Dramatic Vole Escape Caught on Camera

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  • čas přidán 20. 10. 2022
  • This vole is not safe from weasels or great owls -- even deep under the snow.
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    The red-backed vole lives beneath the surface of the snow. But there’s one creature that can hear its every move: the great grey owl. And if the owl were not enough of a threat, another predator lurks within the vole's tunnels.
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Komentáře • 120

  • @donnamack6797
    @donnamack6797 Před rokem +61

    As a person who had dozens of bulbs destroyed by voles in the past, I found it hilarious that I was rooting for the little guy!

    • @heinrichmenzel7163
      @heinrichmenzel7163 Před rokem

      How does that happen?

    • @amiralavi5585
      @amiralavi5585 Před rokem +3

      @@heinrichmenzel7163 probably her onion bulbs were destroyed by voles

    • @Cleric775
      @Cleric775 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Maybe you should hire an owl and a weasel.

    • @mctommed8604
      @mctommed8604 Před 5 měsíci

      well look at his little head and look at the vicious demon owl 😂😂😂

    • @flatcapman
      @flatcapman Před 3 měsíci

      @@mctommed8604 the owl is a She and a mother so no doubt food for her mate and owlets. Owls are beautiful and gain more respect around people. They want to see how soft her feathers are

  • @IHateThisHandleSystem
    @IHateThisHandleSystem Před rokem +41

    I consider the fact that we are able to watch video fiootage of nature such as this, to be one of the greatest aspects about living in the modern age.

    • @SillyWilley
      @SillyWilley Před rokem +1

      Gotta visit a National Park if you get a chance. Seeing it in real life is even greater than these documentaries :3

    • @IHateThisHandleSystem
      @IHateThisHandleSystem Před rokem +5

      @@SillyWilley I live in one of the most wild and unpopulated sections of the United States and I see wildlife daily, but never in the way these films can present it. It's like the videos give you a God's Eye view. Plus we can see wildlife from every corner of the globe.

    • @MaureenLycaon
      @MaureenLycaon Před 5 měsíci

      2000: I watched a pack of painted wolves (African wild dogs) at their den with a litter of pups on one of Africam's cameras, and felt awe that I could do that from my own living room.
      I still firmly believe the Internet is a blessing. All the social media, hate groups, and corporate domination and advertising in the world haven't changed my mind.
      "There is coming into being a kind of Internet of Animals, whatever that means. Better perhaps to say they are citizens now, and have citizens’ rights, and therefore a census is being taken. Watersheds upstream from cities are adopted by urban dwellers who observe their fellow citizens from afar, along with making occasional visits in person. Wild animals’ lives and deaths are being noted by people. They mean something, they are part of a meaning. Not since the Paleolithic have animals meant so much to humans, been regarded so closely and fondly by we their cousins."
      -- Kim Stanley Robinson, *The Ministry for the Future: A Novel*

  • @hankh4549
    @hankh4549 Před rokem +78

    How in the world do they film this kinda stuff ?? This is amazing !!

    • @lrj3000
      @lrj3000 Před rokem +10

      It's fake AF, did you see anything actually escape?

    • @toddhowarddressedasatellyt702
      @toddhowarddressedasatellyt702 Před rokem +11

      @@lrj3000 why would they fake a nature documentary

    • @toddhowarddressedasatellyt702
      @toddhowarddressedasatellyt702 Před rokem +4

      Small cameras in the tunnels

    • @lrj3000
      @lrj3000 Před rokem +13

      @@toddhowarddressedasatellyt702 Why? The clicks man, the clicks

    • @AngelusBrady
      @AngelusBrady Před rokem +28

      @@toddhowarddressedasatellyt702 A lot of times nature documentaries are unable to get the footage that they either want or need. So they compile different clips that they have filmed to tell a story of what would have happened when a documentary isn't filmed. Occasionally, if they can't film what happens in the wild they'll film it in zoos, animal sanctuaries, national/federal parks, greenhouses, botanical gardens, or a special studio for smaller animals and/or plants.

  • @ghenkhoash2440
    @ghenkhoash2440 Před rokem +21

    The weasel was like: oh crap, I'm outta here!

    • @flatcapman
      @flatcapman Před 4 měsíci

      the weasel is a She and a Mother so her 1st concern was her family seeing the Owl

  • @TankieBoi
    @TankieBoi Před 5 měsíci +5

    2:20 The owl winks as if it heard the compliment 😂

  • @shendaraalshedir1933
    @shendaraalshedir1933 Před rokem +14

    Omgoodness, so tiny & vulnerable hunted from the ground AND the air, plus humans who treat them like vermin. It's a wonder how they survive!
    The camera work here is indeed stunning, as others have commented. So glad Nature can be seen on Utube now as l no longer have cable tv.
    PBS you really are THE BEST!!🏆👍🏻😄🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦

  • @phillipayoung10
    @phillipayoung10 Před rokem +50

    Footage: Incredible
    The flight: flawless
    The escape: priceless

  • @shadow_of_4th_dimension
    @shadow_of_4th_dimension Před rokem +18

    The owl's looks look when he said "but there is one creature who can hear his every move" was deadly. Beautifully captured.

