Why can you Find Camel Bones in the Arctic?
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2022
- Lots of animals have adapted to live in almost inhospitably hot environments but camels are arguably best adapted to live in the desert and other arid places than any other mammal. However, there bones have been discovered in the arctic because not too long ago they once roamed across Canada's most northern island. So what was a desert desert animal that it isn't known from the continent today doing in north America in the arctic circle?
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Fun fact: an environment ecosystem like the type of Antarctica or Arctic, is considered ~ A desert. It's just a cold desert, instead of a hot desert.
That's why the Antarctic is considered the biggest desert.
@Pleoryo couple cows out there finna get milked to death😂
@@gee2606 what the fuck are you trying to say
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It's because a desert is based off of it's liquid precipitation I think
Camels are the most boss animals of all :
They survive hot and cold alike ,
They can eat cactus for breakfast and happly gulp saltwater ,
Bactrian camels are even able to support high levels of radiations ,
They obey no gods other than themselves ...
Knowing them, they'd probably spit in the face of any deity that tried bossing them around.
@@jamesredmond7001 hear me to it
@@jamesredmond7001 I wonder why they decided to obey Allah then.
@@jamesredmond7001 I feel pity for the Camel God.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 They didn't
I had no idea camels were such absolute units. It's a shame that so many of these magnificent beasts are dead and gone.
Lots of impressive animal lineages have perished. Size is a hinderence when it comes to climate changes.
We are currently in a period with a huge lack of large bodies animals because they have yet to evolve to fill the open niches left from the ice age extinctions.
@@GeraltofRivia22 I remember reading about evolutionary radiation and how other animals from different species will rapidly evolve to fill these vacant niches. I can see deer and moose like animals becoming the next megafauna in north america.
Yup
@@EarthenExplorer doubt it
Knowing these animals from first hand experience I can tell you that dromedary camels do have to put up with extreme climate shifts from day and night. December in abu dhabi at night temperatures can get as as low as 0 C°
In Egypt on winter nights it can get well below freezing too
@@alexv3357 That'd be the lack of cloud cover, if I had to guess. Any heat built up during the day radiates away during the night if there's no cloud cover keeping it in, and the temperature falls off of a cliff.
@@jamesredmond7001 Low humidity also contributes heavily. Water has a much higher specific heat capacity than air, so humid air holds heat much more effectively. In desert conditions both clouds and humidity are missing and thus basically all barriers to rapid heat loss
It's as if deserts aren't defined by temperature at all, but the lack of free water.
I absolutely love camelids. Ive always found camels, especially Bactrian camels, really cute and soothing, but when I started working with Alpacas (new world camelids) it also gave a kick to my love for camels and camelids in general. I love them so much.
"Cute and soothing" dafuq
@@shadymcnasty5920 like their calm demeanor and slow moves
I had a camel ride once. They’re pretty calm and safe for the most part, but when they crap, it’s the largest pile I’ve ever seen. They can easily kill you, but they’re surprisingly tolerant.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Exactly. Like any other animal, you need to respect them and stay calm yourself
Domesticated Bactrian camels have been reintroduced to Siberian arctic in Pleistocene park and they are doing very well there.
Pleistocene Park ought to have been mentioned at the end of the video!
And really should get its own video on this channel IMO, since it is trying to recreate a biome that has been missing from the planet for quite some time, and already has a unique combination of animals - and they're all living in such a large fenced in area that they are mostly wild. The way the lone Wisent bull they have is living as part of the Yak herd is worthy of study on it's own - but they also have wild horses, plains bison, bactrian camels, etc. All in one fenced in area.
Camels are so goofy. Love hearing about them
@@lomaii2847
You ruined this comment.
Camels aren't just "related" to artiodactyls, they ARE artiodactyls.
They're not it is like saying we're australopithecus
@@anonymousstout4759 No its like saying we're primates, which we are
6:50 To bounce off what @Ben McReynolds below stated about deserts existing in freezing climates as well as hot ones, the fatty humps would also serve a similar purpose in arctic environments.
