I did a lot of pier fishing in florida years ago. There were always a couple of big brown pelicans who would hang around and try to steal my bait or grab a pinfish when you got it out of the water. I got mad at one and kept trying to scare it away. An old man told me "you know that pelican is so old and blind he can't dive in the water and catch fish anymore.? That's why he is stealing and begging for fish." Apparently when they get older they go blind from diving in the water after fish. I never knew that or even thought about it. So after that I would always throw the old pelicans a fish or 2 when I was fishing for bait. That old man completely changed my attitude about pelicans.
Why are the pelican's damaged pouches pixelated to prevent us from viewing the damage ? Are we considered to be too delicate to see the extent of the damage that is sometimes likely to result in the death of the pelican?
Perhaps one of those ridiculous UA-cam guidelines that prevent creators from getting revenue? Combined with the fact that some people do find such content disturbing
@@carolflower8015 It's not that I want to, it's that some of us feel it's wrong to look away from all bad things in this world. Facing them makes you stronger, and I hate some corporation deciding I'm a delicate flower that needs protected as if I was a small child.
I used to have a turtle from the desert Sibi in the north of Pakistan. Then, in the 70's, there weren't any rules concerning turtles from the wild. Several years later my father was retired and my family moved back to Europe. Of course my turtle came with us. She acted like a dog and would respond to calls. She loved to eat tomatoes and fresh salad. Sibi, named after the place she was from, always lived in the garden, never in a cage. So when she came to Austria, we thought we would have to take her inside in the winter. This we did three times. But then in this one year, winter came around very early. And when we went in the garden to look for Sibi, we couldn't find her. I was devastated, because I thought she was dead. But in spring, when the warming sunrays hit the garden, Sibi turned up. And she was way stronger than in all the other years, when we had done everything to reduce her diet and give her a bath before she would go to sleep during the winter. It turned out, that Sibi stayed in the compost all winter. So from then on, we always made sure, that she had a compost bedding of her own, and also covered with a metal plate, so neither could heavy snow pressure her, nor could water get on her. She was so strong and healthy. Until my stupid sister, who had moved back in with my parents because one of her lovers had left her again, until she decided to make a pond. I told her to watch out and make it secure for Sibi. But she didn't and so Sibi drowned wen being with us for 30 years. Sibi was no carnivore. I once tried out to give her meat, but she didn't eat it. Sibi always ate fruits and vegetables, with tomatoes and salad being her favorite meals.
I am so sorry you lost your dear Sibi. I had a turtle for years and would feed him bits of fish. I would tap on his enclosure and he would come running. I grew so much more attached to him than I ever thought I would and when he go sick, I panicked, took him to the vet, but it was too late. He died. I was very upset, having had him for about 7 years. I can’t imagine how sad you were after 30 years! I truly sympathize. 💙
Those alligator snapping turtles are no joke. You do not want a body part near their mouths. Not surprised about about tortoises being able to eat meat. There is a reason they have lasted this long. Was fun to watch. Great video
I am still surprised that Pelicans never went extinct despite being too bold to the point of actually gaining fatal injuries or death. Well if Koalas can survive being the dumbest animal on the planet, so can Pelicans.
Food is food to an animal, no matter where it comes from. Almost all 'herbivores' are opportunistic carnivores and will not turn down meat if they can get it. Cows? Yup. Horses? 100% Small deer?! They actually hunt down defenceless chicks during the spring. Rabbits? No problem attacking and eating wounded birds.
Squirrels and chipmunks eat meat and grubs too. I've seen a chipmunk running along with a dead baby mouse or something in its mouth, one eating partially cooked chicken that I accidentally knocked on the ground, and one eating bacon grease from a pan left outside.
I never thought about it much until now, but I wonder if the throat pouches show up in pelican fossils and I wonder if many pterosaurs and other flying dinosaurs may have had huge throat pouches but we just can't tell from the fossils because of how fragile the skin could be.
ok so I randomly stumbled upon a short from Hank Green (who I previously tagged in this reply thread), and in that he explained that certain pterosaurs did develop pouches like pelicans, but that the trait emerged independently from pelicans’ adaptation. Essentially pelicans and other birds are equally related to pterosaurs, and the resemblance is partly coincidental, and partly because a pouch is advantageous for that hunting style.
Way back in the 60s when I was a girl in Africa, we always made sure our pet tortoises had a balanced diet by including chongololos (aka giant African millipedes). I'm really surprised that scientists didn't know tortoises were omnivorous.
@@EmmanuellaUdofia Zimbabwe. I am fully aware Africa is not a country, but I'll quite as easily say America without specifying a state, or Europe without specifying a country, or The UK without specifying England, Ireland or Wales. By using the term "chongololo", most Africans will know which region I am referring to anyway.
I hear you! I used to find it frustrating until I realised it wasn't continent specific, and the average person has as much difficulty pointing to Holland on a map as they do Malawi.
