Also if you're like me . I like to camp in the Carpathians Mountains and the forests are full of wolves and bears. Now just imagine the sounds at night plus the ones from the owls.
Might be that our fear of monsters and such, manifested in countless stories dating back a looong time, comes from a time, where we were actually hunted by monsters.
Yeah, it's the residue of our instinctual fear. Our ancestors fled.first and asked questions after, which is also why many people believe that they saw inexplicable and terrifying phenomenons when it was probably just a tree branch casting a shadow.
About the Archetypal Framework we possess or inherit from our ancestors making up our Collective Unconscious, well that’s how myths were shaped and formed. Superstitions are also a product of the unknown.
becoming large, smart, and powerful over a few million years just to give a big evolutionary middle finger to the animals that used to eat us is the most human thing ever.
Yeah but how far up the evolutionary chain did we start to defend ourselves ? I could imagine our ancestors being hunted went on for quite some time . Although I imagine our ancestors might have been least favorite for predators to hunt due to maybe not looking right or tasting right .
True but if you were a Maori some 500 or so years ago you would have had to deal with the "Hartz eagle" the largest eagle to have ever lived.Hartz eagle hunted large game like Moas which weighed upto 500 pounds!.As New Zealand was heavily forested once a kill was made the eagle would hang around eating its way thru the kill.Anything trying to scavenge as people are want to do would be attacked and probably killed.Hartz eagle weighed up to 25lbs thats more than big enough to kill woman children and probably men!
I can only imagine how terrifying large predator birds would’ve been to early humans. At any moment you could get picked up off the ground and you would never hear them coming.
Saw some videos about eagles. Including flying with a sheep or goat. (Weight may be 15 kg) A young human child in the open is still now in danger when an eagle is hunting. It can fly away with toddlers.
If it makes you feel any better, that could still kind of happen. TH-cam search "eagle takes goat off a cliff" and you'll learn that anyone up to the size of a middle-sized child could not only be attacked but flown away by a very large bird. Eagles and the like can carry at least twice its own weight. If it's a fifty-pound eagle, it can carry a hundred-pound person. The bird carried it away holding nothing but the horns in one video Sweet Dreams >:)
They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the other one is a little later, when someone tells your name for the last time. Guess that man hasn't died yet..
Actually, if humans stayed in Africa they wouldn't have evolved as much as they did. We evolved so much because we moved out of places that were dangerous. If humans stayed in Africa they most likely would have gone extinct as the environment was too harsh for our ancestors.
I really appreciate how you pointed out that the researchers' work was influenced by having lived through the World Wars. It's important to remember that science isn't something that exists in some pocket dimension unaffected by the rest of history, it's something that people do, and those people are both influenced by the world around them, and (especially in fields fraught with as much importance as human origins) they are aware of how their theories will influence the world in return.
Yeah it really feels as if they were trying to fit evolution into their own idea of what that looks like rather what it actually is. So many people want to believe that humans are naturally violent, selfish and greedy when the science shows the complete opposite. Without cooperation, community and altruism, we would not be here.
Anxiety would be more useful if we were still in the wild, too much anxiety, not really enough life threatening huge predators to tear your face off. I’m allright with that though lol
I'm sure our ancestors had fears but not anxiety. I think the reason for our anxiety is the opposite: When humans have the time to stand and relax, they tend to develop anxiety.
Runaway evolutionary traits are literally a thing. See Giant Irish Elk and ridiculous antlers getting sticking in ever increasing forests at the end of the last Ice Age
It's funny how we still make the distinction between humans and animals when there was and is no distinction, even the video tells of us caving eachothers heads in with rocks on a regular basis
@@geedee1264 Its because there really isnt a much better way for the average person to differentiate human from non-human than to say animals, even if we are part of the animal kingdom too.
Speaking of humans back when they were prey... *One of the most frightening things I've heard is when someone pointed out that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point there was an evolutionary reason to be afraid of something that looked human but wasn't.*
Yes but the uncanny valley is from when we had to recognize signs of sickness, where they didn’t look like humans but were and that was super dangerous (you know cuz plagues and stuff)
Yes but the uncanny valley is from when we had to recognize signs of sickness, where they didn’t look like humans but were and that was super dangerous (you know cuz plagues and stuff)
Apologies to my extremely late ancestors who were eaten by birds, but there's something delightful about there being a grain of truth to the "cavemen running away from a hungry dinosaur" cartoon trope
Technically they were... from FLYING dinosaurs- what, from the way the video describes it, was apparently some now-extinct species of giant eagle or something.
@@mohammedubed7000 thing is we could have prevented climate change its just that we didnt with is why things got so bad now i mean we are on a feedback loop at this point
Humans: *being bullied for millions of years by predators* Ape is evolving! Ape has evolved into: Human! Human: *Sees ape kid getting carried away by bird* Human: *peace was never an option*
"Look what you did. You took a perfectly good ape and gave it anxiety." I wonder how much of such conditions today are maladaptive holdovers, considering that it wasn't that long ago, evolutionarily speaking, that the nervous buggers were the ones more able to spot and run away from the leopards.
@@lucasblomgren1975 I feel like the rise in anxiety outbreaks and disorders has more to do with increasing worries about job security and fears of being able to make ends meet due to growing competitiveness caused by globalization and technological advancement rather than the resurgence of vestigial behavioral traits.
Similar evolution to prairie dogs, stand upright, communicate effectively about predators, but unfortunately humans don’t yippee once the predator goes away. Also, we’re too big to dig holes to get away from predators like prairie dogs so we had to come up with tools. I think it worked out well for us
Two words : fire control. That was a huge evolutionary key. Pointy sticks and Co-op are not enough. Most predators ruled the nights, with the fire we took away that advantage from them, along other things that came after learning how to use it.
Also being able to cook food meant we could effective gain more energy and nutrients from food. Leading to the theory that first cooking food led to increased intelligence in hominids
A real story.. When i was young, i went to visit my grand mama in a village called 'Ghadambalia' in east-sudan. When we arrived, she told me to be careful as i was very thin and there's a big bird called 'Houbara' that hunt thier lambs. The bird is able to take a lamb and flay with it! And that bird has already tried to take a child but they could stop it, and that happened a lot ! So i spent a week of horror that i will never forget. Which means, you don't need to analyze all those skeletons to know that we were actually prey. Because we still prey in some parts of the world, and we still don't know everything about this world and what's happening in it. But good job anyway !! :)
This is either an obvious myth or they mixed up the bird's name; either way - it can't have been houbaras. Houbaras are *all less than 3' (~36") tall* and *none* of them even *get close to* being *4 pounds.* Plus, they're omnivores so even if it were physically possible for them to snatch up sheep or even humans (it's not), you wouldn't expect them to go after such strong, difficult prey - only raptors have the stats and evolutionary instincts required to take on something so much larger than their own bodies; houbaras certainly don't.
You can find videos right now of Golden Eagles attacking Mountain Goats and carrying them off. That blew my mind seeing that years ago. I never thought that Eagles were big and strong enough to carry that size and heavy a prey. So the idea of our ancestors' children getting picked off by large birds of prey was quite easy for me to believe.
