there's A LOT more to Casanova, he's credited as one of the longest lived wolves of yellow stone making it to roughly 9 years of age and being the most prolific fathers in yellowstone.
He went down in history to being the only male wolf who fathered the most pups...and almost all of them were in secret. In the end he did become the leader of the pack, and ruled it until the age of 9 years. Plus, Casanova was the only wolf who didn't resort to violence...he used his cunning and charm to weave his way to the top. Long live Casanova, Aka...Yellowstone Wolf 302. Or as the Nat Geo Wild documentary calls him: Black Wolf.
The story you told of Cassanova is actually the sequel. The first in the series was the tale of 42, The Cinderella Wolf. 42 was one of the first wolves brought to Yellowstone and she spent most of her early life being thrashed by her ultra aggressive sister, 40. One day when 40 threatened her pups 42 snapped and killed her, moved her pups into 40's old den and raised both litters together. It was under her leadership The Druids became so large in numbers. Her daughters went to spread her tenacity to other packs. 42 was killed by the Sloughs and her mate 21 was devasted.
Another thing about crows!! They've been known to help out their fellow crows like feeding them if they have a broken break. That's huge, because it's one of the early signs of civilization
I wonder if crows could take up agriculture - either as a trained or as an accidentally discovered behavior? Like, starting with taking a few seeds/grains from a more-desirable food plant and planting them in a better location. Then, progressing to picking weeds and eating pests that attack their "crop" to improve their harvest. Crows are probably physically capable of (and possibly even well-suited for) these tasks - but could they be motivated to do them in the first place?
That "crows are domesticating wolves the same way we did" line kinda gave me chills I won't lie. The fact a bird that can recognize faces, hold grudges, and talk gossip could also theoretically convince a pack of wolves you're trying to steal their food is... just *legitimately* concerning, on both a primal and a cosmic level.
Honestly I find it hopeful. If humans somehow off themselves, there will eventually be another species to take our place and wonder about all the weird shit we built.
@@DavidRokon Thing is, what can they do with our collapsed societies? The internet is useless. The electricity grid is useless. Vehicles are useless. I mean, unless there is a human to operate it, some of our infrastructure is useless is a world devoid of humans. It can become overgrown, with vines, and shrubbery and other plants. But the actual usage of our tech is what im curious about. Roads and bridges do need some maintenance. While potholes wont form from heavy vehicles, weathering will occur. The snow and melt cycle will have water seep into cracks and expand and form larger and larger cracks until a structure breaks down. In the south, certain water ways NEED human operators for managing the spillway gates. And sadly it'll be another 100 or more years until the Mississippi river is back on its course to even deposit its sediment back where the coast is recending. Im not too sure how the Colorado river structure would do. But all in all. Id love to read a dystopia book of how the next species would take over. And hopefully they wont have as strong a desire like humans to subjugate every piece of habitable land. Which is part of the reason why humans have deforestation, slavery, wars, over use of resources, and unsustainable disposal methods for resources to the point of plastic is destroying our oceans. I mean, just imagine an OPEN SOURCE book. Where everyone could write about a region and how it would be without humans. And maybe just maybe in 20 or 40 thousands years, there might be a species who could repeat the errors of humans or maybe not. Since there may be more than one highly advanced species co-evolving as alpha. Im putting my bets on racoons, rats, mice, corvids, orca, and dolphin. I wish roaches could be higher up due to thier resilience but thats only breeding, swarming, and radiation tolerance thats not intelligence. Who knows, primates can and do learn sign language. And bird can SPEAK human not just spout off sounds. Maybe they corvids or apes can learn to read. And as much as I prefer english, there might be other simpler languages out there. Spanish does have great phonics. But the abstract nature of gender nouns might be a bit too much. Im sorry for being so wordy, but I'd love a fantasy world book series of life after humans. And it would be amazing if we could prepare animals to run this planet better than us homo sapiens, once we inevitably kill ourselves off.
And you know whose fault it is if the Crows turn against us? Christians. Almost every other religion respects crows, only Christians disrespect the messengers of Odin.
What's conserning is humans believing that our behaviour is unique in every single way and any animal doing something that looks like "human behaviour" is absolutely amazing. Get over yourself.
@@SUN-DANCE They can also benefit you if teach them that your snacks have a price. They also understand trade and will bring objects like money & jewelry. Anything light-weight and small.
@@blackirontarkus3156 I fed some ravens cool ranch Doritos on lunch during work today and one of the first visitors was a baby raven and a few cautious defenders. The baby ate plenty until we left for the next worksite and the flock joined in on the snacking as soon as the engine kicked up. Always intelligent and interesting creatures, they'll always remember your kindness!
The last story makes Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" actually realistically feasible. Say a raven figured out that it could catch a huge meal by driving people to suicide, by saying the word "Nevermore!" over and over, which it learned from someone who it watched commit suicide. Thankfully, the raven we saw in the video says "Are you alright?" instead, which is rather heartwarming twist on the saying "Reality is stranger than fiction."
I think the Raven was just punking a gullible rich guy for a warm place on his bust of Pallas. Come on, who keeps asking questions when you get the same answer every time?
There's a talking raven video out there where the raven says "say nevermore", presumably because his keeper was trying to teach him to say it. Felt like the raven was playfully taking the piss. XD
Out on the farms and ranches they are very dangerous. My grandmother remembers several times when there were coyote hybrids-coywolves or coyotes with a ranchers dog would pop up here and there. They were ways feral and aggressive, with the smarts of a coyote and pack instinct from the other dog. They would pick up runaways, strays and braver coyote into highly destructive packs that barely feared even God himself. Her father would pack up, join the other farmers and sped the next week hunting and shooting. They didn't fear large groups of humans or noise. You expected one cow eaten and many others simply shredded for fun
@@dflaming1371 Lmao and then people say it's the wolves doing this stuff Coywolves are just wolves with coyote mentality so blame this stuff on the coyotes
@@kathrynryanclancy8437 wolves do to, but they are scared of a gunshot and 1000 times easier to catch, plus a part of the ecosystem and not just a pack of serial killers with nothing to do but rip anything with a pulse apart. So many dogs are 1 leader away from being worse than their ancestors
I don't think so because the Ravens who train wolves would be in the forest and I don't think Ravens saw humans trainimg wolves in the forest. I think it was just a trial and error thing for them.
@@yeemawheaver1387 ravens dont "train" wolves, its a symbiotic relationship where both parties stand to gain. symbiotic relationships are not uncommon and ravens are simply intelligent enough to come to an agreement. also, wolves are not limited to the forest and neither are ravens.
Once while I was out hunting, I was using a buck call. To my shock, I heard one answer, and it was damn close. I start looking around with my bow up, but couldn't see anything. I heard it again, but it came from above me. Confused, I look up, and I see a raven flying above the trees, using my buck call back at me. Well played, you magnificent bastard.
The pack rivalry becomes even more Shakespearean when you realize that wolf packs are family units, with the "alphas" being parents and/or grandparents of the rest of the pack, and the occasional Casanova "marrying into the family."
@@Im_Iconic-Youre_Ironic Hence the quotation marks, it’s easier to say “alpha” in a clearly corrective way than to say “the pack leader people incorrectly describe as an alpha”, and it sounds a lot less wordy, while keeping it clear enough that anyone with an IQ that doesn’t start with a decimal point can understand it quickly.
You could seriously do an entire series about the Yellowstone wolves, it’s like a soap opera. My favorite of them was always about one of the first wolves re-introduced into Yellowstone, Wolf 8. He was a pup at the time of the reintroduction and the runt of the litter, constantly being bullied by his older siblings. As he grew older he would wander further and further from the den to avoid the bullying, and during one of the trips he came across a litter of eight wolf pups. The wolf pups were alone in their den because the mom wolf, Wolf 9, had to go out and hunt. Her mate, Wolf 10, was illegally shot and killed, so she was a single mom. Unlike lions, wolves are willing to adopt pups that are not their own, so after awhile with Wolf 8 coming in and out of the den to essentially play with and take care of the pups, Wolf 9 eventually accepted him and they became a pair. Wolf 8, once the runt of litter, became the pack leader with Wolf 9. Wolf 8 was a really good wolf dad and although would get into fights to protect the pack, would never kill his opponent and would instead let them go to run away. He was essentially an underdog that rose from the bottom to the top and lived a good life. In fact, one of the pups that Wolf 8 raised was Wolf 21, who would lead the Druid pack at one point during when the infamously aggressive Wolf 40 was also part of the pack. Edit: Thanks Wergonstum for the correction! I first heard this story from the podcast THIS IS LOVE E19: The Wolves, so check it out if you’re interested!
A correction to the story. Wolf 9F wasn't gone from the den because she was out hunting all the time. She was transported to a holding pen along with her newborn pups after 10M was killed, because she and the pups were important for their wolf restoration program. They were held in the Rose Creek acclimation pen for several months to give the pups time to mature until they could fend for themselves. One day a severe storm had rolled in and caused a tree to fall on a section of the fence which led to all 8 pups escaping from the enclosure. They were able to capture all but 2 of the pups. One day, the 2 pups came to the fence followed by 8M, who was still a yearling at the time. He was observed playing and caring for the 2 pups outside the pen, and upon 9F's release become the adoptive father for all the pups when he and 9F paired up to start a pack.
Out of all the wolf stories, Casanova has to be my favorite story. Not only is he my favorite animal, but he did something that no one ever really sees in wolves. Sometimes when he got caught by the Druid leader he'd run to the park road...and literally no animal except him set paw on that road. He went down in history to being the only male wolf who fathered the most pups...and almost all of them were in secret. In the end he did become the leader of a pack called Blacktail Deer Plateau and ruled it until he was almost 10 years old. Before his tragic death, he witnessed the brith of one final litter he ever fathered as an Alpha male. Plus, Casanova was the only wolf who didn't resort to violence...he used his cunning and charm to weave his way to the top. Long live Casanova, Aka...Yellowstone Wolf 302. Or as the Nat Geo Wild documentary calls him: Black Wolf.
