@@sagarah8217 Did Your Mongoose ever face off against a Racer or Diamondback bicycle? You know since Mongooses prey on some snakes and some snakes are racer or diamondback snakes. Just curious. I owned several manufacturer's bicycles, Mongoose, Redline, Murray, even a custom built Huffy. Was heavy into BMX. Ramp and track. The late 1970s and 1980s were the best.
Guam had no snakes until some came over by stowing away on ships. The snakes had no natural predators. The vibrant bird life became the snakes preferred food source and bird life became nearly extinct. This is also why customs check for any foods, seed pods, plants, etc. to keep out invasive pests.
@@blackpowder4016 How the heck would they survive the 8-hour flight from California or the 5-hour flight from Hawaii? At very low temps ... and how could they climb along the smooth steel surfaces of an airplane to a secure place for the passage?
"To deal with the excess mongoose population, we have summoned it's natural enemy: Godzilla!" If Godzilla refuse to leave, we are prepared to awaken Mothra."- Japanese spokesman
@@MaxMaidiac-h5y is he racist or just sounds it, do you know this man/woman what gives you the right to say somebody is racist are you ok brother please go back inside and sit there think about what you're saying to people first
I'm from St. Croix and now you can barely find a mongoose on the island. The problem is now we have an overpopulation of snakes, mostly pythons & boas, snuck in by contract workers and let loose in the rainforest when they were leaving. Local bird species, chickens, rodents, mongoose, and pets have become victims of these invasive reptiles. It's one thing when we try to solve a problem by introduction, another when people are irresponsible and have no regard for the law.
Why and how were these contract workers allowed to bring in snakes? One of the benefits of an island nation is the ability to screen what comes in and out of the country really easily.
@@kosmosXcannon St. Croix Is a U.S. Territory. When you travel there, it's just like going from state to state. you go through TSA and that's it. But when you leave the island to return to the mainland, you have to go through customs & TSA on the way back, which makes no sense. As far as I know, it's always been like that. I have no idea why. A friend of mine who has worked for TSA for many years said people have been caught with them in the past. And they get creative. I guess some are caught, and others not.
They should have introduced only castrated Mongooses,by first breeding them on special farms only and then later place them in the wild to the certain areas where other pests were at.That way ,the population of them too would not become pests to others.
@@LewinDalbor-x1gAnd that's why you're here on the Internet with a shit take? Introducing castrated mongoose would prevent them from becoming an invasive species. Barring them magically becoming hermaphrodites, or a failure in the program where normal mongeese were accidently let loose
Worse thing is we have known of the potential issues with introducing non native species since the early 1800's. At the time there was a craze for importing exotic plant species from around the world, and inevitably many of them made it into the wild. Not an issue with most species, but some did not only survive, they ended up devastating local native ecosystems, a fact that was noted by a number of leading botanists of the time. So we have literally known of the problem with this kind of thing for over 200 years and people still think its a good idea to introduce non native species like this without undertaking exhaustive Ecological assessments first!
@@jasonostack9319 Cats were only introduced as pets, and are a invasive species along with dogs pretty much in EVERY country. But the cause is not a oopsies like the mongoose situation, but bad pet owners who get animals for no reason other then to have it check off a mark on the 'Aussie dream lifestyle' which requires a dog/cat to complete the family. But nobody wants to take care of the cat/dog so they turn feral. 1st hand experience with this BS mentality for decade now, dodgy shithead pet owners everywhere I go! (I have a cat btw, but ensure its taken care of)
It’s all relative. One of the very best pets for children are domestically bred rats. They are naturally clean, don’t smell, are very tame and seldom bite. You can train them to do simple tricks. They are educational, as they come in a variety of colors and patterns, and reproduction is quick. Compare that to wild rats, who are very disagreeable home intruders- but it’s essentially the same animal.
@@CCW10251 like human females? a few of them are sweet and want to love you but most just want to invade your home and eat all your "food" ($¥$¥$¥$¥¥¥¥$$$¥¥¥¥$$)
As a native from the island of St. Croix, I would always see the mongoose running across the streets growing up. Now they are the ones being hunted by an outbreak of pythons on the island. It’s just crazy how now we have a second invasive species on the island which is now causing havoc on St. Croix. by the way, those mongoose are vicious little bastards. One got into my mom‘s car when I was a kid and my dad caught it and put it in a hamster cage. That thing was crazy and went berserk every time you went near it.
The island of Oahu Hawaii had a similar problem. Snakes had over ran the island. Their main food source was eggs of endangered birds. They brought in mongooses to take out the snakes. It worked well. But, the mongooses then turned to the same eggs the snakes were eating as their new food source.
I may have misremembered about the snakes. It was 40 years ago I was stationed there. On the rifle range we were told about all the trouble we would get into if we tried to take a pot shot at a mongoose. They were thick as rabbits on the range.
@@jayebyrd9953 Hawai'i has only one snake and it's the size of a large worm or small gopher snake. It resides mostly in gardens. While stationed at Schofield I completed my AA at Chaminade University and one of the classes was Ethno-Botany. Also my step dad and grandparents are native Hawaiians and centipedes are more common, so shake out your K-pot. :)
@@Chanta-nh8et I lived in Hawaii for seven years. I saw a dead snake run-over in the road right outside our house. It was pretty big, too. I saw a smaller one once, too. So snakes were indeed in Hawaii. To what degree, I have no idea. That's a fairly long time to only see two snakes. Then again, I lived on the mainland and in 14 years only saw one snake, maybe it's not that long. It's not like snakes necessarily seek out our company.
