The Tragic End of the Great Auk

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  • @flatwavelength
    @flatwavelength ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Its crazy how, in response to hunting one bird to extinction, people opted to hunt a different bird into extinction.

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yeah, it's horrible. People really didn't care that much about the natural world. But good thing the common eider survived and is receiving adequate protection nowadays.

    • @niranjansrinivasan4042
      @niranjansrinivasan4042 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@FactorTrace it's the mindset, if you consider yourself separate from nature and consider animals to be resources that ought to be exploited rather than something to be respected atleast for what they are, this happens

    • @iamarizonaball2642
      @iamarizonaball2642 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@FactorTrace why do I think if Atlantis existed, it would try and save the great auk from extinction?

    • @phuripongphansiri1740
      @phuripongphansiri1740 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iamarizonaball2642 I don’t think the atlantis was known to be some kind of caring civilization

    • @notnormaluser
      @notnormaluser ปีที่แล้ว

      i found this somehow.

  • @bestuan
    @bestuan ปีที่แล้ว +76

    the irony of the great auk's attempted conservation efforts is depressing

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yeah, I agree. The awareness of species extinction in the pre-19th century Europe was still very low.

  • @s.tavares3257
    @s.tavares3257 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I can NEVER understand how people can just go up to a helpless animal and club or strangle it to death hearing it plead for it’s life. Horrible.

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +29

      People really didn't care about wildlife in the past, they were extremely cruel to animals. It's a lesson we have to learn from and improve our ways of treating wildlife and nature.

    • @soudino2723
      @soudino2723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it makes sense during those periods, people didnt care about animals and their mind was only focused on survival considering time back then was much worse than it is now, similar to some poachers they hunted the rare animals to feed them selves and their families

    • @rickwrites2612
      @rickwrites2612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@soudino2723 Well the natural humans generally were sustainable with food acquisition so they may eat a few. But by the time they are dwindling, theyre being hunted across the earth by a minority of ppl trying to exploit a rare market niche. It's like a gamble to get rich.
      In other cases it's political, like the US government specifically made a policy to destroy the bison in 19th century, to starve the American Indians of the Great Plains, because the US wanted their land. Ppl said bison used to be so numerous youd look out and it look like a carpet of undulating brown for mile. There are pics of mountains of dead and skulls. They almost went extinct.

  • @parkerredeker5216
    @parkerredeker5216 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Another interesting point about the Great Auk is the factor of Convergent Evolution, how two separate species of birds, North and South, both evolved into "penguins."

    • @asoncalledvoonch2210
      @asoncalledvoonch2210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok Darwin.
      👌

    • @robokill387
      @robokill387 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes. It is a fact.

    • @asoncalledvoonch2210
      @asoncalledvoonch2210 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@robokill387
      No, it's a THEORY.
      It always has been an unproven theory but people today keep saying it's a "fact" because that's what they've been taught in schools....
      But it's not a fact, no matter how many times people say it is.

    • @PelicanMobBoss
      @PelicanMobBoss ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@asoncalledvoonch2210 You aren't living in reality.
      Why do you think Galapagos flightless cormorants are flightless, while every other cormorant can fly? Not even most young earth creationists would disagree with the fact that all cormorants share a common ancestor. That would so extreme, it's equal to denying that humans bred dogs and claiming that god made pugs and bulldogs.

    • @Mr.Wetherilli
      @Mr.Wetherilli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@asoncalledvoonch2210 "it's always been an unproven theory"
      Convergent evolution is when two animals which aren't related are shown to be built for the same niches within a ecosystem, that also includes the animals looking similar, despite not being related
      And another thing, theory within science has a completely different meaning then what you're using it for, so not only do you have no idea what you're talking about but you also don't know the definition of a word depending on the context of its meaning, yes Convergent evolution is a fact, unless you can prove otherwise.

  • @shawnv123
    @shawnv123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    wow that’s sad, imagine being strangled to death while you’re just incubating your egg

    • @Aethuviel
      @Aethuviel 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My husband said "someone should find the graves of those men, dig a hole and put a funnel there for people to crap into"

  • @vulea.51
    @vulea.51 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Two videos in a week? Christmas came early!

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      more like 3 videos in a month, another one coming next week! 😁

    • @vulea.51
      @vulea.51 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FactorTrace Yesssss u legend😄

  • @prmomaths757
    @prmomaths757 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The restlessness of humans will eventually doom the humanity itself.

  • @pipoms
    @pipoms ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I really like this channel and the investigation behind,
    It's sad the number of species that has been extinct because of the humans

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!
      It is really saddening to learn about the unique animals humans have made extinct

  • @hidicproductions4849
    @hidicproductions4849 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Such beautiful birds, I will never see in real life. Its so tragic. All those wonderful animals... extinct. 😢

    • @circleancopan7748
      @circleancopan7748 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have to thank Iceland for it.

  • @Mr_Einiosaurus
    @Mr_Einiosaurus ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Gald to see you upload again

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Another video next week!

  • @laseriedeladilophosaure9246
    @laseriedeladilophosaure9246 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    👍Très bonne vidéo elle m’appris des choses sur le grand " pingouins "

  • @arbie_m
    @arbie_m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    These kinds of hunting activities back then are one of the reasons why I wanted to time travel. 😅 Maybe to help prevent the extinction of the species in an unnatural way. 😢

  • @blo6k
    @blo6k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very interesting bird. Humans did so much damage in this world its disgusting

  • @Goofya-q6x
    @Goofya-q6x ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You should do Canis lupus Hodophilax aka the Japanese wolf next. It is a symbol of what japan has lost.

