters a year before that said: "...we have a problem with deer and boar, we can't keep up with their numbers without hunting them throughout the entire year." >_>

Pigs are the most intelligent animals that aren’t elephants, cetaceans, & great apes; despite that, I still have zero problem with eating bacon, pulled pork, & BBQ ribs.

I believe animals should be used as their creators intended. Cows pigs sheep etc. were created by us for meat and milk and stuff. Wild animals were created by nature to regulate itself so we should mess with them as little as possible

Anytime ☺️

I think people want to pretend we're the only ones that affect the world around us to the extent that many animal species do... We don't have a lot of things that separate us from M these days. Other animals use tools and build homes and do other interkit complex tasks. It makes me sad that more people don't know a lot of this stuff as basic information because it is totally interesting in my opinion!

I like that too ! Wow

Same

It's not that we don't understand, it's that we can't help it. We used to be eaten by predators, but they went extinct. All of human civilization and all its disasters are the result of a keystone species being removed, OURS.

im curious what removal of sea urchin would do to ecosystem.

@@joz534 the seaweed they eat would over run the area, making living their near impossible, think how fish get caught on plastic waste, like that only with seagrass.

@@jacobwiren8142 Ya, can't wait to see which keystone animal we end up removing that will cause all of humanity to crash.

@@spider-soniczilla2989 pretty sure seaweed is source of food for more animals than just sea urchins.

You must have been happy at the end then 😅

This time yes not the scariness

134 likes and a heart. I'm coming up in the world! Lol. Thanks for heart Casual.

yea that's the biggest issue you'll have when you drive a species extinct. Even if you reintroduce/replace the lost species with a similar one, the "new" species will still need to adapt and evolve the traits that made life easier/best suited for the og species. Hopefully with time these wolves will be able to genetically catch up to where the yellowstone wolves were and thrive in the ecosystem

Eh, the new wolves are doing fine. The problem is that they're running out of safe places to expand to. Island dwarfism is a powerful thing, turns African elephants into three foot cuties through the power of limited food driving evolution. It's the same for wolves. They need space and right now the American range is small and fragmented.

I wonder what Japan would look like now if the Ezo wolf hadn't been eradicated.

Pagan religions also honor the relationship between hunter and hunted that the keystone theory spotlights. ♥️

I remember when cats were hunted down by the church because they were all involved in witchcraft or something which caused the rat population to balloon. I know they debunked that the plague wasn't caused by rats but they definitely sped up the spread.

@@Geheimnis-c2e wow you must be, like, reeeally old

That's not just because of their effects on the ecosystem. They can also be a sentinel species because disruptions in the food ripple up and we tend to notice the top competition.

Very trueee

Red Wolves are so beautiful, and it doesn't surprise me they have cool habits like this. Raccoons are cute but they cab be super destructive without any predators

Humans Im gonna kill this thing, it upset me. But dont worry, im a nice person if you get to know me Animal So i kinda felt bad, but i was hungry

Paragraph is confusing, the way you wrote it makes it sound like Raccoons are the rarest wolves species and sea turtles love making pb&j sandwiches. How would people know this? Since pb&j sandwiches don’t grow in nature. I’d be impress seeing a sea turtle not only make pb and j but make bread also.

@@immakulate206 My apologies. I am not the most talented with communication. I do my best, but my sentences are often confusing. I have a legitimate communication disorder that occasionally results in a disconnect between what I write/say and those who read/hear it. I hope you were able to decipher most of what I said. I don't fully recall my intent, but it's possible I wrote that paragraph to match the energy of the video, perhaps to the detriment of its clarity. The Peanut butter and Jellyfish thing was a lighthearted joke referring to the fact that some species of sea turtles enjoy eating jellyfish. Also, it's a SpongeBob reference. I don't think a true sandwich would hold up well underwater! I would be quite impressed if a turtle made one too. I hope that clears things up a little bit. Writing facts in an appealing way can be difficult, especially without knowing who will see it. Everyone has a different set of knowledge. But, in conservation, the most important thing is to get people talking and asking questions. Even if it's just about the way someone else worded things. And hey, if you ever have questions, don't be afraid to ask. A path led by questions is one worth pursuing.

