When I was younger in BSA and when I went to my first camp, they had some of the little boys of another troop leave food in their tent. When the scouts came back it broke those tents with food and others in the lot, thinking food was in there too. With the camp being on a peninsula they would know if it left. It didn't. We had a call time of 9:00 am. Then our leaders woke us up earlier. We were all complaining about it until halfway to the cars we saw a giant cage being pulled by a truck. Before we got in the car our leaders told us that even that one troop's handful of boys were reckless and foolish. That we are still held responsible for the future. Even if we lose a girl to saying no to a bird. Helping an animal is different than feeding an animal. You help an animal by calling people whose job is to make sure wild animals are kept wild animals. Not for your clout.
Also in a lot of national parks, I’m pretty sure that if a bear touches a human they are sentenced to death. It’s pretty much guaranteed as most bears get tagged especially if they are coming near humans
It's scary how most people don't eat "food" food, but manufactured food-like products. I truly believe our diets are seriously influencing our mental health as well, our brain needs nutrients to operate properly.
I remember how I said to an old woman, who held white bread inside her palms, that it's dangerous for ducks to feed them bread. Her reaction was surprised. And this woman was much older than me! NEVER feed ducks white bread or any kind of food! Ducks aren't city animals, unlike pigeons! They just migrate to parks for some period before flying away to their natural habitat. If you feed them, you not only force them to stay in one place for a long period, but you also make them obese and always hungry, since bread is a processed food and has NO nutritional value for ducks. Many people get angry and defensive at me when I tell them this information.
Not feeding wild animals should be common sense. I live in Queens. During the pandemic, there were cases of squirrels actually attacking people in NY, because they were desperate for food and expected it from humans.
I was in the area, Yonkers, and we noticed an inordinate number of squirrels on the on ramps that year. Makes sense if they were scrambling to find food sources for the winter. Guess I never put two and two together.
The biggest part that gets me is that the humans who are doing this receive little to no punishment while it’s the animals getting put down for simply following their survival instincts.
As the dominant species on this planet it is our responsibility to manage the lower species… so why not set up programs where these starving animals are fed? They have some sort of intelligence and pattern seeking brain its cruel to have the means to be able to feed other species but choose to let them starve instead. Man eff yall i get the reason why yall think we should’nt feed them but it just doesn’t add up.
@@pablo4yu, dominant species by what measure, sir? Our own? Because humanity is full of idiocy. We quite literally kill each other and everything else for sport or blind religious privilege.
What does that mean? Like tons of Disney princesses have nothing to do with animals. I can name maybe 2 that do. Maybe the OPERA or the almost 100 people who pushed the like button can explain.
@ameerabualeinein Thank you, why isn't this being mentioned? We need to find alternative solutions, not just brush it off as *one* thing being a problem
Yes. It's interference with the balance of nature and no good will come of it. No different than cutting down entire forests where animals live or blasting away hills to get to coal. Any assault on the environment is just as bad as another.
Tell that to the malnutrition little tortoise i saw on one of my jogs. Its shell was in bad condition due to lack of nutrition. I'm not saying we should feed animals. Just saying adding edible plants into the woods would help animals since we stole all the veggies and fruits for ourselves.
The video was saying more than I think they intended. If human food is bad for other primates, it's bad for us. We're just as susceptible to the harms of carbs as the other animals we feed them to. They're empty calories (pure sugar) to the human body. Energy without nutrition. Wheat is only useful when you need extra energy for a strenuous job(like farming), not for general consumption in a sedentary society.
I came to the comments to point out as much. It changes their inner microorganisms. They can no longer break down fiber as easily. Why are we eating this crap!!!
That wasn't a rat stuck in the sewer, it's a european red squirrel 🐿️, the native species that is having a hard time dealing with the invasive grey squirrel from north america.
@@carlawhite2576 We had them in Virginia. Animal control guy said that they are pretty aggressive. He caught one in a humane trap. Took it to the woods to release it. The squirrel ran out of the trap, then turned around after about 15-20 feet, came back and attacked him! O_o
this is so true, I lived in a campus full of deers and monkeys, Once my friend from a hostel fed 2 monkeys on their corridor, next day a group of monkeys show up and disturbed and jumped people expecting food
This is due to the monkeys social ladder. Monkeys who give food to others are lower on the totem poll. So when humans do it they see us in the same light, and when we don't give them food they'll do the same thing they do to those lower run monkeys. Attack.
Inviting predators to live closer to humans is like inviting a known kleptomaniac to a party and being surprised when everyone's missing something. Do you get mad at the thief or get mad at yourself for hanging out with a known thief?
Unfortunately we live in a world where even connecting two dots together with a straight line is too difficult for many people. They are not thinking about the consequences of their actions. It's literally like a child... "Oh animal, I give food maybe they will be my friend like in the jungle book! wee!" . This type of understanding of consequences requires basic competency in "if, then statements." Which requires the ability to perform basic logic. Which clearly many people are unable to do.
@@elysainempire4628not every animal should be domesticated though. Plus, dogs are more manageable and even then, you see cases of aggressive dogs biting people or killing other animals. If a “domesticated” dog is already too much for people, then can you say you feel safe if somebody brings a black bear to a park as a “pet”.
I live in a small town in Idaho. We have an apartment complex filled with elderly people...mostly women. We have a deer herd that hangs out there due to the large grass fields in and around the apartments. However, even when told by Fish and Game to Not Feed the deer...some of the old ladies won't stop. One of the old lady fed a fawn some corn flakes. The poor thing ended up with fatal diarrhea....it laid on it's side for several days under a pine tree with crap covering it back side and kicking from stomach cramps. Fish and Game, finally came and put it to sleep, when they decided it was too weak to recover and the doe basically gave up on it. The deer have enough grass that they don't need any food, even in the winter...they know how to dig down through the snow and get to the grass.
Not to take this to some misogynist route, but from my experience, it's 9 out of 10 times women who will just ignore these advices because "but look how cute it is". On the pet side it's more balanced in terms of sexes, because most overweight cats and dogs I've seen are held by owners who just fill their bowls and can't be bothered to ration the healthy amounts, and I've seen both men and women do it. However, even in those cases, I've found it significantly easier to convince male owners that on the long run, their pet will die sooner because of it, while multiple times I've heard women owners say stuff like "But I just can't help it, he's a little hungry baby, are you saying I should starve him?" and think that's some sort of argument against it. I don't have any experience working with fat kids, but I wouldn't be surprised there's huge difference in obesity stats between children of single mothers and children of single fathers. Maybe there's even study like that I didn't Google it, but children aren't my field of work anyhow. Besides, I don't live in USA and where I live you're properly body shamed for being fat so it's not like it's part of my culture.
@@MrMrtvozornik I'm a 60 year old woman, and I find it sad that so many posters need preface statements they are not being hateful to some group or another. Too many people seem to go out of their way be be butthurt and they get their panties in a twist when they read something they think is hate speech towards this group or that. As a woman and an older one who has seen this drift towards everyone finding insult when there is none -- I am sorry you had to start your comment out that way. And on to what you pointed out. I absolutely agree with you, that it's more often than not, the women who are set on 'helping' those poor animals, in spite of being shown that they are doing more harm than good. I think some of it is a natural born mothering instinct, but still, at some point, restrictions need to be self-imposed. Both genders need to just leave the animals be in most situations. I don't mind seeing people help a buck who's antlers are tangled in wire fencing, or help a hawk or eagle that has somehow become water logged in a pond or something. But for the most part, there should be minimum interference with wild life.
Please tell me Fish And Game took photos of this dying deer who was shitting out his last breath and showed it to the grandmas to actually get them to fucking understand.
@Slayy05a Yes, but I stated in my comment that despite both genders, a.k.a. people not having education, once faced with the issue I have had far more success convincing men that they're slowly killing their pets than women. So it's not only about starting chances, it's also about how easy it is to convince them that they're wrong. But hey, I'm a guy and maybe it's easier for a guy to convince a guy, but my female colleagues sort of report the same experience too, so it's not "from whose mouth it's coming from" either. My best guess is that it's about instincts, and similarly how women are more nurturing than men in our species, these instincts are being hijacked for counter productive reasons. We all seek hormone release, seratonin, dopamine, oxytocin etc. But it's far easier for man to build a hut or fix a car and feel the "job well done" feels than it for a woman, and similarly when baby is born yes, male gets boost of oxytocin but female gets ten times that, which could be because females who didn't might neglect their children cause they're loud whiny poop factories. However, in extreme cases, a man could get deviated so much that he commits war crimes, "cleanses the village" and feels the same hormone release as with "fixing a car". So I assume this is just a flip side on the female side, the neuron pathways are the same, but they're not used for their original purpose and environment, which is why it's so hard to convince them that they're wrong and it's "a right thing to stop doing".
People should watch the We Bare Bears show episode where the bears feed wild animals their food. The animals start snatching from people. Even a mere cartoon tells. Since little, every zoo I went had notice ‘Don’t feed the animals’. I guess people will never learn.
That episode is a perfect example of instant gratification without thoughtful consideration. There’s a reason other truck vendors were not feeding the wild animals. By the end of the episode, they had a mob of wild animals tipping the truck over for food. Lol
I mean, this stuff is common sense, you don't feed wild animals. Wild animals cannot handle processed foods as their stomachs are not designed for it. It shouldn't take a 12 min youtube video, or a stupid cartoon for people to use common f-ing sense.
Thanks for educating me. Though I rarely go on trips where I would see wildlife, the times that I have, I have considered feeding them, thinking that’d be helping them. I’ve also fed geese and squirrels bread, feeling sorry for them. So I’ve now learned that it does more harm than good. I think most people like me who have fed wild animals think we’re doing something good and saving the animal from hunger so videos like this are extremely important. I admit I was one of these people and will definitely stop moving forward. It’s not like I feed wild animals regularly or anything but there have been rare times where I have “helped” them not knowing I’m making a negative impact on their lifespan and health. Sorry, animals.
Your response, as somebody who was part of the problem, is the pinnacle of maturity- gold star for you.⭐️Way too many people, when confronted with evidence that they're wrong about something, double down and dig their heels into their position, refusing to change their thinking and/or behavior. The ability to change your opinion in accordance with new information is also one of the hallmarks of being a true intellectual. Thanks for being one of the rare reasonable, civilized people on the internet.🌟💫✨
It's ok to help and feed some animals but ya know just do your research before doing so, feeding bread to birds and giving a dog a treat is ok as long as it is only a little bit and not often like every day obviously.
@@Quamo452did you learn anything from the video? What kind of research are you talking about? Do wild animals post what they're doing for you to know which one to feed and which one not to feed? What you're calling "a little bit" is what everyone else says, not knowing all of you are feeding the same animal. Just stop. You're not "helping" a wild animal by feeding it. You're changing its habits and making everything else that depends on it suffer.
@@Quamo452 I feel it's important that I mention: bread is actually a very unhealthy thing to feed birds. if you're going to do it (despite the video), feed them seeds, nuts or other healthier things.
Polar bears are actually not afraid of people at all, in fact they are one of the few animals that see humans as prey and will actively track and hunt humans to try to eat them
I rescued a baby squirrel I found in the city and raised her. I did A TON of research and had to have special food shipped internationally so she would have as close to a natural diet as possible. It was so expensive. Once she matured I ended up giving her to a wildlife rehabber who released her on 100ac of private land. If you want to have an experience with wild animals, become a rehabber or work with a rescue organization that takes in orphaned and injured wildlife. They're almost always looking for volunteers. That was you're saving a life, not endangering one. Also, STOP GIVING ANIMALS BREAD!
@@bobmccurdy5329 The reason why the video states that you do not feed wild animals is because 1) our food is not part of their natural diet, 2) people are not professional wild animal caretakers whose purpose is to rehabilitate wild animals and send them back to the wild. The poster did the right thing by making sure her diet can actually be found in the wild, and sending the squirrel to a rehabber, where the squirrel can safely integrate itself back to the wild. Wild animals get put down because people don't know shit about wild animals.
My neighbor has numerous bird-feeders set up in her backyard. What she doesn’t see are all the cats that cross my yard to get to hers. She has essentially setup a feeding station for the cats too.
My brother just told me the other day about that one man who lived alongside bears. Key word lived. He was happily befriending them and probably feeding them too, until one day a hungry bear he thought of as one of his best buddies came close and ate him to prepare for the next winter.
The Grizzly man? That guy is famous. He recorded everything including his last moments and that is lost footage a lot of people want to get their hands on. There are a lot of documentaries about him. He insisted the grizzlies loved him.
@@crappyPatty235 No the bunnies will just be hit by cars and die. Do all simple things need to be explained to you in detail? The only one coming of as ignorant here is you.
I rescued a wolf cub. I was allowed to keep it but it had to be desexed, be in a special containment, had to have a tracking collar on it, and is not allowed to stay out for the night. I had to sign all sorts of contracts. But, Mighty Rayzar had been with me for five years now.
@donttrythisathome2690 Many people are full of it on here... not saying the person is lying... but I see all kinds of posts of heroic stories all the time, and no videos. Or the person is brand new to youtube..
This film makes me realise that ignorance is not an excuse, the knock on effect is huge,thinking that it's pretty harmless to feed wild animals, well just shows how wrong you can be, thanks for the info
Rats are a different matter entirely. For one, most people don't intentionally feed wild rats. They're not losing their natural fear of humans because they get snacks, they're just naturally moving closer to the most plentiful food source. Rats can sustain themselves on just about anything and while they technically do need a balanced diet to be truly healthy, that's not something a wild animal concerns itself with. Rats also have really short life cycles and can reproduce rapidly, so even if individuals life expectancy get lower due to a poor diet the pack can easily thrive.
One time fishing in the Okefenokee, I was constantly followed by a very large bull 'gator. I was not alone but every time I spoke he would move toward me so I had to move away. I can only surmise that someone with a voice similar to mine was feeding it regularly. I was constrained to report the behavior to the local game warden and they were forced to hunt it down. It is pure ignorance to feed wild animals, you are teaching them to come to humans and associate them with food. "Feeding animals" also includes dumping your food scraps in the lake or swamp or in the woods. Be conscious of what your actions could lead to. Know outdoor etiquette. Be smart and stay safe.
@@ashtoningram45 Dont feed wild birds either. Birds move a lot of seeds and if the wild birds only hang around in the park then this wont happen. An example is from my grandmas house who lives on a lake. There are a lot of Canadian geese there, and they were being fed by people on the lake, so they stayed there because they could get food and did not migrate for the winter at all. They end up coming onto peoples lawns to try to get food and poop on the lawns pretty much destroying them.
@@zacharykai6317 the only creature I feed are my foxes that live on My property besides my cats, I just curious why it a bad idea to feed birds, because I seen people do in in parks all the time, for years growing up as a kid
@ashtoningram45 they get bound to that place. They don't do whatever they're supposed to do, like searching for food and spreading seeds. They just become an attraction.
@@Gloverfield who told you so? perhaps the ones who sell industrially produced garbage via funding corrupt medical practicioners studies? follow the money, dude.
Thanks for this video!! I think people are more willing to listen to signs that say “don’t feed the animals” when they understand the actual reasoning behind it. So thank you for shedding light on this!
I had this video (TH-cam channel:"James Blackwood", Video Title: "Mobbed by raccoons (25) Tuesday night 03, Nov 2020" video has 40 million views and I can only imagine the damage that it has done nationwide to local raccoon populatios.), it was an elderly man that was feeding about 30 raccoons daily, and this was exactly what I was thinking, and unfortunately in the comments there wasn't a single person that stated why feeding wild animals is bad, everyone was just "oh the raccoons are so cute!". But everything that you've said in this video was True in that video, the raccoons were fighting with each other and not looking for their own food, instead loitering on his property, looking for a handout.
