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  • David Attenborough discusses an animal that gets by thanks to human garbage.
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Комментарии • 127

  • @Kiibie
    @Kiibie 7 лет назад +213

    There was a mother raccoon that got hit by a car near my street and one morning me and my family found two female babies cuddled up on the porch! We couldn't heartlessly shoo them away so we decided to shelter them until we found a rescue center. They grew so big in short time, and were amazingly smart. I think what I loved the most was their human-like paws, which gave them great dexterity to escape XD After all these years, I figure they now have their own offspring in the wild, I miss those fur balls!

  • @jacketman22
    @jacketman22 11 лет назад +61

    I thought this was all in New York, but then noticed the Metropolitan Toronto logo on the recycling bin at 2:05. What an appropriate filming location... around here they're EVERYWHERE. But only in the city and suburbs; their numbers thin out significantly in the surrounding countryside. One of the few mammals that benefits from human settlement.

  • @MrPhilsterable
    @MrPhilsterable 11 лет назад +217

    Adaptation to humanity, the final and most important test of natural selection. And raccoons have passed with flying colors.

    • @couchgrouches7667
      @couchgrouches7667 9 лет назад +13

      Indeed. They span from North and South America to Germany to Russia to Japan as introduced populations have adapted with ease to alien lands.

    • @stevenswift5233
      @stevenswift5233 6 лет назад +1

      Couch Grouches h

    • @wildlifeinthecity6085
      @wildlifeinthecity6085 6 лет назад +5

      MrPhilsterable over selfish. nature is the only and ultimate criterion, not humanity

    • @jimbojamesIV
      @jimbojamesIV 3 года назад +2

      Pigeons, No. 1. Basically all passerine birds.

    • @kevinprzy4539
      @kevinprzy4539 Год назад

      at this point...once humanity is more advanced we can control nature.@@wildlifeinthecity6085

  • @Oldbmwr100rs
    @Oldbmwr100rs 11 лет назад +45

    They are everywhere in San Francisco and all over the bay area. In My old neighborhood we also had skunks, neither animal showed any sign of fear of people. You very rarely saw one hit by a car in the city either. I liked having them around,at least they were something interesting to see sometimes.

  • @howardlovecraft750
    @howardlovecraft750 5 лет назад +13

    Just about whatever the conversation subject Attenborough discusses he makes it interesting and that's a very rare talent to have.

  • @WoodyStickman
    @WoodyStickman 12 лет назад +42

    Raccoons are really cool animals. I have family that adopts orphaned kits and lets them live on their farm until they mature and wander off to live in the woods. They are crazy intelligent, cute as hell, and make perfect little lap animals until they get bigger and more aggressive.

  • @zhangvict1
    @zhangvict1 12 лет назад +64

    with their black and white stripes, they're like cute sneaky little prisoners.

  • @navnav161
    @navnav161 10 лет назад +37

    I clean enclosures for these little buggers! If they warm up to you they love to hug your legs and climb up for a cuddle :)

    • @lapinskiagnes
      @lapinskiagnes 10 лет назад +6

      Aww I saw them last night. I live In Chicago and wondered how these big animals find homes. I leave food out for them in my alley, they are so adorable

    • @penguinskaikru9921
      @penguinskaikru9921 10 лет назад +3

      Agnes Lapinski i want to pet them

    • @wilburmcbride8096
      @wilburmcbride8096 6 лет назад +4

      I am not giving them crap, they better get a job.

  • @neurolepticer1284
    @neurolepticer1284 Год назад +5

    The camera crew and the shots are really good. You have the feeling of being on the road with the raccoons. 🥰😍

  • @MrsK1689SDG
    @MrsK1689SDG 15 лет назад +23

    Sooo naughty, but at the same time SO cute!

  • @haxorusimp2980
    @haxorusimp2980 8 лет назад +73

    If humans can't learn to exist with animals,
    Animals will learn to exist with humans.
    Nature always finds a way.

  • @Halfdanr_H
    @Halfdanr_H 3 года назад +31

    They're magnificent little animals. I would have loved it if they lived in the wild in England, but it would likely have upset the already established ecosystem terribly.

