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My cat succeeds in catching her prey way more than most of these, a good 95% of the time! Admittedly, her 'prey' is usually socks, toys or imaginary :)
My kitty uses the middleman technique to achieve a 99.9% kill rate. She demands food, I get up and fill her food bowl. It’s sounds simple but when you consider the fact that these clever felines tricked us into believing we domesticated them when it’s actually the other way around. Instead of having to create opposable thumbs and gigantic brains on their own they just hijacked ours using their irresistible cuteness to disable our defenses. Well played, floofballs, well played. ❤😻
Where I used to live, the dragonflies would figure out part way through the season that it was in their best interest to hang around where the humans are because they would have a non-stop buffet. You'd have an irritating deer fly or two buzzing around for a while, then hear "bzzZZZ-TICK!" as a dragonfly would zoom by and snag a snack. Three or four dragonflies and that cloud of mosquitoes would thin right out. Occasionally they would even get friendly enough to land on you when they wanted to rest. I love those things :)
i think that's why dragonflies always seem to follow my dad around at his home. in the summer they buzz around him and sometimes even land on him if he's sitting still
Same thing used to happen here. When there was a "flock" (for lack of a better word), you could just stand in the yard with arms out and they'd land right on you. Haven't seen them in a couple years now, though
Osprey and Eagles are no joke! Right here in Oregon on the Willamette river this past July, we saw an osprey pick a fish right out of the water-which is not an uncommon sight here-only to be swooped down upon by a much larger bald eagle and endlessly harassed until it dropped the fish. THEN the eagle swooped down and picked that fish up about an inch above the water-his talons didn’t even get wet. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. The osprey didn’t give up its prize easily. It swerved and dodged like a champ before giving up the meal. Can only imagine how the fish felt about it all....
Meanwhile in New England, a bald eagle was found dead after being speared though the heart by a Common Loon beak. The poor loon lost her chicks to the eagle but hell if she didn’t make him pay for it. Lesson here: eagles are lazy scavengers? Lol. Also never mess with a loon
The tactics of the African Painted Dogs are fascinating. They seem to intrinsically know that it is a shorter distance across a circle than around it. So as a group, they are very good at selecting the oldest, youngest, or weakest member of a herd and separating them. This alone accounts for much of their success. Then once their intended target it separated from its herd, the dogs will break up into two groups. One group will chase the animal around a large circle, while the other group runs across the circle. When the first group chases the animal past them, the second group, now rested, takes up the chase while the first group goes back across the circle and waits. The second group now chases the animal around the circle until it reaches the first group, now rested, which then resumes the chase. This insures there is always fresh, relatively rested dogs chasing the animal until it is physically exhausted, and can then no longer either run nor fight. This allows the ~50 dogs to take down much larger prey. Once the prey has been secured, the animals call each other to bring the groups back together and allow them to consume the animal, often still alive, as quickly as possible to avoid having it stolen by larger predators, like lions and hyenas. They gorge themselves, then return to their den area where they regurgitate for the pups and the adults that are watching them. Dependence on regurgitation is common throughout canines and is the reason why your domesticated dogs eat vomit. It may seem gross, but it is necessary for survival of those too young, old, or injured to hunt in the wild, and has become encoded on the DNA of our domestic breeds from their wild ancestors.
Watching a pack of African painted dogs break down their prey to bone in under a minute is wild. Like land-based piranhas. The second most brutal are warthogs being pulled apart alive by two lions. they scream and make so much noise. Poor pigs have terrible eyesights smh
I’ve seen my domestic barn cat bring back a half eaten rabbit, and quite a few birds. Rabbits are an uncommon sight down here,and I can’t imagine it would be easy either to bring down an animal almost the same size as you, AND faster than you. I swear domestic cats are BEASTS.
in australia they introduced a lot of domestic cats in barns and places infested with rodents and snakes to control plagues like in middle ages, and now the only remaining things are cats, they've obliterated all the snakes, the rats and the birds. Cats are killing machines but because they're adorable we don't think of them as killers
@@juanaltredo2974 That's true.I moved to the countryside and adopted two kittens last year. They always bring their prey home so I have an idea of how much they kill in a year. I've counted at least 200 mice in a year span, and they recently took an interest in bats as they've spotted a bat den in the roof of my house. They've pretty much not only completely cleaned my house of mice, but also for the neighbors.