Eating snow drains body heat, and organisms living in arctics habitats develop in ways to conserve as much as they can.
A hump that stores water and excess calories for extended periods under thick hair would act as both a storage of resources on unforgiving terrain, as well as a means to reduce cold water/snow intake to maintain thermoregulation.
In fact, this adaptation exemplifies an interesting notion in evolution that isn’t often discussed; the adaptations suited for one environment may be just as beneficial in another, allowing the body plan to continue to be selected for.
Dang, you should've uploaded this on hump day! Great video man. I never knew camels used to be so much more common and widespread. And the camel that was bigger than an elephant???? That is truly amazing... Maybe we should breed them back into existence. I live in Washington and we could use some camels roaming around the countryside to spice things up.
Spice things up 🤣🤣 you are my kinda people
One hump or two ?
Ask the Aussies how they like enormous populations of wild camels roaming around. It's no fun; just another hyper dangerous beast, that can and will kill you. And Australia's already full of those. It's like Russia on steroids.
6:45 - You make a very common error there, even though you already have all the needed information.
Humps and other evolutionary adaptations of camels aren't there to help them deal with heat, but the absence, or at least prolonged scarcity of water. Arctic and especially the Antarctic are often called "the largest deserts on the planet" because yearly precipitation is next to nothing and all the moisture in the air is gone - frozen solid and falling down as ice crystals. Those places may have snow and ice but are bone dry.
Besides their humps camels are also equipped with really sizable kidneys and from frozen specimens of animals frozen in Siberian permafrost we know that this kind of adaptation was quite common, even among mammoths.
You see, it is not easy to eat ice or even snow - there is always a tradeoff for an animal unable to light a fire. If you need to drink you need to melt water first using your body heat, so which one is more important to you, being thirsty or freezing to death?
To conclude - conditions in the arctic, deserts or steppe are basically the same - scarcity of food and most especially water for prolonged periods of time.
By comparison, heat and cold are of much less importance to an animal that can grow absolutely staggering amount of insulating hair.
Camels don't have a problem with heat, they evolved to deal with water scarcity.
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Maybe you should watch the video because that’s literally what he says
@@matthewthompson6455 Go to the timestamp 6:45 please and tell me if it's "literally what he says".
@@Kwodlibet do you know what 'arid' means?
@@acecelery Yes I do.
@@Kwodlibet so it is 'literally what he says', right? since 'arid' doesn't imply 'heat' but does imply 'scarcity of water'
Would’ve enjoyed a more in depth physiological study of their adaptive hump relative to cold/hot habitat. As not many animals can evolve to traverse latitudinally species-wise.
I suspect it's difficult to get into that much detail, given that the hump is purely soft tissue it would very rarely fossilise, and I assume the only way we know that those prehistoric camels may have had humps is due to markings on their bones that match those of modern camels, but I may be wrong
@@J75Pootle A more biogeographival study like AtlasPro’s videos would be cool to see about camel’s. Atlas pro did one about why penguins are only in the Southern Hemisphere and not the north. He linked up relationship between the geography and their biology, very insightful. Would’ve been cool to see how the camel adapted to be in the arctic and equatorial deserts
@@chaichantheshiba5902 While I do agree, I also agree with the other guy. That kind of topic is a equal to in complexity, so either it would need it's own video, cut out the other species, or just be a really long video.
@@chaichantheshiba5902 heyy.. why dont you just do it and show us the video? Cant wait
Technically spoken, the pole regions are deserts. What defines a desert is not the temperature, but it's aridity, aka the lack of moisture. That may seem paradoxical, because ice is just frozen water - but the Arctic still isn't a humid region. The air and soil are exceptionally dry and you rarely have bodies of liquid water (except for saltwater, but that isn't drinkable).
There's even a word for arctic deserts - tundra
@@hrsmp Yes, the tundra is part of this, but it also applies to regions, where the ground only consists of solid snow and ice and where there's no plant life at all. Like Antarctica.
