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The sewage works at Threxton on the Watton branch of the Wissey is seriously over stretched and has been for the last thirty years there are other sources of sewerage contamination on both branches. I live in this river system valley and would love to see them back, but do wonder if the water quality is sufficient.

The satisfaction of harvesting your own food must be amazing.

I’ve just seen one the other night at 5am walking down my street. I am next to a nature reserve with a lot of deer. This is in Kirkintilloch near Glasgow. Is there anywhere I can report this?

Yeah fishing 🎣 in Hay on Wye... mentioned him for a Thank You on the radio (2) via Steve Wright....got a very 🍒 red faced JB on the drive back 😮... sorry other girlfriend whoever you were!!!!!

Stunning images again, what camera settings are you using with the 2 hares kissing, thank you for your time.

Great work from David Miller 👍

Rick is well informed on this topic.he is the bible of uk big cats

Bertie’s work is showcase of enthusiasm and talent. His series on National Geographic is just stunning, particularly the effort that him and his team go to in capturing the images and filming. Bertie has been an inspiration to my own work and has an amazing enthusiasm for natural history and wildlife. A true ambassador for this planet! Thank you for all your work. Regards Graham Furlonger (TA. Affinity Photography)

I saw one a couple of weeks ago when walking a friend's dog on the canal towpath. It sent the dog into a tizz. I know we have otters here, so was surprised to see a mink for the first time in 15 years.

Best interview ive heard in ages.. is there any updates to this now its approaching 1year ago

Unfortunately , this publicity will attract two types of people. One will people who will want to catch one and keep it as a pet and two will be people who will want to make a quick buck selling them to other people, this snake will be extinct in a couple of decades or even sooner . Bye bye new snake species.....

A little bit of a clickbaity title, as these are not really HUGE SNAKES are they?

Two words.......raw sewage(until we stop the pollution, no point in doing anything else, good luck though)

I love Jeremy Wade ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Put several families in the north of Scotland. There is many places in the UK that could accommodate this animal comfortably

Their prowling east Birmingham. Not far from the airport. They use the railway tracks and forestry. If the deer 🦌 can hide in the daytime, then the apex predator has no problem.

Adrian Shine looks like a character out of a Harry Potter book!

Saw one by the Slough arm of the Grand Union Canal today.

I remember seeing a basking shark breach the surface 3 times in a row in keem bay in mayo, Ireland. At the time there was a grey seal swimming there & it swam to the shore as fast as it could. I suspect that the seal had knowledge of great white sharks.

Regarding the threat of Pumas and Leopards to humans? //38:22 "...we're a bother and a hassle to them!" //42:10 "...they're shy and wary of us! //54: 46 (lynx) "...they're pretty savvy..." // 51:27...! // Thank you gentlemen. Appreciated content. All the best to you. Thanks.

Very informative, gorgeous all the information I needed. No messing

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As a disclaimer I haven't watched this yet, just read the comments, however I've watched a lot on this over the years. My opinon is it's something that intrigues, fascinates and excites people so they want to believe it and they find ways of convincing themselves it could be true. One comment here talked about a couple of species being "human avoidant." The main reason this subject is even given the attention it is and people even consider the possibility is because of the probably thousands of people out there who've claimed to see big cats in the UK over the decades, so on the one hand they're human avoidant, on the other hand, the reason we even believe they might live here is because thousands of people have seen them. No pictures, no videos, no encounters that have gone awry even for a dog if not for the human walking it, none hit by cars, no bodies found, no skeletons found. The experts who supposedly confirm X, Y, Z in certain instances as "this was some sort of big cat," are never in these videos. It's always eyewitness claims or assertions from alien big cat enthusiasts. In other videos I've seen some explanations given as to how we do have big cats here but there's none of the things on that list in existence - could be remembering this wring but an example of a credible one was a mountain lion expert who I think very much disbelieved there were big cats here but said he'd been studying them for 20 years in mointain lion country and never come across the body of one that wasn't shot or hit by a car - but for the most part the reasons given just come across again as people who want to believe something so they're deluding themselves.

I wouldn’t say a bee is ‘completely harmless’! For most people without an allergy it won’t be fatal but I’d still say a bee sting qualifies as ‘harm’, and multiple stings by an angry swarm will give you a very bad day 😬

Plenty of snakes in the UK that wasn’t to change our way of life!

Great. I live in Bedford and ten minutes away is a nature reserve with two ponds and plenty of hiding places for them. Their distinctive call can be heard as soon as the nature reserve is entered.

Canadian bullhead catfish?

These snakes are very similar looking to the corn snakes I own, I do believe they are also colubrids

I totally agree with the comment that being a fisherman or even a border, that you have to be observant of the entire place you're in. I'm a birder myself. I'm not much of a fisherman. But when I'm birding (even just setting on the screened in back porch), I can't help but want to know what the trees are or the other plants; even something of the local geology. It's the entire package. It's all of a single piece. Wonderful interview. I've read all of Chris Yates books. Fantastic.