“Plus with our hands freed up, we can use them to throw things at potential predators which chimps still do today, *although not as well as we can* Weird flex but okay
Not so weird even you consider how now that we have our brains freed up by endless information on the internet, we've begin to toss devastating comments at one another.
@@sabrinusglaucomys Not really. Chimps don't have the same arm rang of movement as we do so that overhead throw with accuracy and strength? We got it, they don't.
5:23 it was later discovered that, while they could’ve hunted hominid infants, leopards were too small to hunt the bigger adults. Another cat called Dinofelis, a member of the sabre-toothed cat family, was discovered to also match the tooth marks in SK 54, and they were bigger than leopards. So while there were some animals, like leopards, hyenas and eagles, that only hunted young hominids, there were bigger animals, like Dinofelis and crocodiles, that would hunt the strong adults.
@@ayoubmonno9662 Yes they are, and they are stealth specialists! Besides that, they can haul prey that weighs 3 times what they weigh, up high in a tree and out on branches strong enough to hold the prey and the leopard, but where heavy lions cannot go out on those smaller branches. Once in a while, a lion tries that and down the branch goes, with the leopard, it's prey, and the lion! Then the lions and hyenas fight over the prey while the leopard runs off to try again another day!
There had to be a time early on, when the hominids were prey for many carnivores, even omnivores. That's how they probably learned to defend themselves with spears that they used for hunting at some point! Be it hominids, homo sapiens or Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrids, they were probably all prey at some point in early history. If they weren't prey, they wouldn't have had to learn to defend themselves against them!
I always found it so fascinating how humans managed to survive against all odds and finally turned out to be able to flip the entire world on its head. Even if this dramatic rise of humans already paved the way for our self-caused downfall, it's still amazing nonetheless.
I first heard about the Taung child in an episode of Radiolab, and they posited that behaviors like looking up at planes or helicopters (and I would argue, even bird watching) are evolutionary remnants of these days when our ancestors were subject to bird attacks.
I wonder, eh? Working with birds of prey requires a weird relationship, and it's odd how we went from being hunted by them, to individuals hunting cooperatively with them.
I've been playing cells to singularity for the past few days and it really made me think. Humans are just animals, like all other animals which evolved from a single prokaryote cell. Maybe in the future one day intelligent creatures will look at us like we look at ardipithecus or australopithecus
@@jeanneann3545 we have so much written down knowledge even if they are a bit more advanced than us I think it would be impossible for them to also be intelligent and not respect all that we have accomplished. I mean our species opened the door for space travel for crying out loud hard to pretend like that isn't a big deal.
Just go alone at night in a jungle (in SE Asia, South America or Africa) and you will really feel what it's like not to be on the top of the food chain. No need to go back in time.
Intellectual is what makes human top of food chain at the end, if you go to jungle alone for no reason, which mean you don’t use brain which apparently your advantage compare to any other animal..
Almost blows my mind that those researches saw it and instantly concluded murder rather than the much more likely scenario of being preyed upon. Especially in an area with such dangerous predators even today that will still prey on humans when given the chance.
@@bulthaosen1169 they definitely had rocks and pointy sticks back then, but yea they probably didnt use them as well as later hominins. Still though, they were trying to use those sites as proof saying that we did "have pointy sticks", so saying it wasnt the case because we didnt is kind of redundant. And like the video said, the world wars were happening, so it felt pretty intuitive that humans just like to kill
Europe was always hardcore mode: it's called winter, and it's this enviromental condition which is most of the reason why over tens of thousand of years, European and African peoples evolved different reproductive strateg- [redacted for wrongthink].
When I lived in the high desert region of Arizona vultures would start circling above whenever you'd stop moving, if sat down to fish at the watering hole or you were resting while on a hike you could look up and they'd there waiting for you to get a free meal. After awhile they'd sometimes start landing near by and you can see the look in their little round eyes, big birds still want to eat us.
Lee86 In Aotearoa, New Zealand there was a giant eagle that existed alongside humans for around 200 years, it’s possible based on legends and size that it did kill people.
Video idea 💡 Can you do a video about the megafauna of Australia? I take native animals into schools and kindergartens and it’s amazing to me that the average Australian doesn’t know much about our own natural history We had all sorts of cool animals like giant kangaroos and 7 meter long goannas that no one seems to know about
Honestly the way some bigger birds look at humans looks like they have a deep personal grudge cause they remember when they used to eat us. Except Emus cause Emus know they have defeated us, thanks alot Australia.
Why do people write like this now, it's weird. EVERYONE: ME: YOU: THEM: MY GRANDMA: It's like a Hallmark card, haha. You millennials, you sure are goofy.
I grew up in southern Ontario, on an small farm. Bears still get into the bee hives, now and then. They're only black bear, but 250 pound black bear can do a lot of damage to this 220 pound man. I still go camping on the farm in summer, though.
Being hunted for food (prey), and being attacked or killed to eliminate a threat, are not the same things. Modern humans are not part of any animal’s essential diet. Although I did read somewhere that polar bears might be the only species left that will still hunt humans for food. Needs a bit more research though.
Thanks, there is so much i want to say regarding this subject. Appreciate the efforts of archeologists and this moderator and channel for explaining the science of our evolution and capacity for thriving against other competitors.
What I particularly like about the EONs series is the pace. Far too often, potentially wonderful TV documentaries about nature or history are ruined by bumbling along at a snail pace, even with repeat cliff hangars before ad breaks; EONs seem to get the pace just right, and it also mean my kids are not getting bored. Quality wise it is far higher than the lessons they get at school (also boring!).
@@fuckoff6431 Nowadays that's the case. It took about 1000 years after agriculture was invented that animals finally started to see us as the dominant species
Everybody here has an IQ of 2. We arent prey you dumbass. These animals kill us because they are extremely hungry, scared, or feel threatened. Being prey means we would be sought after by animals. Having a predator. We do not have a predator. A predator would literally try and go after us for food. We are on top of the food chain
wow bao Thank you. We don’t see predators actively pursue people for a long time (with the exception of the desperate polar bear), even tribesmen in the savanna. Even lions who want Masai cattle leave the cattle alone when they spot Masai. They’ve learned to fear humans, and animals who haven’t seen us before tend to be wary. How on this earth are we prey?
Yes, a bear could rip a human in half, but our intelligence is what makes us the apex predator. Any animal taken out of its element would become weak; that's nature. Humans are unique, however, in that we don't have to rely on our environment to be our element. We adapt our environment to us, and so we are at the top of the food chain everywhere in the world that we inhabit.
I remember 3 million years ago when the Flintstones and the Croods who lived across the quarry from us called noise control on my uncle Captain Caveman.
This reminds me of Oviraptor, and how we saw an animal spending its last moments trying to protect its eggs and were so sure that it was stealing them that we called it "egg thief". Not that paleontologists at the time were stupid for thinking that, especially since our perception of dinosaurs has changed so much so quickly. But it's interesting how we seem to have a tendency to come to the most violent conclusions first.
