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- A Barnacle gosling must dive over 400ft from its nest on a cliff top to reach it's parents down below. Taken from Life Story. Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCEarthSub
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The chick: *LITERALLY JUMPS 400FT OFF A CLIFF AND BANGS ITS HEAD 16 TIMES*
Also the chick: *tis but a scratch*
Best comment.
underrated even tho it was made 1 day ago
Ikr it must hurt so much!! Ouch!!! And how come it didn’t even die but is good that it didn’t died
@Jacqueline Choi *didn’t died*
Gd
“At last it responds to it’s mother’s calls”
*Rolls down the cliff*
I dont know if I should laugh or cry 😂😭🤣
Dude 😂
Got me straight rollin
👁😂😂
Hahahaha
Parents: "Jump."
Babies: "Actually, can you carry us in your mouth-"
Parents: "I SAID JUMP."
Darth Sideus: “Do it”
Parents: P A T H E T I C
Andrew Tate : "B R E A T H E"
Must be Asian parents 😂
Full on Homelander ark
Goslings after breaking half of their bones from jumping off of a cliff: ‘Tis but a scratch
Fuvkin geese always so badass
The narrator: “the perfect launch”
Baby bird: *bangs head 10 times bouncing off of rocks*
(Look guys I know it’s David Attenborough, I was too lazy to type it. Geez, my bad)
It was b4 he said it
'The narrator' uncultured swine
A launch not a downfall lmao
@@kimberlyerzsebet ok
Hahaha
Mother goose: "if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?"
Gosling: 🤔
😂
This comment is underrated
More like:
Mother goose: our parents made us so stupid, we want You to jump off this cliff right onto these rocks.
Gosling: well... with such a small brain, nothing can hurt me. Jeronimo!!!
😂😂😂😂
@@q-dogplayz7142 yours too
-Has balls of steel
-Survives a fall from Heaven to hell
-Gets up against all literal odds and refuses to elaborate further
Bro the sight if him plays gigachad music
Be baby birb
Smol light fluffy
500 foot cliff dive of death
but terminal velocity low relative to body mass
Impacts the bottom with little damage
Walks away with parents like a motherfucking boss
הכל בהשגחת בורא עולם הכל יכול ממש לא מוגבל כל אשר יחפוץ יהיה בורא אתה מלך העולם באמת לאמיתה אני אןהב אותך אבא הכי טוב בעולם יהיה רצון שאהייה בן אהוב ורצוי בשמיים אמן ואמן
What an incredible work of the nature filmmakers. This incredible shot of the flying goose from below with all those hard hits, the reaction of the parents filmed in close up, the other cameraman right at the start of the jump on the cliff and then the reunion of the family. This must have taken an incredible amount of patience to be able to film this at the exact right time. They probably waited for this moment for years to catch it. I guess the BBC payed them good for this incredible and very emotional and heart wrenching document.
Dude 💀 they just recorded a natural event in nature with some intense music over it it’s a magical event they perfectly captured. It’s not like the geese and the chick were actors being paid to do the bit it’s just a documentary.
Paid
@@ToeJam161 paid 👍
@@sapling6536 most nature documentaries are all staged. They're real but they put the animals in those positions and have the cameras ready before hand. OP is right they probably have been tracking these geese for a while and set up cameras on their next
@@sapling6536 that is precisely why it's incredible that they managed to capture it. Because the geese aren't playing a role, everything could go wrong. They could film the duckling's fall and have the baby die anyway, and have to shoot it all over again. Which would mean finding another duckling
"a perfect launch"
*_Falls straight down and slamms into solid rocks_*
😂 right? I don't mean to laugh, but that's exactly what I was thinking. Looked painful as hell
I mean, this doesn’t take away from the fact that it Was a perfect launch.. the landing doe 0.O
@@devoted2thaentertainment207 that wasn't painful
It was dead instantly
@@UnvisitedProfile but the _a controlled fall_ comment was amazing still
And then it still slamms into the rocks
😂😂 I know right
This is the ultimate *”They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.”*
Ikr
E
bro how tf that bird have no brain damage
At least is survived
@@seshstick cuz it has really low mass, hence the impact force is like negligible. If you throw a horse like this it will literally explode, but a mouse can survive even higher than this.
“Whoop whoop! Pull up!”
“Terrain. Terrain. Terrain.”
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For those concerned in the comments, making big jumps like this is strangely common for tiny baby birds (look up wood ducks for example); because they are so small and weigh so little, their terminal velocity and force of impact aren't enough to hurt them badly :)
Not exactly true. I watched the full documentary that this clip is from on BBC the other day, and two of the goslings died from the impact(s) of their jumps :/
thats why 2 out of 5 died?
