I get not wanting Hippos to die or messed with, but when the environment they are invasive in can and is being negatively impacted then I see no problem with it. I hope the 3 part plan works.
@@miraigaming37hippos kill more people than sharks per year they arent the best invasive species to have around probably worse than the burmese pythons in southern florida
@@miraigaming37exactly. They have no problem with exterminating any other invasive species or pests that damages the economy, but they’re fine with them for this exact reason you mentioned
@@oakhillballertranquilizer guns and dosing for a large animal, how do you think they are in zoo's? And they can be carried in nets on helicopters tranquilized and in other aircraft or boats or vehicles also they can just be culled, you seem to forget how we move large animals, if we can transport aggressive bull Elephants we can definitely move Hippos, technology exists. You're question isn't as smart as you think it is, how do you think Pablo Escobar got the Hippo's there in the first place??
yes, thank you! no one wants for animals to have to die, but it's the ultimate trolley problem. the lives of a handful of animals that should never have been there or the lives of an entire ecosystem for generations to come.
I will say it time and time again: Your channel is criminally underrated and you deserve every bit of praise that you are getting for the quality of your videos!
Bro was a random guy in 1977, not a zoologist. While I think it's pretty terrible to needlessly kill a flamingo, the dude thought it was just one of the common animals of the region. We have the hindsight and knowledge to know that it's a flamingo, but that doesn't mean we should be so unsympathetic. To be fair I don't know who this guy is outside this one story and he could be an asshole, but that shouldn't be the assumption we approach this scenario with. If you want hunters that suck there's a myriad of gentrified losers that kill African wildlife "for sport" every year, and that's pretty pathetic to me (and I don't care that "they're giving money to conservation" if said conservation is just to stock their target practice)
@@xemiiiyou don’t need to be a zoologist to know what you’re about to kill. Knowing what you’re allowed to shoot and being able to identify them is the responsibility of any hunter
The Hippos in Columbia are a big problem because the same things that keep them contained in Africa (deserts boxing them in) don't exist in Columbia giving them all the perks of their normal habitat, without anything to hold them back. It's actually really facinating.
The government should've ignored the public from the beginning, invasive species are far more destructive to wildlife. It is crueler to the local animals to leave the hippos there where they do not belong.
That animal rights group was especially stupid. They should know better. Sterilization was also by far the most humane, if they didn’t want the hippos euthanized.
There are a hilarious number of people on conservation-related channels who rage at anybody for killing invasive species, and celebrate the release of invasive species into places where they cause harm to native animals.
But the worst one of all: Housecats. Please, for the love of all the native wildlife in your area (not to mention the love of your cat), make your pet cat an indoor only cat! And absolutely make sure they get neutered and spayed!
I have a friend who lives in a janky trailer park and you wouldn’t believe the amount of stray cats that live in that specific area. I’ve seen mama cats with tiny baby kittens right next to where he lives. I can’t imagine how to deal with removing cats from places like that.
Cats are good animals. They keep rodents and snakes away from our homes and barns. That us why we domesticated them in the first place. And they've always been very important to civilization.
@@KFrost-fx7dt Snakes keep rodents away, but not if you let your cats out to kill the snakes. Cats don't need to be outdoor pets anymore. There's absolutely nothing they do that can't be done in some other way, more efficiently and without killing all the other local wildlife.
@@KFrost-fx7dt Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild. In the United States, free-ranging cats kill an estimated 1.3-4.0 billion birds annually and that's in the U.S. alone. Do not say cats are good animals if they are causing other native animals to go extinct.
I don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that a dude mistakes a flippin' FLAMINGO for a goose - or that he showed off with the flamingo he shot, took pictures of the bird's dead body next to his son and then got hailed as some sort of local hero! Dude - if you don't know how to hunt - you shouldn't be doing it...
Why would anyone ever expect to see a flamingo in Canada of all places? "That goose sure looks pink, weird, maybe it stumbled into chemical spill or something" is a reasonable thought for someone in Canada in 1977
There is a population of feral parrots in West Haven, CT. They have managed just fine through winters. Don't know what their native nests look like but they build huge fully enclosed nests there. You can see them in the trees along the streets around the VA Hospital.
We have livebirds in Tucson and Phoenix here in Arizona. Its crazy to see a small flock of bright jewels flying around the desert. Landing in saguaros and flinging mesquite beans everywhere. 😂
Regarding the hippos; If you want to be angry about something, learn about it first. The locals don't know a thing about the opposing side's reasoning yet still tried to interfere with the government's plans...
Along with all the crocodile attacks, the film of sharks in a golf course pond has convinced me that the only water I will get near should I ever visit Australia is that of a bathroom shower.
Fantastic video. Really love the concept of ferral populations of animals in "unnatural" places. I guess Florida alone could fill 5 of those episodes. I was especially happy that you mentioned the parrots. I was so confused when I was on a conference in Bonn, Germany and I saw three green parrots in the tree in front of the facility. Fascinating!
There's a breeding colony of flamingos on the border between Germany and the Netherlands that's been growing steadily bigger for several decades. Originally just a few escaped zoo animals, there's now around a hundred each year, of two different species. They are so popular with locals and tourists that a few years ago, when the lake they call home dried so much that weasels and such got onto the island and ate all of their eggs, local authorities got out heavy equipment and dug trenches around to prevent such a thing happening again. They were afraid the birds would find new, safer breeding spaces and the area would loose a major source of income.
