Five Crazy Bridges for Animals
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Humans have created a lot of barriers in the animal world, here are some innovative solutions for helping the chicken (or monkey, or crab, or deer...) cross the road.
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The Salmon-Cannon might just be my favorite word I've heard this week.
Great video...but where's the 5 crazy bridges?
@@superdeangel13 I wouldn't consider the elephant tunnel a bridge either.
@carewolf true
Depending on how you count, there is more than 5. Certainly, not less.
you can see the first three at 1:42 and immediately after we see the elephant tunnel and salmon cannon. Top 5 bridges
A few days ago a green space near my house got cut down, every time it rains i can see snails trying to go from it to another green space that hasn't been cut down, so every time i take every snails i see (generally 4 or 5) and transfer them to the other side by hand so that the population can survive, while there is still enough rain so that they have time to move around once there, now i have to say i live in Paris and people look at me like a fucking lunatic going back and forth at nigh looking at the ground and grabbing things only to put them 10 meters away for 5 minutes, but hey its worth it i love to see snails every time it rains, in a place like Paris were most people don't have a clue how nature works like the little spoiled kids of the universe they think they are, it feels good to reconnect with mother earth every time that's possible.
Adrien Perié Once saw a slug crossing the road, I saved it from running over.
cool
@@draphotube4315 yes indeed. Also one time I polished my glans for over 10 hours without interruption. A few weeks later I stopped cooking meth from pseudoephedrin in my backyard and my life improved considerably. Good day.
@@adrienperie6119 Good to see your improving, wish you a good and healthy life!
@@draphotube4315 thank you, I’ll pray for you right now before going to sleep.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the video. But the title was total clickbait. What are these Five Crazy Bridges? There are a couple mentioned but they're hardly insane. Wouldn't a title like "Manmade barriors for Animal Migration" be more reflective of the videos content? It doesn't really matter but it bugs me.
Same - I didn't even think that this was a minuteearth's video at first
This is UA-cam, get over it
Deer, monkey, and crab bridges
Elephant underpasses
Salmon cannons
Classic fear mongering as well.
@@fbksfrank4 what
ok, searching for salmon cannon.
Animalist recently did a video on it, you should check it out
Eleanor J you should also watch john olivers show about it :)
Ah, the noble "ecoduct". A grassy bridge (or a tunnel with the girth of a sewer pipe) for foxes, toads, bunnies, and other smallish creatures. Here in the Netherlands they are plentiful.
Here in the U.S., they're nonexistent. :|
LloydieLynn
Not at all! We have them all over the place in CO, which state are you in?
Theyre pretyy much everywhere in Canada.
Higgins2001
Really? We've got jack shit in Oregon and Washington (Which is weird, because we're all supposed to be super environmental, or whatever).
I've also been all over California, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina and haven't seen any. :/
Everyone except Colorado hates natuuuure...
Higgins2001
When I was visiting CO the animals were nice enough to push the little ones out of the road onto the shoulder whenever a car passed
the fact that animals can figure out what we've built for them. that's so amazing to me.
We’re practically thier gods
@@Xelaria who is our God then?
Could it be the alien?
@@XelariaIn Orthodox Christianity, what you say is true. God created man to be the royal priests of all the rest of creation. So man is meant to be a symbol of divinity to the animals.
@@XelariaThis implies a hierarchical system of life that just doesn't hold up. Of course we would say we're the smartest- intelligence is judged by us based on our own standards. It's more likely there are different kinds of intelligence for different species (see Ed Yong's "An Immense World") rather than a linear progression. Plus there's the idea that if we are seen as more intelligence beings, it would probably be less akin to deities than to the antagonists.
We've got a lot of those bridges here in Holland, we also have small tunnels for when toads want to cross the road during mating season. Some volunteers even help them get to the other side by letting them run into a barrier and led into a bucket, and then crossing the road with the bucket, setting them free again every now and then.
