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The issue with Wild Boar is the same as deer, without a predator to manage not only outright population numbers but also their behaviours, they become unruly and harmful to the environment as they dwell too long in spots and are too comfortable in open ground. This has been seen widely in North America and Australia. Less so in Europe due to the wolf population.
@@CreatureChroniclesUK We have lynx here in Portugal, they are reintroduced. They do NOT stop wild boar, which are a plague out here. I live with wild boar coming onto my land and doing loads of damage. There are NO benefits to them and they are now getting dangerous to people.
The boars in my area are so invasive and destructive to our ecosystems . Theirs wallows cause erosion and with other compounding factors, it eventually ends up in our rivers leading to sedimentations on our coral reefs. They also uproot a lot of our native saplings so the number of recruitment in our forest is low.
There’s loads of boar in France where I live but they are mostly nocturnal. Some people complain about their gardens being dug up and they have started going for rubbish bins in towns. French foxes don’t live in towns.
Once taking the train from Lyon to Grenoble we stopped abruptly - after a while they told us the train had hit something gray-brown, and the driver wasn't sure it wasn't a human, so he had to walk back to the collision site - in the dark. After some 20 minutes he was back and the train restarted - we had hit a boar and not a homeless (PSDF) person! I also saw WV Beetle sized boar just outside the cafeteria at the nuclear research center in Cadarache, Provence. The females and piglets were normal sized... but this male was like 5x as big!
@@bordersw1239 they were supposedly reintroduced to the UK late 80's early nineties, I spend a lot of time in the fields and copses here in Poland, and sometimes stumble upon them as they are usually sleeping in the day time, they scare the $hit out of me everytime as they are massive here.
I think its great to have them back again,esp as they up root Bracken thats going to wipe out heather and gorse if nothing is done to keep under control
Brilliant video! I did quite some wild camping in boar territory and have had many visits - on and off camera - But now the wolf has established itself here at the Veluwe Park I rarely see them. They behave quite different now.
Thank you very much 😊 That's cool to hear, I did a video on the UK's need for an apex predator for reasons like managing boar, some people didn't get it though.. this is an example of how everything can work out when animals are left to their normal behaviours!
@@CreatureChroniclesUK yep! but to accept predators roaming free and needing to adapt to that... ...there is a long way ahead. Here in Holland we now suffer a big anti rewilding backlash. Yeah, I've been browsing your stuff, very nice. Subbed!
Congratulations on finding the Boar. One recommendation is that you set up a hide camera. You can strap them to a tree and it will take 4k video and its got night time vision. They cost between £80 /£120 each. They have blue tooth and WiFi for transferring data.
Masses of boar round my village in France. The dig up gardens, paths & parks. They break fences. They eat crops in the fields. Locals told me that, with climate change extending foraging, sows are having 2.5 litters per year, and the first litter of the year is pregnant by the end of it. You have to be careful driving in the evening. You have to be careful if you walk down by the river and choose your time well. Even then you can meet a group of them - which is what I did. No more river walks since then.
My latest video discusses the need for an apex predator, with one of the main reasons being for prey population control. Left unchecked I agree they can get out of hand, much like with deer🦌
It's interesting that's boars are so rare in the UK, whereas they are perhaps the most common wild mammal here in the Netherlands. Will be curious to see how you do with even more elusive mammals like beavers and badgers if this already took 20 hours!
Wow that's interesting! Is there more boar than deer? I'm going to attempt to find beavers very soon... So we'll see how long that takes 😂 some animals will definitely take a loooong time to find, I think some random things like shrews will be very difficult too. I've never seen one!
@@CreatureChroniclesUK alright, I double checked the numbers and we have more Boar than Red deer and Fallow deer. Even more so, they are only allowed to live in certain areas making them very condensed. The latest numbers I could find were roughly 9.000 boars compared to 6.000 fallow deer and 2.500 Red deer. Roe deer are a different thing because they are allowed everywhere, which is different from the larger deer that are also limited to the areas the boar are. The last full count was from 2010 for them with over 70.000 individuals. Good luck with the beavers! I was very lucky that I've once see one during night fishing, but they sure are tricky! I actually saw a shrew last week, unfortunately deceased. I don't think I've ever seen a living one. So good luck finding the 3 species! If you life near a woodland area, you could consider setting life catch traps (only in your own garden naturally) , given how difficult they are to see otherwise I wouldn't find it to be cheating
That's crazy! Do you hear many stories about them attacking people? Thank you 😊 you'll know whether I find them or not by how soon the beaver video comes out 😂 That's a great idea! I think I'll definitely need to do things like that and camera traps for some of the animals..
