Rats become Skaven Bears become Ogres Dogs become Gnolls Ants are at an evolutionary dead end and won't go any further. Pigs become Orks Octopi (Octopuses) become Cthulu Raccoons become Rocket Cockroaches are at an evolutionary dead end and won't go any further. Apes Just become more humans. Wolbachia become... Yipes!
Possibly not all insects but like most lifeforms that have not made any substantive changes evolutionarily, in 10s or 100s of MILLIONS or years, they have reached a point where they can't really change much more. Most commonly because they don't have to. such creatures also become specialists at a certain kind of existence and if that goes away they die out, or generalists like Cockraoches just won't change because, barring the end of the bioshpere, they will survive anyway. Even in grossly limited conditions.
DocWolph Yup it will take until the continents combine into a super continent for certain insect species to make big leaps in evolution. I recommend you watch the future is wild. I recal one of the later episodes talks about how these insects could diverge and evolve.
You are correct, they are scary smart, plus they have near opposing thumbs. However, my cats have totally terrified them when they come in through my cat doors. Cats are very territorial and aggressive, the coons seldom intrude beyond the kitchen.
Where I go camping and fishing in Arkansas, there are a bunch of trash pandas who have gotten fat from all the campers who visit during the summer. They're smart and fearless. I had one try to approach the campsite, so I chased him away. A few minutes later he tried to approach but from a different direction. He tried to get to the campsite from different directions a few more times. Later that night, I heard something eating from the dog's bowl. It was a trash panda (probably the same one I chased off). I shined the light on him and tried to shoo him away. He just looked up at me for a second and went back to eating.
The problem is that many types of cows have become dependent on humans for a shockingly huge amount of things such as giving birth. I’d wager wild cows would fare a better chance than domesticated cows.
Darth Guilder the Internet only works as a hive mind if we all agree with each other. what your saying is 'the Internet is our schizophrenic hive mind set on self destruction'
Luke Tiller i see that as an improvement, we can debate and test different personal opinions until one is determined truthful, we are not a complete hive mind a collective is probably a better word
The problem with chimpanzees is that I’m not sure if there society would be functional. When a money like system was implemented in a test they literally spent the money on gambling and prostitution no joke.
Only saw the rats so far but I'm going to predict all the animals in it will be social animals. Being social gives us the single biggest advantage. Time. If another person can take care of food for you you can work to learn other things. If one has to constantly worry about food one will not dominate in the way humans do. And of course non-pack animals are more likely to worry about food all the time.
As an amateur octopus enthusiast I'd like to point out that octopuses are generally solitary creatures. Even reproduction is done at arms length. Canabalism might have something to do with that. That said there is a species of octopus called (but not named), the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, also informally known as the Kissing Octopus, that is much more social than other species of octopus. I have no idea why that species hasn't created a complex society (I'm assuming they haven't, maybe they have).
There was a doco I saw on octopus a while back, where they talked about (and showed in detail & with experiments) an area in the tropics where humans have changed the habitat to the point that octopus behaviour is now changing. They don't fear larger animals anymore & hunt them for food due to a lack of fish. They no longer hide from each other, but instead watch & learn from each other, giving all the ingredients needed for an evolutionary leap
+RedRaven: I have a feeling that most reptiles would go on as before, with maybe turtles, crocodilians, and a few others only vaguely aware that humans were no longer bothering them.
Pigs actually might. I spent 8 years working at a commercial confinement sow farm. I raised, trained, and worked with "teaser boars" (boars who had been given a vasectomy at a few weeks old, and were used to bring sows into heat/identify sows in heat for Artificial Insemination). Some of the tricks and complex tasks we managed to teach them (they usually ended up as pets as well as working animals) waa nothing short of amazing tbh. Raccoons on the other hand are ignorant. I've raised several as pets from babies (raised on bottles from before they had hair or their eyes open), and competition hunted them with performance hounds (I was a world hunt finalist and even the breeder of a world show champion) for 30+ yrs. I've absolutely never seen a remotely intelligent raccoon.
Top Tenz You never fail to amaze with your candid topics and great writing/research. Simon's narration is the icing on the cake. Happy 2017; I'm absolutely sure your channel will continue to grow and be prosperous in this new year of ours! Cheers, Denyse
Reminds me of an incident when i was about 7. Our neighbor had an infestation of rats under his sunporch. He put a hose into the hole and starting flooding the ground. It took hours to flood the sandy soil but then the rats started bailing out. They had a wirehaired terrier. We had a dachshund. Neither of these dogs had ever killed anything in their life. The terrier killed 13 rats and our dachshund killed 9 that escaped through the cyclone fence into our yard. It was all over in a couple of minutes. The dogs knew instinctively how to kill almost instantly.
I'm surprised that the spider didn't make the list. The intelligence they demonstrate by spinning complex webs into different shapes like flowers and other fauna to lure pray displays their ability to compete with the other species for their place in the food chain.