2:04 - That's very interesting, because pretty much all I've read (I'm studying anthropology) seems to indicate that gathering far exceeds hunting as the primary source of caloric intake. Rather, the issue is that hunting is a "prestige activity" that require a greater extent of cooperation, and is done more rarely, takes longer and with greater pomp and circumstance. Basically, hunter-gatherer cultures tend to primarily live off gathered plants, but if you spend time with them and talk with them, they're more likely to talk at length and with passion about hunting and how great meat is. It's kind of the same reason why you'd want to talk with a friend about a great meal you had at a restaurant or a barbecue, and not the ham sandwiches or oatmeal cereal you eat every day.
Best comment! Prestige, high-quality nutrients (primarily proteins), active threat eradication being a few things why humans hunt. I think most people consider one reason for one trait only, however, it's clearly a lot of factors which combined to make us who we are today.
Yes, I too also understood that to be the case. I’m no expert, so please double check this, but I believe studies of Australian Aboriginal hunter gatherers (and the last uncontacted group ‘came in’ in the mid1980s, so they’re still alive) found by far the most calories were those collected by the women, that is plants and small animals like lizards and, more recently, feral cats. Note, the women hunted protein - but only small animals. The women pursued a low risk, low reward strategy and always came home with their coolamens full of that night’s dinner. The men went out after larger prey, a high risk/high reward strategy which was far more hit or miss, (boom boom) and, although a successful hunt produced a feast, contributed less to their total diet. Apparently a roo was a treat rather than an everyday dinner.
blue smurff No, that’s not really how it worked. Plants are seasonal and required knowledge and planning to travel to and gather. Hunter gatherers move around their territories with the seasons, following not only migratory animals but also the patterns of food growth and ripening. The gathering certainly wasn’t incidental. It was fundamental, just like we always have bread or rice and greens and eggs in the kitchen, as staples.
Yep. We may still occasionally be attacked and eaten by lions, tigers, and sharks, but you're much, much more likely to be killed by our biggest predator ever: ourselves.
No actually not, most animals are afraid of humans, we are seriously not being seen as pray by almost all other life as earth, most predators attack humans only if their afraid/threaten and not even when there hungry
Well I personally would only be food for scavengers because I'd die before any predator could find me. But someone more trained than I am could make their own tools. I mean, that's our evolutionary super power, no need to tie our hands there.
Video idea - Marsupials of North America. The spread of opossum is fascinating, and their travel patterns might be better understood by looking at extinct species.
“Humans being hunted” Don’ t hear that very often, it’s really fascinating how far we have come Can you please do a video on the spiders that had tails?
How can you not mention the discovery and control of fire? It removed all previous natural predators in one fell swoop. This facilitated mankind himself filling the ecological niche vacated by other predators. It directed our tribal behaviour, our nocturnal (night owl) tendencies (looking after the fire), and freed us from the daily drudge of finding food / not being food, which gave us the free time to look at stars and wonder what they might be. Which no other species ever has done.
That’s why I leave my kitchen window drapes open. I let the birds see me scramble eggs just so they know what I’m capable of.
I want that Juice friend ..
r/cursedcomments
*i am birb*
Keep them in check
Gorilla Juice now that’s comedy
"When Humans were prey." As an Australian, I am pretty sure that was last Thursday.
Also if you're like me .
I like to camp in the Carpathians Mountains and the forests are full of wolves and bears.
Now just imagine the sounds at night plus the ones from the owls.
Yeah, except Aussies are hunted by magpies with anger issues, not giant eagles looking for a snack.
No
Lmao nice
@@Takeshi357 the saltwater crocodile (aka the most violent present-day dinosaur) enters the chat.
Early humans: “Ahh call an ambulance!”
*picks up sharp stick*: “ but not for me”
NGL had us in the first half
Underrated meme
So, Ahh is the name of the other early human, right?
@@furakanoabira7111 lol
Early humans: "ae ooh ahh"
*Picks up sharp stick*: "ooh ahh rah"
You know when you're outside and a shadow quickly passes over you and you get this flash of dread and you flinch? The Taung child knows why.
hahahahaha
So true. I just had that when I was nearby an airport...
knew* jk
That didn't age well
@@VERGILGASM why
Some little ape kid running around in Taung: (minding its own business)
Giant predatorial bird: *_Y O I N K_*
Didn't listen to his mother when she said "don't go out without your spiked hat".
@David Hernandez swoppy...??
Spearman: Yeet a spear uba gugga. Oh too late
hippity hoppity your child is now my property
Leopard eating a hominin on the tree: enjoying his meal
Bones falling off: *Y E E T*
Animals: what are you gonna do you're slower,weaker, and you have no claws
Human: ahem (pulls out stick with pointy thingy)
best invention ever
If it wasn't those sticks we wouldn't be here
We got da big brain which led to late game dominance
cocks shotgun
And now the humans are destroying the planet. Thr dumbest species on earth.
human: starts picking up rocks
other animals: why do i hear boss music?
LOL
@Solgaleo wrong, they invented the first butt plugs
@Solgaleo eat you up
😆😂🤣
And I'm the 1000 person to like the comment...
Now its time for me to disappear from this comment section.
Imagine being bullied and eventually leveling up so much you can destroy the entire planet
Yeah
This is the way
hold on a second...are we the baddies? :O
@@robertroux6001 yes but no
The planet should've watched his step
Humans: **looks at dogs** "You're ok. Don't show up to the savannah tomorrow."
Murders whole savanna
Dogs: I wait for my share
We are the quiet kid.
Hahahahahhahahhahaha
@@uncanny3637 *Pumped up kicks plays from a distance*
Everybody in the animal kingdom playing gangsta till a human sharpens a stick
😭😂😂😂
Nuke
Yep😂😂😂
And when the struck two rocks together 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Might be that our fear of monsters and such, manifested in countless stories dating back a looong time, comes from a time, where we were actually hunted by monsters.
That makes a lot of sense🤔
Yeah, it's the residue of our instinctual fear.
Our ancestors fled.first and asked questions after, which is also why many people believe that they saw inexplicable and terrifying phenomenons when it was probably just a tree branch casting a shadow.
About the Archetypal Framework we possess or inherit from our ancestors making up our Collective Unconscious, well that’s how myths were shaped and formed. Superstitions are also a product of the unknown.
well, duh! hahaha
And the saying: safety in numbers. We humans have an instinct to stick together when the sh*t hits the fan
dog species: eat humans for centuries
humans: evolve into the strongest animals in the world
dog species: switch teams
Can’t beat em join em
Hyenas are not related to dogs, foxes wolves etc. They're closer to mongoose and weasels.
@@freedomm I thought hyenas were more related to Felines than Canids
INdeed wolfes and Neanderthaler often shared their common prey, and this might be why the dogs evolved.
@@iammeltedvengence1234 yes mongoose and weasels are feliforms
becoming large, smart, and powerful over a few million years just to give a big evolutionary middle finger to the animals that used to eat us is the most human thing ever.
Yes.