So u show the pelicans torn up pouch on the thumbnail but then it's pixelated in the 3 sec footage in the video? I guess we are too sensitive to handle it. And what's with the greenscreen shots of the turtles? Weird video.
I've read about pelicans scoffing small dogs, more than once in Paris France. Some woman is walking her chihuahua on a leash on one occasion I've always chuckled about when I remember it , when a Pelican lands beside them, and promptly gobbles up the small animal, flying away.. I can't get the idea of what her face must have looked like as it happened.
I remember when abut 15 years ago a dog was dragged down in a pond in Mönchengladbach, Germany. It was an old giant catfish. The dog had not been far away from land and only in the water with his legs. The huge catfish hunted him down by catching one leg and pulling him fast to the middle of the pond, where he dragged him down in the water multiple times until the dog was dead. This was caught on camera. Hardly anybody believed it without seeing the photos. But then a few years later, again this catfish hunted down two other dogs. Officials tried to catch the catfish, but weren't able to. Nobody goes in the water anymore there. So either the catfish is dead by now, or he is on a different diet. ^^
While fishing in the Florida Keys, when we cleaned our fish at the pier we had to pay the "Pelican Tax". This is the leftover scraps we had to constantly throw at the pelicans. As long as we paid the tax they would leave our fish alone. But if you didn't pay, they stole your best fish right off the table.
In Louisiana snapping turtles and pelicans are abundant in the wild. Tbh I'd rather deal with alligator than a snapping turtle. Those turtles swim fast and are more aggressive than gators. Gators rather run away than bite. I've seen snapping turtles chasing dogs and people out of the water..
I remember seeing the footage of the tortoise in the Seychelles hunting a flightless bird trapping it at the edge of a fallen tree (which jumping off would be a death sentence for such a small flightless bird).
I highly doubt that much damage was done by a softshell turtle. It was most likely a species of snapping turtle. Their jaws not only have a much stronger biting force, they are also very sharp and talon-shaped so they come to a point and work much the same way that scissors work, by shearing flesh at the base of the jaw and working forward as the bite occurs.
My mom has small palm size land tortoises to control her cockroach infestation. She also feeds them canned dog food for meals when the roaches are diminished. They have survived for many many years and have names.
I find it incredibly odd how humanity feels some obligation to help some wild animals, like pelicans who take on other strong animals, but don't feel any real obligation to just avoid harming those animals themselves. Take the typical modern day fishing vessel, for example. It's an absolute horror show in terms of killing, maiming, and destroying the habitats of billions of wild sea animals and that gets largely ignored. But then we all feel good when we hear of a tiny number of wild animals rehabbed from unfortunate nonhuman forces.
Thats rather short sighted and cynical of both of you. What sad and angry lives you must live if the desire to make a creatures life better is a negative to you.
@@herrikudo You missed the point. No one's suggesting it's bad to help any animals. The issue is: why help 1 animal while mindlessly terrorizing millions of other animals? It's a matter of consistency.
It's because you're putting all of humanity into one pool. Some humans are just disgusting, selfish, and cruel and I'm sure if it wasn't for laws, they would do the same to other humans, some of these cruel humans become leaders and that's how wars happen. Then you have the good hearted people who help these animals, they don't turn around and hurt other animals for no reason, maybe they eat meat, but that's a whole other can of worms. 😶
@@Zonose I'm willing to suggest that the average human alive today thinks that helping wild animals is morally virtuous. They would applaud the people who help those animals and see it as a good example for others to follow. But also the average human alive today also supports industries, such as the fishing industry. It's cognitive dissonance on a mass scale.
Fun fact: the ancient Chinese trained pelicans to fish for them. The pelican would catch the fish and hold it in its pouch. Then the bird would fly back to the human. They would split the meal and no one would go to bed hungry.
Even at 2M subs this cannel is stupidly underrated! First time I’ve found a video in my recommended and I’ve been learning crazy and crazy fucked up facts all day. 100/10, subbed and staying.
Pelicans are amazing. If you go to Xcaret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and float in the lagoon on one of the tubes they provide, the wild pelicans nearby will divebomb underneath you to get to the little fish that gather in your shadow. It was an incredible experience. I thought they would hit me, because they dive so fast, but they are extremely accurate. They divebomb so close to you that you will get splashed. I had no idea that their beak pouches were this fragile though.
I catch and fix up injured turtles and I do this by using a barbless hook with a BRIGHT red bobber 1 inch above the hook. I usually use hotdogs as bait and it always works. I also use a chain-mill net that the soft shells offer break.
Wow. That video was all over the place. So should we assume that pelican was left to starve. Nothing was mentioned about helping it. Another was mentioned with the same injury that was helped and released, but nothing about this one. Or did I miss it?
It's not just tortoise that every now and then snacks on lil birds, i'v seen moose just floking around picking up chicks practising flight and just munch on em.