    • @andyroobrick-a-brack9355
      @andyroobrick-a-brack9355 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, that's what happened in Germany and Japan when they tried to domesticate them. Amazkng animals, hard to keep control over.

    • @patricksibiya7861
      @patricksibiya7861 2 года назад

      Button have foreskin the uk.

  • @Rob-bv6ew
    @Rob-bv6ew 2 года назад +6

    I am a raccoon lover, thank you so so much for this. I must make a correction though. 'Sir' David Attenborough.

  • @dayanandanayak631
    @dayanandanayak631 3 года назад +9

    They are living the American dream

    • @jonah4958
      @jonah4958 3 года назад +4

      They're actually in Toronto lol, most raccoons in the world

    • @triumph.over.shipwreck
      @triumph.over.shipwreck 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@jonah4958 The "American Dream" is to reside in Toronto and dine on refuse.

  • @LordEvilmancer
    @LordEvilmancer 8 лет назад +32

    Rich Pickins is the name david attenborrough uses to get into night clubs

  • @GlossyShoes
    @GlossyShoes 10 лет назад +9

    i live in nyc and for the first time have been seeing them... i know nothing about them but the ones i see appear to be scared and gentle.. i would never attempt to pet one, i just keep a distance they dont bother anyone.. but people are afraid of them.. i think this is good so people wont bother them

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 года назад +1

      hundred person effective strategy
      stop things before even thought I’d attempt is plausible

    • @VillageTechnologies
      @VillageTechnologies Год назад

      This is Toronto. Toronto raccoons DGAF. A Toronto raccoon will pull a knife on you and steal your shawarma. LOL.

  • @benjaminmoogk3531
    @benjaminmoogk3531 Год назад +2

    The opening establishing shots are of New York City, but then several details are very familiar to Torontonians like the streetcar tracks. Just like watching many fictional films and television shows with Toronto standing in for NYC. One of these days Toronto will get to be Toronto. Nice work using the neon sign of the Zanzibar as a practical light. There is a reason Toronto is often call Raccoon City.

    • @sorryifoldcomment8596
      @sorryifoldcomment8596 2 дня назад

      I could be wrong, but I don't think the BBC intended the viewer to believe all this footage was from New York City. NYC isn't even mentioned.
      It's the British produced BBC *Earth,* after all, about the life of the raccoon species, and the population's success on the American *continent.* I'm pretty sure when they use language like "the city," it isn't referring to NYC or any one city, but the city environment - from the perspective of animal species? _(The same way a sentence about "the desert" could refer to a specific desert, or all areas with a desert climate/environment/ecosystem.)_ So, if I'm correct, "our cities" means humanity's cities, "city raccoons" means all the raccoons which live in any city, "city security cameras" means the security cameras in any city, etc.
      Still, the BBC writers should have foreseen this potential interpretation, due to how much English-speaking media is presumed by many to be US-centric unless explicitly clarified to be otherwise. They probably should have included a line clarifying that the footage isn't all from one city, at the very least. I wish they just slapped a small location name in the corner, so we can always know where a piece of footage was filmed...because I have no clue which cities were featured.
      So yeah, I do understand. Even though New York City is never mentioned verbally or even identified in the text or the visuals unambiguously...BBC should still be aware that people may assume it was all filmed in NYC, simply because NYC is such a huge fixture of the most highly influential US media; plus it's the city most people would imagine for "Northern, English speaking, big city with tightly packed tall skyscrapers downtown"...unless they happen to have personal experience in the other cities where you can get similar looking shots (ie. Toronto, Chicago, etc.). ✌️

  • @SinisterSkip
    @SinisterSkip 14 лет назад +7

    They indeed look very cute!!!

  • @JustAHevel
    @JustAHevel 2 года назад +2

    If I ever got bamboozled by raccoons I wouldn't even be mad.. they're so cute!

  • @WJen8
    @WJen8 4 года назад +4

    Rocket: Where are their guns? Why aren't they talking? Why are they eating garbage? I'm so confused.