I was at the Calgary zoo in winter and it must have been sunny,.......and minus 20 C. The three Dromedary camels were munching down on the alfalfa. Life is good. They looked so happy. Their winter hair coat looked warm, and snuggly.
Do note that some of the late-surviving NA camelids like Camelops were animals of wetter, warmer, more vegetated habitats. Incidentally, this made them prey for Smilodon fatalis, another warm-climate woodland specialist.
Camelops also seem to have lived in more arid habitats as well though, such as in much of the American west
Another interesting video. Also, 2:46, wow. I had no idea a camel could get that gigantic.
The camels we have already are big animals.
I rode a Bactrian camel once in Mongolia. Sort of a touristy thing. They are taller than you think. Felt like riding a large moose.
Fun fact: there was a time in the 1880s-1910s where camels were reintroduced into North America. It was during an operation by a now defunct unit of the US Army called the “Camel Corps” whose mission was to scout the deserts of the southwestern US for the purposes of building railroads for the US military. The unit became defunct because of private railroads that the US military was able to make deals with that allowed them to commandeer them in times of war. As a result, the Camel Corps camels were let loose into the desert. The camels though thrived and as a result, sparked fears they would start eating farmers crops which as a result, led the US army to set bounties that led to their extermination.
Fairly sure he's already done a video where he mentions the camel corps, still pretty cool tho
That is a fun fact. Thank you!
That sucks. Why not at least catch them and release them to their original habitats, or at least tolerate and learn more about them
@@EternalEmperorofZakuul Very different times. It wasnt exactly cheap to travel from USA to Africa/Central Asia in the early 1900's you know
@@dralord1307 :(
"they have long eyelashes and a resistance to respiratory illness"
Me, with normal eyelashes and chest conjestion: *gets jealous of camel*
love it that the Paracamelus is shown as a kind of one-humped Bactrian camel.
Bactrian camels in winter coat are so majestic.
without the wintercoat they look like a wornout rug.
It’s hot as hell in the desert. The Camels need a vacation from time to time. The 🐪 bones are from tourists on holiday in the arctic circle, clearly:)
Ok but that giant camel would be wild to ride around though
I don’t think camels were really born for deserts but grasslands like in ice age America
Our modern camels all originate from Asian grasslands but then people brought them over to the Sahara because of how useful they can be
@@stevenwhite9917 sure the ancestors of modern camels did but our modern camels (bactrian camels) originated in Asia as you already said in the comments of this video. Are you really that sad of a person that you feel the need to pick fights in the comments?
YESSSS NEW VIDEO!!!! I've been waiting so patiently! You're the best man, I appreciate you!
love your style of narration, voice and the way you convey information. keep it up!
small question, over the past months your background music seems to have gotten more and more quiet, and in this video I’m fairly sure it isn’t even there. I really like the background music in your previous videos (both the older and the newer track) and they fit the general feel of your videos very well without intruding on your narration. is there a reason you don’t use it any more?
I know there are usually comments complaining about music in informational videos due to for example auditory processing or concentration issues. So that may be why. That's just a guess, though.
@@RadishTheFool that’s definitely possible! I don’t have audio processing or similar issues, so I can’t tell. I was thinking more along the lines of problems with rights to the music, but your hypothesis seems more likely
Love all your videos!
Even today, Camels can still survive in Arctic environments. Pleistocene park has a herd of domestic bactrian camels and they're doing quite well.
Pleistocene Park ought to have been mentioned at the end of the video!
And really should get its own video on this channel IMO, since it is trying to recreate a biome that has been missing from the planet for quite some time, and already has a unique combination of animals - and they're all living in such a large fenced in area that they are mostly wild. The way the lone Wisent bull they have is living as part of the Yak herd is worthy of study on it's own - but they also have wild horses, plains bison, bactrian camels, etc. All in one fenced in area.
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Fun fact: Camels are well-known to cannibalize dead camels, but are one of the few ungulates that don’t eat their discarded placenta after birth.
