bearsemen ikr paying off hundreds of thousands of people to fake an almost unlimited amount of studies showing climate change definitely outweighs the small amount of gas price raising
The Naz are you sure humans, over the next billion years or so, won't find a way to counteract dark matter and prevent the heat death of the universe, thus allowing us, and our favorite animal pets, to live forever?
agreed, humans are way to destructive, i'm betting that by 3500 at the maximum we'd have destroyed ourselves in an awesome round of intergalactic planetcracker flinging contest, with just like 10 ships ships filled with humans drifting in an empty void, waiting for their imminent doom
We have bald eagles nesting all over the place where I live now. I can go downtown by the river and see them flying pretty much every day. Its quite a sight.
Kakapos are supposed to have poor fertility, that's actually one of the reasons why they were so successful in New Zealand until the rats, stoats and other egg eaters arived. This seems counter intuitive, but actually, for a very long lived animal (they often used to 80 and some would live to over 100) with no natural predictors, there has to be some way to control the population otherwise they will eat themselves to extinction. So they actually a very low fertility rate made them extremely successful for a very long time. If you want more information on the Kakapo's problems, and how they weirdly relate to our own check out this amazing lecture by Douglas Adams : Parrots, the Universe and everything. It's about an hour and a half long, but its amazing.
@@austinreed7343 'Ethnicity' isn't part of taxonomic rank. Plus ethnicity is a fluid concept. One day they're called Carthigians, the next day they're Algerians/Berber/Arab. Yes, certain tribes who are few in number and isolated from civilization can be said to be in danger as they do not possess immunity to certain diseases. These tribes would be those living in isolated areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
@@austinreed7343 thats only if you ignore that every parent passes on 50% of his or her genetics, i.e. the 1 drop rule. but thats like saying humans arent actually humans because we all have like 2 percent neanderthal dna.
Everyone's talking about how tiny the effort is compared to the amount of destruction. That's not the point. The point is that these methods have worked and can work again. Fatalism isn't helping anyone, guys.
Not every species is the same. Not every situation is. There is a lot of obstruction to nature conservation and a lack of will, effort and money. A few people cannot save all the currently endangered species. Extinctions keep happening and they will happen in the future as things stand now.
Did you know that the American Bison population was once about 25 million and then the total population was reduced to only about 1000 individuals in 1889
When you look at photos of the Bison skull pyramids or read the backstory of the trail of tears (and so many similar stories in other countries), you really have to ask yourself about the human nature and how civilised we actually are.
Isn't it back to 150'000 though? I think BBC Earth tweeted about it last night after Planet Earth II aired /EDIT: yep :-) --> @BBCEarth: From a low of 1000, the bison population in North America now numbers 150,000 #PlanetEarth2
that is the stupidest thing I've heard for a while. Sure get them as a pet and watch them get eaten by cats and dogs. Not only that their are many cases of kakapo's going onto cars and literally RIPPING the car apart. The break the window wipers, break the rubber. Also don't forget they also have the loudest call of any bird and they are nocturnal meaning that they will be doing all their calls at night so you can't get to sleep.
what you're saying is very sad actually. If by saving a species we understand domestication, we really don't save anything. We're simply designing our new range of house pets.
I was stood over by a gang of Kea for my snickers bar once near the summit of T.C. I had to bind on fast,throw my snickers and bolt,how embarrassing......
Reading the title i was already ready to say "7 saved and 100s brought to extinction" and then she says stuff of 1000x more extinctions with humans around... dang, that's way beyond what i expected it to be.
Why no California Condor? Yeah, the black footed ferret is cuter, but the Condor is significantly more impressive. New techniques had to be developed to be able to breed and reintroduce them successfully into the wild. I remember one of my school field trips to the zoo when they started using the puppet hoping it would help to keep the chicks from having any human contact and be more successful into adulthood.
Also, couldn't cloning be used to help mitigate the effect of genetic bottleneck in captive breeding? Namely by pulling DNA from museum specimens and the like.
What about the Lorde Howe island stick insect? A big stickbug, which was classified as extinct until 24 individuals were discovered on a single bush? I've always resonated with their success story, because they're not the typical fluffy, cute, or iconic animals that get all the attention.
