Fifteen Waddles, Then A Sheer Drop… How Come I Swim Up Where I Started? How Come I End Up Where I Belong? Won’t take my eyes off the fish again You reel me out then you cut the stringgggg
The Kauai O'o extinction comes close as well. It is very tragic, because there wasn't just only a single male left, but he was singing for a mate that would never come (& it was recorded in some footage), the last female was lost to a wind storm, & the Kauai O'o was the last of their genus....so there's not much hope trying to bring them back (unlike the Tasmanian Tiger, Passenger Pidgeon or Dodo).
I didn't realise the conservation awareness and attempts. So sad that they ended the way they did hopefully we can all learn from this with modern species Well researched video
You should reflect on the inherent selfishness of that statement. Why is being 'cool to see' a criterion for the survival of a species? They don't exist for humans' benefit. All but a tiny fraction of the species that have ever existed are now extinct. It's part of nature. Get over it.
1:11 i love telling new people penguins are extinct and seeing the horror and confusion until i explain the fact. Then they look at me like im a painful nerd. Its great
I can't believe someone, after the Medieval period, legitimatly accused a bird of being a witch and then beat it to death....Its beyond sad. Excellent video, you now have a new subscriber!
Ironically that type of stuff continued until around mid industrial era. I even heard cases where they’d force sick children eat ash of dead people whom they thought was a witch or vampire thinking that eating the ash would cure the illness. Aka people are dumber than you can think.
Also someone thought the wolf was a dead person of the mayor. They catch, killed, hang it while wearing human clothes then cut it face to wear a mask... Humans are stupid believe such things
It’s a story made up for tourists. The St Kildans were the last community that preserved auk colonies. Their entire life was birds. The story was published by the very class of Britons who drove each wave of industrialised predation, the last, a deliberate extinction.
tbh we stil have cool animals there today look at river dolphins ,electric eels ,,other fligthless birds ( like the one flightless cromorant in the galapagos and many more we just often see the animals we see all the time as not as intresting as we are used to them
There are actually auks still living on the island of Helgoland. They only live on one side of one rock of that very tiny island but they do still live there. So, if you want to see penguins that can fly as well as any chicken and live in Germany, there you go. They are called lummen and also come in brown and white if you fancy a penguin of a different color.
@@kiuk_kiks The amount of species that went extinct in Australia/America/Asia due to early human expansion is huge. Aboriginals are "responsible" for killing off some of the most interesting fauna ever.
I enjoyed the wallace and gromit references.... But I'm gutted that I could've seen a great auk on the coast near me, but humans ruined it. Like everything. 😞
Additional info: fossil records suggest that they were present since the Middle Pleistocene at least 400,000 years ago in England and Bermuda, and there is a fossil species in the same genus Pinguinus which was present during the Early Pliocene. A shame that such magnificent animals are now gone because of human arrogance.
The Great Auk! I think that like the last nest was purposely stomped on by people who wanted to sell them for meat/as a commodity? Yeah, people are terrible. The Great Auk, the first penguin.
Im curious on whether or not the mentions of newfoundland are actually talking about newfoundland or if im miss hearing it and its something else entirely.
Just when i was thinking of the Great Auk, i be presented this video wich i did wanting to have the story more detailed and informations. Such a traigic story they had, if there is one of those extinct viable species to resurect i would judge the Great auk one of those if it were viable enough to actually do, rather than the Mammoth for exemple. Here in France we have three of the Alcidé left, the Macareux moine (Atlantic Puffin - Fratercula arctica), the Guillemot de Troïl (Common Guillemot - Uria aalge) and for last the Torda Pingouin (Alca Torda) they also have a second common name here being also called Small Pingouin but the Torda Pingouin is probably the better known one.
"the orcs shall dwell! There they will survive, and multiply, and grow stronger, and a day will come when they cover the world, and they will slay all of your collective peoples! Orcs shall inherit the world you sought to cheat them of!" Yes
Hello I meant what I said. This is because a sailor in the 1800s would not encounter the Great Auk often due to most of their breeding colonies being extinct by 1800. Later in the video this statement makes more sense.
