How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System

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  • While the rest of the world’s megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene era, these two big animals have used little animal strategies to bounce back. Way back.
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    - Holocene Extinction: An ongoing extinction event of species due to human activity.
    - Fertility Rate: The number of babies an organism has in its lifetime.
    - Omnivory: The ability to eat food from two different trophic levels.
    - Bubble-Net Feeding: A cooperative hunting technique where groups of whales use bubbles to disorient fish prey.
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  • @MinuteEarth
    @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +183

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  • @timmccarthy872
    @timmccarthy872 Před 2 lety +974

    The way that humpback whales eat together, bubble-net feeding, is cool as hell. I was able to see it near Juneau, Alaska in 2006.

    • @engelsteinberg593
      @engelsteinberg593 Před 2 lety +7

      This sound like dolphin's Hunt time.

    • @ellie.bowers.
      @ellie.bowers. Před 2 lety +5

      The ocean is great 𓆉𓆡𓆟

    • @wolfbyte3171
      @wolfbyte3171 Před 2 lety +5

      Got to see the same thing off Massachusetts :D

    • @prabhatsourya3883
      @prabhatsourya3883 Před 2 lety +6

      @@engelsteinberg593 Dolphins do hunt entire schools of fish in a similar way, though not exactly the same. They use their bodies and flukes to herd the school of fish into a tight sphere, and then capture them by eating through the ball formation. Or, they strike schools of fish with their flukes while coordinating with other dolphins, so that escape is cut off, and the fish are stunned and are thrown straight into their mouths.

    • @k1j1j1j
      @k1j1j1j Před 28 dny +1

      ​@@ellie.bowers. bro got ancient egyptian emojis

  • @ArunKumar-zd4ue
    @ArunKumar-zd4ue Před 2 lety +752

    during this depression time hearing that the population is bouncing back is honey to my ears.

    • @schuringleon3207
      @schuringleon3207 Před 2 lety +34

      It's also honey to the black bears ears

    • @doggo7078
      @doggo7078 Před 2 lety +9

      You get it? It's honey, because bees _are doomed_

    • @rianantony
      @rianantony Před 2 lety +10

      Finally some good fucking environmental news

    • @blue_leader_5756
      @blue_leader_5756 Před 2 lety +9

      Also good news, the hole in the ozone layer from a few years back is closing up!

    • @speedy01247
      @speedy01247 Před 2 lety +5

      the downside is they are doing so well partially due to others species suffering.

  • @tekuaniaakab2050
    @tekuaniaakab2050 Před 2 lety +265

    Thank you for adding “ursine compadres” to my list of bear synonyms

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +67

      :) that one was bruin for a long time...

    • @jasonellis1115
      @jasonellis1115 Před měsícem

      I know you left this comment two years ago but I'm wondering, what other bear synonyms do you use?

  • @johnsteinat5213
    @johnsteinat5213 Před 2 lety +615

    Answering the questions I never knew to ask. I love this channel for the same reason I loved "Questions Kids Ask" books as a kid. I never would have known this, it's interesting and I love knowing this, but I never would have known to ask this question.

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +86

      John is one of our Patreon members so we give him early access :)

    • @abinashlama9963
      @abinashlama9963 Před 2 lety +5

      @@MinuteEarth ohh

    • @1_3_37
      @1_3_37 Před 2 lety +2

      @@MinuteEarth ohh

    • @alfreddino2071
      @alfreddino2071 Před 2 lety +17

      @♡t̷o̷y̷ b̷u̷n̷n̷i̷e̷♡ This is how John beat the system..

    • @foxbatmc8457
      @foxbatmc8457 Před 2 lety

      @@MinuteEarth ohh

  • @diamondjub2318
    @diamondjub2318 Před 2 lety +128

    the title made me imagine a movie starring a whale and a bear going on an adventure

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +36

      A giant buddy comedy!

    • @Harsh-tf9he
      @Harsh-tf9he Před 2 lety +8

      *IN A WORLD WHERE 2 DISTANT MAMMALS MUST FIND THE TRUTH* deerrrrnnnnn

    • @dracodracarys2339
      @dracodracarys2339 Před 2 měsíci +2

      voiced by Jack Black and Benedict Cumberbatch

    • @chriswang8611
      @chriswang8611 Před měsícem

      Basically Godzilla, or gojira:bear whale titan

  • @knifetoucher
    @knifetoucher Před 2 lety +1213

    Only reason why Pandas aren't extinct yet is because humans find them cute, those things are the Lemmings of the megafauna, picky eaters and picky sexy-timers

    • @GeorgeAdams
      @GeorgeAdams Před 2 lety +185

      I read somewhere they have been more sexually active during the pandemic. If true, they may just not like being watched.

