Telling ourselves that governments are here to protect and serve us would be the worst lie we tell ourselves. Government means mind control. Government is LIES
I have to object. Humans are not special, we are animals like the rest of them so any traits present in humans could conceivably be present in other animals as well
@@mizcs I agree with you! Humans are esentially animals, and even though some years back many would have argued that animals and humans have lots of differences, studies have proven that we are more similar than we had originally thought. However, I do think that we still have some fundamental differences (and I don't mean that makes us "more special")
@@mizcs the only diffrence betweeen us and any other mammal is that mammals rely mostly on instinkts, while we (well, most of us) rely more on inteligance and critical thinking. Also we are not forced to fight for our survival anymore, which makes that iliusion that we are supirior to any other animal.
Some other popular myths not mentioned here: - “Male lions are lazy and don’t hunt” - They will absolutely make their own kills if not part of a pride. The reason why they don’t participate in hunts with females is because they’re busy defending their turf. (Also, as others have said, male lions will occasionally join hunts if the pride is handling tough prey like giraffes or buffalo.) - “Komodo dragons intentionally wait for their prey to die after biting them once” - The big lizards would much rather kill their prey outright, and the documented cases of them supposedly letting go and waiting are really just the result of failed hunts. - “Albatrosses can stay in the sky for years without ever touching down” - This one’s probably just a misinterpretation of a true fact. Albatrosses can indeed go on flights that last years without touching the ground, but they still have to rest on the ocean water. - “You can tell the age of a rattlesnake by counting its number of rattles” - While it’s true they gain a rattle ring every time they shed, they do so several times a year, so there’s no way of knowing their age in years from that alone. - "Vultures have bald heads to keep clean as they stick them in rotting corpses" - The bald heads are more likely for thermoregulatory purposes. Plenty of non-scavenging birds also have bald heads, such as ostriches and turkeys. These birds live in areas where the temperature can change drastically, so the lack of feathers on the head make it easier to cool off, and can be tucked into the body to keep warm. There are also a number of birds that eat carrion with fluffy heads, such as eagles, petrels, and even bearded vultures, so keeping clean is more likely an added benefit than the main cause. - “Goldfish have a 3-second memory span” - Goldfish can associate certain sounds with feeding times and are able to recognize others of their kind, so I have no idea where this one came from.
While goldfish arent all that smart by other fish standards, the certainly have a higher interlligence than people give them credit for. Going by that logic cats have their memory dissolved after 10 minutes and in the case of humans, it would be about 30 seconds at best. While having a bad memory is true regarding all animals in this sense the entire fact is that this is true regarding only certain visual parts of memory and short term memory. In reality, goldfish have a pretty good memory and like most fish, can recognise their owner and can also be trained to perform tricks like following your finger, swimming through hoops and going through an obstacle course. As a matter of fact, goldfish have a better attention span than most humans, with the fish averaging 9 seconds to a human's 8 seconds. Scientists had trained goldfish to press a lever to deliver food....but only for a certain hour of the day and by the end of three months of training, the goldies were found patiently waiting till that one hour to come up to push the lever and get lunch. They can also be trained to anticipate food at the ring of a bell like Pavlov's doggies and remembered it upto 5 months after being released.
Oh, there's a lot of smvt in that genre, that's for sure! But I've read some really wholesome and/or hilarious ones as well! (Honestly, one of my favourites was a family taking care of their omega family member during heat. Kinda reminds me of how my mother took care of my siblings and I during our first periods. All the warm blankets and hot chocolates, heck yeah!) P.s. Knew about rut and heat from nature documentaries first and silly omegaverse stuff second, so you can't blame me for knowing both. Besides, I know too much to begin with. I've *witnessed* some things...
Once had a zookeeper explain to me that elephants can be really dangerous. She said people assume that all animals have the same degree of emotional control that people have.
the only zookeeper that gives a crap to the animals perhaps, difficult to come by cus the rest are busier keeping their paycheck / think the same way as the guests
So I've raised turkeys for over a decade. The toms are dense, it's the hens you have to watch. I had a domestic turkey hen escape a fully enclosed run and run off to live with the wild turkeys. I then continued to see her on my trailcams for 3 years. Also the videos of them going in circles is always a hen getting a tom to exhaust himself so she can get away from him.
If you raise the broad breasted whites, they are all stupid - toms and hens. They WILL drown in a rain storm by looking up and they WILL suffocate themselves by all piling in a corner for hardly any reason (was that a branch hitting the roof?) by the hundreds so the ones on the bottom die. My uncle raised turkeys by the hundreds of thousands at a time.
Thank you! Too many people fall for that fake ‘Elephants think humans are cute and their brain reacts the same way ours does to a puppy.’ No it doesn’t lol My dad and I found out a few months ago we both watch your channel when we recommended you to each other, I showed my sister and my mom your channel too. We all think your videos are very funny and enjoyable, never fails to make me laugh
I visited a zoo and heard people say that lol, I wanted to turn around and say everything he said. It is very unfortunate that it’s a myth as we all love elephants
"Facts like this only go viral when people take human traits and try to put them onto animals". Thank you sir! I've been trying to point out that's what people have been doing for ages. You're one of the few who've shown they understand this.
For the record, when he talks about birds’ poor sense of smell, he’s talking about songbirds specifically. There are plenty of other birds that can smell well, namely storks, vultures, seabirds, and kiwis, which is how they’re able to track down food over long distances.
I knew about the wolf thing. The "alpha male/female" are not "higher ranking" because they are the toughest, they are just the most experienced because they are everybody else's mum and dad.
@@DfiftyMusic Lol i mean most of the people i see unironically talking about real-life people being "alphas and betas and sigmas" are men but ok. Like it's one of things where most dudes don't buy into it, but out of the people who DO buy into it, most of them are dudes.
Praying Mantis rarely cannibalize their mate in the wild. The reason why the myth that they do it almost every time is because they based it off of Mantis in a bunch of small cages with all these strange primates monitoring their every move. Years later, someone tried a similar observation but gave them some space and a more natural environment. 9 out of 10 mantis did the deed, and carried on, with only one female making herself a widow. I don't know if you've covered this before, but I felt it was appropriate with the Alpha wolf "fact".
Spiders don't eat the males all the time as well. Only if they don't have enough nutrients for the eggs or are under stress. We bred a lot of tarantulas and always fed them very well before mating them with the breeding male and they never once ate the males for dinner (even when it was time for the male to die soon and we just left him in the same enclosure as food for the female.). The females just shooed the males away into some corner and left them alone afterwards.
Keep in mind, you both may be overgeneralizing to the entire groupings. I know that different species of spider have vastly different rates of cannibalism, and in some species, the males actually "volunteer" themselves to be eaten. I am less familiar with the habits of mantids however.
@@christyanaadams4959 Almost all spiders cannibalize their mates after mating - for a lot of different reasons, btw only one species of black widow always cannibalizes their mate after breeding, two other species of black widow have never been observed to cannibalize their mates while another one only sometimes cannibalizes them. And the males that get cannibalized a lot of the time offer themselves up for a snack because doing so apparently allows them to breed for longer - increasing their chances of fathering a large clutch. Most of the females who ate their mate don't breed with another male so the males offer themselves up to pass on their genes. I don't know about all spiders (obviously) but tarantulas do eat their mates. Our male we partnered up that ended up just chilling with the female for his last months of life, did his courtship of tapping on her silk multiple times in a rhythm (papal drumming) and our female accepted him by slowly coming out of her burrow, then slowly lifted her up while gently tapping on the female the whole time (something that's thought to relax the female's fangs) and after mating gently let her down and made his way slowly to a corner of the enclosure. The whole time the female seemed mostly dazed and after she came out of it she just went back to her burrow. But everything the male did is specifically to ensure tarantula males don't get eaten by their mates. They first court so only females that accept the courtship will be mated, then do something that calms the female or keeps her fangs away from them during mating, and right after when the female is immobile they scram. In the wild only males that hurry too much, approach a female without courting first or don't leave quickly enough after mating get eaten but it still happens. Funny enough we wanted him to be eaten afterwards because that was his only purpose in our home but she just lived with him as a kinda roommate until he died of natural causes lol.
OMG!! Thank you so much for adding the 'Alpha Wolf' myth!! As a professional dog trainer, it is beyond frustrating to repeatedly have to explain this myth to clients.
You poor poor human. I get sick of people mentioning alphas in comment sections. I can't imagine having a job that requires convinving them they're wrong. You are a hero.
Yeah. I grew up with dogs, so to me "alpha" just means "real or adopted parent or elder sibling who meets their needs well and understands them." I was better at handling dogs than anyone else in the family, and it wasn't because I was the most dominant, but because I made it a point to understand their physical and emotional needs and try to make sure they were met.
THANK YOU for the wolf-prison comparison! Of course, wrong science about wolves is bad, but it's way worse when we simplemindedly copy pasted the theories onto dogs and started interacting with them accordingly. I think that suffering we caused dogs was one of the main reasons that David Mech wanted his alpha wolf theories removed.
@@CaptainSaveHoe There is indeed a hirearchy, but in recent studies (there is a great documentary called Kingdom of the white wolf) where wolves are observed in their true natural habitat it's pretty clear that the wolf pack is indeed a family, guided by a matriarch and her breeding partner. This doesn't mean that there is a fighting hirearchy. The wolves lower in the chain so to speak are their offspring. The offspring help take care of the breeding pair's puppies. They are families and the inate hirearchy is simply that of a family union. Wolf packs do not generally take in wolves from other families if there is a breeding pair, unless the circumstances are very dire such as starvation where a larger pack is temporarily needed for hunting.
it's generally a good idea not to approach a non-human animal unless they demonstrate, in clear terms, that they want you to approach. that includes even dogs. in fact with dogs it's best to let the dog be the one approaching you, and then you can pet them. so far i've never been bitten by a dog, and i've pet A LOT of dogs....just let them approach you when ready.
I once picked up a fledgling in my suburb, thinking it was abandoned. It even opened its mouth to me as I came to look at it. I took it home, read online that that was wrong of me, and properly brought it back to where I found it and waited for mom to find it. Mom did come back to check on her baby after about a half hour of waiting, fledglings aren't abandoned folks. Just on a little adventure with the whole world as their playground, with mom and dad watching from above. Same goes for deer foals as well, unless they look all skin and bones, their mom is hiding behind a tree 100 feet away, leave em be.
(Foals are baby horses btw just want to let you know) but i found a fawn laying their while i was driving my four wheeler around and it was skin and bones (i thought it was dead for a second) but i didnt touch it then it stood up and screamed like i was trying to murder it and i just about jumped. I drove about five feet to see the mother about to charge me- so uh is she just neglecting the fawn?
@@Beans_the_third_cheese If Mom is willing to fight an ATV for her baby then no, she's taking care of it. Could just be hard times I guess, or the fawn (ty) could have just been extra young? Maybe it was thin because it was getting weaned? I'm from suburbia, I don't see many animals larger than a poodle, so I'd say you know better than me.
The "Mother bird will reject a baby with a human's scent" thing is just a thing parents say to discourage children from putting their mitts all over parasite infested critters.
@@meangengar8053 some animals are affected less by certain parasites than others, meaning what might be harmless on a bird would be dangerous for a small human child
I know from meeting turkeys myself they can be incredibly, eerily smart. I saw two having an argument, screaming in each other's faces. They had the same body language and tone of extremely angry humans. Some of them seemed to be trying to get them to stop, and others were gleefully goading them on. I could imaging them chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!" They acted so much like humans it was weird.
@@xakirax_8864 or the Gary Larson cows standing on 2 feet sipping martinis, until one shouts "car" and they all get back on all 4's and begin to graze again! 😆
Small correction: the sloth quote from Douglas Adams isn't from any Hitchhiker book. It was in "the Salmon of Doubt" which is basically a load of things they found on his computer after he died. This one doesn't seem to have ever been published until this book was put together.
I’m glad to say that I was only corrected on two of these “facts” though, I honestly don’t know how I believed the hatchling smell one when I knew that some birds have like no sense of smell.
Birds are some of the smartest animals on Earth. Even if the chick smells funny (to a crow, vulture, or a bird with a good sniffer,) - they don't care. The myth came about when people thought birds were stupid. Just like the turkey thing. "Bird brain!" Remember when that was an insult?
I met a baby elephant once, and I have a such fear from elephants slapping me in the face with their trunk or stomping on me. But this elephant was quite sweet, and had no problem with me getting close.. I'm not saying elephants think humans are cute, I'm just saying they can sometimes be a lot more sweeter from experience.. even though there's a sweet sweet chance you can die
Though technically that could apply to really any animal. Theres been dogs that have snapped and put people in the forever box, or a usually docile tiger at a zoo that knocks a zoo keeper 6 feet under. Even reptiles can be this way. Don’t even get me started on humans.
Thank you for addressing the alpha wolf myth, too many dog trainers still use this DEBUNKED theory to justify their (sometimes abusive) methods of "teaching their dog who is in charge".
@@925263 yes, of course you are responsible for your animal and it is important for a dog to listen to its owner, nobody is denying that. I put "teaching their dog who is in charge" between quotes because many people hurt their dogs and put them in uncomfortable situations for the purpose of supposedly teaching them who's boss, which is neither an effective nor a humane way to train a dog, all it does is build up a negative association with the owner. They do this on the basis of the alpha wolf theory, even thought that has been debunked many times. Besides, dogs are not wolves, and dogs know that we are not dogs.
@@925263 What do you mean, "Ok, no." ? Like it's some kind of hard fact that's been proven by science. First off, people own dogs for a very large number of reasons. Most raise them as companions, and don't need an animal that will "sit, speak, lie down, and get off the sofa" on command in order to get that. They need the animal to be companionable, and to not be destructive or violent. A dog that is destructive or violent, is a dog that is not having it's needs met. Like people, dogs require more than just their physical needs to be met in order to remain well adjusted. They require sufficient exercise, sufficient mental stimulation, (which can come through a large variety of methods, which I wont cover here), and sufficient social interaction. The best science has been able to detect, dogs tend to view their owners the same way that we view our parents. If your dog is violent or destructive, the reason will almost always come down to unmet needs, abusive training methods, or neurological issues, and NOT it thinking it's some kind of "mythical Alpha figure", or the boss of the house. There are very well some dogs out there that require their owner to assert themselves as the one in charge. There are some people like that too. This is absolutely not a universal however. There are different breeds, and differences between dogs within each of those breeds, and what each animal needs is slightly different. Just because coercive methods work on all of them, does not mean they are the best, or the healthiest, method to use. The same is true for people as well. A teacher would have a MUCH easier time keeping her classroom in check, and capable of regurgitating information, if she could use shock collars on each of her students, and shock anyone who misbehaves. Yet we don't seem to be using those methods in classrooms. It's not an exact comparison because humans are capable of verbal communication, but even were we not, there are many other methods are far superior. The same is true in dog training. Sure these methods, but they are far from the optimal methods.
