6 Animals Living Their Best Lives in Cities | Synurbic Species

When humans build a city, most species in the area tend to disappear. But there are some, called synurbic species, that are living their best lives in our concrete jungles.
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  • @wiadroman
    @wiadroman3 жыл бұрын

    In London we have a lot of hyenas and vultures. They adapted so well, that they started wearing suites and picked up jobs in the financial sector.

  • @jonathanowo7584

    @jonathanowo7584

    3 жыл бұрын

    oo thas spicy

  • @thedarkestdarkrai8356

    @thedarkestdarkrai8356

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fr???? In America they’ve picked up jobs as lawyers too! 😂😂😂

  • @Bacopa68

    @Bacopa68

    3 жыл бұрын

    I always forget that you don't have real vultures in the UK. In the US we have real vultures, not that distant relatives of African vultures. We mostly call them buzzards, but they are not relatives of raptors at all. And they are synurbic, to get back on topic. Black vultures from Canada and the Northern US love to overwinter in the southern US. We've build them the perfect winter habitat, cell phone towers. I've seen towers in the Houston suburbs with over 200 black vultures roosting on them. Short flight into the city nets them some survival food.

  • @keanunmoskaluk3518

    @keanunmoskaluk3518

    3 жыл бұрын

    Here in canada the rats and cockroaches are trying to become politicians

  • @Dingus_Khaan

    @Dingus_Khaan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oof

  • @CristopherGore
    @CristopherGore3 жыл бұрын

    2:53 that picture is the most passive-aggressive way of saying raccoons are smarter than dogs 😂😂

  • @Thessalin

    @Thessalin

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look what they did to my good boy, they massacred him!

  • @ashleeknowlton5805
    @ashleeknowlton58053 жыл бұрын

    I have an agreement with my local raccoon. I leave her dog food, she stays out of my thrash. This agreement started because I left a bag of dog food on the porch. I saw her and said hi bandit. She looked me dead in the eyes, reached her hand into the bag, and ate a piece.

  • @darthszarych5588
    @darthszarych55882 жыл бұрын

    I took a class in college on urban ecology and it was one of the most interesting classes I've ever taken

  • @chupcook
    @chupcook3 жыл бұрын

    As someone from Vadodara, oh boy, when the river floods during the monsoon season, all hell breaks lose and you can see crocs walking on roads and entering apartment grounds.

  • @lonestarr1490

    @lonestarr1490

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why people still live there?

  • @CheckCheckCheckCheck

    @CheckCheckCheckCheck

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lonestarr1490 Cuz of the gator and croc fights right below ur window. No tickets required, very entertaining.

  • @Tempst

    @Tempst

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CheckCheckCheckCheck Lmfao 😹

  • @MtnNerd

    @MtnNerd

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lonestarr1490 Try to remember every place has its own issues.

  • @ananyachatterjee197

    @ananyachatterjee197

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lonestarr1490 why do people still live in alligator infested Florida?

  • @Deathnotefan97
    @Deathnotefan973 жыл бұрын

    When I heard the name "mugger crocodile" I immediately thought of a crocodile jumping out of a dark alley way with a switchblade

  • @kraneiathedancingdryad6333

    @kraneiathedancingdryad6333

    2 ай бұрын

    Wearing a trench coat and selling watches? Well, he had to do something once he'd eaten Captain Hook. 👍

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty3 жыл бұрын

    Up here in the pacific-northwest we share our cities with the most exotic and lovely animal, THE BANANA SLUG! It's so fun and adorable when our cities are swarmed with millions of pungent fist sizes balls of poisonous slime! It's fantastic for our tourism industry, too! People come from all over to ruin their shoes, and slide comically down the many step inclines of our robust urban sidewalk system.

  • @jakobraahauge7299

    @jakobraahauge7299

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yikes! Hmm.. banana republicans? 🍌🐌

  • @confus.d

    @confus.d

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm ded

  • @MegaJessness

    @MegaJessness

    3 жыл бұрын

    The sound of them being squished by bicycle tires is something I'll never forget XD

  • @ThrottleKitty

    @ThrottleKitty

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MegaJessness the delicate sound of a dozen eggs slowly rolling off a low counter

  • @ThrottleKitty

    @ThrottleKitty

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bryanyakimets2235 while I am, a state park just near my house has a *slug trail" that gets lots of traffic from slug seekers! They occasionally swarm urban areas too. Maybe even your porch and car if your lucky lol

  • @Shadowstray
    @Shadowstray3 жыл бұрын

    It's much easier to remember and say DDT if you memorize a simple rhyme :) A mosquito was heard to complain That a chemist had poisoned his brain The cause of his sorrow Was paradichloro Diphenyltrichloroethane

  • @MephLeo

    @MephLeo

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would normally say that a chemist writing poetry is out of his element, but your rhyme is kinda Oxygen Potassium.

