6 Animals Living Their Best Lives in Cities | Synurbic Species
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2020
- When humans build a city, most species in the area tend to disappear. But there are some, called synurbic species, that are living their best lives in our concrete jungles.
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In London we have a lot of hyenas and vultures. They adapted so well, that they started wearing suites and picked up jobs in the financial sector.
oo thas spicy
Fr???? In America they’ve picked up jobs as lawyers too! 😂😂😂
I always forget that you don't have real vultures in the UK. In the US we have real vultures, not that distant relatives of African vultures. We mostly call them buzzards, but they are not relatives of raptors at all. And they are synurbic, to get back on topic. Black vultures from Canada and the Northern US love to overwinter in the southern US. We've build them the perfect winter habitat, cell phone towers. I've seen towers in the Houston suburbs with over 200 black vultures roosting on them. Short flight into the city nets them some survival food.
Here in canada the rats and cockroaches are trying to become politicians
Oof
2:53 that picture is the most passive-aggressive way of saying raccoons are smarter than dogs 😂😂
Look what they did to my good boy, they massacred him!
I have an agreement with my local raccoon. I leave her dog food, she stays out of my thrash.
This agreement started because I left a bag of dog food on the porch. I saw her and said hi bandit. She looked me dead in the eyes, reached her hand into the bag, and ate a piece.
As someone from Vadodara, oh boy, when the river floods during the monsoon season, all hell breaks lose and you can see crocs walking on roads and entering apartment grounds.
Why people still live there?
@@lonestarr1490 Cuz of the gator and croc fights right below ur window. No tickets required, very entertaining.
@@CheckCheckCheckCheck Lmfao 😹
@@lonestarr1490 Try to remember every place has its own issues.
@@lonestarr1490 why do people still live in alligator infested Florida?
I took a class in college on urban ecology and it was one of the most interesting classes I've ever taken
The New York impression had me rolling
I couldn't care less, until that "again!"
Hey, that's a long island accent
I am a new Yorker that was NOT a New York accent, sounded more like a bad Boston accent
Ronny Shama im a fellow new Yorker
Ronny Shama Im Texan and immediately thought bad Boston accent so idk where the New York is coming from😂
Up here in the pacific-northwest we share our cities with the most exotic and lovely animal, THE BANANA SLUG! It's so fun and adorable when our cities are swarmed with millions of pungent fist sizes balls of poisonous slime! It's fantastic for our tourism industry, too! People come from all over to ruin their shoes, and slide comically down the many step inclines of our robust urban sidewalk system.
Yikes! Hmm.. banana republicans? 🍌🐌
I'm ded
The sound of them being squished by bicycle tires is something I'll never forget XD
@@MegaJessness the delicate sound of a dozen eggs slowly rolling off a low counter
@@bryanyakimets2235 while I am, a state park just near my house has a *slug trail" that gets lots of traffic from slug seekers! They occasionally swarm urban areas too. Maybe even your porch and car if your lucky lol
When I heard the name "mugger crocodile" I immediately thought of a crocodile jumping out of a dark alley way with a switchblade
Wearing a trench coat and selling watches? Well, he had to do something once he'd eaten Captain Hook. 👍
It's much easier to remember and say DDT if you memorize a simple rhyme :)
A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichloro
Diphenyltrichloroethane
I would normally say that a chemist writing poetry is out of his element, but your rhyme is kinda Oxygen Potassium.
What creature, alive or extinct, ever invented that rhyme.....
thanks this makes it so much easier
I think watching Late Night comedy has influenced my thought processes. The first thing that came to mind when I heard Mugger Crocodile was Florida. When I heard overweight, I had to replay the bit to make sure it really wasn't Florida.
Now I’m just imagining an obese Gator putting around on one of those motorized scooter chairs
Peregrines also benefit from longer hunting hours due to the city lights.
I've noticed regular garden birds can be active throughout the night in town where there are plenty of streetlights.
Nice detail - thank you! How awesome of you! 👍
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Yeah eating more sickly animals that live off garbage.
And skyscrapers are more or less even more “spawn kill” proof than cliffs: even the people who build them don’t want to be crawling around the outsides of them
a lot of small birds are also getting used to the city, here near montreal grackles that used to stay near open fields are taking over suburban backyards fighting with ravens, and dark-eyed juncos who used to prefer the country are all over the grass in the city in spring. I even saw a pair of full size crows in the industrial sector, probably feeding on warehouse rats!