Ones of my cats, she loves to bring back frogs to the garden and then playing with them. This time however it appears to have spawn and now we have hundreds of tadpoles :~)
False: crows and seagulls are. I've seen a seagull snatch a french fry right out of a persons hand while they were trying to eat it and i once saw a pair of crows steal an entire bag of chips away from a guy while he was eating them. They may lack grace but they make up for it with a complete lack of shame.
I saw a bald eagle and several ospreys fishing near the James River a couple weeks ago. It's really neat how they hold the fish pointing forward to reduce drag.
My uncle actually battled an osprey over a fish. The osprey spotted the fish shortly after my uncle got a bite, and dove down to grab it. After an extensive tug-of-war lasting several minutes, the bird gave up. My uncle reeled in the dying fish, which was bleeding out of some fairly huge talon holes. After a while, the osprey caught another fish and left. It was a good day.
I have both eagles and osprey in my area, every time I go fishing I see at least one of them. I have only seen one of them not get a fish on the first try. It is extremely impressive. They just fly in a circle around the lake until they lock in on a target, then they go into a nose dive with their talons facing forward. Sometimes they get a fish to big to fly away with so they get it to the edge of the lake and go to town right there. Nature is neat haha
I once saw a show that said that house cats were the top hunters. They didn't just calculate the percent rate of capture but how big the prey base was and house cats had a huge prey base, far larger than some wild cats that had 30 to 60 prey species.
House cats should not be counted in a competition like that because they're so clearly an outlier based on being domesticated. They junt so many things because they live in the most places.
Hummingbirds! Many aren’t aware they hunt insects as well as drink nectar. I’d be interested to know their success rate. I’ve observed the hunting behavior of the Anna’s Hummingbird here in California perhaps a dozen times. I have yet to see one miss its target. One time in the late afternoon I was watching a small swarm of 18 or so of (some type of fly) hovering above the lawn catching the late afternoon sunlight. The neighborhood male Anna’s arrived, looked me in the eyes then proceeded to pick them off one by one till they were all gone over the course of say 15 seconds or so. I was flabbergasted!
If you buy one of those little toy drones, no bigger than a dragonfly, and practice in the yard every morning,,, you MIGHT find yourself flying WITH some dragonflies, , and you MIGHT find that the dragonflies chase and mimic the drone, as well as display their own acrobatics in celebration of experience of seeing the drone fly. However, they don't seem to understand propellers very well, and are likely to hit them, ... One time I had a swarm of bees playing with a larger toy (like the nerf drone), and they survived, but flew constantly through the propellers, like a cloud of bees chasing into the propellers, being forced down (and banged on), and then flying back above the props to take the ride again,,, but I landed because i could see that the props were definately damaging a few of the bees, and the swarm didn't seem to figure it out that it's also dangerous. (bees,,, they're only days old). anyway, dragonflies love drones like little children do, . so do flies, and birds, (I taught birds that DON'T hover to hover, I wish I had THAT on camera),
I used to work at a seafood restaurant on the Gulf Coast and we had an osprey best the parking lot. We had to close several parking spots because they would just drop fish all over the place. We would watch them bring in fish non-stop.
Ag3nt0fCha0s UK leaving gives them many perks towards a down spiral. One of them is to get the EU court off their backside to implement wider government surveillance. www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14037514/eu-rules-uk-surveillance-laws-illegal
i always find it a little ironic that most of the countries ranked as the "most free" are either citites like Hong Kong that are not so secretly run by dictators or they're countries in the EU, which are essentially nanny states. Like yeah, they're free societies but they also ban butter knives, memes, and heavily regulate everything you eat like a fussy mum, banning trans fats, food dyes, bananas that are misshapen, and Mountain Dew.
My cat is a terrifying hunter. He has been laying on my lap outside on a lawn chair, appearing sound asleep, and while I am still wondering what is happening, he is eating something, a gopher, a mouse or even a bird. I have never seen him miss. He has brought home quail, rabbits, even ducks. I hope he never gets really angry with me and hungry at the same time.
I have to say, I know I can hit the LIKE/THUMB UP button even before the intro is done, because I know I will LEARN something, will LIKE what I learn, and because these vids are so well done I will REMEMBER what was said.
I mean, dragonflies are real badasses. I already knew about their extreme speed, agility and special eyes, didn't know about them being highly efficient hunters but when you compare them to other insects, it isn't really a surprise.