Night Tarantula sharks need to keep swimming forwards in order to breathe, so all the octopus had to do was to grab it and hold it long enough until it died
11:00 The Wolbachia Bacteria sound like the inspiration for that 1960's episode of Outer Limits: THE MAN WHO WAS NEVER BORN, starring Martin Landau. Sometimes I think that episode is the one that inspired Cameron's TERMINATOR 1 and 2
I'm voting for the tardigrades, myself. Water bears can survive freezing, boiling, high acidic environments, and even survive nuclear radiation and the vacuum of space.
Watch tier zoo's video on why although waterbears are fairly indestructible in extreme conditions, they're mostly useless and get murdered/eaten in troves by every day things.
I have noticed the same, for both political and religious based lists. Although, I must say, even biased they are very gentle and generally respectful in their handling of sensitive subjects...
Derek S That depends on how we die out. If its a disease that kills us within a year then those animals are pretty safe. Also, woe to any who would dare eat bears. The Inuit and Lipinese are already on my hitlist for when I get a gun
Derek S You have just lost all credibility in my eyes. If you were my doctor now, I would just turn to folk-medicine and convert to blind faith that a diety will keep me safe. Bears are not food damn it!
My number one is ants. They are so common and if they got to the size of rats then they could literally become 6 legged humans. In order for a species to be considered human intelligence, they must be able to do 3 things 1. Manipulate the environment 2. Make and use fire 3. Socialize and team up or communicate with more than just their own family group The Neanderthals were not really a team because the spices was not connected
Did Simon just call raccoons little D-bags!? LMFAO!🤣 My life is complete, to hear that come out of his face... gold! Pure 24k gold, I spit up my coffee... and I was driving my car so needless to say I had to pull over and regroup. Someone get this guy mic and a stage please lol
Mr-ScarySketchy - he probably hasn't and neither have I? It's mostly you Americans who can't get through any day without being heavily armed; other nationalities of people can feel fully dressed without packing the means to blow people's heads off.
"Rats have surprisingly high intelligence." (As rat falls an unknown distance and off cheese grater in the video.) To be fair, rats are actually incredibly intelligent. I just found the pairing of the narration with the image funny.
The raccoons almost have opposable thumbs from the look of it too. Even an electric fence couldn't stop them from stealing fish out of my grandfather's pond lol. He gave up.
Fighting would be rough for the urban species,rats, dogs, raccoons; with rats taking lead do to their numbers, and that they are the most likely to evolve a resistance to rabies. The violent chimpanzees would be crushed by the superior numbers of these urban races. Octopus evolution would begin in the aquariums, as the ones in the seas have no problems. The ones in aquariums how ever would suddenly be facing a lot of problems, which they have already shown the ability to deal with. And they could live comfortably avoiding and scavenging from the urban species and their war. The age of the gorillas and bonobos comes later. They would survive where the chimps wouldn't because they wouldn't go picking fights. Bonobos would become sort of the new zen missionaries of the new order; but with a lot more sex. Cockroaches would become a convenient cattle for the rats; especially since they wouldn't get the evolutionary boom from radiation the rats would. Domestication could also curb the threat of their evolution. I also think carrion birds should not be discounted.
Camden Tausworthe Geez ok I disagree with almost everything you said. Rats and Inner city dogs would evolve side by side with dogs coming out as the dominant predator and rats as a second tier predator. Quantity does not outclass quality in nature. Chimpanzees would have no contact whatsoever with these inner city creatures and them being outclassed by them is completely implausible.
Camden Tausworthe You definitely don't understand how evolution works. The octopi and aquariums would starve to death. That is without a doubt. I'm not completely sure on the fate of the oceanic octopi thought. I believe they will evolve some sort of land ability like early amphibians and diverge from there, but that is around 100-200 million years in the future.
Camden Tausworthe Cockroaches becoming cattle for rats..... Ok that's where I draw the line. It is pretty likely that cockroaches would be preyed upon by rats but domestication is highly implausible. After which you talk about them not getting the radiation boost with the rats? Wtf. I guess you are implying that humanity became extinct during a nuclear war. If so then Dogs, chimpanzees, bonobos, Octopi and gorillas wouldn't exist anymore regardless. Your entire comment is just a jumble of words that makes absolutely no sense and it seems like it was made by a kid that watched Animal Armageddon.
What about cats, rabbits, squirrels, ferrets and chinchillas? They are intelligent and cats can do some of the same things dogs can do. Chinchillas and squirrels are close to rats in the intelligence. Rabbits, however, may not last long without the help from former animals listed above. They may have some success as part of the minority but can't fully dominate the earth alone. Rabbits could team up with rats and other herbivores/omnivores to take over the world. Chinchillas also can't succeed without the help from the rats or squirrels. But like the rabbits, they can also be part of the minority supporting the rats and squirrels. On the other hand, cats will have a great chance of taking over the world, alone or with any other species. They have similar emotions to humans and dogs. Cats also can open doors, and hold small objects like monkeys can, so these animals have a slightly better chance than the other animals I mentioned.