Yes.
im so proud
Yup....and few of us are are currently floating around in zero gravity inside the International Space Station.
hoorayimhelping ong
Everybody gangsta till the bullied species starts slamming sticks and stones together
I thought that was about sex oof
And starts making guns
Random stuff? U made aircraft shark
Yeah but how far up the evolutionary chain did we start to defend ourselves ? I could imagine our ancestors being hunted went on for quite some time . Although I imagine our ancestors might have been least favorite for predators to hunt due to maybe not looking right or tasting right .
Austrolapithecus be like: "You're alright, zebra. Don't come to class tomorrow..."
Other animals when the ape fodder starts sharpening rocks: "I have a bad feeling about this"
That ape fodder was like the original school shooter reaching into his bag. "I've had enough!"
Rich Homie Gon when the quiet ape in the back of the troop says *grunt* and reaches into his patch of grass.
*scared everything else noises*
We excuted order 66 on nature
“Jedi do not sharpen rocks. Only Sith sharpen rocks. Sharpening rocks goes against the will of the universe.” :3 *sharpening intensifies*
We have GUNS
So glad to be alive during the apex predator stage of human evolution
lel
Better yet, time when the world was so peaceful most people died to old age than murder.
Then you should be glad that you'll die for the same reason
There was no such stage of mankind, we were apex from the beginning.
The video source is bunch of ancent monkeys
💯
The Killer Ape Theory. Awesome band name.
I agree
I'm gonna start a grunge band by this name.
Now the killer apes have guns....
The psycotic ape theory is as well
Like the big bang theory but better
This guy spoke as many words in 10 mins as I would say in 2 days.
i had to to keep telling myself to stfu and listen
Double tap is my friend
He's definitely had a couple too many espresso shots
様David ikr
Me a week
"Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat." - Dr Henry Wu
Frank Fedison
Heard that quote many times. So chilling true.
What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly. Really demonstrates the concept of moral relativism.
Or from jurrasic world lol
True but if you were a Maori some 500 or so years ago you would have had to deal with the "Hartz eagle" the largest eagle to have ever lived.Hartz eagle hunted large game like Moas which weighed upto 500 pounds!.As New Zealand was heavily forested once a kill was made the eagle would hang around eating its way thru the kill.Anything trying to scavenge as people are want to do would be attacked and probably killed.Hartz eagle weighed up to 25lbs thats more than big enough to kill woman children and probably men!
Later we'll all die said the gator to the fly
I can only imagine how terrifying large predator birds would’ve been to early humans. At any moment you could get picked up off the ground and you would never hear them coming.
Maybe that's why humans lived in caves alot
@@Poopfan101 And also, eventually learnt to build roofed huts?
Well that may explain the fascination many people have with flying and the desire of having wings
naw they be coming down blasting their stuka sierens
Saw some videos about eagles. Including flying with a sheep or goat. (Weight may be 15 kg)
A young human child in the open is still now in danger when an eagle is hunting. It can fly away with toddlers.
Nature: bully humans
Humans: invent sharp stick and dominate everything
Nature: suprised pikatchu face
Nature: create storms every year global warming
Humans: waaahhh😯
this was really funny
Jokes like this is the reason why I think we should've all gone extinct.
Pikachu not pikatchu
I actually laughed out loud
Imagine walking to work and suddenly you're getting picked up by a huge Eagle
Imagine walking to work and getting attacked by birds... wait.... thats just Australia and MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGPIEEEEEEEEEES
Lol
If it makes you feel any better, that could still kind of happen. TH-cam search "eagle takes goat off a cliff" and you'll learn that anyone up to the size of a middle-sized child could not only be attacked but flown away by a very large bird. Eagles and the like can carry at least twice its own weight. If it's a fifty-pound eagle, it can carry a hundred-pound person. The bird carried it away holding nothing but the horns in one video Sweet Dreams >:)
I'd grab its wing and wed both fall and die.
@@myheartiswriting ..yh I've seen it😲😲
Imagine being killed by a leopard just to be called sk 54
😂
At least he wasn't called A-55.
@@karnak333 at leas he wasn't called X Æ A-12
"Genie, I want the world to remember me."
They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the other one is a little later, when someone tells your name for the last time.
Guess that man hasn't died yet..
Hawk: *eats a person*
Victim's brother: *sharpening a rock* Omae wa mou shindeiru.
Shiwa star belic
Hawk: nani
Omaua mo no shindiro*
@@lookawayorneverlookagain bruh
@@raindoset5408 nice gun
When you bullied humans for centuries and now you're on the takeout menu.
Rami Daskeo their ancestors will have to take their place
This video should be shown to vegans
Damn, what do chickens and pigs ever do to us
@@Chris-hp9be ever seen a wild boar?
Karma
Man-eating animals: nooooo you cant just start killing us off and driving us to extinction
early humans: haha sharp stick go stab
Modern humans: haha descendants go chopchop
Yumyum
haha big brain go smart smart
That's not how that meme works
Actually, if humans stayed in Africa they wouldn't have evolved as much as they did. We evolved so much because we moved out of places that were dangerous. If humans stayed in Africa they most likely would have gone extinct as the environment was too harsh for our ancestors.
So to sum it all up, humans are the nature equivalent of that quiet kid that gets bullied in school and the next day he starts counting down.
Precisely:)
Not always the case i hate how people say the quiet kid is the bad one
And he tells his domesticated friends not to come to school tomorrow
@@battlebuddy4517 I guess it's just a meme lol, oh well
@@battlebuddy4517
Not the bad one, necessarily. The most dangerous one. That doesn't mean he's bad. It means he's not one to be taken lightly.
I really appreciate how you pointed out that the researchers' work was influenced by having lived through the World Wars. It's important to remember that science isn't something that exists in some pocket dimension unaffected by the rest of history, it's something that people do, and those people are both influenced by the world around them, and (especially in fields fraught with as much importance as human origins) they are aware of how their theories will influence the world in return.
Yeah it really feels as if they were trying to fit evolution into their own idea of what that looks like rather what it actually is. So many people want to believe that humans are naturally violent, selfish and greedy when the science shows the complete opposite. Without cooperation, community and altruism, we would not be here.
Animals: Is strong af capable of killing humans
Humans: *Uno Reverse Card*
Thats still there.
@@blankblank5409 a unarmed human sure depends on the animal, but nothing beats a disciplined armed human
@@ivonunes3937 Depends what you're armed with
Ivo Nunes I’d say a swarm of bugs can beat a human as long as the human doesn’t have a specialized weapon
@@wolfnerd4984 easily yes but a swarm of bugs can kill almost all land creatures
Probably why we have so much anxiety now.
Stephanie Putnam and fear of the dark.
@Thomas Long i prepare my fists when im in the dark or alone in the morning.
Anxiety would be more useful if we were still in the wild, too much anxiety, not really enough life threatening huge predators to tear your face off. I’m allright with that though lol
I'm sure our ancestors had fears but not anxiety. I think the reason for our anxiety is the opposite: When humans have the time to stand and relax, they tend to develop anxiety.
