24 species for May 2022 ... autumn down under.
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2022
- Autumn down under - a selection of footage from the trail cameras in May 2022. After a wet, mild summer populations are booming - friends and foes alike. The cat situation has worsened considerably - it's a huge concern. At least the dingoes are keeping the feral pigs on the move.
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My cat loved watching this video from safely inside my house.
Hello Demi, thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts. We also have 3 domestic moggies, who enjoy the outdoors from the safety of their netted cat run. We live a strange dichotomy of loving our pets, but despairing of the feral cat population.
Les chats sont un fléau pour la biodiversité.
Thank you for this video! 💗 Feral cats are a problem everywhere. Even in the town where I live in the US. It's a tragedy really.
Hello Raini, yes it is a really vexed problem, isn't it? The cat problem causes deeply bitter debate within any community, rural and urban alike. Having originally evolved in a desert environment, they really are well adapted to take on the Australian bush, and the only natural check to their population is goannas, who occasionally snaffle an inattentive kitty.
This is so adorable. My smile kept getting bigger and bigger!
Thank you for sharing 🕊❤🐨🍀🌾
Hello OG, thank you for watching, and for taking the time to comment - I hope you are enjoying a marvellous week :)
What a treat!! Thank you so much for this very welcome clip. 💕
Hello Robyn, thank you for your encouragement and support. I hope your week is being kind to you :)
@@GubanaNatureRefuge cold but kind. The birds are not singing and I saw one lorikeet sheltering from the rain in a clump of eucalypt leaves outside my window. I’ve often wondered if the animals feel the cold… I think they do. But perhaps not too much? I remember swimming in the Derwent, out of my mother’s reach, with other 8 year olds. We all turned blue and were amused, but not uncomfortable. Maybe the animals are the same? What do you think?
@@didntlistendad I think it comes down to their adaptation range - the locals here in South-East QLD seem entirely unfazed by the cracking frosts we are having at the moment, but the unusually early frosts which extended further up North to Mackay can cause frostbitten ears and even mortality in populations not equipped to deal with cold, like the little red flying foxes
Thank you for another great video!
Hello RSP, thank you for your kindness and encouragement. I hope your week is being kind :)
As far as I'm concerned, as soon as a 'pet' cat leaves its owners house, it behaves exactly like a feral cat... sardines work for me 😋
Hello Tas my friend, how is winter treating you? Sardines worked for us initially (but they had to be sardines in tomato sauce - weird?) but all we seemed to achieve in the longer term was to remove the stupidest cats, thereby increasing the average intelligence of the remaining population. The traps now serve purely as territory markers, for the cats to catch up on the local gossip by exchanging face jam and body fluids. If only the goannas figured out that the cat traps are a great place to lurk in ambush...
@@GubanaNatureRefuge haha, I follow this other dude Kevin Richardson (The Lion Whisperer) he runs a big cat/hyena sanctuary, anyway he hand feeds his 2 black leopards sardines...in tomato sauce too! Who would have thought that cats like tomato sauce?
It’s really nice to see them in their habitat!
Hi Judy, thank you for watching and for sharing your thoughts. I hope you are having a marvellous week :)
Marsupial madness! I especially liked the tiny mouse-like marsupial. Thanks
Hello Annie, thank you for watching and for sharing your thoughts. I hope you are enjoying an awesome week :)
Such a treat, thanks for such an awesome video 🥰
Hello CTRL_ALT_DELETE, thank you for watching, and for your support and encouragement - it is very much appreciated :)
Great to see another upload from you guys, thank you for your work. This is an excellent look at some beautiful animals we don't have in the states. Some great bird footage as well. Thanks again.
Hello FP, thank you for supporting the channel and for your kind words of encouragement. I hope your northern hemisphere summer isn't being too punishing. I understand that with a slowing down of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) we have perhaps stolen the rain from south west US over the past year? newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/huge-atlantic-ocean-current-slowing-down-if-it-collapses-la-ni%C3%B1a-could-become-norm
So sad knowing that these pests are ruining our beautiful wildlife. Is there proper measures in place to deal with these cats and other predator pests other then hunting?
Hello Etanz, the feral cat problem is extremely vexing. Trapping is certainly not working for us - it simply created a selective pressure by removing the stupidest kitties, thereby increasing the average intelligence of the remaining population. It also feels like removing cats is like taking a bucket of water from the ocean - more pour in from the neighbouring properties to fill the vacant territory. We do notice a lot less cat action on the cameras when the dingoes are around, but the dingoes are infrequent visitors, following the pig sounders that pass through from time to time. We have looked into the Felixer, but found the expense unjustifiable, because it would be an ongoing cost rather than a one-off, and we could not sustain that level of spending in the medium to long term www.scimex.org/newsfeed/felixer,-the-grooming-trap,-works-to-control-feral-cats
@@GubanaNatureRefuge wow that’s really interesting of a read, really cool how the felixer is able to tell what’s a cat or not and use their grooming against them to keep the poison isolated. Maybe if you took donations to help keep your plot of land regulated with a felixer.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge Very interesting read. I do hope you are able to get the Felixer one day. Crazy how effective it was in the filed trial! Cats are super cute but I dont believe they belong in the wild.