Cats would be Raccoons' underlings in areas dogs didn't run in urban environments. Rabbits would feed the dogs. Raccoons are smarter than cats, more vicious, better climbers, and more able to manipulate their environments. Raccoons are so vicious that mountain lions and bears won't even fight them in the wild.
I'll go with racoons. They shop S-Mart. I had one open my sliding screen door, grab the 10 lb. bag of cat food and was trying to get out the door with it when I caught him...at 3:30 in the morning no less. They know what a gun looks like. They would , serious, walk about 6 feet from me in my back yard when I had a bat in my hand, trying to chase them away. If I got the gun they would run. Man , could NOT get rid of them ( creek bordered back yard....about 300 wide forest 3 miles long, just east of Seattle) in a residential Neighborhood. Now I live in the city. Yep. Here too.
Can you do one on which plant species would take over if humans died out? Could be really interesting, presumably it would be invasive species in each country
The octopus is held back by its reproductive strategy and short lifespan; these keep them from passing on and building on knowledge and experience acquired by previous generations. They're smart, but they have to start from scratch every two years.
Most of these organisms have existed as they are for millions of years before us, and would probably go on like that afterward. Dogs are variety-bred wolf mutants, and would breed back to wolf-analogs in the absence of humans. In fact, none of these candidates has a chance to evolve into much except rats (which have adapted in their current numbers to thrive among humans, and so would do poorly in our absence), octopi (except for their terribly short lifespans and limited social development), and raccoons (the only good candidate on this list, being adaptable, socially intelligent, and, like rats and octopi, capable of manipulating their environment). LOL at your cockroach evolution comment, BTW. From the eighties to the nineties WOULDN'T be like only a couple of generations for us, as your statement immediately following that refers to their rapid breeding. Cockroaches breed MANY generations in a short time, which easily explains their gradual adaptation to poisons used against them. Another species adapted to thrive among humans, roaches aren't going to evolve "dominance, let alone any kind of intelligence. =^[.]^=
You forgot cats. I've lived with them for a long time now. I think they're slightly more adaptive than dogs, they quickly go feral, and there'll be plenty of rats for them to eat.
Plus the fact that some cats have extra toes, which they tend to use similar to an opposable thumb. If the extra toe trait took off, at one point you might find cats attempting tool use. Mine will pick up the teaser wand with his multi-toed foot.
#8 there's a reason why they call DumonT avenue in Brownsville "Dog Town". It looks like the 1990's over their{Dogs everywhere}. Dog Catcher's doesn't even try any more. Believe it or not, Dogs an Cats came together to kill the rats over their
number 3 is incorrect. mythbusters showed that at levels lower then what would be global normal levels of radiation cockroaches will die in a matter of weeks after single exposure let alome continuous exposure after a thermo-nuclear war.
John Rife yes, but that wont give offspring an immunity. it would simply expose them to high levels of ionizing radiatio at a young age. It's the high energy of the particles the break down DNA's molecular structure. It's not that its poisonous, and after thermo-nuclear war its going to be constant exposure for years.
The other thing Mythbusters showed is that there were other better contenders if nuclear survival is the only reason for this list There's also the fact that cockroaches can only survive in most of the areas they currently live in due to human heating. If all our houses/heating was gone, they would die off just from that
Dogs would move in packs and develop hierarchy. Cats are solo = they are weaker. Imagine a city full of cats and dogs. Now imagine a cat and a dog in the same room. Now tell me again cats would do better.
my money's on octopi I seen star wars and even they see that as one of the most used humanoid species like thoughs female buu like aliens that are called twi'lek and many others
were are the platypus they defy all logic of evolution that and the creator able to survive without air which I feel like we will learn how they can do it and will find a way we can as well
Cat haters 😢 Lol. Just think of what cat populations can take out when left un checked. They're also smart enough to make many people think they can't be trained, when it's actually pretty easy. They revert to feral, breed well, and I've heard it wouldn't take long for them to increase in size. They will watch from the shore as dolphins rise up and fight the sharks for supremacy. The sharks have been around since dinosaurs but their general apathy and unwillingness to evolve leads them to be surprised by the dolphin attack.
people, please do your research! This has already happened! It's not hypothetical! Feral cats are the size of panthers in Australia (google it, many this size are confirmed) & there's no other apex predator to compete with them here other than humans
Jacob Potter, cats are so successful on their own that they are considered an invasive species. Not only that but their kidneys are so strong they can drink seawater, so they could take over islands and areas near the ocean. And with all those rats they would have an ample food supply.
WHY THE HELL ARE CATS NOT ON THIS LIST!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!? THEY SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE!!! THEY HAVE DOGS AND ROACHES AND WEIRD BACTERIA AND STUFF, BUT NOT CATS!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!??!!?!?!? IM UNSUBSCRIBING RIGHT NOW!!!