@@lolitaras22 They definitely had anxiety, its a survival tactic, and fear is a form of anxiety.
*Looks at my pet chickens with worry*
Better eat them before they eat you!
Many people don't believe it, but chickens are savage.
Persphonefallen be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
don't sleep on those dinosaurs, they will have no mercy
You never see a pack of chickens tearing apart a mouse. Welcome to farm life.
And now we even have a saying illustrating this :
"two birds one stone"
- Taung child's brother
Before this: 2 humans 1bird
One of the theories for why baby mobiles work involves the instinct to be still and quiet when a predator flies overhead.
This is as terrific as finding out dog toys squeak to simulate dying animal noises.
Can you give me a source? For the baby mobile?
What is a baby mobile?
@@chinmaypani348 small toys hanging over the bed of a baby, they can spin and the calm the baby
Terrifying an infant to keep it quiet is definitely a tactic a tired parental figure would finally resort.
Predators back in the day: *eats human*
Human’s evolutionary response: “kill or be killed.”
Human’s today: “I think we went a little overboard.”
Earth: You think
God: you kids have seen nothing
Under rated comment
Universe: There was something called life during my existence?
Runaway evolutionary traits are literally a thing. See Giant Irish Elk and ridiculous antlers getting sticking in ever increasing forests at the end of the last Ice Age
turns out I still feel like a prey when my cat looks at me in a strange and threatening way.
@Gxngex too late :x
@@renatoigmed Lmao. It's a house cat. Just punt the damn thing.
Victor Akhmedshin and you just a person so im gonna put you down uwu
@@battlebuddy4517 And you're not even a person, let's put you down.
Bro just give it to a pet shelter if you dont want it
Animals: You can’t defeat me
Humans: I know. *pulls out sharp stick* But he can.
this*
"Ey remember when Timmy got fetched by a giant eagle?, yeah good times."
Ur talking about Mr. Leyhe?
We’re gonna need another Timmy! I like TPB, as well.
Is you a guy ?
I don't know is it a boy or a girl
Why am I imagining that in an Australian accent even though you’ve given me no indication you’re from there? 🤔
"Humans were once prey"
(Cat jumps out of nowhere and starts to shred my pants up)
Okay then
Glad to know that Humans aren’t prey anymore *whew*
@Afqwa wolfs aren't fearful of humans, they're rather respectful towards us.
@Adam Buentello we are totally vulnerable
Lol ok then
LOL!
Humans: *gets bullied by animals*
Also Humans to Animals: You've yee'd your last haw
Lol
It's funny how we still make the distinction between humans and animals when there was and is no distinction, even the video tells of us caving eachothers heads in with rocks on a regular basis
@@geedee1264 he later explained in the video that those marks were likely from a leopard or other big predator bird
@@geedee1264
Its because there really isnt a much better way for the average person to differentiate human from non-human than to say animals, even if we are part of the animal kingdom too.
@@geedee1264 the video is actually to specify that we didnt cave holes in the heads of each other... but animals did it to us....
Speaking of humans back when they were prey...
*One of the most frightening things I've heard is when someone pointed out that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point there was an evolutionary reason to be afraid of something that looked human but wasn't.*
monke
Perhaps they were hunted by other hominid species?
That's an interesting thought
Yes but the uncanny valley is from when we had to recognize signs of sickness, where they didn’t look like humans but were and that was super dangerous (you know cuz plagues and stuff)
Yes but the uncanny valley is from when we had to recognize signs of sickness, where they didn’t look like humans but were and that was super dangerous (you know cuz plagues and stuff)
Apologies to my extremely late ancestors who were eaten by birds, but there's something delightful about there being a grain of truth to the "cavemen running away from a hungry dinosaur" cartoon trope
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If they were eaten by birds then they wouldn't have been your ancestors
@@grrmonkey
Yes they could. You're assuming they were eaten before mating.
@@captainbonkerang didn't think of that, thanks
Technically they were... from FLYING dinosaurs- what, from the way the video describes it, was apparently some now-extinct species of giant eagle or something.
It makes sense that after thousands or years of playing against natures best predators we would eventually learn the matchup
Its not even a matchup i had a gun and im at the forest i will kill all predetors idc if they go extinct
@@Manu-sk7qx ...Bruh,why you gotta be like that
@@Manu-sk7qx lol u can always spot an American just by their comments
@@lvla9513 no we dont claim them
Love this comment hehe
[slowly moves to parakeet cage and double checks the lock]
Jackpot! You just want to flex
"Two cockatiels and 2 budgies" I can't even live with one bird what the heck
@@blakestalnaker4932 odd flex..
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
Damn we went from being shaped by our environment to shaping the environment as we see fit
If we're shaping the environment you could prevent climate change.
@@mohammedubed7000 thing is we could have prevented climate change its just that we didnt with is why things got so bad now
i mean we are on a feedback loop at this point
@@mohammedubed7000 bruh we are shaping the ecosystem around us to our needs
@@mohdzainlonewe are slowly fixing it.
All this makes me wonder what currently held beliefs we have about ancient humans right now will be considered silly a hundred years from now.
the paleo diet
Some things will probably stick if they were right
Religion...
@Pecu Alex But who knows what the future can hold.
Young-Earth Creationism
Humans: *being bullied for millions of years by predators*
Ape is evolving! Ape has evolved into: Human!
Human: *Sees ape kid getting carried away by bird*
Human: *peace was never an option*
Peace is just a silly delusion humans created.
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@DarkFaize lol so true
Now we have scrambled eggs 🥚 🍳
Execute order 66
"Look what you did. You took a perfectly good ape and gave it anxiety." I wonder how much of such conditions today are maladaptive holdovers, considering that it wasn't that long ago, evolutionarily speaking, that the nervous buggers were the ones more able to spot and run away from the leopards.
Maybe. But would also be the ones more capable of scaring prey away and attract unwanted attention.
Or run towards them. That's free meat!
All of them! It's something still mostly ignored by most psychologists but it is the root of all our emotional problems.
@@Metal0sopher So you believe you know more than the majority of the worlds psychologists?
@@lucasblomgren1975 I feel like the rise in anxiety outbreaks and disorders has more to do with increasing worries about job security and fears of being able to make ends meet due to growing competitiveness caused by globalization and technological advancement rather than the resurgence of vestigial behavioral traits.
Similar evolution to prairie dogs, stand upright, communicate effectively about predators, but unfortunately humans don’t yippee once the predator goes away. Also, we’re too big to dig holes to get away from predators like prairie dogs so we had to come up with tools. I think it worked out well for us
Two words : fire control.
That was a huge evolutionary key.
Pointy sticks and Co-op are not enough.
Most predators ruled the nights, with the fire we took away that advantage from them, along other things that came after learning how to use it.
Also being able to cook food meant we could effective gain more energy and nutrients from food. Leading to the theory that first cooking food led to increased intelligence in hominids
When did fire control begin
Damn, sharp stick on fire must've been a really op weapon back then
@@rowanmelton7643
yeah
it's like 2 in 1 major benefit
so the invention of fire could be a huge revolutionary of intelligence
@@marcusrogers9441 no one knows, but evidence suggests around 2 million years ago, though possibly much before.
