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Hyena gained a level! Hyena learned Trolling
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Talk about getting dealt a shitty hand. Also another excellent illustration of why most African wildlife is morbidly fearful of the water.
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More like fear of crocodiles - and for that matter, water - is pretty much genetic in most African land animals. The scaly river monsters are that dangerous to life and limb.
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@andidinu1456 Yeah let's see you scream with a leopard's jaws clamped around your windpipe. They do that quite specifically to minimise the noise that might attract competition ya know.
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Animals tend the have a pretty decent grasp of their capabilities relative to enemies and competitors. Natural selection is harsh there.
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Group tactics probably aren't exactly their forte, these guys are normally fairly solitary after all. (I'm guessing this is a mother and her two sub-adult offspring?) They tend to rely more on deterrence for their defense anyway and are probably seriously confused when these toothy little things actually decided to start coming on for reals. Also kind of clumsy and half blind which can't be helping one bit.
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The carcass doesn't run with you, after all. So your choices are to stand and fight over it (not a good idea here) or give way and write it off as a loss. It's kind of comparable how once humans started putting down roots as settled agriculturalists they also needed to start devising ways to fight would-be takers off it. There's a reason leopards bring their meals up to trees when one is available.
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Crocs can and will try to dispute kills with entire lion prides when the mood strikes them.
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CA Catr "In the beginning" Man hunted mammoths by tricking them into tar pits and driving them off cliffs, so I have no idea what you're on about. Plus the only animals that actually trust people are the domesticated ones, and even those vary. Also, can the teenage emo bullshit. Our species wouldn't be around if we didn't treat our relevant social reference groups halfway decently - doubly so given how utterly helpless and in need of care human infants are. As for those outside said group, well - pretty sure elephant goodwill runs out very abruptly outside their own herds too...
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This is no anteater.
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Aardvark. Anteaters are very different critters.
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THAT'S PRETTY BRUTAL
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Bullshit. Eyes can't pick up thermal ("long") infrared wavelengths in the first place; you need specialised derivations of the skin's temperature sense for that, and only a very few animals have evolved those. The literal shortlist is pit vipers (which get their name from the "thermal pits" between the eyes and nostrils), boas and vampire bats (which have the pickup in their nose leaf and apparently use it to locate large blood vessels in their prey). If that "sandbathing" behaviour is related to fighting the snake it's more likely aimed at obfuscating the squirrel's scent - most snakes have kinda lousy eyesight and rely heavily on their sense of smell. It's why they have forked tongues - they use those to quite literally taste the air and the split tip helps them work out source directions.
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@thejesterjester The cat just about jumped out of its skin on realising a potentially very dangerous rival was calmly observing it mere meters away. It's damn near panicking and in full threat-display mode against the apparent menace. While the hyena is basically going "whoa, peace man, was jus' watchin' is all, no need to get cranky."
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...I'm pretty sure they never did, you know.
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Birds that move in flocks are by necessity rather good at not getting in each others' way. The humble starlings are proverbial for it.
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More like the big hefalump really didn't give a shit one way or the other. The bulls are loners and have basically nothing at all to do with the kids.
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@cecarblanco9933 There's a reason the 'pards like to haul their kills up into trees whenever possible. Lots of things around that can and will relieve them of the fruits of their labours if they happen by. Solitary carnivore life be like. 'Course, they have it good compared to their cousins the cheetahs who can't climb worth jack and are usually too dead tired after a chase to do much about kleptoparasitism, not that their light sprinter build was much good for standing up to serious rivals anyway. Hyperspecialisation do be like that.
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TBF male lions are really shitty endurance runners, what with that hot an heavy mane on top of everything else, while cheetahs have a slightly dumb amount of cardiovascular optimization going merely so they can maintain their famously blistering peak speeds for any real length of time. And this was barely light jog for the smaller cat so... yeah.
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jose diaz Lions themselves can get a lot of grief from, say, warthogs a fraction of their size so that's not saying much. And the lion teeth and claws found in croc bellies speak volumes.