With respect to bodies, the unofficial policy regarding killing protected species is "3 S"- Shoot, Shovel, Shut up. The last part is what trips most people up.

I'm an expat and when I return home, the soaps my mum watches are just 30 minutes of people screaming at each other. Really horrible. This show is the perfect antidote. More like it please

So a lady reports a big cat, and this guy waits a week to investigate? And as for guard cats, it was probably only one wannabe gangster who had one on a chain and not on the loose 'guarding'. 😂

I don’t know why people find it hard to accept there are big cats in the UK. I’m from Cape Town, South Africa. We have wild lynx on Table Mountain, a relatively small mountain range 100% surrounded by coast and city. The live there and avoid people living on small mammals. The hunt at night and avoid humans mostly. They have been captured on camera traps. On another mountain range on the other side of Cape Town we have leopards in the wild. Even though it’s a population of 3 million people and there are farms on the outskirts you still get leopards around. They have also been photographed and occasionally hit by cars. Leopards are highly adaptive and can survive on small mammals etc and they will generally try to stay away from people. Lions and tigers would be a problem as they are not scared of people and would quickly reveal themselves. But lynx and leopard are 100% likely to have been here for decades. Escaped servals and other small cats too. Maybe even jaguar and puma. All solitary, human avoidant.

I don’t know why people find it hard to accept there are big cats in the UK. I’m from Cape Town, South Africa. We have wild lynx on Table Mountain, a relatively small mountain range 100% surrounded by coast and city. The live there and avoid people living on small mammals. The hunt at night and avoid humans mostly. They have been captured on camera traps. On another mountain range on the other side of Cape Town we have leopards in the wild. Even though it’s a population of 3 million people and there are farms on the outskirts you still get leopards around. They have also been photographed and occasionally hit by cars. Leopards are highly adaptive and can survive on small mammals etc and they will generally try to stay away from people. Lions and tigers would be a problem as they are not scared of people and would quickly reveal themselves. But lynx and leopard are 100% likely to have been here for decades. Escaped servals and other small cats too. Maybe even jaguar and puma. All solitary, human avoidant. All you need is for more than 10 to have been released overtime and you’d have enough genetic diversity to have a healthy breeding population.

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I believe they also exist in the walls of Devonport Dockyard.

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Great convo 👌always listen to a Meg post The recent footage of the lone orca taking out the great white was reported to be Sofia who I think was one of the resident pod matriarchs. I remember years back it was theorised that males couldn’t hunt GW by themselves as they would be too bulky and less manoeuvrable, also that female would be too small by themselves. Love how increased camera and drone tech is constantly proving how we underestimate animals 😄

It would be great if they did still exist but I think we'd have driven them to the edge of extinction if did.

I have a large window, right above our cellar door. Getting slapped in the face by one of those grey hanging slugs is quite disturbing! I havent listened to the whole video yet, but I'd like to know how they make the non-sticky, super strong thread that they hang on, because they also make it pretty fast. Ive literally watched one descending from the windowsill.

I could listen to stuff like this for hours. Thanks for the video.

Rick's podcast, Big Cat Conversations, is highly recommended. I've had 2 experiences, visual and aural, in South West England.

for anyone wondering scorpion’s are some of the best inverts to keep, no species is great at climbing, if they do eacape a cheap black light torch from ebay makes it easy to find them. most species can make do at room temp, they don’t eat much but when they do it’s great to watch.

The Hollywood mountain lion was shot about a year ago. The authorities decided he was getting too old and even though he’d never done any harm. Decided he could turn on people because he was getting older and slower. And food may have been harder to catch. They did try to catch him but couldn’t. Still seems wrong to have killed him

Seen one yesterday on Chesterfield Canal at Misterton that means no Ducklings or Moor Hen young this Spring time.

There is a relationship between wild boar and Chestnut trees in Europe. The soil around chestnut trees is regarded as almost magic soil.. interaction between the tree and wild boar, foraging for nuts creates a unique and increased biodiversity…

Wow… I live for seven years in the mountains of Portugal, wild boar were around all the time. particularly at night when I used to take my dog a walk. Never had any fear as they always run away… there was a large population of wild and the locals that learn to live with them. one of the ways to hang cloth or clothes round the fences to prevent them from damaging crops… the most amazing experience one night when we scared a large group of wild and in the light for my torch, I saw greeny, yellow eyes, staring back, and realised it was a wolf following…. quite an amazing experience.

I think golf course would be ideal places to release boar.😃

Great Podcast on the BIG squids, thank you!

Quite a few factual inaccuracies here but good footage