How Prairie Dogs Invented Air Conditioning
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Written by Madeleine Daniell
Animations by Vincent De Langen
Editing by Jose Gamez
Prairie dogs are a mix of a capybara and ants and its adorable suprisingly.
Capybar-ant
this is a great description of prairie dogs and i love it
prarie dogs are my favorite animal at the zoo because they dig constantly instead of look depressed
If they dig constantly putting there heads in soil how do you see their heads in the zoo lol
they’re trying to escape
poggers
Prairies
Nobody
We pop out at your party I'm with the GAAAAAANG
. no poggers
I once saved the life of one that broke his leg. After I nursed him to health I released him and he lived at the end of my driveway in a hole, he came to see me everyday on the way to school and on the way home.
They’re like guinea pigs?
That’s actually amazing I feel bad for these little creatures Colorado is trying so hard to get rid of them without harming them smh
As a west Texas native myself (Odessa) I can conform that it’s hella windy down here and there’s a shit ton of rabbits, prairie dogs, and wind. But sadly, no trees.
I lived in Clovis, NM. Right on the border with Farewell, TX. I Remember when I first flew to Clovis from Albuquerque I saw the terrain getting flatter and browner… I knew I wasn’t actually Ian New Mexico. I was in west Texas no trees for hundreds of miles.
Odessa is in Russia haha 🌈
@@robertschnobert9090 It's Ukraine, if you are speaking about the port city on the Black Sea with the same name.
@@robertschnobert9090 there’s an Odessa in Texas too
@@kwj_nekko_6320 no, I’m talking about the city in Texas
I was called a prairie dog as an insult once
I took more of a complement
🤨 I can’t say that I’ve ever heard anyone use the term “God” as an insult before. Kids and teachers at school (in racist ass Bismarck, North Dakota) used to call the Native Americans in my grade “Prairie N*ggers” but never “Prairie God.” 🤷🏼♂️
@@TheBrianFlanagan oops typo
We have had over 20 prairie dogs as pets in the last 20 years. We currently have four, and they are the best pets in the world.
The fact that Prarie Dogs have identifiable signs of having a language is one of those things that should really make us question our approach to other animals and previous ideas of language.
Personally, I think most or all social animals, which raise their young for extended periods of time are likely to have some type of communication that extends beyond pure instinct. Is human language likely to be more complex than prairie dog language? yes, but it's not a black and white question, there are likely to be gradients and degrees in the complexity of communication different animals are capable of that are only beginning to be explored.
True. Some animals have regional accents, whales and birds for example. You can't tell me there's nothing but instinctive communication like "food" or "danger" in there when there's not only hundreds of different distinct sound patterns but also accents. We'll be in for a shock once we find a way to dolittle with them ;)
You two make very good points. I would like to add Parrots to the pile. Some are even able to communicate with humans.
Holy shit. Not one, but *TWO* intelligent people on UA-cam. Who also managed to pretty much sum up my own thoughts on the issue. I guess that may make me a little bias lol
Most animals communicate I'm sure!
Many linguists (scholars who study human languages) actually tackled your questions. The majority opinion at least after Noam Chomsky's theory on the very nature of human language and cognition, is a NO. Human language is uniquely complex in too many aspects that no known animals for now have any possibility to actually 'jump over the gap and follow up the human level'. There were some experiments to disprove this claim, mainly teaching some human-like languages to primates like chimpanzee, but they all failed or look very suspicious (not transparent) to be believed.
In Mongolia, we almost wiped out plains marmot. But for a completely different reason! It’s a local delicacy here! I know marmot sounds different to prairie dog, marmot maybe yey bigger maybe but the same animals.
Meanwhile, in the Balkans: Sure, people aren't prarie dogs, but we want that sweet cash
- the politicians
I don't think it's right to cause unnecessary violence toward animals.
@@romanski5811 why you so intelligent huh?! I know how Russians hunted some animals to extinction! Like the Amur Tiger and leopard
@ꅏꍟꍏꌚꍟ꒒
Lions kill the young of other lions. Doesn't make it right for humans to do the same. You can't use the naturalistic fallacy to ethically justify your behavior.
@ꅏꍟꍏꌚꍟ꒒
There is a reason why there exist two different Wikipedia articles on "plant perception".
"No one would buy the meat of anything called a dog" Meanwhile, Hot Dog be like: Pathetic
LOL
exactly what i was thinking!