As smart as the Japanese are, it surprises me they didn't do a little bit of research to find out that this has been done many times before and it never worked. They would have saved themselves the headache and the millions it probably cost them to eradicate them. The Spanish brought the mongoose in the 1700's, if I am not mistaken, to several of the Caribbean Islands and they quickly realized it didn't work. It changed a lot of the flora and fauna of those islands forever. The mongoose still has not been eradicated from most of these islands as of today.
They actually did the very same thing, for exactly the same reason, IN JAPAN (Okinawa I believe) in the early 1910's.... It did not work then either....
Here in Croatia, on one island called Mljet , moongose was brought in 1950s and it ate all horned vipers who causes death to many islanders, now snakes are totally eradicated but moongose swam to the mainland and other islands
Japan, with its culture of perfection, has learned that failure also has its own value, helping them emerge stronger. This is what makes me impressed and admire their resilient spirit
And I wonder how stupid they had to be to not predict this outcome. Who made this decision? Politicians after watching nature show? I always thought that Japanese are smarter. This is a criminal level of stupidity.
And of course other cultures don't ? Resilience is not a trait I would associate with the Japanese. People write utter BS on here and some of it makes me gag.
More disturbing: Mayu?!!! Maui. As kids in the ‘60s playing in the parks and mountains around rapidly developing Honolulu, we rarely saw mongoose... maybe 2 or 3 sightings a year. In rural Oahu, sightings may have happened much more often. Don’t remember any rat or snake problems in the upper Nuuanu area of Honolulu.
Kauai has no mongoose it said that when they were going to ship them to Kauai one of the mongoose bit a dock worker in oahu he was so mad he kick the cage into the water.
to be fair hawaii has almost no native land species and thus mice and rats are a huge problem. hawaii is one of the few places were a feral imported hunter isnt always a bad thing
@@jamestown4867, Yep, no snakes on Oahu except a few stray pet snakes who escape or are released. And the Guamanian brown tree snake that arrived on ships to Honolulu. Still, after 35 years on Oahu I’ve never seen either. As far as the rat versus mongoose problem, they were meant to kill the Swedish brown rats that were again, stowaways on ships a century ago. And like the video explains, mongoose are diurnal, brown rats are nocturnal, so they’ve never met. But the tree rats are all over Hawaii and an endemic species that doesn’t cause any real problems like the nasty street rats do. The tree rats are happy in the wild and don’t eat garbage or infest houses. And these are the rats the mongoose go after since they are both active in the day. I got to witness this while at work in Lanikai. Lots of mongoose and lots of tree rats. I saw a mongoose up in a halé koa tree chasing a tree rat all over that tree. Amazing to see how fast and agile both animals were. The rat finally leaped out of the tree to another one and the mongoose followed with no problem. Then the rat jumped to the ground and so did the mongoose. In the deep grass I couldn’t tell whatever was the outcome of this amazing chase but it sure was fun to watch. I was actually rooting for the tree rat because they aren’t a problem like the introduced mongoose are. 🤙🏼
I have a feeling if the globalists succeed at eradicating humanity from the planet that too will backfire with unintended consequences and not go as expected
I went to Amami Oshima on my honeymoon in 1980. At that time, a tourist attraction was the Habu Center, which featured as an attraction, a small arena where we could witness a fight between a mongoose and a habu. "Habu Jouchu," a kind of alcoholic drink with a habu snake coiled up within the bottle, was a popular souvenir to take back to the folks at home.
@@irenemarcus967Irene, I hope you're right about possums liking rats. Although I see no rats nearby. I did see a mom cat carrying a mouse to her family this week.
There are false/ exaggerated you tube videos. I got so tired of them that I totally forgot yours is not one of them. I realized how useful the info's are, in your videos and that I enjoy them. Thanks.
In the Army I was stationed with the 25th ID on Oahu. Mongooses were always breaking into my Ruck and stealing food lol. They are active at night, several time when it was rainy and chilly a Mongoose would come into my hooch and snuggle up to me to keep warm.
Rudyard Kipling wrote a book (I saw the animated film version) where the heroic mongoose Riki-tiki-tavi has to face down the evil King Cobra Nagaina. Google is your friend.
I went to High School on Okinawa. As far as I know, the Ryukyu islands werte under US military control until 1972 (I think Amami went back to Japanese control in 1952). We were always told that the US military introduced the mongoose to the Ryukyus in 1946
Japanese are smart and eficient people... they also own and correct their mistakes... Australians are protecting everything that kills them... and then they visit other countries [that have already solve the problems with species that kills them] to ''relax'' and enjoy their vacations... how can you love your country if you only feel safe overseas?...
Crocodiles are better off alive as nature intended them to be rather than turned into belts, boots, shoes and other items. Also Australians are not protecting all "dangerous" animals, as the keep on culling sharks, particularly great white sharks and tiger sharks, which is complete nonsense. Crocodiles of all species kill far more humans than sharks, even if you add great white and tiger shark victims together, the crocodile kills more as crocodiles DO consider humans as prey.
Silly remark. Wildlife kills very few people.The sea is far more dangerous. People who can't swim should not be allowed here. People who can't read warning signs also. More people are killed by horse riding accidents than wildlife.
What kind of rambling bullshit was that? You know those apex predators play an important role in a healthy ecosystem right? And good luck getting rid of stuff like Cubazoa (Box Jellyfish), which don't just live around Australia. In fact one species, Irukandji is named after the INDONESIAN area it was first discovered.... Those things will right royally ruin your day as ANYONE who lives near where box jellies turn up will tell you, including but not limited to Australians. The Japanese are no smarter or more efficient than any other people on the planet. If you believe that then you truly are stupid.
