"How could birds have possibly anything to do with dinosaurs? They are so small and cute and fragile..." Actual birds: cold, unblinking monster that snaps your neck, waits for you to suffocate, then swallows you whole.
This has been going on a long time 😊 I went and looked how long. Morganucodon is usually considered the first mammal but its oldest fossils, only represented by isolated teeth, date from around 205 million years ago. Based on the age of the specimens that we do have, that first dinosaur may well have lived in the early Triassic Period. The earliest dinosaurs for which we do have well-documented fossils are found in Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation in northern Argentina. Skeletons discovered in these rock layers include the meat-eating dinosaurs Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor, as well as the plant-eating dinosaur Pisanosaurus. Some rock layers from this formation are composed of ancient volcanic ash, which has yielded a radioisotopic age of 228 million years ago. So it looks 205 million years of mammal-dinosaur warfare.
I mean better than Pelican death I guess. I've seen instances where those just swallow squirrels and whatever else can fit in its mouth whole while they are still very much alive. That would be like getting swallowed by a Titan in Attack on Titan.
Yeah once I started getting into birds ... And really it's just been the last few months where I've kind of gotten the bug, they are just Savage. Siblings killing siblings, parents killing siblings, Intruders and cuckoo brood parasites and so. And just their hunting prowess, even when things are relatively normal is insane. The way a kestrel and a barn owl can just go out and grab a rodent in 10 seconds and come back is so impressive.
Thanks. I think this heron’s level of big game hunting is unusual for his species. I saw this particular heron hunting gophers a couple years ago. Also I saw one with all its toes trying to catch gophers but it wasn’t until this week did I actually document one catching one.
Thanks. Honestly I think the best secret for photography is finding a subject that lets you get close and lets you move around for the best angle. This bird lets me be its paparazzi.
Yes they do. I love how they stalk gophers. I have a couple videos where they stalk fish too. They use similar tactics for different prey but they smart and adaptable if they need to be.
gopher: ok you got me. just do it quick. heron: i promise i will do it as speedily as i can. 10min later gopher: surely you can't be serious? heron: i am and don't call me shirly.
Yeah it was. I felt sorry for that gopher but I also felt happy for the bird. This particular bird, unlike most night herons, goes after prey that provides massive calories but big prey is hard to dispatch quickly. It seems to be this heron’s expertise.
Here in California they primarily hunt Botta’s Pocket Gophers. The vast majority of my videos are Great Blue Herons hunting gophers. They are really good at it.
Yes it is interesting how the very different preys have similar strategies to hunt. I have videos of this type of heron hunting fish and in both cases they are very stealthy and use similar techniques.
Nice Footage. Good written (silent) commentary as well. Much appreciated. We have Night Herons here in Hawaii. I live on Maui and on occasion have tried to approach them to observe. They are very wary. Gophers... that's amazing. I'm sure the Night Heron would be a welcomed guest on many people's yard. 😉
As painful and suffering it is for the gopher, the heron is also struggling a lot in this hunt. The need to keep the prey in a choke hold, maintain that choke strength with its beak, and constantly keep the beak firmly on the neck is a lot of commitment and energy. That is energy that the heron can not waste, so when it drops the gopher, it only does so to maintain a quick break to regain some energy and redo the process all over again. If this were a more inexperience or younger heron, I can imagine the gopher slipping away by catching enough air to make a quick sprint. Unlucky for the gopher, this heron was experience enough to not allow the gopher to gain that breath of air when it drop it.
There is no such animal, I’m not sure what you’re even talking about? Do you mean terror birds? Because the largest known species reached 10-11 ft tall max, and they were extinct before humans ever made it to the Americas
@@jimzenor9148 We had a couple of dozen chickens, not little ones, Chochins, BIG fighting chickens. Mice and inexperienced rats would come to take the spilled grain. Never twice. Them girls could move faster than you could see, literally so fast that you had to work out what they had done after the fact. And they would RACE each other for the mouse, and just VICIOUSLY peck and peck and then fight to be the one who swallowed it whole. Half grown rats were too big for them to swallow whole, so they would crowd around it, and grab a part each and just pull it apart, "pop". And two of them even would try to take sparrows out, I didn't see them ever succeed because the sparrows knew the story too, and would be SUPER on edge once they were in the pen trying to steal grains.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592wow cool story. I’ll bet your chicken eggs are really good compared to what we can get here in the store. I have watched turkeys being really predatorial eating large snakes and rodents. Some birds are so fast.