In a place called Corsham, in England, the government brought a bunch of peacocks from China to have as fancy ornaments in the court's yard, but they escaped, and have created a pretty large population throughout the whole village. Their screams can be heard all day.
Per the map at 2:30, it's not _entirely_ shocking that a flamingo was found in Newfoundland, it's just a bit north of the sightings in neighbouring Nova Scotia, Quebec, and New Brunswick. Those sightings are already quite extraordinary in themselves though. A less well-known example of animals found in strange places definitely has to be the Julia Heliconian ( _Dryas iulia_ ), which is now strongly established in Southeast Asia due to Buddhist monks releasing the butterflies during their ceremonies. The butterflies feed on invasive passionflowers which happen to create the conditions for their continued presence in the area.
There not actually confirmed to exist by the New Zealand government right? They are believed to have been fully hunted to extinction on the islands, but there could still be a few and hunters see them but there definitely isn't a large population and the government doesn't admit they might still exist but they were put there by humans for hunting and we don't know how long they can actually survive on the islands
@@NoahGabel-i9b They are 100% dead. The slopes they were placed on are all gravel and sparse with food. They would have gone crashing down the mountain sides to their deaths. New Zealand also has hikers, conservationists, track maintainers, cameras, fences, and eyes everywhere. There is no way a moose would be missed when we spot rats moving in even in the most remote locations to help protect the rare birds. People who think their are still moose have zero understanding of New Zealand
A colony of feral chickens lives under Hollywood Boulevard in California. The most commonly-accepted version of their origin is that a poultry truck overturned in 1969, and bunch of the birds escaped and established themselves.
I live in SE Wisconsin and we had flamingos end up hanging out in Lake Michigan after a hurricane last year. It was on the news so everyone came here to see them
Feral is the KEY word for Colombia's Hippo Population. Hippos are known to kill Humans in great numbers in their usual homelands. You could not expect anything less of introduced, non-native Hippos in Columbia. Anywhere a non native species is introduced, it will create a negative impact on the endemic populations. In Hawaii for example, we have endangered Native Birds up in the Mountains. Sadly, with the introduction of Mosquitoes to Hawaii, so has Avian type diseases spread by the Mosquitoes (which has nearly wiped out Hawaiis now very rare Endemic Bird populations).
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I live in a state where deer hunting is a big thing. Often, there are people are vehemently opposed to deer hunting because "Oh, the poor pretty deer," or "It's Bambi's mom," or whatever the argument is. What many fail to understand is that deer overpopulation is a very serious issue here and can cause more problems than culling via normal hunting. There's also antler season and antlerless season. They're at different times of year. Hunters aren't stupid. They know to follow rules so they can keep the population going in a healthy way and have deer season every year.
Body was almost entirely white... Neck and wings quite white too and the existing pink was pretty light... Who'd expect it to be there? Goose is the closest thing that makes sense anywhere close to that environment plus it was probably from a great distance... Either that or he knew but didn't want to get in trouble
@@chadgorosaurus4898 as a rural Newfie he probably isn’t even that literate, maybe heard about a flamingo once or twice on the radio. Kids would often not have much of a formal education back in those days, the woods were your education. And to be fair, logic would tell you it’s the lighting or some deformity or something else if you’re seeing a flamingo in Newfoundland. There is higher chances that any large pink bird you see is a swan that some skeet from Grand Falls-Windsor spray painted hot pink than it being a flamingo.
assuming those stories are accurate- gotta be! not like sharks can walk over to different ponds to take a swim! can you imagine finding a great white- or any shark in a pond? its so crazy
@@ceazarsalad4414 I believe the channel "Tracking Sharks" has a 2-part video describing one incident regarding a 14-foot Great White stuck in a Massachusetts bay lagoon back in 2004.
Maybe for the next upload, Invasive species that are endangered in their original habitat 🙂 For example Aldrovanda vesiculosa , many of the Asian Carps species and Green and gold bell frogs.
There was a flamingo who travelled with a band of geese and was seen at the Great Salt Lake every summer for the first decade of my life. No one is sure whether our pink friend died or found a bossy mate that put an end to our friend’s desert adventures
It sucks when people get attached to invasive animals, but regardless if they're as loved as the hippos or as hated as the lionfish, they have to be managed to reduce environmental harm. (as a Floridian, we HATE the lionfish. There are bounties on them)
Phoenix has the only nativized feral population of rosy-faced lovebirds in North America! I see them in my yard all the time. Lovely little guys. They've come a long way from home (Namibia) to be here!
I used to live in NY and I've seen feral Monk Parakeets in a park near JFK airport. Legend has it they're the descendants of birds flown in for the pet trade that escaped.
This reminds me of the record of a Juan Fernandez Petrel from the suburbs of Tuscon Arizona, you can find a ABA rare bird alert page that describes the finding. Essentially, you have a bird that is typically found far out at sea, when not nesting along the beach, that showed up in a desert neighborhood and somehow was photographed. This on top of the bird being the first found in the entirety of the continental United States and Canada. Also Humboldt Penguins found in the northeast Pacific Ocean, namely Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.
i h av a hard time believing a seasoned hunter could mistake a flamingo for a goose. nothing about a flamingo resembles a goose, and surely if u dont know what ur about to kill, u should wait til u can positively identify it. i believe he knew what he was doing. so sad.
