Giant Irish Elk: The Largest Deer To Ever Live | Extinct Animals Documentary | Real Wild

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  • @jayteah1349
    @jayteah1349 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    I just want to take a moment and give serious props to the CGI department who produced not just ancient deer pooping but also mating. Good on you mates.

    • @bondvagabond42
      @bondvagabond42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean, if it can't eat, excrete, and reproduce, its not alive, at best it's a virus. Don't blame me, that's just science ;)

  • @ΧρυσόστομοςΠαππαδόπουλος
    @ΧρυσόστομοςΠαππαδόπουλος ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I know that there’re serious moral and scientific questions about “recreation” of extinct animals; still, I’m looking forward to the de-extinction of this magnificent creature (among others…)

    • @philipcastro8805
      @philipcastro8805 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You meant cloning

    • @robertsansone1680
      @robertsansone1680 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It would be like a childhood fantasy movie. It would be better than seeing a unicorn.

    • @Tigershark-qy2gq
      @Tigershark-qy2gq ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I hope this is one of the animals we do bring back.

    • @ronfroehlich4697
      @ronfroehlich4697 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Imagine what the wealthy elite would pay to hunt these creatures if

    • @Tigershark-qy2gq
      @Tigershark-qy2gq ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ronfroehlich4697 Yeah. You know it. It was probably rich cavemen that drove them into extinction the first time. 🤣😜

  • @taleandclawrock2606
    @taleandclawrock2606 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Everything was bigger then, including predators. This Elk stood almost 7ft high at the shoulder. Must have been 8 or 9 feet with head up and antlers grown in. What a sight to behold.

    • @SassaFrass28
      @SassaFrass28 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Elk are huge animals even today. On a visit to the Grand Canyon, they had elk and bison at the info ranch & the size of the animals were absolutely shocking to me. Unless we have seen them in person, we usually see bison & elk from an aerial view on a tv show and they look much smaller. I didn't like that these huge animals were in a confined section. (I do not like zoos even if they provide an opportunity for people to see wild animals.) ELK & bison also probably clock in thousands of miles a year roaming the wilderness for food, mating, rearing calfs, and to avoid predators & severe weather.

    • @la7era1u54
      @la7era1u54 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      We have them here. We call them moose

    • @markpaul-ym5wg
      @markpaul-ym5wg 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Humans were also bigger.

    • @awallner1
      @awallner1 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nonsense. The biggest animal to ever live, the blue whale, is still extant today.

  • @pbh9195
    @pbh9195 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    OMG I've been looking for this series for years, please upload more

  • @robertsansone1680
    @robertsansone1680 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Excellent. Very excellent. Thank You. I have had fantasies since I was a kid of going back in a time machine & seeing magnificent animals like this. Computer images are probably as close as I will succeed. Thanks again

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Man I don’t think that dude even knew those antlers were there. I’ve seen a bull pick the back of a car up with his head and neck. No hesitation he just picked the back up and flipped it sideways about five feet. Hydraulic like. These beast are super powerful

  • @SameerPrehistorica
    @SameerPrehistorica ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This is a nice documentary. The video title says the giant Irish Elk is the largest deer to ever live, however it is not said in the documentary which is right. The giant Irish Elk certainly had the largest antlers of any deer while the largest species of deer that ever lived was Cervalces latifrons.

    • @Tigershark-qy2gq
      @Tigershark-qy2gq ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup. I just mentioned that too. Just noticed your comment. In fact, the Alaskan and Northern Canadian Moose is larger than the Irish Elk too. Making a present day survivor being as tall and heavy as the ancient elk species.

    • @SameerPrehistorica
      @SameerPrehistorica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Tigershark-qy2gq The size of C.latifrons is quite large for deer standards, weighing as much as an American bison.

    • @SmoothBlue34
      @SmoothBlue34 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That has never been proven

  • @Traderjoe
    @Traderjoe ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They went extinct right around the Younger Dryas event. That event was likely around the same latitude as Ireland too. I suspect a connection

  • @myfavoritemartian1
    @myfavoritemartian1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    There is a pair of those in the Arizona State fairgrounds AG building. They are 14' tip to tip. They are so old that they are bolted to a steel framework as they will not hold their own weight. The skull is still in the middle and attached. I could never imagine an animal so large to wear these.

  • @indyreno2933
    @indyreno2933 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Actually, the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) was not the largest deer that ever lived, the largest deer that ever lived was actually the Broad-Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons).

