Sri Lanka: Monsoon Island - Wildest Islands - Go Wild
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2023
- Lying like a teardrop in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is an island that defies convention. Poised just six degrees above the equator, it’s less than 75,000 square kilometers in size. But it has enough wildlife to rival a vast continent, and it’s all down to its complicated climate and geography.
This film uncovers how all life on Sri Lanka centres on one precious resource: water. Unusually, two different monsoons visit the island each year, drenching the windswept coastal plains with weeks of torrential rain. For the rest of the year, the animals of the plains must endure months of drought. Elephants numbering in their hundreds gather on the shores of a vast lake in search of water. Bold Sri Lankan leopards stalk spotted deer visiting waterholes. Mugger crocodiles, confined within small pools, choose the dry season to mate. Bee-eaters dig nesting tunnels in the dusty ground, and troops of toque macaques battle for status and hierarchy in the island’s ancient Buddhist monuments.
The plains rise sharply to the central highlands, where the peaks tower 2,000 metres above sea level. Up here, there’s no shortage of water all year round, and this drives diversity, just like in a rainforest. A staggering number of animals in these mysterious cloud forests are found nowhere else on earth. Purple-faced langur monkeys have grown particularly thick coats to deal with the extreme weather. Tiny pygmy lizards give birth to live young to protect them from the cold. Even within one rhododendron bush there are three unique species. These cold, wet mountains are what make Sri Lanka one of the most species rich islands on the planet.
As October approaches, the monsoon finally arrives, bringing abundant food, and relief for the animals that live on the plains.
Tropical island speciation paradise
Wow, I had no idea. This was a fantastic overview of Sri Lanka
Would love ❤️ to visit Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
warmly welcome
I would love to visit countries such as this. Where there are alot of people but so much respect for wildlife as well. One thing I wish The US had been better with. We killed off so many beautiful species. But we learn. To me it's about balance. Much respect
My beautiful mother land.. 🙏🙏
I'm learning a lot about Sri Lanka
Very interested n beautiful video. 🇱🇰🇱🇰
Rich wildlife dynasty of sri lanka.. ❤
Beautiful and breathtaking thanks very much for a interesting video
Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 the best destination for an Asian safari .....
So much variety .....
So much pure.....
High degree of biodiversity
Love my country. ❤🙏💚
The macaques look like a pop band "it's all about you girl on your 16th Birthday"😂
lmao
What?
This is our beautiful country. Great documentary.
my Daddy was born there. can't wait to go back; a lifetime would not be enough to appreciate the beauty of Sri Lanka. xxx
I love Siiri Ranka.
Bravo Upload..
Sri Lanka.. Meaning
Resplendent Land..
The marvelous video!
What a beautiful island with all it's wildlife!!!
There are beautiful beaches and Colombo is modern and clean:
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First of all Great Documentary with some fine footage and narration. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
Secondly we still build these reservoirs and canal systems while re-using the old ones so wild life will continue to prevail here....
Thirdly we have the biggest whales in the world swimming around the isle and lot of sea wild life too....
We?
@@lennarthagen3638 The Sinhalese.... look it up.
@@lennarthagen3638 The sinhalese/ Sri lankans of course...
Beautiful place and documentary! It’s beautiful a huge human population lives there and they still have a huge amount of wild elephants! Beautiful!
wonderful documentary and good narrator!
My beautiful mother Land,proud of her, Thank you for the beautiful documentary,🙏🏽🙏🏽❤
Thank you very much for your love. Thank you very much to everyone who came to see my country.♥♥♥
What's that Prehistoric Park music doing in there? Love it
Seems like a very thousands of years old human constructed environment
thats true old kings of sri lanka are true legends of my country
Great documentary , I love my motherland ❤❤
What is with all the repetition? Not nearly enough information.
See animals are not effected by a country's default, its a lesson that if we live in coordance with nature's rules we will never fail.
