Some more common animals in Germany: mammals: European hare, fallow deer, red deer, red fox (which is shown in the video), wild boar, red squirrel (and some other squirrels), European pine marten, beech marten, European polecat, stoat, European badger and some other smaller rodents (and surely some others that I forgot) birds: woodpecker, robin, redstart, tit, owl, blackbird, corvus, crow, goshawk, cuckoo, finch, heron, buteo, falcon, sparrowhawk, milvus
@@annemckervey9023 Yeah, but mostly crows and sometimes magpies. They are too smart 😅 They do what they like and what they are not hindered to do. And if they are hindered to do anything they really love, you need to do it without them noticing your influence or you might become their mortal enemy. Or offer them a solution that benefits both species. Thats how smart they are.
They forgot about our flamingos in the Münsterland.. I mean they are not native and probably escaped from a zoo, but they stayed for the last 40 years, so I guess they are here to stay.
"Is everything going extinct in Germany?!" Everything that could be remotely considered a threat to humans WAS extinct in Germany. We've been reintroducing a lot of animals. Our forests are also not really untouched nature, they're pretty much all woods for production purposes with monocultural forests being the norm.
Wald would be original, wild forest, Forst would be planted or at least steered in a certain direction/ mixture. Germany has something like 95% Forst. The other 5% are found in the mountains and tiny spots that haven't been disturbed for a long time. But we call any bunch of trees Wald, anyway!
But - unlike American hunters - most German hunters hunt either deer, boar or ducks. So nothing as dangerous as bears, wolfs, mountain lions and so on.
Also they dont hunt for fun or to be a real man like the americans. They are some kind of regulation for the population of deer, boar and other mostly herbivore animals. Without hunting of this animals the balance between plants like trees and animals could harm the woods. Its a kind of nature conservation.
@@m.h.6470 Well, i highly doubt that Wolfs, bears and mountain lions are free to hunt in general. Especially because the hunters hunt mostly their own food like that. So hunting just so they could hunt isn't a thing i germany as far as I know (Don't own a license, never will). And, like Sutech said, there are several regulations and Reasons to Hunt specific animals.
@@NeverMind439 There is little regulation to hunting in America... and even less people who care about those regulation. Hunting for food is a thing, but definitely not the main reason for hunting in America.
@@m.h.6470 That land is a big one and every state does whatever the hell they want. The American system makes less and less sense to me while people ignoring the laws more and more. This is just sad. And yeah, i forgot those who are Trophy Hunting/Hunting just for Fun to kill living beings... In my opinion, way to many psychopaths 😅
2:36 a kilogram has exactly the weight of 1 litre of water. This can be contained exactly in 1 cubic decimeter. To heat 1 litre of water by 1°C you need 1kcal or 1000 calories (at room temperature). I think this shows the beauty of the metric system.
@@FlubberFrosch Did I talk about SI units? Furthermore, Joule is not a basic SI unit. Joule is kg×[m^2]×[s^-2] (where × should be standard multiplication sign. I'm on mobile). You got mass, length, time as SI Units for Joule.
One of the animals I was surprised to learn doesn’t exist in America are hedgehogs. A very common and well liked animal in Europe (present in almost every story for children that features animals) but somewhat exotic to Americans.
In terms of hunting, wolves are strictly protected by law in Germany. Hunting a wolf can get you up to 5 years in jail. Hunting lynx would theoretically be allowed in Germany, but practically it‘s not (because authorities don‘t provide any hunting season for this animal).. In Spain a hunter who hunted a lynx recently got fined to about $ 115.000 and 2 years of jail without probation. If you want to be a hunter in Germany you need a hunter‘s license which includes shooting and theoretical and practical tests. Then you are allowed to buy guns. Hunting with bow or crossbow is illegal. Hunting with those cruel traps that animals stick their paw into is also illegal.
Re hunting: not only do you have to get the license you mentioned, you also have to either lease the right to hunt or know someone with such a lease. As far as I know, there are no areas set aside for general hunting, like in the US. And that right there is probably the bigger issue for most Germans. The hunting license itself is reasonable to obtain, given you have no criminal track record and are willing to cram for the tests ... but having the money for a hunting lease, now, that's on an entirely different page. BTW just because you own property doesn't make it so you also own the right to hunt on it. Like other rights (e.g. water, minerals, raw materials), the government owns that right and can lease it to you (that being said, I would bet that land that is owned by nobility just so happens to also always lease the hunting rights to them ... never heard otherwise). There was also a case where a vegan property owner wanted to prohibit the government from leasing out the hunt on their property; they had to fight for that right tooth and nail in court (ended up winning, at least that's the last I heard ... but it was through several appeals). Always remember, a lot of Germany's laws and traditions are only superficially adapted to work within a democracy; much originates from the days of being ruled by aristocrats. Thus no actual freedom of speech, no actual property rights, no actual gun ownership, no actual right to self-defense etc.
Well unless you happened to eat Ursula Van Der Leyen's pony. Then you quickly have hunting licenses being granted against you. The wolf managed to evade all hunters and it's still at large though.
Hunting with bows and crossbows is not illeagel in Germany, theoretical it is allowed to hunt rabbits, birds, fox, any game but hoofed animals. But it is extremly unusual. German bowhunters have to travel to Danmark, France and Poland. If traps are used for hunting, it must be sure the game is caught alive or killed immediatly.
@@p.s.shnabel3409 Hunters came running over our and everybody elses property and shot right over my head when they came around the corner. They for sure were not of nobility but just happened to own the hunting rights. They regularily also shot every cat they found running around. Each year we had to get a new cat.😢 That was in Lower Saxony. - We lived prior near Hamburg at the Bismarck property. My parents were employees of the Bismarck family. They own all the forests and land around that area and one area of several square kilometers is completely fenced off and nobody can enter except for some of their staff. There lives a ranger deep in those one, too. They use that for hunting, each year a huge hunting took place there with guests from allover Europe. King Gustav of Sweden was there, too. - We, the staff, got lots of their prey, too. Wild boar goulash, roast venison and venison goulash. 😋Sometimes we found some shotgun pellets in the boar as well. 😁
imagine the video would have shown "the brown bear - population: one" he would go crazy by this number and would have asked where this one and only bear came from 🤣
There are SO many other animals, like badgers (Dachse), hedgehogs (Igel), Eichhörnchen (Squirrels), deer (Rehe), boars (Wildschweine) and so on. Also a TON of different bird species, like the swallow (Schwalbe), nightingale (Nachtigall), blackbird (Amsel), crows (Krähe), storks (Storch) and so on. You might also be interested, that there are Nandus (flightless bird native to south America) living wild in the north of Germany. They got free from a zoo or collector and have been more or less thriving. Same with racoons - they escaped from a bunch of places and now live (in very small numbers) all over Germany. Though the latter are treated as a pest and - once reported - will be caught by animal control.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 "deer" gilt für beides. Es wird sowohl mit Hirsch, also auch mit Reh übersetzt. Und "Rehwild" ist "roe deer", wenn man es genau nimmt. Daher passt meine Übersetzung.
Racoons are found in huge numbers in the wild in Germany. The estimated racoon population is 2 million! They have no natural predators and reproduce rapidly quickly replacing losses to hunting.
@@wayneholmes637 ok, I didn't know the numbers were that high. I only knew, that they supposedly came from around 70 animals, that were released/escaped... but apparently that was in the 1930s, so they had a LOT of time to spread.
There are also animals that escaped from captivity/zoos many years ago and now are just …. living here and somehow survive: a big parrot population (I know of one in Düsseldorf and surroundings), flamingos, wild horses and rheas.
From the east, the moose is coming back! Fun fact: in german the moose is called "Elch", in brit. english and Scandinavia they say "Elk". Only in North America "Elk" names a kind of deer, the "Wapiti" or Wapitihirsch" in german, so what you call a moose, we call an elk.
They forgot the Golden Eagle (Steinadler), the Black- and Red Milan, Uhu (birds of prey) Brown Bear, our Dachs, Rothirsch, Dammwild, Reh, Wildschwein (wild Bore) Marder, Hasen, Auerhahn and so many more :)
You might also be interested into the Dülmener Wildpferd (a wild horse breed, way more "original" than the Mustang. More like the Koni or the Przewalski horse). Once a year, the Dülmener Wildpferde are all round up in front of spectators, young men catch the young stallions by hand out of the herd, which will be auctioned off afterwards to keep the population on check and to lower the number of stallions. They are not free roamning like Mustangs, but they have a huge area where they can live free.