Well considering 200 species go extinct every day, largely due to human activity, I think we should hold off on patting ourselves on the back. Humans are the worst extinction event in the history of the Earth and saving a handful of the species we find cute and feeling good about ourselves for doing so is a bit childish.
you clearly havent heard of the permian extinction not to mention the fact that this isnt some big rock crashing into the earth or over oxygenation of the atmosphere, or volcanic dimming, this is literally evolution at work. one species evolved intelligence and proceeded to conquer every biome on the planet and out compete every other form of life. it even domesticated numerous other species to better serve its needs and alters the terrain to suit itself. this is survival of the fittest and the extinction today drives the adaptation of tomorrow. nature isnt being destroyed its being changed. jungles are replaced with agriculture and settlements which are still full of life
In terms of genetic diversity, today's mass extinction is worse than all of the "big five" mass extinction events in history including the permian. Yeah I'm not sorry about it because i think Humans are pretty cool, but it grinds my gears whenever people get all upset over one or two species because it shows they don't realize just how many species we off without even thinking about it.
Alienmination Nobody is really sure what the real number is. 200 a day is a higher estimate but is certainly between 10-300 a day. Even if it is just 10 my point still stands.
There's a stupidly overwhelming joy and adoration that comes over me when I see kakapos. They look like big, pudgy, slow-moving parakeets, and I love them.
As a conservation ecologist myself I believe you are saying something that is far from true. Most documentaries refrain from talking about human effects. Just show pretty pictures. Reality is that thousands of species are endangered and the few that we save don't make up for the losses.
Food for thought: Humans are part of evolution and nature right? If extinction rates are higher with us than it would be without us, isn't that just part of nature and evolution? So if other animals can't cope with us being around, isn't that "their problem"? Survival of the fittest, evolution and all that...? I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to save animals, but on the other hand, it is part of nature and a controversial subject matter. Another thing: We say buildings aren't part of nature. But animals also build stuff. Beavers building dams for an example. We say THAT is nature, why aren't our buildings also part of that? They're more advanced, sure, but isn't it basically the same thing?
Censtudios I foresee irrational rage towards your person. you are brave for commenting something like that on the internet... and technically, yes to both, but we are the only rational being on earth, giving us immense advantage over the other species, thus making us somehow responsible of what happens to then.
finally someone else that gets it. no one calls the meteor that killed the dinosaurs evil and it destroyed life and left a massive gap in ecosystems humans on the other hand cultivate life. what is destroyed is replaced with agriculture and human habitats. earth isnt dying, its transforming
A lot of the technology we have was created from stuff we found in nature. Without biodiversity there is no technology. There is also no medicine, since almost every drug is a chemical compound that was first found in plants and later synthethized. If we were to wipe out every other plant species we would run out of source material for drugs that may be useful for curing or preventing future diseases. Because of the sheer number of possibilities for atoms of different elements to combine, it's a lot easier to find a plant that has a compound and finding out what that compound does and how to synthethize it than guessing random compounds until we find one that works.
I cant wait for the day when I see a SciShow video talking about how Aye-Ayes have been saved from the brink of extinction. In fact, there was a time when people thought they were extinct. I love them.
the Kakapo is not saved from extinction. The remaining population is on an island far from mainland and it's closely monitored by scientists. It could not exist without the help of man, without being helped to reproduce, etc. The remaining population is also very small and inbreeding. That's not really saved from extinction to me. The point is, when we mess up something so badly, we may lose it no matter how hard we try to repair our mistakes.
We still can save them if we bring in genetics. I'm sure there is a way to increase the diversity by controlled breeding and gene manipulation to maximize positive output.
Darth Biomech unfortunately, human selection cannot replace natural selection, so no, genetics will only create our version of them, not really what they would be like if they were left in peace
The bison in Yellowstone are another example of a species that was saved from extinction. In the spring of 1900 there were just 23 bison in Yellowstone. That year anti poaching measures with real teeth went into effect and the population was saved. Today visitors to Yellowstone have an excellent chance of seeing bison.
I'm amazed that there are birds around that can't fly - and aren't extinct. I thought they were all gone thanks to humans. You learn something new every day. Hope the kākāpō makes it.
Jarlaxle, thankfully? wow... a moa would be a sight to behold, as would an elephant bird. By your logic we should drive elephants, tigers, lions, and all other megafauna to extinction... and to huldu we have a few species of ground parrots in australia which aren't' flightless but live on the ground, and all ratites are flightless (emus, ostriches, rheas and cassowarries)
Jarlaxle Daerthe no we don't, platypuses aren't the only venomous mammal, slow lorises are venomous too, also i'd much rather run around the bush in australia (which i do) than many other countries around the world our wildlife is hardly dangerous if you know what you're doing, we don't have to worry about bears, elephants or big cats
It's refreshing to find out that's humans finally seem to wake up and try to reverse and prevent any further damage to the earth. I just hope it's not too late.