@@CreatureChroniclesUK Not really, it only really ever happens during early spring when someone ends up between a mom and her piglets, but it's very rare I'll be looking forward to that then! Hopefully we'll see it soon! Camera traps are a very good idea as well! Hadn't thought of that myself yet.
I went there! No such luck for me... I had some people tell me the same thing, and then other locals say sometimes they go months without seeing one, I guess there's a lot of luck involved
@CreatureChroniclesUK the local ranger said once they get too comfortable around people they become a danger to local traffic & people & become a problem so the cull them, hence the wild boar stew in the trail center Caffè
If you go to the Speech House area they are extremely common and you wouldn’t need to spend so much time searching. Other than after dark, the best times are dawn and just before sundown.
@CreatureChroniclesUK yeah, really good hand drawn illustrations from back in the day. We usually get firecrest in my mums garden aswel bobbing round the pine trees for bugs
Yeah they're beautiful drawings. That's cool, I think I've seen one once before but that was a long time ago, it's definitely a bird I'd love to get a good shot of in future!
Not once African Swine Fever hits the UK, which is predicted in the coming years. Then they will hunt them back into extinction again while they still can.
You said you were looking for every animal in the uk, is that just vertebrates or inverts too? Because if you’re including invertebrates, it’s gonna take so much more time and luck haha
I explain it all in episode 1 ☺️ I'm doing mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. There are 1000s of insects so yeah I didn't fancy tracking all of them down 😂
@CreatureChroniclesUK ooooh sounds fun. I’m trying to do all amphibians, reptiles and arachnids (excluding mites). But some species, like the great crested newt, are pretty hard, as disturbing them in any way is illegal, so I’d have to get lucky enough to spot one in the open and take a photo from a distance
That's awesome how many arachnids are there to find? And how many have you found so far? I got lucky with the great crested newt recently, they're in episode 19 of my series if you want to see them 😁
@ there’s a lot, and I mean a lot of arachnids. The hardest one will be an endemic spider here in the uk only known from a tiny area. Some others are nearly indistinguishable. I’m currently searching for Atypus affinis, our only mygalomorph spider. I’ve recently found multiple harvestman species, and my favourite arachnids I’ve found so far is Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis (the European yellow tailed scorpion)
That definitely sounds challenging 😂 best of luck with it mate, I don't know about you but I kind of don't want to find everything because then there won't be anything else to search for! Did you see the scorpions on the Isle of Sheppey?
@CreatureChroniclesUK, How do you feel about having predators such as bears, Lynx, and, of course, wolves being reintroduced to the more wild areas of Britain? I think it is a very good idea as we need to bring back Biodiversity back to the UK and having thousands of deer roaming about eating everything in their path without having to worry about natural predators doesn't help.
@@CreatureChroniclesUK Their predation on endangered species of many sorts makes the conclusions they are beneficial debatable? Water quality damage and disease are other issues.
@@johnmead8437I think the only predators which do unbalanced harm, are humans. As boar have always been here they disrupt and encourage nature. The only genuinely-harmful animals are those such as rats, cats, goats, etc which have wiped-out species on islands around the globe since the 16th century because they were introduced by humans.
@@CreatureChroniclesUK Just dive through Cinderford of a winter morning and the evidence is everywhere! You VERY rarely see them however, I've ever seen them a few times. They're deep in the forest in the warmer months and venture out at night in the winter.
That's surprising you see them so rarely but I suppose there's not that many of them in a very big area.. I went there thinking it would be a doddle to film them 😂 I was wrong..
True but it should be noted Boar ain’t native to the Americas like they are here, so obviously their affects on the landscape are going to be negative.
What you see in the US is not a robin, that bird is a member of the thrush family. What you see in the UK and throughout Europe is a true robin, which is a sub species of the old world flycatchers family.
I personally think as we're by far the most destructive creature on the planet, we can forgive animals when they eat the odd crop.. we've also bred at a pretty mental rate ourselves
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The issue with Wild Boar is the same as deer, without a predator to manage not only outright population numbers but also their behaviours, they become unruly and harmful to the environment as they dwell too long in spots and are too comfortable in open ground.
This has been seen widely in North America and Australia. Less so in Europe due to the wolf population.