Octopod is singular. Octopodes is plural. In English, Octopi and Octopuses are often both accepted, but the former often takes prescedence because of the lack of a double-s sound.
you forgot about crows, i know that might seem strange, but if you've ever heard of the new Caledonia crows, they are freakishly smart, like smarter then chimps smart.
who else came here after seeing the racoon
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You forgot that crows and ravens are also pretty smart and adaptive.They may survive and evolve for millions of years.
Rats become Skaven
Bears become Ogres
Dogs become Gnolls
Ants are at an evolutionary dead end and won't go any further.
Pigs become Orks
Octopi (Octopuses) become Cthulu
Raccoons become Rocket
Cockroaches are at an evolutionary dead end and won't go any further.
Apes Just become more humans.
Wolbachia become... Yipes!
Why do you consider Insects at a Evolutionary dead end? they're still Evolving like everything else.
Possibly not all insects but like most lifeforms that have not made any substantive changes evolutionarily, in 10s or 100s of MILLIONS or years, they have reached a point where they can't really change much more. Most commonly because they don't have to. such creatures also become specialists at a certain kind of existence and if that goes away they die out, or generalists like Cockraoches just won't change because, barring the end of the bioshpere, they will survive anyway. Even in grossly limited conditions.
DocWolph I guess you're right there but anything could happen.
DocWolph Yup it will take until the continents combine into a super continent for certain insect species to make big leaps in evolution. I recommend you watch the future is wild. I recal one of the later episodes talks about how these insects could diverge and evolve.
Shiku Bah I remember watching some episodes of it, though I stopped at some point for some reason, I'll see If I can find it again.
My vote goes to raccoons. Those little bastards are frighteningly smart, and they have no fear of humans. They consider us to be inconveniences.
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And they are very strong.
My money is on the racoons, they or the octopi.
You are correct, they are scary smart, plus they have near opposing thumbs. However, my cats have totally terrified them when they come in through my cat doors. Cats are very territorial and aggressive, the coons seldom intrude beyond the kitchen.
Where I go camping and fishing in Arkansas, there are a bunch of trash pandas who have gotten fat from all the campers who visit during the summer. They're smart and fearless. I had one try to approach the campsite, so I chased him away. A few minutes later he tried to approach but from a different direction. He tried to get to the campsite from different directions a few more times. Later that night, I heard something eating from the dog's bowl. It was a trash panda (probably the same one I chased off). I shined the light on him and tried to shoo him away. He just looked up at me for a second and went back to eating.
Dude - no crows??!!
Crows would Definitely be on the list!
I think the beaver will conquer
The problem is that many types of cows have become dependent on humans for a shockingly huge amount of things such as giving birth. I’d wager wild cows would fare a better chance than domesticated cows.
Beavers Are constructive in making lodges for their dams, if they ever turn carnivorous then they would have a abundant amount of fish.
And house cats.
i will go into battle onna....HONEY BADGER ,,,,=^--^=,,,,
"They're basically us... just hairier and smellier!" Great line Simon!
*BUT* will never celebrate Christmas 😅 👨⚖️🧟♂️🎄🎁🦧
I would love to see an episode about those 'super colonies' of ants. That was an astounding fact that "today I found out". :}
Crows should get an honorable mention, (as should plants if you are including bacteria).
I would put them a little higher than an honorable mention.
Christian Jadot Definitely above raccoons
I think plants need their own video! Would be interesting to know which ones would dominate each continent (no doubt imported ones)
Cats should be near the top of the list.
We have a hive mind, called the internet
Darth Guilder lol
Darth Guilder the Internet only works as a hive mind if we all agree with each other. what your saying is 'the Internet is our schizophrenic hive mind set on self destruction'
and mob mentality
Exactly my point lol
Luke Tiller i see that as an improvement, we can debate and test different personal opinions until one is determined truthful, we are not a complete hive mind a collective is probably a better word
The problem with chimpanzees is that I’m not sure if there society would be functional. When a money like system was implemented in a test they literally spent the money on gambling and prostitution no joke.
Lol 😂😂😂
Chimp version of Vegas
My dog also likes dopamine. I'm pretty sure he's ready to pay someone else to lick his balls by now.
Nice 😂
are we any different? ancient religions have described gambling and prostitution as societal problems for thousands of years
No cats? Our kitties are offended!
Well, ours already own the house here...
Indeed, our master are displeased!
Only saw the rats so far but I'm going to predict all the animals in it will be social animals.
Being social gives us the single biggest advantage.
Time.
If another person can take care of food for you you can work to learn other things. If one has to constantly worry about food one will not dominate in the way humans do. And of course non-pack animals are more likely to worry about food all the time.
and the sad part is the majority of the really smart people are loners
Laura Minnick cats suck
As an amateur octopus enthusiast I'd like to point out that octopuses are generally solitary creatures. Even reproduction is done at arms length. Canabalism might have something to do with that. That said there is a species of octopus called (but not named), the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, also informally known as the Kissing Octopus, that is much more social than other species of octopus. I have no idea why that species hasn't created a complex society (I'm assuming they haven't, maybe they have).