@@pamspray5254 I don't know how AUMboi didn't get what you wrote, it's totally legible and understandable, and I don't speak english as a native (my native language is spanish, from Argentina 🇦🇷👍👍✨), and get everything you wrote, and yes, even the lighthearted joke, and I didn't watch SpongeBob! Don't get discouraged by that comment, your's was very good 👍😊👍 and sorry for your condition, surely is difficult, but I let you know that you expressed totally fine 👏😼

What?

Australia is sadly still doing the same thing with dingoes. you'd think we'd figure out that every animal fills a niche for a reason...

Did those states really declare open season on wolves 24/7? Because I’d think it would be more likely they made laws permitting the hunting of wolves but the politicians are getting input from wildlife preserves and scientists on keeping the wolf population at a stable number.

@@tommoore2012 except that's not what happens. scientists and experts say these culls do not work and yet politicians go forward with these killing contests, usually at the behest of livestock owners.

@@tommoore2012 killing wolves is legal in a few areas in a few states. Luckily wolves are back on the endangered species list so they are getting a little more protection. Still an issue tho for sure

I would 100000000% buy that

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just for clarification, you are talking about the savanna or the rainforest?

@@coca_0146 Savanna.

@@bento4876 thanks

@@bento4876 Thanks for the clarification, but y'all _really_ need to stop acting like Africa is one big homogenous place.

vast, i thought you said wast

I demand modern mammoths

There's a book I've read about the possibility of resurrecting extinct species of animals, and mammoths were the entry that I think were probably the most useful and theoretically possible. The only issue about it is that we would need to use Asian elephants to produce mammoths, and they're currently endangered and difficult to breed in captivity anyway.

hey maybe their extinction was a part of the spiral into other megafauna going extinct.

I'm reading a historical fiction that explains how messed up many ecosystems were after humans killed off the remaining big herbivores. They were already having a rough time, but we didn't help either!

@@aazhie what's the book called out of curiosity?

Here in Indiana humans hunting deer was/is enough to prevent disaster (though the ground level of our forests are pretty barren). For a while though state parks didn't allow hunting in them and as a result the deer decimated the place. It got so bad that when the first hunting season happened there you could hand feed marshmallows to completely wild deer. Still no predators here except coyote packs and the rare bobcat. So if we stop hunting so much things are going south very quickly.

Many people said that our brain work like recorder sometimes

As long as we are entertained our brains will hold whatever the fuck someone wants lmao

That reminds me of the title of an old TV show: _Leave it to Beaver_ ;)

@@SupersuMC *ba-dum-TIIISSHHH*

Like the story of the toothpaste company that spent about 100,000 on a system to ensure no empty boxes made it to market. It worked, but stopped all production the moment it detected empty ones which annoyed the workers to no end since it happened multiple times every day. Eventually though the factory stopped shutting down and it seemed no empty boxes were being produced. Being happy with this the owners came to see how things were going. Do a little victory lap and be proud of their expensive machine. One of the employees had set up one of the shop fans on the production line before their machine and it blew away empty boxes while the loaded ones stayed put. Their machine had been outclassed by a fan.

Thank you!!

All the videos are high quality content, but this one is exceptionally epic. 💖

Yeah, i've noticed that youtube has been doing that a couple of days lately

YT is an absolute dick of a system to some creators. I saw a few channels a while back were having likes removed and we had to go and manually relike

Facts

I think in the far enough future it doesn't matter what animals go extinct or not as other Animals would fill their niche or the entire ecosystem itself changes, when we reintroduce species to fix an ecosystem we're trying preserve it, preserving something/fighting change is a very human behaviour, the earth doesn't preserve, species go extinct all the time with or without humans, I think without humans more species would've went extinct, especially the pandas

Well said

He literally has 1M subs wym "underrated"?

@@nikeshadow1728 Why have 1M when you can have more? Also, the info Casual Geographic is crucial and can save people if they ever encounter dangerous or endangered animals.

@@unknownchoujin1436 That's not what I am saying. underrated meaning you literally do not have many subs. This guy has quite a few subs. I never stated in my comment that he "Shouldn't" have more subs.

Man humans done fuck everything up

Eh sure.