Most wolves do cross the road a lot, but 302 was the only one to actually use it. He also used it as a path when he would travel between his birth pack and the Druid pack. To other animals it was an inconvenience, to him it was a tool, to bison it was just some average ground but that's not important lol. He also sometimes ran into herds of bison, and he used the passiveness of the dominant male of the Druid pack (21) to get away, since 21 would usually just tackle him and if 302 submitted, he would let him go.
Most wolves arnt sociopaths So as long as the random wolf running through turf, gives respect and leaves the hunt alone, They wont kill The fact Casanova could get caught mating and not end up dead, that was 21 being merciful 😂 there must have been a surplus of food or 21 would have had him hunted the next time he showed up, like a redneck shotgun wedding 😂😂
@@donovanulrich348 Wolves do sometimes kill wolves that they think are trespassing and therefore a threat, Casanova would always submit and show he's not a threat and 21 never really killed any wolves or anything so he always spared Casanova
I like how only a few wolves were black at first and then Casanova got busy and now most of the pack has pigmented fur. Even without any explanation, you can still piece together what happened 🐺
It should be noted that Wolf 21 (the breeding male of the Druids when Casanova first came along, and incidentally Casanova’s maternal biological uncle and paternal adopted cousin) was also a black wolf when he was younger (his fur greyed with age) so his genes were also at work there. 21 didn’t get along with Casanova-in fact he absolutely hated him. 21 famously never killed any wolves from rival packs but I think he might have made an exception for Casanova. Of course Casanova made sure he never got caught in the act.
@@ZeeWee910 There’s been a LOT of documentation of individual Yellowstone wolves (both by the park officials and by notable visitors), some of the better-known wolves have had their entire lives documented this way.
It's rare for all the coyote pups to survive when they loose their father. That's really impressive. Also heart breaking about her mate. Coyotes mate for life.
(no rudeness intended, promise!) 'Lose' is the word you are actually meaning here. 'Loose' is more like loose skin, or something you'd say if you intended to insult a woman. I see it spelled wrong constantly and it bothers me for some dumb reason. I also felt sad over the female coyote losing her mate. Anyway, no offense intended, have an awesome day! 🙃
Seeing as wolf packs are a breeding couple with their kids and grandkids, outsiders joining the pack has to be a frequent event to avoid genetic issues
It took him years to gain acceptance with the alpha pair, it was only at the end of their lives that they let him get anywhere near their daughters, simply because they were old and stopped caring as much cause they just didn't have the energy and drive to stop it anymore. That's some serious determination on his part!!! He would spend an entire day just far enough away to observe and plot his moments. Very cool wolf!!!
Yeah, corvids are smart. When my grandma was a teenager, she and her brother found an injured young magpie. They took her home and helped her to get better. After the bird was healed, they released it back, but the magpie decided that free food and shelter from the elements were too good to pass up, so she stayed with them, even tough she cloud fly away any time she wanted. But anyway, my grandmas brother taught her to talk. But, being a teenager, the words he taught here weren´t exactly... proper. My grandma said it was kinda funny, when their mum (my great-grandma) came into room where the magpie was and was greeted by enthusiastic "wh-re! wh-re!" Oh, and the magpie also had the habbit of stealing their fathers cigarettes, since they had shiny packaging. The father at first suspected my great-uncle (grandmas brother), but they soon find out the magpies stash of ciggs behind the chimney.
As someone with a raven that has a good relationship with them, while yes they can hold grudges if you slight them, they also remember any good will directed towards them. I've had a constant nest of several generations of ravens on his roof, they now occasionally drop shiny objects like loose change on my porch and even sometimes sqwawk when someone unfamiliar like a new mail person who just got hired approaches the house all because I sometimes leave fish scraps on my porch for them.
same with magpies. gain their trust and not only will they not mess with you. you can find the shinies that they keep in their nests (rings, coins, small watches etc)
One time on my way to work, I found a crow just flopping in the road. I didn’t want it to become dinner for its buddies, so I picked it up and took it to the vet, hoping they could tell me what to do. One of the vets gave it a quick once over, didn’t see any injuries, and gave me the number of a bird sanctuary to see if they would have a better idea of what to do. I explained what happened, and they said, “Oh, that sounds like a juvenile that doesn’t know how to fly yet. Can you take it back where you found it? Its flock will take care of it.” I was a little alarmed, but they explained that it didn’t have to be on the actual road, because crows were smart enough that if I put it nearby, they’d follow the sound of the juvenile’s cry. So, I did that. I have a different car now, but even when I had the car that I had used, I drove by that place all the time and no pissed off birds came for me. So, I guess I don’t have a reputation with the local crows for being a baby snatcher.
I thought that story was going to end with you discovering that bird frequently lets itself be brought to the vet so it can have a nice supper before being taken back home
Fun story, we have a group of Ravens in our neighborhood, they mostly vibe chill and eat snacks left out. One day an eagle pulled up and was bothering my chickens by sitting on a telephone pole by our house. The ravens woke up when they heard my birds yell a warning, they went to check it out and straight up went to attacking the intruder. Now, normally they would have been happy to just chase the bird off but he made the fatal choice of ducking into their nesting tree and it was game over from there. I never liked them much till that day, as they like to convince my birds to do stupid things by mimicking certain cries but I have to say, after watching that, which took less than five minutes, I have respect for them now.
Years ago there was a crow that would come hang out with me while I was reading sitting on my porch. Actually read The Hobbit to him in it's entirety. I'd give him some left over meat but he'd ignore it until I closed the book and said "another chapter done see you tomorrow." Miss that bird, hope he found some other nice crows to hang out with and had a good life.
That just gives me the image of the crow going home every night to eager bird listeners waiting for him to recount the story so they could find out what happened next each day.
Apparently, the ravens at the Tower of London have been known to troll their keepers by calling out their keeper's names, using the voice of other keepers. As you say, they are far too smart for their own good.
Having gone to a wolf sanctuary and hearing 40+ wolves all howl at once is quite the event, very loud and a very humbling experience. Before that I had never felt so small and insignificant. It had lasted 5-10 minutes, I lost track of time because I fell into a trance from it. Loved every second of it, truly magnificent creatures
This wolf anime had multiple Arcs 3:37 Druid pack domination arc 4:15 plague arc 4:23-5:04 slough nation attacks Arc (They decimates the druids literally leaving them at 10% and kill their women) 5:18 Love coyote OVA 6:03-6:38 sough pack fortifications breaks down and they were attacked by the mystery wolves) 6:41 mother coyotes rise to power Arc (I haven’t gotten that far into the video yet but I’m assuming that it’s the mother‘s pups 7:14 (return of the lover King Arc) The Druids reclaim their lost land epic come back
Even though I knew Corvids were capable of mimicking human speech, I’ve just now realized that The Raven might actually be a real life event turned poem
Bruh, imagine being depressed already and an emo looking bird keeps saying "nevermore" each time you ask a question. Then again, ravens seem smart enough to know that those words in that context are hurtful and keep going out of sadism
According to the story I read, Charles Dickens had a flightless pet raven that he brought with him when he visited Poe, and the thing was huge, had a crappy attitude, and stomped around the house all day scaring the shit out of Poe. This was his inspiration.
Just to add, the raven’s name was Grip, Dickens got him to study the antics of ravens so as to properly develop the obnoxiously chatty raven in Barnaby Rudge ( also named Grip.) The more you read about him, the more hilarious it gets. The funniest bit to me is the bombastic vandal that couldn’t shut up and who’s last words were reportedly “Hi-ho, old girl!”, turned into this motionless doom merchant with a one- word vocabulary in Poe’s poem. ( Poe thought he was “immensely amusing” and thought Barnaby Rudge needed more Grip.) Grip lives on in taxidermy at one of Dickens’s former crash pads in Philadelphia. [ETA: Correction- he was removed to the Philadelphia Free Library. I now have travel plans.]
Thank you for showing the truth about wolf attack and kills on humans. The official organizations that protect them always say how low deaths and attacks are and how even if they happen, most are just result of rabid wolves. But you get a lot of "statistics" out there that put wolves as killers
I'm not well informed on the topic, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but is it possible that wolves' reputation stems from our past? I would imagine that in medieval (and earlier times), wolves and humans would have clashed much more. For one, because I would think that there was more contact due to hunting and habitat overlap, and also because a wolf is presumably much more interested in a farmer's sheep herd than a modern brick house with no livestock, leading to more conflict between humans and wolves.
@@pixelmaster98 Part of it is also that wolves got put under a BRUTAL selective pressure to not mess with humans directly if they could help it. I can’t say why this has more effect on wolves than other apex predators (which still tend to be more wary around humans), but I would guess that being a more social animal might have some connection
@Something with Bungalow They’re prabably, but birds often see more color than human so maybe it’ll be a little different but I think they’ll still regconize the same stuff a we do, on screen.
That bit about the Druids and Sloughs wolf packs with the coyote subplot was one of the most glorious and intense stories I've ever seen. That whole thing was a rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish lmao
@@blushdog 302 is my favorite in the books lol 907 is my favorite overall tho, because I read a lot about her in articles and saw her IRL I will probably cry when she dies, she's very old too so her time will most likely come soon 😢
Man, the Druid pack has such a fascinating history. I heard in another video that way back when wolves were first reintroduced into Yellowstone, the Druid Peak pack was ruled by a tyrannical female wolf (40F was her label IIRC) who completely monopolized breeding in the pack by bullying the other females (including her own younger sisters) and killing any pups that weren't her own. Eventually it got to the point that one day the rest of the pack finally decided enough was enough, so three other female wolves (including the previously mentioned sister) ganged up on & killed Wolf 40F with her surviving pups being adopted by the three afterwards.
@@moltenfreddyandwyvern it was actually mentioned only briefly in an analysis/explanation of Gendy Tartakovsky's _PRIMAL_ season 1, specifically in relation to how the head witch in episode 8 "Coven of the Damned" turned into a giant wolf was quite thematically fitting in relation to how she monopolized a bastardization of motherhood & childbirth (she may have passed out the babies, but she was still in total control of all breeding for her group)
There was a parrot (George) at our local conservatory that all the little kids in the neighborhood loved going to see. George would say "Ola" and "Hello" to them. Little kids find this endlessly exciting. The conservatory had a renovation, and George had to be taken to some other location. He got really depressed, which the staff hadn't expected. I took my kids to see him when the conservatory renovations were finished. We were the only ones there. After about 15 minutes of "Ola" and "Hello" I took my kids to see the turtles ... hadn't gone five steps when George said, "Please don't leave me." So we were back for another fifteen minutes of "Hello" and "Ola." He seemed satisfied.
