Ten WILDLIFE MYTHS you might still believe in!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- From Swans breaking bones and Bats deliberately getting caught in your hair, to Ducks quacks not echoing, there are lots of wildlife related myths that some people still believe in. In this video I go through ten of these and show why they are myths and not facts.
Some of the footage used in this video was obtained using creative commons licences, the originals and their licence details can be found at:
• European hedgehog (Eri...
• Hedgehog
• Hedgehog forages under...
• Hedgehog: Scratching a...
• Natura 2000 - Focus on...
• Common Pipistrelle col...
• Bat flying in daylight
• Female Mallard
• wild duck (female) cle...
• Female Mallard Ducks Q...
• Young Brown Rat feedin...
• Brown rats eat food fo...
• Серая крыса, или паcю́к
• Brown rats at RSPB Rai...
• Happy hopping Barnacle...
• Bernache nonnette (Bra...
• Forficula auricularia ...
• Waldohrwurm
• Around The Earwig
• Forticula auricularia ...
• Big Toad Gives Small T...
• Common toad: close up
• Common toad and brown ...
• Video
• Psyllobora vigintiduop...
• Ladybug eating aphids ...
• Eyed ladybird
• A multicolored Asian l...
• Pie bavarde (Pica p. p...
• 喜鵲/Eurasian Magpie
• Magpie's foraging tech...
• Peregrine Falcon nestl...
• Gwen The House Spider ...
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• Garden spider spec for...
• Jungspinnen (Tegenaria...
• Araneus quadratus /Kre...
• Orb Weaver Spider feed...
• Garden Spider Araneus ...
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Thank you for this. When I was a child my father told me that swans can break your arm. I have had a fear of swans ever since - until today and your video, that is. I should add that I am 85 years old which is a heck of a time to be carrying that myth around!!
Thanks. Lovely wildlife footage. I didn't know about the ladybirds fact. The idea of hedgehogs with apples on their backs is quite funny.
If you find the idea funny, you should look up the original drawings from Plinys book.
@@AShotOfWildlife Pliny's natural philosophy "facts" are wild, but at least he was trying!
Wow i didnt know some of these things.
I always thought bats had bad eye sights and relied almost entirely on sonar to see. Now i know they actually have good eyesight. Thanks for that fact.
Since the nhs stopped doing ear syringing, those earwigs would need a jack hammer to reach anything worthwhile in my ears (lol)
Bats...
as a kid out with dad with a diana air rifle I fired up in the bats direction,it detected the pellet fired at xxx? Hundred fps...
That's crazy!
@@AShotOfWildlife 44 yrs ago,still remember it clearly.
Swan can break an arm, I personally seen it happen to a woman.
Where did you see this happen and how? A swans bones are so much weaker than a humans, was the woman elderly?
@@AShotOfWildlife yes, happen in Hamburg, women would have been around 70. However don't know if the impact of the bird or the flutter. The wings are pretty strong, maybe not the bones but the tissue and feathers around it. Don't forget those can get about 18kg and they fly. That specific male swan was was big maybe even heavier.
@@jantschierschky3461 Your claim remains unsubstantiated.
Attention seeking liar it’s practically impossible for a swan to break a humans bone
Bats in hair isn't uncommon, My sister had one caught in her hair when she was a teenager
How do you know it's not uncommon? And before you state 'did you read my comment, I said 'My sister had one caught in her hair when she was a teenager'? One example doesn't demonstrate the claim.
great vid!
Interestingly enough, there's a book of anglo saxon riddles -- The Exeter Book Riddles -- with one particular riddle perplexing people for years and years as to what the answer was. It described something at the bottom of the ocean bursting out and flying into the sky, after much scholarly debate it turned out to be a barnacle goose!
Yes it's so skillful how bats can fly together in close formation in the dark making rapid manoeuvres. If one stands still they may fly close to check you out and the gentle yet powerful swishing of their wings sounds thrilling
Having curated a University Archaeology Department's bone reference collection, which did contain an example of a Swan's humerus, I can attest to the fact that it was a hefty bone which, if used as a weapon, could do some serious damage. Sadly I wasn't able to try out the bone-breaking capabilities due to lack of volunteers...strangely enough.
