Reminds me a lot of what my highschool chemistry teacher would say after making a statement about how something in the world works: "...except when it doesn't." There are very, *very* few absolutes in nature.
While that is true basically for all of nature science, chemistry may very well be the sole exception and your teacher shouldn't have said that. Chemistry is in essence the rulebook of life, where open questions and mistakes aren't an exception, just proof of our limited knowledge.
@@Boredofmostofit How do you know they were talking about chemistry when they said that? The og commenter said "a statement about how something in the world works", not "chemistry"
Ask any old farmer or deer hunter on if they eat meat, and they’ll share horror stories lol. Deer have crazy calcium needs with their antlers growing, and bones are a pretty good source of all the minerals they need
And with squirrels, let's face it, anything that relies heavily on nuts for its nutritional needs isn't going to pass up other sources of concentrated protein. Especially since nuts tend to be highly seasonal while there is no opener on catching a body.
6:31 in defense of biologists, before the last 20yrs or so, watching hippos meant being NEAR them,which is an understandable reason to not know things about them😆
You don't go anywhere near hippos if you have half a brain, you stay far clear of them because they will kill you. People have known that a lot longer than 20 years.
@@lucyandecember2843Hippos are one of the deadliest animals to humans and if the recent discovery is that they might hunt and eat meat more often than we thought… do you really wanna be the researcher assigned on hippo observation?
I'm surprised that you're the only one who made this joke. EDIT:My joke reply has more likes than my actual comment with timestamps.I don't know how to feel about this.
I've seen on Animal Planet growing up Orangutans discovering they like Catfish. There was a flood. The water went down. But some Catfish were trapped in puddles of water. The Orangutans were curious about them and decided to give them a try. Found out They like it. Shared it with Their Friends.
That was Orangutan Island, different show, but yes I remember that! They just ate the catfish alive, didn’t even kill then first. Orangutans have also been known to eat lizards, snakes, and small mammals.
I was at a Camp site in Badlands a few weeks ago, and there was a "fireside" chat (obviously no fire used) at the amphitheater. It was about snakes. When he asked the crowd what eats snakes, he listed dogs, cats, birds, other snakes, and . Everyone was quiet so I shouted "Cows" and he looked at me and asked me to repeat it. I did and he said that no one has ever yotten it right before. Kinda shocked me cause I though the "cow eating snakes" thing went viral.
I did forensics research back in college and we used body farm sites. We didn’t get any deer, but this fricking raccoon kept sticking his hands into the cage and somehow positioned the cadaver’s fingers to flip us off.
@@realdragon Body farm, it’s where bodies donated to science are left in certain areas and conditions and cover to see how it affects the rate of decomposition. Like seated in a car, covered in leaves, at the bottom of a pond, that sort of thing. We worked at one when I studied forensic anthropology.
A few months ago, a deer had a stillbirth in my family’s backyard. For days, the mother refused to leave the carcass, fending off turkey vultures that drew near. She eventually ate her child. That was … quite a summer.
This reminds me of the Cornell Bird Cam's barn owl cam a few years ago. I would check in every day and follow how many eggs and babies there are. After weeks of watching this god damn live bird stream all the babies were being horrifically killed in a variety of ways. Eventually they started eating their siblings and the parents ate the babies. All of us bird nerds were devastated and traumatized lmao They retired that owl box after that year, it was quite a ride
@@wompppwompwomppp I had a coworker who did work with Burrowing Owls. While other predators usually were why chicks went missing, sometimes she'd sound really defeated and say a chick was eaten by its siblings. Nothing goes to waste, I guess
I remember challenging my Animal Science teacher in high-school, by informing her that cows and deer have been observed eating other animals. Glad to know I'm not crazy.
Welcome to the sheltered world of schools and colleges that still regurgitate 200 year old lies along side all the ones propagated by the propaganda machines.
Several years ago I discovered that "vegetarianism" was a choice, not a mandate, after watching a cardinal pick out bits of chicken from a garbage bag and eat it. Another topic for discussion, that I think runs in a similar vein to this one, is how some scavengers are too impatient to wait for something to die. I've seen more than a couple of crows kill things. The most gruesome was seeing one pick up a rabbit, drop it on the pavement, land on its back again then RIPPED THE RABBITS HEAD OFF! I decided there was no reason for me to go outside for awhile. :) Regardless, animals and mother nature don't really care about our expectations, rules or classifications.
I'm tempted to role play a one of the delusional vegans to talks about how loving and perfect nature is. I'd say one of the best things about humans is how we want to go vegan because we care about life so much. I don't think many people can do it 100% and people shouldn't just hyperfocus meat for assorted reasons, but it's still sweet we want to try.
@@Bacteriophagebs- Hunting is labor-intensive and doesn't always succeed. Any carnivore will eat a freshly-dead animal rather than chase a live one if they have the chance. Feeding smallish wolves and small cats is how we domesticated them.
Some scavengers also hunt. There's some truth to the poster of two frustrated vultures, with one saying, "Patience, my ass! I'm going to kill something!" Scavengers exist because there are enough animals dying of various causes to support them.
A rat once made the mistake of entering my neighbour's chicken coop just before feeding time. Never seen something go from alive to a skeleton that fast. It was horrifying.
@@thrace_bot1012 It was most likely not the disproving of the fact that chickens are herbivorous that shocked OP, but rather the voraciousness of what would normally be recognized as the meek underling of the animal kingdom. Chickens are not seen as predators, they are not only omnivores but also domesticated, so they are often taken advantage of by more deadly creatures (stoats, ferrets, coyotes, foxes). Seeing a group of chickens eviscerate a rat would be jarring, to say the least.
Yeah, I watched a friend's trio of roosters hunt down and slaughter a mouse one day. Quite an education on roosters. Since then, my hens have butchered mice and lizards, which showed me it was NOT just the roos.
what was most horrifying to me was when a variety of chickens were housed in one area. the chickens pecked the white meat birds to death slowly over days. whether because they recognized they ate more or something else, we don't know. it probably wasn't a space issue cause they were allowed to roam. chickens can be brutal.
I remember having my eyes opened to this in university. A journal featuring articles on "herbivores" eating protein sources including photos of a cow with a dead rabbit in its mouth and a bird drowning a gopher for a snack. Rules do apply though, the main one being that if you need the nutrients and calories, you're not going to let the fact that something isn't normally on your grocery list get in the way of that.
Nature's 2 big rules are conservation of energy/resources (be lazy), and do whatever it takes to pass on your genes. All the rest are just human imposed categories because we like putting things in neat little boxes like "herbivore", "omnivore", "carnivore", "red", "blue", "alive", "dead", ect.
Except for when it comes to cats. Grazing on grass like very small cows, promptly ejecting their stomach contents, including fresh and expensive food, and then looking at you like it's your fault that they're hungry again.
I discovered this after specifically that video of the horse eating a chick I asked my professors about it and the only answer I got was "probably nutrient dificency." I did research myself and have been telling people for years that I feel like there isnt a true herbivore Thanks for expanding on this!
When I was a kid, we had chickens at our house and the chicks would regularly be taken to the dinner table for playing, where they would rip the cooked flesh off the bones of their family members. When I told that to my elementary school teacher, he made the entire class laugh at my ridiculous story.
Yea I found a short of it a while back and the chicken went back on its day after bruh. Also forgot that chickens will eat their own chicks so I guess it made sense for the chicken to stop worrying? 💀
@@MarcelNLthat school teacher must have never been around an actaulu chicken before I would literally feed chics my leftover chicken bones. They dont care one bit
Reminded me of this one time I saw a hawk try to catch a rabbit, it missed and hit the ground. By the time it got back up to try and take off I saw the rabbit just kick it's neck and the bird went limp. The rabbit then just had a snack. That was my first time ever seeing an animal that normally eats plants take the opportunity for something else.
My sister volunteered at a local nature preserve for a number of years and she described seeing a deer eat birds off a mist net. That was back in the late 1960's. Passing this along to friends over the years I've never once been believed. The Bambi force is strong.
Some science like physics and astronomy do just that. Even if the math said it should be possible, if they can't find it or make it happen in an experiment, then it's not true/ just a theory (depending on how hard the proof is).
On the other hand I taught my chickens to care for the sick and injured. And my roosters love babies instead of murdering them. They also live indoors and wear diapers. Almost any species can be civilized (domesticated is too loaded of a word). Every story I've ever read about a chimpanzee tearing its owner apart involved very good reasons and I sided with the chimp. I've unintentionally spent a lifetime around animals big and small, harmless and dangerous. From being a cowboy and mountain man, to being parrot sanctuary maintainer and ostrich herder, and all sorts of critters in-between. There was a cougar I knew in Oregon, she was so chill she didn't murder me when I stumbled across her babies accidentally. Seen her around for years, she was the only thing keeping the turkey population in check. Animals are weird. Human animals in particular. /Stoned rambling [7]
The fact that this guy makes learning stuff they don't teach you in school, whether it's dark or wholesome, fun to watch shows how good he is at this. I wish he was my zoology teacher.
Humor is the best teaching tool. In college I took an honors history course where the prof had written the textbook himself. I literally never opened the book, but got such high scores on the tests that the prof had to ignore my grade when setting the curve or no one else would have made above a C because I frequently scored over 95% on tests that were intended to be hard to score an 80 on. At the end of the semester he asked me what I did to do so well because he wanted to implement it into his classes in the future. I told him I'd just read _The Cartoon History of the Universe_ by Larry Gonick a few times as a kid and the info stuck with me because each fact or event was tied to a joke of some kind. His entire class was covered in just half of Book 1, so all I had to do was remember the few things from the lectures that weren't in _The Cartoon History._
If he was you zoology teacher he had to keep to the curiculum, couldn't edit anything and would loose a lot of time doing other tasks. Be glad this man is on youtube, he get's to shine here
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that most “herbivores” which mainly eat fruits, seeds, and other nutrient packed plant parts (most rodents, orangutans, etc) are really more like omnivores. In contrast, many animals which mainly eat foliage, grass, and other vegetation (ruminants, rabbits, pandas, etc) usually only eat other animals for certain nutrients which the plants tend to lack (like calcium, iron, etc). In other words the former are often less specialized for eating plants than the latter.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. *Have you seen how those cocunut crabs are built like?* 💀 Ain't no housecat or any type of small cat be penetrating that tanky shell, you finna need a big cat for that!
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. it's nature, most predators would pick on the weak and feeble, a 20-year old house cat ain't anywhere near as much of a danger as a 2 year old house cat.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. And probably 15x more fragile, I can definitelly see a coconut crab packing a housecat if the former catches the latter lacking.
Sir, I cannot tell you how much your statement of, "hug your mother" absolutely just gives me that dopamine rush that I would think so many mothers get when their own children think in those terms! Let's me know that you had a very loving teacher in your life which I admire and very much appreciate!! I don't think life has enough of that, overall. So I thank you and your mother!!!