  • @RahimRahmat

    @RahimRahmat

    3 жыл бұрын

    What creature, alive or extinct, ever invented that rhyme.....

  • @LimeyLassen

    @LimeyLassen

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks this makes it so much easier

  • @justthatguyben
    @justthatguyben3 жыл бұрын

    The New York impression had me rolling

  • @benjaminhernandez7185

    @benjaminhernandez7185

    3 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't care less, until that "again!"

  • @LordDice1

    @LordDice1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey, that's a long island accent

  • @ronnyshama

    @ronnyshama

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am a new Yorker that was NOT a New York accent, sounded more like a bad Boston accent

  • @AaronSoul725

    @AaronSoul725

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ronny Shama im a fellow new Yorker

  • @TGears314

    @TGears314

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ronny Shama Im Texan and immediately thought bad Boston accent so idk where the New York is coming from😂

  • @BaalFridge
    @BaalFridge3 жыл бұрын

    a lot of small birds are also getting used to the city, here near montreal grackles that used to stay near open fields are taking over suburban backyards fighting with ravens, and dark-eyed juncos who used to prefer the country are all over the grass in the city in spring. I even saw a pair of full size crows in the industrial sector, probably feeding on warehouse rats!

  • @The_Viscount
    @The_Viscount3 жыл бұрын

    My dad was once having lunch in a food court on a tall building. He was watching pigeons flit about outside the window when a blur shot down from above leaving nothing but feathers in its wake. That was a falcon taking down a pigeon outside a 16th floor window.

  • @neomamuro
    @neomamuro3 жыл бұрын

    I think watching Late Night comedy has influenced my thought processes. The first thing that came to mind when I heard Mugger Crocodile was Florida. When I heard overweight, I had to replay the bit to make sure it really wasn't Florida.

  • @spindash64

    @spindash64

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now I’m just imagining an obese Gator putting around on one of those motorized scooter chairs

  • @jacquejac1840
    @jacquejac18403 жыл бұрын

    Coyotes, opossums, foxes, & armadillos are a few more that came to mind for this vid.

  • @patsyroberts3967

    @patsyroberts3967

    3 жыл бұрын

    And badgers, in the UK at least.

  • @svenmorgenstern9506

    @svenmorgenstern9506

    3 жыл бұрын

    Depending on where you are, cottontail rabbits as well. Got the little lawn scarfers around here.

  • @chrisrus1965

    @chrisrus1965

    3 жыл бұрын

    The absence of Coyotes in this video seems especially conspicuous.

  • @TheBrucemmoulton

    @TheBrucemmoulton

    3 жыл бұрын

    No armadillos or many foxes here in Nor Calif but plenty of the other two plus skunks, rats, mice, and parrots.

  • @storyspren

    @storyspren

    3 жыл бұрын

    The ever-present pigeons and gulls too

  • @ihcfn
    @ihcfn3 жыл бұрын

    Peregrines also benefit from longer hunting hours due to the city lights.

  • @massimookissed1023

    @massimookissed1023

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've noticed regular garden birds can be active throughout the night in town where there are plenty of streetlights.

  • @jakobraahauge7299

    @jakobraahauge7299

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice detail - thank you! How awesome of you! 👍

  • @SciFlyWorld

    @SciFlyWorld

    3 жыл бұрын

    I also create scitific videos please watch my videos. #sciflyworld

  • @survivortechharold6575

    @survivortechharold6575

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah eating more sickly animals that live off garbage.

  • @spindash64

    @spindash64

    3 жыл бұрын

    And skyscrapers are more or less even more “spawn kill” proof than cliffs: even the people who build them don’t want to be crawling around the outsides of them

  • @lyreparadox
    @lyreparadox3 жыл бұрын

    I saw a whitetail deer in the city park this morning. It seemed confused about what I was and kept getting closer and eyeballing me, bouncing away and then coming back. I suppose it wasn't expecting to see someone there that early in the morning.

  • @DavidJones-tp7td
    @DavidJones-tp7td3 жыл бұрын

    You didn't mention the most pervasive of all: rats and mice. They have adapted so well to living in urban environments that new subspecies are developing that exist nowhere else. The presence of the rodents are part of the reason various snakes are able to survive in urban environments. We are a keyston species.