A quick addition, the shot of the cat being menaced by a coyote also has a happy ending: the little guy almost got deleted, but fought it out in that full-on blender mode cats can do, and managed to escape the coyote long enough for something to scare it off.
Casanova actually had a pretty awesome life As a lone wolf with no pack he tries to join a wolf packs but always gets rejected by the leader So instead of joining he would go around and mated with young females in the area and even scored with the daughter of the same pack leader that rejected him He then went and form a massive pack by rounding up lone young males and became it's leader
I always got into fights with people when I told them crows and ravens could talk, it's like people just don't read. The reason the Raven is called 'The Raven' is because Poe wanted to use a bird that could talk. He originally considered a parrots but yeah, not exactly as scary
Casanova is written about in Rise of Wolf 8 (a story about his step father) and Reign of Wolf 21. Both written by Rick McIntyre who studied the Yellowstone wolves
Was Casanova raised by Wolf 8? Wolf 8 was definitely Wolf 21’s stepfather, but I thought Casanova was part of a different pack and mated with Wolf 21’s daughters
@@dangerousdandelions I don't think so, though I could be mistaken. The way I remember reading it in 21's book, Casanova kinda came out of nowhere and served as a good contrast to 21 because he wasn't alpha material yet. I'll have to refresh my memory!
For some reason when he said Casanova rebuilt the pack with the daughters and took back the valley, my mind immediately jumped to him having warrior daughters. Like Valkyries clearing a way for Odin.
"If Ants were our size they'd take over the world in a day." Sounds like a perfect video game. I'd call it something like Earth Defense Force I think. On the real note. I think I'd pay to see him play EDF on the channel and talk about the insects that he's killing.
They would die in minutes Yes insects can breathe well That's why they're small. Also They would cause massive dammage. If each ant it 40 kg that would be billions of tons of dead insect every hectares. Bird will be pleased. Ecosystem would collapse because there's no more ants
For those wondering, the story of the Druid Pack he goes over and the footage he uses for it come from an old Nature documentary from the early 2000s called In the Valley of the Wolves. It's incredibly good and someone put it up on youtube. GO WATCH IT
Hearing the ravens talk suddenly gives Poe's poem "The Raven" a whole new perspective huh? Also, I would love to have a pet raven called Poe and teach it to only say "Nevermore" just to fuck with people 😂
The crows fact just reminded me that the other day I saw some crows or ravens sharing an apple with each other. One of the birds was bitting off pieces of the apple and throwing it around to the other birds around and they were just peacefully waiting for their turns to get a bit of apple
As someone who loves wolves and follows closely with the Yellowstone Wolves, he basically recapped the nature doc called "The Valley of the Wolves" and his recap is semi accurate; if you want the full story, you can read the Yellowstone Wolf Reports from I think 2004 to 2009 and the Alpha Wolf books, "The Reign of Wolf 21" and "The Redemption of Wolf 302", cheers for covering wolves and the Druid Peak pack!
Hey! I'd reccomend the game Wolf Quest Anniversary Edition if you haven't already heard of it! You play as a dispersal wolf in Yellowstone and get to start your own pack. Its very well researched and strives to be as accurate as it can to wolf life
@@UnknownTwig Good game, lacking in content at the moment but I recommend and if anyone is interested, I do make videos of the game on my other channels ua-cam.com/channels/ppJyUpZr7hB95xOsvIv7zg.html and ua-cam.com/channels/2zj5KFWBRKg_BQWeiCjBCw.html
Since Cassanova and the females from the Druid pack were present during the initial outbreak of the disease, the likelihood is that they were able to return to the valley because they had a natural immunity to it.
For those wondering about ravens being able to talk, no, you do not have to clip its tongue first. Clipping a ravens or crows tongue in order for it to talk is cruel but just a myth. However, Crows and Ravens do not use there tongue to talk. They use their syrinx. The syrinx is a vocal organ at the base or their trachea. In other words, it’s just a bird voice box.
In a similar vein to wolves, Mustang herds: Lead Stallions bring up the rear to keep stragglers from falling behind. Foals travel in the center and the Lead Mare will bring up the front. So Spirit is sliiiiightly wrong
A family friend used to live in cache creeke, and he lived very away from all civilization. Whenever we would visit him we would see the druid pack, slowly watching their numbers grow under the lead of a black wolf. I had no idea they had this much of an origin story
No joke, when I was living in Houston TX I was waiting in a parking lot to pick my mom up from work and I heard a blood curdling scream from a little girl. I immediately hopped out the car and looked around. I was really concerned since this was a business area; there are no houses or parks close enough to be visible let alone hear someone screaming. Then I noticed a group of corvids looking at me like I was an idiot which is when I realized it was the birds. I've been EXTRA KIND to birds ever since.
I knew about Casanova. He never forgot where he came from and he never let down his pack and led them to succes. A lot of valuable lessons there. His patience, his timing and dedication served him well. I dont know why, but he was very emotionally intelligent. At least a lot speaks for it
I remember hearing a story of a huge wolfpack once besieging Paris for three years as well as a story of germans and Russians in World War I calling a truce and teaming up against a wolfpack who was attacking both sides, wolves in Europe appear to be built different and probably why Britain felt it was necessary to exterminate them
The Paris wolf pack was named Courtard because he was missing a chunk out of his tail. If I remember right the military had to get involved, lured the wolfs into the town square, sealed it off, and set it on fire. Also there’s a number of accounts that mention a knight fighting Courtard one on one.
I think they exterminated them bc they are power greedy nature bad controll freak humans, there is no other explanation for purposefully exterminating any animal
My local Zoo has some ravens, and I've heard one of them talk before! He said "Come here, Come here". According to the zookeeper I mentioned it to, the ravens used to live near the back of the zoo, and would scatter their food near their cage to attract the peacocks. And they'd say "come here, come here", and while the peacock was distracted with the food, they'd pluck the tail feathers right off the peacock!! They were moved up closer to the entrance of the park to hopefully curtail that behavior
I had a neighbor that raised two wolves from when they were cubs. Someone broke onto the property. It did not end well for that guy. Surprisingly didn't make the news due to us being in a small town were random stuff like that was kinda a daily occurrence.
I thought wolves were more of the type to escape if they sense danger, but if they found that house their pack home I'd understand the aggression to protect.
So Edgar Allen Poe wasn't crazy when that crow was yelling "nevermore" in his window. Seriously though, my husband and I were talking about this recently, and if I could have any animal in the world as a pet, I would choose a raven or a crow just because they're so smart.
Yeah, that's a really bad idea. Yes, ravens are cool and all but they are a bitch to keep as a pet. They are needy, loud, tend to bite and peck, they'll shit all over your house and because they are so intelligent they need a lot of attention and entertainment. Not to mention that you need a really good cage because they are likely to break out of a low quality one.
You can soft adopt corvids by feeding and being friendly with them. They'll protect your home from small rodents, warn you if larger critters coming around and even pay you by bringing you things ranging from bits of wire to jewelry and cash. Once they see what types of things you like, they'll actively look for those things to give you. Just don't offend them by tossing out a gift.
Speaking of crows dropping nuts to crack them. A friend of mine saw them doing that and thought the same. Until about the 3rd time he saw them eating dead squirrel by the road (I should add this was a large murder near his house so he saw them daily) he realized they were baiting squirrels onto the road. Maybe they'd started with cracking nuts but they ended with hunting squirrel
Fun fact about Golar bears: My boyfriend tends to call them cinnamon bears since they kind of look the part. Seeing a picture of them I'd like to propose marshmellow bears as an alternative.
After that bit about ravens domesticating wolves, suddenly my idea of building a joint Raven Guard/Space Wolf army in Warhammer sounds a lot more plausible...
Just got a hold of some extra space marines and some plastic feather bits for the Raven Guard part not too long ago, now that you mention it. Gonna make the Raven Guard into a Kill Team with the option to join my Space Wolves lists as appropriate.
I remember the original Druid pack was run by a female wolf that was absolutely badass and never let any of the pack members get out of line even a little. Ruled that pack with an iron paw.
I mean yeah, but it was more like she bullied them into submission... one time she attacked her sister and a younger female in her pack because the younger female greeted her sister first... because she was being overly aggressive. She bullied her mother and her sister out of her pack, not because they tried to defy her but because she managed to get in a higher rank than them and get away with treating them like trash. There were plenty of badasses in the Druid pack, though; just ask 253, 42 (who stuck it out under 40's rule and ended up killing her own sister in the end), U-Black, 571, the list goes on lol
She wasn't bad ass, she was a psycho, to the point 4 or 5 females ended up attacking her and ending her reign. Like Kathryn said, she would attack for things that didn't even involve defying.
What? That's like say Trump or Emperor Ozi from the last avatar were good leaders because "#GoGirlboss" or some shit.. She wasn't a badass, she was destructive to her own pack and selfish.
"We drained the wolf's dating pool so much that they started piping coyotes" is a sentence that can kill a zoologist because it makes sense, yet so devious
My Parents grew up in the NWT, and the Inuit and First Nations people have loads of stories about Ravens acting as guides and advisors to lost hunters. Those birds know things.
I actually watched that black wolf's story and it had a better plot than other movies. Moral of his story, being submissive isn't always a sign of weaknesses and be a lover not a fighter
We need an adaptation of the Druid story. honestly, it sounds like something out of a Viking saga. Also, corvids seem to be filling the three basics of sapience with imagination, empathy and intelligence. I for one am willing to embrace our new crow overlords (crowverlords if you will).
Wolf 302, also known as Casanova, was so unique, his genome was the first ever to be fully sequenced. It was done at UCLA. Casanova was an extraordinary wolf. The Rise Of Black Wolf is a documentary of his life. He was extremely popular in Yellowstone. Rick MacIntyre wrote about Casanova "The Redemption Of Wolf 302. Doug Dance has an incredible book of photos featuring Casanova. Casanova was one of the longest living wolves in Yellowstone. I highly recommend watching the movie and reading the book.