    • @zexumus4064
      @zexumus4064 Před 2 lety +107

      @@GeorgeAdams I mean if you thought a killer was outside your door would you want to breed even if we aren’t wanting to kill them they probably think we do

    • @Asharra12
      @Asharra12 Před 2 lety +137

      They're really not the Lemmings of the megafauna, considering that Lemmings aren't picky eaters and their population can double in just a few months 😂😂 I would say that Pandas are distinctly un-lemming

    • @sion8
      @sion8 Před 2 lety +67

      @@zexumus4064
      Except pandas are literally only sexually active once a year for a small window of time, which is why most female pandas are artificially inseminated, also pandas almost always birth twins but only ever care enough to take care of one and only one! As far as I can tell the Chinese government has said that they literally own every panda on Earth and so any zoo that has one (except those in Taiwan) is actually renting them for a fix contract, that includes any offspring those panda may birth.
      Humans should be doubling their population, but I'm not sure how good are they whenever they're released into the wild.

    • @hebl47
      @hebl47 Před 2 lety +49

      I'm actually amazed pandas managed to survive this long. It seems like an animal that natural selection would have crossed out millions of years ago.

  • @Horesmi
    @Horesmi Před 2 lety +73

    So basically the traits that allows an animal to coexist with humans at that of a Tyranid swarm. Got it. Breed fast, devour all.

    • @pedrolmlkzk
      @pedrolmlkzk Před 3 měsíci +5

      Being a generalist has always been the best survival strategy

    • @PhazoGanon
      @PhazoGanon Před měsícem +1

      So basically the same strategy that humans used to get to the top

    • @ledernierutopiste
      @ledernierutopiste Před 29 dny +1

      @@PhazoGanon I don't think humans are considered fast breeders. But they're great younglings protector mixed with long lifespan, which means that it has the same consequence of increasing the population rapidly.

    • @leonaise7546
      @leonaise7546 Před 24 dny

      @@PhazoGanon Humans aren’t fast breeders. It takes a full year to birth 1 child at a time. And 18 years to cultivate them. And we can’t eat most shit without cooking it

  • @doctaflo
    @doctaflo Před 2 lety +62

    boo! the thumbnail made me think this was gonna be the unlikely story of a bear and whale teaming up to become like drug kingpins or something.

  • @ilikaplayhopscotch
    @ilikaplayhopscotch Před 2 lety +155

    Humpback whales are hunting in packs now?
    Kinda scary, but pretty cool too!

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Před 2 lety +21

      One day they will hopefully be able to even hunt whale poachers by employing their pack hunting methods.

    • @hulias3107
      @hulias3107 Před 2 lety +3

      Why scary

    • @engelsteinberg593
      @engelsteinberg593 Před 2 lety

      That is no already made by Dolphin's?

    • @specificocean4176
      @specificocean4176 Před 2 lety +10

      @@SylviaRustyFae as good as that sound, if one whale attack story spreads, everyone will think they are too dangerous and will start hunting them even more

    • @Kartoffelkamm
      @Kartoffelkamm Před 2 lety +14

      @@SylviaRustyFae I don't think they'll get there, to be honest. Pack hunting usually works best with smaller individuals, so humpback whales might just evolve to be smaller over time.
      But I want to see what happens with marine iguanas. There already is one animal success story of a lizard going aquatic, and I'd love to see this again.
      Get big, get more food, get better at swimming, get bigger, and so on.
      Mosasaurus 2.0, aquatic boogaloo.

  • @weegee_hates_the_blind
    @weegee_hates_the_blind Před 2 lety +205

    the fact they're thriving despite human activity is oddly bitter sweet.

    • @Nekromageofapocalyp
      @Nekromageofapocalyp Před 2 lety +10

      well, since we sort of killed their competitors O:-)

    • @ledernierutopiste
      @ledernierutopiste Před 29 dny +1

      @@Nekromageofapocalyp mostly because they adapted quickly, there wasn't competitors for eating pizza out of a bin in a city, it was a new niche, and black bears filled it succesfully.

  • @11Argetlam11
    @11Argetlam11 Před 2 lety +51

    2:00 that statement is a stretch.
    We just don't notice extinct smaller animals because that field is pretty much less explored.
    Some biodiversity studies find 100s of new species in tiny areas like a couple of miles random woodland.

    • @johnspartan12
      @johnspartan12 Před 2 lety +17

      But he's talking about mammals there, not all fauna.

    • @1.4142
      @1.4142 Před 2 lety +4

      The description has sources and more info about this

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Před 2 lety +1

      @Matías Fermín Páez This is not quite true very small species can go unnoticed even if they are ecologically important of course organisms where this applies typically are very small tend to live in the soil or low to the ground in underbrush and are either nocturnal or microscopic. These tend to be important by either keeping something else in check or by decomposing or eating something that other organisms can't.