My mother used to be terrified that a bat would get tangled in her hair. I sais to her: "Why on earth would it want to do that?". My father burst out laughing!
Swans, like all flying birds, have hollow cavities in their bones to reduce weight; They are more likely to break their own wing than your arm.
Ohhhh WoW fantastic and beatifull thank 👍🤗
Thank you
I am in my sixties and only ever heard three of those, but the only one I thought might be true is the 'swans can break a mans arm with its wing', which I thought was maybe possible if it gave a quick enough flap of a wing - even if it meant the swan might also break its own wing. Thanks for setting us straight on those myths (although I will always give swans a bit of a wide enough berth simply because I am sure they can peck hard).
It is physiologically impossible. swans bones are thin, light and hollow. human bones are dense and heavy.
Swans are posers and bluffers. If a swan comes at you ... just go at the swan aswell. he will droop off quickly. and if he does come close, just grab him by the neck gently and lead him back to the water. grabbing by the neck does seem weird... however this is the only proper way to handle swans.
@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo Thank you. I shall pass on your good advice too, to our sons and others. Not that we live near any swans now but just in case, on a day out any of us might see some.
Best wishes.
@@angr3819 Merry Christmas.
@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo And a Merry Christmas to you and yours also.
@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo well swan wing bones are strong, don't forget it is a very heavy bird. I seen an attack on an elderly woman. Her arm got broken, don't know if it was the impact of the bird or the subsequent flutter.
Bat in the hair happened to me twice. I was working a study of a copper mine looking for white nose syndrome in a known brown bat colony. Had one get caught in my hair after one before it knocked off my hat. 2nd time was in my house when dang red just planted himself on the back of my head. Still hasn't paid me rent.
Nice one Liam. As interesting and entertaining as ever. Have a great Christmas 🎄 & New Year buddy! 👍🙂👍
Thanks Graham. I hope you have a great Christmas!
Thank you. The only one I have heard about was the swans wing being able to break a person’s arm. Love your channel thank you ❤
You debunked another myth without knowing it? Bats have good eyesight even in the dark you stated. So where does 'Blind as a bat' come from. Good work, I learn a lot from your videos. Keep up the great work
Thank you for being considerate of arachnophobes and even welcoming them back!
I really like your videos, the footage is lovely to look at and it's very interesting to hear about all the animal facts~!
Thanks Liam!! Outstanding again to learn of myths and their debunking.
Thank you!
How could the myth of hedgehogs carrying apples on its back last, they're the gardeners favourite because of their diet. Their spikes are for protection not for gathering fruit 😅 oh dear
I do enjoy your videos and that was very entertaining, nice to know we're a bit further away from the rats (sorry rats, no offence meant) ATB MMMD
Earwigs cut away the dead petals from flowers. 🥀
Excellent gardeners earwigs.
Yep, I definitely think that geese come from barnacles 100%
Not really related but i had a wart on my hand,i rubbed it with red meat steak and buried it,honest to god the meat rotted and my wart disappeared. No joke Liam.
The swan myth has been around for generations....when I was little i thought that swans did nothing else other than swim around looking for humans whose arms they could break
lmao what the hell is that bat myth? XD i thought it was just gonna be about how people think they are blind
Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas!
Ladybird really enjoying those delicious aphids
I actually know of a lady who lived across the River Lea from us in Wheathampstead . The swans often nested on her land . She went close to the nest and one of the swans hit her with it's wings and broke her arm . The lady was quite old though . The swans often attacked my canoe with their wings and it felt like an iron bar , quite frightening .
Thanks for the spider warning! Much appreciated. I still listened to what the myth was, and I feel much safer now knowing the facts 😊
Generally if Plenty the Elder wrote it down prob guff
Thanks very impressive. Also this should be mandatory viewing for all school teachers who perpetuate and even introduce this rubbish myths! I know that's where I first heard some of them when I was a kid (Swans).