    • @philipcastro8805
      @philipcastro8805 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One of the largest

    • @indyreno2933
      @indyreno2933 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Broad-Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons) was the largest deer that ever lived, while the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) is smaller.

    • @mentalasylumescapee6389
      @mentalasylumescapee6389 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@indyreno2933 so did it come from broad land?

    • @robertmartinjr.4537
      @robertmartinjr.4537 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@mentalasylumescapee6389 😂

    • @Tigershark-qy2gq
      @Tigershark-qy2gq ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sorry, but also technically wrong. The largest deer of all time is a Moose species that is also extinct. Remember Moose are part of the deer family as well. So the largest of all time is the Broad Fronted Moose (Cervalces latifrons). It was taller, heavier and was a deer. In fact, the Alaskan and Canadian Moose are bigger than both Megaloceros giganteus, and the Broad Fronted Deer. Making a living deer species the second largest deer of all time.
      When I was a kid, our car hit a moose in the fog. It got up, tore the hood off the car with one swipe of it's antlers. Then rammed the side, making the door protrude slightly. The second hit the door came off. Then it lifted the car off the ground through the door jam with it's antlers and my family of 6 in the car escaped out the other side. The moose hammered that Toyota for 4 more minutes. The car was a total loss, we were safe, the Moose looked unharmed. They are unreal!

  • @wmden1
    @wmden1 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    There was no mention of large predators of these giant deer, as in the large antlers being useful defense against said, possible, large predators.

    • @Tigershark-qy2gq
      @Tigershark-qy2gq ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I bet they messed some predators right up.

    • @colbyzur4642
      @colbyzur4642 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well for elk and moose in North America the only predators are bears and wolves, and both did live across Northern Europe so I would assume a large wolf and bear

    • @wmden1
      @wmden1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@colbyzur4642 As far as North America, I believe there was a large, American Lion, around that time. In Europe, there was the Cave Lion, which was pretty large and I believe was around until about 15,000 years ago. I could be wrong on the times, though. I am also wondering if the Irish Elk was very close to the same as the European Megaceros. Both had very large antlers.

    • @michaelbruns449
      @michaelbruns449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Great point, like other than in fighting and humans, what other animals hunted them? dire wolves and sabre tooths for two likely examples.

    • @bradleylawless9595
      @bradleylawless9595 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Bro… sabertooth tigers for sure, a pack of dire wolves maybe. I’m sure there’s more too

  • @DragonFae16
    @DragonFae16 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks to cave art, we actually now know what the markings of the Giant Deer were. They weren't actually a solid colour as shown in this episode, but had very distinct and unique markings. The TH-cam channel EDGE Science actually did a video about it a year ago.

  • @michelebriere9569
    @michelebriere9569 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The size of those antlers! Respect!

  • @mariedelozier2530
    @mariedelozier2530 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Now the Megaloceros would be an amazing animal to bring back from extinction!

    • @rrbernhardt5810
      @rrbernhardt5810 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why focus on megaloceros when its antlers were smaller than the Irish elk?

  • @bigDbigDbigD
    @bigDbigDbigD ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Range was across Europe and Asia. If talk is about extinction we need to consider the entire range

  • @techforthedisabled9514
    @techforthedisabled9514 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Would love to see one of these.

  • @lucbelzile9407
    @lucbelzile9407 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The fighting is the exact same as any of the deer family, look at how the moose fight, it's deadly brutal,why try to invent what already exists, any of the deer family fight this way, the only difference is their extraordinary gigantic size, everything else is exactly the same, however very good vidéo, tanks for sharing, wasn't aware of their existance .

  • @austinhughes1924
    @austinhughes1924 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    It would be so cool.If the Irish elk was still alive!

  • @brookerickettson4950
    @brookerickettson4950 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another creature that has the sense that we just missed it, time wise.
    I wonder too if the calcium found in the grass at the time was truly enough to replace the calcium used in the antlers. Would they not be chewing on the sheds? Were their bones staying strong during such regrowth? I swear Ive heard of extant species of deer using the calcium in their skeleton to make their antlers when the mineral was hard to find. Is there any idea of what predated on these elk, besides early humans?

    • @SometimesTurtle
      @SometimesTurtle ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder if your stupid surface level theories are pointless...beast system drone.

  • @donaldsharp3682
    @donaldsharp3682 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow,! wish this animal was still around, That would be something to see!

