The World's Oldest Known Bird | Earth's Tropical Islands | BBC Earth
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This albatross is an incredible 67 years old and is affectionately known as "Wisdom". In her lifetime, she has flown almost 5,000,000km and raised 37 chicks.
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She have recently been recorded back at the breeding site a few weeks ago at the age of 71. She even outlived the scientists that first put the band tracker on her when she was young. (She even has a Wikipedia page)
Amazing
"yo mama So old that ..."
Baby albatross: I know ☺️
She can still give those young mums a run for their money for sure!
I met my first albatross on Wake Island 67 years ago when I was seven and on a US Air Force flight from Japan to America. I remember they were a protected species and there was a $50 dollar fine for killing one. It seemed like a lot of money then. Not so much now. It is amazing to see them take off for flight.
Is so strange to think about the fact that wisdom can still produce offspring at the age of 67 🤯
Contrary to what people may believe (because of human’s life cycle), there are actually very few animals out there which have a set menopause like humans do. Orcas and Short-Finned Pilot Whales are probably the only two animals, alongside humans, to go through menopause.
Other female animals however, can reproduce for the rest of their lives.
@@Darknimbus3 wow, I never knew that
Their was was women age 62 that gave birth in ethiopia. She was a farmer
three years from the release of this series and Wisdom is still going strong
She’s 70-71 now
yup. and the cameraman/researcher is now 90-91
Dead.
Fun fact: Wisdom is 70 years old now! This clip is a bit outdated/older.
Magnificent! Long live WISDOM! 🙏🏾💗
YASSS 👍🏾
You jinxed it
She doesn't look a day over 50 to me...
If I was a bird. Would bang
Lol
It’s the Botox.
And you have 50 likes now lol
How old is Wisdom exactly ?
Isto é tão belo!! Foi mãe, avó, trisavó...e deu vida a tantas gerações!! Wisdom um nome que fica tão bem a esta excelente e valente Albatroz!! Incrível...nem um avião feito pelo homem conegue voar nem durar tanto!!
I would agree his future looks "uncertain" when mommy keeps taking off and leaving him alone. I'm calling Chick Protective immediately.
That's what happens when you go for the grussy.
This is absolutely normal behavior for Albatrosses!! They do leave their chicks alone up to two weeks before coming back with food! Sometimes they have to fly hundteds of miles just for enough food to bring back!!
@@beatricecallan no it's cruel and someone needs to report her immediately. Like Ray said: laces out!
Wisdom is incredible 💕💕
Wisdom is Beautiful ❤️
Unimaginable!!!
Phenomenal
Wow Im in awe, what an incredible bird
She's beautiful and such a good Mom 🥰💕
I need her food and beauty routine
Really Beautiful
This is extraordinary. Why these majestic birds die eating ocean plastics is beyond me.
Plastic in the ocean is caused by people, NOT the production of plastic. People are rude and nasty.
It's because of us, because of our selfishness.
@Jim Let's be honest, it's almost impossible to live completely plastic-free in today's world. Major corporations have attempted to shift the blame from themselves onto their consumers, who have less and less choice in the matter as the monopolies grow.
@@laneatkinson6441 couldn't have said it better, of course we have responsibility to protect the planet but what does our contribution matter when we allow massive corporations to go unchecked in their damages
Yes...
That's an amazing mother......long live wisdom 🙌🏽
Who knew that a bird could live for so long.
it's so beautiful 😇
Amazing video 📹
WOW ❤️
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD
There so cute old bird
Awww where is Sir David Attenborough?! 😫😢
I agree entirely. The narrator's voice sounds "automated," as if we are hearing an automated voice chip. The tone of the narrator's voice, could, however, become very distinctive after a course in voice training.
@@cyboman9171 Personally speaking, this voice is easier for me to understand as a non native speaker
@@aaronmaiden3606 your writing appears more correct than a native speaker's
I could barely hear the narrator, he sounds like he just woke up a mile away from the recording
@@aaronmaiden3606 David Attenborough, non native speaker? What are you talking about? David Attenborough is the epitome of an English man!!
Struggle for existence 🙏
Totally awesome and incredible feat of nature ! Long live Wisdom
Holy shit, no way!!
How??
Don't albatross live for 42 years top?
Honestly she didn't look any different than the other ones around her to me, but I guess I'd need a pair of albatross eyes to tell the difference
Being covered in white feathers doesn't really help either
And the award for mother of the century goes to... Z333.
Someone give that lady a #1 Granny cup
Let me guess. Overfishing forces these birds to have to spend longer and longer spans of time away from their chicks.