I just pray we one day reintroduce the wolves back here in the UK. We have ample room, prey and environment. Just need to get a support scheme to aide farmers.
If i remember correctly didn't the UK kill off majority of the predators? If so most likely it will happen again I'm surprised here in the US the wolves are back even though they almost when into extinction
There was a murder of crows above my house once, so large and loud it drowned out the TV I slowly had to turn up to blasting. After about 20 minutes of them arguing at peak volume I finally asked my partner to grab the pellet gun and scare them off, but was very insistent he does not hit any of them. I will not start a war with a mass of ridiculously smart birds, and whatever they were arguing about it was clearly not productive conversation.
@@Ghost_Void226 “what do you think of the recent seagull immigration?” “I think that those fucking plebs could’ve stayed where they were instead of challenging us” “We should find a way to make a compromise with them for the next election, or we will lose the seat in the bird senate” “I hate it but we should do it, we need peace between us to take the human throne mate” *Both laughs
I fed a crow at my local grocers one day. He came hopping over, feathers a mess and looking grungy. Other crows, ravens and magpies saw the food and came to beg, so I gave them some, too, but if they tried to bully the first crow, I'd jump forward or stomp my foot at them. It didn't take them long to understand I was protecting the scruffy one lol. Now I can't go shopping there without birds following me, begging for food lmao. And I don't see that one crow getting picked on anymore. I think I made my point to them. XD
Imagine walking alone in a forest, hearing ravens mimicking voices and snippets of songs they've heard while foxes gekker in the distance. Is it any wonder demons and spirits are a worldwide phenomenon?
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Question, is it the crows or ravens that are friends with wolves?
I wasn't expecting a wolf gangster story with a romance tragedy subplot.
West side story but with wolves.
@@MirrimBlackfox would be an interesting movie.
DAMN NATURE!
I just feel bad for the pups in this story
Saaammeee bbrroo!!!!!
there's A LOT more to Casanova, he's credited as one of the longest lived wolves of yellow stone making it to roughly 9 years of age and being the most prolific fathers in yellowstone.
He went down in history to being the only male wolf who fathered the most pups...and almost all of them were in secret. In the end he did become the leader of the pack, and ruled it until the age of 9 years. Plus, Casanova was the only wolf who didn't resort to violence...he used his cunning and charm to weave his way to the top. Long live Casanova, Aka...Yellowstone Wolf 302. Or as the Nat Geo Wild documentary calls him: Black Wolf.
Don Lothario of wolf pax goes Goth
Not only did he have black fur but he led the new druid pack to victory as their leader now thats a main character lmao
Max charisma stats
"most prolific father" is one hell of a title to give someone, lol
The story about the Druids, Sloughs and the coyote couple is quite an epic tale.
If someone told me researching wolves was more like watching nature game of thrones I would be pretty damn interested
Fuck the sloughs me and homies hate em
Agreed
@BananaBerry Agreed
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The story you told of Cassanova is actually the sequel. The first in the series was the tale of 42, The Cinderella Wolf. 42 was one of the first wolves brought to Yellowstone and she spent most of her early life being thrashed by her ultra aggressive sister, 40. One day when 40 threatened her pups 42 snapped and killed her, moved her pups into 40's old den and raised both litters together. It was under her leadership The Druids became so large in numbers. Her daughters went to spread her tenacity to other packs. 42 was killed by the Sloughs and her mate 21 was devasted.
Did 21 get revenge?
@@caolanochearnaigh9804 He was an old male by that point so no
@@MidnightDarkness666 Dammit! That would've made for a really good plot point!
@@caolanochearnaigh9804
Talk to the writers about it
@@spindash64 Don't have the time.
“This is Thor. I like Thor.” Has to be the most simple and wholesome thing he’s ever said
Dont forget his description of manatees
Thor likes him too. Snuck that tongue right into his mouth.
Not every menial thing is wholesome
@@Pherioxus Bruh, you okay?
I like Thor too :)
Another thing about crows!! They've been known to help out their fellow crows like feeding them if they have a broken break. That's huge, because it's one of the early signs of civilization
Oh no the crow people
I hope they do form one before we do what we do best
Kenku gang rise up! 😂
I wonder if crows could take up agriculture - either as a trained or as an accidentally discovered behavior? Like, starting with taking a few seeds/grains from a more-desirable food plant and planting them in a better location. Then, progressing to picking weeds and eating pests that attack their "crop" to improve their harvest. Crows are probably physically capable of (and possibly even well-suited for) these tasks - but could they be motivated to do them in the first place?
@@HaloInverse probably,, as long as they know that growing things gets them more food and such
That "crows are domesticating wolves the same way we did" line kinda gave me chills I won't lie. The fact a bird that can recognize faces, hold grudges, and talk gossip could also theoretically convince a pack of wolves you're trying to steal their food is... just *legitimately* concerning, on both a primal and a cosmic level.
We’ve gotten so comfortable in our position of advancement that other animals are striving to reach our level.
Honestly I find it hopeful. If humans somehow off themselves, there will eventually be another species to take our place and wonder about all the weird shit we built.
@@DavidRokon
Thing is, what can they do with our collapsed societies?
The internet is useless.
The electricity grid is useless.
Vehicles are useless.
I mean, unless there is a human to operate it, some of our infrastructure is useless is a world devoid of humans.
It can become overgrown, with vines, and shrubbery and other plants. But the actual usage of our tech is what im curious about.
Roads and bridges do need some maintenance. While potholes wont form from heavy vehicles, weathering will occur. The snow and melt cycle will have water seep into cracks and expand and form larger and larger cracks until a structure breaks down.
In the south, certain water ways NEED human operators for managing the spillway gates. And sadly it'll be another 100 or more years until the Mississippi river is back on its course to even deposit its sediment back where the coast is recending. Im not too sure how the Colorado river structure would do.
But all in all. Id love to read a dystopia book of how the next species would take over. And hopefully they wont have as strong a desire like humans to subjugate every piece of habitable land. Which is part of the reason why humans have deforestation, slavery, wars, over use of resources, and unsustainable disposal methods for resources to the point of plastic is destroying our oceans.
I mean, just imagine an OPEN SOURCE book. Where everyone could write about a region and how it would be without humans.
And maybe just maybe in 20 or 40 thousands years, there might be a species who could repeat the errors of humans or maybe not. Since there may be more than one highly advanced species co-evolving as alpha.
Im putting my bets on racoons, rats, mice, corvids, orca, and dolphin.
I wish roaches could be higher up due to thier resilience but thats only breeding, swarming, and radiation tolerance thats not intelligence.
Who knows, primates can and do learn sign language. And bird can SPEAK human not just spout off sounds. Maybe they corvids or apes can learn to read.
And as much as I prefer english, there might be other simpler languages out there. Spanish does have great phonics.
But the abstract nature of gender nouns might be a bit too much.
Im sorry for being so wordy, but I'd love a fantasy world book series of life after humans. And it would be amazing if we could prepare animals to run this planet better than us homo sapiens, once we inevitably kill ourselves off.
And you know whose fault it is if the Crows turn against us? Christians. Almost every other religion respects crows, only Christians disrespect the messengers of Odin.
What's conserning is humans believing that our behaviour is unique in every single way and any animal doing something that looks like "human behaviour" is absolutely amazing. Get over yourself.
There is honestly something deeply disturbing about watching those ravens speak. Like... They're _good_ at it .
Don't worry too much, it's not too hard to befriend crows
@@spencerpendley9583 until you realise they’re making friends for their own benefit.
@@SUN-DANCE They can also benefit you if teach them that your snacks have a price.
They also understand trade and will bring objects like money & jewelry. Anything light-weight and small.
But they’re tiny and cute tho😶🌫️
@@blackirontarkus3156 I fed some ravens cool ranch Doritos on lunch during work today and one of the first visitors was a baby raven and a few cautious defenders. The baby ate plenty until we left for the next worksite and the flock joined in on the snacking as soon as the engine kicked up.
Always intelligent and interesting creatures, they'll always remember your kindness!
The last story makes Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" actually realistically feasible. Say a raven figured out that it could catch a huge meal by driving people to suicide, by saying the word "Nevermore!" over and over, which it learned from someone who it watched commit suicide.
Thankfully, the raven we saw in the video says "Are you alright?" instead, which is rather heartwarming twist on the saying "Reality is stranger than fiction."
I was waiting for that reference and you did not disappoint, my friend. 😏
That would make a great heartwarming parody actually
I think the Raven was just punking a gullible rich guy for a warm place on his bust of Pallas.
Come on, who keeps asking questions when you get the same answer every time?
There's a talking raven video out there where the raven says "say nevermore", presumably because his keeper was trying to teach him to say it. Felt like the raven was playfully taking the piss. XD
Guy with a pet raven trolling people.
The existence of coywolves take the whole enemies to lovers trope to a whole other level.
Come morning, the wolf swore off fermented berries, and the coyote did the walk of shame.
Out on the farms and ranches they are very dangerous. My grandmother remembers several times when there were coyote hybrids-coywolves or coyotes with a ranchers dog would pop up here and there. They were ways feral and aggressive, with the smarts of a coyote and pack instinct from the other dog.
They would pick up runaways, strays and braver coyote into highly destructive packs that barely feared even God himself. Her father would pack up, join the other farmers and sped the next week hunting and shooting. They didn't fear large groups of humans or noise. You expected one cow eaten and many others simply shredded for fun
@@dflaming1371 Lmao and then people say it's the wolves doing this stuff
Coywolves are just wolves with coyote mentality so blame this stuff on the coyotes
@@kathrynryanclancy8437 wolves do to, but they are scared of a gunshot and 1000 times easier to catch, plus a part of the ecosystem and not just a pack of serial killers with nothing to do but rip anything with a pulse apart. So many dogs are 1 leader away from being worse than their ancestors
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I feel like a raven saw a human taming a wolf and the raven said "hold my deer.", and the rest was history
Yeah Ravens are hella smart. I can see that being the reason.
humans didn't exactly go around taming wolves, they domesticated a pack of hyper sociable wolves and unknowingly selectively bred for sociability
I don't think so because the Ravens who train wolves would be in the forest and I don't think Ravens saw humans trainimg wolves in the forest. I think it was just a trial and error thing for them.