And when the elderly man dies and the raccoons aren't fed any more, they're either a complete nuisance to the next owner of that house, or they go hungry.
Across time, the worst type of man is the one who are even if they are told, they refuse to listen. Evil isn't so bad if their decisions are logical, but they are not. Its just ego.
The worst atrocities have been committed by people who think they are doing the right thing and are completely unable to think of how it could go wrong.
Actually it is bad. Everywhere has signs not to feed the wild animals. From before I could read everyone repeated the phrase not to feed wild animals. It’s impossible that adults are ignorant to these rules. This knowledge is so widespread that it’s almost innate. People just don’t care, and a lack of caring causes harm, and causing harm is bad, therefore the people doing so are bad. Doesn’t mean they are evil, and just because you think something isn’t bad doesn’t make it so.
While that is true, understand that there’s a difference between seeing someone as food and seeing someone as a food source. If a polar bear sees me as food that means it just wants me specifically and that’s it, but if the polar bear sees me as a source of more food, then there’s the problem.
I really am loosing my faith in humanity rn. In Japan where I am currently, so many people are leaving out their trash, as the towns in the mountains are greatly expanding. The habitat of the wild bears are shrinking, and yet some locals decide to leave food for them outside. It’s no mystery why there are literally bear attack news almost every day. And when these things happen, the bears are hunted down and killed. To make matters even worse, the subspecies of asiatic black bear in Japan are considered threatened, and the sheer stupidity of humans is causing a species decline. I 100% agree with this video, and I am really glad that there are people out there who are trying to spread awareness about these things❤.
I think that’s just tourist who are leaving out their garbage outside. After all why would they respect another country if they don’t even respect theirs. I’m only saying this since Japan is know to have more manners when it comes to waste than the US
@@HolyRedEyeI genuinely doubt that since tourists often don't care about the countryside, if anything the lack of tourism there while theres an overabundance of tourism in major cities is an actual issue due to the lacking tourist economy in the rural side that even Japan is taking action to reduce overtourism in major cities. Plus assuming original poster is a local of the area, its probably locals.
@@HolyRedEyei lived in a similar area in Japan like OP, and there were definitely hardly any tourists there. What there were a lot of were crows and they would try to get the trash out of the trash areas (which sometimes are covered by green nets and not well covered, so the crows get to the trash bags, peck them open, and spew garbage everywhere), so that's why there was so much trash on the streets everyday. Japanese ppl have to make proper bins that keep the birds out, but usually they don't, which is infuriating because it could solve their problems easily and everyone else's (except the birds').
They leave food outside for them?! That's just awful. One commenter thought it was tourists, HA. If food is being left out consistently, it's definitely NOT tourists, and I can imagine what area you're living in, probably somewhere in northern Chubu lol
Indeed most of the food and garbage being left out are from residents and not tourists. For example, a couple months ago there was an announcement in Karuizawa town (I was on a birding trip there) that bear tracks were discovered next to the town garbage place. When I went there, I saw piles and piles of plastic bags and overflowing leftover foods. No wonder bear attacks happen almost every day.
Yeah but part of the video concerned how human food fucks up digestive systems and causes obesity.... Arguably something humans also deal with yet refuse to Acknowledgei@@ButUrWrongTho
In Japan, these two influencers were purposefully camping out in a forest that had warning signs of bear sightings (which they claimed they didn’t see) because they wanted to film a bear on camera. They pretended to be surprised when the bear stumbled onto their camp (because it smelled their food) filmed themselves running away being scared of the bear. The bear ate their food and over the next few days, that bear showed up around human settlements looking for more food. The town had to euthanize the bear because of that. Worse of all, that bear had cubs too :( even though those two influencers were called by the town officials and other content creators, they still kept the video up and pretended that nothing happened.
TY so much for this video. There's an unending plethora of vids depicting Snow White/Disney Princess wannabes & it's RIDICULOUS. Whether it's feeding wild animals, finding "abandoned" young & adopting them; it's just all so nonsensical. Ppl interfering w/ the wildlife simply to share vids seems to be a large part of the problem. I hope many share this.
Oh dear god, the intro alone put me in a state of rage. And here's the thing, if "human artificial food" does this to MOST animals, that should give you a clue how bad they are for humans.
@@infinitehexington There's a reason a ton of food here in the USA is banned in other countries or modified. Our food is overly processed and it's leading to a ton of problems. Decrease in good gut bacteria, lower immune systems, crowded teeth, heart problems, etc...
As a hunter in Germany i'm completly with you. We had lots of problems with wild pigs in some cities and people who feed them, those pigs are really dangerous, they can literally kill you. The next are racoons which were feed by people 'cause they're "so cute". Please do not feed wild animals. In Germany you can also pay hefty fines for feeding doves or ducks.
In Louisiana, they had signs up with fines for feeding alligators. My husband and I both thought it was a “stupid person” tax because you’d have to be insane to feed a gator (we lived on a boat)
@@Manie230I think so too. I'm not German, but German-adjacent. "Schwein" translates to "pig", which is not really incorrect in English either (I think?) as the pigs are a family of species (including boars and domesticated pigs).
@@TheBaumcmseems reasonable. I mean, fines for not wearing seat belts could also be considered a "stupid person tax" 😂 but yeah, it's most likely because it will make alligators actively seek humans much more, and that's just stupendously dangerous.
@@mnxs I thought of wild pigs as feral pigs. So essential domesticated pigs that have gone wild again. That’s why I asked if he meant boars cause those are a problem in Germany in some bigger cities.
I've been a warden in a french alpine national park for 12 years. Situation can be even worse than presented here. I've seen so many diseases on ibex, wild boars, marmots, foxes and even birds... When you come across an animal asking for food, it doesn't mean it needs it. It means it's addicted to it already, why giving it more? It will only lead it to fatal issue... I hope people looking at this video will keep it in mind! Much useful clip! Thanks a lot!
Damn, I never thought about it like this before. Thank you for the information. So, by giving Animals human food, we create adorable drug addicts. That is horrible. : (
@@hermeticinstrumentalist6804 he exaggerated it by far. many animals have the istinct to ask food to humans, is in their DNA code, look at cats, no matter if slim fit or fat, they will often try to ask food, cause they are a semi domesticated specie, even more normal for dogs.
@dagan8659 no animal will ignore the offering of food, especially when they know where to get it from and how accessible it is. That is the problem. Dogs have an ancestral predecessor in the canid line that split off from wolves, that line grew around humans, doesn't mean you should feed wolves. Once they associate humans with food, they begin expecting it from all people, if it doesn't receive an offering then it is likely to get aggressive and make you it's offering. Cats are also not domesticated, plenty of stray cat colonies everywhere to show they're capable of hunting their own food. People are just convenient
@@dagan8659 not much exagerated. Marmots doesn’t feed on anyrhing else than carrot once they are accustomed to it. They end with diseases due to sugar excess (which is a drug for them) and loses their fur (we call it pelade in French). If the disease is important they can't recover the fur and don't manage to overwinter... I have examples like this for Ibex, wild boars, foxes, several species of birds... Sugar is a drug and it is present by excess in most of what we eat, and for animals which have very low sugar diet and which become addicted... that's a fatal issue.
This is so informative . Thank you so much for this !! If I hadn't watch this , I would be the type of person to feed every animal they see , but now I understand that it does them more harm than good 😢
All my life I've been told not to feed wild animals or leave human food behind but no one ever explained why, this video explained PERFECTLY so thanks for that. Reminds me of my cat i used to let him live outside 100% of the time but when his leg got injured and we took him inside he lost his wild survival skills so he is an inside cat now.
Cats shouldn't be allowed outside in the first place. They've decimated so many birds and other small wildlife. Not to mention the influx of stray cats now found outdoors, it's sad.
First of all Domesticated Cats don't belong to nature! They can kill up to 15 birds a day + other small animals and not even bother eating any of them! They are good at destroying whole ecosystems! But as for feeding wild animals, don't. *unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey (but leave it to professionals if your not feeding just birds). Or if you happen to find an animal in distress (you should always first contact the right authorities/volunteers first)...we need to find long term ways to help animals, but we can't just brush it off like it's nothing because we humans also depend on the ecosystem and helping them is the right thing to do when it's done the right way. I have fed a baby wild animal in distress that I have rescued before, when waiting for the volunteers to pick it up and take to the shelter (for later release to the wild).
I was told this when I was 6 years old. The gist of it was Because if you feed them they get too used to being around humans which is bad for us and them. The big reason I was told is if we give them food they would get lazy and come to us for food rather than finding it in nature
Exactly. Greedy horrible human wolves are feeding other humans poison for "profits" and those same humans dying of this poison that has destroyed their brains so they think it's "okay" to feed this poison to harass abuse and murder wildlife. The whole thing is horrible 😞
Yeah absolutely. Corn, Bananas, nuts,seeds, carrots, absolutely awful, just poison. It's evil to feed anyone these things. It's definitely not that different species have different nutritional needs, it's those pesky carrots.
Yep, because if you aren't well off, you aren't getting any nutritious food. You're forced into eating shit in a box because that'll keep the family from starving. Absolutely Infuriating.
@@billklatsch5058 If I have to choose between tossing my lunch at the polar bear or taking my chances running for my life, I'm throwing away the food first.
@@JustBuyTheWaywardsRealms Not necessarily. Plenty of animals want to get their food with as little effort on their part as possible. Why chase down prey wasting valuable energy when you can take the much easier and safer option of eating the food they left behind?
a basic summary is that human food can cause dangerous animals to come looking for humans and they could get mad if they aren't given food. weight gain entering populated areas less self sufficiency on their own fighting other animals for food negative changes in gut biome the lack of hunting and gathering makes it so the offspring aren't taught how to hunt/gather lack of necessary nutrients feeding a wild animal and then just leaving it is not how we domesticated dogs
As native american and lover of untrouched nature, I'm greatful for this video, you've earned my family and I greatest repects for your video contribution and explantion to this problem as I'm tried of explain it.
@4kDeadMan1995 It’s crazy how simple truths can be so hard to explain. People have convictions based on superficial impressions and can’t think about them at any depth other than: yes I am correct.
The fact that we are sharing our food with animals means that we are having too much food for our own good, too. "Poor animals get sick from our food, because of its superfluousness and low quality" - well, guess what, so do we! If food was scarce for us, we wouldn't leave any to wild animals.
I chucked some big night crawlers over a bush in a city park to see if some geese would eat it. They stared at the worm on the ground wondering what the hell it was and waddled away. The feeding of wild geese with human food has gotten so bad that they're literally not eating earthworms off the ground............... If people really want to help wild animal populations they should plant wild sunflowers, corn, and plant native fish eggs in local ponds instead of feeding bread to birds.
I am sorry to say, geese are VEGETARIANS. They graze in parks like cows - one can see how fattening gras is ... If you want to feed earthworks to some animals you could do so with chicken, ducks, fish ....
To be fair, if they were Canada geese they mainly eat grass and grain, though they occasionally eat invertebrates like worms or fish it's not as common. Plus, seeing a weird thing flying at them can stress some animals out enough that they won't eat it even if they do recognize it as food.
About half of America and I believe all of Canada doesn’t have native earth worms. That could be a reason they didn’t go after them. Everywhere else they’re all invasive.
"Our" food? We live in the golden age of information. Start a garden. Buy some chickens and learn how chicken reproduction works. My food is fine. . People love to complain about how f'd up society is. Yet they seem unwilling to do anything to prevent themselves from being reliant on that f'd up society. "We" don't need help. "We" need to learn to help ourselves. And we live in the best time throughout all of human history for learning how to do this. I went from completely useless to mostly self sufficient in a couple years through research, time and effort. Anyone with access to the internet and a willingness to learn can do this.
@@anthonyfaiell3263 I definitely agree we should grow and eat our own food but they should definitely stop making all this crappy food that lowers our life span and kills us quicker
Yet no man is an island. If you're really gonna be self-sufficient, will you make you own internet tower? Create your own computer? Find your own ores, process them, then manufacture the devices and tools you use on a daily basis? Everyone is dependent on society to some degree. Self-sufficiency has limits, and that's not bad. People are more effective as a group, and that includes as a group that seek change for the better via action, including demanding such change from others. A vote from 1 person is insignificant; votes from 1 group holds far more power.
@@jk-2053 I agree and I'm not saying we should be completely off of the government but what I'm saying is that the government should probably take better care of the products that they put out that they call food that do nothing but harm us later on in life
@@anthonyfaiell3263yes “our food” food that was created by humans that doesn’t grow in the wild, that wild animals shouldn’t eat. It is “our” food because humans created it. Whether you eat like that or not the species that created this garbage food is the species you are a part of. So yes “our food”
In my experience, both from my field of study (Animal Behaviour studies), 3 years as a zookeeper, along with years and years of study in zoology, people are ridiculously misinformed about animals and wildlife in general. People simply either don't know or don't care (often both). People can barely identify animals as they see them and their knowledge of a lot of animals goes about as far as something they heard or saw in a Disney movie. It's pretty sad. People can be very ignorant of the unpredictability of many animal species and the dangers posed by them. Add on top of the fact people anthropomorphize (Give human traits/emotions to animals) animals at almost every turn, people don't stop to think about the consequences of their actions or don't take the time to inform themselves on the truth of things. WIldlife is made to be admired from a distance, without human intervention. This may vary among certain species. But if you don't know, why not have the common sense of playing it safe? And yeah, do NOT FEED wild animals! As indicated in the video, you're doing more harm than good. Thank you for spreading more awareness and knowledge!
As a general rule sure. *unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey...we need to find long term ways to help animals, but we can't just brush it off like it's nothing because we humans also depend on the ecosystem.
The biggest problem is that people are little babies afraid of anything wild and immediately demand to shoot it. Imagine if Indians treated wild animals this way. There wouldnt be any elephants or tigers left!
I have a question. Is feeding birds or housing ones like purple martins and bluebirds also bad? There seems to be a much more robust tradition of these habits, and I haven't observed demonstrable harm from them, but I could be mistaken.
@@Sc0pee In this specific case I would agree, in the extreme circumstances an ecosystem in danger of breaking. Humans have the ability to improve an environment with the right practices, a healthy ecosystem is beneficial to us as well, after all. Which is important. Making sure the environment is well balanced. This does becomes more of a problem as wild lands are shrinking and humanities need for space and resources continues to grow, its a tough balancing act, for for every effort that is made to conserve wildlife, much is destroyed to satisfy human needs. In the case of theis video I was more making a case about people underestimating the inherent danger they put themselves in, feeding/interacting with wild animals in their space.
@@oswaldrabbit1409 I think it was mentioned a bit in the video. Though bird feeders in your backyard are mostly harmless it does create a dependency for those animals. If food is left in the open, even for certain species, you can be sure other species will take advantage of this as well (rodents, other birds, etc, etc). It removes the need for them to find food on their own from wild sources. Though very adaptable, animals can suffer quite a bit if this free access to food is suddenly removed or no longer available. However I can't be 100% sure on how much damage or harm it would cause as other factors have to play in (overall environment, distribution of wild spaces in the area, etc.) I am sure there are local wildlife services that could offer you better advice than I could!
