Such a good host. I really appreciate a nature documentary that isn't just over-dramatic narration and music. Ray Mears just goes around admiring things and it's so enjoyable to watch.
I've lived here 50 years and haven't yet seen the tree kangaroo in the wild. I really hope I do before I die, I've only seen two cassowaries in the wild, an astonishing animal.
Have you ever been to Etty Bay caravan park? It's council run, big trees on the beach, only the caravan site there. They give you covers for your mirrors as the Cassowaries peck at them. I had one lean over my shoulder as I was cooking, there are quite a few there, more than the Daintree.
Congratulations to photographer Martin on the tree kangaroo video capture! It starts @15:56, but continues after that with spectacular video of this seldom photographed tree-dwelling kangaroo. What an awesome little creature! Well done, Sir!! @21:04 that little zebra-striped cassowary chick was so cute. When he holds still, he's very well camouflaged in that dappled light. I really love your documentaries. Thank you for these informative and enjoyable productions. You're one of my top 5 favorite channels. :^) I subscribe to many hundreds, perhaps even a couple thousand RUclips channels. Your content is AWESOME, and I always learn something new from each one I watch. I'm really into ones like this that are about nature/animals/places.
The fan (or fern, as I can’t quite understand your accent hehe) palm..🥰 the 90degrees and the centuries it’s been growing and as you said has the tenacity to keep going and reaching up towards the light, this really encouraged me. Going through some trying things, so grateful to my beautiful plant friends and to you for sharing their encouragement and love and strength with me🥰🥰
Absolutely incredible and thank you for sharing this amazing video presentation with us. SIDE NOTE: I hope this slice of paradise is protected by Australian government 🇦🇺
@@jamessparkman6604 Great question. Seems like every day another animal gets spotted using tools or another species of ape is described as entering their Stone Age. Evolution might just occasionally take great leaps when we aren't looking making us believe we know all about it when we see it ticking along slowly like a pendulum grandfather clock. Changes in the environment almost too subtle for us to notice may exert disproportionate pressure on an organisms genome to cause adaptation of diet, range, or, indeed, size, etc.
@@josephwinder6878 We went North as far as Noosa Heads and caught it epic by chance (before surf forecasts). But it would have been a nice side trip to see your lovely place up there!
21:14 "It [cassowary] has a reputation for being aggressive - but like most animals, if you don't corner it, it will be fine". This is dangerously inadequate advice. Male cassowaries are _very_ territorial and potentially aggressive to humans during breeding season (usually June to October). If you happen to visit Queensland's wet tropics region as a tourist, keep a very respectful distance from cassowaries at all times. You can look, but _do not_ attempt to interact with them in any way. If you do attract their attention and they start walking your way, get behind a tree and out of the cassowary's sight. Cassowaries are naturally solitary animals (except for breeding season, they don't even associate with other cassowaries). So an approach by a cassowary is never a friendly gesture, it's their way of letting you know you need to get out of their territory.
I was camped near Malanda at the start of the western trail to climb Mount Bartle Frere and a male cassowary and his 4 chicks approached my car very slowly. Got to within a few meters then continued into the forest searching for food
Hello Mate! I came across this episode a little late. But so glad I did. Compliments on your appreciation and wonder for the living Earth. I envy your work. (Ready for a career change) 😅 Keep ‘em’ coming sir!
That is OnE of the most AmazinG tree's I've ever seen And I've Seen allot of real cool tree's,,,, But the routes on that tree was impressive! tO say the very least. THANK YOU,, for this AmazinG Tour. I feel like I was right there with yoU.💞✌🏼😍
If you had asked a local they would have told you to go to Mission Beach or Etty Bay - both areas have cassowary’s and at Etty Bay you will see them everyday. Oh and even if you don’t disturb them they WILL attack you if they think you have food or are near their chicks. They have a very long nasty middle toe which will disembowel you. I get your doing a bit on rainforests but the rainforest meets the sea at Etty Bay.
I'm pretty sure the temperate rainforest of South western Tasmania are older, they date back to Gondwana land and have the oldest tree's on the planet.
nope. The region referred to as the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ covers an area of approximately 1200 square kilometres and extends from the Daintree River, north of Cooktown and west to the Great Divide. It is the oldest intact lowland tropical rainforest in the world, thought to be around 180 million years old.
