I miss my rat. Long story short I bought him as a teenager as a joke to scare my mom but she thought he was cute and Tiny (who was FAAAAR from tiny when he grew up) became the best pet I've ever had. He was my homie for real. He was free to roam around my room when I was home and he was always chillin with me. I'd be chillin watching TV and eating chips, he was chillin with me watching TV eating eating chips and he'd go to a little Tupperware container with some of his bedding in it as his bathroom. Saddest day of my teenage life was when I came home to him on my bedroom floor breathing really heavy. I put him back in his tank and woke up to him stiff as a statue. I'm not ashamed to say I cried like a baby at 19 years old (shit... my eyes are hot typing this). RIP Tiny. You fuckin legend.
There is also a program in Tanzania right now, where rats are being trained for post-earthquake search & rescue work. They can safely enter the rubble of fallen structures due to being so small. They get outfitted with backpacks that have a tiny camera, location transmitter, & two-way radio and they are trained to touch a switch attached to the chest-strap of the backpack whenever they locate someone.
They are one of my faves and even can recognize faces in captivity. Sometimes they are salty when I dont feed them fish and splash me. But mostly they greet me with snuffles on my hand
Even if you were to look upon the exact stingray from that incident uncharitably, you still shouldn’t blame the entire genus for manslaughter over one perpetrator. And that exact stingray may be long gone by now.
I love sharks and often get the weirdest looks for that, a great white would terrify me if I was in the water with one of them. But I am western European, so do I really have to worry about ever dying to a great white? Nah. Truth is only surfers and divers have to really worry about a great white ending them, cause a shark that size isn't going to come near the usual tourist who is swimming in shallow water
@@sleepymonsteraddict it depends where you live again. i've seen many great whites + mako sharks in shallow water. but i also live in louisiana, where we dont have any beaches where the water actually looks.. blue. and when i would go to the beach it would either be in Mississippi or florida, both with many sharks. when i was a very young kid i had a great white shark swim near to me after my dad had put me in biloxi waters. i obviously dont remember but its interesting, ive always liked sharks a lot since i was a kid.
@@foreversui I think people have the responsibility to look up information about the waters they are swimming in, if it is shark territory it speaks for itself that you might have a shark encounter. Of course I am not victim blaming anyone who got attacked by a shark cause it is something horrible to go through, but I feel like we should educate people more on researching shark territory and how to avoid encounters. Like I saw that horrible video of a man who got killed in Egypt by a shark, but all the locals were reacting that that place is known to be very densely populated by sharks, so there should be huge signs at such beaches to warn travelers that they are taking a huge risk.
I remember reading soon after his death about stingrays being found mutilated across the beaches of Australia and one of Irwin’s best friends came out and said “this is literally the last thing he would have wanted”. Rip in peace Steve Irwin you absolute legend.
Holy shit that's fucked up and absolutely inexcusable A whole species shouldn't suffer for the action of one of them, and even then it's a wild animal ffs. Even if he wasn't a threat, if something spooks a wild animal even by accident it WILL defend itself regardless. Lots of animals aquatic and land often perceive anything living around them either a threat or food, and often can't tell the difference between a threat and something friendly. Steve Irwin would not have wanted any of that at all. In fact he'd be horrified and pissed that ppl were hurting and killing an entire species bc of a natural reaction against what was perceived as a threat. I myself am horrified and disappointed that humans have proven once again that we're more disturbing and killers more so then any animal on this planet. Think of it this way,, if you shoot a person who you think is going to hurt or kill you in that exact moment would it fair to just start mutilating and killing off any person who you come across and consider it deserved? Would you think it fair for someone to mutilate and kill you for defending yourself against someone who you genuinely thought was a threat and they say you deserved it? I will not accept nor respond to any replies justifying the killing and mutilation of an innocent species out of some sick twisted fucked up sense of 'justice' Killing for survival is one thing. Going out of your way to kill and mutilate a species just bc you think they deserve it is sick and disgusting
If he's out there in heaven, you know his biggest regret is getting killed by an animal instead of in a car crash or some other accident. Seeing so many people ruthlessly kill innocent animals in his name would have broken his heart. All it took was a single stingray defending itself from what it thought was a threat for humanity to decide that stingrays as a whole deserve to suffer and die. And this is an animal we're talking about. Plus, the very person who was killed spent his whole life preaching about how animals aren't in the wrong for existing, no matter how inconvenient their presence is for us, and that when he gets bit, it's his fault for making the animal feel threatened. People immediately discarded everything Steve stood for and did what he would have considered a tragedy, what he spent his entire career trying to prevent. It's one of those things that really shows how humans really are animals just as much as chimpanzees and dogs and every other animal. We have those same instincts inside of us that take over when we perceive danger, causing us to be illogical, aggressive, and cruel. We talk about how "evil" dolphins and chimpanzees can be, but humans are no better. We literally do all of the same things just on a more sophisticated level, and we have no excuse. We actually have the capacity to override our instincts and act based on logic and compassion. Maybe one day humans will evolve into a new species that bases their actions on what will benefit them as an individual and their group as a whole, rather than relying on instinct to act aggressively if there's a "threat." In modern human civilization, the threats we face are generally not solved by violence, so our instincts can really mess things up for us. If we could override those instincts in emotional moments and choose to do what will have the best result versus what feels right, then society would be vastly different. We could end all of the senseless cruelty in the world. All I can do is hope that some day we'll get there.
@@childofmischief7453 Yea, I agree. These types of events really show our collective delusion in thinking that humans are above animals. Our behavior is identical to chimpanzees and dolphins, ours is just disguised by technology and more complex thoughts and emotions, tricking hs into thinking that our feelings and behaviors have more meaning and significance than those of animals. Really, the instinctive part of our mind is the one running the show, and the conscious part is just pretending to be in control, creating a story after the fact to explain the actions the instinctive part makes, so it feels like the actions were preplanned and based in thought when really they instinct. According to some experiments in neurology, this is actually how our brains work. Our ego tricks us into thinking we make decisions based on our thoughts, when really the decision/action happens first and the thought happens second. Your perception of it is just a story you tell yourself to make sense of the world and yourself. Basically, human beings are not logical. We don't make decisions based on what makes the most sense or what will have the best impact. We behave based on what our instincts tell us to do, which is rarely actually helpful in modern society.
"everyone wanna shit on the garbage man until he quits and leaves you with the shits" as a janitor, omfg i love this quote. Istg nobody gives a shit until something's left and becomes their problem
I'm a programmer by trade -- though I paid my dues in food joints for years before I got my degree. In my decades of work, the most likeable, witty, and charming people were those I met in the manual labor trades. Something about most people who desire to go to college makes them insufferable. Every time I see guys out working on streets or power lines, I think how much they keep this whole show running and that we depends upon them vastly more than they get credit for. I was recently thinking how fast this city would be buried in garbage if those guys just stopped picking it up. It would be armageddon.
@@michaeldavid6832 One time janitor left with the keys to big garbage bin and called sick. 6 people, 7 days, two 200 liter garbage bags filled to the brim and then some.
There's no reason to hate them as unlike raccoon, vulture doesn't even harm human nor spread diseases but since it has menacing appearance and habit of picking something death, vulture gets a very bad mark from human consciousness
Vulture PR and waste disposal worker PR desperately needs an overhaul. Both are vital to healthy society and shit falls apart so fast if they're gone. Growing up I heard things like "if you don't go to college you're gonna end up a garbage man" and we gotta quit that rhetoric. All the waste managers of the animal kingdom deserve respect ❤
I volunteer at a center that takes in injured wildlife that cannot be released and uses them for education, and the vultures are SO charismatic and fun! My favorite's name is Clarissa. She gets SO excited when anyone comes near her and must know what is going on at all times. Also, they are so social. Almost every time I go, the woods surrounding the place are FILLED with vultures. They keep the injured ones company. It's super wholesome and sweet. Love them.
Ohhh I'm soooo jealous. Please forward love to Clarissa from this city dweller whose biggest life achievement is convincing neighborhood corvids that being pet is pretty rad (they are sooo soft). They love my weiners and demand them all the time, some learned that they can use a stick to make a weiner kebab instead of stuffing their throat pouch. Do vultures smell bad from the whole poopy-on-legs thing?
Amazing!! I visit a sanctuary when I can which houses a number of ambassador vultures, and *more than once* there's been wild vultures who came to circle above when said vultures were out for flight demonstrations. The place has/had a dedicated vulture week which maxed out my love and respect for all vultures ❤️
I'm quite certain I remember hearing a quote from him when he first left the water after being stung. I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something to the effect of "It was my fault. I spooked him." To Steve, this wasn't some animal attack. It was just a case of him making a mistake, miscalculating and making the animal uncomfortable. He wasn't even filming at the time, he was just out there being Steve. EDIT: Misremembered the detail about filming. He was trying to get a shot of the stingray swimming away.
The fucking odds of something like this happening are so low yet it happened... feels like the biggest cosmic joke. But at the end of the day we are also that :D.
@@ericthompson3982 Steve never left us. He's still with us in spirit, and has inspired an entire generation to be more conscious, caring and passionate about nature and wildlife. And his son, Robert, has continued his legacy wonderfully, with all the same energy and spirit and passion that Steve had. If perhaps a bit less of Steve's zaniness :P
I love how 90% of the video is giving overhated animals the respect they deserve, and the other 10% is revealing why squirrels are little furry psychopaths.😂 And I 100% agree with you about that.
Yeah... The squirrel one I saw coming, because I've looked up squirrels as pets once and the recommendation was don't do it, especially if it's a young male ^^'. Apparently they get really mean and become prone to biting once they hit maturity but do start out pretty friendly and nice, so... Sugar gliders on acid ig, though sugar gliders mostly get their bad reputation among some exotic pet owners for being nocturnal creatures with very special dietary requirements so an angry bite happy sugar glider any day of the week is probably just hangry and up way too early for coffee time, wait until the afternoon around sunset and make sure they've got proper food in their bowl, mist calm right down, they just hate bright light as well because it's blinding Squirrels on the other hand... I find they're perfectly fine if ya just leave them alone and never yell or toss anything at them because that's inviting retribution from them, just don't ever try to pet one because I've heard their teeth hurt...
Ironically a lot of animals which feed from remains of the dead but don’t particularly hunt for their own food are viewed as evil historically, which is extremely odd in retrospect.
I honestly have to wonder if part of it is because of that association with death itself, and Western cultures in particular have historically had a fear of death, so the correlation just kinda stuck? Of course, this is just my wildly uneducated guess. I find it all very fascinating anyway!
Our ideas of evil have an uncomfortable overlap with old European nobility ideas of “ew gross”. Think about how much religious connotation can come with “unclean”. Or worse, the fact that “villain” originally just meant peasant. Or how much the witch trials could hinge on “she’s old and has a gross skin tag”.
I think vultures' PR is (slowly, so slowly) turning around as people get more educated about them. I saw a lovely poem once describing them as holy creatures, tending to the dead like gravekeepers.
6:34 I once saw a post that said we know if Steve met the stingray in the afterlife he would not hold a grudge whatsoever He’d say something along the lines of “hey there little fella! I’m sorry I gave ya a spook, gosh you’re a real beauty aren’t ya?” We mustn’t hold hatred in our hearts
Well that's true and sharks get to little credit for being a keystone species... and yet: I kind of don't blame people for their survival instincts. It's basically a verbal "Keep of the lawn" sign. And there is no way I trust an animal to behave peacefully, that was nothing but an apex-predator since the times where dinosaurs STARTED conquering the whole planet... No thank you...😐
@EspiS-tg3zk if the sharks have always lived in those waters we call "shark infested" then they wouldn't be considered invasive though? i think only species introduced to a new area by humans are considered invasive. so that's still a double standard unless there actually are invasive sharks out there which i highly doubt
1. As an arachnologist, thank you for including spiders on this list. 2. The Steve Irwin section made me tear up a little. Dude was what inspired me to pursue biology in the first place. I would not be where I am without him.
I used to be a "kill on sight" person for spiders. I'm still not fond of them, but as long as they respect my personal space I'll let them do their thing and keep the more annoying insects from taking a residence in my home.
You took inspiration on a man who, in front of a paying audience, held his newborn while feeding saltwater crocodiles with the other hand... He was an irresponsible master manipulator that used animals far more than he ever actually helped them.
Spiders are really cool and I like them, but I still jump into a panic when I see one. Even if it's just a normal little wolf spider. I'm the same about roaches... in theory they're really cool, but in person I just want to scream and run away 😭 I wish I wasn't so jumpy
@@Adstodeus If you feel like you are able to pursue it now, I'd say go for it! It is never too late to go back to school. I got 3 bachelor degrees, if I can do it then I know anyone can :) That's only if you personally want to or feel like you can. If you need to take some more time before that, totally okay too.
On squirrels. No one ever believed me that a group of squirrels was always throwing pine cones at me in our yard. Until we had a barbeque and one was tossed onto the grill, and caused a fire. They have good aim, and it was not pleasant.
We had squirrels that would throw stuff at us in our driveway too! I'd always keep a lookout when we'd go to the car. No matter where on the driveway we parked it, we'd have this squirrel (idk if it was just the one or several) that would like chuck acorns and pinecones at us. I had so many people tell me I was crazy and they were just falling from the trees. Not sure where the pinecones were coming from then, we only had a few pine trees way in the back
At my house, we had these red squirrels that would throw pinecones at us too. They'd just sit up in the trees picking the cones and drop them, they weren't even eating them either! Thankfully, we have a large black squirrel here that keeps the little gingers in check.
my mom was routinely harassed by a squirrel living outside her job. he charged her once and scared her so bad she fell into the newly planted bushes and tore them up trying to get back on her feet
The Lion King, for all it got wrong about hyenas, actually got the social dynamics right to an extent. Shenzei is the leader, but instead of being a domineering boss barking orders, she's friends with the others, jokes around with them, and takes the lead when dealing with Scar. Also impressive that they got the matriarchal structure right.
The Hyenas did nothing wrong except allow a charismatic leader to trick them into doing his dirty work in exchange for the promise of rights they should have always had, and I will die on that hill. I fell in love with real life hyenas *because* I loved these characters so much.
on vultures: While I was in uni studying animal behavior we were taken to a safari zoo with an avian show. We got some time backstage as well as getting to see the show itself. Vultures were the birds that stood out the most. All birds showed to have a great relationship with their handlers, but when the food was out all others had their eyes on the prize.... except for vultures. The handlers used food to ask the other birds to come, whereas they used the food to send the vultures away.
