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The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn, really. Nobody has had the heart to tell them.
To busy trying make nessy the Scottish mascot😂
No way. The official animal of Scotland is the wild haggis. It's a small furry creature that feeds on heather and thistle heads, before the winter culling in time for Burns Night, when they are cooked and eaten.
The ginger trolls have been laughing about that one for centuries
No-one told them about the dragon of Wales either, what do you know!
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreeyI know dragons and unicorns don't exist
5:00 All of that is completely wrong.
The animal shown in the video is a completely harmless legless lizard, not a snake, and common adders are not poisonous. They're venomous.
Aren't all snakes legless lizards basically?
@@RichardRenes They technically are, but the legless lizard in the video is not in the order Serpentes, meaning it is not a snake.
Legless lizards, will often have indentations or marks, where their legs would have been during evolution.
It's literally a slow worm, harmless and kinda dopey.
You can hypnotise them by drawing a line in front of them lol.
@steiner554 About a tenth of the people bitten get complications that require hospitalization. It's not just children and old people. Even if you don't die from the bite, functioning kidneys is still a plus.
The image shown when talking about the adder wasn't an adder; in fact, it wasn't even a snake. It was a slow worm, which is a legless lizard.
Snakes are legless reptiles.
What is a "lizard"?
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff th-cam.com/video/EJP2cWRIIMQ/w-d-xo.html Snakes evolved from lizards, but are distinct.
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ffThere are snakes and there are lizzards. Two different things.
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff A snake is defined by it's skull not lack of limbs. A lizard is a reptile with legs(or not) and ears and eyelids which snakes lack including the fore mentioned skull adaptations allowing the swallowing prey whole. Lindsay Nicole has an informative vid you might find interesting.
@@2l84tI have to support @AnnaAnna-uc2ff here a little, as "lizard" is not a biological category. It's a shape, that is present in many lineages of reptiles. Yes, snakes are a very well defined group within the reptiles, and there are other legless, non-snake reptiles. But in fact, within the reptiles, slow worms are very closely related to snakes, as the Anguimorpha (slow worms and relatives), together with the Iguanas, form the sister group to the snakes.
If you are talking about true lizards (Lacertidae), they are a different group of reptiles than slow worms or snakes. Komodo dragons for instance are more closely related to snakes than true lizards.
Other legless reptiles are for instance the Amphisbaenia and the Dibamidae, both not very closely related to neither snakes nor slow worms.
Personally I think it's wild that video didn't mention the Danube Delta. It's one of Europe's largest wetlands and easily one of the best preserved and most biodiverse wildlife sanctuaries on the continent.
true...and Kopački rit here in Croatia which is largest swamp in Europe
The Italian peninsula has the highest biodiversity in Europe, it has the highest number and density of both animal and plant species (around 60k species of animals, around 5k are endemic to Italy, and 10k species of plants) and they didn't mention it at all.
@@nicoladc89 so cute...yet we are estimated to have between 50 and 100 000 species of animals and plants. so i dont think Italy has more than us
@@zagrepcanin82 all the source said Italy has the highest biodiversity in Europe, in Italy there are 1/3 of all the Europenan species of animals.
@@zagrepcanin82your comment was the cringest thing i read this week.
She failed to mention the Norwegian 'bison' the "Musk Ox".
Oh and Polar bears, are only on Svalbard islands, north of Norway.
yeah i was waiting on musk ox too! they can also be foud in sweden. And the cool thing is its not a bison at all.. its more related to goats but about the same size as bison and look very similar!
As a native of northern Europe, I don't really know that much about the wildlife down in continental Europe but I am familiar with our local wildlife up here, and to answer your question, yes there are Polar bears in Europe, to be specific they have Polar bears up in the very northern parts of Norway, specifically in Svalbard and Lofoten, Polar bears also exist in Greenland and Russia
Where I live in Finland some notable animals are brown bears, which is our national animal, wolves, moose, roe deers, lynxes, a couple of species of viper as well as a non-venomous snake which in english is known as grass snake, ringed snake or water snake. We of course also have a plethora of birds such as eagles of two different species, golden and white tailed, geese, swans, ducks etc, and a bunch of bugs like mosqitoes, flies, ants, ticks and spiders, none that are venomous to humans though, at least to my knowledge.
One thing I would have added to the video ypu watched is, I would've added to Moose or Elk to the dangerous animals section, they may look peaceful and not very threatening, but come between a momma moose and her youngs and you are almost certainly done for unless you have a weapon on you, just like the bison they are obviously MASSIVE but they're also incredibly fast for their size, no human will ever outrun one!
No polar bears in Lofoten, only on Svalbard.
@@basstrammel1322 ah, I misread the source I checked, I thought it didn’t sound right!
@@AHVENANAlso elk isn't moose. Just clarifying since many think elk = elg. They are quite different! Elk is a big deer (hjort) simply put and we sont have that here. Anyway, love Finland!
@@KraakesolvElk are called moose in America and vapiti (a cloose relative to red deer) are called elk because the explorers who named them were not familiar with the European variants.
i wonder why they didn't mention the badger or the red Fox ...I think they are really common in Europe
There are 10,000-15,000 foxes living in Berlin alone, including many in the city center. I often come across some, especially in spring, even during the day.
Yeah.. or rabits/hares
What you thought to be the mohawk of our Eiropean Squirrel is their plushy bushy bottlebrush tail and they got little brushes on their ears, too 😁❣️
And they are shy, in contrast to American squirrels. Even though you feed them, they will not get tamed.
And squirrels can be seen in the cities, in the parks or even more likely on cemetery/graveyard ground with older trees. They have a quiet and peace there, and some visitors and groundskeepers leave them food as well.
@@Diveylwe have some where I work! Almost in the middle of our town. There are some huge trees they can live on.
It's always a treat when we see the from our windows. 😊
If you come to UK be careful of being hunted down by packs of wild hedgehogs !!
Sonic is British confirm
If you come to Germany beware of being hunted down by illegal Refugees!
@@HyperVanilo Damn, you beat me to that comment!
Fun to know: since a couple of years the wolf came back to the Netherlands after being gone for centuries. Logically, it is treated as an endangered and protected species here. At the moment they are spreading throughout the entire country, causing a lot of trouble to farmers because their sheep get killed. Also, people feed them while the advice is not to do that, causing the wolfs to come very close to humans and beg for food, which could lead to dangerous situations. Rangers are shooting them with painball guns to make them afraid of humans again to stop the begging behaviors. The Netherlands is kind of struggling with the wolves haha.
same in Germany
There are 200 big European wolves (50kg) in the Netherlands right now. Next year 500. They feed on cattle, deer and hogs mostly, which is a good thing for the environment. And what comes in the wolf' slipstream? Little red riding hoods maybe. We haven't seen 'm in ages.
Wolf used to be engangered but not anymore. Here in the alps is forbidden to hunt it but is in the ''least concern'' category. There are about 3500 in italy.
I'm pretty sure that the video you watched isn't just voiced by an AI but also written by an AI.
The information isn't very good at all, nonsense such as Bison, Vipers and Sharks being dangerous although they haven't caused any fatalities for decades while completely ignoring moose which are probably the only ones that can de-throne ticks unless you count pets and farm animals.
In general, moose are aggressive only seasonally - the males when in a rut, and the females when their calves are very small. Other than that, just never walk a dog where you could meet a moose. The animal who is always unpredictable is the male wild boar.
Yeah the info was garbage in this video.