Okay i'm not named 'becky' nor am i a women, but i still prefer cats over any other animals as pets. One's sexuality or names does not always describe their personality.
Cheetah’s success rate drops a bit when you consider how often their catch is robbed by other animals. They are usually too exhausted to fend off the competition
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cats raised at least partially outdoors are great hunters. my cat spent her whoel life outside and she killed snakes, birds, rats, moles, mice, shrews, and sometimes even possums and squirrels. I'm not sure how many she killed but she also fought with, and regularly defeated, the same clan of raccoons for at least 5 generations. Coyotes tried hunting her a few times and judging by the noises in the bushes she either really pissed a couple of them off or fought with them and escaped.
"their not the most terrifying predators" um yea no there terrifying, the fact that its throat is a one way trip to death and poison resistance is a bit much
The most efficient hunters are house pets, with a success rate of 99.99%. Nearly always able to find their bowl and eat the prey contained within, they are the most successful creatures on Earth, having turned the dominant species into feeding machines.
I have been raising and enjoying cats for the last 50 years. I completely agree with your title. My cats are indoor/outdoor. They are not allowed out at night. Shelby averages 2-4 mice/moles/chipmunks a day. She eats what she kills. Her bad trait is this talent extends to birds. Her speed and agility are unreal. I have seen her take a bird out of the air. A 12 lb killing machine.
My cat Jessie has slowed down on hunts She killed almost all the rodents in our town And half of the birds And also 3 bats aaannnddd finally a frog Don't ask how did she got the bats Just don't
I've heard house cats in Australia can kill wallabies heavier than themselves. But our now-passed-away huntress' most impressive catch was a magpie. Rather, the only thing she brought home was its wing. We have no idea how she did it
I was driving home one night and I saw a black-footed cat on the road with its head squashed flat and its brains splattered on the road. It wasn't safe to get out of my car late at night but i did anyway and took it off the road. I was crying hard and saying "I'm so sorry" over and over even though I wasn't the one who killed it. The worst part was that it was only a kitten. The same size as my kitten at home. I stroked it and told it that it deserved so much better. I also kissed it which sounds creepy but I didn't know how else to express my love and sorrow. It smelled just like a house cat. I don't understand how someone can run over an animal and not even have the decency to take it off the road.
So as our plastic waste eventually bring leatherback turtles to extinction, what other natural predators do jellyfish have? Or will our oceans eventually be just full of jellyfish?
@@siyacer Looks like if I would have just googled my question, I would have learned that sea turtles like to eat jellyfish as well as many other aquatic life forms including Sharks, Tuna, Swordfish & Penguins.
Skitches because it’s totally the fault of the lowest paid workers who may not have any other job opportunity and not the high paid shareholders who make all the decisions. /s
Interesting way of looking at it akamesama. But wouldn't you assume that larger bodies also require more calories to maintain (especially muscle mass)?
New on my To Do: wait for Leatherback Bill to miss a jelly so I can scold the use of 100% catch rate without a qualifier like 'almost' or 'practically'.
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I checked out Michael Aranda noticed he's gotten chubbier.
3:11 "WILDERBEEST"
I see that you did that...on porpoise
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My cat succeeds in catching her prey way more than most of these, a good 95% of the time!
Admittedly, her 'prey' is usually socks, toys or imaginary :)
I assume the 5% is the elusive red laser dot
@@OnTheBlank One of these days, red dot. One of these days.
@@hisss 😹😹😹
My kitty uses the middleman technique to achieve a 99.9% kill rate. She demands food, I get up and fill her food bowl. It’s sounds simple but when you consider the fact that these clever felines tricked us into believing we domesticated them when it’s actually the other way around. Instead of having to create opposable thumbs and gigantic brains on their own they just hijacked ours using their irresistible cuteness to disable our defenses. Well played, floofballs, well played. ❤😻
🤣👍
I can believe that kitty has a high catch rate. And catching my heart 100% of the time😸
Mine also cat-lover here 😺
Cats are low-maintenance and are great family members. I love dogs too and they express love in different ways.
same lol!!!!!!!😂😂🩷🩷🩷🩷…………………….!!!!!!.!….!!!