According to your logic a human baby can survive, I mean they weigh a few kgs
@@dev.j255eriously? Those chicks are less than 1/10 the weight of a human infant
@@dev.j255what no babies are heavy compared to those chicks you probably know what terminal velocity is right? Ants can jump off the tallest buildings and survive because they weigh practically nothing, so when you multiply the gravity and everything it still doesnt put much force on the ant
I thought, "how could the internet let me watch this horrible tragedy?"....then, the damn thing lived. I shall be able to sleep tonight
If a bird jumping off a cliff gives you sleepless nights then you wouldn’t survive a minute in my head.
@@teth. jokerfied
@@teth. she's the type of girl who asks for a boyfriend as her birthday gift
God creates PERFECTION!
That shit was hilarious in my head all I heard was a fart noise when he hit that first rock 🤣shitty ass bird
His wings were small, but his balls were fully grown.
Yomamasaho That’s instinct not courage (He had no choice)
^^somebody get this guy a Nobel prize^^
On second thoughts, I feel like a Nobel prize would be slightly insulting - genius like this doesn’t come about very often, a Nobel prize just isn’t enough. Even Charles Darwin himself believed that the sole reason that chicks jump off cliffs like this is because of how daring the newborn is, in all fairness, what other conclusion could we come to other than this.
Well done Samuel, thankyou. I can sleep at night now that I know that I DO in fact have bigger balls than these chicks
about some people even eat them. Rocky Mountain Oysters. Not me. HELL NAW!
Added this comment to my list of Golden TH-cam comments
I cried when I saw the little things move after the jump. RIP the two died.
Imagine "I believe I can fly" playing in the background as he jumps
😆Noh!haha fantasy!
Needle scratches as he hits first cliff ? 🤭
would've been funny 13 years ago
The Ace of Spades fits better.
Someone gotta make a video with that song
"If your friends jumped off of a cliff, would you do it, too?"
*Me and the boys:* 0:16
Haha bruh
Haha nice
fr you wouldn’t tho
No fam. Just you.
The boys didn't jump💔
I would
I like how the parents instantly came to meet it: "You passed the first test of survival, son. Achievement unlocked: The Cliff"
Ha
*they came to hear me beg*
The Cliff my ass😏😂😂😂Lil Bird last chapter
First?
@@TheWizardGamez the second are the ravens at the bottom waiting to snatch chicks away from the males when they land.
Me, as I start the video and call my daughter over: This little fluff ball is gonna dive over 400ft into the water to his parents!
Both of us as the camera pans down: OMG THERE'S NO WATER!!
What a rollercoaster of emotions that was. LOL!
Oh, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Damnnnnnnnnn
My grandad explaining what he had to go through to get to school every morning:
Bruh 💯
😂 my mum used to give me this speach.
I don't know why but I instantly thought of some eastern European grandpa polish or German saying , "Ehh go to sleep in Poland wake up in East Germany , what can go wrong?"
My mom walked to school in the snow every day up hill both ways in San Jose California
Yeah !!!
"Barnacle geese regularly create nests on high cliffs to avoid predation, however within a few days of hatching goslings must jump off these cliff faces in order to meet their parents who are foraging on the grass below... The young of species required to make astonishing jumps from cavities and cliffs have an incredible softness of their bones for the first few days of life, without which the fall would surely be fatal. It is astounding that a gosling can fall 100ft and survive at 2 days of age, where they could not at 1 week."
Since I know at least some of y'all must be curious (from wwt)
We already knew that but thanks i guess.
@@HoldMyBong you're welcome
I have learned that Birds are cute morons.
The Grinch
Speak for yourself I didn’t know that
Danke!
This always gives me life. Even in my darkest moments,
The fact that they can survive that drops is absolutely extraordinary
The fact this is the best strategy I'm having trouble coming to terms with.
Narrator: "The perfect launch!"
Birb: crushes against rocks
Right?!?!
I actually held my breath
Sounds like angry bird 😬
I thought that it died.
@@j_mack1996 i thought they cant walk because they break their feet😅
Who else thought the chick was dead when he smashed into the side of the mountain.
I thought it was dead 16 times
mee too.....
I was like how did it survive all of that
im not liking for the sake of the meme
@@prakashharionutube me too
One of the most amazing things I've ever seen. My heart skips a beat every time they slam into the rocks
This is the pinnacle of optimism!