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Vark seems kinda sus
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Lasts right until there's actual food at stake. (Plus hippos are fucking scary so they aren't going to start fighting when one of those water monsters is within lunging distance.) They go right back to the classic food fight once there's impala to be eaten... lmao @ that one doggo casually starting to play with a random branch at 1:32 tho
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@dwreck157 Pit vipers and boas, actually. Pythons ain't got jack there. Also vampire bats (their receptor is in the nose leaf) but theirs is for finding large blood vessels in the large animals they prey on. My layman's guess is the sandbathing is in order to obfuscate the squirrel's scent. Most snakes have poor eyesight (the major exception is some tree-dwellers that catch birds on the wing) and rely heavily on their olfactory sense for locating stuff.
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I mean they evolved to be very good runners for a reason...
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It's no more "doomed to extinction" than any highly specialised species. But heightened vulnerability to extinction in case of environmental disruptions is an universal tax those have to pay for lack of competition within their narrow niche (compare eg. the giant panda).
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The food doesn't run with them. That's the cost of highly specialising in a niche whose requirements leave you ill equipped to fight off rivals. And, yes, such niches are rather extinction-prone in the face of environmental disruptions that the versatile generalists can weather without too much trouble. (Worth remembering that crocodile ancestors were among the very few large animals of the time that made it through the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.)
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@johnnysar8615 It's a nyala. Which is literally a species of antelope. Closely related to the lesser kudu as a trivia detail.
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@dannyvalentino328 And the whole reason they bring it up to trees in the first place is so it doesn't get grabbed by something else on the ground, way to miss the point entirely. Even brown hyenas can reliably solo them off kills. Them's the breaks for solitary hunters for which any serious injury equals starvation.
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+Roger "Rocket Lord" Smith Take your chances with the cranky hippos (and the ever present crocodile risk) or certainly get run down and eaten alive by the dogs on dry land. Your move, tough guy.
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"Self defense" after literally chasing them down, right.
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@annahusnain6209 Do you even know what "source citations" are. Also Hell of a more reliable reference than some garbled recounting of some unspecified TV show of entirely unknown quality and accuracy so whatever really, or not even looking things up to THAT minimal degree before babbling shit as tends to be the norm on the Intertubes these days. And how many Internet vandals would spend their time committing plausible-looking sabotage on rather obscure scientific articles in the first place anyway? (Also I was clear of high school before the current Internet, nevermind now Wikipedia, even existed so yeah.) More to the point, the thermoreceptor organs are distinctly clearly visible on the faces of all the snake species that possess them; as already mentioned pit vipers got their entire English name from those...
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Hey, it's a far more formidable critter than the small cats and often needs to try fend off would-be killstealers. Still treads very carefully around rivals because as a solitary animal it can't afford to suffer serious injuries - with no family group to fall back on it'll starve to death if it gets too mauled to hunt for itself during the recovery period.
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@crimsonchin9632 And hyenas do it when mobbed by Cape dogs (or rival hyenas for that matter). It's Fighting Tactics 101 for the whole bunch - the groin is a soft target with lots of major nerves and blood vessels, and injuries there can quickly disable the hind legs with obviously fatal results. Also difficult to defend given the eyes and fangs are at the other end. It's also Hunting Tactics 101 to attack that part for exactly those reasons, which is why you see all of them doing it all the time to buffalos and antelopes and what have you.
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@IamWhoIam2023 Here's your homework for today, son: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_sensing_in_snakes Hint: cobras aren't on the list. And here's the homework for tomorrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake#Perception Most snakes have kinda shitty eyesight and rely VERY heavily on their sense of smell, but they can detect and track moving things just fine. Resolving finer detail (like what part exactly of the squirrel is waving in front of its nose) can be a different story story entirely...