    • @maxpowers4436
      @maxpowers4436 Před 2 lety

      Read the description for the sources.

    • @garg4531
      @garg4531 Před 15 dny

      That is true
      Similarly a lot of people talk about there being so many new species being discovered or still unknown to science and the vast majority are teeny tiny animals living in remote jungles and stuff like that, not bigfoots wandering around in people's backwoods

  • @toTheWatcher
    @toTheWatcher Před 2 lety +248

    On a macro level I am a little concerned about balance. As we allow the large recovery of these 2 large predators, will it eventually impact the slower repopulating predators? May it be food supply, territory or something else?

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +179

      Totally - there's some evidence that the American black bear and humpback are expanding into niches previously occupied by other megafauna.

    • @danilooliveira6580
      @danilooliveira6580 Před 2 lety +26

      though if their population starts to impact too much the habitat we could start controlled hunting, or we could also just let nature take its course and let the ecosystem crash through overpopulation by itself and then stabilize. but I'm not sure if its going to be very good to humans.

    • @manooxi327
      @manooxi327 Před 2 lety +7

      time to start trimming again i guess

    • @kwanarchive
      @kwanarchive Před 2 lety +28

      @@MinuteEarth There's something not quite right about lumping a bear and a whale into the category "megafauna". It's at least a gigafauna :)

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 Před 2 lety +19

      @@kwanarchive wait, are we Kilofauna?

  • @GGoAwayy
    @GGoAwayy Před 2 lety +47

    I guess Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home really underestimated the humpback whale's chances for survival.

    • @robcandy9273
      @robcandy9273 Před 2 lety +9

      It's those unknown aliens that are telling them how to survive

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 2 lety +8

      Well, if things had continued as they were when the movie was made, the line would’ve stayed down or gone even further down. It wasn’t an underestimation so much as a knowing worst case scenario - specifically designed to try and make it less likely to happen IRL.

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada Před 2 lety +392

    Omaze is a scummy company. They tout the charity part, but you know how much of your 'donation' goes towards the charity?
    15%.
    Just 15% . Another ~15% or more goes directly into Omaze's pockets, and the remaining ~70% goes towards marketing, administration, paying for the prize, etc.
    You're basically buying an expensive lottery ticket that funds Omaze's profits and employees, with a pittance thrown towards a charity so they can slap that on their marketing.

    • @JeremySmith-wc4lh
      @JeremySmith-wc4lh Před 2 lety +55

      Can verify, but also happy for minute earth to get such a lucrative (hopefully) donor. Hopefully they can put the money to good educational use.

    • @MilA-eh3gf
      @MilA-eh3gf Před 2 lety +55

      I haven't researched Omaze yet but just want to say that having more money spent on administration than going into charity is not by itself a good enough reason to not support ANY non-profit organisation, because that's what most non-profit *need* to do. They can't run and achieve their goals (charity) without money to pay their administrative staff, and these staff, just like all other people we try to help by donating to charity, are people who need to make a living out of what they do, and will not be able to continue doing good work in a charity if they are not getting paid reasonably. So the bigger an organisation get, the more people they need to pay, the more donations go into doing just that.
      As for advertisements - if they don't invest big money to advertise themselves, in this day and age where markets are saturated by information, how do they stand out, be remembered, thus reach more people to donate money to help their cause? At least by sponsoring educational channels they are putting their ad money into good use, not paying some big rich TV stations who can be irresponsible with the information they air.

    • @AkunSayaYT
      @AkunSayaYT Před 2 lety +55

      @@MilA-eh3gf True, but Omaze is *for-profit*

    • @JeremySmith-wc4lh
      @JeremySmith-wc4lh Před 2 lety +28

      @@MilA-eh3gf Here's a great video to learn more about Omaze, it's much worse than the top comment makes it out to be: czcams.com/video/6n61IIDAdrM/video.html

    • @gimmick206
      @gimmick206 Před 2 lety +16

      i dont mind other bussiness do it, what i think is problem is when you put charity on it and mislead people to think they done good. Ads like this dont show what the actual thing, same like vpn. Its true, but it also full of exeggeration. People might say its marketing and yea it is, and its still legal but it also scammy and misleading.

  • @Logstickz
    @Logstickz Před 2 lety +32

    A con to having these two species’ population rebounding so strongly relative to other species of bears & whales is that they consume more of the limited available resources. So they’re putting further constraints on similar species that can lead to decreasing species diversity.

    • @speedy01247
      @speedy01247 Před 2 lety +17

      true, we changed the world so much we basically crowned new species Rulers of their domains. (based on how well they can deal with our existence)

    • @nehankaranch2149
      @nehankaranch2149 Před 2 lety +1

      Why do we need more and more diversity? lLike honestly whats the point

    • @pedrolmlkzk
      @pedrolmlkzk Před 3 měsíci

      They are going ro evolve into new species anyway so who cares?

