7 Species That Were Saved From Extinction
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Humans are pretty good at destroying things. Like habitats, animal populations... you catch my drift. But, there have been a few species that humans have helped bring back from the brink of extinction.
Special Thanks to: Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Kākāpō Recovery, New Zealand Department of Conservation, and Dr. Andrew Digby.
Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
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Sources:
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Black-footed ferret:
www.nationalgeographic.com/ani...
blackfootedferret.org/conserva...
www.iucnredlist.org/details/14...
www.nwhc.usgs.gov/disease_info...
Galapagos tortoise:
www.galapagos.org/conservation...
www.iucnredlist.org/details/90...
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• The Return of Tortoise...
www.galapagos.org/blog/santa-f...
Bald eagle:
nationalgeographic.org/media/e...
www.iucnredlist.org/details/22...
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www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/b...
www.fws.gov/midwest/Eagle/rec...
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Kakapo:
• The Unnatural History ...
kakaporecovery.org.nz/
www.doc.govt.nz/kakapo
www.newscientist.com/article/...
experiment.com/projects/seque...
(Dr Andrew Digby and Bronwyn Jeynes, personal communication)
Humpback whale:
www.npr.org/2014/12/26/3733037...
nationalgeographic.org/news/bi...
www.iucnredlist.org/details/13...
Wollemi pine:
www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-...
www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Science...
www.wollemipine.com/watch/issu...
Sea otter:
www.theguardian.com/environme...
seaotters.com/2013/05/why-are-...
nationalgeographic.org/encyclo...
www.iucnredlist.org/details/77...
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it's really kelpful that sea otters aren't extinct
I sea what you mean with that statement.
LesNe yes
We should wave goodbye to sea jokes.
I sea what you did there, very kelpful
bearsemen ikr paying off hundreds of thousands of people to fake an almost unlimited amount of studies showing climate change definitely outweighs the small amount of gas price raising
I'm glad we stopped using DDT and saved the bald eagle... too bad we weren't able to stop it from losing its hair though :(
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Which is not a problem, given that the birds don't actually have hair.
Robot Devil 'tis a joke since it is called a bald eagle lol
😂😂😂
Yeah, such a shame. There should be a crowd funding for an eagle safe hair regrowth gel. They must have their glorious hair back!
There should be a rating above "Least Concern" called "Too Many" and we should put mosquitoes on it.
Zetsubou Z. Er, and Humans...
TheEngineGal stop that. You're making me sad.
go out and start killing then come on.
TheEngineGal Go eat a brick
Darcy Robbs deer? Definitely nog
One is not simply saved from extinction.
The fate is only prolonged.
Enigmac arguably you could say they were saved from imminent extinction, it's established that nothing lasts forever
The Naz are you sure humans, over the next billion years or so, won't find a way to counteract dark matter and prevent the heat death of the universe, thus allowing us, and our favorite animal pets, to live forever?
deep
Yup.
agreed, humans are way to destructive, i'm betting that by 3500 at the maximum we'd have destroyed ourselves in an awesome round of intergalactic planetcracker flinging contest, with just like 10 ships ships filled with humans drifting in an empty void, waiting for their imminent doom
Kakapos are supposed to have poor fertility, that's actually one of the reasons why they were so successful in New Zealand until the rats, stoats and other egg eaters arived. This seems counter intuitive, but actually, for a very long lived animal (they often used to 80 and some would live to over 100) with no natural predictors, there has to be some way to control the population otherwise they will eat themselves to extinction. So they actually a very low fertility rate made them extremely successful for a very long time.
If you want more information on the Kakapo's problems, and how they weirdly relate to our own check out this amazing lecture by Douglas Adams : Parrots, the Universe and everything. It's about an hour and a half long, but its amazing.
cornishphilosopher + I could listen to Douglas Adams for hours on end, so thank you.
Celina k You are very welcome, that man really DID have a brain the size of a planet.
cornishphilosopher l
We have bald eagles nesting all over the place where I live now. I can go downtown by the river and see them flying pretty much every day. Its quite a sight.
Everyone's talking about how tiny the effort is compared to the amount of destruction. That's not the point. The point is that these methods have worked and can work again. Fatalism isn't helping anyone, guys.