I remember being told that vultures want their dinner properly dead before eating. If they see something that maybe dead, they take a grid reference and check it out, the third day they will take a nibble to check their dinner is probably dead then tuck in
Vultures are legit my favorite group of birds. I love them so much, I hate that they are almost constantly relegated in media to "oooh spooky evil birds of death " when they're more like, "Thank you for your sacrifice, dead animal, fear not, not a single scrap of you shall go to waste, circle of life, etc etc"
"Thank you for your sacrifice, dead animal, fear not, not a single scrap of you shall go to waste, circle of life," that entire sentence can easily apply to the fact that a group of vultures is literally called a "wake." You know, like what people call it when other people are gathering together to say goodbye to one of their fallen?
12:45 As someone who's had jumping spiders as pets, jumping spiders are absolutely tiny cats. They're smart, super curious, the groom themselves when they feel safe. Every single one had a different personality. They can even recognize faces and grow attached. Ones I've found in the wild have formed a bond with me when they learned I wouldn't hurt them. They're very curious about us, despite knowing how easily we can kill them.
Fun fact: in Romanian mythology there's a parallel world where the inhabitants are described as kind, caring towards themselves and humans, helpful, and all in all the ideal Saint, and are dubbed The Gentle Ones. The Gentle Ones also so happen to be rat people. A free batch of cookies to the old timey Romanians, they knew what was actually up with rats.
@@stephanniemorinand there are thibgs you do for them, like non-malicious fairies you're supposed to leave food out. That said, the myth is almost completely extinct and with the exception of a few remote villages, nobody talks or thinks about the Blajini. A pity, really....
I know for former yugoslavia, our ancestors are called old slovenes that came from the europe russia, and nature was our god before christ revealed himself in the flesh.
I grew up watching Steve Irwin and can remember my mum sitting me down to explain he had died, I was absolutely devastated. But you are completely right, Steve would not want us to villify rays or any other animal, he's on whatever Plane he's on, still pushing for animals to be loved and respected. That is a pretty wonderful legacy
I went to an aquarium that had stingray petting zoos. This sounds terrible until you realize... 1) Aquariums regularly trim the rays' stingers. They're made of keratin, the same material as your hair and fingernails, so it's completely painless and will grow back over time. These stingrays couldn't hurt you if they tried. 2) Stingrays are naturally gentle and even playful. I petted one (felt like wet rubber) and, when I stopped, it reared up in the water and used its fins/wings to splash me purely for grins and giggles. There are even stories of people meeting them in estuaries and rivers, and hand-feeding them fish. They only sting defensively--i.e. "when they're threatened or surprised".
And, something to note, a lot of the stingrays in aquariums can't be released into the wild for one reason or another, so the ones you're petting will never go into the wild (the ones who might be released would never be put in a program like that). Behavior that might be problematic in the wild, such as approaching humans for food or attention, is both acceptable and normal for animals in captivity who can't be released. Also, being a relative of sharks, sea pancakes love scritches.
I went to a zoo like this with my son. He was so excited to learn about them that the zookeeper gave him a sting ray tooth! It’s so cool, we still have it!
Thank you for talking about stingrays. The Irwins have all talked about how Steve made a rare error in floating directly above the animal for an extended period, which spooked it. It was an awful situation, but the last thing he'd have wanted - and the last thing his family wants - is for stingrays to take the blame. Human error, ending in tragedy. Rest in peace Steve
Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, did full 180 when he learned about how important part sharks play in the marine ecosystem and dedicated rest of his life to marine conservation. He actually said that if he had an opportunity to write Jaws again, he would potray the shark as victim of humans who becomes gaia's avenger.
It’s unfortunate that such a caring human is indirectly responsible for so many deaths of an animal he later learned to have a great appreciation and respect for :(
I remember my auntie asking me if I hated stingrays since they ‘killed Steve’ and despite my grief over such an important figure in my childhood development dying so suddenly and tragically I had no hate or bad feelings toward the ray. Steve Irwin taught me and a whole generation of curious kids to not only love and respect nature but learn to live together through understanding.
@@LarrySmithartauntie is a valid way of spelling it. Also you can’t call someone out on their grammar when you’re missing a space and capital after the full stop.
I remember as a kid this guy brought in some tarantulas into some program to talk about them. Unfortunately one of them did fall and unfortunately passed away just from falling from the drop from the guys hand. But despite how sad that situation was to child me its why tarantulas are actually one of the only spiders I am actually not scared of. Its the little ones with the big abdomens that still freak me out.
When I was little my dad worked at a factory with a man that had a pig farm. He gave my dad a runt that was being picked on by other piglets. He was housebroken in one day and slept in the end of my bed every night. (I was 2 and he insisted on it). We named him Obi-Wan-Kenobi because he was so smart and protective of me. But our neighbors saw him through our gate and we weren't allowed pets so we had to give him back. But he was old enough that he could fend for himself and the guy promised not to kill him. He became a stud and had lots of babies and lived to a very old age. We visited him often.
When I was a child, I dressed up as both a hyena and a shark for separate Halloweens, because I loved watching nature documentations and I really thought that they were much cooler and more important than they got credit for My father made the costumes for me and I still have them to this day
I love everything about this story. Kid loving weird animals, dad supporting in a way typically considered a 'mother' role, the event being meaningful enough to keep the physical memory into adulthood. I love all of this.
What's sad is that vultures are often portrayed as filthy, bald, and messy. But one look at the griffon vulture, and not only is that bird majestic as hell, it's also surprisingly fluffy! And the cinereous vulture barely even looks like a vulture and more like a molting hawk.
Turkey vultures are definitely ugly, but I understand and respect the scavengers & decomposers keeping this planet clean and not piled high with corpses and poop. Crows fill a similar niche, just smaller. And a testament to the intelligence of both species is you always see them eating roadkill, but they are never roadkill theselves.
I'm surprised pigeons didn't make this list. Considering how overpowered they really are as birds (at least according to your video on them), how much we did them dirty, and the fact they're everywhere, we're legitimately screwed if they ever go rogue.
The rat part brought tears to my eyes. I used to have 4 female rats and they were my BABIES. They were my world. So sweet, so precious, so inquisitive! My little Estelle never wanted anything more than to climb into whatever sweater I was wearing and make herself comfy. Every Halloween, they got a mini pumpkin that they would drag around. Worst thing about rats is their lifespan for sure. They're also pretty prone to cancer, and even though they're definitely more robust than mice, they're still quite fragile.
I had 3 girls that I adopted from my college. They learned their names real quick and would come when called. They also would groom me too. Sadly 2 of them I had to put down and the last one passed from old age. You really do get attached to them and I wish they had a longer lifespan
I get that! Had rats as pets when my kids were young and later with a grandchild but they just don’t live long enough. Very intelligent and my dog loved them.
Another cool thing about hyenas is their relationships with humans in Ethiopia, especially in the city of Harar. There, not only are hyenas not bothered by humans, the people and not-dogs routinely share affection and food. The hyenas are very relaxed around the people, recognize when they won't get any more food or otherwise need to leave, and can be relatively cuddly. They're still powerful animals that deserve respect for what they're capable of doing to you, but they're very intelligent and social, and absolutely shouldn't be vilified.
Okay, your comment made me think that "what if hyenas will be the next domesticated animals like dogs?" 🤔 Seriously, your comment made me picture that it wouldn't be too far fetched to happen eventually. 🤩
Aahhh, the part about Steve Irwin had me crying. I will never stop missing that man. A huge part of what he did was focus on the scariest, creepiest, ugliest beasties that everyone is afraid, and he showed how they were really wonder creatures that should be treasured. What a little beauty! And you, sir, are a worthy successor to his tradition. Stevo would be proud of what you do.
8:03 "... people make the mistake of holding them to human standards. Which is pretty unfair, considering a lot of humans don't even reach those." pure savagery! 😅
I appreciate your mention of Steve Irwin. My father, who is almost 90 now, was a fairly well known wetlands conservationist and photographer (and woodworker, boatbuilder, bridge builder, etc etc...) and he called me, crying, when Steve died. I agree with you 100% that Steve would hate it if stingrays were maligned for his passing. ❤ I love rats, having had several very special ones, and I've overcome arachnophobia with cute jumping spider videos, so I love them now, too. I have a lot of love for all these animals, and I really appreciate all your videos. ❤
I had a rat that lived for 5 years, which is really long for a rat, and I still miss her twenty years after she died. They are so obviously intelligent and attached to their caretakers. The only reason I haven’t had one since is because I don’t want to deal with the grief of how short their lifespans are again.
I had gerbils and they were fascinating little sh*ts 😂 I didn't know how much personality could live in such smol entities. I used to let them free roam as much as possible when I was home. One of them lived the standard 2 years, but the other one (first out of her cage the day I brought them home, first to do anything really out of the 2 of them) lived just over 4 years. As much as I loved having them, the heartbreak is real, and I'm not sure I could cope with it again. 😢
I have that same heartache problem with ferrets. They only hang around for roughly 8 years, which is NOT long enough for those wonderful, silly little noodles :(
Five years!? Congratulations that’s incredible. Must have been a very well loved babies. Mine are about four currently, and are walking little lumps. Lumps of love! Haha.
@@openorwap5412 You might find it interesting to look up the natural habitat of gerbils. It really explains why they're so energetic all the time! They're native to deserts and arid grasslands, so they have to roam miles at a time to find food and water. It's kind of why they require exercise wheels, they're endurance runners with fur.
One of my very best wildlife experiences was with a turkey vulture in NE Kansas. We startled each other, we both screamed at the top of our lungs. She flew 15’ one direction, I ran 15’ the other direction, then we just stopped and stared at each other for a few minutes. Wish I’d had a camera. Her wingspan directly in front of my face blotted out everything, she was so big up close. ❤
Have you left this comment somewhere before? I feel like I’ve read this. That’s not meant to be snarky if it’s coming across that way. This just seems vaguely familiar.
Thank you for sharing this! What an experience. A friend had a similar experience with a bear when she went to put her garbage out early in the morning. She and the bear hollered and ran in the opposite direction, then stopped and looked at each other, and then the bear ran off. (PS she knows you're not supposed to run, but it was spontaneous.)
Im Honestly so glad the particulars of hyena hierarchy are touched on here because its one of the biggest misconceptions about them. Rank in a hyena clan is almost entirely about whose gonna have your back in an altercation. Basically if you have more friends you're a higher rank. This also exaplains why hyena clans are some of the largest pack groups out of any terrestrial predator.
For me, chickens are number 1. They're crazy smart. A hen that i had a few years ago saw people knocking on our door and started imitating it to get inside and wat our dogs food. They also usually pass the mirror test, even if the cockerells are sometimes too insane. They're also very affectionate and will preen people that they like and give people hugs by wrapping their neck over your shoulder. They also make adorable noises most of the time and will even talk back to you. The clucking noise we associate with them is actually just the alarm call. 10/10 animal, very misunderstood
It's not just their intelligence. We use the term "chicken" to mean "coward," when they can actually be quite brave. A rooster will charge any predator to protect his hens, even if he knows he will die doing so.
I used to have pet chickens (Miniature Bantams) when I was a kid and they were the sweetest things ever. One would wander on down to the front porch and wait for me every morning and then follow me around the property, and one time when I was sitting up at the top of our playset/swing set, she hopped up there and clambered into my lap an fell asleep. Another one I had was really ditzy and would walk up to me, sneeze on me, and then walk away. She also didn't wait to finish laying an egg once and was walking around with it half way out (she eventually layed it and was fine). She was my favorite mainly because of how unbelievably dumb she was, therefore needed constant protection/supervision. Chickens are legitimately sweet/fun pets.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 yeah, you're right. my rooster is a tiny bantam and he charged a fox once and managed to scare it off. they even will run away in the opposite direction of the hens to draw the predator away, and rooster and hens will both sacrifice themselves for chicks
Fun fact: While rats CAN carry the bubonic plague and spread it to humans, they rarely do because it kills them, too. A rat that's dying of plague is unlikely to spread it very far. DOGS, on the other hand, have a higher tendency to be asymptomatic carriers, and can easily spread the plague widely within human populations. So the Black Death was not only MOSTLY spread by humans, but was also likely spread more by dogs than by rats.
Cats probably had a blame too, they can carry the fleas as well. And being hunters of rats, and able to climb around to more places, they probably spread it even faster too
Apparently biting midges and some flies can also transmit the disease. Basically many things spread the plague. It's highly contagious if you are around infected fluids or any biting insects that can serve as vectors. The bubonic and septicemic versions aren't as contagious as pneumonic between humans, but the pneumonic plague is not that rare.
There’s a vulture near us with a broken wing, I call him Hoppy and the rest of his wake will still come back to check on him and throw up in his mouth, it’s the grossest sweetest thing you’ve ever seen
We have two black vultures that decided to shack up near our house and always comes to eat the food we put out. That two turned into 4 or 5 pretty quickly, and now we have a whole group of friends just chilling on the trees and eating together. They also seem to vibe with the usual turkey vultures around the area. They're strangely nice, and they don't freak out too badly when we put food out because they recognize we're feeding them essentially. I always greet them and they look at me while I do. It's...kinda sweet.
This young man is a genuine pleasure to listen to. His monologues are witty, educational and entertaining. FINALLY a man who knows how to get thoughts across without f-bombs in every single sentence.
6:11 Stingrays & Manta Rays will aways have a special spot in my heart. My Nana (R.I.P.) got season passes to the Zoo when I was younger, & they had a pool where you could pet Stingrays, they loved my mother. The Cownose Stingrays were some of the sweetest & friendliest Rays ever. They were like puppies. To think people started hating Stingrays because for what Happen to Steve Irwin is awful! He'd never be upset for animal being animal.
Will never forget the time a mouse got into the fusebox and decided to chew on one wire while standing on another, creating a circuit that (figuratively) blew up the box and cut power to the whole house for a week straight. And this was in the Tropics during the height of summer.
_"One day, while doing nothing particularly out of the ordinary, because of natural laws he was completely powerless to understand or intuit, he was instantly killed in a horrifying way by forces vastly in excess of anything he was ever designed to experience, for no reason, to no ones particular surprise or upset. In this we are more like him than different"_ -Elroy Craich, on an unfortunate rodent suffering a similar fate
Also, when Steve Irwin got got, he actually pulled the ray's stinger out of his chest, which is the worst possible thing to do when you've got something lodged that deep in you: whatever it is, it's the only thing keeping your blood on the inside. But he probably would have felt immensely guilty if the ray had died to save his life. And the reason he was even conscious enough to do that was because he was in phenomenal physical condition.
