I Found The UK's Rarest Animal

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  • @WildlifeWithCookie
    @WildlifeWithCookie  Місяць тому +35

    Can we get 500 likes?

    • @CarlsGarden
      @CarlsGarden Місяць тому +1

      Merry Christmas!

    • @Kristian-z7g
      @Kristian-z7g Місяць тому +1

      One the first day of Christmas Cookie gave to me a Capercaille in a pear tree

    • @matthewmckenzie6744
      @matthewmckenzie6744 Місяць тому

      @Kristian-z7gsome of the biggest penguin populations are Australia and South Africa

    • @Dazraff
      @Dazraff Місяць тому

      Them prints looks like a wild cat or some other species of cat, possibly linx! Well done guys

  • @shubhamsawant3222
    @shubhamsawant3222 Місяць тому +62

    Still can save them, in India we only had 12 lions left in 1947 now there are over 700

    • @DontCareL0L
      @DontCareL0L Місяць тому +6

      Yep. And In Warnambool, Australia, we had only *2* penguins left but now we have a steady population of over 200!!!!

    • @IIIHAYWIREIII
      @IIIHAYWIREIII Місяць тому

      Good job, Indians. I never even knew India had lions, tigers, obvcourse I knew.

    • @IIIHAYWIREIII
      @IIIHAYWIREIII Місяць тому +1

      ​@DontCareL0LGO Australia!!! Never even knew Australia had penguins, aren't they Arctic animals!? How do they survive in Australia?

    • @user-ie6jr4bg1w
      @user-ie6jr4bg1w Місяць тому +6

      @@IIIHAYWIREIIIsome are arctic, some are not. Also Australia has got islands un the arctic region

    • @IIIHAYWIREIII
      @IIIHAYWIREIII Місяць тому

      @user-ie6jr4bg1w Oh, very interesting thanks, my ma n da grew up with two friends who moved to Australia (sydney) and they visited us one time here in Scotland and they gave me a shot of camel s.... vodka (won't insert the word that comes after camel but u probably know what I mean lol)

  • @James-oo1yq
    @James-oo1yq Місяць тому +29

    In 1945 my great great Grandfather left the house to get a pint of milk. He got into his Opel Olympia and was never seen again. I know it’s off topic, but I feel it’s relevant somehow…

    • @GhaztVR
      @GhaztVR Місяць тому +1

      What about that car he found? Did your great great grandfather live in Scotland?

    • @richarddavies1731
      @richarddavies1731 Місяць тому +3

      Do you think he left to live with the wildcats?😅

    • @UncleReg
      @UncleReg Місяць тому +4

      Hi son

  • @j_y-B
    @j_y-B Місяць тому +3

    Really appreciate your dedication. You've also highlighted how depressingly little remains of our biodiversity in the UK. Keep up the good work.

  • @leedslad1820
    @leedslad1820 Місяць тому +1

    As a child we stayed in the gatehouse of an estate at Newtonmore. I opened the shed door to get some firewood. When I opened the door a wildcat jumped at me and jumped over my shoulder. Not sure who was more terrified. We subsequently saw it on a few more occasions. I was 10 years old so 1976. I love your films and channel - and your passion and enthusiasm.

  • @Al-AI
    @Al-AI Місяць тому +14

    The cats were licking their arses and laughing at the youtuber in day glow stomping through the forest shouting at a camera lol.

  • @scrummydoo
    @scrummydoo Місяць тому +6

    I have seen a Lynx in scotland, on the shores of Kinlochlevenabout twenty years ago while driving at night, I had two people in the car with me that confirmed it was a large cat also the guy and his wife driving the other way who pulled up next to me begging to know if I had seen it too, short stubby tail and tufts on ears clearly defined in headlights of oncomming car, about the size of a medium dog, it cleared the three quarters left of the road in one leap,,, amazing to see

  • @mohammadumair9497
    @mohammadumair9497 Місяць тому +4

    What a beautiful video cookie really enjoyed it mate and what a stunning bird and scottish wild cat at the end like they say beautiful endings.

  • @anaz7603
    @anaz7603 Місяць тому +3

    I loved this-I was gripped on edge; to see whether you saw any of these elusive animals!!!