Monggose is a just a second option to me. HONEY BAGDER is the Number 1 and effective. No need for kungfu style like Monggose, instead directly dive into anything even KOMODO Dragon for sure.
it's really hard to mess with nature. u never know how nature will fight back! cut trees wow got a nice table then flood and no table and no house etc.
We have wolves, coyotes, and foxes in abundance. Minks are not a problem for northern Minnesota, USA. They mostly leave us alone, except go after our chickens now and then.
Ok when you hear lists of places with dangerous snake populations. Japan has never been mentioned. Thanks would have never known there was so many venomous snakes there. I live in an area of the world where there is ZERO venomous snakes and the only thing we have to worry about is Brown Recluses. Much better than where I grew up and had to shake everything out to make sure scorpions or other critters has not gotten into bedding, shoes, piles of clothes, cabinets........
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@@matthewbrasel2737 Thank you but you didn't know what I meant I mean the last time I'd seen that I was probably like 6 I am now 43 I think it's pretty good still for remembering it
That would be the case if something that was not human documented history, measured evoloution, and found evidence that we are invasive. Are you going to erradicate yourself?
And They learned that they didn't work there either, BEFORE they put them on the on the islands that are the subject of this video. The Mongoose was introduced to Okinawa in 1910. I lived in Okinawa in 1963 and they knew then that the mongoose was not effective against the Habu. SO, why did they introduce the mongoose to Amami Oshima Island in 1979?
@@tolson57 - I was wondering why myself. The Japanese are no fools and so there must have been a reason for introducing them even though they knew they were ineffective. The only thing I can think is that locals were demanding the government do something about people dying from snake bites and so they released Mongooses to placate people. So it was a P.R. move.
@@promontorium - I listened again from 9 minutes to 11.30 and he doesn't give a date. He says during the something era and about 70 years earlier than...etc. I still don't hear a date but if you want to pinpoint it instead of telling me when he does mention it, I'll stand corrected.
My grandfather grew up in Detroit around the turn of the last century. I remember my grandfather telling me that Belle Island, in the Detroit river had many rattlesnakes. So they released pigs, and they took care of the problem. Maybe they were somewhat resistant to the venom with all that fat. Introducing exotic species is like committing a crime. Think kudzu in the American South.
SAD... They could control the number by neturing or spaying the animals prior to release. The mongoose, even though some may say are not tame, they can be and few Maui Islanders have had them as pets. Because of this animal,THERE ARE NO SNAKES ON THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. But because of the Greedy Haole, they closed all the sugar cane & pineapple fields in Maui. Letting only the rich, from the mainland, come in and purchase these once beneficial lands for employment and trade. These large acres of land were stolen from the Ohana, who still Legally own the land, because by written law, it was only to be LEASED for agricultural reasons. But the Haole stoled the land from the Native Islanders of all of the Hawaiian Islands.😢
I just watched this video 10 minutes ago. Just now a video from 8 days ago comes across my feed with the exact caption and thumbnail from another channel.
@@Matthew-Anthony PiratePrincessYuki is probably correct as a general rule. But, the acceleration of a snakes head during a strike, is not exactly a well studied field. I don't know if the black mamba (which is an Elapid, like cobras are) has an especially fast strike speed. I doubt there are any studies on the matter.
The mangoose got introduced in puerto Rico to control the black rat in the sugarcane field but instead killed everything, and it has a lot of rabies I had to put 2 of my dogs to sleep because of those nasty things they eat eggs also
Hey, why don’t we use mongoose blood and genetics to come Up with an anti venom that’s universal and easily available? Is there a reason that doesn’t work and we need to get the venom from the animal? When mongoose clearly have it built in to take care of the problem. Or do we not have the technology to make that shortcut?
I think they’re afraid it won’t be as effective and liabilities from deaths. Antidotes are medicines and malpractice costs more money than any other chemical liability.
@@ironhell813 surely testing can prove if it is or is not as effective… like if it is even 90% chance that it works on all venoms… there’s some venoms that we have legit no anti venom for ? Surely even a chance is better than the 0%
The modified acetylcholine receptor is a special protein gate in nerve cells which gets synthesised inside the nerve cell from dna/rna. It is not a protein that is free in blood that latches onto the venom similar to what antibodies do to pathogens. On the contrary, the venom attaches to the acetylcholine receptor usually irreversibly, inhibiting nerve messaging. The mongoose receptor must have a modification that allows the venom from dissociating from the gate/channel/receptor.
What I didn't understand was why Japan tried mongooses on Omami Oshima seventy years after introducing them to Okinawa with rather unpleasant side effects.
I've never used or even thought of the plural form of mongoose. So my question is would mongeese be acceptable? I know I could Google it, but I decided just to ask the people.
Some people never learn! It's never good to bring an foreign species into another habitat, because that species will adapt and take the easy way out! And so the whole eco-system gets messed up!
People seam to never learn until it's almost to late for native animal or plant population . You would think they would see others mistakes and learn but they don't . The long term consequences don't seem to be figured into the equation . We aren't as smart as would like to think !
In the middle of Lake Lure in North Carolina was an island called "Snake Island" because it was over run with venemous snakes. Rattlesnakes and copperhead i believe. They tried everything to get rid of them and offered a bounty to whoever could get rid of them. Finally an old farmer took up the challenge and moved some pigs to the island and this wiped out the snake population. The farmer returned to the island retreived his pigs
In 1982, when stationed on the island of Okinawa, the "habu-mongoose" fight was actually a tourist attraction. I understand that they no longer do this.