I can't even imagine to what length the crew might have went to film all the things for days and cut it down to 5 minutes. Finding the locations, camping for months for something to happen. Capturing that rare event that starts and finishes in seconds from 5-8 different angles at that perfect moment. Shit.
Beats having a nine to five...
Great point!
I can imagine the camera man writing in a diary: week 1 day 2, the chick is now ready to jump
@@saeromssae true! Man it must be difficult!
Thats the art of documentary
My parents after watching this - "this is how we went to school"
Exactly, only it was raining too😁
My parents had a blizzards
mwkmekdkfj
Downhill both ways. And barefoot. And we wuz grateful!
“I walked 40 miles with a potato in each hand”
I watched this high and couldn’t help but to laugh then cry , but laugh again 😂😂😂
I wasnt high but I laguhed and felt bad at same time
Still better than my childhood
The phrase "If your brothers jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?" probably has no meaning in ducknese.
The likes right now tho
It's ducklish you fucking illiterate
Goosenese :o)
Duckling: "I believe I can fly"!!! 🐥
I believe i can touch the ground !
Runnin duck
Alexander Reyna I believe I can die....I tried to commit suaside
Dad and Mom starring from above happily with a bunch of lumps on their head: We remember our first jump. 🥰
I remember my friend sending me this without any context back in middleschool 8 years ago and laughing our asses off, how cruel were we XD
The little squeaks as it hits the rocks breaks my heart :’(
And the other one died :( others are left 😭
@@theboogeyman1100 Yemen🌷🌷🌷
Why?
Some thumping noises were donned by BCC's sound effects team.... for dramatics.
I LAUGHED SO HARD LMFAO 💀
The dive was excellent but a backflip or two would have made this better, I give him an 9/10 just because he survived. Congratulations to Bouncy.
Underrated
I'll give him a 9/11
Haha! But you assumed it's gender :p
@@DarkMiss loool he clearly have BALLS
YOU'RE. NOT. GIVING HIM. ENOUGH. STYLE. POINTS !!!...
That was heartbreaking to see at first and then so relieving at the end.
kid:-Mom I fell of my cycle..
Baby Gosling:-hold my beer 🍺
Why did we send The Avengers to fight Thanos when goose chicks are clearly invincible
GOOD. POINT !!! Who. Needs. An. IRON. MAN !!?,. When. You've. Got. An. IRON. GOOSE !!?.....
P GR that's actually a good idea! instead of killing Thanos let's drive him madly insane . That would teach him more
Ikr? They are resilient af
It's so funny,😁
Because space apes like fiction....
The fact that the gosling just smashed into a bunch of rocks and shook it off like it's everyday business.
It reminded me of the cut scene in Doom eternal where the Doom Slayer crashed through a wall, shook it off and kept on walking.
‘Tis but a scratch.
This made me cry it's so cute
THIS HAS NO RIGHT BEING THIS FUNNY 💀💀
1:53 "Are you questioning my parenting?"
😂💀👌
No mommy.
This is gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
This one killed me 😁
The parents to the chicks almost ready to leave: “Some of you may die...but that is a risk we are willing to take.”
Lol
@Александра Игнатова bot
#Shrek
@FuckTheMainstreamMedia ULYINGFILTH how tf u get that from a falling bird?
They are like " Why are u scared to fall, in our time we fell from the moon".
Very amazing. Never thought that they would survive such a free fall. Great video, thank you very much
sometimes they dont survive
You ever get asked the question what's your earliest memory? Mine is falling in a boating lake. These chicks would definitely have me beat
Parent 1: Maybe we should raise them at the bottom of the cliff
Parent 2: Yes but where is the challenge in that case?
Parent 2 is the dad
@@PrincessBubblegum
You never met my Mom.
predators at the bottom bro
ZMSIReaper 13 at the top it would prob be safer from predators
@@arthritis1097 Uhmm predator birds?
People jump to end life, these birds jump to begin theirs
Deep!
Caligana, Oh wow! Hard to find wisdom around here so this is pure gold 👍🏻🤓
Lol, wtf xD
9/11 brought me here
@@mr.janhe_10 I appreciate it. Nature is beautiful and it teaches us a lot!
Chick before jump: "I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jack-Goose."
That chick shook away the fall most easily than most people do after a weekend hangover
Stronger than most humans ever will be
Taking “baby steps” to a whole another level
Yup. 🤣
No shit lmao!!
C. Fantasti9que💖😍
This is how it be in anime
I hate you
1:53 my reaction when the bird was still alive
That was classic 😂😂😂
🤣🤣😂
And wood ducks think theyve got it rough!!!!!