  • @SwampApeSci
    @SwampApeSci Місяць тому +7

    "And this is where it lives" Why you gotta doxx lil homie like that 😭

  • @RSR423
    @RSR423 Місяць тому +7

    Old motor looked like a 1940's Opel Olympia.

  • @juliegoddard3914
    @juliegoddard3914 Місяць тому

    Such a beautiful area! The light in the forest is amazing. Thank you.

  • @2sik_UK
    @2sik_UK Місяць тому +1

    There was a small one in my garden in this area, i didn't realise they were that rare

  • @IIIHAYWIREIII
    @IIIHAYWIREIII Місяць тому

    Capercaillie, the sideways attacker 😅 ive only ever saw one, jumping across a road into a field.
    Great video!

  • @carly-annelegge4932
    @carly-annelegge4932 Місяць тому

    I got so excited at the wild cat, and it's not cheating in my eyes, love the channel 🎉

  • @beaverwacka
    @beaverwacka Місяць тому +2

    Love this video mate been a long time follower , merry Christmas!

  • @timjozwiak2293
    @timjozwiak2293 Місяць тому +2

    I remember this video from before...but still awesome to review

  • @dachluhr
    @dachluhr Місяць тому

    I just found you, actually. I look forward to seeing what you get up to. I'm really looking forward to this episode.

  • @lordshivaLSD
    @lordshivaLSD Місяць тому +3

    That bird is like a british turkey 😂😂😂

  • @timmzey_1985
    @timmzey_1985 Місяць тому

    What a great production.

  • @JonnyParker-
    @JonnyParker- Місяць тому

    That red deer skull was so cool man i would have had that:)

  • @leeallsopp5152
    @leeallsopp5152 Місяць тому

    Merry Christmas mate! Let’s hope more wild cats get introduced into England

  • @flyingk1w1
    @flyingk1w1 Місяць тому

    Absolutely brilliant, well done!

  • @matthewmallie6191
    @matthewmallie6191 Місяць тому +3

    Welcome to the Highlands bud! Pain and suffering is a given here

  • @TommyRobinson-u1m
    @TommyRobinson-u1m 25 днів тому

    Great video the ending made me so happy

  • @WildlifewithRich
    @WildlifewithRich Місяць тому

    What a rollercoaster! nice one dude!

  • @DaftARTrocity22
    @DaftARTrocity22 Місяць тому

    Amazing that wee newspaper scrap has lasted all these years in our weather

  • @LilMissMurder3409
    @LilMissMurder3409 Місяць тому +1

    Well, well, well. Who would have known Janet Street-Porter had a point?

  • @sprightlyrandom1550
    @sprightlyrandom1550 Місяць тому

    It looks quite big! lol I never thought they were that big

  • @Star13245
    @Star13245 Місяць тому +3

    Cmon, man like big cooks

  • @DontCareL0L
    @DontCareL0L Місяць тому +2

    In Warnambool, Australia, we had *only 2* penguins left but now we have a steady population of over 200!!!! Conservation is still possible!!!!

  • @nigeisfree7837
    @nigeisfree7837 Місяць тому

    We had wildcats in Yorkshire in the 80s we used to call them pit cats due to them hanging around the collieries and woodland

  • @bigbiemacaw
    @bigbiemacaw Місяць тому +1

    I picked one up on a beach on Shetland when I was 3, Mad animal person still) My uncle was mad/worried and told my parents there were very wild ,and dangerous if picked up or cornered I'd great fun with the monster car , 😅

  • @BMW7series251
    @BMW7series251 Місяць тому +1

    That bird was fuckin' awesome Cookie!! Wild Cat, what a capture! Thanks M8. John.

  • @tonydawson7
    @tonydawson7 Місяць тому

    Remember when I was a kid camping in Arran one came into the caravan awning where I was sleeping and raided the bin

  • @rikallan5742
    @rikallan5742 Місяць тому +1

    Well done mate.

  • @callen.6371
    @callen.6371 Місяць тому

    Lol first you see a hare and think its a lynx lol then u speculate a black bird is a gus hawk lol then u guys find a kill and speculate its a Golden Eagle 🦅 lol 😂 the speculation is off the charts lol 😆 great vid !