@@jimzenor9148 Oh, yeah the eggs were pretty good. We used to have a sign on the gate "Pick your own eggs !" :) Lots of people in the neighbourhood sold their eggs to a company that supplied vegetarian restaurants, and we did that too on occasion, but we ate so many of them, they would ring up and we would say "Yeah, we have a couple dozen" and they would flag driving down our long road, wasn't worth their time..
It's almost supernatural, the way the bird can weld its head in space, so that its body moves but its head suddenly appears to be painted in 3-D on a background. I note that this heron does not spear the gopher like the Great Blue does. What gorgeous video you've taken. That bird looks incredible.
Super common in Venezuela, we call them "chicuaco" because of the sound they produce at night. I've seen red tiger herons doing this exact same thing but while hunting blue tanagers.
They really are adapted to short gass habitat. When I watch GB herons in PNW, the height allows an advantage, but the distance does not (and speed) always cooperate.
Yeah I agree. Great Blue Herons are better at taller grass. I found the ones around here are reluctant to go into tall grass maybe because predators might hide there.
Deus é Maravilhoso, Perfeito nas sua Criações, tudo tem o equilíbrio natural criado por Deus, basta nós respeitar a natureza e viver em harmonia com ela
Have you noticed? They become more active at dusk, flying out to feeding sites, calling 'pan' as they pass overhead in the darkness. Next time you're out at dusk, listen for their distinctive call!
amazing that it would continue to hunt after such a large meal. Does the night heron ever impale the gopher's head like the other herons or does it have to grab by the neck every time?
I think it generally does a grab but I took another video the next day (yesterday) where the bird did seem to impale a gigantic gopher. I’m not sure when I’ll have time to process it but I hope to post early next week. It quickly dropped it and then did the neck grab and shake for nearly a half hour.
You guys know that old American saying? “It was grizzly” it stems from the fact that a grizzly bear, neither have the skills, nor the need to kill you swiftly. Unlike a mountain Lion who’ll go for throat, after mauling you, a grizzly bear goes straight for your fat, then your liver, that’s it. It’s big enough that it doesn’t need you to be dead, to eat your liver. This bird neither have the mean, or need to end it early.
Terrific! Such a beautiful bird caught in action perfectly - bit of a shitty death for the poor lil gopher tho and I'm not at all squeamish - really well captured/framed
Thanks. This one kind of surprised me when I watched it for the first time. I thought the light was too dim but it turned out well. I love how dramatically this bird moves sometimes.
Great photography. Just great.
Thank you 😀
Indeed!! Just served to make it more disturbing! Seeing the gopher struggling and grimacing!! Truly Disturbing! I need to be slapped!
"How could birds have possibly anything to do with dinosaurs? They are so small and cute and fragile..."
Actual birds: cold, unblinking monster that snaps your neck, waits for you to suffocate, then swallows you whole.
Just what I was thinking!
Dinosaur eats mammal.
Next, mammal eats dinosaur.
This has been going on a long time 😊 I went and looked how long.
Morganucodon is usually considered the first mammal but its oldest fossils, only represented by isolated teeth, date from around 205 million years ago.
Based on the age of the specimens that we do have, that first dinosaur may well have lived in the early Triassic Period. The earliest dinosaurs for which we do have well-documented fossils are found in Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation in northern Argentina. Skeletons discovered in these rock layers include the meat-eating dinosaurs Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor, as well as the plant-eating dinosaur Pisanosaurus. Some rock layers from this formation are composed of ancient volcanic ash, which has yielded a radioisotopic age of 228 million years ago.
So it looks 205 million years of mammal-dinosaur warfare.