I thought this video would actually go over 5 different bridges with some detail. Not just a 1 second, "this bridge exists" thing. It was an interesting video, but the title doesn't fit it.
Really just remove the "Five" and the title would work better.
But "List Videos" get all the clicks ;)
It's less about title accuracy and more about click bait.
@@brandonMTT I would appreciate if you stopped producing oxygen
The first animal bridge I came across was in the southern region of Carinthia in Austria. It was a bear bridge. When I asked a local about it, he said, "We lost them once, and so when we found out they had come back we built a bridge at their favorite crossing. We did not want to lose them again." Gotta love the Austrians, no fuss, just action.
They´re declared extinct again since 2 years in Austria but at least they had reintroduction programs.
The last one who crossed the border a few years ago here in Germany was shot, stuffed and put on display in a museum...was the last bear sighting since the 19th century and all it got was declared a danger by politicians and getting shot, great shit...makes me want to hunt down politicians and stuff em too.
This video makes me think of all the people who actually try to coexist with other animal species instead of being so arrogant and obstinate to fulfill their own selfish desires that they do the exact opposite just so they can be rich or get faster internet...thanks man!
Survival of the fittest. The animals and plants that do survive will evolve to the new environment. If they don't, then they'll die. That is life. Deal with it. Who cares if we're killing millions of animals? They weren't fit enough to continue to exist.
Emperor Palpatine Survival of the fittest is a natural principle. As soon as humans became the predators due to weapons and industrialization, that principle no longer is compatible with the relationship between humans and animals.
Jacob Koch No, my brother Osama died. My cousin is keep in me safe, because he is president of the United States.
*tips eco-friendly fedora*
well, why don't YOU go and do that?
talk is cheap.
how can I just click one button to like every single one of your videos? They are all so amazing I cant stop watching over and over
+Tornado Xing Studio Go to their channel under "Upload" and click "Play all" ^^
zip-lining chickens lmfao why isnt that a thing
I just drove 3 hours across Texas today and saw at least 20 dead animals on the roads, and that was only because half of my drive was at night when I couldn't see. Seems like too many people don't realize they are animals as well and rely on the life they are destroying.
salmon cannon and that chicken going down the cable made me laugh out loud haha
Love this. I remember when the first wildlife bridge was built in Banff... there are a bunch of them now, and it was only a few years ago that Parks Canada staff confirmed that the even wolverines are now using them.
here's some more on the crossings in Banff: digitalnomad.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/23/the-alberta-story-wildlife-crossing-in-banff/
Helping nature to adapt to man when it should be the other way around... Great ideas nonetheless!
I mean we aren't doing both, it's a co-operation type of thing. We'll help do stuff for you deal with our buildings, if we can continue building.
Nature made us. By extension, all that we build are also natural. Even birds build nests, and bees make hives, so why should the things we build be any less natural?
***** Because in nature everything an animal does will effect its environment in a way that fits its system. (a deer poops, a bug eats) We have ripped away from that system and almost everything we do benefits nearly no other native life. (humans poop, land is cleared for waste treatment plants and chemicals are introduce to make it better for us alone.)
***** You're raising an interesting etymological question about what we mean by natural. Animals are and will keep adapting to the things we build and our other activities. But for now at least the chemical and physical nature of the things that we build can be so foreign to them that they cannot engage with it at any ecological level, and that is why many of our constructions cannot be considered natural. The intellectual and cultural revolutions that have allowed humanity to drastically change the chemistry and physics of the earth's surface within the past 200 years has vastly outpaced the rate at which animal populations, much less entire ecosystems, can accommodate those changes without suffering population bottlenecks and extinctions.
So unless we want to condemn future generations to a much less biodiverse world for the next few million years until evolutionary forces can adapt using the weedy, homogenized pool of species we're currently pushing most ecosystems toward, we must accommodate the needs of animals (and plants for that matter, but that's a whole other issue--maybe MinuteEarth will make a video on assisted migration for climate change once the academic community reaches more of a consensus on it) for things like migration corridors: like bridges over highways.
