Walking With Beasts - Episode 3 - Land of Giants - Review
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
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To celebrate its 20-year anniversary, I am reviewing the BBC documentary series: Walking With Beasts! Acting as a continuation of Walking with Dinosaurs, this series details the following 65 million years of evolution of life on earth, showcasing a myriad of the weird and wonderful creatures of the Cenozoic era. In this video, I review and analyse the third episode: Land of Giants.
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There is evidence of parts of horse skulls, including teeth, found in Hyaenodon coprolites in South Dakota. Showing that Hyaenodon could indeed crush bones but of smaller prey. Same applies for primitive camel-like animals that were eaten by Hyaenodon.
Oh wow, I had never heard of this! Thanks for the comment!
@@HodgePodge7 No problem 😊. Been a fan watching your videos since I first watched your Ballad of Big Al review a few months ago.
Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it!
@@HodgePodge7 I actually have most of the Walking with Series as 1-5 minute videos with a couple 80+ minute videos at the end of the playlist. I was thinking of having your Walking with Series reviews as a separate playlist I could make, but having your pre-made playlist of Paleomedia Reviews actually works better.
Question, what's your ABSOLUTE favorite track of the entire series? If I had to pick one myself, it would be either Time of the Titans, Feeding Frenzy (from Sea Monsters), or that one track when the adult Megalodon appears and circles round the Ancient Mariner.
I want a justiceforbeardog sticker right now
Remember watching this as a kid and how heartbreaking it was when the mother pushed him away but hie satisfying it was when he stands up for himself. Just shows how harsh nature can be but sometimes for a good reason (also kinda hits more close to home now as a young adult 😅)
It’s important to note that the Hyaenodon in this is massively oversized, and it’s something I noticed even as a kid. The highest estimates for H. gigas put it at 500 kg, which is the size of a decent-sized bear, not even close to being rhino-sized, and the former are likely overestimates, which has been a common problem when determining the size of hyaenodonts as a whole (due to their disproportionally large skulls), and H. gigas was more likely the size of a tiger, though it was still a giant compared to basically every other Hyaenodon species, which were wolf-sized or smaller. The closest match to the WWD Hyaenodon would be the Mid Miocene, African Megistotherium, the largest known hyaenodont, estimated to have weighed somewhere between 450-700 kg.
The etelodonts were so scary to me as a kid. I saw this first as Prehistoric Planet on Discovery Kids and they terrified me when the males fought and when the Hyaenodon was robbed.
Ironically it was the fact that the teeth of Hyaenodontids were so specialised for cutting meat is thought to have led to their extinction
The mating scene was heart wrenching as we saw what happened to the older offspring, happen to the main star.
This was and is my favourite episode of Wwb
omg the blends of the dead-ant-eaten-Gastornis-chick gives me flashbacks
The calf is so cute. When I was eight I misheard the narration and thought the Hyaenodon were as big as houses when that probably would have been the Indricothere/Paraceratherium, maybe even taller.
It was not only informative it was also funny as well
Another good video as always! I do hope you might begin to review models of the animals featured within the episodes again at some point. :)
My favourite walking with beasts episodes are the saber tooth cat one along with the final woolly mammoth ice age episode.
No joke about the wet season (New Blood)? You’re getting slack 😂
But really, all your reviews are mouthwatering. I love your explanation of palaeontology for the time of mammals as I’m not familiar with it as the time of Dinosaurs.
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What is the species that you think the Chalicotherium is? Just curious. Thanks so much for making this Masterpiece of a review!
Thank you for your kind words! Schizotherium
Funny that bear dogs are so lame in this episode but became the dominant predators taking over hyaenodonts
This is actually a myth. Hyaenodonts successfully competed with bear-dogs as apex predators in Africa and Eurasia even as late as the Middle Miocene (in fact, the largest hyaenodonts and the largest bear-dogs are both from around that time). By the Late Miocene the big hyaenodonts were gone, but the bear-dogs were also in severe decline by that point.
Awesome dude! Great as ever!
I always found it odd that in the episode, it was said that Paraceratherium will spend most time of their lives in the open plains, following the shot of arrid bushlands with a severe lack of highlevel vegetation. To me at least it doesn't make sense at all that an animal evolved for high browsing will prominently live in such a habitat. Can someone help me out with this?
awesome video
I don't even know which character is even more of a Squidward in this episode: the Indricothere calf or the bear dog. Both get put through the wringer in this episode, but the calf is also gray, has a nasal voice and somehow pushes through every time.
Love watching this series when Im bored
This one was always my favourite
10:21 Chalicothere existential crisis
Poor beardog unfortunately nature ain't real big on justice
Two year pregnancy ☠️☠️ sweet jesus
The filming locations for this episode are Mexico (Sierra de Organos ) & Arizona
I'm from Arizona but does anyone know where specifically the film crew shot in Arizona for the episode?
Oh awesome! I didn't know the name of the exact location until now!
I know, it toke me last December to figure out where exactly they filmed in Mexico. Now if I can pinpoint where they shot in Arizona (plus Florida for Whale Killer) then I'm in the clear
I think this episode is cool
*big ol' sniff* oh yeah that's the good shit (literally)
The construction of soft tissue structures based on fossilized bones is probably the silliest thing palaeontologists get up to. If my bones are found in the future how could anyone know how big my nose was? Or my cock? (Hint: HUGE)