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Moreover even if cobras did have thermoreceptors the OP's claim would still be plain wrong. A thin layer of dry dust simply doesn't do squat to mask body heat, the squirrel's own damn fur probably already does more in that respect - IR penetrates many obstacles pretty well. Case in point, astronomers routinely rely on those wavelengths to observe stars occluded by interstellar dust clouds and similar obstacles in other spectrums and IIRC military thermograph is pretty good at finding people amongst vegetation. (At the far end of the range IR actually transitions into the radio part of the EM spectrum, remember; those intermediate wavelengths are showing great promise as high-resolution penetrating sensors.) If the squirrel was daubing itself in mud it'd be a different story as the comparatively large amounts of cool water indeed would absorb and disperse potentially meaningful amounts of heat, at least for a while.
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Someone didn't read the description. "“I started filming just after one of the Hyenas ripped of the Rhinos tail and then they started biting it non-stop. --"
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@crimsonchin9632 Wallowing in ignorance, naturally.
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'S a pack-hunter thing. Gotta grab your share ASAP before your mates eat it all. Solitary ones just can't count on their pals subduing the lunch.
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Piotr Hobbysta Croc length correlates fairly directly with mass ergo both muscle mass and scute thickness. And the Indian mugger croc is at best middling size for the genus. Pretty sure tigers aren't going to go anywhere near full-grown saltwaters for ex.
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@Crocutaalpha "The [striped hyena] frequently scavenges from the kills of felids such as tigers, leopards, cheetahs and caracals. A caracal can drive a subadult hyena from a carcass. The hyena usually wins in one-to-one disputes over carcasses with leopards, cheetahs and tiger cubs, but is dominated by adult tigers.[11][29]" - Wikipedia
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thehawkus RULES_OF_NATURE.mp3 Cruelty requires at bare minimum the capability for moral choice, which animals have never even heard of. They just do their thing and give no fucks.
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@pikapi7429 Hyenas you can see before it's too late. Between them the crocs and hippos make African inland waters a deathtrap the majority of other animals avoid in all but extreme circumstances. To put it in perspective AFAIK gorillas raised in captivity who have never seen a live crocodile still react with instinctive alarm to small toy ones.
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Ya, they definitely aren't picky eaters. It's theorised that ability and willingness to scavenge carrion was one factor that tided their ancestors over the massive but transient ecological disruptions of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, and it certainly isn't a quality that hurts one's survival prospects in general.
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Rodents and mustelids don't have retractables either but both groups are loaded with excellent climbers. It's all about claw and paw shape; spotted hyenas being essentially wolf analogs in lifestyle (ie. cursorial ground hunters) theirs have similarly evolved into "running cleats" not climbing aids.
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@JoyChariton They simply don't have any reason to care about him one way or another. And if he went drinking and a hungry croc caught him off guard he'd be lunch as readily as anything else.
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@aricanovic Everything gets into trouble with crocodiles. Even damn elephants and hippos, though that usually ends poorly for the croc. Usually. (Large bull crocs have been known to gang up on and take down bull hippos that've been injured in territory fights with their peers.) Spotted hyenas do so if anything rather less than most, as they're astute enough to figure out if some toothy river monsters are actually around. Which is why they don't share the congenital reflexive fear most African land animals have of the water in the first place.
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Hyenas are very bright. They're also very, very brazen - kind of comes with the territory when you routinely contest kills with lions - and may casually saunter into the middle of a dog pack alone to try and steal a kill. If anything it's indicative of how willing they are to suffer some bites in the attempt and how comparatively little serious threat to their life and limb the smallish canines ultimately represent. (Spotted hyenas are on the average about twice the weight of the wild dogs.)
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+temoc76 Yes. Rather potently so, in fact, unlike most colubrids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomslang
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john smith There's a reason lions aren't keen on going into the water you know. See above for stuff found in croc bellies.
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Nothing amazing about it. Hyenas plain avoid the males even in large groups; a solitary one is going to bolt the second it sees the big bruiser, nevermind now one blatantly preparing to pounce only meters away. They're also much better long-distance runners so the big cat needs to initiate pursuit ASAP. Presumably he was waiting for a suitable moment to spring his ambush but getting spotted meant a change of plans.
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