Cougar Stress: SciShow Talk Show
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Lara Brenner talks about her research on how stressed cougars are and how the public views them. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders joins the show with Seraphina the red fox!
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Few years ago I was out walking down an old cat road deer hunting. Up ahead of me about 100 yards was a cougar in the middle of the road. I stop, It turn looked at me and hunched down walked into the bush. That feeling you get when you are being hunted really got the blood flowing. I backed up to a small hill and told my partners to come get me. I don't know I just felt like I shouldn't have walked out of there.
Most interactions with cougars do not end up with a situation where the human is attacked, there has only been less than 1 attack per year even in a large state like california.
Similar story. I was walking through the woods out near a bayou about a year ago, late summer. I was by myself, and I'd been hoping to spot a black bear or maybe the infamous rougarou, but I didn't see this thing until it was almost too late. I was walking down the trail and my phone, which was on full volume, started ringing. Not a second later did that cat burst out of the bush in front of me to left left and high tail it in the other direction
I trained as a biologist. Unfortunately I got too sick with Crohn's disease to ever make any use of my education. Why in the flying puma-poo am I mentioning this?
Because this video just converted me from a regular viewer to a donor on Patreon.
Keep up the great work, guys! You're officially the only channel on RUclips I've ever donated to now.
I love how chill Hank and Jessi are with the animals pooping and peeing on the table at this point.
when you were talking about cougars being house cats I thought about how I deal with my cat when he's bad. I just scooped him up and kiss his face. I don't think that works for cougars.
I guess depends it on your physical build lmao
I'm a hunter who believes in coexistence with large predators. I grew up with take only what you need.
Also I know small scale farmers who deter predators and only kill if the have no other choice.
My pov is that we should try to coexist and only act in self defense.
The "meet an animal"-segment was like bringing a dog to a date with a girl who is into cats.
Hunters confuse me. First, they argue that they are keeping the deer population down in place of big predators. Then they kill off said big predators, because they might reduce the population of deer.
A Bird Lover not all hunters are the same. Most are big nature preservation type, but then you have the ego driven trophy hunters....
Low key, they just want to hunt but with an ethical excuse xD
Sounds more like you getting this information from two different types of hunters.
Hunters are people and come with all the different views that people have. Some do it for food, some do it for sport, some do it for thrill, and some do it for some other reason. And similarly, they have differing opinions on carnivores. Some want fewer to protect their family, some want more to reduce the amount of hunting necessary to quell overpopulating prey. Some want them to stay nearby so they can see them from time to time and some want them to stay in the wilds away from civilization. Some want them so they can hunt more dangerous prey and some don't want them anywhere because of how dangerous they have the potential to be. Surely there's more opinions I'm missing but the point here is that hunters don't agree with each other just like politicians don't agree with each other, because they're all human.
With respect sir, it is a very good idea to actually look into the license and hunting tag systems in the US. It may change your view on hunters being blood thirsty and cold blooded.
The type, gender, weight, location, season, and down to the ways you can kill the prey like the caliber of bullet are heavily regulated. The tags are designed in such a way that it promotes sustainability between species. For example, you can only hunt most species in the autumn season and in very limited quantity.
As for really big game animals, the exact individuals are targeted for very specific reason. Like an old male black rhino has lost the ability to provide for the other rhinos and has killed some other younger male rhinos in the region. The tag for that old rhino was therefore put in auction for the right to kill it, and the millions of profit form the auction is put directly back into wildlife conservation in Africa.
It's very hard to explain all this in a comment. But i strongly encourage you to research more into this. May change your mind on this.
About the cougar vs man fight, I watched an account of a woman who survived an attack when the cat bit her hand. She shoved her arm down it's throat, which is dangerous because it has sharp curved teeth, but in this case, the cat actually gagged and through up her arm, then panicked and ran away from her. The lady needed stitches in her arm, but it's better than being killed.
I bleive this. I remember being really little and going to the nature museum down the road from my house and the stuffed mountain lion had no teeth. I thought it was the funniest thing that whole day.
I went out with a stressed cougar in the past.