Wow, I found you, love watching our animals do their thing, big thumbs up. Blessed be. ♥️♥️♥️
Hello Deborah, thank you again for your long term and ongoing support of this channel. We really appreciate you :)
Omg the cat spraying the trap! Lol
Thank you so much for all that you do to rid your reserve of those horrific cats. I wish I could help. I heard/read a statistic from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy the other day, that over 3 million native animals are killed by cats each day in Australia.
So many species who came to personally teach us about them -- how thoughtful!
Autumn varied so much across Australia, there were many beautiful moments, many uneasy, and hope which will continue through winter. Our precious biodiversity, adorably represented in a dense-little package, must persevere far beyond, and it is hopefully what we will be seeing more of in the near future until a little bit further, when we can all be happily content! (As an optimist)
In Tasmania, what the former federal environment minister couldn't do, perhaps the new one can?
Change is very important and serves a vital function in many parts of nature. Some negative change is sustainable, and there is a lot of swaying change, and some transitioning change in general (law of conservation of mass?).
For the sake of keeping things balanced, we'll get the positive a little bit ahead to counterbalance all that negativity.
Maybe even the dingoes of the past (thylacines) will make an unexpected comeback, and some natural order can be eased back into place (a lot else needs to be done there, for us to live cohesively with that curious nature! It can be done, just a bit of commitment and gumsucking).
Hmm, much to do, much to do ... the more I think the more my brain tingles! I think that's a good thing, but it can be overwhelming for my marsupalian thinking-muscle (though I don't believe it is right to categorise animals by intelligence necessarily, as long as they feel or evoke as much, they all deserve respect and care, even those strange hairless bipedals).
I do like the sound that pied currawongs make, but we have more black ones down on the island, and they make what may be a raucous racket in groups, or a very cute chatter alone. Perhaps I should learn their language, then I think I'd gain the thought-power associated with learning other modes of communication, like Ruthenian or music.
I'll demonstrate... "mer-uh -- mrrrruaaah!" That means "uh-oh -- no gruuubs!" (paraphrasing)
Oh, there is a strange-looking seed on the ground... "oh-bwah" (not words, signifying picking up), and "mmm" (oh that's just the other bird who got to eat the single grub)
Hi Betula, agreed - after so much rapid destructive change over the last 200 years or so, let's hope that the recent political changes bring a tiny zephyr of hope and positive change? The comparatively recent arrivals (dingoes) are certainly only a substitute for the original apex predators lost - the Thylacine and Thylacoleo carnifex (marsupial lion) lost from the Australian mainland with the double blow of continental drying and the devastating arrival of the ultimate apex predator - homo sapiens. Currawongs both delight and horrify me - on one hand, they are incredibly intelligent and have a range of beautiful songs and whistles, but on the other hand they remind me of velociraptors with their piercing gaze and remorseless quest for live prey.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge I'll have to change my imitation then...
"RAWRRRR, GRRR CRRAAWWW" (approaching deliciously tasty-looking flesh) "ooh, wwhoop-woo" (pretending the bird has found nothing) "Zcrueysysgwyu" (making an unworldly eldritch screeewwwoop upon seeing the terrible ropemanship on the trap done by a pesky lesser being)
Yes, I am really hopeful though hehe, the return is near :)
The computer graphics people that made Jurassic Park surely used the wallabies as models. I keep seeing velociraptors!
Shame, (underlying anger) about the cats!
That was great!
I was enjoying the Dunnarts then the cats came along 😔
Hello Bec, agreed 😕
Nothing brings me to a seething rage like seeing a marsupial being dismembered in front of the camera by a cat. It happens.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge So glad you didn’t show that.
I got to say, there's some really cute animals in this video. Love the furries.
Looks like you have a real problem with feral cats,I remember your footage from years ago and problems with feral pigs.Looks like the pigs have gone and been replaced with cats,do you ever successfully trap them or are they too smart?
Hello LH, controlling pigs by trapping was comparatively easy and effective, when compared to cats. All we seemed to achieve in the longer term with the cat traps was to remove the stupidest cats, thereby increasing the average intelligence of the remaining population. We are struggling to find solutions. I have heard recently that there is a bloke out west with a dog trained to scent track cats and identify their day time haunts - that might be our next line of investigation.
I'm sickened by the stats on how many creatures are killed every day. Same thing is happening in Mexico; my own friends have many cat to eat the scorpions and other pests, but they also eat the iguana and other native species, which are becoming extinct.
I wonder if it was mites making the wallaby flap its ears like that
Kanguru yang selalu sayang anaknya dan membawa kemana saja perg
Ya know what would help woth those cats- komodo dragons, lets go.
I think she’s onto you mate.
Who grassed?
@@GubanaNatureRefuge I wouldn’t wallaby you… 😜
the feral cats have to be stopped
i love australia
The cat traps are all wrong! If anything youtube has taught us. You just need cardboard boxes. They simply can't resist those. You can spend hundreds of dollars on cat houses but they only want to go in the boxes it all came in. Lol
Good point.