  • @tiddlesthecat1141
    @tiddlesthecat1141 Місяць тому

    Wow that car is from the 30s indeed. Wild.

  • @JoeVi5
    @JoeVi5 Місяць тому

    Great video mate, keep going

  • @WalksintheWild
    @WalksintheWild Місяць тому

    It’s definitely some species of Orb-weaver, and a large one for the UK at that.

  • @JonnyCassidy-j6u
    @JonnyCassidy-j6u Місяць тому +1

    Like your energy. Keep it up

  • @julieanncook1084
    @julieanncook1084 29 днів тому

    Looks like a photo I've seen of a 1936 Opel Olympia

  • @MaxTripney
    @MaxTripney Місяць тому

    Loved the vid hope you had a great Christmas

  • @blaidd-cysgodol2567
    @blaidd-cysgodol2567 Місяць тому

    One animal I would like to see on this channel are Gyr Falcons

  • @nedkelly6655
    @nedkelly6655 Місяць тому

    Absolutely awesome mate. 👌🏻

  • @Coolekaino1
    @Coolekaino1 Місяць тому +1

    There's a place in scotland witch is mod owned and private theres a few wild cats

  • @captainflint89
    @captainflint89 Місяць тому

    only one i ever saw alive as a trainee gamekeeper was on glen prosen estate in angus ,caught in an underkeepers fox snare line round a sitka plantation . i was a 16yo trainee and i saw the underkeeper club it to death with a rotten branch and then was made to skin it so the head could be made into a snarling sporran . the head keeper who still works there i believe can easily be seen out shooting protected raptors and the underkeeper/beat keeper may have moved on but the crimes against raptors including owls, buzzards , otters will still be ongoing today .

  • @Cosmicgypsie
    @Cosmicgypsie Місяць тому

    I've liked and subscribed. Love your channel

  • @wolfbushcraft3369
    @wolfbushcraft3369 Місяць тому +1

    brave bird ngl

  • @imzadiwhite4778
    @imzadiwhite4778 Місяць тому +2

    Typical for a cat. You probably were close to cats in the areas were they were supposed to be, but they heard you coming and left. Cats are so much easier to see if you can find a good spot and just wait. That Capercallie was probably guarding young or a mate hence chasing you off.

  • @ceeeya3440
    @ceeeya3440 Місяць тому

    And this is what UA-cam is for
    I love it

  • @WhateverItTakesLIVE
    @WhateverItTakesLIVE Місяць тому

    bro been looking for a house cat

  • @EuanFoley-h4z
    @EuanFoley-h4z Місяць тому

    1 minute ago! Can’t believe I’m the first to your video! I’ve been a fan of yours for ages. Keep up the good work!

  • @MuertaRara
    @MuertaRara Місяць тому

    What a treat ♡

  • @davidhudson7590
    @davidhudson7590 Місяць тому

    Used get them on borders and Northumberland durham maybe some were hybrids with feral cats but most were dug with terriers and killed to save game birds

  • @CTRollerPigeonsuk
    @CTRollerPigeonsuk Місяць тому

    Love this ❤️💯

  • @vertandernie
    @vertandernie Місяць тому

    I saw one 30 years ago

  • @stuartchristie64
    @stuartchristie64 Місяць тому

    Brilliant! Do all wildcats look that grumpy? lol... I swear i saw one when i was near culzean castle as a teenager, i was on the beach looking at caves and gullies and a cat jumped across a gap above me, and hissed at me, it also looked grumpy, i always told folk and no one believed me, perhaps it was just a domestic, but maybe not, it has that same look of distain in its eyes lol

    • @stuartchristie64
      @stuartchristie64 Місяць тому

      and the spider is a cross orbweaver, not that rare found all over uk, especially good for getting a face full of web around September time usually

  • @steviepee8624
    @steviepee8624 Місяць тому

    Skills mate 🫡

  • @CreepyTrendMan
    @CreepyTrendMan Місяць тому

    Nice one mate 💚

  • @Will-kt5jk
    @Will-kt5jk Місяць тому

    5:48 - I’ve been trying to learn more about prints - my money is on some type of cat:
    - as you said, no obvious claw marks
    - u-shaped negative space in the print (rather than an a more x-shape for dogs/foxes)
    - one toe protrudes further
    - asymmetry
    Hard to pick out other features, like size of & lobes on the heel pad, due to melting