  • @danriley5848
    @danriley5848 Год назад

    We have several families that come by and get snacks every night and they are incredibly smart creatures.

  • @KevlarNinja
    @KevlarNinja 13 лет назад +14

    I love racoons.

  • @1234568703
    @1234568703 12 лет назад +7

    that thing just ate my leftover spaghetti with sausage

  • @sachinraghavan4556
    @sachinraghavan4556 8 лет назад +1

    I once saw a raccoon eating ice cream out of the garbage can.

  • @Raccoon12008
    @Raccoon12008 Год назад +1

    Raccoons are basically the North American panda

  • @infinitylove2713
    @infinitylove2713 6 лет назад +9

    We are responsible for this....forest gone and they come here for living...

  • @jarvat
    @jarvat 10 лет назад +1

    YES!

  • @hmtmth8481
    @hmtmth8481 5 лет назад +1

    Respect

  • @PaterTenebrarum1
    @PaterTenebrarum1 6 лет назад +10

    Not on the endangered species list, I gather.

  • @saturn724
    @saturn724 8 лет назад +7

    in my town squirrels are more successful than raccoons

    • @palomakalisch4377
      @palomakalisch4377 4 года назад +1

      Squirrels are also very intelligent and successful town-dwellers.

  • @JEENAKKA
    @JEENAKKA 2 года назад

    so cuteee

  • @0505BirdmanJr
    @0505BirdmanJr 15 лет назад

    why arent these uploaded in HQ or HD >:@ arg

  • @Craftycatz1289
    @Craftycatz1289 4 месяца назад

    City: *Exists*
    Raccoons: Hippety Hoopity, this is now our property

  • @raccoonskittiesandopposum7348
    @raccoonskittiesandopposum7348 3 года назад

    A little furry hoard of them live in the vacant lot behind my house food is served at about 4:30 and the large dish is clean by morning.....LOL

  • @santosh30
    @santosh30 15 лет назад +1

    amazng

  • @flynnparish9833
    @flynnparish9833 4 года назад +1

    If only they knew how we think they are cute, they'd probably won't live in our garbage bins.

  • @huntere6861
    @huntere6861 2 года назад

    0:47

  • @tygaskribber6834
    @tygaskribber6834 12 лет назад +1

    If you thought that when it said ''The cousins have less experience'' and the car honked and the raccoon was in the street...Like if you thought he was bout 2 get hit

  • @june2420111
    @june2420111 2 года назад

    I recommend everyone watch a film by Hayao Miyazaki called Pompoko. It really changes your view about raccoons and who is the invader (us or them).

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 Год назад

      Those aren't raccoons, they are raccoon dogs or tanuki. The English dub mistranslated their name.

  • @andywood5699
    @andywood5699 3 года назад +1

    Everyone in Toronto has a raccoon story.

  • @KimMorgan-hc3rk
    @KimMorgan-hc3rk Год назад +1

    Wondering if the plentiful easy pickings by the raccoons have similar implications on their health as the city dwellers? Well fed but not necessarily healthy!

  • @zombieowen
    @zombieowen Год назад +4

    It's weird to hear raccoons declared "an American success story" when this was shot in Toronto.