We have no obligations to help anything. If animals can't survive the new environment of industrialization, then they'll die, just like how dinosaurs did.
In Sanford, Florida on the S.R. 46 there is a patch of protected land that this road travels through. They built the road up above the ground level in spots to allow for small and larger (like alligators) to pass under. The rest of the road is fenced off on both sides to help funnel the animals toward these u dear ground passages.
It would be great if man kind shared this Divine planet with the animals that belong here too, and Stop cutting down all the tree's, we need them to breath along side nature. I wish with all my heart that we could all live in harmony with nature and all the living creatures that live here with us. :)
why did the chicken cross the road?
TO KILL EVERY SINGLE HUMAN ON THE OTHER SIDE
savage
Whiteboard Stickman Yet before it could even think of doing so a passerby took it to his home where he had a nice free dinner.
Did anybody else grin widely at the mere mention of salmon cannons? Anybody else going straight to typing "salmon cannon" on UA-cam search to try and see more?
I am all for ziplining chickens let's do this guys
elwynbrooks in four years, nobody wanted to let's do that, so obviously, it was a shit idea
Dumbass
Animals have their own "highways" which were here before ours, so we are in their way.
And where are those bridges btw?
the one on the left side is in Denmark
The grass woodland bridge on the left is in the Netherlands
Passages for animals above/under highways are very common in European Union. For each project an environmental decision has to be made and accepted. You can find photos of a passage for bats from Polish S3 (or S8) expressway under this link: goo.gl/HocbyA. It's probably something that most of you have never seen yet. :)
Christoffer Hansen 09jamieboro Actually that bridge is one of the several animal bridges in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
they are gone, duh. the video just went over that
So I can paint a tiny circle ring around a cow and he wouldn't even move!?!
LOL!! Good one! Too funny!
Denine Mishoe yeah XD
Xanxei it had to be a Bernie supporter XD
LOL!
I thought that only worked for sea-bears. Except you are only able to draw a ring around yourself to protect you.
Per the thumbnail, I was expecting several description breakdowns of these crossings; instead, I got a light overview of the concept.
*not pleased*
We're actually building one of these bridges in Tucson. Should be interesting to see how it pans out.
+blubitatub waste of money ?
+madhouse5213 Waste of money but it won't make the population lower
+blubitatub eyy I'm from Tucson, where at?
On Oracle road between Wilds and Golder Ranch Rd., I believe
Famous in The Netherlands:
A beautifully expensive bridge, only for squerls...
But the most funny thing is, they don't like to cross this bridge. lol
When the helped the chicken crossed the road...
It really cheered me up :D
That deer crossing over the highway is the coolest. And the monkey crossing is the most hilarious.
I love the chicken haha so cute
115 people are seriously beyond selfish and probably should be put into a linear confine until they loose their minds and starve. (updated regularly)
What?
he means 71
Harry Nafpaktitis
...and counting ;)
*87
:P
yea fight ignorance with insult! Way to go, never brake the cycle!
Remember the squirrel bridge in the netherlands? It cost a quarter millions of dollars and only had like 3 squirrels cross it in a year and even fewer the next. If you're going to share great infrastructure changes you should mention their effectiveness first.
I liked this episode a lot. I have never once thought about building animals an object to help them navigate the obstacles we put in their way.
So there are two stupid chicken across the road, one says how do i get to the other side?
The other says you are on the other side
Of what, the onset of puberty? I doubt it.
I don't get it, or, at least, I don't think I get it =/ What's the gag here?
Mayro Dneir The gag is he's an idiot.
We have a few animal crossings like these on US 93 here in Montana. They're great, fewer wrecked cars, and more deer and other animals, win win.