"Don't let their cute little furry faces fool you..." Too late. * *squees hypersonically* *
Me
"the leatherback may not be the most terrifying..." bro their mouths look like the gates of hell.
yes
Where I used to live, the dragonflies would figure out part way through the season that it was in their best interest to hang around where the humans are because they would have a non-stop buffet. You'd have an irritating deer fly or two buzzing around for a while, then hear "bzzZZZ-TICK!" as a dragonfly would zoom by and snag a snack. Three or four dragonflies and that cloud of mosquitoes would thin right out. Occasionally they would even get friendly enough to land on you when they wanted to rest. I love those things :)
dragonflies and huntsman spiders are always welcome in my home
they pay the rent by keeping flies and other bugs out, so if i see one i leave it alone
i think that's why dragonflies always seem to follow my dad around at his home. in the summer they buzz around him and sometimes even land on him if he's sitting still
Same thing used to happen here. When there was a "flock" (for lack of a better word), you could just stand in the yard with arms out and they'd land right on you. Haven't seen them in a couple years now, though
Osprey and Eagles are no joke! Right here in Oregon on the Willamette river this past July, we saw an osprey pick a fish right out of the water-which is not an uncommon sight here-only to be swooped down upon by a much larger bald eagle and endlessly harassed until it dropped the fish. THEN the eagle swooped down and picked that fish up about an inch above the water-his talons didn’t even get wet. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. The osprey didn’t give up its prize easily. It swerved and dodged like a champ before giving up the meal. Can only imagine how the fish felt about it all....
Tami Lindsley it’s dead.
At least it felt wanted...
CardboardKing that’s all you need in life tbh
Meanwhile in New England, a bald eagle was found dead after being speared though the heart by a Common Loon beak. The poor loon lost her chicks to the eagle but hell if she didn’t make him pay for it. Lesson here: eagles are lazy scavengers? Lol. Also never mess with a loon
@@ohrats731 yeah no joke in cantina the loon in on the coin
7:15 I too have the ability to fly straight down.
If at first you don't succeed don't go skydiving.
If at first you dont succeed, you wont be skydiving twice...
That is the easiest way to learn to fly.
You can fly straight down, but can you get up again?
@@shanerooney7288
Isn't that called orbiting?
I see kitty, I clicky
agreed
said like a true poet!
#same
no
True
at 1:15, that is the most spectacularly adorable cat ever
The tactics of the African Painted Dogs are fascinating. They seem to intrinsically know that it is a shorter distance across a circle than around it. So as a group, they are very good at selecting the oldest, youngest, or weakest member of a herd and separating them. This alone accounts for much of their success. Then once their intended target it separated from its herd, the dogs will break up into two groups. One group will chase the animal around a large circle, while the other group runs across the circle. When the first group chases the animal past them, the second group, now rested, takes up the chase while the first group goes back across the circle and waits. The second group now chases the animal around the circle until it reaches the first group, now rested, which then resumes the chase. This insures there is always fresh, relatively rested dogs chasing the animal until it is physically exhausted, and can then no longer either run nor fight. This allows the ~50 dogs to take down much larger prey. Once the prey has been secured, the animals call each other to bring the groups back together and allow them to consume the animal, often still alive, as quickly as possible to avoid having it stolen by larger predators, like lions and hyenas. They gorge themselves, then return to their den area where they regurgitate for the pups and the adults that are watching them. Dependence on regurgitation is common throughout canines and is the reason why your domesticated dogs eat vomit. It may seem gross, but it is necessary for survival of those too young, old, or injured to hunt in the wild, and has become encoded on the DNA of our domestic breeds from their wild ancestors.
Watching a pack of African painted dogs break down their prey to bone in under a minute is wild. Like land-based piranhas.
The second most brutal are warthogs being pulled apart alive by two lions. they scream and make so much noise. Poor pigs have terrible eyesights smh
I have one black-footed cat and one white-footed cat. They capture at least 20 dust bunnies per night.
I’ve seen my domestic barn cat bring back a half eaten rabbit, and quite a few birds. Rabbits are an uncommon sight down here,and I can’t imagine it would be easy either to bring down an animal almost the same size as you, AND faster than you. I swear domestic cats are BEASTS.
in australia they introduced a lot of domestic cats in barns and places infested with rodents and snakes to control plagues like in middle ages, and now the only remaining things are cats, they've obliterated all the snakes, the rats and the birds. Cats are killing machines but because they're adorable we don't think of them as killers
@@juanaltredo2974 That's true.I moved to the countryside and adopted two kittens last year. They always bring their prey home so I have an idea of how much they kill in a year. I've counted at least 200 mice in a year span, and they recently took an interest in bats as they've spotted a bat den in the roof of my house. They've pretty much not only completely cleaned my house of mice, but also for the neighbors.