In the Netherlands we have almost the same animals as in Germany. We have walrus and orcas sometimes. Seals, harp seals, bearded seals and dolphins too. Lynx won’t take long before the migrate to us from Germany; like wolves already did. It’s forbidden to hunt on wolves. We have European bisons called Wisent. Foxes, badgers, wild cats, beavers, otters, Many species of birds of prey like sea eagles, also called the flying door. Buzzards, falcons etc.
Foxes are cute and smart. We have some living here in the city. There is a place with some gardens, hosues whre you can see sometimes up to 3 or 4 at once. And, this is a true story, they wait for the green light at the traffic lights. I had it tow times now when I had to stop at the red light and a fox was walking across the street like it was indented for pedestrians. I think they would push the button a call for green if the button was not that high. :-D
North Rhine-Westphalia has something that is unique on the European continent: near the town of Dülmen lives a herd of wild horses, known as the Merfelder Bruch wild horses. Their origins can be traced back to the year 1316. Thanks to the Duke of Croÿ family, almost 400 animals have access to a reserve of around 400 hectares of land - the Merfelder Bruch wild horse sanctuary.
As a German I can say with confidence, the most dangerous animal you can encounter in Germany is a wild boar. Especially mothers protecting their offspring.
Moose was forgotten. For several years now, individual moose have been moving from Eastern Europe to Germany. The living conditions are ideal - especially in sparsely populated Brandenburg with its wet meadows and moorland forests.
The Fire Salamander situation is so sad here. I remember when I was a child, we always walked through the forest and we could *reliably* see a bunch of Fire Salamanders *every time.* They were not rare. There were plenty of them. Now I haven't seen a single one in over twenty years, because the fungus wiped them all out :( Nowadays you'll only find signs in every forest saying "If you find a dead Fire Salamander, please call authorities" 😢
There are also a lot of wild boars in Germany, which I’m actually more scared of than the wolves which are coming back.. also I don’t really get all the farmers being angry about wolves coming back. I think it’s great. There is even one or maybe more living in the forest next to my parents home. Also I know that this has nothing to do with the current subject right know, but I would love to see u react to my video about German music evolution🙃 as long as you’ll write these anti copyright claim stuff in your caption as I did you’ll be fine
Farmers are afraid that wolves will eat their sheep. Where I live, at the edge of the black forest, there were some sightings of wolves in a village which lies in a valley surrounded by the forest. People go on hikes in the forest, there are sheep, goats and cattle on meadows at the edge of the forest... I'm really all pro nature and wildlife and I think it's great that the wolves are back. But I'm also glad I don't live right next to them.
Ich vermisse viele Tiere in dieser Aufzählung, insbesondere die Kreuzotter, Ringelnatter, Blindschleiche, Habicht, Mäusebussard, Turmfalken, Sperber, Habicht und Rotmilan.
If you take the ferry from East Frisian Norddeich to the island of Norderney you can often see seals on the sandbank. In Norddeich there is also a seal station where injured and smalls seals from the North Sea are cared for.
Hunting culture of previous centuries in Germany (and continental Europe for that matter) are the main reason for so many animals coming close to extinction. And fairy tales with big bad wolves didn't help that either.
@@toxiccc777 Wouldn't really call an animal dangerous when there's been about 12 attacks by said animals within the last 18 years (according to the NaBu statistics). I'd be more afraid of falling down the freakin stairs.
@@TinyTeaKettle Yeah, let's compare the amount of human encounters with wolves with the amount of encounters with stairs. You are an absolute genius! 18 years ago, the number of wovles in Germany was below 100, so basically nothing. Today we have probably above 2000 animals (including cubs) that mostly live in the very low populated areas of north and east Germany. In addition to that, 77 % of german populaiton lives in towns and cities, where wolves are even more rare than in rural areas. In conclusion: 99.99 % of all germans have never seen a wolf in the wild, whereas nearly to 0 % of germans have never used a stair in one way or another!
@@toxiccc777 still the likelyhood of a wolf attacking humans is also near 0%. Obviously for livestock or the odd encounter with a pet dog the situation is quite different and I am of te opinion wolfs need to be regulated. I am a hunter myself and heard of some fellow hunters they encounter wolfs trying to steal the hunted animal. Still the wolf has many benfits to the german landscape and transformation off the forrests. As always in live there is no black and white.
@@Leopeoify The likelihood of "dying on the moon" according to statistics is Zero. Does that mean the moon is a safe environment for humans?! I was not even saying that the wolf will kill us all once we step a foot into the forest. But please, when we talk about how "dangerous" something is, absolute numbers are utterly useless!
Oh yes, they are so beautiful and their population is on the rise. Interestingly the European wild cat is no ancestor of our domestic cats and they scarcely produce hybrids (well, sometimes they do).
It's quite easy to find animal parks in Germany with just native animals in natural habitats, as the native habitats tend to be the forest just outside town, if you put down some fences and make minor accommodations. They're also very often the place animal control will have you call if you have an "interesting" hurt wild animal near you. The authorities, if they have facilities at all, might manage a handful of small deer at most. One of our local animal parks, meanwhile, is on a first name basis with a vet that knows how to handle bison.
There is a second species of eagles 🦅 native to germany, the Steinadler -> golden eagle (or "stone eagle" if translated literally), which is living in the Alps. It is comparable in size and weight to the white-tailed eagle. The Eagle is also the heraldic animal of germany. But this actually goes back to the roman empire and it's stylized Eagle, the "Aquila". The German Bison is actually fully compatible for breeding with the american bison. And there was another big animal, the ancestor of modern cattle, called Aurochs (I think it's also called aurochs in english), which lived alongside the bison till it went extinct. We also have Snakes over here, but they're also nearly extinct. The "Kreuzotter" (literally "Cross Adder") or common adder and the Aspisviper (vipera aspis or european asp) which are the only poisonous snakes in germany. There are 4 or 5 species of colubrids besides that. I haven't seen a adder or viper in the last 30 years, they were already rare when I was a child, but I saw a few when I was little. Colubrids are also rare, but the chances of seeing one are at least somewhat given compared to the viper and adder. Even though most germans never encountered any snakes at all. There is another wild cat species, the "Wildkatze" (wild cat) or "Waldkatze" (forest cat) which is only slightly larger than a housecat and they actually interbreed with free roaming housecats now and then. Also we have a vulture, the "Bartgeier" (bearded vulture), but it is also nearly extinct and if ever, then you probably will find it in the alps. Besides that we have deer and other smaller animals as well as some goat-species (mostly in the alps), the alpine ibex for example.
@@Kristina_S-O der Fischadler ist kein "echter" Adler, weswegen ich ihn nicht genannt habe. For the english folks, she's talking about the Osprey. In german it is called the "fish eagle", but i didn't mention it because it's not a "real" eagle but a different species with its own taxonomic family.
Ryan ! Germany is half as big as Texas ! Imagine all that wildlife in a US state that size ! And hunting is strictly reglated now. Hunters have to pass a very strict exam/test to get a licence and pay for a hunting ground unless they are forest rangers aka Förster. And we had/ have (?) brown bears,too. But since we are so densely populated their presence is a bit tricky ! :) Btw the variety of animals throughout Europe is quite impressive including vultures ( Spain) or Flamingoes ( as stopping point in Malta before they are shot by locals) and bears ( Eastern Europe) . (edited thanks to M. Behrends 😁)
Not only Texas sizes, most of Texans have German flavor :X If U destilled the vokuhila culture, and sprinkled a bit of Murugan freedom powder on top, that's Ur Texas liquor XD
In Meine, Lower Saxony, a few years ago a grown-up boar intruded into a supermarket and scared the people almost to death. It took professional hunters some time to get it🙂
Becoming a hunter in Germany also means studying and taking exams for hunting licenses as well as carrying weapons with a gun license, which in turn is subject to another exam such as recording weapons and ammunition, which are stored and can be assigned to the gun owner. Not like in the USA where anyone can buy a gun with such lax and harmless gun laws there.
And hunting itself has also regulation on when it's allowed to hunt specific animal and how many in total per year. You can't just go into the woods and hunt whatever and whenever you want. And without permission of the land owner or the local authority it counts as poaching. Hunting is usually used to keep the wildlife population on a normal level that doesn't harm the ecosystem.
Also, the near-extinct eagle owl returned. We have a pair breeding on the church roof in the city center. Had one flying less than 10 meters above us when we were sitting in the garden. Very impressive. I like these owls. They look spectacular, and they regulate the number of doves and rabbits. The reason so many wildlife went extinct was the strong increase in human population number, which feared most of these animals as competitors in food. (Bison and wild horses did eat crops, and wolf and eagle, and bear did eat livestock. The bear was not able to return, and is still extinct in Germany.