Many years ago after Thanksgiving dinner at my, at the time, sister-in-laws house she brought out turkey scraps while we were having a smoke outside and said they were for the deer. I laughed at her and told her that deer were herbivores and wouldn't eat that. Imagine my surprise and shame when less than ten minutes later a couple of deer walked out of the woods and ate every bit of it!
I was taking care of a parrot for a friend for a while. He would sit on my shoulder while I ate dinner. One day I sat down to a plate of chicken curry and the parrot sidled down my arm, eyed a drumstick, grabbed it and started noshing! I have also seen sity pigeons picking scraps off of discarded KFC.
@@Penguin_Happy I can't credit it as more than a hypothesis, but it would make a fascinating basis for a sci fi story, or even a book on speculating our origins if you're willing to put in the work. Certainly, some humans have a peculiarly protective response regarding most creatures, even ones other humans might find unpleasant, case by case... I hope you take this and run with it. It's a very cool concept.
@@RClipsGaming101 That's a fascinating take, and I have no problem entertaining theistic concepts. At the very least it would make for a fun story in the tradition of the Abrahamic faiths. My personal take would be a touch more nuanced, since we definitely have evidence of parental care, sociability and nurturing in dinosaurs and contemporaries (crocodilians stand out in particular, weird enough). You could make the argument, within this framework, that any such experiments with living things complex enough to have something like affection in their emotional makeup were doomed to fail in one way or another by dint of attempting to press evil onto creatures that are by nature at worst amoral (and that would certainly make sense given the theropod descendants that survive having some of the most complex parental care and socializing outside of mammals).
@@error-try-again-later and also any oviparous animals in general. As in egg stage they can be eaten by anything including creatures that usually not predatory
You are the most informative that I have ran across on here and you deliver your knowledge along with proof with such vigor it’s amazing to see and listen to! Keep producing more please
The "herbivorize predators" group should really see this video honestly, they are super under the impression that they can make all predators into herbivores when some herbivores aren't even true herbivores
@olympic-gradelurker no matter how stupid a thing is, there's almost definitely a group of idiots somewhere out there that supports it. This is one of the few definitive things this life has taught me.
Stuff like this always reminds me of chickens. People think chickens are just scaredy birds that eat seeds and other feed. When I worked with them, they did a *much* better job at catching mice then the barn cats ever did. I’ve seen them run down mice multiple times and gobble them whole. Honestly, chickens aren’t really the cowards we call them! They’re very very feisty and I love them, can’t wait to have my own flock one day.
I found a decapitated snake in my chicken yard once. They will eat their own (and each others )eggs, and you have to be careful to remove eggs, especially broken eggs, regularly or they will get into bad habits, and you will lose half your eggs. (Don't forget giving them protein like meal worms,.etc)
@@bullgravy6906 I have a small flock, they are great! I love the fresh eggs, and mine are pretty friendly to me, and fun to watch. But, it's like every animal. It is best to learn as much as you can before getting any so you can understand them and take good care of them.
Grandpa had chickens. They have no respect for the laws of man. My wife's parents had chickens. They switched to ducks. They're more obedient and not as violent to humans, but the the males still constantly assault the other ducks. The chicken didn't get eaten by the coyotes and farm dogs nearly as often. Because they're fluffy terrors with knife feet.
This reminds me of when I was tutoring a girl on high school biology, it was about the different classifications of animals (mammals, birds, etc.) but something I told her was that the way we classify them are not rules, they're more like guidelines we use to make things easier for ourselves. She frowned a bit when I told her that nature doesn't do things because we say that it does, we just observe and draw our own conclusions.
Depends on the grouping. Mammals are a real group because every mammal is a descendant of one ancestor. Something like “reptiles” isn’t because it doesn’t include birds which have the same ancestor. This is what taxonomists call a paraphyletic group. There are a lot of groups we used to think were real until we got more evidence. So even though we got reptiles being a group wrong in the past, it doesn’t mean all groups aren’t real or a rule.
I miss about 50% of your references, being the old fogey that I am, but since you make about a quip every five seconds you still get me giggling. Plus absolutely solid animal facts. Great channel, mate, really glad I found it.
i'll never forget when my friend (biology professor) told me there were very few picky eaters in nature and that most animals are opportunist omnivorous
A-wy5zm you forgot, mother rabbits will eat their own kids if she get hungry. Not joking, it's true, not all the time. It happens sometimes. Which is totally dark and horror.
I have 3 pet snakes. They would literally never eat a fruit or vegetable unless you forced it down their throat, and then they would regurgitate it. There are definitely some animals that can't / won't eat outside of their lane. @@A-wy5zm
1. I'm still trying to figure out how he gets the wordplay down like this. It's very good. 2. Nature, and humans, are only as faithful as their options.
He's either very educated or has some form of autism/ADHD which makes his mind work in fantastic ways. I have Asperger's syndrome and ADHD. This guy looks way too relaxed and natural to have either of these things but my mind often works this way as well. When I see some people in a discussion online, I can make a funny photoshop about it in a few minutes in which I take their words way too literal on purpose. Made me win the funniest artist title of 2022 on the biggest website of my country. But this dude's funny wordplay would cost me a LOT of effort. Even though I can do it a bit, it would cost me a lot of time to do it and it's exhausting. I'd get obsessed over it if I would really try to make something like this video. My jokes are more visual combined with one-liners and such.
I’m a biologist. You’re right about facultative vs omnivore… facultative generally prefer plants, but there are a couple of reasons they’ll go the other way - availability, and lack of necessary nutrients in their primary food. Animals aren’t too picky, they’ll catch calories wherever they can, especially if they don’t have to expend calories to get it.
Don’t omnivores have necessary nutrients in both plants and animals? Vegetarians and Vegans are quite different because vegetarians do eat animal products like milk, cheese, eggs and honey while Vegans don’t.
I saw a squirrel fight a homeless man over a chicken wing at a garbage can. The squirrel won. I saw this back when I was in college and the memory of that sight has never left me.
This is just like that movie "Black Sheep" where the sheep start attacking and eating people and those who get bit and survive turn into weresheep Activist: Why would you be scared of Sheep? Main character: Oh, you know, because of the irrational fear that *this* might happen!
Fun fact: In regards to the Scottish sheep eating baby birds, a similar story happened in Tasmania where introduced Red Deer started eating Shearwater chicks.
one of my favorite examples of this was learning about how saltwater crocodiles actually love crunching rinded fruits and gourds, like watermelon and pumpkins, occasionally also, about squirrels, there was a wasp nest in my backyard that had come to full term over the summer, leaving a generation of larvae to hold over for the winter. the local squirrels tore holes into the hibernating nest to make popcorn of the baby bugs, and came back to it multiple times over the winter like a bunch of college kids raiding the fridge at 2 am. the wasp nest was visible from my window, so i got to watch several of these raids
@@cecillewolters1995 the squirrels tore the thing apart so thoroughly that it exposed what they didn't eat to the winter chill, so nothing came out of that nest alive
When he said that I honestly thought he was about to explain that the apes would grip the loris firmly by the tail and beat it against a tree until dead.
What flipped the entire "herbavoir vs carnivore" thing on its head for me was learning/watching deer eat squirrels and chipmunks, same with butterflies eating corpses. You die by deer, they most likely will eat you. Which is just... Disturbing, knowing that there is massive deer overpopulation and how violent the males can be. Imagine wiping wolves from the map, then being turned into a meal by the angry buck you thought was harmless...
@@invaderhorizongreen8168 Yeah, we like to think they’ll just run away until a buck with something to prove squares up with you and turned you into sushimi.
@stingerjohnny9951 imagine getting killed by one of the most skittish animals known just because this time it couldn't get it's rocks off. I'd be one pissed ghost
I used to volunteer with a bird banding organization. Part of the reason we had to check the nets every twenty minutes wasn't only to reduce bird stress but because deer would try to eat the smaller birds if they came across them.
Regarding the difference between facultatives and omnivores: Facultatives only seem to change their diet when they absolutely need to, being capable of surviving just fine on whatever side of the spectrum they fall into, whereas omnivores need a varied diet to survive, being unable to properly survive on just one or the other under most circumstances.
The more I look at nature in all its horrifying beauty, the more I realize the human ability to care for others is truly a miracle. I think we often over look are ability to care for each other and tend to focus on the horrible things we have done. But we wouldn’t have been able to do what we have done good and bad if it wasn’t for our ability to care for each other.
That's a neat sentiment. I will say I do think animals also possess the ability to care, and I'm positive Casual Geographic has covered it at some point (probably in a wholesome video).
@@SWProductions100 I doubt that they do, I’ve seen a good amount of clips that prove this, and it seems like my own pets care deeply about me and vice versa. I’m just saying those moments of care are truly spectacular.
@@SWProductions100they can, but they also have instincts. Some can be managed by keeping them from life/death situations. But animals are famously weak to intrusive thoughts
@@SWProductions100iirc, CG does have a video discussing some wholesome animal facts, one of the facts being Humpback Whales protect seals from orcas for no 100% clear.
Excellent video, as usual. A few years ago, I was awakened to this subject by learning that caribou occasionally snaked on lemmings, and then I started paying attention to similar things. I myself occasionally eat vegetables. No lemmings, though, so far.
I live on a cattle station in Australia, we add a kind of seaweed extract to our cattles water, gives them all the nutrients they are missing and stops them from eating the bones and dried skin from other dead cattle (not ideal as it spreads botulism). Also makes their hair shiny glossy as if they've been shampooed or something lol
There is a breed of sheep in Scotland that eat nothing but seaweed. Their meat is nice and salty from all the seaweed they eat in their lifetime, pre-seasoned lamb on the beach.
@@Legs_thats incredibly cool! but we wanted to know how to get the extract because we wanted the glosy hair lol still a very cool fact tho ill be looking foward to eating that pre seasoned sheep now XD
Same thing's happening to her as with herbivorous animals most likely. Nutrient deficiency from her diet is causing extreme cravings for what she needs. She should probably go for some blood tests to check for deficiencies, long term they can cause very serious problems or even death! A vegan diet is extremely difficult to get right, and usually requires heavy supplementation.
Remember everyone: Hippos are the closest living relatives of Daedon, one of the largest predatory land mammals ever. (It was likely also an omnivore. They're also called hell pigs for that reason.)
@@advancedomega there are plenty of clips on youtube right now of lions are other predators eating prey animals while they're still alive. plus of slow deaths are the hands of lions or other predators. and there are plenty of omnivores that like scavenging.
@@advancedomega Carnivores likely have had more "training" in killing animals, but they do not kill the prey before eating it. It is just a myth especially with lions.
I love how we went from "dont believe everything on the internet" to "dont believe everything you were taught in school" said by a random internet stranger. That being said, I 100% believe everything you say with every inch of my body. Great content as always.
@julietfischer5056 Could be cool if he leaves a list of sources somewhere. It would be a way of backing up his facts, and add just that nice little extra layer of legitimacy. (edit: grammer)
At first it was kinda wierd that sci-fi has these entire planets that have hostile ecosystems where everything wants to eat humans. Now, it just feels more realistic.