Yeah we definitely need an apex predator in the UK, lynx of wolves would be ideal
@@CreatureChroniclesUK We have lynx here in Portugal, they are reintroduced. They do NOT stop wild boar, which are a plague out here. I live with wild boar coming onto my land and doing loads of damage. There are NO benefits to them and they are now getting dangerous to people.
The boars in my area are so invasive and destructive to our ecosystems . Theirs wallows cause erosion and with other compounding factors, it eventually ends up in our rivers leading to sedimentations on our coral reefs. They also uproot a lot of our native saplings so the number of recruitment in our forest is low.
I think we would be better off with polar bears or lions.
@@humphrey4976 Are you after global warming or cooling?
Great video, so much info and some wonderful shots of the beautiful forest. So exciting when you finally got the boar on film!
I'm glad you enjoyed it ☺️ it was certainly exciting to finally see one clearly!
There’s loads of boar in France where I live but they are mostly nocturnal. Some people complain about their gardens being dug up and they have started going for rubbish bins in towns. French foxes don’t live in towns.
The idea of them wandering around towns is mad to me 😂 they're so big!
French rubbish recycling and containment is much better than UK which may provide foxes fewer food sources in urban areas in France.
@@CreatureChroniclesUK They do in the Forest of Dean.
Once taking the train from Lyon to Grenoble we stopped abruptly - after a while they told us the train had hit something gray-brown, and the driver wasn't sure it wasn't a human, so he had to walk back to the collision site - in the dark. After some 20 minutes he was back and the train restarted - we had hit a boar and not a homeless (PSDF) person!
I also saw WV Beetle sized boar just outside the cafeteria at the nuclear research center in Cadarache, Provence. The females and piglets were normal sized... but this male was like 5x as big!
Fun fact, my father was probably the 1st person to spot the boar in the Forest of Dean. Everyone thought he was nuts!
That's cool, what year was that in do you know?
@ late nineties I think, Times or Telegraph interviewed him.
He must have been baffled! It would definitely take you by surprise if you didn't know they were in the area
@ they came up to him for food, so he knew they’d escaped from somewhere.
@@bordersw1239 they were supposedly reintroduced to the UK late 80's early nineties, I spend a lot of time in the fields and copses here in Poland, and sometimes stumble upon them as they are usually sleeping in the day time, they scare the $hit out of me everytime as they are massive here.
I think its great to have them back again,esp as they up root Bracken thats going to wipe out heather and gorse if nothing is done to keep under control
I certainly saw a lot of bracken rooting going on when I was there!
Brilliant video! I did quite some wild camping in boar territory and have had many visits - on and off camera -
But now the wolf has established itself here at the Veluwe Park I rarely see them. They behave quite different now.
Thank you very much 😊
That's cool to hear, I did a video on the UK's need for an apex predator for reasons like managing boar, some people didn't get it though.. this is an example of how everything can work out when animals are left to their normal behaviours!
@@CreatureChroniclesUK yep! but to accept predators roaming free and needing to adapt to that...
...there is a long way ahead. Here in Holland we now suffer a big anti rewilding backlash.
Yeah, I've been browsing your stuff, very nice. Subbed!
The attitude and vibe of this entire challenge is just so pure and amazing. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for this lovely comment! Comments like this make my day 😁
Congratulations on finding the Boar.
One recommendation is that you set up a hide camera. You can strap them to a tree and it will take 4k video and its got night time vision. They cost between £80 /£120 each.
They have blue tooth and WiFi for transferring data.
Thanks mate 😁 yeah that's definitely a good shout, that would come in useful for all the nocturnal critters!
Masses of boar round my village in France. The dig up gardens, paths & parks. They break fences. They eat crops in the fields. Locals told me that, with climate change extending foraging, sows are having 2.5 litters per year, and the first litter of the year is pregnant by the end of it. You have to be careful driving in the evening. You have to be careful if you walk down by the river and choose your time well. Even then you can meet a group of them - which is what I did. No more river walks since then.
My latest video discusses the need for an apex predator, with one of the main reasons being for prey population control. Left unchecked I agree they can get out of hand, much like with deer🦌
It's interesting that's boars are so rare in the UK, whereas they are perhaps the most common wild mammal here in the Netherlands. Will be curious to see how you do with even more elusive mammals like beavers and badgers if this already took 20 hours!
Wow that's interesting! Is there more boar than deer?
I'm going to attempt to find beavers very soon... So we'll see how long that takes 😂 some animals will definitely take a loooong time to find, I think some random things like shrews will be very difficult too. I've never seen one!