    • @jimd5955
      @jimd5955 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And could you imagine how good that beast would taste mm mm

  • @marksauder9247
    @marksauder9247 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The extinction of the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus), Broad- Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons) and (Cervalces scotti) prove that from an evolutionary standpoint bigger isn't always better. Large size is risky when it comes to survival of the "fittest".

    • @robertmartinjr.4537
      @robertmartinjr.4537 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So true I think of the large extinct hyper carnivores of Pleistocene North America.

    • @JonFrumTheFirst
      @JonFrumTheFirst ปีที่แล้ว

      Evolution acts at a particular time in a particular place. No trait - like large size - is 'better' in all environments. Therer have been miniature elephants and mammoths on islands. In that case in those places, smaller was better. Fittest means fit to the local environment, nothing more. There is no 'always' possible.

  • @thomasgumersell9607
    @thomasgumersell9607 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A very interesting video on the extinct Irish Elk. Truly the size of the Antlers on the Stags was impressive. 💪👃✨

  • @Kusina_at_Patalim
    @Kusina_at_Patalim ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Those are the elks used by elves on battle in the Hobbit (battle of five armies).

    • @stormengine3261
      @stormengine3261 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In princess mononke too

    • @Tigershark-qy2gq
      @Tigershark-qy2gq ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yup. They did a great job of it too. They looked real.

    • @elizabethhoeppner8881
      @elizabethhoeppner8881 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very dark in the museum. Hard to see. Glad the did animation of these in Lord of the Rings Movie.

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't even mention that travesty. 🤮

  • @Birdylockso
    @Birdylockso ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don't get it. The temperature dropped 7 or 8 degrees, and that favored the smaller-sized deers? I thought the cold temperature should favor larger animals, as they could retain body heat more efficiently. Polar bears are largest bears, Siberian (Amur) tigers are the largest in the 9 subtypes of tigers, etc.

  • @disqusmacabre6246
    @disqusmacabre6246 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Now that the crater for the comet that struck 11,000 years ago, can we consider that as the primary cause. Hancock and Carlson were laughed at. Until they weren't

  • @shibolinemress8913
    @shibolinemress8913 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That 1000-year cold snap sounds alot like the Younger Dryas.

    • @bradleylawless9595
      @bradleylawless9595 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was the younger dryas, I’m glad someone else knows

    • @lozo4745
      @lozo4745 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the Y.D. is how the story of the so called "flood" came from. It lines up to around the same time period

  • @Rink03
    @Rink03 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    With more oxygen in the atmosphere the irish Elk probably flourished, when the atmosphere changed and there weren't enough oxygen as the world once had, this became a death sentence for the Irish Elk and many other large species of animals, on land and in the seas.

  • @daveh777
    @daveh777 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks!👍

  • @knotkool1
    @knotkool1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    though it did have the largest set of furniture, the Cervalces latifrons or giant moose was far larger and even the extant alaska can get bigger.

  • @penguinagents2015
    @penguinagents2015 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Megaloceros. Another magnificent creature lost to human overhunting.

  • @KaponoMonster
    @KaponoMonster 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This animal is the closest thing to a mythical creature

  • @michaelbruns449
    @michaelbruns449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    But we could only ever recreate 50% of an original animal, because we here and now can never obtain and clone mate a male and female, just one or the other.
    "And your momma" > 11:03 😂

  • @TigerTeamWork_Media
    @TigerTeamWork_Media ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Powerful animal

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk7119 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine Boone & Crockett for these guys!
    Oh, I humbly suggest ticks may have played a part in their disappearance. If ticks and global warming are affecting moose today, (moose who in Norway are called elg (moose), then global warming at the end of the Pleistocene could very well have affected these giant deer, too.

  • @MOEMUGGY
    @MOEMUGGY ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So they were about the same size as moose, but with larger horns.

  • @Junketh71
    @Junketh71 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The king of deer.

  • @ildefonsoaltunarmorales
    @ildefonsoaltunarmorales 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Por favor un video en español megusta ver sus documentales

  • @iTeerRex
    @iTeerRex ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What? I had never heard of this deer.

  • @user-ii1iy8fz1d
    @user-ii1iy8fz1d ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Looks tasty af ❤ whats a backstrap weigh?

  • @entrepreneursfinest
    @entrepreneursfinest 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That dudes key ring was legendary status. Somewhere on there was a key to every door in existence including a couple black holes.

  • @Ilovetobuild-wc1ck
    @Ilovetobuild-wc1ck 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Imagine having the honor to be close to a animal like that. Animals are just wonders.