Oh dude! I'm going to helgoland this weekend. My family is from there and my grandpa still lives there. Can't wait for your reaction to this island. It's a fascinating place.
Before I moved to Berlin about a year ago I lived in a small town surrounded by farmland and forests in northern Germany. I´ve never seen a fox in these 29 years. In Berlin I already saw 2 foxes hanging out at a park and a street. I was a bit confused :D
I grew up in the 'Odenwald', sothern part of Hessia, close to Bavaria. I live in Munich now, but saw wolfes when visiting my mom. Magical and a little scary! but a wild boar is still a lot more intimidating! Hunting is heavily regulated and gaining a license is almost as hard as gaining a degree! A lot to learn and some tough tests! As there are not many areas without heavy agriculture it's in our all interest to not let anyone shoot up the wildlife we have. I think we do have foresters and gamekeepers for each district, and these people keep an eye on the animal population. Even with a hunting licence you wont find a place wher you can just sit in a hight stand if you are not on an invitation list of one of those foresters. I think 95% of hunters tasks involve pest control and stoping people from littering or wrecking forst paths with (dirt) bikes. If you didn't grow up in a hunters family, you most likely will never have contact to much many hunting people.
I even rescued a Fire Salamander about 10 years ago, i think, was it. Was shortly before he had gone onto a busy street. Took that beautiful creature and put it near a Riverbank with a lot of grass to hide and water to drink from 🙂
Some time ago, I stumbled upon 4 fox cubs. So sweet, playing and jumping around until they noticed me. I also met young boar and really huge grown-up wild boar. These were rather stressful moments 🙈
While walking my dog, a very young fox cub approached us. Cute little fella. We ended up defending him against several crows until he was able to hide in a save place.
In Deutschland gibt es auch braune Stinktiere. Besonders in Sachsen und Thüringen. There are also brown skunks in Germany. Especially in Saxony and Thuringia.
If they say "extinct" in this video, they mean "extinct in Germany". This is why these animals can reappear - they migrate from outside Germany once the living conditions there have improved sufficiently (environment no longer so destroyed, hunting bans, etc.)
I saw a fox cub at a playground in the suburbs a few months ago. Even filmed it, sadly the cub looked a little harried. I hope the mom was around, though it’s not save because there were many dangerous roads in the area.
I would also mention red and fallow deer (Rothirsch und Damhirsch), ibex (Steinbock) and eagle owl (Uhu). We even got a shark (Katzenhai) and a whale (Schweinswal).
Ryan, love your curiosity about how people live outside of the US and how you try to pronounce our difficult german words. You´re actually quite good at it! Keep practising.
Hi! If you're interested in animals I would recommend the Channel of Robert Marc Lehmann. He's a German natur photograph and tries to safe animals all over the world. There are breathtaking reportages of wild animals in other places but also some reactions of shark attacksa and what may have caused them and everything else to know about animals. Really worth a look. The channel is in German but mostly there are autotranslated English subtit subtitles. (Helgoland is pretty cool, have been there several years ago.)
Denmark has wolves again after hundreds of years without them. Also came back in the late 90s through Germany. Been going up from 4-5 seen over a year to whole packs of 6-7 several times a year.. We're guessing wr uave about 200 or so. Trying to get it up to maybe around 2000.
I live pretty close to those bisons (in the same county). Some friends and I take a little weekend trip to a skiing cabin every year, where you can spot them from the breakfast table if you're lucky.
Damn Ryan, I'm impressed! Your German pronunciation gets better and better :) Keep going! Seems like only things you struggle with are the irregularities (when to pronounce vowels long/ short, when to pronounce consonants harsh/ soft). If you watch some videos on that your success rate probably increases a ton. ;D just a tip from a German teacher
You can find White-Tailed Eagle (Sea Eagle) especially near greater river and lakes, especially in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg. A big habitat is the National Park Downer Oder Valley (a floodplain national park).There you can observe the panicked reactions of other birds (e.g. wild geese) when they see one of the majestic sea eagles circling in the sky.
For the fox: I was on my way to shift one morning at 3 am, i live in a big City (middle of Düsseldorf) and out of nowhere a fox came out of a Bush right next to me and Wanderer into the roundabout which got some plants in the middle, scared the crap out of me but even managed to make a photo of it :D
Of course, no one dared to film the extremely dangerous Wolperdinger! Seriously, there is no more dangerous animal in the world. A hungry tiger in a room is like being in a petting zoo. On the other hand, if holidaymakers knew what was running around in our countryside, we would never have holidaymakers from abroad again. So it's better that no Wolperdinger was shown here!
9:06 I actually saw three eagles circling over our house a few days ago! But yes, it's rather rare to see one. But the closer to the coast you get, the higher the chance to spot one, and I think they usually stay in one region, so if you're lucky and one lives close to you sightings can be more frequent. The nesting places are kept secret though, I think, to help against poachers.
In my hometown, European bison have been bred for about 100 years and specimens have been released into the wild throughout Europe, thus saving them from extinction
Unfortunately, there is almost no room for wild animals in Germany. Take a look at the Ruhgebiet on Google Maps and you'll understand what I mean. Larger contiguous forests are almost only found in eastern Germany, otherwise almost all areas and forests in Germany are interspersed with roads and towns.
Germany is densely populated. If you find 100-200 year old forestmaps you get an idea of how much nature we lost. Even now most our forests are more like pretty parks. Which is part of the reason big carnivores like wolfs are a mixed joy. You don't want wolfs roaming the streets like foxes. In the USA you seem to have vast lands with almost no human population, while in germany driving a road for 3 miles without crossing more than one village is highly unusual. "Went extinct in germany" and "went extinct" aren't the same sentence. It is misleading but the first formulation means the animal was no longer present in the wild inside germany. Neighboring countries could still have them and it would still be refered to as "extinct in germany". In germany you need a license to hunt. It's not someone you can get within a month or so. You also have to get the license for the weapons and uphold the weapon keep and storage laws. Ofc you also need a rangers permit to hunt in their forest and stay within seasons and limits. 5% of the german population have a hunters license. How many of them actually hunt is a different topic.
In parts of Eastern Germany, wolves already are roaming through neighbourhoods or small public parks. The number of wolves sadly is going to be a huge problem in this densely populated country.
Basically hunting is a profession in Germany for protection of either environmental status quo or preventing dangerous animals from causing harm. A shot has to be a confirmed kill with close to 100% chance of hitting the intended target and close to 100% chance in case the target wasnt hit to not hit anything else. Doing it for fun doesnt exist as much, and shooting for fun or recreation is sourced out into sport "Schützenvereine".
The hunters pay us a small fee every year for the rights to hunt on our land. They usually inform us first. We have a Bogenschiessen area next door to us. These people are much more likely to shoot badly - I find arrows in my pasture. They are not toy arrows. So far so good they haven't injured or killed me yet.
„Theyre mainly in the harz mountains“ i live like 50 minutes away from there and went hiking like 3 times there and also used the train to the brocken, i didnt see a single lynx and that made me sad😔 where are my sweet lil floofy babies😭 but yeah, they are really shy, but i once read the news and they said a lynx was spotted in the village/city that is in the harz mountains
well its kinda fun to see you in the beginning thinking:"You have beautiful landscapes". well yeah but around the 1700 German and most Europian Countries were "cleansing the wild". For examle in Poland there is a Morment in the Middle of a Forrest saying :"Here *Name of the King of Poland* killed the last Bear". Its VERY unlikey that you will engage with any harmful animal in Central Europa. The worst that can happen are Hogs or Sick animals(Squirrls and Foxes especially).
Seeadler translates more to lake eagel than sea eagel. Because in Germany the word See kann discripe both for example Die raue See und der stille See. The rough sea and the calm lake. And "der Seeadler" tends to hunt fish and birds in and around lakes and rivers.
Hunters in Germany are responsible for areas and hunt less for fun or sport. They regulate populations, as natural predators such as wolves and lynx have been almost wiped out. Animals that pose a danger to people in populated regions are also hunted. Driven hunts are rarely used for sport, for example. In the event of accidents involving wild animals, the local hunter or forest ranger is often called in to kill the injured animal on the spot, to spot the dead animal or to put the injured animal out of its misery while fleeing. Meat from hunts has become relatively rare. When it does occur, it is usually game or birds. (Used Google Translation for this, i am not a native english speaker)
Many animals went extinct in Germany and most of Western Europe but small populations survived in less densly populated areas in Eastern Europe - like the Carpathians mountain range - or Northern Scandinavia. Some animals like the Wisent (European bison) were bred by conservationists and then reintroduced into some of their former habitats. But most just recovered on their own after people stopped hunting them so much. Especially since hunting is very strictly regulated in most of Europe. There's a seal rescue station (Seehundrettungsstation) in the small nearby fishing village Friedrichskoog by the way. They nurse orphaned or lost baby seals - Heuler (wailer, cryer) in German - back to health and release them back into the wild nearby other known seal populations. Most are found after storms by locals or tourists who just went for a walk on the beach.
