Seaweed-Eating Sheep -The North Ronaldsay sheep
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2021
- The Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland are remote, with a total human population of around 22,400, although there is still a plentiful amount of life, with one form of it aren’t found anywhere else but here. This form of life was the North Ronaldsay sheep, named after the island from where they are located, North Ronaldsay, the northernmost of all the islands in the group, and are peculiar in regards to their diet, consuming seaweed. Before that though, it is important to go through their history and how they ended up becoming one of the most unique sheep breeds as you’ll soon find out. I hope you enjoy.
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the beginning of a new type of 'whale'
Considering how Whales are Artiodactyls themselves, would be pretty cool to see something similar happen with these guys. Could be a cool speculative evolution idea, come to think of it.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy I wanna see them split into a domestic variety of sea sheep
I live near a seaweed rich coast, Cabrio beach would be so cool, with sheeps
There's a kelp forest & hundreds of clumps
Though there's some desert land that might not want sheep, like it's a conservative
@@HenrythePaleoGuy
Someone needs to tell C.M. Kösemen or someone like that about this!
@@VincentGonzalezVeg y
Unlikely. Sea mammals were almost entirely carnivores who lived in littoral sea-side areas to catch fish and evolved that way. It's VERY difficult to be a vegetarian mammal and evolve to survive in the sea. Manatees and dugongs did it, but that's it. And they're in a very specific niche.
Scottish farmers: We're fencing off our grass, you need to find something else to eat.
Sheep: Hold my whisky.
Sheep: Give me all that K E L P.
The little mewls during the outro were precious
Those were my chickens! :)
I love this - so cool seeing an example of non-human selected mammalian evolution happening in such a short time period.
It's very cool to see!
The rapid evolution of animal physiology really is fascinating. It's almost approaching speciation; this breed would not survive in areas of normal soil copper ratios.
Another example of rapid evolution is the Lake Taal seasnake. After the bay in which it lived was landlocked by a volcanic eruption, it rapidly evolved from a marine to a freshwater species within a couple of hundred years.
Would be interesting to see if that eventually becomes the case.
I'll have to read up on that Sea snake species. Sounds cool!
Those are some cute kelpies. 🐑🐏
Lol.
Absolutely!
I wonder if the gut bacteria got their genes via horizontal gene transfer from normal seaweed decomposers, or if they are novel. There are human populations that regularly eat seaweed, with similarly adapted gut microbiota, the Japanese for example, and those are believed to be from horizontal transfer.
Interesting! Will have to look more into that.
I'm busy watching the BBC series "Shetland" for the first time recently, so this short video actually comes at a perfect time, as I'm busy learning (and through someminimal way experiencing) these most northern islands of the UK.
Oh cool! There's a lot of cool landscapes and features to these regions.
Super cool how the meat has a distinct taste. Hope you are having a great day :)
Definitely!
I am indeed!
A lot more videos coming out soon. :)
Quite a number of livestock breeds have distinctive, different flavors. Even with beef cattle, there’s a huge flavor difference between range or pasture raised cattle, and those fed grain on feedlots.
This is one of the best examples of evolution and in such a short time. Everything should be done to protect the bread. I see they are currently listed as "vulnerable.".
Absolutely! The size of their island habitat means that their population can never really be all that big unless they're moved elsewhere, so it's definitely worth keeping a watch on them.
Incredible how quickly they have adapted to the change in environment
Would be fascinating to see what might happen to then over a much longer timespan, given the chance.
Maybe the first web toed ungulates!
Fascinating and cute video thanks!
It's very interesting indeed!
Would make for some good speculative evolution.
In months with less violent seas I could see it spreading throughout European shores
So cute 🥰
Absolutely!
So interesting to learn about this breed of sheep
This sheep is pretty dope and I love it
Definitely!
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful animals !
Never heard of them. Really cool. Thanks Henry
Glad you've learned something new!
Really good video. I consider myself pretty well informed but somehow I've overlooked these guys. Love learning something new. Time to go down the rabbit hole.
Great that you learned something new. :)
If find myself going down so many rabbit holes myself too, which is how I find many of my video ideas. :)
I like these sheeps
I'm glad you do. :)
your making the welsh envious pal ;)
Lol.