  • @babaji_23
    @babaji_23 Місяць тому

    may God be with you

  • @FouldsMouldsLtd
    @FouldsMouldsLtd Місяць тому

    We have them in North wales

  • @reecepayne6630
    @reecepayne6630 Місяць тому

    Very cool video

  • @MichaelNicol-me8op
    @MichaelNicol-me8op Місяць тому

    5:40 definitely a cat print

  • @ShoaibKhan-wv8zc
    @ShoaibKhan-wv8zc Місяць тому +2

    Epic

  • @paralogregt
    @paralogregt Місяць тому

    You do not remove items like antlers from National Parks. Leave them for others to appreciate and for small mammals to work their teeth on the antlers.

  • @krispugsley5704
    @krispugsley5704 Місяць тому

    That car is on a road way / driving path.

  • @CheckthisladpodcastYeahh-jf9vk
    @CheckthisladpodcastYeahh-jf9vk Місяць тому

    The spider is an orb wever

  • @andrewboyce3383
    @andrewboyce3383 Місяць тому +1

    It's not even our only wildcat we have Kellas cats too.
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellas_cat

  • @paulheywood2116
    @paulheywood2116 Місяць тому

    Angry birds lol he’s not happy

  • @educlectic
    @educlectic Місяць тому +2

    There also thousands of Scottish Wildcat-feral cat hybrids known as Kellas Cats roaming the Scottish wilderness. I have a video on them here, ua-cam.com/video/lf-7BlhDjJY/v-deo.htmlsi=1UpksCoKIc006Mke

  • @petereason4572
    @petereason4572 Місяць тому

    They're all over the UK...big cats too...in every forest n woodland...fact

  • @SuperLondonmark
    @SuperLondonmark Місяць тому

    Over 3k for Binoculars crazy

  • @TheConstance21
    @TheConstance21 Місяць тому +1

    The wildcats probably likes the capa kaley (?) yummy.

  • @andrewgalloway7344
    @andrewgalloway7344 Місяць тому +1

    unicorns ... national animal of Scotland .... he hee

  • @johnnyhatch9052
    @johnnyhatch9052 Місяць тому +5

    Britain's only Wildcat? I dont think so.

    • @yogurtmiel
      @yogurtmiel Місяць тому +3

      you could at least elaborate

    • @mycolliesandme268
      @mycolliesandme268 Місяць тому +3

      He didn't MEAN literally Britain's only wild cat. Like that was the only one. It's the only native wild species of cat in Britain, more like. Should of been clearer on that. Perhaps. So some people don't misunderstand.

    • @mlam3988
      @mlam3988 Місяць тому

      He was being literal

    • @Will-kt5jk
      @Will-kt5jk Місяць тому

      Tbf, it wouldn’t surprise me if some folks “experimental” lynx inventories have sone “inconsistencies” in their record keeping.

    • @mycolliesandme268
      @mycolliesandme268 Місяць тому

      @@mlam3988 Yes He was being literal, but I don't think he meant to be. He should of been more specific.

  • @johnpark-jones4285
    @johnpark-jones4285 Місяць тому

    Anyone thought that the wild cat is eating the birds?

  • @cathunter3874
    @cathunter3874 23 дні тому

    It is in Scotland would it kill you to say that? This video is a great ad for independence

  • @ClaraTaylor-te7mj
    @ClaraTaylor-te7mj Місяць тому

    Think the fox had a squirrel

  • @FloofyFlora
    @FloofyFlora 28 днів тому

    Maybe that was a lynx you seen 😂😂

    • @WildlifeWithCookie
      @WildlifeWithCookie  28 днів тому

      I did a live stream about this a few days ago - this area where I thought I saw that is a few hundred meters away from the recent stuff 🤯🤯

  • @CreepyTrendMan
    @CreepyTrendMan Місяць тому

    The car was dumped in the 60s after the driver taking too much LSD.