In a place called Corsham, in England, the government brought a bunch of peacocks from China to have as fancy ornaments in the court's yard, but they escaped, and have created a pretty large population throughout the whole village. Their screams can be heard all day.
funny you mention the parakeets. I am from long island, and i remember being confused seeing those green parakeets where on the telephone wires outside my high school years ago
You say that like the worse examples of invasive species aren't common pets like dogs and cats, or livestock like pigs and goats, or even unwanted pests like rodents.
@@davidcoquelle3081 Well, reptile owners are fewer so easier to pick on that way... ... but also more vocal so harder that way. Also most people that own cats and dogs also understand feral populations can be a huge problem and aren't deliberately spreading them. ;P
exotic pet communities nowdays are the most vocal in conservation and welfare improvements, while I dont deny the atrocious history some of the horrible owners have done, the community as a whole is way more helpful than other animal owners from what ive seen in the past 2 decades. It's the ignorant people who only cares for collecting weird animals that would poach, or uneducated normies who didn't do any research and decided one day to buy a random snake from their suspicious friend who barely has credibility in public. Basically they're shunned in their communities. If only education for sourcing pets ethically is more understood by the public, the exotic pet trade shouldn't be a problem anymore, helpful even since they've actually helped conserve extinct in the wild species like axolotls, macaws, and frogs and discover info on their breeding. and like the other commenter said, the dogs and especially cat owners are so much worse in terms of ignorance currently. it's a really complex issue that saying "The exotic Pet trade is a scourge upon the earth!" isn't gonna help at all
Honestly, I think the government should tranquilize some of the more popular hippos and take them to a local zoo, or a zoo somewhere else in Colombia. This is so that the people can visit them anytime.
that's a good idea. I think they should do a fundraiser and ask everyone who wants the hippos to be there to pitch in. they could even get the community involved in putting their enclosures together, that worked really well for my local nature center
I still have a feeling that the local activists will still think of it as abuse as they're stupidity seem far enough to think captivity is torture and that all zoos are evil. I agree with this take but it's unlikely there will be an ideal solution with those type uneducateable locals
Tropical birds accidentally ending up on the East Coast of Canada is not an isolated occurrence. For example, In my home province of New Brunswick a few years ago a crested caracara was spotted in Deppie and became a huge news story. Many other tropical birds such as tropicbirds, brown boobies, Woodstorks, And flamingoes have all been spotted in Atlantc Canada
My nan always has seeds out for birds since I was a kid. Since the parakeets made their appearance in the south of England, there are a tonne of them hanging around the seeds
If you do a part 2, you should definitely include the Silver Springs, FL monkeys! There are actually a bunch of monkeys in Central/South Florida. You could also include the pythons, too.
if you ever plan to make a sequel, i suggest using the story of "haminan mursu" a walrus found all the way in finland, despite living nowhere near there
The guy who shot the flamingo is incredibly irresponsible. One of the number one rules of hunting is knowing precisely what you're looking at before you even think about shooting it. If he can't do that, he shouldn't have a gun.
Something else cool about the northern visiting Flamingos, you mentioned one spotted in NY in May of this year. But 2 months later, one was spotted in Cape Cod Massachusetts (my home state)
There are around 8 jaguars here in Arizona. And honestly? Considering they used to range across all but 16 of the continental United States, I for one welcome our new jaguar overlords.
I'd have to say my favourite story of animals in strange places are the Hearst Castle Zebras, the rogue population of zebras living peacefully for generations on the grounds of the former estate of William Randolph Hearst in California.
I live in Eastern Canada - in the Maritimes! There was a crested caracara seen last year, and ended up spending the summer months here - was spotted all around the province!
"Oh a strange bird.... better kill it" jeez was this guy born in america and just move to Canada? People who find sport in killing things with guns are strange. Imagine getting joy from killing something that did absolutely nothing to you but be present within your shooting range....
Look up Euscorpius italicus, it's a species of Scorpion that lives in Italy. If this is what you seen then that would be perfectly normal, there are a few others too. I know of maybe 3-4 spices that are naturally found throughout Italy and the surrounding counties.
I live in a city named Kingsport it's in NE TN and for about 4 years we had a small population of Cockatoos that had escaped a pet shop during a storm it was so wild seeing them fly around town they were eventually caught and re-housed
Here in Connecticut, every summer (which keep getting hotter and hotter) there are flocks of Parakeets that come and live in the pine trees in my city. There's a family of them that lives in the huge tree in my backyard June-September. Its really incredible to see and hear them, but it also worries me
Why is it that when there’s an invasive animal that humans are attempting to eradicate it never works but we can so easily eradicate non invasive good animals without trying.
Back in 1865, a 25-ton blue whale was beached outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. Although its life was promptly ended by locals, Swedish zoologist August Wilhelm Malm decided to preserve its carcass, hollowing the whale out and making its body cavity into a sitting room. It’s currently on display at the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History. You could could go into intro the whale the year around, but a couple decided to have intercourse inside the whale, which made the made the blue whale to be closed. Every time when in it's election in Sweden, you can go inside have a tea/coffee break. And it's It's the only preserved blue whale in the whole world.