Saw a Habu swing from a tree through my NVG’s at JWTC in Okinawa. Also bought a bottle of Habu Saki with the snake in the bottle, lasted me about 10 years.
I had a mongoose as a kid, best bike ever
😂lol 😂
The original ones were amazing
😂
@@sagarah8217 Did Your Mongoose ever face off against a Racer or Diamondback bicycle? You know since Mongooses prey on some snakes and some snakes are racer or diamondback snakes. Just curious. I owned several manufacturer's bicycles, Mongoose, Redline, Murray, even a custom built Huffy. Was heavy into BMX. Ramp and track. The late 1970s and 1980s were the best.
Naw huffy and harro all day my boy 😂
Guam had no snakes until some came over by stowing away on ships. The snakes had no natural predators. The vibrant bird life became the snakes preferred food source and bird life became nearly extinct. This is also why customs check for any foods, seed pods, plants, etc. to keep out invasive pests.
They stowed away in aircraft, not ships.
@@blackpowder4016 Pretty sure it was submarines.
@@blackpowder4016 How the heck would they survive the 8-hour flight from California or the 5-hour flight from Hawaii? At very low temps ... and how could they climb along the smooth steel surfaces of an airplane to a secure place for the passage?
A girl from Australia sent me some chocolate candy with nuts. When I opened it tiny moths swarmed out of the package. They`re everywhere now.
@@MarcIversoni think he watched a samuel l. Jackson movie called snakes on a plane..
"To deal with the excess mongoose population, we have summoned it's natural enemy: Godzilla!" If Godzilla refuse to leave, we are prepared to awaken Mothra."- Japanese spokesman
You sound not funny but racist.
@@MaxMaidiac-h5y wow, someone actually got offended by that? Whew.
LOL
@@MaxMaidiac-h5y🤓
@@MaxMaidiac-h5y is he racist or just sounds it, do you know this man/woman what gives you the right to say somebody is racist are you ok brother please go back inside and sit there think about what you're saying to people first
I'm from St. Croix and now you can barely find a mongoose on the island. The problem is now we have an overpopulation of snakes, mostly pythons & boas, snuck in by contract workers and let loose in the rainforest when they were leaving. Local bird species, chickens, rodents, mongoose, and pets have become victims of these invasive reptiles. It's one thing when we try to solve a problem by introduction, another when people are irresponsible and have no regard for the law.
Why and how were these contract workers allowed to bring in snakes? One of the benefits of an island nation is the ability to screen what comes in and out of the country really easily.
Think mongoose tourism
@@kosmosXcannon St. Croix Is a U.S. Territory. When you travel there, it's just like going from state to state. you go through TSA and that's it. But when you leave the island to return to the mainland, you have to go through customs & TSA on the way back, which makes no sense. As far as I know, it's always been like that. I have no idea why.
A friend of mine who has worked for TSA for many years said people have been caught with them in the past. And they get creative. I guess some are caught, and others not.
What do you think could be done to raise awareness and prevent further introductions of non-native species in St. Croix?
Why would people do that? That's evil
They should have introduced only castrated Mongooses,by first breeding them on special farms only and then later place them in the wild to the certain areas where other pests were at.That way ,the population of them too would not become pests to others.
@@LewinDalbor-x1g you are about as dim as they come
@@LewinDalbor-x1gAnd that's why you're here on the Internet with a shit take? Introducing castrated mongoose would prevent them from becoming an invasive species. Barring them magically becoming hermaphrodites, or a failure in the program where normal mongeese were accidently let loose
@@LewinDalbor-x1gwhat experts?? Those morons that let a predator into an island of endangered species??!!!
That would be the sensible thing to do but since when have people been sensible.
@@LewinDalbor-x1g😂😂did u know this just now? Or is there any other reason for your ranting?
When you mess with nature, nature fights back.
What.....the mogooes will take them to court ?
Worse thing is we have known of the potential issues with introducing non native species since the early 1800's. At the time there was a craze for importing exotic plant species from around the world, and inevitably many of them made it into the wild.
Not an issue with most species, but some did not only survive, they ended up devastating local native ecosystems, a fact that was noted by a number of leading botanists of the time.
So we have literally known of the problem with this kind of thing for over 200 years and people still think its a good idea to introduce non native species like this without undertaking exhaustive Ecological assessments first!
Anthony Fauci: “Eh, It’ll be okay.” 🤔
That`s why I now leave yellowjacket nests alone.
@@joseraulvelazquez6941 What abt earthquakes ???? That is the court of the Nature .....
Australia did a simular thing with the Cane Toad. They brought them to deal with the Cane Beetle, but the toad ate everything, but the Cane Beetle.
They did this with cats too and have a feral cat problem now.
@@jasonostack9319 Not true.
@@DiHandley you’re right. It’s completely made up. We all know google lies about Australia facts.
cane toads have devistated snake populations in some areas
@@jasonostack9319 Cats were only introduced as pets, and are a invasive species along with dogs pretty much in EVERY country. But the cause is not a oopsies like the mongoose situation, but bad pet owners who get animals for no reason other then to have it check off a mark on the 'Aussie dream lifestyle' which requires a dog/cat to complete the family. But nobody wants to take care of the cat/dog so they turn feral.
1st hand experience with this BS mentality for decade now, dodgy shithead pet owners everywhere I go!