One, you might find interesting (another NZ one), is the black robin. Went down to a population of 7 with one female at one point! Old Blue was the robin's name, and it now has been taken to the Chatam Islands to help its population grow again
Great presentation ! The tone and cadence is spot on and very smooth now! Just the separation between segments is a bit unclear as there isn't enough spacing or pause between the different categories, the person editing could have added small pauses between the different segments!
I have enjoyed sea otters many times while fishing on the coast of California south of San Francisco. I was pleased to see them north of where they were supposed to have returned to, indicating that they were in fact recovering in the wild. Several times I witnessed them using rocks to open mussels and clams. I have also seen families of river otters while fishing along the Sacramento River west of Chico, CA. The adults of this species exceed six feet from nose to tip of tail and are absolutely amazing to see swim past only 20 feet away.
we haven't been able to help. we've been able to undo some harm we have done. different thing. if you hit someone so hard he ends up in a life threatening state and then bring them to the hospital you, noone would even think about calling it helping someone.
Olivia, it's good to see you are finally hitting your stride! I'm glad I gave you a chance (I was one who didn't like your way of speaking at first) because now I'm learning about many topics I'm interested in. Welcome to the show! I'm ready for more!
Can't believe you picked the Kakapo over the Chatham island black robin (although what NZ's DoC is doing with the Kakapo is amazing). The Black robin got down to 5 individuals and 2 females(!) before it was saved: www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/black-robin/
I grew up in an area with a pretty decent population of bald eagles (like, I saw them about as often as raccoons and *more* often than opossums, so like, not every day, but pretty often), so I was absolutely shocked as a kid when I found out they'd ever been endangered at all. It gives me so much hope that an animal that was so endangered when my parents were kids could recover enough that the thought of them being at risk of extinction genuinely seemed strange to me.
Now that's a great way to sell a conservation of a species; genome mapping. Not only does it contribute to saving the animal but the first total genome mapping would be a major breakthrough for genetics as a whole.
For me it's her voice and the tone. It's piercing and the uplifted ending still bugs me even though she has it "toned" down a bit now. Still annoyed me enough that I need to mute the video and read the caption instead.
You know, you guys could do an entire video on "Species that Depend on Prairie Dog Colonies." Ferrets, burrowing owls, badgers, mountain plovers... ...Yes, I live in Wyoming. Yes, I know I'm biased. What of it? ;)
Seven. Great. Meanwhile, (I've read) anywhere from 20 to 200 species (plants, animals, insects, everything...) go extinct every day. I've also read those numbers are high, but human-caused extinction is still about 10,000 times "normal" extinction rates. Concentrating on just the cute, cuddly, and marketable species isn't gonna stem the disaster that is happening now, and those seven will probably still perish. Everything's connected.
This goes to show how effective humans can be at preserving wildlife, provided we want to do so. Sadly, very few people recognize the damge they do on a regular basis. Please, recycle!
Many animals are increasing in numbers like Wolves, Tigers, Rhinos, Brown bears, Giant Panda, Bald eagle, Californian condor, Californian sea lion, Steller sea lion, Many seal species, and kangaroo. However despide these optimistic news there are some animals that whose population must be stablized and increased like some decreasing specieass like orangutan, Leopard, Cheetah, Lion, many cat species, Giraffes, Gorilla, Pangolins, most of the frogs, many lizards species, sea turtles.
The Mauritius kestel got down to six known birds but are now up to 400. They are extremely inbred, but apparently since they always had a very small population but sustained it for thousands upon thousands of years, dangerous recessive genes were naturally bred out. They'd still be extremely vulnerable to bird diseases.
Collin Bruce wild boars are free year round game, at least here in Cali, and they have python hunting parties in Florida on top of them being free to hunt year round. A lot of states have exceptions for invasive species.
Amarianee we have something similar but it really hasn't put a dent in the population. I know we have an annual python hunt where the Hunter that kills the largest snake gets $1000. It's the end of the forth season.
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it's really kelpful that sea otters aren't extinct
I sea what you mean with that statement.
LesNe yes
We should wave goodbye to sea jokes.
I sea what you did there, very kelpful
bearsemen ikr paying off hundreds of thousands of people to fake an almost unlimited amount of studies showing climate change definitely outweighs the small amount of gas price raising
I'm glad we stopped using DDT and saved the bald eagle... too bad we weren't able to stop it from losing its hair though :(
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Which is not a problem, given that the birds don't actually have hair.