I went out with some friends to catch Burmese pythons in the Everglades and I would say that 350,000 is a VERY conservative estimate. They are *Everywhere*
In the case of chameleons in FL, citrus farmers are also using them as a form of pest control. From what I understand, this practice is legally accepted or at least not contested, like chameleon farming/ranching was. Chameleons are not only hunters of native insects and small animals, they eat other invasive species. They are predated on by native species as well. It's believed by many that they have a generally neutral impact on FL's ecosystem.
When I was a child in Southern California, I would ride my bike over past the wash (seasonal waterway that was cemented as part of flood control). One day I spied a flamingo right where the Big Dalton and Little Dalton washes ran together. It was at the bottom, feeding on the stuff in the trickling flow of water. I didn't have any idea what to do (there was no way to get into the wash without equipment as it had vertical sides). This was in the early 70s and there was no news article on TV or the paper that mentioned an escaped flamingo. It was there for quite a few days and finally disappeared. I took a picture of it but with my crummy little 110 camera it was a pretty underwhelming image.
I love how on the thumbnail, the hippo and flamingo are from specific places, yet the shark is just from some golf course.
It's Australia of course it's Australia lol
@@charliekezzait’s either Australian or Florida
I like how you are literally everywhere.
@hallooos7585 I'm almost certain I read about the golf course bull shark from a Florida news report
Youve never been to the democratic republic of The Golf Course
I get not wanting Hippos to die or messed with, but when the environment they are invasive in can and is being negatively impacted then I see no problem with it. I hope the 3 part plan works.
I'm betting that the residents are upset because they're making money off them
They aren't invasive, only exotic/naturalized. The whole issue is that the "proof" that they're damaging the environment is completely unfounded.
@@miraigaming37hippos kill more people than sharks per year they arent the best invasive species to have around probably worse than the burmese pythons in southern florida
@@miraigaming37exactly. They have no problem with exterminating any other invasive species or pests that damages the economy, but they’re fine with them for this exact reason you mentioned
Check out the fat electrician video he has on Pablo’s hippos and why they started then stop trying to fix the problem
"this species is invasive and dangerous to the local ecosystem"
"Oh cool what if I put them over here?"
"Chameleons are dangerous to native bird species. Do not release them."
"Whatever, I want a Chameleon army."
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Tbh the hippos should be removed to protect the manatees those poor things have suffered enough
How do you relocate a dangerous oversized killing machine?
@@oakhillballerthe same way they'll be taking 70 to zoos, and have been relocating and tagging animals for decades. tranquilizers.
@@oakhillballer guns
@@Augustus-Sunnywell tranquilizer guns obviously work on them
@@oakhillballertranquilizer guns and dosing for a large animal, how do you think they are in zoo's? And they can be carried in nets on helicopters tranquilized and in other aircraft or boats or vehicles also they can just be culled, you seem to forget how we move large animals, if we can transport aggressive bull Elephants we can definitely move Hippos, technology exists. You're question isn't as smart as you think it is, how do you think Pablo Escobar got the Hippo's there in the first place??
Animal rights activists who do not understand ecology need to not interfere with ecological work
Agreed !
Most environmentalists don’t know shit about the environment, they’re just tree hugging city people pretending to be experts
yes, thank you! no one wants for animals to have to die, but it's the ultimate trolley problem. the lives of a handful of animals that should never have been there or the lives of an entire ecosystem for generations to come.
@@thecrepeofdeath Not sure the trolley problem, which weighs human lives against one another, is reaching its ultimate status here.
@girlbuu9403 I was referring to the scale.
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6:37 I love how those groups tried saving a few hippos but saving those hippos would cause more damage then sterilizing a few invasives
If Mitchell can’t tell what’s in his scope don’t give him a gun
As an avid hunter, I'm often humiliated by people like him who just decide to kill things for no reason and without knowing what it is
Discretion when firing is what distinguishes a hunter from a mere killer
Bro was a random guy in 1977, not a zoologist. While I think it's pretty terrible to needlessly kill a flamingo, the dude thought it was just one of the common animals of the region. We have the hindsight and knowledge to know that it's a flamingo, but that doesn't mean we should be so unsympathetic. To be fair I don't know who this guy is outside this one story and he could be an asshole, but that shouldn't be the assumption we approach this scenario with.
If you want hunters that suck there's a myriad of gentrified losers that kill African wildlife "for sport" every year, and that's pretty pathetic to me (and I don't care that "they're giving money to conservation" if said conservation is just to stock their target practice)
@@xemiiiyou don’t need to be a zoologist to know what you’re about to kill. Knowing what you’re allowed to shoot and being able to identify them is the responsibility of any hunter
That’s if he truly didn’t know. He could have just made up that excuse so he can shoot a fking flamingo.
The Hippos in Columbia are a big problem because the same things that keep them contained in Africa (deserts boxing them in) don't exist in Columbia giving them all the perks of their normal habitat, without anything to hold them back. It's actually really facinating.
Very dangerous for the locals too
Colombia 🇨🇴
Not Columbia
The government should've ignored the public from the beginning, invasive species are far more destructive to wildlife. It is crueler to the local animals to leave the hippos there where they do not belong.
That animal rights group was especially stupid. They should know better. Sterilization was also by far the most humane, if they didn’t want the hippos euthanized.
Australia has the same problem with these idiots. They tried to sue the government here for culling the feral cats and rabbits here.