Well, that's a lie. Mostly everyone's talking about how much they hate Olivia. Well, screw those guys too.
woodfur00 huehuehue
Not every species is the same. Not every situation is. There is a lot of obstruction to nature conservation and a lack of will, effort and money. A few people cannot save all the currently endangered species. Extinctions keep happening and they will happen in the future as things stand now.
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Alwin Hardenbol Okay. So we're not God. Guess we'd better not try to do what we actually can, then.
I like how the wikipedia page for Humans, says 'Least Concern'
Lol, not so sure about that...
I'd say certain ethnicities are now "Near Threatened".
Actually they should make room for another status just for us- "Too Many" or, maybe "All Pervasive Invasive".
@@austinreed7343 'Ethnicity' isn't part of taxonomic rank. Plus ethnicity is a fluid concept. One day they're called Carthigians, the next day they're Algerians/Berber/Arab.
Yes, certain tribes who are few in number and isolated from civilization can be said to be in danger as they do not possess immunity to certain diseases. These tribes would be those living in isolated areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
@@austinreed7343 thats only if you ignore that every parent passes on 50% of his or her genetics, i.e. the 1 drop rule. but thats like saying humans arent actually humans because we all have like 2 percent neanderthal dna.
Boy, this comment sure aged like wine.
"Others were eaten" well that escalated quickly.
I honestly believe we should domesticate kakapo. Imagine them being pets.
Hmm yea, good idea. Watch them get destroyed by cats because they can't fly away.
that is the stupidest thing I've heard for a while. Sure get them as a pet and watch them get eaten by cats and dogs. Not only that their are many cases of kakapo's going onto cars and literally RIPPING the car apart. The break the window wipers, break the rubber. Also don't forget they also have the loudest call of any bird and they are nocturnal meaning that they will be doing all their calls at night so you can't get to sleep.
Well, I'm sure kids in 2300 will enjoy it! The domestication process takes a long time
what you're saying is very sad actually. If by saving a species we understand domestication, we really don't save anything. We're simply designing our new range of house pets.
I was stood over by a gang of Kea for my snickers bar once near the summit of T.C. I had to bind on fast,throw my snickers and bolt,how embarrassing......
Did you know that the American Bison population was once about 25 million and then the total population was reduced to only about 1000 individuals in 1889
It was also mostly done to take away resources from indigenous people :(.
When you look at photos of the Bison skull pyramids or read the backstory of the trail of tears (and so many similar stories in other countries), you really have to ask yourself about the human nature and how civilised we actually are.
Isn't it back to 150'000 though? I think BBC Earth tweeted about it last night after Planet Earth II aired /EDIT: yep :-) --> @BBCEarth: From a low of 1000, the bison population in North America now numbers 150,000 #PlanetEarth2
***** I'm pretty sure their population is actually above 500,000 including wild and captive
jett lax some estimates say there were 62 million of them
This is the kind of video that keeps me going in my journey to become a restoration ecologist.
really? A video full of inaccuracies?
Why no California Condor? Yeah, the black footed ferret is cuter, but the Condor is significantly more impressive. New techniques had to be developed to be able to breed and reintroduce them successfully into the wild. I remember one of my school field trips to the zoo when they started using the puppet hoping it would help to keep the chicks from having any human contact and be more successful into adulthood.
What about the Lorde Howe island stick insect? A big stickbug, which was classified as extinct until 24 individuals were discovered on a single bush? I've always resonated with their success story, because they're not the typical fluffy, cute, or iconic animals that get all the attention.
"Saved"? More like "not yet killed by us"
"not yet killed by us"? More like "not yet obliterated by the universe collapsing"
"Stopped ourselves from killing"'
ProGangstaShit Wow. That escaleted quickly
K IRA stop making me cry jeez
We should give humans “Not as much of a jerk as you could have been” award.
Olivia's getting better at this all the time, it's great to see.
Aerolite08 *¡¡¡yes!!!*
I agree? I'm glad she's getting that bad habit under control? It was really getting annoying?
1acroyear1 I don't recall her speaking with an inflection as if everything was a question....but there are people that do that. Either way, no an issue now.
Yes, she is not up talking as much as she used to.
Dlee645 She does it right off the bat in the first 4 words of the first slide
I'm close to extinction too. There is only one of me left.
I'm sure you're not the only rice farmer out there!
I think extinction refers to species, not individuals :P
It's just a joke so don't get so serious about it.
your life is a joke
BullShitThat How did you know?My Asian clones never leave the basement.