I saw a whitetail deer in the city park this morning. It seemed confused about what I was and kept getting closer and eyeballing me, bouncing away and then coming back. I suppose it wasn't expecting to see someone there that early in the morning.
Exceptionally entertaining scishow. Usually I like geeking out on data but this video had me cracking up
It''l be interesting to see the niche ecosystems that develop in urban areas as time goes on.
My dad was once having lunch in a food court on a tall building. He was watching pigeons flit about outside the window when a blur shot down from above leaving nothing but feathers in its wake. That was a falcon taking down a pigeon outside a 16th floor window.
Coyotes, opossums, foxes, & armadillos are a few more that came to mind for this vid.
And badgers, in the UK at least.
Depending on where you are, cottontail rabbits as well. Got the little lawn scarfers around here.
The absence of Coyotes in this video seems especially conspicuous.
No armadillos or many foxes here in Nor Calif but plenty of the other two plus skunks, rats, mice, and parrots.
The ever-present pigeons and gulls too
You didn't mention the most pervasive of all: rats and mice. They have adapted so well to living in urban environments that new subspecies are developing that exist nowhere else. The presence of the rodents are part of the reason various snakes are able to survive in urban environments. We are a keyston species.
Rewatched "Over the Hedge", the other day. These critters are more organized than you realize Stefan.
That movie is an underrated classic!
The thought of a snake shitting itself when startled is actually kind of funny, not so much for the recipient of the buttsplosion, but still hilarious in my head... :P
A hippopotamus flaps its tail around during defecation to ensure maximum flung dung.
I've never even thought of a snake's butthole before now.
There is another snake that when disturbed sucks in air with its rear hole and then farts as loud as a vacuum cleaner to frighten predators.
Thank you for the word buttsplosion
The city meta sure is surprising to see. The tier list is entirely different for this environment.
With that lingo, I might have a YT channel for you... it's called "tierzoo"... don't know if u have ever heard of it 😛😛
Most likely they've already watched Tier Zoo.
@@chanbricks4461 dude I don't know what to say 😂
That Tier Zoo video came out 3 months ago, but coincidentally, I saw it right before this video.
The real question here is whether the devs are gonna take this anthropogenic global warming quirk of the physics engine and just let it start adding debuffs as it already is, or are they gonna introduce a balance patch that will be even worse.
BTW: I believe that the current Covid-19 subplot is just part of the game's biology engine. Yes, human mains have been able to hack the bio-engine since Germ Theory, and the devs really could be messing with us, but I am convinced this is all part of the normal operation of the bio engine. We can beat it.
You missed the notorious Sydney Bin Chicken, sometimes also known as the White Ibis.
Australian Bin Chicken* That birb is everywhere 😂😭
Raccoons, like crows, understand caws and effect.
A man was attacked by a mugger, but he wasn't mugged.
Got a perigrine falcon who lives at the top of the church, can often see them diving down and grabbing a pigeon to an applause. Fastest bird wins over fastest bird in level flight most times.
Mitzpe Ramon, in Southern Israel, is apparently the only city in the world where ibex took over the role of street cats. These desert-loving mountain goats adapted so well to the town life that you have to be careful not to hit them with your car when you go shopping!
Spat my drink through my nose when he did that impression.
The fact that Sydney's bin chickens aren't on here is a travesty.
What species should I look up? I'm intrigued right now.
a terrifying creature with the will of evil and a hunger for trash
Also Austin, TX's ringtails. (And other cities within their Southwest US/Northern Mexico range.)
@@justynafigas-skrzypulec3349 Australian White Ibis. They originally lived in the swampy land that Sydney was built on and turns out the long curved pointy beaks they used to eat food out of wet land work awesome for picking food out of bins. They're now everywhere in Sydney seen scavaging on bins hence the nickname "bin chicken" and the love/hate relationship the locals have with them. 🤙🏻
Aside from the usual local crows, had a Stellar's Jay and a Northern Flicker visiting recently. Such delightful birds. Love sharing the city with critters.
Watching mugurs from the various bridges on the river is a favorite hobby and hangout spot for a lot of people in Vadodara.
Shoutout to the animator that made his own poop emoji
Those flying foxes look like....actual foxes
Maenad it’s almost like one was named after the other
But they fly unlike a regular fox
And they're cute!
Ehehehehehehehehehehehe 😅
They can also carry a virus similar to rabies. Cute maybe, but you wouldn't want to touch one.
