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Why We Owe a Vulture on Steroids an Apology
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Condors:
Great personality
Eats nasty food most other won't
ZERO "Pretty Privilege"
Top tier bro
Nah some have the pretty privilege but are associated with everyone of them that doesn't.
Idk about the 0 pretty privilege since they looked gorgeous
We really gassing up being ugly these days smh
They kinda cute somehow though idk
@eliasmagus5086and what about it 😭😭 pretty people have had it good for too long
When you realize we developed chemicals that nearly erased from existence a bird that spices its food with antrax and botulism the same way we spice ours with salt and pepper, that's when you know we went too far
That's not really fair comparison. NSAID's are fine for primates and most other mammals. Birds on the other hand can eat capsacin without issue.
@barryschalkwijk9388 Yeah, but the DDT, tho
@angelcollinayeah that shit was uncalled for.
Except we didn't.
The "scientists" who wrote the report about DDT falsified their data, including photos, and one of them admitted to it thirty years later. Six separate EPA studies were unable to replicate their results, but the EPA banned DDT anyway due to public outcry.
"So what?" you might say. Well, before DDT was banned, malaria was virtually eradicated outside sub-Saharan Africa, with just 12,000 deaths per year _everywhere_ outside Africa. After it was banned, worldwide deaths spiked. In 2005, India alone had 209,000 malaria deaths. A concerted effort has gotten that down to under 10K per year since 2022, but remember, pre-ban, there were 12K _everywhere_ outside Africa.
The DDT ban has killed _millions_ of people. It's hard to even know how many, since if it hadn't been banned, it might have gotten deployed in Africa as well. The most conservative estimate I can find on malaria deaths are that it has killed 26 million people since 1972. The more accepted numbers are 40-60 million.
For comparison, WWII killed 70-85 million people via combat, bombing, starvation, and disease (including malaria). So the DDT ban is equal to 30-85% of WWII.
And the cover-up continues to this day. Search "malaria deaths by year" and try to find a report that gives numbers pre-1980. None do, because that was when the numbers stopped spiking and started merely rising steadily. All reports from the 1990s onward go back only to 1980. You have to find a pre-1990 report to get numbers between 1953 and 1979.
@angelcollina It did nothing to condors, as far as anyone can actually tell. The scientists who said it did couldn't replicate their data, and one admitted to falsifying it. EPA studies failed to replicate their results _six times_ before they banned it anyway. Deadliest lie in human history.
"Yeah, it's a nasty job, but someone has to do it." - Vultures.
Truly the Mike Roe of the skies.
That sentence wouldn't really work for vultures
"It ain't much, but it's honest work" - Also Vultures
Bonus points: you have little competition for your food.
Meanwhile the ice popsicle did eis eating what its mouth touched
There are some turkey vultures near my house and they perch in the big trees to sun. When I go for walks, I'll stop and tell them they're pretty and ask them to pose and they would kinda look at me. Now a few weeks later, when they see me walking my dog, they come down and hop closer. I've always wanted to tame a corvid, but man having a wild vulture friend would be next level
I was trying to befriend my local corvids and ended up with a pack of turkey vultures instead. They don't let me come close, but they like to hang around.
I pretty sure our ancient ancestors would have stayed away from Such creatures😂. I even watched a study bout how Ancient Humans were more intelligent as compared to modern humans.
My chickens think they are hawks and are afraid of them. I don't mind vultures. They do a dirty job that makes the world cleaner.
not to alarm you because yes Vultures are an amazing bird. However there also opportunistic predators and theres a pretty decent chance their eye balling your dog depending on the number of them.
@bbwennon Lol my dog outweighs the vulture by a good margin and there's only one. I do appreciate the concern though
The saddest thing is how poachers will deliberately poison vultures because their presence alerts rangers.
That is so annoyingly sad.
Fk them poachers
@TobiBabalola-u3vwe need potchers for potchers
@Adorable_centurion Bounty hunters
Delet the poachers and feed their bodies to the birds.
Vultures are holy creatures. Tending the dead. Bowing low. Bared head. Whispers to cold flesh, “Your old name is not your king. I rename you 'Everything.'”
by Jarod K. Anderson.
I don’t know if this is a reference or a compliment to vultures, but I like it either way 😊
Going to sob this is beautiful
the first time i read this poem, i cried
@abelaguilar-acosta8691 "Clergy" - a poem by Jarod K. Anderson.
That's lovely.
Today I learned that Johnny Cash was fined by the government for causing a wildfire that killed a substantial amount of an endangered species.
And didn't care. 🤬
I literally asked my husband just now "what if I told you that one of your favorite musicians was responsible for almost extinct-ing an endangered variety of your favorite animal?" Cause he loves vultures. He gave me the most confused and concerned look lmao.
