Canadiana Shorts: Camels Come From Canada
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Before camels were masters of the desert, they were masters of the snow.
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For more information about the evolution of camels and their place in Canada's/Yukon's natural history, check out the incredible Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre either by visiting it in Whitehorse, or through their website: www.beringia.c.... The lovely folks there gave us a tour and let us snap some photos and take video-we will share some of that on our social media channels in the future.
For a much broader look at the full evolution of camels, from beginning to end, check out this PBS Eons video: • When Camels Roamed Nor...
There weren't any great-looking Canada-focused maps depicting the time periods we cover in this short, so we purchased the rights to use a stylized topographical map and then photoshopped it to look similar to the diagrams we found for the ice age(s) and late Miocene epoch. The maps are far from perfectly accurate, but we tried to get it pretty close-specifically on the coastlines. For instance, the placement and size of the lakes in North America varied constantly across the millions of years we scroll through. There were also multiple ice ages that came and went, of course.
We reverse back in time to around 7 million years ago when discussing the Yukon Giant Camel-that date may not be perfectly accurate. Various sources specify that the Paracamelus migrated across Beringia anywhere from 10 to 5 million years ago. We decided to split the difference and keep it simple. The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre states that the migration may have occurred "as early as 5 million years ago." When you are dealing with time periods so enormous in scope, it's hard to be entirely precise, so we implore you to read up on the subject and come to your own conclusion.
While there is consensus that the features that make camels suited for arid climates originated in snowy colder climates, there is debate regarding the evolution of their hooves. Camels don't gallop in the same way horses do, they have a strictly pacing gait-which means both of the legs on one side move at the same time. This can be really unstable, especially for large and wide animals like camels. So, it's possible that the width of the hoof evolved in response to their pacing gait-the wider the foot, the more stable the sway side-to-side.
To our knowledge, it's surprising to many to learn that camels originated in North America. The same goes for their distant relatives the Llama and Alpaca. Dromedaries, Bactrian camels, Llamas and Alpacas all came from a common ancestor in North America 45 million years ago called the Protylopus, a tiny deer-like mammal that lived in thick ancient rainforests. Millions of years later, during the Miocene, there was a camelid explosion and it ultimately led to some camelids moving North, and others moving South-those were the ancestors to Llamas and Alpacas. Strangely, the modern-day species of camelids live in the inverse direction of their origin point, which is why many don't realize camels evolved in North America.
You may notice that the extinction of the Western Camel coincides with another major migration in the world's history-the great Paleolithic human migration across the Bering Land Bridge to North America that occurred in earnest sometime around 14,000 years ago. While the camels had gone one way and assured their survival through evolution, the humans went the other and populated the entirety of the Americas. These Paleolithic hunter-gatherers were highly skilled, with the perfect tools to hunt Western Camels along with other Megafauna. While it is a theory that the Camelops extinction came at the hand of these new occupants, it seems pretty difficult to argue against it-especially since camel bones have been found at prehistoric camp sites next to firepits. But it's safe to say humans played at least some role in the end of camels roaming the Americas.
A small note about the High Arctic Camel: officially it's related to the Yukon Giant Camel, but apparently not identical. It is a Paracamelus though. This is why we gave it its own label. It lived on Ellesmere Island at the same time, the fossil dates to 3.4 million YA.
And no, Adam is not green-screened into a desert scene-that's the Carcross Desert, near Whitehorse, labeled usually as the "world's smallest desert." We are aiming to put together a little montage explainer video about it soon and we will share it on Patreon along with our social channels.
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We're back with a new Short! Sorry for the wait! We are working on getting the funding to go shoot another huge batch of episodes but will post videos from the backlog as we finish them. Please check the description for clarifications and more camel-related trivia! Thanks for watching!
Take as long as you need. You can't rush quality!
