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Animal Education with Cole Shirk
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2015
I have created this channel to educate the public about animals. If it slithers, crawls, walks, runs or flies, has feathers, scales, fur or hide, I want to learn about it and you will find it here. I'm thankful for all the people at the zoos, rescues, aquariums, colleges, state parks, animal parks and education centers that work with me and their support. I've had the great opportunity to work with everything from green tree frogs to the largest elephant, venomous and non-venomous animals and got to meet some great people as well. So if you love reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and fish, just keep watching!
Talking with Tarantula Kat (repost)
The original video was messed up and had some errors at the end, finally got around to cleaning it up. The original was posted in 2019. Check out her channel, she always has new stuff.
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Gopher Tortoises
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Everyone that watches know turtles and tortoises are my favorite animals, so here is a gopher tortoise from Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge. You can learn more about their great work here - pages/Emerald-Coast-Wildlife-Refuge/252310908115681
The Striped Skunk
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Meet the striped skunk from Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge in Navarre Florida. Spent a great afternoon with the folks from the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge and look forward to visiting them again.
Snakes of the Bahamas
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I was really glad that the folks at Ardastra Gardens agreed to work with me. I always like to work with places that I have visited since I have a connection with the place. If you are in the Bahamas, be sure to go check them out. Ardastra Gardens & Wildlife Conservation Centre - ardastra.com/
Sun Bears
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I've been setting this up for a few weeks and when importing video files into my editing software, a few clips were corrupted, so I had to improvise at the end. Special thanks to Doctor Wong and his team! Be sure to check out the great work that the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre team is doing below: www.bsbcc.org.my/index.html
Box Turtles gets larger home
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Upgrading my box turtle Steve's terrarium with more ground space
Christmas Eve - 2021 - Gulf Breeze Zoo
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A change to our usually Saint Louis Zoo trip on Christmas Eve, since I now live in Florida, I visited the Gulf Breeze Zoo for our Christmas Eve Zoo trip.
Replanting Puerto Rico's Forests
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I've been wanting to do a video about my service trip to Puerto Rico for a while and wanted to talk about the reforestation programs down there. para la Naturaleza was kind enough to share some video with me as well. To learn more about their work here is a link to their webpage - www.paralanaturaleza.org
The Spoonbills
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Spoonbills are amazing birds and I really enjoy watching them. I'm working on some more interesting bird content.....hope it all works out.
Hawaiian Monk Seals
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I did a video with the folks in Greece on the Mediterranean Monk Seals so thought I would try and do a video on the Hawaiian Monk Seal. Special thanks to the Hawaiian Monk Seal Preservation Ohana team for helping me be able to do so.
6 North American Wildlife Success Stories
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I have been wanting to do a video spotlighting conservation success stories for a while, and if I'm able to get video and pictures, I'd like to do at least one video like this for each of the continents. I hope you enjoy the video; I was a little rushed this time between college and work. Specials thanks to the Denver Zoo, Expeditions with Patrick McMillan, Don Desjardin and the American Bird C...
Sea Otters
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I was working on the Keystone species video and received so much b-roll of Sea Otters from the Oregon Zoo and the Seattle Aquarium, I decided make the most of their support and do a video on Sea Otters. Again, without places like the Oregon Zoo and the Seattle Aquarium, I wouldn't be able to create new content weekly. Oregon Zoo - www.oregonzoo.org/ Seattle Aquarium - www.seattleaquarium.org/
DON'T PAINT MY SHELL!
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Unfortunately, hikers, biologists, and animal rescues are seeing a trend in people painting the shells of wild turtles and releasing them back into the wild without understanding of what the impact is to the turtles. I want to thank the following groups for providing the pictures you see in the video: The Wildlife Center of Virginia - www.wildlifecenter.org/ The Missouri Wildlife Rescue Center ...
What do Reptiles and Amphibians do in Winter?
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As winter weather approaches I thought I would do a short video on what Reptiles and Amphibians do when the temperatures drop.
The Fisher
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I've been trying for a while to do a video on the elusive fisher and thanks to the folks at Conservation Northwest, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Jeff Lewis for being my interface to these groups, I was finally able to get some video. To learn more about all the great work these groups are doing visit their webpages: Conservation Northwest - ww...