@@EIBozo I’ve heard it repeated a lot but I don’t think the evidence is there to back it up. When Tasmania’s wet temperate forest forest formed, zero to very little of Australia was tropical. If anywhere was, it wasn’t on the east (at the time south east) coast. Australia was fairly uniformly wet and temperate to subarctic, including the area the Daintree now occupies. The Daintree has laurel-adjacent tree species, some of the most ancient flowering plant species. But the podocarp and athrotaxis families in Tasmania are about 150 million years older than that. Another comparison is alpine PNG has a mix of the families found in both Tasmania and the Daintree. The Antarctic flora came with it, but the tropical Gondwanan flora adapted in situ.
It seems to me, that Ray is one of the Prima-Donna's who wants to have his face to be seen as often as possible. It spoils the otherwise fine photography.
I believe the growth rate of that species of fan palm was overstated by a bit. Absolutely slow growing at 1inch or 2-3centimeters of trunk height per year. Licuala ramsayi
Wollemi pines were found further south but were more wide spread in the past. They have been propagated and can even be purchased Australian plant nurseries now. As for other hidden gems or creatures who knows. There still a lot or remote wilderness here. There have some claims of possible Thylacine and Thylacoleo sightings. I for one hope they may be true.
"Cassowaries are notoriously difficult to find." You could have fooled me. We ran into one at a Children's petting zoo. It was well sequestered away from the bunnies and lambs but it was still surprising to walk past the pen and realize what kind of a monster they had lurking there between the baby goats and the snack bar. Children, behave!
Wow, I just stumbled on this channel, and I will continue to keep an eye out for other video's. One of my biggest concerns is the fundraiser on the right. I don't know how anyone could support such things unless prof is given about how much really goes to the children you are scalping money for... Remember the "Own a piece of Scotland be a Lord", even if your last name is Wang, Fuch Do, or Vlad the Impaler...
Appreciate the work done by people on the ground, but I do wish the producers had used birdsong from the birds that live in the forest shown instead of birds that live in eastern North America. The songs in this video may sound exotic to Australian viewers, but they are VERY familiar to North American viewers. It's a missed opportunity. I would so love to have heard a soundtrack that included your birds' voices, especially birds from this special, particular place.
If you're wondering why this forest is so small, it's because the local pyromaniacs lit fires for the past 100000 years. Then the last bit was ruined by white settlers with their hooved animals destroying the creek beds and washing the last of the topsoil out to sea. It was mostly the locals though. .006 is all that remains due to luck and the shape of the land. Caring for country is the biggest disrespect comment you could say in this continent. It never existed. More like 'self preservation above all else'.
Caring for country is NOT the biggest disrespect comment you could say here. I think you covered that area well with your dubious directed commentary. And your lack of knowledge about burning, where it was done, and why, is evident in a comment about us destroying rainforest. Your comment here has an agenda that reminds me of the same fear and hate lies that were orchestrated when "the Voice" was crushed till its beauty was made to look like a threat.
The region referred to as the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ covers an area of approximately 1200 square kilometres and extends from the Daintree River, north of Cooktown and west to the Great Divide. It is the oldest intact lowland tropical rainforest in the world, thought to be around 180 million years old. Borneos rainforest are younger
It’s a shame these documentaries rarely include indigenous people and their 50,000+ years of knowledge. Descriptions of this place as wild or exotic, and a clear focus on colonial narratives really reduce the scope of knowledge available on these lands and animals.
I have to admit that Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺 is one of the most fascinating ajd best countries to both visit and live in somehow except that the nation were host to many fatal animals. 😊❤
great video, thank you for sharing 🙂 kudos!
Thanks for watching! 🥳
Such a good host. I really appreciate a nature documentary that isn't just over-dramatic narration and music. Ray Mears just goes around admiring things and it's so enjoyable to watch.
As a 1990s uk scout we deemed u as a legend! So happy to see u still truckin!
I've lived here 50 years and haven't yet seen the tree kangaroo in the wild. I really hope I do before I die, I've only seen two cassowaries in the wild, an astonishing animal.
Have you ever been to Etty Bay caravan park? It's council run, big trees on the beach, only the caravan site there. They give you covers for your mirrors as the Cassowaries peck at them. I had one lean over my shoulder as I was cooking, there are quite a few there, more than the Daintree.
i live in the rainforest and have had the good fortune of a cassowary with his chicks in our loungeroom.