🤯😵💫😵💫😵💫Omg the background music seems to be switched with the level of narrators voice because it was unsettling not to mention down right frustrating to people that genuinely just wanted to watch thus interesting small video. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
What Sound are they making 🤣
Sadly Wisdom's long time mate seems to have passed away, but she has been spotted courting a new one.
look up an SNL skit called The Birds. you won't regret it XD
Amazing ..beutiful bird...i like it...
A good example of, Don't have more children than you can feed.
Amazing Bird's 👌
Birds, plural - not possessive.
The bird's feathers.
The bird's diet.
Albatross is best ross
So beautiful 👍
Number 9
Hardworking granny, no retirement
You are saying I'm younger then this bird😅😅
more wisdom in that Beautiful birds feathers than most humans put together.
Indeed, particularly after reading a lot of the cheesy comments around here. This is a an extraordinary bird - but aren’t they all, regardless of age?
@@MiQBohlin i agree birds and all animals have a much better understanding than most humans
Humans future is unsaturated
Humans future is unsaturated
Very nice
This reminds me when I was a kid and one day mom said she would pick up McDonalds after work. She returned and when I greeted her, I noticed there was no happy meal nearby. I asked about it and she said she no longer felt like going... I felt just like little Al(batross) in that moment.
🔥
The chick can go two weeks without eating?
❤️❤️❤️
Grandma for other chicks🐤
🌹 🌹 🌹
where is the dad?
Erm, David Attenborough’s voice or go away, thank you very much.
Oh Shut up 🙄
@@YAH-1 you don’t want to hear people’s opinions, stop reading ‘comments sections’; that’s LITERALLY ALL you’ll find there!
@@rstainsbury Go night night 🌃 Dummy 🤪
@@YAH-1 ok, genius!
The chick has been waiting for two weeks for food? I'm curious, when was the last time the chick had any water.
It gets the water with the food! This is simply normal to them!!
@@beatricecallan
I suspected as much, but 2 weeks
Most animals can't go without water for a week. I wonder if it rains there a lot. I'll have to look up infant camels and see how long they can go without water
Wacky clacky clacky clacky
Why does this sound like Hans Zimmer?
So how long has she been alive for?
I guess you weren't listening: 67 years.
@@Jim_Snowman She's now estimated to be 71. This BBC vid is a few years old.
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I don't know him to die :(
Holy shit 5 million km???
Omg
Having to raise an infant in your late 60s and facing global warming at the same time
It is not easy.
Oldest bird able to reproduce that doesn't match
Albatrosses are able to reproduce until death!!
The ending music reminds me of Rupauls drag race ending music
Poor birds, mistreated by human beings.
🎀дякую🪄
I would eat the bird, tbh
Me first
I wonder how it tastes like
eat yourself.
So random.
This video is interesting - but is useless as science, since it doesn't relate to viewers just how and why scientists have come to believe that "Wisdom" is 67 years old.
It's the LEG BAND, bro! They've been tracking it for decades with the ELECTRONIC LEG BAND...🙄
Birds are banded as juveniles and tracked via those unique bands. Usually such data is retrieved once the bird is found dead or caught though.
@@relicthominoid》Sounds like those must be the cheaper Walmart brand of leg bands that you can't retrieve information from remotely...🤔
@@Jim_Snowman These leg bands were put on these albatrosses when they were still a chick, so calculate……there weren’t any electronic devices then! But science already existed!! Just use your brain!!
@@Jim_Snowman Thanks for your comment. I know all about leg bands, and, the first time I watched it, I noted that, at 2:19 minutes, this video clip does mention this bird's leg band. But my objection still stands, because we're not told in detail WHEN this bird was banded, and where - and how it's been tracked down the years. In sum, this is only one more example of the BBC's new and very cynical, dumbed-down, slapdash approach its nature programming - a descent into mediocrity which patronizes the intelligence of BBC viewers and which aspires to be nothing more than second-rate. Sadly, this decline into narratives that gush superlatives over and over without developing a single novel THOUGHT in the viewer's intellect, has arrived seemingly permanently after decades of excellence in this field going back to the late1970's. David Attenborough- a master of expository prose - and a person who observes and thinks as a scientist - would also have explained the extravagant claim we read in this video's description that this bird has flown "almost" 5 million kilometers . The narrator is straining to sound authoritative - but the validity of a scientific statement isn't grounded in the lofty authority of scientists - but is grounded instead in WHY and HOW they believe a given scientific assertion to be true.
Amazing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_(albatross)
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