  • @barneyrubble4293
    @barneyrubble42933 жыл бұрын

    It''l be interesting to see the niche ecosystems that develop in urban areas as time goes on.

  • @christelheadington1136
    @christelheadington11363 жыл бұрын

    Rewatched "Over the Hedge", the other day. These critters are more organized than you realize Stefan.

  • @MerkhVision

    @MerkhVision

    Жыл бұрын

    That movie is an underrated classic!

  • @jimsmint
    @jimsmint3 жыл бұрын

    You missed the notorious Sydney Bin Chicken, sometimes also known as the White Ibis.

  • @charondesousa8868

    @charondesousa8868

    Жыл бұрын

    Australian Bin Chicken* That birb is everywhere 😂😭

  • @ScrapPalletMan
    @ScrapPalletMan3 жыл бұрын

    Exceptionally entertaining scishow. Usually I like geeking out on data but this video had me cracking up

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke3 жыл бұрын

    The thought of a snake shitting itself when startled is actually kind of funny, not so much for the recipient of the buttsplosion, but still hilarious in my head... :P

  • @matthewcox7985

    @matthewcox7985

    3 жыл бұрын

    A hippopotamus flaps its tail around during defecation to ensure maximum flung dung.

  • @TathD

    @TathD

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've never even thought of a snake's butthole before now.

  • @MTTT1234

    @MTTT1234

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is another snake that when disturbed sucks in air with its rear hole and then farts as loud as a vacuum cleaner to frighten predators.

  • @sammyk1155

    @sammyk1155

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the word buttsplosion

  • @glacierwolf2155
    @glacierwolf21553 жыл бұрын

    The city meta sure is surprising to see. The tier list is entirely different for this environment.

  • @garv1992

    @garv1992

    3 жыл бұрын

    With that lingo, I might have a YT channel for you... it's called "tierzoo"... don't know if u have ever heard of it 😛😛

  • @chanbricks4461

    @chanbricks4461

    3 жыл бұрын

    Most likely they've already watched Tier Zoo.

  • @garv1992

    @garv1992

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chanbricks4461 dude I don't know what to say 😂

  • @WanderTheNomad

    @WanderTheNomad

    3 жыл бұрын

    That Tier Zoo video came out 3 months ago, but coincidentally, I saw it right before this video.

  • @Bacopa68

    @Bacopa68

    3 жыл бұрын

    The real question here is whether the devs are gonna take this anthropogenic global warming quirk of the physics engine and just let it start adding debuffs as it already is, or are they gonna introduce a balance patch that will be even worse. BTW: I believe that the current Covid-19 subplot is just part of the game's biology engine. Yes, human mains have been able to hack the bio-engine since Germ Theory, and the devs really could be messing with us, but I am convinced this is all part of the normal operation of the bio engine. We can beat it.

  • @ansh7335
    @ansh73353 жыл бұрын

    Watching mugurs from the various bridges on the river is a favorite hobby and hangout spot for a lot of people in Vadodara.

  • @benschatz2125
    @benschatz21253 жыл бұрын

    Mitzpe Ramon, in Southern Israel, is apparently the only city in the world where ibex took over the role of street cats. These desert-loving mountain goats adapted so well to the town life that you have to be careful not to hit them with your car when you go shopping!

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat61573 жыл бұрын

    Raccoons, like crows, understand caws and effect. A man was attacked by a mugger, but he wasn't mugged.

  • @ScarletBanter
    @ScarletBanter3 жыл бұрын

    Aside from the usual local crows, had a Stellar's Jay and a Northern Flicker visiting recently. Such delightful birds. Love sharing the city with critters.

  • @sarahimperial9984
    @sarahimperial99843 жыл бұрын

    Spat my drink through my nose when he did that impression.

  • @charlatanandthief
    @charlatanandthief3 жыл бұрын

    The fact that Sydney's bin chickens aren't on here is a travesty.

  • @justynafigas-skrzypulec3349

    @justynafigas-skrzypulec3349

    3 жыл бұрын

    What species should I look up? I'm intrigued right now.

  • @BaalFridge

    @BaalFridge

    3 жыл бұрын

    a terrifying creature with the will of evil and a hunger for trash

  • @SupersuMC

    @SupersuMC

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also Austin, TX's ringtails. (And other cities within their Southwest US/Northern Mexico range.)

