A once-extirpated animal is back in Northeast Ohio
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2024
- Paul Mechling said he was stunned to see the fisher, who had been hit by a car, and reported the animal to the Ohio Division of Wildlife. www.news5cleveland.com/news/l...
They were "extirpated" in the area, which means locally extinct in biology. The fisher still existed in other locations and was never actually extinct.
It's always good to see them back though.
There has to be a place for animals, or it will be a very lonely world.
We are supposed to believe Mnt Lions have not made it back either, even though people take pics of them all the time.
yes they're in michigan
@@Tolbat no
@@br.m no what
The Fisher population was reintroduced to Pennsylvania in the late 1990's with about 200 released into the wild.
Now, there are thousands in Pennsylvania and they are spreading out west into Ohio.
Thank you because I told people I seen two in PA
Very true. They are in upstate NY as well. And they are inundating the area and are killing many other species.
Bfd
" . . . they are inundating the area and are killing many other species." You describe Humans perfectly. These rare fishers were here long before you were.@@carynlamoreaux2576
Saw one in Sullivan county PA. Probably a once in a lifetime.
I live in the Adirondack mountains in upstate NY for 50 years, a 6 million acre forest. I’ve only seen one fisher and we have tens of thousands of them. Don’t worry the chance of seeing one is slime and none. We have their cousin also the pine martin and I’ve only seen two. I have only seen one Bob cat and two moose. Most likely to see a bear, I’ve seen about 30 of them.
my dad lived in the adk park and he got SO lucky with his land. He was surrounded by a Pine Marten protected area, no new neighbors, ever... thanks Marten! 😁😁😁
Sneaky, stealth critters
I was lucky enough to see one Martin about 30yrs ago while out hunting in the ADK and one Fischer while hiking and it scared the poop out of me.
We have lots of fishers in the south.......but we usually call them fishermen........just saying...........
What about Sasquatch or cryptids you seen those dudes
Ever hear a Fischer scream ? Look it up its sounds like a kid crying in the woods. Very creepy to hear at night.
I have heard it! I just made a comment about this. I heard it in the night coming from a tree outside my house in Hideaway Hills, OH in 2013. It sounded sort of like a fox but not really and it was coming from high up in a tree so I knew it wasn’t a fox. I sat on my upper deck for over an hour listening when I finally glimpsed it. I didn’t know what it was until a Google search.
It’s disturbing 😮 they’re really cool creatures though I’d love them to be back in Michigan
They are all over the place in massachusetts. Very creepy when you re walking to your car at night
"Extirpated", learned a new word today.
Goodie good same
Looked it up myself!
It's amazing how many species have come roaring back after decades of scarcity. When I was a kid back in the '70s white tail deer were rare and wild turkeys were non-existent. Now both are overpopulated to the point of being a nuisance. Coyotes, hawks and, most incredibly, bald eagles are abundant after years of absence. It's not all gloom and doom, folks.
There is still issues with insects, water way creatures and things we can't see like soil microbiology - but I will agree in that we can help things get into a nice balance if doing things right...herbicides and pesticides gotta go
And it’s all thanks to hunters, fishermen, sport shooters, campers, etc.. outdoorsmen. Those are the people that generate the money(through programs like the Pittman-Robertson Act) to protect and preserve wildlife.
Not ALL, but a monumental Lot.
The best example is that ducks would be nearly nonexistent in the US if not for the organization of hunters called Ducks Unlimited. @@charlesbrown4483
oh no, plentiful meat and fur, what a nuisance
We have a problem with Javelinas. They root up our gardens and lawns.
When a fisher moves into an area the population of squirrels plummets. It takes a few years for the squirrels to recover. After they recover another fisher moves in and the cycle repeats. They are strong for their size I once saw a large one pulling a road killed doe off the side of the road into the woods.
A buddy who is employed by a public works department saw one rummaging on the shoulder of the road and since he didn't recognize the species, asked the driver to pull over. LOL. They pulled over but the more seasoned driver told him under no circumstances does he get out of the truck and walk towards it. I've seen their skulls in an arrangement of small mammal skulls. The canine teeth for the size of that head are nuts. I saw my first live one last summer. Quick and float like a ghost and they're gone.