Honestly the wolf bit and how putting unrelated animals into one enclosure alters natural behavior just got me thinking of orcas. Since in wild pods are lead by old grannies, lots of mommas and babies and a few males, each with own unique communications. So yeah, put dozens of unrelated orcas into a bathtub of a enclosure who can't communicate properly and people wonder why they get so aggressive
Thank you for mentioning the correct facts of the "alpha wolf" and the "bird scent". I learned they were fake a few months ago and I'm glad many people will learn it through your videos.
@@hoodinisoar Yeah they're pretty cringe ngl "YoU haVe tO bE a BiG BurLy alPha wHen YoU hAve A doG", like ok dude, not like you know jackshit about animals(context, I used to have a neighbor who did this and I felt bad for the dogs ngl)
@@hoodinisoar Overall it seems funny to me that this big Alpha behavior that people try to put into human society is taken from wolves which are totally different types of animals and their hierarchy is different than ours, but actually now I learned that this whole Alpha is even fake in wolves hierarchy making it even more stupid to put it as legitimate way of judging anything.
He is wrong about the wolf example though. Wolves have different kind of packs depending on circumstances. In good times wolves have small packs that consist of a mating pair and their descendants. And it that case CG is correct. But in times of starvation wolves will form much larger packs that are not families and those follow the alfa/beta formula much better. The reason as to why they form bigger packs in worse times is partly because a big pack can hunt bigger prey. But mostly its because if there are too many predators for the prey population to sustain the only way to fix that is to get rid of predators. And the easiest way to do that is to go to war and kill the other predators nearby. Including other wolves. And in war, the bigger pack tend to win over the smaller. Once the bad times are over the big packs tend to break up again. Because most wolves dont want to live under the paw of a tyrannical alpha couple.
You were okay till you had to sh*t on teachers. If you don't like education, than drop out and home school your kids, because you think all teachers are fools. You know how to read and write due to those teachers, because your parents were too busy to get that plate of food, roof over your head and getting you the things you need and want... ungrateful sh!T!!!
So, turkeys might not drown themselves by looking up at the rain. However, I live on a sheep farm. And I'm not even joking, we did have a sheep that did drown itself in the rain because it wouldn't look down. There was also one that had drown in 5 inches of water because it tripped in a small stream and just..gave up
@@Ollybollyk I hope not 😅 it happened when I was a kid so I couldn't tell ya😂 Most prey animals try to flee or even put up a fight for their lives, but since sheep are very docile and don't really have a "defend" instinct they kind of just give up if they think they're going to die. We've had some have a really rough birth and after that they do this thing called the "death roll" where they literally will roll over and die after that. But if you prevent them from rolling they live. Nature is fuckin wack dude 🤷♀️
I have to say, you sir, are the most entertaining distributor of wildlife facts I have ever seen. I can't get enough of your videos. In a world that is filled with the absolute refuse of humanity, you are more valuable than a priceless gem. Thank you for being here.
With the alpha wolf factoid, I think people liked taking it as a fact since it helped solidify egotistic ideas of superiority. Some people I'm sure like to think of themselves as an alpha male, and seeing something else in nature following that narrative of alpha behavior I guess makes them feel like nature backs up their sense of superiority.
Wolves technically do have "alpha behavior", but it only happens when unrelated wolves congregate together to form large packs. In most situations, wolves operate in family units.
@@TomFranklinX It only happens when they're forced together in captivity. There's no reason for them to congregate to make larger packs as that means they have to cover more ground to feed everyone, instead of regular sized ones that are more spaced out from one another.
@@Kerze Wolves will congregate when large herds of prey congregate. This is more common in winter when prey are scarce and wolves must travel far and wide in search of food .
you talk as if people don't inherently choose a leader among them all , based on "powerful" traits... Why are we a hierarchical species ? In a group of people , there is ALWAYS that one person everyone looks up to as a leader because is either very responsible , or smart , or pretty . or strong , or brave , or charismatic
I always found it hilarious that the “Alpha” wolf concept is often applied to humans when there is zero correlation. Not even to mention that it’s made-up gobbldigook.
I wanted to give you props for calling penguins “cloacas” instead of “assholes” because than was galaxy-tier and yet you just dropped it so fast! So I wanted to make sure you knew it was received and found to be wake-the-dog-laughingly hilarious!
i've only ever heard one other use of it in this context, and it was an alien scientist from mass effect with a penchant for being fast and murder. maybe only cool people say cloaca
The disproving of the elephant one makes sense (as much as I wanted to believe it). What humans find cute is usually based how they compare to the standards of our own babies, so assuming elephants are the same way, adult humans are...not very similar to elephant babies (whereas we find elephant babies cute because they waddle around and play like human toddlers). I’d guess that they see us more like bugs - some of them like us, but some of them just wanna squash us and be done with it, especially once we start stabbing and shooting at them
Yea but that reasoning in itself is bogus. Humans find cats and dogs cute, and neither of those bear any resemblance to human babies. Infact, dogs are and 4th greatest killer of humans in the animal kingdom, coming in just after mosquitos, humans, and snakes. Humans find things like fluffball Keychains or rounded geometric shapes cute, and those don't bear any resemblance to anything. The correlation between cuteness and infant care or even safety just seems like speculation to me.
@@catatoblob8598 The reasoning is correct but the conclusion is wrong. We find things because of similarities to babies. The traits that are similar to babies that we find cute are *Large Eyes (compared to the head) *Large Heads (compared to the body) *Plumpness *Clumsiness It is important to note that fur can give the allusion of being plump. These are traits that make us feel protective. What elephants think of us? Matters on their experience with us, but if they have no experience with us, they likely see us just as a potential threat.
@@shaeby8123 I agree that infant like features make up a subset of what we find cute. But if we look at cute plushes, we also see common traits such as emoji facial expressions (feature of communication), pastel colors, spotted patterns and geometrical regularities (I'm not sure what these are associated with), features that are reminiscent of small animals, features that look like sweet food items or things that smell good, etc. I currently have a square tissue paper box cover covered with stripy cartoon umbrellas that I bought because it was cute.
@@shaeby8123 While what you say makes sense, why then aren't babies the cutest things? I suppose rabbits, seals, and co. have a greater eyes to head ratio, but why would we even have a perception of cuteness beyond babies? Bunnies aren't just slightly cuter either, they make babies ugly in comparison. Edit: Having just gone to see my cousin's daughter. I have to say that it isn't so much things that look like babies, but toddlers that are cute. The girl was even more adorable than when Iast saw here. Even could give a rabbit a run for its money. So while nothing is going to beat a pair of little bunnies in teacups twitching their noses. I'm definitely seeing the [looks like human child] argument holding some water.
I'm not sure what you are suggesting about humans finding animals cute because they look like babies. If anything we find animals cute the more they don't look like us. Not many people find apes cute and they are simikar to us. Naked mole rates and cats aren't considered cute and they look closer to us. But normal Harry cats and dogs are cute. Usually things with a lot of hair are considered cute.
The fact about wild wolves being like a family is something I am well versed on. It affects domesticated dogs big time, as a dog trainer I see it a lot. Would love to hear you talk about that. Really love your style. Keep it up
I’m working on being a dog trainer (I’ve got lots of work today before I’m a pro) but I cringe anytime I see “be the alpha show them whose boss” it seriously ruins dogs 😭
@@JasperTheServiceDemon to be fair, the pack leaders of wild wolves will still reprimand the rest of the pack. The fact their superiority isn’t determined through strength doesn’t necessarily change the way they express that superiority. A lot of people who have this flawed mindset actually still raise healthy, stable dogs. The real problem comes when people think that “being the alpha” means rough housing the dog. Generally reprimands in wild dogs involve loud noises, body language, and occasionally pinning the offender down if they’re being aggressive. It doesn’t usually involve any kind of attack or damage. You can still raise a dog in a healthy manner even if you’re playing up the alpha thing, but any kind of rough handling tells the animal you’re a threat to them, not an authority figure.
@@connermckay4012 dogs actually descended from a wolf like canid that isn’t the wolf we know today. The canid was smaller in stature and they only came together in groups for mating, eventually half of the species went and started following humans around getting into their garbage, and the other half eventually found out hunting was better done in packs. So the dog we know today isn’t even descended from a pack animals (at the time they weren’t) and when stray dogs form groups, it’s usually to hang out, eat together, terrorize the cats together, etc. but there isn’t one dog that controls the recourses. If we take the definition of dominance, being whoever controls the food, water, territory, any recourse really, then yes you could say we are dominant over dogs, but at the end of the day, you’ll never see a dog controlling these recourses while living as strays (not talking about recourse guarding as that stems from a different issue all together) and you’ll never see a dog trying to fight the human for these recourses. As far as the aloha theory itself, it’s a problem when owners begin to get physical with their dogs (pinning them down, alpha rolling, etc.) I’ve personally seen where this can cause dogs to behave very fearfully, and usually humans will do this type of think for a reason that a wolf in the wild or another dog wouldn’t even care about (like growling because you’re in their space, a dog won’t correct a dog for doing that, they’d simply back off knowing they are in the wrong, I hope this isn’t becoming confrontational though, I am just passionate about dogs, I have done loads of research, read a lot of books, and am currently working under a professional dog trainer to eventually become a dog trainer myself)
@@JasperTheServiceDemonDogs can smell high and low Testosterone and many other animals too, and it exist studys that the behavior to humans then is different. And i made my own Tests. I had in the past 430ng/ml (modern men have always low levels, a today 22 years old has the same level as a 67 years old in the 80s) then i use Tricks, healthy food, pine pollen tincture, weight Lifting etc. After one year i had 870ng/ml and trust me Dogs were different to me. Elephants in the musth (60x more Testosterone) are very aggressive and kill many rhinos in this 3 month and other animals or rape them. This animals know in this Moment the Elephant has high Testo
Thank you, the whole "Alpha" thing is unironically the biggest meme ever. It does not and has not ever existed. Wolf packs are families, and lone wolves are young males who leave the family to go off to find a female to start their own. There is no Alpha male, Beta male thing with wolves. Its a flawed concept that people ran with and then began applying it to people so randomly no one can even agree on wtf it means anymore. Which makes sense because it was broken to begin with. (Edit, since this blew up) - Beta actually refers to the second in command in the flawed wolf hierarchy, it never meant submissive. The Beta would become the Alpha when the Alpha died. Its what I mean by people constantly get this wrong, plus it was a flawed theory from the start. If your referring to the broken idea of wolf Alpha's and that, calling someone a Beta actually means their the next most dominant and the Alpha's right hand man. So even within this wrong idea, people still get it wrong.
I like to imagine people who call themselves alphas are really saying they're super mommys. Because that is what they're actually saying. Makes me feel better about the world.
Video explained why, and there is reason for that. Even if people don't call it by the right term, it does not mean that they(people) don't understand the behavior. By behavior I mean heriarchy and dominance. While it might not exist in the wild(wolf pack), it certainly exists in captivity as the video pointed out. Feline, canine and even us humans share this behavior. Two dogs can't live on the same heriachal level, one of them has to be above the other, while the human is in charge. With humans it's more subtle but still there. So running around TH-cam wolf- videos- comment- sections, retyping on how everyone are fools, is not making you any smarter.
People are always gonna look for a reason to feel superior to each other. As black light said, there certainly is no alpha or beta but social animals will constantly have members who can’t accept their place in a society and will want to climb higher. A thirst for superiority is what often leads to violence and power imbalance. People then believe all kinds of wild notions.
@@blacklight4720 It's really not, the closest example is humans in captivity. The rest is nonsense. They don't even use beta right. Beta isn't a submissive male, it's the next most dominant below the Alpha. So calling someone a Beta Male if they even understood the term would be saying their the next most boss guy in the room. The way people use it now is gibberish and mostly an ego trip to compliment themselves and put down other people. "Oh I'm an Alpha guy, that guy is so Beta." Its why they keep inventing new shit like Sigma and so on. Its so oversimplified and nonsensical, its not a good analogy of human behavior in any respect. Humans are more complicated than wolves.
When he said turkeys in the wild are actually really smart, I felt that. They're so good at surviving hostile environments that in Northern California, they have become pests, and we actively court hunters to keep their population numbers under control. If you go literally anywhere in my county, the odds of seeing at least one turkey are very high. I even live next to an entire wild flock that makes its home all of three hundred yards from my front door, next to a small creek. Toms, hens, lines of little chicks all in a row- I see them strutting around through our backyards scratching for bugs all the time. The one thing keeping them from breaking into my house and living here rent-free is the tribe of feral cats who claim the same creekside territory (yet another animal control problem in my area, where dense underbrush, invasive manzanita tree growth, and thorny blackberry vines make catching them next to impossible). Also, I did once move a magpie fledgling despite knowing what it was, but only because it crash-landed headfirst into a supermarket wall and ended up on the sidewalk, dazed and vulnerable. I was concerned not that it would be abandoned, but that it might end up being hurt by other humans before it could recover. For its safety, I put it in a small box and called a wild bird rescue to handle things from there.
All feral animals are really intelligent, but when you cramped them in one place with thousands of their own species they get dumber because of the depression and stress. Even humans are like that much less animals.
my 2 cents on the elephant thing I used to agree with the puppy thing, now think they look at us like we look at a stray dog at most...if possible. You know that thought when we wonder if a stray has rabbies and/or aggressive or if it's just curious and staring at us. I think that's how they view humans. Wary curiousity I think is the right term.
Thank you so much for these videos, I appreciate all you do. I worked as a veterinarian assistant, a zookeeper, and I've rescued alot of poor creatures that couldn't fend for themselves. Like you, I grew up learning about animals, I've done alot of reading and research, and I've had alot of exotic pets for many reasons. I even had a wolf dog, "F-1", which means it's as close to wild as you can get. I get upset with people and argue when they start talking myths. It's hard to educate people who have been told ,over and over, a myth. Thank you for helping educate people! There, I'm done saying my piece, and just wanted to say, great job!
Exactly . Instead of believing everything you read, it is so easy in this day and age to educate yourself and look at legitimate sources for the truth. Our whole education system needs revamping, it used to teach us to think.
Wolves are tough to raise! I met a man who brought his to the dog park. That wolf barely took notice of any adult dogs, but would play bow and was so gentle with the puppies!
It’s very unfortunate elephants don’t see us as cute, but you hit some good points. It’s even worse what we do to them, so it’s really no surprise they don’t see us as cute. We must protect these magnificent creatures 🐘🦣
@@zackufrezs.9247 Yeah same, I dont think I'll put myself in the same league of people who illegally hunt and poach animals, especially near-extinct ones.
I mean, I always knew that fun fact was pulled out of someone's ass, but at the same time... we have no idea if they think we're cute. Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
There are a lot of turkeys in my area that come into town during turkey hunting season. They hang out in yards and parks. Smart birds. Some deers do it too.