Pelicans are birds of the family Pelecanidae, there are over eight extant species within six genera and two subfamilies, pelicans are classified within the order Pelecaniformes, which also contains more fairly similar species like cormorants, shags, darters, frigatebirds, boobies, gannets, and tropicbirds in addition to more primitive and different-looking but phylogenetically related species like the kagu of New Caledonia, the sunbittern of South America, and the shoebill and hamerkop of Africa, the order Pelecaniformes is split into four suborders, Eurypygae for the families Rhynochetidae (Kagu and Fossil Relatives) and Eurypygidae (Sunbittern and Fossil Relatives), Balaenicipites for the families Scopidae (Hamerkop and Fossil Relatives) and Balaenicipitidae (Shoebill and Fossil Relatives), Phaethontae for the family Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds), and Pelecani for the families Sulidae (Boobies and Gannets), Fregatidae (Frigatebirds), Anhingidae (Darters), Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags), and Pelecanidae (Pelicans), the eight extant pelican species are the American White Pelican (Platyceros erythrorhynchos), the Brown Pelican (Leptopelecanus occidentalis), the Peruvian Pelican (Leptopelecanus thagus), the Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), the Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), the Pink-Backed Pelican (Neopelecanus rufescens), the Dalmatian Pelican (Ruforhynchus crispus), and the Spot-Billed Pelican (Spilorhynchus philippensis) Taxonomy: • Family: Pelecanidae (Pelicans) •• Subfamily: Leptopelecaninae (New World Pelicans) ••• Genus: Platyceros (New World White Pelicans) •••• Species: Platyceros erythrorhynchos (American White Pelican) ••• Genus: Leptopelecanus (Dive-Bombing Pelicans) •••• Species: Leptopelecanus occidentalis (Brown Pelican) •••• Species: Leptopelecanus thagus (Peruvian Pelican) •• Subfamily: Pelecaninae (Old World Pelicans) ••• Genus: Pelecanus (Old World White Pelicans) •••• Species: Pelecanus onocrotalus (Great White Pelican) •••• Species: Pelecanus conspicillatus (Australian Pelican) ••• Genus: Neopelecanus (Pink-Backed Pelican Lineage) •••• Species: Neopelecanus rufescens (Pink-Backed Pelican) ••• Genus: Ruforhynchus (Dalmatian Pelican Lineage) •••• Species: Ruforhynchus crispus (Dalmatian Pelican) ••• Genus: Spilorhynchus (Spot-Billed Pelican Lineage) •••• Species: Spilorhynchus philippensis (Spot-Billed Pelican)
You can find footage on YT of a pelican trying to eat a tourist. She just sits there laughing but the cat back tracked and took off when it saw the pelican.
i have exactly the same turtle at my home, I'm keeping it as a pet and i can confirm its bite force is extremely high also its claws are dangerous. i rescued it from the wild and i'm having it with me since 2014 and it's a small one weighing around 900g i even got another one to keep its company but it severely injured the new turtle so i had no choice but to keep them both separately. I'm not a turtle expert and i don't know their behavior so if anyone knows them well let me know how to befriend it. it's been over 8 years since i found it and it still hides inside its shell when i hold it
I don't know how to tell you this lightly, but if you don't know basic stuff about a species as the fact that they're territorial and solitary and that you can't befriend two animals that aren't social, you shouldn't keep them. You should know their behavior if you decided to care from them. Also, you don't rescue animals from the wild, you took it out of its environment and depending on your local laws it might even be illegal. In addition, in the case you find a wild wounded animal you call the experts, don't intervene yourself if you don't have the knowledge/experience, you can make it much worse
@WATOP would you maybe talk about how many animals are bisexual. I just recently found out about it and it actually shoked me, because I always thought animals are heterosexual. Is it like only smth a few of the animals do?
I read that homosexuality in animals was linked to survival of the species. Generalizing here, dolphins and baboons are just raunchy haha. Anyway, take male lions. Most sexually active lions kill (and sometimes eat) other lions cubs so that the lioness comes back into heat and he can spread his own gene pool. A gay lion doesn't care. He'll just be the Uncle, and help protect the pride from other lions and hyenas So a main lion likes to have a gay lion around, all back up, no competition. Homosexual elephant females are like aunties, and will help with babysitting and teaching without favouring their offspring (because they don't have any). I'm not sure if these aunties and uncles are bisexual, homosexual, asexual or infertile though.
@@jaqiharrison1984 Thanks for the information. I have read that, there is no actuall homosexuality but only bisexuality among wild animals. However, in terms of domestic animals, there are cases of dogs, sheeps, horses or cats, where there is homosexuality. Every 10th hamster is gay. But man I was really shocked, I would have thought that.
Yet another string to your bow mr. Redwheel. So we had a saying over here in England that "Your eyes are bigger than your belly", meaning here that "Your eyes are bigger than your beak". Meaning that you have literally bitten off more than you can chew, that is anything bigger than you can actually eat.