There will be many “missing cat” posters in that neighborhood in the near future.
Vicious predator
small dog, too... don't leave your pets outside unsupervised.
Research that. Fishers have that reputation, but in a national study where (if I remember correctly) more than one hundred scat samples were analyzed from their entire range in the USA, no cat fur was found. Squirrel fur, on the other hand, was ubiquitous in all samples.
@@brocknspectre1221 Plenty of visual confirmation.
@@audreylin3466 I wouldn’t know about witness reports. I'd be interested in any references you have of that. While fisher are certainly capable of killing cats, it is my understanding that cat fur has never been found in fisher cat scat. I think that, at least, says that cat predation is rare.
New Hampshire and West Virginia made a wild life conservation trade back in the 60s or70s. New Hampshire got wild Turkey and West Virginia got Fisher Cats. Both were considered extinct in their respective ranges.
Since then, the Turkey have spread from New Hampshire into all of the surrounding states and has been a great success.
It is good to see that New Hampshire Fisher are thriving in West Virginia and are spreading into new territory.
I guess alot of states trade wildlife because missouri traded Texas turkeys for rattlesnakes years ago and I think missouri got the short end of that stick lol
They are for sure in West Virginia. I am a native. I am surprised they made such a big deal about one seen in Ohio.
I saw a catamount once in Vermont a few years back. Of course over the next few months that flock of turkeys I saw during my commute kept getting smaller and smaller.
I am happy to see that someone refers to the Fisher as a "fisher cat," although it is in the weasel family. I saw one in NW Washington 20 years ago, just off the side of the road. I rolled down the window to talk to it. It paused and looked back at me. Much larger than this one in the report, maybe 50" long, and reddish brown fur. Much like the otter, but i think more rare.
I am from New Hampshire and grew up in rural areas. My family and other local people always referred to this weasel as a Fisher Cat because they look like cats.
You might like that the local double A baseball team is named The Fisher Cats.
“It takes adjustment to live around them” said no on ever that produced your food. Which is exactly why they were extirpated.
They were'extirpated' in Ontario for that very reason. Not everyone is happy they were re-introduced.
I can't wait for the Tyranosaurus Rex to come back to Ohio.
Who needs an F-35 when you have a Pterodactyl
I think a few mammoths would be an exciting addition!
OHIO ROCKS DUDE!
A conspiracy person would say, CERN mandala effect. I saw a wolf in Florida their supposed to be extinct in Florida. I was told it was a coyote. I know what I saw. The world is changing.
Let the dinosaur apocalypse begin!
They must not know what extinct means
It's extirpated it means to root out and destroy completely.
That made me laugh at the reporter as well.
Apparently in biology "extirpated" means: no longer found in a given area; locally or regionally extinct. They used the correct word.
@@barnettmcgowan8978 using the phrase locally extinct is not the same as simply saying extinct. In the latter case, there is no coming back.
a few years ago a live wolverine was found in se michigan. it lived there 6 or 7 years until it died. wolverines hadn't been there in at least a hundred years.
So they were extinct unless you went to the next state over. Just like the fisher story they are selling here.
I was working on a home in Solon last year in late summer i saw either a fisher or a mink. The customer spotted it and showed me in the back yard by edge of a creek.
a fisher is much bigger than a mink. a mink would live by a creek.
Pretty sure I saw a marten here in NE Ohio last summer.
The American mink population in Ohio , is on the increase .
I was working in the lab late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie fisher.
i did the mash ,i did the monster mash.@@spankynater4242
I'm pretty sure that is what I saw when I lived along Twisp River Road in the North Cascade Mountains (2007). I was out early one morning and it hopped along the banks of the river and rounded a large boulder and there I was! It hissed and looked up my leg and it appeared to be frothing at the mouth, but it was actually a patch of white fur under its chin. I was so afraid, but it took off hopping in it's funny way of running. I felt lucky to have seen it. It had really rough-looking fur.