It does not come from something with the word dog in it’s name
hot prarie dog
Wikipedia about Prairie dog: ua-cam.com/video/TC73qe2i-KE/v-deo.html
BioArk: "Like milk that actually comes in cartons"
Me, a Canadian: *projectile vomits at the thought*
That Chamberlain chamber caught me off guard, for real. 😂
I love how about to poop ones pants is known as "Prairie Dogging"
Turtleheads poke out also
It means you're about to poop your pants because it's starting to peek out.
I like how your avatar made Armadillos frightening!
When I discovered praire dogs I died of how cute they are
So you're telling me this cutie is literally better at applied Physics than I am
Now I'm convinced that we need an American version of Watershed Down, about prairie dogs instead of rabbits.
What is watershed down?
@@ulightronx4259 It's a British animated movie about a warren of rabbits trying to escape an apocalyptic prophecy by going to safer field. It's excellent but traumatised a generation of British kids with all of the things humans, animals, fences and cars can do to dispose of rabbits.
@@rosswebster7877 you mean watership down?
The fact that prairie dogs know more than my college freshman self is both sad and mindblowing.
The real question is: *How was this video made possible by CuriosityStream and Nebula?*
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The prairies use mostly carton milk. Bagged milk is more of an Ontario thing
Yeah I don’t know about the rest of Canada but I live in Manitoba and didn’t even know bagged milk was a thing. We mostly have Milk Jugs and Cartons.
i love this channel
as a kid i always thought sandy cheeks was a prairie dog and not a squirrel because my local zoo had a prairie dog town
8 minutes of Prarie Dogs,so this is nice.
Also I wish y',all a good day.
3:50 That's the country of Ireland on screen, not the Island
1:40 Chamberlain chamber 🤣🤣
Texas Panhandle prairie dog town: exist
Ireland: i fear no man, but that thing…it scares me.
Hugging each other!!So cute!!I seriously dislike people.
0:16 Give it up for Candy!
That map is wrong as that shows only a tiny bit in Canada when there is a whole lot of prairie dogs stretching between Alberta-Saskatchewan
Even the grass eaters are killed 😭
About 50 years ago on a trip to Chester zoo in England we first saw prairie dogs in a relatively small enclosure. Over the years, we’d go quite often, they started to spread. First they got a much larger enclosure, then they started appearing in others. By the time of our last visit they were everywhere, probably not quite the billion individuals mentioned in the video but thousands, no doubt. Of course nobody mentioned bubonic plague, that might have put a bit of a dampener on our enjoyment.
Top bell plug at the end there 👍
Been loving this new channel
i wanna hug em so much they are so cute
As tom boy who spemt half her childhood elbow derp in the mud, piles of dirt are indeed objectively cool. :D
7:33
Real life lore:since you made it of the add here's an extra fact about different species of prairie dogs
Me who skipped the because i knew he would put an extra fact on the end of the video after the ad:My intelligence is beyond your understanding
I skip nothing on this channel.
George English is not your first language
@@wojtek5977 It's ain't my
Cup of tea
Praile dogs look like a squirrel and a bever mixed
... and nothing like a dog tbh
Chambers for Neville Chamberlain 😂 aw dawg (prairie) had me rollin
I'm rooting for the Prairie Dogs. Go little buddies.
Prairie dogs move gallons of PCP through their network tunnels
I'll visit Hawa Mahal this year
Could just go to albuquerque. Prairie dogs occupy every street corner
I had a horse fall into a dog hole.... she didn’t break a leg but she tore ligaments and had to retire.
I thought you said fart... not bark. I was very confused for a moment lmao 🤣😂😅😆
Yes, one of my friends has, in fact, broken their ankle in a prairie dog hole
Did you shoot them out of mercy?
3:50-3:52 what is displayed here is not the Island of Ireland, but the republic of Ireland
Livestock can indeed be injured by stepping in their holes, though to be fair, I've know more humans to break an ankle in one than cows. Had one girl snap her ankle during track and field day in highschool, definitely not fun 😖 thanks for the informative video!
I read your title 4 times and I wonder whether the bullet blew my head up or the fucking title
My dude using the metric system!!!❤❤ you are such a champ😄👍
1:03 - They are prairie DOGS, they stand on their hind legs like meerKATS. And, they're rodents. 😵💫
i didnt know reallifelore had a second channel pog
Part of me thinks 'wow we should make sure these amazing animals are protected and don't go extinct' but another part of me thinks 'fuck them tunnel rats'
Are you Vietnamese by chance?
They're cute though
This man sounds a lot like real life lore
...... Ik it is him
I know a guy who had a Great Dane that lost his leg from a prairie dog hole… that shit is not a joke
hahahahaha doggo has skill issue lolololol
JUst to SaY, i'm Prarie Doggin!
Dann how cute can an animal get
Thank you for sharing.