  • @HassanMohamed-jy4kk
    @HassanMohamed-jy4kk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos all about the Extinct Carnivorous Marsupials, Tasmanian Tigers (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the Thylacines, or the Tasmanian Wolves on the next Real Wild coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

  • @RizzectThaTrizzec
    @RizzectThaTrizzec ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If it's fighting off Smilodons it probably needed larger antlers.

    • @martijn9568
      @martijn9568 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably not considering that Smilodon lived in the Americas😅. What's more likely is that Cave Lions and other large carnivores from Ice Age Europe hunted Irish Elk.

  • @dallasmore6703
    @dallasmore6703 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Now that's one they need to bring back! That, Aurochs, Mammoth, Thylacine! For starters! But they can keep that short faced bear extinct!

  • @viking0116
    @viking0116 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow such groundbreaking research… I didn’t know antlers were for fighting! These people get paid for this??!?

  • @JohnStrange-q8r
    @JohnStrange-q8r 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Majestic beast.

  • @HavocHerseim
    @HavocHerseim ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Considering the moose is a member of the deer family, the Irish elk was hardly the largest deer to live.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Irish elk was larger than a moose.

  • @ZevenART
    @ZevenART ปีที่แล้ว

    The average hunter's knowledge > Andrew's research

  • @outdoorsythings2573
    @outdoorsythings2573 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I still remeber the sound of the clashing of these antlers every fall, echoing off the hills.

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk7119 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Okay, why is a kind of deer called "fallow"?
    To me, "fallow" means land set aside to recover for agriculture. "He let that field lay fallow for a year."
    To think fellows thought that these bucks didn't rut like other deer seems absurd.

  • @kellyschram5486
    @kellyschram5486 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You realize just sharing trait does not make one spices related to another

  • @harrymiller3986
    @harrymiller3986 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The antlers look like they would be able to defend against wolves leopard and most predators

    • @jandrews6254
      @jandrews6254 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought such displays were for showing off, to the other boys and also as a come hither to the girls.
      Generally speaking if a species has tusks and antlers on both sexes, they’re for protection or for foraging (tusks used for helping to bring down trees, or for mining salt in underground caves). The fancier the show (almost to the detriment of the individual) was for display and warning off other males - I’m bigger than you! Stand back!

  • @stevedingman474
    @stevedingman474 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can you imagine the strength of them? It’s fighting would sound like thunder Storms!

  • @bigDbigDbigD
    @bigDbigDbigD ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lighting in the museum or lab was really poor. Otherwise great video

  • @suchnothing
    @suchnothing 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh yeah, my new animation job is going great! Really interesting projects. This week I worked on animating some Irish elk. Yeah. Oh, what were the elk doing in the animation? Ermmmm.....

  • @j.stauffer7523
    @j.stauffer7523 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Thank you for only showing their bones in dark rooms so we can’t really see exactly what they look like. 🤣

    • @lynngalibois1937
      @lynngalibois1937 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Photo sensitivity can cause exterior degredation

  • @pedrocampos1787
    @pedrocampos1787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love.

  • @alaanahjadyengarrett5229
    @alaanahjadyengarrett5229 ปีที่แล้ว

    not me doing this in my free time and actually enjoying it ☺

  • @XianicRepublic56886
    @XianicRepublic56886 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Me in far cry primal:mammoth and irish elk serial killer💀

  • @lorrietsaoussis5168
    @lorrietsaoussis5168 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine seeing one of these beauties in real life

  • @HassanMohamed-jy4kk
    @HassanMohamed-jy4kk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos all about the Extinct Carnivorous Marsupials, Tasmanian Tigers (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the Thylacines, or the Tasmanian Wolves on the next Paleofactus coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

    • @indyreno2933
      @indyreno2933 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another suggestion would be the recently extinct Linneaus's Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido).

  • @joepontiac4868
    @joepontiac4868 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    on the west coast of canada our roosevelt elk dont seem to care about humans. ive petted them, chased them off the road. rode my dirt bike with them. smacked their ass. they have large antlers and live in the heavy forest. lots of elk routes are near bodies of water.

  • @hazynpeterson4083
    @hazynpeterson4083 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are they comparing to moose and elk in north america?

  • @Jim-ic2of
    @Jim-ic2of ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Butt eye liked it tooo!