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@@1591maize looks like they have a patreon link here: goo.gl/2tGNNp as shown in the description of the video :)
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Another trait that they developed to help them with the snow is their very long legs. It is actually really helpful in the summers too because a lot of the area is either swampy or densely packed with low brush. Similar to trying to get through the jungle, people use tools to cut through all the vines. Except with all the brush in the North, the tangled mess of interwoven branches are only a metre or two thick, hugging the ground. Long legs are super helpful getting around. Other animals that still live here in the Yukon also have long legs. Especially the larger animals. Moose and the Local Timber wolves both very long legs. Helpful for getting through the deep snow.
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I think in another era you would have be making documentaries on the CBC
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@@markdemell3717 Candy-coated camels?
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30% bigger! Sounds like an ad for some reason ;)
This was fascinating, and a really well-executed ~3 min vid.
Welcome back.
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camels in northern Canada, weird to think I could have left my home and run into a herd of camels.
Oh my God this is amazing i love Canada and thinking about Canada
Don't you wish we still had these big furry ancient camel relatives and could ride 'em around the in far north? Then again, maybe they'd be too wild in that ecosystem to tame, even if they were still around. What's interesting to me is that Canada has so many big deer-like species that are massive in the way that Camels are massive but aren't evolutionarily related. With their incredible height and huge toothy snouts, I was ready to find out that camels were related to Moose, or elk, or caribou--nope, not particularly closely anyway. The Camel-related branch of the evolutionary tree branched off of other such similar animals extremely early, so their related to llamas and alpacas, but you knew that. Similar adaptions to cold lead to Canada's massive deer-like quadrupeds, I guess.
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Very cool! Make a video about the belugas in Montreal and Ottawa when the Champlain Sea filled the st. Lawrence lowlands after the Ice Age, ca. 11000 years ago.
Regards from CAFE THAR CAMEL FARM Thar desert Pakistan
I had no idea camels originated in North America. Mind officially blown.
Camels are created by god spreaded all over the world . Science is just stupid.
Aw man, that was to short.
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Awesome. New here...
That had such perfect 'House Hippo ' vibes, I had to go read the Description, cool, what a great read. 👍 Nice Work, Cheers
Thanks for watching and for checking out the description! We worry they go unnoticed but put a lot of work into them. An honour to be mentioned in connection with the infamous House Hippo!
That is a cool tid bit of information. Now odd question.. Are moose and camals from the same gene?
Someone in comments researched moose and camels, and apparently they're not related.
Which explains why camel relatives llamas and alpacas live in South America.
The videos are back!!
Welcome back!
you're back!!!
Hi, its been a long time since your last video. When can we see the next one?.
Wish I could like this twice!
Please tuck shirt in next time. Otherwise, camels!
The quality of your videos are amazing. Great information and animation. How are you not more popular?
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Great short guys ! and gals ! love your stuff keep up the great work
Absolutely amazing as usual!!! SO glad your back !!!!
I love the part about the world being a much warmer place back then... need to show that to my climate alarmist friends that think burning oil changes climate and that a couple degrees of warming will destroy the planet LOL.
Yes, Earth has gone through, and survived many transformations.
The climate change is new to current residents, but not to Earth.
damn thats a wild fact i just learnt!
Dude I don’t understand how u don’t have millions of subscribers! Your videos are of amazing quality! Great job
Also camel roamed The Last Ice Age
Happy to learn this. 🐫
Glad you’re back
Whoa, whoa did you say the world was a warmer place in the past with less ice and snow cover? 🤫
Proving climate change isn't new!
Earth has gone through many transformations, desert heat, ice age, and survived.
Climate change is only new to Earth's current residents.
Welcome back.
Awesome! I was so happy to see a new Video from you!
I guess camels were burning gas back then to cause global warming
Now, the cows are blamed!
Science is interesting
You guys are great!! LOVE your work!
Wow, its been a while
glad to see you guys back!
Canadian snow camels? Now I've heard of everything!
Loved this episode, should keep doing short form videos to help build a bigger audience. Love the production quality. Keep it up!
Technically , based on amount of precipitation , much of Canada's north is desert-like
funny how I see this title lol. I graveyard on Fraser in Vancouver, had signs on the outside of entrances, said no camels allowed. In the 70's some folks had a black leopard and primates around Vancouver.