@@forgottenmusic1 Quite a danger in traffic too though...
Talked about venomous Adders but im pretty sure they showed a slow worm first, which is harmless to humans
There is lynx in the US, you normally call them bobcats, their scientific name is Lynx Rufus
Yep! But they also have a true lynx. And Europe has wild cats too, that look like house cats but are not, longer tail with a dark tip.
@@dutchman7623 and it gets real funny when some idiots manage to pick up a wild cat somehow, think it's a stray house cat and try keeping it as a pet...
@@Tomatnaufmaugn Wild cats are not likely taken home, only a kitten sometimes. But they stay wild, are very territorial, even attack their owners and will escape as soon as they can.
@@Tomatnaufmaugn I really doubt that someone can manage to pick up a wild cat, they are very shy and loners, they hide from humans, so much so that they are very difficult to detect even using camera traps. For example, in a park in Scotland, biologists only realized there was a group of wild cats thanks to electronic detection systems. More likely those idiots found feral domestic cats or hybrids.
Anyway the feral domestic cats are very very very dangerous for the wildcats, the domestic cat is extinguishing the wildcat in Scotland for example.
The man o’ ear is wild. It’s not one single animal but a colony of 4 animals that each specialise in different roles eg floating, capturing food, reproduction etc, they cannot survive independently and need to work in tandem.
Another animal I don't think you have in America but are in the UK, are hedgehogs. Small pointy nosed mammals with spines on their back. They come out at night mostly, are timid, eat slugs and things and as the name suggests, move in hedgerows and gardens. They're cute and are known to curl up into a spiky ball in defence when scared. Cats soon learn to leave them alone.
Surprising fast and can climb walls which I didn't know
Actually, Britain is a tiny part of their habitat. They live throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.👴🧐
@@Arnaud58 And some of them are bigger as assumed. I know as I have one who visits me regularly through the summer. It then takes a bath in the bird pool I put on the ground ....
@@Arnaud58 Yeah, I just speak for Britain as I live here. I saw on Wiki they're spread over Europe tho. But I was just saying its one America doesn't have.
@@Dan-kb2oz And during breeding season, they make loud 'human-like' noises!
They didn´t mention the polar bears when talking about Svalbard.
They did mentioned it later in the video but strange they didn´t talk about in on Svalbard since that is one of the few places it lives.
On Spitsbergen, around Smeerenburg.
Wanted to say the same. Still want to visit Longyearbyen just to photograph the beauty there
They also mentioned the "pine forests" on Svalbard. There's not a single tree on Svalbard.
The wild boar is actually an invasive species in the US imported from Europe for hunting purposes.
The other way around we have Racoons and American Grey Squirrel as problematic invasive species here in the Netherlands. The European Wolf is making a return and after 100 year or so without wolves in the Netherlands there are now several confirmed individuals and packs. Lynxes also are spotted in the Netherlands, as do wild cats, an animal somewhat resembling a Maine Coon but a bit smaller and stubbier. Biggest mammal in the Netherlands is the red deer.
And no, there are no cougars or mountain lions in Europe, the lynx is the size of a fox and not a danger to humans as they are very shy and rarely seen.
The first picture of the snake was a blind worm, a legless lizard and harmless, I actually found one once and could handle it as it was very docile.
The grey adder lives in the Netherlands as well as the ring snake, these are venomous but as they avoid humans there are almost no bite incidents.
Actually the biggest mammals in the Netherlands are the Wisenten van Kraansvlak. Not quite as wild roaming, but still.
The European Bison actually almost died out completely not too long ago. Only a massive conservation effort brought them back into the quadruple digits. All of them live in Eastern Europe exclusively, I don't think getting some herds for western central Europe was ever up for debate. Edit: Just learned that they actually released a handful of them in Germany and Britain too. Yay!
Edit 2: The European bison is actually genetically closer to European cattle than to the American Bison, which itself is more closely related to the Yak. They are however all from the same family and can be crossbred.
Oh, and the Golden Eagle is absolutely amazing, a more impressive hunter than the Bald Eagle for sure.
Álso wisent and urox (both wild cattle) are growing in numbers. Their territory is growing.
Even in dense populated Netherlands the sea-eagle is breeding, just like the fish-eagle (flying door). And many owl species like eagle-owl. Other big birds, stork, heron, falcon, hawk, buzzard, spoonbill and crane.
Water mammals like otter, beaver, and several seals. Of course species of dolphins and whales.
And of course fox, badger, marten, weasel, wolf, several kind of deer, wild boar etc.
Erm... Actually... Due to overhunting American Bison was close to extinction an a portion of population of Żubr/European Bison was transported to USA to mix there. Later when population of European Bison was critically low it was American Bisons that were transported to Białowieża to mix with local Żubr population.
PS: in Poland lived a large wood cows with big horns, called Tur. It was overhunted into extinction by Commonwealth nobility.
Fun fact:
Bison originated in Eurasia, just like the horses originated in northern America.
@@rusle . . .
Mustangs are horses that survived ship wrecking or escaped from spanish forces that first landed in the "new world".
If there were horses before Europeans landed on the east coast, they were long extinct.
@Diveyl Yes they were. But like camels, they originally evolved there. They then moved across the Bering strait and later went extinct in North America (probably dye to overhunting by humans, but don't quote me on that). Until later they were brought back.
They actually didn't know about the camel until it began to eat plants no other creature could eat.
The White Tailed Eagle a.k.a. the Sea Eagle returned to the Netherlands since 2006, after being gone for centuries! 👌🏼✌🏼
The white-tailed eagle has been breeding in the Netherlands since 2006.
Regular observations were made long (decades) before.👴🧐😉
Yes, the story is similar in the UK. After being wiped out to prevent them hunting game birds in the 1700s, several attempts were made to reintroduce them in the mid-C20th, and there are now breeding populations in the Scottish islands (and one breeding pair in England in March this year). Crossword solvers may note their other name, which is the erne.
@@leohickey4953 They were not "introduced" in The Netherlands. They introduced themselves.👴😉
@@Arnaud58 Yep, and exactly the same applies to the Wolf, just not decades, but years! 🤷🏻♂️✌🏼
@@Arnaud58 That's the way it should be. Sometimes it's a problem for us living on an island, creatures need some help getting here!
.White widow in Netherlands can also knock you down.
😂
lmao...that brings some memories.
btw, ww is still my fav...my preciousssss!
If you’re from Birmingham, a bison is what you wash your hands in.
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Not spam. It’s a Brummie accent in the wild.
You remembered me my school's years when teachers tried to learn us Oxford or Cambrigde english (depended on a partical school). Then the reality with american english hit our faces... That all british englishhas been all overwritten by american dictionary and accent and so already. Actually, I personally like british english more, but american english is mostly everywhere, and for a person like me, more easy to use.
I had put up a link to a Tom Bates video featuring a Brummie accent but apparently you can’t even put up a link to another video on TH-cam these days 🤦
In my country - Latvia electrical grid company installed webcam in the storks nest so people can see it without actually visiting site and disturbing birds. Plus they leave old electric poles with old wagon wheel on top to make a good foundation for the nest. Nost just regular stork also a black stork. Sea eagle nest gets it's own webcam as well.
Near my home, near Grasse in France, there is a nature reserve with European bison. They live in the mountains in a closed park of 350 hectares. The European bison is smaller than the American bison but otherwise they are the same animals. There are also Przewalski horses, a breed that has never been domesticated and has existed since the dawn of time.