    • @sorryifoldcomment8596
      @sorryifoldcomment8596 2 дня назад

      Pretty sure they meant the "American [continent]" - (not the '[United States of] America').
      Context clues include:
      - There is no line in the whole video that's clearly speaking _only_ about the US, and it never establishes a precedent for using the exclusively US definition of "America(n)."
      - In contrast, there IS a line that establishes a willingness to use "America(n)" to refer to the whole continent of North America. _(It might even include South America as well, because not only do raccoons live there too, but it's thought they originally dominated in central America and migrated up through North America.)_
      - As you pointed out, the video includes footage from Canada as well as the US.
      - The specific episode this video is clipped from does not focus on the animals of just the USA.
      - The episode focuses on the *Earth's* mammals, while the subject of this particular clip is raccoons & _their_ habitat. _(aka: not US centric)_
      - The episode was created by the British BBC...so it's not from the perspective of a US American, that presumes a US-centric narrative, or which always uses "American" as shorthand for the US.
      - This video is from a series which is highly scripted and edited, checked over many times by many different people, striving for the highest of quality, so it would be weird for such an error to be included. Even if it's not technically an error, it would still be sloppy & unclear to suddenly refer to raccoons as an exclusively US-American "success story"...considering the surrounding context, which is not focused on the US. In my experience, BBC Earth episodes employ language much more carefully.
      - Finally, the sentence containing the phrase, "an American success story," begins a paragraph _(unequivocally)_ about raccoon populations on the *American continent.*
      >> 3:03 "Raccoons are an American success story. Their population has increased 20 times since the 1930s, and their range has expanded by 30%. They're now one of the most successful and widespread mammals *on the continent."*
      ~•~•~•~
      That's my best guess. Sorry, I'm bored. 😅✌️

  • @FlareJollyDragoness
    @FlareJollyDragoness Год назад

    It’s Sly Cooper’s family’s origins!

  • @lozsurviver
    @lozsurviver 6 лет назад +2

    food chain food chain food chain food chain food chain (oof)

  • @MissAmazanda
    @MissAmazanda 2 года назад +1

    I throw food out for racoons every night on the side of my apartments , I also feed the opossums and birds plus all my cats I just love nature and animals and have never seen them as a nuisance...

  • @take_a_chance1942
    @take_a_chance1942 2 года назад

    They keep making a mess in my backyard and make noises in my addict

    • @xxGilmxreGirlxx
      @xxGilmxreGirlxx 2 года назад

      If they are making noise in your attic, this time of year there is a good chance it is a mom with little babies. It says your comment was 4 months ago, are they out of your attic now? Mom's usually move the babies in that amount of time. Please don't hurt them. They really are wonderful and surprisingly respectful and polite little creatures. They act different when they are panicked and desperate for food.

    • @take_a_chance1942
      @take_a_chance1942 2 года назад

      @@xxGilmxreGirlxx they left for a little while but they're back now

  • @4WARD5
    @4WARD5 15 лет назад +7

    They tip over trash cans and can carry rabies. I had a giant raccoon living somewhere above the ceiling of my apartment for the longest time, and it made a ton of noise; it has since then moved on.
    I still like 'em though.

    • @PhantomQueenOne
      @PhantomQueenOne 5 лет назад +4

      They don't 'carry' rabies, they either have it or they don't. And if they do they will die in pretty short order.

  • @lilliew1520
    @lilliew1520 2 года назад

    I love raccoons🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝

  • @Caprica-od6oc
    @Caprica-od6oc 3 года назад

    Can you resist that makes face????? 🥺

  • @jjbul
    @jjbul 15 лет назад

    compared to?

  • @paulmorphy6187
    @paulmorphy6187 3 года назад +1

    130,000 views after 12 years...obviously everyones bored with racoons

  • @23pyromaniac
    @23pyromaniac 10 лет назад +4

    I want to grab a bunch of them, bring them into Australia and let them loose, hehe.

    • @TalenkauenTV
      @TalenkauenTV 9 лет назад +5

      23pyromaniac NO. NO NO NO NO. Germany and Japan are already paying for that, don't let Australia suffer, too!!!!

    • @23pyromaniac
      @23pyromaniac 9 лет назад

      We have foxes to keep them under control so it probs wouldn't be AS bad as Japan.

    • @TalenkauenTV
      @TalenkauenTV 9 лет назад +8

      23pyromaniac
      Foxes aren't actually natural predators of raccoons, coyotes, owls and bobcats are. Besides, foxes are causing a whole lot of eccological damage on their own. You can't just import wild animals into a foreign country, where they have no natural predators, and expect them to behave naturally. That kind of thinking is why rabbits and cane toads are such a problem in Australia today.

    • @RSRLee1234
      @RSRLee1234 8 лет назад +1

      +TalenkauenTV sometimes raccoons can outsmart Foxes and foxes are sometimes not even succesful in getting raccoons

    • @palomakalisch4377
      @palomakalisch4377 4 года назад +1

      That would destroy the ecosystem!