Robot Devil 'tis a joke since it is called a bald eagle lol
😂😂😂
Yeah, such a shame. There should be a crowd funding for an eagle safe hair regrowth gel. They must have their glorious hair back!
"Others were eaten" well that escalated quickly.
There should be a rating above "Least Concern" called "Too Many" and we should put mosquitoes on it.
Zetsubou Z. Er, and Humans...
TheEngineGal stop that. You're making me sad.
go out and start killing then come on.
TheEngineGal Go eat a brick
Darcy Robbs deer? Definitely nog
One is not simply saved from extinction.
The fate is only prolonged.
Enigmac arguably you could say they were saved from imminent extinction, it's established that nothing lasts forever
The Naz are you sure humans, over the next billion years or so, won't find a way to counteract dark matter and prevent the heat death of the universe, thus allowing us, and our favorite animal pets, to live forever?
deep
Yup.
agreed, humans are way to destructive, i'm betting that by 3500 at the maximum we'd have destroyed ourselves in an awesome round of intergalactic planetcracker flinging contest, with just like 10 ships ships filled with humans drifting in an empty void, waiting for their imminent doom
We have bald eagles nesting all over the place where I live now. I can go downtown by the river and see them flying pretty much every day. Its quite a sight.
Kakapos are supposed to have poor fertility, that's actually one of the reasons why they were so successful in New Zealand until the rats, stoats and other egg eaters arived. This seems counter intuitive, but actually, for a very long lived animal (they often used to 80 and some would live to over 100) with no natural predictors, there has to be some way to control the population otherwise they will eat themselves to extinction. So they actually a very low fertility rate made them extremely successful for a very long time.
If you want more information on the Kakapo's problems, and how they weirdly relate to our own check out this amazing lecture by Douglas Adams : Parrots, the Universe and everything. It's about an hour and a half long, but its amazing.
cornishphilosopher + I could listen to Douglas Adams for hours on end, so thank you.
Celina k You are very welcome, that man really DID have a brain the size of a planet.
cornishphilosopher l
I like how the wikipedia page for Humans, says 'Least Concern'
Lol, not so sure about that...
I'd say certain ethnicities are now "Near Threatened".
Actually they should make room for another status just for us- "Too Many" or, maybe "All Pervasive Invasive".
@@austinreed7343 'Ethnicity' isn't part of taxonomic rank. Plus ethnicity is a fluid concept. One day they're called Carthigians, the next day they're Algerians/Berber/Arab.
Yes, certain tribes who are few in number and isolated from civilization can be said to be in danger as they do not possess immunity to certain diseases. These tribes would be those living in isolated areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
@@austinreed7343 thats only if you ignore that every parent passes on 50% of his or her genetics, i.e. the 1 drop rule. but thats like saying humans arent actually humans because we all have like 2 percent neanderthal dna.
Boy, this comment sure aged like wine.
Everyone's talking about how tiny the effort is compared to the amount of destruction. That's not the point. The point is that these methods have worked and can work again. Fatalism isn't helping anyone, guys.
Well, that's a lie. Mostly everyone's talking about how much they hate Olivia. Well, screw those guys too.
woodfur00 huehuehue
Not every species is the same. Not every situation is. There is a lot of obstruction to nature conservation and a lack of will, effort and money. A few people cannot save all the currently endangered species. Extinctions keep happening and they will happen in the future as things stand now.
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Alwin Hardenbol Okay. So we're not God. Guess we'd better not try to do what we actually can, then.
Did you know that the American Bison population was once about 25 million and then the total population was reduced to only about 1000 individuals in 1889
It was also mostly done to take away resources from indigenous people :(.
When you look at photos of the Bison skull pyramids or read the backstory of the trail of tears (and so many similar stories in other countries), you really have to ask yourself about the human nature and how civilised we actually are.
Isn't it back to 150'000 though? I think BBC Earth tweeted about it last night after Planet Earth II aired /EDIT: yep :-) --> @BBCEarth: From a low of 1000, the bison population in North America now numbers 150,000 #PlanetEarth2
***** I'm pretty sure their population is actually above 500,000 including wild and captive
jett lax some estimates say there were 62 million of them
I honestly believe we should domesticate kakapo. Imagine them being pets.
Hmm yea, good idea. Watch them get destroyed by cats because they can't fly away.
that is the stupidest thing I've heard for a while. Sure get them as a pet and watch them get eaten by cats and dogs. Not only that their are many cases of kakapo's going onto cars and literally RIPPING the car apart. The break the window wipers, break the rubber. Also don't forget they also have the loudest call of any bird and they are nocturnal meaning that they will be doing all their calls at night so you can't get to sleep.