Would be interesting to include this in a game. In which the game would have animals trying to travel around. Then have someone who would show up watching them. Only to later have that same someone build a way for the animals to travel over roads. The animals would be like "Who is that shadowy figure and why is he watching us" and then "Where did this bridge come from... did the shadowy figure build it"
The chicken joke while old, with a punchline that eludes many people; is actually a very morbid joke.
The 'Other Side' being the after life.
Wow, didn't even expect you would ever show Czech Republic in one of your videos. And by the way, I think I saw in news, that wolves might get back to our Czech National Park Šumava, so it seems like they're discovering the (behind the wall) prohibited area! ;)
I love the zip-lining chicken. Genius!
I'm just imagining Yogi sitting in front of one of those "salmon cannons" with a pickinick basket
Salmon cannon yep new favorite thing ever
Not-so-fun fact: The "Why did the chicken cross the street" is actually a suicidal joke.
The deers' behaviour near the german-czech border is unbelievable
I live in the deep hunting obsessed south and I can personally tell you deer have no problems crossing the high lines.
There do need to be some deer tunnels or something though, tons of cars get messed up in deer collisions
A million per day? Wow
Tan3l6 So theres three million americans?
Sounds insane ... maybe 100 million people drive each day in the US.
mrhattux No, there are around 300 million Americans.
mrhattux how can there be 3 million americans if theres only 7 million people in the world?
*Sigh*
I'm not going to reply to a troll's question.
Too bad you left out the infamous "Toad Tunnel" in [my home town] Davis, Ca. The mayor was a real nut; she had some really strange ideas for the town like turning off the street lights at night so you could see the stars better. Not filling in "historic" pot-holes on the roads. Building the Police Station out of bails of hay... the list goes on.
I'm not sure how turning off the street lights at night to see the stars better is nutty. Light pollution is a real thing, and most ppl won't be using street lights at night anyways. It'll save energy and reduce light pollution. Plus, who could object to seeing the stars better?
*****
Headlights are bright enough, which is why there aren't lights lining every highway. And streetlights have been around much, much longer than cars.
Here in my hometown they destroyed 4 parks to build new parks that looks crappier and lot less animal habbitants, because you know; 10% of budget goes for the construction and 90% goes to their pockets. basically a "valid" reason to steal money.
For some politicians "historic" is code for "too expensive to bring up to building code". I would never live or work in a historic building. I'm funny about fire sprinkles, fire escapes and proper electrical work.
there is nothing insane about turning off street lights to see stars better. its called light pollution and a lot of people care about seeing the stars, especially people interested in astronomy and astrophotography. just because YOU don't see the value of something doesnt mean that it doesnt have value.
I don't think this title matches the video :/
That picture of a bridge is 5 minutes from me. Foxrock Church pedestrian bridge in South Dublin! Eleanor Ward Marie Ward
After backpacking a highway between my home and a state park this week I noticed way more roadkill and non-biodegradable litter than I did driving past at 55 mph. I concluded that speeding by on our highways psychologically compresses the space that includes the road and its margins. Speeding by doesn't allow us to think about that land in the same way as our lawns, parks, even city streets, which diminishes our sense of responsibility to care for it.
Salmon canon.
Best thing since sliced bread.
eons of evolution and scientific advancement has lead to the magnificent achievement of *the salmon cannon*
It's interesting taht you show caribou and the pipeline. I lived in Alaska for several years and have seen dozens of caribou walking along underneath the pipeline -- basically using it as a convenient path. They didn't seem to be 'freaked out' by it.
These bridges would be so helpful in Europe at the reintroduction of lynx wildcat bears and wolfs. But i can imagine how expensive they must be.
Chicken zip-lines FTW
...why did that red deer thing make me cry so much?
1:42, hah that's near Dublin, I used to pass it everyday on the way to school :P
EXCELLENT! I am so grateful for you guys.
You are amazing! Thanks for another quality video, and no matter what people may think, focus quality over quantity.