You don't pull a knife out, no. But I'm thinking leaving in what is essentially a knife attached to a large and panicking animal is very much a worse idea.
@@Thulgore oh, absolutely was. very frequently people bleed out because of that same reflex. one TH-camr narrowly survived a penetrating injury to a major blood vessel by literally sticking a thumb in the hole.
I had a pet rat and he was sweetest little man; even convinced a friend of mine to get three for herself and we had play-dates. Rats are incredibly social so you either need to get more than one or be prepared to spend at least 80% of your time with the single rat you do have.
It’s not acceptable to have a single rat in almost any case. You can not provide the constant companionship. They only time rats should be housed alone is if they have severe behavioral issues and can’t be around other rats (which is very rare)
I understand how harmless spiders are, I just hate the fact that they invade my personal space. “They’re more afraid of you than you are of it” Okay but why the hell are they CRAWLING TOWARDS ME
Unless its a jumping spider they mostly just dont comprehend that you are there until you poke them. But i also hate and fear how unpredictable they can be as they tend to drop down off of sticks instead of staying on them like other bugs do, and even if they do stay you cant flick them off because of the threads they use as a safety harness
11:43 "And your feelings will get hurt" You didn't even mention the worst part. They only live a few years, BUT, they also want to spend their final moments with loved ones, and that includes you. Their final moments *can* include things seizures, and lung collapse. It's heart breaking holding them in their final moments sometimes. I've lost two heart rats in 13 or so years and I remember both clearly to this day, way more so than other pets.
I used to keep rats. They make wonderful companions. I taught mine to come when called to play basketball and to twirl on command. Not to mention, they love getting attention and cuddling. Like the man said, however, they can live for 2 if you're lucky 3 years, and it's devastating when they pass.
That flick with the stingray might be the most wholesome thing on the Internet. That's not like "smile for the camera". That's a REAL smile, and I'm here for it.
i hate that just because one animal (who probably thought they were defending themselves) ended up killing steve Irwin now a bunch of people hold an unreasonable grudge against them, steve never would've wanted this
11:36 This is why rats in your home aren’t just some pack of pests. They’re a resilient, intelligent team of invaders who are a respectable and formidable enemy. They are also very rapid reproducers compared to pretty much every other intelligent animal on the earth.
I had one who was invading my kitchen from under the slit under my sink and discovered that through an access panel had taken up residence in a drawer I don't use very much. I was going to terminate it. I tried glue traps, and large rat traps of 3 varieties. Not so much as a single one was triggered. I've never experienced an animal so intelligent. I camouflaged a trap inside a garbage bag along with other garbage. It didn't go anywhere near it. Like it had a sixth sense. When I started my endeavors, I put a piece of pepperoni in the middle of my kitchen floor. Little sucker got it. I then placed a ring of glue traps around a piece -- rat never got anywhere near it. They learned what the glue smells like. I think it accidently got the tip of its tail caught in glue trap but quickly yanked it out -- I heard a crashing sound. I eventually bought wire netting and closed off the access gaps under the cabinets. That ended their intrusions. Gotta respect an animal that knows a trap when he sees one. We've killed so many rats in so many ways that natural selection is making them highly skilled at evading human traps.
@@michaeldavid6832 We had a field mouse somehow get stuck in our house because the builders did not realize that yes, a mouse can fit into a crawl space that small. Humane traps did not work. I... I really wish they were dumb enough for the human traps to work. I REALLY WISH THEY WERE.
Huntsman spider are also chill used to live in Australia would have one in my house from time to time eventually I learned that they are fast and would rather flee from people and they only bite if they are cornered or feel threatened they will bite but mostly they are nice to have around and spiders do have a bad rep.
It’s easy to forget that animals don’t think like humans or have human morals. Their behavior is based on their natural instinct to survive and thrive. Also, I would love to see a part two of this video. There are some more commonly misunderstood animals that you didn’t mention, like bats, alligators, and snakes.
@@starstorm1267 True, not to mention all of the myths and urban legends about snakes. They get an unnecessarily bad reputation, which is a shame given how chill most of them are.
Yeah. Ravens, toads, and plenty of invertebrates other than spiders too, like other arachnids (such as camel spiders, scorpions, harvestmen--a.k.a. daddy long legs--etc), house centipedes, cockroaches, termites...
Snakes ironically are both hated and revered by religion depending on which religion it is. 1 of the I believe it was Mayan gods was a snake God, and was 1 of the most important gods in the entire pantheon, making snakes a sacred animal that was protected by then It mightve been Aztec or Incan, I always get those 3 confused. It was 1 of them though
Another bit of info about stingrays: Like sharks, they enjoy getting pet and will actively seek out attention from aquarium keepers. Many rays are so fond of human contact that aquariums will make shallow "touch pools" for them to be pet and loved by visitors. (Their stingers are clipped so there's no risk to guests) In fact, they will sometimes splash at the edge of the tank if they feel they're not getting enough attention!
@@smolkiddo1842 depends on where they clip it. The stinger itself is kinda like a fingernail and has no nerves, but if they just remove the whole thing it might hurt a little. Even then, it's a very small cut and over in moments.
They are what I call water pancake puppies, because they are basically your best friend once they like you. That's why as I kid growing up in the Cayman Islands, I'd visit as often as I could.
@@margotrosendorn6371 Ehh, clipping the barb is like clipping a fingernail, removing the ability for it to regrow however is like cutting off a few toes. Typically touch pool aquariums give a little trim every once in a while. If fully removed It impedes the way they swim. If you cut off your toes You can still walk just no where near as well as you used to, that would be the same with it's method of propulsion being damaged.
Ancient Egyptians were chill with vultures. One of their gods was named Nekhbet, who has a vulture head, or is fully vulture, and shes one of the goddesses of death. When you consider how modern-day humans view vultures, its quite sad
Some cute information about wolf spiders; the mothers carry the egg sack around with them and let the babies piggy-back on them until they're large enough to go off on their own. They help them drink by lowering a leg into liquid while the babies shuffle down to drink. Scientists also tested putting spiderlings on an un-mated female and, while she showed signs of distress, didn't harm them and eventually started showing care behaviours. So in particular circumstances, wolf spiders can become reluctant baby-sitters! If you do another video, maybe Opossums? They eat ticks and have a lower chance of catching rabies but get a reputation as being horrible trash goblins. Edited to add that Opossums aren't immune to rabies, thanks @NanaWilson-px9ij for getting me to fact check
Wolf spiders honestly get such bad rep, even black widows even though their kill count is in the single digits and most bites, while they are incredibly painful and can knock people off their feet for three whole days, is only dangerous if your health is already in a risky state and/or you're allergic and refuse antivenom for the bite- which people actually do that apparently, from what I've read the three days thing is generally extreme cases and bites can stop causing pain within 24hrs. Absolutely does NOT mean anyone should EVER handle one though, black widows are incredibly fragile and a well fed or egg laden female can easily die to a short fall due to how soft their backend is Back to wolf spiders though, I've actual fostered a few hatchling wolfs at one point and I wish my phone could record or take pictures of tiny stuff without the picture being a massive blur because idk what happened to them but the mother was in a bad way, most of the babies were missing or had passed away still clinging to her back, but there were five survivors. I tried to hand feed one of them, and uh... The speed at which that thing scaled my hand and cuddled up on one of my knuckles, absolutely adorable and I had a hard time getting them to crawl back down so it seems possible the babies will adopt a new mother if something happens to the original. My guess is because they do stay on the mother's back until they can hunt and will take a few days where they'll venture down her legs to wander a few steps away, it might be natural instinct to grab when offered a leg to climb back up to continue walking once playtime is over. Either way though, super cute interaction and I've had a big rabidosa that got herself stuck in my sink at one point, she was a big baby who I had for two summers and definitely never fit the highly misleading name they were given- which, if you wanna know, was given to them because rabid wolf spiders specialize in eating cockroaches as their primary prey source and roaches duck and weave while running like nobody's business, they'll do a 360° around you while you try to hot or grab them, so rabids developed an instinctual zigzag running pattern to outmaneuver the trash pandas of the insect world but they're actually shy creatures if you're not food and first instinct really shouldn't be to squish them just because they're big and scary, they eat roaches after all. Show them out the door gently and if they return, check that back corner of the cabinet under the sink I know you haven't checked this year, they're probably trying to tell you you've got squatters and are just trying to help you out in exchange for food
At the wildlife center/hospital I worked at, we had a human-raised vulture named Vlad. He'd escaped three times, and all three times he came back within the day, done with his little field trip. He was everyone's favorite animal ambassador and just the sweetest thing. Loved his humans, playing games, and chilling in the sun. ALSO! On squirrels! Their bite is so strong and teeth so sharp they can easily bite through a falconry glove. Yes, the glove that the most deadly birds of prey can't slice through, a squirrel does with ease.
many rodents in general have insane bite forces and teeth for their size. it's the same reason they can bite through electrical wiring (which is METAL), and why beavers fell trees so easily. their teeth and bites are just completely out of proportion to what we'd expect from their body size
@@a.v.y8331 IIRC, beaver teeth are reinforced with _iron._ Rodents specced all their points into those front teeth, so of course they're going to have a fearsome bite. What surprises me is that squirrels can apparently throw things as well. There was another comment on this video sharing a story about squirrels throwing things at them. I thought that throwing was something almost uniquely human, even apes can't manage more than a limp-wristed toss. No idea how how squirrels manage it.
I'd like to add to the Spiders. Jumping spiders are the smartest of them, they can actually recognize humans and become curious of us. Plus they are smol and cute.
you know, i actually managed to make "friends" with the crows around my house thanks to your videos. i wouldn't call us "BEST" friends, but when they see me come outside, they'll fly over (pretty close?) and say hi. they are kind of the guardians of my two honeybee hives, since i feed them unsalted peanuts over by where the bees are.
I adore my bird friends so much, and yes squirrels are evil 😂 but I love my chipmunk friends. Chipmunks do not destroy my bird feeders or eat as much as the birds do. I keep water and food out for my Chipmunks and they even come up on my small back porch when the food bowl is empty to let me know. My son works on our vehicles and they surprise him in the oddest places by popping up on the wheels under the wheel wells or under the hood. 😂 He laughs after the initial bit of being startled. But I think my favorites are the wrens. They just let us live here and remind us who the bosses really are. I buy them meal worms as a peace offering lol. They even scold me when I'm inside sometimes 🤣 They're so funny and feisty. Anyone who doesn't think animals are smart, doesn't know them very well at all. 😊 Life is so much better with animals as neighbors, I swear. They're endlessly entertaining and it's rewarding to be a bird nerd. I even get rabbits who come eat the bird seed that drops on the ground. 😊
@@theincrediblehibby8239 i had initially started feeding the birds as a sort of pest control option. we had european hornets show up one year, and they loved to sit on the wall just under our outdoor light that sits outside the door. i didn't want to spray, because i was afraid it'd hurt my bees, so birdfeeders and crows were the next best option
This man must spend 99% of his time prepping for a video on the scripting. The transitions (to an ad read even) are silky smooth and the one-liners and casual alliteration are so clever!
Number one most misunderstood animal is definitely the cockroach. Less than 1% of all roaches are the invasive ones you can find in houses. They're also extremely clean and constantly clean themselves like rats. They're very social and can develop depression if they're removed from their family. I keep quite a few cultures of them and they're really astounding. The emerald roach is even maternal, carrying their low instar nymphs on their bellies to protect them and feed them. I hope more people can understand how great they are some day.
I used to be TERRIFIED of spiders. Then I had a little guy move in and spin his web in the toy barn I had in my room. He caught flies, ants, and even mosquitoes, never once hurting me like my dumbass 9-year-old self had expected. I named him Webster. Then years after Webster left, I found this channel, and I learned that tarantulas adopt frogs, and that jumping spiders are one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. All of this to say, I love spiders now. Character development! 😂
There's something primal in the bias against spiders. Either that or maybe they're just a common early-life jumpscare that scars people pre-memory formation. Jumping spiders, though? One got in my car last summer and made itself known while I was on the highway. Scared me a little, but watching them explore around, something clicked. "Tiny 8-legged puppy." Spiders generally still advised to stay well away from me, but I would voluntarily cohabitate with one of those.
@@lhei_tayuun It's absolutely a primal/instinctual thing. Most of them are harmless, but you only need to be wrong once to never have to worry about being wrong again.
@@gunnarschlichting9886Even then, the deadly venomous spiders mostly avoid us and only bite when they’re in mortal danger, like if we’re about to squish them by accident. I’ve heard brown recluses can be aggressive, but they’re not deadly, just awful.
yeah, I made peace with spiders in my house because I realized they keep us from being overrun by ants. I also remember seeing a study about which specific aspects of spiders people find disturbing, for some it's the eyes, mandibles, etc. For me the enlarged hard/shiny abdomen is what triggers primal fear 😂 so I'm actually not really bothered by hunter type spiders but still very scared of weaver type spiders haha
I am terribly arachnophobic, so much so I couldn't learn its anatomy for my biology masters. I think it's pretty much something I was born with. I remember being scared even of animated spiders from when I was3 years old and watching a nursery rhyme video of itsy bitsy spider. Their shape freaks the living fuck out of me. I get higher heart rate even today if I were to glance at a spider even one on screen.
Well think about this. Do we even really understand ourselves? There is a lot we don't understand about the world. A lot of our job as sentient life forms is to constantly re-educate ourselves. To learn is to live. What you know now may not be true in 2 years. It may not be true in 2 minutes.
I remember hearing when Steve Irwin died, and the crazy part is that I also remember thinking how ironic it was that he'd get done in by a creature that is otherwise completely harmless and that he probably didn't even know was in the same spot he was in at that moment. I've gone on to also touch and pet stingrays a few more times in my life since then. They're beautiful, graceful creatures and an absolute joy to interact with, and if you've had the privilege to pet a stingray you would know. :)
There's a southern stingray named Priscilla at my local aquarium who literally spends all day begging for attention and treats from people by doing tricks or coming up out of the water at them. She's captured the hearts of many many patrons and is apparently a major reason people keep coming back.