(I have a cat btw, but ensure its taken care of)
Not going to lie, mongooses are adorable.
you mean mongeese?lol go ahead everyone have at it
How ? This things looks like mice
It’s all relative.
One of the very best pets for children are domestically bred rats. They are naturally clean, don’t smell, are very tame and seldom bite. You can train them to do simple tricks. They are educational, as they come in a variety of colors and patterns, and reproduction is quick. Compare that to wild rats, who are very disagreeable home intruders- but it’s essentially the same animal.
@@CCW10251 like human females? a few of them are sweet and want to love you but most just want to invade your home and eat all your "food" ($¥$¥$¥$¥¥¥¥$$$¥¥¥¥$$)
They are amazing animals and fearless against some of the deadliest creatures on this planet.
This is where the Klingons learned to be victorious in the Great Tribble wars.
The Tribble is still around. Section 31 have them hidden for future conflicts 😊
Hahahaha. Just wondering why the special show of section 31 not aired yet.
Gotta contact Luther Sloan from Section 31. Lol
Lmao. Made my morning, thank you
😂😂😂😂😂 glorious battle
You know what other animal is known for having faster reflexes than snakes? The humble house cat.
As a native from the island of St. Croix, I would always see the mongoose running across the streets growing up. Now they are the ones being hunted by an outbreak of pythons on the island. It’s just crazy how now we have a second invasive species on the island which is now causing havoc on St. Croix. by the way, those mongoose are vicious little bastards. One got into my mom‘s car when I was a kid and my dad caught it and put it in a hamster cage. That thing was crazy and went berserk every time you went near it.
almost 2 million views in 2 days. This guy makes excellent content.
40 million now
@@thestranger8528*4 million. Now it’s at 5.2.
The island of Oahu Hawaii had a similar problem. Snakes had over ran the island. Their main food source was eggs of endangered birds. They brought in mongooses to take out the snakes. It worked well. But, the mongooses then turned to the same eggs the snakes were eating as their new food source.
I didn’t think there were snakes in Hawaii.
Hawaii never had snakes. Mongoose were brought to take care of the rats, but that didn't work out so well.
I may have misremembered about the snakes. It was 40 years ago I was stationed there. On the rifle range we were told about all the trouble we would get into if we tried to take a pot shot at a mongoose. They were thick as rabbits on the range.
@@jayebyrd9953 Hawai'i has only one snake and it's the size of a large worm or small gopher snake. It resides mostly in gardens. While stationed at Schofield I completed my AA at Chaminade University and one of the classes was Ethno-Botany. Also my step dad and grandparents are native Hawaiians and centipedes are more common, so shake out your K-pot. :)
@@Chanta-nh8et I lived in Hawaii for seven years. I saw a dead snake run-over in the road right outside our house. It was pretty big, too. I saw a smaller one once, too. So snakes were indeed in Hawaii. To what degree, I have no idea. That's a fairly long time to only see two snakes. Then again, I lived on the mainland and in 14 years only saw one snake, maybe it's not that long. It's not like snakes necessarily seek out our company.
As smart as the Japanese are, it surprises me they didn't do a little bit of research to find out that this has been done many times before and it never worked. They would have saved themselves the headache and the millions it probably cost them to eradicate them. The Spanish brought the mongoose in the 1700's, if I am not mistaken, to several of the Caribbean Islands and they quickly realized it didn't work. It changed a lot of the flora and fauna of those islands forever. The mongoose still has not been eradicated from most of these islands as of today.
They actually did the very same thing, for exactly the same reason, IN JAPAN (Okinawa I believe) in the early 1910's....
It did not work then either....
People from those very same Caribbean islands are saying the opposite in the comments.
@@SodaPopinksi seems like they did the same as Japan and snakes became the problem again
Here in Croatia, on one island called Mljet , moongose was brought in 1950s and it ate all horned vipers who causes death to many islanders, now snakes are totally eradicated but moongose swam to the mainland and other islands
Drzi mungose mego otrovnice 😂
You won but at what cost?
Mongoose prevailed where Thanos failed.
@@tigerlancerthey didn’t wipe out half the snakes, they wiped out all of them
Nice Island, been there
The narrator is excellent! Their storytelling skills bring the video to life, making it a must-watch.
I think it's Briggs, he does quite a few narrations on TH-cam
Japan, with its culture of perfection, has learned that failure also has its own value, helping them emerge stronger. This is what makes me impressed and admire their resilient spirit
WHATEVER MONGOOSE GENOCIDE GET OUT OF HERE DOOF
yeah yeah. anime style! let's go!
And I wonder how stupid they had to be to not predict this outcome. Who made this decision? Politicians after watching nature show? I always thought that Japanese are smarter. This is a criminal level of stupidity.
And of course other cultures don't ? Resilience is not a trait I would associate with the Japanese. People write utter BS on here and some of it makes me gag.
@@SBanderaB Offended by everything.. Ashamed of nothing...
I’m honestly shocked that they were able to eradicate the mongoose.
Mongooses were also introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. They remain a threat to endemic species.
I don't think you watched the whole video, they actually told us about Hawaii from 12 minutes in.
More disturbing:
Mayu?!!!
Maui.
As kids in the ‘60s playing in the parks and mountains around rapidly developing Honolulu, we rarely saw mongoose... maybe 2 or 3 sightings a year.
In rural Oahu, sightings may have happened much more often.
Don’t remember any rat or snake problems in the upper Nuuanu area of Honolulu.