There was a doco I saw on octopus a while back, where they talked about (and showed in detail & with experiments) an area in the tropics where humans have changed the habitat to the point that octopus behaviour is now changing. They don't fear larger animals anymore & hunt them for food due to a lack of fish. They no longer hide from each other, but instead watch & learn from each other, giving all the ingredients needed for an evolutionary leap
I will dominate all humans
I will join you in your quest of dominating the humans
later brozers,,,u need to wait trillions and trillions of years,,,,,,xD
Dinesh Salvator billions, unless humans destroy themselves
Me too
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#10 So a planet full of Master Splinters??
Read "Domain", by James Herbert, for a more accurate depiction of rats during the decline of humankind.
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott hahahahahaha
Daniel Scott I would love if Turtles were on this list xD
+RedRaven: I have a feeling that most reptiles would go on as before, with maybe turtles, crocodilians, and a few others only vaguely aware that humans were no longer bothering them.
So many rats. And me without a single flamethrower!
bjmccann1 Read metro 2033, eh?
But I love rats
bjmccann1 get links and a lighter that's how you make one lol
Aidan Musgrave He's home, walls and food? just what is he?
@an 8th dimentional being, still wouldnt hate them
Pigs actually might. I spent 8 years working at a commercial confinement sow farm. I raised, trained, and worked with "teaser boars" (boars who had been given a vasectomy at a few weeks old, and were used to bring sows into heat/identify sows in heat for Artificial Insemination). Some of the tricks and complex tasks we managed to teach them (they usually ended up as pets as well as working animals) waa nothing short of amazing tbh.
Raccoons on the other hand are ignorant. I've raised several as pets from babies (raised on bottles from before they had hair or their eyes open), and competition hunted them with performance hounds (I was a world hunt finalist and even the breeder of a world show champion) for 30+ yrs. I've absolutely never seen a remotely intelligent raccoon.
Top Tenz You never fail to amaze with your candid topics and great writing/research. Simon's narration is the icing on the cake. Happy 2017; I'm absolutely sure your channel will continue to grow and be prosperous in this new year of ours! Cheers, Denyse
7:03 looks like the raccoons are evolving, they're even doing our laundry for us now.
This hits different in 2020
A fantastic video! Would love a full video on each animal!
Seeing the raccoon swimming made my day
Yeah but don't start thinking you Americans can get more gold medals by replacing raccoons for Michael Phelps. 😅😉 🏖🏊♂️ 🏞🦝 🗽🥇
Awesome topic! Thanks for the vid
Hypes bears as potential threat
Shows bears adorably playing with a ball
Bears don't adorably play with seals and penguins.
Bear Soccer will probably be a thing someday.
Reminds me of an incident when i was about 7. Our neighbor had an infestation of rats under his sunporch. He put a hose into the hole and starting flooding the ground. It took hours to flood the sandy soil but then the rats started bailing out. They had a wirehaired terrier. We had a dachshund. Neither of these dogs had ever killed anything in their life. The terrier killed 13 rats and our dachshund killed 9 that escaped through the cyclone fence into our yard. It was all over in a couple of minutes. The dogs knew instinctively how to kill almost instantly.
Tardigrades?...
Thumbs Way Up! Great List!
'...and surprisingly high intelligence...'
Rat: falls off cheese grater
:D
If a virus comes that affects only humanity line hasn't aged to well...
Well I don't plan to die anytime soon.
commando palidan nor do i
death comes when you least expect it
Scottish Samurai then let's always expect it
Super awesome guys. Bring it on wolbaccia!
Mumbai : No-go-zones because of dogs
Sweden : No.go-zones because of crime.
Hahaah
You mean no-go zones in Sweden because of muslims.
@@70AD-user45 Another way to word it.
I'm surprised that the spider didn't make the list. The intelligence they demonstrate by spinning complex webs into different shapes like flowers and other fauna to lure pray displays their ability to compete with the other species for their place in the food chain.
when the octopus grabbed the shark 👀
Night Tarantula sharks need to keep swimming forwards in order to breathe, so all the octopus had to do was to grab it and hold it long enough until it died
The Anarchist i know but it was the octopus's strength
Super interesting ...love it !
Wait wait, Rocket could be real??
Bring on the apocalypse coz I wanna see a talking raccoon in charge!
Rocket is Real :3
1701spacecadet Ahem ahem Guardians of the Galaxy ahem ahem.
1701spacecadet what about groot😢😂
11:00 The Wolbachia Bacteria sound like the inspiration for that 1960's episode of Outer Limits: THE MAN WHO WAS NEVER BORN, starring Martin Landau.
Sometimes I think that episode is the one that inspired Cameron's TERMINATOR 1 and 2
Raccoons.. evolving.. Guardians of the Galaxy!
What about if the only creature to survive was the ant? The ants invent virtual reality and that's all that other species really are today.
The answer is simple Humans... Humans take over after Humans.
What?