I had a brother-in-law that used to go deer hunting with his brother every year. At one time they moved to a small house that butted up against wooded area and a small creek. He said he could eat his breakfast and watch the deer in his backyard. He once joked that, come hunting season, he could just sit at the table and shoot out the window. Everybody laughed. Okay. Come hunting season, he said not one deer was to be seen in his backyard (even though he couldn't have shot any there if he'd wanted to). He said they all disappeared until after hunting season was over. I was always amused by that story.
I like how wolf factoid follows closely to the double slit experiment, or even Schrodinger's cat. As long as we aren't forcing conditions on the thing we want to observe, then its condition can be many things; even conditions we don't expect because of direct and/or strict observation.
Schrodinger's cat isn't a real theory, it's literally Schrodinger mocking Quantum Mechanics. As for the Double Slit experiment, while it's a very real thing, I... have my problem with Quantum Mechanics, but I don't have the necessary knowledge to create something to replace it (NOT debunk it, because QM is true. Even if only technically.)
He is wrong about the wolf example though. Wolves have different kind of packs depending on circumstances. In good times wolves have small packs that consist of a mating pair and their descendants. And it that case CG is correct. But in times of starvation wolves will form much larger packs that are not families and those follow the alfa/beta formula much better. The reason as to why they form bigger packs in worse times is partly because a big pack can hunt bigger prey. But mostly its because if there are too many predators for the prey population to sustain the only way to fix that is to get rid of predators. And the easiest way to do that is to go to war and kill the other predators nearby. Including other wolves. And in war, the bigger pack tend to win over the smaller. Once the bad times are over the big packs tend to break up again. Because most wolves dont want to live under the paw of a tyrannical alpha couple.
Guessing the wolf thing is similar to how years later full grown adults believe survival of the fittest means. (The strongest, biggest and fastest) and not (the one best suited to the current environment).
One of the first things discussed in a college science class was that it was Survival of the *Fit*. Not the most optimum, not the strongest. Survival of the Good Enough. They were trying real hard to shoot down that misconception.
Just wanted to add : just like with wolves, dogs don't have an hiracy where the owner needs to act like the big bad alpha, but should rater act as a guiding, frendly parent. Sadly becuse of Mechs first book most people asume that dogs should be treated as a low rank member Who needs to "know there place" sadly this is still a practice taught by some "dog experts" 😔
Wolf's do have a hierarchy but for a human to do that with a dog is stupid because we aren't dogs that's not how to train animals. This video will explain y th-cam.com/video/_D1pcjh5dqM/w-d-xo.html
@@Lazyspaceout yes, thats true. Its a very intresting and large subject, just esier to explain it as no heracy and to be honest, I'm a bit lazy when writing in english since Its not my first language.
Two things mentioned during my animal behavior degree concerning dogs and the alpha theory: 1) Dogs are dogs, not wolves, much less fantasy wolves. 2) 'Dog parents' with 'dog children' are fine and do not result in higher than average behavior problems or welfare issues, so long as they actually treat them as their 'dog children' (meet their needs accordingly) rather than dolls.
Ok, first it's 'their place' and yes some dogs with dominance issues should be moved around, just to show that you can. I've seen too many 'kenneled' ie caged dogs become aggressive if someone enters their area. I've personally known 3 of these brats trying to bite people who come near the 'den' you have created for them
Wonderful and entertaining as always. I just want to thank you for including the "alpha wolf" lie. I read about that a couple of years ago and it blew my mind, mostly because of how often people go to it. I like how they original author tried to shut it down by openly correcting himself. Shame people didn't listen.
that myth is the single worst thing to influence dog training. it makes me want to rip my hair out when dealing with dog owners at work who have no idea they are completely wrong and very possibly causing harm
It doesn't help that the spread of the correction to this myth was pretty stifled. For some reason, we like the idea of the alpha, probably because it excuses the assholes in a way.
Funnily enough, theres a new spin on the "alpha" myth that these guys (cause its always guys) are pushing: that because it was observed in capivity then animals and humans in captivity still show these traits. I've explained this before. I hunt using dogs when going after wild pig and other destructive animals and the "leader" of the pack, or alpha, is almost never the hyperaggressive pitbull they seem to think (or want) to be the leader, it tends to be the oldest and calmest dog, the one that they tend to trust. The male that tries to show aggression and dominate tend to either get ostracized from the pack or even mauled. The head of my pack is female beagle of all things. This tends to be true with most animals when observed in pack units. Now, when people usually talk about alphas, they're usually talking about human behavior and the captivity argument falls even further apart due to, ya know, us not being in captivity. Villages and cities and such are our natural habitat so the same argument doesn't work. Yet you'll always be rewarded with a "but" from them. Its not that they simply just believe a myth, they desperately want it to be true. When you look at the traits that are associated with "alpha" behavior, you dont see someone like charlemange or Charles the 13th, you see Patrick Bateman. Trust me, if most of these guys who believe this type of stuff were thrown in the wild, 75% of them would most likely be dead within a week, probably due to killing each other determining whos in charge.
Yeah and with Wolves, this alpha theory doesn't apply at all as the two alphas are literally just the parents of the pack, and act accordingly so. Many people have debunked this theory and I hope more people will realize this isn't true, as it can be extremely harmful to all involved, as I've seen too many dog owners use that theory to train and deal with their dogs, which this would only lead to unpredictable aggressive behavior due to fear. The only time I'd ever try to act meaner or tougher than my three treeing walker coonhounds is while I'm eating, as two of the three will gladly snatch whatever I'm eating and the third will just try their best to look casual and slowly get closer lol, all I do is just freeze a little and growl while making an angry face, as I know dogs do the same when wanting to protect their own food. After I do that they realize it's mine and they all make sure to keep their heads away from my food. So yeah I wish myths like these weren't so widely spread at supposed fact. Like gold fish I think have been proven to remember things from up to 5 years, which is pretty cool being that most think they have a memory span of 3 to 5 seconds lmao, I guess it just looks that way since food is on their minds a lot and being a fish, most people don't think of a fish as intelligent or capable of anything we can do, which is wrong there are many examples of intelligent fish and other animals you wouldn't think of as intelligent.
@@CarlytheWolf23 you'd be surprised how stupid some people are about animals. Helped a friend to get a momma stray cat and her kittens out of his attic and I nearly had a heart attack when he started playing a male cats yelling on his cellphone. I demanded why he would ever do that and he said he had heard it was an easy way of getting rid of stray cats. I easily informed him it might help with a single stray but if a mother thinks I'm a male cat, she's going to maul my face off. I told him I knew what I was doing and then put on mother cats trilling, slowly edged towards the mother with a box, kept slowly blinking to her and soon enough had her kneading at me and exposing her belly to me. Took about 2 hours but I got the momma and kittens out of the attic. Theres a thousand ways with dealing with animals, especially domesticated animals, but people always tend to believe the dumbest yet easiest things. P.S. don't try what I did with the stray momma. Its just something that's worked with me and other people who've had to work with mother cats. Its slightly time consuming and you need a ton of patience to do it and even if its something that works for me doesn't mean it'll work with every other cat you'd meet.
@@dugonman8360 true, patience is key, I've befriended stray cats before and man it takes time, more time with the ones that are timid around strangers. And I've noticed how incredibly dumb people can be, like I've seen a girl once that I showed them am axolotl and I tried to explain it was a salamander and not a fish, and asked if they knew what it was, they didn't, and then I said it's a type of amphibian, they didn't even know what an amphibians are and never even heard of it, so I had to get even more simple say if she knew what frogs were, then that's an example of an amphibian. Yeah it's kinda painful sitting still and trying to ignore people who are speaking about animals and saying incorrect facts and myths, etc, as all I wanna do is correct and explain how and why it isn't true-
I think I knew just over half of them of being untrue, with the other half either never having heard or wrongfully assumed to be true. You are truly doing good work fighting lies.
Speaking from the cheetah's perspective, I too would be anxious as hell if I was about to eat something and then I suddenly remember there's a thermometer plugging up the exit hatch, I feel like there could have been much better ways to measure their core temperature non-intrusively
Dude, your information is good, lines are great, but your delivery is amazing. Drooped eyes, deadpan matter of fact voice inflection while calling a honey badger a felon ferret or assault oreo is absolutely priceless. I have to pause your videos regularly to laugh hysterically.
The "alpha" thing makes me laugh. The fact that people put human males into 2 (and just 2 categories) of "alpha" and "beta". Yet most (if not all) the traits that "alpha males" think are good would be considered psychopathic, and all the "beta male" traits would just be considered... human.
The ironic thing is in highly social primates like chimpanzees and us, the "alpha male" is not the male that dominates and oppresses everyone via brute strength, it's the male that can form the largest coalition of allies. Even the biggest chimp can be defeated by two chimps 75% as strong.
@@Dog.This_Identifier_Is_Shit. sigma what now?? Seems like some people want to reduce the complex nature of the human experience into Greek chicken scratch. Sad that people think men aren't psychologically complex, and sad that some men want to be placed in a box.
I always heard the thing about baby birds when I was growing up, but I knew even then it was a crock of shit since my mom and I had put many baby (as in still mostly featherless) birds back in their nest and they were still there and being cared for by their parents later. We also had a bird house in our back yard that was inhabited by the same set of sparrows every year. There were a couple of occasions where we found baby sparrows on the ground elsewhere with no parents in sight. Being the softies that we were, we decided to shove them into the bird house. The "adoptive" parents took care of them with as much dedication as if they were their own chicks. Eventually, we also did this with a couple of other species, including a baby robin and a baby grackle. The cared for those babies, too. It was quite a sight to behold.
Imagine going to the store to buy food and coming back to see that, one again, the mountain dwelling giant who lives nearby has put another strange and unfamiliar baby inside your child’s crib. I mean like… what are you going to do? That’s your child now.
No i can confirm they are hellspawns that have no fear. My brother drives an amazon truck and they not only chased him to the truck but attacked it with wild abandon, tossing their bodies against it like they were ready to die to ruin his day.
Obviously I love the video content, but I also LOVE all the musical references you have in your vids to old games, etc. I'm sure most people didn't catch it, but the real ones see what you're doing, and we approve!
Now the real issue is: Despite many of these people being wrong, rather than being humble, accepting being wrong (to which I will accept being wrong to much of these rumors), and/or better learn for themselves... They would rather tantrum and make sure that their lies are accepted.
I mean how else will the dude bros and incels convince themselves that they can/can't get partners because of their shitty behaviour?!? They have to have an excuse to be an ass so of course they'll defend the lie to the death 😂
People are so bizarre about the quote un quote alpha wolf thing. I’ll watch nature docs abt lions and wolves and see those types in the comments who basically contradict the doc to argue there ARE alphas and use animals as an excuse or “proof” for sexism. So weird.
To be fair, this most likely comes down to a clash where one never before heard (true)information told by one person contradicts a thousands of times repeated (false)sentiment/information by a myriad of people over a long timespan. Not easy to just accept that like that, especially because most of the time in clashes like that the one person is the one bullsh!itting.
Goukes Which is why you often need to do info checks or at least think by yourself if the new information makes more sense than the previous one you're used to. Casual Geographic, for example, explains the lines of logic behind these anti-myths and even sometimes shows direct sources to where the misinformation started. Since that is more than what probably everyone spreading the myths have done, it is safer to believe him; but even if you don't, then looking up subjects on the matter is easily done nowadays.
When I was training in the military in Ontario there were turkeys everywhere and eventually because they lived on base they started learning and watching us soldiers and we noticed they started to cross the roads the same way we would if we were practicing battle drills it was actually pretty nuts
I was on a safari in Zambia with my family back in Dec 2012 and my younger brother came within 30 feet of an elephant. So I see him is on a walkway when an elephant starts going towards him. Next thing I know the Elephant's ears are in the forward position. I was about to grab my brother and run when he put his hands up and backed away. The Elephant looked at us, sneezed, and walked in the other direction. The moral of the story: don't piss off elephants or you will end up in a sorry state.
I come for the commentary even if I know about the animal topics. Your thoughts on animals in general give me life. Bringing awareness but literally don't F*** with none of them. Same bro same! 😂
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It's probably best to consider elephants people, and deserving of the same respect. Elephants' relationship with humans is thus as complex and nuanced as any relationship humans have amongst themselves. What I do know is that wild elephants seek out human camps for medical attention when they've been shot by poachers. They recognize our kindness and our cruelty. There's probably extensive community knowledge about who among the local humans can be trusted and who cannot among elephant herds.
I suspect the Trash Pandas in my neighborhood do the same thing. They willingly approach me, even when we've never met, but won't go near the neighbor who is renowned for chasing them off. _I know for a fact the Corvids in the area are telling each other I'm cool!_
@@stanfordwillis4841 Yes. Couple summers ago, I helped a crow get some dinner. He was going after the remnants of a Teriyaki Chicken meal in a clamshell that was in a plastic grocery bag, in a Supermarket Parking Lot. I wandered over, looking at him Birb Style (by tilting my head and looking sideways), and said, "Here, brother, let me help you out with that!" He looked at me funny, hopped back a few, and watched as I decanted his food, placing it onto a cardboard Pizza box that was handy, and then stepped back, waved my hand, and said, "Enjoy! I'll go throw the trash away." He stepped up, and quite happily started eating. Before I could even leave what I would have considered his "Comfort Zone." A couple weeks later, I was at the Bus Stop across the street, waiting for, well... A group of Teens were there, being, well, Teens. All of a sudden the sky erupted with Crow Poop. And I looked up, when it subsided, and saw the Power Lines covered with Crows, all laughing their beaks off.. I wasn't touched, once. I started laughing back, and called up, "Good Shitting, err Good Shooting, Brothers!" and waved. I heard one change his caw from a cackle to a long Cawwwwwww. Crows are SCARY Smart. Research has shown that crows cannot only recognize people, but will also communicate to each other who's Cool, and who isn't. I've had random crows asking me to unwrap grocery bags from them. So can Hornets (AKA Yellowjackets). This is why I'm nice to EVERYBODY, _until_ they are an ass to me. And why I'm never nice to anyone wearing a Red Hat Making China Profitable Again.
Thank you for mentioning fledglings! The amount of times I've had to say "go put it back where you found it!" to well-meaning wildlife lovers kidnapping fledges is too high (I'm a park ranger)
"Turkeys aren't that stupid" 😂 We had a Bourbon, Angelica, on the ranch that we were pretty certain convinced her sister off the census. Jumped off the fence right in front of an incoming semi. Angelica was still sitting on the fence completely unphased. Though she also tried to pick fights with the dogs and goats, even saw one of the donkeys chasing her one day. So 50/50, she may have just been psychotic.
We have a flock of wild turkeys on the mountain our parents live on, and I feel like they absolutely know when turkey season is because they just disappear and come back with new babies in the spring. They’re SO CUTE. I love seeing them cross the road as a big ol family.
I love you so much. Your funny and really informative, and also just 🥺 “we all know what happens in prison isn’t reflective of people in general” really hit and got me thinking. Like,,, ugh, our prisons need to be so much better. The punitive system doesn’t help anyone, and we could build them to be therapeutic. But one bit of misinformation at a time. Thank you for what you’re doing 💛
It keeps on amazing how creative this man is . Every single one of his videos make me laugh. The content is scientifically accurate and brought in such a way it sticks with you so that you actually learn something. Now there’s also a book. This young man is a roll model for other youngsters.