I absolutely loved it when Stephen went wild describing raccoon wisdom...🤣🤣 3:03
You guys should make a part two! Im almost obsessed with city animals because I find it fascinating how they can adapt to a completely new biome and be so successful!
Thanks to the lockdown in the city I live (central Europe) we now have ferrets, those big forest pigeons, kind of small falcons, hedgehogs roaming free on the lawns, yesterday I saw a peasant just strolling along my street! Maybe they lived here before but now they just aren't afraid of the traffic and people...
I always tell people who complain about wild animals that just because you build a home in the wilderness doesn't mean it's not wilderness. Regardless of when the animals entered the cities this was all their home first we need to respect them.
Plus, wild humans are more of a dangerous wild card than other wild animals
Eh, territorial species do fight other species when found in their territory. They are trying to protect whatever they like about the area, food, water, mates, whatever.
It amazes me when people buy a house way up in the foothills and then freak out when they see bears and cougars raiding their garbage. What are you gonna do, evict them for not paying rent?
Limey Lassen
Take it easy, Mr. Griz has been going thru some tough times lately
“GRAWR, I miss my wife”
Don't forget NYC mice!
First time I saw a mouse in the wild- it popped out of a hole in the ground in a Manhattan park
so i finally learnt what the dark dirigible titan is made of: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
And if you pop it all your towers will get sick and die
Those animals are more well-adapted to city life than I am!
The Mexican Free-tail bat does quite well in urban areas here in Texas. Austin, for example, is famous for the bats under the Congress Ave Bridge.
Thank for acknowledging that we are just one of the clever animals. I like that.
Hearing Mr. Chin do a Brooklyn accent blew my mind.
No mention of the rat got New Yorkers mad tight over this video, Two words "State Animal"!!!
They skipped the obvious ones. That's why cockroaches and all the other insects got left out as well.
The number of flying foxes in Australia is actually declining and not increasing. They are an endangered species. However, they are being killed a lot even though they are essential for the environment. It’s incredibly sad...
I saw Australia is increasing its cattle farms. I mean a lot.
foxes are not supposed to fly
@@assangewikileaks8546 -Then why did God give them wings ?
@@christelheadington1136 He didn't. Flying foxes are bats, we just call them foxes because they look like them.
Plenty around here...
I need a nature doc about wild and feral animals in urban and suburban environments. Give it to me, Discovery Channel &/or BBC!!!
look up australian bin chickens.
i think bbc did do one of those
DR (Danish national broadcasting service) just made a great series of the Danish wildlife - the last episode was about exactly that! 😃
www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/vilde-vidunderlige-danmark_-byen_182161
It is in Danish, though..
Does Discovery have worthwhile programming now. They used to do mainly UFO and supernatural BS.
There's an episode in BBC's Planet Earth that's all about that, though I think some of the examples covered in the documentary is also covered in this video
I've had 2 raccoons as pets. Before you all start bashing your keyboards, I was licensed and they were rescues. But you think child proofing a house is hard? Try raccoon proofing. Next to impossible. Had 1 completely flood the bottom floor of my house. lol Just my $0.02
I wouldn’t want them in my house but they do have cute little hands. 😂
I hate raccoons. They're pests.
Would love to just tame a wild one, or have the crazy laws changed so we could actually breed some domestic ones. They're so stinking adorable. 😊
Look up _Bassariscus astutus_ and meet a cuter procyonid that people keep as a pet. ;-)
@@Daekar3 Ok. I hope the crazy laws stay intact. After all, I've no idea if maybe people of your kind live around here.
Synurbic.
Who came up with _that_ Greco-Roman hybrid monstrosity ?
Latin needs to be brought back into schools.
Synopolic would be so much nicer.
There are actually a lot of words with blended Greek and Latin origins, such as bioluminescence, polyamory, neonatal, asexual, genocide, geostationary, and neuroscience.
Also, the prefix "syn-" and the adjective "urban" ultimately both come from Proto-Into-European roots... "sem-" meaning one, which became "with" (sun-) in Ancient Greek, and "werb" meaning enclose, which became "city" (urbs) in Latin.