Well come to think of it, in a world where generations weren't witnessing us take down walking tanks 10 times our size with pointed sticks, they'd have no reason not to try to get nice bipedal snack
Its unlikely that aliens would be able to digest humans due to fundamental biological differences due to billions of years of evolutionary divergence and potentially fundamentally different biochemistry. Not that it would stop them from having a ho at it anyway.
@stripedgillette3580 you just watched a video showing that almost every animal will eat meat if given the means and a chance, why is it still unrealistic.
In my experience the eating habits of anything defined as omnivorous can be summed up as: "Omnivores eat any and everything they think they can take and which qualifies as food."
Congratulations on your Lasik surgery! I had that done a few years ago. One of the best things I've done for myself in my entire life. Absolutely life changing
@@mndiaye_97 my first day after surgery, I woke up and rolled over, looked at my spouse and said, "Oh my God! I can see you Sweetheart!" I know, sappy, but it meant a lot.
Wish I could do lasik but my eyes are constantly on the screen and hearing the risks just makes me turn away from it but hopefully try it out in the future when I'm a bit older
i'll never forget the feeling i had when i first found out this fact. it was a video of monarch butterflies feeding off of fish corpses that had washed up on the beach. metal af
@@sheilaharrison8547 It's humans the answer is always humans. And they are pests even when native let me tell you I've seen them ambush birds on a feeder, and not always for the seeds. Oh and it's because someone thought they looked good as a ornamental pets and couldn't keep them properly and did the worst possible thing and let them go. That's one it could be more than that though.
The area were I live in the Netherlands, has Siberian groundsquirrels In that area used to be a zoo and when it closed down they did drop the box with the squirrels. They escaped and are thriving in the area. But also they stay in that area while not really expanding outwards, so luckily they are not destructive. Those grey squirrels are though. They are very bad news for the native red squirrels.
@chey7691 well, all of their reasonable listed options were human derived causes, so that part was obvious lol. The pet theory has potential, it's a cause of invasive species with cute faces. Shipping industry is another likely avenue, and more likely for an established population. Most people pick up exotic "pets" as a single animal. The likelihood of released single animals finding a mate before death is low. Not impossible mind you, but low. Shipping has a higher chance of more than a single animal to stowaway, and generally has a small number of locations regularly visited allowing the chance for multiple trips bringing multiple pests to the same location and allowing them to establish.
"Most animals are only as vegetarian as their options." The Wisconsin DNR (Department of Natural Resources) found this out the hard way. In about 2016 a cougar was making its way through northern Wisconsin, passing by Green Bay before trying to make its way through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and returning to Canada. The DNR tried to trap it to relocate it away from urban areas. They did this by gathering donated deer carcasses/roadkilled deer and stuffing the carcasses with relaxants and suppressants. They then proceeded to spend more time shooing other deer away from the carcasses than they spent waiting for the cougar. These other deer would gallop up to the carcasses and start ripping off chunks and swallowing with gusto before going back for another bite. It makes sense, as that's free protein, but most people I tell about this don't believe it even when I pull up footage like you showed off here. On a side note, I always imagined a human version of that scenario. "Hey wait, that's Frank!!" "But he's delicious! Want a bite?" Another side note, good video man. Just passing through, but take a like anyway and a comment for engagement. You've earned it with great presentation mixed with informative visuals.
I’m not able to find any information on this ? Do you have any references? Why would WI try to relocate one cougar even if it was near an urban area ? and who is to say if the deer where desperate for the meat and not eating it casually. It’s wrong to imply that deer are eating meat on a regular basis and not because they are desperate at the time
We went camping at a wool farm when I was a kid as part of a school thing. They had us camping in tents in a paddock that had been cleared out for us and yeah. Nothing can describe the face the teachers made when we were having breakfast and a sheep showed up with a rat hanging out of its mouth. Teachers told the farmer later and he knew exactly which sheep was doing it
baby birds are like that one delicious chocolate that is completely free in the most expensive store ever everybody takes them every time they see them
Haha. I remember one time when my grandmother called, She was absolutely HORRIFIED, because a squirrel had snatched a live bird off the birdfeeder and was eating it.
We learned about obligate carnivores and herbivores at school, thankfully. Our biology teacher was a farmer's daughter. She was very quick to introduce everyone to home photos of cows going for fresh chicken nuggets.
@@peggedyourdad9560 especially chickens - they are another animal that goes pretty quick down the cannibalism route if they are lacking food, vitamins, or just have a hankering for meat at that point in time.
@@peggedyourdad9560 Yes,it certainly is! Once they get a taste for it it's all over! It becomes a race over who's faster to get and eat the egg. I have to pay close attention to the chicken thats going to lay soon and snatched it up immediately or they will eat it first,shell and all.😅
I still remember watching a documentary on chimps where one clan attacked a rival clan, a rival baby chimp was killed in the chaos, and afterwards the winning clan took turns eating the baby.
I work at a zoo where customers are able to feed our animals (carrots, lettuce, and pellet food). There are signs saying not to feed the animals anything else or we may remove you from the park. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but one of our kangaroos found out that chicken nuggets are her new favorite food. If she sees/smells that you bought chicken nuggets at the concession stand, she always comes right up to the fence and begs for them.
This is amazing. I legit thought that "herbivores" ate only plants because they were incapable of digesting meat and it would make them sick. I remember the origin of Mad Cow Disease was supposed to have been ranchers mixing in cow parts with their feed. Now I wonder if that is true. CasGeo out here bringing us the real world. Excellent work 🤯
Mad cow disease comes from prions, but only infected cow meat can infect other cows (and people). I think that a lot of people just have a very romanticized view of nature and how it works and that's taught to children.
I've read the same. It wouldn't surprise me! There's a prion disease humans can get called kuru that started more or less the same way. A tribe in (I think) New Guinea practiced ritual cannibalism on dead tribe members as part of funerary rites, and those who ate the brain sometimes got kuru which would really fuck you up. It's believed that this happened if the deceased had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and no one would have been able to know.
They aren't incapable, they just don't get much energy out of it. Well, they will get sick if they eat enough meat, and what qualifies as enough there depends entirely on the animal in question, but by and large they don't get sick off it. The problem is a digestive system that can get a lot of nutrition from grass and leaves is far less able to get nutrition out of meat and vice versa. Many herbivores would die if they had to eat a primarily meat diet even if they wouldn't get sick because it takes more energy for them to digest it than they get out of it. They eat meat for the nutrients that aren't available in the plants they eat, but they can't really survive on it. A cow trying to hunt for food is going to starve to death in a hurry since catching and killing prey takes way more out of them than they can get out of what they can catch. They would also likely get very sick since their stomach setup would do bad things with only meat. Most carnivores will also eat plants, even obligate carnivores like cats will have a bit of grass occasionally, but it mostly serves a different function than energy since carnivores basically lose energy digesting plant matter. Omnivores get decent energy out of both meat and plants, but as they have less specialized digestive systems, they can't get energy from everything that a herbivore can, and tend to need more food per energy in general, which causes issues with either hunting or foraging being the only food source. Its all a trade off.
@@HIMPDahak Yes. Well said. The one thing that stuck out in the video over any other fact was how rough it is to be a bird. It seems like eggs and baby birds are on EVERYBODY'S menu.
Love how we get 90% of our knowledge from yt and none from school I started a war, multiple wars, when I criticized the school system... But my point stands and I'm not backing down.
@@idiot528To be fair most of the time school spends its time lying to us when it comes to teaching us about the real world.Graduated in 2021 and I learned more out here in 2 years than I did the entire 13 I was in education.
@@idiot528be smart brother, you know when Rockefeller and all those other mfs made the general education board they did it to industrialize them. Nothing more to learn in school than how to strive to uphold capitalism, and how to get used to sitting still.
12:56 so fun fact I just learned from the octopus lady: the crabs actually broke a bird's wings methodically before going in for their meal. Like some researcher just sat there in horror watching them slowly catch and eat a bird.
So people should behave as the bad animals behave? If you can justify it , then tell to the journalist every time something bad is happening to not present it as something unnatural.
This happened with the marsupial lion. Their ancestors were herbivores that scavenged some meat and enjoyed it so much they spec'd into ambush predators with guillotine jaws.
How the fuck are there vegans? Or vegetarian cultures? Eating less meat is supposed to help the climate, right? But. Like. If this is how nature is. How? How do? Like. The fuck?
My ex had a few dozen dwarf hamster and once one had a litter and he thought one might be dead. I told him if it was dead the mother would eat it. He was shocked and refused to believe it... until he couldn't find the baby he thought was dead. He was horrified, I explained it was nature. That carcass is protein so mom can feed the other babies, plus you can't have a rotting corpse in your burrow attracting predators
Yup. It's crazy pragmatic. Plus she's the one that put all the energy and nutrients into that baby. Almost all mammals eat their placentas for the same reason. Mother wolves eat the baby poop to keep the den clean, but it may also give her back a few nutrients, gross as it sounds
I've heard that some dogs do this too, especially the with the runt of the litter.... Your ex sadly was one of those people who anthropomorphize animals too much and add human qualities to them, or was fooled by the "cute = harmless and innocent" trope
@cyborgchicken3502 ya... people also like to give animals human emotions and thoughts - not that they don't have any, they're just not necessarily the same ones, or reasons, that we have.
This is a problem that has existed in teaching for ever, it's often due to students being underestimated in their ability to grasp nuance. Simplifying bimodal or complex biological concepts into very specific, and restrictive categories. Nature doesn't do restrictive very well, it's more creative than we can ever know, but i still think we should try to explain complexity to young people better. Great vid!
Child education is so trash. They will not only omit details, but directly tell them that a concept does not exist or is not possible only to break that rule a year or two later as they open up the subject more. I'm still upset about negative numbers existing. Math becoming philosophy fucked that subject up for me.
There is a B&W Parascope Films movie showing South Pacific islanders kids' hunting sea tortoise, coconut crabs and barefoot climbing 60+ ft coconut palms.
I worked with a really intelligent Microbiologist on a research project. He would tell me a bunch of facts about what a bacterium strain is normally like, then list just a handful of the many ways that they will freely violate your assumptions. He would then soberly conclude with elegance that, “Biology is a jerk”. I will never forget those words till this day.
When I was a kid, my family lived for a while in a trailer park outside town surrounded by wilderness. One magical morning, I went out to play and saw a whitetail doe. I thought she was grazing, but then realized she was nosing through trash scattered from an overturned can. When she raised her head and looked at me, I saw she had the bone from a chicken drumstick in her mouth like a cigar. Then she bounded off into the trees.