Well, I'm sure kids in 2300 will enjoy it! The domestication process takes a long time
what you're saying is very sad actually. If by saving a species we understand domestication, we really don't save anything. We're simply designing our new range of house pets.
I was stood over by a gang of Kea for my snickers bar once near the summit of T.C. I had to bind on fast,throw my snickers and bolt,how embarrassing......
This is the kind of video that keeps me going in my journey to become a restoration ecologist.
really? A video full of inaccuracies?
Reading the title i was already ready to say "7 saved and 100s brought to extinction" and then she says stuff of 1000x more extinctions with humans around... dang, that's way beyond what i expected it to be.
Why no California Condor? Yeah, the black footed ferret is cuter, but the Condor is significantly more impressive. New techniques had to be developed to be able to breed and reintroduce them successfully into the wild. I remember one of my school field trips to the zoo when they started using the puppet hoping it would help to keep the chicks from having any human contact and be more successful into adulthood.
Kakapos are my favorite bird :)
A Bird Lover *caca-poo*. It basically means shit-shit XD I'm so imature lol
A Bird Lover I prefer cockapoos
Alienmination Yes, you are very immature.
The kākā is a parrot/means parrot. Po can mean of the night. The kākāpo means night parrot.
Have you heard of potoo birds? Their cry sounds like a teenage boy whining at his mother with a cracked voice. "Mooooooom!"
I always enjoy seeing Olivia on these. I've never got the hate for her.
Also, couldn't cloning be used to help mitigate the effect of genetic bottleneck in captive breeding? Namely by pulling DNA from museum specimens and the like.
What can I say, I'm a simple man. I see a kakapo in a thumbnail, I click it.
I'm close to extinction too. There is only one of me left.
I'm sure you're not the only rice farmer out there!
I think extinction refers to species, not individuals :P
It's just a joke so don't get so serious about it.
your life is a joke
BullShitThat How did you know?My Asian clones never leave the basement.
What about the Lorde Howe island stick insect? A big stickbug, which was classified as extinct until 24 individuals were discovered on a single bush? I've always resonated with their success story, because they're not the typical fluffy, cute, or iconic animals that get all the attention.
Well considering 200 species go extinct every day, largely due to human activity, I think we should hold off on patting ourselves on the back. Humans are the worst extinction event in the history of the Earth and saving a handful of the species we find cute and feeling good about ourselves for doing so is a bit childish.
you clearly havent heard of the permian extinction
not to mention the fact that this isnt some big rock crashing into the earth or over oxygenation of the atmosphere, or volcanic dimming, this is literally evolution at work. one species evolved intelligence and proceeded to conquer every biome on the planet and out compete every other form of life. it even domesticated numerous other species to better serve its needs and alters the terrain to suit itself.
this is survival of the fittest and the extinction today drives the adaptation of tomorrow. nature isnt being destroyed its being changed. jungles are replaced with agriculture and settlements which are still full of life
In terms of genetic diversity, today's mass extinction is worse than all of the "big five" mass extinction events in history including the permian. Yeah I'm not sorry about it because i think Humans are pretty cool, but it grinds my gears whenever people get all upset over one or two species because it shows they don't realize just how many species we off without even thinking about it.
Ethan Geisler EVERYDAY? Nah, do your research. I'm pretty sure that number are not true mate.
It's also childish not to feel good about the positive things that have been done.
Alienmination Nobody is really sure what the real number is. 200 a day is a higher estimate but is certainly between 10-300 a day. Even if it is just 10 my point still stands.
The title could be changed to "7 Species We Almost exterminated" and still be accurate...
There's a stupidly overwhelming joy and adoration that comes over me when I see kakapos. They look like big, pudgy, slow-moving parakeets, and I love them.
It's good to show these success stories. Too many nature shows give people a sense of hopelessness about the future.
As a conservation ecologist myself I believe you are saying something that is far from true. Most documentaries refrain from talking about human effects. Just show pretty pictures. Reality is that thousands of species are endangered and the few that we save don't make up for the losses.
The bald eagle part made me glad that I live in Alaska. More bald eagles here than in any other state.
Food for thought: Humans are part of evolution and nature right? If extinction rates are higher with us than it would be without us, isn't that just part of nature and evolution? So if other animals can't cope with us being around, isn't that "their problem"? Survival of the fittest, evolution and all that...?
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to save animals, but on the other hand, it is part of nature and a controversial subject matter.