Thanks for sharing this great video and and with excellent host Ray Mears. I love to see more new video with Ray Mears as the host.
Congratulations to photographer Martin on the tree kangaroo video capture! It starts @15:56, but continues after that with spectacular video of this seldom photographed tree-dwelling kangaroo. What an awesome little creature! Well done, Sir!!
@21:04 that little zebra-striped cassowary chick was so cute. When he holds still, he's very well camouflaged in that dappled light.
I really love your documentaries. Thank you for these informative and enjoyable productions. You're one of my top 5 favorite channels. :^) I subscribe to many hundreds, perhaps even a couple thousand RUclips channels. Your content is AWESOME, and I always learn something new from each one I watch. I'm really into ones like this that are about nature/animals/places.
You captured the beauty of this stretch of country very well ❤ an extremely special place
So fascinating that this animals are so friendly with human. Love this documentary.
I was totally fascinated by this documentary... Wonderfully done!
The fan (or fern, as I can’t quite understand your accent hehe) palm..🥰 the 90degrees and the centuries it’s been growing and as you said has the tenacity to keep going and reaching up towards the light, this really encouraged me. Going through some trying things, so grateful to my beautiful plant friends and to you for sharing their encouragement and love and strength with me🥰🥰
It is a palm tree of the species Licuala, one of natures great ancient survivors, and a inspiration to all of us indeed my friend.
What an absolutely amazing video!! Thank you!!!❤
Thank you so much for watching!! ✨
Absolutely incredible and thank you for sharing this amazing video presentation with us. SIDE NOTE: I hope this slice of paradise is protected by Australian government 🇦🇺
Much of the area is protected as either a National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, or is privately owned and protected 😊
@@TRACKSTravelDocs
Awesome news and always nice to know. 🇨🇦
@@ivannovotny4552 do you think of a Komodo dragon could evolve into megalania a second time because maybe that’s what people are seeing out there
@@jamessparkman6604 Great question. Seems like every day another animal gets spotted using tools or another species of ape is described as entering their Stone Age. Evolution might just occasionally take great leaps when we aren't looking making us believe we know all about it when we see it ticking along slowly like a pendulum grandfather clock. Changes in the environment almost too subtle for us to notice may exert disproportionate pressure on an organisms genome to cause adaptation of diet, range, or, indeed, size, etc.
no billiy can till the white man, Daintree is an amazing place
Beautiful video, great sound quality. I love to be in the rainforest canopy, especially at night when many nocturnal animals come out to forage.
To think I visited Queensland for months surfing back in the 80's and never knew about this. Fascinating!
Not much surf up here sorry to say
@@josephwinder6878 We went North as far as Noosa Heads and caught it epic by chance (before surf forecasts). But it would have been a nice side trip to see your lovely place up there!
@@scottc3165 You were so so close, only a a quick little jaunt about a 20hrs drive to the nth.
@@phuckpootube6231 Wow. 20 hours. Oz is a big place. Way more diverse than outsiders give it credit for.
Love this!!! Such a wonderful place. Lots of cool indigenous species to study. Thx a lot. ❤
Wonderful! As an English teacher, I love using such videos for vocabulary building and listening-understanding skills enhancement.
Great documentary, in 4k it would be even more impressive on the tele.
to be honest, due to it's small size, I never thought that Australia has the oldest rainforest.
You gotta see it to believe it 👍 stunning country we live in. ✌️
It's not that's a lie
21:14 "It [cassowary] has a reputation for being aggressive - but like most animals, if you don't corner it, it will be fine". This is dangerously inadequate advice. Male cassowaries are _very_ territorial and potentially aggressive to humans during breeding season (usually June to October). If you happen to visit Queensland's wet tropics region as a tourist, keep a very respectful distance from cassowaries at all times. You can look, but _do not_ attempt to interact with them in any way. If you do attract their attention and they start walking your way, get behind a tree and out of the cassowary's sight. Cassowaries are naturally solitary animals (except for breeding season, they don't even associate with other cassowaries). So an approach by a cassowary is never a friendly gesture, it's their way of letting you know you need to get out of their territory.
They're just cassowary of humans, don't cassoworry about it.
Yes there's an old headstone in Port Douglas cemetery stating the boy had been kicked to death by a cassowary.
This is great! I am planning a trip there in November of 2023. I would like to hear from you with any tips on getting around, etc.