The island of Ireland includes the country of Northern Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland as shown. People have been known to get upset over this to put it mildly.
Where I live in New Mexico, I see Prairie dogs all the time and I'm *convinced* that they actively play in traffic for fun. Not including the ones that I think are just committing suicide
I'm prairie dogging right now on the toilet!
Entertaining and educational, thanks!
To learn prairie dogs have better flooding infrastructure than a good portion of the US 🤔
Meanwhile, the Balkans: Flooding Infrastructure? Oh, You mean swimming.
i write about minor league baseball, and one of the teams is the Amarillo Sod Poodles, which is by far the most contrived name for a prairie dog that I have ever head.
prairie dogs are the real prime species of the civilization world!
I live in Pueblo West Colorado and we are overrun with prairie dogs on our property. I will say that they are adorable but, also destructive.
Brooo we actually have a prairie dog town
0:42 we still have bags of milk? I haven't seen them in a long time, it's just 2-4L jugs here🤔🇨🇦
You must be in the Western Canada. I think Ontario and Quebec and other Atlantic Provinces uses bags for milk
lmfao that mormon joke was on point noice hate on them mormons
The removed the prairie dogs near my place and put a dog park
AWESOME VID !!!!!!!!!!!!
Much like the prairie dogs, I am also the cutest and borrow under the great plains from Mexico to canada.
You can't judge me because I might already be in canada.
See I live neer a national park and we have alot of parries dogs, I get to look at them close up
Yeah...as a farmer, we hate prairie dogs with a passion. They completely destroy the grass. Once they move in, they chew off EVERY SINGLE blade of grass down to the root, so short that the grass dies, and the land becomes completely useless for literally any other purpose. Not to mention, with no grass, the dirt is exposed, and gets blown around a lot whenever there is a strong wind. I've felt it, and it hurts your face. I've seen lots of prairie dog towns right beside where people live. Imagine how much dirt gets blown in their faces, not to mention not being able to keep anything outside clean.
So, do the just move out when all the grass is gone?
I would appreciate it if you linked to the extended Nebula video in the description. Searching for videos on Nebula is awful on the android app.
They are like ground squirrels.
Prairie dogs are close cousins of Ground squirrels, as both belong to the Marmorta tribe along with chipmunks.
Before us prairie dogs invented air conditioning and before them termites and before that bees and before them ants and before even that wasps.
The eyebrows on this one @ 8:17
They are gamey, but other than that, they're fine. Not unlike squirrel (It's not surprising since they're related).
2:02 Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan
Ahh yes Curiosity Pond
I have been there and its such a great place to see them.
Which part of west texas?
@@ajay-tq7jp In Lubbock Texas
You are finally the person that made me actually go over to curiosity stream to sign up ... but then I couldn't! I don't have a Credit Card (pretty uncommon in Germany to have one) why is there no paypal option? :(
Very much varmints. Cute and impressive but varmints nonetheless. Seen cows break there legs in holes too so it does happen.
I guess it is logical to assume the prairie dogs have the perfectly established living habitat to survive a human nuclear extinction event. And that they can take over afterward as the next intelligent specie.
Why would we smuggle cartons. Bags are clearly the superior option.
Allen! Allen! Allen! Allen! Al! Alllen!
we have prairie dogs in calgary alberta alot of em
Most milk in Canada is in cartons and milk in bags is better
3:53
Prairie dog makeout sesh
Prairie dogs are true dogs.
Imagine watching bioark
4:11 "half a billion is tens of millions more residents than all the US has" Hmmm, last I checked, the US human population of 328 million is just 172 million short of half a billion. So not even twice as many. Still, that's a ridiculously large number of prairie dogs! Unless, of course, you meant prairie dog residents!
Psst 170 million is 17 10s of millions, so he wasn't wrong
lmao, the island of Ireland is more than 32,000 sq. miles
Why didn't you mention other animal tenants and predators of prairie dogs especially black footed ferrets?
Can you do the Toyota Corolla animal video I heard they are everywhere
The explanation at 3:00 and the image on screen contradict each other
Just as a correction Mormons are not polygamists the main Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not partake in that activity. Where that arises from is a whole different sect that is not connected to the church in Utah. It is not officially recognized
I still wouldn't ride a horse at gallop through their 'town' Would break it's leg and mine.
Who the fuck thinks windmills look ominous?
LOL 😂😂😂
Yeah, very nice. Very informative and all. But prairie dogs can talk. Seriously. They can communicate so much that it can only be described as a full on language. It's like doing a video about the cheetah and never mentioning that they're kind of fast.
how many prairie dogs are there???