In winter, the park can be visited by horse-drawn sleigh and in summer by horse-drawn carriages. You can visit it on foot but accompanied because the animals are free.
We also have wolves nearby.
the european bison is (on average) taller than the american bison
Czech here. What I love about our nature is that except some boars theres not a single animal that wants to kill me. :D (also some wolves but they usually try to avoid people :D )
What have you done to those boars so they want to kill you?!!! 😮😮😮
But I know what you mean. Young, horny males can get quite dangerous and protective mothers even more.
Greetings from Austria! 🙂
@@tubekulose Good you answered yourself 😂
I also have never seen a wolf or a wild boar in Czechia, so they're not extremely common, but in my area, seeing a hedgehog is insane, so i guess i just live in an area of Czechia with not a lot of mammals.
I did see one very interesting animal around here once though, a whole giant seagull in the middle of nowhere, but that isn't a mammal, just cool bird.
Guys i live in Liberec so Jirezera mountains are right behind my house. And i crap you not wolves are not that rare, but skiddysh. Saw a pack while on hike. And you can see lynx tracks all around here. And to the Boars, while mashrooming mama swine almost hit me and my BIL, that was fastest i have ever climbed a tree.
The European Lynx are much bigger than the Northamerican. The European lynx also hunt deer, but the North American lynx are too small for that. They tend to hunt mice, birds and rabbits.
Some species occur on both sides of the Atlantic, including brown bears, gray wolves, wolverines, reindeer/caribou, moose, barn owls, certain species of geese, waterfowl and seabirds.
Those that don't tend to have analogous species, and there's a fair few such species. The European bison (colloquially "wisent") and American bison (colloquially "buffalo") differ only in a few details, and in their preferred environment (the American species gravitates a bit more to prairies, the European species a bit more towards forests and forest meadows). Europe and North America both have lynxes as feline predators, even if they're a bit different. The European lynx is quite similar to the Canadian lynx, but the bobcat is more humble-looking than either of them. Elk (wapiti deer) and red deer are similar (aside from size), and white-tailed deer and mule deer are distantly related to European roe deer. The American mountain goat and the European chamois are fairly related and bighorn sheep and European mouflons are quite similar wild sheep species. Europe has European hares and mountain hares, and North America has hares like the Arctic hare, snowshoe hare and the jackrabbit hares of the deserts. North America has several species of marmots, squirrels and ground squirrels, Europe has marmots, red squirrels and sousliks (a species of ground squirrel that inhabits pastures and meadows). There's even two different red squirrel species on different sides of the Atlantic. About the biggest visual difference would be that European squirrels have more prominent tufts of hair on their ears, whereas many North American squirrels don't even have ear tufts. North America and southern Europe have porcupine species, though they're more loosely related and have a different lifestyles (the American species can climb trees, for one). The great horned owl of North America is a cousin of the European eagleowl. The European little owl and North American burrowing owl are actually closely related too, though they've developed to live in rather different environments. There are European jays and the American blue jay. Woodpecker species are common on both sides of the Atlantic. Trout have both European and American species, there are also native European salmon, and the closely related huchen, a salmon-like fish of continental Europe.
Some species don't have any real equivalents. Black bears are a common American species, but there's no second, smaller bear species in Europe. Cougars / pumas / mountain lions also don't really have a European analogue (arguably fortunate, if you worry about mountain lions during hikes). European wild cats are just a bit bigger than domestic ones and basically harmless to humans. There are no hedgehogs in the Americas at all, aside from introduced specimens. European and American moles are also quite different and some shrew and rodent species might also differ. Besides introduced rabbits, the only thing native to the Americas that is related to rabbits would be the pica, which looks like a big mouse or short-eared small rabbit and lives around mountains. There are none of those in Europe, though they're common in both Asia and North America. Though Europe and the Americas have both tree and ground squirrels, prairie dogs and gophers are absent. Europe does have wild hamsters, but they're quite rare and strongly protected, much like the souslik ground squirrels. American possums are the only American marsupials (distantly related to the Australian critters via South America), but Europe has no marsupial species at all. Southwestern Europe does have the common genet, a cat-like, civet-related African mammal that was introduced there. Another big difference is the absence of wild boars in earlier North American history. Nowadays, you of course have the feral hogs, javelinas and razorbacks in America, that have sort of re-developed into boar-like creatures. The outskirts of Europe and central Asia have the saiga antelopes, and aside from the unrelated pronghorn (that isn't a real antelope), there's no analogous antelope mammals in North America. Some mountains in Europe have capricorns, but there is nothing like them in any North American ranges. Muskox (which aren't really oxen, but sort of their own, giant sheep/ram thing) were originally North American and Greenlandic only, and were introduced to a few parts of Europe and Siberia in more recent centuries. Plenty of European birds have no comparable cousins in North America, especially species like hoopoes and hawfinches. Cardinals are also unique to North America. There are North American species of cuckoos, but I don't know if they engage in the same weird nesting behaviour the European species is famous for. I'd say the large "hellbender" salamanders in North America (related to the giant Japanese ones) are fairly unique, whereas all newts and salamanders in Europe are your usual small amphibians. And the US does have alligators in Florida and parts of Georgia, while Europe has no native crocodilians.
Besides domesticated horses, Europe used to have some wild horse species as well, such as the tarpan, and another species that was sort of similar to the Przewalski horse that still occurs in Mongolia. There's also domesticated horses that went feral in certain regions of Europe (e.g. southern France, etc.), not unlike the feral mustangs in North America or the feral brumbies in Australia. In the more distant past, North America also had its own distinct wild horse species, at least one large camelid species, and even elephant-like mastodons during the ice ages, though all of those went extinct. The Americas only saw the reintroduction of horses in the 16th century. African-style lions used to live in Greece and other parts of southeastern Europe in antiquity, before being extirpated. In prehistory, the islands of Crete and Malta used to have a dwarf elephant species, Crete had a species of giant swan, and Mallorca (IIRC) even had a giant hare species. Weird evolution due to the isolation of the islands from the mainland, lack of predators, and more limited food for big species. During the European ice ages, the extinct woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and cave lions of Europe were originally cold-climate offshoots of the usual African and Asian species (mammoths a bit closer to Indian elephants). There was a lot of strange variety in species during both North American and European prehistory and history.
The Portuguese Man O'War (named after an older term for Portuguese caravel sailships) is a peculiar archaic sea creature, as it's not even close to jellyfishes, but an older type of organism, more akin to sea sponges. It's a colonial lifeform, consisting of several simple, primitive animals that evolve from the same fertilized egg and are fused together their whole life, each part of the creature functioning like a bodily organ. Sea sponges, though very different in appearance, function very similarly. You could say they are multicellular animals archaic enough that they haven't yet moved to the stage of having organs as we understand them, as just another integrated part of a single creature. Almost there, but not quite. In contrast, both a jellyfish and a human are a single creature with its own organs, even if we're otherwise dissimilar in almost everything else.
In Slovenia we have largest population of brown bears per area in the world. Too many, actually, so many that we export them. The bears in the Pirenees and in Italy have been brought from Slovenia.
When they were talking about strange animals, they totally left out one that is found in my country, too. Olm, a blind salamander that lives in the caves. It has skin color like human, therefore it is also called "human fish". In the old days people thought it was the seed of the dragon. It can live for 80 years and can survive up to 10 years without food. Some 15 years ago they found an ever rarer species, a black olm, found in just one place.
same thing is in Croatia.and same animals. though we have huge number of deer and wolves....problems with them. deer are problem due to the fence from hungarian side,animals are not migrating,and wolves are slaughtering sheep and goats
@@zagrepcanin82 Deer are not that migratory. Their numbers have grown because the lack of predators.