I personally believe that to even become a father as a wolf you pretty much have to be what most would call an alpha to be able to successfully stay a father but I know that the other members are just kids
The worst part is when they apply that logic to people. For the record. There is no such thing as “Alphas and Betas” in humans. It’s literally as accurate as Astrology and Horoscopes.
Fun story about my own experience with baby birds, I noticed a robin sitting in the backyard lawn for a long time. I would walk back and check on it from my window constantly, and it would move spots but stay in the lawn. I went out into the yard after my mom got home from work, and obviously caused the thing to flee, but I HAD to know what was making it want to sit there. We have 2 dogs, and they aren't the nicest when it comes to squirrels, rabbits, and sometimes birds. I looked carefully in the grass and found 3 baby birds. And I'm not talking fluffy feathered babies, I'm talking about pink fleshy alien babies. Their eyes looked huge compared to their heads and they were completely shut. I told my mom about it and we looked at the trees in our yard, and since there were only 2 and there weren't any leaves quite yet growing, we spotted a nest in one of the trees fairly high up. The previous night had been horribly windy, and so we assumed the worst, that they fell out of the nest. They were somewhat spread out, so it would make it hard for the parent to sit on all three. Thankfully, we had a nest from a previous robin family that was on the patio light, and we carefully took it down. I still believed that myth about not touching baby birds, so I put some garden gloves on and carefully poked each one to check if they survived. All but one was alive, and ants were already claiming that one's body. I carefully put the two living ones in the nest and set it on the trampoline, but I was worried she wouldn't find them, so I put it back on the ground where we found the babies. Hours passed and the parent didn't come back, so I started making calls to fish and game and the zoo, but no one really knew what to do. Thankfully, the parent came back, and Idk if both of them knew that we were the ones that gave them the nest or what, but they let me get RIGHT up to the nest and they didn't dive bomb me when I did touch the babies as they grew, because at that point I figured that the touching thing might not be an issue anymore after they were still taking care of them. We kept the dogs on a leash when we went into the backyard and made sure they stayed a good distance from the nest, and when we mowed the lawn we carefully moved the nest while we mowed that spot and then put it back.
My brother and dad went turkey hunting in Montana some years ago and a HUGE Tom turkey chased them both, guns in hand, back to the truck! Lmfao 😂🤣😂 I still have not laughed harder than I did that day. I was sitting in the truck, watching them both come flying out of the woods, tripping over each other trying to get away from something! I thought a bear or cougar would be coming out of the woods after them, but no, here comes this big ass fluffed out turkey sqwuaking and flapping and flying/floating, it's weird but chickens do it too to start a fight. But I laughed so loud the turkey looked right in my direction, cooked it's head like "what the hell?" And ran off! Lmao. But like, they were there to shoot a turkey, they had gun in hand and ran away! Hahahaha they've never been able to live it down and we had store bought turkey for Thanksgiving that year 🤣
Reminded me that time when I was 5, I was in my father’s mom’s toyota with my family, A dog began chasing us and me, my 2 sisters and my brother looked at the dog chasing our Toyota (It looked like a husky) and we laughed together, We began saying things like “Haha husky can’t chase us!!“ And “Husky chase toyato? ooo dum dum doggy! No chase us!!“ (I’m a saudi so that’s why I typed them in english so people could understand). Nostalgia hits hard in my face when I saw this comment!
@@cometkeiko hahaha I love your comment ❤🌻 my good friend Ahad (sometimes she spells it Ahed, so I'm not exactly sure if one is more correct, but I've seen her write both, but she's only been speaking English for about a year, so idk if her spelling is correct either, sorry)is originally from Syria but lived in Saudi Arabia for a long time before she came here (she's 24 & has the most heartbreaking story, she's a young single mom, stuck in a foreign country, not her fault) anyway, she's shown me the most beautiful pics and says she really misses it but can't go back. She said her family is even leaving there to go to Turkey I think, she says they don't like Syrians there sometimes. I'm not sure exactly where she's from, but she's got me fascinated with the place lol. She's so kind and good and pure that when she gets happy or excited about things, it makes me excited too lol. Do you still live there?
I rode an elephant once. It was very uncomfortable. In addition to almost doing a split while my legs were underneath metal rails, we were all packed together like sardines.
Where did you ride an elephant? I’ve only ever rode one in Thailand and we sat on little bench-like seats/saddles. The rider himself sat on the shoulders of the elephant.
Also the handlers are exstremelly harsh with them. Beating them over the head with metal rods, jerking their ears to get them to turn... Exstremelly brutal and absolutely unnecessary.
@@taan1424 yeah, its kinda idiotic as the elephant can snap at em at any time and ragdoll the mahut if i were in that case, i'd have treated the elephant as good as i possibly can, to avoid the big guy taking his revenge on me one day
I want to see more "facts" that are false. Everyone probably knows the Lemming lie. Maybe do one about how a Dingo ate a baby and everyone thought the mother was lying to get away with murder.
I'm grateful that you offer free content, and worry- selfishly so- that this might end somehow. Because what you're bringing to this forum really is that good, that unique and informative. The best teachers- the ones who get us interested in life and in thinking- are interested in the fields they cover, and it's impossible not to be inspired- but also amused and entertained- by CasualGeographic. Before watching, I can honestly say that I had no idea that so many strange creatures still exist, nor any clue as to just how strange some seemingly-familiar animals really are. ~ Thank you!
Can you research where the myth of elephants being scared of mice came from? And where the myth of ostriches putting their head in the sand came from? Love your informative and creative videos!
Yea i saw the ostrich do that in real life. Well in a hole. It was an ostrich farm and all the ostrich heads where in holes and the keeper man said they were sleep. It was really shocking to see.
a main anti elephant tactic used by the romans was to set boars on fire and let em loose, the noise and fire will make the elephant panic they arent domesticated, theyre basically wild animals who have had some basic training, and it gave em some serious PTSD
As someone with pet turkeys that are closely related to wild ones (I wanted healthy genetics) and they are ridiculously smart! Mine are always up to something normally how to best get my attention and more treats
Just stopping by to pay you a compliment. You're very good at what you do, and I actually learn something from every one of your videos. I appreciate the research you do for these, and your delivery is funny as hell! Please keep making them until you're too famous to hang out with little people like us anymore.
Fun fact: people have theorized that elephants become more violent as in return from humans killing them. So there’s another reason why they don’t see us as “cute”
Smart enough to recognize that we are sometimes deadly, and sometimes helpful. But nowhere near "smart" enough to always be able to tell the difference. That would have to cause extreme stress.
I think there's definitely evidence of this. I remember reading about young elephants who'd been orphaned by poachers growing up extremely aggressive (randomly murdering rhinos, for example).
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"The worst lies are those you tell yourself!" Absolute wisdom, man.
I'm so smart, I never believe any of the lies I tell myself. So yeah, those *are* the worst lies, because they never work.
@flower has eaten Yeah, yeah, finally it's there... good for it!😑
@flower has eaten when will your dad be here
Idc I’m still going to give a bear a hug if I run into one. I’m either going to get mauled to death or make a new friend. And I like those odds…
Telling ourselves that governments are here to protect and serve us would be the worst lie we tell ourselves. Government means mind control. Government is LIES
"Facts like this only go viral when people take human traits and try to put them onto animals"
this man is spitting straight facts
I have to object. Humans are not special, we are animals like the rest of them so any traits present in humans could conceivably be present in other animals as well
Ever heard of IQ?
@@mizcs I agree with you! Humans are esentially animals, and even though some years back many would have argued that animals and humans have lots of differences, studies have proven that we are more similar than we had originally thought. However, I do think that we still have some fundamental differences (and I don't mean that makes us "more special")
Thanks Disney
@@mizcs the only diffrence betweeen us and any other mammal is that mammals rely mostly on instinkts, while we (well, most of us) rely more on inteligance and critical thinking. Also we are not forced to fight for our survival anymore, which makes that iliusion that we are supirior to any other animal.
Some other popular myths not mentioned here:
- “Male lions are lazy and don’t hunt” - They will absolutely make their own kills if not part of a pride. The reason why they don’t participate in hunts with females is because they’re busy defending their turf. (Also, as others have said, male lions will occasionally join hunts if the pride is handling tough prey like giraffes or buffalo.)
- “Komodo dragons intentionally wait for their prey to die after biting them once” - The big lizards would much rather kill their prey outright, and the documented cases of them supposedly letting go and waiting are really just the result of failed hunts.
- “Albatrosses can stay in the sky for years without ever touching down” - This one’s probably just a misinterpretation of a true fact. Albatrosses can indeed go on flights that last years without touching the ground, but they still have to rest on the ocean water.
- “You can tell the age of a rattlesnake by counting its number of rattles” - While it’s true they gain a rattle ring every time they shed, they do so several times a year, so there’s no way of knowing their age in years from that alone.
- "Vultures have bald heads to keep clean as they stick them in rotting corpses" - The bald heads are more likely for thermoregulatory purposes. Plenty of non-scavenging birds also have bald heads, such as ostriches and turkeys. These birds live in areas where the temperature can change drastically, so the lack of feathers on the head make it easier to cool off, and can be tucked into the body to keep warm. There are also a number of birds that eat carrion with fluffy heads, such as eagles, petrels, and even bearded vultures, so keeping clean is more likely an added benefit than the main cause.
- “Goldfish have a 3-second memory span” - Goldfish can associate certain sounds with feeding times and are able to recognize others of their kind, so I have no idea where this one came from.
I am pretty sure he addressed the last fact in another video. I forget which one though
Also, rattlesnakes sometimes break their rattles.
While goldfish arent all that smart by other fish standards, the certainly have a higher interlligence than people give them credit for. Going by that logic cats have their memory dissolved after 10 minutes and in the case of humans, it would be about 30 seconds at best. While having a bad memory is true regarding all animals in this sense the entire fact is that this is true regarding only certain visual parts of memory and short term memory. In reality, goldfish have a pretty good memory and like most fish, can recognise their owner and can also be trained to perform tricks like following your finger, swimming through hoops and going through an obstacle course. As a matter of fact, goldfish have a better attention span than most humans, with the fish averaging 9 seconds to a human's 8 seconds. Scientists had trained goldfish to press a lever to deliver food....but only for a certain hour of the day and by the end of three months of training, the goldies were found patiently waiting till that one hour to come up to push the lever and get lunch. They can also be trained to anticipate food at the ring of a bell like Pavlov's doggies and remembered it upto 5 months after being released.
Also, the rattles of a rattlesnake will break off if it gets too big
Okay, who the hell made up the first myth and how did it gain so much traction
“no amount of wildly inappropriate fanfics will ever change that”
I hate how I know what he’s talking about.
Please tell me, watching all his videos and not knowing what rutting is makes me confused
Ever heard of googling?@@oscarglad5284
@@oscarglad5284 I think it's Omegaverse stuff
Oh, there's a lot of smvt in that genre, that's for sure!
But I've read some really wholesome and/or hilarious ones as well! (Honestly, one of my favourites was a family taking care of their omega family member during heat. Kinda reminds me of how my mother took care of my siblings and I during our first periods. All the warm blankets and hot chocolates, heck yeah!)
P.s. Knew about rut and heat from nature documentaries first and silly omegaverse stuff second, so you can't blame me for knowing both. Besides, I know too much to begin with. I've *witnessed* some things...
@@mistakesregretsandimperfec7740u a freak
Once had a zookeeper explain to me that elephants can be really dangerous. She said people assume that all animals have the same degree of emotional control that people have.
the only zookeeper that gives a crap to the animals perhaps, difficult to come by cus the rest are busier keeping their paycheck / think the same way as the guests
It's impressive how thoughtless some people are
Thats something i think about a lot
"the same degree of emotional control that people have"
im hoping youre talking about a functional human adult otherwise we're all fucked
They do though. I imagine if someone got in your face and harassed you, you'd physically retaliate.
So I've raised turkeys for over a decade. The toms are dense, it's the hens you have to watch. I had a domestic turkey hen escape a fully enclosed run and run off to live with the wild turkeys. I then continued to see her on my trailcams for 3 years. Also the videos of them going in circles is always a hen getting a tom to exhaust himself so she can get away from him.
Hens really want the "bad boy" lifestyle, huh.
I raised em too, can confirm the toms being that dense and the hens being the smart ones.
@@floofy4659 "becky please, lemme smash" 😂🦃
Like humans, it seems the female of the species have a few more brain cells 🤣
If you raise the broad breasted whites, they are all stupid - toms and hens. They WILL drown in a rain storm by looking up and they WILL suffocate themselves by all piling in a corner for hardly any reason (was that a branch hitting the roof?) by the hundreds so the ones on the bottom die. My uncle raised turkeys by the hundreds of thousands at a time.
Thank you! Too many people fall for that fake ‘Elephants think humans are cute and their brain reacts the same way ours does to a puppy.’
No it doesn’t lol
My dad and I found out a few months ago we both watch your channel when we recommended you to each other, I showed my sister and my mom your channel too. We all think your videos are very funny and enjoyable, never fails to make me laugh
People are just that arrogant..lol
@@therawebster3285 I don't think it has correlation with arrogance as much they are naïve lol
I visited a zoo and heard people say that lol, I wanted to turn around and say everything he said.
It is very unfortunate that it’s a myth as we all love elephants
When I first I thought it didn't make sense given the things people do to elephants but since Im no expert I just accepted it.
Bet the same people who believe the elephant myth would also believe hippos are kind and gentle creatures.
"Facts like this only go viral when people take human traits and try to put them onto animals". Thank you sir! I've been trying to point out that's what people have been doing for ages. You're one of the few who've shown they understand this.
Anthropamorphization ain’t just for the furry fandom it’s also for people who like to pretend animals think in the same way we do.
For the record, when he talks about birds’ poor sense of smell, he’s talking about songbirds specifically. There are plenty of other birds that can smell well, namely storks, vultures, seabirds, and kiwis, which is how they’re able to track down food over long distances.
I did not know kiwis had a good sense of smell...
@@spicylizards4714 imagine a kiwi tracking you for days, waiting for the right time
@@kronykaal3824 predatory kiwis
Kiwis can also outrun humans at about 19kmh. A mini t-rex. With whiskers.
@@kronykaal3824 No I want a movie about evil murdering kiwis.
I knew about the wolf thing. The "alpha male/female" are not "higher ranking" because they are the toughest, they are just the most experienced because they are everybody else's mum and dad.
If only women realised that 😆
@@DfiftyMusic Lol i mean most of the people i see unironically talking about real-life people being "alphas and betas and sigmas" are men but ok.
Like it's one of things where most dudes don't buy into it, but out of the people who DO buy into it, most of them are dudes.