A real story..
When i was young, i went to visit my grand mama in a village called 'Ghadambalia' in east-sudan.
When we arrived, she told me to be careful as i was very thin and there's a big bird called 'Houbara' that hunt thier lambs.
The bird is able to take a lamb and flay with it!
And that bird has already tried to take a child but they could stop it, and that happened a lot ! So i spent a week of horror that i will never forget.
Which means, you don't need to analyze all those skeletons to know that we were actually prey. Because we still prey in some parts of the world, and we still don't know everything about this world and what's happening in it.
But good job anyway !! :)
Wow
This is either an obvious myth or they mixed up the bird's name; either way - it can't have been houbaras.
Houbaras are *all less than 3' (~36") tall* and *none* of them even *get close to* being *4 pounds.* Plus, they're omnivores so even if it were physically possible for them to snatch up sheep or even humans (it's not), you wouldn't expect them to go after such strong, difficult prey - only raptors have the stats and evolutionary instincts required to take on something so much larger than their own bodies; houbaras certainly don't.
That reminds me of the eagles in the zlatibor mountain, one strait up took a calf.
crowned eagles of Africa do this to small children in less advanced comunities
there is something call gun, and another thing call fire,..
birds, how dare you betray me like this
Alfred Hitchcock was right ;)
🐤🐦 *shriek*
Birdemic was true, you know!
Never look at your parakeet the same will ya...............
we got our revenge
*looks at domesticated bird make an idiot of itself in my kitchen*
haha, what an idiot bird
@@coreytaylor447 I'm currently watching my cockatiel make a "nest" in his food bowl and yeah... he's an idiot bird
You can find videos right now of Golden Eagles attacking Mountain Goats and carrying them off. That blew my mind seeing that years ago. I never thought that Eagles were big and strong enough to carry that size and heavy a prey. So the idea of our ancestors' children getting picked off by large birds of prey was quite easy for me to believe.
*Looks slowly at the sparrow standing on the tree next to my window*
I picture that scene from Jurassic Park where the game warden goes "clever girl..." before being torn to shreds by a Velociraptor.
If you haven't seen Hitchcock's Birds movie you have no idea how terrifying birds can be
Yanuchi Uchiha: Anime, Games and Ramdomness
*Sparrow slowly turns his head to stare back at you.*
‘Intense music insues’
Maybe it wasn't a sparrow, but a psychopomp preying on your soul 👻💀☠
😂😂😂
“Plus with our hands freed up, we can use them to throw things at potential predators which chimps still do today, *although not as well as we can*
Weird flex but okay
XD
Not so weird even you consider how now that we have our brains freed up by endless information on the internet, we've begin to toss devastating comments at one another.
@@sabrinusglaucomys Not really. Chimps don't have the same arm rang of movement as we do so that overhead throw with accuracy and strength? We got it, they don't.
Dodgeball is such a beautiful human game
I thought he meant it in the sense of WHAT we would throw. Like spears or something.
5:23 it was later discovered that, while they could’ve hunted hominid infants, leopards were too small to hunt the bigger adults. Another cat called Dinofelis, a member of the sabre-toothed cat family, was discovered to also match the tooth marks in SK 54, and they were bigger than leopards. So while there were some animals, like leopards, hyenas and eagles, that only hunted young hominids, there were bigger animals, like Dinofelis and crocodiles, that would hunt the strong adults.
DAMMMNnnn u smart :)
Omfg that's hilarious, we and the predators evolved to fill different niches
Leopards are more than capable of taking down large prey.
@@ayoubmonno9662 Yes they are, and they are stealth specialists! Besides that, they can haul prey that weighs 3 times what they weigh, up high in a tree and out on branches strong enough to hold the prey and the leopard, but where heavy lions cannot go out on those smaller branches. Once in a while, a lion tries that and down the branch goes, with the leopard, it's prey, and the lion! Then the lions and hyenas fight over the prey while the leopard runs off to try again another day!
There had to be a time early on, when the hominids were prey for many carnivores, even omnivores. That's how they probably learned to defend themselves with spears that they used for hunting at some point! Be it hominids, homo sapiens or Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrids, they were probably all prey at some point in early history. If they weren't prey, they wouldn't have had to learn to defend themselves against them!
I always found it so fascinating how humans managed to survive against all odds and finally turned out to be able to flip the entire world on its head. Even if this dramatic rise of humans already paved the way for our self-caused downfall, it's still amazing nonetheless.
>Nature bullies humans
>Humans level up, retaliate against nature
Everyone in 2020: "Stop punching him, you're going to kill him!!!"
@TNTDannyDynamitaTNT Nature bullies everyone bro🤦🏾♂️
Lil. Dxnk r/wooosh
@@aldairmartinez5001 shut it
Cut to that clip from the simpsons of the kid yelling "stop he's already dead"
@@aldairmartinez5001we bullied nature😈😈😈💪💪💪
This is 3 years ago😭😭😭
I first heard about the Taung child in an episode of Radiolab, and they posited that behaviors like looking up at planes or helicopters (and I would argue, even bird watching) are evolutionary remnants of these days when our ancestors were subject to bird attacks.
I wonder, eh? Working with birds of prey requires a weird relationship, and it's odd how we went from being hunted by them, to individuals hunting cooperatively with them.
@@silvesby Yes but it doesn’t know Junt with gonyajack.
I've been playing cells to singularity for the past few days and it really made me think. Humans are just animals, like all other animals which evolved from a single prokaryote cell. Maybe in the future one day intelligent creatures will look at us like we look at ardipithecus or australopithecus
'And what do you know, these hairless apes use currencies made from leaves to trade things!'
'Awww thats adorableeee!!'
Yeah fr
I'm pretty sure it'd gonna be some new species that originated from humans though, as we are the only known animals that are sentient.
Thanks now I have a new game to play
@@jeanneann3545 we have so much written down knowledge even if they are a bit more advanced than us I think it would be impossible for them to also be intelligent and not respect all that we have accomplished. I mean our species opened the door for space travel for crying out loud hard to pretend like that isn't a big deal.
Just go alone at night in a jungle (in SE Asia, South America or Africa) and you will really feel what it's like not to be on the top of the food chain. No need to go back in time.
Intellectual is what makes human top of food chain at the end, if you go to jungle alone for no reason, which mean you don’t use brain which apparently your advantage compare to any other animal..
South Asia too
Animals bullies humans
Humans after thousands of years : hi customer do you want buy this alligator hat
And they’ve been here long before us
Humans count as animals as well tho
@@sometf2player752 The animals bullied animals.
Lmao
I feel cringe about my comment
Giant Eagle: "Omae wa mou shindeiru"
Tong Child: "Nani?!?!"
That's right I'm digging this fossil of a meme.
🤩 *loud beeping*
☠️
Imagine dying a horrible painfully death only to be memed on with a dead meme 2 million years later.