My family had a tortoise that PREFERRED to munch on the skulls of any birds our cats killed. The cats would hide the birds around the yard since they knew we didn't like when they did that, and whenever we let the tortoise roam in the backyard, he would race (at a shocking speed) to any bird carcasses. Didn't matter how old and decayed they were, he chowed down and hissed at us if we tried to get the dead bird away.
i appreciate this channel if nothing else for showing how how brutal and insane the natural world is. the word natural is so often used synonymously to mean gentle, safe, calm and unmalicious, when in reality, more often than not it's anything but. it doesn't mean nature is in any way bad or wrong, it's no less amazing without rose tinted glasses about what the natural world is like.
he unfortunately does horses dirty in the video, horses are really mean to others around them lol (depends on the horse btw, but in general) they fight with each other daily and ik mutiple horses that makes it their life's mission to be as nasty as possible, one of them cannot even glance for millisecond at another horse without secretly plotting to beat the shit out of them and two horses ik bite people for fun, like actually, their goals are to cause as much chaos as possible just because they think its funny, and one of these two eats baby birds for fun, he is literally spoiled af and has no reason to need to eat them, he legit just enjoys eating baby birds but you also have some horses who are like geese and are just really scared youre gonna do something to them so theyre overly aggressive, but when you finally get close to them theyre really sweet, it heavily depends on the individual horse and their breed
Ideas for a Future Video: Animal Voice Actors: a list of animals whose sounds who are used for other animals(Tiger roars used for lions, Hawk shrieks for eagles, Walrus for Hippos, etc) Prehistoric animimals and their modern cousins(Enhydriodon and Giant Otters, Diprotodon and Wombats, Ekorus/Eomellivorini and Honey Badgers, Etc)
The “this won’t slide in college” became so funny to me. One of my fav quotes from my calc 2 prof was “ya know, when you’re a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory, you do coke. It’s just a rule” 😂😂😂 followed by her telling us the best ways to sneak alcohol into places
That story about squirrels ganging up on a dog and "eviscerated" him killed me. It shouldn't have but it did. Just picturing a gang of squirrels attacking a predator lmao
reminds me of a certain verse from a certain holy book. “after the monstrous nations of Gog and Magog died in a single night, all the animals of the earth emerged and feasted on their bodies. For it is the only sustenance left on the surface of the world. For the innumerable hosts of Gog and Magog consumed every green thing. And God prepared the sea monster Leviathan from the mediterranean sea for slaughter, as food for the people in the wilderness. These are the last remnants of mankind.”
11:00 "My greatest weakness!! BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA-" Ok but to be fair, I think most of our weaknesses have to include being bitten through the skull lmfao
That's true. As an animal lover and related to many farmers. I have both seen myself and heard stories about this. For example, my father's cousin, was going to move the cows to the field many years ago, but one cow got away from the herd. She went straight to the chickens and took the big rooster there and chewed on it as she went to the field, and she would not share.
Reminds me a lot of what my highschool chemistry teacher would say after making a statement about how something in the world works: "...except when it doesn't." There are very, *very* few absolutes in nature.
Awesome.
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Need food. Gonna die if no food. Gonna die anyway.
Those are the things where nature doesn't make exceptions.
While that is true basically for all of nature science, chemistry may very well be the sole exception and your teacher shouldn't have said that. Chemistry is in essence the rulebook of life, where open questions and mistakes aren't an exception, just proof of our limited knowledge.
@@Boredofmostofit How do you know they were talking about chemistry when they said that? The og commenter said "a statement about how something in the world works", not "chemistry"
Education has no age restriction. I appreciate your efforts.
Thank you, the support is much appreciated
@@mndiaye_97keep it up bro🎉🎉
@@MarcelNLbro…
@@MarcelNL This ain’t it chief
@@MarcelNL Uh no, he's just a normal fucking person the hell?
Ask any old farmer or deer hunter on if they eat meat, and they’ll share horror stories lol. Deer have crazy calcium needs with their antlers growing, and bones are a pretty good source of all the minerals they need
And with squirrels, let's face it, anything that relies heavily on nuts for its nutritional needs isn't going to pass up other sources of concentrated protein. Especially since nuts tend to be highly seasonal while there is no opener on catching a body.
Bones?!💀💀💀
They've eaten fish tossed up by the ocean (and Icelandic ponies go out to fish).
@@sammysalgado1475- Munch munch munch.
On the opposite end of weird diet shit, theres a species of jumping spider that eats plants
If it has hooves or antlers, it probably eats at least a few bones to reinforce and keep those appendages from going flakey.
6:31 in defense of biologists, before the last 20yrs or so, watching hippos meant being NEAR them,which is an understandable reason to not know things about them😆
Yeah, I think we can give them a pass XD
lol that's a great perspective to think about 😂 i needed a good laugh thank you🙏
You don't go anywhere near hippos if you have half a brain, you stay far clear of them because they will kill you. People have known that a lot longer than 20 years.
Im a bit confused🤔
@@lucyandecember2843Hippos are one of the deadliest animals to humans and if the recent discovery is that they might hunt and eat meat more often than we thought… do you really wanna be the researcher assigned on hippo observation?
A panda killing and eating a peacock? Man, Kung Fu Panda 2 ended a lot differently than I remember
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I'm surprised that you're the only one who made this joke.
EDIT:My joke reply has more likes than my actual comment with timestamps.I don't know how to feel about this.
Now with alternate ending lol
ONG bruh 💀
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I've seen on Animal Planet growing up Orangutans discovering they like Catfish. There was a flood. The water went down. But some Catfish were trapped in puddles of water. The Orangutans were curious about them and decided to give them a try. Found out They like it. Shared it with Their Friends.
Can't blame them, catfish are tasty 😌
Sharing is caring😂
That was Orangutan Island, different show, but yes I remember that! They just ate the catfish alive, didn’t even kill then first. Orangutans have also been known to eat lizards, snakes, and small mammals.
Orangutans and I have similar tastes! And yes I have eaten (semi) raw catfish as there was a sushi roll with catfish in this one restaurant I went to.
wait thats so cute :D
I was at a Camp site in Badlands a few weeks ago, and there was a "fireside" chat (obviously no fire used) at the amphitheater. It was about snakes. When he asked the crowd what eats snakes, he listed dogs, cats, birds, other snakes, and . Everyone was quiet so I shouted "Cows" and he looked at me and asked me to repeat it. I did and he said that no one has ever yotten it right before. Kinda shocked me cause I though the "cow eating snakes" thing went viral.
I did forensics research back in college and we used body farm sites. We didn’t get any deer, but this fricking raccoon kept sticking his hands into the cage and somehow positioned the cadaver’s fingers to flip us off.
that was the dead person's ghost possessing that raccoon and fucking around
@@eric_the_egggremlin Let the dead have their fun, what else do they have to do right?
The what site now?
@@realdragon Body farm, it’s where bodies donated to science are left in certain areas and conditions and cover to see how it affects the rate of decomposition.
Like seated in a car, covered in leaves, at the bottom of a pond, that sort of thing. We worked at one when I studied forensic anthropology.
You should've made videos of that!
My grandfather (R.I.P.) once told me that giraffes suck on animal bones, and I found that unbelievable. And now here I am dumbfounded years later.
Ever seen a giraffe just eat a bird for bothering it? It's pretty nuts
@@MurasakiTsukimaru I've seen a giraffe just eat a bird like popcorn for the crime existing. It's extremely nuts.
You probably thought "grandpas gone off the deep end" whose laughing now
@@richardsanchez5444 quite literally.
Lmao grandma whispering "Told you so..."
you know, ever since I saw a deer eat a rabbit I realized that the food chain is more of a suggestion rather than an actual law of the nature
It's really a food web. Eat what is available.
@@juliusfucik4011and what doesn't kill you.
For decades I've told hunters that whitetail deer are carnivorous predators. Any that checked the stomach contents apologized for doubting me.
everybody got their favorite dish until they find the "Build Your Own" menu.
It's like the Geneva Suggestions.
My favorite fun fact: butterflies will drink blood when given the opprotunity.
They also land on you, cuz they find your sweat tasty. Weird flying beings.
p o k e m o n w a s n o t a l i e
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@@game_projectionsBeautifly? More like Hellfly.
@@gooeyboy706 EXACTLY!
A few months ago, a deer had a stillbirth in my family’s backyard. For days, the mother refused to leave the carcass, fending off turkey vultures that drew near. She eventually ate her child. That was … quite a summer.
Ik it's just nature being nature, but there's something very existentially scary about this.
I don’t blame the dear. Miscarriage is a lot of energy lost, and too the dear, it gonna make back some calories.
Nature is something.
"I'll eat you up, I love you so!" -Where The Wild Things Are
This reminds me of the Cornell Bird Cam's barn owl cam a few years ago. I would check in every day and follow how many eggs and babies there are. After weeks of watching this god damn live bird stream all the babies were being horrifically killed in a variety of ways. Eventually they started eating their siblings and the parents ate the babies. All of us bird nerds were devastated and traumatized lmao They retired that owl box after that year, it was quite a ride
@@wompppwompwomppp I had a coworker who did work with Burrowing Owls. While other predators usually were why chicks went missing, sometimes she'd sound really defeated and say a chick was eaten by its siblings. Nothing goes to waste, I guess
I remember challenging my Animal Science teacher in high-school, by informing her that cows and deer have been observed eating other animals.
Glad to know I'm not crazy.
Welcome to the sheltered world of schools and colleges that still regurgitate 200 year old lies along side all the ones propagated by the propaganda machines.
Some teachers think they know it all just because they are in the teachers role.
Now I realized if flesh eating Diomedes mares become make more sense as it based on reality
horses will readily take a bit of meat in their feed bags.@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 - There's a book about carnivorous horses. _Deadly Equines_ by CuChullaine O'Reilly.
Several years ago I discovered that "vegetarianism" was a choice, not a mandate, after watching a cardinal pick out bits of chicken from a garbage bag and eat it.
Another topic for discussion, that I think runs in a similar vein to this one, is how some scavengers are too impatient to wait for something to die. I've seen more than a couple of crows kill things. The most gruesome was seeing one pick up a rabbit, drop it on the pavement, land on its back again then RIPPED THE RABBITS HEAD OFF! I decided there was no reason for me to go outside for awhile. :)
Regardless, animals and mother nature don't really care about our expectations, rules or classifications.
Scavengers are just lazy predators, and predators are just scavengers who can't find any corpses. Or are just impatient.
I'm tempted to role play a one of the delusional vegans to talks about how loving and perfect nature is.
I'd say one of the best things about humans is how we want to go vegan because we care about life so much.
I don't think many people can do it 100% and people shouldn't just hyperfocus meat for assorted reasons, but it's still sweet we want to try.
Not going to lie your first part made me wonder a lot why had a clergy eating on the garbage can
@@Bacteriophagebs- Hunting is labor-intensive and doesn't always succeed. Any carnivore will eat a freshly-dead animal rather than chase a live one if they have the chance. Feeding smallish wolves and small cats is how we domesticated them.
Some scavengers also hunt. There's some truth to the poster of two frustrated vultures, with one saying, "Patience, my ass! I'm going to kill something!"
Scavengers exist because there are enough animals dying of various causes to support them.