Another fun fact.....
You can eat "camel toe"....
I'd love a video series that explains some of the paleontological concepts that you use throughout your videos like the concept of niches or perhaps a video on how scientists determine that certain species are related. Just some core concepts that might help us to better understand the content of the species-specific videos we all LOVE.
Weird episode. Barely mentions that the Bactrian camel lives in very cold environments, or that the high Arctic is a low moisture desert
I had absolutely no idea about camel history till this video, very interesting thank you!
what happened to your soothing bg music and iconic water splashing intro ? nevertheless I still enjoy your content , You got a perfect narrating voice!
Camels are badass. Ultimate survivors.
I was in the High Arctic of Canada in July 2010 when paleo-camel remains were found on Meighen Island as well.
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Dude wtf. Camels are scary resilient. High blood sugar? Love it. Scorching deserts? Ya it's a bit warm. Freezing tundras? My hump keeps me warm. Hardly any food or water? It's called fasting, I do this every week.
These things are beasts! Makes you wonder wtf was able to wipe out so many species of them? Makes me think about the JRE episode with Randal Carlson talking about the meteor that ended the ice age. We are so lucky to be alive if even these hyper-resilient animals could not make it.
We might be the reason why so many died off. All the traits that make them such survivors in hostile environments make them easy targets for humans with spear-throwers.
@@jeffbenton6183 I know that we've "extincted" many species in modern times with modern weapons, but I can't see tiny isolated populations of prehistoric humans on every continent, even australia, simultaneously going on mass killing sprees and causing mass extinction of the ice age animals with some spears. Once they were gone though, we definitely were able to acquire a more dominant role, ascending not just to the top of the food chain, but in a way separating ourselves from it. I honestly feel that our evolution was only made possible by the world getting thrown out of balance and we now have the power to polarize our world towards healing or destruction. With great power comes great responsibility.
@@earthenexplorer2492 yeah I don't really buy the mass killing theories there would be 0 reason to kill more than you can eat. All animals eventually go extinct human hunting and loss of habitat due to the ice age ending just sped things up
@@shanefitzpatrick8377 look up buffalo jumps.
@@juhaszsc buffalo jumps have been used for the past 6000 years but the buffalo population was large and steady until the US started shooting them all to starve the native Americans.
My biggest question is how they fought off/avoided predators. No antlers, horns, or other obvious defenses. Not known for outrunning anything. Modern camels live in areas too harsh for predators, but these pre-historic ones must have had something I’m missing to be able to survive megafauna predators for 10s of millions of years
maybe groupin up and having strong legs.. and attitude :)
Safety in numbers. And they can spit up stomach acid and their kick would F u up
Grouping and speed
Same as horse or zebra. Horn and antlers are mainly used for mating dominance and rarely for self defense since they fall of after mating season
@@anonymousstout4759 maybe. I just don’t see them being able to outrun predators like horses and zebra can.
It’s not fair that most large land mammals died out just a few hundred thousand years ago!