Yay! Czech Republic - that's where I am from..
that foot bridge at 1:40 is right beside where I live! ( foxrock footbridge, Ireland)
Heart warming.
I really loved frankenstien md
I love the last chicken XD
It seems animals have no choice but to adapt to the changes that the most intellegent animal on eath is creating.
So was somebody going to tell me that salmon cannons exist or was I just supposed to watch this Minute Earth video by myself?
salmon cannons sound amazing! i would love to a see a video on that.
Country got mentioned, does a little dance of happiness
I know it seems crazy, but from an ecological point of view, bridging fragmented ecosystems is a really important part of allowing biodiversity to exist.
i love the last part :D
Very well done!
I knew about the deer bridge, but the monkey one is funny. It's just a rope bridge.
At 0:26 I live in that area, awesome you got a pic of San Francisco Bay Area
Salmon cannon is a GREAT name for a band!
Frankenstein MD. Sweet.
0:25-0:27 That's my daily commute!
0:50 does that mean that anti sea bear circles are legit
Salmon cannon
Science is awesome!
Thats why here in nederlands we have a bridge for wildlife to cross the highway.
Putting pipes underground for a bit, seem efficient and very effective.
the chicken cable at the end is funny
I love the art style of this it's really pretty and nice :D
the chickens want to cross the roads since it's one of their extreme games. Dead or Alive. or maybe it's part of Truth Or Dare.
Can I ride the salmon cannon?
The chicken crossed the road to get away from Milo. Everyone knows that. Anyone would cross any number of roads in that situation, for chrissake.
It will be interesting to see if any predators catch on to the opportunities afforded by those bridges, stalking prey animals there.
Given enough time they probably would figure it out.
Here in Malaysia we have a small stretch of road bridge crossing a national park reserve so that not the animal have to use the crossover and such instead we human who crossover their habitat.
the chicken crosses the road because it couldn't fly over it.
*Yes! We need more Chicken Zip-lines*
I was in Utah and saw a deer bridge that whent over the highway.... It was cool
Like the kangaroos,snakes and koalas in Australia there’s now SO many signs saying to be careful of them.PS today’s my mummy’s birthday 🎂🍰🎂
Love this channel!
Why did the console peasent cross the road?
To render the houses on the other side.
You are going to have to do a separate episode just on the Salmon cannon now!
Guess who
Chicken poo
Guess why
Chicken pie
Guess what
Chicken butt
I know about these bridges because of the Ranger Rick magazines!
1:25 I would put "But Red Deer Steer Clear"
Cool!
This is a great idea! These creatures need assistance on this concrete planet. This simple bridge will help with declining numbers of wildlife especially With all the hunting and depopulation.
= More meat to eat and less food wasted
I'm gonna call bullshit on that million animals a day stat
A million animals each day? And they haven't gone extinct? Wow, that's insane.
***** "In the US alone, about a million animals are flattened by passing motorists each day". I'm not sure about the number of animal population, but it seems a lot for it to be a million EACH day, but maybe I'm mistaken.
Deviljho Squirrels, bunnies, chipmunks, small birds, etc. etc. are probably the vast majority. They reproduce quick so it doesn't "matter" to them. Would be nice to see the break down for each species though.
Bluemofia I realize all this, but with no real figures on the population of animals, a million seems like way too much, even for smaller species. Haven't been able to find numbers by just googling "wild life population in the us", so I guess we'll never know.
Deviljho www.edc.uri.edu/nrs/classes/nrs534/NRS_534_readings/FormanRoads.pdf
Scroll down to page 8 of the PDF (213 according to the page number in the corner) to get the numbers. I'm not trying to be condescending, I'm just letting you know that next time you might want to look in the description of the video where educational videos such as this typically provide links to their sources.
Rebecca98463 Thanks for not trying to be condescending, and shit that's an insane amount of vertebrates.