  • @troyano6548
    @troyano6548 Před rokem +42

    Awesome footage. The camera crew did a remarkable job 👍

  • @dukeduke7569
    @dukeduke7569 Před rokem +6

    This was my first time I ever wanted a rat to get away😂😂😂😂😂

  • @paulafigueiredo1745
    @paulafigueiredo1745 Před rokem +11

    Wow. 👍 👍 Incredible footages.
    Congrats PBS

  • @hunterG60k
    @hunterG60k Před rokem +59

    Would have been an epic twist if the owl had caught the weasel! Also, who got to poke the fake owl feet through the snow? ;)

    • @SpoilerAlert__
      @SpoilerAlert__ Před rokem +4

      The vole RC was pretty cool too

    • @lovewillwinnn
      @lovewillwinnn Před rokem +3

      🤣. I thought the same thing about the owl 🦉 talons LOL!!!!!

    • @touchofgrey5372
      @touchofgrey5372 Před 5 měsíci

      I watched it in the slowest possible speed and it looks real! What do find not real in that footage?

  • @davidnyc487
    @davidnyc487 Před rokem +17

    Incredible camera footage 😊

  • @4lifejeph
    @4lifejeph Před rokem +13

    How in the world did they film this? Outstanding!

    • @dontbestupid6664
      @dontbestupid6664 Před rokem +1

      Years of experience, millions of dollars f equipment, and months of production. It's a huge and expensive project.

  • @I.____.....__...__
    @I.____.....__...__ Před rokem +15

    - The owl blinks one eye at a time to avoid ever losing sight of its target. So owls are smarter than people in _Doctor Who._
    - Videos like these are great, but they always make me wonder how fake they are. I mean, how the HECK do they get these shots? How do you get a shot of a weasel running TOWARDS the camera in a tiny hole? How do you get shots of the owl lunging towards the vole as well as the vole escaping at the same time? How do you know what's going to happen in order to arrange cameras in all the right places to get shots of the event from multiple angles? As fascinating as these are, I'm certain they're fake, at least fake like reality-shows. They might really have happened, but what we're seeing isn't the actual event, but a reenactment or footage that's stitched together from multiple events to recreate the event. Still, nature-photography is the most impressive photography of all and renders zoos obsolete. Who needs or even wants to see poor animals locked up in cages, bored and listless, waiting for their next meal, when you can watch these instead?

    • @apollobro91
      @apollobro91 Před rokem +2

      Recording video of wildlife requires intensive preparation and hours of patience. It's an admirable job to be a wildlife photographer.

    • @lizardninja007
      @lizardninja007 Před rokem +3

      Sometimes footage that's too hard to capture in the wild is taken at zoos!

    • @TheJhtlag
      @TheJhtlag Před rokem

      I'll agree, it's too fantastic that footage of the owl flying straight at you coincidentally happening with the rest of it...but you have to use that somehow.

    • @Art-ij6lz
      @Art-ij6lz Před rokem +1

      Honestly why I love the BBC and the planet earth/frozen planet series, the fact they show you they find a carcass and wait for eagles to fight over it at the end of the episodes and the music of course. I am not sure there will ever be better nature films made, its awe inspiring.

  • @jhariej.5979
    @jhariej.5979 Před rokem +6

    Thank you, for these wonderful glimpses into nature.
    Namaste'

  • @brianquigley1940
    @brianquigley1940 Před rokem +4

    wonderfully contrived editing of footage! love it!

  • @codysimmonds2944
    @codysimmonds2944 Před 9 měsíci +1

    He missed the opportunity to say as quite as a mouse lol

  • @vipahman
    @vipahman Před rokem +2

    Actually my dog can also hear the vole. It has killed a few within these snow tunnels without me even realizing what was happening. One jump, one grab, and one rag doll shake with the vole in her mouth and it's all over.

  • @beatpirate8
    @beatpirate8 Před 5 měsíci

    omg the vole
    is so resilient! it must fight so many creatures!! this was so suspenseful!!

  • @sandeeppradhan6873
    @sandeeppradhan6873 Před 4 měsíci

    Hats off to the hardworking videography crew!!