Kakapos are my favorite bird :)
A Bird Lover *caca-poo*. It basically means shit-shit XD I'm so imature lol
A Bird Lover I prefer cockapoos
Alienmination Yes, you are very immature.
The kākā is a parrot/means parrot. Po can mean of the night. The kākāpo means night parrot.
Have you heard of potoo birds? Their cry sounds like a teenage boy whining at his mother with a cracked voice. "Mooooooom!"
Well considering 200 species go extinct every day, largely due to human activity, I think we should hold off on patting ourselves on the back. Humans are the worst extinction event in the history of the Earth and saving a handful of the species we find cute and feeling good about ourselves for doing so is a bit childish.
you clearly havent heard of the permian extinction
not to mention the fact that this isnt some big rock crashing into the earth or over oxygenation of the atmosphere, or volcanic dimming, this is literally evolution at work. one species evolved intelligence and proceeded to conquer every biome on the planet and out compete every other form of life. it even domesticated numerous other species to better serve its needs and alters the terrain to suit itself.
this is survival of the fittest and the extinction today drives the adaptation of tomorrow. nature isnt being destroyed its being changed. jungles are replaced with agriculture and settlements which are still full of life
In terms of genetic diversity, today's mass extinction is worse than all of the "big five" mass extinction events in history including the permian. Yeah I'm not sorry about it because i think Humans are pretty cool, but it grinds my gears whenever people get all upset over one or two species because it shows they don't realize just how many species we off without even thinking about it.
Ethan Geisler EVERYDAY? Nah, do your research. I'm pretty sure that number are not true mate.
It's also childish not to feel good about the positive things that have been done.
Alienmination Nobody is really sure what the real number is. 200 a day is a higher estimate but is certainly between 10-300 a day. Even if it is just 10 my point still stands.
Can't believe you picked the Kakapo over the Chatham island black robin (although what NZ's DoC is doing with the Kakapo is amazing).
The Black robin got down to 5 individuals and 2 females(!) before it was saved: www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/black-robin/
What can I say, I'm a simple man. I see a kakapo in a thumbnail, I click it.
Reading the title i was already ready to say "7 saved and 100s brought to extinction" and then she says stuff of 1000x more extinctions with humans around... dang, that's way beyond what i expected it to be.
The bison in Yellowstone are another example of a species that was saved from extinction. In the spring of 1900 there were just 23 bison in Yellowstone. That year anti poaching measures with real teeth went into effect and the population was saved. Today visitors to Yellowstone have an excellent chance of seeing bison.
There's a stupidly overwhelming joy and adoration that comes over me when I see kakapos. They look like big, pudgy, slow-moving parakeets, and I love them.
The bald eagle part made me glad that I live in Alaska. More bald eagles here than in any other state.
The title could be changed to "7 Species We Almost exterminated" and still be accurate...
I am going to bed, when I get back I better be at 10 likes.
I refuse.
s stevenson same
DOWNLIKE DOWNLIKE haha
I said 10....not 41....
It's good to show these success stories. Too many nature shows give people a sense of hopelessness about the future.
As a conservation ecologist myself I believe you are saying something that is far from true. Most documentaries refrain from talking about human effects. Just show pretty pictures. Reality is that thousands of species are endangered and the few that we save don't make up for the losses.
the Kakapo is not saved from extinction. The remaining population is on an island far from mainland and it's closely monitored by scientists. It could not exist without the help of man, without being helped to reproduce, etc. The remaining population is also very small and inbreeding. That's not really saved from extinction to me. The point is, when we mess up something so badly, we may lose it no matter how hard we try to repair our mistakes.
We still can save them if we bring in genetics. I'm sure there is a way to increase the diversity by controlled breeding and gene manipulation to maximize positive output.
we are basically their gods currently. We can choose if they live or die.
Bobby Rare no, we're just a clever, highly adaptable species. An end will come to us as it comes to them too
Darth Biomech unfortunately, human selection cannot replace natural selection, so no, genetics will only create our version of them, not really what they would be like if they were left in peace
Well aren't you one for giving success a chance?