I sometimes feed the spiders in my garden, if I notice they haven’t caught anything in a while. Two of them ended up mating, I certainly didn’t intend to be a spider matchmaker
I do that on purpose and ended up with 7 argiope aurantia egg sacks this year. The garden spider. How I love them! And orb weavers, crab spiders and jumping spiders!
Good comment. People can see that the animals are "dangerious" but they don't know that the hunters *might* not be good people? It's one thing to hunt a wild animal for being dangerous to people. It's a crime when it's turned into a reason to bypass hunting laws. We can't HUNT mountain lions... oh but the lion stole some food from a guy's backpack? "WE'RE EATING LION TONIGHT BOYS!" It's hilariously evil.
👩🏻Wow, this video is a must for all. I have given bread to pigeons and squirrels. But you're right, it messes up the wild animals, normal way of survival. Great video and the message is loud and clear. I never knew feeding them, was causing more harm, than good. Thank you for education me.
Bread isn't good for most animals and can hurt them, but in general feeding pigeons is alright (depending on they type, and as long as there isn't anything like avian flu going around) because most of the pigeons you'll encounter are feral pigeons descended from domestic pigeons, and so don't have a place in your local food web.
Pigeons are not wild animals, they were domesticated for centuries and only recently got trash talked and discriminated against. They have barely and survival skills and are basically just food for other animals
@@hongfeiwei2710 Wrong, you don't have to be corrupt, you just have to lie to people and speak what they want to hear, be innefficient, pretend nothing is wrong and then you can be corrupt.
As a moroccan i was scared when i saw the title, maybe rename the title “americans, stop giving wild animals fast food” because every time i go to morocco we give wild animals food, but the second they start asking too much we get aggressive so they know their place, been doing this for thousands of years without issues.
First place i ever saw an obese bear was BEAR COUNTY park or whatever in South Dakota. The owners of the place were feeding them wonder bread to the point their stomachs are dragging on the ground. The whole place is a drive-through park that lets tourists feed them anything.... the place is disgusting. Sad to see how little humans know.
2/3 of Americans are obese. They probably saw the fat bear and thought “wooohoo, now that’s an American bear! YEEHAW!!,” Can’t expect people to know that obesity for animals is bad when they don’t know that obesity in general is bad, even for humans. I blame Haes
I think it's perfectly fine to feed birds in your garden, or swans and ducks in rivers or lakes. As long as you feed them the appropriate foods. It is actually super beneficial to the birds during spring when they're all nesting. I am from the UK though, so the rules are a little different here. No bears crocks or wolves 🤷 Edit: If you have a dog, you can gather up its fur and tie it to your bird feeder. They will take it and use it for their nests.
ducks cant break down bread, bread is filled with fibers, fibers make you feel full when you aren't, causing them to not feed topping off the fact that they hardly get any nutrients at all from the food we eat
In the states this is frowned upon. The reason being is we have a big problem with people dumping domestic ducks they no longer want at the parks. Keeping them alive puts significant stress on the native species. Not only that, there tend to be more males than females and they will breed the females to death. It has become such a problem from irresponsible parents buying their kids ducklings for Easter than dumping them that people are actually encouraged to eliminate or take the domestic ones home. Still, it doesn't stop people from being irresponsible, though. I used to work for the park service and it was a hoot ( sarcasm) every year when parents dump the geese and bunnies off at the park. For staff to get screamed at by other people for not protecting them when they would get picked off by coyotes and foxes. Still don't see anyone address the sale of them to non-farmers, though.
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@@Vsevolodbochkovno they wouldn’t, they’d be dead XD more seriously though, you can feel sympathetic for the animals being killed while still agreeing that they aren’t safe living so close to people
Animal hostility. They attack people for food since they associate the food with people. They get addicted to the handouts. Giving them food proves that humans will give you food one way or another and if they don’t get it they throw fits that take people off the census.
I feel like they should have programs to rehabilitate the animals. They don't deserve to die for following instinct. Imagine if we killed people for donating to charity or something.
@@JoshuaGraham_ Rehabilitation does not work. They do fine without the food. Releasing them back into the wild puts them back to an environment where they get reacustomed by people who consider it a good idea to feed them. There should be rigorous punishment for the people feeding the animals. Get caught, spend a day picking up litter on the roadside.
My neighbour used to put loads of bird seed and peanuts out, and the consequence of that was a winter with mice in the attic, under the floorboards, in the wall cavity. New neighbour and it took until the second winter before we stopped getting all the gnawing and scratching and squeaking noises that would keep us awake. The place must have been full of old seed stores.
My father told me a year ago that in the resort we had recently visited (in Hurghada, Egypt), a man was bitten by a reef shark. It was reported that this shark was repeatedly being fed by visitors of the place, which one really shouldn't do. This led to the shark habitually seeking out humans expecting food. The man might have provoked a bite due to a panic response, I don't really know though . To clarify, I forgot whether it was that resort or the bay Sharm El Naga or another place we've visited, but the point is that shark attacks boil down to human error, such as treating those sharks inconsiderately.
There’s some idiot in town that has a “slow down, community pet deer in area” and I’ve twice taped over it “the deer are WILD, not a community pet. More people get killed in a year by deer than by bears and sharks combined”
200 people die every year from deer, however that's from car accidents, WHICH DON'T HAPPEN IF YOU SLOW DOWN AND TAKE CAUTION (specifically deer car accidents) It is easy to avoid bears and sharks (be loud and don't go into the ocean, bam, bears know you're there and will leave you alone unless it's a polar bear and then you're fucked and sharks don't walk on land), it is NOT easy to avoid a deer jumping out while you're going 45, so in reality you're not helping and are in fact possibly getting people hurt because now they can't see the sign that warns them to slow down because deer are around, also taping over private property (no matter the intention) is illegal No matter how you slice it, you trying to do good is not only putting you in the wrong because you're going about it the wrong way, but is also putting other people in danger
Uh dude, you might think youre helping but you're in the wrong. Your facts are right but deer accidents only happen due to people NOT slowing down. You're endangering people with harmful advice rather than helping people. If anything, that guy is helping the deer more than you. If you really want to help, tape over the sign with something else. Maybe say, "Slow down! Deer in the area." That way you're helping people and also insinuating the deer is not a pet. Plus, it's shorter than what youre already saying which means people are more likely to read it since it's not a big paragraph. Sorry, man, but you really need to change how youre doing this since it isn't very helpful right now. You have a good heart but a bad method.
@@husoldiers2221 I definitely was not talking about car accidents involving deer creating fatalities. During the rut and with people getting too close to fawns, deer do in fact gore and stomp people to death Thinking it’s just car accidents is actually your issue, not mine
@@bendingdemon6483 440 are killed a year due to car impact. Over 200 are by deer “boxing” and goring during the rut and fawn seasons because idiot tourists from cities get too close just like that lady in Yellowstone that got tossed by a Bison Don’t be stupid
This is why I do not leave anything in the wild that shouldn't be there. You can tell the behavioral differences between a city animal, protected animal (ie no hunting allowed), and something totally wild.
As a former employee of a company in Grand canyon... The squirrel is indeed considered the deadliest/most dangerous animal there. Bites are frequent, rabies is a thing... As are other diseases like the literal plague. Fear the friendly tree rat! (Not actually a tree rat, separate species, but the nickname fits...)
I think that the comment or possibly meant to imply that rabies is like a squirrel plague but not literally the bubonic plague … pray that the bubonic plague never resurfaces again.
Alligators store their food under water for weeks at a time to allow it to rot before eating it. Maybe we should try that? If it's fine for them, it should be fine for us too right? Because all living species on earth have exactly the same digestive systems right? Oh and definitely watch out for chocolate and onions. I heard that can kill dogs, so it probably kills humans too right? . Logic is hard.
@@dalton2845 yet it's still not always healthy for us to eat it. Junk food is still junk at the end of the day, and while we may tolerate and even enjoy ingesting it, that doesn't mean you won't pay for every meal you've had later on in your life.
Had a young fox roaming the area. It was quite tame, curious, sometimes sat like a dog watching people. I already had heard, that this may cause problems and wanted to scare it away in order to save it. I didn't. About a week later I heard from a neighbour about its demise. It had been comfortable with humans being close, had been fed, ate leftovers from the local fast food restaurant. Until someone seemingly had enough of it and poisoned the poor thing. I feel guilty even today, maybe 6 or 7 years later. Had I thrown a fire cracker at it, it might have lived. There sure are foxes hiding somewhere, eating garbage. Difference is that they hide.
dont do the what ifs man for all you know it could of died another way alot sooner had it not been fed by humans or you throwing said fire cracker could of injured it.
I can relate to not being able to save creature, we rescued a baby bird who was on road we put it outside got busy, then there arrived a crow i was the once most close to it, i could have made crow flee but i was little and shunned, afterwards crow managed to snatch little baby took it around neighborhood's tree devour it completely when i reached there all i had was looking up in sky for the poor bird my mistake my incompetence 😢
It's not your fault & whoever poisoned that poor creature is evil. Foxes behave more like cats than dogs, but aren't as threatening as coyotes or wolves that are larger & move on groups. Foxes usually are shy towards humans & the only threat they present is rabies, but dogs or any other mammal can carry it. So it's not fair. It takes more effort to relocate the animals than you know... delete them. It's so bad.
@@lagopusvulpuz1571 if they relocated the Fox It would have came back or dying, still the person who poison It Is evil since he should have left the authorities to deal with the fox
Just go to a "zoo"(like, the good ones, Ecoparks with permanent rescues that Will sadly never get to leave) that factors in visitor feeding and provides the correct foods for the animal
Very good video! It’s true! A woman left food for raccoons ! In her cottage, but beers found it and started breaking into other people’s houses looking for food and had to be 😩 terminated 😢
Yes, unfortunately, there's always one who won't listen to reason and continue to feed animals with stuff that isn't good for them. Or they treat those species that are a bit braver than other species, encouraging their breeding patterns - and hey presto! Wood Pigeons are beating the living daylights out of smaller birds on the bird table. I plant berry bushes in my garden. Some are for my use, but right in the far corner of my garden I plant natural, native berry plants and leave that area quiet. They prefer to feed down there, well away from me, and everyone's happy.
HYPER-PROCESSED MISH MASHES OF CHEMICALS WITH SOME LEGALLY ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF REAL GROUND IN FOOD THATS APPROVED BY PEOPLE WHO THEN GET "HEALTHY" RETIREMENTS AT THE SAME MAKERS THEY APPROVED THE AFOREMENTIONED CHEMICAL COCKTAILS FROM. Does that make sense now?
It's called habituated. A young boy here in Louisiana had his arm completely ripped off by an alligator bc of this. They shot the gator cut its stomach open in a attempt to get his arm back and surgically reattach it but were unsuccessful. He was lucky to have survived. The gator wasn't so lucky.
I'm so glad that this channel I remember by giving me various fun facts about random animals is speaking out about serious issues involving them. Keep it up
I'd be too scared to feed wild animals but that's a good thing I've now learned, I had no clue that they were getting put down because people kept feeding them
This was more comprehensive in information than most. I understood most of it already, but got some more info here. People need to be made aware of deer feeder problems. That was a new one to me, but it makes absolute perfect sense in all aspects from disease spread to extra fighting to overeating of corn. My grandpa had a dairy cow lost to her forcing her way into getting to the feed. Sad as hell to lose her like that. She did it while they were away for just a few hours. Polar bears are not afraid of humans. We are on the menu. The only wild animal I fed was a racoon live trapped at my parent's house for relocation. I gave it some meat and some water because it was having to be in the trap for a bit. It really did want and need the water it drank, and it growled the entire time. It was a really pissed off raccoon. It ran away fast when released. Trapping it made it fear humans, and they thrive on people food and want to make use of people dwelling areas, just like opossums. He had to go. I see people on videos in neighborhoods drawing up and feeding a whole bunch of mean raccoons off of their back porches. What are they thinking? I don't see anything wrong with providing water sources for animals in drought. There were some women who were fined for doing that, but when we cause the shortage and block their access to water in so many ways, and water is needed faster than food, I think a quiet little pool provided here and there is decent. It's not the same as feeding. They know water dries up, comes and goes, and they don't think we provide it. Herds of deer migrating from the wooded suburbs across the freeways in search of a water source could be dangerous for us as well as them.
You missed some important parts of this video. It's not "just" because human food is "bad". They specifically said that by being near humans, Bears find food more easily and spend less time moving. More calories in and less calories out means a fatter bear. This would apply to bears who eat healthy food as well. It's "human" food in that it's food facilitated by humans. This includes fruit and vegetables in people's backyards, people's pets, trash and food left out for them. I feel like you think it strictly means they are eating McDonald's somehow. There were much better examples in the video for your point. Like processed bread messing up deer metabolism.
This video should be required to be watched by anyone entering a wildlife habitat no matter what reason they are there. Despite whatever kind of written material you give visitors they will still feed the animals. One lady said to me God's creatures need to eat too. When I told her they couldn't find their own food because she was feeding them. And now they don't know how to hunt or find vegetation that is their natural diet. Because with her around they didn't have to learn how. She went on and on about how the forest was being cut down. When in fact none of the forest in her area was being destroyed. I had to just walk away to keep from slapping her. She was not to be reasoned with and felt like she was doing a good thing.
Thank you for calling it out. I live in the mountains in a tourist trap community where people are constantly trying to feed the deer and elk. They have become dependent on dumpster digging and the people with carrots and hay. They become docile, but simultaneously aggressive, particularly about food. I've heard of three accounts of people being attacked by elk while trying to feed them in my area. One was a little kid who got kicked in the head, and another was a local lady who died from her injuries. I've personally been kicked by a deer over a plate of vegetables many years ago. Last time I give a wild animal food from my hands, but more importantly, filling their guts with anything other than what they graze is a losing scenario for the deer and the environment that relies on their persistent upkeep of undergrowth. Forest fires are made a bigger issue when grazers don't keep the grass and brush down.
When I was younger in BSA and when I went to my first camp, they had some of the little boys of another troop leave food in their tent. When the scouts came back it broke those tents with food and others in the lot, thinking food was in there too. With the camp being on a peninsula they would know if it left. It didn't. We had a call time of 9:00 am. Then our leaders woke us up earlier. We were all complaining about it until halfway to the cars we saw a giant cage being pulled by a truck. Before we got in the car our leaders told us that even that one troop's handful of boys were reckless and foolish. That we are still held responsible for the future. Even if we lose a girl to saying no to a bird. Helping an animal is different than feeding an animal. You help an animal by calling people whose job is to make sure wild animals are kept wild animals. Not for your clout.
My brothers were both boy scouts. Before going on backpacking trips with the troop, they were taught how to act around wild animals, especially bears, but everything else as well.
True. I live near a park with several semi domesticated birds. There are several signs of not feeding the animals. They got sick, and if they don't eat something, it attracts rats and cockroaches that infest the complete city.
@@SquishyThing thank you for affirming! I read it twice and thought am i not able to make sense of this text or the text itself ain’t making much sense 🥲
Thank you. I work for state parks and we have a campground that is near a neighborhood. A lot of the houses feed the deer. So they are everywhere. Running in and out of yards. No fear of humans. See a hit deer once a week minimum there.