  • @charlatanandthief

    @charlatanandthief

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@justynafigas-skrzypulec3349 Australian White Ibis. They originally lived in the swampy land that Sydney was built on and turns out the long curved pointy beaks they used to eat food out of wet land work awesome for picking food out of bins. They're now everywhere in Sydney seen scavaging on bins hence the nickname "bin chicken" and the love/hate relationship the locals have with them. 🤙🏻

  • @ariel1088
    @ariel10883 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely loved it when Stephen went wild describing raccoon wisdom...🤣🤣 3:03

  • @maenad1231
    @maenad12313 жыл бұрын

    Those flying foxes look like....actual foxes

  • @weirdalexander8193

    @weirdalexander8193

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maenad it’s almost like one was named after the other

  • @obvious_giraffe8386

    @obvious_giraffe8386

    3 жыл бұрын

    But they fly unlike a regular fox

  • @RosheenQuynh

    @RosheenQuynh

    3 жыл бұрын

    And they're cute!

  • @lamdelmundo8492

    @lamdelmundo8492

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ehehehehehehehehehehehe 😅

  • @bjorn3438

    @bjorn3438

    3 жыл бұрын

    They can also carry a virus similar to rabies. Cute maybe, but you wouldn't want to touch one.

  • @agnesstrzykowska4300
    @agnesstrzykowska43003 жыл бұрын

    Thanks to the lockdown in the city I live (central Europe) we now have ferrets, those big forest pigeons, kind of small falcons, hedgehogs roaming free on the lawns, yesterday I saw a peasant just strolling along my street! Maybe they lived here before but now they just aren't afraid of the traffic and people...

  • @girlofanimation
    @girlofanimation3 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget NYC mice! First time I saw a mouse in the wild- it popped out of a hole in the ground in a Manhattan park

  • @a.j.kimball1240
    @a.j.kimball12403 жыл бұрын

    You guys should make a part two! Im almost obsessed with city animals because I find it fascinating how they can adapt to a completely new biome and be so successful!

  • @jessefontainieohfwob
    @jessefontainieohfwob3 жыл бұрын

    Shoutout to the animator that made his own poop emoji

  • @samanthabailey02
    @samanthabailey023 жыл бұрын

    Thank for acknowledging that we are just one of the clever animals. I like that.

  • @rmdodsonbills
    @rmdodsonbills3 жыл бұрын

    The Mexican Free-tail bat does quite well in urban areas here in Texas. Austin, for example, is famous for the bats under the Congress Ave Bridge.

  • @hafezali860
    @hafezali8603 жыл бұрын

    Those animals are more well-adapted to city life than I am!

  • @infinitecanadian
    @infinitecanadian3 жыл бұрын

    Hearing Mr. Chin do a Brooklyn accent blew my mind.

  • @Areegatoe
    @Areegatoe3 жыл бұрын

    so i finally learnt what the dark dirigible titan is made of: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

  • @ourladypeace3

    @ourladypeace3

    3 жыл бұрын

    And if you pop it all your towers will get sick and die

  • @sophiejune4515
    @sophiejune45153 жыл бұрын

    I always tell people who complain about wild animals that just because you build a home in the wilderness doesn't mean it's not wilderness. Regardless of when the animals entered the cities this was all their home first we need to respect them.

  • @girlofanimation

    @girlofanimation

    3 жыл бұрын

    Plus, wild humans are more of a dangerous wild card than other wild animals

  • @XShrike0

    @XShrike0

    3 жыл бұрын

    Eh, territorial species do fight other species when found in their territory. They are trying to protect whatever they like about the area, food, water, mates, whatever.

  • @LimeyLassen

    @LimeyLassen

    3 жыл бұрын

    It amazes me when people buy a house way up in the foothills and then freak out when they see bears and cougars raiding their garbage. What are you gonna do, evict them for not paying rent?

  • @spindash64

    @spindash64

    3 жыл бұрын

    Limey Lassen Take it easy, Mr. Griz has been going thru some tough times lately “GRAWR, I miss my wife”

  • @jamesonmoore1837
    @jamesonmoore18373 жыл бұрын

    I need a nature doc about wild and feral animals in urban and suburban environments. Give it to me, Discovery Channel &/or BBC!!!

  • @glenngriffon8032

    @glenngriffon8032

    3 жыл бұрын

    look up australian bin chickens.

  • @astick5249

    @astick5249

    3 жыл бұрын

    i think bbc did do one of those

  • @jakobraahauge7299

    @jakobraahauge7299

    3 жыл бұрын

    DR (Danish national broadcasting service) just made a great series of the Danish wildlife - the last episode was about exactly that! 😃 www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/vilde-vidunderlige-danmark_-byen_182161 It is in Danish, though..