You made my day bro 😂😂
:D
I can hear "sing with me, sing for the year" 💀
My grandad would swear up and down this is how he was raised growing up
A life that starts with such tough challenges, needs to be respected.
You are si right
XD
Many animals endure incredible struggle, and too many people don’t respect them enough.
Realllllly though
Those who donot respect, domesticate them and bring them to their dinner table
It is freakishly amazing they lived And that their parents were at the bottom.
And just think of what had to happen for this to be "the way"... they had to try putting the nest up on the top of an inaccessible cliff... chicks had to mostly crater for generations... had to learn how to glide basically from newborn...
All that to avoid months of risk of predation from I presume foxes?
0:15 “SING WITH ME! SING FOR THE YEAR!!
SING FOR THE LAUGHTER AND SING FOR THE TEAR!!!”
1:53 lol that smile “I told you he’d be fine, see?” 😂😂😂
What a rough childhood! ☹
My mans
Therapist: tell me about your childhood?
Goose: 😔😔😔😭😭😭
Not every animal grows up safe underground constantly cared for and protected by siblings, unfortunately
AntsCanada Happy to see you there!
Yo wtf
my anxiety was so high fearing the chick will die. turns out it was just “the perfect launch”
Two out of five chicks died
Human nature is not that different.. depending on which "nest" you are born in
Life is full of struggle for every living being ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Natureza é exepcional
Great parenting 10/10
Can't argue with success.
Geese is known for bad parenting.
@@adibz959 no u - according to whom exactly? They certainly manage to bring up enough kids to sustain their species...
@@broadbandislife th-cam.com/video/x7ua1GGUIlA/w-d-xo.html
@@adibz959 ( ‾ʖ̫‾)
almost like my parents high expectations.
You doctor yet?
No dad im 12.
Talk to me when you doctor!
+eyesofNOTHING hahaha I know where that's from
IAm Taco eeyyy =D it was perfect oppertunity.
lol
DREAM ON! DREAM ON! DREAM ON, DREAM UNTIL THE DREAM COMES TRUE!!!
The sound of a rubber duck when it hits the wall was funny. 😂😂😂 I really thought he wasn't gonna make it. Tough little fellla.
"Watch this mom!" //free falls but starts tumbling down the cliff// "nailed it"
You Fail Taxonomy Forever; these are geese not chicken. And as for why, two reasons - they don't have the means to carry them and it's another natural-selection mechanism.
That sound it made when hitting the rocks! :(
Anyone else think it's amazing that they can survive that drop!
+FrozenEternity No, you're the only one who though that
I am special then! yay!
FrozenEternity Quite special
quorkquork
damn just "quite"? I was hoping for clinically special :(
+FrozenEternity I was horrified for most of the video because i thought the chick wasn't surviving it :/
Simply just WOW!
Worthy of a sound track:
🎼🎤”I believe I can fly...”🎼🎤
i love how the parents are like
So honey how was your first day at school?
i died.
Nature is gangsta as hell! After that first crash into rocks I was like, "What the hell am I watching"?! I just experienced a rollercoaster of reactions for these little things! Lol
Lol don't feel bad I thought from the thumbnail it was a chick like they were talking about a women as in the chick dives off the cliff LMAO how dumb am I right now LMAO 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😁
@@chucky1time337 same dude. I was like wtf
@@chucky1time337 😂😂😂
Imagine THAT as a You Tube video! Oh, dear! 😂😂
Not 'things', but 'beings' 😊
That's simply incredible!
The duck is so cute and I was so sad when it looked injured
This made me depressed when it jumped and then happy when he said it was a good launch and then depressed when it hit all the rocks and I thought it died but then happy again when it survived and then depressed again when they showed the other dead and injured ones and then happy again when it responded to the call of the mother but then depressed again when it fell off the cliff again and then happy again when it still survived and got united with its mother but then depressed again when he said there are still chicks unaccounted for and they couldn't search for it but then it made me happy when he said a third one made it but then depressed again when he said it had to catch up so I thought it was gonna get abandoned but then it made me happy again when he got reunited :)
Laura Sanchez shut the fuck up
@@sinamasterlegend3837 :(
I feel bad I’m sorry XD
I've just felt the same "shit".
@@sinamasterlegend3837 💖
the fact that it didn't instantly die but continued making sounds as it hit the rocks was so disturbing
XxXasparXxX but it survived.
I loved hearing its cry
I feel like it hit every rock on the way down
Am I a horrible person for finding the little squeaks when it hit the rocks funny?