Thank you for bringing awareness to the consequences of feeding wild animals! I will note that you CAN feed hummingbirds without messing up their feeding/migration habits but even then there's SO much you have to commit to for it to be safe for them. 1. Don't buy pre-made nectar, or give them juice, syrup, etc. It's full of artificial colors and additives that can harm them. 2. If you make them sugar water yourself you have to use granulated WHITE sugar, never brown (it's made with molasses), and never powdered (it has corn starch in it). Organic granulated white cane sugar is a good option! 3. You have to be careful what kind of feeder you have! If it's glass and sits out in the sun it can ferment the sugar water more rapidly, so its best to keep it mostly or entirely in the shade if it's not plastic. 4. You have to clean your feeder thoroughly every. Single. Day. No exceptions! There's plenty of little nooks and crannies for mold to develop in and if it does the hummingbirds tongues will swell to the point they can't eat, and they'll be dead within a few hours. :( If you can commit to that, here's how to make the sugar water! :) • Take 1/4 cup granulated white sugar and put it in a heat-safe bowl. • Heat up 1/2 cup of (preferably filtered) water on the stove and while that's getting hot, get another 1/2 cup of cold water. • Pour the hot water in the bowl with the sugar and mix it up (the heat helps the sugar mix into the water). When the water looks clear, mix your 1/2 cup of cold water in to help it cool. Once the sugar water is cooled off enough your safe to put it out! If you have any extra sugar water it's safe to keep in the fridge for about 2 days. 👌
I would add that the water used should probably be water known not to have cleaning additives added, like chlorine, which is common in many places. I don't know this for sure, but since we're talking about animals with sensitive systems, they might not handle those additives as well as we do. In other words, use bottled water if unsure. Small correction: the thing that's used to make brown sugar is molasses (a sugar refinining byproduct), not marmalade (the fruity sweet stuff we like to put on bread).
@@mnxs Thank you for the correction! I always mix those two words up in my head! And yes, clean filtered water is definitely ideal for the little guys :)
We do the same thing you do! It isn't at all harmful as my aunt did get almost fifty birds at one point, and I've heard in certain places that people will put out feeders for the hummers during their migration season so they don't go hungry! Currently, we only have about three hummers, we think the frost got to some of them, but they know us so well that if a feeder goes empty within the day, they'll be hovering at our glass door lol, they're the only other animal I would feed if necessary is an animal I run across injured like a fawn or raccoon if I know the animal will make it and the feeding will only happen the day of finding if I can't locate the animal to local rehabers and or its gonna take overnight before i or someone can take the animal to a safer place. Ofc I wouldn't feed the animal junk food, I grow gardens with seeds that are over fifty years of generations, passed from my great grandpa, to my grandpa and to me and my mom, so they look 'funky' but that's the natural way they look! If it weren't natural, I doubt the deer would eat up on it so much rather than the new generation of plants I'm doing myself, some I bought from the store and plan on breeding it back to its natural look and flavor. (Disclaimer: I don't just go around feeding animals, the only acception is for an injured, not very harmful animal who I know will make it to see the rehabers, I'm only saying of a scenario where as if I did have to take the animal in over night, which in my state plenty of people had to do because of rehabers being farther away, that it would get a small snack of natural food.)
Thank you for informing me on my past mistake, as someone who planning on traveling across Canada by foot this is vital information for me for both cleanliness sake and for wild animal information sake
The biggest problem is that people don't prepare the feed corn to be consumed. It's dry. That's what causes digestive issues, which can be fatal. Many animals can digest cooked corn. It's FEED corn for a reason. There's a time and place for corn feeders, and you don't even need to use corn. They make deer pellets. The fact that humans are on a property already makes animals weary, and shooting them on your property would drive them away forever if there wasn't some sort of incentive to return. However, the deer that come to feeders tend to be does and yearling bucks. Corn feeders can also be used for feral pigs. Stops them from wasting resources in multiple ways. Again, doesn't have to be corn. Most of the animals that would eat dry dog food can handle it fine in moderation(In the US at least).
I was fishing on a bayou here in Louisiana. I watched a woman pull in to a parking lot across the bayou from were i was. Sh pulled a trash bag out of the truck of her car and started dragging it to the water. I literally stopped fishing to see a couple of things. 1. I wanted to make sure it wasnt a human body. 2. To see if she was feeding the gator that had been seen. A couple of dogs have come up missing in the last month. Sure enough, i see her start calling something. So i took my phone and started recording. I took photos of her plate and her. And just like i thought, she was calling a gator. She starts pulling what looks like a deer skeleton out and throwing it to the gator. I screamed across the bayou, hey woman, you cant do that, its illegal. The woman told me to worry about myself and get out of her business. I said ok, so i called the cops. She left before the cops got there and they were happy to see all the evidence i had. They made me E-Mail the video. 3 days later it was on the news. What happened to the woman? Oh she got probation and that was it!!! What happened to the gator. Oh, they made her call it to the bank. When the gator got to the bank, a gun shot was heard. No more gator in that bayou. There were some upset people and they talked about the gator never bothered anyone. Well it only takes 1 time and someone loses a child. I brought my 3 year old son with me to that spot. So yeah, that is hitting very very close to home. Personally i think that woman should have spent a minimum of 6 months in jail for it. Flordia doesnt play that crap. Anyway tbis video is spot on. Thanks for posting it.
@@ThegreatblazingsunDo you realize what happens when wild animals associate humans with food? They can become aggressive when they don't get the food they're expecting. It's annoying when a squirrel or seagull does it, now imagine a gator with its massive bite force and a tail that can break your legs if it smacks you getting pissy at you because you didn't bring it a snack 💀
This is a human-centered view of feeding wild animals. Some of it is right. The overall premise is leaving out important and devastating facts. Wild animals have had their habitats destroyed and/or stolen, their air and water polluted, and their lives impacted by vehicles and invading humans. The totality of human invasion, negligence and abuse of wild animals has left them with, as you pointed out, untenable ecosystems and disease. The solution to that problem is not killing them, and it's not only taking away food that people would otherwise feed them. Humans are dangerous too, but we don't get shot for eating food someone gave us. Neither should animals. Parks and reserves should do more to educate humans before giving them access at all. Animals have a right to exist and a right to receive help and kindness, including food, from humans. We have enough information available to us on the internet to understand specific needs, and meet them. I agree completely that hand feeding, especially in passing, is very bad bc of the socialization, and inability to monitor for illness. That does not make it ok to continue the deprivation our species has imposed against theirs. Sanctuaries staffed by vets and others qualified to work with wild animals (rehabbers, etc) are the least we can do, instead of murdering them. Humans as a whole treat nonhumans like nothing, and this well-intentioned and valuable video, unfortunately fails to address that. Wild animals are many times NOT capable of meeting their needs, bc we've paved their world, cut down their trees, dried and dammed their water. Yes, don't hand feed, or feed a species you don't know about, but stopping at that is only more harm. We owe them what would be just, considering all we've stolen from them. Thank you for this video.
Thank you for adding insight on wildlife habitats. I was hoping it would be mentioned as a major factor but I see how it's just outside the main scope of the video, even as compelling as a bookend to the video it may have served.
I don't see anything in the video that contradicts what you say. If some of it is right, as you say, then what is the other "some of it" that is wrong? Even if your facts are all right, it would all be just an addition to this video.
@@Alfamoto8 Thank you for your comment. All 3 of us agree that harmful feeding practices are wrong. My issue with the approach of the video is that norecourse to getting enough food is left to the animals in question, many of whom do depend on beeged food from humans. Deer in Yosemite used to starve in winter, before the winters there got warmer. The authorities in those jurisdictions should providee food for the wild residents, and ensure access to water. It's the least they/we can do for making thier lives vastly harder and decimated. That's one example. I'm trying to communicate our debt to animals as the species that harms them the most, and encourage folks to find healthy (for the animal nieghbors they are trying to serve) ways to make the payments on that debt. Another good practice is putting out purified water for wildlife: birds up high so they don't get killed trying to drink.
A ranger once told me “a fed bear is a dead bear”. I’ve never forgotten.
When I was younger in BSA and when I went to my first camp, they had some of the little boys of another troop leave food in their tent. When the scouts came back it broke those tents with food and others in the lot, thinking food was in there too. With the camp being on a peninsula they would know if it left. It didn't. We had a call time of 9:00 am. Then our leaders woke us up earlier. We were all complaining about it until halfway to the cars we saw a giant cage being pulled by a truck. Before we got in the car our leaders told us that even that one troop's handful of boys were reckless and foolish. That we are still held responsible for the future. Even if we lose a girl to saying no to a bird. Helping an animal is different than feeding an animal. You help an animal by calling people whose job is to make sure wild animals are kept wild animals. Not for your clout.
😅 I’m from Alaska… I’m stealing this. K thx 😂
Also in a lot of national parks, I’m pretty sure that if a bear touches a human they are sentenced to death. It’s pretty much guaranteed as most bears get tagged especially if they are coming near humans
Freddie Fed Bear? The bear is coincidentally dead too
We Bear Bears?
‘Human food’ is destroying a lot of the human population too…
well there’s no shortage of humans in the world
@@saycap
considering the coming population collapse, you’ll live to regret those words 😂
It's scary how most people don't eat "food" food, but manufactured food-like products. I truly believe our diets are seriously influencing our mental health as well, our brain needs nutrients to operate properly.
not really just how you eat
@@saycap that’s what happens when you leave Asian people alone
Please don't change the current title of the video 🙏
Yea.
Please change the title of this video
@@CocolottiPearson Nah, people need to know when they are being addressed
@@CocolottiPearson nah
@@CocolottiPearsonL
I remember how I said to an old woman, who held white bread inside her palms, that it's dangerous for ducks to feed them bread. Her reaction was surprised. And this woman was much older than me!
NEVER feed ducks white bread or any kind of food! Ducks aren't city animals, unlike pigeons! They just migrate to parks for some period before flying away to their natural habitat. If you feed them, you not only force them to stay in one place for a long period, but you also make them obese and always hungry, since bread is a processed food and has NO nutritional value for ducks. Many people get angry and defensive at me when I tell them this information.
If they really cared about wildlife, they would listen and listen well as to not harm any longer.
Even pigeons aren’t supposed to be city animals they were from the desert !
I didn't know that. Thankfully, I've never fed ducks before.
Nah, you can feed ducks seeds if you are at a park.
@akm74us This si not common sense, who taught us that feeding ducks white bread is dangerous? Fcking NOBODY.
Not feeding wild animals should be common sense.
I live in Queens. During the pandemic, there were cases of squirrels actually attacking people in NY, because they were desperate for food and expected it from humans.
MAGA '24
I was in the area, Yonkers, and we noticed an inordinate number of squirrels on the on ramps that year. Makes sense if they were scrambling to find food sources for the winter. Guess I never put two and two together.
Their numbers also ballooned because they were being fed. So yeah, it's not like a food crash from a drought or something.
If you're scared of squirrels you are prolly still wearing a mask 😆
@@mattd5681 I thought people afraid of squirrels because of rabies? Or did that get patched after pandemic?
The biggest part that gets me is that the humans who are doing this receive little to no punishment while it’s the animals getting put down for simply following their survival instincts.
But there has to be a balance, and stop their future generations from getting ruined even more.
and some of them even might think their helping the animal
@@ElectrickPanpan then we got to educate these ppl that they are - in fact - doing the complete opposite
As the dominant species on this planet it is our responsibility to manage the lower species… so why not set up programs where these starving animals are fed? They have some sort of intelligence and pattern seeking brain its cruel to have the means to be able to feed other species but choose to let them starve instead. Man eff yall i get the reason why yall think we should’nt feed them but it just doesn’t add up.
@@pablo4yu, dominant species by what measure, sir? Our own? Because humanity is full of idiocy. We quite literally kill each other and everything else for sport or blind religious privilege.
people want to have their disney princess moment and don't care about the consequences
What does that mean? Like tons of Disney princesses have nothing to do with animals. I can name maybe 2 that do. Maybe the OPERA or the almost 100 people who pushed the like button can explain.
@@and4all706 ??? dude it's so common to say that someone is a disney princess when they get approached by a wild animal
@@and4all706 They want to feel like they’re friends with the animals it’s super goofy
It's just the lack of collective awareness, no one feeds wild animals with bad intentions
@@and4all706unbased and twitter-pilled
Imagine some advanced civilization comes to your home and gives you a little snack and then you're just marked for death. Scary as shit tbh
sounds like a short horror story.
Sounds like a story about very aggressive fae folk
Its actually not same we don't haunt so a advanced civilization giving us snacks are same with our friend giving us snacks
Makes no sense portraying as Aliens cause humans aren’t aliens for animals.
@@Legacy1283tr depends. It's like telling a mediaeval civilization that there's something more advanced out there.
"Wild animal are perfectly capable of finding their own food. They don't need our help in finding food" you are absolutely correct sir
Yup,some of them have been around way longer than we have. As long as we don't destroy their environments completely they'll be fine.
*unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey
@ameerabualeinein Thank you, why isn't this being mentioned? We need to find alternative solutions, not just brush it off as *one* thing being a problem
Yes. It's interference with the balance of nature and no good will come of it. No different than cutting down entire forests where animals live or blasting away hills to get to coal. Any assault on the environment is just as bad as another.
Tell that to the malnutrition little tortoise i saw on one of my jogs. Its shell was in bad condition due to lack of nutrition. I'm not saying we should feed animals. Just saying adding edible plants into the woods would help animals since we stole all the veggies and fruits for ourselves.
When he said "it seems this stuff isn't good for everyone, except for humans", I chuckled remembering the obesity rates.
In America the average weight of a woman is 170, and it's 220 for a man.
The video was saying more than I think they intended. If human food is bad for other primates, it's bad for us. We're just as susceptible to the harms of carbs as the other animals we feed them to. They're empty calories (pure sugar) to the human body. Energy without nutrition. Wheat is only useful when you need extra energy for a strenuous job(like farming), not for general consumption in a sedentary society.
My thoughts exactly
Exactly
I came to the comments to point out as much. It changes their inner microorganisms. They can no longer break down fiber as easily. Why are we eating this crap!!!
There’s a reason it’s called WILDlife. Leave them alone.
Tbh you can but live with the consequence.
@@corz.mp4243better to remove the small problem that is very bad then have a problem that will become much bigger problem in the future
@@corz.mp4243that’s life for ya
Thank you for this… I wish people would just leave animals alone, I mean seriously just observe from a far when you see animals in nature.
Notbreally, they're just called wildlife because they are not captive.
That wasn't a rat stuck in the sewer, it's a european red squirrel 🐿️, the native species that is having a hard time dealing with the invasive grey squirrel from north america.
Thank you! I knew someone else had to notice that! 11:45
I was just about to write this!!! I was like, rat? Bro that's totally a red squirrel 🐿️😅
In one small town in Kansas are a group of black squirrels. They're beautiful.
@@carlawhite2576 We had them in Virginia. Animal control guy said that they are pretty aggressive. He caught one in a humane trap. Took it to the woods to release it. The squirrel ran out of the trap, then turned around after about 15-20 feet, came back and attacked him! O_o
@@carlawhite2576they are all over college campuses as well, I’ve never seen so many black squirrels until I attended
this is so true, I lived in a campus full of deers and monkeys, Once my friend from a hostel fed 2 monkeys on their corridor, next day a group of monkeys show up and disturbed and jumped people expecting food
Monkeys are scary af
Ok racist @@lsndoks8241
This is due to the monkeys social ladder. Monkeys who give food to others are lower on the totem poll. So when humans do it they see us in the same light, and when we don't give them food they'll do the same thing they do to those lower run monkeys. Attack.
“Deers?”
@@rmas32 search IIT Madras campus tour
Inviting predators to live closer to humans is like inviting a known kleptomaniac to a party and being surprised when everyone's missing something. Do you get mad at the thief or get mad at yourself for hanging out with a known thief?