Humans are just like other living creatures and are not meant to live in a concrete jungle or ride in cars
I almost think I was watching a documentary about Africa 🤣 I never knew shi Lanka have so much wildlife 🐘🐊🐃🐦
my country 😍
Thank you so much for making a great documentary about wildlife in our country 🇱🇰🙏❤️😍👍
Amazing video thanks 👍💯💯
SO BEAUTIFUL🙏🥰🙏
THANK YOU 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Beautiful documentary. But you missed one important ecoregion i.e. The lowland rainforests on the west side of the country. This ecoregion contains virgin rainforests that are thousands of years old. The focus of our ancient kings was to develop agriculture in the dry zone, but they never touched the montane and lowland rainforests. Western colonials (Portuguese, Dutch, and English) cut down most of these forests and turned the land into cash crop plantations like tea, rubber, and cinnamon.
Excellent video
Great documentary. Thank you
This is expected from an unplanned, unintentional, unintelligent, unguided, foresight-less, imperfect & amoral unconscious evolutionary creation process, but is *NOT* expected from a so-called perfect, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient & benevolent moral conscious creator with thoughtful intentions & an intelligent plan.
keep your religious views out of this. (and before you get on me, the other side should ALSO keep their views out of a NATURE DOCUMENTARY...which doesn't mean THEISM/ATHEISM Documentary).
Great video
video well made and very enchanting.
I respect Buddhism and it's respect for ALL living things BUT remove the chains from the elephants!!!! PLEASE 💕
Make sure to put a leash on your dog while walking outside and let a giant elephant walk free right?
@Tom Morrison Knew this reply gonna get, this is what the Western mindset looks like, they think other cultures have to get their approval. The funny thing is I'm getting this from people who think putting down your pet dog is the most humane thing to do when it's old. Sri Lankan domesticated wild elephants thousands of years ago. Just like other civilizations domesticated horses, dogs and camels. so keep your nose out of other people's business
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didnt u hear what the documentary said???? we built this island for the past 2000 years.... we know how to handle animals far better than u....
Idk if you realized but wild elephants near human settlements are extremely dangerous. The wild elephants in SL are known to destroy crops, and some have also tried to pursue vehicles because they're used to being fed when they cross the roads.
Not to mention, people used them to fight in WARS in ancient times.
If you're going to let an elephant anywhere near a human there has to be a mahout to keep them in check. That's just how things are.
Also probably worth mentioning that SL elephants are the largest subspecies of Asian elephant :)
AMAZING
Good pichchars and films ❤❤❤❤❤
Protect this island from humans bring nature take humans out let nature thrive
Buen video
It would be a disaster for TSMC to set up a factory here. Stop it.
Just think animals w here here long before humans and will be long after. But we can't survive without them. We have to respect nature n learn to live side by side or we will lose!!!
No factories
Do a series in India
Wow
This for Jurassic island?
wow
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i am proud to be sri lankan🐘🐆🌴🌳🌲🪴🌱🏝🏞
Javanese tiger may I say instead of java island still..
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Just wondering why can't they introduce tigers in their forests.
It is high time to reintroduce tigers into the SL forests. They used to live there long time ago but became extinct there and the surviving leopards became the alpha predator there.
Its one of the dumbest ways to destroy the entire eco system.
@@chathuravimanga Rather than blurt out a response.. sit back and think. There cannot be a better ecosystem than the pristine Jungles of SL. The introduction of the tiger will also strengthen the gene pool of the leopard.
@@desi_patriot haha we had a tiger problem and we eliminated them sometime back....
Stupid idea.
@@desi_patriot this is small country.. tigers are tend to be aggressive than leopards.. so it is not only harmful for the eco system but also the people..
Sri lankan ecosystem is a unique one to sri lanka with different species.. top predator beign the lankan leopard is a unique thing to our country.. and because of that they have become vert large with a dominant attitude.. and the extinction of tigers in sri lanka happened more than 30,000-40,000 yeas ago.. so not a practical thing to do..
Why is tusk absent in srilankan elephants
There plenty of Tuskers in Sri Lanka. Not seen in this video
Only African elephants have tusks on all elephants both male and female elephants. Indian elephants do have tusks but it's just the males and some of them don't have tusks
Very few elephants are found in Sri Lankan elephants because they can't cause any danger in the Sri Lankan forest, only humans.