One, you might find interesting (another NZ one), is the black robin. Went down to a population of 7 with one female at one point! Old Blue was the robin's name, and it now has been taken to the Chatam Islands to help its population grow again
I have enjoyed sea otters many times while fishing on the coast of California south of San Francisco. I was pleased to see them north of where they were supposed to have returned to, indicating that they were in fact recovering in the wild. Several times I witnessed them using rocks to open mussels and clams. I have also seen families of river otters while fishing along the Sacramento River west of Chico, CA. The adults of this species exceed six feet from nose to tip of tail and are absolutely amazing to see swim past only 20 feet away.
Can't we just have the Kakapo's as pets? They seam like pet material to me :p
I cant wait for the day when I see a SciShow video talking about how Aye-Ayes have been saved from the brink of extinction. In fact, there was a time when people thought they were extinct. I love them.
More "science" channels need to be posting sources in the video description like you do!
I agree it's a much better experience when you can read the source yourself
Is her shirt made of vantablack? It looks so strange
Impossibear It just looks black to me
Impossibear haha thats a good one. pure black makes contours inconceivable.. blink...
No dude, it's just black.
idk it looks very meta
It's so sad that you can tell who the host is from the number of dislikes...
I know, people are pathetic.
I always enjoy seeing Olivia on these. I've never got the hate for her.
Also, couldn't cloning be used to help mitigate the effect of genetic bottleneck in captive breeding? Namely by pulling DNA from museum specimens and the like.
Food for thought: Humans are part of evolution and nature right? If extinction rates are higher with us than it would be without us, isn't that just part of nature and evolution? So if other animals can't cope with us being around, isn't that "their problem"? Survival of the fittest, evolution and all that...?
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to save animals, but on the other hand, it is part of nature and a controversial subject matter.
Another thing: We say buildings aren't part of nature. But animals also build stuff. Beavers building dams for an example. We say THAT is nature, why aren't our buildings also part of that? They're more advanced, sure, but isn't it basically the same thing?
Censtudios okay, but biodiversity is vital to human life on earth too. So we too will go extinct due to our own idiocy
Censtudios I foresee irrational rage towards your person. you are brave for commenting something like that on the internet...
and technically, yes to both, but we are the only rational being on earth, giving us immense advantage over the other species, thus making us somehow responsible of what happens to then.
finally someone else that gets it.
no one calls the meteor that killed the dinosaurs evil and it destroyed life and left a massive gap in ecosystems
humans on the other hand cultivate life. what is destroyed is replaced with agriculture and human habitats. earth isnt dying, its transforming
Albinojackrussel biodiversity really isnt necessary for humans though. why would it be? we have technology.
A lot of the technology we have was created from stuff we found in nature. Without biodiversity there is no technology. There is also no medicine, since almost every drug is a chemical compound that was first found in plants and later synthethized. If we were to wipe out every other plant species we would run out of source material for drugs that may be useful for curing or preventing future diseases. Because of the sheer number of possibilities for atoms of different elements to combine, it's a lot easier to find a plant that has a compound and finding out what that compound does and how to synthethize it than guessing random compounds until we find one that works.
@SciShow: I have a suggestion for another list of species you can do that would help out a lot knowing about .. a list of important Keystone Species.
Wollemi pine is the weirdest plant I know. It grows very differently depending on how you put them on the ground afaik.
The only animal I really have any care about saving is Bees, they're too useful to lose.
sirgaz and that Black Mirror episode freaked me out.
As an Environmentalist student, this video was painful. We have really hurt this planet... :/
Naomi Cugini probably worse for vegans, tho I doubt that's a comfort.
yes human kind is mostly EVALLLLLL
Welcome back Olivia!!! I was wondering if we would see a new video from you soon. :)
Great presentation !
The tone and cadence is spot on and very smooth now!
Just the separation between segments is a bit unclear as there isn't enough spacing or pause between the different categories, the person editing could have added small pauses between the different segments!
Just wanted to say thanks 😊 this has helped so much for my project on animals :)
It's refreshing to find out that's humans finally seem to wake up and try to reverse and prevent any further damage to the earth. I just hope it's not too late.
You know, you guys could do an entire video on "Species that Depend on Prairie Dog Colonies." Ferrets, burrowing owls, badgers, mountain plovers...
...Yes, I live in Wyoming. Yes, I know I'm biased. What of it? ;)
I'm amazed that there are birds around that can't fly - and aren't extinct. I thought they were all gone thanks to humans. You learn something new every day. Hope the kākāpō makes it.
we still have the Cassowary, the bird the Raptors from Jurassic Park were based off of.