Kauai has no mongoose it said that when they were going to ship them to Kauai one of the mongoose bit a dock worker in oahu he was so mad he kick the cage into the water.
to be fair hawaii has almost no native land species and thus mice and rats are a huge problem. hawaii is one of the few places were a feral imported hunter isnt always a bad thing
@@jamestown4867, Yep, no snakes on Oahu except a few stray pet snakes who escape or are released. And the Guamanian brown tree snake that arrived on ships to Honolulu. Still, after 35 years on Oahu I’ve never seen either. As far as the rat versus mongoose problem, they were meant to kill the Swedish brown rats that were again, stowaways on ships a century ago. And like the video explains, mongoose are diurnal, brown rats are nocturnal, so they’ve never met. But the tree rats are all over Hawaii and an endemic species that doesn’t cause any real problems like the nasty street rats do. The tree rats are happy in the wild and don’t eat garbage or infest houses. And these are the rats the mongoose go after since they are both active in the day. I got to witness this while at work in Lanikai. Lots of mongoose and lots of tree rats. I saw a mongoose up in a halé koa tree chasing a tree rat all over that tree. Amazing to see how fast and agile both animals were. The rat finally leaped out of the tree to another one and the mongoose followed with no problem. Then the rat jumped to the ground and so did the mongoose. In the deep grass I couldn’t tell whatever was the outcome of this amazing chase but it sure was fun to watch. I was actually rooting for the tree rat because they aren’t a problem like the introduced mongoose are. 🤙🏼
The Habu is not a cousin of the Cobra. The Habu is a viper while the Cobra is an elapid.
Well said .
only vipers we have here in the UK are usually found on all models of cars they are windscreen vipers!
What is the difference?
@@mcbikeman5673 you're velcome....
@@mcbikeman5673 Vipera berus (Common European adder) range seems to include most of the UK?
Pit vipers are quicker than cobras, too.
Just in the 40 yard dash.
Fun
They have premature envenimation. They’re depressed about it.
While vacationing in Hawaii my toddler daughter saw a mongoose at said oh look a Mommagoose...that was so cute.😂
It would have been even cuter if she called it a mommy-goose!
Momgooses are pretty dope
They are so fun at that age.
Very very cute, I am so impressed.
Why is a animal so.ewhere it doesn't belong cute? Oh because your child can't pronounce it...got it mo. Ron
Summary: The plan backfired as the mongoose instead preyed on native species, causing significant ecological imbalance.
I have a feeling if the globalists succeed at eradicating humanity from the planet that too will backfire with unintended consequences and not go as expected
I went to Amami Oshima on my honeymoon in 1980. At that time, a tourist attraction was the Habu Center, which featured as an attraction, a small arena where we could witness a fight between a mongoose and a habu.
"Habu Jouchu," a kind of alcoholic drink with a habu snake coiled up within the bottle, was a popular souvenir to take back to the folks at home.
They should have brought opossums over. They are nocturnal and hunt snakes
@@TheWallReports.....😅😅😅
Possums also like rats, especially the young in nests, so if you have them near your house, the rats will stay away.
@@irenemarcus967Irene, I hope you're right about possums liking rats. Although I see no rats nearby. I did see a mom cat carrying a mouse to her family this week.
There are false/ exaggerated you tube videos. I got so tired of them that I totally forgot yours is not one of them. I realized how useful the info's are, in your videos and that I enjoy them. Thanks.
that "unintrusive reminder" really be getting most of my likes
In the Army I was stationed with the 25th ID on Oahu. Mongooses were always breaking into my Ruck and stealing food lol. They are active at night, several time when it was rainy and chilly a Mongoose would come into my hooch and snuggle up to me to keep warm.
Riki-tiki-tavi vs. Nagaina😮😮
Love Rudyard Kipling❤
i have no idea what your saying i even translated can you explain?
Rudyard Kipling wrote a book (I saw the animated film version) where the heroic mongoose Riki-tiki-tavi has to face down the evil King Cobra Nagaina. Google is your friend.
I went to High School on Okinawa. As far as I know, the Ryukyu islands werte under US military control until 1972 (I think Amami went back to Japanese control in 1952). We were always told that the US military introduced the mongoose to the Ryukyus in 1946
Japanese are smart and eficient people... they also own and correct their mistakes...
Australians are protecting everything that kills them... and then they visit other countries [that have already solve the problems with species that kills them] to ''relax'' and enjoy their vacations... how can you love your country if you only feel safe overseas?...
Crocodiles are better off alive as nature intended them to be rather than turned into belts, boots, shoes and other items. Also Australians are not protecting all "dangerous" animals, as the keep on culling sharks, particularly great white sharks and tiger sharks, which is complete nonsense. Crocodiles of all species kill far more humans than sharks, even if you add great white and tiger shark victims together, the crocodile kills more as crocodiles DO consider humans as prey.
Watching a lot of CNN, mate?
Silly remark. Wildlife kills very few people.The sea is far more dangerous. People who can't swim should not be allowed here. People who can't read warning signs also. More people are killed by horse riding accidents than wildlife.
What a load of rubbish
Maybe us Australians are made of tougher stuff.
I'd take the dangerous animals over you and your wimpy ways any day.
What kind of rambling bullshit was that?
You know those apex predators play an important role in a healthy ecosystem right?
And good luck getting rid of stuff like Cubazoa (Box Jellyfish), which don't just live around Australia. In fact one species, Irukandji is named after the INDONESIAN area it was first discovered.... Those things will right royally ruin your day as ANYONE who lives near where box jellies turn up will tell you, including but not limited to Australians.