I mean better than Pelican death I guess. I've seen instances where those just swallow squirrels and whatever else can fit in its mouth whole while they are still very much alive. That would be like getting swallowed by a Titan in Attack on Titan.
They don’t
Yeah once I started getting into birds ... And really it's just been the last few months where I've kind of gotten the bug, they are just Savage. Siblings killing siblings, parents killing siblings, Intruders and cuckoo brood parasites and so. And just their hunting prowess, even when things are relatively normal is insane. The way a kestrel and a barn owl can just go out and grab a rodent in 10 seconds and come back is so impressive.
👍Amazing footage! Seen a bit of this in the wild but never knew how they subdue gophers.
Thanks. I think this heron’s level of big game hunting is unusual for his species. I saw this particular heron hunting gophers a couple years ago. Also I saw one with all its toes trying to catch gophers but it wasn’t until this week did I actually document one catching one.
I've posted a similar comment about your work on a previous video, but this is spectacular photography! Brilliant!
Thanks. Honestly I think the best secret for photography is finding a subject that lets you get close and lets you move around for the best angle. This bird lets me be its paparazzi.
ЕГО ОХОТА --ЗАВОРАЖИВАЕТ!!...КАКАЯ ВЫДЕРЖКА...!НАМ УЧИТЬСЯ И УЧИТЬСЯ!!!ЖЕНЯ ГРОЗНЕНСКИЙ!!
Really cool video...a bird that moves like a cat!
Yes they do. I love how they stalk gophers. I have a couple videos where they stalk fish too. They use similar tactics for different prey but they smart and adaptable if they need to be.
Gopher had a few chances to escape but was too stunned to move. Bird was stalking like a leopard and ate like a snake.
Yeah it surprised me when it put it down but it seemed the gopher hadn’t made a good plan to escape.
@@jimzenor9148 I mean by then he was probably too exhausted to make a break for it.
gopher: ok you got me. just do it quick.
heron: i promise i will do it as speedily as i can.
10min later
gopher: surely you can't be serious?
heron: i am and don't call me shirly.
Literally watching a theropod dinosaur hunting.
That's a long agonizing death
Yeah it was. I felt sorry for that gopher but I also felt happy for the bird. This particular bird, unlike most night herons, goes after prey that provides massive calories but big prey is hard to dispatch quickly. It seems to be this heron’s expertise.
Welcome to the reality of nature. Must see how young lions kill their old father lions. Truly painful
Very similar to what we humans go through here on the flat earth realm!
it is still sad tho 😔 nature is metal
Well as said it cant kill as fast as its larger relatives. However agonizing it is thats how it is.
I have watched the Great Blue Herons hunting for, and catching, voles in fields here in Maine. Fascinating! (Glad I'm not a vole!)
Here in California they primarily hunt Botta’s Pocket Gophers. The vast majority of my videos are Great Blue Herons hunting gophers. They are really good at it.
There was a ancient heron during the reign of the early Egyptians that was higher than a human. Imagine that bird impaling you.
It's called the Bennu heron with a height of 2 m / 6.6 ft. Would be interesting to watch. Not to be watched... 😅
And the storks were so big that kidnapped human childrens
What kind of ransom did the heron demand
they didint hunt humans....if anything they venerated them
There’s storks in Brazil taller than people! Biggest flying bird I believe
Poor little Gopher!! That Bird is truly, a Prehistoric Monster!!! Highly intelligent, resourceful and crafty!
Grew up in NW Arkansas loved watching these guys fish by forming shade with their wings
These guys are clever. I watched one carry a beef rib into the water to use as bait.
Wow, that is one stealthy, strong, and focused bird! Thanks for sharing this!
So mesmerizing and intriguing. Thank you!
Uma ave pescadora, aperfeiçoando sua técnica de pesca para ser uma caçadora furtiva no meio do mato, uma evolução impressionante
Yes it is interesting how the very different preys have similar strategies to hunt. I have videos of this type of heron hunting fish and in both cases they are very stealthy and use similar techniques.
Good videography, hard work appreciated
Thanks. Honestly this bird was interesting enough for me to make following it easier.
Well done
Thank you for sharing
Dang, he one-throated that gopher lol! Awesome video!