@@CreatureChroniclesUK alright, I double checked the numbers and we have more Boar than Red deer and Fallow deer. Even more so, they are only allowed to live in certain areas making them very condensed. The latest numbers I could find were roughly 9.000 boars compared to 6.000 fallow deer and 2.500 Red deer.
Roe deer are a different thing because they are allowed everywhere, which is different from the larger deer that are also limited to the areas the boar are. The last full count was from 2010 for them with over 70.000 individuals.
Good luck with the beavers! I was very lucky that I've once see one during night fishing, but they sure are tricky!
I actually saw a shrew last week, unfortunately deceased. I don't think I've ever seen a living one. So good luck finding the 3 species! If you life near a woodland area, you could consider setting life catch traps (only in your own garden naturally) , given how difficult they are to see otherwise I wouldn't find it to be cheating
That's crazy! Do you hear many stories about them attacking people?
Thank you 😊 you'll know whether I find them or not by how soon the beaver video comes out 😂
That's a great idea! I think I'll definitely need to do things like that and camera traps for some of the animals..
@@CreatureChroniclesUK Not really, it only really ever happens during early spring when someone ends up between a mom and her piglets, but it's very rare
I'll be looking forward to that then! Hopefully we'll see it soon!
Camera traps are a very good idea as well! Hadn't thought of that myself yet.
@@MrJoe99998how many boar are culled every year in Holland? They are good at reproducing
Ha ha ha just go to the forrest of Dean MTB trail center last few times I've been they're wandering around the car park...
I went there! No such luck for me... I had some people tell me the same thing, and then other locals say sometimes they go months without seeing one, I guess there's a lot of luck involved
@CreatureChroniclesUK the local ranger said once they get too comfortable around people they become a danger to local traffic & people & become a problem so the cull them, hence the wild boar stew in the trail center Caffè
@@tonymbk9247 Must try that!
If you go to the Speech House area they are extremely common and you wouldn’t need to spend so much time searching.
Other than after dark, the best times are dawn and just before sundown.
I'll definitely try that spot next time I'm over that way, thanks for the tip!
Great video, keep going
Thanks mate 😁
Nice video thanks, I can’t believe you missed the opportunity to use the expression ‘boar spoor’.
Thanks mate, I'd never heard of that expression until just now 😅
I think they're generally nocturnal, so dawn and dusk and a camera that works well in low light would be your best bet.
Yeah that's when I tried, but unfortunately my camera isn't great in low light
So where do they go between dawn and dusk? They just disappear?
Dung beetles. Sir Charles Burrell had 25 species in his kitchen!
Sounds like he needs to stop crapping in the kitchen
Got the same book as you haha that's how I identified my first goldcrest
Haha it's a great book right!
@CreatureChroniclesUK yeah, really good hand drawn illustrations from back in the day. We usually get firecrest in my mums garden aswel bobbing round the pine trees for bugs
Yeah they're beautiful drawings. That's cool, I think I've seen one once before but that was a long time ago, it's definitely a bird I'd love to get a good shot of in future!
Come to Galicia...there are hundreds if not thousands of Jabali.... they are hunted but trapping and poisoning is illegal.
Well done !
Thank you 🙏
Nice video mate
Thanks mate I'm glad you enjoyed it!
whats the difference between dung beetle and scarab ?
This sounds like a setup for a joke 🤣... But if it's not then dung beetles are a subfamily of scarab beetles
Great video, so cool to see a mammal like that in the UK 😍
Thank you 😁
Give it a while and it’ll be like the US. Thousands of them everywhere
I hope so...
Not once African Swine Fever hits the UK, which is predicted in the coming years. Then they will hunt them back into extinction again while they still can.
those are domestic pig/boar hybrids. They are a serious invasive species in the americas.
You said you were looking for every animal in the uk, is that just vertebrates or inverts too? Because if you’re including invertebrates, it’s gonna take so much more time and luck haha
I explain it all in episode 1 ☺️ I'm doing mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. There are 1000s of insects so yeah I didn't fancy tracking all of them down 😂
@CreatureChroniclesUK ooooh sounds fun. I’m trying to do all amphibians, reptiles and arachnids (excluding mites). But some species, like the great crested newt, are pretty hard, as disturbing them in any way is illegal, so I’d have to get lucky enough to spot one in the open and take a photo from a distance
That's awesome how many arachnids are there to find? And how many have you found so far?