A rat once made the mistake of entering my neighbour's chicken coop just before feeding time. Never seen something go from alive to a skeleton that fast. It was horrifying.
whatever did you grow up watching or hearing that convinced you that chicken are herbivorous, honest question
@@thrace_bot1012 It was most likely not the disproving of the fact that chickens are herbivorous that shocked OP, but rather the voraciousness of what would normally be recognized as the meek underling of the animal kingdom. Chickens are not seen as predators, they are not only omnivores but also domesticated, so they are often taken advantage of by more deadly creatures (stoats, ferrets, coyotes, foxes). Seeing a group of chickens eviscerate a rat would be jarring, to say the least.
Yeah, I watched a friend's trio of roosters hunt down and slaughter a mouse one day. Quite an education on roosters. Since then, my hens have butchered mice and lizards, which showed me it was NOT just the roos.
what was most horrifying to me was when a variety of chickens were housed in one area. the chickens pecked the white meat birds to death slowly over days. whether because they recognized they ate more or something else, we don't know. it probably wasn't a space issue cause they were allowed to roam.
chickens can be brutal.
i mean... chicken usually eat worms, snails, insects, frogs, lizards, etc... of course a group of chickens would devour a rat without problem
I remember having my eyes opened to this in university. A journal featuring articles on "herbivores" eating protein sources including photos of a cow with a dead rabbit in its mouth and a bird drowning a gopher for a snack. Rules do apply though, the main one being that if you need the nutrients and calories, you're not going to let the fact that something isn't normally on your grocery list get in the way of that.
Nature's 2 big rules are conservation of energy/resources (be lazy), and do whatever it takes to pass on your genes.
All the rest are just human imposed categories because we like putting things in neat little boxes like "herbivore", "omnivore", "carnivore", "red", "blue", "alive", "dead", ect.
Except for when it comes to cats. Grazing on grass like very small cows, promptly ejecting their stomach contents, including fresh and expensive food, and then looking at you like it's your fault that they're hungry again.
@@Killjoy_Mel can we blame them though? After all they're just enjoying the comfort of having domesticated the human. XD
Today I learned that veganism is applying an ethical framework to creatures who don't deserve it.
“Don't kid yourself Jimmy, if a cow ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about.” - The Simpsons
This was really good! Shame on UA-cam for flagging and demonitizing! The footage is no worse than any nature special shown on public television.
Dumb UA-cam bein dumb UA-cam
also youtube "would you like a mobile game ad where a woman shits all over someone?"
I bet it got reported by vegans
@@nosuchthingasshould4175 maybe even peta stans trying to hide the truth
@@nosuchthingasshould4175 It got reported by the manatees.
I discovered this after specifically that video of the horse eating a chick
I asked my professors about it and the only answer I got was "probably nutrient dificency."
I did research myself and have been telling people for years that I feel like there isnt a true herbivore
Thanks for expanding on this!
There is a book called..."the killer horse". Horses have been bred over the centuries to be docile.
When I was a kid, we had chickens at our house and the chicks would regularly be taken to the dinner table for playing, where they would rip the cooked flesh off the bones of their family members.
When I told that to my elementary school teacher, he made the entire class laugh at my ridiculous story.
Yea I found a short of it a while back and the chicken went back on its day after bruh. Also forgot that chickens will eat their own chicks so I guess it made sense for the chicken to stop worrying? 💀
@@MarcelNLthat school teacher must have never been around an actaulu chicken before I would literally feed chics my leftover chicken bones. They dont care one bit
@@MarcelNLWell, that was quite the stupid teacher then. Chickens aren't herbivores at all, they are opportunistic omnivores.
11:17: Oh, that explains why the woodpecker Pokemon eventually evolves into a toucan!
underrated
Reminded me of this one time I saw a hawk try to catch a rabbit, it missed and hit the ground. By the time it got back up to try and take off I saw the rabbit just kick it's neck and the bird went limp. The rabbit then just had a snack. That was my first time ever seeing an animal that normally eats plants take the opportunity for something else.
That was one badass rabbit!
Godspeed to that rabbit.
Based Rabbit
I guess the rabbit was thinking about self preservation. "Either I eat it, or it eats me." 🤣🤣🤣
Damn, that rabbit was a madlad. lol
My sister volunteered at a local nature preserve for a number of years and she described seeing a deer eat birds off a mist net. That was back in the late 1960's. Passing this along to friends over the years I've never once been believed. The Bambi force is strong.
whoa, that's cold!
Deer are mean af, they will fight you without a second thought if there's not another option
Pass this video along.
@@RT-qd8ylI had a massive buck scratch the ground like a bull and charge my car. He was pissed. Nobody ever believes me.
Horses eat eggs as well.
The biggest takeaway from all this, is that _do not tell the universe how it works, you let IT tell YOU how it works_
Modern science has the need to want to to classify everything but nature says you can't do that. Eg platypus
words to live by, my wise friend.
The universe doesn't know how it works...
IT DOES WHATEVER THE HELL IT WANTS
Some science like physics and astronomy do just that. Even if the math said it should be possible, if they can't find it or make it happen in an experiment, then it's not true/ just a theory (depending on how hard the proof is).
the universe doesnt tell you how it works, it walks in, does the most random shit then leaves while holding out 2 middle fingers
SCOTLAND: Even the SHEEP are HARDCORE.
At this point, this man teaches us more than school ever will.
He has been doing that since his third video or so.
On the other hand I taught my chickens to care for the sick and injured. And my roosters love babies instead of murdering them. They also live indoors and wear diapers.
Almost any species can be civilized (domesticated is too loaded of a word).
Every story I've ever read about a chimpanzee tearing its owner apart involved very good reasons and I sided with the chimp.
I've unintentionally spent a lifetime around animals big and small, harmless and dangerous. From being a cowboy and mountain man, to being parrot sanctuary maintainer and ostrich herder, and all sorts of critters in-between.
There was a cougar I knew in Oregon, she was so chill she didn't murder me when I stumbled across her babies accidentally. Seen her around for years, she was the only thing keeping the turkey population in check.
Animals are weird. Human animals in particular.
/Stoned rambling [7]
Him and Lindsay are the biology teachers we wish we had in school
The stoned homeless man who used to sleep on hessle road round the corner of my house taught me more than school, lol.
Ong
The fact that this guy makes learning stuff they don't teach you in school, whether it's dark or wholesome, fun to watch shows how good he is at this. I wish he was my zoology teacher.
Humor is the best teaching tool. In college I took an honors history course where the prof had written the textbook himself. I literally never opened the book, but got such high scores on the tests that the prof had to ignore my grade when setting the curve or no one else would have made above a C because I frequently scored over 95% on tests that were intended to be hard to score an 80 on.
At the end of the semester he asked me what I did to do so well because he wanted to implement it into his classes in the future. I told him I'd just read _The Cartoon History of the Universe_ by Larry Gonick a few times as a kid and the info stuck with me because each fact or event was tied to a joke of some kind. His entire class was covered in just half of Book 1, so all I had to do was remember the few things from the lectures that weren't in _The Cartoon History._
If he was you zoology teacher he had to keep to the curiculum, couldn't edit anything and would loose a lot of time doing other tasks. Be glad this man is on youtube, he get's to shine here
He is our zoology teacher.
@@ApequH I know, I just wish my zoology could be this creative when talking about animals. I too am glad he is on youtube.
Agreed,schools are poorly implemented.It's just a way to distract kids & maybe even manipulate them.
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that most “herbivores” which mainly eat fruits, seeds, and other nutrient packed plant parts (most rodents, orangutans, etc) are really more like omnivores. In contrast, many animals which mainly eat foliage, grass, and other vegetation (ruminants, rabbits, pandas, etc) usually only eat other animals for certain nutrients which the plants tend to lack (like calcium, iron, etc). In other words the former are often less specialized for eating plants than the latter.
Many of the fruit eating animals eats insects. You might want to consider that.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. *Have you seen how those cocunut crabs are built like?* 💀 Ain't no housecat or any type of small cat be penetrating that tanky shell, you finna need a big cat for that!
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. it's nature, most predators would pick on the weak and feeble, a 20-year old house cat ain't anywhere near as much of a danger as a 2 year old house cat.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. And probably 15x more fragile, I can definitelly see a coconut crab packing a housecat if the former catches the latter lacking.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance Also that.
Sir, I cannot tell you how much your statement of, "hug your mother" absolutely just gives me that dopamine rush that I would think so many mothers get when their own children think in those terms! Let's me know that you had a very loving teacher in your life which I admire and very much appreciate!! I don't think life has enough of that, overall. So I thank you and your mother!!!
Many years ago after Thanksgiving dinner at my, at the time, sister-in-laws house she brought out turkey scraps while we were having a smoke outside and said they were for the deer. I laughed at her and told her that deer were herbivores and wouldn't eat that. Imagine my surprise and shame when less than ten minutes later a couple of deer walked out of the woods and ate every bit of it!
I was taking care of a parrot for a friend for a while. He would sit on my shoulder while I ate dinner. One day I sat down to a plate of chicken curry and the parrot sidled down my arm, eyed a drumstick, grabbed it and started noshing! I have also seen sity pigeons picking scraps off of discarded KFC.
When you're hungry, you'll eat just about anything. Bonus points if it's easy to catch/obtain/kill/already killed.
@@FtanmoOfEtheirys the 3 peopld I keep hostages in my basement agree
My 2 people don't because I feed them b12 and nutrients rich plants like ginger and sweetpotato.
Left a chicken carcass out side on the porch and the wild chickens ate it
The baby birds thing has me wondering if most of nature doesn't still hold a grudge about the dinosaurs...
Honestly I would believe this
@@Penguin_Happy dam that’s kinda deep
@@Penguin_Happy I can't credit it as more than a hypothesis, but it would make a fascinating basis for a sci fi story, or even a book on speculating our origins if you're willing to put in the work. Certainly, some humans have a peculiarly protective response regarding most creatures, even ones other humans might find unpleasant, case by case... I hope you take this and run with it. It's a very cool concept.
nah theyre just easy prey is all
@@RClipsGaming101 That's a fascinating take, and I have no problem entertaining theistic concepts. At the very least it would make for a fun story in the tradition of the Abrahamic faiths. My personal take would be a touch more nuanced, since we definitely have evidence of parental care, sociability and nurturing in dinosaurs and contemporaries (crocodilians stand out in particular, weird enough). You could make the argument, within this framework, that any such experiments with living things complex enough to have something like affection in their emotional makeup were doomed to fail in one way or another by dint of attempting to press evil onto creatures that are by nature at worst amoral (and that would certainly make sense given the theropod descendants that survive having some of the most complex parental care and socializing outside of mammals).
Baby birds are like the black friday sales of nature. Everyone is coming for them.
"Who _hasn't_ eaten a baby bird every now and then? It's their fault for getting in the way!"
And bunnies/baby bunnies.