We also have increading numbers of wolves, they are present even in the areas where they were gone for centuries, but, surprisingly, there are less incidents with livestock.
Previously, after some incidents, hunters were called to take them out, but after some studies they found out it is better to leave them alone or be very careful which individuals they take out.
Only Alpha male and female Hunt, others drive the prey. If they take out one of the Alphas, which they previously tended to do, the pack breaks up and becomes more oportunistic, therefore, more incidents.
They also found out that mere presence of a guard dog can help dramatically. They won't risk unnecessarily.
They helped us control wild pigs population. I know there is a pretty big problem with pigs in Croatia, probably not as much as in some countries, I've seen the damage in the parks in the middle of Berlin.
We had quite a big deer problem, but wolves helped there, too. Big factor in deer control is also repopulation of lynx, a joint project of Slovenia and Croatia. It is a quite successful project, just last year I've seen a report that lynx population seems to be very healthy and tha they even spread into Austria.
In Transilvania we have a huge poulation of bears too. To an extent that we can't go hiking anymore, and they come into even the cities at night to feed from the garbage. Brussel doesn't let people to shoot them (not even for self defense), but they cause a lots of damage (break into houses, eat cattle, sheep), attack people on the forest roads. One of my father's friend was almost killed by one, and he was scalped by the bear. He luckily survived but one of his arms is fucked up.
@@pepita2437 Yes, I know you have largest population in Europe. But Slovenia is a tiny country and we have more than 1500 of them. They can be seen even on the outskirts of cities, I the villages you can see them practically daily. Numbers grow every year. But I don't think the problem is with Brussles, more like homegrown environmentalists and animal rights aktivisti, people who saw nature only on computer screen.
Btw, do you have trans bears in Transilvania?
@@fifi23o5 wild boar is huge problem here. there are so many of them that people often lose their entire crops.
you say deer is not a problem...find videos here on yt about deers in Baranja and see how many are there.
there are about 50 000 registered hunters and government is not allowing them to control the population
In Poland 🇵🇱 squirrels are red. That's why every child knows that a squirrel is a red one. And he calls "Basia, Basia, Basia." Barbara, diminutive in Polish 🇵🇱.😁
Most of the listed species found in Poland are protected, it is not allowed to shoot them, or they are threatened with extinction and are included in the Red List. Red List of Threatened Species - a list of endangered species of organisms published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It was first published in 1963.
European bison are a little taller than American but less bulky
Also euro lynx are the largest in the world
Like this kind of content 👍
I've never even heard about European bison. I thought the only wild bovine in Europe was the Aurochs which went extinct
@@Kiba_a.z yeah they were headed for extinction 150 years ago but there’s been a number of breading programs that are still reintroducing them around Europe, only two years ago in the uk! There’s a few hundred that have moved into the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
There’s also the Tauros project which is trying to recreate something close in looks and function to the aurochs from cross breeding domesticated cattle
The biggest predator in Europe? The orca, famous for a new habit, they locally developed in recent years: They attacked boats and sailing yachts simply eating up their rudders push the around, and even did sink some. Even if some yachts weight up to 20 tons.
Yes, a lot of cases happening in Portuguese waters, Orcas bullying sail boats leaving them adrift...i'm wondering for some time now, to what lead the Orcas to start behaving like this, cause dumb they are not.
That film clip wasn’t of an adder. It has a distinctive red eye and zigzag black markings. There’s some near me on Cannock Chase.
Polar bear can be found in Svalbard and also in northern part of Russia.
There have been polar bear that has entered Norway (main land), but they get shot quite quickly (too dangerous).
Svalbard also got their own variation of the reindeer that is smaller with shorter legs compared to the one we got in main land Norway (wild and domesticated).
In Poland, lynxes hunt hares but also deer, the lynx weighs about 30 kg
2:27 - C.O.A Valley? LOL, it's pronounced [koa]! Bloody robot voices...
3:38 - About the Iberian Lynx: it only exists in the Iberian Peninsula and became an endangered species due to a disease that started killing wild rabbits, their main food. We, the portuguese, managed to capture a few individuals before they went extinct and put them in a sanctuary here in Portugal, hoping they would start reproducing again while in captivity. It took some time but the gamble paid off and now every year new cubs are born and raised in the sanctuary until they reach the age when they're released back to their natural habitat, all of them carrying a monitoring collar so that the investigators can keep track of where they are and how they're adapting to the life in the wild.
In 2016 there were only 403 in the whole Peninsula, last year there were 2.021, 353 more than in 2022. 🙂
Robot voices should really be banned.
my family kept birds prey. eagles, owls. we had barn owl, eagle owls, kestrel, torny owl, buzzard. they were rescues as example fell out nest when young and abandoned so would not survive on own, family a part big shows at castles when we were young so we had bird prey stand, also uncle made armor and weapons and other period clothing. was lots fun times growing up and lots travelling all over wales and the odd castle in England. was only till very resent my family stopped keeping birds prey, my mum about 15-18 years ago but my uncle only this last year. was great fun walking the shows in costume and huge eagle owl and huge as at the time wing span wider than my arms so could be a challenge to get settled if they spook, my fav was kestrel, don't know why as owls were pretty amazing
We occasionally get Portuguese Men o' War on South-Western beaches. The Australian have a lot of problems with them, and they call them 'bluebottles". They are technically a colonial animal called a siphonophore.
We in Britain did have wolves until the 1700s, and brown bears until the 1200s. It has recently been discovered we did have lynxes until about 1100. Wild boars became extinct, but have now been reintroduced, in quite large numbers. Beavers have also been reintroduced.
The Scottish Wild Cat - not anything to do with your domestic tabby - causes a lot of controversy. It has suffered from inbreeding with the domestic cat. It has been claimed that it is extinct in the wild; but others say it us still out there, but this is inconvenient for commercial interests.
The adder is getting rare. It us shy and rarely bites; although it has the same poison as the diamondback rattlesnake, it has much less of it.
In the urban West Midlands where I live the commonest larger animal is the Red Fox. I often have some in my garden. Badgers are also found, and little deer - whether the introduced muntjac or native roe deer I don't know. Hedgehogs are getting rarer, and I rejoice to see one.
The larger red deer are increasing all over the country, and have to be culled in the Scottish Highlands. (No wolves!) Pine Martens, previously very rare, have been increasing too, as have otters.
There are masses of the imported American grey squirrels. Attempts are being made to encourage the remaining populations of the native red squirrel.
In Belgium, Netherlands and Germany are now a few wolfpacks. They're protected from hunting i believe. Last week they just walked in to a Belgian town.
In Portugal is the wild boar, the estimate is that there are around 400.000, and they are just going everywhere, including the beach...smart pigs :)
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a few comments: the raccoon dog is actually originally from eastern Asia, you may have heard of it as its Japanese name, "tanuki". They were brought into Europe at some point and have been spreading as wild animals since. As for the European Bison, they went almost extinct and largely still exist outside of zoos thanks to active efforts to restore their populations. As for wild boars, America actually got those from Europe - they're actually identical to domestic pigs, they just get like that when they live in the wild.
Portuguese Manowars are world wide. Even get them in Australia, we locally call them blue bottles
I. Spain we have the bisgest population of Iberian wolves, also Bears and many other Big mammals, we are one of the most biodiverse countries in Europe.