The Japanese are no smarter or more efficient than any other people on the planet. If you believe that then you truly are stupid.
Monggose is a just a second option to me.
HONEY BAGDER is the Number 1 and effective. No need for kungfu style like Monggose, instead directly dive into anything even KOMODO Dragon for sure.
This guy never shuts up he just goes on forever.
it's really hard to mess with nature. u never know how nature will fight back! cut trees wow got a nice table then flood and no table and no house etc.
I love this channel
in Chile a similar problem is with the mink from North America
Strangely enough, the Mink is a problem on British waterways, now.
@@DavidJordan-l4pThey make great Jackets and gloves
We have wolves, coyotes, and foxes in abundance. Minks are not a problem for northern Minnesota, USA. They mostly leave us alone, except go after our chickens now and then.
Thanks, WATOP..
Ok when you hear lists of places with dangerous snake populations. Japan has never been mentioned. Thanks would have never known there was so many venomous snakes there. I live in an area of the world where there is ZERO venomous snakes and the only thing we have to worry about is Brown Recluses. Much better than where I grew up and had to shake everything out to make sure scorpions or other critters has not gotten into bedding, shoes, piles of clothes, cabinets........
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New Zealand?
I live in an area with water moccasins, copperheads, and rattlesnakes and frequent their habitat but have only ever encountered the first two species.
SHOCKED... petrified ... I've got all my life to live, and I've got all my love to give
And I'll survive, I will survive, hey hey
Same thing happened in Hawaii
Did you watch the video?
I don't think you watched the whole video, they actually told us about Hawaii from 12 minutes in.
Interesting and valuable content. Thank you. 👍
Very cool video! Will take inspiration from this for ours!
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Not one person's gonna mention Ricky ticky Taffy.
Its Tavi! Hahaha
I watched the cartoon version of that many many times when I was growing up
Good old Rudyard Kipling, not too popular this day and age!
@@matthewbrasel2737 Thank you but you didn't know what I meant I mean the last time I'd seen that I was probably like 6 I am now 43 I think it's pretty good still for remembering it
Love your Narration😏
Typical Japan. Takes an L at the beginning but manages to convert it into the W
Aren't humans the most invasive and intrusive species on the planet!? 🤔
That would be the case if something that was not human documented history, measured evoloution, and found evidence that we are invasive. Are you going to erradicate yourself?
not all humans only you
The two alphas made an agreement to split the turf between day and night.
Few governments, including or especially the US, had much interest in ecology and ecosystems
2 words. Screw worm
Mongooses were introduced to Okinawa Island in Japan in 1910. I don't think this was mentioned in this excellent video.
And They learned that they didn't work there either, BEFORE they put them on the on the islands that are the subject of this video. The Mongoose was introduced to Okinawa in 1910. I lived in Okinawa in 1963 and they knew then that the mongoose was not effective against the Habu. SO, why did they introduce the mongoose to Amami Oshima Island in 1979?
@@tolson57 - I was wondering why myself. The Japanese are no fools and so there must have been a reason for introducing them even though they knew they were ineffective. The only thing I can think is that locals were demanding the government do something about people dying from snake bites and so they released Mongooses to placate people. So it was a P.R. move.
It actually was mentioned. In detail. 9 minutes in.
@@promontorium - I listened again from 9 minutes to 11.30 and he doesn't give a date. He says during the something era and about 70 years earlier than...etc. I still don't hear a date but if you want to pinpoint it instead of telling me when he does mention it, I'll stand corrected.
@@AnyoneCanSee He said the Meiji era, which ended in 1912.
Yes fantastic very interesting information, thank you 🙏 ❤
It always amazes me that scientists fail to learn that playing God is almost always a very, very bad idea.
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Well made video.
The narration is great, and in combination with the video, yeah, that is good.
Mongooses make cute pets, just like a ferret but they run away eventually 😂 they are quite smart animals, comparable to otters and dogs.
Baloney they are vicious.
My grandfather grew up in Detroit around the turn of the last century. I remember my grandfather telling me that Belle Island, in the Detroit river had many rattlesnakes. So they released pigs, and they took care of the problem. Maybe they were somewhat resistant to the venom with all that fat.
Introducing exotic species is like committing a crime. Think kudzu in the American South.
Habu Sake is insane. Def a bucket list experience.
Love the channel God bless
R.I.P. to all the mongoose that had a nice vacation on that island while it lasted.
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SAD... They could control the number by neturing or spaying the animals prior to release.
The mongoose, even though some may say are not tame, they can be and few Maui Islanders have had them as pets.
Because of this animal,THERE ARE NO SNAKES ON THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
But because of the Greedy Haole, they closed all the sugar cane & pineapple fields in Maui. Letting only the rich, from the mainland, come in and purchase these once beneficial lands for employment and trade. These large acres of land were stolen from the Ohana, who still Legally own the land, because by written law, it was only to be LEASED
for agricultural reasons. But the Haole stoled the land from the Native Islanders of all of the Hawaiian Islands.😢
I just watched this video 10 minutes ago. Just now a video from 8 days ago comes across my feed with the exact caption and thumbnail from another channel.
Should have open a Chinese restaurant there
Don't tell trump.
Tell Biden 🇨🇳 🤯
They should have just released some tigers,honey badgers, and jaguars
Nature is amazing 🎉
They're in Hawaii too for much the same reasons
Ugh. Love this OP voice. Dang
They should have released honey badgers instead.