@@yeemawheaver1387 ravens dont "train" wolves, its a symbiotic relationship where both parties stand to gain. symbiotic relationships are not uncommon and ravens are simply intelligent enough to come to an agreement. also, wolves are not limited to the forest and neither are ravens.
'Hold my deer!' actually cracked me up! 🤣
Once while I was out hunting, I was using a buck call. To my shock, I heard one answer, and it was damn close. I start looking around with my bow up, but couldn't see anything. I heard it again, but it came from above me. Confused, I look up, and I see a raven flying above the trees, using my buck call back at me. Well played, you magnificent bastard.
😂😂😂😂😂
We have a gang of 3 crows in my neighbor’s yard that bark and when they bark, all the other dogs in the area. bark too
@@fiberpoet6250 bruh that's gotta be intentional
"Ha! Made you look, dumbass!"
What a jerk lmao
Ravens indeed do a little trolling
The pack rivalry becomes even more Shakespearean when you realize that wolf packs are family units, with the "alphas" being parents and/or grandparents of the rest of the pack, and the occasional Casanova "marrying into the family."
Ohh god
It's all Montegues and Capulates up in here.
Our boy literally said alphas don't exist- ✋💀
@@Im_Iconic-Youre_Ironic Hence the quotation marks, it’s easier to say “alpha” in a clearly corrective way than to say “the pack leader people incorrectly describe as an alpha”, and it sounds a lot less wordy, while keeping it clear enough that anyone with an IQ that doesn’t start with a decimal point can understand it quickly.
@@danifaragoi3709
Yeah but if something don't exist, then it doesn't exist, ergo it can't be used. 🤷♀️🤦♀️😂
You could seriously do an entire series about the Yellowstone wolves, it’s like a soap opera. My favorite of them was always about one of the first wolves re-introduced into Yellowstone, Wolf 8. He was a pup at the time of the reintroduction and the runt of the litter, constantly being bullied by his older siblings. As he grew older he would wander further and further from the den to avoid the bullying, and during one of the trips he came across a litter of eight wolf pups. The wolf pups were alone in their den because the mom wolf, Wolf 9, had to go out and hunt. Her mate, Wolf 10, was illegally shot and killed, so she was a single mom. Unlike lions, wolves are willing to adopt pups that are not their own, so after awhile with Wolf 8 coming in and out of the den to essentially play with and take care of the pups, Wolf 9 eventually accepted him and they became a pair. Wolf 8, once the runt of litter, became the pack leader with Wolf 9. Wolf 8 was a really good wolf dad and although would get into fights to protect the pack, would never kill his opponent and would instead let them go to run away. He was essentially an underdog that rose from the bottom to the top and lived a good life. In fact, one of the pups that Wolf 8 raised was Wolf 21, who would lead the Druid pack at one point during when the infamously aggressive Wolf 40 was also part of the pack.
Edit: Thanks Wergonstum for the correction! I first heard this story from the podcast THIS IS LOVE E19: The Wolves, so check it out if you’re interested!
Bro I swear Yellowstone wolves could have a whole cinematic universe.
A correction to the story. Wolf 9F wasn't gone from the den because she was out hunting all the time. She was transported to a holding pen along with her newborn pups after 10M was killed, because she and the pups were important for their wolf restoration program. They were held in the Rose Creek acclimation pen for several months to give the pups time to mature until they could fend for themselves. One day a severe storm had rolled in and caused a tree to fall on a section of the fence which led to all 8 pups escaping from the enclosure. They were able to capture all but 2 of the pups. One day, the 2 pups came to the fence followed by 8M, who was still a yearling at the time. He was observed playing and caring for the 2 pups outside the pen, and upon 9F's release become the adoptive father for all the pups when he and 9F paired up to start a pack.
@@wergonsturm this is just beautiful 😍
Love this. Animals are amazing. ❤
@@wergonsturm Love this! Thank you! ❤
Out of all the wolf stories, Casanova has to be my favorite story. Not only is he my favorite animal, but he did something that no one ever really sees in wolves. Sometimes when he got caught by the Druid leader he'd run to the park road...and literally no animal except him set paw on that road. He went down in history to being the only male wolf who fathered the most pups...and almost all of them were in secret. In the end he did become the leader of a pack called Blacktail Deer Plateau and ruled it until he was almost 10 years old. Before his tragic death, he witnessed the brith of one final litter he ever fathered as an Alpha male. Plus, Casanova was the only wolf who didn't resort to violence...he used his cunning and charm to weave his way to the top. Long live Casanova, Aka...Yellowstone Wolf 302. Or as the Nat Geo Wild documentary calls him: Black Wolf.
Most wolves do cross the road a lot, but 302 was the only one to actually use it. He also used it as a path when he would travel between his birth pack and the Druid pack. To other animals it was an inconvenience, to him it was a tool, to bison it was just some average ground but that's not important lol. He also sometimes ran into herds of bison, and he used the passiveness of the dominant male of the Druid pack (21) to get away, since 21 would usually just tackle him and if 302 submitted, he would let him go.
Most wolves arnt sociopaths
So as long as the random wolf running through turf, gives respect and leaves the hunt alone, They wont kill
The fact Casanova could get caught mating and not end up dead, that was 21 being merciful 😂 there must have been a surplus of food or 21 would have had him hunted the next time he showed up, like a redneck shotgun wedding 😂😂
You had me until you said alpha male. They don’t HAVE alpha males. Like godamn people this is not a hard concept. ALPHA MALE = not real
Nat geo did him dirty 💀
Like no name just black wolf 😂
@@donovanulrich348 Wolves do sometimes kill wolves that they think are trespassing and therefore a threat, Casanova would always submit and show he's not a threat and 21 never really killed any wolves or anything so he always spared Casanova
I like how only a few wolves were black at first and then Casanova got busy and now most of the pack has pigmented fur. Even without any explanation, you can still piece together what happened 🐺
Have you ever seen a furless dog or cat lol
@@wutm8 Irrelevancy
It should be noted that Wolf 21 (the breeding male of the Druids when Casanova first came along, and incidentally Casanova’s maternal biological uncle and paternal adopted cousin) was also a black wolf when he was younger (his fur greyed with age) so his genes were also at work there.
21 didn’t get along with Casanova-in fact he absolutely hated him. 21 famously never killed any wolves from rival packs but I think he might have made an exception for Casanova. Of course Casanova made sure he never got caught in the act.
Where are you getting this information??? I NEED to know MORE!!!
@@ZeeWee910
There’s been a LOT of documentation of individual Yellowstone wolves (both by the park officials and by notable visitors), some of the better-known wolves have had their entire lives documented this way.
It's rare for all the coyote pups to survive when they loose their father. That's really impressive. Also heart breaking about her mate. Coyotes mate for life.
(no rudeness intended, promise!) 'Lose' is the word you are actually meaning here. 'Loose' is more like loose skin, or something you'd say if you intended to insult a woman. I see it spelled wrong constantly and it bothers me for some dumb reason. I also felt sad over the female coyote losing her mate.
Anyway, no offense intended, have an awesome day! 🙃
@@burntpieceoftoast4148 lol oops
@@ANPC-pi9vu awwwh love how you weren't offended bye the correction we can take polite critique an still live. 💕😇🕊️.
lose*
There are two types of people in the world
The fact that ravens may be domesticating wolves is both fascinating and a little terrifying
Imagine wronging a Ravan, it remembers your face, it also has a pet Wolf.
Is it domesticating or taming here?
@@MisterHalt It's more of a mutual alliance, both parties benefit, like Ratels and Honey Guide birds, Gobies and Pistol Shrimp etc.
@@zebedeemadness2672
"That fucker right there."
Breaking news: First unprovoked wolf attack on person in centuries
Damn, imagine if like in millennia, ravens become wolf farmers. Having clan wars by sending their wolf armies to fight.
Wolves are beautiful creatures. Wild, clever, family oriented. They’re a part of our land and history.
Which land is "ours"
@@DoomShrm Depends on where you live in the world and your ancestors. Either way though wolves are there.
That’s shit sound like a game of thrones spin-off
I totally agree
@@coffeewolfproductions9113 they've been extinct in japan since 1905, and I'm fairly certain there never was any wolf in Hawaii
I just find it adorable that a wolf and a raven can be best mates for life and not just a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" arrangement.
Casanova was beautiful, the fact that he was able to join the pack and introduce new genes is a great example of nature taking care of itself.
Bicon tbh
Racists hate him.
Seeing as wolf packs are a breeding couple with their kids and grandkids, outsiders joining the pack has to be a frequent event to avoid genetic issues
✨Casanova the King👑
It took him years to gain acceptance with the alpha pair, it was only at the end of their lives that they let him get anywhere near their daughters, simply because they were old and stopped caring as much cause they just didn't have the energy and drive to stop it anymore. That's some serious determination on his part!!! He would spend an entire day just far enough away to observe and plot his moments. Very cool wolf!!!
Yeah, corvids are smart. When my grandma was a teenager, she and her brother found an injured young magpie. They took her home and helped her to get better. After the bird was healed, they released it back, but the magpie decided that free food and shelter from the elements were too good to pass up, so she stayed with them, even tough she cloud fly away any time she wanted.
But anyway, my grandmas brother taught her to talk. But, being a teenager, the words he taught here weren´t exactly... proper. My grandma said it was kinda funny, when their mum (my great-grandma) came into room where the magpie was and was greeted by enthusiastic "wh-re! wh-re!"
Oh, and the magpie also had the habbit of stealing their fathers cigarettes, since they had shiny packaging. The father at first suspected my great-uncle (grandmas brother), but they soon find out the magpies stash of ciggs behind the chimney.
amazing, thank you for this comment !!!
Can you imagine vikings sending ravens to steal gold and war crying in ancient scandinavian?
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 i want to imagine a raven stealing golds while screaming"L bozos"
As someone with a raven that has a good relationship with them, while yes they can hold grudges if you slight them, they also remember any good will directed towards them. I've had a constant nest of several generations of ravens on his roof, they now occasionally drop shiny objects like loose change on my porch and even sometimes sqwawk when someone unfamiliar like a new mail person who just got hired approaches the house all because I sometimes leave fish scraps on my porch for them.