Governments work for the people, tyranny is never the answer.
agreed. especially in light of recent studies indicating hippos are more likely omnivores, and actively hunt. not to mention how territorial they are
There are a hilarious number of people on conservation-related channels who rage at anybody for killing invasive species, and celebrate the release of invasive species into places where they cause harm to native animals.
He should give up hunting if he mistook a flamingo for ANYTHING ELSE!!!
He knew... He just didn't wanna get in trouble
@@dylanb4065yeah he mightve thought it was endangered or that he would get in alot of trouble
I mean last thing I expect to see in Canada is a Flamingo so pink goose isn't tooo crazy
Bro took the chance of a life time and shot mrflimflam
He might have thought that if he didint shoot it, no one whould believe him. And then made an excuse later to not look bad.
But the worst one of all:
Housecats.
Please, for the love of all the native wildlife in your area (not to mention the love of your cat), make your pet cat an indoor only cat! And absolutely make sure they get neutered and spayed!
I have a friend who lives in a janky trailer park and you wouldn’t believe the amount of stray cats that live in that specific area. I’ve seen mama cats with tiny baby kittens right next to where he lives. I can’t imagine how to deal with removing cats from places like that.
Cats are good animals. They keep rodents and snakes away from our homes and barns. That us why we domesticated them in the first place. And they've always been very important to civilization.
@@KFrost-fx7dt Snakes keep rodents away, but not if you let your cats out to kill the snakes.
Cats don't need to be outdoor pets anymore. There's absolutely nothing they do that can't be done in some other way, more efficiently and without killing all the other local wildlife.
@@KFrost-fx7dt Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild. In the United States, free-ranging cats kill an estimated 1.3-4.0 billion birds annually and that's in the U.S. alone. Do not say cats are good animals if they are causing other native animals to go extinct.
Wouldn't the animals in the area adapt isn't that like their whole thing?
I was annoyed that the guy killed the flamingo then annoyed that they didn't kill the hippos.
I don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that a dude mistakes a flippin' FLAMINGO for a goose - or that he showed off with the flamingo he shot, took pictures of the bird's dead body next to his son and then got hailed as some sort of local hero!
Dude - if you don't know how to hunt - you shouldn't be doing it...
Yeah, I don’t think he actually did. I think he just killed it for the notoriety.
@@andrewdevlin8756 Some people are sick!
Why would anyone ever expect to see a flamingo in Canada of all places? "That goose sure looks pink, weird, maybe it stumbled into chemical spill or something" is a reasonable thought for someone in Canada in 1977
Well your not exactly expecting a flamingo are you
There is a population of feral parrots in West Haven, CT. They have managed just fine through winters. Don't know what their native nests look like but they build huge fully enclosed nests there. You can see them in the trees along the streets around the VA Hospital.
We have livebirds in Tucson and Phoenix here in Arizona. Its crazy to see a small flock of bright jewels flying around the desert. Landing in saguaros and flinging mesquite beans everywhere. 😂
I'm one for preserving animals and theire population, BUT NOT at the cost of the local flora and fauna.
Regarding the hippos; If you want to be angry about something, learn about it first. The locals don't know a thing about the opposing side's reasoning yet still tried to interfere with the government's plans...
Along with all the crocodile attacks, the film of sharks in a golf course pond has convinced me that the only water I will get near should I ever visit Australia is that of a bathroom shower.
mwah maby a clear pool at least then you can clearly tell if something is in there
You do realise Australia is a big country right? Like saying there are gators in Florida so I won’t go swimming in Idaho.
A Newfie shooting a flamingo is the least surprising thing on this list. 😂
Telling people to eat a certain animal is probably the simplest way to eradicate it. Very clever!
The fact one Chameleon just one day decided "I'm going to cosplay as a triceratops" is adorable.
I always heard a group of small monkeys got free in south FL after a hurricane and have a breeding population established now.
They are descendants from a bunch that escaped during filming of the old Tarzan movies.
It’s a kayak route you can take.
A jaguar was spotted in Arizona
Fantastic video. Really love the concept of ferral populations of animals in "unnatural" places. I guess Florida alone could fill 5 of those episodes. I was especially happy that you mentioned the parrots. I was so confused when I was on a conference in Bonn, Germany and I saw three green parrots in the tree in front of the facility. Fascinating!
There's a breeding colony of flamingos on the border between Germany and the Netherlands that's been growing steadily bigger for several decades. Originally just a few escaped zoo animals, there's now around a hundred each year, of two different species. They are so popular with locals and tourists that a few years ago, when the lake they call home dried so much that weasels and such got onto the island and ate all of their eggs, local authorities got out heavy equipment and dug trenches around to prevent such a thing happening again. They were afraid the birds would find new, safer breeding spaces and the area would loose a major source of income.
In a place called Corsham, in England, the government brought a bunch of peacocks from China to have as fancy ornaments in the court's yard, but they escaped, and have created a pretty large population throughout the whole village. Their screams can be heard all day.
Per the map at 2:30, it's not _entirely_ shocking that a flamingo was found in Newfoundland, it's just a bit north of the sightings in neighbouring Nova Scotia, Quebec, and New Brunswick. Those sightings are already quite extraordinary in themselves though.
A less well-known example of animals found in strange places definitely has to be the Julia Heliconian ( _Dryas iulia_ ), which is now strongly established in Southeast Asia due to Buddhist monks releasing the butterflies during their ceremonies. The butterflies feed on invasive passionflowers which happen to create the conditions for their continued presence in the area.