Congratulations George. I think you have achieved the single worst-edited video on TH-cam. worst-edited video on TH-cam. Congratulations George. I think
@GeorgeTheDinoGuyThey are being a dick, your editing is great, there are one your two sections where you leave two takes of the same thing though, so there are repeated sentences
@ Around 10:50 you say the same same sentence twice slightly differently? About the last colony moving due to vulcanic activity. I think they might mean this, but I haven't noticed it anywhere else
Fifteen Waddles, Then A Sheer Drop…
How Come I Swim Up Where I Started?
How Come I End Up Where I Belong?
Won’t take my eyes off the fish again
You reel me out then you cut the stringgggg
The naming confusion reminds me of how the red panda was the original panda until the giant panda came to be known as just the panda.
the story of the great auk is one of the saddest out there
Yep, right up there with the thylacine and the passenger pigeons 🥺
@@albatross4920 Except thylacines yet live.
That just a theory though nothing has been confirmed that they exist@@Roylamx
And the Steller’s sea cow..
The Kauai O'o extinction comes close as well.
It is very tragic, because there wasn't just only a single male left, but he was singing for a mate that would never come (& it was recorded in some footage), the last female was lost to a wind storm, & the Kauai O'o was the last of their genus....so there's not much hope trying to bring them back (unlike the Tasmanian Tiger, Passenger Pidgeon or Dodo).
"Auk tuah..."
**gets shot**
Finding a recluse colony of believed to be extinct animals and killing all of them to make museum exhibitions is so d4mn ironic
I didn't realise the conservation awareness and attempts. So sad that they ended the way they did hopefully we can all learn from this with modern species
Well researched video
This actually angers me a bit too, since this would have been quite a cool bird to see. Another sad casualty to humanity.
Not to humanity, but BY humanity.
this is why oil and natural gas are blessings
no more hunting fatty animals for oil
You should reflect on the inherent selfishness of that statement. Why is being 'cool to see' a criterion for the survival of a species? They don't exist for humans' benefit.
All but a tiny fraction of the species that have ever existed are now extinct. It's part of nature. Get over it.
Tbf it was self defense
@@godrilla5549look at them. Pure evilness on those souless eyes.
1:11 i love telling new people penguins are extinct and seeing the horror and confusion until i explain the fact. Then they look at me like im a painful nerd.
Its great
you are
@dessertstorm7476 thank you!
I can't believe someone, after the Medieval period, legitimatly accused a bird of being a witch and then beat it to death....Its beyond sad.
Excellent video, you now have a new subscriber!
Ironically that type of stuff continued until around mid industrial era.
I even heard cases where they’d force sick children eat ash of dead people whom they thought was a witch or vampire thinking that eating the ash would cure the illness.
Aka people are dumber than you can think.
People back then were ignorant fools, almost to the point of brainlessness. 😡
Also someone thought the wolf was a dead person of the mayor. They catch, killed, hang it while wearing human clothes then cut it face to wear a mask... Humans are stupid believe such things
It’s a story made up for tourists. The St Kildans were the last community that preserved auk colonies. Their entire life was birds. The story was published by the very class of Britons who drove each wave of industrialised predation, the last, a deliberate extinction.
@eh1702 Well, yeah. British people back then sucked. A LOT. 😡 👎
Really wish the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon, and Thylacine were still around
One day, technology permitting, they will be back.
The great auk looks like someone who'd never seen a penguin tried to draw one.
This infuriates me because I feel like we were robbed of so many cool animals😭I pray one day they can be brought back
tbh we stil have cool animals there today look at river dolphins ,electric eels ,,other fligthless birds ( like the one flightless cromorant in the galapagos and many more
we just often see the animals we see all the time as not as intresting as we are used to them
Me too.
