Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Casual Geographic" channel.

  1. Cowardice is bred into most predators, because even a minor injury can mean death. Honey badgers and wolverines are exceedingly hard to kill, let alone seriously injure. They also have the wickedest bite in the animal kingdom. That little stoat kills the hare with a bite through the skull or spine. Unadulterated aggression has kept the species around for a million years.
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  2. That kind of stupid is only found in higher animals, including humans.
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  3. The backwards mask worked for a short time in Sri Lanka (if I recall correctly). But the tigers figured it out, and now tigers will attack people from behind OR in front. They used to only attack from behind. Mountain lions only attack from behind, though. If you face it down, chances are pretty good it'll back down. The only time I ever saw a mountain lion "live" was on an access road in National Forest up in the Northeast corner of Oregon. Its nose was in the brush on the far side of the road almost before the tip of its tail was out of the brush on the side it came from. I didn't think they were supposed to get that big. That's why I never camp without a gun.
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  4. I don't know if they were mutants or crossed with wolves, but I knew a guy (who died in hang-glider accident) who had some GIANT german shepherds. They were good with the family, but they could smell the fear on me or something. Terrifying to visit that house. Maybe that was the point.
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  5. Reports of the demise of the ice caps are greatly exaggerated.
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  6. A zookeeper lady was feeding a chimp in a cage and the chimp had a big enough crack at the bottom of the cage to get a hole on her zookeeper white jacket. He ate half of her hand before she got loose. If that orang had wanted to, he could have easily dragged the man to him, gotten hold of an arm, and probably tear it clean out of its socket. Far worse and far more likely to be attacked by a chimp than by any other ape. A gorilla might rough you up if you provoke it, but it won't think of you as food.
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  7. I went to the Kansas City Zoo, and one of the clearest memories is the stench, especially from the giraffe exhibit.
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  8. Moose kill more humans than wolves, polar bears or grizzly bears. You're OK if you can put a tree between it and you, but if you're caught out in the open, you're dead, assuming they come after you, which they often do. If a grizzly can get close enough, it can bring down a moose. Wolves can harry one to death, by not allowing it to rest. In the bear's case, the opportunities are relatively few. In the wolves' case, there's usually something that's not as big a risk for them.
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  9. I'm tired of this channel. Too slow-paced.
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  10. Gotta wonder about the low-status hyena they put that collar on. Just having a collar on makes a difference in a fight... Cats free up all 4 paws and their jaws for dealing damage when they're on their backs. I don't consider it a sign of trust, until the cat actually lets you rub its belly without latching on with all 4 paws and biting you. But back to the hyena. They're scavengers because scavenging is easier than hunting. But they're also very efficient killers. The "mirror test" is hilarious. They'll put a mark or something the critter can't feel, but that doesn't belong there. They "pass" the test if they use the mirror to find the spot you marked.
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  11.  @cgecko3  Tarzan also traveled the jungle up in the canopy. He didn't swing from vines so much as just run along the "upper terrace." Yeah. Burroughs and after him, Howard, made much of some sort of missing-link/anthropoid ape that wasn't quite gorilla but wasn't human, either. If you google it, they say that a chimp's a lot stronger, pound-for-pound, but that a big man is probably stronger than a big chimp, which weighs about 135 pounds.
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  12. Biggest wolves are the northern/arctic gray wolves, not timber wolves. Timber wolves were the biggest in the lower 48, but since repopulation efforts in recent years, the biggest wolves in the lower 48 are gray wolves from the far North, gray wolves are now the biggest wolves in the lower 48, as well.
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  13. Alpha chimps - apes in general - usually work harder looking out for others and spend the most time grooming others. To stay on top, they made themselves the most likable. As for the elephants, I never understood mistreating people or animals. Elephant attacks are always horrifying, but I never heard of a story of one where there wasn't some form of abuse involved, even though I know the bulls can go crazy when they're in must.
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  14. Octopus seems like such a cruel design.
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