Unfortunately we live in a world where even connecting two dots together with a straight line is too difficult for many people. They are not thinking about the consequences of their actions. It's literally like a child... "Oh animal, I give food maybe they will be my friend like in the jungle book! wee!"
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This type of understanding of consequences requires basic competency in "if, then statements." Which requires the ability to perform basic logic. Which clearly many people are unable to do.
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Or like when a woman baby traps a player. Is it the woman or the player's fault that she's a single mom?
How do you think we domesicated Wolfs into dogs, it's the same thing.
@@elysainempire4628not every animal should be domesticated though. Plus, dogs are more manageable and even then, you see cases of aggressive dogs biting people or killing other animals. If a “domesticated” dog is already too much for people, then can you say you feel safe if somebody brings a black bear to a park as a “pet”.
I live in a small town in Idaho. We have an apartment complex filled with elderly people...mostly women. We have a deer herd that hangs out there due to the large grass fields in and around the apartments. However, even when told by Fish and Game to Not Feed the deer...some of the old ladies won't stop.
One of the old lady fed a fawn some corn flakes. The poor thing ended up with fatal diarrhea....it laid on it's side for several days under a pine tree with crap covering it back side and kicking from stomach cramps.
Fish and Game, finally came and put it to sleep, when they decided it was too weak to recover and the doe basically gave up on it.
The deer have enough grass that they don't need any food, even in the winter...they know how to dig down through the snow and get to the grass.
We have people near me who do the same thing with kangaroos but they leave food next to the road 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Not to take this to some misogynist route, but from my experience, it's 9 out of 10 times women who will just ignore these advices because "but look how cute it is". On the pet side it's more balanced in terms of sexes, because most overweight cats and dogs I've seen are held by owners who just fill their bowls and can't be bothered to ration the healthy amounts, and I've seen both men and women do it. However, even in those cases, I've found it significantly easier to convince male owners that on the long run, their pet will die sooner because of it, while multiple times I've heard women owners say stuff like "But I just can't help it, he's a little hungry baby, are you saying I should starve him?" and think that's some sort of argument against it.
I don't have any experience working with fat kids, but I wouldn't be surprised there's huge difference in obesity stats between children of single mothers and children of single fathers. Maybe there's even study like that I didn't Google it, but children aren't my field of work anyhow. Besides, I don't live in USA and where I live you're properly body shamed for being fat so it's not like it's part of my culture.
@@MrMrtvozornik I'm a 60 year old woman, and I find it sad that so many posters need preface statements they are not being hateful to some group or another. Too many people seem to go out of their way be be butthurt and they get their panties in a twist when they read something they think is hate speech towards this group or that.
As a woman and an older one who has seen this drift towards everyone finding insult when there is none -- I am sorry you had to start your comment out that way.
And on to what you pointed out.
I absolutely agree with you, that it's more often than not, the women who are set on 'helping' those poor animals, in spite of being shown that they are doing more harm than good. I think some of it is a natural born mothering instinct, but still, at some point, restrictions need to be
self-imposed. Both genders need to just leave the animals be in most situations.
I don't mind seeing people help a buck who's antlers are tangled in wire fencing, or help a hawk or eagle that has somehow become water logged in a pond or something. But for the most part, there should be minimum interference with wild life.
Please tell me Fish And Game took photos of this dying deer who was shitting out his last breath and showed it to the grandmas to actually get them to fucking understand.
@Slayy05a Yes, but I stated in my comment that despite both genders, a.k.a. people not having education, once faced with the issue I have had far more success convincing men that they're slowly killing their pets than women.
So it's not only about starting chances, it's also about how easy it is to convince them that they're wrong. But hey, I'm a guy and maybe it's easier for a guy to convince a guy, but my female colleagues sort of report the same experience too, so it's not "from whose mouth it's coming from" either.
My best guess is that it's about instincts, and similarly how women are more nurturing than men in our species, these instincts are being hijacked for counter productive reasons.
We all seek hormone release, seratonin, dopamine, oxytocin etc. But it's far easier for man to build a hut or fix a car and feel the "job well done" feels than it for a woman, and similarly when baby is born yes, male gets boost of oxytocin but female gets ten times that, which could be because females who didn't might neglect their children cause they're loud whiny poop factories.
However, in extreme cases, a man could get deviated so much that he commits war crimes, "cleanses the village" and feels the same hormone release as with "fixing a car". So I assume this is just a flip side on the female side, the neuron pathways are the same, but they're not used for their original purpose and environment, which is why it's so hard to convince them that they're wrong and it's "a right thing to stop doing".
People should watch the We Bare Bears show episode where the bears feed wild animals their food. The animals start snatching from people. Even a mere cartoon tells.
Since little, every zoo I went had notice ‘Don’t feed the animals’. I guess people will never learn.
That episode is a perfect example of instant gratification without thoughtful consideration. There’s a reason other truck vendors were not feeding the wild animals. By the end of the episode, they had a mob of wild animals tipping the truck over for food. Lol
Lol i remember. Iv watched all the seasons. I wish there were more though.. really
@@AliHaider-bc7cl I love it too.
@@shosnine86 know of a similar show?!
I mean, this stuff is common sense, you don't feed wild animals. Wild animals cannot handle processed foods as their stomachs are not designed for it. It shouldn't take a 12 min youtube video, or a stupid cartoon for people to use common f-ing sense.
Thanks for educating me. Though I rarely go on trips where I would see wildlife, the times that I have, I have considered feeding them, thinking that’d be helping them. I’ve also fed geese and squirrels bread, feeling sorry for them. So I’ve now learned that it does more harm than good. I think most people like me who have fed wild animals think we’re doing something good and saving the animal from hunger so videos like this are extremely important. I admit I was one of these people and will definitely stop moving forward. It’s not like I feed wild animals regularly or anything but there have been rare times where I have “helped” them not knowing I’m making a negative impact on their lifespan and health. Sorry, animals.
Your response, as somebody who was part of the problem, is the pinnacle of maturity- gold star for you.⭐️Way too many people, when confronted with evidence that they're wrong about something, double down and dig their heels into their position, refusing to change their thinking and/or behavior. The ability to change your opinion in accordance with new information is also one of the hallmarks of being a true intellectual. Thanks for being one of the rare reasonable, civilized people on the internet.🌟💫✨
It's ok to help and feed some animals but ya know just do your research before doing so, feeding bread to birds and giving a dog a treat is ok as long as it is only a little bit and not often like every day obviously.
@@Quamo452did you learn anything from the video? What kind of research are you talking about? Do wild animals post what they're doing for you to know which one to feed and which one not to feed? What you're calling "a little bit" is what everyone else says, not knowing all of you are feeding the same animal. Just stop. You're not "helping" a wild animal by feeding it. You're changing its habits and making everything else that depends on it suffer.
@@Quamo452 I feel it's important that I mention: bread is actually a very unhealthy thing to feed birds. if you're going to do it (despite the video), feed them seeds, nuts or other healthier things.
I don't think it's wrong to feed some wild life, like bees, hummingbirds, or birds in general.
Polar bears are actually not afraid of people at all, in fact they are one of the few animals that see humans as prey and will actively track and hunt humans to try to eat them
Why are you saying them like you’re not a human
@@Ocram0he's a polar bear.
Is a Bipolar bear gay?
@@Kaedevirus this is correct, im a polar bear and the guy that made this comment is actually my hunting bro
@@Stylez-13 LOL
I rescued a baby squirrel I found in the city and raised her. I did A TON of research and had to have special food shipped internationally so she would have as close to a natural diet as possible. It was so expensive. Once she matured I ended up giving her to a wildlife rehabber who released her on 100ac of private land.
If you want to have an experience with wild animals, become a rehabber or work with a rescue organization that takes in orphaned and injured wildlife. They're almost always looking for volunteers. That was you're saving a life, not endangering one.
Also, STOP GIVING ANIMALS BREAD!
Whats wrong with giving them bread?
@@KINGRODP Watch the video.
What is wrong with you understanding to NOT feed wild animals.
@@bobmccurdy5329 The reason why the video states that you do not feed wild animals is because 1) our food is not part of their natural diet, 2) people are not professional wild animal caretakers whose purpose is to rehabilitate wild animals and send them back to the wild.
The poster did the right thing by making sure her diet can actually be found in the wild, and sending the squirrel to a rehabber, where the squirrel can safely integrate itself back to the wild. Wild animals get put down because people don't know shit about wild animals.
@@bobmccurdy5329 Are you illiterate?
My neighbor has numerous bird-feeders set up in her backyard. What she doesn’t see are all the cats that cross my yard to get to hers. She has essentially setup a feeding station for the cats too.
Cats hunt birds
Those cats shouldn't be outside in the first place
Seething about someone's bird feeders is crazy😂
@@Yikeo seething? They're just explaining that the high concentration of wild birds. Attracts cats
@RollerBaller where do you expect strays to live?
My brother just told me the other day about that one man who lived alongside bears. Key word lived. He was happily befriending them and probably feeding them too, until one day a hungry bear he thought of as one of his best buddies came close and ate him to prepare for the next winter.
Possible that he was already dead
The Grizzly man? That guy is famous. He recorded everything including his last moments and that is lost footage a lot of people want to get their hands on. There are a lot of documentaries about him. He insisted the grizzlies loved him.
@Nylon_riot the reason why it's 'lost' footage is because we learned bears don't wait until you're dead to start eating.
@@skylordjojo8454 so they got little quirky and silly at same time, that's forbidden!!
I askes chatgpt, he said it was a random bear. Not sure if thats correct tho.
Even the trolls of TH-cam agree with the title...Feeding wild animals, even from genuine care, is a complete life risk and is genuinely stupid.
Depends on the wild animal your talking about
Bears?
Crocodiles?
bunnys?
@@crappyPatty235 does it really matter dude? Its gonna be the same answer they have to put down the animal due to it asociating humans with food
@@RolandEdrickSantos-jz7yp so if I feed one little baby bunny they are going to track its location and kill it? Come on dude that's just ignorant.
@@crappyPatty235 No the bunnies will just be hit by cars and die. Do all simple things need to be explained to you in detail? The only one coming of as ignorant here is you.
you have to exclude the domesticated animals of course
I rescued a wolf cub. I was allowed to keep it but it had to be desexed, be in a special containment, had to have a tracking collar on it, and is not allowed to stay out for the night. I had to sign all sorts of contracts. But, Mighty Rayzar had been with me for five years now.
I’m glad you’re taking proper care of the wolf! 😊
i need you to upload videos w you and your wolf
@donttrythisathome2690 Many people are full of it on here... not saying the person is lying... but I see all kinds of posts of heroic stories all the time, and no videos. Or the person is brand new to youtube..
@antoniocm3119 once upon a time, all animals were wild.
@@6P3-MK4 Use your head.
This film makes me realise that ignorance is not an excuse, the knock on effect is huge,thinking that it's pretty harmless to feed wild animals, well just shows how wrong you can be, thanks for the info
Apparently this doesn’t apply to NYC rats that eat pizza and popcorn etc. They just keep multiplying.
@@ICBODYTOOcrack squirrels are a thing? 😵💫
"rats, wildlife, nyc"
Dude, these don't work well together
Rats are a different matter entirely.
For one, most people don't intentionally feed wild rats. They're not losing their natural fear of humans because they get snacks, they're just naturally moving closer to the most plentiful food source.
Rats can sustain themselves on just about anything and while they technically do need a balanced diet to be truly healthy, that's not something a wild animal concerns itself with.
Rats also have really short life cycles and can reproduce rapidly, so even if individuals life expectancy get lower due to a poor diet the pack can easily thrive.
@@plainjane4177 Yes, I actually googled it and there were a few reports from the UK.
Certain animals thrive on human food though... like rats & roaches.
One time fishing in the Okefenokee, I was constantly followed by a very large bull 'gator. I was not alone but every time I spoke he would move toward me so I had to move away.
I can only surmise that someone with a voice similar to mine was feeding it regularly. I was constrained to report the behavior to the local game warden and they were forced to hunt it down.
It is pure ignorance to feed wild animals, you are teaching them to come to humans and associate them with food. "Feeding animals" also includes dumping your food scraps in the lake or swamp or in the woods.
Be conscious of what your actions could lead to. Know outdoor etiquette. Be smart and stay safe.
What about feeding human food to wild birds in parks?
@@ashtoningram45 same issue I’d say. Ducks can go from timid birds to sandwich hunters.
@@ashtoningram45 Dont feed wild birds either. Birds move a lot of seeds and if the wild birds only hang around in the park then this wont happen. An example is from my grandmas house who lives on a lake. There are a lot of Canadian geese there, and they were being fed by people on the lake, so they stayed there because they could get food and did not migrate for the winter at all. They end up coming onto peoples lawns to try to get food and poop on the lawns pretty much destroying them.
@@zacharykai6317 the only creature I feed are my foxes that live on My property besides my cats, I just curious why it a bad idea to feed birds, because I seen people do in in parks all the time, for years growing up as a kid
@ashtoningram45 they get bound to that place. They don't do whatever they're supposed to do, like searching for food and spreading seeds. They just become an attraction.
Most human food isn't good for us either
Why do you think it's called go"yslop
So very true. It is actually poisonous. Europe doesn't allow the crap we eat to be sold there.
Thats cause the fully natural food is almost impassoble to grow on mass without fertilizers and chemicals...
thats a very obvious conclusion from this video, absolutely!
@@Gloverfield who told you so? perhaps the ones who sell industrially produced garbage via funding corrupt medical practicioners studies? follow the money, dude.
Thanks for this video!! I think people are more willing to listen to signs that say “don’t feed the animals” when they understand the actual reasoning behind it. So thank you for shedding light on this!
Most of these people are campers and hikers! They should definitely know better, they aren’t uneducated. They’re arrogant and destructive.
I had this video (TH-cam channel:"James Blackwood", Video Title: "Mobbed by raccoons (25) Tuesday night 03, Nov 2020" video has 40 million views and I can only imagine the damage that it has done nationwide to local raccoon populatios.), it was an elderly man that was feeding about 30 raccoons daily, and this was exactly what I was thinking, and unfortunately in the comments there wasn't a single person that stated why feeding wild animals is bad, everyone was just "oh the raccoons are so cute!". But everything that you've said in this video was True in that video, the raccoons were fighting with each other and not looking for their own food, instead loitering on his property, looking for a handout.
And when the elderly man dies and the raccoons aren't fed any more, they're either a complete nuisance to the next owner of that house, or they go hungry.
All the raccoons in the video are pretty obviously obese, as well.
o shoot i know that channel
Oh wow I forgot about that video
@@Debbie-henri And... They'll all get put down.
Some human food is not even beneficial for humans.
Hi and greetings from Germany.
It's UPF killing humans.
@@mikelarry2602 whats UPF? Ultraviolet Protection Factor
Ay I'm american let me be fat 😂
@@imnugget8085 🤮
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It's not that the people are bad, it's that they don't know any better. Thanks for informing people!
They do know better they just refuse to listen
Across time, the worst type of man is the one who are even if they are told, they refuse to listen.
Evil isn't so bad if their decisions are logical, but they are not. Its just ego.
The worst atrocities have been committed by people who think they are doing the right thing and are completely unable to think of how it could go wrong.
Actually it is bad. Everywhere has signs not to feed the wild animals. From before I could read everyone repeated the phrase not to feed wild animals. It’s impossible that adults are ignorant to these rules. This knowledge is so widespread that it’s almost innate. People just don’t care, and a lack of caring causes harm, and causing harm is bad, therefore the people doing so are bad. Doesn’t mean they are evil, and just because you think something isn’t bad doesn’t make it so.