These may not get the most views but I really seriously love these episodes and hope y'all never stop making them.
I enjoy these Scishow talk shows, please do more if you are able to do so on a more consistent basis.
i live about a half hour from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and we have at least one Cougar here. So they're definitely coming back
therealgoody yeah you never know. Everything points towards wild but it could be a "pet" too.
That same cougar that ended up in Milwaukee was documented crossing the farms of both my grandparents between Milton and Whitewater and my parents outside Fort Atkinson, via tracks and game cameras. So they definitely roam!
RyDaddy thats awesome!
JMB3 Official yeah, good luck with that.😂🤣😂🤣 They suck. You will see.
49 states not 50. Hawaii only has large sea predator. namely sharks.
This was pretty cool to hear about, would like to have more of these kind of interviews
Lara seems like a cool person. I would love to do similar research when I get older :)
Lara was a good guest.
Hello from central northern New Hampshire. For the 5 years that I have lived here, I've had grey foxes raising their families in my back yard. Wonderful fascinating critters.
Awesome video. I live on the western edge of the TN valley, and I saw a cougar year before last in Middle Tennessee and no one believed. This year, it's been in the local news that big cats are back!
hank, you gonna let the fox scratch the heck out of your table?
Actually, newer studies show that standing still may up one's risk of becoming puma chow. There was a study from the University of California, Davis, that looked at around 200 puma attacks from the last hundred years. The study also found, however, that those who ran had a slightly higher chance of being killed in an attack-28 percent of those who fled died as a result of injuries, compared with 23 percent of those who remained motionless during big cat attacks. About 39 percent who moved away slowly when approached by a mountain lion escaped without injury.
On the other hand, people who froze were the least likely to escape injury when a mountain lion attacked. Only 26 percent of them escaped. They also had the greatest frequency of severe injuries: 43 percent of those who stood still in the face of a lion were badly injured compared with 17 percent of those who fled, according to the study.
So the best combo is probably make yourself look big, shout, throw stuff, and back away slowly.
Jaimes your kitty picture looks like my kitty that just got killed by a cougar right next to the wall of our house. They are no longer afraid of humans and pets are food for them.
An example of an attack from a large predator in Montana. A guy was bow hunting a few years ago, and he stumbled into a grizzly bedding area. He was mauled, and lived. When he was interviewed he stressed the fact that the bear wasn't to be blamed. He walked into it's territory, and it reacted how bare would.
I like that Emiy stressed that even though the behaviour might appear cuddly, it doesn't mean that it is. That's something that's very easy to forget.
I took the test on the Golden Compass movie, and my daemon was a fox. Ever since then, I've had more of an affinity for them, and when ever I see a fox I'm like oh, that's my daemon. And when they mentioned "curious and fear" is a fox, that is me to a T. Horrifying anxiety. Overwhelming curiosity.
Very informative! Thanks Lara, you're doing important stuff. Keep it up!
Lovely interviews. Liked all three women very much.
Lara did a great job explaining the problem and kept up with the jokes. Great show!
Nice couch you got there
I attended a Job Corps. in Utah and we had a mother with cubs camp out on the porch of one of the female dorms one night. Wild life was called and they were caught and moved. I myself was relieved that they were moved and not killed.
More of this woman please, she's great.
Northern Ontarian here. Finally seeing the cougar population on the rise. It seems to have taken decades, but they are being sighted more often the past few years.
Did you guys hear that? Fox AREN'T pets.
Yes! Finally a in-person talk show!
We had a red fox for a while. It was not a pet, but we lived in the forest. It had it's den behind our house. They are realy cool animals. That scream is unnerving though.
Where can I get the james webb space telescope figurine?
Love this long videos, really a great chance to go deep and learn so much thanks :D.
That canvas picture in the background, is that a stylized picture of the Targeting Computer from the Star Wars Trench Run? Sure, It doesn't look like it directly, but to me it totally seems like a Geek Snipe.
"Deer colored but tigers." I'm totally calling pumas Deer Tigers now. Thanks SciShow.