@@juanaltredo2974 should use fixed cats after around 15-20 years the problem would solve itself
Damn, I could listen to this guy's voice for ages
Same
He has a vlog, whatimdoingrightnow.
Yikes
I could watch him all day. His voice is awesome amd calming amd he himself is hot af.
My neighbor's cat is the best hunter against lizards in my yard.
UNLEASHING POTENTIAL - PSYCHOLOGY VIDEOS why is it not eating LÖÖPS
Ones of my cats, she loves to bring back frogs to the garden and then playing with them. This time however it appears to have spawn and now we have hundreds of tadpoles :~)
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I think your neighbor may be my friend 😂 so many lizards
Then kill it ffs!
What kinds of lizards are in your yard? 🤨
The turtle beats the hare. This show had some good lessons for us to take and apply to our endeavors. Good show Scishow.
3:52 Ospreys are the most efFISHient birds of prey
If you think of any more fish puns, let minnow
Yeah but eagles are very TALONted
Boooooo
I'm so jelly that you got here first.
False: crows and seagulls are. I've seen a seagull snatch a french fry right out of a persons hand while they were trying to eat it and i once saw a pair of crows steal an entire bag of chips away from a guy while he was eating them. They may lack grace but they make up for it with a complete lack of shame.
Dragonfly’s first image is a damselfly
I noticed that too... well they are very closely related and do hunt in the same ways, though damselflies are much more delicate
I'm glad at least three people noticed
I just commented that, glad other people noticed
THANK YOU!
I would have made the same mistake. I've never been solid on the difference, and as a Fisheries major, I definitely should have figured that out! XD
Micheal, please make a series of you reading audio books. You could make a ton of money
not expected a turtle to be the best... omg.. so underrated.
I'm a bounty hunter...I like to hunt all the way to the shop and get a Bounty...that coconut + chocolate combo is too much too resist 🤤
mmm same!
I'm addicted to those.
:-D~
Ah but dark or milk chocolait?
Gordon Lawrence Oh man! When I discovered the dark chocolate ones my whole perspective on life changed...for the better! how about you?
e4r Oh yes!
I saw a bald eagle and several ospreys fishing near the James River a couple weeks ago. It's really neat how they hold the fish pointing forward to reduce drag.
The Riverbanks Zoo has a black footed cat, it’s been sleeping every time I’ve been there, but it sure is cute curled up in its little log thing.
My uncle actually battled an osprey over a fish. The osprey spotted the fish shortly after my uncle got a bite, and dove down to grab it. After an extensive tug-of-war lasting several minutes, the bird gave up. My uncle reeled in the dying fish, which was bleeding out of some fairly huge talon holes. After a while, the osprey caught another fish and left. It was a good day.
I was going to say he should have let the osprey have it, until I remembered the hook would be in there. Probably not healthy for wild birds.
I KNEW DRAGONFLIES WOULD MAKE THIS LIST. THOSE GUYS ARE JUST THE BEST FLYERS IN THIS WORLD!!!
Too bad they only live for about two weeks ; (
At least some species live a few months, and the larvae of some species can live up to 4 years!
Spyro would be proud!
I got newfound respect for dragonflies 🙏
@@RosheenQuynh Spyro is awesome
I have both eagles and osprey in my area, every time I go fishing I see at least one of them. I have only seen one of them not get a fish on the first try. It is extremely impressive. They just fly in a circle around the lake until they lock in on a target, then they go into a nose dive with their talons facing forward. Sometimes they get a fish to big to fly away with so they get it to the edge of the lake and go to town right there. Nature is neat haha
Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building?
Of course. The Empire State Building can't jump.
This joke is so old, dinosaurs also laughed at it.
Rock Balancer
Lmao sorry I’ve just mastered basic English but you get my point.
Rock Balancer I got screwed over by mobile notifications.
I think I got your point, lol
Of course
I once saw a show that said that house cats were the top hunters. They didn't just calculate the percent rate of capture but how big the prey base was and house cats had a huge prey base, far larger than some wild cats that had 30 to 60 prey species.
House cats should not be counted in a competition like that because they're so clearly an outlier based on being domesticated. They junt so many things because they live in the most places.