Kinda surprise wolves weren't mention. Humanity spend most of our existence fearing them to the point of localized exinction. To be fair, that stigma is mostly gone once we learned how important they are to an ecosystem, and that they actually try to avoid people. (Being dog shaped definitely help with that.)
Whenever I see someone trash talking stingrays on Steve's behalf, I know they don't really know Steve. I know he would apologize and want to help that stingray if he could. I've pet some at an aquarium and they're really sweet, their just lil sea pancakes who are trying to chill in the sea floor
it was one in a million chance .. they happen far to often! but even so def not the stingray or Steves fault .. a pure accident. They happen, I bet the stingray in heaven will be apologising to Steve too .... I'm hearing a stingray/Steve apollogie loop to rival UK and Canada combined ! hahhaa
@@Psylaine64ive heard many times that after the accident, Steves main and first concern was how this would hurt the Reputation of the Stingrays. Dont know if thats really true but it would fit i feel^^
They are one if my favourite animals because when he died I did a deep dive (no pun intended) I was always a nature freak (or freak of nature as I liked to put it) so I knew most of it but I wanted to make sure I had everything right, while they do make me a little sad I realized at age 8 they were gunna get a lot of hate and Steve wouldn't want that, I think I actually talked to his kids abt it through one of the websitedls they set up (I lost my shit when they agreed and not just because his son is cute as hell and even then I knew I was into dud3s lol)
Rats are the most amazing little buddies you'll ever have in your life. They're constantly grooming, sometimes they take breaks to be even cuter. Edit: Yeah... The lifespan...
I was waiting for hyenas the whole time like "if hyenas ain't of here, I ain't liking e video." Hyenas are my favorite animals and they're so underrated.
The thing about Steve Irwin. He would have been the first to tell you that it was his own fault. He would never blame the stingray. The man was a world treasure, one we didn't deserve, and it was a sad day when we lost him
I once watched a video where young male dolphins ganged up on and prevented a porpoise from breathing, and the reasoning given was that they were frustrated in the thing dolphins do to make more dolphins. It made realise that dolphins are capable of being kind or cruel for the same reasons that humans are.
@@darkdragoness5It's worth putting in context that just because the behavior was observed doesn't make it common and definitely not worth condemning an entire species-like with the seal-violating otters, it was some juveniles, and may have been triggered by environmental stress.
@@GSBarlev Cruelty comes with intelligence, all the most intelligent species are capable of cruelty, this is not new. Also dolphins have shown multiple times behaviors that are associate with cruelty, because they caused unnecessary stress\pain to other members of their species, their prey or random animals, so this is also not new. Also aggressive males being a plague is true also for humans, so other animal races are not spared of this lol
Steve apparently also noticed that the ray was acting unusual when he was interacting with it, but he didn't pull back. He acknowledged that he spooked the little guy and decided to press on. In his and most Aussie's world (am one so can declare) it was a 'hold my beer' sort of moment - which, rather than a moment of one-up-manship that it is in America, is moreso an acknowledgement of risk and a request to a friend not to allow sacred amber to be spilled in a moment of idiocy down here (showoffs will hang onto their beer because they're so bloody cocksure that they reckon they only need one hand). Saddest part is, Steve was coming in due to rough weather, put his main mission on hold, and decided to film a bit of content for his daughter's show, Bindi the Jungle Girl. I'm pretty sure most Aussies actually don't have much disdain for rays, partially because of who Steve was and what he stood for. Other part would be cause every aquarium I've ever been to has a couple breeds of (NATURALLY) barbless rays in their touch pool, and they're like little puppies that do laps around the sides to get a headpat from everyone, while the Port Jackson Sharks might head off to the middle of the pool and out of reach so they can decompress a little. Like, they could swim out of reach if they wanted to, but they come swimming up to humans and sometimes even decide a certain kid strokes their back just right and will just hang out with their new friend for a good 5 minutes.
@@ZerglingLover I agree! That just hits the hardest because of the themes in it Not only about friendship, but also understanding things outside of our comfort zone, both for Hiccup and the rest of the Vikings
Spiders are honestly some of my favorite animals, I didn't start liking them until one mosquito season when I joked out loud: "You're an ally in my battle, I can't kill you.." And then from then on I began just,,, putting them in more hidden corners whenever I find them. Spiders are often arboreal or burrow animals, the last thing THEY wanna do is ever see your face again either lmao So far I encountered Afraflacilla braunsi (I think by the patterns), and cellar spiders, I still hide em around trash cans so insects don't have the chance to draw near
the story might not be over on that one yet... seeing as they do hold grudges and spread intel to each other like social networking. if we beef hard enough with them they may develop an anti-human culture.
Well, they have started hunting, and destroying, yachts for the noise they make scaring their food and injuring pod-mates. They haven't exactly connected the dots between the noisy boats and the weird looking animals on the boats yet, but give them time. The rich and super rich might just end up becoming targets of the orca mafia.
It's what makes orca tuck-fluke and run that we should definitely fear. Hate to have to say it but...pilot whales are the orca's kryptonite. Read up on cheetahs of the deep sea and how they take care of business with orcas.
Ive had 2 pet rats, and theh were some of the best pets ive ever had. I even brought one of them to school in my backpack one day, and Oreo was chill af with everyone he met. Of course, when the staff found out, they freaked and locked the bag in a closet until the day was over, but i never faced any trouble for it, cause he was just too awesome, and everyone loved how cool he was with meeting new people.
@@chaotixthefox no, most of them don't carry the disease. Though, they are the cause of the majority of rabies deaths in the US, but not the whole world.
Just to add a little bit to the piece at time stamp 11:26. That's the Hero Rat Program. Yes, you are quite correct as their much lighter weights gives them a greater advantage over dogs at finding unexploded landmines without triggering them.
"Because dolphins are so smart, we make the mistake of holding them to human standards...when there are plenty of humans who can't do that!" I'm barely recovered from my Stingray feelings getting changed, and you drop these facts?!?
i love spiders so much i used to pick them up all the time( and thus sometimes got bit). all those bites left me with a spider venom allergy so even harmless spiders can hurt me and i’m so sad about it i still love spiders tho. just no more picking them up for me i also started seeing vultures as protecting me as a kid. i loved playing in the woods and obviously love animals. but seeing dead ones always upset me, so when i saw vultures circling, i’d avoid those areas. in my little kid brain i saw them as protecting me from seeing something upsetting
I adore Steve Erwin and stingrays. One of the most wholesome people on the planet sadly fell to aquatic Russian roulette, and he would never blame the fish for just reacting the way it would to any big, spooky animal.
"the Kirby shark, which is really just a giant paci-fish" . XD Thank you, I love that and will add it to my "fave slide-under-the-radar puns and wordplays" list, and share it as often as I can work it into a conversation.
I really appreciate the attention you're bringing to the concept of anthropomorphism, and why it can cloud judgement. Your channel was already great, but now that it doesn't fool itself into thinking animals are humans, it unlocked its final puzzle piece. You're a treasure!
If I could go back to that lil child version of me who always had their nose in an animal and plant encyclopedia, and let them know that one day I would stumble across your channel, I couldn’t even begin to describe the amount of genuine happiness they would feel! Thank you so so much, for making SUCH interesting and incredible content! I am beyond in-love!!! I would love to see some videos on Cranes, swans, egrets, and ducks and geese too.
It is widely accepted by many that the sting ray that stabbed Steve Irwin was less responsible for his death than Steve was. His family have said as much publicly many times. Steve who was and is my childhood hero, made several terrible mistakes the day he died. The dive team that accompanied him also stated he probably would have survived if he didn't pull the little guys barb out, but Steve did so immediately and reflexively. If he had time to think about it I think he would have made the same decision as he would not trade his life for another. Regardless of what you've heard or believe about the day Steve Irwin died know this: He would never have sought revenge. Steve, his family and friends are very loving people who are as dedicated to conservation as he was.
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I miss my rat. Long story short I bought him as a teenager as a joke to scare my mom but she thought he was cute and Tiny (who was FAAAAR from tiny when he grew up) became the best pet I've ever had.
He was my homie for real. He was free to roam around my room when I was home and he was always chillin with me. I'd be chillin watching TV and eating chips, he was chillin with me watching TV eating eating chips and he'd go to a little Tupperware container with some of his bedding in it as his bathroom.
Saddest day of my teenage life was when I came home to him on my bedroom floor breathing really heavy. I put him back in his tank and woke up to him stiff as a statue. I'm not ashamed to say I cried like a baby at 19 years old (shit... my eyes are hot typing this).
RIP Tiny. You fuckin legend.
Bro was truly a legend
F for Respects to the legend.
Paying my respects to the legend, Tiny.
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RIP Tiny and thanks for sharing the legend.
Rats getting tiny medals for cleaning minefields is a fact I didn't know I needed until now.
There is also a program in Tanzania right now, where rats are being trained for post-earthquake search & rescue work. They can safely enter the rubble of fallen structures due to being so small. They get outfitted with backpacks that have a tiny camera, location transmitter, & two-way radio and they are trained to touch a switch attached to the chest-strap of the backpack whenever they locate someone.
@@FeatheredWingzngl, if I was trapped under rubble and saw a rat call in backup, idk if I'd be relieved or terrified lol
that really makes me smile
@drpepperman2765 that would make my day, not only am I saved, but clearly this is now a Pixar movie turned real life
@@drpepperman2765I’d be thrilled!
Steve would ABSOLUTELY not want anyone looking at stingrays in a negative light, nor learning to fear them.
Ngl, I developed a slight fear to stingrays after that. But I calmed down after I heard how many deaths are due to cows.
They are one of my faves and even can recognize faces in captivity. Sometimes they are salty when I dont feed them fish and splash me. But mostly they greet me with snuffles on my hand
Even if you were to look upon the exact stingray from that incident uncharitably, you still shouldn’t blame the entire genus for manslaughter over one perpetrator. And that exact stingray may be long gone by now.
@@Kylipsalmaoooooo fair dinkem
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I like eating cows
The guy who wrote Jaws felt so bad about what he did to their reputation he became a marine conservationist to try and clear their name.
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But I like Sharks Jaws got me into liking Sharks.
I love sharks and often get the weirdest looks for that, a great white would terrify me if I was in the water with one of them. But I am western European, so do I really have to worry about ever dying to a great white? Nah. Truth is only surfers and divers have to really worry about a great white ending them, cause a shark that size isn't going to come near the usual tourist who is swimming in shallow water
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And my favorite sharks are Great White Sharks
@@sleepymonsteraddict it depends where you live again. i've seen many great whites + mako sharks in shallow water. but i also live in louisiana, where we dont have any beaches where the water actually looks.. blue. and when i would go to the beach it would either be in Mississippi or florida, both with many sharks. when i was a very young kid i had a great white shark swim near to me after my dad had put me in biloxi waters. i obviously dont remember but its interesting, ive always liked sharks a lot since i was a kid.
@@foreversui I think people have the responsibility to look up information about the waters they are swimming in, if it is shark territory it speaks for itself that you might have a shark encounter. Of course I am not victim blaming anyone who got attacked by a shark cause it is something horrible to go through, but I feel like we should educate people more on researching shark territory and how to avoid encounters.
Like I saw that horrible video of a man who got killed in Egypt by a shark, but all the locals were reacting that that place is known to be very densely populated by sharks, so there should be huge signs at such beaches to warn travelers that they are taking a huge risk.
I remember reading soon after his death about stingrays being found mutilated across the beaches of Australia and one of Irwin’s best friends came out and said “this is literally the last thing he would have wanted”. Rip in peace Steve Irwin you absolute legend.
Holy shit that's fucked up and absolutely inexcusable
A whole species shouldn't suffer for the action of one of them, and even then it's a wild animal ffs. Even if he wasn't a threat, if something spooks a wild animal even by accident it WILL defend itself regardless. Lots of animals aquatic and land often perceive anything living around them either a threat or food, and often can't tell the difference between a threat and something friendly. Steve Irwin would not have wanted any of that at all. In fact he'd be horrified and pissed that ppl were hurting and killing an entire species bc of a natural reaction against what was perceived as a threat. I myself am horrified and disappointed that humans have proven once again that we're more disturbing and killers more so then any animal on this planet. Think of it this way,, if you shoot a person who you think is going to hurt or kill you in that exact moment would it fair to just start mutilating and killing off any person who you come across and consider it deserved? Would you think it fair for someone to mutilate and kill you for defending yourself against someone who you genuinely thought was a threat and they say you deserved it? I will not accept nor respond to any replies justifying the killing and mutilation of an innocent species out of some sick twisted fucked up sense of 'justice'
Killing for survival is one thing. Going out of your way to kill and mutilate a species just bc you think they deserve it is sick and disgusting
If he's out there in heaven, you know his biggest regret is getting killed by an animal instead of in a car crash or some other accident. Seeing so many people ruthlessly kill innocent animals in his name would have broken his heart.
All it took was a single stingray defending itself from what it thought was a threat for humanity to decide that stingrays as a whole deserve to suffer and die. And this is an animal we're talking about. Plus, the very person who was killed spent his whole life preaching about how animals aren't in the wrong for existing, no matter how inconvenient their presence is for us, and that when he gets bit, it's his fault for making the animal feel threatened. People immediately discarded everything Steve stood for and did what he would have considered a tragedy, what he spent his entire career trying to prevent. It's one of those things that really shows how humans really are animals just as much as chimpanzees and dogs and every other animal. We have those same instincts inside of us that take over when we perceive danger, causing us to be illogical, aggressive, and cruel. We talk about how "evil" dolphins and chimpanzees can be, but humans are no better. We literally do all of the same things just on a more sophisticated level, and we have no excuse. We actually have the capacity to override our instincts and act based on logic and compassion.
Maybe one day humans will evolve into a new species that bases their actions on what will benefit them as an individual and their group as a whole, rather than relying on instinct to act aggressively if there's a "threat." In modern human civilization, the threats we face are generally not solved by violence, so our instincts can really mess things up for us. If we could override those instincts in emotional moments and choose to do what will have the best result versus what feels right, then society would be vastly different. We could end all of the senseless cruelty in the world. All I can do is hope that some day we'll get there.
@@childofmischief7453 Yea, I agree. These types of events really show our collective delusion in thinking that humans are above animals. Our behavior is identical to chimpanzees and dolphins, ours is just disguised by technology and more complex thoughts and emotions, tricking hs into thinking that our feelings and behaviors have more meaning and significance than those of animals.