  • @Shatterverse
    @Shatterverse Před 2 lety +27

    Well I mean being generalist eaters and reproducing a lot has worked out fairly well for the human species too, so...

    • @Kartoffelkamm
      @Kartoffelkamm Před 2 lety +9

      Yeah, being a smart generalist with fast reproduction seems to be the new strategy to success.

    • @alezar2035
      @alezar2035 Před 2 lety +8

      Humans are indeed generalist eaters, but we have an incredibly low reproduction strategy
      Humans in the wild had much fewer kids than in agricultural societies because babies and kids up to age 12 need basically constant attention, so they only had 3-5 kids over their lifetimes
      Not only that, we only start to be fertile after 15, and due to our societal structures ancient humans didn't started their reproduction until age 20
      The age of first kids started to rise with agriculture specially for male humans, and so did the number of kids, but as of the last century that has fallen too
      Now in most of the world, the first kid starts at 26 on average with most countries trending towards 30 or 33 for their first kid, and usually that kid is the only one they'll have, maybe with a single sibling
      Humans are extremely good at keeping our younglins alive, but we've never been fast reproducers, in fact no other animal is slower and less fecund than us

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 2 lety +2

      @@alezar2035 I suppose it comes down to whether you interpret “reproduce a lot” as “reproduce quickly”, as you did, or merely “reproduce in a large number”, which I would say is fairly accurate to humans. We had a slow start, but because we’re good at staying alive, the overall population growth has been getting faster over time.

    • @alezar2035
      @alezar2035 Před 2 lety +4

      @@kaitlyn__L we also don't reproduce in a large number, It just that we are incredibly good at keeping babies alive
      Our litters are of 1 kid, only equal to those of elephants, and in nature we rarely have more than 4 children which is the least of any mammal (currently globally its 2.4 which is literally unheard of any population, let alone species) , compare that to the next one which is the elephant with an average of 7
      In generar humans are the ones that reproduce the slowest and the least frequently of all mammals, we have few kids at much longer ages, however our population grows so much because we simply don't die
      So the original comment is still correct, we don't reproduce a lot, se are the ones that reproduce the least, we just are very good at survival

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 2 lety +1

      @@alezar2035 the way you interpreted “reproduce in a large number” isn’t what I meant. I meant there’s a lot of us, more people to reproduce. There’s a large number of us reproducing.
      That’s why I said what I did about starting slow but speeding up as the generations go on. Therefore, despite our individually small birth numbers, there are _now_ a large number of daily births. A fraction of a large number is still a large number. I’m talking about the population as a whole, you’re focusing on an individual pregnancy.
      Ending with, ultimately we just are good at survival.. yeah that’s what I said at the end too. The entirety of what I’m saying is only made possible by looking after our young and having a decently long lifetime if we don’t die in childhood or fighting.

  • @travisshooks7374
    @travisshooks7374 Před 2 lety +26

    Deer and turkey have also exploded. They thrive in the fringe habitat between humans and nature. There were an estimated 1million whitetail deer in North American before European settlement not there are around 30million.

    • @davidhanson4909
      @davidhanson4909 Před 2 lety +5

      This is why every time a deer meets a cow he says, "Thanks, bud!"

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Před 2 lety +2

      Well are deer really thriving if many of the animals are literally starving to death? Plus white tailed deer like their European relatives are driving the remaining patches of woodland to death by preventing new plants from growing. As far as I am aware basically the only things growing is the stuff deer literally can't eat like pawpaw(which like its relatives in the family Annonaceae aka soursop has a chemical cocktail that includes a potent neurotoxin that if consumed regularly enough can lead to Alzheimer's like neurodegeneration. That and the invasive grass mycrostegium For pawpaw the fruit are safe to eat but the leaves are anything but and thus deer leave them alone. This is why we need predators to restore the landscape of fear so plants can grow again. Hunters don't hunt nearly enough to have an actual impact on deer populations

    • @travisshooks7374
      @travisshooks7374 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Dragrath1 I’m not sure about the poisonous plants but your conclusion contradicts itself. If the deer population is too high where more deer need to be hunted by humans or animals then how can the deer be starving? If the deer were starving they would die off and the population would fall until it found equilibrium with the environment.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@travisshooks7374 There is no contradiction it all comes down to distribution of resources the resources are getting spread among more deer with the system reaching a quasi equilibrium of sorts between the number of deer and a periodic variation in deer populations brought about due to starvation and reproduction.
      So yes there is an equilibrium state that has been reached the issue is it is a very low productivity state where the forests can't regenerate as any new plants try and grow and get eaten back repetitively until they die and deer raising fauns which grow up into hungry nutrient deficient deer. This gets exacerbated as the plants that deer don't eat get to spread and proliferate.
      Ultimately it is a quasi equilibrium sustained by mature plants continuing to try and procreate. This state can last until the elder plants die either naturally or by humans clearing them out.
      The end state of such a process is perhaps most poignantly seen in the fate of the temperate rainforest which once spanned across the British isles where the largest plant remaining over most of the historic range is low growing heather and example of complete ecological collapse.
      You are right that when herbivores die off that populations drop the problem is that the deer numbers replenish quickly as they eat all the new young growth repeating the cycle. More specifically it is a bit of a patchwork where deer populations locally crash and then get recolonized by deer elsewhere perpetuating the cycle as deer migrate around to find food. You can't treat the situation as a sedentary population as deer are mobile so the dynamics are actually far more complex.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 Před 2 lety