Great video! Invasive animals are indeed a big problem and unfortunately, many people don't see it that way!
Plants as well.
Man sees pink bird. First thought shoot it.
Suggestion for the next video - moose in New Zealand.
There not actually confirmed to exist by the New Zealand government right? They are believed to have been fully hunted to extinction on the islands, but there could still be a few and hunters see them but there definitely isn't a large population and the government doesn't admit they might still exist but they were put there by humans for hunting and we don't know how long they can actually survive on the islands
Introduction of Englishmen to
Australia seems to be maybe, possible
Kinda.. You Know?
@@NoahGabel-i9b They are 100% dead. The slopes they were placed on are all gravel and sparse with food. They would have gone crashing down the mountain sides to their deaths. New Zealand also has hikers, conservationists, track maintainers, cameras, fences, and eyes everywhere. There is no way a moose would be missed when we spot rats moving in even in the most remote locations to help protect the rare birds. People who think their are still moose have zero understanding of New Zealand
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Well thanks for being here!
A colony of feral chickens lives under Hollywood Boulevard in California. The most commonly-accepted version of their origin is that a poultry truck overturned in 1969, and bunch of the birds escaped and established themselves.
I live in SE Wisconsin and we had flamingos end up hanging out in Lake Michigan after a hurricane last year. It was on the news so everyone came here to see them
Feral is the KEY word for Colombia's Hippo Population. Hippos are known to kill Humans in great numbers in their usual homelands. You could not expect anything less of introduced, non-native Hippos in Columbia. Anywhere a non native species is introduced, it will create a negative impact on the endemic populations. In Hawaii for example, we have endangered Native Birds up in the Mountains. Sadly, with the introduction of Mosquitoes to Hawaii, so has Avian type diseases spread by the Mosquitoes (which has nearly wiped out Hawaiis now very rare Endemic Bird populations).
Great video as always! I appreciate the amount of info and detail you put into each case, as opposed to a quick overview of a big list
GOD BLESS YOU! your videos are terrific, they must be broadcasted across the world for people to realize what they've praised and what they should. I'm your biggest fan!!!
I hate to hear of eradication but I get it. I know it is necessary in some cases😢
I live in a state where deer hunting is a big thing. Often, there are people are vehemently opposed to deer hunting because "Oh, the poor pretty deer," or "It's Bambi's mom," or whatever the argument is.
What many fail to understand is that deer overpopulation is a very serious issue here and can cause more problems than culling via normal hunting.
There's also antler season and antlerless season. They're at different times of year.
Hunters aren't stupid. They know to follow rules so they can keep the population going in a healthy way and have deer season every year.
@@daffers2345the first hunter was stupid.
Every video you make is something really special I’m always happy to see them !
Bro your channel is amazing!
If you can't distinguish between a goose and flamingo you shouldn't have a firearm.
The dude definitely never read a single children's book on animals in his entire life.
Body was almost entirely white... Neck and wings quite white too and the existing pink was pretty light... Who'd expect it to be there? Goose is the closest thing that makes sense anywhere close to that environment plus it was probably from a great distance... Either that or he knew but didn't want to get in trouble
@@dylanb4065 that doesn't excuse the beak
@@chadgorosaurus4898 as a rural Newfie he probably isn’t even that literate, maybe heard about a flamingo once or twice on the radio. Kids would often not have much of a formal education back in those days, the woods were your education.
And to be fair, logic would tell you it’s the lighting or some deformity or something else if you’re seeing a flamingo in Newfoundland. There is higher chances that any large pink bird you see is a swan that some skeet from Grand Falls-Windsor spray painted hot pink than it being a flamingo.
@spingebill8551 b'y I was just about to respond to this, but you beat me to it. Our Lord and Saviour, Alan Doyle would be proud.
Poor flamingo lost his wife
11:50 Would the odd stories of Great Whites being found in salt ponds represent a somewhat similar scenario to the Carbrook shark story?
assuming those stories are accurate- gotta be! not like sharks can walk over to different ponds to take a swim! can you imagine finding a great white- or any shark in a pond? its so crazy
@@ceazarsalad4414 I believe the channel "Tracking Sharks" has a 2-part video describing one incident regarding a 14-foot Great White stuck in a Massachusetts bay lagoon back in 2004.
@@robrice7246 ill have to check that out! a 14 foot great white??? thats such a large animal! wow!
I love your editing style. The audio, visuals, and effects are all so professional. Your channel is truly a work of art
Maybe for the next upload, Invasive species that are endangered in their original habitat 🙂 For example Aldrovanda vesiculosa , many of the Asian Carps species and Green and gold bell frogs.
you should do a part two!
ps I love your videos
There was a flamingo who travelled with a band of geese and was seen at the Great Salt Lake every summer for the first decade of my life. No one is sure whether our pink friend died or found a bossy mate that put an end to our friend’s desert adventures
It sucks when people get attached to invasive animals, but regardless if they're as loved as the hippos or as hated as the lionfish, they have to be managed to reduce environmental harm. (as a Floridian, we HATE the lionfish. There are bounties on them)
We got a whole flock of Parakeets outside a primary school I work at. They're beautiful.
populations of red necked wallaby have been found along england Uk. They have been here for ages but havent become populous enough to cause damage yet
If they were going to they would have. If they had been common wallabies, then there would be trouble.