Nature: lol humans little weaklings
Humans: *evolves*
Nature: wait what
Coronavirus laughs
@@toomanysandwiches8665 Laughs in 99%+ survival rate
@@-Sharky- that’s still 2 million people
@@Shrimpfriedpee imagine being a pandemic and still having a negative kd ratio 😳
@@-Sharky- if you get medial help. Other wise its around 3-5% chance. Overall. But its more like a 8% if your 50. Thats pretty bad odds to me
As a South African who speaks Sotho, the way he pronounces 'Taung' is so hilariously adorable😂
"tong"
Almost blows my mind that those researches saw it and instantly concluded murder rather than the much more likely scenario of being preyed upon. Especially in an area with such dangerous predators even today that will still prey on humans when given the chance.
Yeah considering we didn't even have pointy sticks back then.
@@bulthaosen1169 they definitely had rocks and pointy sticks back then, but yea they probably didnt use them as well as later hominins. Still though, they were trying to use those sites as proof saying that we did "have pointy sticks", so saying it wasnt the case because we didnt is kind of redundant. And like the video said, the world wars were happening, so it felt pretty intuitive that humans just like to kill
Honestly, PBS should get way more money to make more content.
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The station always “sponsored by viewers like you” and the drop in people watching their shows on tv as they put them out kills them.
@@shehateme9955 Done that. I meant funding educational content such as this on a US-federal or EU-federal level
@@augustus331 I agree. Was probably feeling funny that day
Africa is expert mode server. Playing in Asia and Europe is strictly for casual players.
@Edbotikx no water tho
Europe was always hardcore mode: it's called winter, and it's this enviromental condition which is most of the reason why over tens of thousand of years, European and African peoples evolved different reproductive strateg- [redacted for wrongthink].
@@50centpb7 I was talking in terms of wildlife. No hippos or crocodiles in Europe.
@Edbotikx I was talking in terms of wildlife that could ruin your day.
The Americas are the secret challenge levels
Sometimes I wonder who I would be if videos like this were available when I was younger. I enjoy these so much.
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Like it too much
Love it!
nOrMiE
Go make me a sandwich cause this isn’t funny
I like watching these type of videos, crazy to think our ancestors actually made it out through all that and now we’re here
Nature: Bully's human
Humans centuries later: hippity hoppity your nature is now my property
@@porky8001 *SOVIET ANTHEM INTENSIFIES*
When I lived in the high desert region of Arizona vultures would start circling above whenever you'd stop moving, if sat down to fish at the watering hole or you were resting while on a hike you could look up and they'd there waiting for you to get a free meal. After awhile they'd sometimes start landing near by and you can see the look in their little round eyes, big birds still want to eat us.
Popeyes and KFC prove that the feeling is very mutual.
Vultures won't attack you unless you're already a corpse.
@@christbenitez8797 I have seen Turkey vultures scramble to take off if the object of their interest moves even a little.
When im up north i see lots of eagles while fishing. I often think if those things were a bit bigger they could take me out for sure.
Lee86 In Aotearoa, New Zealand there was a giant eagle that existed alongside humans for around 200 years, it’s possible based on legends and size that it did kill people.
Animals fear humans my G
Because you were fishing.
Allie Doak Haake’s Eagle almost certainly would have taken humans.
@@allisondoak9425 ?f6 xd
“When Humans were prey.” *Polar bear would like to know your location.*
Pull Submachinegun out of my conceal and carry, "so polar bear, wanna dance with an american."
Greg Pincus I don’t know whats so funny about that but ok
*Polar bear would like to know your location*
**HUNTERS AND TROPHY STANDS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW POLR BEAR'S LOCATION.**
Climate change: *_ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF_*
A Russian wants to know the Polar Bear's location
Video idea 💡 Can you do a video about the megafauna of Australia?
I take native animals into schools and kindergartens and it’s amazing to me that the average Australian doesn’t know much about our own natural history
We had all sorts of cool animals like giant kangaroos and 7 meter long goannas that no one seems to know about
Giant kangaroos like the giant sloth?
Megalania is a popular creature what are you talking about
Don’t forget the amazing Marsupial Lion
I was thinking of the Haast's eagle too when I saw the clipart.
sounds solid
That leopard's soul smiled after being recognized 2.8 million years later
Well we sure got birds back
*laughs while eating chicken wings*
*Ostrich behind continues to deadly stare at man*
Australia disagrees
Australia lost a war against emus so
@@katijabaric4157 true
Honestly the way some bigger birds look at humans looks like they have a deep personal grudge cause they remember when they used to eat us.
Except Emus cause Emus know they have defeated us, thanks alot Australia.
@@AverageAlien not really, it wasn't a loss as much as it was a withdrawal
"Humans were once hunted"
Some people: gasp!
Me: why am i not surprised.
Why do people write like this now, it's weird.
EVERYONE:
ME:
YOU:
THEM:
MY GRANDMA:
It's like a Hallmark card, haha. You millennials, you sure are goofy.
@@LetsGoGetThem it must be a new trend. I see it on alot of different videos of different subects.
DonTeflon 86 memes my friends
CAT DURGS Cause it’s funny.
CAT DURGS that’s how you would write a script when s new person speaks. Pretty old school
WHEN humans were prey ... some of us without survival skills still are in certain environments. I will never go camping in Utah or Montana.
I grew up in southern Ontario, on an small farm. Bears still get into the bee hives, now and then. They're only black bear, but 250 pound black bear can do a lot of damage to this 220 pound man. I still go camping on the farm in summer, though.
oh, come on... get a machinegun, an axe and a lighter, get on your 4x4 on full tank and you'll be fine.
Keledran Von Sebottendorff I’d like to see how that would fare in Australia.
Being hunted for food (prey), and being attacked or killed to eliminate a threat, are not the same things. Modern humans are not part of any animal’s essential diet. Although I did read somewhere that polar bears might be the only species left that will still hunt humans for food. Needs a bit more research though.
Thanks, there is so much i want to say regarding this subject. Appreciate the efforts of archeologists and this moderator and channel for explaining the science of our evolution and capacity for thriving against other competitors.
What I particularly like about the EONs series is the pace. Far too often, potentially wonderful TV documentaries about nature or history are ruined by bumbling along at a snail pace, even with repeat cliff hangars before ad breaks; EONs seem to get the pace just right, and it also mean my kids are not getting bored.
Quality wise it is far higher than the lessons they get at school (also boring!).
First human language must have begun with simple words: O crapeagle!!!
O crapeagle goi goi so els yos
😂
O carp eegal ran gou gou gou
Oca'ra lh o, u maguia!
O, O, O, O, Crapeagle... Autoparts! (yeah)
“When humans were prey”
Take a trip to the amazon and tell me if you’re still not prey
@@fuckoff6431 Nowadays that's the case. It took about 1000 years after agriculture was invented that animals finally started to see us as the dominant species
@@fuckoff6431 You are welcome. Yeh, malaria sucks 😕
Everybody here has an IQ of 2. We arent prey you dumbass. These animals kill us because they are extremely hungry, scared, or feel threatened. Being prey means we would be sought after by animals. Having a predator. We do not have a predator. A predator would literally try and go after us for food. We are on top of the food chain
wow bao Thank you. We don’t see predators actively pursue people for a long time (with the exception of the desperate polar bear), even tribesmen in the savanna. Even lions who want Masai cattle leave the cattle alone when they spot Masai. They’ve learned to fear humans, and animals who haven’t seen us before tend to be wary. How on this earth are we prey?