      @@travisshooks7374 If there are twenty people at dinner every night, but there is only enough food for twelve, you either need to uninvite eight people (or let them starve), or have nine to all twenty go malnourished.

  • @illiacvie
    @illiacvie Před 2 lety +20

    1:26 it's only matter or time until bear will add human to their diet

    • @pisscel
      @pisscel Před 2 lety +1

      uh oh

    • @MoodRealm_Native
      @MoodRealm_Native Před 2 lety +7

      Polar Bears already have, the only species of bear that hunts humans.

    • @gming8225
      @gming8225 Před 2 lety +7

      aaand they gone extinct

    • @TheExalaber
      @TheExalaber Před 2 lety

      Black bears already eat humans on occasion. It is one reason why they are much more dangerous than Grizzlies

    • @magilviamax8346
      @magilviamax8346 Před 2 lety +8

      If one even tries it will be hunted and killed remorselessly in a matter of hours. This happen with tigers and lions too, no matter if they've been famished by humans.

  • @mrman5517
    @mrman5517 Před 2 lety +22

    1:18 even if humans had decimated the whale's food supply, wouldn't that still leave 90% of the food?

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 Před 2 lety +13

      I see what you did there. It's like disaster, it's meaning (roughly connotation) has changed over the centuries disaster literally meant ripping apart a star (see the old video from vsauce). Likewise, decimate means to get rid of literally a tenth of something. These days, it meant to deplete.

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 Před 2 lety +8

      @@shaider1982
      I thought "disaster" was basically the idea of something being ill-fated, as the stars were against you (astrology and all that jazz). Never remembered it literally referring to something happening to the star itself.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 2 lety +1

      @@shaider1982 and here I’d misremembered it as _leaving_ one in ten, not _killing_ one in ten. Thanks for making me look that up.

  • @kwanarchive
    @kwanarchive Před 2 lety +32

    I think it's most likely the "rebound" is more like a Dead Cat Bounce. Fish stocks are also collapsing.

  • @briandoolittle3422
    @briandoolittle3422 Před 2 lety +7

    If you lived in bear country and went in to the outdoors a lot, you would know Black Bears are actually just big raccoons.

    • @glenbe4026
      @glenbe4026 Před 2 lety

      I am having a hard time with the video giving them the label "megafauna". If the term megafauna is now being used for blackbears then the term has seriously degraded in meaning.

    • @briandoolittle3422
      @briandoolittle3422 Před 2 lety +6

      @@glenbe4026 The term megafuana has typically been defined in academia as any animal over 45Kg/100lbs.That includes humans and black bears. Thats not a new definition; It hasn't 'degraded'. The vast majority of species on earth are under 100lbs. Animals this big have a significant influence on the environment.

  • @l0lLorenzol0l
    @l0lLorenzol0l Před 2 lety +8

    Black bear opens a mcdonalds trash bin "Serious gourmet shit going on here"

  • @Somerandomdude-ev2uh
    @Somerandomdude-ev2uh Před 2 lety +12

    at 1:25 is that black bear eating car fumes? or is it squished fruit? like jam? OMG, it's traffic jam

  • @zennyfieldster4220
    @zennyfieldster4220 Před 2 lety +6

    I’ve always wondered why humpbacks have rebounded so quickly out of all of the great whale species.

  • @enginerd1985
    @enginerd1985 Před 2 lety +4

    It also didn't hurt to be charismatic when considering those pesky humans. If the humans are invested in keeping you around because you are a handsome creature, you are predisposed to thrive.

  • @rhyoiite_1392
    @rhyoiite_1392 Před 2 lety +7

    These videos are always top quality! Good job you guys!

  • @CyanLightning
    @CyanLightning Před 2 lety +10

    Whale whale whale, this video is interesting.
    Yeah, I know the pun is unBEARable, I am going to go now

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 Před 2 lety

      And I read your comment in Don Knotts' voice.