About swallowing spiders... People drawing maps used to add fake but unimportant details, so that they could spot if a concurrent copied their maps. I read that the myth about swallowing spiders is similar: a guy who wrote a book about "fun" facts added this fake one, in order to know if another writer copied him without permission. Well.. that's what I read, it might be wrong.
I am not sure how true that is, I have heard a very similar thing being said about other non-facts that are commonly believed to be true. Its still a good story though!
I wonder if the first time that spider swallowing in your sleep was written down is available anywhere online. It would be interesting to see if it is quoted word for word elsewhere.
I dont know if facts can or should be copyrighted though lol
Swans are overrated. They are not a tall aggressive towards people as popular opinion suggest. People call me brave because I have hand fed swans, sometimes I have had 5 swans surrounding me for seeds. Sure this may be different if they have cygnets but if you are familiar to them they will give you a pass. There is a swan pair that I have seen almost daily for past year and a half seen their cygnets from 2021 and 2022. This year I once saw them with their cygnets resting on the pond edge and the mother happily let me walk up and sit by them and hand feed them.
swans are posers. completely harmless.
A Swan had a fight with an octopuss in 2010 and broke 7 of its limbs 😢
Thanks for the facts Liam. I really enjoy your content.
I have seen a bat tangled in someone's scarf.
Hi Liam brilliant video I definitely agree with you on the myth’s love the brilliant footage of the wild life looking forward to your next video keep up the amazing work and videos Bernard
I remember hearing the swan one even more exaggerated. Breaking your arm was not enough, it could take your head off!
So even though I have heard before it is not true, the arm thing seemed more reasonable :)
Can you imagine if it was possible, swans taking people's heads off!
For some reason, when I saw swan in this this video, I thought that surely the fact that swans only choose one partner in their lifes isn't true, so I was convinced author would mention it, yet it wasn't the case, now I am actually interested if this fact is true or not
Male and female ducks quack. I hear them every day
What species of duck are you referring to, please?
@SkylarkFields Mallard duck, I heard both male and female quack. To be honest the females are more vocal than the drake
Hey, it was very kind of you to put the warning for aracnophobes, thanks!
Thanks!
True. I once found a (fortunately) dead earwig in my left ear. Yuk!
That must have been a bit traumatic!
A bat flew into my hair when I was a kid, but we were trying to get it out of the house (Queensland, Australia)
I've been awakened a few times by bats that have gotten into mine. By trial & error (mostly the latter), I've worked out a catch & release protocol. Once they return to the bedroom, I shut the door, so now it's just him & me in a 10x12 foot box. I was told they'd get tangled up in a towel thrown at them - not true, but it will often scare them into making a forced landing, at which point you can just drop the towel on top of them. Carefully bundle them up - gently, because their wings are usually splayed out. Escort them to the door, give the towel a flap, & they're on their way. (New Hampshire, USA)
Nice and interesting upload, thank you.
ive seen barnacle gooselings come out of barnacles before. dont let this person lie to you!
I think an earwig must've chewed through your brain... lol
I remember being told about the bats getting tangled in your hair. I know it's more of a superstition but our family have always 'saluted' the first magpie we see of the day, and say 'good morning', bonkers I know, but habit now. Great video, Liam.
Wher on earth did the barnacle geese myth come from?
Honestly, I have no idea!
I thought the Swan bit was true until I started handling larger bird's.
I live on an estuary in Cornwall and everytime I'm around swan's, literally every person that passes says, 'they'll break yer bloody arm mate'
The worst one is folk asking me how to split a Crow's tongue so it talks more. F.S
I just take a photo of their face these day's or push them in the mud, then explain.
The Cornish aren't the brightest of people.
@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo obviously you haven't read much on mining or engineering, or the industrial revolution.