I did a lot of pier fishing in florida years ago. There were always a couple of big brown pelicans who would hang around and try to steal my bait or grab a pinfish when you got it out of the water. I got mad at one and kept trying to scare it away. An old man told me "you know that pelican is so old and blind he can't dive in the water and catch fish anymore.? That's why he is stealing and begging for fish." Apparently when they get older they go blind from diving in the water after fish. I never knew that or even thought about it. So after that I would always throw the old pelicans a fish or 2 when I was fishing for bait. That old man completely changed my attitude about pelicans.
Speaking in parables is pretty difficult but you did it naturally.
Very interesting story
Damn, I learned something new again …..
Learned something new
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Wow, that pelican looked like it got in a fight with Freddie Krueger. Turtle tore him all to shreds. Was interesting to watch. Great video
Im not sure about that because some buffoon CENSORED it!
And Edward scissors hands
Teenage mutant ninja turtles isn’t so far from being real now
master oogway
I have always said that turtles are dangerous !
Big fish: dont eat me you will choke
Pelecan: dont care
Pelecan: "chokes"
Ah, a pelecant
Man I love p e l e c a n s
Finally a non bot comment
Amazing how you managed to misspelled pelican when it's in the title.
@@NexuJin amazing how you managed to make a grammatical error while trying to fix someone elses
Why are the pelican's damaged pouches pixelated to prevent us from viewing the damage ? Are we considered to be too delicate to see the extent of the damage that is sometimes likely to result in the death of the pelican?
Perhaps one of those ridiculous UA-cam guidelines that prevent creators from getting revenue? Combined with the fact that some people do find such content disturbing
Right? I've seen worse things on the side of the road. It makes no damn sense.
Why do you want to look at horrible things?
@@carolflower8015 It's not that I want to, it's that some of us feel it's wrong to look away from all bad things in this world. Facing them makes you stronger, and I hate some corporation deciding I'm a delicate flower that needs protected as if I was a small child.
@@carolflower8015 why do you want to live in a sanitised world void of reality?
I used to have a turtle from the desert Sibi in the north of Pakistan. Then, in the 70's, there weren't any rules concerning turtles from the wild. Several years later my father was retired and my family moved back to Europe. Of course my turtle came with us. She acted like a dog and would respond to calls. She loved to eat tomatoes and fresh salad. Sibi, named after the place she was from, always lived in the garden, never in a cage. So when she came to Austria, we thought we would have to take her inside in the winter. This we did three times. But then in this one year, winter came around very early. And when we went in the garden to look for Sibi, we couldn't find her. I was devastated, because I thought she was dead. But in spring, when the warming sunrays hit the garden, Sibi turned up. And she was way stronger than in all the other years, when we had done everything to reduce her diet and give her a bath before she would go to sleep during the winter. It turned out, that Sibi stayed in the compost all winter. So from then on, we always made sure, that she had a compost bedding of her own, and also covered with a metal plate, so neither could heavy snow pressure her, nor could water get on her. She was so strong and healthy. Until my stupid sister, who had moved back in with my parents because one of her lovers had left her again, until she decided to make a pond. I told her to watch out and make it secure for Sibi. But she didn't and so Sibi drowned wen being with us for 30 years.
Sibi was no carnivore. I once tried out to give her meat, but she didn't eat it. Sibi always ate fruits and vegetables, with tomatoes and salad being her favorite meals.
Thank you for this. It was very interesting.
If I was in your shes I would’ve been BEYOND pissed
@@ikoniful3984 I am. We don't talk anymore.
I am so sorry you lost your dear Sibi. I had a turtle for years and would feed him bits of fish. I would tap on his enclosure and he would come running. I grew so much more attached to him than I ever thought I would and when he go sick, I panicked, took him to the vet, but it was too late. He died. I was very upset, having had him for about 7 years. I can’t imagine how sad you were after 30 years! I truly sympathize. 💙
What an interesting true story!!
Those alligator snapping turtles are no joke. You do not want a body part near their mouths. Not surprised about about tortoises being able to eat meat. There is a reason they have lasted this long. Was fun to watch. Great video
White pelicans tend to be inland freshwater while brown tend to be ocean.
Hmmm shoebill is their closest relatives lol.
Yes I smart know fact yes comment
So.. is there something that I can put my body parts near their mouth? 🙂
Oh yeah you're not kidding. Snapping turtles can break bones so yeah.
What was with the green screen turtle chasing the green screen bird?Did you not notice how off it was!?
I assume that's a copyright issue
@@dennispetrov9628 That makes sense.
theres lots once you start to pay attention, its a tad annoying
There was a lot of weird photoshop issues on this for some reason
Footage isn't cheap but that staged footage was.
I am still surprised that Pelicans never went extinct despite being too bold to the point of actually gaining fatal injuries or death. Well if Koalas can survive being the dumbest animal on the planet, so can Pelicans.