What drugs are you on sir? 😂
+Skoomzy dude I think it cocaine
CaptainsEyePatch lol
The idea that another species of animals will surpass us if we go extinct and actually try to decipher our lost information is quiet interesting.
No bees? They have every advantage claimed by ants, with increased mobility.
I love how, while Simon is talking about how intelligent rats are, the video is showing rats repeatedly falling off things.
I'm voting for the tardigrades, myself. Water bears can survive freezing, boiling, high acidic environments, and even survive nuclear radiation and the vacuum of space.
Watch tier zoo's video on why although waterbears are fairly indestructible in extreme conditions, they're mostly useless and get murdered/eaten in troves by every day things.
Hey man i dig the new look!
If Vsauce died out Simon whistler would take over
I liked the ant one the most. The pig one did remind me of Animal Farm though.
I stay subbed for these kind of vids. I do get a sense the more political content here is biased but I stick around for interesting stuff like this :D
i agree `with you political content is pretty biased here so i tend to stay away from it outside of that everything is solid
TopTenz the ones complaining are definitely so called conservatives.
I have noticed the same, for both political and religious based lists. Although, I must say, even biased they are very gentle and generally respectful in their handling of sensitive subjects...
Now I really want a book series of super-evolved animals ruling a post apocalyptic world.
Lol you know this is a paradox. Humans would eat all of these animals before we died out.
Derek S Wow
Derek S That depends on how we die out. If its a disease that kills us within a year then those animals are pretty safe. Also, woe to any who would dare eat bears. The Inuit and Lipinese are already on my hitlist for when I get a gun
Derek S You have just lost all credibility in my eyes. If you were my doctor now, I would just turn to folk-medicine and convert to blind faith that a diety will keep me safe. Bears are not food damn it!
If you live in Michigan they are and coyote
No! Bears are intelligent and beautiful, powerful creatures and should be protected, not hunted and consumed
My number one is ants.
They are so common and if they got to the size of rats then they could literally become 6 legged humans.
In order for a species to be considered human intelligence, they must be able to do 3 things
1. Manipulate the environment
2. Make and use fire
3. Socialize and team up or communicate with more than just their own family group
The Neanderthals were not really a team because the spices was not connected
Actually, also - Sharks - without us killing them off in droves, wouldn't they pop back up to the top of the food chain again?
Nebo 7 orcas would at very least not the fish
Or shark 🦈lol
Did Simon just call raccoons little D-bags!? LMFAO!🤣 My life is complete, to hear that come out of his face... gold! Pure 24k gold, I spit up my coffee... and I was driving my car so needless to say I had to pull over and regroup. Someone get this guy mic and a stage please lol
If's just the accent. 70million speak like that everyday.
"Bears will run if they see hunters with their portable bazookas"
Okay clearly you have never hunted or even been in the same room as a gun
Mr-ScarySketchy
It was a joke
Mr-ScarySketchy - he probably hasn't and neither have I? It's mostly you Americans who can't get through any day without being heavily armed; other nationalities of people can feel fully dressed without packing the means to blow people's heads off.
"Rats have surprisingly high intelligence." (As rat falls an unknown distance and off cheese grater in the video.)
To be fair, rats are actually incredibly intelligent. I just found the pairing of the narration with the image funny.
Bears. Im telling you its bears. Ive been saying this for years.
No it’s much more likely raccoons or apes. They’re way smarter
@@rafael4719 bears are way smarter than people give them credit for
The raccoons almost have opposable thumbs from the look of it too. Even an electric fence couldn't stop them from stealing fish out of my grandfather's pond lol. He gave up.
Fighting would be rough for the urban species,rats, dogs, raccoons; with rats taking lead do to their numbers, and that they are the most likely to evolve a resistance to rabies. The violent chimpanzees would be crushed by the superior numbers of these urban races.
Octopus evolution would begin in the aquariums, as the ones in the seas have no problems. The ones in aquariums how ever would suddenly be facing a lot of problems, which they have already shown the ability to deal with. And they could live comfortably avoiding and scavenging from the urban species and their war.
The age of the gorillas and bonobos comes later. They would survive where the chimps wouldn't because they wouldn't go picking fights. Bonobos would become sort of the new zen missionaries of the new order; but with a lot more sex.
Cockroaches would become a convenient cattle for the rats; especially since they wouldn't get the evolutionary boom from radiation the rats would. Domestication could also curb the threat of their evolution.
I also think carrion birds should not be discounted.
Camden Tausworthe Geez ok I disagree with almost everything you said. Rats and Inner city dogs would evolve side by side with dogs coming out as the dominant predator and rats as a second tier predator. Quantity does not outclass quality in nature. Chimpanzees would have no contact whatsoever with these inner city creatures and them being outclassed by them is completely implausible.
Camden Tausworthe You definitely don't understand how evolution works. The octopi and aquariums would starve to death. That is without a doubt. I'm not completely sure on the fate of the oceanic octopi thought. I believe they will evolve some sort of land ability like early amphibians and diverge from there, but that is around 100-200 million years in the future.