The harbor porpoise was totally smiling at me! 😃
I've been watching for years , am I the only one who has noticed how far Michael has come as a host ?
Just more confirmation that Leatherback Turtles are S-tier. TierZoo wasnt kidding when he ranked the various turtles!
I highly appreciate your use of the metric system. It makes my viewing that much smoother. Great work guys!
I'm 98% efficient at hunting, the other 2% of the time the drive thru gets my order wrong.
Hummingbirds! Many aren’t aware they hunt insects as well as drink nectar. I’d be interested to know their success rate. I’ve observed the hunting behavior of the Anna’s Hummingbird here in California perhaps a dozen times. I have yet to see one miss its target.
One time in the late afternoon I was watching a small swarm of 18 or so of (some type of fly) hovering above the lawn catching the late afternoon sunlight. The neighborhood male Anna’s arrived, looked me in the eyes then proceeded to pick them off one by one till they were all gone over the course of say 15 seconds or so. I was flabbergasted!
So you're telling me that the three or so times I've had a dragonfly run into me..... it was intentional? Dragonfly's are jerks!
I'd like to point out that there's a damselfly instead of a dragonfly. I love your videos keep up the good work!
Hahahaha I had the EXACT same thought! XD
Although I can imagine damselflies likely have a similar success rate?
Nice! Leatherback turtle took no. 1 spot. One of the treasures of Trinidad and Tobago👍🏿
I love that you use the metric system by default.
Realized I've been watching scishow for like 6 years damn
African wild dogs, top coop players
tier zoo?
Tier zoo.
Humans are the top coop player's
@@curiousgeorgeorwell uh the comment sections of many videos would disagree
Yay new episode of teir zoo!
If you buy one of those little toy drones, no bigger than a dragonfly, and practice in the yard every morning,,, you MIGHT find yourself flying WITH some dragonflies, , and you MIGHT find that the dragonflies chase and mimic the drone, as well as display their own acrobatics in celebration of experience of seeing the drone fly. However, they don't seem to understand propellers very well, and are likely to hit them, ... One time I had a swarm of bees playing with a larger toy (like the nerf drone), and they survived, but flew constantly through the propellers, like a cloud of bees chasing into the propellers, being forced down (and banged on), and then flying back above the props to take the ride again,,, but I landed because i could see that the props were definately damaging a few of the bees, and the swarm didn't seem to figure it out that it's also dangerous. (bees,,, they're only days old). anyway, dragonflies love drones like little children do, . so do flies, and birds, (I taught birds that DON'T hover to hover, I wish I had THAT on camera),
5:23 You gotta go hunting on porpoise if you burn so much energy every day.
I used to work at a seafood restaurant on the Gulf Coast and we had an osprey best the parking lot. We had to close several parking spots because they would just drop fish all over the place. We would watch them bring in fish non-stop.
Im so jealous of this guy screen, its flawless
#1 the EU’s police force when hunting down illegal memes
OI BRUV WHERE'S YER FREE SPEECH LOISENSE
FEKKIN CAPITALIST PIGS!
That is why the UK establishment wishes the UK to leave.
Ag3nt0fCha0s UK leaving gives them many perks towards a down spiral. One of them is to get the EU court off their backside to implement wider government surveillance. www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14037514/eu-rules-uk-surveillance-laws-illegal
i always find it a little ironic that most of the countries ranked as the "most free" are either citites like Hong Kong that are not so secretly run by dictators or they're countries in the EU, which are essentially nanny states. Like yeah, they're free societies but they also ban butter knives, memes, and heavily regulate everything you eat like a fussy mum, banning trans fats, food dyes, bananas that are misshapen, and Mountain Dew.
Well, points for consistency if nothing else.
Yay for this being done using the metric system
yeah this channel has finally worked out that metric is far better than "freedom units"
My cat is a terrifying hunter. He has been laying on my lap outside on a lawn chair, appearing sound asleep, and while I am still wondering what is happening, he is eating something, a gopher, a mouse or even a bird. I have never seen him miss. He has brought home quail, rabbits, even ducks. I hope he never gets really angry with me and hungry at the same time.
I feel like this ep was inspired by Dear Hank and John and the revelation they had about turtle throat teeth lol
This man rarely blinks.
If i recall correctly red foxes are really good hunters and are extremely adaptive
they're alot like coyotes, they're pretty adaptable and have found their way into cities and even hunt human pests like rats.