Don’t forget Giant Pandas. Not exactly the smartest bears out there.
Suddenly "survival of the fittest" doesn't sound right. I think luck play much more into life then anything else.
Koalas are alive because of people's incessant need to protect them lol.
@@alexanderpoirier3350 Like the Koala, human aid and intervention is why they live.
@@EnchieDarwin’s ideas are outdated, we don’t think evolution works that way anymore
Food is food to an animal, no matter where it comes from. Almost all 'herbivores' are opportunistic carnivores and will not turn down meat if they can get it.
Cows? Yup.
Horses? 100%
Small deer?! They actually hunt down defenceless chicks during the spring.
Rabbits? No problem attacking and eating wounded birds.
Everyone viewing this channel knows that
Sad but true
Keep it simple : all animals eat other living beings or at least parasite on them.
Yup I even seen an iguana eat a mouse
Squirrels and chipmunks eat meat and grubs too. I've seen a chipmunk running along with a dead baby mouse or something in its mouth, one eating partially cooked chicken that I accidentally knocked on the ground, and one eating bacon grease from a pan left outside.
The fact that people are surprised that “herbivores all eat meat occasionally “ is getting old
Imagine being so easily perturbed.
You must be super fun at parties
@@nadnerb_sr20 I'm sure he is! He's a friendly beast after all.
I live with a rabbit that enjoys eating my leather shoes. An obligate herbivore who enjoys stealing her kitty housemates' cat food on a regular basis.
A pelican going after a snapping turtle? That pelican must be suicidal.
I love how the narrator is informative and interesting at the same time as seeming as surprised and amazed as we are while reading his script!😄
Falcon
Easy tiger you make a great point my friend for me
@@jixdahac it’s EASYTIGER10
I never thought about it much until now, but I wonder if the throat pouches show up in pelican fossils and I wonder if many pterosaurs and other flying dinosaurs may have had huge throat pouches but we just can't tell from the fossils because of how fragile the skin could be.
That’s an excellent point!
@hankschannel I need to know if this is possible. Were pterosaurs giant pelicans?
@@kaidwyer bro they dived into water.
No shit.
ok so I randomly stumbled upon a short from Hank Green (who I previously tagged in this reply thread), and in that he explained that certain pterosaurs did develop pouches like pelicans, but that the trait emerged independently from pelicans’ adaptation.
Essentially pelicans and other birds are equally related to pterosaurs, and the resemblance is partly coincidental, and partly because a pouch is advantageous for that hunting style.
You're on to something here
Way back in the 60s when I was a girl in Africa, we always made sure our pet tortoises had a balanced diet by including chongololos (aka giant African millipedes). I'm really surprised that scientists didn't know tortoises were omnivorous.
Which country, stop talking about africa as if its a country.
@@EmmanuellaUdofia Zimbabwe. I am fully aware Africa is not a country, but I'll quite as easily say America without specifying a state, or Europe without specifying a country, or The UK without specifying England, Ireland or Wales. By using the term "chongololo", most Africans will know which region I am referring to anyway.
@@jaqiharrison1984 no problem. It's a pet peeve of mine
I hear you! I used to find it frustrating until I realised it wasn't continent specific, and the average person has as much difficulty pointing to Holland on a map as they do Malawi.
@@EmmanuellaUdofia don’t talk to her like that
Pelicans are the definition of "Biting more than you can chew."
Thanks for highlighting the unnecessary censorship!
Pelican life is so tuff, literally a little claw can fuck up its life
Take my like and be gone
Well, they're kinda the embodiment of fuck around and find out. They fuck around, they find out.
Just because a Pelican doesn't mean a PeliSHOULD
I like how he is happy that the pelican is rescued (which I’m glad it was rescued). But he doesn’t know how sadistic pelicans can be
He literally eat everything
Sadistic? They are just eating
So u show the pelicans torn up pouch on the thumbnail but then it's pixelated in the 3 sec footage in the video? I guess we are too sensitive to handle it. And what's with the greenscreen shots of the turtles? Weird video.
Claim your here before an hour here is your ticket
No
cringe
Can i eat the ticket though?
oh that ticket?
gone, reduced to atom
ok
I think it's truly awesome that there are people out there that would do that without having to get money for it.
The pain that pelican must be in…
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I've read about pelicans scoffing small dogs, more than once in Paris France. Some woman is walking her chihuahua on a leash on one occasion I've always chuckled about when I remember it , when a Pelican lands beside them, and promptly gobbles up the small animal, flying away.. I can't get the idea of what her face must have looked like as it happened.