When I was in elementry school in the 70ties, we had a field trip to a Birds of Prey Center. Tourist can watch eagles flying and hunting with a trainer there.
Yea, funny fact I sometime see Foxes after coming home from my lateshift (after 10 PM) They want to dig in the trash containers for food. But the containers are locked in the specially made trash container house. XD They also missing out we got owls. Also not many nowdays. But sometimes if I'm sitting on the barbecue with frinds on very late time (midnight and past midnight) having some beer, we suddenly hear one sometimes. It's funny.
I live at the edge of the Black Forest and there are quite a few hunters here that I know of. Hunting is highly regulated in Germany, though, which I think is a good thing. I know one person who only eats the meat that he hunts by himself. This is quite exotic in Germany, but I like the concept. Around here, animals that can be hunted are mainly deer and wild boar, maybe wild hares, too. Deer can cause a lot of damage to young trees, so their population is regulated, I think.
In the 19th century they hunted everything which was a danger for the farmanimals and humans to extinction, even the beaver was at some time extinct in germany.
The wolves are not in our military bases, but on our military training areas, for example on the Bergen military training area. The Bergen military training area in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath is one of the largest military training areas in Europe, covering an area of 24,900 hectares and extending 26 km from north to south and 18 km from east to west. In addition to wolves, there are also moose, wild boar, deer and even plants that can only be found there. I crawled through there so often during my time in the army that I know every blade of grass personally. Once, during a maneuver when we were sleeping outside at -10°C, a “fresher”, a small wild boar, slept next to me and warmed up in our tent Oo
Some city dwellers: raccoons(Kassel) and tropical parrots(Cologne and Stuttgart) The parrots commute to the countryside by day and come back by evening. In Cologne their sleeping tree communities are around the party quarters🤣
They didn't mention our most popular export hits, the hobo spider and the yellowjacket wasp.😆 By the way, hobo spiders are considered completely harmless here in Germany; yellowjackets are a nuisance, but you just have to live with them during the summer.
Hunting is highly regulated in Germany. Main hunting targets are wild boar and deer, because most potential huntable species are consider endangered species. That vid was about returning species that were either locally extinct or only in human conservatory programs (mostly do by zoos or similar institutions in Europe) .
My favourite wild animals here in Germany are the hedgehog (they are running around in our garden right now), the Hummingbird hawk-moth and the Nandu. Greetings from Germany :)
The Iberian lynx ( on the Spanish/Portuguese peninsula) is a protected species on the brink of extinction also. They are absolutely beautiful and their ' hunting ground' has become reduced due to human development. Wolves were protected but recently the EU has lifted the ban on hunting of them - probsbly due to farmers. Im not too happy about it as they are also still threatened as a species and farmers ( at least in Spain) received compensation for loss of any livestock - although i understand that in lambing season its a problem for the ewes. Sound kept cutting out Ryan- hope you read this - i know you do it sometimes for taking away the music but some of your commentary couldnt be heard. Love this content.
In ony of my jobs my boss was a hunter. When his Mercedes station wagon had "something" under a tarp in the back of the car, we knew he had been up early before work and spent some time in the raised blind in his hunting area.
Me: Living in Germany and in Hesse... Never even heard of having Bisons here xD My biggest fear were wild hogs/boars, as they can trash cars. Guess I'll add a new thing to my list of animals I don't want to encounter during a walk in the forest xD Another Animal I really like is the "Roter Milan" (Red Milan). I live a bit more rural in the low mountain ranges. When I sit at my PC, I sometimes see them flying around and hunting. (My desk is right in front of a window, that overlooks a valley) One time one of them flew so close over me! It was like... Standing at the ground and looking at the window above the ground floor. I could see each detail of it's beak and talons and such. It was really impressive. Especially as you underestimate their size, when seeing them in the sky. Their quite big. Their wing span can be up to 180cm (5,9 Feet) So not the biggest bird out there, but still impressive.
Fun Fact: There are also a lot of wild boars in Germany, but in Berlin they are sometimes called "lion"
😂
That was so funny 😂
"LionESS"! 😂
Haha, yes😂
I thought they were called Police?
5:55 He pronounced the „e“ at the end of Kegelrobbe. Soon he‘ll speak German fluently! :D
but he has to work on his RRRR
@d-i-wood8499 Streichholzschächtelchen ! nope he can't
I don't believe it. I only had to tell him to do so six or seven times in my commentaries on German pronunciation. 😂
@@wietholdtbuhl6168das können selbst Deutsche oft nicht 😂
@@RealChiaraThomae Früher schon, heute nicht mehr! Schönen Abend noch
4:04 "I thought they're gonna say you guys USE wolves in the military"
Yes, we do! It's called a "Wehrwolf". :D
Underrated comment 😆
omg
Some more common animals in Germany:
mammals: European hare, fallow deer, red deer, red fox (which is shown in the video), wild boar, red squirrel (and some other squirrels), European pine marten, beech marten, European polecat, stoat, European badger and some other smaller rodents (and surely some others that I forgot)
birds: woodpecker, robin, redstart, tit, owl, blackbird, corvus, crow, goshawk, cuckoo, finch, heron, buteo, falcon, sparrowhawk, milvus
I would have expected them to at least include wild boars in the video, as they seem to be pretty much everywhere.
Eurasian magpie!
Or really any of the several other corvid species, like jay, daw, crow, raven.
They are so fascinating.
@@clauslangenbroek9897 And a real pest in some city areas those crows. Not their fault though, I know.
@@annemckervey9023 Yeah, but mostly crows and sometimes magpies. They are too smart 😅 They do what they like and what they are not hindered to do.
And if they are hindered to do anything they really love, you need to do it without them noticing your influence or you might become their mortal enemy.
Or offer them a solution that benefits both species. Thats how smart they are.
you forgot on of my favorite birds of pray : the red kite :)
They forgot about our flamingos in the Münsterland.. I mean they are not native and probably escaped from a zoo, but they stayed for the last 40 years, so I guess they are here to stay.
Another guy from Vreden :)
And even the Emu Population in the North-East of Germany.
@@Naseweis-se9wt Nandu, actually. Looks like a mix between an ostrich and an emu a bit.
and the wild horses, also in the münsterland
Don't forget the huge populations of parakeet and nutria/coypu in the cities.
"Is everything going extinct in Germany?!" Everything that could be remotely considered a threat to humans WAS extinct in Germany. We've been reintroducing a lot of animals. Our forests are also not really untouched nature, they're pretty much all woods for production purposes with monocultural forests being the norm.
Our foirests haven't been untouched for well over a thousand years, yeah.
100% correct
Thread to humans and/or thread to farm animals
Wald would be original, wild forest, Forst would be planted or at least steered in a certain direction/ mixture.
Germany has something like 95% Forst. The other 5% are found in the mountains and tiny spots that haven't been disturbed for a long time.
But we call any bunch of trees Wald, anyway!
@@walkir2662 die meisten Wälder in Deutschland sind künstlich
Some 384.500 hunters in Germany (of course strictly regulated). So out of 83.8 million inhabitants about 0.46% of Germans are allowed to hunt.
But - unlike American hunters - most German hunters hunt either deer, boar or ducks. So nothing as dangerous as bears, wolfs, mountain lions and so on.
Also they dont hunt for fun or to be a real man like the americans. They are some kind of regulation for the population of deer, boar and other mostly herbivore animals. Without hunting of this animals the balance between plants like trees and animals could harm the woods. Its a kind of nature conservation.
@@m.h.6470 Well, i highly doubt that Wolfs, bears and mountain lions are free to hunt in general. Especially because the hunters hunt mostly their own food like that. So hunting just so they could hunt isn't a thing i germany as far as I know (Don't own a license, never will). And, like Sutech said, there are several regulations and Reasons to Hunt specific animals.
@@NeverMind439 There is little regulation to hunting in America... and even less people who care about those regulation. Hunting for food is a thing, but definitely not the main reason for hunting in America.
@@m.h.6470 That land is a big one and every state does whatever the hell they want. The American system makes less and less sense to me while people ignoring the laws more and more. This is just sad. And yeah, i forgot those who are Trophy Hunting/Hunting just for Fun to kill living beings... In my opinion, way to many psychopaths 😅
2:36 a kilogram has exactly the weight of 1 litre of water.