Aw.....wow... amazing video, thanks for sharing, I like birds and nature.
Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I had known they ate Pocket Gophers I would have bought a flock of them for my old house.
The way it can retract and stretch out it's neck like that creeps me out
It is amazing. I was just talking with my brother about that. They look so different with the long and short necks.
My town needs this bird😅😅😅
Herons are insanely good hunters........never get tired of watching em in action
Nice Footage. Good written (silent) commentary as well. Much appreciated.
We have Night Herons here in Hawaii. I live on Maui and on occasion have tried to approach them to observe. They are very wary. Gophers... that's amazing. I'm sure the Night Heron would be a welcomed guest on many people's yard.
😉
Какая прекрасная птица охотница, не знал что такая есть, поразительно скоььео Господь создал животных, и каких удивительных.
As painful and suffering it is for the gopher, the heron is also struggling a lot in this hunt. The need to keep the prey in a choke hold, maintain that choke strength with its beak, and constantly keep the beak firmly on the neck is a lot of commitment and energy. That is energy that the heron can not waste, so when it drops the gopher, it only does so to maintain a quick break to regain some energy and redo the process all over again. If this were a more inexperience or younger heron, I can imagine the gopher slipping away by catching enough air to make a quick sprint. Unlucky for the gopher, this heron was experience enough to not allow the gopher to gain that breath of air when it drop it.
Wow, these things are savages. Your channel has some amazing footage.
Thank you very much!
Imagine that thing 15ft tall, 1000lbs and it can run 60 miles an hr. No wonder why humans didn't have a chance till recently.
Rubbish.
Imagine you would have a few Braincells more..
Imagine you have a 50 cal
@HanginInSF I think fire was only thing that worked back then. Once we mastered fire, we took control. Great tool.
There is no such animal, I’m not sure what you’re even talking about? Do you mean terror birds? Because the largest known species reached 10-11 ft tall max, and they were extinct before humans ever made it to the Americas
Really amazing close up footage! Nice work, sir!
Such a pretty bird is capable of such scary things
You know, it's hard to feel bad for the gopher given the multiple chances he had to flee.
Little dude was in shock
Nice photography !. Imagine how difficult life would be, if we had dinosaurs sneaking about like that.
Thanks. Yeah I’m glad I’m not a gopher.
@@jimzenor9148 We had a couple of dozen chickens, not little ones, Chochins, BIG fighting chickens. Mice and inexperienced rats would come to take the spilled grain.
Never twice. Them girls could move faster than you could see, literally so fast that you had to work out what they had done after the fact.
And they would RACE each other for the mouse, and just VICIOUSLY peck and peck and then fight to be the one who swallowed it whole.
Half grown rats were too big for them to swallow whole, so they would crowd around it, and grab a part each and just pull it apart, "pop".
And two of them even would try to take sparrows out, I didn't see them ever succeed because the sparrows knew the story too, and would be SUPER on edge once they were in the pen trying to steal grains.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592wow cool story. I’ll bet your chicken eggs are really good compared to what we can get here in the store. I have watched turkeys being really predatorial eating large snakes and rodents. Some birds are so fast.
@@jimzenor9148 Oh, yeah the eggs were pretty good. We used to have a sign on the gate "Pick your own eggs !" :)
Lots of people in the neighbourhood sold their eggs to a company that supplied vegetarian restaurants, and we did that too on occasion, but we ate so many of them, they would ring up and we would say "Yeah, we have a couple dozen" and they would flag driving down our long road, wasn't worth their time..
beautiful animal, beautiful shot, beautiful display.
Great footage! Well done!
Thanks
It's almost supernatural, the way the bird can weld its head in space, so that its body moves but its head suddenly appears to be painted in 3-D on a background. I note that this heron does not spear the gopher like the Great Blue does. What gorgeous video you've taken. That bird looks incredible.
Amazing video and bird!!!
Thanks Joanna. That really is an exceptional bird. It is so easy to video and it really is an exceptional hunter.
Amazing video great work 👏🏻
Thanks
Amazing video! Thank you!
Thanks and you’re welcome.