They do know better. They get warned to not feed the animals.
Ok but polar bears apparently never actually feared humans, they’re one of the few predators that see humans as lower on the food podium
They're apparently extremely opportunistic, and see us in the same way they see seals. Scary stuff.
While that is true, understand that there’s a difference between seeing someone as food and seeing someone as a food source.
If a polar bear sees me as food that means it just wants me specifically and that’s it, but if the polar bear sees me as a source of more food, then there’s the problem.
Because humans indeed are. Not all animals have to see us as superior nor be domesticated
It's much better if they aren't
I really am loosing my faith in humanity rn. In Japan where I am currently, so many people are leaving out their trash, as the towns in the mountains are greatly expanding. The habitat of the wild bears are shrinking, and yet some locals decide to leave food for them outside. It’s no mystery why there are literally bear attack news almost every day. And when these things happen, the bears are hunted down and killed. To make matters even worse, the subspecies of asiatic black bear in Japan are considered threatened, and the sheer stupidity of humans is causing a species decline. I 100% agree with this video, and I am really glad that there are people out there who are trying to spread awareness about these things❤.
I think that’s just tourist who are leaving out their garbage outside. After all why would they respect another country if they don’t even respect theirs. I’m only saying this since Japan is know to have more manners when it comes to waste than the US
@@HolyRedEyeI genuinely doubt that since tourists often don't care about the countryside, if anything the lack of tourism there while theres an overabundance of tourism in major cities is an actual issue due to the lacking tourist economy in the rural side that even Japan is taking action to reduce overtourism in major cities. Plus assuming original poster is a local of the area, its probably locals.
@@HolyRedEyei lived in a similar area in Japan like OP, and there were definitely hardly any tourists there. What there were a lot of were crows and they would try to get the trash out of the trash areas (which sometimes are covered by green nets and not well covered, so the crows get to the trash bags, peck them open, and spew garbage everywhere), so that's why there was so much trash on the streets everyday. Japanese ppl have to make proper bins that keep the birds out, but usually they don't, which is infuriating because it could solve their problems easily and everyone else's (except the birds').
They leave food outside for them?! That's just awful.
One commenter thought it was tourists, HA. If food is being left out consistently, it's definitely NOT tourists, and I can imagine what area you're living in, probably somewhere in northern Chubu lol
Indeed most of the food and garbage being left out are from residents and not tourists. For example, a couple months ago there was an announcement in Karuizawa town (I was on a birding trip there) that bear tracks were discovered next to the town garbage place. When I went there, I saw piles and piles of plastic bags and overflowing leftover foods. No wonder bear attacks happen almost every day.
'Human food' isn't good for humans either.
Difference is you won't get put down by the authorities for going through the McDonalds drive-thru
Yeah but part of the video concerned how human food fucks up digestive systems and causes obesity.... Arguably something humans also deal with yet refuse to Acknowledgei@@ButUrWrongTho
@@ButUrWrongTho Yet you get put down by the chemicals in it. 🤦
@@Instareels50099you’ll die no matter what you eat
@@Psyonyxe60 years is very optimistic. Try 3 years if you’re nikocado avocado
In Japan, these two influencers were purposefully camping out in a forest that had warning signs of bear sightings (which they claimed they didn’t see) because they wanted to film a bear on camera. They pretended to be surprised when the bear stumbled onto their camp (because it smelled their food) filmed themselves running away being scared of the bear. The bear ate their food and over the next few days, that bear showed up around human settlements looking for more food. The town had to euthanize the bear because of that. Worse of all, that bear had cubs too :( even though those two influencers were called by the town officials and other content creators, they still kept the video up and pretended that nothing happened.
Who are they?
@@Thigamabobbest to not give these idiots any more attention
Japan has bears?
@@impy2d843brooo 😂 yes lol
@@impy2d843Asiatic bears. They have a big white spot on their chest.
TY so much for this video. There's an unending plethora of vids depicting Snow White/Disney Princess wannabes & it's RIDICULOUS. Whether it's feeding wild animals, finding "abandoned" young & adopting them; it's just all so nonsensical. Ppl interfering w/ the wildlife simply to share vids seems to be a large part of the problem. I hope many share this.
Oh dear god, the intro alone put me in a state of rage. And here's the thing, if "human artificial food" does this to MOST animals, that should give you a clue how bad they are for humans.
I shouldn't be surprised seeing you here Alteori, since you always said you love animals.
human food is for humans, it's not necessarily BAD for US, disappointing seeing this from a fellow furry :c
@@infinitehexington There's a reason a ton of food here in the USA is banned in other countries or modified. Our food is overly processed and it's leading to a ton of problems. Decrease in good gut bacteria, lower immune systems, crowded teeth, heart problems, etc...
@@fadumomohamed2342 just drink alkaline water, and don't eat a pound of KitKats how hard is that?
@@infinitehexington I wasn't making a joke.
As a hunter in Germany i'm completly with you. We had lots of problems with wild pigs in some cities and people who feed them, those pigs are really dangerous, they can literally kill you. The next are racoons which were feed by people 'cause they're "so cute". Please do not feed wild animals. In Germany you can also pay hefty fines for feeding doves or ducks.
I think you mean wild boars in German Wildschwein. Right. The brown pigs with big teeth. That can absolutely kill you?
In Louisiana, they had signs up with fines for feeding alligators. My husband and I both thought it was a “stupid person” tax because you’d have to be insane to feed a gator (we lived on a boat)
@@Manie230I think so too. I'm not German, but German-adjacent. "Schwein" translates to "pig", which is not really incorrect in English either (I think?) as the pigs are a family of species (including boars and domesticated pigs).
@@TheBaumcmseems reasonable. I mean, fines for not wearing seat belts could also be considered a "stupid person tax" 😂
but yeah, it's most likely because it will make alligators actively seek humans much more, and that's just stupendously dangerous.
@@mnxs I thought of wild pigs as feral pigs. So essential domesticated pigs that have gone wild again. That’s why I asked if he meant boars cause those are a problem in Germany in some bigger cities.
I've been a warden in a french alpine national park for 12 years. Situation can be even worse than presented here. I've seen so many diseases on ibex, wild boars, marmots, foxes and even birds... When you come across an animal asking for food, it doesn't mean it needs it. It means it's addicted to it already, why giving it more? It will only lead it to fatal issue... I hope people looking at this video will keep it in mind! Much useful clip! Thanks a lot!
Damn, I never thought about it like this before.
Thank you for the information.
So, by giving Animals human food, we create adorable drug addicts.
That is horrible.
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@@hermeticinstrumentalist6804 he exaggerated it by far. many animals have the istinct to ask food to humans, is in their DNA code, look at cats, no matter if slim fit or fat, they will often try to ask food, cause they are a semi domesticated specie, even more normal for dogs.
@@dagan8659 Better safe than sorry.
I do understand what you're saying though.
@dagan8659 no animal will ignore the offering of food, especially when they know where to get it from and how accessible it is. That is the problem. Dogs have an ancestral predecessor in the canid line that split off from wolves, that line grew around humans, doesn't mean you should feed wolves. Once they associate humans with food, they begin expecting it from all people, if it doesn't receive an offering then it is likely to get aggressive and make you it's offering.
Cats are also not domesticated, plenty of stray cat colonies everywhere to show they're capable of hunting their own food. People are just convenient
@@dagan8659 not much exagerated. Marmots doesn’t feed on anyrhing else than carrot once they are accustomed to it. They end with diseases due to sugar excess (which is a drug for them) and loses their fur (we call it pelade in French). If the disease is important they can't recover the fur and don't manage to overwinter...
I have examples like this for Ibex, wild boars, foxes, several species of birds... Sugar is a drug and it is present by excess in most of what we eat, and for animals which have very low sugar diet and which become addicted... that's a fatal issue.
This is so informative . Thank you so much for this !! If I hadn't watch this , I would be the type of person to feed every animal they see , but now I understand that it does them more harm than good 😢
Well that explains why Seagulls are so aggressive on the MC Donalds Parking lots.
Y e s
We shouldn't waste food and keep trash in the trash.
All my life I've been told not to feed wild animals or leave human food behind but no one ever explained why, this video explained PERFECTLY so thanks for that. Reminds me of my cat i used to let him live outside 100% of the time but when his leg got injured and we took him inside he lost his wild survival skills so he is an inside cat now.
One of my cats was born inside and has always been inside, so we call him homeschooled😭
(He’s not allowed outside either)
Cats shouldn't be allowed outside in the first place. They've decimated so many birds and other small wildlife. Not to mention the influx of stray cats now found outdoors, it's sad.
First of all Domesticated Cats don't belong to nature! They can kill up to 15 birds a day + other small animals and not even bother eating any of them! They are good at destroying whole ecosystems! But as for feeding wild animals, don't. *unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey (but leave it to professionals if your not feeding just birds). Or if you happen to find an animal in distress (you should always first contact the right authorities/volunteers first)...we need to find long term ways to help animals, but we can't just brush it off like it's nothing because we humans also depend on the ecosystem and helping them is the right thing to do when it's done the right way. I have fed a baby wild animal in distress that I have rescued before, when waiting for the volunteers to pick it up and take to the shelter (for later release to the wild).
I was told this when I was 6 years old. The gist of it was Because if you feed them they get too used to being around humans which is bad for us and them.
The big reason I was told is if we give them food they would get lazy and come to us for food rather than finding it in nature
@@PepperMistAnimationsthat’s nature. Animals die. The small birds that get eaten by cats have evolved to lay more eggs.
This whole video is an alarming message at how unhealthy the foods we consume really are. I hope this will be an awakening call for many of us.
Exactly. Greedy horrible human wolves are feeding other humans poison for "profits" and those same humans dying of this poison that has destroyed their brains so they think it's "okay" to feed this poison to harass abuse and murder wildlife. The whole thing is horrible 😞
@@tw8464 what if you only eat home cooked meals?
@@mjawara1 i assume that's heatlier than eating something that's ready to eat as it is. Or that requires little work
Yeah absolutely. Corn, Bananas, nuts,seeds, carrots, absolutely awful, just poison. It's evil to feed anyone these things. It's definitely not that different species have different nutritional needs, it's those pesky carrots.
Yep, because if you aren't well off, you aren't getting any nutritious food. You're forced into eating shit in a box because that'll keep the family from starving.
Absolutely Infuriating.
I didn’t know about this. Ive never fed a wild animal, but Im glad I saw this before I possibly made an ignorant mistake. Thank you for the education!
Polar Bears don't fear humans to begin with. If they get the opportunity to munch on one of us they will do so without hesitation.
True but doesnt help to give them a reason to actively search for humans
@@billklatsch5058 If I have to choose between tossing my lunch at the polar bear or taking my chances running for my life, I'm throwing away the food first.
@@Mr.Ford3350 the bear will probably not care because whatever your eating you have more meat on your body
@@JustBuyTheWaywardsRealms Not necessarily. Plenty of animals want to get their food with as little effort on their part as possible. Why chase down prey wasting valuable energy when you can take the much easier and safer option of eating the food they left behind?
@@Mr.Ford3350 because human are snail for bear
a basic summary is that human food can cause dangerous animals to come looking for humans and they could get mad if they aren't given food.
weight gain
entering populated areas
less self sufficiency on their own
fighting other animals for food
negative changes in gut biome
the lack of hunting and gathering makes it so the offspring aren't taught how to hunt/gather
lack of necessary nutrients
feeding a wild animal and then just leaving it is not how we domesticated dogs
less plants being seeded and less range that they are seeded (by droppings)
The last part definitely hit home for me 💡😅
As native american and lover of untrouched nature, I'm greatful for this video, you've earned my family and I greatest repects for your video contribution and explantion to this problem as I'm tried of explain it.
@4kDeadMan1995 It’s crazy how simple truths can be so hard to explain. People have convictions based on superficial impressions and can’t think about them at any depth other than: yes I am correct.
Hey how are ya? Hey how are ya?
@@cuddlebug8106 doing alright I guess. Minus losing my eye sight...
The fact that we are sharing our food with animals means that we are having too much food for our own good, too. "Poor animals get sick from our food, because of its superfluousness and low quality" - well, guess what, so do we! If food was scarce for us, we wouldn't leave any to wild animals.
Tbh that’s how dogs were domesticated and food was scarce back then
Except for baiting maybe. Trading an apple for a deer seems to be a bargain.
@@RetroRay_7 They kind of stopped to be wild animals when we shared our food. It was done to gain advatage from the dogs.
I chucked some big night crawlers over a bush in a city park to see if some geese would eat it. They stared at the worm on the ground wondering what the hell it was and waddled away. The feeding of wild geese with human food has gotten so bad that they're literally not eating earthworms off the ground............... If people really want to help wild animal populations they should plant wild sunflowers, corn, and plant native fish eggs in local ponds instead of feeding bread to birds.
I am sorry to say, geese are VEGETARIANS. They graze in parks like cows - one can see how fattening gras is ...
If you want to feed earthworks to some animals you could do so with chicken, ducks, fish ....
Yes agreed!. I plant natural food for birds, etc...the birds and squirrels have a great time with the sunflowers seeds and some of fruit too.
To be fair, if they were Canada geese they mainly eat grass and grain, though they occasionally eat invertebrates like worms or fish it's not as common. Plus, seeing a weird thing flying at them can stress some animals out enough that they won't eat it even if they do recognize it as food.
About half of America and I believe all of Canada doesn’t have native earth worms. That could be a reason they didn’t go after them. Everywhere else they’re all invasive.
Geese eat grass, not worms. I used to raise geese.
sounds like not even we should be eating our food we need help
"Our" food? We live in the golden age of information. Start a garden. Buy some chickens and learn how chicken reproduction works. My food is fine.
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People love to complain about how f'd up society is. Yet they seem unwilling to do anything to prevent themselves from being reliant on that f'd up society. "We" don't need help. "We" need to learn to help ourselves. And we live in the best time throughout all of human history for learning how to do this. I went from completely useless to mostly self sufficient in a couple years through research, time and effort. Anyone with access to the internet and a willingness to learn can do this.
@@anthonyfaiell3263 I definitely agree we should grow and eat our own food but they should definitely stop making all this crappy food that lowers our life span and kills us quicker
Yet no man is an island. If you're really gonna be self-sufficient, will you make you own internet tower? Create your own computer? Find your own ores, process them, then manufacture the devices and tools you use on a daily basis? Everyone is dependent on society to some degree. Self-sufficiency has limits, and that's not bad. People are more effective as a group, and that includes as a group that seek change for the better via action, including demanding such change from others. A vote from 1 person is insignificant; votes from 1 group holds far more power.
@@jk-2053 I agree and I'm not saying we should be completely off of the government but what I'm saying is that the government should probably take better care of the products that they put out that they call food that do nothing but harm us later on in life
@@anthonyfaiell3263yes “our food” food that was created by humans that doesn’t grow in the wild, that wild animals shouldn’t eat. It is “our” food because humans created it. Whether you eat like that or not the species that created this garbage food is the species you are a part of. So yes “our food”
In my experience, both from my field of study (Animal Behaviour studies), 3 years as a zookeeper, along with years and years of study in zoology, people are ridiculously misinformed about animals and wildlife in general. People simply either don't know or don't care (often both). People can barely identify animals as they see them and their knowledge of a lot of animals goes about as far as something they heard or saw in a Disney movie. It's pretty sad. People can be very ignorant of the unpredictability of many animal species and the dangers posed by them.