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh, thanks for the suggestion. That is definitely an interesting animal to talk about, too bad I didn't notice it while writing the scripts for the series. I might look into it in the future!

    • @NatureEnjoyer523
      @NatureEnjoyer523 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FactorTrace The rocky mountain locust is also a intersting subject, since there populations make the passenger pigeon look pathetic

  • @elreyfenix100
    @elreyfenix100 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you very much for this video. I really like this kind of research videos.

  • @NatureEnjoyer523
    @NatureEnjoyer523 ปีที่แล้ว

    The music at the end really matches up

  • @Ron90121
    @Ron90121 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I really wish we could breed the great auk back they were one of a kind but now their gone..

    • @rickwrites2612
      @rickwrites2612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They are a good candidate for de-exinction. We have razorbills.

  • @JosephConte-eb7xx
    @JosephConte-eb7xx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It existed at the same time as Mary Shelly’s publishing of Frankenstein!
    I would envision Great Auks in the Arctic 🥶 🐻‍❄️ part of Frankenstein. 🧟‍♂️

  • @circleancopan7748
    @circleancopan7748 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Iceland had a bad record with the bird. They hunted the bird to decimated levels. Then 3 idiots killed the last chance and last hope for the species, just because they wanted money.

  • @alfiemcqueen
    @alfiemcqueen หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They don't deserve this. 😔

  • @Liechtenstn
    @Liechtenstn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I want the great auk to be on the in the unexstinction list and dodo

  • @AviaAnimates_XD
    @AviaAnimates_XD ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I actually know what the freak auk hatchling looks like

    • @AviaAnimates_XD
      @AviaAnimates_XD ปีที่แล้ว

      oops I meant great auk

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว

      Really? How do you know and what does it look like?

    • @Neo.Interstellaria.Studio
      @Neo.Interstellaria.Studio 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@FactorTrace Can you make extinct of Javan Tiger?

  • @saytr_the_doodler
    @saytr_the_doodler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    one of the animals i want to see brought back, if we really go thru with the ressuraction of extinc animals

  • @JohnCalder-zl4rd
    @JohnCalder-zl4rd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact: You can see the Great Auk in Assassin's Creed Rogue

  • @OpEditorial
    @OpEditorial 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This bird has a good to high chance of re evolving naturally from one of the other remaining auk species

    • @nophlast4237
      @nophlast4237 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that's not how evolution works

  • @brandonforster3228
    @brandonforster3228 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    9892 Augusta Creek

  • @LandonMirabelle-j9z
    @LandonMirabelle-j9z หลายเดือนก่อน

    Trevor Mission

  • @SandraRobinson-f8f
    @SandraRobinson-f8f 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    353 Annie Squares

  • @CarltonPhlieger
    @CarltonPhlieger หลายเดือนก่อน

    066 Maya Plains

  • @EdmundJohannessen
    @EdmundJohannessen หลายเดือนก่อน

    3861 Sipes Alley

  • @gabriellakennedy3782
    @gabriellakennedy3782 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    3674 Kiana Unions

  • @AdamHernandez-oi3hv
    @AdamHernandez-oi3hv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why did they kill the parents and the eggs delivery triangle the parents of smash the eggs why am I at the power to go back in time I will do it to the fisherman revenge for the great ox

  • @ClaraPorter-x9z
    @ClaraPorter-x9z หลายเดือนก่อน

    8703 Herzog Garden

  • @hsdinoman2267
    @hsdinoman2267 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spend decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever.
    F off extinction rebellion

    • @dodoxasaurus6904
      @dodoxasaurus6904 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My fav quote from WWB's, very chilling but a lasting quote "No species last forever"

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It is true, in fact, through the history of life on this planet, the overwhelming majority of life has gone extinct. Extinction is natural, until it's not. At the current rate, we're not just experiencing individual loss of species, but the loss of a whole biodiversity. The disappearance of keystone species might collapse the entire food chain, food that humans also depend on. The comprehensive argument about biodiversity loss will be presented in an upcoming video.

    • @lohjutsulegend
      @lohjutsulegend ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *_Nothing_* lasts forever. But that does not make it right to give a f*** about everything or even to destroy things just because we want to.
      Everyone you know will die sometime. Does that mean your grief when it happens is meaningless or to be shunned? Does it make it wrong to try to prevent the early death of those people or to keep them healthy to live longer?
      Saying nothing matters is just a convenient way to avoid responsibilities and problems, to stay ignorant so you don't have to think about those things or take action. Because when you accept that it matters you may have to, since ignoring the problem after accepting it's existence will make you feel bad.

    • @hidicproductions4849
      @hidicproductions4849 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Extinction Rebellion is right.

    • @hsdinoman2267
      @hsdinoman2267 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hidicproductions4849 howabout no

  • @Neo.Interstellaria.Studio
    @Neo.Interstellaria.Studio 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:49

  • @RalphCave-p6q
    @RalphCave-p6q 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nitzsche Valleys

  • @LightingTpot
    @LightingTpot ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fact:The great auk is a puffin

    • @FactorTrace
      @FactorTrace  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's a species in a group called alcidae, which also includes the puffin.

    • @1138Redhead
      @1138Redhead ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I wouldn't say puffin, because it was not a puffin. But it was part of the group Alcidae which includes the puffin. So they have similar ways of living.

    • @1138Redhead
      @1138Redhead ปีที่แล้ว

      (and looking too)

  • @neilrussel878
    @neilrussel878 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    GREAT AUKS AREN'T PENGUINS OF THE NORTH THEY ARE RELATED TO PUFFINS AND RAZORBILL
    People think great auk is a penguin..well.........they are not

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You missed the history lesson about the names of the animal.