@@Aeturnalis how long will we hang on to those silly beginnings before we decide to move the definition baseline forward in time. We have crossed every single language that hasn't fully died with every other language and most of the sounds we make have different meaning depending upon who hears them. Most words are found in every language with some other pronunciation and or definition because we can only make between 5,000 and 10,000 different actual sounds. One unified language is the only way to have one unified species without racism or religious hate. Once everyone sounds the same we will decide they are equal and we will all give up our nationality to be people of earth, and humans. With one language and one nationality. Earth
Why is it that some people care so much about mixing Greek and Latin roots, but no one cares about blending Germanic and Latin roots? "Priceless " and "Sportsmanship" are Latin-Germanic hybrids and no one cares. Even Thomas Jefferson and all those guys didn't care. They used "unalienable" rather than the more correct Latin derived "inalienable". Does this make them barbarians?
Mixing roots is how English works. I've recently come across the word "weebish", a Japanese-Germanic hybrid. I am sure that some reading this comment understand what it means. English mixes roots. Still, I gotta admit as a student of Greek long ago "synopolic" sounds pretty cool.
You forgot possums. Actually many marsupials have managed to adapt to human civilization.
Also wild boars. They're highly intelligent and live in or close to cities, because they know that they're not hunted there. They also grow considerably larger, because they find more food in or around the cities.
Other than opossums and possums, I can't think of any marsupials that hang around urban environments. Of course, I'm not Australian where nearly every terrestrial animal is marsupial.
@@patrickmccurry1563 yea I'm Australian and you don't usually see many marsupials in cities. even possums are fairly rare where I live, but they definitely like to chill in rooves. the species that come to mind here would be fruit bats, crested pigeons, ibises, magpies and seemingly every other swooping bird species, and the many many kinds of parrot. I live in the south tho and US videos like this tend to either focus on the climate and ecology of the tropical north or the southeastern states where Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra are.
@@wey1381 have you been to the inner parks of Brisbane city, Australia, around QUT? At night the possums come out in many numbers. In fact any inner city suburb of Brisbane has them. Snakes have done well in rural and suburban areas. Bats and many birds plague many cities and suburbs of Australia, some native, some introduced. Rats and mice love human civilization, no matter where on earth they inhabit, rats will be there. Kangaroos and wallabies love open grass lands and plains. What do farmers and urban sprawl result in, open fields with lots of species of grasses and grain. There are Emus around the western suburbs of Sydney that have increased in numbers, Deer in the Southern parts of Sydney suburbs, Waterfall for example.
Some species adapt to changes imposed upon them, some don't. Australia has many animals that have been helped by human civilization and I'm sure it's the same world wide.
@@benkeller6027 again I live in the south, so our climate and ecology is different. We get some possums in our parks and snakes in yards near the coast and there's a uni campus famous for its koalas, but in general they're still fairly unusual (like excitedly take a picture and send it to your friends unusual). I have literally never seen a wallaby in the city here, but again that might be bc we're outside of the natural range of most wallabies, and kangaroos are rare in the city (like they're big news). Emus are even rarer. In general we have a lot of birds and Adelaide's inner city park isn't full of possums it's full of bats (seriously go to Botanic park at night), who you can argue aren't thriving bc when it's summer they die in huge numbers bc of that heat island effect. I wasn't looking to name every animal that lives with us, just those comparable to the US examples of raccoons and opossums, and I was focusing on natives bc they're going to be the most different to other countries (mice, rats, foxes, cats and to a lesser extent deer, thrive almost anywhere)
In Krakow we have lots of small bats, mainly be the river where they feast on all the insects. It looks quite cool when they roam around old light posts munching on confused bugs.
But do they eat confused flour beetles?
2:52 love the photo shoot. Both are so cute 😌
Thanks for another insightful and fantastic piece of content ✌🏼
I love city animals, we have deer that live in the city and bears too, I believe there are some wolves and cougars too but you never really see them.
I was hoping Mumbai's leopards would make an appearance
Mumbai what ?
I was thinking the same. I have night vision video of them walk down the sideways with people not far away.
@@rikofebri627 Lol. Yes. You wouldn't expect leopards to live in one of the most densely populated cities on the planet. But they do. They're almost exclusively nocturnal & have even figured out how to use foot bridges to cross roads & train tracks. Also they're really elusive, they move to the outskirts of the city during daytime & come back in during the night to pick on dogs, goats & even cows if the leopard is big enough. Mumbai street dogs are scared shitless by the smell of leopard urine for a reason.
The Italian New Yorker accent was hilarious! XD
Very fun episode. Thank you. 👍
Thats so great and informative. Love you SciShow
Stefan, I'm gonna need you to do an entire episode yelling in a new york accent.
"Ay, I'm presentin' 'ere!"
Love the flying foxes, had no idea that they were that huge.
LOL at "safe, warm, and abundant."