@@error-try-again-later and also any oviparous animals in general. As in egg stage they can be eaten by anything including creatures that usually not predatory
@@error-try-again-later Where is that quote from
Sea turtles also, the odds are not good
You are the most informative that I have ran across on here and you deliver your knowledge along with proof with such vigor it’s amazing to see and listen to! Keep producing more please
The "herbivorize predators" group should really see this video honestly, they are super under the impression that they can make all predators into herbivores when some herbivores aren't even true herbivores
"Baby birds are the popcorn of the animal world"
Everything eats them
@olympic-gradelurker no matter how stupid a thing is, there's almost definitely a group of idiots somewhere out there that supports it. This is one of the few definitive things this life has taught me.
@@nickklavdianos5136 soooo true. "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity," as the incomparable Robert Heinlein said.
yea some people rly think they can make their pet dogs/cats herbevores, meanwhile actual herbavores chowing down on other animals
It's worst with cats, who are obligated carnivores, they literally can't survive without meat.
Stuff like this always reminds me of chickens. People think chickens are just scaredy birds that eat seeds and other feed. When I worked with them, they did a *much* better job at catching mice then the barn cats ever did.
I’ve seen them run down mice multiple times and gobble them whole. Honestly, chickens aren’t really the cowards we call them! They’re very very feisty and I love them, can’t wait to have my own flock one day.
I found a decapitated snake in my chicken yard once.
They will eat their own (and each others )eggs, and you have to be careful to remove eggs, especially broken eggs, regularly or they will get into bad habits, and you will lose half your eggs. (Don't forget giving them protein like meal worms,.etc)
Chickens are mean, and don’t ever get I. The local rooster’s bad side
@@bullgravy6906 I have a small flock, they are great! I love the fresh eggs, and mine are pretty friendly to me, and fun to watch.
But, it's like every animal. It is best to learn as much as you can before getting any so you can understand them and take good care of them.
Grandpa had chickens. They have no respect for the laws of man. My wife's parents had chickens. They switched to ducks. They're more obedient and not as violent to humans, but the the males still constantly assault the other ducks. The chicken didn't get eaten by the coyotes and farm dogs nearly as often. Because they're fluffy terrors with knife feet.
From living near a farm, I always laugh whenever I see an egg carton promise that their eggs are “100% Vegan fed”; yeah freaking right.
This reminds me of when I was tutoring a girl on high school biology, it was about the different classifications of animals (mammals, birds, etc.) but something I told her was that the way we classify them are not rules, they're more like guidelines we use to make things easier for ourselves. She frowned a bit when I told her that nature doesn't do things because we say that it does, we just observe and draw our own conclusions.
Yeah! Kinda like fish is a pretty......fishy term. H e h. Sorry.
Wow crazy😬🤯
@@HadridarMatramenhuh
Depends on the grouping. Mammals are a real group because every mammal is a descendant of one ancestor. Something like “reptiles” isn’t because it doesn’t include birds which have the same ancestor. This is what taxonomists call a paraphyletic group. There are a lot of groups we used to think were real until we got more evidence. So even though we got reptiles being a group wrong in the past, it doesn’t mean all groups aren’t real or a rule.
I miss about 50% of your references, being the old fogey that I am, but since you make about a quip every five seconds you still get me giggling. Plus absolutely solid animal facts. Great channel, mate, really glad I found it.
i'll never forget when my friend (biology professor) told me there were very few picky eaters in nature and that most animals are opportunist omnivorous
@@A-wy5zm not all, most
A-wy5zm you forgot, mother rabbits will eat their own kids if she get hungry. Not joking, it's true, not all the time. It happens sometimes. Which is totally dark and horror.
It makes sense. It's also the reason why some herbivores descend from carnivorous ancestors and vice versa.
@A-wy5zm nah some animals just can't digest meat and know it so they don't even consider it same story for obligate carnivores
I have 3 pet snakes. They would literally never eat a fruit or vegetable unless you forced it down their throat, and then they would regurgitate it. There are definitely some animals that can't / won't eat outside of their lane. @@A-wy5zm
1. I'm still trying to figure out how he gets the wordplay down like this. It's very good.
2. Nature, and humans, are only as faithful as their options.
He's either very educated or has some form of autism/ADHD which makes his mind work in fantastic ways.
I have Asperger's syndrome and ADHD. This guy looks way too relaxed and natural to have either of these things but my mind often works this way as well.
When I see some people in a discussion online, I can make a funny photoshop about it in a few minutes in which I take their words way too literal on purpose.
Made me win the funniest artist title of 2022 on the biggest website of my country. But this dude's funny wordplay would cost me a LOT of effort. Even though I can do it a bit, it would cost me a lot of time to do it and it's exhausting. I'd get obsessed over it if I would really try to make something like this video.
My jokes are more visual combined with one-liners and such.
I’m a biologist. You’re right about facultative vs omnivore… facultative generally prefer plants, but there are a couple of reasons they’ll go the other way - availability, and lack of necessary nutrients in their primary food. Animals aren’t too picky, they’ll catch calories wherever they can, especially if they don’t have to expend calories to get it.
But won't they get sick? I understand when you're starving you will eat whatever but some foods can be harmful
@@realdragon Animals usually have a good sense for what they can and can't eat. Worst case scenario is that they err and don't eat it a second time.
@@realdragonYes, and they often have many parasites in their guts.
Don’t omnivores have necessary nutrients in both plants and animals? Vegetarians and Vegans are quite different because vegetarians do eat animal products like milk, cheese, eggs and honey while Vegans don’t.
@@Danielle-zq7kb
Alot of vegans take supplements.
Makes those Medieval stories of swarms of rats devouring humans seem a lot less like purely tall tales.
Definitely!
The way people talk about nature and what nature *actually does* couldn't be more different
lol yea
The vegans whole ideology down the drain on this one
"Mother Nature is so pure and perfect!"
Mother Nature:
@@okplay9446 It can still be regarded as "perfect", animals eating other animals isn't exactly a new discovery
@@katzea.a7880 Maybe, but the more I learn about nature, the more I wanna off myself
I saw a squirrel fight a homeless man over a chicken wing at a garbage can. The squirrel won. I saw this back when I was in college and the memory of that sight has never left me.
Damn... being robbed by à squirrel is crazy😂
I bet it was years before you told anybody.
Dude just got mugged by a squirrel
@@s.eloundou6013 the man actually can killed the squirrel first. For bonus meat, plush it was fresher than the chicken wings
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 do not underestimate those rats with pretty privilege.
“Nobody expected sheep to be involved in fowl play”
Underrated statement 😂😂😂
Oh my God I get it now
This is just like that movie "Black Sheep" where the sheep start attacking and eating people and those who get bit and survive turn into weresheep
Activist: Why would you be scared of Sheep?
Main character: Oh, you know, because of the irrational fear that *this* might happen!
It's really less of a food chain and more of a 'food tangled up pair of headphones in your pocket'
“Who wrote this scri-I did. I wrote it. I’m sorry.”
Do NOT apologize for this gold mine of information and puns, good sir. 🙌🏽😂
Fun fact: In regards to the Scottish sheep eating baby birds, a similar story happened in Tasmania where introduced Red Deer started eating Shearwater chicks.
Yeah there are red deer on another few Scottish isles that also eat gulls and such. Didn't know that about the Tassie deer but makes sense!
When it’s going to go far as going predatory
Maybe go on us !!!
one of my favorite examples of this was learning about how saltwater crocodiles actually love crunching rinded fruits and gourds, like watermelon and pumpkins, occasionally
also, about squirrels, there was a wasp nest in my backyard that had come to full term over the summer, leaving a generation of larvae to hold over for the winter. the local squirrels tore holes into the hibernating nest to make popcorn of the baby bugs, and came back to it multiple times over the winter like a bunch of college kids raiding the fridge at 2 am. the wasp nest was visible from my window, so i got to watch several of these raids
Survival of the fittest
TOO much fun😁
Was the nest eventually exterminated ?
If those wasps were yellow jackets, yaaay squirrels! Yellow jackets are mean mofos!!
@@cecillewolters1995 the squirrels tore the thing apart so thoroughly that it exposed what they didn't eat to the winter chill, so nothing came out of that nest alive
Parrot owners feed chicken to their parrots and eggs. Freaked me out the first time I fed my cockatiel cooked chicken and he happily ate it
“The loris’s natural weakness: blunt force trauma” caught me so off guard 🤣🤣🤣
😄More like the ape's natural strength: blunt force attack.
So odd! I’m pretty sure that is my weakness too/j
When he said that I honestly thought he was about to explain that the apes would grip the loris firmly by the tail and beat it against a tree until dead.
@@karnewarriorthat mental image should NOT have made me laugh as hard as I did
@@Amber-_-514 Seems like a very natural way to kill a venomous prey though.
You have poison teefs? Okay, you get to bite this tree. Lots. I'll help.
What flipped the entire "herbavoir vs carnivore" thing on its head for me was learning/watching deer eat squirrels and chipmunks, same with butterflies eating corpses.
You die by deer, they most likely will eat you. Which is just... Disturbing, knowing that there is massive deer overpopulation and how violent the males can be. Imagine wiping wolves from the map, then being turned into a meal by the angry buck you thought was harmless...
This is why I’m a hunter :)
deer have knives on their feet and swords on their heads.
@@invaderhorizongreen8168 Yeah, we like to think they’ll just run away until a buck with something to prove squares up with you and turned you into sushimi.
@@stingerjohnny9951 and people forget they can freaking kick and trample also moose are like that on steroids.
@stingerjohnny9951 imagine getting killed by one of the most skittish animals known just because this time it couldn't get it's rocks off. I'd be one pissed ghost
I used to volunteer with a bird banding organization. Part of the reason we had to check the nets every twenty minutes wasn't only to reduce bird stress but because deer would try to eat the smaller birds if they came across them.
Regarding the difference between facultatives and omnivores:
Facultatives only seem to change their diet when they absolutely need to, being capable of surviving just fine on whatever side of the spectrum they fall into, whereas omnivores need a varied diet to survive, being unable to properly survive on just one or the other under most circumstances.
Life always finds a way...
So does death.
@@KingsleyIII thank you I honestly hate “Life always finds a way” like everyone knows that but not death
🦕🦖 you guys talking about death missed the point.
@@YeshuaIsTheTruth nah I got the point
@@KingsleyIIIdeath part of life
This dude's love for nature, clever jokes and the Hollow Knight OST never cease to impress and satisfy me. God bless him.
He's a godsend in this age of "screw quality,go for money".
Did he use Hollow Knight before?
@@chee.rah.monurB 100% sure i heard the city of tears theme in one of his videos
I instantly recognized the hollow knight music and got a bit over excited lol I love hollow knight
There was some zelda twilight princess in there too
@@gabrielh.martins2116there's greenpath in a couple too
The more I look at nature in all its horrifying beauty, the more I realize the human ability to care for others is truly a miracle. I think we often over look are ability to care for each other and tend to focus on the horrible things we have done. But we wouldn’t have been able to do what we have done good and bad if it wasn’t for our ability to care for each other.
That's a neat sentiment.
I will say I do think animals also possess the ability to care, and I'm positive Casual Geographic has covered it at some point (probably in a wholesome video).