  • @leonstancliff7218
    @leonstancliff7218 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    All that education, all that research time, all that money wasted, when any moose hunter between Newfoundland and Alaska could have answered 99% of their questions for the cost of a beer at the local bar.

  • @lxdgr8
    @lxdgr8 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happens to human poop after poop bugs finished using them? Can the dna of their food still survive?

  • @stevenquackenbush6358
    @stevenquackenbush6358 ปีที่แล้ว

    They would also gig with their antlers to get at the sweet high nutrition of the roots of plants

  • @wenthulk8439
    @wenthulk8439 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve seen a really small Irish elk skeleton at the Smithsonian Museum

  • @Hooibeest2D
    @Hooibeest2D 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ha, they found a few of those near my house in the Netherlands. They're just named giant elk. The Irish gave an antler to king Willem when he conquered Ireland we gave them orange to their flag they gave is some antlers we already got 😅 nice gesture though. But still think we shouldn't have lent a king to the British and share all we've got with them. I blame the French.

  • @minraja
    @minraja 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The ice age didn't end during the younger dryas. We are still in an iceage. Currently we are in whats called the interglacial period called the Holocene.

  • @djquinn11
    @djquinn11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ireland also had bears.

  • @Grand_History
    @Grand_History ปีที่แล้ว

    The title is already incorrect, as there are extinct moose species larger than the Irish elk. And as we all know, moose are deer

  • @SandraNelson063
    @SandraNelson063 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The antlers would show the females how healthy the stag was. A big rack shows he'd been eating well, and will pass on healthy genes. That's part of what those huge racks are for. The other part, well , boys need to prove to each other who the toughest dude is. THWACK!

  • @ghostmanscores1666
    @ghostmanscores1666 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm going to start working on my antlers.

  • @behydrated
    @behydrated หลายเดือนก่อน

    12 feet antlers??? How much they weigh?? They carry them all the time?? Now imagine the neck muscles they would have??crazyy

    • @glenncordova4027
      @glenncordova4027 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Actually they weren't carried all the time. They were shed every year and had to regrow again

  • @josephstolar-nz8vu
    @josephstolar-nz8vu 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Elk were very abundant at one time,east coast to the west coast.early settlers killed them off,now they call them rocky mountain elk,just like the plains buffalo 🐃 when rail roads went west,food for the crews ,men like buffalo bill,and men like him ,then after the railroads in ,hunters and other people can for sport hunts, I've seen pictures off huge piles of skulls. But the rocky mountain elk foundation is bringing the herds back in eastern states ..Pennsylvania as a county call elk county with a thriving herd,and a lottery permit hunt .i have seen a irish elk skeleton in a museum in Rochester new york, huge create. I went to Mongolia in 1989 and shot two .the call them moral stag,but nothing more than an elk,new Zealand ,has huge Red stag hunts ,these creatures are closest thing to a cousin of the irish elk,check out these places. As google any thing.and will pop up,modern technology, is fantastic. Happy hunting gentlemen.and good luck.

    • @glenncordova4027
      @glenncordova4027 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The Eastern Elk and the Miriam's Elk are now extinct. They are often replaced by Rocky Mountain Elk.

    • @donaldduck9493
      @donaldduck9493 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There’s huge elk populations in California.

    • @glenncordova4027
      @glenncordova4027 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@donaldduck9493
      The elk of California are Roosevelt elk. A different subspecies from the Rocky Mountain Elk

  • @ceialexduarte4573
    @ceialexduarte4573 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So, they needed scientists to prove their antlers were used for fighting? I mean every other deer species use their antlers for that exact reason.

  • @michaelwoods4495
    @michaelwoods4495 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I suppose that antlers must be used to antle, but you neglected to tell me what antling is.
    Also, you explain why the elk died out at the end of the ice age, but didn't consider whether the climate change might have made the island more amenable to leprechauns who might have cast spells.

  • @citomp1240
    @citomp1240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If the ice age ended before we had internal combustion engines then what caused the global warming then?

    • @chrishenicke2052
      @chrishenicke2052 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s one of those sensible questions that you can’t ask…. All the morons that push that crap have no answer so it’s forbidden!

    • @lozo4745
      @lozo4745 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All of the poop from these huge animals

  • @MrWolfheart111
    @MrWolfheart111 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bigger Antlers means bigger muscles. :)

  • @emwjmannen2
    @emwjmannen2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if this animal was aggressive?