It's really cool but our world would be very very different. We wouldn't be what we are now and all these giants would have had a better leverage over us. We were able to well... basically take over like we have now because they mostly died. Not amazing but alternative isn't either. In places that still have mega fauna or animals hunted by them you can understand why it is interesting but just as much a bad alternative universe. Mountain lions in North America drop bodies from trees and mimic the cry of babies of many animals including humans to get you to come investigate. Bears are wonderful but just like mountain lions are best respected by not interacting. Moose? Much the same story. Then there were giant wolves not closely related to modern wolves or dogs, Camels, saber tooth, sloths, terror birds, North American cheetah and we still have their food alive today. Fastest critter in the Americas and can run at it's top speed for miles and miles. African cheetah might be faster but if it doesn't catch one of those guys they can keep running and running for a long distance and the cheetah has to do it in boosts. What were the American cheetahs speeds with prey like that? It's definitely intresting but even with our intelligence we'd be very different if we lived with all that. Wouldn't have spread as we have and would probably still have a lot of the ancestors of these animals if they had all lived till the time we were born. Also in Asia they had all the elephants and big cats as well as gigantapithocus (I might have spelled it wrong I did it from memory.) Which likely scared tigers and could have been of high intelligence and high agro. The times then much like the really intense times of the Jurassic that were the most vicious and dominating. Times come around in cycles with predators and prey because forces of strength smarts and just big weapons to battle and outmatch each other. Our ancestors we share with monkeys and some of us we're definitely were able to handle these creatures. Because we did interact with some of these guys but not all of them as a few already died out. It's also probably why we split from our ancestors and now have us and our cousins. We were the ones that developed out intelligent and adaptation skills and monkeys found the perfect spots in ecosystems to cozy into. Still I think mega fauna are really cool but I've met bison, bears, mountain lions, and moose in the wild. I am alive but I don't think I should be. Definitely wasn't a "get out of this free" card in those situations I got lucky things worked. The mountain lion I was lucky was spooked by me making my really impressive large breed dog barks when in my back yard and slowly approaching me without fear. They aren't even friendly with each other approaching is not because they are innocently curious it to not have me startle. The bear was because I came around a cornor is was scared a moment before realizing "your just a human lol why am I scared." Me giving it space respectfully and not running really fast but backing up with eye contact was perfect to let it drop it's anger. I will stay it's a black bear so a grizzly is not going to have the same reaction. The moose I was just camping next to a group of scouting kids and they scared it into my camp it was charging and just changed it's mind last second. The bison I was little and my parents let me out of sight at yellow stone which is incredibly stupid and I just curled up into a ball and cried and when my parents found me the herd moved past leaving me behind not really caring to attack. So yeah I was okay but I don't think I would be as okay if we still have the camel and the hyena and the cheetahs and the big wolves and the sloth's and giant birds and more and more and more. I don't think it's great how much control we have because of the gap they left for us to fill in but they uh definitely aren't a great alternative. It would be cool maybe to visit with prepreration but other then that to love it it wouldn't be cool.
Ikr
I’ll watch a video once through to learn everything and then again at bedtime to wind down and help me fall asleep. This guy has the most soothing and calming voice on the planet.
I love your content, there are never enough of your videos to watch, please continue with this great job ❤️
Amazing guys! Thanks and happy Friday! 😄👍🏼
happy 2022, i look forward to see what interesting videos you will make this year
I love this, what hunted them? Arctic hyenas? I'm gonna find out!
Me
Buffaloes with blow pipes and poison farts
@@julianshepherd2038 i knew it🤣
The American hyena Chasmoporthetes was probably already gone when Paracamelus excistes.
American hyena's were swift running slender carnivores not unlike the cheetah and most likely hunted lighter prey then camels I think sabertooths and American lions hunted them, the American lion Panthera atrox was about the largest feline ever existed, much larger then the modern lion.
@@julianshepherd2038 How do you produce poison farts?😀 by eating frogs?
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing!
This was so nice to watch!
I just love these family evolution videos. Keep them coming!
glad you came back
Great video as usual!
It makes sense if you think about it. Camels have large, furry bodies, capable of building up large fat stores, capable of feeding on tough vegetation, and have body systems adapted for conserving resources. such a list of traits is quite applicable to harsh environments whether they are very hot or very cold.
Camel boss theme starts playing
@7:13, as low as -30 degrees in the Gobi Desert during winter. It is colder than that. The lowest temperature usually dipped below -50 centigrade. The temperature in the Gobi is almost the same as in Siberia.
Love your videos, would real like to see one about the various Bovids their shared ancestor and the evolution factors around their split.
Havent even watched yet. Deserves a like anyways!
Wonderful content.
Love the camel! More camel vids!
good video- thanks
I love this channel
Wow this was so fascinating
Wow.. Arctic hyenas sound dope.
Nice Vid.
Florida has them too. One time they were everywhere
A new natural history video to make my day
The Polar Camel, the perfect organism.