Super common in Venezuela, we call them "chicuaco" because of the sound they produce at night. I've seen red tiger herons doing this exact same thing but while hunting blue tanagers.
Awesome video
A great warrior & hunter 😊
Fantastic video thank you.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
Impressive footage 🎉. So clear and CLOSE! Humans are pathetic compared to wild creatures.
Thanks
Well done! Excelent sharing!
O almoço tá garantido. Tá no papo!
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Amazing video 👏👍❤️
Good hunting and damned good potography!
Thank you. That is very nice of you to say.
Great foto graphics
Nicely done my young padawan
Outstanding video
Thanks
I would need a guinness to wash it down !! lol !
Beautiful bird
great footage of nature.
They really are adapted to short gass habitat. When I watch GB herons in PNW, the height allows an advantage, but the distance does not (and speed) always cooperate.
Yeah I agree. Great Blue Herons are better at taller grass. I found the ones around here are reluctant to go into tall grass maybe because predators might hide there.
Gophers! It’s what’s for dinner.
Amazing video!
Thanks!
That gopher was not easy to kill. He couldn't break its neck though he tried hard. Eventually it looked as though he strangled it.
Yeah that’s what I thought too.
Pobre raton , sufrio antes de morir!😢
Ini sangat baagus bagi pertanian padi di indonesia
Raptor
That was relaxing .
Queria vê tu de frente de aves gigantes do mioceno seria relaxante.
Deus é Maravilhoso, Perfeito nas sua Criações, tudo tem o equilíbrio natural criado por Deus, basta nós respeitar a natureza e viver em harmonia com ela
Wild stuff there
Awesome bird..
This is metal af.
True meaning to "death from above."
I LOVE HERONS ❤❤❤
Quá hay bạn ỏi👍👏🔔🔔
Thank you
Great
😍Wow😍
Damn @3:49 😢😢😢😢
Have you noticed? They become more active at dusk, flying out to feeding sites, calling 'pan' as they pass overhead in the darkness. Next time you're out at dusk, listen for their distinctive call!
Yeah I often run at 4:00 am and I’ve seen them hunting in the dark. They are called night herons for good reasons.
Beautiful bird!❤👍in an awful world 👎😟
That was brutal.
Nice video.
Thanks!
amazing that it would continue to hunt after such a large meal. Does the night heron ever impale the gopher's head like the other herons or does it have to grab by the neck every time?
I think it generally does a grab but I took another video the next day (yesterday) where the bird did seem to impale a gigantic gopher. I’m not sure when I’ll have time to process it but I hope to post early next week. It quickly dropped it and then did the neck grab and shake for nearly a half hour.
Law of nature !!
De natuur is hard zeker voor zo een klein Fluffy diertje
Wish I could get a couple of these birds to live in my yard and get rid of all the gophers.
Thats Nature
Oh man that's one slow death
The first thing the bird does is to get the gopher away from its hole. If he loses his grip, he'd at least have a shot at recapturing it.
That was painful
only 2 second is enough to swallow the whole prey
Wow ❤❤❤
You guys know that old American saying? “It was grizzly” it stems from the fact that a grizzly bear, neither have the skills, nor the need to kill you swiftly. Unlike a mountain Lion who’ll go for throat, after mauling you, a grizzly bear goes straight for your fat, then your liver, that’s it. It’s big enough that it doesn’t need you to be dead, to eat your liver. This bird neither have the mean, or need to end it early.
It sure shows it is persistent!!
Well damn 😢
Who all sees Dino's hunting skill!
Yeah and the Dinos win the mammals this match.
Very nice 👍
Nice hunting, bird!
…with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
I made a video once that I titled Silence of the Gophers.
Well done
Terrific! Such a beautiful bird caught in action perfectly - bit of a shitty death for the poor lil gopher tho and I'm not at all squeamish - really well captured/framed
Thanks. This one kind of surprised me when I watched it for the first time. I thought the light was too dim but it turned out well. I love how dramatically this bird moves sometimes.
Dude, that was some Morgan Freeman narration-worthy nature footage you got
Thanks
pure predator.
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.adil..