I remember when abut 15 years ago a dog was dragged down in a pond in Mönchengladbach, Germany. It was an old giant catfish. The dog had not been far away from land and only in the water with his legs. The huge catfish hunted him down by catching one leg and pulling him fast to the middle of the pond, where he dragged him down in the water multiple times until the dog was dead. This was caught on camera. Hardly anybody believed it without seeing the photos. But then a few years later, again this catfish hunted down two other dogs. Officials tried to catch the catfish, but weren't able to. Nobody goes in the water anymore there. So either the catfish is dead by now, or he is on a different diet. ^^
With sleepy eyes I read it the biggest mistake a politician can make, and was like finally someone explaining the corruptions going on around 😂
😂😂😂
Pelican: lol look at that abomination
Turtle: WHAT DID U SAY U BIRD ABOMINATION
Pelican: MY MOUTH WHAT HAVE U DONE
Turtle: want more?
I can’t believe you made a video about hurt pelicans and CENSORED the images of the hurt pelicans. Unbelievable.
Modern yt in a nutshell
it's amazing how pelicans aren't extinct at this point.
''The Biggest Mistake a Pelican Can Make''
*proceeds to talk about turtles*
While fishing in the Florida Keys, when we cleaned our fish at the pier we had to pay the "Pelican Tax". This is the leftover scraps we had to constantly throw at the pelicans. As long as we paid the tax they would leave our fish alone. But if you didn't pay, they stole your best fish right off the table.
In Louisiana snapping turtles and pelicans are abundant in the wild. Tbh I'd rather deal with alligator than a snapping turtle. Those turtles swim fast and are more aggressive than gators. Gators rather run away than bite. I've seen snapping turtles chasing dogs and people out of the water..
Just another day to unload some .44 rounds *stylishly reloads magnum*
That tortious dramatization is exactly why we love your channel, its when you take on the character of the animals bro, loll!
You know what's funny bout a Pelican?
His beak can hold more, than his belly can.
The mangled beak is one of the most disturbing things I've had to see and think about for a while.
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this is not true, even google says the strongest snapping turtle is the alligator snapping turtle.
You actually have to censored some injured animals photos? Adults are being treated as kindergarten kids….
I remember seeing the footage of the tortoise in the Seychelles hunting a flightless bird trapping it at the edge of a fallen tree (which jumping off would be a death sentence for such a small flightless bird).
It's as if a pitcher plant grew wings.
I highly doubt that much damage was done by a softshell turtle. It was most likely a species of snapping turtle. Their jaws not only have a much stronger biting force, they are also very sharp and talon-shaped so they come to a point and work much the same way that scissors work, by shearing flesh at the base of the jaw and working forward as the bite occurs.
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That thumbnail is making my skin crawl for some reason but i cant stop looking at it. Poor thing.
Two guys in a kayak were spit out of a whale mouth in a different video. They both survived with little harm done to them.
An animal that will put anything in it's mouth to see if it's edible...
My spirit animal...
Sorry for running the moment
They are caníbals
😀 😀 😀
The turtle scenario is life. It’s natural. The fish hook story is what bothers me.
If you could show us the wounds instead of blurring them out that would be good
Pilecans are nearer to dinosaurs, than a scavenger eagle
Even if a Pelican, doesn't mean a Pelishould
Weird to talk about how pelicans will eat anything and NOT show that clip recorded in Central Park of a pelican nomming a pigeon.
These birds don't realize that just because a pelican doesn't mean a pelishould
Many sharks have to close their eyes to open jaws wide enough for a bite..so they technically just bite at prey hoping they hit
My mom has small palm size land tortoises to control her cockroach infestation. She also feeds them canned dog food for meals when the roaches are diminished. They have survived for many many years and have names.
Turtles are prehistoric creatures just like alligators and crocodiles. They endured millions years of hell on Earth!
There is a famous pelican in London that has a taste for pigeons. You can find it on youtube
I saw
Canabalism
@@arandomguyontheinternet5818 not really
I find it incredibly odd how humanity feels some obligation to help some wild animals, like pelicans who take on other strong animals, but don't feel any real obligation to just avoid harming those animals themselves. Take the typical modern day fishing vessel, for example. It's an absolute horror show in terms of killing, maiming, and destroying the habitats of billions of wild sea animals and that gets largely ignored. But then we all feel good when we hear of a tiny number of wild animals rehabbed from unfortunate nonhuman forces.
Thats rather short sighted and cynical of both of you. What sad and angry lives you must live if the desire to make a creatures life better is a negative to you.
@@herrikudo You missed the point. No one's suggesting it's bad to help any animals. The issue is: why help 1 animal while mindlessly terrorizing millions of other animals? It's a matter of consistency.
It's because you're putting all of humanity into one pool. Some humans are just disgusting, selfish, and cruel and I'm sure if it wasn't for laws, they would do the same to other humans, some of these cruel humans become leaders and that's how wars happen.
Then you have the good hearted people who help these animals, they don't turn around and hurt other animals for no reason, maybe they eat meat, but that's a whole other can of worms. 😶
@@Zonose I'm willing to suggest that the average human alive today thinks that helping wild animals is morally virtuous. They would applaud the people who help those animals and see it as a good example for others to follow. But also the average human alive today also supports industries, such as the fishing industry. It's cognitive dissonance on a mass scale.