Another thing: We say buildings aren't part of nature. But animals also build stuff. Beavers building dams for an example. We say THAT is nature, why aren't our buildings also part of that? They're more advanced, sure, but isn't it basically the same thing?
Censtudios okay, but biodiversity is vital to human life on earth too. So we too will go extinct due to our own idiocy
Censtudios I foresee irrational rage towards your person. you are brave for commenting something like that on the internet...
and technically, yes to both, but we are the only rational being on earth, giving us immense advantage over the other species, thus making us somehow responsible of what happens to then.
finally someone else that gets it.
no one calls the meteor that killed the dinosaurs evil and it destroyed life and left a massive gap in ecosystems
humans on the other hand cultivate life. what is destroyed is replaced with agriculture and human habitats. earth isnt dying, its transforming
Albinojackrussel biodiversity really isnt necessary for humans though. why would it be? we have technology.
A lot of the technology we have was created from stuff we found in nature. Without biodiversity there is no technology. There is also no medicine, since almost every drug is a chemical compound that was first found in plants and later synthethized. If we were to wipe out every other plant species we would run out of source material for drugs that may be useful for curing or preventing future diseases. Because of the sheer number of possibilities for atoms of different elements to combine, it's a lot easier to find a plant that has a compound and finding out what that compound does and how to synthethize it than guessing random compounds until we find one that works.
More "science" channels need to be posting sources in the video description like you do!
I agree it's a much better experience when you can read the source yourself
I cant wait for the day when I see a SciShow video talking about how Aye-Ayes have been saved from the brink of extinction. In fact, there was a time when people thought they were extinct. I love them.
the Kakapo is not saved from extinction. The remaining population is on an island far from mainland and it's closely monitored by scientists. It could not exist without the help of man, without being helped to reproduce, etc. The remaining population is also very small and inbreeding. That's not really saved from extinction to me. The point is, when we mess up something so badly, we may lose it no matter how hard we try to repair our mistakes.
We still can save them if we bring in genetics. I'm sure there is a way to increase the diversity by controlled breeding and gene manipulation to maximize positive output.
we are basically their gods currently. We can choose if they live or die.
Bobby Rare no, we're just a clever, highly adaptable species. An end will come to us as it comes to them too
Darth Biomech unfortunately, human selection cannot replace natural selection, so no, genetics will only create our version of them, not really what they would be like if they were left in peace
Well aren't you one for giving success a chance?
The only animal I really have any care about saving is Bees, they're too useful to lose.
sirgaz and that Black Mirror episode freaked me out.
As an Environmentalist student, this video was painful. We have really hurt this planet... :/
Naomi Cugini probably worse for vegans, tho I doubt that's a comfort.
yes human kind is mostly EVALLLLLL
The bison in Yellowstone are another example of a species that was saved from extinction. In the spring of 1900 there were just 23 bison in Yellowstone. That year anti poaching measures with real teeth went into effect and the population was saved. Today visitors to Yellowstone have an excellent chance of seeing bison.
Tommorow's episode: the near infinite species never saved from extinction.
I'm amazed that there are birds around that can't fly - and aren't extinct. I thought they were all gone thanks to humans. You learn something new every day. Hope the kākāpō makes it.
we still have the Cassowary, the bird the Raptors from Jurassic Park were based off of.
Jarlaxle, thankfully? wow... a moa would be a sight to behold, as would an elephant bird. By your logic we should drive elephants, tigers, lions, and all other megafauna to extinction... and to huldu we have a few species of ground parrots in australia which aren't' flightless but live on the ground, and all ratites are flightless (emus, ostriches, rheas and cassowarries)
Jarlaxle Daerthe no we don't, platypuses aren't the only venomous mammal, slow lorises are venomous too, also i'd much rather run around the bush in australia (which i do) than many other countries around the world our wildlife is hardly dangerous if you know what you're doing, we don't have to worry about bears, elephants or big cats
+Wise Lum And moose. I hear they uh... can be pretty deadly.
if we can all respect these big animals more we'd fear them less...more people die from dogs, horses and cows than these "dangerous" wildlife
Can't we just have the Kakapo's as pets? They seam like pet material to me :p
*RICH PEOPLE* need to donate to more companies that will save endangered animals (and poor people)
It's so sad that you can tell who the host is from the number of dislikes...
I know, people are pathetic.
Wollemi pine is the weirdest plant I know. It grows very differently depending on how you put them on the ground afaik.