Lucky you! I saw a mink and several weasels and martens up that way, {always looked for wolverines} but never saw a fisher-
Right on....Fishers are back on track!
I've seen one on two separate occasions in the woods near Piedmont and Zanesville. Amazing animals, but I had no idea they were so rare!
NOT extinct. Just not PRESENT in Ohio, until now. Words are important in journalism.
Absenteeism 😉
What do you think extirpated in NE Ohio means? Words are indeed important.
@@marilynd3996 hey mom, I learned a new word today, yay! Nobody uses that word.
@@marilynd3996 In the 21st century, words are NOT important in "journalism" (entertainment, really) -- and that's a terrible shame. The typical internet/TV "journalist" has the vocabulary of a 12-year-old.
"extirpated" seems like a pretty good word.
People can not leave the animals alone,..so the fisher will definitely need a miracle to have a come back and actually survive.
😂😂 actually people do quite a bit to protect animals.
Reduce your use of mouse and rat poison to protect these beautiful animals.
My sister didn`t tell me the exterminator put poison everywhere. My cat died. I was hoping the cat would survive until I moved...but no.
I'm sorry that happened. 🙏💞 Thank you for sharing this, you have brought this to the attention of millions of people who otherwise may not have known.💌
Rolling log traps are best IMO, wont harm other animals and they work very well. Just check and reset them often or they get gross.
That's a wise idea, but won't help fisher very much. They won't come to your house to eat your mice probably. Support the fur industry and that will help protect their habitat. Don't pollute.
@@timothylongmore7325 Oh for sure. I just put rolling log traps in out-buildings and the attached garage.
'A once-extinct animal is back in Northeast Ohio' (EDIT: word changed to 'once-extirpated' post comment)
Read that title a few more times, it's nonsense. There is no such thing as a 'once-extinct' animal - unless they truly do bring dinosaurs back using blood from mosquitos. The word 'extinct' is defined as 'having no living members; no longer in existence.' If the animal is there then it never went extinct, we just thought it was.
EDIT: Ooh, well done, you listened and actually changed your title to something that actually makes sense. I'll bet someone had to look 'extirpated' up in a dictionary. 🤣
Extinct from a region isn’t the same thing as totally extinct
If it’s back, it wasn’t extinct in the first place!
Extinction in the state of Ohio, how difficult is it to understand?
It was never extinct. Give me a break.
@@fieldthrasherthe question is were they ever extinct in Ohio at all? Lately a lot of "extinct" animals have been found alive, but in any case it is good to see this.
or it was'nt spotted for years
It is called "locally extinct" which often means completely extirpated from a region, but may have small remaining populations elsewhere
Wonderful story - thanks!
They made themselves comfortable in suburban southern New England. Haven't seen a stray cat in 15 years.
Obviously it was never extinct if it came back.
you're brilliant, huh?
I hope someone has a “Noah’s Ark” of the things necessary to prevent future extinctions. Some sort of DNA/seed bank, just in case.
@@JustJacob-nt8eu- Alabama will have frozen human embryos...
The most smartest
@@JustJacob-nt8eucouldn’t agree with you more! Invasive plants and animals are causing local extinction ware I live and it seems that it’s only a matter of time before they cause permanent extinction for some species in the eastern us…
They weren't extinct, it's just that they only pop out of the Backrooms when food gets scarce.
So they be masters of the noclip?
🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for sharing Bill
I live in Monclova, Ohio (near Toledo) and I have had fishers on my property for about seven years now.
I spotted one cross the road in my swamp, south of my farm in Lafayette NY (South of Syracuse). When I went to look up where they live, the DEC website said they didn't live in my area. I now am trying to get a picture of it!
Cardiff
Offer them some KFC... 😂
Bear have been spotted along rt 20 , DEC said impossible until one was hit by a car
Ok Shrek
Yeah well say goodbye to the neighborhood cats with those around…😂
The native birds will be grateful for any decline in the population of domestic cats!
@@ericl2969
The native birds and everything else up to the size of a cat will see a decline because of fishers genius….🙄
Northeast of Boston, MA-fishers have been here forever.