@@DfiftyMusic no bitches
i dont think its women that need to realize this evidenced by just looking at any “alpha male podcast”
@@DfiftyMusic Women aren't the ones who go around saying "i"m an alfa male".
It's very obious that you are a worthless incel.
Praying Mantis rarely cannibalize their mate in the wild. The reason why the myth that they do it almost every time is because they based it off of Mantis in a bunch of small cages with all these strange primates monitoring their every move.
Years later, someone tried a similar observation but gave them some space and a more natural environment. 9 out of 10 mantis did the deed, and carried on, with only one female making herself a widow.
I don't know if you've covered this before, but I felt it was appropriate with the Alpha wolf "fact".
Spiders don't eat the males all the time as well. Only if they don't have enough nutrients for the eggs or are under stress. We bred a lot of tarantulas and always fed them very well before mating them with the breeding male and they never once ate the males for dinner (even when it was time for the male to die soon and we just left him in the same enclosure as food for the female.). The females just shooed the males away into some corner and left them alone afterwards.
Keep in mind, you both may be overgeneralizing to the entire groupings. I know that different species of spider have vastly different rates of cannibalism, and in some species, the males actually "volunteer" themselves to be eaten. I am less familiar with the habits of mantids however.
@Lykia Ookami Isn't it the Black Widow spiders that kill their mates not tarantulas?
@@christyanaadams4959 Almost all spiders cannibalize their mates after mating - for a lot of different reasons, btw only one species of black widow always cannibalizes their mate after breeding, two other species of black widow have never been observed to cannibalize their mates while another one only sometimes cannibalizes them. And the males that get cannibalized a lot of the time offer themselves up for a snack because doing so apparently allows them to breed for longer - increasing their chances of fathering a large clutch. Most of the females who ate their mate don't breed with another male so the males offer themselves up to pass on their genes.
I don't know about all spiders (obviously) but tarantulas do eat their mates. Our male we partnered up that ended up just chilling with the female for his last months of life, did his courtship of tapping on her silk multiple times in a rhythm (papal drumming) and our female accepted him by slowly coming out of her burrow, then slowly lifted her up while gently tapping on the female the whole time (something that's thought to relax the female's fangs) and after mating gently let her down and made his way slowly to a corner of the enclosure. The whole time the female seemed mostly dazed and after she came out of it she just went back to her burrow. But everything the male did is specifically to ensure tarantula males don't get eaten by their mates. They first court so only females that accept the courtship will be mated, then do something that calms the female or keeps her fangs away from them during mating, and right after when the female is immobile they scram. In the wild only males that hurry too much, approach a female without courting first or don't leave quickly enough after mating get eaten but it still happens. Funny enough we wanted him to be eaten afterwards because that was his only purpose in our home but she just lived with him as a kinda roommate until he died of natural causes lol.
@@lykiaookami6070 I don’t know why I find it funny that the males will just “tap” the females to daze them. Spiders are so damn interesting
"If elephants found us cute, it'd be like if people found Ted Bundy Cute".
Well said. I enjoy your comedic value.
I mean... some people do find Ted attractive
@@jeffersonclippership2588 they even said they wanted to be killed by him
The irony is that women did find bundy cute/attractive.
That's how he got a good amount of his victims.
@@warbossgegguz679 Sometimes women make me confused.
@@digimonalvatrax2738 I mean the dude is kinda handsome, we just have the benefit of hindsight.
OMG!! Thank you so much for adding the 'Alpha Wolf' myth!! As a professional dog trainer, it is beyond frustrating to repeatedly have to explain this myth to clients.
You poor poor human. I get sick of people mentioning alphas in comment sections. I can't imagine having a job that requires convinving them they're wrong. You are a hero.
Oh God, I can already imagine how they try to throw Ceasar Milan into the discussion, although his methods are messed up
@@Criminal_Turtle Yes, when his name comes up I am quick to remind people that he actually set the dog training world back 50 years!
@@1Kitykat man that guy was part of my childhood, I feel so betrayed
Yeah. I grew up with dogs, so to me "alpha" just means "real or adopted parent or elder sibling who meets their needs well and understands them." I was better at handling dogs than anyone else in the family, and it wasn't because I was the most dominant, but because I made it a point to understand their physical and emotional needs and try to make sure they were met.
THANK YOU for the wolf-prison comparison! Of course, wrong science about wolves is bad, but it's way worse when we simplemindedly copy pasted the theories onto dogs and started interacting with them accordingly. I think that suffering we caused dogs was one of the main reasons that David Mech wanted his alpha wolf theories removed.
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I thought it was Sigmund Freud who came up with the alpha/omega idea.
@@anakinlowground5515 nope, even if he was that guy was crazy and was discredited.
my dad beats my 10 year old dog so that he’s the alpha
@@CaptainSaveHoe There is indeed a hirearchy, but in recent studies (there is a great documentary called Kingdom of the white wolf) where wolves are observed in their true natural habitat it's pretty clear that the wolf pack is indeed a family, guided by a matriarch and her breeding partner. This doesn't mean that there is a fighting hirearchy. The wolves lower in the chain so to speak are their offspring. The offspring help take care of the breeding pair's puppies. They are families and the inate hirearchy is simply that of a family union. Wolf packs do not generally take in wolves from other families if there is a breeding pair, unless the circumstances are very dire such as starvation where a larger pack is temporarily needed for hunting.
“Hug your mother DON’T hug an elephant unless it asks you to first”. Words to live by.
it's generally a good idea not to approach a non-human animal unless they demonstrate, in clear terms, that they want you to approach.
that includes even dogs.
in fact with dogs it's best to let the dog be the one approaching you, and then you can pet them.
so far i've never been bitten by a dog, and i've pet A LOT of dogs....just let them approach you when ready.
My mom is so fat that it really doesnt make a difference
I love her
I mean, if an elephant decided it wanted to hug me, I don't think I'd get a choice.
I once picked up a fledgling in my suburb, thinking it was abandoned. It even opened its mouth to me as I came to look at it. I took it home, read online that that was wrong of me, and properly brought it back to where I found it and waited for mom to find it. Mom did come back to check on her baby after about a half hour of waiting, fledglings aren't abandoned folks. Just on a little adventure with the whole world as their playground, with mom and dad watching from above. Same goes for deer foals as well, unless they look all skin and bones, their mom is hiding behind a tree 100 feet away, leave em be.
If you happen to be coastal, same for harbor seal pups, the parents are just fishing. Snap a picture, thank your lucky stars, and leave them be
Baby deer are called fawns, not foals
(Foals are baby horses btw just want to let you know) but i found a fawn laying their while i was driving my four wheeler around and it was skin and bones (i thought it was dead for a second) but i didnt touch it then it stood up and screamed like i was trying to murder it and i just about jumped. I drove about five feet to see the mother about to charge me- so uh is she just neglecting the fawn?
@@Beans_the_third_cheese If Mom is willing to fight an ATV for her baby then no, she's taking care of it. Could just be hard times I guess, or the fawn (ty) could have just been extra young? Maybe it was thin because it was getting weaned? I'm from suburbia, I don't see many animals larger than a poodle, so I'd say you know better than me.
@@madeofmandrake1748 oh ok! I mean i dont study deer so i dont know a lot i study horses but thx for telling me!
The "Mother bird will reject a baby with a human's scent" thing is just a thing parents say to discourage children from putting their mitts all over parasite infested critters.
huh? If baby birds had parasites it's unlikely they would be able to stay alive at that point.
@@meangengar8053 some animals are affected less by certain parasites than others, meaning what might be harmless on a bird would be dangerous for a small human child
@@meangengar8053 well the specific parasite is mites, of which will not kill a baby bird to my knowledge.
@@meangengar8053 You need to know that in nature, what doesn't kill you may kill others, and what doesn't kill others might kill you.
You aren't gonna get parasites from touching a bird lmao
Mites aren't dangerous to even the smallest children
"Because in the wild, morality gets you 404'd and put on someone else's 4 for 4."
This man's wordplay is god tier
Why do you think we follow him?
He's an incredible writer! Could do skit shows or standup
I know from meeting turkeys myself they can be incredibly, eerily smart.
I saw two having an argument, screaming in each other's faces. They had the same body language and tone of extremely angry humans. Some of them seemed to be trying to get them to stop, and others were gleefully goading them on. I could imaging them chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!" They acted so much like humans it was weird.
reminded me of the squirrels from rick and morty lmao
Haha i can imagine them stopping ,they'd catch you staring ,freeze like a deer in headlights and act 'normal' like Toy Story 😂
@@xakirax_8864 or the Gary Larson cows standing on 2 feet sipping martinis, until one shouts "car" and they all get back on all 4's and begin to graze again! 😆
turkeys?
Turkeys are so mean. They hang out in little gangs and chase me down the hill when I walk to school. They just like to scare people
Small correction: the sloth quote from Douglas Adams isn't from any Hitchhiker book. It was in "the Salmon of Doubt" which is basically a load of things they found on his computer after he died. This one doesn't seem to have ever been published until this book was put together.
I’m glad to say that I was only corrected on two of these “facts” though, I honestly don’t know how I believed the hatchling smell one when I knew that some birds have like no sense of smell.
Birds are some of the smartest animals on Earth. Even if the chick smells funny (to a crow, vulture, or a bird with a good sniffer,) - they don't care. The myth came about when people thought birds were stupid. Just like the turkey thing.
"Bird brain!" Remember when that was an insult?
I only got corrected on one. My father's parents raised turkeys when he was a kid. I'll give you one guess.
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
Being called a bird brain still insinuates you have the mental capacity of a child
To be honest though it still gives you the right advice no?
Same lol. I don't know how I missed that.
I met a baby elephant once, and I have a such fear from elephants slapping me in the face with their trunk or stomping on me.
But this elephant was quite sweet, and had no problem with me getting close.. I'm not saying elephants think humans are cute, I'm just saying they can sometimes be a lot more sweeter from experience.. even though there's a sweet sweet chance you can die
Though technically that could apply to really any animal. Theres been dogs that have snapped and put people in the forever box, or a usually docile tiger at a zoo that knocks a zoo keeper 6 feet under. Even reptiles can be this way.
Don’t even get me started on humans.
@@goldenhate6649 with the only exception being hippos
@@goldenhate6649 you're imitating somebody
Elephants can easily think your cute. Doesnt mean that the cute feeling cant easily be overwhelmed by annoyance, anger, or mating season.
Same with people. Never know if stranger your talking to is good or bad person.
Thank you for addressing the alpha wolf myth, too many dog trainers still use this DEBUNKED theory to justify their (sometimes abusive) methods of "teaching their dog who is in charge".
blame ceasar for that
Ok, no. A dog actually does need to know you're in charge.
@@925263 yes, of course you are responsible for your animal and it is important for a dog to listen to its owner, nobody is denying that. I put "teaching their dog who is in charge" between quotes because many people hurt their dogs and put them in uncomfortable situations for the purpose of supposedly teaching them who's boss, which is neither an effective nor a humane way to train a dog, all it does is build up a negative association with the owner. They do this on the basis of the alpha wolf theory, even thought that has been debunked many times. Besides, dogs are not wolves, and dogs know that we are not dogs.
@@925263 What do you mean, "Ok, no." ? Like it's some kind of hard fact that's been proven by science. First off, people own dogs for a very large number of reasons. Most raise them as companions, and don't need an animal that will "sit, speak, lie down, and get off the sofa" on command in order to get that. They need the animal to be companionable, and to not be destructive or violent.
A dog that is destructive or violent, is a dog that is not having it's needs met. Like people, dogs require more than just their physical needs to be met in order to remain well adjusted. They require sufficient exercise, sufficient mental stimulation, (which can come through a large variety of methods, which I wont cover here), and sufficient social interaction. The best science has been able to detect, dogs tend to view their owners the same way that we view our parents.
If your dog is violent or destructive, the reason will almost always come down to unmet needs, abusive training methods, or neurological issues, and NOT it thinking it's some kind of "mythical Alpha figure", or the boss of the house.
There are very well some dogs out there that require their owner to assert themselves as the one in charge. There are some people like that too. This is absolutely not a universal however. There are different breeds, and differences between dogs within each of those breeds, and what each animal needs is slightly different.
Just because coercive methods work on all of them, does not mean they are the best, or the healthiest, method to use. The same is true for people as well. A teacher would have a MUCH easier time keeping her classroom in check, and capable of regurgitating information, if she could use shock collars on each of her students, and shock anyone who misbehaves. Yet we don't seem to be using those methods in classrooms.
It's not an exact comparison because humans are capable of verbal communication, but even were we not, there are many other methods are far superior. The same is true in dog training. Sure these methods, but they are far from the optimal methods.
@@Lazyspaceout no blame humans for not paying attention to science to be cool 👁️👄👁️
Honestly the wolf bit and how putting unrelated animals into one enclosure alters natural behavior just got me thinking of orcas. Since in wild pods are lead by old grannies, lots of mommas and babies and a few males, each with own unique communications.
So yeah, put dozens of unrelated orcas into a bathtub of a enclosure who can't communicate properly and people wonder why they get so aggressive
Cetaceans in captivity is just too cruel. Unless we're rehabilitating them for release, we need to just leave them in the wild.
Thank you for mentioning the correct facts of the "alpha wolf" and the "bird scent". I learned they were fake a few months ago and I'm glad many people will learn it through your videos.
Unfortunately there are people that will still believe that an alpha wolf exists in a pack regardless of what our homeboy said
@@hoodinisoar Yeah they're pretty cringe ngl
"YoU haVe tO bE a BiG BurLy alPha wHen YoU hAve A doG", like ok dude, not like you know jackshit about animals(context, I used to have a neighbor who did this and I felt bad for the dogs ngl)
The Alpha Wolf thing was totally exacerbated by that Liam Neeson movie "The Grey" and it bothered me so much lol.
@@hoodinisoar Overall it seems funny to me that this big Alpha behavior that people try to put into human society is taken from wolves which are totally different types of animals and their hierarchy is different than ours, but actually now I learned that this whole Alpha is even fake in wolves hierarchy making it even more stupid to put it as legitimate way of judging anything.
He is wrong about the wolf example though. Wolves have different kind of packs depending on circumstances. In good times wolves have small packs that consist of a mating pair and their descendants. And it that case CG is correct. But in times of starvation wolves will form much larger packs that are not families and those follow the alfa/beta formula much better.
The reason as to why they form bigger packs in worse times is partly because a big pack can hunt bigger prey. But mostly its because if there are too many predators for the prey population to sustain the only way to fix that is to get rid of predators. And the easiest way to do that is to go to war and kill the other predators nearby. Including other wolves. And in war, the bigger pack tend to win over the smaller.
Once the bad times are over the big packs tend to break up again. Because most wolves dont want to live under the paw of a tyrannical alpha couple.
Congratulations on getting 2 million subscribers on TH-cam, man. Your videos are so educational, it makes all the teachers at school look like fools.