The raccoon dog is funny because it's neither a raccoon nor a dog. It's just a glam rock fox!
well, it's a caninae, the same subfamily of dogs.
Pepe le Pew isn't a cat either! :)
American and European Bisons are related, as first a portion of Żubr population was given to the USA to save Bison from extinction, and later it was done in reverse, were some Bisons were given to Poland to save Żubr population in Białowieża.
A big wood cattle called Tur was brought into extinction during Commonwealth times. As well as horse breed called Tarpan.
There is not mentioned but Storks are nesting and breeding in Central Europe during summer.
Herons and Cranes are also prominent on wetlands.
Most big cats, like european lions and tigers, were hunted into extinction. Lynx population is getting even more mixed with domesticated cats, as evidence there are some cases when domesticated cats give birth to litters of half Lynx.
She did a lot of wrong about Norway and Svalbard. There aren't any pine forests on Svalbard and we don't have elk! It's moose! Our name for moose is indeed elg but it definitely isn't the same as elk.
Svalbard has artic foxes, polar bears, seals, walrus, many kinds of whales.
Mainland has bear, wolf, lynx, wolverine, eagles, moose, deer, reindeer, also whales and much more.
As a Czech person I enjoy the chill safe nature of our "wild"life. There is only one poisonous snake (the viper it is rare and not that bad) and 0 indigineous poisonous spiders, closest bears are in Slovakia and some mountain ranges on the borderlands, only few wolves (hunted out but are introduced back and protected now) but mainly just deer, roe deers, foxes, hare and other cute animals. Basically nothing that could kill you or even your child the most endangered are some sheep farmers with wolves and all the chicken farmers with foxes and pine martens
They left out a fairly surprising one: Rheas, an ostrich like bird that is otherwise only native to South America has a pretty sizeable population of 500-1000 animals in north eastern Germany and have become quasi native, after two birds escaped from a exotic meat farm in 2000.
What about the green parakeets that live in Dutch city parks?
Australian escapees, who really like the city life in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands we call our Zee arend (sea eagle) de vliegende deur (the flying door).
Wasn't even aware we had bison on this continent. As for squirrels, the red ones are slowly driven out, especially in Britain, by the American type grey ones. My few encounters with real wild wildlife was a year or two ago. Standing on my doorstep having a midnight smoke a fox just pondered out from the fire alley next door and crossed the street like it was normal. I live in the center of medium sized town on an island that's only slightly bigger. That was quite different from the rabbits that live around the corner under the bridge or the bats that fly around at night to save me from mosquitoes.
What you're saying about the squirrels is only true in places that don't have pine martens.The grey squirrel is a bigger, easier, and jiucier prey for the pine marten, so if there are grey squirrels and red squirrels in an area, the pine martens will only hunt the red squirrels if they have run out of grey squirrels.
Once met a hare close to my city, they are damned big compared to rabbits, and it stayed in the light of my bicycle lamp, so couldn't pass it. For over five minutes I had to slowly follow it over the narrow path. Only when we reached a bigger road, he/she decided to stay in nature and let me escape into city life.
Interesting! In Belgium I've never seen a grey squirrel, only the red ones once in a while. Which is good because the American ones are an invasive species.
@@irissupercoolsy I have seen them in Britain. Most in Cardiff in the park. I too have only seen one or two red ones in the Netherlands, where I live. And why are we still writing in English? For the rest. 😀Goede avond, bon soir.
"Oh you guys have wild boars too"
I thought that wild boars being european is common knowledge everywhere
Yea lol i mean, suthern europe is known for making them taste really good.
Something like 2 or 3 people in the UK died from Adder bites in the 20thC and that was because they were allergic to the anti-venom.
They're very shy. I don't think of them as dangerous.
Traffic is dangerous...
They are not aggressive indeed. I've peed on an adder by accident lol, wasn't able to notice it before it moved.
@@forgottenmusic1 Ha ha!
Yeah that says it all... Most snakes are like that. They just want to be left alone.
Bald eagle only hunts when it can't find carrion like dead salmon. Always found that ironic. 😊
Here in Gerany we also have a lot of Rhea in the north. (7 escaped about 20 years ago and since they are heavily protected they were prohibited to be caught). Now we have serveral hundereds of them roaming around. Same with nurtias. They escaped some pelt farms or were released becaus pelt didnt sell well anymore (as well as racoons in Germany and Denmark or the North American squirrls). The squirrls and the northern Crayfish (from the northern US) are especialy bad, because they multiply very fast and "your" squirrls are much bigger than our little red ones. The crayfish eat everything in their ponds/lakes and if everything is eaten they start canibalize each other.
The animals that the video didn’t talk about much are the deer family. I think I heard mention of either roe or fallow deer, but the larger species seemed to be overlooked. The red deer is an absolute unit of an animal, as anyone who’s ever been unlucky enough to drive into one can vouch. And the European elk is even bigger, being as it’s basically the same animal as the North American moose. Then there’s reindeer of course, which is the same animal as caribou to North Americans.
I just wrote an assessment about Wisents (European Bison). They are not common. They actually went extinct in the wild and it's only due to some individuals in a zoo that people managed to bring them back. Most animals in Europe that don't survive well with humans either aren't or didn't do so well.
Around my home town is the mountains in Southern Bulgaria, there has been some serious depopulation going on for the past 3 decades. As a result nature is bouncing back big time. So much so that brown bears are a real danger nowadays. Nobody goes wandering around in the mountains by themselves any more. People usually take company and bring firecrackers or weapons. Sightings are common even on the outskirts of the villages and towns
As a biologist that makes me very happy.
I can understand if that sentiment isn't shared by everyone though.
@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV it makes me happy too. Everything is overgrown and beautiful, and the climate has become milder both in summer and winter. No more flash floods and no drought. The only downside for me is the bear danger
@@gladiusthrax4941 Is the climate supposed to be milder? Or is that due too climate change?
It does sound like a really nice area now, so I do hope you can BEAR the danger.
Badoom-ching.
@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV winters are warmer now, but summers not as hot as before. I think the vegitation absorbs a lot of the heat and moderates the weathet
I should probably mention Saimaa Ringed Seal. Only found there. Like Ladoga Ringed Seal (only found there), they eventually got trapped in their lake when the ground started rising after the ice age.
Here in Croatia the most common are boars, bears, deer, some wolves, some badgers, lynxes.. and your favorite - wild Škodas :D But never heard of cougars or mountain lions anywhere in the vicinity.
wild škodas hhahhaahahahahha
@@Niki91-HR endless herds moving from north to the sea, so majestic, carrying their young on their roofs.. nature is beautiful! :D
@@SarcastSempervirens Great explanation ;)
Portuguese Man of War, got the name from the 15th century armadas ship’s that were huge and threatening! This guy has 30M tentacles and its mean 😢
In the Netherlands we have
Sea eagles, eagles and many other birds of prey. Many other species of birds. Cranes, flamingos.
Wolves, European bison, wild boars, wild cats, foxes, red deer, dow and many other species.
Otters, several species of seals, beaver, dolphins.
Adders and other snake species.
And yes, we have ticks and raccoons.
Several species of bats.
Red squirrel and siberian squirrel.
Pretty good for a country which is practically all city and surrounding farmland.
But I've never seen wild flamingos (I think I've seen cranes at Tien gemeten), where do they live?
@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV maybe in the west of the country but in the south and east we have plenty of nature reserves.