Barnacle geese, 🤣
On further reading.....Did you know? It was once thought that barnacle geese hatched out of goose barnacles attached to ships at sea - their shells washing up on the west coast of Scotland in the autumn. This belief grew because goose barnacles have black-and-white stripes (like the geese) and the nests of barnacle geese were never seen.
Swans protect the soul’s of the dead. Greek mythology, I like to believe this since losing my mother and daughter❤️🙏🦢🙏❤️
I heard the bat story while growing up. We were also told that dragonflies, which we called sewing needles, would sew up your lips.
I really do love you
I've only heard of one of these myths at all. And in the USA, we do not call them ladybirds, we call them ladybugs. And what are earwigs? I guess we don't have them here. The one of these myths I have heard of is the one about toads and warts.
Earwigs are in the USA, I don't know how common they are though amd I think they might be a non native species there.
We definitely have them here in the US, at least up in the northeast where I reside. Often found in rotting wood. They'd come boiling out of the woodshed door whenever we opened it.
Hello, Liam, thank you for this nice and informative video.
I have a question for you or your viewers, if you don't mind: I have a compost heap in my garden and some animal is living in it. It made tunnels, it rearanges the stuff I put on it (grass, leaves, vegetable peels...). What do you think it could be?
I've had rats in my garden in the past and I don't really mind to tell the truth but I don't think it is rats.
I live with a hunter-killer cat and I'm sure she would have caught one at least. Could it be hedgehogs?
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
The swan can easily break bones! Exactly like a single bite from the black widow can kill.
So that myth isn't fake. My uncle broke his wrist as kid, by getting hit by a swan. Notice, kid. Small bodies can get broken bones from swans 😊 but yeah, grown ups mostly just feel the punch 😊
Kayaking and nesting swans dont mix...very scary,there has been a kayaker in the UK drowned by a swan...they will attack and follow for half amile😢
I have Embden geese, which are pretty much like swans.
While playing/fighting with them one hit the back of my hand with its wing, broke a small bone.
Wouldn't break a large arm bone, but my hand is still part of my arm.
My geese bite to hold on to something then use their wings to pummel the crap out of whatever has pissed them off.
You'd have a field day with stuff Karl Pilkington has said.. Dogs cannot look up being one of them.
I can definitely confirm the "small birds are babies of large birds" myth. or rather, confirm that people believe this. worked in an aquarium once, and we had tons of small things like star fish for kids to "touch" (we got to decide who touches what and when and how often, as to not stress the animals too much).
and 9/10 people would comment on how these starfish must be bay starfish because they are so small. when in fact, baby starfish are microscopic...
About every night I sleep with my mouth. Not willingly, though. Bad sinuses clog my nose.
I was once told, by a woman in the park that a Red Setter's tail could kill a child, she was very serious -:it was dificulta not to laugh. (because you know that's rediculous)
This made me laugh so much! Especially the part about not licking toads, fantastic life advice😂
I'd go for the rat thing around here, if it included shrews and mice...
then no problem with the spacing.
When I was a wee lad my hearing started to degrade. My mar took me to the nurse who saringed my ear and a mummified ear wig dropped onto the steel dish. Gross, and this episode fed a lot of nightmares as a child. I didn't know that it was classed as a myth until I looked it up on gooogle following this vid. Chomping on brains soundls like a playground exageration, and off brand as it was a mummy not a zombie.
I have lived and traveled throughout Canada for over 50 years and I’ve never even SEEN a rat, in person. I’ve barely even seen a mouse, to be honest.
Hi! Have you anything on seagulls please! I find them fascinating! And I do feed them!
thats what happens if an apple fell directly on the back of a hedgehog
Lol, I think a fully grown apple might do a hedgehog real damage if there was a direct hit!
Hi! I love your wildlife videos, but sorry to say that the myth about spiders isn't actually a myth! My brother swallowed a house spider in his sleep! Won't go into details, but he found a leg in his mouth and a bad taste!😅😂 I'm sure it's extremely rare though!