Yes
I'm sorry I couldn't help but laugh a little.... The way it jumped and the music made it sound like a James Bond film
This make anyone else cry😭😟
"A perfect launch"
*breaks every bone in body*
x gonna cry? Piss your pants maybe?
Mother screaming at the bottom: “FLAP YOUR FREAKING WINGS!!”
Haha
Silvio Ribeiro right lol.
@Jimmy Neal drink red bull
@@vispev3123 lmaoo
“ WHAT WINGS BIIIITCH, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!” Lmfao!!
Literally the "aim for the bushes" scene from The Other Guys but your entire childhood.
I watch this video once every year as a reminder that life could be much harder. Sometimes you have to let faith do it's thing.
This is rare footage of a high-school graduate making their way through life
Once it slammed right on the rocks, my heart instantly dropped. Crazy
Yung Trunks I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND WHEN THEY SAID HE WAS ALIVE. me WHAT NOW THAT THINK YOU CALL A BIRDDDDD IS SUPER MAN I TELLS YA
Yung Trunks Me: 😲 *watch as it keeps hitting each rock on the way dowb* 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 *it somehow survived* 😲
Yung Trunks i found the entire video hilarious
My brother thought it was dead and he was laughing 😄Brother:so was my sister (a little)sister: not true!!!!!!😡😡😡 Brother:whatever
DogFan Spy little sister won. 😊
This is an Arctic goose gosling. To follow their mother, the goslings jump off the cliff. Most of them survive the fall while others don’t make it. If they make it, they won’t be hurt. If they don’t make it, they get severely injured.
Perhaps the most memorable (to me) of the David Attenborough videos. I've searched for it ever since, finding some bogus redacted versions showing the survival of only one chick and replacing Attenborough's voice with one that's more professional but less authentic and convincing. I understand the newer, edited versions were "fixed up" to fit the 45 format of most televised videos. Still, even this isn't the entire episode--since it starts int he middle of the action.
Chick: (hits head on a rock for the 16th time) *ow*
Me: *How are you not dead?!*
Chick: "I don't know!" *Sonic meme*
Lmfaooo omg !
Gabriel Rodriguez Since those chicks are really light, they have very little inertia and can survive much greater falls than humans. If you drop a small insect off the Empire State Building, it will be ok, but if you drop an elephant from 1/10th that height, it would be flattened.
C 6 if you drop big fat American
then you will see a big mess lol
Ty V really? Who r u lol
Humans: *Falls a few feet, breaks a bone or two*
Birb: *Falls hundreds of feet. Hits a cliff side. Gets back up.* I'm okay dad!
Lucky Bird , it's super light
Yeah it must reach terminal velocity really quickly, so at a point the height of the mountain doesn't matter. Could be as high as the moon and it will still be fine if it doesn't freeze to death.
O mí Salvador que bonito ❤️🙏 es fantástico Gracias por Tu Amor🙏❤️
Verdaderamente impresionante, la desesperación por sobrevivir ,y la resilencecia es impactante ....Maravilloso documental.
Apparently this is how my parents got to school everyday
Fr though💀
.....don’t forget “...,IN THE SNOW!!” 😂
Oh so true. Mine too.
Jake Boudreau ok boomer
Ahahaha LOL
Next time someone complains about their rough childhood.... I'm sending this to them
Selina Bentley Tougher drill than in bootcamp
Good idea 😂
Selina Bentley lol same
Dun Mill Right!?! Geeeezzzzz poor Lil things😖
you cant send an entire mountain...... can you?
I can't stop laughing at how the chick makes a squeak each time it hits something. I wonder if he was yelling the gosling equivalent of "SHIT!" each time.
This made me laugh so hard you thanks
Screaming “NOOOO!!!!!” at my monitor for most of this lol
I like how there are geese right there where the chick hits at 0:41. Like they know this is the point where it usually goes wrong.
Cam D. They probably like
Goose 1: hey dude, let's watch them fall at the best view
Goose 2: you sure this is the best spot?
Goose 1: yeah. Believe me
lol
This place is so boring Robert... why did you bring me here? Trust me we just got the best seats for the show.
Obrigado por me dizer! Não tinha notado!
Cam D. I
best anime 10/10 character development
This is exactly why Hokuto Shin Ken wa muteki da.
Apachee Films lol.....
1:53 *That look, i think his mind is saying "you film it instead of saving my kid?"*
“Wanna hang out?”
Me: No thanks
“She is going to be there”
Me: 1:53