  • @Shadowaspen
    @Shadowaspen 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    how documentarys alwas fake stuff..they of course give the elk bear sounds when fighting..i have fallow deer they don't sound like that even that they direct decendants of the irish elk

  • @tattoofthesun
    @tattoofthesun 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the Elk got caught up in the potato famine and caught the ships out to Ellis Island. The remaining fought in the Easter Rising

  • @justinpihama3405
    @justinpihama3405 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Meh it would have been fine carrying those huge palm of antlers on its head just look at the skeleton of the beast the neck muscles alone would have been massive but what incredible site to have witnessed seeing a wicked animal like that. Lol yum yum the steaks on it fuuuuuu

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk7119 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But the Irish elk didn't only live in Ireland. They lived across Europe.

  • @Pipsqwak
    @Pipsqwak 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Moose in North America mate the same way - the females follow a chosen male, who has huge palmate antlers he wags from side to side to impress females and intimidate rival males. Bull moose wag their antlers before fighting with other males. If his rack is impressive enough, a fight may be avoided when his rival backs off. Huge Alaskan bull moose currently have the world's largest antlers.
    Irish elk (I know that Europeans call moose "elk") most closely resemble modern day moose to me, not fallow deer. Oh, and in North America, "elk" , or wapiti, are a different species with massive, deer-like antlers who rival moose in size but are clearly NOT moose.

  • @madisona3907
    @madisona3907 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow

  • @kellischrepfer9756
    @kellischrepfer9756 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Is it possible they were more like today's moose, rather than deer or elk?

  • @Hooibeest2D
    @Hooibeest2D 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just like moose the antlers are ment to fight of smaler predators that are cloeser to the ground. Theyre to impress and show of. And used to scrape dirts, plants and munure from the ground so it can be thrown in the air or to spread the sent. Antlers are rarely used for fighting in between males with and if they do antlers and horns are designed especially to interlock and wrestle not to stab, hurt or pierce anything. I do understand you have to prove something to claim a statement, but stating the obvious can be done easier.

  • @curtisp5696
    @curtisp5696 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why would the antler use be any different from all the other animals that still live. And of course they fed on grass wtf.

  • @jaimeruiz521
    @jaimeruiz521 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not sure if the largest. The north American moose is quite large.

  • @danielmartin7838
    @danielmartin7838 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only (an idiot) someone unfamiliar with how Moose or Elk behave during a rutting season would argue that this Irish Elk only used their antlers for display.

  • @gilsongeiss5749
    @gilsongeiss5749 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grandes chifres dao execelentes pr secdefender de lobos como remover neves profundas em busca de liquens

  • @jamesl2846
    @jamesl2846 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why didn't it evolve back into a goat to survive?😅

    • @jamesconner8374
      @jamesconner8374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How could a deer species evolve "back into a goat" if they were NEVER a goat. Goats have horns, deer have antlers. Nobody else caught this and called him on this? That would be like saying dire wolves should have evolved back into tabby cats.
      Actually, in Europe, moose are called "elk". Hence you can see the great dee antlers are more moose like than elk like.

  • @gyrosprey4476
    @gyrosprey4476 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thranduil once rode this beast. 😂😂😂

  • @raesbreakaway1107
    @raesbreakaway1107 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @jimd5955
    @jimd5955 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was such a a glorious animal it would jump into Irish Stew and Irishmens bellies

  • @dustinh4175
    @dustinh4175 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Imagine two fighting like bulls

  • @jamesfulerten8494
    @jamesfulerten8494 ปีที่แล้ว

    The question is...what hunted them.....

  • @markmccarty9793
    @markmccarty9793 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't know know, we still have moose?! Over hunting comes to mind!

    • @bradleylawless9595
      @bradleylawless9595 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The extinctions of this animal had nothing to do with humans and everything to do with real climate effects. I’m talking massive scale meteor impacts on the northern hemisphere, causing rapid melting of ice, causing massive global scale floods earthquakes and volcano eruptions. All cause by the flip of the earth magnetosphere.

    • @markmccarty9793
      @markmccarty9793 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @bradleylawless9595 look here, I'm 64 years old, heard all thar bs all my life snowflake!! Guess what? The environment is far cleaner in Western countries!! Walk to the kitchen and put that blunt out! I worked for the largest OME supplier for automotive parts for 33 years, and industrial in the West has met all the environmental requirements! The rivers and lakes are cleaner here than in my lifetime! I'm sitting on my porch as we speak, listening to the frogs and crickets! Maybe you should consider that every time you exhale, you are releasing carbon dioxide!