@@palantir135 I was like yeah, but people infest the place with dogs the whole time. But then I remembered Drente, and you've got a good point.
Also Tiengemeten. Really pretty Island. I saw a Sea Eagle sour there last time I went. Really beautiful, but also really bloody high up.
@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV tiengemeten is great. I saw the sea eagles there too.
Do not visit nature reserves in the weekends and national holidays is my tip for you.
Where I live, Kampinaheide, Huis ter Heide, Regte hei, Groene woud are large enough so you don’t see that many people.
Wild Mountain Haggis is hard to catch.
Vicious little bastards too.....though nowhere near as dangerous as the Welsh Rabbit, of Caerbannog as its called in Wales.
The 'Chamois' is pronounced 'Chamwah' (and it's the skin, once used to polish / clean windows, were called / pronounced "Chammy skins" but now are imitated by 'fabricated cloths' instead of skinning the Chamois).
p.s. the 'Ibex' _is_ pronounced '_eye_bex'
Recently the wolf has been doing a lot better. I remember as a kid hearing that the wolf was extinct in the local area and that the lived far away in the big forests of the east. Then I heard the came as far as Germany. Then they said that they were on the border. Then it was that they were perhaps crossing the border occasionally, but not staying. Then they said that they stayed for a short bit inside the border.
Well then I didn't hear much for a while until BAM, foto in the local paper: "Local photographer spots wolf"!
We live quite far from the border, right on the edge of the Randstad, so that's bloody awesome! I was so happy!
The wolf did move on again. Can't blame 'em, with the amount of people with dogs. But it was cool nonetheless!
I’m pretty sure they haven’t moved on but even have started breeding here in the Netherlands. They say we have about 9 wolf packs living here at the moment. My friends neighbors near Den Bosch have had sheep killed by wolves a few years ago.
@@anouk6644 I meant that they've moved on from my area. 's Hertogenbosch is quite far from where I live so I doubt the wolves want to stay in my area for long.
@09:52 The Dutch nickname for the white-tailed sea eagle is flying barn door...👴😉🤭
I've been enjoying your content for such a long time (especially the beer review) and I've been a quiet watcher.
Here is a fun fact from a German fisherman. Our eels live in rivers and lakes.
When they want to mate, EVERY eel swims to America (Saragossa Sea). They dive deep down and nobody has ever recorded or seen the mating progress.
Young "glass eels" rise to the surface weeks later. They swim to Africa for orientation an swim along the coast back to all the European countries. They change their color from "glass/translucent" to yellow, then brown and finally black (or brown). Sadly, glass eels are so easy to catch since they swim along the coasts of Africa that it is easy income for their fishermen. Our eels sadly become endangered.
Apparently the white tailed eagle is the same as the Dutch Zeearend, AKA, vliegende deur, flying door. I've actually had the honor of seeing one hunt recently, soaring high up in the sky, at Tiengemeten. Beautiful island. Lot's of rare species, especially birds.
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Jackals are assassins. Especially 1970s assassins.
There is still a lot of animals missing that lives in Europe like a tons of bird species:
Buzzards, starlings, blackbirds, tit, jays, robins, crows and ravens, falcons, eagles, vultures (mountains), owls, sparrows, finches, ducks, gooses, moorhens, cuckoos, woodpeckers, kingfishers, magpies, pheasans, quails, partridges, woodcockes... And a lot more
For reptiles: mainly several species of grass snakes and vipers. Turtles, tortoises, lizards.
For other Mammals: seals in western coasts.
Badgers, rabbits, hares, foxes, rats...., mouses, , coypu.
Also many fishes
For insects... There's a ton like ants, termites, grasshoppers, crickets, bees, wasps, european hornets, butterflies, moths, flies, dragonflies, beetles, ladybugs...
Arthropods: lots of species of spider, millipedes, centipedes.
I don't know if you have Peregrine Falcons in the US but we have a good number here. ( fastest animal on the planet).
The Falco peregrinus has it's habitat virtually around the world.👴😉
New York has the highest peregrine falcon density of any place in the world!
They may be called the duck hawk in North America. It's always a fantastic experience if you find them nesting on a tall building near you. There was a pair on the tower of Liverpool Cathedral a while ago.
Peregrine falcons are found around the world.
@@-sandman4605 I'm glad you second my post on this👴😉.
When I first saw the Portuguese man-o-war, I thought it was a Bluebottle. However the Portuguese man-o-war is found in the Atlantic ocean. Throughout Australia, Bluebottles are more common on exposed ocean beaches. The Bluebottle's are smaller & less venomous than Portuguese man-o-war. I've been stung by a Bluebottle & it really bloody hurt. To think it's less venomous than the Portuguese man-o-war, I can just imagine the pain of being stung by one of them.
We have lynx and bears close to the village. The lynx comes and goes when the reindeers passes to and from the mountains, so do also the golden eagle. There is a lot of foxes, hares and moose in the forest and we has also seen raccon dogs but just a few long ago (emigrating from Finland and Russia). Other birds that are common is capercaillie, black grouse and hazel grouse. There is vipers around but you do not see them, I have seen two of them in my life and I am 60 yrs and always outside, walking the forest in spring to late autumn. No poisonous spider more than a bite may give you a little itchy bump on the skin if you are sensitive. /Living on the countryside in north of Sweden.
6:25 i saw that at the beach on the canarie islands , noone knew what it was so we let it back into the ocean
love your content! and please more football and beer videos...your father in law is perfect :D:D ....a fan from The Netherlands!
Italy has the highest biodiversity in Europe, in Italy there are 61k different species of animals, 5k of them are endemic to Italy (example: the Marsican brown bear, the Italian wolf, the Mediterranean scallop, the Apennine yellow-bellied toad, the Spectacled salamander, the Italian tree frog, the Vipera aspis, the Sardinian fox, the Alpine ibex, the Italian roe-deer etc.).
One European extint animal was the Sicilian dwarf elephant (Palaeoloxodon falconeri), it was smaller than a human (around 90cm), it's a classic example of Insular dwarfism.
Here in Switzerland we have Lynx; cougars and mountain lions only exist in norther America as far as I know. Lynx are not dangerous for humans, the biggest problem are dogs (like for most wildlife).
There was a case once in which a woman didn't have her dog on a leash (like ever so often) and he smelled something and took off. When he came back he was hurt and had scratches. The woman called the ranger who came immediately and found a dead Lynx kitten. Apparently the dog chased them down and the Lynx mum attacked, the dog managed to kill one anyways. The woman demanded that the Lynx must be put down for being a danger but obviously she was in the wrong. The lynx is also a protected species and neither she nor her dog managed to respect that so the dog was put down and she got a fine.
Lynx are very shy and mostly nocturnal animals, so it's very unlikely that you'll ever seen one.
In times of ancient Rome (753 BCE -476AD.) there were wild lions in Europe: "In Southeast Europe, the lion inhabited part of the Balkan Peninsula, up to Hungary and Ukraine during the Neolithic period. It survived in Bulgaria until the 4th or 3rd century BCE. Around 1000 BCE, it became extinct in the Peloponnese. It disappeared from Macedonia around the first century AD, and in Thessaly in the 4th century AD.”
European Bison, or "Żubr" in Polish is a little bit smaller (the weight of adult males ranges from 440 to 920 kg; cows from 320 to 640 kg. The height at the withers reaches 188 cm.) than US Bison (the height at the withers can be 250 cm. Weight: 450-1000 kg; the largest individual weighed 1,140 kg), has less hair on the front of its body and head. The horns of the "Żubr" are longer, thicker at the base and less curved, and the nose is less convex. But overall those 2 species are very similar.