That makes sense . For what is a camel but a horse designed by committee...
Were the camel's used for carrying the hockey teams equipment?
Wow, this is so fascinating! And for all this time we thought camels were an Asian/North African animal!
This is one of the most fascinating videos Ive seen in a long time! I spent a summer on Ellesmere island. The Island across the fyord had pertified cyrpus trees!🤯
Imagine all the forms of life that we never knew existed!? Makes me very apreciative of these types of videos and to live in an age where we can learn to stop harming animals and the environment easier then ever🙏
Maybe they should reintroduce camels to North America.
I've always wondered about the similarities between camels and moose, are they related?
Welcome back!!
When Americans' brought camels to north america as part of some experiment to see if they could make a camel corps the camel instantly knew what plants to eat.
I WILL GIVE YOU MY SOUL IF YOU COME BACK TO TH-cam- PLEASE GUYS IM ON MY FRICKEN KNEES HERE???
I know, my friends think I'm crazy
So... Moose and camels are looking pretty similar now
This is not surprising, given that the Arctic is considered a desert.
أول من أستأنس الجمل هم عرب الجزيرة العربية 🥲 وليس الغربي الغبي
Thank you for your information, but no need to be rude.
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We should introduce Bactrian camels as proxies
And now camels are abused by the worst humans in the world.
A Camel steps on a butterfly in Canada and ........
Let's reintroduce camels to the north!
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Just found this channel and love it...
No way, eh?! They haven't even got antlers!!!
Definitely not from Canada 😂😂😂😂
If they do exist, the camels that was used by the Americans during the American Civil War, might still roam wild again in the South West of the United States.
I'm thinking camel is not the correct name.
Moose look like Camels
glad that the channel isn't dead.
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Impressive versatility!
It is this channel giving Canadians light than historic Canada
Thank you for making these videos!!! I LOVE them
interesting
Canada is ancient Canaan
N importe quoi et les kangouroi
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thanks! :)
Well this is interesting!
*Mind blown* Are you absolutely sure of this?
Im looking for specifically the claim of Camels from 11k years ago era as it times with the younger dryas but I can't find anything unfortunately
The claim from before I can find no problem so overall probably true
Wow really cool
I knew Camels lived in Canada and NA, but I always thought it was the other way around. That's amazing. What if we reintroduce camels in the North? Like the bactrian camel he's pretty hefty and furry.
Horses, a relative of the camel, also first evolved in North America, both went extinct though around the time the first humans arrived, likely due to us hunting them to extinction. Horses were made for this continent though, so when they were reintroduced by the Spanish they quickly repopulated and wild populations spread across the continent again. It definitely would be interesting to see how camels would do if reintroduced, though I doubt the current desert species would return to their artic roots. They might find a nice niche north to south just east of the Rockies in the drier regions where it is still relatively warm, they might even keep tumbleweeds in check which are an extremely harmful invasive species and they apparently love eating them.
@@Michaelonyoutub Sad to see wild horses in some areas are being rounded up, mostly by noisy helicopters, as they're considered pests by ranchers, as the horses eat food that their cattle graze on, or at least that was the reason given in articles I've read.
Great Video!
No f-ing way
there's clearly a very close connection between moose and gigantic camels, colonial armies used to ride bactrarian camels in North America. they said they imported them from the Gobi.
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Cool!
Very cool that the end shot of the video on desert camels was filmed in the Yukon still. That place with the sand is still found in the Yukon not far from Whitehorse.
Your content is always great and your videos are beautifully designed and well put together. Please don't keep us waiting long for more awesome videos :)
I had no Idea.
Wtf is this lie after lie somalis been using camels before 20000 years ago let alone 11000 years ago
American scientist say all camels originate from north america and migrate to Africa and middle east.
Camel come frome america billions of year ago
Billions of years ago life was the size of bacteria.
@@sonicvenom8292 he never said billions
I know. *You* said billions of years ago.
very touching