What a video! Saw this originally on the BGT server when you had advertised it, later tonight I had stumbled upon it in my recommended, what a coincidence! Great video Henry :)
Thank you! I always try to spread them to as many places as I can. :) Thanks again for the comment!
@@HenrythePaleoGuy No problem, always interesting to see interesting stuff like this, definitely great inspiration for those wanting to reinterpret Kelpies or other large cryptid ungulates
@@OakleyKulu007 Oh definitely! Lots of potential for speculative evolution too. I really want to do some videos on that whole field at some point too. ;)
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Yeah, since there's so many spec projects old and new, with more on the rise, you probably won't run out of them anytime soon!
The seaweed is always greener on the other side :)
KEEP OFF THE GRASS
That's right!
Interesting thanks
And thank you for watching!
An interesting video. As for global warming as you state the winter of 2019/2020 was particularly colder than average. The Arctic ice sheet mass and area this year is climbing above average levels. Isostatic rebound since the last ice age is still ongoing and in many parts of northern England and Scotland the sea levels are actually falling. In fact the British mainland is tilting up in the north and sinking in the south due to the effect of the norths isostatic rebound. The Orkney Isles are only showing a minimal isostatic rebound thus sea level rise there is inconsequential. In parts of Norway and Finland the isostatic rebound is actually going to cause access to harbours and lochs a problem in the near future according to studies there.
Interesting to mention the seaweed diet of this breed, being parallel to the marine iguana. I wonder if North Ronaldsay lambs acquire their gut bacteria the same way that iguanas do - by eating poop pellets from adults.
Tell me when they discover a seaweed that eats sheep
Considering that they get ensnared by plants on land, it could definitely happen in the water, lol.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy there's a carnivorous algae so why not a carnivorous seaweed
Just ordered wool to make 2 hats. Looking forward to handling it. It looks lovely on the other vid. TY from N. Yorks 😊
Truly amazing
Indeed!
A long time ago my grandparents (in Shetland) had a few for a while. Said they were a pain in the butt to keep! 😂
Who, your grandparents ?
Some very odd looking birds that's for sure
Strange indeed!
This is interesting, keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
감사합니다.
Sea sheep. I shall dub them...sheap.
Good one!
If they prefer seaweed to grass they no longer need to be contained.
هذه الاغنام وكذلك الابل هي من الثديات التي يمكنها شرب ماء البحر
الإبل تشرب من ماء البحر دون ان تتأثر بسبب طبيعة شبه الجزيرة العربية القاسية الحارة والجافة والصحراوية
The capricorn is a goat but if these sheep were to adapt any further they may end up as sheep version of that creature.
We had seaweed-eating cows on a couple of sub-Antarctic islands. They were the last of their breed on the planet and NZ DoC shot the lot. Why? Because they weren't endemic. Much like the DoC workers who shot them.
Interesting that they did that but also when they went to the effort to rehome and breed those sheep from another island. When did the cows go?
@@lewisirwin5363 They were at Rose, Campbell and Antipodes islands. It was the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DoC) that made them extinct. I remember hearing observers saying these animals would even swim across Antarctic ocean to get to another island with fresh seaweed! They took them out in the 80's. I heard this story when I was working at DoC with those supposedly in the know. I really hope it's true or I'll feel like an idiot being classically trolled. The thing is I've never questioned it and now I'm having trouble finding evidence of seaweed-eating cows online. So wtf... Is it true?
@@poisontoad8007 the cattle ate grass
North Ronaldsay looks like Craggy Island :)
Is there a cat meowing at the end of the video?
Those are my chickens! Just thought I'd leave it in there. :)
what differs sheep from goats?
Oooh an ewe!
Very cool sheep. But man so remote. A different world than Chicago. Ha ha
Absolutely!
And yes, very far off!
One tsunami and it's over.
Mhm.
These Sheep should be nicknamed Sea Sheep
Did they get high ? 🤣
Maybe.
Capricorn irl!
:)
Give it a million years and they will be the new whales
Strange lads
Sorry plants:(
Slow down
WHy did you make a segment about how it is endangered? It's a useful food breed, there's no way it goes extinks, we will all probably be eating them in 50 years.
More interesting than NZ birds. I am so over NZ birds...
Well, they'll be more coming soon. XD
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Mmmm...I was afraid you would say that...