  • @ECH22_
    @ECH22_ Před 2 lety +2

    Another reason is that black bears can clime for food, there exceptionally friendly compared to other bears and they are very adaptable

  • @sparagnino
    @sparagnino Před 2 lety +2

    00:34 Giant pandas are no longer classified as endangered (but are still vulnerable) as they reached a population of 1800! (July 2021 news from China)

  • @pedroakjr2371
    @pedroakjr2371 Před 2 lety +3

    It's like if a climax species started acting as a pioneer. smart, but easier said than done, otherwise everyone would just do it.

  • @BinaryReader
    @BinaryReader Před 2 lety +15

    The thought of some Whales and Bears doing ok despite human effects on the environment makes me happy, then I think about the thousands of other species being driven to extinction, then I feel sad and anxious for them. The Anthropacene is not working out ok on aggregate.

  • @alarmingly_good
    @alarmingly_good Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you so much for uploading

  • @user-ov7bv1fg5l
    @user-ov7bv1fg5l Před měsícem

    This was very much needed for my school project, thanks

  • @ladyselenafelicitywhite1596

    Thank you for sharing this information 🙋🏼‍♀️👍🏞️

  • @cathytee6024
    @cathytee6024 Před 2 lety

    This made me so happy thank you :)

  • @MrMegaPussyPlayer
    @MrMegaPussyPlayer Před 2 lety +1

    0:05 I don't say it's a scam, it just reeks like one.

  • @bienneandrei5238
    @bienneandrei5238 Před 2 lety +5

    What will happen if all big animals do this strategy? Will their prey can become endangered?

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +3

      Good question!

    • @balrajpadda7558
      @balrajpadda7558 Před měsícem

      ​@@MinuteEarthAnswer it lol. You just left him with "good question". I will try to answer it. If prey population declines so do predators because less food. Prey will also develop strategies to tackle it so it doesn't die off. I tried to answer it maybe it is correct.

  • @marcofilho
    @marcofilho Před 2 lety +1

    that pum was thrilling

  • @MarcelinoDeseo
    @MarcelinoDeseo Před 2 lety +1

    2:33 it's a different story once a specie of giant rat exists . . .

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 Před 2 lety +2

    So the question is basically, "Can it eat our trash?"

  • @cfv7461
    @cfv7461 Před 2 lety +4

    That pun was acceptable. You may live, for now.

  • @Deeer69420
    @Deeer69420 Před 2 lety +1

    “All the big guys are dying, gotta learn from the small dudes,” the humpback whale said to the black bear.

  • @Celis.C
    @Celis.C Před 3 měsíci +1

    How to beat the system: take humans out of the equation

  • @oibdbeu28xn69
    @oibdbeu28xn69 Před 2 lety

    Thank you very much for this video

  • @LordMagden
    @LordMagden Před 2 lety +5

    Kirk went to all that trouble to save those whales then came back to a timeline where they didn’t die off in the first place

  • @dynamosaurusimperious2718

    Well I mean that's just how cool these Bears & Whales are just different from their larger counterparts,also this was a great video.

  • @Dani-ln6sp
    @Dani-ln6sp Před 2 lety +20

    Omaze is a for profit business please don't promote fake charity

    • @maestrulgamer9695
      @maestrulgamer9695 Před 2 lety

      Nobody works for free,so the charity needs to keep some of the money for itself just to keep going!

    • @Dani-ln6sp
      @Dani-ln6sp Před 2 lety

      @@maestrulgamer9695 That's not what it means it's that omaze is very problematic with both their chosen partners and because it's a business not a charity they take a large cut thus you're not donating much in practice

  • @banglaanimeproject9036
    @banglaanimeproject9036 Před 2 měsíci +1

    And some people still think humans aren’t apex predator lol.

  • @mikotheraskum2014
    @mikotheraskum2014 Před 2 lety

    :0 they adapted so fast
    And its my first time i got soo soon on one of your vids minute earth!

  • @arborinfelix
    @arborinfelix Před 2 lety +2

    I am so happy that the rabbits didn't change their diets. It would be a disaster if we had a creature that multiplies so fast and hunts human.

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 Před 2 lety

    0:33 that's quite dark at the left hand side for minute earth but totally accurate.

  • @M0CC3R
    @M0CC3R Před 2 lety +2

    Well, what can I say? Black bears are the best type of bears after all.

  • @CommieHunter7
    @CommieHunter7 Před 2 lety +1

    The assertion that only human activity and impact caused mega fauna extinction is pretty brazen. Mega fauna are more susceptible to changes than smaller, less specialized fauna, and often go extinct during periods of change.

  • @Leonardo-Py
    @Leonardo-Py Před 2 lety

    great video!!

  • @MediumDSpeaks
    @MediumDSpeaks Před 2 lety +2

    I was sure this video would be about stocks

  • @omerthebanger2907
    @omerthebanger2907 Před 2 lety +1

    This blew my mind

  • @roytescaro6313
    @roytescaro6313 Před 2 lety +1

    I clicked on it thinking it was about FINANCE.
    Still very interesting though!