  • @hueyiroquois3839

    @hueyiroquois3839

    3 жыл бұрын

    Does Discovery have worthwhile programming now. They used to do mainly UFO and supernatural BS.

  • @CHNOb

    @CHNOb

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's an episode in BBC's Planet Earth that's all about that, though I think some of the examples covered in the documentary is also covered in this video

  • @benkeller6027
    @benkeller60273 жыл бұрын

    You forgot possums. Actually many marsupials have managed to adapt to human civilization.

  • @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also wild boars. They're highly intelligent and live in or close to cities, because they know that they're not hunted there. They also grow considerably larger, because they find more food in or around the cities.

  • @patrickmccurry1563

    @patrickmccurry1563

    3 жыл бұрын

    Other than opossums and possums, I can't think of any marsupials that hang around urban environments. Of course, I'm not Australian where nearly every terrestrial animal is marsupial.

  • @wey1381

    @wey1381

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@patrickmccurry1563 yea I'm Australian and you don't usually see many marsupials in cities. even possums are fairly rare where I live, but they definitely like to chill in rooves. the species that come to mind here would be fruit bats, crested pigeons, ibises, magpies and seemingly every other swooping bird species, and the many many kinds of parrot. I live in the south tho and US videos like this tend to either focus on the climate and ecology of the tropical north or the southeastern states where Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra are.

  • @benkeller6027

    @benkeller6027

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wey1381 have you been to the inner parks of Brisbane city, Australia, around QUT? At night the possums come out in many numbers. In fact any inner city suburb of Brisbane has them. Snakes have done well in rural and suburban areas. Bats and many birds plague many cities and suburbs of Australia, some native, some introduced. Rats and mice love human civilization, no matter where on earth they inhabit, rats will be there. Kangaroos and wallabies love open grass lands and plains. What do farmers and urban sprawl result in, open fields with lots of species of grasses and grain. There are Emus around the western suburbs of Sydney that have increased in numbers, Deer in the Southern parts of Sydney suburbs, Waterfall for example. Some species adapt to changes imposed upon them, some don't. Australia has many animals that have been helped by human civilization and I'm sure it's the same world wide.

  • @wey1381

    @wey1381

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@benkeller6027 again I live in the south, so our climate and ecology is different. We get some possums in our parks and snakes in yards near the coast and there's a uni campus famous for its koalas, but in general they're still fairly unusual (like excitedly take a picture and send it to your friends unusual). I have literally never seen a wallaby in the city here, but again that might be bc we're outside of the natural range of most wallabies, and kangaroos are rare in the city (like they're big news). Emus are even rarer. In general we have a lot of birds and Adelaide's inner city park isn't full of possums it's full of bats (seriously go to Botanic park at night), who you can argue aren't thriving bc when it's summer they die in huge numbers bc of that heat island effect. I wasn't looking to name every animal that lives with us, just those comparable to the US examples of raccoons and opossums, and I was focusing on natives bc they're going to be the most different to other countries (mice, rats, foxes, cats and to a lesser extent deer, thrive almost anywhere)

  • @GamerShoter707
    @GamerShoter7073 жыл бұрын

    2:52 love the photo shoot. Both are so cute 😌

  • @JasieK0
    @JasieK03 жыл бұрын

    In Krakow we have lots of small bats, mainly be the river where they feast on all the insects. It looks quite cool when they roam around old light posts munching on confused bugs.

  • @pierreabbat6157

    @pierreabbat6157

    3 жыл бұрын

    But do they eat confused flour beetles?

  • @Daekar3
    @Daekar33 жыл бұрын

    Love the flying foxes, had no idea that they were that huge. LOL at "safe, warm, and abundant."

  • @fatcraze216
    @fatcraze2163 жыл бұрын

    No mention of the rat got New Yorkers mad tight over this video, Two words "State Animal"!!!

  • @lonestarr1490

    @lonestarr1490

    3 жыл бұрын

    They skipped the obvious ones. That's why cockroaches and all the other insects got left out as well.

  • @bobjones5166
    @bobjones51663 жыл бұрын

    I've had 2 raccoons as pets. Before you all start bashing your keyboards, I was licensed and they were rescues. But you think child proofing a house is hard? Try raccoon proofing. Next to impossible. Had 1 completely flood the bottom floor of my house. lol Just my $0.02

  • @daynabailen4331

    @daynabailen4331

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn’t want them in my house but they do have cute little hands. 😂

  • @TheRibofJESUS

    @TheRibofJESUS

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hate raccoons. They're pests.