18:40 "Youl'll give me a treat anyway, i know you" nice hahahha
My cat was very interested in watching the red fox.
Hank, a few years ago, a young male cougar met his unfortunate demise at the hands of the Chicago Police Department, after wandering all the way from South Dakota into a residential neighborhood on the north side if the city. The CPD felt that it would have been too dangerous to attempt to tranquilize and relocate the animal, because the area where the cougar had been cornered (after many sightings) was a densely populated place and they would not have been able to restrict the animal's movements while a tranquilizer took its effect.
BJP
Ohhhhh, Cougar the animal. My head went to a completely different direction for a second there.
Cougars in all 50 states? I have trouble believing that cougars lived in Hawaii.
"Poop would kinda be my immediate thought" _Hank
That's like the theme for 2017
As an outdoorsman, cougars scare me far more than bears. Bears aren't ambush predators, so you can often see them coming and take precautions such as bear spray or bullets, should it prove necessary. Cougars hit you from behind, often before you know they are there, which makes them way more terrifying.
Great video, I always enjoy the Talk Show :-)
I thought this was about older women... unsubscribed 😠😤😒
420Megaskunk Me too.😂
+John-Michael Barnhill 😂😂😂
+kalle hänninen I mean... yea, I tend to want to be around the cougar's anus, nah'mean?? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I hope so for your own good.
420Megaskunk no you haven't unsubbed liar
From what I've heard of the Northwest woods I am far more afraid of being gone after by a serial killer than a cougar or any other animal. Also serials are a species that are actively going after me versus a cougar who does not want to run into me at all. So yah, I think humans are far scarier than any other animal who just wants to live their life.
That big blue picture/painting on the wall reminds me of the X-Wing's targeting computer from the trench run from Star Wars.
Amazing video. I always love the animals in the end.
Oh man, that fox is so pretty. I've worked as a research assistant to biologists, but we worked with insects and spiders. Make no mistake, they are really fascinating too, but it's not quite the same as having a fox on a leash.
Lived out in the country a couple years ago. Had goats. Thankfully still have children. No so much with the goats any more. When the cougar started killing our goats, right there where our 2 year olds played... that's scary. They are in Texas incidentally, one was killed just outside Dallas last year which is where I live.
That's what proper fences/enclosures are for...
Me "i should go to sleep now"
Also me "oooo scishow uploaded a 27 min video"
Was just thinking today that I wanted to see a new SciShow Talk Show! Amazing timing.
There's definitely at least one in Maryland on the Eastern shore. I've seen it in my yard. I'd really like to get in touch with the lady to try to contact her to try to figure out what to do about this because we've found a dismembered deer in the yard after I saw it.
Sci Show could never make a video about fingers for fear of the comments.
I had a cougar try and pick me up at the bar the other day.
Deborah Meltrozo
I'm married, and she's super picky lol.
This set, oh my god, I'm in love. I just keeps getting better! Great production design!
That fox gaze at 25 minutes.
We live in Philly and there was a Cougar attack in the state park near us. So they are definitely moving.
Eli Dietrich yes, the government denies that cougers and mountain lions are here but they most definitely are!
Connecticut? I live in the North-east and we have an 80 something year old lady who's as good as deaf and likes to walk her two small dogs everyday. I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of a mountain lion prancing around our neighborhood.
Why do our knuckles pop/crack? What's happening when we pop/crack them?
yeah, I didn't read seraphina's 'snuggling' as snuggling, I read it as 'I want down and under the arm might work, but if it doesn't I can still kinda hide'
that fox's eyes are stunning
We've had random cougar sightings in Delaware for at least the last 20 years.
SciShow talk always leaves me Eger to learn.
I love your shows , it's inspiring!
I found this very interesting! Great episode!
Lara's voice is so similar to Jessi's!!! Really freaked me out-
a guy strangled a cougar with his bare hands in my area. The cougar was attacking his children.
Paul Kent too bad the tree huggers don’t realize that they become very dangerous due to overpopulation and hunger.
I fell in love for her S2
cougar stress....
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am I watching the right video???
We have had cougar sightings here in Ottawa Canada so yes very much east of the Rockies.