Australia, my dream country 😢
Such an incredible land.
Super awesome video! Thanks!
😇💜 Thank YOU for sharing this adventure with us.🦎🌴🐍🤗
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fabulous video!
Wonderfull docu👏👏👏💚Greetings from Costa Rica from one of the countries with the "newest rainforest"💚
So beautiful i love jungle 👍🏻💚🌱🌴🌿🦋🌺
Your intro made me proud to be born here 💕☺️
Amazing Australia 🇦🇺
i love ray mears
I was camped near Malanda at the start of the western trail to climb Mount Bartle Frere and a male cassowary and his 4 chicks approached my car very slowly. Got to within a few meters then continued into the forest searching for food
Hes really whispering in front of the Cassowary after just arriving on a quad bike
Great to see the tree kangaroo
Such a great adventure
Hello Mate!
I came across this episode a little late. But so glad I did. Compliments on your appreciation and wonder for the living Earth. I envy your work. (Ready for a career change) 😅
Keep ‘em’ coming sir!
That is OnE of the most AmazinG tree's I've ever seen And I've Seen allot of real cool tree's,,,, But the routes on that tree was
impressive! tO say the very least.
THANK YOU,, for this AmazinG
Tour.
I feel like I was right there with
yoU.💞✌🏼😍
SNAKES LOVE INSIDE OF TREES
I like tree buttresses and i cannot lie, no other brother can deny. Ray Mears walks in with an itty bity grin and a buttress in my face.
God created such amazing animals and trees in this rainforest! Incredible.
If you had asked a local they would have told you to go to Mission Beach or Etty Bay - both areas have cassowary’s and at Etty Bay you will see them everyday. Oh and even if you don’t disturb them they WILL attack you if they think you have food or are near their chicks. They have a very long nasty middle toe which will disembowel you. I get your doing a bit on rainforests but the rainforest meets the sea at Etty Bay.
Yeah that's the same as Cape tribulation. Where the rainforest meets the reef.
I'm pretty sure the temperate rainforest of South western Tasmania are older, they date back to Gondwana land and have the oldest tree's on the planet.
nope. The region referred to as the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ covers an area of approximately 1200 square kilometres and extends from the Daintree River, north of Cooktown and west to the Great Divide. It is the oldest intact lowland tropical rainforest in the world, thought to be around 180 million years old.
@@EIBozo the Daintree is a Tropical rainforest not a cold temperate rainforest like the west coast of Tasmania, totally different
@@EIBozo Lomatia tasmanica or the King's Holy is the oldest living plant in the world and is believed to be between 43,000 and 135,000 years old 🤷
@@EIBozo I’ve heard it repeated a lot but I don’t think the evidence is there to back it up. When Tasmania’s wet temperate forest forest formed, zero to very little of Australia was tropical. If anywhere was, it wasn’t on the east (at the time south east) coast. Australia was fairly uniformly wet and temperate to subarctic, including the area the Daintree now occupies. The Daintree has laurel-adjacent tree species, some of the most ancient flowering plant species. But the podocarp and athrotaxis families in Tasmania are about 150 million years older than that. Another comparison is alpine PNG has a mix of the families found in both Tasmania and the Daintree. The Antarctic flora came with it, but the tropical Gondwanan flora adapted in situ.
Wooow😊❤ i love rainfarests . 🎉
.. seen a green ant for the first time 😊
I go picking native flowers for my bird and often get bitten by them, bit annoying but not lethal, You can eat them too.
I want to climb all the trees
Excellent!
Amazing!!
Embarrassed to say I've never even heard about this tree kangaroo 🦘 it's is amazing
amazing
The best island in the world, with the best people 👍🏽🇦🇺💚
It seems to me, that Ray is one of the Prima-Donna's who wants to have his face to be seen as often as possible. It spoils the otherwise fine photography.
I believe the growth rate of that species of fan palm was overstated by a bit. Absolutely slow growing at 1inch or 2-3centimeters of trunk height per year. Licuala ramsayi
I would have like to see some Wollemi pines. Perhaps there exist in a hidden corner of Northern Australia, a carnivorous kangaroo.
Wollemi pines were found further south but were more wide spread in the past. They have been propagated and can even be purchased Australian plant nurseries now. As for other hidden gems or creatures who knows. There still a lot or remote wilderness here. There have some claims of possible Thylacine and Thylacoleo sightings. I for one hope they may be true.