I got lucky with the great crested newt recently, they're in episode 19 of my series if you want to see them 😁
@ there’s a lot, and I mean a lot of arachnids. The hardest one will be an endemic spider here in the uk only known from a tiny area. Some others are nearly indistinguishable. I’m currently searching for Atypus affinis, our only mygalomorph spider. I’ve recently found multiple harvestman species, and my favourite arachnids I’ve found so far is Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis (the European yellow tailed scorpion)
That definitely sounds challenging 😂 best of luck with it mate, I don't know about you but I kind of don't want to find everything because then there won't be anything else to search for!
Did you see the scorpions on the Isle of Sheppey?
@CreatureChroniclesUK, How do you feel about having predators such as bears, Lynx, and, of course, wolves being reintroduced to the more wild areas of Britain?
I think it is a very good idea as we need to bring back Biodiversity back to the UK and having thousands of deer roaming about eating everything in their path without having to worry about natural predators doesn't help.
We already have lynx, puma and leopard in the uk. Have to wait and see if they increase in number.
@@S.Trades Well, that might be true
I wish the Uk government would give them some short of protection or official reintroduction.
So do I! They're so beneficial to the environment and other animals
@@CreatureChroniclesUK Their predation on endangered species of many sorts makes the conclusions they are beneficial debatable? Water quality damage and disease are other issues.
@@johnmead8437I think the only predators which do unbalanced harm, are humans. As boar have always been here they disrupt and encourage nature. The only genuinely-harmful animals are those such as rats, cats, goats, etc which have wiped-out species on islands around the globe since the 16th century because they were introduced by humans.
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I didn't even know there were boars in England. Great vids,always enjoy watching them😊
They're only in a few locations across the UK with the forest of dean being the main one. Thank you for watching my videos!
@@CreatureChroniclesUK I live there! They're everywhere! Not in my back garden thankfully, but in the woods nearby for sure.
@@CreatureChroniclesUK Just dive through Cinderford of a winter morning and the evidence is everywhere! You VERY rarely see them however, I've ever seen them a few times. They're deep in the forest in the warmer months and venture out at night in the winter.
Ohhh you lucky thing, it's such a beautiful place to live!
That's surprising you see them so rarely but I suppose there's not that many of them in a very big area.. I went there thinking it would be a doddle to film them 😂 I was wrong..
Your very unlucky I saw 14 last week whilst wandering around
I think you're just very lucky 😂 I was there for 5 days looking constantly!
I don't even like anywhere near the uk but I will subscribe for the vibes 🙏🏾.
Thank you bro 😁
Yeah don't bother looking for mushrooms in the forest of Dean.
Hundreds of boar
It was like a stampede had been through the forest
It didn't feel like there were hundreds 🤣 they were so hard to find! They do leave a big mark on the forest though for sure..
B/S, I see the damage done in the Forest of Dean!
You see what you want to see rob Lloyd
@CreatureChroniclesUK Ask the Forestry commission!
Bring in the wolves.
Your Bullfinch looked more like a Blackcap!
Hmmm I just double checked, I'm pretty confident it's a female bullfinch, mainly because of the beak shape
What happens when they breed out of control and run havoc thro towns ,,??
Like in spain ,,!
I made a video recently about how the UK needs an apex predator for reasons such as this 😊
This didn't end well in America
What's been happening?
True but it should be noted Boar ain’t native to the Americas like they are here, so obviously their affects on the landscape are going to be negative.
I'm not sure what the bird is, but unless they're totally different in the UK to the US, that was not a robin...
They are totally different 😂
Robins are pretty well known in the uk.
What you see in the US is not a robin, that bird is a member of the thrush family. What you see in the UK and throughout Europe is a true robin, which is a sub species of the old world flycatchers family.
Not exactly conclusive proof, can be dangerous, should never have been re-intoduced, too destructive to crops, etc., and breed too fast.
I personally think as we're by far the most destructive creature on the planet, we can forgive animals when they eat the odd crop.. we've also bred at a pretty mental rate ourselves
lol flesh
downvoted bc you asked a question in the title and did not immediately provide the answer in the first few seconds.
That's some fine patience you have there
downvoted your comment because there's not a question in the title
Did you stop watching 'Dude, where's my car?' when they didn't find it straight away?
Best video yet for sure 🎉 so happy you got to see one and all the hard work paid off 🫵🤩
Thanks bro 😊 I was quite happy with how this one turned out