One thing for sure I would love to see an episode like this but on Mackinac Island and the Channel Islands and Mackinac island is home to creatures like Rabbits, Chipmunks, Otters, Fox, Raccoon, grey and red squirrels, Bats, Eagles, Hawks, Toads, Songbirds, Lake Trout, Lake whitefish and yellow perch however during the winter larger mammals sometimes cross the ice to get from the mainland to the island and these larger mammals include White tailed deer, Coyote and bobcat and the Channel Islands of California are sort of like the Galápagos Islands in that some creatures can only be found on certain islands however there are land mammals in the Channel Islands and land creatures of the island’s include the island fox which is a descendant of the mainland grey fox but there is also the island spotted skunk, island deer mouse, western harvest mouse, Townsends big eared bat, island night lizard, island fence lizard, southern alligator lizard, western side blotched lizard, Channel Islands slender salamander, black bellied slender salamander, Baja California tree frog, Santa Cruz Island gopher snake, western yellow bellied racer, island scrub Jay, San Clemente loggerhead shrike, San Clemente bells sparrow, Arboreal salamander, Garden slender salamander, California red legged frog, american bullfrog, California king snake, San Bernardino ring necked snake, San Diego gopher snake, southern pacific rattlesnake, San Diego night snake, California mountain king snake, san Nicolas night lizard, skiltons skink and Adorned Shrew while in the sea there are California sea lion, Stellar sea lion, sea otter, Grey whale, Blue whale, Humpback whale, Northern pacific right whale, Harbor seal, Common dolphin, Riso dolphin, Pacific white sided dolphin, Bottlenose dolphin, orca, Fin whale, Northern elephant seal, northern fur seal, Guadeloupe fur seal, Garibaldi, giant black sea bass, California spiny lobster and sunflower starfish however there are also prehistoric creatures that used to roam the Channel Islands like the Pygmy mammoth, San Clemente berwicks wren and the giant deer mouse and their are even domesticated animals that roam the islands like the Santa Cruz sheep and the San Clemente island goat and their is even a herd of bison on the islands.
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Facts about wildlife in srilanka
Srilankan elephant is the largest member of asian elephant .
Srilankan lepord is largest member of all lepords species .
When you visit in southern part of sri lanka you can watch largest animal in the world (blue whale ) and largest land animal( majestical srilankan tusker ) within a day
Malditos porque tienen cadenas . Ojalá nunca los encadenen a ellos aver si les gusta
11:41 "Many of the birds have unique adaptations". To prove that you'd have show how previous, individuals gradually acquired new features, changing into what exists today. Nothing in the fossil record indicates that such a transition ever took place. These birds were created by God, in the beginning with these features.
That's cool, but your views belong in private. (I also told someone that had an antagonist view to also be quiet)
This commentary belongs is a religion documentary not a nature documentary.
@@scottb3034 Should the truth be hidden? Evolutionism IS a religion and they get to publish their one-sided doctrine without let or hindrance in the media, the education sector, everywhere. Nobody is allowed to criticize their theory.
@@aonyx5270 There is a time and place. People don't come here to read about squabbles and petty digs at the other side (and that means both sides). They are here to watch and comment on animals.
It is no different than making a comment about politics here. There are plenty of evolution or creation videos to make a comment on.
I won't change your behavior, just saying that a lot of people will be turned off, attack or flat out ignore both sides comments which is the opposite of what you want I bet.
Wow!….
Looks like ancient rulers were better in their planning which are still useful like water reservoir.
We need less human population and more space left for animals all over the world.
I really feel sorry how people are suffering in Sri Lanka.
God bless Sri Lanka
we built this land and only we have the right to destroy it.... lol
less human population???? your parents did not think that, you can castrate yourself. God bless your parents, I hope they did not do a mistake. Not being mean, just saying my position on things, even my cats run free, I am not castrating or sterilising any of them-they are my family.
Planet Earth disagree, mate. She, the Planet, think you are saying bullshite@@user-rr5mq4em5w
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Wow