    • @2sik_UK
      @2sik_UK Місяць тому

      Theres alot of them in this area, theres 2 classic minis near me and 1 or 2 few miles away, i think people used too steal them and then ditch them in the woods after they had thier fun haha

  • @Minezz_0qz
    @Minezz_0qz Місяць тому

    Its a opel olympia btw

    • @Minezz_0qz
      @Minezz_0qz Місяць тому

      OK I commented before you said

  • @NightOwlGames
    @NightOwlGames 24 дні тому

    im not sure how i feel about this, are they supposed to be wild or are they homeless struggling out there?

  • @CragFiend
    @CragFiend Місяць тому

    Wouldn’t a big part of finding these animals be discretion, quietness and light footedness. You may say “go
    do it yourself”, but I fish so I already do in my own respective way. Just saying.

  • @REMAINALIEN
    @REMAINALIEN Місяць тому

    Slow down on camera rotations buddy or alternatively speed up camera to process images properly.

  • @jimorr5580
    @jimorr5580 Місяць тому

    Scotland rarest Animal

  • @paulmidsussex3409
    @paulmidsussex3409 26 днів тому

    you can't park there mate.

  • @lindajackson8138
    @lindajackson8138 Місяць тому

    That is cat track

  • @suebingley5209
    @suebingley5209 Місяць тому

    Why the hell can’t humans leave them alone.

  • @billycasper3545
    @billycasper3545 Місяць тому

    It doesn't exist just domestic cats turned wild .its a
    pest

  • @fraserconnell21
    @fraserconnell21 Місяць тому

    Chap @30.10.. now that is wildcat stand and Capercaillie territory..😮😊. Best wishes with your quest. But forestry plantations are sterile environments. Scotts pine natural forests afford best chance of seeing native fauna wildlife. 🙏. Happy to have discovered your channel plus had no idea badgers had crossed the Scottish great glen highland geological fault.🫡👍

  • @downtheallotment
    @downtheallotment Місяць тому

    That’s a small dog

  • @LondonPredatorAngler
    @LondonPredatorAngler Місяць тому

    ❤🤍🖤

  • @alexmclennan2878
    @alexmclennan2878 Місяць тому

    Its not a scottish wildcat its a uk wildcat . It was all over the uk until hunted to near extinction

  • @whitecloudmountainminnowpr6353
    @whitecloudmountainminnowpr6353 Місяць тому

    People won't like this but. Our wildlife in England is pretty shit . The most dangerous thing to worry about is an xl bully or a human. This is why I like invasive species I want to be abit sceard out in the wildiness.

    • @shubhamsawant3222
      @shubhamsawant3222 Місяць тому +3

      You had wolves and bears but you drove them to extinction, you would have been scared in the wilderness if they were still present.

    • @itsOnMARS2023
      @itsOnMARS2023 Місяць тому +1

      Yep I wish I was as interested in the wildlife in Britain as I am in the wildlife in Australia. We do have two impressively large eagle species in the UK but that's about it..

    • @Outta_Towna
      @Outta_Towna Місяць тому +3

      The wildlife of England is epic. It includes naturalised melanistic leopard, puma and lynx. This is fact 👍🏻

    • @whitecloudmountainminnowpr6353
      @whitecloudmountainminnowpr6353 Місяць тому

      @Outta_Towna narrr It's shit

    • @whitecloudmountainminnowpr6353
      @whitecloudmountainminnowpr6353 Місяць тому

      @shubhamsawant3222 yeah but they are not. Worst we have is a badger or a fox

  • @thehairywoodsman5644
    @thehairywoodsman5644 Місяць тому +1

    MERRY CHRISTMAS from TEXAS!
    cool video, since you're in Scotland, could you find Nessie?

    • @WildlifeWithCookie
      @WildlifeWithCookie  Місяць тому

      Merry Christmas! Nessie is opening presents currently 😂

  • @Grant-gk5mw
    @Grant-gk5mw Місяць тому +1

    False widow. They like wood. If you have a wooden garden fence or shed you will get plenty of them

    • @shanesadlier5751
      @shanesadlier5751 Місяць тому

      Nope this is a araneus diadematus aka garden spider

  • @fraserconnell21
    @fraserconnell21 Місяць тому

    Pine Martins are well established around Rothiemurchus and alvie Estates. Sure they'd take a cluckercaillie 😊.far as wildcats for filming i recommend Kingussie wildlife park,thoroughly 😊. 😁🫡