Really, the instinctive part of our mind is the one running the show, and the conscious part is just pretending to be in control, creating a story after the fact to explain the actions the instinctive part makes, so it feels like the actions were preplanned and based in thought when really they instinct. According to some experiments in neurology, this is actually how our brains work. Our ego tricks us into thinking we make decisions based on our thoughts, when really the decision/action happens first and the thought happens second. Your perception of it is just a story you tell yourself to make sense of the world and yourself. Basically, human beings are not logical. We don't make decisions based on what makes the most sense or what will have the best impact. We behave based on what our instincts tell us to do, which is rarely actually helpful in modern society.
That’s so horrible😔
"everyone wanna shit on the garbage man until he quits and leaves you with the shits" as a janitor, omfg i love this quote. Istg nobody gives a shit until something's left and becomes their problem
I'm a programmer by trade -- though I paid my dues in food joints for years before I got my degree. In my decades of work, the most likeable, witty, and charming people were those I met in the manual labor trades. Something about most people who desire to go to college makes them insufferable.
Every time I see guys out working on streets or power lines, I think how much they keep this whole show running and that we depends upon them vastly more than they get credit for.
I was recently thinking how fast this city would be buried in garbage if those guys just stopped picking it up. It would be armageddon.
Hey man, thanks for being a janitor. Seriously. 👍
@@michaeldavid6832 One time janitor left with the keys to big garbage bin and called sick. 6 people, 7 days, two 200 liter garbage bags filled to the brim and then some.
Finally some love for the clean up crew 😂
Most dont give a shit till itz on there shoe
Vultures are nature's disease delete button. Gotta respect a bird that will do the heavy lifting on clean up duty.
Indeed
My cousin used to feed them cat food. Rifde by his house they be 25 to 50 sitting on his house and car.
There's no reason to hate them as unlike raccoon, vulture doesn't even harm human nor spread diseases but since it has menacing appearance and habit of picking something death, vulture gets a very bad mark from human consciousness
NPR recently had a program discussing the problems vultures are having in India and Pakistan.
Vulture PR and waste disposal worker PR desperately needs an overhaul. Both are vital to healthy society and shit falls apart so fast if they're gone. Growing up I heard things like "if you don't go to college you're gonna end up a garbage man" and we gotta quit that rhetoric. All the waste managers of the animal kingdom deserve respect ❤
“Loan sharks end more lives” is the best one-liner in defense of sharks I have ever heard. Thank you for what you do.
I volunteer at a center that takes in injured wildlife that cannot be released and uses them for education, and the vultures are SO charismatic and fun! My favorite's name is Clarissa. She gets SO excited when anyone comes near her and must know what is going on at all times. Also, they are so social. Almost every time I go, the woods surrounding the place are FILLED with vultures. They keep the injured ones company. It's super wholesome and sweet. Love them.
Vultures are really nice to things that aren't dead!
I find vultures really charming. Would like to see some in an environment like that at some point. None around where I live naturally.
Ohhh I'm soooo jealous. Please forward love to Clarissa from this city dweller whose biggest life achievement is convincing neighborhood corvids that being pet is pretty rad (they are sooo soft). They love my weiners and demand them all the time, some learned that they can use a stick to make a weiner kebab instead of stuffing their throat pouch. Do vultures smell bad from the whole poopy-on-legs thing?
@@gyppygirl2021About the best you can expect from animals.
Amazing!! I visit a sanctuary when I can which houses a number of ambassador vultures, and *more than once* there's been wild vultures who came to circle above when said vultures were out for flight demonstrations. The place has/had a dedicated vulture week which maxed out my love and respect for all vultures ❤️
Steve Irwin is 100% telling that stingray he's not mad and apologizing for misbehaving.
Daily too.
I'm quite certain I remember hearing a quote from him when he first left the water after being stung. I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something to the effect of "It was my fault. I spooked him." To Steve, this wasn't some animal attack. It was just a case of him making a mistake, miscalculating and making the animal uncomfortable. He wasn't even filming at the time, he was just out there being Steve.
EDIT: Misremembered the detail about filming. He was trying to get a shot of the stingray swimming away.
The fucking odds of something like this happening are so low yet it happened... feels like the biggest cosmic joke. But at the end of the day we are also that :D.
I love that you all totally understand it.
@@ericthompson3982 Steve never left us. He's still with us in spirit, and has inspired an entire generation to be more conscious, caring and passionate about nature and wildlife. And his son, Robert, has continued his legacy wonderfully, with all the same energy and spirit and passion that Steve had. If perhaps a bit less of Steve's zaniness :P
I love how 90% of the video is giving overhated animals the respect they deserve, and the other 10% is revealing why squirrels are little furry psychopaths.😂 And I 100% agree with you about that.
FR that switch up was hilarious.
"Misunderstood" doesn't necessarily mean actually good.
I mean, he's not wrong.
After the one snatched my fries, I completely agree with him.
Yeah... The squirrel one I saw coming, because I've looked up squirrels as pets once and the recommendation was don't do it, especially if it's a young male ^^'. Apparently they get really mean and become prone to biting once they hit maturity but do start out pretty friendly and nice, so... Sugar gliders on acid ig, though sugar gliders mostly get their bad reputation among some exotic pet owners for being nocturnal creatures with very special dietary requirements so an angry bite happy sugar glider any day of the week is probably just hangry and up way too early for coffee time, wait until the afternoon around sunset and make sure they've got proper food in their bowl, mist calm right down, they just hate bright light as well because it's blinding
Squirrels on the other hand... I find they're perfectly fine if ya just leave them alone and never yell or toss anything at them because that's inviting retribution from them, just don't ever try to pet one because I've heard their teeth hurt...
Ironically a lot of animals which feed from remains of the dead but don’t particularly hunt for their own food are viewed as evil historically, which is extremely odd in retrospect.
I honestly have to wonder if part of it is because of that association with death itself, and Western cultures in particular have historically had a fear of death, so the correlation just kinda stuck?
Of course, this is just my wildly uneducated guess. I find it all very fascinating anyway!
Our ideas of evil have an uncomfortable overlap with old European nobility ideas of “ew gross”.
Think about how much religious connotation can come with “unclean”. Or worse, the fact that “villain” originally just meant peasant. Or how much the witch trials could hinge on “she’s old and has a gross skin tag”.
@@theincrediblehibby8239 western cultures had a historic fear of death ? Nah, that only came with the church.
Hoomens dumba
@@TheBlackfall234 True. No one was afraid to die before Christianity, and Easterners love death.
I think vultures' PR is (slowly, so slowly) turning around as people get more educated about them. I saw a lovely poem once describing them as holy creatures, tending to the dead like gravekeepers.
That is so sweet! Can you send a link to it...?
Vultures are holy creatures
Tending the dead
Bowing low
Bared head
Whispers to cold flesh,
"Your old name is not your king
I rename you Everything"
... what kind of grave keepers do you know? ... "well Frank, gotta tend to this dead guy, hand me my fork"
I could SWEAR that there was somewhere in Asia where a traditional burial was straight up letting the vultures go to work.
@@steelgriffin7716 the Parsi community does that
6:34 I once saw a post that said we know if Steve met the stingray in the afterlife he would not hold a grudge whatsoever
He’d say something along the lines of “hey there little fella! I’m sorry I gave ya a spook, gosh you’re a real beauty aren’t ya?”
We mustn’t hold hatred in our hearts
100% read that in Steve's voice
@@SouthernGothicYT How could you not, though?
Yup, especially since he was enough of an expert to _know_ that it was a startle response as soon as it happened.
RIP, Steve.
I just imagine him doing the "You're alright mate , you're alright mate." thing he'd always say
"Do you know how to tell a male koala bear from a female koala? The females have cute little butts" -
Steve Erwin
"Before you wage war on a watter waffle."
"Crepe of the coast"
I swear, for having such a bad rep, stingrays have some of the cutest nicknames.
Pasta of the ocean,,,ravioli
Sea flap-flaps is my favorite. I also just love their little smiley mouths.
Or Sea pancakes
@@IAMGOJINOMATTERWHATYOUSAY Sea discus! Or water wings! My favorite remains sea flappy-flap.
@@IAMGOJINOMATTERWHATYOUSAY And I respect yours.
"Calling it shark-infested waters is mad disrespectful."
That is an excellent point.
shark-blessed waters
It's really just people-infested shark homes.
Well that's true and sharks get to little credit for being a keystone species... and yet: I kind of don't blame people for their survival instincts. It's basically a verbal "Keep of the lawn" sign.
And there is no way I trust an animal to behave peacefully, that was nothing but an apex-predator since the times where dinosaurs STARTED conquering the whole planet... No thank you...😐
then what about a bunch of land animals together? people usually call it an infestation or an invasive species
@EspiS-tg3zk if the sharks have always lived in those waters we call "shark infested" then they wouldn't be considered invasive though? i think only species introduced to a new area by humans are considered invasive. so that's still a double standard unless there actually are invasive sharks out there which i highly doubt
“More corpse happy than a necro in a morgue” was not a phrase I expected to hear today, but here we are
Same buddy
I didn't realize that he said that.
I love that he said this as I was reading your comment🤌🏾
Necromancers LOVE raising families 😂
Or are we talking about the 'other' type of necro, cuz
ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
Agreed.
1. As an arachnologist, thank you for including spiders on this list. 2. The Steve Irwin section made me tear up a little. Dude was what inspired me to pursue biology in the first place. I would not be where I am without him.
I used to be a "kill on sight" person for spiders. I'm still not fond of them, but as long as they respect my personal space I'll let them do their thing and keep the more annoying insects from taking a residence in my home.
I wish i had that job. Didnt study in school and had no ambition, i love spiders
You took inspiration on a man who, in front of a paying audience, held his newborn while feeding saltwater crocodiles with the other hand... He was an irresponsible master manipulator that used animals far more than he ever actually helped them.
Spiders are really cool and I like them, but I still jump into a panic when I see one. Even if it's just a normal little wolf spider. I'm the same about roaches... in theory they're really cool, but in person I just want to scream and run away 😭 I wish I wasn't so jumpy
@@Adstodeus If you feel like you are able to pursue it now, I'd say go for it! It is never too late to go back to school. I got 3 bachelor degrees, if I can do it then I know anyone can :)
That's only if you personally want to or feel like you can. If you need to take some more time before that, totally okay too.
On squirrels. No one ever believed me that a group of squirrels was always throwing pine cones at me in our yard. Until we had a barbeque and one was tossed onto the grill, and caused a fire. They have good aim, and it was not pleasant.
We had squirrels that would throw stuff at us in our driveway too! I'd always keep a lookout when we'd go to the car. No matter where on the driveway we parked it, we'd have this squirrel (idk if it was just the one or several) that would like chuck acorns and pinecones at us. I had so many people tell me I was crazy and they were just falling from the trees. Not sure where the pinecones were coming from then, we only had a few pine trees way in the back
My squirrels stole knives and dropped them onto our house.
At my house, we had these red squirrels that would throw pinecones at us too. They'd just sit up in the trees picking the cones and drop them, they weren't even eating them either! Thankfully, we have a large black squirrel here that keeps the little gingers in check.
WHY CAN THE SQUIRRELS ACTUALLY AIM
my mom was routinely harassed by a squirrel living outside her job. he charged her once and scared her so bad she fell into the newly planted bushes and tore them up trying to get back on her feet
"With intelligent animals there's always going to be duality" is a really good phrase, very true. Intelligence is double edged sword.
Heck, just look at *_us_* as a species.
The Lion King, for all it got wrong about hyenas, actually got the social dynamics right to an extent. Shenzei is the leader, but instead of being a domineering boss barking orders, she's friends with the others, jokes around with them, and takes the lead when dealing with Scar. Also impressive that they got the matriarchal structure right.
And they were correct about lions and hyenas usually being enemies.
You could argue that the Lion King's story is told from the lions' perspective, so the hyena slander is all just lion propaganda lol
@@MatthewTheWanderersadly they also get alot wrong like making the Lions speak English instead of swahili
@@magiv4205that is so true😀
The Hyenas did nothing wrong except allow a charismatic leader to trick them into doing his dirty work in exchange for the promise of rights they should have always had, and I will die on that hill.
I fell in love with real life hyenas *because* I loved these characters so much.
on vultures: While I was in uni studying animal behavior we were taken to a safari zoo with an avian show. We got some time backstage as well as getting to see the show itself. Vultures were the birds that stood out the most. All birds showed to have a great relationship with their handlers, but when the food was out all others had their eyes on the prize.... except for vultures. The handlers used food to ask the other birds to come, whereas they used the food to send the vultures away.
honestly becoming a falconer is one of my dreams, and having a vulture be this affectionate, i'm quite astounded
Now I want one! 🥲
Bearded vultures are stunningly beautiful. (and the only vulture I know of that has killed people.......they didn't do it on purpose..........)
@@galaxydeathskrill5607 they maybe affectionate but cannot used to hunt something unlike falcon or hawk, thanks for the exclusively scavenging habit
I remember being told that vultures want their dinner properly dead before eating. If they see something that maybe dead, they take a grid reference and check it out, the third day they will take a nibble to check their dinner is probably dead then tuck in
Vultures are legit my favorite group of birds. I love them so much, I hate that they are almost constantly relegated in media to "oooh spooky evil birds of death " when they're more like, "Thank you for your sacrifice, dead animal, fear not, not a single scrap of you shall go to waste, circle of life, etc etc"
And it's a weird title too, they eat corpses, they literally remove death, not spreading it
@@firegator6853 For real, they help keep things alive if anything, since removing the corpse can help prevent the spread of disease.
Rain World
Fr, I love them so much! They look so cool and are also so fluffy :)
"Thank you for your sacrifice, dead animal, fear not, not a single scrap of you shall go to waste, circle of life," that entire sentence can easily apply to the fact that a group of vultures is literally called a "wake." You know, like what people call it when other people are gathering together to say goodbye to one of their fallen?
12:45
As someone who's had jumping spiders as pets, jumping spiders are absolutely tiny cats. They're smart, super curious, the groom themselves when they feel safe. Every single one had a different personality. They can even recognize faces and grow attached. Ones I've found in the wild have formed a bond with me when they learned I wouldn't hurt them. They're very curious about us, despite knowing how easily we can kill them.