Wollemi Pines are found in New South Wales, in a small restricted area.
what is that plant in the thumbnail called, I NEED TO KNOW
It's called crows ash
It is a Buttress Root or a plank root, they are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree!
@@TRACKSTravelDocs that's the name of the tree?
The buttress root is a feature of the tree not the name of the tree @@TRACKSTravelDocs the butre
"Cassowaries are notoriously difficult to find." You could have fooled me. We ran into one at a Children's petting zoo. It was well sequestered away from the bunnies and lambs but it was still surprising to walk past the pen and realize what kind of a monster they had lurking there between the baby goats and the snack bar. Children, behave!
In the wild!!!
Not very difficult to find in the wild.
Wow, I just stumbled on this channel, and I will continue to keep an eye out for other video's. One of my biggest concerns is the fundraiser on the right. I don't know how anyone could support such things unless prof is given about how much really goes to the children you are scalping money for... Remember the "Own a piece of Scotland be a Lord", even if your last name is Wang, Fuch Do, or Vlad the Impaler...
Good God that looks like the perfect place for a city
And who cut it down? Annunaki. And they're still here, cutting down our forests and more.
LOL okay 🤡👌
Even if that hypothesis was true that place is older than that.
@@raclark2730 And we are half the size we were a few hundred years ago.
I thought the Borneo Rainforest was the oldest!
Nup
Appreciate the work done by people on the ground, but I do wish the producers had used birdsong from the birds that live in the forest shown instead of birds that live in eastern North America. The songs in this video may sound exotic to Australian viewers, but they are VERY familiar to North American viewers. It's a missed opportunity. I would so love to have heard a soundtrack that included your birds' voices, especially birds from this special, particular place.
That's what it sounds like here mate.
As a 50 year resident I can assure you those bird sounds are not exotic to us, they're real,
Thank you! My apologies, then!
Bro.. You said the palm tree was a 1,000 years old. That's not accurate.
You could say it was a bit of a 90 degree stretch.
Watch out for any stingrays
pretty sure they don't live in Rainforests
@@plaskoal5679 They're called tree rays. Just as dangerous as drop bears.
@@redplanet7163 😂 I can just feel the confusion for overseas viewers.😂
You won't find one in the rainforest mate
The video title threw me off a bit. Great video nonetheless.
❤
Lotts of snakes ⚠️
16:38
?????
6 min 14 sec. in FOREIGN GINGER.
I'm wondering where aboriginals got billy cans from to boil green ants.
God made so many Amazing creatures. Just beautiful and unique. Answers in Genesis channel have so e great nature videos too. ❤️
If you're wondering why this forest is so small, it's because the local pyromaniacs lit fires for the past 100000 years. Then the last bit was ruined by white settlers with their hooved animals destroying the creek beds and washing the last of the topsoil out to sea. It was mostly the locals though. .006 is all that remains due to luck and the shape of the land. Caring for country is the biggest disrespect comment you could say in this continent. It never existed. More like 'self preservation above all else'.
Caring for country is NOT the biggest disrespect comment you could say here. I think you covered that area well with your dubious directed commentary. And your lack of knowledge about burning, where it was done, and why, is evident in a comment about us destroying rainforest.
Your comment here has an agenda that reminds me of the same fear and hate lies that were orchestrated when "the Voice" was crushed till its beauty was made to look like a threat.
Zoo
Wrong. Borneo is the oldest rainforest. Scamm
Borneo rainforest are only 130 million years old while Daintree rainforest are around 180 million years old
The region referred to as the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ covers an area of approximately 1200 square kilometres and extends from the Daintree River, north of Cooktown and west to the Great Divide. It is the oldest intact lowland tropical rainforest in the world, thought to be around 180 million years old. Borneos rainforest are younger
It’s a shame these documentaries rarely include indigenous people and their 50,000+ years of knowledge. Descriptions of this place as wild or exotic, and a clear focus on colonial narratives really reduce the scope of knowledge available on these lands and animals.
Is the fundraiser for the forest or Ukraine?? They getting enough money so I'm confused here if it is & why is it under this video at that tho?🤔👀 Smh
I have to admit that Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺 is one of the most fascinating ajd best countries to both visit and live in somehow except that the nation were host to many fatal animals. 😊❤