  • @BologneyT
    @BologneyT Před 3 měsíci +1

    Elephants have a unique problem and found a very different solution: be born without tusks. I haven't looked at any wild African elephants, but I hear they're going tuskless. Their tusks are useful for survival but it's worth getting rid of them to avoid poaching.

  • @thomasdemaio53
    @thomasdemaio53 Před 2 lety +2

    1:10 if the humans "decimated" the whale's primary food source and they started working in groups to secure alternative food sources... wouldn't the whales then be responsible for "decimating" some other creature's food source?

  • @hissamfr
    @hissamfr Před 2 lety

    Congrats on millions of views, well...not yet, but soon enough.

  • @CallMeMimi27
    @CallMeMimi27 Před 2 lety +1

    This video has a happy tone
    But its actually really really sad.

  • @alexandreocadiz9967
    @alexandreocadiz9967 Před 2 lety +12

    The sponsor for a space tourism company after a video talking about animal species we eradicated is a bit unnerving

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 2 lety +2

      Yes it is. The greed that made both the company and the customers possible is one of the major factors driving the extinction of thousands of species, large and small, as well as the big one, global warming itself.

    • @laurentiuvladutmanea3622
      @laurentiuvladutmanea3622 Před 2 lety +1

      Why is it unnerving?
      The 2 have nothing to do with eachother

  • @dieterreteid6365
    @dieterreteid6365 Před 2 lety +4

    I don't know, if you have read my prior message to you, dear Minute Earth Team(in this comment section), but I honestly do care about, what you have to say about that Matter, and would Love to talk with you about it

  • @gaurevkatoch2100
    @gaurevkatoch2100 Před 2 měsíci

    I guess this definitively answers the question “What type of bear is best?”

  • @eestaashottentotti2242
    @eestaashottentotti2242 Před 3 měsíci

    When swimming, you see a humpback whale open its mouth beneath you, you know they have added another item to their diet.

  • @user-vl7ys9nh1h
    @user-vl7ys9nh1h Před 20 dny

    Black Bears also benefit by not being aggressive and generally afraid of humans. This is why while there are plenty of black bears in my area. there are no more grizzlies.

  • @jangothepug7533
    @jangothepug7533 Před 2 lety +2

    I dont wanna go to school so i watch this bearly

  • @AnuraagSaysHi
    @AnuraagSaysHi Před 2 lety

    This is THE best channel.

  • @daithiocinnsealach3173
    @daithiocinnsealach3173 Před 2 lety +6

    I seriously thought this was a video on cryptocurrency.

  • @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat
    @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Před 2 lety +1

    I was about to say "isn't that how small animals like the rat have been so successful?" and then the rest of the video got to that point.

  • @ivan.flrs2
    @ivan.flrs2 Před 2 lety +8

    an organisation that focuses on making space flight more equitable would do better trying to make EARTH more equitable ffs

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 2 lety +4

      Indeed. Especially considering space hops will likely never be affordable for the vast majority of people (and if they DO become affordable to everyone, then it will be pumping WAY too much CO2 into the atmosphere, furthering the ongoing slow catastrophe of global warming).

    • @laurentiuvladutmanea3622
      @laurentiuvladutmanea3622 Před 2 lety

      You are talking like the 2 are incompatible.
      They are not. Hell, the space race is responsible for giving us the tehnology necesary to discover that climate change is trully happenig and how bad it is.
      Not only that, but if space flight becames cheep enough it will become economicatly efficient to built orbital solar plants(which are more eficient than terestrial solar power)

    • @martijn8491
      @martijn8491 Před 2 lety +2

      @@laurentiuvladutmanea3622 you are talking about conducting actual science in space. The current 'space race' is about space tourism, which is simply using proven technology to give rich people a ride to high up in the atmosphere. That has nothing at all to do with the amazing technologies that came out of the actual space race, the ISS and space science projects.

    • @nehankaranch2149
      @nehankaranch2149 Před 2 lety

      @@martijn8491 Rich people always do things first, but thats good for all of us. Rich people got the first cars, planes, etc. It will soon become availble to the masses

  • @hannahwalters3602
    @hannahwalters3602 Před 2 lety

    Interesting. Thank you for sharing. God bless and Christ be with you

  • @hsugraduation2103
    @hsugraduation2103 Před 2 měsíci

    Very interesting

  • @garg4531
    @garg4531 Před 15 dny

    I think black bears and humpbacks are just naturally more flexible, at least the black bears are. As mentioned in the vid they're already pretty generalists so adapting their diet to include man-made food sources wasn't that big of a leap for them
    Also it's nice thinking that humpbacks will still be around even in the future :)

  • @xnamkcor
    @xnamkcor Před 2 lety

    Everyone knows the humpback whale obtained its advanced tactics from people from the future.