@@AV57 Yeah that's a thing alright 😕 it's not something I know enough about to try to discuss deeply..
Why are the pics blurred?! I only clicked the link because I wanted to see the shredded throat pouch
Funny story: my brother when he was little, he showed my turtle his tongue and she bit him XD, well he learnd his lesson
My whole life, I have wondered what is the biggest mistake a pelican can make. Now I finally know.
Fun fact: the ancient Chinese trained pelicans to fish for them. The pelican would catch the fish and hold it in its pouch. Then the bird would fly back to the human. They would split the meal and no one would go to bed hungry.
Seems strange that the Pelican is doing all the work for half the pay...
cormorants too
In India are fishermen, who trainbirds for fishing.
Even at 2M subs this cannel is stupidly underrated! First time I’ve found a video in my recommended and I’ve been learning crazy and crazy fucked up facts all day. 100/10, subbed and staying.
reminds me of my self after 2 am
" turning to pelikan "
Who did you hire to edit the snapping turtle graphics from 6:45 till the end of the video? They looked totally amazing and so real!
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Yeah, they should have let the person who edited 7:39-7:45 edit 6:45 as well
Hands down the best channel on UA-cam. Idk how you guys do this!
Literally the only channel I watch on UA-cam.
I've raised a common snapping turtle from hatchling to 9 years, at which point he was released. Miss my little "Chubby," and hope he's eating well!
i used to feed anything to my turtles from fish, vegetables, fruits, and even meat or insects they love it
the pelican deserved it all
yup
Pelicans are amazing. If you go to Xcaret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and float in the lagoon on one of the tubes they provide, the wild pelicans nearby will divebomb underneath you to get to the little fish that gather in your shadow. It was an incredible experience. I thought they would hit me, because they dive so fast, but they are extremely accurate. They divebomb so close to you that you will get splashed. I had no idea that their beak pouches were this fragile though.
Eating the bird that's ridding you of your ticks.. now that's some serious betrayal right there
I catch and fix up injured turtles and I do this by using a barbless hook with a BRIGHT red bobber 1 inch above the hook. I usually use hotdogs as bait and it always works. I also use a chain-mill net that the soft shells offer break.
The weird cut out effects are horrible!!! Not WATOP quality 😥
Wow. That video was all over the place. So should we assume that pelican was left to starve. Nothing was mentioned about helping it. Another was mentioned with the same injury that was helped and released, but nothing about this one. Or did I miss it?
I agree. It should be told that the poor bird was healed. Not just left to die in agony.
That video of the whale eating is shocking
Good that you've pixelated all the interesting images in the clip after you've shocked us with your unpixelated thumbnail 🤣👍
TF with the pelican censorship ??!!
That pelican looks like he had a fight with scissors ✂️ and he lost
That pelican was named Amber and had a run in with Edward Scissorhands.
Thank you for the emoji or I might've forgotten what scissors look like
Thanks for the emoji it made your comment funnier
So that pelican had barely anything to do with the video
It feels nice to be this early. 😌
As a turtle and tortoise owner of many years, I can confirm they will destroy anything and their blood lust is endless
I bet vegans are throwing their phones when the find out that lots of herbivores often eat baby birds when they get the chance
Gumball and his family would be so happy to meet this menace turtle again.
Poor and uneducated me who used to think, turtles are pretty harmless 😭
XD
It's not just tortoise that every now and then snacks on lil birds, i'v seen moose just floking around picking up chicks practising flight and just munch on em.
Hahahahaha,
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Keep up the good work brother.
Why sensor the pictures? It's nature. Don't half ass it. Stops watching and runs to an open channel 💡
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much time and e ffort he puts in the videos for us. 😇
He does do a very good job.