"Żubr", as the US Bison, has 2 subspecies: Lowland bison (Bialowieza), Mountain bison (Caucasian), and the lowland-Caucasian line (hybrids of subspecies).
"Żubrobizon" is a prolific interspecies hybrid resulting from the crossing of two species of the bison genus: the European bison and the American bison.
Asian raccoon dog, jenot, Usurian raccoon, junat, tanuki, Japanese fox, kunopies, is a species of predatory mammal belonging to the dog family (Canidae) ;)
Its fur is prised for coats and such; lives naturally in Asia, was brought to Europe for fur breeding, some individuals escaped, others came from Russia, giving rise to European populations.
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There isn't one eagle species that has all the lagest masurments, so ranking changes depending on the cryteria.
But Philippine eagle (max weight:17.6 lb / 8kg, and max wingspan: 7 ft 3 inches / 220cm),
Steller's Sea Eagle (max weight:19.8 lb / 9kg, max wingspan: 8 ft 2 in / 250cm),
Harpy Eagle (max. weight: 19.8 lb / 9kg, max wingspan: 7 ft 4 inches / 224cm),
Wedge-tailed Eagle (max weight: 11lbs / 5kg, max wingspan: 9ft 2inches / 280cm)
and White-tailed Eagle (max weight: 18lb /8kg, max wingspan: 8ft / 245cm) are on the top of the list.
Scotland. We also have pinmartens. My favorites.x
I am Romanian and in my area we have a natural park where you can meet vipers, bears and wolves. My brother spotted a viper while he was on a school trip to some citadels there when he was 7 and grannies that live there often meet with the bears. :)))
Best part of the uk and ireland is we have nothing that can kill you really. No wolves, no bears, no wild cats or dogs, no dangerous insects, no mosquitos really, no snakes, no dangerous spiders really etc. You can enjoy nature without worrying. The main animals you find in the uk and ireland are foxes, hedgehogs, rabbits, squirrels, badgers, sheep, goats, wild horses in some places, but nothing really dangerous.
There is a snake what you can find that can kill you, it's called the black adder which is part of the viper family of snakes and can be found across the UK
Yeah, glad I live here in the UK!
Except you have peoples owned dogs that kill people and shame on you no law to prevent that!!!!
Don't you have ticks there? Living in the region with the highest concentration of predators in Europe, I can say you are lucky if you actually see one, but ticks are really dangerous.
@@forgottenmusic1 nope no ticks really. Certainly none ive ever heard about.
Racoon dog is an invasive specie from Asia. American and European Bison are related through extinct ice age Steppe Bison (which was much larger than 2 current species).
So where I live, 15 minutes from Paris, we have 2 colonies of animals that should not be here.
The first one is that we have a wild colony of Wallabies around 20 of them escaped a zoo in 1970 and since then we can find this colony in the Rambouillet Forest (close to Paris) and around.
And the second one is a wild colony of Rose-ringed Parakeet that you can now find all around the Ile-De-France region (Paris and around) but they are predominantly living in the Val-De-Marne "county". Same in 1970 they escaped at Orly Airport during a fret. I see them a lot and especially during summer.
Yes we only have Lynx, no lion mountain, no cougar, no coyote.
There are wild kangaroos in Frnace (Forêt de Rambouillet) and many nutria are spread all around the country , you can find nutria pâté quite easily. We also have three endemic species, the dahu, lthe oulà-oulà and the béquillard des bois who is the only three-legged mammal on this planer.
One fairly significant mammal I'm surprised wasn't mentioned is the European Badger, found across most of Europe, famed for their fondness of mashed potatoes.
5:24 Żmija-The viper is very popular in Poland🇵🇱. It can be confused with Zaskroniec-Grass snake.(which is also in Poland🇵🇱 Non-venomous)
Mountain lions are part of the prehistoric extinct species. We humans were pretty effective in shaping the animal kingdom around here in Europe. Many species that were hard to live with were driven into extinction. And others were introduced and are now part of the common fauna.
Other unique animals: the endangered Saimaa ringed seal. There are about 400 of them and they can only be found in lake Saimaa in Finland.
The squirrel with the mohawk is actually a squirrel with it's tail raised over it's back and head
When it comes to spiders and snakes (venomous animals in general), Europe does not have much to watch out for. For lynx in the US, I think you call them bobcats. Very elusive animals. The European and the American bison differs in that the European bison like forests. There is also the problem with names - the video mentioned elks, wich in the US is another animal. In northen Europe there are quite many moose thogh, which would be the correct word in american english.
For dangerous animals, the most common would be wild boar, brown bears and moose - especially when they have babies. I grew up in Sweden and have spent very much time in the woods there, and I was never worried over dangerous animals. The biggest danger would in my opinion be traffic accidents, especially with moose, red deer and wild boar. Moose and deer have long legs, so what often happens is that a car damages their legs and their body ends up going through the windshield. If you hit a wild boar, it is like hitting a brick wall. They also have a nasty temper, so if they are injured, they will likely attack you (or the car). DON´T leave the car!
1:50 - no, European bison are not "big time" or "pretty common". But "Europe" tries to get them into more healthy numbers than "almost extinct". It is a "forest bovine" that superficially looks the same as the bison of the American plains. Poland has the biggest, and oldest in lineage, herd but smaller herds are present in contained areas in other European countries.
Note that the words "bison" and "buffalo" are very ancient words in European languages.
It's not like the European bison was named after the American one, but the other way around.
The "qualifier "forest" with the European bison, I added because actually North America has one in a separate, third, species of bison too, way up North at Alaska/Canada latitude. These animals are likely to form smaller herds and in case they need to try to escape a predator attack also need to be very agile in order to meander through the woods at that - and that is probably why they are less broad in the shoulders.
Picture this, in NW Europe near the North Sea. At some 5 km (~3.1 miles) distance from my home, in a nature reserve, is a herd of European bison - the European common name in several countries is "wisent" (we sent). They're in a fenced area in the fenced reserve and in the safe part of the animals' year, people can walk through this inner sanctum. On my walk in there, I had paused at outside the inner fence to overlook a small lake with a beach at the other side, where the herd of bison was ruminating in standing there, a little dispersed, looking in different directions. There was one calf in there, probably almost one year old [1]. Then a herd of wild horses joins them on the beach and stands at some distance. Two stallions start a fight for ranks and prancing/kicking/neighing made for a lot of sound and fury. Immediately the bison grouped around the calf, all looking at the horses. Apparently this looked like a threat to the horses as they immediately calmed down. Peace and quiet again. Not long after the horses, civilised, walked off stage between dunes.
[1] Farmers use different names for young cattle related to age, weaning, sexual maturity, that all, however, relate to domestication, breeding, meat production, etc., or in the case of males, having been castrated or not: bull (in tact), ox (castrated).
6:31 The animal world continues to surprise.👍😁
We have a pair of Peregrine Falcons (fastest creature in the world) nesting on top of a chimney stack visible from my house, those things are amazing, can be very noisy but make an awesome sound
So much was missed from the British Isles. Orca, Common Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Porpoise, Blue Shark, Basking Shark, Thresher Shark. Common Seal, Grey Seal, etc, etc, etc...
Portuguese man o' war aren't one creature, they're actually a colonial organism, made up of many smaller units called zooids. Although they are morphologically quite different, all of the zooids in a single specimen are genetically identical. These different types of zooids fulfil specialised functions such as hunting, digestion and reproduction, and together they allow the colony to operate as a single individual. And you do not wanna go near that thing. Their sting can kill humans.