@@SWProductions100 I doubt that they do, I’ve seen a good amount of clips that prove this, and it seems like my own pets care deeply about me and vice versa. I’m just saying those moments of care are truly spectacular.
@@SWProductions100they can, but they also have instincts.
Some can be managed by keeping them from life/death situations. But animals are famously weak to intrusive thoughts
Pack bonding is a game-breaker.
@@SWProductions100iirc, CG does have a video discussing some wholesome animal facts, one of the facts being Humpback Whales protect seals from orcas for no 100% clear.
Excellent video, as usual. A few years ago, I was awakened to this subject by learning that caribou occasionally snaked on lemmings, and then I started paying attention to similar things. I myself occasionally eat vegetables. No lemmings, though, so far.
That "two can... Who wrote this joke?" absolutely killed me. Fantastic narration. David Attenborough should be giving you a job soon.
11:30
No need to apologize, good sir!
XD
I live on a cattle station in Australia, we add a kind of seaweed extract to our cattles water, gives them all the nutrients they are missing and stops them from eating the bones and dried skin from other dead cattle (not ideal as it spreads botulism).
Also makes their hair shiny glossy as if they've been shampooed or something lol
damn... what kinda seaweed extract is it? Maybe I should try some lmao
@@Saga_Anserum damn we need that info now dude
There is a breed of sheep in Scotland that eat nothing but seaweed. Their meat is nice and salty from all the seaweed they eat in their lifetime, pre-seasoned lamb on the beach.
@@Legs_thats incredibly cool!
but we wanted to know how to get the extract because we wanted the glosy hair lol
still a very cool fact tho
ill be looking foward to eating that pre seasoned sheep now XD
@@xxizcrilexlxx1505 looked it up and I guess you can just buy seaweed or smthn? I will try it and see what happens
My sister is a facultative herbivore. She claims to be vegan, but I’ve seen her in the chick fil a drive thru. 😂
Give a girl a break lol
Same thing's happening to her as with herbivorous animals most likely. Nutrient deficiency from her diet is causing extreme cravings for what she needs. She should probably go for some blood tests to check for deficiencies, long term they can cause very serious problems or even death! A vegan diet is extremely difficult to get right, and usually requires heavy supplementation.
@victoriareid6815 remote diagnosis..of someone you've never er even met
@@Nixie118
I wouldn't say heavy but some B13 goes a long way.
@@curiositypiqued6573 it was clearly a joke. Lighten up.
The chimp eating the bush baby was something straight from attack on titan 😂
Remember everyone: Hippos are the closest living relatives of Daedon, one of the largest predatory land mammals ever. (It was likely also an omnivore. They're also called hell pigs for that reason.)
You just got "Demon Pigged"
I heard that, carnivore kills you instantly: they go straight to the jugular. Omnivore on the other hands, literally eats you alive.
@@advancedomega there are plenty of clips on youtube right now of lions are other predators eating prey animals while they're still alive. plus of slow deaths are the hands of lions or other predators. and there are plenty of omnivores that like scavenging.
@@advancedomega Carnivores likely have had more "training" in killing animals, but they do not kill the prey before eating it. It is just a myth especially with lions.
I always said ice age genes of all animals is ready to rear its head
I love how we went from "dont believe everything on the internet" to "dont believe everything you were taught in school" said by a random internet stranger. That being said, I 100% believe everything you say with every inch of my body. Great content as always.
You can check what he says through actual, authoritative, sources.
Or be smart and proofcheck with sources. Internet people lie often so does school
@julietfischer5056
Could be cool if he leaves a list of sources somewhere. It would be a way of backing up his facts, and add just that nice little extra layer of legitimacy.
(edit: grammer)
Well he is showing actual footage of herbivores with other animals being slurped by them...
@@julietfischer5056 also videos
At first it was kinda wierd that sci-fi has these entire planets that have hostile ecosystems where everything wants to eat humans. Now, it just feels more realistic.
Well come to think of it, in a world where generations weren't witnessing us take down walking tanks 10 times our size with pointed sticks, they'd have no reason not to try to get nice bipedal snack
Humans are...bird chicks of the universe!
No, it's still weird. Everything being an uber aggressive carnivore would just be silly.
Its unlikely that aliens would be able to digest humans due to fundamental biological differences due to billions of years of evolutionary divergence and potentially fundamentally different biochemistry. Not that it would stop them from having a ho at it anyway.
@stripedgillette3580 you just watched a video showing that almost every animal will eat meat if given the means and a chance, why is it still unrealistic.
The Donkey Kong music, while talking about orangutans, was hilarious 😂
In my experience the eating habits of anything defined as omnivorous can be summed up as: "Omnivores eat any and everything they think they can take and which qualifies as food."
Congratulations on your Lasik surgery! I had that done a few years ago. One of the best things I've done for myself in my entire life. Absolutely life changing
Seriously! First time in my life I can ever wake up and just start my day without sticking stuff in my eyes. Such an underrated blessing
@@mndiaye_97 my first day after surgery, I woke up and rolled over, looked at my spouse and said, "Oh my God! I can see you Sweetheart!" I know, sappy, but it meant a lot.
Wish I could do lasik but my eyes are constantly on the screen and hearing the risks just makes me turn away from it but hopefully try it out in the future when I'm a bit older
i'll never forget the feeling i had when i first found out this fact.
it was a video of monarch butterflies feeding off of fish corpses that had washed up on the beach. metal af
Butterflies are also fond of bird poop, which is something I first witnessed just a few months ago.
@@richardhart9204 horse droppings are like a buffet for them
Oh butterflies are a special nightmare
@@mndiaye_97i can't remember if you've already done a video justifying my fear of butterflies but now I gotta look
Hippos are fucking terrifying, they’ll solo a crocodile if need-be, or if they’re just annoyed
As a uk farmer I soon learned invasive grey squirrels from the US are very much omnivorous
@@sheilaharrison8547As far As I know they were released by people because they thought they could "inrich" the native Fauna.
@@sheilaharrison8547 It's humans the answer is always humans. And they are pests even when native let me tell you I've seen them ambush birds on a feeder, and not always for the seeds. Oh and it's because someone thought they looked good as a ornamental pets and couldn't keep them properly and did the worst possible thing and let them go. That's one it could be more than that though.
The area were I live in the Netherlands, has Siberian groundsquirrels
In that area used to be a zoo and when it closed down they did drop the box with the squirrels. They escaped and are thriving in the area.
But also they stay in that area while not really expanding outwards, so luckily they are not destructive.
Those grey squirrels are though. They are very bad news for the native red squirrels.
I'm sorry y'all have grey squirrels now 😂😭
@chey7691 well, all of their reasonable listed options were human derived causes, so that part was obvious lol. The pet theory has potential, it's a cause of invasive species with cute faces. Shipping industry is another likely avenue, and more likely for an established population. Most people pick up exotic "pets" as a single animal. The likelihood of released single animals finding a mate before death is low. Not impossible mind you, but low.
Shipping has a higher chance of more than a single animal to stowaway, and generally has a small number of locations regularly visited allowing the chance for multiple trips bringing multiple pests to the same location and allowing them to establish.
"Most animals are only as vegetarian as their options."
The Wisconsin DNR (Department of Natural Resources) found this out the hard way. In about 2016 a cougar was making its way through northern Wisconsin, passing by Green Bay before trying to make its way through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and returning to Canada. The DNR tried to trap it to relocate it away from urban areas. They did this by gathering donated deer carcasses/roadkilled deer and stuffing the carcasses with relaxants and suppressants. They then proceeded to spend more time shooing other deer away from the carcasses than they spent waiting for the cougar. These other deer would gallop up to the carcasses and start ripping off chunks and swallowing with gusto before going back for another bite. It makes sense, as that's free protein, but most people I tell about this don't believe it even when I pull up footage like you showed off here.
On a side note, I always imagined a human version of that scenario.
"Hey wait, that's Frank!!"
"But he's delicious! Want a bite?"
Another side note, good video man. Just passing through, but take a like anyway and a comment for engagement. You've earned it with great presentation mixed with informative visuals.
Interesting
Movies like Soylent Green keep getting more relevant each year.
@@issabeganovic8822 I fear that one will become far too relevant in the near future the way things are going.
@@issabeganovic8822going to get a lot more relevant if we do not stop overfishing the oceans.
I’m not able to find any information on this ? Do you have any references? Why would WI try to relocate one cougar even if it was near an urban area ? and who is to say if the deer where desperate for the meat and not eating it casually. It’s wrong to imply that deer are eating meat on a regular basis and not because they are desperate at the time
We went camping at a wool farm when I was a kid as part of a school thing. They had us camping in tents in a paddock that had been cleared out for us and yeah. Nothing can describe the face the teachers made when we were having breakfast and a sheep showed up with a rat hanging out of its mouth. Teachers told the farmer later and he knew exactly which sheep was doing it
farmer was rlly like "ah shit yeah thats jimmy"
baby birds are like that one delicious chocolate that is completely free in the most expensive store ever
everybody takes them every time they see them
Haha. I remember one time when my grandmother called, She was absolutely HORRIFIED, because a squirrel had snatched a live bird off the birdfeeder and was eating it.
The squirrel couldn't eat the seeds so they got the next best thing
@@ToastallyManonMcMarrington”im coming for you next, grandma”
To be fair, i would be too. I mean a squirrel is pretty much the epitomy of cuteness and innocence so i understand her shock 😅
I swear to god this man has taught me more than my biology teacher
Yeah
Yep.
i was about to leave this exact comment, we all have the same biology teacher who doesnt teach us shit.
@@zophridsounds like Professor Phukit
@@kinryutentry ZeFrank 😅
We learned about obligate carnivores and herbivores at school, thankfully. Our biology teacher was a farmer's daughter. She was very quick to introduce everyone to home photos of cows going for fresh chicken nuggets.
Chickens are cute but literally the entire planet knows a plate of fresh chicken nuggets is not something you turn down
@@carolineyuen3247 Including chickens lol.
@@peggedyourdad9560 especially chickens - they are another animal that goes pretty quick down the cannibalism route if they are lacking food, vitamins, or just have a hankering for meat at that point in time.
@@goldenpig6453 I’ve also heard things can get ugly if they figure out their eggs are edible and quite delicious. This true?
@@peggedyourdad9560
Yes,it certainly is!
Once they get a taste for it it's all over! It becomes a race over who's faster to get and eat the egg.
I have to pay close attention to the chicken thats going to lay soon and snatched it up immediately or they will eat it first,shell and all.😅
I still remember watching a documentary on chimps where one clan attacked a rival clan, a rival baby chimp was killed in the chaos, and afterwards the winning clan took turns eating the baby.
I work at a zoo where customers are able to feed our animals (carrots, lettuce, and pellet food). There are signs saying not to feed the animals anything else or we may remove you from the park. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but one of our kangaroos found out that chicken nuggets are her new favorite food. If she sees/smells that you bought chicken nuggets at the concession stand, she always comes right up to the fence and begs for them.