Maybe the science and the social studies teachers
Yeah, teachers should just use you as a resource lol
They don't need him to make them look like fools.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo down the rabbit hole I went😹😹😹
You were okay till you had to sh*t on teachers. If you don't like education, than drop out and home school your kids, because you think all teachers are fools. You know how to read and write due to those teachers, because your parents were too busy to get that plate of food, roof over your head and getting you the things you need and want... ungrateful sh!T!!!
So, turkeys might not drown themselves by looking up at the rain. However, I live on a sheep farm. And I'm not even joking, we did have a sheep that did drown itself in the rain because it wouldn't look down.
There was also one that had drown in 5 inches of water because it tripped in a small stream and just..gave up
That sheep said:
Too tired, brain failing, thinking about choices, *death* .
Bro are your sheep depressed or something?
@@Ollybollyk Probably.
@@Ollybollyk I hope not 😅 it happened when I was a kid so I couldn't tell ya😂
Most prey animals try to flee or even put up a fight for their lives, but since sheep are very docile and don't really have a "defend" instinct they kind of just give up if they think they're going to die. We've had some have a really rough birth and after that they do this thing called the "death roll" where they literally will roll over and die after that. But if you prevent them from rolling they live. Nature is fuckin wack dude 🤷♀️
Sheep have to be one of the most stupid animals out there, its creative the ways they kill themselves
I have to say, you sir, are the most entertaining distributor of wildlife facts I have ever seen. I can't get enough of your videos. In a world that is filled with the absolute refuse of humanity, you are more valuable than a priceless gem. Thank you for being here.
With the alpha wolf factoid, I think people liked taking it as a fact since it helped solidify egotistic ideas of superiority. Some people I'm sure like to think of themselves as an alpha male, and seeing something else in nature following that narrative of alpha behavior I guess makes them feel like nature backs up their sense of superiority.
Wolves technically do have "alpha behavior", but it only happens when unrelated wolves congregate together to form large packs. In most situations, wolves operate in family units.
@@TomFranklinX It only happens when they're forced together in captivity. There's no reason for them to congregate to make larger packs as that means they have to cover more ground to feed everyone, instead of regular sized ones that are more spaced out from one another.
@@Kerze Wolves will congregate when large herds of prey congregate. This is more common in winter when prey are scarce and wolves must travel far and wide in search of food .
Doesn't the term "alpha masculinity" comes from this stupidity?
you talk as if people don't inherently choose a leader among them all , based on "powerful" traits...
Why are we a hierarchical species ?
In a group of people , there is ALWAYS that one person everyone looks up to as a leader because is either very responsible , or smart , or pretty . or strong , or brave , or charismatic
Just when I thought the day was gonna be boring, the legend uploads
Facts! I was doing school work then I got a notification and was like ayyyee I been bored all this time 😩😂😂😂
Yay
@Don't Read My Profile Photo shut up
@our hero spammmmmmmmm
I ain't clicking shit
I always found it hilarious that the “Alpha” wolf concept is often applied to humans when there is zero correlation. Not even to mention that it’s made-up gobbldigook.
>Zero correlation
You mean besides being mammals and social animals in general?
@@thespecter6416 I think he meant it doesn't make any sense or it doesn't have any correlation with how wolf's behave, but I might be wrong.
@@thespecter6416 you must identify as an alpha?
@@Dog.This_Identifier_Is_Shit. Well, it still has correlation how chimps, our close apes behave.
Alpha just means dominant. And apes, you know - those animals that share 96 % DNA with us - have Alphas.
Thank you for educating people and debunking myths🙏
"In the wild, morality gets you 404'd and puts you on somebody's 4 for 4," I laughed a lot at that line. Beautiful!
I always joked that the elephant one was made up by elephants with a grudge to make us lower our guard, turns out I was right
Brilliant war strategy
They are the true overlords of the world.
“the worse lies are the ones you tell yourself” 😭😭
@Don't Read My Profile Photo shut up
Bruh, you are rapidly becoming one of my favorite Zoology educators. Please keep these videos coming!
I wanted to give you props for calling penguins “cloacas” instead of “assholes” because than was galaxy-tier and yet you just dropped it so fast! So I wanted to make sure you knew it was received and found to be wake-the-dog-laughingly hilarious!
i've only ever heard one other use of it in this context, and it was an alien scientist from mass effect with a penchant for being fast and murder. maybe only cool people say cloaca
It could be instead of dick as well.
The disproving of the elephant one makes sense (as much as I wanted to believe it). What humans find cute is usually based how they compare to the standards of our own babies, so assuming elephants are the same way, adult humans are...not very similar to elephant babies (whereas we find elephant babies cute because they waddle around and play like human toddlers). I’d guess that they see us more like bugs - some of them like us, but some of them just wanna squash us and be done with it, especially once we start stabbing and shooting at them
Yea but that reasoning in itself is bogus. Humans find cats and dogs cute, and neither of those bear any resemblance to human babies. Infact, dogs are and 4th greatest killer of humans in the animal kingdom, coming in just after mosquitos, humans, and snakes. Humans find things like fluffball Keychains or rounded geometric shapes cute, and those don't bear any resemblance to anything. The correlation between cuteness and infant care or even safety just seems like speculation to me.
@@catatoblob8598 The reasoning is correct but the conclusion is wrong. We find things because of similarities to babies. The traits that are similar to babies that we find cute are
*Large Eyes (compared to the head)
*Large Heads (compared to the body)
*Plumpness
*Clumsiness
It is important to note that fur can give the allusion of being plump.
These are traits that make us feel protective.
What elephants think of us? Matters on their experience with us, but if they have no experience with us, they likely see us just as a potential threat.
@@shaeby8123 I agree that infant like features make up a subset of what we find cute. But if we look at cute plushes, we also see common traits such as emoji facial expressions (feature of communication), pastel colors, spotted patterns and geometrical regularities (I'm not sure what these are associated with), features that are reminiscent of small animals, features that look like sweet food items or things that smell good, etc. I currently have a square tissue paper box cover covered with stripy cartoon umbrellas that I bought because it was cute.
@@shaeby8123 While what you say makes sense, why then aren't babies the cutest things? I suppose rabbits, seals, and co. have a greater eyes to head ratio, but why would we even have a perception of cuteness beyond babies? Bunnies aren't just slightly cuter either, they make babies ugly in comparison.
Edit: Having just gone to see my cousin's daughter. I have to say that it isn't so much things that look like babies, but toddlers that are cute. The girl was even more adorable than when Iast saw here. Even could give a rabbit a run for its money. So while nothing is going to beat a pair of little bunnies in teacups twitching their noses. I'm definitely seeing the [looks like human child] argument holding some water.
I'm not sure what you are suggesting about humans finding animals cute because they look like babies. If anything we find animals cute the more they don't look like us. Not many people find apes cute and they are simikar to us. Naked mole rates and cats aren't considered cute and they look closer to us. But normal Harry cats and dogs are cute. Usually things with a lot of hair are considered cute.
The fact about wild wolves being like a family is something I am well versed on. It affects domesticated dogs big time, as a dog trainer I see it a lot. Would love to hear you talk about that. Really love your style. Keep it up
I’m working on being a dog trainer (I’ve got lots of work today before I’m a pro) but I cringe anytime I see “be the alpha show them whose boss” it seriously ruins dogs 😭
@@JasperTheServiceDemon to be fair, the pack leaders of wild wolves will still reprimand the rest of the pack. The fact their superiority isn’t determined through strength doesn’t necessarily change the way they express that superiority. A lot of people who have this flawed mindset actually still raise healthy, stable dogs. The real problem comes when people think that “being the alpha” means rough housing the dog. Generally reprimands in wild dogs involve loud noises, body language, and occasionally pinning the offender down if they’re being aggressive. It doesn’t usually involve any kind of attack or damage. You can still raise a dog in a healthy manner even if you’re playing up the alpha thing, but any kind of rough handling tells the animal you’re a threat to them, not an authority figure.
@@connermckay4012 dogs actually descended from a wolf like canid that isn’t the wolf we know today. The canid was smaller in stature and they only came together in groups for mating, eventually half of the species went and started following humans around getting into their garbage, and the other half eventually found out hunting was better done in packs. So the dog we know today isn’t even descended from a pack animals (at the time they weren’t) and when stray dogs form groups, it’s usually to hang out, eat together, terrorize the cats together, etc. but there isn’t one dog that controls the recourses. If we take the definition of dominance, being whoever controls the food, water, territory, any recourse really, then yes you could say we are dominant over dogs, but at the end of the day, you’ll never see a dog controlling these recourses while living as strays (not talking about recourse guarding as that stems from a different issue all together) and you’ll never see a dog trying to fight the human for these recourses. As far as the aloha theory itself, it’s a problem when owners begin to get physical with their dogs (pinning them down, alpha rolling, etc.) I’ve personally seen where this can cause dogs to behave very fearfully, and usually humans will do this type of think for a reason that a wolf in the wild or another dog wouldn’t even care about (like growling because you’re in their space, a dog won’t correct a dog for doing that, they’d simply back off knowing they are in the wrong, I hope this isn’t becoming confrontational though, I am just passionate about dogs, I have done loads of research, read a lot of books, and am currently working under a professional dog trainer to eventually become a dog trainer myself)
@@JasperTheServiceDemonDogs can smell high and low Testosterone and many other animals too, and it exist studys that the behavior to humans then is different. And i made my own Tests. I had in the past 430ng/ml (modern men have always low levels, a today 22 years old has the same level as a 67 years old in the 80s) then i use Tricks, healthy food, pine pollen tincture, weight Lifting etc. After one year i had 870ng/ml and trust me Dogs were different to me. Elephants in the musth (60x more Testosterone) are very aggressive and kill many rhinos in this 3 month and other animals or rape them. This animals know in this Moment the Elephant has high Testo
I love the thoroughness and quality of research on this channel. The metaphors and simile are hilarious.
Thank you, the whole "Alpha" thing is unironically the biggest meme ever. It does not and has not ever existed. Wolf packs are families, and lone wolves are young males who leave the family to go off to find a female to start their own. There is no Alpha male, Beta male thing with wolves. Its a flawed concept that people ran with and then began applying it to people so randomly no one can even agree on wtf it means anymore. Which makes sense because it was broken to begin with.
(Edit, since this blew up) - Beta actually refers to the second in command in the flawed wolf hierarchy, it never meant submissive. The Beta would become the Alpha when the Alpha died. Its what I mean by people constantly get this wrong, plus it was a flawed theory from the start. If your referring to the broken idea of wolf Alpha's and that, calling someone a Beta actually means their the next most dominant and the Alpha's right hand man. So even within this wrong idea, people still get it wrong.
I like to imagine people who call themselves alphas are really saying they're super mommys. Because that is what they're actually saying. Makes me feel better about the world.
Video explained why, and there is reason for that. Even if people don't call it by the right term, it does not mean that they(people) don't understand the behavior. By behavior I mean heriarchy and dominance. While it might not exist in the wild(wolf pack), it certainly exists in captivity as the video pointed out. Feline, canine and even us humans share this behavior. Two dogs can't live on the same heriachal level, one of them has to be above the other, while the human is in charge. With humans it's more subtle but still there. So running around TH-cam wolf- videos- comment- sections, retyping on how everyone are fools, is not making you any smarter.
People are always gonna look for a reason to feel superior to each other. As black light said, there certainly is no alpha or beta but social animals will constantly have members who can’t accept their place in a society and will want to climb higher. A thirst for superiority is what often leads to violence and power imbalance. People then believe all kinds of wild notions.
@@blacklight4720 It's really not, the closest example is humans in captivity. The rest is nonsense. They don't even use beta right. Beta isn't a submissive male, it's the next most dominant below the Alpha. So calling someone a Beta Male if they even understood the term would be saying their the next most boss guy in the room. The way people use it now is gibberish and mostly an ego trip to compliment themselves and put down other people. "Oh I'm an Alpha guy, that guy is so Beta." Its why they keep inventing new shit like Sigma and so on. Its so oversimplified and nonsensical, its not a good analogy of human behavior in any respect. Humans are more complicated than wolves.
"Im a lone wolf"
"oooh, so you left your family home and are now trying to find a life partner?"
When he said turkeys in the wild are actually really smart, I felt that. They're so good at surviving hostile environments that in Northern California, they have become pests, and we actively court hunters to keep their population numbers under control. If you go literally anywhere in my county, the odds of seeing at least one turkey are very high. I even live next to an entire wild flock that makes its home all of three hundred yards from my front door, next to a small creek. Toms, hens, lines of little chicks all in a row- I see them strutting around through our backyards scratching for bugs all the time. The one thing keeping them from breaking into my house and living here rent-free is the tribe of feral cats who claim the same creekside territory (yet another animal control problem in my area, where dense underbrush, invasive manzanita tree growth, and thorny blackberry vines make catching them next to impossible).
Also, I did once move a magpie fledgling despite knowing what it was, but only because it crash-landed headfirst into a supermarket wall and ended up on the sidewalk, dazed and vulnerable. I was concerned not that it would be abandoned, but that it might end up being hurt by other humans before it could recover. For its safety, I put it in a small box and called a wild bird rescue to handle things from there.
Actually, a bunch of feral cats are called colonies!!,
All feral animals are really intelligent, but when you cramped them in one place with thousands of their own species they get dumber because of the depression and stress. Even humans are like that much less animals.
Cat's vs turkey's sounds like a show I would watch... well for at least the first two episodes.
@@dopaminedi nah, they’re clans. Warrior cats for life 🤘🏻
@@isthataspider7410 AYEE
my 2 cents on the elephant thing I used to agree with the puppy thing, now think they look at us like we look at a stray dog at most...if possible. You know that thought when we wonder if a stray has rabbies and/or aggressive or if it's just curious and staring at us. I think that's how they view humans. Wary curiousity I think is the right term.
Yeah, same
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok
Sounds about right.
Jokes on you! I think all dogs are cute!
Haha but yeah sounds accurate.
That wouldn't surprise me.
Thank you so much for these videos, I appreciate all you do. I worked as a veterinarian assistant, a zookeeper, and I've rescued alot of poor creatures that couldn't fend for themselves. Like you, I grew up learning about animals, I've done alot of reading and research, and I've had alot of exotic pets for many reasons. I even had a wolf dog, "F-1", which means it's as close to wild as you can get. I get upset with people and argue when they start talking myths. It's hard to educate people who have been told ,over and over, a myth. Thank you for helping educate people! There, I'm done saying my piece, and just wanted to say, great job!
Exactly . Instead of believing everything you read, it is so easy in this day and age to educate yourself and look at legitimate sources for the truth. Our whole education system needs revamping, it used to teach us to think.
Wolves are tough to raise! I met a man who brought his to the dog park. That wolf barely took notice of any adult dogs, but would play bow and was so gentle with the puppies!
It’s very unfortunate elephants don’t see us as cute, but you hit some good points. It’s even worse what we do to them, so it’s really no surprise they don’t see us as cute. We must protect these magnificent creatures 🐘🦣
Who's we I think you mean "what people do to them" cuz I know I aint one of them
@@zackufrezs.9247 Yeah same, I dont think I'll put myself in the same league of people who illegally hunt and poach animals, especially near-extinct ones.