Jarlaxle, thankfully? wow... a moa would be a sight to behold, as would an elephant bird. By your logic we should drive elephants, tigers, lions, and all other megafauna to extinction... and to huldu we have a few species of ground parrots in australia which aren't' flightless but live on the ground, and all ratites are flightless (emus, ostriches, rheas and cassowarries)
Jarlaxle Daerthe no we don't, platypuses aren't the only venomous mammal, slow lorises are venomous too, also i'd much rather run around the bush in australia (which i do) than many other countries around the world our wildlife is hardly dangerous if you know what you're doing, we don't have to worry about bears, elephants or big cats
+Wise Lum And moose. I hear they uh... can be pretty deadly.
if we can all respect these big animals more we'd fear them less...more people die from dogs, horses and cows than these "dangerous" wildlife
Goddamn Olivia is lookin fine in this video. So many people hated on her when she joined but I think she makes a great host!
Tommorow's episode: the near infinite species never saved from extinction.
This is a great, upbeat episode! Thanks for sharing!
Olivia, it's good to see you are finally hitting your stride! I'm glad I gave you a chance (I was one who didn't like your way of speaking at first) because now I'm learning about many topics I'm interested in. Welcome to the show! I'm ready for more!
Can someone explain why videos hosted by Olivia keeps getting disliked?
I think some people don't like her tone of voice it seems like she's bored.
M8GitGud I honestly think that some things people are sexist. But hey I thinks she's great.
For me it's her voice and the tone. It's piercing and the uplifted ending still bugs me even though she has it "toned" down a bit now. Still annoyed me enough that I need to mute the video and read the caption instead.
Sarata Saidykhan How'd you get there, on Scishow space they has a regular female and male ost and they're both well liked.
I watched this whole video because it was interesting, but I had the sound turned way down.
Now that's a great way to sell a conservation of a species; genome mapping. Not only does it contribute to saving the animal but the first total genome mapping would be a major breakthrough for genetics as a whole.
Great video. Very well presented and edited
we haven't been able to help. we've been able to undo some harm we have done. different thing. if you hit someone so hard he ends up in a life threatening state and then bring them to the hospital you, noone would even think about calling it helping someone.
awesome video. thank you for your content.
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
www.strokeassociation.org/STROKEORG/AboutStroke/TypesofStroke/HemorrhagicBleeds/What-You-Should-Know-About-Cerebral-Aneurysms_UCM_310103_Article.jsp
Everytime she said DDT it made me think of professional wrestling, so i could someone using a DDT on a turtle LOL.
Sylvester Ashcroft yup
The Galapagos tortoises were in fact so delicious it took scientists 300 years to give them a scientific name.
That last of us two trailer though.
Great fascinating videos as always, this one seemed brighter than others though, maybe because it's about the good things we have done to undo our damage.
I REALLY like this video thanks for making it.
Do a follow-up video that talks about endangered species and what we're doing, if anything, to help preserve them.
I love these videos! They are my favorite, so interesting.
I can't believe you did a section on Humpback Whale conservation without referencing Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home!
While I enjoyed learning about the species, I'm kind of disappointed that Californian Condors (my favorite animal) wasn't included in the list.
Yay Olivia! I feel like it's been too long since she did a video.
This is really awesome thanks you !!!!!
so nice to see positive news, thank you
DDT is back in use in some countries. The choice is: what is the balance between reducing Malarial transmitting mosquitoes and protecting species that tend to eat them or share habitat with them (salmon, trout, birds)
humans are like an abusive parent that cries and apologizes while beating you with a belt.
7 species that were saved from extinction instead of the starving kids of Africa
fountain of youth
I love you.
How about kids in Syria, Dominican Republic, and Columbia? Africa isnt the only area of the world in a shit situation. A statement like "7 species that were saved from extinction instead of starving kids around the world" seems more fitting, but hey thats just me.
Just a bit overly simplistic. Not exactly a zero sum game.
Deep Ashtray Can you repeat that in English please?
Another Guy With An Anime Porn Avatar
Sure. The comment shows an incredible depth of ignorance on the subject.
Oh, the Kakapo!--THAT'S the bird in "Last Chance to See" that they have to go on this huge super-careful long expedition to even _maybe_ get a glimpse of, and even then it was only a nest and not a live kakapo. They reproduce insanely slowly and elaborately, and not very often, since they had--past tense --no natural predators. UnTIL...