Live in WNY - about 2013 I was working in local environmental field. Had a small plant to check on daily. It was Virtually by itself for 1/4 to 1/2 mile in all directions. Had a small creek running next to it. You'd pull in and drive to the end of a dirt road 1/4 M - swing over the creek and the plant was there ( Ranch house sized ). To the left a couple hundred yard was a turnaround with a half dozen empty small buildings ( failed industrial park ) - to the right and towards the main road was a good sized facility about the same distance. Anyways the road we came in on continued for another 100 yards or so and came out on a large field -- good 1/4 mile away was a local school with sports fields etc.. The road was typically 1 lane in width. So you have the road - turn off n park / plant and heading in the same direction as the road was a lawn going back to a stone discharge area. In between rd and lawn was a triangular treed/overgrown wood where the creek ran by.
So I ramble to set the location and time was early afternoon on a nice summer day. We get out of the truck and as I'm conversing with my partner and I'm facing in the direction of the school - about 30 yards away down the road I see this long black critter lope out the woods and bound across the road into the creek area. That's it. 2 eye blinks.
Never saw anything like it before. sleek, dark black, weasel shaped and the size of a fox maybe. I don't hunt but I've my share of birds, deer, squirrel sized critters, fox, and coyotes. Never seen on of these. I'm now betting on a Fisher. Was big and very graceful n fast.
This is about a hundred miles away as crow flies. Just saying.
Animals are returning as they know the darkness has left the planet, they are feeling safer and less threatened. It’s wonderful. (The world may appear crazier, but that is because the darkness is being exposed, brought to the light.)
The darkness has left the planet huh? What planet are you from, because it sure hasn't left planet Earth.
It has come back big time up here in North Ontario thankfully , the porcupine population was getting out of control !
Saw one in Midland Ontario (140 miles north west of Toronto). When I moved here, I didn't see many squirrels as I did in suburban Toronto where I previously. Maybe it's the fishers and minks that that must be more prevalent that reduce the smaller rodent population.
I live in north west PA. I have seen fishers here since 1995 when we spotted.our first one. Several have come and gone but we have at least once a summer that we see one.
That is fabulous news, i am definitely going to keep an eye out for them.
WOW that's SO cool!
We have plenty of them here in New Hampshire. They will decimate your small game populations.
Yeah it’s probably too much for there to be coyotes and fishers in the same ecosystem. I checked their historic ranges and it looks like they only slightly overlapped in Manitoba. An obvious solution would be to get rid of the coyotes but the only effective way to do that would be to bring back the wolves.
You guys are brain dead. They are literally native animals, they’re supposed to be here.. Humans decimate everything we touch, so we don’t have any room to talk.
I'll take two...
Isn't that the cycle: boom and bust
Yep. You absolutely need to protect your chickens properly. Skunks and raccoons will do the same though so if you have chickens or other game you should already be doing this...
There are so many Fishers in western NY that the state opened a season for them.
Yes! We were shocked to come face to face with a Fisher in our yard this year! First time ever in the 30 years we have lived here! Northern California...
they look like land otter.
Land otter?
A distant cousin of the Sky Otter 😂
They are such interesting and pretty animals. Out west we have pine martins which are very similar. I had one hop down a log to right beside me once. I was locked in place watching elk. It sat there chattering at me until it was satisfied and then went back to its business. Super cool!
That would be an awesome experience
@@woodstream6137 Pure magic!
you never lost a pet to one of these did you. I'd not let my dog or cat out a night alone...
@@judythompson8227 that's good! I don't think wildlife should be punished because people let their pets roam.
@@judythompson8227 your cats shouldn’t be out to kill birds anyway. Nature is what it is.
I found one in Howard County, Maryland a few weeks ago. She or he, was deceased on the road too, They were not known to be here yet either, so overall, it is a hopeful sign.
Beautiful animal. I’ve always wanted to see one in the wild.
The headline writer has been waiting his whole life to be able to use "extirpated" in a headline.
Nah. Seen this lots of times on stories about endangered species.
