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The Hopeful Story Of A Doomed Fox
Dive into the mystery of the comeback kit. What pushed this rare fox to the brink of extinction? And how did a group of humans fight back?
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Produced by Ryan Kellman & Adam Cole
Senior Editor: Alison Richards
Chief Science Editor: Andrea Kissack
NPR Director of Digital: Keith Jenkins
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE
National Park Service - Michael Hanrahan, Dean DePhillipo, Richard Neil, Thomas Kranzle, John Brooks, Derek Lohuis
The Nature Conservancy
Institute for Wildlife Studies
Filmmakers Collaborative - Kevin White
FEATURING
Lotus Vermeer
Tim Coonan
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Kate Faulkner
Christina Bose
Justin Purnell
Yvonne Menard
Will Potter
Emily Gable & Noah Dietterich
MUSIC
“German Spirits” Karsten Lasaro | Erik Ohl | Dieter Weyl
“Beyond The Delta” Booker Delta | Tate McCoy
“War Theme” Roger Roger
“Boatman’s Blues” Andy Hopkins | Jacob Jackson | Jez Hurst
“Nowhere To Go” Anders Paul Niska | Klas Johan Wahl
“The Missing Link” David Ashok Ramani | Jonathan Elias
"Cadillac Attack” Laurent Vernerey | Raphaël Chassin
“Storme’s Lament” Benson Taylor | Kele Okereke
“Front Porchswing Memories” Brian Flores | John Hunter, Jr. | Jonathan Slott | Marlon Gibbons
“Good To Be Home” Stephen Lang
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Produced by Ryan Kellman & Adam Cole
Senior Editor: Alison Richards
Chief Science Editor: Andrea Kissack
NPR Director of Digital: Keith Jenkins
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE
National Park Service - Michael Hanrahan, Dean DePhillipo, Richard Neil, Thomas Kranzle, John Brooks, Derek Lohuis
The Nature Conservancy
Institute for Wildlife Studies
Filmmakers Collaborative - Kevin White
FEATURING
Lotus Vermeer
Tim Coonan
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Kate Faulkner
Christina Bose
Justin Purnell
Yvonne Menard
Will Potter
Emily Gable & Noah Dietterich
MUSIC
“German Spirits” Karsten Lasaro | Erik Ohl | Dieter Weyl
“Beyond The Delta” Booker Delta | Tate McCoy
“War Theme” Roger Roger
“Boatman’s Blues” Andy Hopkins | Jacob Jackson | Jez Hurst
“Nowhere To Go” Anders Paul Niska | Klas Johan Wahl
“The Missing Link” David Ashok Ramani | Jonathan Elias
"Cadillac Attack” Laurent Vernerey | Raphaël Chassin
“Storme’s Lament” Benson Taylor | Kele Okereke
“Front Porchswing Memories” Brian Flores | John Hunter, Jr. | Jonathan Slott | Marlon Gibbons
“Good To Be Home” Stephen Lang
Copyright © 2018 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use for further information.
www.npr.org/about-npr/179876898/terms-of-use
For permission to reuse this video, visit our permissions pages at npr.org
www.npr.org/about-npr/179881519/rights-and-permissions-information
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If there's ever a zombie apocalypse I'm gonna have a basement full of zombies on treadmills to power my house.
4:59 Nims Longest Recorded Sentence meme (Your welcome)
I’m not a primatologists or anything but I’m pretty sure chimps use hand signals and eye movement to communicate, so what I’m thinking if we’re desperate to find out if they can understand language why not analyze the way the communicate with each other, it’s kind of like an alien with much higher cognitive ability with a language with more dimensions than ours expecting us to understand concepts we’ve never heard of. Like if dropped a baby off in a troop of monkeys for 20 years it probably wouldn’t be able to learn English but it probably has communicated with the monkeys. Idk tho 🤷
pinta island tortoise 🐢
What happen if 2 chimps that know sign language start talking to each other ?
My student, Emma, would like to know, "How do they get corpse flower seeds?"
If this was real, you would be able to teach a "genius level" chimp like Koko full ASL. I'll never believe apes and humans had a common ancestor. The whole origin of the theory was based on 150 year old racism. Infinite time is about as magic as a sky god.
It's ADAM COLE BAYBAY!!!!
Give Koko a seat in senate
גם ברדלסים רצים ומשיגים בשר, וזה לא הפך אותם לחכמים יותר.
Hearing “Taking me into the batcave” is cooler than it should be
Did they give that monkey a knife at 6:35 ? That took real guts
vamp bats and wolves arn't directly comparable though, wolves have very obvious and very important roles in their native biospheres. It was pretty damn easy to showcase what wolves do for the environment and even agricultural settlements in the long run. We are still figuring out what vamp bats do, hell they might not do anything but cause problems. Now speaking as a naturalist and someone who enjoys the natural sciences greatly i see it as despicable for everyone to just want a unique form of life driven to extinction. But as a human who understands that people need to make a living and that health is on the line, its hard to disagree with the country's actions at the moment, it sounds more like we need to figure out exactly what vampire bats do for their ecosystem (arguably they kill and limit populations of animals through their feeding and spread of disease but that won't save them from humans killing them off) in a positive way as well as how they can aid the common person.
"Give me orange" If that's not communicating then idk what is
It looks like the Pokémon Swinub
It was proven that koko never understood asl and was forced to sign certain things for hours and hours until she understood what they wanted her to do/say and she would js go off of body language and tones of voice but she was definitely very special and could understand and express her emotions, a crazy part abt a lot of this is that many of her care takers did not know asl and were simply guessing what she was saying and since many people do not know asl the js believed it
Don't try it! It will kill most of humanity in a viral disease! Tryinf to give them the ability of speech will be disatrous!