I mean, I always knew that fun fact was pulled out of someone's ass, but at the same time... we have no idea if they think we're cute. Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
Elephants don't see us as cute but red and flat
@@isthatbraised Neither would I. I certainly don't ride them or use them for labor.
There are a lot of turkeys in my area that come into town during turkey hunting season. They hang out in yards and parks. Smart birds. Some deers do it too.
Can they really chase a dog away? I saw a clip like that :D
Not in my hood. They be captured and farmed for future use. Mission, homeless shelters and orphanages
@@fuckyoutube5584 can't just grab a turkey in city limits. Lol
Here at least.
@@nobodysfavourite6953 I've never seen it happen. But I mean, they get pretty large.
I had a brother-in-law that used to go deer hunting with his brother every year. At one time they moved to a small house that butted up against wooded area and a small creek. He said he could eat his breakfast and watch the deer in his backyard. He once joked that, come hunting season, he could just sit at the table and shoot out the window. Everybody laughed. Okay. Come hunting season, he said not one deer was to be seen in his backyard (even though he couldn't have shot any there if he'd wanted to). He said they all disappeared until after hunting season was over. I was always amused by that story.
I like how wolf factoid follows closely to the double slit experiment, or even Schrodinger's cat. As long as we aren't forcing conditions on the thing we want to observe, then its condition can be many things; even conditions we don't expect because of direct and/or strict observation.
Schrodinger's cat isn't a real theory, it's literally Schrodinger mocking Quantum Mechanics. As for the Double Slit experiment, while it's a very real thing, I... have my problem with Quantum Mechanics, but I don't have the necessary knowledge to create something to replace it (NOT debunk it, because QM is true. Even if only technically.)
I'm so happy, I could pee.
He is wrong about the wolf example though. Wolves have different kind of packs depending on circumstances. In good times wolves have small packs that consist of a mating pair and their descendants. And it that case CG is correct. But in times of starvation wolves will form much larger packs that are not families and those follow the alfa/beta formula much better.
The reason as to why they form bigger packs in worse times is partly because a big pack can hunt bigger prey. But mostly its because if there are too many predators for the prey population to sustain the only way to fix that is to get rid of predators. And the easiest way to do that is to go to war and kill the other predators nearby. Including other wolves. And in war, the bigger pack tend to win over the smaller.
Once the bad times are over the big packs tend to break up again. Because most wolves dont want to live under the paw of a tyrannical alpha couple.
The Uncertainty Principle
@@crppledizzle9374 lol now I have something new to learn about.
“A disrespectful vulture away from having sleep for dinner”
Guessing the wolf thing is similar to how years later full grown adults believe survival of the fittest means.
(The strongest, biggest and fastest) and not (the one best suited to the current environment).
One of the first things discussed in a college science class was that it was Survival of the *Fit*.
Not the most optimum, not the strongest. Survival of the Good Enough.
They were trying real hard to shoot down that misconception.
Just wanted to add : just like with wolves, dogs don't have an hiracy where the owner needs to act like the big bad alpha, but should rater act as a guiding, frendly parent. Sadly becuse of Mechs first book most people asume that dogs should be treated as a low rank member Who needs to "know there place" sadly this is still a practice taught by some "dog experts" 😔
Wolf's do have a hierarchy but for a human to do that with a dog is stupid because we aren't dogs that's not how to train animals.
This video will explain y
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@@Lazyspaceout yes, thats true. Its a very intresting and large subject, just esier to explain it as no heracy and to be honest, I'm a bit lazy when writing in english since Its not my first language.
Two things mentioned during my animal behavior degree concerning dogs and the alpha theory: 1) Dogs are dogs, not wolves, much less fantasy wolves. 2) 'Dog parents' with 'dog children' are fine and do not result in higher than average behavior problems or welfare issues, so long as they actually treat them as their 'dog children' (meet their needs accordingly) rather than dolls.
Ok, first it's 'their place' and yes some dogs with dominance issues should be moved around, just to show that you can. I've seen too many 'kenneled' ie caged dogs become aggressive if someone enters their area. I've personally known 3 of these brats trying to bite people who come near the 'den' you have created for them
@@Lazyspaceout wolf are cute and hierarchies are there just cuz but they don’t really matter
Wonderful and entertaining as always. I just want to thank you for including the "alpha wolf" lie. I read about that a couple of years ago and it blew my mind, mostly because of how often people go to it. I like how they original author tried to shut it down by openly correcting himself. Shame people didn't listen.
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that myth is the single worst thing to influence dog training. it makes me want to rip my hair out when dealing with dog owners at work who have no idea they are completely wrong and very possibly causing harm
It doesn't help that the spread of the correction to this myth was pretty stifled. For some reason, we like the idea of the alpha, probably because it excuses the assholes in a way.
Young man your the only person on the net that doesn't talk crap keep up the excellent work ❤ hi from Australia ❤
Funnily enough, theres a new spin on the "alpha" myth that these guys (cause its always guys) are pushing: that because it was observed in capivity then animals and humans in captivity still show these traits.
I've explained this before. I hunt using dogs when going after wild pig and other destructive animals and the "leader" of the pack, or alpha, is almost never the hyperaggressive pitbull they seem to think (or want) to be the leader, it tends to be the oldest and calmest dog, the one that they tend to trust. The male that tries to show aggression and dominate tend to either get ostracized from the pack or even mauled. The head of my pack is female beagle of all things. This tends to be true with most animals when observed in pack units.
Now, when people usually talk about alphas, they're usually talking about human behavior and the captivity argument falls even further apart due to, ya know, us not being in captivity. Villages and cities and such are our natural habitat so the same argument doesn't work.
Yet you'll always be rewarded with a "but" from them. Its not that they simply just believe a myth, they desperately want it to be true. When you look at the traits that are associated with "alpha" behavior, you dont see someone like charlemange or Charles the 13th, you see Patrick Bateman. Trust me, if most of these guys who believe this type of stuff were thrown in the wild, 75% of them would most likely be dead within a week, probably due to killing each other determining whos in charge.
Yeah and with Wolves, this alpha theory doesn't apply at all as the two alphas are literally just the parents of the pack, and act accordingly so. Many people have debunked this theory and I hope more people will realize this isn't true, as it can be extremely harmful to all involved, as I've seen too many dog owners use that theory to train and deal with their dogs, which this would only lead to unpredictable aggressive behavior due to fear. The only time I'd ever try to act meaner or tougher than my three treeing walker coonhounds is while I'm eating, as two of the three will gladly snatch whatever I'm eating and the third will just try their best to look casual and slowly get closer lol, all I do is just freeze a little and growl while making an angry face, as I know dogs do the same when wanting to protect their own food. After I do that they realize it's mine and they all make sure to keep their heads away from my food. So yeah I wish myths like these weren't so widely spread at supposed fact. Like gold fish I think have been proven to remember things from up to 5 years, which is pretty cool being that most think they have a memory span of 3 to 5 seconds lmao, I guess it just looks that way since food is on their minds a lot and being a fish, most people don't think of a fish as intelligent or capable of anything we can do, which is wrong there are many examples of intelligent fish and other animals you wouldn't think of as intelligent.
Thank you. Except I saw Patrick Bateman being associated with a "Sigma male" of all things, which is even dumber.
@@anitamihholap5926 Wait they're idolizing who now? Patrick Bateman? For real? The guy in American Psycho?
@@CarlytheWolf23 you'd be surprised how stupid some people are about animals. Helped a friend to get a momma stray cat and her kittens out of his attic and I nearly had a heart attack when he started playing a male cats yelling on his cellphone. I demanded why he would ever do that and he said he had heard it was an easy way of getting rid of stray cats.
I easily informed him it might help with a single stray but if a mother thinks I'm a male cat, she's going to maul my face off. I told him I knew what I was doing and then put on mother cats trilling, slowly edged towards the mother with a box, kept slowly blinking to her and soon enough had her kneading at me and exposing her belly to me. Took about 2 hours but I got the momma and kittens out of the attic.
Theres a thousand ways with dealing with animals, especially domesticated animals, but people always tend to believe the dumbest yet easiest things.
P.S. don't try what I did with the stray momma. Its just something that's worked with me and other people who've had to work with mother cats. Its slightly time consuming and you need a ton of patience to do it and even if its something that works for me doesn't mean it'll work with every other cat you'd meet.
@@dugonman8360 true, patience is key, I've befriended stray cats before and man it takes time, more time with the ones that are timid around strangers. And I've noticed how incredibly dumb people can be, like I've seen a girl once that I showed them am axolotl and I tried to explain it was a salamander and not a fish, and asked if they knew what it was, they didn't, and then I said it's a type of amphibian, they didn't even know what an amphibians are and never even heard of it, so I had to get even more simple say if she knew what frogs were, then that's an example of an amphibian. Yeah it's kinda painful sitting still and trying to ignore people who are speaking about animals and saying incorrect facts and myths, etc, as all I wanna do is correct and explain how and why it isn't true-
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how he can take the dumbest, laziest, most not-wanting-to-learn person and make 'em love zoology. Bravo
Damn bro, you didn't have to roast yourself like that.
Yes
Not wanting to learn about zoology doesn't make one dumb or lazy.
@@vvoof2601nah bro he’s just praising Casual Geographic for being too entertaining to ignore/miss
@@vvoof2601 I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that pretty much anyone could watch him so easily no matter what their interests are.
I wish he would make a video on just all the weird and crazy things we have done to animals in order to "study" them
TH-cam wouldnt allow it lol
It would be extremely age restricted
There’s someone who performed zoophillia for “science”
Tell him.
Like what?
Some of best writing and delivery in the business. Well done as always.
I think I knew just over half of them of being untrue, with the other half either never having heard or wrongfully assumed to be true. You are truly doing good work fighting lies.
I be waiting for these uploads, one of the few people that can make learning about animals and insects entertaining
you gotta watch zefrank too
Insects are animals tho lol
@@solus8685 there always has to be one person to ruin a party…congrats
@@zilusviridian2196 how did I ruin anything? Some people genuinely believe insects aren't animals
Speaking from the cheetah's perspective, I too would be anxious as hell if I was about to eat something and then I suddenly remember there's a thermometer plugging up the exit hatch, I feel like there could have been much better ways to measure their core temperature non-intrusively
lmao
Dude, your information is good, lines are great, but your delivery is amazing. Drooped eyes, deadpan matter of fact voice inflection while calling a honey badger a felon ferret or assault oreo is absolutely priceless. I have to pause your videos regularly to laugh hysterically.
The "alpha" thing makes me laugh. The fact that people put human males into 2 (and just 2 categories) of "alpha" and "beta". Yet most (if not all) the traits that "alpha males" think are good would be considered psychopathic, and all the "beta male" traits would just be considered... human.
The ironic thing is in highly social primates like chimpanzees and us, the "alpha male" is not the male that dominates and oppresses everyone via brute strength, it's the male that can form the largest coalition of allies. Even the biggest chimp can be defeated by two chimps 75% as strong.
We also have the sigma male mindset. Soon enough we'll get the whole Greek alphabet and I'm not ready for the embarrassment I will feel.
@@Dog.This_Identifier_Is_Shit. sigma what now?? Seems like some people want to reduce the complex nature of the human experience into Greek chicken scratch. Sad that people think men aren't psychologically complex, and sad that some men want to be placed in a box.
@@VoidDragon82 Sigma male is just a meme
@@CrackaHonkeyKilla Sure...
I always heard the thing about baby birds when I was growing up, but I knew even then it was a crock of shit since my mom and I had put many baby (as in still mostly featherless) birds back in their nest and they were still there and being cared for by their parents later.
We also had a bird house in our back yard that was inhabited by the same set of sparrows every year. There were a couple of occasions where we found baby sparrows on the ground elsewhere with no parents in sight. Being the softies that we were, we decided to shove them into the bird house. The "adoptive" parents took care of them with as much dedication as if they were their own chicks. Eventually, we also did this with a couple of other species, including a baby robin and a baby grackle. The cared for those babies, too. It was quite a sight to behold.
Imagine going to the store to buy food and coming back to see that, one again, the mountain dwelling giant who lives nearby has put another strange and unfamiliar baby inside your child’s crib. I mean like… what are you going to do? That’s your child now.
@@AmayaHinageshi I kinda wanna read a story along those lines now.
"...Someone feels called out now and they should be." 👁👁 The pause, the slow look he gave-that took me out 😂💀
I’ve always hated how people always thought how wolves had to fight to be the ‘alpha’ or how there was only one leader.
1:47 It's rarely see him look directly at the screen like that he's dead serious,he's staring into someone's soul and I'm glad it's not me.
100% on the turkeys, they are actual hellspawns with wings.
disclaimer: I may just be biased because I was chased by 5 turkeys as a child.
They are also called patalmeyur (Hellish Peacock) in Sanskrit
@@slavoisheir4129 thank you, I'll add this knowledge to my turkey hate/fear folder.
No i can confirm they are hellspawns that have no fear. My brother drives an amazon truck and they not only chased him to the truck but attacked it with wild abandon, tossing their bodies against it like they were ready to die to ruin his day.
Obviously I love the video content, but I also LOVE all the musical references you have in your vids to old games, etc. I'm sure most people didn't catch it, but the real ones see what you're doing, and we approve!
Now the real issue is: Despite many of these people being wrong, rather than being humble, accepting being wrong (to which I will accept being wrong to much of these rumors), and/or better learn for themselves... They would rather tantrum and make sure that their lies are accepted.
I mean how else will the dude bros and incels convince themselves that they can/can't get partners because of their shitty behaviour?!? They have to have an excuse to be an ass so of course they'll defend the lie to the death 😂
i did do that once and i regret it
the not accepting i was wrong on something, i mean
People are so bizarre about the quote un quote alpha wolf thing. I’ll watch nature docs abt lions and wolves and see those types in the comments who basically contradict the doc to argue there ARE alphas and use animals as an excuse or “proof” for sexism. So weird.
To be fair, this most likely comes down to a clash where one never before heard (true)information told by one person contradicts a thousands of times repeated (false)sentiment/information by a myriad of people over a long timespan.
Not easy to just accept that like that, especially because most of the time in clashes like that the one person is the one bullsh!itting.
Goukes Which is why you often need to do info checks or at least think by yourself if the new information makes more sense than the previous one you're used to.
Casual Geographic, for example, explains the lines of logic behind these anti-myths and even sometimes shows direct sources to where the misinformation started. Since that is more than what probably everyone spreading the myths have done, it is safer to believe him; but even if you don't, then looking up subjects on the matter is easily done nowadays.
Elephants are my favourite animal, but its so scary watching them throw humans like we’re toys lol
"i dont wanna play with you anymore!"