Add on top of the fact people anthropomorphize (Give human traits/emotions to animals) animals at almost every turn, people don't stop to think about the consequences of their actions or don't take the time to inform themselves on the truth of things. WIldlife is made to be admired from a distance, without human intervention. This may vary among certain species. But if you don't know, why not have the common sense of playing it safe? And yeah, do NOT FEED wild animals! As indicated in the video, you're doing more harm than good. Thank you for spreading more awareness and knowledge!
As a general rule sure. *unless they’re in the middle of a destroyed ecosystem and can’t find any prey...we need to find long term ways to help animals, but we can't just brush it off like it's nothing because we humans also depend on the ecosystem.
The biggest problem is that people are little babies afraid of anything wild and immediately demand to shoot it. Imagine if Indians treated wild animals this way. There wouldnt be any elephants or tigers left!
I have a question. Is feeding birds or housing ones like purple martins and bluebirds also bad? There seems to be a much more robust tradition of these habits, and I haven't observed demonstrable harm from them, but I could be mistaken.
@@Sc0pee In this specific case I would agree, in the extreme circumstances an ecosystem in danger of breaking. Humans have the ability to improve an environment with the right practices, a healthy ecosystem is beneficial to us as well, after all. Which is important. Making sure the environment is well balanced. This does becomes more of a problem as wild lands are shrinking and humanities need for space and resources continues to grow, its a tough balancing act, for for every effort that is made to conserve wildlife, much is destroyed to satisfy human needs. In the case of theis video I was more making a case about people underestimating the inherent danger they put themselves in, feeding/interacting with wild animals in their space.
@@oswaldrabbit1409 I think it was mentioned a bit in the video. Though bird feeders in your backyard are mostly harmless it does create a dependency for those animals. If food is left in the open, even for certain species, you can be sure other species will take advantage of this as well (rodents, other birds, etc, etc). It removes the need for them to find food on their own from wild sources. Though very adaptable, animals can suffer quite a bit if this free access to food is suddenly removed or no longer available. However I can't be 100% sure on how much damage or harm it would cause as other factors have to play in (overall environment, distribution of wild spaces in the area, etc.) I am sure there are local wildlife services that could offer you better advice than I could!
Thank you for making a video about this. People need to learn wild animals aren't pets and they dont need you to feed them.
Who knew Ranger Smith was doing the right thing with attempts to stop Yogi and Boo Boo from taking picnic baskets.
That’s “pik a nik baskets 😆😆
And back then, you never heard of bears, bison, moose, and wolves having to be put down. Our grandparents weren't numbskulls.
I sometimes feed the spiders in my garden, if I notice they haven’t caught anything in a while.
Two of them ended up mating, I certainly didn’t intend to be a spider matchmaker
😂🤣
They ended up having a big, lovely family. And they decided that your ears will be their new home. Beware of them, my friend.
Better love story than titanic
Better love story than titanic
I do that on purpose and ended up with 7 argiope aurantia egg sacks this year. The garden spider. How I love them! And orb weavers, crab spiders and jumping spiders!
A human fed me once... now I have some specter chasing after me trying to kill me.
Don't accept food from people!!!
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i mean you can type, right
@@idk-w6i2y you are dumb
Good comment.
People can see that the animals are "dangerious" but they don't know that the hunters *might* not be good people?
It's one thing to hunt a wild animal for being dangerous to people.
It's a crime when it's turned into a reason to bypass hunting laws.
We can't HUNT mountain lions... oh but the lion stole some food from a guy's backpack? "WE'RE EATING LION TONIGHT BOYS!"
It's hilariously evil.
Does the humans holding the long specters make thunder sounds?
This video is an eye opener. I never realized how harmful it is to feed wild animals. Thanks
👩🏻Wow, this video is a must for all. I have given bread to pigeons and squirrels. But you're right, it messes up the wild animals, normal way of survival. Great video and the message is loud and clear. I never knew feeding them, was causing more harm, than good.
Thank you for education me.
Bread isn't good for most animals and can hurt them, but in general feeding pigeons is alright (depending on they type, and as long as there isn't anything like avian flu going around) because most of the pigeons you'll encounter are feral pigeons descended from domestic pigeons, and so don't have a place in your local food web.
Pigeons are not wild animals, they were domesticated for centuries and only recently got trash talked and discriminated against. They have barely and survival skills and are basically just food for other animals
Commenting to feed the algorithm, this video needs to be seen by as many people as possible
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Guys stop feeding the algorithm, it's gonna get unhealthy and fat.
Yup
Don’t feed the Algorithm… It could get too used to human interaction and thats bad for it.
Quick! We need to feed our politicians now!
Feed me well, I'd become a politician someday
@@farouspopoola basic requirement: be corrupt
@@hongfeiwei2710 Wrong, you don't have to be corrupt, you just have to lie to people and speak what they want to hear, be innefficient, pretend nothing is wrong and then you can be corrupt.
As a moroccan i was scared when i saw the title, maybe rename the title “americans, stop giving wild animals fast food” because every time i go to morocco we give wild animals food, but the second they start asking too much we get aggressive so they know their place, been doing this for thousands of years without issues.
Had no idea the reason was so important. Thank you for the video. So informative.
First place i ever saw an obese bear was BEAR COUNTY park or whatever in South Dakota. The owners of the place were feeding them wonder bread to the point their stomachs are dragging on the ground. The whole place is a drive-through park that lets tourists feed them anything.... the place is disgusting. Sad to see how little humans know.
made up story.
They are seeing the fat bears themselves, I wouldn’t say they don’t know, they just don’t care
2/3 of Americans are obese.
They probably saw the fat bear and thought “wooohoo, now that’s an American bear! YEEHAW!!,”
Can’t expect people to know that obesity for animals is bad when they don’t know that obesity in general is bad, even for humans.
I blame Haes
is that even legal?
I think it's perfectly fine to feed birds in your garden, or swans and ducks in rivers or lakes. As long as you feed them the appropriate foods. It is actually super beneficial to the birds during spring when they're all nesting.
I am from the UK though, so the rules are a little different here. No bears crocks or wolves 🤷
Edit: If you have a dog, you can gather up its fur and tie it to your bird feeder. They will take it and use it for their nests.
Lucky you, lol😂😂😂
@@deborahaumiller7391 lol.
I should probably point out that we still have foxes, badgers and deer. These animals get really fat when people feed them.
ducks cant break down bread, bread is filled with fibers, fibers make you feel full when you aren't, causing them to not feed topping off the fact that they hardly get any nutrients at all from the food we eat
@@Mark-yr3cw true, but I usually feed ducks corn, only because it floats on the water.
In the states this is frowned upon. The reason being is we have a big problem with people dumping domestic ducks they no longer want at the parks. Keeping them alive puts significant stress on the native species. Not only that, there tend to be more males than females and they will breed the females to death. It has become such a problem from irresponsible parents buying their kids ducklings for Easter than dumping them that people are actually encouraged to eliminate or take the domestic ones home. Still, it doesn't stop people from being irresponsible, though.
I used to work for the park service and it was a hoot ( sarcasm) every year when parents dump the geese and bunnies off at the park. For staff to get screamed at by other people for not protecting them when they would get picked off by coyotes and foxes. Still don't see anyone address the sale of them to non-farmers, though.
people aren't being kind
They're being selfish, satisfying their own ego
yk your calling yourself that to
@@StarryEd1tzwell thats what humans are...most humans arent kind, and theyre always very selfish.
Shatap bro@@StarryEd1tz
@@mohamed-on6zb yes yes I shit upward /j
TH-cam better not take this down. DON'T FEED WILD ANIMALS
Imagine a space alien feeding us and then other space aliens Put Us To Sleep.
Imagine aliens breeding us like pokemon ϟϟ(๑⚈ ․̫ ⚈๑)
...
"Hey human you know what anabolic steroids are?"
"Yes??"
*alien hands you a tube of glowing paste* "well this is like that but without the negative side effects"
"Oh wow"
*space laser vaporizes human*
You'd take your words back when moose kills you because you had no food for it
@@Vsevolodbochkovno they wouldn’t, they’d be dead XD more seriously though, you can feel sympathetic for the animals being killed while still agreeing that they aren’t safe living so close to people
😂😂😂😂😂😂
That bear n the thumbnail would eat that human if it was that hungry lol
No he wouldn’t bears 🐻 like to cuddle 🤗
@@user-dj9gg1sq9q lol
he would just hug me to pieces! 🙂"oh look! it's a piece of meat holding a smaller piece of meat!"
What thumbnail you lying
You mean the kangaroo?
2 months old, not banned, proves this man has a point. Also even after watching I still don’t really understand why their killed
Because the animals either get too comfortable with humans and cause panic or they get hostile and attack
Animal hostility. They attack people for food since they associate the food with people. They get addicted to the handouts. Giving them food proves that humans will give you food one way or another and if they don’t get it they throw fits that take people off the census.
I feel like they should have programs to rehabilitate the animals. They don't deserve to die for following instinct. Imagine if we killed people for donating to charity or something.
@@JoshuaGraham_you just discovered what a zoo is! All the animals are to adapted to humans or injured to survive the wild
@@JoshuaGraham_ Rehabilitation does not work. They do fine without the food. Releasing them back into the wild puts them back to an environment where they get reacustomed by people who consider it a good idea to feed them.
There should be rigorous punishment for the people feeding the animals. Get caught, spend a day picking up litter on the roadside.
My neighbour used to put loads of bird seed and peanuts out, and the consequence of that was a winter with mice in the attic, under the floorboards, in the wall cavity.
New neighbour and it took until the second winter before we stopped getting all the gnawing and scratching and squeaking noises that would keep us awake. The place must have been full of old seed stores.
My father told me a year ago that in the resort we had recently visited (in Hurghada, Egypt), a man was bitten by a reef shark. It was reported that this shark was repeatedly being fed by visitors of the place, which one really shouldn't do. This led to the shark habitually seeking out humans expecting food. The man might have provoked a bite due to a panic response, I don't really know though . To clarify, I forgot whether it was that resort or the bay Sharm El Naga or another place we've visited, but the point is that shark attacks boil down to human error, such as treating those sharks inconsiderately.
I blame Shark Week. ❤😂🎉
There’s some idiot in town that has a “slow down, community pet deer in area” and I’ve twice taped over it “the deer are WILD, not a community pet. More people get killed in a year by deer than by bears and sharks combined”
That's what you get for overdriving your headlights.
200 people die every year from deer, however that's from car accidents, WHICH DON'T HAPPEN IF YOU SLOW DOWN AND TAKE CAUTION (specifically deer car accidents)
It is easy to avoid bears and sharks (be loud and don't go into the ocean, bam, bears know you're there and will leave you alone unless it's a polar bear and then you're fucked and sharks don't walk on land), it is NOT easy to avoid a deer jumping out while you're going 45, so in reality you're not helping and are in fact possibly getting people hurt because now they can't see the sign that warns them to slow down because deer are around, also taping over private property (no matter the intention) is illegal
No matter how you slice it, you trying to do good is not only putting you in the wrong because you're going about it the wrong way, but is also putting other people in danger
Uh dude, you might think youre helping but you're in the wrong. Your facts are right but deer accidents only happen due to people NOT slowing down. You're endangering people with harmful advice rather than helping people. If anything, that guy is helping the deer more than you. If you really want to help, tape over the sign with something else. Maybe say, "Slow down! Deer in the area." That way you're helping people and also insinuating the deer is not a pet. Plus, it's shorter than what youre already saying which means people are more likely to read it since it's not a big paragraph. Sorry, man, but you really need to change how youre doing this since it isn't very helpful right now. You have a good heart but a bad method.
@@husoldiers2221 I definitely was not talking about car accidents involving deer creating fatalities. During the rut and with people getting too close to fawns, deer do in fact gore and stomp people to death
Thinking it’s just car accidents is actually your issue, not mine
@@bendingdemon6483 440 are killed a year due to car impact. Over 200 are by deer “boxing” and goring during the rut and fawn seasons because idiot tourists from cities get too close just like that lady in Yellowstone that got tossed by a Bison
Don’t be stupid
This is why I do not leave anything in the wild that shouldn't be there. You can tell the behavioral differences between a city animal, protected animal (ie no hunting allowed), and something totally wild.
As a former employee of a company in Grand canyon... The squirrel is indeed considered the deadliest/most dangerous animal there. Bites are frequent, rabies is a thing... As are other diseases like the literal plague.
Fear the friendly tree rat! (Not actually a tree rat, separate species, but the nickname fits...)
Where the hell did squirrels get the plague?
@@mattd5240 fleas
@@mattd5240Every mammals can get rabies
@@h4ed The plague isn't rabies. I'm asking how they came in contact with the bubonic plague.
I think that the comment or possibly meant to imply that rabies is like a squirrel plague
but not literally the bubonic plague … pray that the bubonic plague never resurfaces again.
Animals die to the garbage we feed them but remember all this stuff is perfectly fine and healthy for humans...
Alligators store their food under water for weeks at a time to allow it to rot before eating it. Maybe we should try that? If it's fine for them, it should be fine for us too right? Because all living species on earth have exactly the same digestive systems right? Oh and definitely watch out for chocolate and onions. I heard that can kill dogs, so it probably kills humans too right?
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Logic is hard.
Wow it's almost like our food is specifically made for human consumption or something. No way.
@@dalton2845 Animals cant eat fine wheat or process food well. They have short life than us and is more damaging than us.
@@dalton2845 yet it's still not always healthy for us to eat it. Junk food is still junk at the end of the day, and while we may tolerate and even enjoy ingesting it, that doesn't mean you won't pay for every meal you've had later on in your life.
Its almost like different species have different metabolism
Had a young fox roaming the area. It was quite tame, curious, sometimes sat like a dog watching people. I already had heard, that this may cause problems and wanted to scare it away in order to save it. I didn't.
About a week later I heard from a neighbour about its demise. It had been comfortable with humans being close, had been fed, ate leftovers from the local fast food restaurant. Until someone seemingly had enough of it and poisoned the poor thing.
I feel guilty even today, maybe 6 or 7 years later. Had I thrown a fire cracker at it, it might have lived.
There sure are foxes hiding somewhere, eating garbage. Difference is that they hide.
dont do the what ifs man for all you know it could of died another way alot sooner had it not been fed by humans or you throwing said fire cracker could of injured it.
I can relate to not being able to save creature, we rescued a baby bird who was on road we put it outside got busy, then there arrived a crow i was the once most close to it, i could have made crow flee but i was little and shunned, afterwards crow managed to snatch little baby took it around neighborhood's tree devour it completely when i reached there all i had was looking up in sky for the poor bird my mistake my incompetence 😢
It's not your fault & whoever poisoned that poor creature is evil. Foxes behave more like cats than dogs, but aren't as threatening as coyotes or wolves that are larger & move on groups. Foxes usually are shy towards humans & the only threat they present is rabies, but dogs or any other mammal can carry it. So it's not fair. It takes more effort to relocate the animals than you know... delete them. It's so bad.
@@lagopusvulpuz1571 if they relocated the Fox It would have came back or dying, still the person who poison It Is evil since he should have left the authorities to deal with the fox
Yep there are lots. just go outside about 3am they're everywhere. People, put the rubbish in the bin. (UK)
Just go to a "zoo"(like, the good ones, Ecoparks with permanent rescues that Will sadly never get to leave) that factors in visitor feeding and provides the correct foods for the animal
Human: Hey, where did our tent go?