Camden Tausworthe Cockroaches becoming cattle for rats..... Ok that's where I draw the line. It is pretty likely that cockroaches would be preyed upon by rats but domestication is highly implausible. After which you talk about them not getting the radiation boost with the rats? Wtf. I guess you are implying that humanity became extinct during a nuclear war. If so then Dogs, chimpanzees, bonobos, Octopi and gorillas wouldn't exist anymore regardless. Your entire comment is just a jumble of words that makes absolutely no sense and it seems like it was made by a kid that watched Animal Armageddon.
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Shiku Bah the only difference between the bonobo and the chimp is that chips are evil little sexist shits.
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What about cats, rabbits, squirrels, ferrets and chinchillas? They are intelligent and cats can do some of the same things dogs can do. Chinchillas and squirrels are close to rats in the intelligence. Rabbits, however, may not last long without the help from former animals listed above. They may have some success as part of the minority but can't fully dominate the earth alone. Rabbits could team up with rats and other herbivores/omnivores to take over the world.
Chinchillas also can't succeed without the help from the rats or squirrels. But like the rabbits, they can also be part of the minority supporting the rats and squirrels.
On the other hand, cats will have a great chance of taking over the world, alone or with any other species. They have similar emotions to humans and dogs. Cats also can open doors, and hold small objects like monkeys can, so these animals have a slightly better chance than the other animals I mentioned.
They would be food !
Cats would be Raccoons' underlings in areas dogs didn't run in urban environments. Rabbits would feed the dogs. Raccoons are smarter than cats, more vicious, better climbers, and more able to manipulate their environments. Raccoons are so vicious that mountain lions and bears won't even fight them in the wild.
@@dansears9204 Rabbits, squirrels, and chinchillas would probably be food for the most part.
I'll go with racoons. They shop S-Mart. I had one open my sliding screen door, grab the 10 lb. bag of cat food and was trying to get out the door with it when I caught him...at 3:30 in the morning no less. They know what a gun looks like. They would , serious, walk about 6 feet from me in my back yard when I had a bat in my hand, trying to chase them away. If I got the gun they would run. Man , could NOT get rid of them ( creek bordered back yard....about 300 wide forest 3 miles long, just east of Seattle) in a residential Neighborhood. Now I live in the city. Yep. Here too.
I think crows will take over.
Can you do one on which plant species would take over if humans died out?
Could be really interesting, presumably it would be invasive species in each country
I thought the Dolphins would end up taking over
That was pretty interesting and terrifying, all at the same time.
what about crows? they would not make the top 10 ? :)
Ha, I said the same thing. I think Crows would beat out a few on this list, intelligence, adaptability, very social, omnivore, and a tool user.
all corvids really, but especially crows because of their numbers.
Though ravens might work too, they may have less numbers but they're bigger.
I was surprised not to see corvids listed as well
QUALIZA that's number 11
Cats should be on the list...wait never mind they already rule humankind
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The octopus is held back by its reproductive strategy and short lifespan; these keep them from passing on and building on knowledge and experience acquired by previous generations. They're smart, but they have to start from scratch every two years.
what about honey badgers?
They're too busy being badass. No time to rule anything else but their own destinies.
What about house cats?
@@Fazzel eaten by the humans
They don't care.
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#11: biosynthesized silica-based tardigrades. #12 green ferrets.
*Real #1:* housecat.
Most of these organisms have existed as they are for millions of years before us, and would probably go on like that afterward. Dogs are variety-bred wolf mutants, and would breed back to wolf-analogs in the absence of humans. In fact, none of these candidates has a chance to evolve into much except rats (which have adapted in their current numbers to thrive among humans, and so would do poorly in our absence), octopi (except for their terribly short lifespans and limited social development), and raccoons (the only good candidate on this list, being adaptable, socially intelligent, and, like rats and octopi, capable of manipulating their environment).
LOL at your cockroach evolution comment, BTW. From the eighties to the nineties WOULDN'T be like only a couple of generations for us, as your statement immediately following that refers to their rapid breeding. Cockroaches breed MANY generations in a short time, which easily explains their gradual adaptation to poisons used against them. Another species adapted to thrive among humans, roaches aren't going to evolve "dominance, let alone any kind of intelligence. =^[.]^=
You forgot cats. I've lived with them for a long time now. I think they're slightly more adaptive than dogs, they quickly go feral, and there'll be plenty of rats for them to eat.
Plus the fact that some cats have extra toes, which they tend to use similar to an opposable thumb. If the extra toe trait took off, at one point you might find cats attempting tool use. Mine will pick up the teaser wand with his multi-toed foot.
The Rosie Odonnell would dominate too
The Trumpsaurus would hunt them into extinction.