Fair. Who would choose a carrot over a chicken nugget? No one.
Aaaww, poor roo xD
@@gamedove54poor chicken
@@AlexLR true Dx
@AlexLR you should see my chickens with a mouse 🐁 you would not feel sorry for them there savages
This is amazing. I legit thought that "herbivores" ate only plants because they were incapable of digesting meat and it would make them sick. I remember the origin of Mad Cow Disease was supposed to have been ranchers mixing in cow parts with their feed. Now I wonder if that is true. CasGeo out here bringing us the real world. Excellent work 🤯
Mad cow disease comes from prions, but only infected cow meat can infect other cows (and people). I think that a lot of people just have a very romanticized view of nature and how it works and that's taught to children.
Oh, it's true. Specifically, it's because cow _brains_ we getting mixed in.
Mad Cow Disease is basically a prion-caused disease.
I've read the same. It wouldn't surprise me! There's a prion disease humans can get called kuru that started more or less the same way. A tribe in (I think) New Guinea practiced ritual cannibalism on dead tribe members as part of funerary rites, and those who ate the brain sometimes got kuru which would really fuck you up. It's believed that this happened if the deceased had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and no one would have been able to know.
They aren't incapable, they just don't get much energy out of it. Well, they will get sick if they eat enough meat, and what qualifies as enough there depends entirely on the animal in question, but by and large they don't get sick off it. The problem is a digestive system that can get a lot of nutrition from grass and leaves is far less able to get nutrition out of meat and vice versa. Many herbivores would die if they had to eat a primarily meat diet even if they wouldn't get sick because it takes more energy for them to digest it than they get out of it. They eat meat for the nutrients that aren't available in the plants they eat, but they can't really survive on it. A cow trying to hunt for food is going to starve to death in a hurry since catching and killing prey takes way more out of them than they can get out of what they can catch. They would also likely get very sick since their stomach setup would do bad things with only meat. Most carnivores will also eat plants, even obligate carnivores like cats will have a bit of grass occasionally, but it mostly serves a different function than energy since carnivores basically lose energy digesting plant matter. Omnivores get decent energy out of both meat and plants, but as they have less specialized digestive systems, they can't get energy from everything that a herbivore can, and tend to need more food per energy in general, which causes issues with either hunting or foraging being the only food source. Its all a trade off.
@@HIMPDahak Yes. Well said. The one thing that stuck out in the video over any other fact was how rough it is to be a bird. It seems like eggs and baby birds are on EVERYBODY'S menu.
Love how we get 90% of our knowledge from yt and none from school
I started a war, multiple wars, when I criticized the school system... But my point stands and I'm not backing down.
* if you dont pay attention in school
@@idiot528To be fair most of the time school spends its time lying to us when it comes to teaching us about the real world.Graduated in 2021 and I learned more out here in 2 years than I did the entire 13 I was in education.
@@idiot528 They don't teach us that lol
School is made to make us good obedient worker drones.
@@idiot528be smart brother, you know when Rockefeller and all those other mfs made the general education board they did it to industrialize them. Nothing more to learn in school than how to strive to uphold capitalism, and how to get used to sitting still.
12:56 so fun fact I just learned from the octopus lady: the crabs actually broke a bird's wings methodically before going in for their meal. Like some researcher just sat there in horror watching them slowly catch and eat a bird.
Humans: you are a herbivore, you cant eat meat!
Animals: food is food.
Some animals may not be able to hunt the meat effectively, but they will eat it.
@@julietfischer5056 again, food is food!
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Vegan to people who eat beef : you are a cruel human being!
People who knows about this video : being a human is hard 😢😢
So people should behave as the bad animals behave? If you can justify it , then tell to the journalist every time something bad is happening to not present it as something unnatural.
Calling chicks "late-term omelets" is so out of pocket. Love it.
That's one of the great Rules of Nature:
You can't make the mother of all omelettes if you fret over every egg
Me when the egg took too long to fry
@@garyvestal7352another rule is that I can break the president in two with my bare hands
Im asking for that next time i order a chicken salad 😅
Imagine being a vegan
This happened with the marsupial lion. Their ancestors were herbivores that scavenged some meat and enjoyed it so much they spec'd into ambush predators with guillotine jaws.
How the fuck are there vegans? Or vegetarian cultures?
Eating less meat is supposed to help the climate, right? But. Like. If this is how nature is. How? How do? Like. The fuck?
I was OBSESSED when I first learned this from another UA-cam video. It blew my mind! Yours is even better.
My ex had a few dozen dwarf hamster and once one had a litter and he thought one might be dead. I told him if it was dead the mother would eat it. He was shocked and refused to believe it... until he couldn't find the baby he thought was dead.
He was horrified, I explained it was nature. That carcass is protein so mom can feed the other babies, plus you can't have a rotting corpse in your burrow attracting predators
Yup. It's crazy pragmatic. Plus she's the one that put all the energy and nutrients into that baby. Almost all mammals eat their placentas for the same reason. Mother wolves eat the baby poop to keep the den clean, but it may also give her back a few nutrients, gross as it sounds
red in tooth and claw.
I've heard that some dogs do this too, especially the with the runt of the litter.... Your ex sadly was one of those people who anthropomorphize animals too much and add human qualities to them, or was fooled by the "cute = harmless and innocent" trope
@cyborgchicken3502 ya... people also like to give animals human emotions and thoughts - not that they don't have any, they're just not necessarily the same ones, or reasons, that we have.
@@aazhiehumans can also eat their placenta and can eat it in the form of pills or just cooking it
This is a problem that has existed in teaching for ever, it's often due to students being underestimated in their ability to grasp nuance. Simplifying bimodal or complex biological concepts into very specific, and restrictive categories.
Nature doesn't do restrictive very well, it's more creative than we can ever know, but i still think we should try to explain complexity to young people better. Great vid!
Child education is so trash. They will not only omit details, but directly tell them that a concept does not exist or is not possible only to break that rule a year or two later as they open up the subject more.
I'm still upset about negative numbers existing. Math becoming philosophy fucked that subject up for me.
The writing quality on Casual Geographic is consistently exemplary.
Agreed.
"Well too can..' who wrote this script..I did😅😅😅
There is a B&W Parascope Films movie showing South Pacific islanders kids' hunting sea tortoise, coconut crabs and barefoot climbing 60+ ft coconut palms.
I worked with a really intelligent Microbiologist on a research project. He would tell me a bunch of facts about what a bacterium strain is normally like, then list just a handful of the many ways that they will freely violate your assumptions. He would then soberly conclude with elegance that, “Biology is a jerk”. I will never forget those words till this day.
Um ok?
@@RaccooniusIII Yes.
Ooh, cool! Biolgoy is pretty weird lmfao
@@Saga_AnserumAhaha, indeed! Just remember, Biology doesn't care that you broke your elbow
When I was a kid, my family lived for a while in a trailer park outside town surrounded by wilderness.
One magical morning, I went out to play and saw a whitetail doe. I thought she was grazing, but then realized she was nosing through trash scattered from an overturned can. When she raised her head and looked at me, I saw she had the bone from a chicken drumstick in her mouth like a cigar.
Then she bounded off into the trees.
That is a literal horror story-
majestic
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My family had a tortoise that PREFERRED to munch on the skulls of any birds our cats killed. The cats would hide the birds around the yard since they knew we didn't like when they did that, and whenever we let the tortoise roam in the backyard, he would race (at a shocking speed) to any bird carcasses. Didn't matter how old and decayed they were, he chowed down and hissed at us if we tried to get the dead bird away.
Needs that calcium, I guess
I love your turns of phrase. "Late term omelet" for a baby bird now on the menu for example. Keep up the good work!
i appreciate this channel if nothing else for showing how how brutal and insane the natural world is. the word natural is so often used synonymously to mean gentle, safe, calm and unmalicious, when in reality, more often than not it's anything but. it doesn't mean nature is in any way bad or wrong, it's no less amazing without rose tinted glasses about what the natural world is like.
Yeah. Mother Nature is a psycho b1tch
he unfortunately does horses dirty in the video, horses are really mean to others around them lol (depends on the horse btw, but in general)
they fight with each other daily and ik mutiple horses that makes it their life's mission to be as nasty as possible, one of them cannot even glance for millisecond at another horse without secretly plotting to beat the shit out of them
and two horses ik bite people for fun, like actually, their goals are to cause as much chaos as possible just because they think its funny, and one of these two eats baby birds for fun, he is literally spoiled af and has no reason to need to eat them, he legit just enjoys eating baby birds
but you also have some horses who are like geese and are just really scared youre gonna do something to them so theyre overly aggressive, but when you finally get close to them theyre really sweet, it heavily depends on the individual horse and their breed
Ideas for a Future Video:
Animal Voice Actors: a list of animals whose sounds who are used for other animals(Tiger roars used for lions, Hawk shrieks for eagles, Walrus for Hippos, etc)
Prehistoric animimals and their modern cousins(Enhydriodon and Giant Otters, Diprotodon and Wombats, Ekorus/Eomellivorini and Honey Badgers, Etc)
another idea: PRO MAMMAL PROPOGANDA
mammals are real ones fr
@marshalmarrs3269 A similar idea to that: pretty privilege/species bias in conservation efforts.
That daft Cali frog would easily make the list, as most frogs DO NOT SOUND like them
@@Hugo-yz1vb- Cute, beautiful, or cool-looking animals get the love.
Kookaburras for general jungle sounds when they don't live there...
The “this won’t slide in college” became so funny to me. One of my fav quotes from my calc 2 prof was “ya know, when you’re a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory, you do coke. It’s just a rule” 😂😂😂 followed by her telling us the best ways to sneak alcohol into places
That story about squirrels ganging up on a dog and "eviscerated" him killed me. It shouldn't have but it did. Just picturing a gang of squirrels attacking a predator lmao
The food chain is like the Geneva conventions: it exists for valid reason, but don't be surprised when everyone keeps ignoring it.
You win the best comment
reminds me of a certain verse from a certain holy book.
“after the monstrous nations of Gog and Magog died in a single night, all the animals of the earth emerged and feasted on their bodies. For it is the only sustenance left on the surface of the world. For the innumerable hosts of Gog and Magog consumed every green thing. And God prepared the sea monster Leviathan from the mediterranean sea for slaughter, as food for the people in the wilderness. These are the last remnants of mankind.”
You mean the Geneva Checklist?
@@mcbrians.8508 Pretty wild that the Bible is basically saying veganism ain't good and that it will contribute to the apocalypse
11:00 "My greatest weakness!! BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA-"
Ok but to be fair, I think most of our weaknesses have to include being bitten through the skull lmfao
That's true.
As an animal lover and related to many farmers. I have both seen myself and heard stories about this.
For example, my father's cousin, was going to move the cows to the field many years ago, but one cow got away from the herd.
She went straight to the chickens and took the big rooster there and chewed on it as she went to the field, and she would not share.
When I was a kid I'd feed toads to goats. They loved them.