  • @Daekar3

    @Daekar3

    3 жыл бұрын

    Would love to just tame a wild one, or have the crazy laws changed so we could actually breed some domestic ones. They're so stinking adorable. 😊

  • @SupersuMC

    @SupersuMC

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look up _Bassariscus astutus_ and meet a cuter procyonid that people keep as a pet. ;-)

  • @lonestarr1490

    @lonestarr1490

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Daekar3 Ok. I hope the crazy laws stay intact. After all, I've no idea if maybe people of your kind live around here.

  • @Noukz37
    @Noukz373 жыл бұрын

    The Italian New Yorker accent was hilarious! XD

  • @SuperFoodss
    @SuperFoodss3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for another insightful and fantastic piece of content ✌🏼

  • @scienceandknowledgearchive8197
    @scienceandknowledgearchive81973 жыл бұрын

    Thats so great and informative. Love you SciShow

  • @Sylverlea1
    @Sylverlea13 жыл бұрын

    I love city animals, we have deer that live in the city and bears too, I believe there are some wolves and cougars too but you never really see them.

  • @Hinaguy749
    @Hinaguy7493 жыл бұрын

    Stefan, I'm gonna need you to do an entire episode yelling in a new york accent.

  • @rickbannan7110

    @rickbannan7110

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Ay, I'm presentin' 'ere!"

  • @virglibrsaglove
    @virglibrsaglove3 жыл бұрын

    Very fun episode. Thank you. 👍

  • @jakobraahauge7299
    @jakobraahauge72993 жыл бұрын

    This was an awesome video! Thank you! 💚💚💚💚💚

  • @mortified776
    @mortified7763 жыл бұрын

    06:23 Or pooing on people... as happened to a colleague of mine walking by the date palms outside our office. Very sticky and very unpleasant. The bat poo that is, not my colleague. Though I can now see how this would have been the epitome of poetic justice if he had been. 06:50 Alas seen more than a few zapped bats over the years. Poor buggers.

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed10233 жыл бұрын

    Synurbic. Who came up with _that_ Greco-Roman hybrid monstrosity ?

  • @kucanusa3750

    @kucanusa3750

    3 жыл бұрын

    Latin needs to be brought back into schools.

  • @cuttwice3905

    @cuttwice3905

    3 жыл бұрын

    Synopolic would be so much nicer.

  • @Aeturnalis

    @Aeturnalis

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are actually a lot of words with blended Greek and Latin origins, such as bioluminescence, polyamory, neonatal, asexual, genocide, geostationary, and neuroscience. Also, the prefix "syn-" and the adjective "urban" ultimately both come from Proto-Into-European roots... "sem-" meaning one, which became "with" (sun-) in Ancient Greek, and "werb" meaning enclose, which became "city" (urbs) in Latin.

  • @V1ctoria00

    @V1ctoria00

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Aeturnalis how long will we hang on to those silly beginnings before we decide to move the definition baseline forward in time. We have crossed every single language that hasn't fully died with every other language and most of the sounds we make have different meaning depending upon who hears them. Most words are found in every language with some other pronunciation and or definition because we can only make between 5,000 and 10,000 different actual sounds. One unified language is the only way to have one unified species without racism or religious hate. Once everyone sounds the same we will decide they are equal and we will all give up our nationality to be people of earth, and humans. With one language and one nationality. Earth

  • @Bacopa68

    @Bacopa68

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why is it that some people care so much about mixing Greek and Latin roots, but no one cares about blending Germanic and Latin roots? "Priceless " and "Sportsmanship" are Latin-Germanic hybrids and no one cares. Even Thomas Jefferson and all those guys didn't care. They used "unalienable" rather than the more correct Latin derived "inalienable". Does this make them barbarians? Mixing roots is how English works. I've recently come across the word "weebish", a Japanese-Germanic hybrid. I am sure that some reading this comment understand what it means. English mixes roots. Still, I gotta admit as a student of Greek long ago "synopolic" sounds pretty cool.

  • @tchy7246
    @tchy72463 жыл бұрын

    I was hoping Mumbai's leopards would make an appearance

  • @rikofebri627

    @rikofebri627

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mumbai what ?

  • @NZLKevin88

    @NZLKevin88

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the same. I have night vision video of them walk down the sideways with people not far away.