A report published by The Royal Society (Publishing) in December 2023 stated the free ranging population of European bison is approximately 7,300 and that number is only because of active conservation interventions put in place over the past 100 years as a result of it being on the verge of extinction back then. It is a species still deemed to be threatened by so many factors, mostly caused by humans. From this report: "Of the 47 free-living European bison populations, only eight have more than 150 adults, and all eight of these are dependent on supplemental feeding due to poor habitat suitability [4]. Moreover, only 23% of reintroduced populations of European bison have connectivity to other populations [4]. Managers clearly need new information that will help to maximize the probability of successful reintroductions of European bison, and potential flow-on benefits to nature and people."
The inbreeding within herds because of the lack of connection to other herds also causes population decline as the genetic line weakens and defects increase.
That nearly 50% of the free ranging population is within Ukraine and Russia, during a time of intensive hostilities is yet another major concern for the bison.
biggest cats on the continent are the Lynxes... we had cave lions, but that's back in ice age era
the racoon dog is originally from east Asia, imported for the fur trade
we do have way less dangerous snakes/spiders and the likes because the ice age basically left a clean sheet, no direct/easy link with wilder territories (Mediterranean sea, Bosporus, Black sea and the Caucasian range were a "moat / wall" for most of landlubber insects. Due to that, we have in Europe, mostly "domesticated" species, those that survived the end of the ice age and those who could travel
(in "domesticated", I include everything that humans either imported or that travel with humans, like rats)
and more lately, we do have the invasive species, that come with international trade (yeahhhh for the Asian Hornet that destroy our bee or the flat worm from South America that destroy the common earth worm...)
fun trivia: the national animal of France, the rooster, is a pretty recent choice... date from the late 1800ies and probably originate from a very bad translation and/or association from Latin to French (Gallia = Gaul, Gallus = a Gaul, but also gallus => gallinaceae, the chicken and rooster). If you want the historical animals of France, you could have the horse, boar, stag for the Gauls, then some sorts of eagles (in Roman style...) for the early Merovingian, the bee, the salamander (François 1er), the lily flower (not an animal, but the French monarchy emblem for a long time), back to eagle and bee with Napoleon...
the rooster come during/after Napoleon III era, when there was an archaeologic craze (hey... we did unearth the Egyptian ruins/history, why not "ours". Also, relating to the Gauls made it easier to "hate" the Germans after the 1870 war, knowing that Germans and French are "cousins" ("Grand children" or Carolus Magnus)... So here we have it... the only animal that sing feet in shit, as an emblem for France. Yeah, French hate/mock everyone equally, including themselves, lol
Please excuse the long post, but I love this stuff.
@0:58 although there haven't been wild lions that far west since prehistoric times, they're popular in heraldry. Asiatic lions would have been familiar to the ancient Greeks, and Barbary lions were found in north Africa in Roman times.
@1:10 list videos like this one tend to rely on library pictures, and all the ones shown here are the American versions, but they do have cousins in Europe. Even where they have reduced ranges, there have been limited reintroduction programmes as part of a rewilding initiative. We have a small herd of bison (wisent) in eastern England, which are great land engineers, although I don't think they're common anymore (I only know of populations in Poland and Belarus). Proposals to use lynx to control overpopulation of deer are being considered.
@2:17 jackals are in the dog family, similar in size to coyotes. There are a few species in Africa and India, but they're rare in Europe.
@2:54 check out online pictures of Alpine ibex clinging to the dam wall of an Italian reservoir -- they're bewilderingly sure-footed. Sadly the Pyrenean ibex is the only animal to become extinct twice (clones created from frozen eggs in 2003 only lived for a short time after they were born).
@3:28 the name elk can cause some confusion. The European elk is a cousin of the animal called a moose in North America, not the other deer that Americans call an elk.
@3:55 the robot lady butchered her pronunciation for this slide. The Camargue is a French wetland region, famous for its wildlife, especially the herds of white horses and black cattle, which are fully wild. Beavers shown in the picture are also being spread as part of rewilding programmes, including to the UK.
@4:14 people underestimate how dangerous hooved animals can be, especially when defending their young. American and European bison belong to the same genus, so are pretty close cousins. I think they shown the correct picture here.
@4:50 a King of Norway once gave a polar bear to his English counterpart (Henry VIII?) and they kept it at the Tower of London, letting it hunt in the River Thames.
@4:56 great whites have been been reported off the British coast recently, for which climate change is blamed.
@5:01 as another person has said, the picture is wrong for the adder, but you needn't worry, because they are scared of people and only as poisonous as a hornet. Only dangerous if you're allergic. There are plenty of other snakes, but none are very dangerous.
@6:10 the Portuguese man o' war was named for its resemblance to a sailing ship, not because they're especially common there. They are actually a colony of stinging jellyfish that share the inflated gas bubble, not a single animal. Don't touch the dangling tendrils as they really hurt.
@7:36 those are pygmy mongooses, which are African not European.
@7:58 that was a scimitar-horned oryx from North Africa, not a chamois (correctly pronounced "sham-wah" in the French style, not "shammy"). Raccoon dogs are from east Asia and were only introduced to Europe as pets, which have sometimes escaped. Red squirrels are native to Europe, including the UK, but are rare now because they're been displaced by the grey squirrel imported from North America.
@9:40 White-tailed eagles are nicknamed "flying barn doors" in Britain, which gives an idea of what they look like in the air.
@10:40 no truly wild cougars (except a couple I saw in a nightclub recently, whole other story) but there are reports of some big cats being released by doofuses who didn't realise a panther might be an expensive pet. Unconfirmed, but there is some very convincing grainy film out there. The lynx in the picture you were looking at is only a young one, the adults grow to about Labrador dog size.
Southern Europe still had lions 200 years ago!
Sadly no, European bison are not at all common. They did go extinct in the wild but have recently started being reintroduced. So far it seems to be working and there are a couple of thousand now but there are of course inbreeding issues since all the ones alive today are descendant from only twelve animals that were in zoos.
You should look up the Wels Catfish. These guys are true giants. Like 8-9 ft in length. Very cool looking too
The iberina lynx is beautiful and also the iberian wolf. I love them.
This clip seriously fails to mention how close to extinction the European bison was. Int the 1920s/30s, the total population dropped to some 20-30 animals, all of them living in captivity. It was extinct in the wild!
It also says nothing about the Saiga, the utterly weird East European antelope with it's trunk-like snout. They roam the East European steppes and their numbers vary wildly, in recent decades they have gone from roaming in million-animal herds, to being almost extinct, and back, multiple times!
Also worth mentioning is the recent prehistoric fauna. ten thousand years ago, in addition to the Woolly mammooth we had the European Straight-tusked elephant, nearly twice as big as modern day African elephants. We had the Woolly Rhinoceros, Irish Elk or megaloceros, a giant deer with 10 foot wide antlers. We had the cave lion, the second largest lion after the American lion, we had the leopard, the European jaguar, and the scimitar cat, a cet with long, serrated incisors that are believer to have been a specialized elephant killer, using those incisors to bite huge chunks of meat out of living elephants. And last but not least, theu Aurochs, the ancestor of all domestic cattle. The last Aurochs was killed in 1527 in Poland, one of its horns is on public display in Stockholm, Sweden. Most ancient sources say the aurochs was a HUGE, and very temperamental animal.