the only pelican I know tells me to hydrate constantly and speaks with an Australian accent
Pelicans are birds of the family Pelecanidae, there are over eight extant species within six genera and two subfamilies, pelicans are classified within the order Pelecaniformes, which also contains more fairly similar species like cormorants, shags, darters, frigatebirds, boobies, gannets, and tropicbirds in addition to more primitive and different-looking but phylogenetically related species like the kagu of New Caledonia, the sunbittern of South America, and the shoebill and hamerkop of Africa, the order Pelecaniformes is split into four suborders, Eurypygae for the families Rhynochetidae (Kagu and Fossil Relatives) and Eurypygidae (Sunbittern and Fossil Relatives), Balaenicipites for the families Scopidae (Hamerkop and Fossil Relatives) and Balaenicipitidae (Shoebill and Fossil Relatives), Phaethontae for the family Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds), and Pelecani for the families Sulidae (Boobies and Gannets), Fregatidae (Frigatebirds), Anhingidae (Darters), Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags), and Pelecanidae (Pelicans), the eight extant pelican species are the American White Pelican (Platyceros erythrorhynchos), the Brown Pelican (Leptopelecanus occidentalis), the Peruvian Pelican (Leptopelecanus thagus), the Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), the Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), the Pink-Backed Pelican (Neopelecanus rufescens), the Dalmatian Pelican (Ruforhynchus crispus), and the Spot-Billed Pelican (Spilorhynchus philippensis)
Taxonomy:
• Family: Pelecanidae (Pelicans)
•• Subfamily: Leptopelecaninae (New World Pelicans)
••• Genus: Platyceros (New World White Pelicans)
•••• Species: Platyceros erythrorhynchos (American White Pelican)
••• Genus: Leptopelecanus (Dive-Bombing Pelicans)
•••• Species: Leptopelecanus occidentalis (Brown Pelican)
•••• Species: Leptopelecanus thagus (Peruvian Pelican)
•• Subfamily: Pelecaninae (Old World Pelicans)
••• Genus: Pelecanus (Old World White Pelicans)
•••• Species: Pelecanus onocrotalus (Great White Pelican)
•••• Species: Pelecanus conspicillatus (Australian Pelican)
••• Genus: Neopelecanus (Pink-Backed Pelican Lineage)
•••• Species: Neopelecanus rufescens (Pink-Backed Pelican)
••• Genus: Ruforhynchus (Dalmatian Pelican Lineage)
•••• Species: Ruforhynchus crispus (Dalmatian Pelican)
••• Genus: Spilorhynchus (Spot-Billed Pelican Lineage)
•••• Species: Spilorhynchus philippensis (Spot-Billed Pelican)
TMI
Why would you blur out the beak of the pelican??
My only issue with people helping heal pelicans that get injured, is you doom the species to stagnation
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Survival of the fittest aka Mother Nature is being interrupted
Oh cmon. I know natural selection and shit but is just one bird.
No ... You dont
That's not even close to how that works
Intrusive thought won and it turned into a turtle video. Imo that tangent just shows your passion for animals! Love this account
dam i kinda feel bad
You can find footage on YT of a pelican trying to eat a tourist. She just sits there laughing but the cat back tracked and took off when it saw the pelican.
I never expected turtles would be such a predator
Lmao the Harry Potter joke at the end😂 Great video as always, super entertaining and informative!
i have exactly the same turtle at my home, I'm keeping it as a pet and i can confirm its bite force is extremely high also its claws are dangerous.
i rescued it from the wild and i'm having it with me since 2014 and it's a small one weighing around 900g
i even got another one to keep its company but it severely injured the new turtle so i had no choice but to keep them both separately. I'm not a turtle expert and i don't know their behavior so if anyone knows them well let me know how to befriend it. it's been over 8 years since i found it and it still hides inside its shell when i hold it
I don't know how to tell you this lightly, but if you don't know basic stuff about a species as the fact that they're territorial and solitary and that you can't befriend two animals that aren't social, you shouldn't keep them. You should know their behavior if you decided to care from them. Also, you don't rescue animals from the wild, you took it out of its environment and depending on your local laws it might even be illegal. In addition, in the case you find a wild wounded animal you call the experts, don't intervene yourself if you don't have the knowledge/experience, you can make it much worse
Pizza. Try pizza.
Just because Pelican-can, does not mean a Peli-should 😊
@WATOP would you maybe talk about how many animals are bisexual. I just recently found out about it and it actually shoked me, because I always thought animals are heterosexual. Is it like only smth a few of the animals do?
I read that homosexuality in animals was linked to survival of the species. Generalizing here, dolphins and baboons are just raunchy haha. Anyway, take male lions. Most sexually active lions kill (and sometimes eat) other lions cubs so that the lioness comes back into heat and he can spread his own gene pool. A gay lion doesn't care. He'll just be the Uncle, and help protect the pride from other lions and hyenas
So a main lion likes to have a gay lion around, all back up, no competition. Homosexual elephant females are like aunties, and will help with babysitting and teaching without favouring their offspring (because they don't have any). I'm not sure if these aunties and uncles are bisexual, homosexual, asexual or infertile though.
@@jaqiharrison1984 Thanks for the information. I have read that, there is no actuall homosexuality but only bisexuality among wild animals. However, in terms of domestic animals, there are cases of dogs, sheeps, horses or cats, where there is homosexuality. Every 10th hamster is gay. But man I was really shocked, I would have thought that.
Yet another string to your bow mr. Redwheel. So we had a saying over here in England that "Your eyes are bigger than your belly", meaning here that "Your eyes are bigger than your beak". Meaning that you have literally bitten off more than you can chew, that is anything bigger than you can actually eat.
The more I know about turtles the more I fear them
Teenage mutant ninja turtles isn’t so far from being real now
I can’t believe they didn’t show the footage of a pelican swallowing a full grown pigeon especially since they showed a turtle kill and eat a pigeon💯
First 3 seconds is my favorite part of any video these guys make lol