@toma5153 shut up. You know you haven't
Rude. You don't know me.@@Herbie11
Hurr durr big words hurt brain
I like seeing stuff like this! 😊👍
People who have chickens are NOT impressed
Last Fall, early one morning we woke up and my wife asked what was climbing down the tree. I looked and it was a fisher slowly making its way down a pitch pine. This is eastern Massachusetts.
They eat rabbits, squirrels, bird eggs (turkey,grouse, pheasent,). I don't understand how that has anything to do with luck.
Lucky for the fisher! 😂
This is not something to be happy about. I lived in an area where they secretly dropped some of these demons off and myself and several neighbors lost our cats. They can take down a deer and they love cats.
agreed, all the way down. I hate to think of the cats I lost to them over the years, before I wised up and started keeping them inside at night...
This is WONDERFUL NEWS for a change blessing from NATURE.
Yup. I saw one a few weeks ago here in the Ashland area.
Wow! Wonderful news!
I live in the deep south. I see more deer and turkeys now than I did growing up. The difference to me is that when I was a child everyone hunted wherever they wanted to. Now guns and ammo are expensive and if you don’t have your own land or belong to a hunting club you ain’t doing a whole lot of hunting. Over time most hunting clubs have become fanatical about protecting wildlife on leased land.
I had one walk by me and my yorkie in my back about 6 or 7 years ago. It stopped, looked at us then went on toward a ravine that is at the end of my backyard. I had never seen this animal in north columbus before and didn't know what it was. i looked it up and this animal in this video is undoubtedly the same. I asked a few different metro park rangers and none of them were sure of any fishers being sighted in north columbus in modern times.
Soooo...it wasn't "once extinct" it was thought to be extinct.
Life finds a way.
I think they mean extinct _in Ohio_, since it was obviously extant elsewhere. Like how we haven't seen a wild wolf in generations, either, but a pack could come and set up shop somewhere.
@@eliscanfield3913 They corrected the title. They originally used the word extinct but later changed it to extirpated. Extirpated is the term you mean as well. I learned a new word today.
They just haven’t been paying taxes !
@@eliscanfield3913No, I think they mean extirpated. If an animal (or bird, butterfly, fish, or whatever) exists anywhere on the planet, it is NOT extinct. If it’s not located in a certain geographical area, then it’s considered extirpated in that area. Sometimes it is referred to as “local extinction.”
I think what happened in this case was that whoever wrote the script for this report, wasn’t clear on the definitions and misused them.
What happened to all the pheasants?
Family in the PA Forest areas of Cook and Allegheny National have been sighting and dealing with them for decades.
One more amazing kritter to marvel at . . .
Sorry about the momma. She deserved better.
But I'm glad to hear Ohio is re acquiring previously indigenous wildlife.
Hey ho
Way to go
Ohio.
It's amazing what can happen when people stop killing everything they see!
Saw one around 15 years ago, the Ashtabula river flooded, and this this was standing on it's hind legs.
Though to myself, that's the biggest mink I've ever seen! Then I learned about what a Fisher was. The experts told me " impossible!".
Haven't seen one in 200 years because they are so elusive. They have always been there.
I seen one of these several years ago in jefferson county, southern Indiana sitting beside the road. Had no clue what it was at the time and I had to do a lot of research to identify it as this. Wonderful to see wildlife reclaiming their territory.
Let me know when the smart humans reappear.
What is changing that the different animals are back? These are vicious, so be careful!
I’m not happy about their return. If they would stick to eating mice and squirrels it would be great. But if you have chickens it’s not a good thing.
Moronic statement. Get an education.
@@organicinohio5398 They were not put here on this earth for you or your KFC dinner. WTF is wrong with you people. Dropout, obviously....
I am so glad to hear this!😀👍
The lady is ridiculous 🙄. They're NOT scary. Nor does it take an adjustment to live around.
Try telling that to 90% of the commenting morons ....
I live in Western PA. For years, we had a Fisher living along our stream back in the mid to late 60s. Exactly the animal pictured. and I had tentatively identified it from a book put out by a wildlife group that divided North American Animals by family, with pictures. Of course, when I wrote in, they refused to credence a 10 year old with a legitimate sighting. The next door neighbor, who owned chickens eventually killed it, when it started raiding his coups.