When the corvids retake the Earth, you will be spared. How nice.
same with magpies. gain their trust and not only will they not mess with you. you can find the shinies that they keep in their nests (rings, coins, small watches etc)
At first I misread that as you leaving fish scraps for the mail carriers 🤣
Now watch when someone goes to hurt you only to look up and see a massive group of ravens land above them looking at them menacingly 😂
Oh not again! The mail carriers eat the fish scraps i've been saving for my crows!
One time on my way to work, I found a crow just flopping in the road. I didn’t want it to become dinner for its buddies, so I picked it up and took it to the vet, hoping they could tell me what to do. One of the vets gave it a quick once over, didn’t see any injuries, and gave me the number of a bird sanctuary to see if they would have a better idea of what to do.
I explained what happened, and they said, “Oh, that sounds like a juvenile that doesn’t know how to fly yet. Can you take it back where you found it? Its flock will take care of it.” I was a little alarmed, but they explained that it didn’t have to be on the actual road, because crows were smart enough that if I put it nearby, they’d follow the sound of the juvenile’s cry.
So, I did that. I have a different car now, but even when I had the car that I had used, I drove by that place all the time and no pissed off birds came for me. So, I guess I don’t have a reputation with the local crows for being a baby snatcher.
maybe they knew you just wanted to help
Yeah, you brought it back, and they knew you were trying to help.
I thought that story was going to end with you discovering that bird frequently lets itself be brought to the vet so it can have a nice supper before being taken back home
Well, at least they are smart enough to realize when someone is being nice to them
I feel like canine species in general are pretty damn fascinating to learn about, and wolves are at the top of that list for me.
Bro, you are here too?
Eyy it's the guy!
Look at these hybrids bro. Man, Can't have shit with humanity
They’re my favorite actually but yeah your clout will be mine in stuff
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The passing of the wolves and the brutality of the death of the father coyote made this story all the more emotional.
Nature is brutal.. sad to say. But it's survival of the fittest and strongest in the wild.
Yeah, you could totally make an anime or movie out of that entire story.
Ikr. I've heard of Cassanova, Spitfire, Small dot, White lady... Hell, I can go on.
@@Cattrix999 there is no surival of the fittest if you are getting ganged by 5/6 wolves. Even a bear wouldn't survive that
Fun story, we have a group of Ravens in our neighborhood, they mostly vibe chill and eat snacks left out. One day an eagle pulled up and was bothering my chickens by sitting on a telephone pole by our house. The ravens woke up when they heard my birds yell a warning, they went to check it out and straight up went to attacking the intruder. Now, normally they would have been happy to just chase the bird off but he made the fatal choice of ducking into their nesting tree and it was game over from there. I never liked them much till that day, as they like to convince my birds to do stupid things by mimicking certain cries but I have to say, after watching that, which took less than five minutes, I have respect for them now.
Feed those ravens. Make them your friends, because I'm willing to bet they remember that eagle, and they'll remember your generosity.
Years ago there was a crow that would come hang out with me while I was reading sitting on my porch. Actually read The Hobbit to him in it's entirety. I'd give him some left over meat but he'd ignore it until I closed the book and said "another chapter done see you tomorrow." Miss that bird, hope he found some other nice crows to hang out with and had a good life.
That just gives me the image of the crow going home every night to eager bird listeners waiting for him to recount the story so they could find out what happened next each day.
You should've tried reading him a vocabulary.
I for one am utterly delighted by the idea that enjoyment of fantasy might cross species lines.
@@ShootingStarNeo One person I know reads children's books to her flock of parakeets before they go to sleep for the night.
I find that a really cool story. Especially since there was that one raven in the hobbit which was a messenger bird.
Apparently, the ravens at the Tower of London have been known to troll their keepers by calling out their keeper's names, using the voice of other keepers. As you say, they are far too smart for their own good.
Raven: "We do a little bit of trolling"
They do a little trollin
Damn that whole story about the Druid pack should be made into a full-length movie. I’d love to see it.
There are documentaries about all the Yellowstone wolf packs on youtube
There is, it’s called “Nature in the Valley of the Wolves.”
The story of “black wolf” Aka Casanova is actually on youtube
Ever heard of hit animated movie “Alpha and Omega”? /j
@@laneykimball5713 An injustice to wolves, they deserve a much better game of thrones style movie
The crow really said "yaaaaay" when she gave it the treat
I would too, tbh. Food is good.
@@SugarandSarcasm I agree
Having gone to a wolf sanctuary and hearing 40+ wolves all howl at once is quite the event, very loud and a very humbling experience. Before that I had never felt so small and insignificant. It had lasted 5-10 minutes, I lost track of time because I fell into a trance from it. Loved every second of it, truly magnificent creatures
Whenever possible, I use the sound of wolf talk,turned low, to get rid of migraine.
This wolf anime had multiple Arcs
3:37 Druid pack domination arc
4:15 plague arc
4:23-5:04 slough nation attacks Arc
(They decimates the druids literally leaving them at 10% and kill their women)
5:18 Love coyote OVA
6:03-6:38 sough pack fortifications breaks down and they were attacked by the mystery wolves)
6:41 mother coyotes rise to power Arc (I haven’t gotten that far into the video yet but I’m assuming that it’s the mother‘s pups
7:14 (return of the lover King Arc)
The Druids reclaim their lost land epic come back
Dammit now I want an animation of this
@@TheGraveKnight Wolf's Rain is an actual anime! One of my favorites too💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 go look it up!
@@senshiorigin5074 Is Casanova in it, is he?...then its No from me v__v
Lord of the valley🥹 thousands of years of storytelling
Shit so do I 😂
Even though I knew Corvids were capable of mimicking human speech, I’ve just now realized that The Raven might actually be a real life event turned poem
Bruh, imagine being depressed already and an emo looking bird keeps saying "nevermore" each time you ask a question.
Then again, ravens seem smart enough to know that those words in that context are hurtful and keep going out of sadism
Nevermore
It totally wouldn't surprise me.
According to the story I read, Charles Dickens had a flightless pet raven that he brought with him when he visited Poe, and the thing was huge, had a crappy attitude, and stomped around the house all day scaring the shit out of Poe. This was his inspiration.
Just to add, the raven’s name was Grip, Dickens got him to study the antics of ravens so as to properly develop the obnoxiously chatty raven in Barnaby Rudge ( also named Grip.) The more you read about him, the more hilarious it gets. The funniest bit to me is the bombastic vandal that couldn’t shut up and who’s last words were reportedly “Hi-ho, old girl!”, turned into this motionless doom merchant with a one- word vocabulary in Poe’s poem. ( Poe thought he was “immensely amusing” and thought Barnaby Rudge needed more Grip.)
Grip lives on in taxidermy at one of Dickens’s former crash pads in Philadelphia.
[ETA: Correction- he was removed to the Philadelphia Free Library. I now have travel plans.]
Thank you for showing the truth about wolf attack and kills on humans. The official organizations that protect them always say how low deaths and attacks are and how even if they happen, most are just result of rabid wolves.
But you get a lot of "statistics" out there that put wolves as killers
I'm not well informed on the topic, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but is it possible that wolves' reputation stems from our past? I would imagine that in medieval (and earlier times), wolves and humans would have clashed much more. For one, because I would think that there was more contact due to hunting and habitat overlap, and also because a wolf is presumably much more interested in a farmer's sheep herd than a modern brick house with no livestock, leading to more conflict between humans and wolves.
@@pixelmaster98 there were lots of wolf related deaths in Europe just not many in the United States.
Make sure you don’t get spotted alone at night by a pack of wolves lmfao
@@darkfire38th17 isnt it more so just pissed off farmers in europe? All ive heard is they eat sheep and get shot by the farmer no human deaths
@@pixelmaster98
Part of it is also that wolves got put under a BRUTAL selective pressure to not mess with humans directly if they could help it. I can’t say why this has more effect on wolves than other apex predators (which still tend to be more wary around humans), but I would guess that being a more social animal might have some connection
You know, if their problem-solving abilities are roughly equivalent to a 7 year old... someone should be trying to make crow-friendly video games.
Yeah teach them to use computers what could possibly go wrong
@@coolocelot hopefully the crows don't go on Twitter
@@ishthefish1st They will be some of the most intellectual people on there
do they see screens (aka like computer screens n stuff ) in the same way we do tho?
@Something with Bungalow They’re prabably, but birds often see more color than human so maybe it’ll be a little different but I think they’ll still regconize the same stuff a we do, on screen.
That bit about the Druids and Sloughs wolf packs with the coyote subplot was one of the most glorious and intense stories I've ever seen. That whole thing was a rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish lmao
read about wolf 8 and 21 too
@@blushdog I assume we've read the same books lol
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@@kathrynryanclancy8437 yes, wolf 21 is my favorite
@@blushdog 302 is my favorite in the books lol
907 is my favorite overall tho, because I read a lot about her in articles and saw her IRL
I will probably cry when she dies, she's very old too so her time will most likely come soon 😢
Man, the Druid pack has such a fascinating history. I heard in another video that way back when wolves were first reintroduced into Yellowstone, the Druid Peak pack was ruled by a tyrannical female wolf (40F was her label IIRC) who completely monopolized breeding in the pack by bullying the other females (including her own younger sisters) and killing any pups that weren't her own. Eventually it got to the point that one day the rest of the pack finally decided enough was enough, so three other female wolves (including the previously mentioned sister) ganged up on & killed Wolf 40F with her surviving pups being adopted by the three afterwards.
I knew nature was metal, but I didn't expect it to also be a soap opera.
This seems like one of those overly dramatic Indian television shows
do you remember what the videos called? it sounds interesting and I would like to watch it :)
Straight up formed a coup
@@moltenfreddyandwyvern it was actually mentioned only briefly in an analysis/explanation of Gendy Tartakovsky's _PRIMAL_ season 1, specifically in relation to how the head witch in episode 8 "Coven of the Damned" turned into a giant wolf was quite thematically fitting in relation to how she monopolized a bastardization of motherhood & childbirth (she may have passed out the babies, but she was still in total control of all breeding for her group)
Someone should make an animated movie or series out of the wolf story. It has drama, romance, and tragedy. I'd watch!