  • @onitasanders7403
    @onitasanders7403 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Simply amazing, simply amazing! How wonderful it is to see how the rest of the world lives. 😊😂😮

  • @keythdanielsen5533
    @keythdanielsen5533 Před rokem +1

    That owl is beautiful.

  • @flozander5577
    @flozander5577 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Poor little Guy ☹️

  • @vaidotassakalauskas3681
    @vaidotassakalauskas3681 Před rokem +1

    Fantastic film!!!

  • @CrawlunderaRock
    @CrawlunderaRock Před rokem +1

    Amazing footage guys, love you 😈🔪🪓

  • @ceciLOVEtaco
    @ceciLOVEtaco Před rokem +1

    Awesome video , great job !

  • @SportsHill
    @SportsHill Před rokem +3

    Beautiful Camera Angles 📐

  • @MichealAfton-rx9pg
    @MichealAfton-rx9pg Před měsícem

    my goody ahh thinking how tf they got a camera in the vole's home

  • @rulesboypictures
    @rulesboypictures Před rokem +3

    Superb videography mind-blowing

  • @user-kj5dz2qk8c
    @user-kj5dz2qk8c Před 5 měsíci

    Im so happy that the mic survived it i am hamster owner i cant see rats suffering they so invulnerable and cute like all the word against them they eat just vegetables and fruit they so soft they dont deserve this situations they better then us please give them mercy dont hate them they not deserve this😢

  • @perry92964
    @perry92964 Před rokem +1

    it will get to live for a little while longer, that weasel isnt going to give up that easy

  • @FoxtrotAlpha173
    @FoxtrotAlpha173 Před rokem +3

    Nature is amazing 👌 👌

  • @ArtyMars
    @ArtyMars Před rokem +1

    I’d be dramatic too if OWLS wanted to eat me 😢😢😢😢😢😂😂😂😂😂❤

  • @flatcapman
    @flatcapman Před rokem +1

    The vole is cute and so is the weasel but the Owl drew my attention as She is playing a crane game with her talons being the crane to pick up her prize

  • @karlbjorkquist7489
    @karlbjorkquist7489 Před rokem

    I too wink when going after my fries.

  • @ljinhim9022
    @ljinhim9022 Před rokem +2

    1:00 damn nature, your scary.

  • @touremuhammad5983
    @touremuhammad5983 Před rokem +1

    This reminds me of BBC’s Planet Earth: The Hunt, except it was a Pine Marten instead of a weasel chasing the rodent, & there was no owl.

  • @nicolehegarty4749
    @nicolehegarty4749 Před rokem

    I have a "pet" vole in my backyard lol 😆

  • @walterbyrd8380
    @walterbyrd8380 Před rokem +2

    It boggles my mind to wonder how they got these videos. Even if you knew, in advance, what was going to happen, it would be difficult to record.

  • @lordnelson5385
    @lordnelson5385 Před rokem

    Just wanted to learn a little more about the holes popping up in my garden, well now I know why the local barn owl likes hanging out around here 🤣🤣

  • @foreverealm
    @foreverealm Před 6 měsíci

    It is so precarious, to be a little vole. 💧

  • @THEBIGJL1234
    @THEBIGJL1234 Před měsícem

    Bro got double teamed

  • @ZadenZane
    @ZadenZane Před rokem +1

    Do you think they added the fir branches just to make the little vole's house look more picturesque. And don't his feet freeze, wandering about on snow all day?
    PS they said the great grey owl is "the largest of her kind" but the largest owl in the world is (according to the internet) Blakiston’s Fish Owl - (Bubo blakistoni)

  • @bonnytexas6527
    @bonnytexas6527 Před 11 měsíci

    Hmmm. And I thought the owl would be oh so amazed at catching the ermine . . .

  • @beatpirate8
    @beatpirate8 Před 5 měsíci

    how many cameras were set underground where the vole made tunnels? amazing thank you!

  • @user-io6pj8bz8h
    @user-io6pj8bz8h Před rokem +1

    Largest of her kind? Not quite

  • @ladybug5093
    @ladybug5093 Před rokem

    I ❤ vole 😊

  • @theuniversegalaxynba
    @theuniversegalaxynba Před rokem

    Well scary then .

  • @gin2x
    @gin2x Před rokem +1

    💕💕💕💕💕

  • @5mnz7fg
    @5mnz7fg Před rokem +1

    3:11: Eagle owls are the largest owls.

  • @JimCvit
    @JimCvit Před rokem

    This vole might have escaped this owl but the vole in my yard that’s been terrorizing me and digging tunnels wasn’t so lucky in escaping me today.

  • @sonicbaseballzoodreams
    @sonicbaseballzoodreams Před rokem +1

    That was close

  • @5mnz7fg
    @5mnz7fg Před rokem

    Next time the owl may prey on the weasel...