Thanks for the video! Some odd appearances for sure!
Amazing video as always!!!! I would like to see a part 2
Phoenix has the only nativized feral population of rosy-faced lovebirds in North America! I see them in my yard all the time. Lovely little guys. They've come a long way from home (Namibia) to be here!
Some of them are down here in Tucson too. Its crazy to see them on the saguaros.😂
Loved this quality content. 👏Keep it up, AAN!
I used to live in NY and I've seen feral Monk Parakeets in a park near JFK airport. Legend has it they're the descendants of birds flown in for the pet trade that escaped.
This reminds me of the record of a Juan Fernandez Petrel from the suburbs of Tuscon Arizona, you can find a ABA rare bird alert page that describes the finding. Essentially, you have a bird that is typically found far out at sea, when not nesting along the beach, that showed up in a desert neighborhood and somehow was photographed. This on top of the bird being the first found in the entirety of the continental United States and Canada.
Also Humboldt Penguins found in the northeast Pacific Ocean, namely Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.
i h av a hard time believing a seasoned hunter could mistake a flamingo for a goose. nothing about a flamingo resembles a goose, and surely if u dont know what ur about to kill, u should wait til u can positively identify it. i believe he knew what he was doing. so sad.
In a place called Corsham, in England, the government brought a bunch of peacocks from China to have as fancy ornaments in the court's yard, but they escaped, and have created a pretty large population throughout the whole village. Their screams can be heard all day.
Is it just me who got sad because the flamingos in Newfoundland had gotten so far together, and then he got shot 💔
Norway? It was Newfoundland
@oceansolstice608 shoot man, you right 🤦♀️. I’ll edit it, thanks for pointing it out :)
It was a newly married couple of flamingos on their honeymoon and it ended in tragedy
@@agustinquiroga9541 I assume when she got back, all her friends believed that she killed him and it was a life insurance scam.
funny you mention the parakeets. I am from long island, and i remember being confused seeing those green parakeets where on the telephone wires outside my high school years ago
3:17 WILD transition
The exotic Pet trade is a scourge upon the earth!
You say that like the worse examples of invasive species aren't common pets like dogs and cats, or livestock like pigs and goats, or even unwanted pests like rodents.
@@girlbuu9403 I say that Because I didn't want to start a war with pet owners TBH
@@davidcoquelle3081 Well, reptile owners are fewer so easier to pick on that way...
... but also more vocal so harder that way.
Also most people that own cats and dogs also understand feral populations can be a huge problem and aren't deliberately spreading them. ;P
@@girlbuu9403 I think you're probably right but taking on both would be to much
exotic pet communities nowdays are the most vocal in conservation and welfare improvements, while I dont deny the atrocious history some of the horrible owners have done, the community as a whole is way more helpful than other animal owners from what ive seen in the past 2 decades. It's the ignorant people who only cares for collecting weird animals that would poach, or uneducated normies who didn't do any research and decided one day to buy a random snake from their suspicious friend who barely has credibility in public. Basically they're shunned in their communities. If only education for sourcing pets ethically is more understood by the public, the exotic pet trade shouldn't be a problem anymore, helpful even since they've actually helped conserve extinct in the wild species like axolotls, macaws, and frogs and discover info on their breeding.
and like the other commenter said, the dogs and especially cat owners are so much worse in terms of ignorance currently. it's a really complex issue that saying "The exotic Pet trade is a scourge upon the earth!" isn't gonna help at all
Honestly, I think the government should tranquilize some of the more popular hippos and take them to a local zoo, or a zoo somewhere else in Colombia. This is so that the people can visit them anytime.
that's a good idea. I think they should do a fundraiser and ask everyone who wants the hippos to be there to pitch in. they could even get the community involved in putting their enclosures together, that worked really well for my local nature center
I still have a feeling that the local activists will still think of it as abuse as they're stupidity seem far enough to think captivity is torture and that all zoos are evil. I agree with this take but it's unlikely there will be an ideal solution with those type uneducateable locals
I agree
this video was so goooood do more please also Dania Beach is my home beach I go as much as I can, so cool to hear
the shark in the golf course was actually me playing maneater, sorry everyone
Tropical birds accidentally ending up on the East Coast of Canada is not an isolated occurrence. For example, In my home province of New Brunswick a few years ago a crested caracara was spotted in Deppie and became a huge news story. Many other tropical birds such as tropicbirds, brown boobies, Woodstorks, And flamingoes have all been spotted in Atlantc Canada
My nan always has seeds out for birds since I was a kid. Since the parakeets made their appearance in the south of England, there are a tonne of them hanging around the seeds
If you do a part 2, you should definitely include the Silver Springs, FL monkeys! There are actually a bunch of monkeys in Central/South Florida. You could also include the pythons, too.
if you ever plan to make a sequel, i suggest using the story of "haminan mursu" a walrus found all the way in finland, despite living nowhere near there
The guy who shot the flamingo is incredibly irresponsible. One of the number one rules of hunting is knowing precisely what you're looking at before you even think about shooting it. If he can't do that, he shouldn't have a gun.
He obviously knew what it was, found pleasure in killing something unusual, and lied.
Something else cool about the northern visiting Flamingos, you mentioned one spotted in NY in May of this year. But 2 months later, one was spotted in Cape Cod Massachusetts (my home state)
will the hippos eventually become too inbred to keep breeding?