There are actually auks still living on the island of Helgoland. They only live on one side of one rock of that very tiny island but they do still live there. So, if you want to see penguins that can fly as well as any chicken and live in Germany, there you go. They are called lummen and also come in brown and white if you fancy a penguin of a different color.
Thank God there's still some
@@youretheChrist No, they are not the same, nit Alca impennis. They are razorbills, (Alca turda) a much smaller cousin species that can fly.
@eh1702 better than none
There’s plenty of normal auks in the world, but this large flightless species which was the original penguin is extinct.
@@eh1702 the smallk
It always frustrates me when i hear humans have eaten an entire species to extinction.
Now I'll never know what they tasted like.
@@kiuk_kiks The amount of species that went extinct in Australia/America/Asia due to early human expansion is huge. Aboriginals are "responsible" for killing off some of the most interesting fauna ever.
@@kiuk_kiks shut up, racist piece of garbage...
@@kiuk_kiksNot quite as East Asians eat far more species of animals in far more quantities.
@@darth3911
Asians haven’t caused the mass extinctions and genocides your kind have perpetrated.
@@kiuk_kiks s'ok, us Americans did in the passenger pigeon, the last carcasses on sale, cheap
The thumbnail looks insane!
I enjoyed the wallace and gromit references.... But I'm gutted that I could've seen a great auk on the coast near me, but humans ruined it. Like everything. 😞
Well, not EVERYTHING, but........yeah. We humans have caused untold devastation to mother earth and her beautiful creatures. 😢
Puffins are the rightful successors to the true penguin over the southern pretenders.
Everyone did a fantastic job at voice acting!
Jimmy really caught me off guard 😂
As someone who has seen nearly all great auk videos (longer than a minute) i would say this is the best video on them out there.
Wow I really appreciate the kind words, no way can this be the best!? 😭
Great video bro. The voice acting was perfect and as always the content was interesting.
Additional info: fossil records suggest that they were present since the Middle Pleistocene at least 400,000 years ago in England and Bermuda, and there is a fossil species in the same genus Pinguinus which was present during the Early Pliocene. A shame that such magnificent animals are now gone because of human arrogance.
Arrogance? I think a better word would be ignorance. Or greed, selfishness, stupidity, etc.
What I find most interesting is they have the same white eyespot on a black head that orcas do. I wonder if it's for the same reason.
Love the hop subtitle for the sick jump. That's the love and attention I admire for my TH-cam watching
Brilliant video! Did actually watch it all as well
Great video! I had heard about these birds but I knew little to no information on them.
Also, at 3:25, we get you man 😬
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks, I wasn't depressed enought today.
Gladly!
Wallace and Grommit mentioned !! 🗣️
In French, auks are "pingouin"
6:53 "Which definitely didn't help matters"
No, but it definitely helped mattresses.
The original pingu😢
The last testimony of the remaining pair was, disheartening
bro crashed out at 3:27 😂
I pray for the bird to come back. I hope we get genetic material.
the razorbill is the closest living relative of the Great Auk, we can definitely use their genetic material
Sad. Thanks for your efforts, and good luck. I'm sure the editing will improve as the channel grows :)
Hope so!
1:10 MF DOOM jumpscare.
The Great Auk! I think that like the last nest was purposely stomped on by people who wanted to sell them for meat/as a commodity? Yeah, people are terrible. The Great Auk, the first penguin.
Well, not ALL people are terrible, but the people responsible for this amazing bird's demise sure were.
Yesss finally a great auk video
Too many bad auk videos out there
@GeorgeTheDinoGuy great auk are. Knock off puffin
never forget the great auk
Lovely video. Never knew about this.
Humans have been so destructive to life on this planet it’s so depressing sometimes😭
Tell me about it. It's like a knife though my heart. 😢 And then it makes me enraged at people too. 😡
This story is sad.
It's horribly, HORRIBLY sad. 😢
Im curious on whether or not the mentions of newfoundland are actually talking about newfoundland or if im miss hearing it and its something else entirely.