It's refreshing to find out that's humans finally seem to wake up and try to reverse and prevent any further damage to the earth. I just hope it's not too late.
One, you might find interesting (another NZ one), is the black robin. Went down to a population of 7 with one female at one point! Old Blue was the robin's name, and it now has been taken to the Chatam Islands to help its population grow again
Great presentation !
The tone and cadence is spot on and very smooth now!
Just the separation between segments is a bit unclear as there isn't enough spacing or pause between the different categories, the person editing could have added small pauses between the different segments!
Is her shirt made of vantablack? It looks so strange
Impossibear It just looks black to me
Impossibear haha thats a good one. pure black makes contours inconceivable.. blink...
No dude, it's just black.
idk it looks very meta
The Galapagos tortoises were in fact so delicious it took scientists 300 years to give them a scientific name.
I have enjoyed sea otters many times while fishing on the coast of California south of San Francisco. I was pleased to see them north of where they were supposed to have returned to, indicating that they were in fact recovering in the wild. Several times I witnessed them using rocks to open mussels and clams. I have also seen families of river otters while fishing along the Sacramento River west of Chico, CA. The adults of this species exceed six feet from nose to tip of tail and are absolutely amazing to see swim past only 20 feet away.
Goddamn Olivia is lookin fine in this video. So many people hated on her when she joined but I think she makes a great host!
Everytime she said DDT it made me think of professional wrestling, so i could someone using a DDT on a turtle LOL.
Sylvester Ashcroft yup
Just let nature do its thing and stop humans from messing with ANYTHING
Bror Kriger go back in your cave then and stay off the internet
Hmm... Okay. Sure.
If it means saving 99% of the species on this planet then yeah, it actually _is_ a good idea.
we haven't been able to help. we've been able to undo some harm we have done. different thing. if you hit someone so hard he ends up in a life threatening state and then bring them to the hospital you, noone would even think about calling it helping someone.
Olivia, it's good to see you are finally hitting your stride! I'm glad I gave you a chance (I was one who didn't like your way of speaking at first) because now I'm learning about many topics I'm interested in. Welcome to the show! I'm ready for more!
Can't believe you picked the Kakapo over the Chatham island black robin (although what NZ's DoC is doing with the Kakapo is amazing).
The Black robin got down to 5 individuals and 2 females(!) before it was saved: www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/black-robin/
As a wise man named Rick Sanchez once said. "WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB, THIS WORLD STILL HAS A CHANCE!".
Let's start a fundraiser to get this girl some makeup and some new glasses and a shopping spree and a hair stylist.
David Aquilare She's cute as she is. She doesn't need a makeover. The only thing that needs to be worked on are her hand/arm movements.
Davild Aquilare She probably has more money than u funny enough :)
Kindly go fuck yourself.
yes. because scishow is about how the host looks. wait. no it isn't. get lost
More urgent to start a fundraiser for a working brain for you (and some taste)
Just wanted to say thanks 😊 this has helped so much for my project on animals :)
@SciShow: I have a suggestion for another list of species you can do that would help out a lot knowing about .. a list of important Keystone Species.
I grew up in an area with a pretty decent population of bald eagles (like, I saw them about as often as raccoons and *more* often than opossums, so like, not every day, but pretty often), so I was absolutely shocked as a kid when I found out they'd ever been endangered at all. It gives me so much hope that an animal that was so endangered when my parents were kids could recover enough that the thought of them being at risk of extinction genuinely seemed strange to me.
That last of us two trailer though.
Welcome back Olivia!!! I was wondering if we would see a new video from you soon. :)
Now that's a great way to sell a conservation of a species; genome mapping. Not only does it contribute to saving the animal but the first total genome mapping would be a major breakthrough for genetics as a whole.
Can someone explain why videos hosted by Olivia keeps getting disliked?
I think some people don't like her tone of voice it seems like she's bored.
M8GitGud I honestly think that some things people are sexist. But hey I thinks she's great.
For me it's her voice and the tone. It's piercing and the uplifted ending still bugs me even though she has it "toned" down a bit now. Still annoyed me enough that I need to mute the video and read the caption instead.
Sarata Saidykhan How'd you get there, on Scishow space they has a regular female and male ost and they're both well liked.
I watched this whole video because it was interesting, but I had the sound turned way down.
You know, you guys could do an entire video on "Species that Depend on Prairie Dog Colonies." Ferrets, burrowing owls, badgers, mountain plovers...
...Yes, I live in Wyoming. Yes, I know I'm biased. What of it? ;)
now lets count how many species we made extinct
OVER 9000!!!!!!