Fun fact: in Romanian mythology there's a parallel world where the inhabitants are described as kind, caring towards themselves and humans, helpful, and all in all the ideal Saint, and are dubbed The Gentle Ones. The Gentle Ones also so happen to be rat people.
A free batch of cookies to the old timey Romanians, they knew what was actually up with rats.
Wow a romanian?that's so interesting,definitely deserves good recognition in some media
So theres a parallel universe with cottagecore rats? I wanna go there...
@@stephanniemorinand there are thibgs you do for them, like non-malicious fairies you're supposed to leave food out.
That said, the myth is almost completely extinct and with the exception of a few remote villages, nobody talks or thinks about the Blajini. A pity, really....
I know for former yugoslavia, our ancestors are called old slovenes that came from the europe russia, and nature was our god before christ revealed himself in the flesh.
That is so interesting, thank you!
I grew up watching Steve Irwin and can remember my mum sitting me down to explain he had died, I was absolutely devastated. But you are completely right, Steve would not want us to villify rays or any other animal, he's on whatever Plane he's on, still pushing for animals to be loved and respected. That is a pretty wonderful legacy
I went to an aquarium that had stingray petting zoos. This sounds terrible until you realize...
1) Aquariums regularly trim the rays' stingers. They're made of keratin, the same material as your hair and fingernails, so it's completely painless and will grow back over time. These stingrays couldn't hurt you if they tried.
2) Stingrays are naturally gentle and even playful. I petted one (felt like wet rubber) and, when I stopped, it reared up in the water and used its fins/wings to splash me purely for grins and giggles. There are even stories of people meeting them in estuaries and rivers, and hand-feeding them fish. They only sting defensively--i.e. "when they're threatened or surprised".
aquarium stingrays are basically puppies
And, something to note, a lot of the stingrays in aquariums can't be released into the wild for one reason or another, so the ones you're petting will never go into the wild (the ones who might be released would never be put in a program like that). Behavior that might be problematic in the wild, such as approaching humans for food or attention, is both acceptable and normal for animals in captivity who can't be released.
Also, being a relative of sharks, sea pancakes love scritches.
I went to a zoo like this with my son. He was so excited to learn about them that the zookeeper gave him a sting ray tooth! It’s so cool, we still have it!
I’ve been to a stingray petting place before, they are pretty chill
@@transsnack thank you for this wonderful knowledge
Thank you for talking about stingrays. The Irwins have all talked about how Steve made a rare error in floating directly above the animal for an extended period, which spooked it. It was an awful situation, but the last thing he'd have wanted - and the last thing his family wants - is for stingrays to take the blame. Human error, ending in tragedy. Rest in peace Steve
Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, did full 180 when he learned about how important part sharks play in the marine ecosystem and dedicated rest of his life to marine conservation. He actually said that if he had an opportunity to write Jaws again, he would potray the shark as victim of humans who becomes gaia's avenger.
I always respected that about Peter Benchley, I was genuinely touched when I first heard that he regretted writing Jaws in the way he did
It’s unfortunate that such a caring human is indirectly responsible for so many deaths of an animal he later learned to have a great appreciation and respect for :(
@@slaterstimson I see the responsibility more in people putting his word, that he never intented to have so much weight, above facts
cringe
@bierwolf8360 yes you are , very
"The grim reaper onced released a gang of guppies and made it our problem." This guy has the worlds funnest lines 😂 3:53
once* But still though this man has to release poems
I like "gacky animal jesus" for steve irwin 😂
Omg that's so hilarious just hearing it 🤣 😂
"blowhole bandits" 😂
@@IdislikeTechnology *khaki (tan/brown pants)
I remember my auntie asking me if I hated stingrays since they ‘killed Steve’ and despite my grief over such an important figure in my childhood development dying so suddenly and tragically I had no hate or bad feelings toward the ray. Steve Irwin taught me and a whole generation of curious kids to not only love and respect nature but learn to live together through understanding.
❤️
Could never see them in a bad light. It's not what he would have wanted.
Aunt.not auntie
@@LarrySmithartauntie is a valid way of spelling it. Also you can’t call someone out on their grammar when you’re missing a space and capital after the full stop.
Aye. Stingrays are adorable and innocent creatures. Steve's death was a horrific accident. The water pancake didn't mean to.
I remember as a kid this guy brought in some tarantulas into some program to talk about them. Unfortunately one of them did fall and unfortunately passed away just from falling from the drop from the guys hand. But despite how sad that situation was to child me its why tarantulas are actually one of the only spiders I am actually not scared of. Its the little ones with the big abdomens that still freak me out.
When I was little my dad worked at a factory with a man that had a pig farm. He gave my dad a runt that was being picked on by other piglets. He was housebroken in one day and slept in the end of my bed every night. (I was 2 and he insisted on it). We named him Obi-Wan-Kenobi because he was so smart and protective of me. But our neighbors saw him through our gate and we weren't allowed pets so we had to give him back. But he was old enough that he could fend for himself and the guy promised not to kill him. He became a stud and had lots of babies and lived to a very old age. We visited him often.
Did you name him?
@@shahinarahaque2071 yes they named him his name was obi wan kenobi
You should have told your neighbors to shut the fuck up and mind there own business
That’s a great name 😂
@rickytv12 It was the 70's and Star Wars had just come out. Lol
When I was a child, I dressed up as both a hyena and a shark for separate Halloweens, because I loved watching nature documentations and I really thought that they were much cooler and more important than they got credit for
My father made the costumes for me and I still have them to this day
Your dad is awesome, you are also awesome
@@Marineisme
That is so sweet, thank you😊
@@kalypsovaldez7865
I like Hyenas they're one of my favorite animals.
I love everything about this story. Kid loving weird animals, dad supporting in a way typically considered a 'mother' role, the event being meaningful enough to keep the physical memory into adulthood. I love all of this.
@@KharonDeLune_vtb Thank you, that is so kind of you (:
What's sad is that vultures are often portrayed as filthy, bald, and messy. But one look at the griffon vulture, and not only is that bird majestic as hell, it's also surprisingly fluffy! And the cinereous vulture barely even looks like a vulture and more like a molting hawk.
Turkey vultures are definitely ugly, but I understand and respect the scavengers & decomposers keeping this planet clean and not piled high with corpses and poop.
Crows fill a similar niche, just smaller. And a testament to the intelligence of both species is you always see them eating roadkill, but they are never roadkill theselves.
I'm surprised pigeons didn't make this list. Considering how overpowered they really are as birds (at least according to your video on them), how much we did them dirty, and the fact they're everywhere, we're legitimately screwed if they ever go rogue.
The rat part brought tears to my eyes. I used to have 4 female rats and they were my BABIES. They were my world. So sweet, so precious, so inquisitive! My little Estelle never wanted anything more than to climb into whatever sweater I was wearing and make herself comfy. Every Halloween, they got a mini pumpkin that they would drag around. Worst thing about rats is their lifespan for sure. They're also pretty prone to cancer, and even though they're definitely more robust than mice, they're still quite fragile.
Wish rats could live longer and not get cancer so easily. :( They're so precious!
I had 3 girls that I adopted from my college. They learned their names real quick and would come when called. They also would groom me too. Sadly 2 of them I had to put down and the last one passed from old age. You really do get attached to them and I wish they had a longer lifespan
I get that! Had rats as pets when my kids were young and later with a grandchild but they just don’t live long enough. Very intelligent and my dog loved them.
I had four as well, lost two recently. It never gets easier, but it makes you cherish every moment.
Another cool thing about hyenas is their relationships with humans in Ethiopia, especially in the city of Harar. There, not only are hyenas not bothered by humans, the people and not-dogs routinely share affection and food. The hyenas are very relaxed around the people, recognize when they won't get any more food or otherwise need to leave, and can be relatively cuddly. They're still powerful animals that deserve respect for what they're capable of doing to you, but they're very intelligent and social, and absolutely shouldn't be vilified.
Okay, your comment made me think that "what if hyenas will be the next domesticated animals like dogs?" 🤔
Seriously, your comment made me picture that it wouldn't be too far fetched to happen eventually. 🤩
In one city they basically are invited in every night to clean up any food scraps and pests they can find
@@monticore1626 😲🤯 Talk about efficiency and coexistence! Awesome! 😄🤩🥳
@@rebekadoczi2136
It's already started!
Aahhh, the part about Steve Irwin had me crying. I will never stop missing that man. A huge part of what he did was focus on the scariest, creepiest, ugliest beasties that everyone is afraid, and he showed how they were really wonder creatures that should be treasured. What a little beauty! And you, sir, are a worthy successor to his tradition. Stevo would be proud of what you do.
8:03 "... people make the mistake of holding them to human standards. Which is pretty unfair, considering a lot of humans don't even reach those." pure savagery! 😅
I appreciate your mention of Steve Irwin. My father, who is almost 90 now, was a fairly well known wetlands conservationist and photographer (and woodworker, boatbuilder, bridge builder, etc etc...) and he called me, crying, when Steve died. I agree with you 100% that Steve would hate it if stingrays were maligned for his passing. ❤ I love rats, having had several very special ones, and I've overcome arachnophobia with cute jumping spider videos, so I love them now, too. I have a lot of love for all these animals, and I really appreciate all your videos. ❤
This made me cry. The mention in the video and lots of comments made me sad... But your dad calling you crying, gut punched me right in the feels
I had a rat that lived for 5 years, which is really long for a rat, and I still miss her twenty years after she died. They are so obviously intelligent and attached to their caretakers. The only reason I haven’t had one since is because I don’t want to deal with the grief of how short their lifespans are again.
Damn that’s a short ass life. Makes you appreciate dogs and cats. They live 10+ Years usually
I had gerbils and they were fascinating little sh*ts 😂 I didn't know how much personality could live in such smol entities. I used to let them free roam as much as possible when I was home. One of them lived the standard 2 years, but the other one (first out of her cage the day I brought them home, first to do anything really out of the 2 of them) lived just over 4 years. As much as I loved having them, the heartbreak is real, and I'm not sure I could cope with it again. 😢
I have that same heartache problem with ferrets. They only hang around for roughly 8 years, which is NOT long enough for those wonderful, silly little noodles :(
Five years!? Congratulations that’s incredible. Must have been a very well loved babies. Mine are about four currently, and are walking little lumps. Lumps of love! Haha.
@@openorwap5412 You might find it interesting to look up the natural habitat of gerbils. It really explains why they're so energetic all the time!
They're native to deserts and arid grasslands, so they have to roam miles at a time to find food and water. It's kind of why they require exercise wheels, they're endurance runners with fur.
One of my very best wildlife experiences was with a turkey vulture in NE Kansas. We startled each other, we both screamed at the top of our lungs. She flew 15’ one direction, I ran 15’ the other direction, then we just stopped and stared at each other for a few minutes. Wish I’d had a camera. Her wingspan directly in front of my face blotted out everything, she was so big up close. ❤
Have you left this comment somewhere before? I feel like I’ve read this. That’s not meant to be snarky if it’s coming across that way. This just seems vaguely familiar.
Thank you for sharing this! What an experience. A friend had a similar experience with a bear when she went to put her garbage out early in the morning. She and the bear hollered and ran in the opposite direction, then stopped and looked at each other, and then the bear ran off. (PS she knows you're not supposed to run, but it was spontaneous.)
That's a Loony Tunes level moment 😂😂
then did you run face first into each other while making a cartoonish clanging noise?
@@gefrwed1478 no, but they made a cartoonish running sound
Im Honestly so glad the particulars of hyena hierarchy are touched on here because its one of the biggest misconceptions about them. Rank in a hyena clan is almost entirely about whose gonna have your back in an altercation. Basically if you have more friends you're a higher rank. This also exaplains why hyena clans are some of the largest pack groups out of any terrestrial predator.
For me, chickens are number 1. They're crazy smart. A hen that i had a few years ago saw people knocking on our door and started imitating it to get inside and wat our dogs food.
They also usually pass the mirror test, even if the cockerells are sometimes too insane.
They're also very affectionate and will preen people that they like and give people hugs by wrapping their neck over your shoulder.
They also make adorable noises most of the time and will even talk back to you. The clucking noise we associate with them is actually just the alarm call.
10/10 animal, very misunderstood
It's not just their intelligence. We use the term "chicken" to mean "coward," when they can actually be quite brave. A rooster will charge any predator to protect his hens, even if he knows he will die doing so.
I used to have pet chickens (Miniature Bantams) when I was a kid and they were the sweetest things ever. One would wander on down to the front porch and wait for me every morning and then follow me around the property, and one time when I was sitting up at the top of our playset/swing set, she hopped up there and clambered into my lap an fell asleep.
Another one I had was really ditzy and would walk up to me, sneeze on me, and then walk away. She also didn't wait to finish laying an egg once and was walking around with it half way out (she eventually layed it and was fine). She was my favorite mainly because of how unbelievably dumb she was, therefore needed constant protection/supervision.
Chickens are legitimately sweet/fun pets.
Thank you for the bonus animal info!
Makes me feel bad for eating the,
@@ShadeSlayer1911 yeah, you're right. my rooster is a tiny bantam and he charged a fox once and managed to scare it off. they even will run away in the opposite direction of the hens to draw the predator away, and rooster and hens will both sacrifice themselves for chicks
Fun fact:
While rats CAN carry the bubonic plague and spread it to humans, they rarely do because it kills them, too. A rat that's dying of plague is unlikely to spread it very far. DOGS, on the other hand, have a higher tendency to be asymptomatic carriers, and can easily spread the plague widely within human populations. So the Black Death was not only MOSTLY spread by humans, but was also likely spread more by dogs than by rats.
more so fleas than anything
Cats probably had a blame too, they can carry the fleas as well. And being hunters of rats, and able to climb around to more places, they probably spread it even faster too
Apparently biting midges and some flies can also transmit the disease. Basically many things spread the plague. It's highly contagious if you are around infected fluids or any biting insects that can serve as vectors. The bubonic and septicemic versions aren't as contagious as pneumonic between humans, but the pneumonic plague is not that rare.
There’s a vulture near us with a broken wing, I call him Hoppy and the rest of his wake will still come back to check on him and throw up in his mouth, it’s the grossest sweetest thing you’ve ever seen
That's how birds feed each other. :p
We have two black vultures that decided to shack up near our house and always comes to eat the food we put out. That two turned into 4 or 5 pretty quickly, and now we have a whole group of friends just chilling on the trees and eating together. They also seem to vibe with the usual turkey vultures around the area.