4:43 Suspiciously tent shaped bear: uhh idk
Pfftt 😂
Lmfao
Cartoon logic be like
Ahaha
Like in every ecosystem, adding or removing something, there will always be serious consequences
Very good video! It’s true! A woman left food for raccoons ! In her cottage, but beers found it and started breaking into other people’s houses looking for food and had to be 😩 terminated 😢
Yes, unfortunately, there's always one who won't listen to reason and continue to feed animals with stuff that isn't good for them. Or they treat those species that are a bit braver than other species, encouraging their breeding patterns - and hey presto! Wood Pigeons are beating the living daylights out of smaller birds on the bird table.
I plant berry bushes in my garden. Some are for my use, but right in the far corner of my garden I plant natural, native berry plants and leave that area quiet. They prefer to feed down there, well away from me, and everyone's happy.
Absolute legend for addressing this issue.
Something more needs to be done to save these animals.
You are a brave soul my friend. Telling the truth on the internet like that. You absolute mad lad
W mad lad at best
Yeah sensoring "idiots" is absolute madlad type stuff
When you're talking about the obese bears, it's not "human food," it is called "FDA approved" food that does the damage
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u dont make any sense
@reformed7939 your a silly Billy
@@373hellbent What don't you understand?
HYPER-PROCESSED MISH MASHES OF CHEMICALS WITH SOME LEGALLY ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF REAL GROUND IN FOOD THATS APPROVED BY PEOPLE WHO THEN GET "HEALTHY" RETIREMENTS AT THE SAME MAKERS THEY APPROVED THE AFOREMENTIONED CHEMICAL COCKTAILS FROM.
Does that make sense now?
It's called habituated. A young boy here in Louisiana had his arm completely ripped off by an alligator bc of this. They shot the gator cut its stomach open in a attempt to get his arm back and surgically reattach it but were unsuccessful. He was lucky to have survived. The gator wasn't so lucky.
Poor gator
I'm so glad that this channel I remember by giving me various fun facts about random animals is speaking out about serious issues involving them. Keep it up
I'd be too scared to feed wild animals but that's a good thing I've now learned, I had no clue that they were getting put down because people kept feeding them
Thats a cute mouse in ur pfp
This was more comprehensive in information than most. I understood most of it already, but got some more info here. People need to be made aware of deer feeder problems. That was a new one to me, but it makes absolute perfect sense in all aspects from disease spread to extra fighting to overeating of corn. My grandpa had a dairy cow lost to her forcing her way into getting to the feed. Sad as hell to lose her like that. She did it while they were away for just a few hours.
Polar bears are not afraid of humans. We are on the menu.
The only wild animal I fed was a racoon live trapped at my parent's house for relocation. I gave it some meat and some water because it was having to be in the trap for a bit.
It really did want and need the water it drank, and it growled the entire time. It was a really pissed off raccoon. It ran away fast when released. Trapping it made it fear humans, and they thrive on people food and want to make use of people dwelling areas, just like opossums. He had to go. I see people on videos in neighborhoods drawing up and feeding a whole bunch of mean raccoons off of their back porches. What are they thinking?
I don't see anything wrong with providing water sources for animals in drought. There were some women who were fined for doing that, but when we cause the shortage and block their access to water in so many ways, and water is needed faster than food, I think a quiet little pool provided here and there is decent. It's not the same as feeding. They know water dries up, comes and goes, and they don't think we provide it. Herds of deer migrating from the wooded suburbs across the freeways in search of a water source could be dangerous for us as well as them.
The fact that bears become overweight and more inactive just from human food, really shows how unhealthy and processed our food really is..
But you still keep eating them
@@hopwaffles its pretty good yup
You missed some important parts of this video. It's not "just" because human food is "bad". They specifically said that by being near humans, Bears find food more easily and spend less time moving. More calories in and less calories out means a fatter bear. This would apply to bears who eat healthy food as well. It's "human" food in that it's food facilitated by humans. This includes fruit and vegetables in people's backyards, people's pets, trash and food left out for them. I feel like you think it strictly means they are eating McDonald's somehow.
There were much better examples in the video for your point. Like processed bread messing up deer metabolism.
This video should be required to be watched by anyone entering a wildlife habitat no matter what reason they are there. Despite whatever kind of written material you give visitors they will still feed the animals. One lady said to me God's creatures need to eat too. When I told her they couldn't find their own food because she was feeding them. And now they don't know how to hunt or find vegetation that is their natural diet. Because with her around they didn't have to learn how. She went on and on about how the forest was being cut down. When in fact none of the forest in her area was being destroyed. I had to just walk away to keep from slapping her. She was not to be reasoned with and felt like she was doing a good thing.
"I dont care if this video will be banned" Finally someone here for principal, not just for money.
Principle 😂
Thank you for calling it out. I live in the mountains in a tourist trap community where people are constantly trying to feed the deer and elk. They have become dependent on dumpster digging and the people with carrots and hay. They become docile, but simultaneously aggressive, particularly about food. I've heard of three accounts of people being attacked by elk while trying to feed them in my area. One was a little kid who got kicked in the head, and another was a local lady who died from her injuries. I've personally been kicked by a deer over a plate of vegetables many years ago. Last time I give a wild animal food from my hands, but more importantly, filling their guts with anything other than what they graze is a losing scenario for the deer and the environment that relies on their persistent upkeep of undergrowth. Forest fires are made a bigger issue when grazers don't keep the grass and brush down.
When I was younger in BSA and when I went to my first camp, they had some of the little boys of another troop leave food in their tent. When the scouts came back it broke those tents with food and others in the lot, thinking food was in there too. With the camp being on a peninsula they would know if it left. It didn't. We had a call time of 9:00 am. Then our leaders woke us up earlier. We were all complaining about it until halfway to the cars we saw a giant cage being pulled by a truck. Before we got in the car our leaders told us that even that one troop's handful of boys were reckless and foolish. That we are still held responsible for the future. Even if we lose a girl to saying no to a bird. Helping an animal is different than feeding an animal. You help an animal by calling people whose job is to make sure wild animals are kept wild animals. Not for your clout.
My brothers were both boy scouts. Before going on backpacking trips with the troop, they were taught how to act around wild animals, especially bears, but everything else as well.
I don't think I've ever read something this unintelligible in my life...
True. I live near a park with several semi domesticated birds. There are several signs of not feeding the animals. They got sick, and if they don't eat something, it attracts rats and cockroaches that infest the complete city.
@@SquishyThing thank you for affirming! I read it twice and thought am i not able to make sense of this text or the text itself ain’t making much sense 🥲
Thank you. I work for state parks and we have a campground that is near a neighborhood. A lot of the houses feed the deer. So they are everywhere. Running in and out of yards. No fear of humans. See a hit deer once a week minimum there.
I feel like all of this can apply to humans eating human food.
So don't feed the homeless 😅
Always feed the homeless wtf?
Humans can just eat each other
YES! BUT NOT "HUMAN FOOD", "HUMAN MADE FOOD"!
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!
@@armando_az1 I have a feeling you NEVER helped a homeless or anyone for that matter! 🤦♂
Thank you for bringing awareness to the consequences of feeding wild animals! I will note that you CAN feed hummingbirds without messing up their feeding/migration habits but even then there's SO much you have to commit to for it to be safe for them.
1. Don't buy pre-made nectar, or give them juice, syrup, etc. It's full of artificial colors and additives that can harm them.
2. If you make them sugar water yourself you have to use granulated WHITE sugar, never brown (it's made with molasses), and never powdered (it has corn starch in it). Organic granulated white cane sugar is a good option!
3. You have to be careful what kind of feeder you have! If it's glass and sits out in the sun it can ferment the sugar water more rapidly, so its best to keep it mostly or entirely in the shade if it's not plastic.
4. You have to clean your feeder thoroughly every. Single. Day. No exceptions! There's plenty of little nooks and crannies for mold to develop in and if it does the hummingbirds tongues will swell to the point they can't eat, and they'll be dead within a few hours. :(
If you can commit to that, here's how to make the sugar water! :)
• Take 1/4 cup granulated white sugar and put it in a heat-safe bowl.
• Heat up 1/2 cup of (preferably filtered) water on the stove and while that's getting hot, get another 1/2 cup of cold water.
• Pour the hot water in the bowl with the sugar and mix it up (the heat helps the sugar mix into the water). When the water looks clear, mix your 1/2 cup of cold water in to help it cool.
Once the sugar water is cooled off enough your safe to put it out! If you have any extra sugar water it's safe to keep in the fridge for about 2 days. 👌
I would add that the water used should probably be water known not to have cleaning additives added, like chlorine, which is common in many places. I don't know this for sure, but since we're talking about animals with sensitive systems, they might not handle those additives as well as we do. In other words, use bottled water if unsure.
Small correction: the thing that's used to make brown sugar is molasses (a sugar refinining byproduct), not marmalade (the fruity sweet stuff we like to put on bread).
@@mnxs Thank you for the correction! I always mix those two words up in my head! And yes, clean filtered water is definitely ideal for the little guys :)
We do the same thing you do! It isn't at all harmful as my aunt did get almost fifty birds at one point, and I've heard in certain places that people will put out feeders for the hummers during their migration season so they don't go hungry!
Currently, we only have about three hummers, we think the frost got to some of them, but they know us so well that if a feeder goes empty within the day, they'll be hovering at our glass door lol, they're the only other animal I would feed if necessary is an animal I run across injured like a fawn or raccoon if I know the animal will make it and the feeding will only happen the day of finding if I can't locate the animal to local rehabers and or its gonna take overnight before i or someone can take the animal to a safer place. Ofc I wouldn't feed the animal junk food, I grow gardens with seeds that are over fifty years of generations, passed from my great grandpa, to my grandpa and to me and my mom, so they look 'funky' but that's the natural way they look! If it weren't natural, I doubt the deer would eat up on it so much rather than the new generation of plants I'm doing myself, some I bought from the store and plan on breeding it back to its natural look and flavor. (Disclaimer: I don't just go around feeding animals, the only acception is for an injured, not very harmful animal who I know will make it to see the rehabers, I'm only saying of a scenario where as if I did have to take the animal in over night, which in my state plenty of people had to do because of rehabers being farther away, that it would get a small snack of natural food.)
just grow flowers they feed from
Not sure you need to change the feeder EVERY day but depending on the temperature it does need to be cleaned every 3 to 5 days.
Thank you for informing me on my past mistake, as someone who planning on traveling across Canada by foot this is vital information for me for both cleanliness sake and for wild animal information sake
The biggest problem is that people don't prepare the feed corn to be consumed. It's dry. That's what causes digestive issues, which can be fatal. Many animals can digest cooked corn. It's FEED corn for a reason.
There's a time and place for corn feeders, and you don't even need to use corn. They make deer pellets. The fact that humans are on a property already makes animals weary, and shooting them on your property would drive them away forever if there wasn't some sort of incentive to return. However, the deer that come to feeders tend to be does and yearling bucks. Corn feeders can also be used for feral pigs. Stops them from wasting resources in multiple ways. Again, doesn't have to be corn. Most of the animals that would eat dry dog food can handle it fine in moderation(In the US at least).
I was fishing on a bayou here in Louisiana. I watched a woman pull in to a parking lot across the bayou from were i was. Sh pulled a trash bag out of the truck of her car and started dragging it to the water. I literally stopped fishing to see a couple of things.
1. I wanted to make sure it wasnt a human body.
2. To see if she was feeding the gator that had been seen. A couple of dogs have come up missing in the last month.
Sure enough, i see her start calling something. So i took my phone and started recording. I took photos of her plate and her. And just like i thought, she was calling a gator. She starts pulling what looks like a deer skeleton out and throwing it to the gator.
I screamed across the bayou, hey woman, you cant do that, its illegal. The woman told me to worry about myself and get out of her business. I said ok, so i called the cops. She left before the cops got there and they were happy to see all the evidence i had. They made me E-Mail the video.
3 days later it was on the news. What happened to the woman? Oh she got probation and that was it!!! What happened to the gator. Oh, they made her call it to the bank. When the gator got to the bank, a gun shot was heard. No more gator in that bayou. There were some upset people and they talked about the gator never bothered anyone. Well it only takes 1 time and someone loses a child. I brought my 3 year old son with me to that spot. So yeah, that is hitting very very close to home. Personally i think that woman should have spent a minimum of 6 months in jail for it. Flordia doesnt play that crap.
Anyway tbis video is spot on. Thanks for posting it.
OK Karen 😂
@@ThegreatblazingsunStay off the internet, you clearly need to. Yesh
@@Thegreatblazingsunthe video above the comment section is literally all about why not to feed wild animals.
@tikclicktok958 the guys talking about calling the cops on a lady and putting her in prison for feeding a wild animal that's insane.
@@ThegreatblazingsunDo you realize what happens when wild animals associate humans with food? They can become aggressive when they don't get the food they're expecting. It's annoying when a squirrel or seagull does it, now imagine a gator with its massive bite force and a tail that can break your legs if it smacks you getting pissy at you because you didn't bring it a snack 💀
This needs to air on national TV 👆 its the only way to educate people if they love animals so much
This is a human-centered view of feeding wild animals. Some of it is right. The overall premise is leaving out important and devastating facts.
Wild animals have had their habitats destroyed and/or stolen, their air and water polluted, and their lives impacted by vehicles and invading humans. The totality of human invasion, negligence and abuse of wild animals has left them with, as you pointed out, untenable ecosystems and disease.
The solution to that problem is not killing them, and it's not only taking away food that people would otherwise feed them.
Humans are dangerous too, but we don't get shot for eating food someone gave us. Neither should animals. Parks and reserves should do more to educate humans before giving them access at all.
Animals have a right to exist and a right to receive help and kindness, including food, from humans. We have enough information available to us on the internet to understand specific needs, and meet them.
I agree completely that hand feeding, especially in passing, is very bad bc of the socialization, and inability to monitor for illness. That does not make it ok to continue the deprivation our species has imposed against theirs.
Sanctuaries staffed by vets and others qualified to work with wild animals (rehabbers, etc) are the least we can do, instead of murdering them. Humans as a whole treat nonhumans like nothing, and this well-intentioned and valuable video, unfortunately fails to address that.
Wild animals are many times NOT capable of meeting their needs, bc we've paved their world, cut down their trees, dried and dammed their water.
Yes, don't hand feed, or feed a species you don't know about, but stopping at that is only more harm. We owe them what would be just, considering all we've stolen from them. Thank you for this video.
Thank you for adding insight on wildlife habitats. I was hoping it would be mentioned as a major factor but I see how it's just outside the main scope of the video, even as compelling as a bookend to the video it may have served.
I don't see anything in the video that contradicts what you say. If some of it is right, as you say, then what is the other "some of it" that is wrong? Even if your facts are all right, it would all be just an addition to this video.
@@Alfamoto8 Thank you for your comment. All 3 of us agree that harmful feeding practices are wrong. My issue with the approach of the video is that norecourse to getting enough food is left to the animals in question, many of whom do depend on beeged food from humans. Deer in Yosemite used to starve in winter, before the winters there got warmer. The authorities in those jurisdictions should providee food for the wild residents, and ensure access to water. It's the least they/we can do for making thier lives vastly harder and decimated. That's one example. I'm trying to communicate our debt to animals as the species that harms them the most, and encourage folks to find healthy (for the animal nieghbors they are trying to serve) ways to make the payments on that debt. Another good practice is putting out purified water for wildlife: birds up high so they don't get killed trying to drink.
Yup! I’m dealing with bears after neighbors have been feeding deer, bears and coyotes for over a decade.