Florida's Icon - the American Alligator
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Florida's Icon - the American Alligator
Quick Tour of the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
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Quick Tour of the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
I know this is an old video, but thank you for the great ideas you demonstrated here. It looks great! I'm going to try something similar for my tussian tortoises.
I have one in the UK that was on supermarket bananas and ended up in a pet shop. He's now escaped in my fish/bug room 🙈 it's warm in there but not sure where he is, any tips?
Great American alligator
You did an amazing job with the excavator clay! Gave me some ideas about how to build mine too. Thanks for the video!
Very incredible and awesome Burmese python
The image of this turtle with the plastic went super viral. I remember seeing it when I was in high school and I'm not even from the United States and I'm from Spain. Do you know if today in 2024 is the turtle okay?
Thank you, Cole for your videos; Best wishes in chasing your dreams in your life, Young man! Be proud, and humble; ❤ Indiana, factory worker here; Haha, has been, and a used to be.😅 🏈 ⚾️ 🏀 92’ ♏️ Caught a small lizard last night. I told my coworkers, it was a gecko. Most assumed that it was a salamander…. Which, if I had not grown up running the creeks… I’d of thought the same… But we are in the Midwest! Sure enough this proves how far it maybe did, or originally came from on freight, or shipping barge; To get to Here; We are a auto warehouse, We get shipments from Alabama, and Mississippi. Also Ecuador, Honduras, and places in South America; From google lens; TH-cam; Your video, research, field studies, homework, notes, and knowledge. Mine is the Mediterranean house gecko… I assumed female, With all that bitty, feistiness; Most the women in my life; 👀 ☠️ It is maybe months old; It dropped its tale when I caught it. I assumed a defense mechanism, I was at work. All I had was an empty Gatorade bottle.. It didn’t want to go in it, But I have it somewhere safe for now; It gets to cold here for it to make it outside; thumbs up! Stay safe, have fun! Keep creating, learning, teaching, growing, supporting, and motivating! 💯 😎 🎉;
This guy is single handed the whole freaking topic on the internet. Using safari on my iPad and asking how to tree frogs stick to stuff and this is the only relevant video it offered. Glitch in the matrix 🙄
Nice learning about all animals
Ur a good person. I like ur compassion for animals 🐢🦎🐸 thanks for videos liked and subscribed.
Liberty, the male eagle.
thank you for saving opossums
Baby beaver
bats are important to reduce pests. it's sad that so many bats are endangered
Cannot understand most of the answers; audio sucks. Please add information
THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜
Cute❤
Doing a 4000 word essay on the topic and this helped me begin. Thank you sir. You graduated a year after me which I think is funny
Glad my content helped.
The wedge tailed eagle also hunts.
These caused quite a few casualties during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. OMG....that snakebite FA chart is SO out of date! Sucking the venom out does nothing and you NEVER tourniquet a viper bite!
This is an awesome video man in Florida where I live I love looking for and photographing snakes I recently took a trip to the Bahamas for scuba diving and came across a bimini boa and since then I have wondered what other snakes could be found on the bahimian islands and this video answered that perfectly!
Ur great! I hit the subscribe button because I think my grandson who's 4 would really love ur channel. He loves animals too & really loves to learn about them so thank u!
Is Peanut still alive? Im asking 10/4/2023
He was in a national news story about a year ago. Other than that, I don't know, as I no longer live in that area.
Yes, Peanut is alive and well, still living at Powder Valley. Although they kept saying HE, Peanut is a female and recently had to have surgery as they found eggs inside her that had never developed. She had surgery at the Zoo for this and has fully recovered. I have followed Peanut's story for many years and use her story with my preschoolers about why we should recycle and pick up our trash. @@animaleducationwithcoleshi5481
As of August 2024, she was still alive. mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/celebrate-peanut-turtles-40th-birthday-public-celebration-august-24-powder-valley-nature
fantastic video thanks. it is not possible to add to a monk seal videos youtube list... perhaps is because you marked the video as 'made for kids'? my list in case you want to browse monk seal videos: th-cam.com/play/PL9E68C24769E05B21.html
My house geko has been around my house for a few months now. He lives in a kitchen cabinet. He is white sometimes translucent with pinkish red stripes. He's been eating upy roaches wich is great.