When I was training in the military in Ontario there were turkeys everywhere and eventually because they lived on base they started learning and watching us soldiers and we noticed they started to cross the roads the same way we would if we were practicing battle drills it was actually pretty nuts
The sequel to the Emu War
I want to hear more stories on this, It sounds nut
@@When_did_they_add_handles Get your rifles ready they are coming.
@@ernie4795 I'm not Canadian but yes
I'd bet you they were all a part of a top secret training program, be wary of the turkey army.
I love that long stare after calling out the serial killer fan girls & boys. Excellent. 💚
I was on a safari in Zambia with my family back in Dec 2012 and my younger brother came within 30 feet of an elephant. So I see him is on a walkway when an elephant starts going towards him. Next thing I know the Elephant's ears are in the forward position. I was about to grab my brother and run when he put his hands up and backed away. The Elephant looked at us, sneezed, and walked in the other direction. The moral of the story: don't piss off elephants or you will end up in a sorry state.
I come for the commentary even if I know about the animal topics. Your thoughts on animals in general give me life. Bringing awareness but literally don't F*** with none of them. Same bro same! 😂
You WROTE A BOOK?!? THAT IS SOOOOO F- ING GREAT!! We are DEFINITELY buying that right now!! That's at least, 1 way my Hubby and I can support you, because, right now, things are a bit too tight to do Patreon, but buying the book is something that we can do. I lost ALOT of work in/through the Pandemic, and it's still gard to know, from month to month, how things will be; but right now, for sure, this is something we can do. Let me tell you, we are SO HAPPY TO DO IT!!
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A very smart woman once told me, " Do WHAT YOU LOVE - the money, and everything else, will just fall into place!"
I believe that! It's hard to keep believing, sometimes, I know - I, myself, am at a crossroads in life, but I know, I've seen it in my own life and the lives of those I love, that God ALWAYS has doors open ones sometimes so much better than WE, ourselves, might imagine, but never closes one door without opening another...or, sometimes, even 2 - but, if you keep at it, you KNOW you will win!
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The RuneScape music!!! Thank you
It's probably best to consider elephants people, and deserving of the same respect. Elephants' relationship with humans is thus as complex and nuanced as any relationship humans have amongst themselves.
What I do know is that wild elephants seek out human camps for medical attention when they've been shot by poachers. They recognize our kindness and our cruelty. There's probably extensive community knowledge about who among the local humans can be trusted and who cannot among elephant herds.
They’re so smart and beautiful
Interesting, wish we gave animals more credit
I suspect the Trash Pandas in my neighborhood do the same thing. They willingly approach me, even when we've never met, but won't go near the neighbor who is renowned for chasing them off.
_I know for a fact the Corvids in the area are telling each other I'm cool!_
@@TimeSurfer206 "For a fact"
@@stanfordwillis4841 Yes. Couple summers ago, I helped a crow get some dinner. He was going after the remnants of a Teriyaki Chicken meal in a clamshell that was in a plastic grocery bag, in a Supermarket Parking Lot.
I wandered over, looking at him Birb Style (by tilting my head and looking sideways), and said, "Here, brother, let me help you out with that!"
He looked at me funny, hopped back a few, and watched as I decanted his food, placing it onto a cardboard Pizza box that was handy, and then stepped back, waved my hand, and said, "Enjoy! I'll go throw the trash away."
He stepped up, and quite happily started eating. Before I could even leave what I would have considered his "Comfort Zone."
A couple weeks later, I was at the Bus Stop across the street, waiting for, well...
A group of Teens were there, being, well, Teens.
All of a sudden the sky erupted with Crow Poop. And I looked up, when it subsided, and saw the Power Lines covered with Crows, all laughing their beaks off.. I wasn't touched, once.
I started laughing back, and called up, "Good Shitting, err Good Shooting, Brothers!" and waved.
I heard one change his caw from a cackle to a long Cawwwwwww.
Crows are SCARY Smart. Research has shown that crows cannot only recognize people, but will also communicate to each other who's Cool, and who isn't.
I've had random crows asking me to unwrap grocery bags from them.
So can Hornets (AKA Yellowjackets). This is why I'm nice to EVERYBODY, _until_ they are an ass to me. And why I'm never nice to anyone wearing a Red Hat Making China Profitable Again.
I love how this dude finds a way to explain complex scientific facts in a way dummies like me can understand.
Thank you for mentioning fledglings! The amount of times I've had to say "go put it back where you found it!" to well-meaning wildlife lovers kidnapping fledges is too high (I'm a park ranger)
"Turkeys aren't that stupid"
😂 We had a Bourbon, Angelica, on the ranch that we were pretty certain convinced her sister off the census. Jumped off the fence right in front of an incoming semi. Angelica was still sitting on the fence completely unphased.
Though she also tried to pick fights with the dogs and goats, even saw one of the donkeys chasing her one day. So 50/50, she may have just been psychotic.
We have a flock of wild turkeys on the mountain our parents live on, and I feel like they absolutely know when turkey season is because they just disappear and come back with new babies in the spring. They’re SO CUTE. I love seeing them cross the road as a big ol family.
Turkey chicks are indeed INSANELY adorable!
I love you so much. Your funny and really informative, and also just 🥺 “we all know what happens in prison isn’t reflective of people in general” really hit and got me thinking. Like,,, ugh, our prisons need to be so much better. The punitive system doesn’t help anyone, and we could build them to be therapeutic. But one bit of misinformation at a time. Thank you for what you’re doing 💛
It keeps on amazing how creative this man is . Every single one of his videos make me laugh. The content is scientifically accurate and brought in such a way it sticks with you so that you actually learn something. Now there’s also a book. This young man is a roll model for other youngsters.
*role model
He's a role model for most adults too, tbh
@@WaterGates1 thanks, I sometimes make mistakes (I’m not a native English speaker)
@@charitykennedy4928 Indeed
Thank you for telling truths about animals. They need all the help they can get, in a human's world. God bless you.
Thank you for clearing up the Alpha Wolf myth. So many arguments with people who thinks Alpha wolves exist. 🙄
I personally believe that to even become a father as a wolf you pretty much have to be what most would call an alpha to be able to successfully stay a father but I know that the other members are just kids
@@TheGovernmentputcrackinmyblunt i think a more appropriate term would be a parent
The worst part is when they apply that logic to people.
For the record. There is no such thing as “Alphas and Betas” in humans. It’s literally as accurate as Astrology and Horoscopes.
@@andrewb6194 and no… they are not accurate same as religions and fairy tales… but yeah, it is what it is
Well, except when they use the logic as a meme, because even if it’s not true, it still works for some
Fun story about my own experience with baby birds, I noticed a robin sitting in the backyard lawn for a long time. I would walk back and check on it from my window constantly, and it would move spots but stay in the lawn. I went out into the yard after my mom got home from work, and obviously caused the thing to flee, but I HAD to know what was making it want to sit there. We have 2 dogs, and they aren't the nicest when it comes to squirrels, rabbits, and sometimes birds. I looked carefully in the grass and found 3 baby birds. And I'm not talking fluffy feathered babies, I'm talking about pink fleshy alien babies. Their eyes looked huge compared to their heads and they were completely shut. I told my mom about it and we looked at the trees in our yard, and since there were only 2 and there weren't any leaves quite yet growing, we spotted a nest in one of the trees fairly high up. The previous night had been horribly windy, and so we assumed the worst, that they fell out of the nest. They were somewhat spread out, so it would make it hard for the parent to sit on all three. Thankfully, we had a nest from a previous robin family that was on the patio light, and we carefully took it down. I still believed that myth about not touching baby birds, so I put some garden gloves on and carefully poked each one to check if they survived. All but one was alive, and ants were already claiming that one's body. I carefully put the two living ones in the nest and set it on the trampoline, but I was worried she wouldn't find them, so I put it back on the ground where we found the babies. Hours passed and the parent didn't come back, so I started making calls to fish and game and the zoo, but no one really knew what to do. Thankfully, the parent came back, and Idk if both of them knew that we were the ones that gave them the nest or what, but they let me get RIGHT up to the nest and they didn't dive bomb me when I did touch the babies as they grew, because at that point I figured that the touching thing might not be an issue anymore after they were still taking care of them. We kept the dogs on a leash when we went into the backyard and made sure they stayed a good distance from the nest, and when we mowed the lawn we carefully moved the nest while we mowed that spot and then put it back.
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AAAND I GET CALLED OUT BY THE FICS???
WHY AM I HERE - JUST TO SUFFER
What is it?
@@Homestuckfan413 I think it’s when you shove a boat oar up someone’s rectum, and use them to steer the boat
Tf is rutting
@@classysnek9210breeding season basically (no i do not read those things, i just like zoology :P )
@@SutaFokusu o h n o
I'm very glad every time he said I know what you're thinking or I'm on to you I was like "what?"
My brother and dad went turkey hunting in Montana some years ago and a HUGE Tom turkey chased them both, guns in hand, back to the truck! Lmfao 😂🤣😂 I still have not laughed harder than I did that day. I was sitting in the truck, watching them both come flying out of the woods, tripping over each other trying to get away from something! I thought a bear or cougar would be coming out of the woods after them, but no, here comes this big ass fluffed out turkey sqwuaking and flapping and flying/floating, it's weird but chickens do it too to start a fight. But I laughed so loud the turkey looked right in my direction, cooked it's head like "what the hell?" And ran off! Lmao. But like, they were there to shoot a turkey, they had gun in hand and ran away! Hahahaha they've never been able to live it down and we had store bought turkey for Thanksgiving that year 🤣
That's brilliant! Shame you didn't have the gun instead of them to catch some easy dinner.
Reminded me that time when I was 5, I was in my father’s mom’s toyota with my family, A dog began chasing us and me, my 2 sisters and my brother looked at the dog chasing our Toyota (It looked like a husky) and we laughed together, We began saying things like “Haha husky can’t chase us!!“ And “Husky chase toyato? ooo dum dum doggy! No chase us!!“ (I’m a saudi so that’s why I typed them in english so people could understand). Nostalgia hits hard in my face when I saw this comment!
@@cometkeiko hahaha I love your comment ❤🌻 my good friend Ahad (sometimes she spells it Ahed, so I'm not exactly sure if one is more correct, but I've seen her write both, but she's only been speaking English for about a year, so idk if her spelling is correct either, sorry)is originally from Syria but lived in Saudi Arabia for a long time before she came here (she's 24 & has the most heartbreaking story, she's a young single mom, stuck in a foreign country, not her fault) anyway, she's shown me the most beautiful pics and says she really misses it but can't go back. She said her family is even leaving there to go to Turkey I think, she says they don't like Syrians there sometimes. I'm not sure exactly where she's from, but she's got me fascinated with the place lol. She's so kind and good and pure that when she gets happy or excited about things, it makes me excited too lol. Do you still live there?
@@MariaAbrams Yea I live in saudi arabia still..
I'm in Massachusetts , way back in the colonial days, turkeys were used as guard dogs.
Man, I'm so glad you brought up the wolf facts last. I get tired of hearing the alpha/beta talk.
I rode an elephant once. It was very uncomfortable. In addition to almost doing a split while my legs were underneath metal rails, we were all packed together like sardines.
That sounds extremely uncomfortable.
Where did you ride an elephant? I’ve only ever rode one in Thailand and we sat on little bench-like seats/saddles. The rider himself sat on the shoulders of the elephant.
@@Lex-ej6iw There was a fair at the steel mill where my father worked.
Also the handlers are exstremelly harsh with them. Beating them over the head with metal rods, jerking their ears to get them to turn... Exstremelly brutal and absolutely unnecessary.
@@taan1424 yeah, its kinda idiotic as the elephant can snap at em at any time and ragdoll the mahut
if i were in that case, i'd have treated the elephant as good as i possibly can, to avoid the big guy taking his revenge on me one day
I want to see more "facts" that are false. Everyone probably knows the Lemming lie. Maybe do one about how a Dingo ate a baby and everyone thought the mother was lying to get away with murder.
What is a lemming and why did it lie?
Heard about the chick that sued mcdonalds for hot coffee?
@@Jdubviewer You mean the Grandma that got 3rd degree burns and McDonald’s refused to pay for her medical care?
@@Robynhoodlum yeah I was always told some weird version how she just wanted money but when I looked it up they kept their coffee at like 170 degrees
@@sdrawkcabmiay Yep. By Disney, I believe.
I'm grateful that you offer free content, and worry- selfishly so- that this might end somehow. Because what you're bringing to this forum really is that good, that unique and informative.
The best teachers- the ones who get us interested in life and in thinking- are interested in the fields they cover, and it's impossible not to be inspired- but also amused and entertained- by CasualGeographic.
Before watching, I can honestly say that I had no idea that so many strange creatures still exist, nor any clue as to just how strange some seemingly-familiar animals really are. ~ Thank you!
“Coconuts can be classified as mammals cause they have hair and produce milk”
No no, he’s got a point
The only thing that sets a coconut apart from a mammal is the fact that it has no nipples.
I never saw one lay eggs.
and it doesnt give live birth
@@klickonthat5244 can you count the stem or the holes in a coconut as the nipples?
So do our balls
Thank you. I've been telling people the wolf thing for years, yet none of them believe me.
That baby elephant doing the “helicopter” at the end just makes me smile 😊
I love your channel. Best wishes from Scotland 🏴
Right? Those little guys plus music just cured my depression 😂
Can you research where the myth of elephants being scared of mice came from? And where the myth of ostriches putting their head in the sand came from? Love your informative and creative videos!
Ostriches put their head in the sand to check their nests.
Yea i saw the ostrich do that in real life. Well in a hole. It was an ostrich farm and all the ostrich heads where in holes and the keeper man said they were sleep. It was really shocking to see.
Actually, there are videos of elephants being freaked out by mice. Any creature would be rattled if something tiny ran past them.
a main anti elephant tactic used by the romans was to set boars on fire and let em loose, the noise and fire will make the elephant panic
they arent domesticated, theyre basically wild animals who have had some basic training, and it gave em some serious PTSD
Such a cruel thing to do
As someone with pet turkeys that are closely related to wild ones (I wanted healthy genetics) and they are ridiculously smart! Mine are always up to something normally how to best get my attention and more treats
This man is extremely talented and brilliant, please share him as much as possible.
Just stopping by to pay you a compliment. You're very good at what you do, and I actually learn something from every one of your videos. I appreciate the research you do for these, and your delivery is funny as hell! Please keep making them until you're too famous to hang out with little people like us anymore.
Fun fact: people have theorized that elephants become more violent as in return from humans killing them.
So there’s another reason why they don’t see us as “cute”
Smart enough to recognize that we are sometimes deadly, and sometimes helpful. But nowhere near "smart" enough to always be able to tell the difference. That would have to cause extreme stress.
That's interesting as well as incredibly sad :')
I think there's definitely evidence of this. I remember reading about young elephants who'd been orphaned by poachers growing up extremely aggressive (randomly murdering rhinos, for example).
@@patrickmccurry1563 I think that's less about intelligence and more about humans being unpredictable.
I think they see us the same way we see Mosquitoes except they come out of it dead sometimes