Yes, a bear could rip a human in half, but our intelligence is what makes us the apex predator.
Any animal taken out of its element would become weak; that's nature. Humans are unique, however, in that we don't have to rely on our environment to be our element. We adapt our environment to us, and so we are at the top of the food chain everywhere in the world that we inhabit.
I remember 3 million years ago when the Flintstones and the Croods who lived across the quarry from us called noise control on my uncle Captain Caveman.
Geez, that was your family? You always made a ruckus. Was hard to sleep at night.
The head of a hyena or a big cat, The body of a snake & The wings and claws of a bird of prey... No wonder all cultures had tales of dragons
mind blown
The Dragon thingy was probably influence by dinosaurs-specifically, skulls-and not these.
This reminds me of Oviraptor, and how we saw an animal spending its last moments trying to protect its eggs and were so sure that it was stealing them that we called it "egg thief". Not that paleontologists at the time were stupid for thinking that, especially since our perception of dinosaurs has changed so much so quickly. But it's interesting how we seem to have a tendency to come to the most violent conclusions first.
Brooklynn Hall
The most tragic case of framing ever known...
2:04 - That's very interesting, because pretty much all I've read (I'm studying anthropology) seems to indicate that gathering far exceeds hunting as the primary source of caloric intake. Rather, the issue is that hunting is a "prestige activity" that require a greater extent of cooperation, and is done more rarely, takes longer and with greater pomp and circumstance. Basically, hunter-gatherer cultures tend to primarily live off gathered plants, but if you spend time with them and talk with them, they're more likely to talk at length and with passion about hunting and how great meat is. It's kind of the same reason why you'd want to talk with a friend about a great meal you had at a restaurant or a barbecue, and not the ham sandwiches or oatmeal cereal you eat every day.
Best comment! Prestige, high-quality nutrients (primarily proteins), active threat eradication being a few things why humans hunt. I think most people consider one reason for one trait only, however, it's clearly a lot of factors which combined to make us who we are today.
Interesting facts. Thank you
I think it works both ways, hunting is the main activity, but in between succesfull hunt you eat what you find, hence the gathering part
Yes, I too also understood that to be the case. I’m no expert, so please double check this, but I believe studies of Australian Aboriginal hunter gatherers (and the last uncontacted group ‘came in’ in the mid1980s, so they’re still alive) found by far the most calories were those collected by the women, that is plants and small animals like lizards and, more recently, feral cats. Note, the women hunted protein - but only small animals.
The women pursued a low risk, low reward strategy and always came home with their coolamens full of that night’s dinner.
The men went out after larger prey, a high risk/high reward strategy which was far more hit or miss, (boom boom) and, although a successful hunt produced a feast, contributed less to their total diet. Apparently a roo was a treat rather than an everyday dinner.
blue smurff No, that’s not really how it worked. Plants are seasonal and required knowledge and planning to travel to and gather. Hunter gatherers move around their territories with the seasons, following not only migratory animals but also the patterns of food growth and ripening. The gathering certainly wasn’t incidental. It was fundamental, just like we always have bread or rice and greens and eggs in the kitchen, as staples.
“We may be who we are today because of the time when we were pray”
Yeah that’s why I have anxiety
Humans still are pray, we just have walls and guns now
Yep. We may still occasionally be attacked and eaten by lions, tigers, and sharks, but you're much, much more likely to be killed by our biggest predator ever: ourselves.
No actually not, most animals are afraid of humans, we are seriously not being seen as pray by almost all other life as earth, most predators attack humans only if their afraid/threaten and not even when there hungry
*prey
So we’re not prey😂😂 we are smart enough to create weapons to defend ourselves
We mass produce animals for consumption and imprison the others for entertainment, we aren't prey, we're monsters.
We're still prey in the wild if we lack our tools.
Well I personally would only be food for scavengers because I'd die before any predator could find me. But someone more trained than I am could make their own tools. I mean, that's our evolutionary super power, no need to tie our hands there.
@@unvergebeneid
All we need is to create an fire, and most animals will stay away from us.
@@zebare726 Exept for the moths.
@Writeordie Giant ancient moth swoops in, eats all your clothes right off your back... dude, the olden days were the worst
Actually most animals just fear us anyway
Video idea - Marsupials of North America. The spread of opossum is fascinating, and their travel patterns might be better understood by looking at extinct species.
north america sucks
Your inflammatory rhetoric doesn't make marsupials less awesome.
Opossums is my favorite animals
Archive Arranger, how dare you use an alphabet as your profile pic? Only idiots do that.
This makes so much sense, explains why humans are so quick to violence on each other rather than kindness
Or how kindness can be weaponized and cruel.
Being an intellegent predator is tricky; inside and out.
Thats how i feel when i play ark
And Conan exiles
Truth D:
U see a raptor, RIP
SAAAAAME
No cap
humans still are prey. its rare, but things still eat humans.
Only if a large predator happens to catch a human off-guard. Humans are not actively hunted by any organism, so technically we are not prey.
L R5 yeah but when they do we just kill them
The apex predator:
Hannibal Lector
@@binky2819 wrong. Polar bears actively predate on humans
@Mac Mcskullface go to the African Savana (or Morocco) and get back to me on that.
Damn I wonder how strong humans back then, imagine being outmatched by a hairy kid with buffed out arms and abs in a test of strength
Well our evolved cousins couldn't operate a toaster but they can still rip our throats out in a second so I wouldn't feel too bad about it
I can shoot them with a gun
LuminousMongoose true but a minigun is better to be honest just one press and BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 👨❌
Our ancestors actually an assassin type. Gun? They will do surprise attack to you with their homies, lol.
They were probably weak in comparison.
I’m an anthropology student and I love this content
Can you do an episode about the evolution of cats?
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I would love for them to make a video on that. They've already done dogs.
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Animal planet has one
There are already a lot of videos on this
5:48 look out SK54, there’s a leopard behind you! Oh no he can’t hear us he has AirPods in!
“Humans being hunted”
Don’ t hear that very often, it’s really fascinating how far we have come
Can you please do a video on the spiders that had tails?
*What.*
No no no no. No thank you.
Spiders had _tails_ ????
Please don’t bring up the tailed spiders
Why everyone quick to saying no to spiders (with tails)? I mean I know why but why?
176Blue
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How can you not mention the discovery and control of fire? It removed all previous natural predators in one fell swoop. This facilitated mankind himself filling the ecological niche vacated by other predators. It directed our tribal behaviour, our nocturnal (night owl) tendencies (looking after the fire), and freed us from the daily drudge of finding food / not being food, which gave us the free time to look at stars and wonder what they might be. Which no other species ever has done.
They have a video on that.