Edit: I'm also curious now what the hell pop music had humpback whalesong in it. :P
7:03 that would be a cool idea for a movie, at least on paper.
Many animals are increasing in numbers like Wolves, Tigers, Rhinos, Brown bears, Giant Panda, Bald eagle, Californian condor, Californian sea lion, Steller sea lion, Many seal species, and kangaroo.
However despide these optimistic news there are some animals that whose population must be stablized and increased like some decreasing specieass like orangutan, Leopard, Cheetah, Lion, many cat species, Giraffes, Gorilla, Pangolins, most of the frogs, many lizards species, sea turtles.
i learnt alot thanks
kākāpos are adorable. it makes me remember that video in which one says "yer bein' shagged by a bird"
6:12 Not exactly pop, and it was like 10 years later, but ELO's "The Whale" is an excellent piece of instrumental music that incorporated whalesong!
I just looked at a list of mammals that went extinct after 1500.
These hands... are unclean...
ddt is the only english word ive found that i am literally unable to pronounce
You should make a video on why humans love mint flavoring
Weird I was just thinking about how humans love mint smell but rats hate it.
I believe a very easy explanation into the age distribution of Wollemia nobilis can probably be reached if one was to look at the seed bank in the forest floor around their habitat.
It is by far most likely that the Wollemi Pine has gone the same way as the ash trees in Denmark - where very old individuals have survived a crippling disease over a period of time, in which any new sprouted individuals and saplings were killed off by said disease. Recently, perhaps, the disease has become scarce or even been wiped out, and the large seed bank of un-sprouted Wollemi seeds that doubtlessly exists in the area have been able to sprout without being attacked by the disease.
Could also be environmental factors that have changed recently - so that seeds in the seed bank that wouldn't sprout due to unfavourable conditions have only recently been able to germinate and start growing into new trees.
Just two suggestions, but it seems to me most likely that one of these is the case.
[EDIT] Yes, it would PERHAPS just take one major forest fire to wipe out the species, except for the buried seeds being unaccounted for. The ash actually went extinct in Denmark over many years, but suddenly made a recovery without human intervention... from seeds that had gone ungerminated for hundreds of years! :D
Seven. Great. Meanwhile, (I've read) anywhere from 20 to 200 species (plants, animals, insects, everything...) go extinct every day. I've also read those numbers are high, but human-caused extinction is still about 10,000 times "normal" extinction rates. Concentrating on just the cute, cuddly, and marketable species isn't gonna stem the disaster that is happening now, and those seven will probably still perish. Everything's connected.
There's an 'i' not an 'e' at the end of Wollemi!Also at one time there was a bounty on Bald-Eagles as they were declared a pest to farm animals, and consequently widely exterminated like the bisons!
I like Olivia but I hate that strange drone she does at the end of every sentence.
Honestly, that's all she needs to fix to be an amazing host. I've disliked that drone since she first hosted.
now lets count how many species we made extinct
OVER 9000!!!!!!
Adnan Moheddin you actually are probably correct
I wouldn't be surprised! xD
WorldMess To many lets not 😃
its 1.9 million
now a video on many species we couldnt save.
DDT is not banned worldwide. It is still widely used in countries within Africa and Latin America, but in lower doses.
Kakapos are my favourite animals
Chicken Permission ikr and they have a funny matingritual where they blow themselves up like balloons
7 species we almost killed but we didn't.
Try the Chatham Islands black robin, got down to 7 birds in 1976.
Time to begin the Terran Species Catalogue Census and Genome Project.
Why are there so many notifications and no notification squad where u at comments around solid banana's anus?
Hey I know your questions come from patreon but I have one what happens to black holes because I know it's not like a star where it burns all of its "fuel" and just fades
Let's start a fundraiser to get this girl some makeup and some new glasses and a shopping spree and a hair stylist.
David Aquilare She's cute as she is. She doesn't need a makeover. The only thing that needs to be worked on are her hand/arm movements.
Davild Aquilare She probably has more money than u funny enough :)
Kindly go fuck yourself.
yes. because scishow is about how the host looks. wait. no it isn't. get lost
More urgent to start a fundraiser for a working brain for you (and some taste)
You gotta give it to rodents for getting in on this human thing on the ground floor.
Now, let's save the 1 billion species remaining.
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Olivia is great