Yes! Also, make one for Meerkat Manor
Oh yeah that seems cool idk if yall know My Pride but that style of “half” animation seems cool and i would def do that
Honestly this seems more like “wolf song the movie: minus the enemy pack being lead by hellhounds” to be honest with you
It has a lot of potential. It could be like Watership down.
"This is Thor... I like Thor."
The way he delivers just makes it even more adorable
There was a parrot (George) at our local conservatory that all the little kids in the neighborhood loved going to see. George would say "Ola" and "Hello" to them. Little kids find this endlessly exciting. The conservatory had a renovation, and George had to be taken to some other location. He got really depressed, which the staff hadn't expected. I took my kids to see him when the conservatory renovations were finished. We were the only ones there. After about 15 minutes of "Ola" and "Hello" I took my kids to see the turtles ... hadn't gone five steps when George said, "Please don't leave me." So we were back for another fifteen minutes of "Hello" and "Ola." He seemed satisfied.
Aw
😭
This is both sad and wholemsome😭
It’s giving Paulie 🥹🦜
I don't know what you did, but if that happened to me I'd burst out crying XD
A quick addition, the shot of the cat being menaced by a coyote also has a happy ending: the little guy almost got deleted, but fought it out in that full-on blender mode cats can do, and managed to escape the coyote long enough for something to scare it off.
"full-on blender mode"
I've never heard a cat's fighting style described like that before, but it fits perfectly.
This comment brought be genuine and deep relief. I'm so glad to hear that that kitty was okay.
@@Scavenger82 It honestly reminds me of Talon's fighting style in Primal Rage.
Best coyote bait besides a rabbit with a broken leg is a cat in a cage. Draws them like stink on shit.
@@bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759 That was one of my favorite arcade/genesis port games. Kicked ass.
If anyone is wondering, the cat did survive the coywolf attack. It climbed up the beam of the porch.
Casanova actually had a pretty awesome life
As a lone wolf with no pack he tries to join a wolf packs but always gets rejected by the leader
So instead of joining he would go around and mated with young females in the area and even scored with the daughter of the same pack leader that rejected him
He then went and form a massive pack by rounding up lone young males and became it's leader
Damn his life is a movie
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I thought it was daughters
literal animal kingdom
What in the Alpha and Omega is this
Wolfs & Ravens working together HAS to be the reason why they've been associated with Odin. 🐺
A wolf was going to kill Odin though. Not really working together.
Hugin munnin and fenrir team up!!
@@ernimuja6991 Odin had two wolves, Geri and Freki. Along with the ravens, Hugin and Munin.
Odin had a group of men wolves who protected and did his bidding, while the raven gave him sight.
@@RGA301092 So he's kind of 50/50 when it comes to wolves?
I always got into fights with people when I told them crows and ravens could talk, it's like people just don't read. The reason the Raven is called 'The Raven' is because Poe wanted to use a bird that could talk. He originally considered a parrots but yeah, not exactly as scary
Oh I’d be terrified if a large group of them started to sing either the jaws theme song, or at least tried to mimic the doom song
Nevermore!
AAAWWWRRAAWWKK!
@@Allantitan Just imagine a murder of crows screaming "RUN" late at night
@@ShaunzJenkins Imagine one landing above you and just shouting, "Over here, Over here". and then following you.
@@erisdiscordia5429 How about I don't imagine it so I can sleep at night lmao
We had an old wolf named Thor. He was battle hardened, and missing most of an ear. He was a good boy, very sweet.
Casanova is written about in Rise of Wolf 8 (a story about his step father) and Reign of Wolf 21. Both written by Rick McIntyre who studied the Yellowstone wolves
I read and loved both of these a while back. Casanova has his own book out now as well (The Redemption of Wolf 302), though I haven't got to it yet.
Was Casanova raised by Wolf 8? Wolf 8 was definitely Wolf 21’s stepfather, but I thought Casanova was part of a different pack and mated with Wolf 21’s daughters
@@dangerousdandelions I don't think so, though I could be mistaken. The way I remember reading it in 21's book, Casanova kinda came out of nowhere and served as a good contrast to 21 because he wasn't alpha material yet. I'll have to refresh my memory!
RIP to father coyote who endured such a horrific untimely death 😢
Yeah getting ganged on by half a dozen wolves ain't a good way to go
L coyote
Well as they always say. You either die a hero or live long to be a villain. And he choose the blue pill.
@@Moonlith_Acresit’s either u die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
RIP father coyote
I wonder if anyone’s ever taught a raven to actually say “Nevermore”.
question that must be asked.
Honestly in like half of the bird sanctuary videos I’ve watched someone taught the raven to say nevermore
Welp time to get a pet raven
I wanna a pet Raven to teach it and interpret the poem with me lol
The answer is yes
WAKA WAKA WAKA NEVERMORE
For some reason when he said Casanova rebuilt the pack with the daughters and took back the valley, my mind immediately jumped to him having warrior daughters. Like Valkyries clearing a way for Odin.
Honestly he looks like he’d be cool to hangout with
Until he ruins your favorite animals should you mention them
Riiiight
@@TheGamerClown “Yo I like hyenas”
“oh riiiight...right..”
Yeah Casanova seems chill
@@TheGamerClown he can't ruin cats🤧✊️
"If Ants were our size they'd take over the world in a day."
Sounds like a perfect video game. I'd call it something like Earth Defense Force I think.
On the real note. I think I'd pay to see him play EDF on the channel and talk about the insects that he's killing.
Rise Up dirty birds! We Dat!
Excellent
Isn't that the plot of Starship Troopers?
They would die in minutes
Yes insects can breathe well
That's why they're small.
Also
They would cause massive dammage.
If each ant it 40 kg that would be billions of tons of dead insect every hectares.
Bird will be pleased.
Ecosystem would collapse because there's no more ants
TO SAVE OUR MOTHER EARTH FROM ANY ALIEN ATTACK
For those wondering, the story of the Druid Pack he goes over and the footage he uses for it come from an old Nature documentary from the early 2000s called In the Valley of the Wolves. It's incredibly good and someone put it up on youtube. GO WATCH IT
hey can you send me the link for that? thanks!
@@luviathan9706 ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
@@luviathan9706 ua-cam.com/video/lyEgW9LQ3EA/v-deo.html Here you go
Hearing the ravens talk suddenly gives Poe's poem "The Raven" a whole new perspective huh? Also, I would love to have a pet raven called Poe and teach it to only say "Nevermore" just to fuck with people 😂
If I befriend a raven I’m doing that XD
The crows fact just reminded me that the other day I saw some crows or ravens sharing an apple with each other. One of the birds was bitting off pieces of the apple and throwing it around to the other birds around and they were just peacefully waiting for their turns to get a bit of apple
As someone who loves wolves and follows closely with the Yellowstone Wolves, he basically recapped the nature doc called "The Valley of the Wolves" and his recap is semi accurate; if you want the full story, you can read the Yellowstone Wolf Reports from I think 2004 to 2009 and the Alpha Wolf books, "The Reign of Wolf 21" and "The Redemption of Wolf 302", cheers for covering wolves and the Druid Peak pack!
Hey! I'd reccomend the game Wolf Quest Anniversary Edition if you haven't already heard of it! You play as a dispersal wolf in Yellowstone and get to start your own pack. Its very well researched and strives to be as accurate as it can to wolf life
same
@@UnknownTwig Is it a mobile game? Or is it on console?
What was inaccurate?
@@UnknownTwig Good game, lacking in content at the moment but I recommend and if anyone is interested, I do make videos of the game on my other channels
ua-cam.com/channels/ppJyUpZr7hB95xOsvIv7zg.html and ua-cam.com/channels/2zj5KFWBRKg_BQWeiCjBCw.html
Since Cassanova and the females from the Druid pack were present during the initial outbreak of the disease, the likelihood is that they were able to return to the valley because they had a natural immunity to it.
Particularly since they're the *survivors* of the initial outbreak.
For those wondering about ravens being able to talk, no, you do not have to clip its tongue first. Clipping a ravens or crows tongue in order for it to talk is cruel but just a myth. However, Crows and Ravens do not use there tongue to talk. They use their syrinx. The syrinx is a vocal organ at the base or their trachea. In other words, it’s just a bird voice box.
Are we going to talk about how flawless that ant game transition was? I didnt even forward through it because it was so smooth.
I may download that bitch.
😂 facts bro it was legendary
Super underrated comment
Smooth like butter
In a similar vein to wolves, Mustang herds:
Lead Stallions bring up the rear to keep stragglers from falling behind. Foals travel in the center and the Lead Mare will bring up the front. So Spirit is sliiiiightly wrong
Yeah, that always bothered me too, when I actually understood the hierarchy in the mustang herd. Lol.
Wolves are great. And the fact that Ravens are working together with Wolves is even better.👍
seems Norse mythology was on to something
@Alexa---------👇💋 Out. Get out.
@@BeachioSandschannel W
@@xAxCx and most steppe cultures.
Work smarter not harder.
The Raven Kingmaker. That is a dark fantasy YA title if ever there was one. Calling it now.
Honestly animal hybrids deserve a video all of their own, they're really fascinating.
A family friend used to live in cache creeke, and he lived very away from all civilization. Whenever we would visit him we would see the druid pack, slowly watching their numbers grow under the lead of a black wolf. I had no idea they had this much of an origin story
No joke, when I was living in Houston TX I was waiting in a parking lot to pick my mom up from work and I heard a blood curdling scream from a little girl. I immediately hopped out the car and looked around. I was really concerned since this was a business area; there are no houses or parks close enough to be visible let alone hear someone screaming. Then I noticed a group of corvids looking at me like I was an idiot which is when I realized it was the birds. I've been EXTRA KIND to birds ever since.
Ha! They probably filmed it and put it on Crowstagram. Hope you went viral!
My dude... I just discovered your channel today and it's my new favorite. You're presentation is incredible. Thank you for your hard work.