This can be contained exactly in 1 cubic decimeter.
To heat 1 litre of water by 1°C you need 1kcal or 1000 calories (at room temperature).
I think this shows the beauty of the metric system.
Yea but the US measures liquids in gallons 😀
@@MaleficaWitch Thats one of the reasons the global scientific Community looks down on murica.
Calories aren't part of the metric system. In nearly all scientific purposes Joule are used.
Joule is SI, not calories.
@@FlubberFrosch Did I talk about SI units? Furthermore, Joule is not a basic SI unit.
Joule is kg×[m^2]×[s^-2]
(where × should be standard multiplication sign. I'm on mobile).
You got mass, length, time as SI Units for Joule.
One of the animals I was surprised to learn doesn’t exist in America are hedgehogs. A very common and well liked animal in Europe (present in almost every story for children that features animals) but somewhat exotic to Americans.
Wow, I didn't know.
They're not native but you can buy them as pets in some states.
@@p.s.shnabel3409 sonic?
In terms of hunting, wolves are strictly protected by law in Germany. Hunting a wolf can get you up to 5 years in jail. Hunting lynx would theoretically be allowed in Germany, but practically it‘s not (because authorities don‘t provide any hunting season for this animal).. In Spain a hunter who hunted a lynx recently got fined to about $ 115.000 and 2 years of jail without probation. If you want to be a hunter in Germany you need a hunter‘s license which includes shooting and theoretical and practical tests. Then you are allowed to buy guns. Hunting with bow or crossbow is illegal. Hunting with those cruel traps that animals stick their paw into is also illegal.
the iberean lynx is different from the eurasian lynx and highly endangered...
Re hunting: not only do you have to get the license you mentioned, you also have to either lease the right to hunt or know someone with such a lease. As far as I know, there are no areas set aside for general hunting, like in the US.
And that right there is probably the bigger issue for most Germans. The hunting license itself is reasonable to obtain, given you have no criminal track record and are willing to cram for the tests ... but having the money for a hunting lease, now, that's on an entirely different page.
BTW just because you own property doesn't make it so you also own the right to hunt on it. Like other rights (e.g. water, minerals, raw materials), the government owns that right and can lease it to you (that being said, I would bet that land that is owned by nobility just so happens to also always lease the hunting rights to them ... never heard otherwise).
There was also a case where a vegan property owner wanted to prohibit the government from leasing out the hunt on their property; they had to fight for that right tooth and nail in court (ended up winning, at least that's the last I heard ... but it was through several appeals).
Always remember, a lot of Germany's laws and traditions are only superficially adapted to work within a democracy; much originates from the days of being ruled by aristocrats. Thus no actual freedom of speech, no actual property rights, no actual gun ownership, no actual right to self-defense etc.
Well unless you happened to eat Ursula Van Der Leyen's pony. Then you quickly have hunting licenses being granted against you.
The wolf managed to evade all hunters and it's still at large though.
Hunting with bows and crossbows is not illeagel in Germany, theoretical it is allowed to hunt rabbits, birds, fox, any game but hoofed animals. But it is extremly unusual. German bowhunters have to travel to Danmark, France and Poland.
If traps are used for hunting, it must be sure the game is caught alive or killed immediatly.
@@p.s.shnabel3409 Hunters came running over our and everybody elses property and shot right over my head when they came around the corner. They for sure were not of nobility but just happened to own the hunting rights. They regularily also shot every cat they found running around. Each year we had to get a new cat.😢 That was in Lower Saxony. -
We lived prior near Hamburg at the Bismarck property. My parents were employees of the Bismarck family. They own all the forests and land around that area and one area of several square kilometers is completely fenced off and nobody can enter except for some of their staff. There lives a ranger deep in those one, too. They use that for hunting, each year a huge hunting took place there with guests from allover Europe. King Gustav of Sweden was there, too. - We, the staff, got lots of their prey, too. Wild boar goulash, roast venison and venison goulash. 😋Sometimes we found some shotgun pellets in the boar as well. 😁
Its always nice too watch your Videos as a German. Not only for the reaction, but sometimes you learn something by yourself aswell!
So sieht’s aus
man lernt dinge auf die man in der schule kein bock hatte / you learn stuff wich you didnt care for in school.
@@SmilingOwle auf jeden / safe
and sometimes it's depressing ... e.g. when you realize how many species were extinct in your own country😳
Absolut / absolute
Am i the only one thatnhas massive audio losses all across the video?
Keep in mind that when it says extinct, they mean extinct in the wild or extinct in Germany. Some of these numbers are also out of date.
You dont know what extinct means?
Extinct means non existing,Not in the willd and Not in captifity, extinct means gone forever.
imagine the video would have shown "the brown bear - population: one"
he would go crazy by this number and would have asked where this one and only bear came from 🤣
@@nicobendig6597 bearly noticeable
@@ShabanAjeti 😄Only in Germany, not in the neighboring countries or worldwide!
@@ShabanAjeti That's not true, just like in this video, extinct can also for used for regional populations, and these can be brought back.
There are SO many other animals, like badgers (Dachse), hedgehogs (Igel), Eichhörnchen (Squirrels), deer (Rehe), boars (Wildschweine) and so on.
Also a TON of different bird species, like the swallow (Schwalbe), nightingale (Nachtigall), blackbird (Amsel), crows (Krähe), storks (Storch) and so on.
You might also be interested, that there are Nandus (flightless bird native to south America) living wild in the north of Germany. They got free from a zoo or collector and have been more or less thriving. Same with racoons - they escaped from a bunch of places and now live (in very small numbers) all over Germany. Though the latter are treated as a pest and - once reported - will be caught by animal control.
Deer sind Hirsche bzw. Rot- oder Damwild. Rehe/Rehwild ist Roe.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 "deer" gilt für beides. Es wird sowohl mit Hirsch, also auch mit Reh übersetzt. Und "Rehwild" ist "roe deer", wenn man es genau nimmt. Daher passt meine Übersetzung.
No one cares. All these animals also exist in America. Read the room. The video only showed interestijg animals for a reason
Racoons are found in huge numbers in the wild in Germany. The estimated racoon population is 2 million! They have no natural predators and reproduce rapidly quickly replacing losses to hunting.
@@wayneholmes637 ok, I didn't know the numbers were that high. I only knew, that they supposedly came from around 70 animals, that were released/escaped... but apparently that was in the 1930s, so they had a LOT of time to spread.
There are also animals that escaped from captivity/zoos many years ago and now are just …. living here and somehow survive: a big parrot population (I know of one in Düsseldorf and surroundings), flamingos, wild horses and rheas.
From the east, the moose is coming back!
Fun fact: in german the moose is called "Elch", in brit. english and Scandinavia they say "Elk". Only in North America "Elk" names a kind of deer, the "Wapiti" or Wapitihirsch" in german, so what you call a moose, we call an elk.
A ELK is a horse with Horns on it 😂
They forgot the Golden Eagle (Steinadler), the Black- and Red Milan, Uhu (birds of prey) Brown Bear, our Dachs, Rothirsch, Dammwild, Reh, Wildschwein (wild Bore) Marder, Hasen, Auerhahn and so many more :)
You might also be interested into the Dülmener Wildpferd (a wild horse breed, way more "original" than the Mustang. More like the Koni or the Przewalski horse). Once a year, the Dülmener Wildpferde are all round up in front of spectators, young men catch the young stallions by hand out of the herd, which will be auctioned off afterwards to keep the population on check and to lower the number of stallions. They are not free roamning like Mustangs, but they have a huge area where they can live free.
In the Netherlands we have almost the same animals as in Germany.
We have walrus and orcas sometimes. Seals, harp seals, bearded seals and dolphins too. Lynx won’t take long before the migrate to us from Germany; like wolves already did. It’s forbidden to hunt on wolves. We have European bisons called Wisent. Foxes, badgers, wild cats, beavers, otters,
Many species of birds of prey like sea eagles, also called the flying door. Buzzards, falcons etc.
We have wales, too. Schweinswale 😂
@@einwitzigenname585 das sind die Delphine die ich erwähnte.
Sea lions? In Europe?
@@jhndr0nia 🤣 you’re right but it that name popped up in my mind.
I corrected it.
Foxes are cute and smart.
We have some living here in the city. There is a place with some gardens, hosues whre you can see sometimes up to 3 or 4 at once.
And, this is a true story, they wait for the green light at the traffic lights.
I had it tow times now when I had to stop at the red light and a fox was walking across the street like it was indented for pedestrians.