  • @arkadeepkundu4729

    @arkadeepkundu4729

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rikofebri627 Lol. Yes. You wouldn't expect leopards to live in one of the most densely populated cities on the planet. But they do. They're almost exclusively nocturnal & have even figured out how to use foot bridges to cross roads & train tracks. Also they're really elusive, they move to the outskirts of the city during daytime & come back in during the night to pick on dogs, goats & even cows if the leopard is big enough. Mumbai street dogs are scared shitless by the smell of leopard urine for a reason.

  • @angelindenile
    @angelindenile3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know I needed it, but new-york accent Sephan is amazing. I wonder how much he had to practice it.

  • @charlottewagner63
    @charlottewagner633 жыл бұрын

    The number of flying foxes in Australia is actually declining and not increasing. They are an endangered species. However, they are being killed a lot even though they are essential for the environment. It’s incredibly sad...

  • @weareorigin

    @weareorigin

    3 жыл бұрын

    I saw Australia is increasing its cattle farms. I mean a lot.

  • @assangewikileaks8546

    @assangewikileaks8546

    3 жыл бұрын

    foxes are not supposed to fly

  • @christelheadington1136

    @christelheadington1136

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@assangewikileaks8546 -Then why did God give them wings ?

  • @moondust2365

    @moondust2365

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@christelheadington1136 He didn't. Flying foxes are bats, we just call them foxes because they look like them.

  • @bjorn3438

    @bjorn3438

    3 жыл бұрын

    Plenty around here...

  • @emit3338
    @emit33383 жыл бұрын

    Damn i had a water snake named cloud he bit me once (has very small teeth so didnt hurt) but never excreted on me but it stunk when it used the restroom (digested fish)

  • @karenlee188
    @karenlee1883 жыл бұрын

    Love these videos

  • @lpm55
    @lpm553 жыл бұрын

    More episodes like this please

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican3 жыл бұрын

    Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, now that's a mouthful. I've seen those falcons in Central Park. And Gibraltar is well known for their macaques

  • @alexwansss
    @alexwansss3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder when/if we could classify synurbic peregrines as a different species, since the ecology of them are markedly different from the cliff-dwelling variety. They are so cute

  • @julianflandorfer8768
    @julianflandorfer8768 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention that NYC's falcons use the heat flows created by traffic and rising between the scyscrapers in order to save energy while flying (I have this from a BBC documentary on synurbic animals)

  • @precumming
    @precumming3 жыл бұрын

    Got a perigrine falcon who lives at the top of the church, can often see them diving down and grabbing a pigeon to an applause. Fastest bird wins over fastest bird in level flight most times.

  • @blondbraid7986
    @blondbraid79863 жыл бұрын

    In Stockholm we've had a lot of birds lately, even Great crested grebes!

  • @Rapid1453
    @Rapid14533 жыл бұрын

    you should have a look at "Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction" by biologist Chris Thomas

  • @TGears314
    @TGears3143 жыл бұрын

    3:03 that accent has me cracking up😂

  • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
    @marlonmoncrieffe07283 жыл бұрын

    Read 'Future Evolution' by Peter Ward sometime if you are intetested in what new species nature could create in the anthropocene.

  • @wrongyarightdwivedi1508
    @wrongyarightdwivedi15083 жыл бұрын

    Loved it

  • @Hyraethian
    @Hyraethian3 жыл бұрын

    We are as much nature as any other animal on this planet, I'm glad to see that our fellow creatures are making use of the cities.

  • @loishawkeyz1246
    @loishawkeyz12463 жыл бұрын

    Lol...your impression was lol...very cool episode

  • @foxythunder481
    @foxythunder4813 жыл бұрын

    I’m a bit disappointed you didn’t talk about the red foxes in London

  • @matthewcox7985

    @matthewcox7985

    3 жыл бұрын

    And quite a few other cities.

  • @fredi1908
    @fredi19083 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the good content :)

  • @alexwixom4599
    @alexwixom45993 жыл бұрын

    Yes! What secrets do the urban ecosystem hold?

  • @sohopedeco
    @sohopedeco3 жыл бұрын

    Talking about falcons reminded me of Stuart Little 2, where there was a falcon wanting to eat them in New York City.

  • @Nerfherder117
    @Nerfherder1172 жыл бұрын

    The idea of city monkeys makes me happy

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty3 жыл бұрын

    Humans: Spends millennia walling self off from nature Nature: i know i dont belong here but im just gunna move right in

  • @nikkigriffin6441
    @nikkigriffin64413 жыл бұрын

    Lol this is rather timely. We had a big old brown bear walking around the suburb, just chilling.