They should’ve introduced cobras to japan so the mongoose could catch snakes. 😂
St. John's has an area called Mangoose Junction.
Cobras have a slower strike compared to vipers.
What about black mambas?
@@Matthew-Anthony not sure, I do know that snakes in the viper family are extremely fast. If I remember right Pit Vipers have the fastest strike.
@@Matthew-Anthony PiratePrincessYuki is probably correct as a general rule. But, the acceleration of a snakes head during a strike, is not exactly a well studied field. I don't know if the black mamba (which is an Elapid, like cobras are) has an especially fast strike speed. I doubt there are any studies on the matter.
The world is plagued with good intentions, mostly because of thinking humans know best. Mother nature loves balance.
They did that in Hawaii for rats in the cane fields, and both are doing well. No more cane fields.
I don't think you watched the whole video, they actually told us about Hawaii from 12 minutes in.
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Enjoy your delusions
Peacocks are effective snake killers
the coffee looks too light 1:24
Lol
It looks like airplane coffee.
It's meant to resemble snake fangs spewing venom.
😂
That's how it's supposed to be. More cream than coffee. I like my coffee to have a light tan color
The mangoose got introduced in puerto Rico to control the black rat in the sugarcane field but instead killed everything, and it has a lot of rabies I had to put 2 of my dogs to sleep because of those nasty things they eat eggs also
well dogs are also introduced species
Those mongoose are helping by killing introduced species like dogs...
@hindugoat2302 you wild bro
@@joeorton1218 am I wrong?
@@hindugoat2302 you wrong
@@hindugoat2302yeah, and pretty ignorant too
The most amazing thing is how you got Kermit to do the narration
Hey, why don’t we use mongoose blood and genetics to come
Up with an anti venom that’s universal and easily available? Is there a reason that doesn’t work and we need to get the venom from the animal? When mongoose clearly have it built in to take care of the problem. Or do we not have the technology to make that shortcut?
Great question
I think they’re afraid it won’t be as effective and liabilities from deaths.
Antidotes are medicines and malpractice costs more money than any other chemical liability.
@@ironhell813 surely testing can prove if it is or is not as effective… like if it is even 90% chance that it works on all venoms… there’s some venoms that we have legit no anti venom for ? Surely even a chance is better than the 0%
@@ironhell813Not more than shitton they spend on curing cancer and other diseases
The modified acetylcholine receptor is a special protein gate in nerve cells which gets synthesised inside the nerve cell from dna/rna. It is not a protein that is free in blood that latches onto the venom similar to what antibodies do to pathogens. On the contrary, the venom attaches to the acetylcholine receptor usually irreversibly, inhibiting nerve messaging. The mongoose receptor must have a modification that allows the venom from dissociating from the gate/channel/receptor.
Any time you upset the natural balance you risk serious repercussions. Even if you think that you’ve thought it all through.
One time I accidentally swallowed a fly.
I just swallowed a spider to catch it. It all worked out fine in the end .
Ok old lady. 😂
I appreciate the unintrusive reminder
would of been hilarious if they brought over the honey badger for this snake fest fight lol
What I didn't understand was why Japan tried mongooses on Omami Oshima seventy years after introducing them to Okinawa with rather unpleasant side effects.
I've never used or even thought of the plural form of mongoose. So my question is would mongeese be acceptable? I know I could Google it, but I decided just to ask the people.
Mongooses
His intro never gets old😊
Plenty of invasive species in Europe !
Yeah, they are called politicians.
Some people never learn! It's never good to bring an foreign species into another habitat, because that species will adapt and take the easy way out! And so the whole eco-system gets messed up!
People seam to never learn until it's almost to late for native animal or plant population . You would think they would see others mistakes and learn but they don't . The long term consequences don't seem to be figured into the equation . We aren't as smart as would like to think !
Don’t mess with Mother Nature!
We have an undesirable influx of none native species into the US, would traps work on them ?
The natives thought the same thing! Roanoke Virginia 1600’s
Odd point of view coming from a country literally built on Immigration.... Other than the natives you are ALL immigrants....
Bro i am sure you're also not native to the us 😂 sit down
Cuts as the dog at4.55 is taking a dump... Classy editing..
The Egyptian picture of mongoose and a dog breed used for hunting called Saluki I think.
Invasive animals but not invasive people
I died inside when you pronounced Meiji as Maiji... Google will tell you how to pronounce it, it just takes a few seconds extra.
How about pronouncing it as "Mooji"?
Hey man , can you maybe do a warning of close ups of some creatures, they dont sit well with me personally.
I totally thought they are going to bring in, Hideo kojima's Metal Gear Solid's THE SNAKE EATER.
In the middle of Lake Lure in North Carolina was an island called "Snake Island" because it was over run with venemous snakes. Rattlesnakes and copperhead i believe. They tried everything to get rid of them and offered a bounty to whoever could get rid of them.
Finally an old farmer took up the challenge and moved some pigs to the island and this wiped out the snake population. The farmer returned to the island retreived his pigs
Nothing is perfect but Jesus ❤😊
Pit viper is such a cool name and coral snakes sound like they’d be innocent. 😂
In 1982, when stationed on the island of Okinawa, the "habu-mongoose" fight was actually a tourist attraction. I understand that they no longer do this.
Saw a Habu swing from a tree through my NVG’s at JWTC in Okinawa. Also bought a bottle of Habu Saki with the snake in the bottle, lasted me about 10 years.
They screwed up importing raccoons too! You would think they would learn.
"I'm a snake"
"I'm a snake with legs and claws!"