Casanova is a LEGEND!!! I remember watching him as a pup(documentary) then the war happened and he was exiled then came back stronger than ever!
imagine teaching a bunch of ravens how to say "run" then release them on a hiking trail 😂
I read this while I was taking a drink, now there's tea in my nose 😂
Teach them how to say the n word
*Awolnation intensifies*
I wouldn't care how much I've hiked, if that happened, I'm pulling an 180 and nopeing faster than my dad after my birth
Imagine hearing crows say run on a trail at night
I knew about Casanova. He never forgot where he came from and he never let down his pack and led them to succes. A lot of valuable lessons there. His patience, his timing and dedication served him well. I dont know why, but he was very emotionally intelligent. At least a lot speaks for it
Druid=Starks
Slough=Boltons
Does that mean Casanova=Jon Snow?
I remember hearing a story of a huge wolfpack once besieging Paris for three years as well as a story of germans and Russians in World War I calling a truce and teaming up against a wolfpack who was attacking both sides, wolves in Europe appear to be built different and probably why Britain felt it was necessary to exterminate them
Werewolf stories had to come from Somewhere, and their prevalence europe is concerning....
To be fair, humans have been more crowded in wolf territory in Europe more than anywhere else, making the conflicts more frequent
Many Eurasian and European wolves have been known to have coyote in them.
I think that’s pretty neat fact.
The Paris wolf pack was named Courtard because he was missing a chunk out of his tail. If I remember right the military had to get involved, lured the wolfs into the town square, sealed it off, and set it on fire. Also there’s a number of accounts that mention a knight fighting Courtard one on one.
I think they exterminated them bc they are power greedy nature bad controll freak humans, there is no other explanation for purposefully exterminating any animal
My younger brother died suddenly on Monday morning, he was 33, this video is the 1st thing that has made me smile...thank you for that.
R.I.P
I am saddened by your loss.
May he rest in peace and may you feel better soon, I hope for the best for you. You and your brother will be in my thoughts
Why?
may your kin rest in peace. be safe and whole.
My local Zoo has some ravens, and I've heard one of them talk before! He said "Come here, Come here". According to the zookeeper I mentioned it to, the ravens used to live near the back of the zoo, and would scatter their food near their cage to attract the peacocks. And they'd say "come here, come here", and while the peacock was distracted with the food, they'd pluck the tail feathers right off the peacock!! They were moved up closer to the entrance of the park to hopefully curtail that behavior
*me now realizing that when i hear someone calling my name it could be some kind of corvus bird or just my imagination*
I had a neighbor that raised two wolves from when they were cubs. Someone broke onto the property. It did not end well for that guy. Surprisingly didn't make the news due to us being in a small town were random stuff like that was kinda a daily occurrence.
The wolves put the robber in a pack and smoke them
I thought wolves were more of the type to escape if they sense danger, but if they found that house their pack home I'd understand the aggression to protect.
So Edgar Allen Poe wasn't crazy when that crow was yelling "nevermore" in his window.
Seriously though, my husband and I were talking about this recently, and if I could have any animal in the world as a pet, I would choose a raven or a crow just because they're so smart.
Yeah, that's a really bad idea. Yes, ravens are cool and all but they are a bitch to keep as a pet. They are needy, loud, tend to bite and peck, they'll shit all over your house and because they are so intelligent they need a lot of attention and entertainment. Not to mention that you need a really good cage because they are likely to break out of a low quality one.
@@tranquilthoughts7233 Well yeah, adopting a raven is basically like adopting a child who will stay the same mental age.
Lol I love the reference
Corvids, ESPECIALLY ravens, are known to be quite sadistic with their human "owners".
You can soft adopt corvids by feeding and being friendly with them.
They'll protect your home from small rodents, warn you if larger critters coming around and even pay you by bringing you things ranging from bits of wire to jewelry and cash. Once they see what types of things you like, they'll actively look for those things to give you.
Just don't offend them by tossing out a gift.
Speaking of crows dropping nuts to crack them. A friend of mine saw them doing that and thought the same. Until about the 3rd time he saw them eating dead squirrel by the road (I should add this was a large murder near his house so he saw them daily) he realized they were baiting squirrels onto the road. Maybe they'd started with cracking nuts but they ended with hunting squirrel
...oh dear, that is both impressive and worrisome
Moral of the story: if you ever see a crow drop money In the road, DON'T GO GET THE MONEY.
@@KatieDeGo b-but its so shiny and green and useful... 🥺
@@themaxterz0169 nevermore
A murder indeed.
Fun fact about Golar bears: My boyfriend tends to call them cinnamon bears since they kind of look the part. Seeing a picture of them I'd like to propose marshmellow bears as an alternative.
How is that a fact
I love how that third wolf pack seemingly didn’t even want the territory. They just showed up and chose violence.
After that bit about ravens domesticating wolves, suddenly my idea of building a joint Raven Guard/Space Wolf army in Warhammer sounds a lot more plausible...
Woah! Did you ever do it?
Just got a hold of some extra space marines and some plastic feather bits for the Raven Guard part not too long ago, now that you mention it. Gonna make the Raven Guard into a Kill Team with the option to join my Space Wolves lists as appropriate.
I remember the original Druid pack was run by a female wolf that was absolutely badass and never let any of the pack members get out of line even a little. Ruled that pack with an iron paw.
I mean yeah, but it was more like she bullied them into submission... one time she attacked her sister and a younger female in her pack because the younger female greeted her sister first... because she was being overly aggressive. She bullied her mother and her sister out of her pack, not because they tried to defy her but because she managed to get in a higher rank than them and get away with treating them like trash.
There were plenty of badasses in the Druid pack, though; just ask 253, 42 (who stuck it out under 40's rule and ended up killing her own sister in the end), U-Black, 571, the list goes on lol
She wasn't bad ass, she was a psycho, to the point 4 or 5 females ended up attacking her and ending her reign. Like Kathryn said, she would attack for things that didn't even involve defying.
@@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken Mhm
What? That's like say Trump or Emperor Ozi from the last avatar were good leaders because "#GoGirlboss" or some shit.. She wasn't a badass, she was destructive to her own pack and selfish.
@@lorrainebrunner2490 bro how you gonna compare trump to Ozai... What war campaign did trump push? Nationalism at the expense of who?! Geez
This man still has his tiny microphone and his amazing humor and manages to make it an entertaining show with every upload.
"We drained the wolf's dating pool so much that they started piping coyotes" is a sentence that can kill a zoologist because it makes sense, yet so devious
My Parents grew up in the NWT, and the Inuit and First Nations people have loads of stories about Ravens acting as guides and advisors to lost hunters. Those birds know things.
I actually watched that black wolf's story and it had a better plot than other movies. Moral of his story, being submissive isn't always a sign of weaknesses and be a lover not a fighter
We need an adaptation of the Druid story. honestly, it sounds like something out of a Viking saga. Also, corvids seem to be filling the three basics of sapience with imagination, empathy and intelligence. I for one am willing to embrace our new crow overlords (crowverlords if you will).
I'm not sure the Druid pack wants that land, decimated by sickness, new pack moves in, also decimated by sickness, think I'm seeing a pattern.
Wolf 302, also known as Casanova, was so unique, his genome was the first ever to be fully sequenced. It was done at UCLA. Casanova was an extraordinary wolf. The Rise Of Black Wolf is a documentary of his life. He was extremely popular in Yellowstone. Rick MacIntyre wrote about Casanova "The Redemption Of Wolf 302. Doug Dance has an incredible book of photos featuring Casanova. Casanova was one of the longest living wolves in Yellowstone. I highly recommend watching the movie and reading the book.
I just pray we one day reintroduce the wolves back here in the UK. We have ample room, prey and environment. Just need to get a support scheme to aide farmers.
Canuk here, there's room in the UK?
If you’ve got the room, it’s always better for an ecosystem to have multiple types of apex predators
You'd have to put into law that it's illegal to hunt them.
Cuz they'd just get killed off again.
If i remember correctly didn't the UK kill off majority of the predators? If so most likely it will happen again
I'm surprised here in the US the wolves are back even though they almost when into extinction
We just got wolves back in The Netherlands, and the first thing that happened is that local farmers tried to hunt them down. 🙄
There was a murder of crows above my house once, so large and loud it drowned out the TV I slowly had to turn up to blasting. After about 20 minutes of them arguing at peak volume I finally asked my partner to grab the pellet gun and scare them off, but was very insistent he does not hit any of them.
I will not start a war with a mass of ridiculously smart birds, and whatever they were arguing about it was clearly not productive conversation.
They were arguing about politics lol.
@@Ghost_Void226 “what do you think of the recent seagull immigration?”
“I think that those fucking plebs could’ve stayed where they were instead of challenging us”
“We should find a way to make a compromise with them for the next election, or we will lose the seat in the bird senate”
“I hate it but we should do it, we need peace between us to take the human throne mate”
*Both laughs
"Piping coyotes" should not be a phrase... I giggled nonetheless.
That story about the Druid pack NEEDS to be made into a movie!
Someone call Disney, we have a perfect pitch
That's already been done. It's a nature documentary called "The valley of the wolves"
@@piaggio So.. Please don't Disney...
Nah Hollywood will ruin it I mean...you've seen the latest cashgrabs right?
@@piaggio Nah, modern Disney'd screw it all up.
I fed a crow at my local grocers one day. He came hopping over, feathers a mess and looking grungy. Other crows, ravens and magpies saw the food and came to beg, so I gave them some, too, but if they tried to bully the first crow, I'd jump forward or stomp my foot at them. It didn't take them long to understand I was protecting the scruffy one lol. Now I can't go shopping there without birds following me, begging for food lmao. And I don't see that one crow getting picked on anymore. I think I made my point to them. XD
Imagine walking alone in a forest, hearing ravens mimicking voices and snippets of songs they've heard while foxes gekker in the distance. Is it any wonder demons and spirits are a worldwide phenomenon?
It gets even better with ravens speaking. I've seen the raven saying "nevermore" followed by "waka-waka" on YT
I love the Druid pack's stories. Look up the books written about them, there's three now, all written by the man who witnessed it all firsthand.
Very good books, id also recommend American wolf which the author of used the notes of rick
@@blushdog And the Grand Lady of Yellowstone!
@@kathrynryanclancy8437 Yes indeed! I remember her now
@@blushdog Yeah, I got that book for Christmas and it was very good! There was a lot of good random stories lol
Thank you all for the suggestions!
"Every action has a reaction"
Nature: And I took that personally.
Sad how the female coyote lost her mate, but I’m glad she was able to raise her pups