  • @MrMegaPussyPlayer
    @MrMegaPussyPlayer Před 2 lety +1

    2:33 Which means they might need to be hunted to give others a chance to rebounce as well.

  • @EliStettner
    @EliStettner Před 2 lety +11

    You don’t have to pay to enter that OMAZE thing, just read the fine print.

    • @culwin
      @culwin Před 2 lety

      The more you pay the more likely you are to win. It's gambling, and they are the house. Read the fine print.

    • @EliStettner
      @EliStettner Před 2 lety

      @@culwin yes the more you pay the more likely you are to win, but you have even more chance to win if you don’t pay and enter freely in the sweepstakes. You can enter as many times as you want until you hit the cap of 6,000 shares. If people paying had an advantage, it would be an illegal lottery

    • @EliStettner
      @EliStettner Před 2 lety

      In fact entering freely to the limit is equivalent to donating 450

    • @culwin
      @culwin Před 2 lety

      @@EliStettner It will be an illegal lottery once they pass the laws these scumbags are skirting around.

    • @EliStettner
      @EliStettner Před 2 lety

      @@culwinsome places have, that’s why these kind of things never let Quebec residents participate.

  • @gamerogamers0914
    @gamerogamers0914 Před 2 lety

    LOL WHY DO I LIKE THE THUMBNAIL SOOOO MUCH

  • @Octoschizare
    @Octoschizare Před 2 lety

    They even pun up their end promo!

  • @BigBoiRedFrog
    @BigBoiRedFrog Před rokem

    Man, that's lit!

  • @rs86
    @rs86 Před 2 lety

    At first, I thought this would be a video about stonks

  • @jonathanbol3969
    @jonathanbol3969 Před 2 lety +4

    You guys should collab with TierZoo

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Před 2 lety +5

      We did! See "15 CZcamsrs Play The Telephone Game". TierZoo is awesome...

  • @Bogwedgle
    @Bogwedgle Před 2 lety +7

    Generalists thrive in the collapse of an ecosystem. Animals that can adapt and vary their diets and strategies are filling in the holes left by the collapse of the populations of other more specialised animals. It's a bad sign, not a good one, populations exceeding historic highs means that the various species that kept those populations in check are gone or unable to compete.

    • @MazdaTiger
      @MazdaTiger Před 2 lety +1

      unless it becomes the case of "Darwin's Finches" where once a generalist species starts to diversify into several specialized species
      it's one of the strange quirks of evolution, life *always* finds a way

  • @issyduck3065
    @issyduck3065 Před 2 lety +1

    Plot twist: The Humpbacks and Black bears are trapped human souls

  • @8bitRemakes
    @8bitRemakes Před 2 lety

    new favourite video thumbnail on YT ✅

  • @berendmuller1794
    @berendmuller1794 Před 2 lety

    looks like bear will be back on the menu boys!

  • @Galaxia53
    @Galaxia53 Před 2 lety +1

    You don't become an astronaut by visiting space because astronaut is a profession

  • @jessragan6714
    @jessragan6714 Před 2 lety +1

    Being omnivorous not only aids in survival by giving you more options for nutrition, it increases intelligence, because omnivores need to be able to remember which things they can and cannot safely eat. The list is pretty straightforward for obligate carnivores, but omnivores, not so much!

  • @aamirkhawaja9206
    @aamirkhawaja9206 Před 2 lety +1

    I thought this video was going to be about investing LOL the title and thumbnail 😅😂

  • @crocodileguy4687
    @crocodileguy4687 Před 2 lety

    Wholesome

  • @Tutul_
    @Tutul_ Před 2 lety

    Damn you US-only competition 😭

  • @alarmingly_good
    @alarmingly_good Před 2 lety

    Alternate title:
    How your parents beat the system

  • @abcxyz9852
    @abcxyz9852 Před 2 lety

    Were the winners ever announced or did I miss it??

  • @JohnHudert1
    @JohnHudert1 Před 26 dny

    2:38 or maybe they just so happened to have an evolutionary step that helped in this particular situation…
    or both species are just smarter than the average bear/whale

  • @TomarBoroDada
    @TomarBoroDada Před 2 lety

    Love ur videos

  • @kailar9415
    @kailar9415 Před 2 lety

    "What kind of bear Is best...?"

  • @basvriese1934
    @basvriese1934 Před měsícem

    It continues to feel so weird that long lifespan, slow reproduction seems so great for an individual, for a population quick lives with lots of offspring seems to be way more beneficial

  • @lizardgirl413
    @lizardgirl413 Před 2 lety

    you can thank kirk and the gang for the whale thing

  • @nebojsag.5871
    @nebojsag.5871 Před 2 lety +1

    1. Be small
    2. Eat all
    3. Breedin' y'all