Adnan Moheddin you actually are probably correct
I wouldn't be surprised! xD
WorldMess To many lets not 😃
its 1.9 million
I am going to bed, when I get back I better be at 10 likes.
I refuse.
s stevenson same
DOWNLIKE DOWNLIKE haha
I said 10....not 41....
Unfortunately there is still alot of whaling going on in some places, in the name of 'science' because of a loophole.
You gotta give it to rodents for getting in on this human thing on the ground floor.
7 species we almost killed but we didn't.
Fluttershy would be proud.
agreed
I just looked at a list of mammals that went extinct after 1500.
These hands... are unclean...
ddt is the only english word ive found that i am literally unable to pronounce
7 Species humans almost fucked over but managed to somewhat unfuck in time.
Now, let's save the 1 billion species remaining.
Do a follow-up video that talks about endangered species and what we're doing, if anything, to help preserve them.
now a video on many species we couldnt save.
I like Olivia but I hate that strange drone she does at the end of every sentence.
Honestly, that's all she needs to fix to be an amazing host. I've disliked that drone since she first hosted.
some species go extinct because their feelings get hurt.
You should make a video on why humans love mint flavoring
Weird I was just thinking about how humans love mint smell but rats hate it.
Why are there so many notifications and no notification squad where u at comments around solid banana's anus?
Can we really claim to be saving any species when we are the primary reason they are endangered in the first place?
Seven. Great. Meanwhile, (I've read) anywhere from 20 to 200 species (plants, animals, insects, everything...) go extinct every day. I've also read those numbers are high, but human-caused extinction is still about 10,000 times "normal" extinction rates. Concentrating on just the cute, cuddly, and marketable species isn't gonna stem the disaster that is happening now, and those seven will probably still perish. Everything's connected.
Olivia is great
I just hope that Amur leopards will recover.
While I enjoyed learning about the species, I'm kind of disappointed that Californian Condors (my favorite animal) wasn't included in the list.
If this women can cook, she's a keeper
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say we were 'helping' when in most of these cases it was us who were the problem in the first place.
Why are there 7 species that were saved from extinction around my anus?
Christopher Wulff *Bruh!!!*
This is a great, upbeat episode! Thanks for sharing!
If there was a conservation level for humans it should be called "Critically Invasive".
Yay Olivia! I feel like it's been too long since she did a video.
7:03 that would be a cool idea for a movie, at least on paper.
theres also the vast amount of animals that thrive thanks to us, livestock and pests
kākāpos are adorable. it makes me remember that video in which one says "yer bein' shagged by a bird"
This goes to show how effective humans can be at preserving wildlife, provided we want to do so. Sadly, very few people recognize the damge they do on a regular basis. Please, recycle!
awesome video. thank you for your content.
Great video. Very well presented and edited
>opens closes
>host video
>video see
Why is there a dalek in the intro to every sci show video?
The problem with such small populations is the lack in genetic diversity though. That makes illnesses especially dangerous.
Many animals are increasing in numbers like Wolves, Tigers, Rhinos, Brown bears, Giant Panda, Bald eagle, Californian condor, Californian sea lion, Steller sea lion, Many seal species, and kangaroo.
However despide these optimistic news there are some animals that whose population must be stablized and increased like some decreasing specieass like orangutan, Leopard, Cheetah, Lion, many cat species, Giraffes, Gorilla, Pangolins, most of the frogs, many lizards species, sea turtles.
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
www.strokeassociation.org/STROKEORG/AboutStroke/TypesofStroke/HemorrhagicBleeds/What-You-Should-Know-About-Cerebral-Aneurysms_UCM_310103_Article.jsp
Because it was too hard make a video about the thousands we let go extinct just yesterday.
The Mauritius kestel got down to six known birds but are now up to 400. They are extremely inbred, but apparently since they always had a very small population but sustained it for thousands upon thousands of years, dangerous recessive genes were naturally bred out. They'd still be extremely vulnerable to bird diseases.
As good at killing species as we are id like to put a hit list on wild boars and anacondas that are destroying the ecosystem of the Everglades.
Collin Bruce technically people are already doing it right now
so yeah
Collin Bruce It's pythons not anacondas.
Collin Bruce wild boars are free year round game, at least here in Cali, and they have python hunting parties in Florida on top of them being free to hunt year round. A lot of states have exceptions for invasive species.
Amarianee we have something similar but it really hasn't put a dent in the population. I know we have an annual python hunt where the Hunter that kills the largest snake gets $1000. It's the end of the forth season.