😂 They're definitely a lot cuter than a roach.
I have personally witnessed these birds hunt chickens. I watched a pair hunt chickens in between trees. I have seen a parent take an adult chicken and bring it to it's adolestent offspring and try to lure them down to eat. Savage but beautiful.
There's also red anoles to.
Some people here interested in the Wedge Tail Eagles and good music, might be interested in looking up you tube for the 70's Australian band DADDY COOL rocking out the song and dance called "Eagle Rock" about and featuring the Wedge Tail Eagle. It's heaps of fun and talent from the band's boys way back then.
I have found them in Louisiana as well!!
This baby is one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen ❤
yeah i believe the brave bit, i came across 2 eating some fresh road kill on the nullabor plain. one kept eating and the other came onto the road and stuck its chest out. faced off the car and gave us the stink eye as we drove past.
Very cool vid and terariums. I am 51 and getting back into tree frogs. Grays are cool as heck.
some butterflies and moths also have eye spots on their wings despite being unrelated to vertebrates
I know this is from a year ago but I saved one of these a couple months ago. Any tips on handling without them dropping its tail?
They aren't that flighty and were fairly calm. If you are housing it in a terrarium, you aren't likely to see it much. They are nocturnal and shy and stay hidden most of the time.
they are by far the most widespread eagle species in the world and they avoid competitions with sea eagles by preying mainly on land preys instead of marine 1s
You may want to wear a hair band and will keep the hair hold up. Nice build and great idea, could the pet dig the clay after it hardens and cause the entire structure to collapse?
The clay mixture gets quite hard after drying. It takes a bit to break it up after that, but is reusable. If you choose to redecorate you can break it apart and mix with water and start all over again.
There was time when I went to the zoo 15 years ago, and teacher scared the hell out of me when I failed to see the coconut crab over my teacher grabbed my nape to show the coconut crab landed on me... if this is some kind of mischievous joke and it's NOT funny; some jokes or teases may harm or traumatize people like throwing rocks at frog by joke or no reason would kill them, and "I" was one of those victims. People shouldn't tease for some people who doesn't like jokes.
Finally Ha Ha! Watch till the end surprise. Enthralling! Impressive. Good one!
these things somehow get inside my home and i leave em, let em roam around. they kill cockroaches and my mom is terrified of cockroaches so we looove these geckos and never mess with em.
YES! Opossums were around in the dinosaur age, which is amazing! I've handled them for 33 years (since age 11) with rescue, relocation and non-releasable. Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Clean out that water
Duncan is thinking, "if these yanks keep reading scripted crap about me I will live live up to my reputation and show them what an Aussie Wedge tail is capable of !!💥
Oh my goodness... is that the eagle from Alvin and the Chipmunks Part 2: the Squeakquel? The only movie in the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise that actually matters? No way! It actually exists!? Fantastic that you managed to find such a beautiful creature that this whole time I thought was just a thing of legend and myth.
Wild life Bahamas
I love the Hawaii hawk l and a bird lover
They are really great looking birds.
The elf owl is the smallest.
My wife caught a baby one of these a few weeks ago, and his spots are really starting to show. We've been feeding em baby roaches from around the house/yard. And keeping his lid of water full. Can't wait for em to be fully grown though I wanna hold emmmmm x d
they're so stinkin cute
I’ve had a box turtle for ten years, and I haven’t fed her anything alive other than worms and vegetables/fruit in addition to her dry food. Am I doing her a disservice by not feeding her pinkies? I don’t feel like me or my family could handle having dead rodents in the fridge or freezer (especially not babies), but if my Turquoise needs them then so be it.
If you feed them worms, crickets, hornworms and super worms that will suffice for protein requirements.
Hey young man, I have one of those translucent little geckos in my kitchen sink. He seems to stay here or he can't get out. Should I take him outside to live??? Thank you. Great show too.
Wild animals are always best outside.