I think they would push the button a call for green if the button was not that high. :-D
Last week I saw one sitting in a parking lot next to a car, and at first I thought it was a dog waiting for his owner.
North Rhine-Westphalia has something that is unique on the European continent: near the town of Dülmen lives a herd of wild horses, known as the Merfelder Bruch wild horses. Their origins can be traced back to the year 1316. Thanks to the Duke of Croÿ family, almost 400 animals have access to a reserve of around 400 hectares of land - the Merfelder Bruch wild horse sanctuary.
As a German I can say with confidence, the most dangerous animal you can encounter in Germany is a wild boar. Especially mothers protecting their offspring.
Moose was forgotten.
For several years now, individual moose have been moving from Eastern Europe to Germany. The living conditions are ideal - especially in sparsely populated Brandenburg with its wet meadows and moorland forests.
The Fire Salamander situation is so sad here. I remember when I was a child, we always walked through the forest and we could *reliably* see a bunch of Fire Salamanders *every time.* They were not rare. There were plenty of them.
Now I haven't seen a single one in over twenty years, because the fungus wiped them all out :(
Nowadays you'll only find signs in every forest saying "If you find a dead Fire Salamander, please call authorities" 😢
There are also a lot of wild boars in Germany, which I’m actually more scared of than the wolves which are coming back..
also I don’t really get all the farmers being angry about wolves coming back. I think it’s great. There is even one or maybe more living in the forest next to my parents home.
Also I know that this has nothing to do with the current subject right know, but I would love to see u react to my video about German music evolution🙃 as long as you’ll write these anti copyright claim stuff in your caption as I did you’ll be fine
My coworker: "But what if the wolves eat a child?!"
"What's your child doing at a military base at night?"
Farmers are afraid that wolves will eat their sheep. Where I live, at the edge of the black forest, there were some sightings of wolves in a village which lies in a valley surrounded by the forest. People go on hikes in the forest, there are sheep, goats and cattle on meadows at the edge of the forest... I'm really all pro nature and wildlife and I think it's great that the wolves are back. But I'm also glad I don't live right next to them.
Ich vermisse viele Tiere in dieser Aufzählung, insbesondere die Kreuzotter, Ringelnatter, Blindschleiche, Habicht, Mäusebussard, Turmfalken, Sperber, Habicht und Rotmilan.
Igel. Die sind so niedlich. Ich mag aber auch Mettigel.
Mir fehlen vor allem Rehe, Wildschweine und wildkatzen. Bis auf letztere stehen die bei mir oft im Garten
@@kaltaron1284 Aber nur mit reichlich Zwiebeln !
If you take the ferry from East Frisian Norddeich to the island of Norderney you can often see seals on the sandbank. In Norddeich there is also a seal station where injured and smalls seals from the North Sea are cared for.
Maybe you could look for " european animals" as the species aren't contained by borders. There are so many more than shown in this video. 😊
This Channel in particular is about Germany, not Europe 🙂. That would be his second Channel.
Or third channel, depending on how you count them. Ryan Was (Australia) was first I think. @@NeverMind439
mostly so
Jeder Braunbär der die Grenze aus Polen oder Österreich übertritt wird abgeknallt.
@@NeverMind439 germany is in the European Continent.
Hunting culture of previous centuries in Germany (and continental Europe for that matter) are the main reason for so many animals coming close to extinction. And fairy tales with big bad wolves didn't help that either.
And today we have fairy tales of the "shy and completely harmless wolf".
@@toxiccc777 Wouldn't really call an animal dangerous when there's been about 12 attacks by said animals within the last 18 years (according to the NaBu statistics). I'd be more afraid of falling down the freakin stairs.
@@TinyTeaKettle Yeah, let's compare the amount of human encounters with wolves with the amount of encounters with stairs. You are an absolute genius!
18 years ago, the number of wovles in Germany was below 100, so basically nothing. Today we have probably above 2000 animals (including cubs) that mostly live in the very low populated areas of north and east Germany. In addition to that, 77 % of german populaiton lives in towns and cities, where wolves are even more rare than in rural areas.
In conclusion: 99.99 % of all germans have never seen a wolf in the wild, whereas nearly to 0 % of germans have never used a stair in one way or another!
@@toxiccc777 still the likelyhood of a wolf attacking humans is also near 0%. Obviously for livestock or the odd encounter with a pet dog the situation is quite different and I am of te opinion wolfs need to be regulated. I am a hunter myself and heard of some fellow hunters they encounter wolfs trying to steal the hunted animal. Still the wolf has many benfits to the german landscape and transformation off the forrests. As always in live there is no black and white.
@@Leopeoify The likelihood of "dying on the moon" according to statistics is Zero. Does that mean the moon is a safe environment for humans?!
I was not even saying that the wolf will kill us all once we step a foot into the forest. But please, when we talk about how "dangerous" something is, absolute numbers are utterly useless!
They weren't in the video but there's also European Wildcats/Forest Cats
Oh yes, they are so beautiful and their population is on the rise. Interestingly the European wild cat is no ancestor of our domestic cats and they scarcely produce hybrids (well, sometimes they do).
It's quite easy to find animal parks in Germany with just native animals in natural habitats, as the native habitats tend to be the forest just outside town, if you put down some fences and make minor accommodations. They're also very often the place animal control will have you call if you have an "interesting" hurt wild animal near you. The authorities, if they have facilities at all, might manage a handful of small deer at most. One of our local animal parks, meanwhile, is on a first name basis with a vet that knows how to handle bison.
There is a second species of eagles 🦅 native to germany, the Steinadler -> golden eagle (or "stone eagle" if translated literally), which is living in the Alps. It is comparable in size and weight to the white-tailed eagle. The Eagle is also the heraldic animal of germany. But this actually goes back to the roman empire and it's stylized Eagle, the "Aquila". The German Bison is actually fully compatible for breeding with the american bison. And there was another big animal, the ancestor of modern cattle, called Aurochs (I think it's also called aurochs in english), which lived alongside the bison till it went extinct. We also have Snakes over here, but they're also nearly extinct. The "Kreuzotter" (literally "Cross Adder") or common adder and the Aspisviper (vipera aspis or european asp) which are the only poisonous snakes in germany. There are 4 or 5 species of colubrids besides that. I haven't seen a adder or viper in the last 30 years, they were already rare when I was a child, but I saw a few when I was little. Colubrids are also rare, but the chances of seeing one are at least somewhat given compared to the viper and adder. Even though most germans never encountered any snakes at all.
There is another wild cat species, the "Wildkatze" (wild cat) or "Waldkatze" (forest cat) which is only slightly larger than a housecat and they actually interbreed with free roaming housecats now and then. Also we have a vulture, the "Bartgeier" (bearded vulture), but it is also nearly extinct and if ever, then you probably will find it in the alps. Besides that we have deer and other smaller animals as well as some goat-species (mostly in the alps), the alpine ibex for example.
There's a third eagle: Fischadler!
@@Kristina_S-O der Fischadler ist kein "echter" Adler, weswegen ich ihn nicht genannt habe. For the english folks, she's talking about the Osprey. In german it is called the "fish eagle", but i didn't mention it because it's not a "real" eagle but a different species with its own taxonomic family.
Ryan ! Germany is half as big as Texas ! Imagine all that wildlife in a US state that size !
And hunting is strictly reglated now. Hunters have to pass a very strict exam/test to get a licence and pay for a hunting ground unless they are forest rangers aka Förster.
And we had/ have (?) brown bears,too. But since we are so densely populated their presence is a bit tricky ! :)
Btw the variety of animals throughout Europe is quite impressive including vultures ( Spain) or Flamingoes ( as stopping point in Malta before they are shot by locals) and bears ( Eastern Europe) . (edited thanks to M. Behrends 😁)
Not only Texas sizes, most of Texans have German flavor :X
If U destilled the vokuhila culture, and sprinkled a bit of Murugan freedom powder on top, that's Ur Texas liquor XD
Germany is only half the size of Texas. Even Montana is larger than Germany.
@@matthiasbehrendt6112 Sorry, you are right which makes my point even more impressive. 😁
At night you see a lot of foxes in the city of Berlin. And even a wild boar rot got at the train station "Alexanderplatz" out of the S-Bahn...
In Meine, Lower Saxony, a few years ago a grown-up boar intruded into a supermarket and scared the people almost to death. It took professional hunters some time to get it🙂
Becoming a hunter in Germany also means studying and taking exams for hunting licenses as well as carrying weapons with a gun license, which in turn is subject to another exam such as recording weapons and ammunition, which are stored and can be assigned to the gun owner. Not like in the USA where anyone can buy a gun with such lax and harmless gun laws there.