Your neighbour is an idiot. You got chickens? Then cage them so they can't be gotten to. It really is THAT SIMPLE.
These are one of my favorite animals. I love the mustalid family of species of animals. They have such vast array of unique types. Especially when you learn about the prehistoric giant mustalids.
That is nearly 100% confirmation of a sighting I had just north of Lancaster, Ohio on Pleasant Valley Golf Course back in 2020. I believed that is was I had seen when it flashed across a 15 foot opening behind the 11th green heading straight down to the creek. During the lockdown we spent all of our spare time on that little course.
I would rather see the earth filled with lots and lots of animals than to see it overflowed with humans😢
The problem here is the animal was never extinct
More like a Democrat. It steals and is a weasel
We had a fisher spotted in The Bronx several years ago.
We have been seeing them in central Minnesota for about five years; very unusual.
If you see one then they weren’t extinct.
Not good for small game hunting 😢
Who cares?
@@BrianMoro-gz8de poor baby can't hunt. Cry me a river. People should be happy a species is making a recovery.
@@Palox1990 You really had to go straight for the condescension, didn't ya? And you wonder why people don't like modern environmentalists....
Pick on someone your own size.
@@kyotra ya know what, if your first thought when a species is making a come back is, " darn ,guess it will be harder to kill more stuff". You don't deserve respect. It's not like this is a invasive species that will upset the ecosystem.
I had the good fortune to watch,( for 4.5 hours)a litter of 4 kits/mother Fisher, then her interaction w/visiting male suitor( after she bedded the kits, she & he "went for a walk") then she returned, and continued to to let the kits play for an hour). This happened in 2000, in Southwest Virginia/Pulaski County. I didn't have cell-phone cam, or any vid equipment( I was sitting @deer-stand). They acted very similar to cat/skunk/etc family. I had previously saw Fishers on 3 seperate occaisions in adjoining county, and am sure of what I saw. I have hunted for 60+ years, and these four encounters are total of all Fishers I have seen. They are very rare/secretive.
A friend told me a fisher came into his camp site and started playing with his shoe.
They need to put the speed limits to 25 miles per hour. That's all the human animal can handle.
No.
Make trapping illegal.
20 year's ago we didn't have any here where I am in New York now they are absolutely everywhere!
I live only live a couple miles from Ashtabula county in PA. Ive had fishers on my property for years. Pa game commision has been reintroducing them for years now.
I saw one on the lost Peninsula last summer
The title has been corrected. It used to say "A once-extinct animal is back in Northeast Ohio".
Im on the North Shore of Lake Erie🇨🇦 I got a little bugger here. Usually hangs around my back creek but wandered up&pulled one of my chickens thru the smallest crack in the coop. His little paw marks were in the dust on top of the nesting box lid😮
13 March 2024
First - class journalism , really .
Thank you .
I am interested in animal stories in Ohio and Indiana .
I don't understand why they are termed " fisher .
I also do not understand why marmot are termed " ground hogs.
We have them in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The one near my house is much larger than the one in this video.
Oh ya we see these all the time here in Canada 😊
Their all over in NW MN. Cool critters
Ohio's version of the Tasmanian devil
I reported Fischer sighting in my front yard at dusk, near the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland to the DNR for Ohio three years ago and they didn’t believe me. Hand to God…
I had seen those last year at Huntington Beach in Bay Village, Ohio.
I fairly recently saw the remains of one by a forest road (it had been hit by a car) in the Finger Lakes region of NY state.
I seen a young one a few years ago in Jefferson County Ohio on a creek bank while walking to my treestand during bow season. It's the only one I've ever seen.
It's been back, seen one years ago at Lake Loaramie. And it was very large.
I've had them on trail cam down here in TN. Had to ask our builders what it was.
Ive seen several fishers in and around geneva state park up here on the shores of lake erie around some of the rivers too
This is great news that we are all treating our environment better!
Im from northwest PA. And we've never not had fisher cats around.
Ive seen one of these in the northern panhandle of WV as well! I thought it was a skinny beaver or something before