1:14
IT’S SO CUTE
0:56
Michael: "Big cats like lions, tigers and-"
My Brain: "*bEaRs*"
Michael: "leopards"
My Brain: *frontal lobe-palm
Thank y'all for including ft with meters.
The most fearsome hunter I thought of was the dragonfly.
You don't get a prize for being right, sadly
I have to say, I know I can hit the LIKE/THUMB UP button even before the intro is done, because I know I will LEARN something, will LIKE what I learn, and because these vids are so well done I will REMEMBER what was said.
6:30 "Dragonflies" *shows a damsel fly* I'm not sure they have the same predatory rate but I could be wrong
That Lionesses mane was dope, Son
I mean, dragonflies are real badasses. I already knew about their extreme speed, agility and special eyes, didn't know about them being highly efficient hunters but when you compare them to other insects, it isn't really a surprise.
One of the best I have ever seen
Oooh this was a good video!
Kitties are the BEST at hunting, cuddling, and being superior😸
Exactly
Becky Boncheveaux this comment feels like it was posted by a cat
@@poseidon8466 lol goteem
The bias is strong with this one
Okay i'm not named 'becky' nor am i a women, but i still prefer cats over any other animals as pets. One's sexuality or names does not always describe their personality.
Cheetah’s success rate drops a bit when you consider how often their catch is robbed by other animals. They are usually too exhausted to fend off the competition
The cat was clickbait because everyone loves cats.
Number 1
At least it was honest clickbait.
clickbait should result in the channel losing ALL monetisation rights (including patreon and sponsors) for 6 months per offense, served consecutively
clickbait would be extinct overnight
Feral cats are a huge problem in areas of the US.
It’s not clickbait if it shows in the video
That last part about the turtles getting fatal intestinal blockages from plastic bags is so depressing...
Dude I found a rabbit's head on my porch one morning, damn cats.
cats raised at least partially outdoors are great hunters. my cat spent her whoel life outside and she killed snakes, birds, rats, moles, mice, shrews, and sometimes even possums and squirrels. I'm not sure how many she killed but she also fought with, and regularly defeated, the same clan of raccoons for at least 5 generations. Coyotes tried hunting her a few times and judging by the noises in the bushes she either really pissed a couple of them off or fought with them and escaped.
not gonna lie, I clicked because of that super cute kitty in the thumbnail. I needed that today.
"Picture a fierce animal in your mind" - me: *spider*
Me: Swan
Me: canadian goose
@@cyanidesmiles7262 Is it really from canada though?
@@sed8181 i live here and they are angry and everywhere
@@cyanidesmiles7262 but we have them in the states too and they are a migratory bird right? so where did they actually come from?
"Dragonflies" **immediately shows a photo of a damselfly**
0:24 You say solo lionesses, but that is a picture of a lion. I blame the picture people, as lionesses are main hunters of the species
TheGuyWhoSkisWithPoi There are some lionesses who grow manes, but I digress
Well the beauty standards of lionesses are unrealistic in stock photos and maybe they didn't want to make all the other cougars out here jelly?
Yeah, I've heard at least one incident of lionesses growing manes.
Lions are also great hunters, but luckily for us they don't hunt much and leave that to the lionesses which are not as dangerous as lions.
Animals are so amazing 😍
Honorable mentions:
7. domestic cat
8. human-canine collaboration
I like the way Michael says pounce: with his hands.
"their not the most terrifying predators" um yea no there terrifying, the fact that its throat is a one way trip to death and poison resistance is a bit much
They're* for both
how did you use theyre wrong in two different ways
The most terrifying is your lack of a basic grammar checker on your device
The most efficient hunters are house pets, with a success rate of 99.99%. Nearly always able to find their bowl and eat the prey contained within, they are the most successful creatures on Earth, having turned the dominant species into feeding machines.
I have been raising and enjoying cats for the last 50 years. I completely agree with your title. My cats are indoor/outdoor. They are not allowed out at night. Shelby averages 2-4 mice/moles/chipmunks a day. She eats what she kills. Her bad trait is this talent extends to birds. Her speed and agility are unreal. I have seen her take a bird out of the air. A 12 lb killing machine.
My cat Jessie has slowed down on hunts
She killed almost all the rodents in our town
And half of the birds
And also 3 bats
aaannnddd finally a frog
Don't ask how did she got the bats
Just don't
I've heard house cats in Australia can kill wallabies heavier than themselves.