Yah, the US wildlife services are trying to covertly protect the cougars by pretending they don't exist. They live in wooded river valleys and forest pockets all over the eastern USA. I think it's more important to teach people to coexist with the big cats and recognize their crucial role in balancing the ecology. We have deer overpopulation down here that wreaks havoc on crops and spreads tick-based diseases in people and animals.
I'm gonna start a band and call it Cougar Stress. It's gonna be a bunch of cougars like me.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but bobcats are still considered a lynx because they are in the genus of Lynx.
She's so pretty. I know I'm not supposed to but I really want to hug her!!!!!
*49 states.
YES! You did it you proved you're smarter than the LITERAL cougar expert!
Cool! Now I know how to drug-test my cougar :D
Jokes aside, interesting episode! Looking forward to the next one!!
I love learning about the different animals, I strain sometimes to see the face when being fed. Suggestion put a camera behind where all guests are sitting so a view of the animal can be seen instead of just seeing its back. Love your series, love the animals. You are doing fabulous, just wish could see their face like when they are being fed? Thanks A++++
there are tons of mountain lions around here, i get sad cuz they shoot them when they come into town even if they're just walking around. But they built a gun range on the far side of the Wildcat Hills and that pretty much makes them go towards town.
but what's does the fox say?
first woman is a cat person (cougar) and the other is dog person (fox) and look at their personalities, the way they differ in talking. it's so cooool
lol i love the mild awkwardness
I am required to thumb up this video for your animal guest.
check with co. springs bike paths and trails for deaths caused by cougars at one point one death or two a year ,since the 80's by locals and sheriff dept.also game officials reported locally but not nationally ,hurts local resort towns ,that's why most locals are allowed open side arms
Very nice. Am going to put it in watch later. So I can watch when am not feeding my pets.
To the random reader. If you're wondering why they did not clean up the mess. I suspect it was for the foxes benefit. By the time the fox was taken away the show was all but over.
melhor entrevista de todas, nem que ela podia me dar uma chance!
They're celebrities here in LA, I carry some spray with me in case I ever see one again, always walk with friends since they're less likely to approach that way
At 16:33 ............ Which one exactly is the red fox?
I swear there was an episode of Scishow Talk Show where Jessi had an opossum.
Lmfao she says "yeah" like 1000 times.
oKevs once you noticed the uhm...
But she isn't a host, she is a scientist, so that's perfectly fine.
At the beginning with man vs cougar idea, they kinda joking around but there was a survival story where a dude grabbed a mountain lion by the tongue. He got mauled up pretty bad but he lived. Or the dude who got attacked from behind and it grabbed his back pack. He just took off his back pack. It lost the element of surprise and ran off.
Also where i was going to school. In 2012 a cougar was shot in my back yard. Because it was killing people pets. And killing deer next to college dorms. It was also spotted sleeping in peoples window wells. It gotten to comfortable around people so sadly it was put down. So it just roamed the city like it was its city. People were scared to go out at night. But i do love cougars the're pretty amazing, effective creatures that deserve respect.
I live in South MS and we have a ton of red foxes.
why is your volume so high ?
in Brazil is the same, almost all "Onça"(cougar) have been hunted.
Call me immature but all this talk of cougars has me cracking up!
The relationship Americans have with cougars seems similar to Finns and wolves. Wolves in Finland are even more endangered and kill even less people. They can be a threat to the property of some people raising reindeer, but wolves haven't caused any human deaths in Finland for over 120 years at this point. Most people will never have to deal with them and yet the fear of them is quite disproportional. I studied the changes in wolf population for a school paper some years back. The population is up a little and public image of wolves is a tad better as people are taking its endangerment more seriously, but it runs a serious risk of taking a hit if they become a little more common and sightings of wolves increase.
The fox seems about as sociable and domesticated as my cat... he's practically feral.
... whats with the "X-Wing targeting computer" picture on the wall...???
Why is it called a Warthog though? It doesn't really look like a pig, I think it looks like a puma.
I've seen a cougar here in upstate NY near lake ontario, twice.