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So We Bare Bears could actually happen in real life in the future
I'm very okay with rats and raccoons dominating the world
The main problem with all these animals is that none of them can run as far as a human and none of them can throw like a human
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#8 there's a reason why they call DumonT avenue in Brownsville "Dog Town". It looks like the 1990's over their{Dogs everywhere}. Dog Catcher's doesn't even try any more. Believe it or not, Dogs an Cats came together to kill the rats over their
number 3 is incorrect. mythbusters showed that at levels lower then what would be global normal levels of radiation cockroaches will die in a matter of weeks after single exposure let alome continuous exposure after a thermo-nuclear war.
Ryan Casey except that they can probably reproduce before they die. probably more than once.
John Rife yes, but that wont give offspring an immunity. it would simply expose them to high levels of ionizing radiatio at a young age. It's the high energy of the particles the break down DNA's molecular structure. It's not that its poisonous, and after thermo-nuclear war its going to be constant exposure for years.
The other thing Mythbusters showed is that there were other better contenders if nuclear survival is the only reason for this list
There's also the fact that cockroaches can only survive in most of the areas they currently live in due to human heating. If all our houses/heating was gone, they would die off just from that
Plus without humans to feed them, after they ate all the leftover food most of them would starve to death.
That beer dog is an enabler, close, but not the same as empathy.
What about cats? They'll (cats) do better than dogs if people were gone.
No
TEAJ Allen no none of them will they both are weak soo none of them
Dogs would move in packs and develop hierarchy. Cats are solo = they are weaker. Imagine a city full of cats and dogs. Now imagine a cat and a dog in the same room. Now tell me again cats would do better.
Cats can easily escape from dogs and are much better predators.
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not 'if', but 'when'
What's that movie clip they showed when talking about the dogs?
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my money's on octopi I seen star wars and even they see that as one of the most used humanoid species like thoughs female buu like aliens that are called twi'lek and many others
were are the platypus they defy all logic of evolution that and the creator able to survive without air which I feel like we will learn how they can do it and will find a way we can as well
makes sense
Octopodes. Not octopi. Its Greek not Latin.
It seems like octopus's could start taking over now considering there's nothing stopping them from taking over the under water world.
crows would take over
Studies show that cuddle fish are consistently smarter than octopuses yet both species have an extremely short lifespan
Cat haters 😢 Lol. Just think of what cat populations can take out when left un checked. They're also smart enough to make many people think they can't be trained, when it's actually pretty easy. They revert to feral, breed well, and I've heard it wouldn't take long for them to increase in size. They will watch from the shore as dolphins rise up and fight the sharks for supremacy. The sharks have been around since dinosaurs but their general apathy and unwillingness to evolve leads them to be surprised by the dolphin attack.
Since it's hard to tell, I was somewhat joking. But I do think cats would be contenders.
Cypresssina Now imagine if the clans from Warriors existed and survived this scenario.
Cypresssina Your part right but ever since cats became pets they now co-exist so not only would they not dominate but they would die
people, please do your research! This has already happened! It's not hypothetical! Feral cats are the size of panthers in Australia (google it, many this size are confirmed) & there's no other apex predator to compete with them here other than humans
Jacob Potter, cats are so successful on their own that they are considered an invasive species. Not only that but their kidneys are so strong they can drink seawater, so they could take over islands and areas near the ocean. And with all those rats they would have an ample food supply.
can someone link the video about octopi?
6:30 i felt like stabbing that octopi while he was trying to get out
5:20 You know that dog is wanting to EAT that pig so bad.
No such word as octopi; it mixes a greek prefix with latin suffix and that's a grammatical no-no.
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theScytheofGod So, what do you call the plural sense of octopus? I bet you will be surprised how wrong you are.
Octopuses.
theScytheofGod nice Google search
Actually it is octopi it was recently stated Octopi Cacti Platypi are all recognized as real words. Anything that ends in -us the plural is -i
theScytheofGod OCTOPUSSYS HE HE
Number one just confirmed the existence of the Skaven.
WHY THE HELL ARE CATS NOT ON THIS LIST!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!? THEY SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE!!! THEY HAVE DOGS AND ROACHES AND WEIRD BACTERIA AND STUFF, BUT NOT CATS!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!??!!?!?!? IM UNSUBSCRIBING RIGHT NOW!!!
My neighborhood raccoons are plenty "conscious."
I dare you to do a top 10 of why my wife is such a blood sucking, joy killing, sex hating and bank account draining wife.
The irony will be if there's more than one species that evolve to an intelligent level as us end up fighting each other.
Octopod is plural not octopi
Anyone notice a connection between Trump's presidential election and a rise in Top Tenz doomsday scenario lists?
That's what a flat-earth reptillian would say . . .
Actually, it's "octopodes."
Octopod is singular. Octopodes is plural. In English, Octopi and Octopuses are often both accepted, but the former often takes prescedence because of the lack of a double-s sound.
SpadaccinoLuciano Except that "octopi" is incorrect, as that would be how to form a plural in Latin, but "octopus" is a Greek word.
you forgot about crows, i know that might seem strange, but if you've ever heard of the new Caledonia crows, they are freakishly smart, like smarter then chimps smart.