I can only imagine how insane their family branch is like...
I wonder what would happen if you told the locals that hippo meat are apparently quite tasty?
Please make this a Series
The absolute odds of coming across flamingos in Newfoundland on a hunting excursion. Just astounding.
There are around 8 jaguars here in Arizona. And honestly? Considering they used to range across all but 16 of the continental United States, I for one welcome our new jaguar overlords.
Parrots are an interesting case, because I don't think there's a single place on a continent where at least one species hasn't been introduced.
22:01 the chameleon farming makes me so mad I cannot continue. Beautiful work though
I'd have to say my favourite story of animals in strange places are the Hearst Castle Zebras, the rogue population of zebras living peacefully for generations on the grounds of the former estate of William Randolph Hearst in California.
I love those zebras. My family went to Hearst castle once when I was a kid and all I wanted was to see a zebra. We saw nothing and it really upset me.
I live in Eastern Canada - in the Maritimes! There was a crested caracara seen last year, and ended up spending the summer months here - was spotted all around the province!
We had a group of flamingos on the beaches of Port Washington, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan last summer. Pretty crazy how they managed to get this far.
"Oh a strange bird.... better kill it" jeez was this guy born in america and just move to Canada?
People who find sport in killing things with guns are strange.
Imagine getting joy from killing something that did absolutely nothing to you but be present within your shooting range....
Bird specimens are often collected by shooting the desired individual. How do you think specimens end up in museums?
You say that as if Canada and the US aren't extremely similar in terms of customs and society
lol at thinking Americans and Canadians are any different
In Vicenza, Italy, Under a rock near a popular outdoor rock climbing spot (a natural cliff with hooks bolted in) I found a bunch of small scorpions.
Look up Euscorpius italicus, it's a species of Scorpion that lives in Italy. If this is what you seen then that would be perfectly normal, there are a few others too. I know of maybe 3-4 spices that are naturally found throughout Italy and the surrounding counties.
@ Euscorpius Italicus lives way further south. I am about a 45 minute drive from the beginning of the alps.
@@JoRo-g8rWere they any of the native species or something else?
I live in a city named Kingsport it's in NE TN and for about 4 years we had a small population of Cockatoos that had escaped a pet shop during a storm it was so wild seeing them fly around town they were eventually caught and re-housed
Something im surprised i havent seen get brought up is that divers are actually teaching local sharks to eat the lion fish.
I have a really small hippo from Canada
You are probably lying.
Yeah and im going to make it an invasive species
@@Kingklown_YT uh huh
Its a jole, the canadian house hippo was from a canadian PSA
Bro missed the huge 2011 floods in carbrook
wake up babe new all about nature video
lol 😂 that hunter should of known like come on it’s a flamingo 🦩
This video’s great, can we get a sequel?
Here in Connecticut, every summer (which keep getting hotter and hotter) there are flocks of Parakeets that come and live in the pine trees in my city. There's a family of them that lives in the huge tree in my backyard June-September. Its really incredible to see and hear them, but it also worries me
Why is it that when there’s an invasive animal that humans are attempting to eradicate it never works but we can so easily eradicate non invasive good animals without trying.
I'm surprised you didn't add the Rheas in Germany, though I think that's already common knowledge in animal facts in general.
Yep, they call them Nandus & they're really common in Brandenburg now.
8:50 What a cute shark! It looks like it's smiling!
It's on coke
@taiwanesegamer6423 Well, it's obviously stoked about it.
Reas in Germany and zebras in California
Back in 1865, a 25-ton blue whale was beached outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. Although its life was promptly ended by locals, Swedish zoologist August Wilhelm Malm decided to preserve its carcass, hollowing the whale out and making its body cavity into a sitting room. It’s currently on display at the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History.
You could could go into intro the whale the year around, but a couple decided to have intercourse inside the whale, which made the made the blue whale to be closed.
Every time when in it's election in Sweden, you can go inside have a tea/coffee break.
And it's It's the only preserved blue whale in the whole world.
Oh that’s cute. Just have your young son take a picture next to a dead flamingo
I went out with some friends to catch Burmese pythons in the Everglades and I would say that 350,000 is a VERY conservative estimate.
They are *Everywhere*
In the case of chameleons in FL, citrus farmers are also using them as a form of pest control. From what I understand, this practice is legally accepted or at least not contested, like chameleon farming/ranching was. Chameleons are not only hunters of native insects and small animals, they eat other invasive species. They are predated on by native species as well. It's believed by many that they have a generally neutral impact on FL's ecosystem.
This kinda stuff is more common than you’d think, a few months ago I saw some flamingos… I live in wisconsin.
When I was a child in Southern California, I would ride my bike over past the wash (seasonal waterway that was cemented as part of flood control). One day I spied a flamingo right where the Big Dalton and Little Dalton washes ran together. It was at the bottom, feeding on the stuff in the trickling flow of water. I didn't have any idea what to do (there was no way to get into the wash without equipment as it had vertical sides). This was in the early 70s and there was no news article on TV or the paper that mentioned an escaped flamingo. It was there for quite a few days and finally disappeared. I took a picture of it but with my crummy little 110 camera it was a pretty underwhelming image.
There's an alligator living in a hot spring in Idaho.
A few years ago, a couple friends of mine found a PENGUIN when they were swimming near the coast of Brazil...
We live in the southeast lol