Omg 1:06 what is that from?
Wallace And Gromit: The Wrong Trousers!
@GeorgeTheDinoGuy thank you
It's just like red panda is the original panda
Just when i was thinking of the Great Auk, i be presented this video wich i did wanting to have the story more detailed and informations. Such a traigic story they had, if there is one of those extinct viable species to resurect i would judge the Great auk one of those if it were viable enough to actually do, rather than the Mammoth for exemple.
Here in France we have three of the Alcidé left, the Macareux moine (Atlantic Puffin - Fratercula arctica), the Guillemot de Troïl (Common Guillemot - Uria aalge) and for last the Torda Pingouin (Alca Torda) they also have a second common name here being also called Small Pingouin but the Torda Pingouin is probably the better known one.
Reminds me of the sea mink
Your discord invite link is not working
We’ve shut down the discord sorry! It’s still available to Patreon supporters though!
Rest in peace to the GOATs, I guess you could say the fact they went extinct was a bit Auk-ward for John Wally
Wtf John Wally is dead that’s horrible dude
dat's a funny lookin' toikey
18th century, do you mean the 19th century?
18th was when the animals were thriving and were a common occurrence still.
another sad chapter in our history.
"the orcs shall dwell! There they will survive,
and multiply, and grow stronger, and a day will come when they cover the world,
and they will slay all of your collective peoples! Orcs shall inherit the world you sought to cheat them of!" Yes
13:46 I'm sure you meant 19th.
Hello I meant what I said. This is because a sailor in the 1800s would not encounter the Great Auk often due to most of their breeding colonies being extinct by 1800. Later in the video this statement makes more sense.
@GeorgeTheDinoGuy At 13:46 you weren't talking about sailors but Alfred Newton (1829-1907).
@ oh thank you my mistake, I will see what I can do. Apologies I got a lot of comments for the intro lol.
I hate how humans meddle with nature if only we could bring these birds back
Ye, but we’re only apart of this nature. Our greatest enemies are ourselves.
If only there was investment
Bringing them "back" is just another form of meddling...
Im kindof glad theyre gone, modern penguins are way cooler anyways
Sad story
Geirfugl or in English Geirbird
George I’m afraid I can’t really be bothered to watch the whole video. Would you mind telling me whereabouts my cameo is please?
Apologies, your viewer retention will spike downwards after 5 mins when they hear me.
Lmao glad you did 😂
It was genocide against the Indigenous Penguins by the Colonial Penguins 😂
Proto-Orc
Impennis ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ohs nos! Not frOnce! 🤦
Congratulations George. I think you have achieved the single worst-edited video on TH-cam. worst-edited video on TH-cam. Congratulations George. I think
Thank you Nicholas Shanks!
I didn't expect to be on the brink of tears over the fate of a long extinct seabird, but here we are...
They're not long extinct.
your son thinks you’re cooler
Quite sad but also a testament that you need to be either violent or able to run/fly away to survive in the long run in Nature.
That's not true at all.
Awkward!
The Great Auk's extinction was caused by colonialism
Why are awks considered real penguins, when they are called awks, not penguins?
Watch the video!
Another victim of the bloody British Empire...
Actually the world is growing greener due to carbon dioxide increase.
Making plants warmer and giving them food kills them.
do you really have an ex wife or is that a bit?
Just a bit thankfully… 😅
Interesting story but youe editing SUCKS.
Go through the vid again and remove the doubled sections.
Idk what doubled sections MEANS 😭
@GeorgeTheDinoGuyThey are being a dick, your editing is great, there are one your two sections where you leave two takes of the same thing though, so there are repeated sentences
Ty :)
@ Around 10:50 you say the same same sentence twice slightly differently? About the last colony moving due to vulcanic activity. I think they might mean this, but I haven't noticed it anywhere else
@NoNo-bd8id thank you I’ll fix it, have a nice day!
Clint's reptiles tought me this
A great channel!