And hunting itself has also regulation on when it's allowed to hunt specific animal and how many in total per year. You can't just go into the woods and hunt whatever and whenever you want. And without permission of the land owner or the local authority it counts as poaching. Hunting is usually used to keep the wildlife population on a normal level that doesn't harm the ecosystem.
@@mibbio2148 : Exactly .
Someone else having a problem with sound being off for a short period?
I have wondered why noone else mentioned this
Also, the near-extinct eagle owl returned. We have a pair breeding on the church roof in the city center. Had one flying less than 10 meters above us when we were sitting in the garden. Very impressive. I like these owls. They look spectacular, and they regulate the number of doves and rabbits.
The reason so many wildlife went extinct was the strong increase in human population number, which feared most of these animals as competitors in food. (Bison and wild horses did eat crops, and wolf and eagle, and bear did eat livestock. The bear was not able to return, and is still extinct in Germany.
Oh dude! I'm going to helgoland this weekend. My family is from there and my grandpa still lives there. Can't wait for your reaction to this island. It's a fascinating place.
We have around 1800 foxes in Berlin....
The foxes can live in Berlin, but your fellow German citizens can not afford to live there. Move the foxes back to their land!
Before I moved to Berlin about a year ago I lived in a small town surrounded by farmland and forests in northern Germany. I´ve never seen a fox in these 29 years. In Berlin I already saw 2 foxes hanging out at a park and a street. I was a bit confused :D
I grew up in the 'Odenwald', sothern part of Hessia, close to Bavaria. I live in Munich now, but saw wolfes when visiting my mom. Magical and a little scary! but a wild boar is still a lot more intimidating! Hunting is heavily regulated and gaining a license is almost as hard as gaining a degree! A lot to learn and some tough tests! As there are not many areas without heavy agriculture it's in our all interest to not let anyone shoot up the wildlife we have. I think we do have foresters and gamekeepers for each district, and these people keep an eye on the animal population. Even with a hunting licence you wont find a place wher you can just sit in a hight stand if you are not on an invitation list of one of those foresters. I think 95% of hunters tasks involve pest control and stoping people from littering or wrecking forst paths with (dirt) bikes. If you didn't grow up in a hunters family, you most likely will never have contact to much many hunting people.
I even rescued a Fire Salamander about 10 years ago, i think, was it. Was shortly before he had gone onto a busy street. Took that beautiful creature and put it near a Riverbank with a lot of grass to hide and water to drink from 🙂
Lynx are so dang cool
Some time ago, I stumbled upon 4 fox cubs. So sweet, playing and jumping around until they noticed me.
I also met young boar and really huge grown-up wild boar. These were rather stressful moments 🙈
While walking my dog, a very young fox cub approached us. Cute little fella. We ended up defending him against several crows until he was able to hide in a save place.
0:12 Ryan: "I have a total lack of knowledge of German [insert any noun here] 🤣🤣🤣
Ryan: "I have a total lack of knowledge of [insert anything here].
In Deutschland gibt es auch braune Stinktiere. Besonders in Sachsen und Thüringen. There are also brown skunks in Germany. Especially in Saxony and Thuringia.
If they say "extinct" in this video, they mean "extinct in Germany". This is why these animals can reappear - they migrate from outside Germany once the living conditions there have improved sufficiently (environment no longer so destroyed, hunting bans, etc.)
Video: Feuersalamander
Ryan: Führersalamander
Classic German animal names right there.
I saw a fox cub at a playground in the suburbs a few months ago. Even filmed it, sadly the cub looked a little harried. I hope the mom was around, though it’s not save because there were many dangerous roads in the area.
I would also mention red and fallow deer (Rothirsch und Damhirsch), ibex (Steinbock) and eagle owl (Uhu).
We even got a shark (Katzenhai) and a whale (Schweinswal).
Ryan, love your curiosity about how people live outside of the US and how you try to pronounce our difficult german words. You´re actually quite good at it! Keep practising.
Wir haben zusätzlich noch Geier, Elche, hin und wieder Braunbären, Schwäne, Störche, Rot- und Schwarzmilan, Wildpferde und den "Berliner Löwen" xD
Und natürlich noch viel mehr 😅 nicht zu vergessen den Otter ;) Störe und Welse, das Taubenschwänzchen und und 🙈
@@feroxcorax8288 Nicht zu vergessen die Staubmäuse !!! Merkwürdigerweise vermehren die sich unter meinem Bett besonders gut.
Hi! If you're interested in animals I would recommend the Channel of Robert Marc Lehmann. He's a German natur photograph and tries to safe animals all over the world. There are breathtaking reportages of wild animals in other places but also some reactions of shark attacksa and what may have caused them and everything else to know about animals. Really worth a look. The channel is in German but mostly there are autotranslated English subtit
subtitles.
(Helgoland is pretty cool, have been there several years ago.)
Denmark has wolves again after hundreds of years without them. Also came back in the late 90s through Germany. Been going up from 4-5 seen over a year to whole packs of 6-7 several times a year.. We're guessing wr uave about 200 or so. Trying to get it up to maybe around 2000.
It's a pity they missed the Murmeltier (Marmot), which lives in the Alps.
Petition for Ryan to start learning german:
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Duolingo is free
I would watch it. 🙂
Preferably German pronunciation.
This will never happen.
@@nilshoppenstedt6073 I agree, some people are resisting to have a correct pronunciation. Be it German, French Japanese or Chinese (most complicated).
The German army doesn't use wolves for their military operations since they already make use of highly intelligent and trainable land-dolphins.
I live pretty close to those bisons (in the same county). Some friends and I take a little weekend trip to a skiing cabin every year, where you can spot them from the breakfast table if you're lucky.
Damn Ryan, I'm impressed! Your German pronunciation gets better and better :)
Keep going!
Seems like only things you struggle with are the irregularities (when to pronounce vowels long/ short, when to pronounce consonants harsh/ soft). If you watch some videos on that your success rate probably increases a ton. ;D just a tip from a German teacher
he's not learning German what are you talking lol
You can find White-Tailed Eagle (Sea Eagle) especially near greater river and lakes, especially in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg. A big habitat is the National Park Downer Oder Valley (a floodplain national park).There you can observe the panicked reactions of other birds (e.g. wild geese) when they see one of the majestic sea eagles circling in the sky.
For the fox:
I was on my way to shift one morning at 3 am, i live in a big City (middle of Düsseldorf) and out of nowhere a fox came out of a Bush right next to me and Wanderer into the roundabout which got some plants in the middle, scared the crap out of me but even managed to make a photo of it :D
Of course, no one dared to film the extremely dangerous Wolperdinger!
Seriously, there is no more dangerous animal in the world. A hungry tiger in a room is like being in a petting zoo.
On the other hand, if holidaymakers knew what was running around in our countryside, we would never have holidaymakers from abroad again. So it's better that no Wolperdinger was shown here!
@@_Briegel Oh dear, you're so right. Rumour has it that someone who just once met a Wolperdinger needs a treatment for PTBS.
There are grey seals and harbour seals in Helgoland. In summer they sometimes hang around the same beaches as the humans.
9:00 have around six of them living in my area ( Schlei) , always beautiful to see them flying over the water.
9:06 I actually saw three eagles circling over our house a few days ago! But yes, it's rather rare to see one. But the closer to the coast you get, the higher the chance to spot one, and I think they usually stay in one region, so if you're lucky and one lives close to you sightings can be more frequent. The nesting places are kept secret though, I think, to help against poachers.
In my hometown, European bison have been bred for about 100 years and specimens have been released into the wild throughout Europe, thus saving them from extinction
Unfortunately, there is almost no room for wild animals in Germany. Take a look at the Ruhgebiet on Google Maps and you'll understand what I mean. Larger contiguous forests are almost only found in eastern Germany, otherwise almost all areas and forests in Germany are interspersed with roads and towns.
We don't just have seals but whole seal teams! 🥳😂
In Köln a few Collared Parakeets were released into the city in the 60's and it is estimated that there are now several thousands of them in Germany
Germany is densely populated. If you find 100-200 year old forestmaps you get an idea of how much nature we lost.
Even now most our forests are more like pretty parks. Which is part of the reason big carnivores like wolfs are a mixed joy. You don't want wolfs roaming the streets like foxes.
In the USA you seem to have vast lands with almost no human population, while in germany driving a road for 3 miles without crossing more than one village is highly unusual.