Here are some reasons why I think the vampire bats should be allowed to live and strictly protected… 1. They are sentient beings, with subjective experiences, emotions, the capacity to feel pain, families and a desire to live. 2. I LOVE and adore vampires! Vampires are cool, gothic, beautiful, amazing, often spiritual, fascinating, intriguing, amazingly fun and misunderstood. There is a real community of human living vampires. They don’t believe they are immortal, undead vampires and are very different from a lot of the vampires of fiction and are most certainly misunderstood and definitely not all evil. Vampires and goth are two of my main passions and interests. 3. These bats play an important role in the ecosystems that they are a part of. Bats are one of Earth’s most important animals, alongside bees, other insects and apex predators like wolves, lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars and bears. Bats help spread seeds around and pollinate plants. They contribute to nutrient cycling in their ecosystems, disease regulation in their prey, population control and also as a prey source for other species. 4. These bats could help save human lives with the draculin in their saliva. This could help save stroke patients. But! The bats SHOULD NOT be held captive and exploited for this. Instead, maybe the farmers could be paid to allow scientists to take the bat saliva from the animals they have fed on and then the scientists could use it in research in their labs to develop strategies and advancements to help human stroke patients, benefitting the humans and the bats, as the farmers could at last be happier to have the bats there, making them some money? 5. The bats could instead be used to increase interest in eco-tourism to the area through marketing eco-tourism trips to the parts that have vampire bats to vampire fans, goths, members of the vampire community and also bat lovers and nature lovers. Extremely strict policies and laws for the protection of animals, the habitats and the environment in general should be enacted to ensure the tourism is and remains as positive as possible for the environment, the habitats and the animals. Remember, take only photos, leave only footprints. 6. The bats are actually very kind, caring and loving animals. They care for their sick by feeding them blood when they can’t get it for themselves. They also do mutual grooming, and they also adopt orphaned baby vampire bats. Aww. 7. The poison that is used to kill these poor bats could cause suffering before they die and could also be dangerous to other wildlife. 8. Rabies vaccines exist. 9. Other strategies to protect farmed animals would include using noise and light disturbances to humanely repel the vampire bats, the use of closed pens or structures with fine mesh netting to keep the vampire bats out and taking the animals into barns, stables or sheds at night when the vampire bats are active. 10. We should have learned of the negative impacts of human-caused loss of species, whether complete extinctions, like the dodos, Tasmanian tigers or passenger pigeons, or the loss of certain species from particular countries, such as the extinction of wolves in the UK, Iceland, France and Ireland, the extinction of wild boar, lynx and bears in the UK, and also the extinction of native species like wolves from parts of the USA. Wiping out a species, whether intentionally or unintentionally, is NEVER a good idea, morally or ecologically, no matter how much of a good thing it may seem to be at the time. The vampire bats shouldn’t have to serve a purpose to humans to be protected, respected, allowed to live and treated with decency, kindness, compassion and even love; they deserve to be treated as such for the sentient beings with their own interests and value as they are.
Short answer: no
Rip legend Will never forget you❤😢
I need to speak to CEASAR!
Thank you for your valuable info. So far from where they belong, i had no idea they existed. Rare characteristics inclusive. Good to know DNA let scientists recover their tracks. It is not extinguish!
My teacher is making me watch this for an assignment
so wht tf is a BLT
Yet we destroyed it in even shorter time
I heard there was a 1st century solar eclipse at the exact same time some random dude was being crucified. 12 people made up some stories and that is how history changed forever...
Jesus was crucified a week after full moon I thought? lol
@@TheCosmicGuy0111 Who knows. There is a whole bunch of BS in that book I bet they wouldn't know what a full moon was if it were in front of them!
"Nim Chimsky" clever naming ngl
Megalania,American Lion,Haast's Eagle and Titanoboa:😔
ummm can we get this on Spotify stat
The eclipse in 2017 was the most viewed eclipse in human history
Beautiful and relevant 😅
I love the intro
You’re wrong about India. It was already mentioned in the Rigveda an ancient scripture that the sun was being blocked by the moon.
Bruh I didn’t get time to buy the special glasses to see the eclipse
Today is the solar eclipse event for me in America
I watched with my eyes and I was fine at long as you dont stare at the Sun you'll be fine to look several times but I have to admit my eyes where abit sensitive momentarily but nothing crazy
How to use colander please?
I'd if I had a box I would be doing this
Im will look without tool I'll let everyone know the results. I wont stare at it just look an glance
I want to watch it I'm in Pittsburgh pa ughhh forgot to get glasses so I need another way to watch it safely
@ALLQUEEN51 I watched with my eyes and I was fine at long as you dont stare at the Sun you'll be fine to look several times but I have to admit my eyes where abit sensitive momentarily but nothing crazy
I’m staring at it. This is all propaganda
You left off a cell phone
Are red light glasses safe to view eclipse?
I would rather go blind looking at the actual thing then these box hole nonsense.
nah fr 💀💀
I would rather go blind, looking at the actual thing then listening to this box,tools bla bla bruh
@@HmpgokutheworstOhAndHIIMbroly. than* 🤓☝️
@@gigii0706wym bruh
@@HmpgokutheworstOhAndHIIMbroly. nah nvm it’s a joke lmao. but what i meant was that u said “…actual thing then listening to this box…” and the correct form of using the word would be than, not then, since “then” is used to refer to an action after another action, while “than” refers to choosing an object/item over another object/item. sorry for the long explanation haha
I just made the portable camera obscura and tested it out. It works great!
We don't sell anything of those
I doubt you’ll go blind.. NPR is fake news anyway
The end for some. A new beginning for others. Depends on what you think..........