Here in the US we have myths about our own wildlife. So to set the record straight: Porcupines do NOT shoot their quills like arrows - you have to come into physical contact to get stuck. Harvestmen (aka daddy-longlegs) are NOT venomous. Bats are NOT blind. Owls and whippoorwills (another nocturnal bird) are NOT harbingers of death; and owls occasionally do call by day.
Here in the northeast there's a handsome reptile called the milk snake. It got its name from its tendency to take up residence in livestock barns, including dairy. At one time it was believed that the snakes were there to suckle the cows, and were stealing the milk - so they were killed on sight. The pity is that their presence was actually beneficial to the farmers, as they were instead preying on the mice that infested the barns.
Great video Liam, I have heard of them all but have not been a believer! I have been hit in the face by a swans wing whilst on a rescue mission for a local wildlife rescue, nothing broken
but certainly painful!!
Ah imagine being lucky enough to see a toad these days :( I've seen some once in the wild and it was at an rspb reserve. Was a very special experience.
Thanks!
the spider is nonesense, I once gently wiped a very fine hair on my sister's lip whilst she slept and she imeadiatelly moved away in her sleep, no way you could swollow anything in your sleep without knowing....
Great video as always. Someone told me once that ladybirds don't bite. I can assure everyone that this is false, as one definitely bit me once!!
yes the good bat eye sight 🙄
Bats have small eyes with very light sensitive vision, which helps them see in conditions we might consider pitch black that doesnt make their eye sight good.
They don't have sharp and colorful vision like humans have.
Their basically all far sighted.
"someone far smarter than me did the math" umm no that's a myth lol... Not smarter just better at math... I'm a diesel mechanic and can fix a truck engine.. I must be smarter than the math guy because he can't do that... 😜
I can believe a swam could break your nose if it hit it. I've never could believe the arm breakage.
Presentation was always good but I love the effort in this video even more. Thank you.
There's only three myths I have ever heard of and were learned as a small child:Swans breaking arms, Never no more than 6ft from a rat and earwigs in the ear.
I did believe the swan myth. And I learned that touching a toad might harm them. I helped toads migrating through my old house twice a year, I hope they were not hurt.
I can attest from personal experience that an earwig DID once come out my ear, but it had no side effects whatsoever.
...and magpies don't steal silver rings or any other silver shining items. And how often is a sliver ring laying on the ground now and then...
Those myths are so ridiculous that it is surprising that anyone over five believes them.
I knew a turkey farmer who had his arm broken by a turkey whilst stunning them for slaughter near Xmas time 🤣
i think the eating spiders thing comes from spiders decending from ceilings on thread, happened to me last year, i was lying in bed reading a book and a spider came down from the ceiling on a thread and landed on my face, scared the crap out of me.
The one that seems to have gained traction in recent years, although probably quite old, is that chestnuts will stop spiders coming in your house
2 meters is more like 7 feet. And who really belives these things? Flatearthers maybe.
Hello Liam, really love your videos, also the accompanying music, so relaxing. Usually watch in the evening but today it’s morning - feeling the cold so sitting in recliner, layered up plus blanket & maine coon on lap, purring away, keeping each other warm.
When the kids were small, took them to Wensum Park for a picnic - a swan spotted my sons black & white trainers and made a beeline for them, chasing him, flapping its wings & protesting loudly, it was so funny but also quite scary as it wouldn’t leave him alone, he had to keep running to prevent being attacked and in the end we all had to leave. Do you think there was something about black & white it saw as a threat?
Thank you for another super video, they’re the best!
I loved it, you have a natural talent. Wish my channel was a fraction as good as yours. Merry Christmas Liam.
there is a myth that got me wondering: do mute swans (some of them only) sing as they are dying?
I heard the bone break swan thing, but about it's bite not it's wingflap
hedhogs als heat sun flower hearts atleast they eat my brids food even peanuts they love i think
There's also people who believe that barnacles geese are called such because they feed on barnacles.
Thanks Lian, maybe one day do a vid about how many duck species quack
I wonder what evil person made up that myth about spiders.
love the barnacles one at the end
Thankfully, I don't think anyone actually believes that anymore lol.