But our now-passed-away huntress' most impressive catch was a magpie. Rather, the only thing she brought home was its wing. We have no idea how she did it
Sounds like its really destroying the local eco system.
How did she manage multiple (presumably dozens) fliers but only one hopper?
Dragonfly neuron networks have really efficient BPUs and a cache hit rate of 95%. No wonder they perform so well in execution.
Humans my not be the most efficient hunters, but they are murder machines of galactic destruction!
victor 91 praise be to humans
Galactic?
I was driving home one night and I saw a black-footed cat on the road with its head squashed flat and its brains splattered on the road. It wasn't safe to get out of my car late at night but i did anyway and took it off the road. I was crying hard and saying "I'm so sorry" over and over even though I wasn't the one who killed it. The worst part was that it was only a kitten. The same size as my kitten at home. I stroked it and told it that it deserved so much better. I also kissed it which sounds creepy but I didn't know how else to express my love and sorrow. It smelled just like a house cat. I don't understand how someone can run over an animal and not even have the decency to take it off the road.
My cat has a 100% success rate. It eats all it's food I give it
This one was really fascinating
So as our plastic waste eventually bring leatherback turtles to extinction, what other natural predators do jellyfish have? Or will our oceans eventually be just full of jellyfish?
Will Smith is the only other natural predator jellyfish have.
Already kind of happening.
Just eat jellyfish
@@siyacer Looks like if I would have just googled my question, I would have learned that sea turtles like to eat jellyfish as well as many other aquatic life forms including Sharks, Tuna, Swordfish & Penguins.
Thank you very much for the video.
Other than us, of course. Better brains always win ;)
It's true that our advantage in intelligence makes us among the most formidable hunters in the world, but even human hunters sometimes fail.
100% catch rate? pfff go home turtle, humans kills 100% of SPECIES without even trying!
Bull. Humans do NOT succeed more than 100% of the time. That's an embarrassing amounts of anthropocentrism.
Yup. "Humans." That was the first image that popped into my head.
The amount of times i have seen hunters failing overseas, sometimes even dying. I doubt we even have a 70% success rate. So yeah.... not even close
6:35 That's actually a damselfly, it only has one pair of wings and they fold back when resting, unlike a dragonfly.
the old-timey western "wanted poster" font is A-OK.
I’ve eaten jellyfish before. Trust me, anything tastes good with the right seasoning and sauce
we need to genetically modify sea turtles to be able to digest plastic bags. this is the only solution to this problem, there is no other way.
There is already a microbe that can digest plastic... which is still not a solution if people don't stop polluting our oceans.
Ikajo well... yell at the entire 3rd world cause 99% of the plastic litter in the world comes from there.
Skitches because it’s totally the fault of the lowest paid workers who may not have any other job opportunity and not the high paid shareholders who make all the decisions. /s
I Need More Sleep that makes zero sense in response to my comment.
@@KiLL3RabBit hahaha 99%, pulling numbers out of your ass... The countries that produce the most trash are china and the us.
Now I want a black-footed cat! They are cute!
"you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"- Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott - leatherback sea turtle
"close your eyes for a second and picture the most fearsome predator you can imagine"
The butterfly from SpongeBob
scishow: *uses metric system*
me: *happy squeals*
Best scishow to date.
Seems like larger size correlates with less hunting success. Smaller predators are perhaps more efficient because they are harder to spot?
I would speculate that smaller prey are less calorically dense, on average, so their hunters often need to be efficient or they would die out.
Interesting way of looking at it akamesama. But wouldn't you assume that larger bodies also require more calories to maintain (especially muscle mass)?
sapiens they can go longer without food and often their prey can last more then one meal if it’s a big kill.
Good point James. They don't have to kill on every hunt.
sapiens and do t forget larger prey is harder to catch and harder to bring down adding another level of difficulty for hunting.
New on my To Do: wait for Leatherback Bill to miss a jelly so I can scold the use of 100% catch rate without a qualifier like 'almost' or 'practically'.
Tfw a dog has a better government then your own country
Lol
Was this episode spawned by Dear Hank and Johns discussion of turtle mouth teeth bits in Episode 151 of the podcast?
Had to watch this twice, as the first time I wasn't really listening. The host is far too distracting, very handsome man ;)