06:23 Or pooing on people... as happened to a colleague of mine walking by the date palms outside our office. Very sticky and very unpleasant. The bat poo that is, not my colleague. Though I can now see how this would have been the epitome of poetic justice if he had been.
06:50 Alas seen more than a few zapped bats over the years. Poor buggers.
This was an awesome video! Thank you! 💚💚💚💚💚
Damn i had a water snake named cloud he bit me once (has very small teeth so didnt hurt) but never excreted on me but it stunk when it used the restroom (digested fish)
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, now that's a mouthful. I've seen those falcons in Central Park. And Gibraltar is well known for their macaques
You forgot to mention that NYC's falcons use the heat flows created by traffic and rising between the scyscrapers in order to save energy while flying
(I have this from a BBC documentary on synurbic animals)
Love these videos
I wonder when/if we could classify synurbic peregrines as a different species, since the ecology of them are markedly different from the cliff-dwelling variety.
They are so cute
More episodes like this please
I didn't know I needed it, but new-york accent Sephan is amazing. I wonder how much he had to practice it.
The idea of city monkeys makes me happy
Read 'Future Evolution' by Peter Ward sometime if you are intetested in what new species nature could create in the anthropocene.
you should have a look at "Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction" by biologist Chris Thomas
In Stockholm we've had a lot of birds lately, even Great crested grebes!
3:03 that accent has me cracking up😂
I’m a bit disappointed you didn’t talk about the red foxes in London
And quite a few other cities.
The guy presenting is very cute.
We are as much nature as any other animal on this planet, I'm glad to see that our fellow creatures are making use of the cities.
Yes! What secrets do the urban ecosystem hold?
Loved it
Talking about falcons reminded me of Stuart Little 2, where there was a falcon wanting to eat them in New York City.
To humans, a huge flock of pigeons is a nuisance.
To falcons, it’s an all you can eat buffet.
Lol...your impression was lol...very cool episode
That was a great "jersey guy" accent.
Lol this is rather timely. We had a big old brown bear walking around the suburb, just chilling.
how - 😳! Guess it's a good day to self isolate!
Nice Video
For about a month now I have been putting out dry dog food for the local raccoons. I live in a average residential single home neighborhood. It has amazed me how many different animals come through during the night. One raccoon mother has 4 kits. 4 days ago I got a small kiddie pool with a package of floating bath toys. In the morning the toys are scattered all over the place. It is fun to watch...
They heads are on a swivel too, listening and watching for trouble. Some of them do not play well with others... But I find it enjoyable...
3:03 And the Oscar for best New York accent in a UA-cam video about trash pandas goes to...
Okay: I want to change my comment now: Mugger Crocodiles. A la Epic NPC Man:
Crocodile: What arrrr we?
Other Crocodile: We ah muggahs!
Crocodile: Den what ah we do?
Other Crocodile: We mug em!
Both Crocodiles: Den les go MUG EM!!!
Both get run over by toxic waste dump truck to respawn at the graveyard.
Sometimes I get nervous walking too close to tall trees at night because there are so many bats in the city I live in. I know they're harmless but still...
ps: I live in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
I live in rural MN and lemme tell you, black bears love hanging out in neighborhoods, it's pretty regular for us to see black bears and their cubs this time of year just wandering around in yards monching on bird seed. The other day a few blocks from me a man was apparently eating a sandwich in his backyard and the momma bear waltzed right up to him, thankfully he just tossed her his sandwich and went inside and everything was fine!
That's great about Falcons. I remember DDT. It was a terrible problem.
This video killed me 😂
I used to work in central London. The Peregrines would eat pigeons on the fire escape just outside my office window.
Does anyone notice how similar two of the Sci Show speakers sound?
9:34 still a better love story than twilight
🙉🍧🐒
4:24 Isn't that the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo?
You got a thumbs up just for that New Yorker accent 3:03
Grey herons have adapted well to urban parks/areas in the UK too it seems
Humans: Spends millennia walling self off from nature
Nature: i know i dont belong here but im just gunna move right in
I'm in San Jose California and we've got peregrines.
I'm not at all surprised that some wild animals want to live in cities. It just makes logical sense that this would happen sometimes. Especially when us humans are extremely wasteful and that trash is actually helping the wild animals that have started feeding off of it. So this just makes sense.
It just goes to show that nature doesn’t stop at city limits.
I loved the New Yorker impersonation lol
The Raccoon path has me cracking up 😂😂
Keep up the good content :)