They're strangely nice, and they don't freak out too badly when we put food out because they recognize we're feeding them essentially. I always greet them and they look at me while I do. It's...kinda sweet.
For real, this is gonna make me happy cry. Solidarity with Hoppy, my disabled bird buddy.
Are there any wildlife rescue centers near you?
@@Scavenger82 no this is just from living in Florida and having your neighborhood carved out of the jungle we have vultures instead of crows
This young man is a genuine pleasure to listen to. His monologues are witty, educational and entertaining.
FINALLY a man who knows how to get thoughts across without f-bombs in every single sentence.
6:11 Stingrays & Manta Rays will aways have a special spot in my heart. My Nana (R.I.P.) got season passes to the Zoo when I was younger, & they had a pool where you could pet Stingrays, they loved my mother. The Cownose Stingrays were some of the sweetest & friendliest Rays ever. They were like puppies. To think people started hating Stingrays because for what Happen to Steve Irwin is awful! He'd never be upset for animal being animal.
Rays are wonderful animals.
They have that in st louis and i love it!
Yeah, imagine how upset he would have been if he had known that his death would make the world hate a whole species.
Stingrays had a special spot in Steve's heart too . . . But like for real he never would have blamed the animal.
Agreed. Banjo sharks are my favourite fish! They're like puppies of the ocean.
(They're a ray, by the ray. Not a shark, despite their name).
Will never forget the time a mouse got into the fusebox and decided to chew on one wire while standing on another, creating a circuit that (figuratively) blew up the box and cut power to the whole house for a week straight. And this was in the Tropics during the height of summer.
crispy critter 😅
_"One day, while doing nothing particularly out of the ordinary, because of natural laws he was completely powerless to understand or intuit, he was instantly killed in a horrifying way by forces vastly in excess of anything he was ever designed to experience, for no reason, to no ones particular surprise or upset. In this we are more like him than different"_
-Elroy Craich, on an unfortunate rodent suffering a similar fate
"I am fond of Pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs, treat us as equals." -Winston Churchill
"I promise you loan sharks end way more lives". Gotta be the most quotable channel on the entire interwebs.
Also, when Steve Irwin got got, he actually pulled the ray's stinger out of his chest, which is the worst possible thing to do when you've got something lodged that deep in you: whatever it is, it's the only thing keeping your blood on the inside. But he probably would have felt immensely guilty if the ray had died to save his life. And the reason he was even conscious enough to do that was because he was in phenomenal physical condition.
You don't pull a knife out, no. But I'm thinking leaving in what is essentially a knife attached to a large and panicking animal is very much a worse idea.
@@BertPreast There's really no good option, honestly. There are just "what sucks the least."
I think it was mostly reflexive. (Steve's action that is)
@@Thulgore oh, absolutely was. very frequently people bleed out because of that same reflex. one TH-camr narrowly survived a penetrating injury to a major blood vessel by literally sticking a thumb in the hole.
While you are correct, he was hours away from medical attention with a spear in his heart. He didn’t stand a chance of survival.
I had a pet rat and he was sweetest little man; even convinced a friend of mine to get three for herself and we had play-dates. Rats are incredibly social so you either need to get more than one or be prepared to spend at least 80% of your time with the single rat you do have.
It’s not acceptable to have a single rat in almost any case. You can not provide the constant companionship. They only time rats should be housed alone is if they have severe behavioral issues and can’t be around other rats (which is very rare)
I understand how harmless spiders are, I just hate the fact that they invade my personal space. “They’re more afraid of you than you are of it” Okay but why the hell are they CRAWLING TOWARDS ME
Unless its a jumping spider they mostly just dont comprehend that you are there until you poke them. But i also hate and fear how unpredictable they can be as they tend to drop down off of sticks instead of staying on them like other bugs do, and even if they do stay you cant flick them off because of the threads they use as a safety harness
@@kirtil5177 Why do the jumping ones know? Is it because of their big eyes?
@@millaray9912yes, and because they jump they focus more on where they're going to be potentially landing.
There's a spider kinda chilling in my laundry room chasing bugs
They’re trying to tell you that God’s a bug
11:43 "And your feelings will get hurt" You didn't even mention the worst part. They only live a few years, BUT, they also want to spend their final moments with loved ones, and that includes you. Their final moments *can* include things seizures, and lung collapse. It's heart breaking holding them in their final moments sometimes. I've lost two heart rats in 13 or so years and I remember both clearly to this day, way more so than other pets.
God that's adorable (and super sad). I mean them wanting to spend their final moments with their loved ones... And then showing that's you. My heart.
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their short life span is the only reason i wont have rats. they’re so sweet and cute, it would destroy me having to say goodbye so soon
Someone beautifully said that they may be in your life for a short time, but you're there for them their entire life
I used to keep rats. They make wonderful companions. I taught mine to come when called to play basketball and to twirl on command. Not to mention, they love getting attention and cuddling. Like the man said, however, they can live for 2 if you're lucky 3 years, and it's devastating when they pass.
Rats are so cute! I think it's so cool that they can laugh and like to be tickled
❤aww! Yes, rats are awesome and so sweet, but really need a longer lifespan.
@katiegritts honestly it the only reason I don't keep them anymore. I just can't take the heartbreak.
That flick with the stingray might be the most wholesome thing on the Internet.
That's not like "smile for the camera". That's a REAL smile, and I'm here for it.
i hate that just because one animal (who probably thought they were defending themselves) ended up killing steve Irwin now a bunch of people hold an unreasonable grudge against them, steve never would've wanted this
"The Final Boss of Dolphins" is such a funny yet accurate way to describe Orca's.
The final boss of all sea life -- even sharks.
@@michaeldavid6832big facts
Ha! We all know that The Rock is the final boss
😂 The Rock can literally be wiped out by paper@@harrygreb3457
11:36 This is why rats in your home aren’t just some pack of pests. They’re a resilient, intelligent team of invaders who are a respectable and formidable enemy.
They are also very rapid reproducers compared to pretty much every other intelligent animal on the earth.
I had one who was invading my kitchen from under the slit under my sink and discovered that through an access panel had taken up residence in a drawer I don't use very much. I was going to terminate it. I tried glue traps, and large rat traps of 3 varieties. Not so much as a single one was triggered. I've never experienced an animal so intelligent. I camouflaged a trap inside a garbage bag along with other garbage. It didn't go anywhere near it. Like it had a sixth sense.
When I started my endeavors, I put a piece of pepperoni in the middle of my kitchen floor. Little sucker got it. I then placed a ring of glue traps around a piece -- rat never got anywhere near it. They learned what the glue smells like.
I think it accidently got the tip of its tail caught in glue trap but quickly yanked it out -- I heard a crashing sound.
I eventually bought wire netting and closed off the access gaps under the cabinets. That ended their intrusions. Gotta respect an animal that knows a trap when he sees one.
We've killed so many rats in so many ways that natural selection is making them highly skilled at evading human traps.
@@michaeldavid6832 We had a field mouse somehow get stuck in our house because the builders did not realize that yes, a mouse can fit into a crawl space that small. Humane traps did not work.
I... I really wish they were dumb enough for the human traps to work. I REALLY WISH THEY WERE.
Seeing a tarantula swim has significantly improved my night. They look so cute and silly, love em
I didn't even know they could do that. 😧
Tarantulas are lovely, aren't they!? I've owned a couple and they're super sweet and darling pets.
Huntsman spider are also chill used to live in Australia would have one in my house from time to time eventually I learned that they are fast and would rather flee from people and they only bite if they are cornered or feel threatened they will bite but mostly they are nice to have around and spiders do have a bad rep.
I love them too. They're so cute.
I'm so grateful to your comment. I get to nope out of here before the nightmare fuel.
2:17 The segway from vulture to sponsor ad was amazing! Very smooth. 😊👍
It’s easy to forget that animals don’t think like humans or have human morals. Their behavior is based on their natural instinct to survive and thrive.
Also, I would love to see a part two of this video. There are some more commonly misunderstood animals that you didn’t mention, like bats, alligators, and snakes.
Snakes are probably the most highly misunderstood animal out there. Hell they’re even slandered in religion for crying out loud!
They're just trying to survive, and many of us don't have to struggle with that ╰(*´︶`*)╯
@@starstorm1267 True, not to mention all of the myths and urban legends about snakes. They get an unnecessarily bad reputation, which is a shame given how chill most of them are.
Yeah. Ravens, toads, and plenty of invertebrates other than spiders too, like other arachnids (such as camel spiders, scorpions, harvestmen--a.k.a. daddy long legs--etc), house centipedes, cockroaches, termites...
Snakes ironically are both hated and revered by religion depending on which religion it is. 1 of the I believe it was Mayan gods was a snake God, and was 1 of the most important gods in the entire pantheon, making snakes a sacred animal that was protected by then
It mightve been Aztec or Incan, I always get those 3 confused. It was 1 of them though
Another bit of info about stingrays:
Like sharks, they enjoy getting pet and will actively seek out attention from aquarium keepers. Many rays are so fond of human contact that aquariums will make shallow "touch pools" for them to be pet and loved by visitors. (Their stingers are clipped so there's no risk to guests) In fact, they will sometimes splash at the edge of the tank if they feel they're not getting enough attention!
I just wanna ask if clipping a sting hurts them (sorry if you don't know)
@@smolkiddo1842 they're made of keratin, aka the stuff nails are made of, so I doubt it.
@@smolkiddo1842 depends on where they clip it. The stinger itself is kinda like a fingernail and has no nerves, but if they just remove the whole thing it might hurt a little. Even then, it's a very small cut and over in moments.
They are what I call water pancake puppies, because they are basically your best friend once they like you. That's why as I kid growing up in the Cayman Islands, I'd visit as often as I could.
@@margotrosendorn6371 Ehh, clipping the barb is like clipping a fingernail, removing the ability for it to regrow however is like cutting off a few toes. Typically touch pool aquariums give a little trim every once in a while.
If fully removed It impedes the way they swim.
If you cut off your toes You can still walk just no where near as well as you used to, that would be the same with it's method of propulsion being damaged.
5:59 - The Stingray with the happiest, dopiest looking smile. I love it.
Ancient Egyptians were chill with vultures. One of their gods was named Nekhbet, who has a vulture head, or is fully vulture, and shes one of the goddesses of death. When you consider how modern-day humans view vultures, its quite sad
Some cute information about wolf spiders; the mothers carry the egg sack around with them and let the babies piggy-back on them until they're large enough to go off on their own. They help them drink by lowering a leg into liquid while the babies shuffle down to drink. Scientists also tested putting spiderlings on an un-mated female and, while she showed signs of distress, didn't harm them and eventually started showing care behaviours.
So in particular circumstances, wolf spiders can become reluctant baby-sitters!
If you do another video, maybe Opossums? They eat ticks and have a lower chance of catching rabies but get a reputation as being horrible trash goblins.
Edited to add that Opossums aren't immune to rabies, thanks
@NanaWilson-px9ij
for getting me to fact check
Wolf spiders honestly get such bad rep, even black widows even though their kill count is in the single digits and most bites, while they are incredibly painful and can knock people off their feet for three whole days, is only dangerous if your health is already in a risky state and/or you're allergic and refuse antivenom for the bite- which people actually do that apparently, from what I've read the three days thing is generally extreme cases and bites can stop causing pain within 24hrs. Absolutely does NOT mean anyone should EVER handle one though, black widows are incredibly fragile and a well fed or egg laden female can easily die to a short fall due to how soft their backend is
Back to wolf spiders though, I've actual fostered a few hatchling wolfs at one point and I wish my phone could record or take pictures of tiny stuff without the picture being a massive blur because idk what happened to them but the mother was in a bad way, most of the babies were missing or had passed away still clinging to her back, but there were five survivors. I tried to hand feed one of them, and uh... The speed at which that thing scaled my hand and cuddled up on one of my knuckles, absolutely adorable and I had a hard time getting them to crawl back down so it seems possible the babies will adopt a new mother if something happens to the original. My guess is because they do stay on the mother's back until they can hunt and will take a few days where they'll venture down her legs to wander a few steps away, it might be natural instinct to grab when offered a leg to climb back up to continue walking once playtime is over. Either way though, super cute interaction and I've had a big rabidosa that got herself stuck in my sink at one point, she was a big baby who I had for two summers and definitely never fit the highly misleading name they were given- which, if you wanna know, was given to them because rabid wolf spiders specialize in eating cockroaches as their primary prey source and roaches duck and weave while running like nobody's business, they'll do a 360° around you while you try to hot or grab them, so rabids developed an instinctual zigzag running pattern to outmaneuver the trash pandas of the insect world but they're actually shy creatures if you're not food and first instinct really shouldn't be to squish them just because they're big and scary, they eat roaches after all. Show them out the door gently and if they return, check that back corner of the cabinet under the sink I know you haven't checked this year, they're probably trying to tell you you've got squatters and are just trying to help you out in exchange for food
If someone put random infants on me, i too would show signs of distress.
Possums (opossums) are NOT immune to rabies.
@@NanaWilson-px9ijthis. They’re resistant to it, it’s rare they get it, but not impossible
There's actually a website dedicated to a nationwide opossum conservation in the US. They even have a newsletter
Vultures, stingrays, pigs, rats, chickens, spiders, hyenas and sharks are amazing animals. They deserve better.
Hyena project is also a good info about hyenas. I recommend reading their articles
At the wildlife center/hospital I worked at, we had a human-raised vulture named Vlad. He'd escaped three times, and all three times he came back within the day, done with his little field trip. He was everyone's favorite animal ambassador and just the sweetest thing. Loved his humans, playing games, and chilling in the sun.
ALSO! On squirrels! Their bite is so strong and teeth so sharp they can easily bite through a falconry glove. Yes, the glove that the most deadly birds of prey can't slice through, a squirrel does with ease.
many rodents in general have insane bite forces and teeth for their size. it's the same reason they can bite through electrical wiring (which is METAL), and why beavers fell trees so easily. their teeth and bites are just completely out of proportion to what we'd expect from their body size
@@a.v.y8331 IIRC, beaver teeth are reinforced with _iron._ Rodents specced all their points into those front teeth, so of course they're going to have a fearsome bite.
What surprises me is that squirrels can apparently throw things as well. There was another comment on this video sharing a story about squirrels throwing things at them. I thought that throwing was something almost uniquely human, even apes can't manage more than a limp-wristed toss. No idea how how squirrels manage it.