  • @jakobraahauge7299

    @jakobraahauge7299

    3 жыл бұрын

    how - 😳! Guess it's a good day to self isolate!

  • @animallifedaily7340
    @animallifedaily73403 жыл бұрын

    Nice Video

  • @copperczar9801
    @copperczar98013 жыл бұрын

    The guy presenting is very cute.

  • @christopherhiggins8238
    @christopherhiggins8238 Жыл бұрын

    For about a month now I have been putting out dry dog food for the local raccoons. I live in a average residential single home neighborhood. It has amazed me how many different animals come through during the night. One raccoon mother has 4 kits. 4 days ago I got a small kiddie pool with a package of floating bath toys. In the morning the toys are scattered all over the place. It is fun to watch... They heads are on a swivel too, listening and watching for trouble. Some of them do not play well with others... But I find it enjoyable...

  • @diditellyou
    @diditellyou3 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes I get nervous walking too close to tall trees at night because there are so many bats in the city I live in. I know they're harmless but still... ps: I live in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

  • @dianewallace6064
    @dianewallace60643 жыл бұрын

    That's great about Falcons. I remember DDT. It was a terrible problem.

  • @davetoms1
    @davetoms13 жыл бұрын

    You got a thumbs up just for that New Yorker accent 3:03

  • @midnightgrower4144
    @midnightgrower41443 жыл бұрын

    That was a great "jersey guy" accent.

  • @beastmaster0934
    @beastmaster09343 жыл бұрын

    To humans, a huge flock of pigeons is a nuisance. To falcons, it’s an all you can eat buffet.

  • @Thinkingface
    @Thinkingface3 жыл бұрын

    The Raccoon path has me cracking up 😂😂

  • @MazeMaker4Life
    @MazeMaker4Life3 жыл бұрын

    This video killed me 😂

  • @marinis717
    @marinis7173 жыл бұрын

    I loved the New Yorker impersonation lol

  • @sohopedeco
    @sohopedeco3 жыл бұрын

    4:24 Isn't that the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo?

  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access3 жыл бұрын

    Hmm interesting, I wonder if I should move out of my forest and into a city one day

  • @jarretdietzler7750

    @jarretdietzler7750

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are you everywhere?!

  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access

    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jarretdietzler7750 I'm just subbed to a ton of channels

  • @Thessalin
    @Thessalin3 жыл бұрын

    3:03 And the Oscar for best New York accent in a KZread video about trash pandas goes to...

  • @Thessalin

    @Thessalin

    3 жыл бұрын

    Okay: I want to change my comment now: Mugger Crocodiles. A la Epic NPC Man: Crocodile: What arrrr we? Other Crocodile: We ah muggahs! Crocodile: Den what ah we do? Other Crocodile: We mug em! Both Crocodiles: Den les go MUG EM!!! Both get run over by toxic waste dump truck to respawn at the graveyard.

  • @urmorph
    @urmorph3 жыл бұрын

    At 8:54, is that coy creature Macaque Magazine's Miss Modern Macaque for May? Or is he a him?

  • @yeuxdal
    @yeuxdal2 жыл бұрын

    Coyotes! I have a recent pic of one crossing with the “walk” signal at a Boston intersection. 😆

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter88073 жыл бұрын

    I'm in San Jose California and we've got peregrines.

  • @WILDWILLXD
    @WILDWILLXD3 жыл бұрын

    “Trash panda” is the mean name! Please use treasure cat!

  • @MephLeo

    @MephLeo

    3 жыл бұрын

    The technical name is "residue nommers"

  • @matthewcox7985

    @matthewcox7985

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's one letter away from being an awesome punk band name... Thrash Panda.

  • @bjorn3438

    @bjorn3438

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like our Bin Chickens (Ibis)!

  • @TheRibofJESUS

    @TheRibofJESUS

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Trash panda" is perfect for stupid raccoons.

  • @firewalk27
    @firewalk273 жыл бұрын

    I live in rural MN and lemme tell you, black bears love hanging out in neighborhoods, it's pretty regular for us to see black bears and their cubs this time of year just wandering around in yards monching on bird seed. The other day a few blocks from me a man was apparently eating a sandwich in his backyard and the momma bear waltzed right up to him, thankfully he just tossed her his sandwich and went inside and everything was fine!

  • @sheldwardo342
    @sheldwardo342 Жыл бұрын

    Grey herons have adapted well to urban parks/areas in the UK too it seems