"Went extinct in germany" and "went extinct" aren't the same sentence. It is misleading but the first formulation means the animal was no longer present in the wild inside germany. Neighboring countries could still have them and it would still be refered to as "extinct in germany".
In germany you need a license to hunt. It's not someone you can get within a month or so. You also have to get the license for the weapons and uphold the weapon keep and storage laws. Ofc you also need a rangers permit to hunt in their forest and stay within seasons and limits.
5% of the german population have a hunters license. How many of them actually hunt is a different topic.
In parts of Eastern Germany, wolves already are roaming through neighbourhoods or small public parks. The number of wolves sadly is going to be a huge problem in this densely populated country.
Basically hunting is a profession in Germany for protection of either environmental status quo or preventing dangerous animals from causing harm.
A shot has to be a confirmed kill with close to 100% chance of hitting the intended target and close to 100% chance in case the target wasnt hit to not hit anything else.
Doing it for fun doesnt exist as much, and shooting for fun or recreation is sourced out into sport "Schützenvereine".
The hunters pay us a small fee every year for the rights to hunt on our land. They usually inform us first. We have a Bogenschiessen area next door to us. These people are much more likely to shoot badly - I find arrows in my pasture. They are not toy arrows. So far so good they haven't injured or killed me yet.
Yeah we got Seals without guns😂
Feuersalamander, mach Beine auseinander 🎶
"Extinct and came back" in this case means "extinct in Germany, but came back over the borders from other countries"
2:06 you need a permission and have to pass an exam before hunting in germany.
„Theyre mainly in the harz mountains“ i live like 50 minutes away from there and went hiking like 3 times there and also used the train to the brocken, i didnt see a single lynx and that made me sad😔 where are my sweet lil floofy babies😭 but yeah, they are really shy, but i once read the news and they said a lynx was spotted in the village/city that is in the harz mountains
well its kinda fun to see you in the beginning thinking:"You have beautiful landscapes". well yeah but around the 1700 German and most Europian Countries were "cleansing the wild". For examle in Poland there is a Morment in the Middle of a Forrest saying :"Here *Name of the King of Poland* killed the last Bear". Its VERY unlikey that you will engage with any harmful animal in Central Europa.
The worst that can happen are Hogs or Sick animals(Squirrls and Foxes especially).
i live in berlin, you can see a lot of foxes here at night. even in crowded metropol areas...
Seeadler translates more to lake eagel than sea eagel. Because in Germany the word See kann discripe both for example Die raue See und der stille See. The rough sea and the calm lake. And "der Seeadler" tends to hunt fish and birds in and around lakes and rivers.
Hunters in Germany are responsible for areas and hunt less for fun or sport. They regulate populations, as natural predators such as wolves and lynx have been almost wiped out. Animals that pose a danger to people in populated regions are also hunted. Driven hunts are rarely used for sport, for example. In the event of accidents involving wild animals, the local hunter or forest ranger is often called in to kill the injured animal on the spot, to spot the dead animal or to put the injured animal out of its misery while fleeing.
Meat from hunts has become relatively rare. When it does occur, it is usually game or birds.
(Used Google Translation for this, i am not a native english speaker)
In Lithuania, we have around 45 bisons replaced in a wild. And i heard that they are thriwing, migriting.. :)
Many animals went extinct in Germany and most of Western Europe but small populations survived in less densly populated areas in Eastern Europe - like the Carpathians mountain range - or Northern Scandinavia.
Some animals like the Wisent (European bison) were bred by conservationists and then reintroduced into some of their former habitats. But most just recovered on their own after people stopped hunting them so much. Especially since hunting is very strictly regulated in most of Europe.
There's a seal rescue station (Seehundrettungsstation) in the small nearby fishing village Friedrichskoog by the way. They nurse orphaned or lost baby seals - Heuler (wailer, cryer) in German - back to health and release them back into the wild nearby other known seal populations. Most are found after storms by locals or tourists who just went for a walk on the beach.
When I was in elementry school in the 70ties, we had a field trip to a Birds of Prey Center. Tourist can watch eagles flying and hunting with a trainer there.
Beavers live near Berlin as well. I sometimes see one swimming in the Havel river. Occasionally you see a tree destroyed by beavers.
Yea, funny fact I sometime see Foxes after coming home from my lateshift (after 10 PM) They want to dig in the trash containers for food. But the containers are locked in the specially made trash container house. XD
They also missing out we got owls.
Also not many nowdays.
But sometimes if I'm sitting on the barbecue with frinds on very late time (midnight and past midnight) having some beer, we suddenly hear one sometimes. It's funny.
I live at the edge of the Black Forest and there are quite a few hunters here that I know of. Hunting is highly regulated in Germany, though, which I think is a good thing. I know one person who only eats the meat that he hunts by himself. This is quite exotic in Germany, but I like the concept. Around here, animals that can be hunted are mainly deer and wild boar, maybe wild hares, too. Deer can cause a lot of damage to young trees, so their population is regulated, I think.
In the 19th century they hunted everything which was a danger for the farmanimals and humans to extinction, even the beaver was at some time extinct in germany.
The wolves are not in our military bases, but on our military training areas, for example on the Bergen military training area. The Bergen military training area in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath is one of the largest military training areas in Europe, covering an area of 24,900 hectares and extending 26 km from north to south and 18 km from east to west. In addition to wolves, there are also moose, wild boar, deer and even plants that can only be found there.
I crawled through there so often during my time in the army that I know every blade of grass personally.
Once, during a maneuver when we were sleeping outside at -10°C, a “fresher”, a small wild boar, slept next to me and warmed up in our tent Oo
Im German and i just learned that we got bisons in Germany...
It's Wisent not bison
I cant believe ive actually seen some of the last german bisons in Karlsruhe, by the lake (epplesee). They really looked so big and majestic
For perspective: Germany is roughly the same size as Montana. So we can´t have as many Animals in Population as in the US.
Some city dwellers: raccoons(Kassel) and tropical parrots(Cologne and Stuttgart)
The parrots commute to the countryside by day and come back by evening. In Cologne their sleeping tree communities are around the party quarters🤣
They didn't mention our most popular export hits, the hobo spider and the yellowjacket wasp.😆
By the way, hobo spiders are considered completely harmless here in Germany; yellowjackets are a nuisance, but you just have to live with them during the summer.
Hunting is highly regulated in Germany. Main hunting targets are wild boar and deer, because most potential huntable species are consider endangered species. That vid was about returning species that were either locally extinct or only in human conservatory programs (mostly do by zoos or similar institutions in Europe) .
A species might go extinct in a given location. If it's not fully extinct, it may be reintroduced or come back naturally if the conditions change.
My favourite wild animals here in Germany are the hedgehog (they are running around in our garden right now), the Hummingbird hawk-moth and the Nandu. Greetings from Germany :)
do you mean kingfisher instead of hummingbird?
@@kcaro99 The Kingfisher hawk-moth doesn't exist, so probably not.
@@Kaefer1973 thought you forgot a comma😆😆🤙🏼
The Iberian lynx ( on the Spanish/Portuguese peninsula) is a protected species on the brink of extinction also. They are absolutely beautiful and their ' hunting ground' has become reduced due to human development. Wolves were protected but recently the EU has lifted the ban on hunting of them - probsbly due to farmers. Im not too happy about it as they are also still threatened as a species and farmers ( at least in Spain) received compensation for loss of any livestock - although i understand that in lambing season its a problem for the ewes. Sound kept cutting out Ryan- hope you read this - i know you do it sometimes for taking away the music but some of your commentary couldnt be heard. Love this content.
In ony of my jobs my boss was a hunter. When his Mercedes station wagon had "something" under a tarp in the back of the car, we knew he had been up early before work and spent some time in the raised blind in his hunting area.
Me: Living in Germany and in Hesse...
Never even heard of having Bisons here xD
My biggest fear were wild hogs/boars, as they can trash cars. Guess I'll add a new thing to my list of animals I don't want to encounter during a walk in the forest xD
Another Animal I really like is the "Roter Milan" (Red Milan). I live a bit more rural in the low mountain ranges. When I sit at my PC, I sometimes see them flying around and hunting. (My desk is right in front of a window, that overlooks a valley)
One time one of them flew so close over me! It was like... Standing at the ground and looking at the window above the ground floor. I could see each detail of it's beak and talons and such. It was really impressive. Especially as you underestimate their size, when seeing them in the sky. Their quite big. Their wing span can be up to 180cm (5,9 Feet)
So not the biggest bird out there, but still impressive.
Hi there, i am from the Wisent Area in Germany. I can say it is very scary to meet one of those in the night crossing the road you are driving on.
Since they're now fenced again it won't happen again, i guess 😐