I'd like to add to the Spiders. Jumping spiders are the smartest of them, they can actually recognize humans and become curious of us. Plus they are smol and cute.
you know, i actually managed to make "friends" with the crows around my house thanks to your videos. i wouldn't call us "BEST" friends, but when they see me come outside, they'll fly over (pretty close?) and say hi. they are kind of the guardians of my two honeybee hives, since i feed them unsalted peanuts over by where the bees are.
living my literal fantasy over here 🥺
I adore my bird friends so much, and yes squirrels are evil 😂 but I love my chipmunk friends. Chipmunks do not destroy my bird feeders or eat as much as the birds do.
I keep water and food out for my Chipmunks and they even come up on my small back porch when the food bowl is empty to let me know.
My son works on our vehicles and they surprise him in the oddest places by popping up on the wheels under the wheel wells or under the hood. 😂
He laughs after the initial bit of being startled.
But I think my favorites are the wrens. They just let us live here and remind us who the bosses really are. I buy them meal worms as a peace offering lol.
They even scold me when I'm inside sometimes 🤣 They're so funny and feisty.
Anyone who doesn't think animals are smart, doesn't know them very well at all. 😊 Life is so much better with animals as neighbors, I swear. They're endlessly entertaining and it's rewarding to be a bird nerd. I even get rabbits who come eat the bird seed that drops on the ground. 😊
W crows and W honeybees
@@theincrediblehibby8239 i had initially started feeding the birds as a sort of pest control option. we had european hornets show up one year, and they loved to sit on the wall just under our outdoor light that sits outside the door. i didn't want to spray, because i was afraid it'd hurt my bees, so birdfeeders and crows were the next best option
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In the end, I'm almost certain Steve wanted the ray safe, even if he wasn't.
He's a kind heart, he knew it was defense.
This man must spend 99% of his time prepping for a video on the scripting. The transitions (to an ad read even) are silky smooth and the one-liners and casual alliteration are so clever!
Number one most misunderstood animal is definitely the cockroach. Less than 1% of all roaches are the invasive ones you can find in houses. They're also extremely clean and constantly clean themselves like rats. They're very social and can develop depression if they're removed from their family. I keep quite a few cultures of them and they're really astounding. The emerald roach is even maternal, carrying their low instar nymphs on their bellies to protect them and feed them. I hope more people can understand how great they are some day.
I used to be TERRIFIED of spiders. Then I had a little guy move in and spin his web in the toy barn I had in my room. He caught flies, ants, and even mosquitoes, never once hurting me like my dumbass 9-year-old self had expected. I named him Webster.
Then years after Webster left, I found this channel, and I learned that tarantulas adopt frogs, and that jumping spiders are one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. All of this to say, I love spiders now. Character development! 😂
There's something primal in the bias against spiders. Either that or maybe they're just a common early-life jumpscare that scars people pre-memory formation. Jumping spiders, though? One got in my car last summer and made itself known while I was on the highway. Scared me a little, but watching them explore around, something clicked. "Tiny 8-legged puppy."
Spiders generally still advised to stay well away from me, but I would voluntarily cohabitate with one of those.
@@lhei_tayuun It's absolutely a primal/instinctual thing. Most of them are harmless, but you only need to be wrong once to never have to worry about being wrong again.
@@gunnarschlichting9886Even then, the deadly venomous spiders mostly avoid us and only bite when they’re in mortal danger, like if we’re about to squish them by accident. I’ve heard brown recluses can be aggressive, but they’re not deadly, just awful.
yeah, I made peace with spiders in my house because I realized they keep us from being overrun by ants. I also remember seeing a study about which specific aspects of spiders people find disturbing, for some it's the eyes, mandibles, etc. For me the enlarged hard/shiny abdomen is what triggers primal fear 😂 so I'm actually not really bothered by hunter type spiders but still very scared of weaver type spiders haha
I am terribly arachnophobic, so much so I couldn't learn its anatomy for my biology masters. I think it's pretty much something I was born with. I remember being scared even of animated spiders from when I was3 years old and watching a nursery rhyme video of itsy bitsy spider. Their shape freaks the living fuck out of me. I get higher heart rate even today if I were to glance at a spider even one on screen.
Really I thought the entire animal kingdom was misunderstood😂
Very true
Unless said animal is from Australia, they just want you dead.
That too is true😂
Well think about this.
Do we even really understand ourselves?
There is a lot we don't understand about the world. A lot of our job as sentient life forms is to constantly re-educate ourselves. To learn is to live. What you know now may not be true in 2 years. It may not be true in 2 minutes.
Nature can even give the larger middle finger.
I remember hearing when Steve Irwin died, and the crazy part is that I also remember thinking how ironic it was that he'd get done in by a creature that is otherwise completely harmless and that he probably didn't even know was in the same spot he was in at that moment.
I've gone on to also touch and pet stingrays a few more times in my life since then. They're beautiful, graceful creatures and an absolute joy to interact with, and if you've had the privilege to pet a stingray you would know. :)
I've pet sting rays, too! They're kinda slimy.
There's a southern stingray named Priscilla at my local aquarium who literally spends all day begging for attention and treats from people by doing tricks or coming up out of the water at them.
She's captured the hearts of many many patrons and is apparently a major reason people keep coming back.
Kinda surprise wolves weren't mention. Humanity spend most of our existence fearing them to the point of localized exinction.
To be fair, that stigma is mostly gone once we learned how important they are to an ecosystem, and that they actually try to avoid people. (Being dog shaped definitely help with that.)
Whenever I see someone trash talking stingrays on Steve's behalf, I know they don't really know Steve. I know he would apologize and want to help that stingray if he could. I've pet some at an aquarium and they're really sweet, their just lil sea pancakes who are trying to chill in the sea floor
it was one in a million chance .. they happen far to often! but even so def not the stingray or Steves fault .. a pure accident. They happen, I bet the stingray in heaven will be apologising to Steve too .... I'm hearing a stingray/Steve apollogie loop to rival UK and Canada combined ! hahhaa
@@Psylaine64ive heard many times that after the accident, Steves main and first concern was how this would hurt the Reputation of the Stingrays. Dont know if thats really true but it would fit i feel^^
They are one if my favourite animals because when he died I did a deep dive (no pun intended) I was always a nature freak (or freak of nature as I liked to put it) so I knew most of it but I wanted to make sure I had everything right, while they do make me a little sad I realized at age 8 they were gunna get a lot of hate and Steve wouldn't want that, I think I actually talked to his kids abt it through one of the websitedls they set up (I lost my shit when they agreed and not just because his son is cute as hell and even then I knew I was into dud3s lol)
13:20, This year, I learned that spiders can be trained with hand gestures and soft voices. They're pretty smart.
Rats are the most amazing little buddies you'll ever have in your life. They're constantly grooming, sometimes they take breaks to be even cuter.
Edit: Yeah... The lifespan...
I was waiting for hyenas the whole time like "if hyenas ain't of here, I ain't liking e video." Hyenas are my favorite animals and they're so underrated.
Hyena project has also have good info about them aswell
If Lion King really copied an anime, it was still too soon to copy Murenase Seton Gakuen or Interspecies Reviewers.
The thing about Steve Irwin. He would have been the first to tell you that it was his own fault. He would never blame the stingray. The man was a world treasure, one we didn't deserve, and it was a sad day when we lost him
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I love how you immediately regretted even trying to justify them.
I once watched a video where young male dolphins ganged up on and prevented a porpoise from breathing, and the reasoning given was that they were frustrated in the thing dolphins do to make more dolphins. It made realise that dolphins are capable of being kind or cruel for the same reasons that humans are.
@@darkdragoness5hey inteligence has it's downsides
@@darkdragoness5It's worth putting in context that just because the behavior was observed doesn't make it common and definitely not worth condemning an entire species-like with the seal-violating otters, it was some juveniles, and may have been triggered by environmental stress.
@@GSBarlev Cruelty comes with intelligence, all the most intelligent species are capable of cruelty, this is not new. Also dolphins have shown multiple times behaviors that are associate with cruelty, because they caused unnecessary stress\pain to other members of their species, their prey or random animals, so this is also not new. Also aggressive males being a plague is true also for humans, so other animal races are not spared of this lol
@@DeadKraken Yes, but it's important to differentiate between individual behavior and characterizations of species as a whole.
Steve apparently also noticed that the ray was acting unusual when he was interacting with it, but he didn't pull back. He acknowledged that he spooked the little guy and decided to press on. In his and most Aussie's world (am one so can declare) it was a 'hold my beer' sort of moment - which, rather than a moment of one-up-manship that it is in America, is moreso an acknowledgement of risk and a request to a friend not to allow sacred amber to be spilled in a moment of idiocy down here (showoffs will hang onto their beer because they're so bloody cocksure that they reckon they only need one hand).
Saddest part is, Steve was coming in due to rough weather, put his main mission on hold, and decided to film a bit of content for his daughter's show, Bindi the Jungle Girl. I'm pretty sure most Aussies actually don't have much disdain for rays, partially because of who Steve was and what he stood for. Other part would be cause every aquarium I've ever been to has a couple breeds of (NATURALLY) barbless rays in their touch pool, and they're like little puppies that do laps around the sides to get a headpat from everyone, while the Port Jackson Sharks might head off to the middle of the pool and out of reach so they can decompress a little. Like, they could swim out of reach if they wanted to, but they come swimming up to humans and sometimes even decide a certain kid strokes their back just right and will just hang out with their new friend for a good 5 minutes.
Best i can describe sharks is the line from How to Train Your Dragon
"They've killed hundreds of us, and we killed thousands of them"
We've killed *hundreds of thousands*
Always loved that line. Man, HTTYD 1 slapped so hard. The others were good, but the original’s just too good.
@@ZerglingLover
I agree! That just hits the hardest because of the themes in it
Not only about friendship, but also understanding things outside of our comfort zone, both for Hiccup and the rest of the Vikings
Spiders are honestly some of my favorite animals, I didn't start liking them until one mosquito season when I joked out loud: "You're an ally in my battle, I can't kill you.."
And then from then on I began just,,, putting them in more hidden corners whenever I find them.
Spiders are often arboreal or burrow animals, the last thing THEY wanna do is ever see your face again either lmao
So far I encountered Afraflacilla braunsi (I think by the patterns), and cellar spiders, I still hide em around trash cans so insects don't have the chance to draw near
When my mosquito net was broken, I had a spider buddy guarding my window. Real champ, will miss 'em
I am happy Orcas don't hunt humans. That would be actually terrifiying
the story might not be over on that one yet... seeing as they do hold grudges and spread intel to each other like social networking. if we beef hard enough with them they may develop an anti-human culture.
@@alveolate
Didn't whales sorta developed an anti human culture during the era of whale hunting, which may have been the inspiration for Moby Dick?
Well, they have started hunting, and destroying, yachts for the noise they make scaring their food and injuring pod-mates. They haven't exactly connected the dots between the noisy boats and the weird looking animals on the boats yet, but give them time. The rich and super rich might just end up becoming targets of the orca mafia.
A lot more humans are developing the same thing.
It's what makes orca tuck-fluke and run that we should definitely fear. Hate to have to say it but...pilot whales are the orca's kryptonite. Read up on cheetahs of the deep sea and how they take care of business with orcas.
Ive had 2 pet rats, and theh were some of the best pets ive ever had.
I even brought one of them to school in my backpack one day, and Oreo was chill af with everyone he met.
Of course, when the staff found out, they freaked and locked the bag in a closet until the day was over, but i never faced any trouble for it, cause he was just too awesome, and everyone loved how cool he was with meeting new people.
I’d love to see a part 2 of this with more animals that get overly hated or feared. Snakes and bats as some examples.
Pigeons too. They're some of the most incredible birds and so many people think of them as "rats with wings."
@Kokkurichan and now this video makes Pigeons look good lol
@@Kokkurichan Didn’t he already make a whole video dedicated to them?
Bats are the no. 1 rabies carrier though iirc.
@@chaotixthefox no, most of them don't carry the disease.
Though, they are the cause of the majority of rabies deaths in the US, but not the whole world.
Just to add a little bit to the piece at time stamp 11:26. That's the Hero Rat Program. Yes, you are quite correct as their much lighter weights gives them a greater advantage over dogs at finding unexploded landmines without triggering them.
"Because dolphins are so smart, we make the mistake of holding them to human standards...when there are plenty of humans who can't do that!"
I'm barely recovered from my Stingray feelings getting changed, and you drop these facts?!?
i love spiders so much i used to pick them up all the time( and thus sometimes got bit). all those bites left me with a spider venom allergy so even harmless spiders can hurt me and i’m so sad about it
i still love spiders tho. just no more picking them up for me
i also started seeing vultures as protecting me as a kid. i loved playing in the woods and obviously love animals. but seeing dead ones always upset me, so when i saw vultures circling, i’d avoid those areas. in my little kid brain i saw them as protecting me from seeing something upsetting
I adore Steve Erwin and stingrays.
One of the most wholesome people on the planet sadly fell to aquatic Russian roulette, and he would never blame the fish for just reacting the way it would to any big, spooky animal.
"the Kirby shark, which is really just a giant paci-fish"
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XD Thank you, I love that and will add it to my "fave slide-under-the-radar puns and wordplays" list, and share it as often as I can work it into a conversation.
I really appreciate the attention you're bringing to the concept of anthropomorphism, and why it can cloud judgement. Your channel was already great, but now that it doesn't fool itself into thinking animals are humans, it unlocked its final puzzle piece. You're a treasure!
If I could go back to that lil child version of me who always had their nose in an animal and plant encyclopedia, and let them know that one day I would stumble across your channel, I couldn’t even begin to describe the amount of genuine happiness they would feel!
Thank you so so much, for making SUCH interesting and incredible content! I am beyond in-love!!!
I would love to see some videos on Cranes, swans, egrets, and ducks and geese too.
It is widely accepted by many that the sting ray that stabbed Steve Irwin was less responsible for his death than Steve was. His family have said as much publicly many times.
Steve who was and is my childhood hero, made several terrible mistakes the day he died. The dive team that accompanied him also stated he probably would have survived if he didn't pull the little guys barb out, but Steve did so immediately and reflexively. If he had time to think about it I think he would have made the same decision as he would not trade his life for another.
Regardless of what you've heard or believe about the day Steve Irwin died know this: He would never have sought revenge. Steve, his family and friends are very loving people who are as dedicated to conservation as he was.