  • @Troy-ol5fk
    @Troy-ol5fk Před 5 měsíci

    Voles are cute

  • @rebeccaburke9009
    @rebeccaburke9009 Před 7 měsíci

    Yigh. Run. ❤

  • @t-rexstudioproductions781

    owl used Talon Grab
    but it missed!
    the wild vole fled

  • @user-io6pj8bz8h
    @user-io6pj8bz8h Před rokem +1

    I like how they mix three unrelated videos together to make it look like they are the same event.

  • @danielroyse6640
    @danielroyse6640 Před rokem +1

    That was pretty cool. My heart was pounding! At first, I was rooting for the owl and the weasel. Then I switched and was hoping the little guy would escape. Honestly, I don't know why I switch back and forth, but I always do.

  • @zacharykeller7243
    @zacharykeller7243 Před rokem

    pillow fort adventures

  • @katielyb
    @katielyb Před 4 měsíci

    I thought for sure that vole was hit

  • @Junketh71
    @Junketh71 Před rokem +1

    Isn’t the eagle owl the biggest modern owl, period?

    • @AngelusBrady
      @AngelusBrady Před rokem +4

      I've seen weird standards when it comes to size. Eagle-Owls are the biggest in terms of mass/weight. But Great Grey Owls are longer from head to tail.

    • @macadoo2530
      @macadoo2530 Před 7 měsíci

      The Harpy Eagle is a pretty incredible specimen.

  • @pathologicaldoubt
    @pathologicaldoubt Před rokem

    😱😱😱

  • @robweaver8872
    @robweaver8872 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Not a single event in this film actually happened. All editing.

  • @andytjhin7670
    @andytjhin7670 Před rokem

    😀😀

  • @DBSGEEK7
    @DBSGEEK7 Před rokem

    Wish the music was mission impossible music for the vole. Would have been dramatic

  • @nbanime25
    @nbanime25 Před rokem +1

    Nice script bro

  • @senthilkumaran5255
    @senthilkumaran5255 Před rokem

    how did they film the owl's claws piercing in the snow when the hunt was improptu??! like how did they know to place the camera there exactly?

    • @stephenfennell
      @stephenfennell Před rokem

      I think the vole is in a glass-sided cage. Some of its tunnels come up to the glass, so they can film the vole as it moves around its tunnels. The owl claw at 2:37 can be a claw from a stuffed owl that someone plunges in in front of the camera, inside the glass cage.
      You can play the video one frame at a time if you're using a keyboard, by pausing the video and then pressing fullstop ("period" in America) to go forward one frame, or comma to go back one frame. That way you can see that the owl's claw doesn't close at all, which I think proves it is not a real live owl.

  • @DemonetisedZone
    @DemonetisedZone Před rokem +4

    And they just happened to have a camera at the spot where the vole takes cover?
    ..and camera was facing the right way?
    Its obvious this was edited from many hours of footage.
    Dont get me wrong it is still interesting, i just wish they would be more honest about how its made!

    • @frankavenilla9668
      @frankavenilla9668 Před rokem +1

      Catch the note at the end of the clip? "All creatures in this clip are paid actors, none of whom were harmed in its filming." 😄

  • @joylynch5204
    @joylynch5204 Před rokem

    The vole looks like a cross between a rat and hamster

    • @indyreno2933
      @indyreno2933 Před rokem

      Except, voles are classified under the hamster family.

  • @facitenonvictimarum174
    @facitenonvictimarum174 Před rokem +3

    🙏 Pray for the owl babies and weasel babies that will have to go hungry now -- just because that selfish vole decided to live.

    • @AngelusBrady
      @AngelusBrady Před rokem

      Don't worry, another documentary showed the rest of the footage. The vole is killed by the weasel, fur ripped off, and turned into a blanket.

  • @davidviner5783
    @davidviner5783 Před rokem

    Illustrative but possibly fake. No frames with vole and owl together.

  • @AngelusBrady
    @AngelusBrady Před rokem +1

    Of course I've seen footage of this clip in a different documentary that shows what happens later. The vole escapes the owl but is then killed by the weasel. The weasel rips the vole's fur off and uses it as a makeshift blanket to keep itself warm during the winter.

  • @lrj3000
    @lrj3000 Před rokem

    Serious clickbait PBS, shame

  • @bradjohnson7784
    @bradjohnson7784 Před rokem

    This is cool but so fake at the same time

  • @WanderTheNomad
    @WanderTheNomad Před rokem

    Seeing all the predators going after voles makes me wanna catch and eat one myself

  • @SetaSayin
    @SetaSayin Před rokem

    I wonder how an owl would taste like