Honestly I already associate Bactrian camels with extreme cold rather than heat, maybe cause they shaggy in a lot of pictures, so the artic bit isn't surprising.
Because it is a desert. They just need some extra fur, and then it is perfect for them.
A desert is defined by rainfall, you can have a very arid snow climate
Dope video
Imagine if camels managed to replace big herbivores in every continent and reached mammoth sized levels
Honestly, They probably will in the future, along with other herbivores like cattle and some large antelope.
@@beastmaster0934 indrocotherium 2.0
me, patiently waiting for the part where they mention that camels are specifically designed to survive arid climates of either temperature extreme because deserts are got dam freezing when they wanna be
Nice
Can you do a video of the last interglacial period, or Eemian, 130k to 115k BC, when the climate was much warmer than it is today and hippopotamuses and other mostly African animals roamed as far north as the UK?
That'd be cool
Welcome back kid
When are you going to finally compile a playlist?!
I thought you might talk about when Canada was a tropical rain forest with ferns and lizards and such. But alas, too scared, too chicken, too PC to mention that.
Just a thought, but other animals that live in northern, cold environments today have humps too, like Bison and Grizzlies.
My toast oven dial says “Off… Light… Medium”
And I read Moth Light Media
Very interesting animals
Okay man I gotta ask. Where did you get that map of North America? It's looks so cool and detailed. I wanna have the image.
What happened to the background music? I liked it - it made me feel like I was looking into the distant past.
Or... a caveman rode his Camel to the arctic, then it died.
The saladin incursion against the eskimo hordes. Nanuk the bone crusher deafeated him with his sled dog terror army.
The land bridge between Russian and Alaska was that wide? I've always seen where the most outward points connect but not like this! Also, I live in Alaska so where can I go to find camel bones? Also, I'm old so no hiking!
Beringia is a very dynamic margin so it has risen and sank below the waves many times both due to sea level changes and tectonic uplift. The later was quite relevant during the Mesozoic since there is evidence for at least 3 intercontinental exchanges between western North America and Asia.
In fact based on some species from the Hell Creek formation most famously T Rex North America Probably had reconnected with Asia around 67 Ma and was possibly even still connected when the Cretaceous came to an abrupt cataclysmic end 66 Mya given that is a negligible amount of time for tectonic uplift/sinking.
Camel humps have nothing specific to do with deserts, they are just stores of fat for when food is scarce. Food scarcity is probably a major issue in the high arctic as well as in deserts.
Because I put them there. You’re welcome
This was so interesting. I wish you had been my teacher in high school
I have been watching this channel for about a year now and only just now realized the profile picture is a moth and not a snow covered mountain...not my finest moment.
I remember I went to a zoo once and saw a camel and my brain just went "damn that's a really big llama" for like 5 minutes before I realised it was a camel
2:55 two tonnes/ tons is very ' ' feather weight ' for than animal. Given that 6-6.5 foot tall gaurs weight upto 1.5 tons.
Camelops, the kingdom of king Arphurs
Here I am thinking that Canadians always have to settle for moose knuckle, when they are actually OG camel toe enthusiasts...
woa an upload
OMG the shaggy camels are so adorable! Until they spit. Lol
Oh is that where I dropped them? My bad, sorry for the confusion guys.
LOL, at first glance this read "Why can you Find Camel Bones in the Attic?".
@@lomaii2847 Camel bones, not camel toes..
@@Roarshark12 🤣 i report them spams
@@dumbshitmule2251 Done, thanks for the suggestion!
@@Roarshark12 for sure man, they are just bots and I'm pretty sure if multiple people report them they get shut down. I'm sure they make a few lonely folks happy but for the majority of us they are just annoying.
What happened to the usual background music?
Pls do the evolution of deer also like your videos
Do a Allodaposuchus video :)
Man, massive camel
Same reason the sphinx has water damage from 100.000+ years ago
Yes that means something.
The sphinx that's something like 4500 years old has water damage that's nearly 20 times older?
Makes perfect fucking sense.