  • @wilsonng7554
    @wilsonng7554 Год назад

    why raccons are in the city?
    they should live in ocean

  • @Spider-Man-k8n
    @Spider-Man-k8n 2 года назад +1

    I love raccoons 🦝! They’re “super smart”, and they think outside the box!

  • @Herman47
    @Herman47 Год назад

    ...and they can climb skyscrapers!

  • @TheRonster9319
    @TheRonster9319 8 лет назад

    Rocket and his friends

  • @Sieist23Jahrealt
    @Sieist23Jahrealt 13 лет назад +3

    i have a baby raccoon

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 года назад

      the worst thing is to hurt any of these guys because remember they are fulfilling s needed function.
      if we did not have them around besides their cuteness and effectiveness they are useful in keeping things in check which without them we’d have issues we aren’t prepared for and won’t solve simple cause it’s their job no robot can possibly do and why the fk
      would you want to?
      this ain’t no video game “oh i wanna play this or that”
      you can’t just bring this one back to ‘play’again cause the play you started is now playing you

  • @asklepije
    @asklepije 15 лет назад +4

    i love raccoons....:):)

  • @Marcodiazgrey
    @Marcodiazgrey Год назад

    Why you so cute!!!why!!

  • @WolfBitesAndSleepyGraves
    @WolfBitesAndSleepyGraves 3 года назад

    #raccoonkin #therian #hybridkin

  • @patfox2616
    @patfox2616 5 лет назад

    I always wanted a racoon as a pet

  • @Akendolfr
    @Akendolfr 11 лет назад +3

    Oh yeah we're awesome and we know it :3

  • @Mark_Necro
    @Mark_Necro 3 года назад

    I kiss those

  • @Falckie8008
    @Falckie8008 5 лет назад

    Trash doggo is hungry

  • @EddieKuntz94
    @EddieKuntz94 11 лет назад +2

    They fuck with house pets. Just cause they're cute doesn't mean they wont fuck a little dog up or a cat.

  • @j.k8190
    @j.k8190 5 лет назад +1

    Ruhcoons

  • @CoIoneIPanic
    @CoIoneIPanic Год назад

    And they make good pets thank you porno for pyros

  • @DemonsCrest1
    @DemonsCrest1 5 лет назад +1

    lol. racoons

  • @sirjohneh
    @sirjohneh 8 лет назад +20

    You call it an American success story, but all your footage was from Canada.

    • @TheKnoxvicious
      @TheKnoxvicious 7 лет назад +8

      Your country's just America 2, let's be honest....

  • @Greig1424
    @Greig1424 15 лет назад +2

    the only cool thing in the U.S

    • @mn3142
      @mn3142 5 лет назад

      That was toronto Canada recognized the street car

    • @BicyclesMayUseFullLane
      @BicyclesMayUseFullLane 3 года назад +1

      @@mn3142 Don't forget Lick's, Metro Toronto logo, and, of course, Beck Taxi lol

  • @buhjh
    @buhjh 15 лет назад +1

    HAHA PAWRNAA HAHAA

  • @ironDsteele
    @ironDsteele 7 лет назад

    Trash Pandas

  • @sarcasticdemon7669
    @sarcasticdemon7669 5 лет назад

    Trash pandas :)

  • @zibeddy
    @zibeddy 15 лет назад +1

    they're just bigger rats

  • @chriswesterfield4818
    @chriswesterfield4818 4 года назад +1

    animal expert ??? there is no such word as raccoons.....................raccoon is singular and plural...........despicable animals, all need to be eliminated

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 года назад

      and they don’t care really tho they wouldn’t want same for u but to just be left be.
      eliminate will soon eliminate us be assured cause if anything we are the most disposable of creatures and hundred percent without us they all creatures etc would be a okay

  • @kleash
    @kleash 15 лет назад

    I always hated raccoons for some reason

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 11 месяцев назад

    Trash Pandas