Chatgpt vehemently denies this ever happened
@Michardrayfairnot sure if you’re saying that’s evidence it’s wrong, but for any who don’t know yet, ChatGPT is NOT a reliable source of information
My dad loved him back when he was alive, he'd be rolling in his grave if he knew 😭
"Hug your mother, acknowledge your father" is so on point I cannot stop laughing.
bro honest that he out here making comedy, that just happens to be mostly based on nature. but he a student in nature, pro on comedy tho.
In Bolivia the condora were the only animals that walked free at the old zoo in La Paz, they were so kind to people, specially children.
They love us, some of us very dearly. They can actually die from sorrow if their favorite keepers pass away or are even gone for too long.
“Condors! If I brought back a flock of condos, none of you people would be saying anything!”
in my zoo where I live in canada they let the peacocks roam free, they are not kind to anyone
Flying cat go brrr
@BlueVortex22 peacocks are for security. They alert to everything.
waste management is an underrated business
Amen, it sure is under-appreciated. Scavengers are nature's clean up crew. 😊
"It's just Bidness".
Every time i end up in the hospital i make sure to thank every sanitation and housekeeping worker i see. I am a CNA and was an EMT (tho briefly) so i definitely know how important they are lol
I mean without them, things would go to the dumps really quick, literally.
*I also did when i went to school but like, now i dont cuz i have no reason to be there, lol, tho if there is an even i will be at i do, my mom still teaches and the school does a lot
Which is why trash collectors deverse to be treated with much higher respect than a president should ever recieve.
Yeah I read about how most of India's vultures died a bit ago and it was causing corpses to pile up and dogs were gathering around them, eventually they found out a popular cow medication had been poisoning them.
Greetings from Bolivia. My grandfather told me many years ago that condors are the reason the sun comes out. And the day they disappear will be darkness forever. summarizing, the apocalipsis.
"APOCALYPSE", GENIUS! 🙄😒
@dmhq-administration you know they're from Bolivia, understood the word (which is a real word btw), and still decided to correct them in a demeaning way. Not cool man..
@maxksondzyk i assure you they're probably an old man. my grandpa types like that.
@dmhq-administrationsyfm
@dmhq-administration learn spanish
Griffon vultures and bearded vultures always be aura farming ngl
My cousin (a huge animal lover) LOVES vultures and condors. If you let her, she will talk your ear off about how awesome they are.
I am ABSOLUTELY sharing this video with her.
I’dvibe with her ! Because I like birds especially the more misunderstood ones like condors and vultures also ravens and crows also owls especially small owls
@catbardsandmoveryes!!! 🖤🦉
I befriended a turkey vulture. It was a juvenile and I saw it hanging out walking around the neighborhood but not flying. I saw why when it was on the roof of my split level sunning itself. Its wing didn’t open properly like the other one. After seeing it a few times tossed it some raw chicken and it hopped down off the roof and nibbled but seemed more interested in me. Followed me til I sat in my chair to continue tanning and then it decided he would get some sun as well… 5 ft from me. 😂
After a while I had to go inside and it left. I found a feather outside my door the next day though right under the place where it likes to hang out. A few months went by through and I was worried about him. Then I saw him flying overhead (he has distinctive missing feathers). The last few times he’d had a “friend” with him. So seems to be thriving and yet still comes to check in with me. Definitely see how are sometimes described as “puppies of the sky”.
You heard about the seals getting rabies how does that work with the fear of water
@TheoFizylkl it’s not quite a literal fear of water. Iirc, it’s more like the body makes you unable to swallow liquids via very painful spasms/paralysis, hence (partly) why rabid animals will drool. Though this may stop them from drinking, I doubt it would stop them from swimming entirely
Even with this, keep in mind rabies develops in stages, with hydrophobia and extreme aggression coming last. I don’t imagine hydrophobia being an issue for the majority of the virus’s course
Fun fact, the comic character of Condorito was created as backlash to Disney not including Chile in the Three Caballeros
Disney did include Chile, but it was made so poorly that Pepo (Condorito’s creator) ended up creating him as a result.
Also, Pepo's hand drawn Condorito is so wildly different compared to the modern version it's hilarious putting them side by side.
@Ramk0core
can you share a link please
Waitwaitwait . . . so he's not only a giant vulture, he's a giant middle-finger to Disney, too?!
Gotta get me some Condorito merch!
@MastahSpakkuDaze Pepo is based.
was lucky enough to see a condor in person in my OWN BACKYARD :^D they're seriously huge
Woah 😳
That's amazing!
I saw one, one morning prolly 1999, walking tomthe bus for school. It was sitting on the very top of the tallest tree around. It was gigantic, I felt in danger at first. That bird couldn't care less about me.
I befriended not a condor but a turkey vulture. It was a juvenile and I saw it hanging out walking around the neighborhood but not flying. I saw why when it was on the roof of my split level sunning itself. Its wing didn’t open properly like the other one. After seeing it a few times tossed it some raw chicken and it hopped down off the roof and nibbled but seemed more interested in me. Followed me til I sat in my chair and then it decided he would get some sun as well… 5 ft from me. 😂
After a while I had to go inside and it left. I found s feather outside my door the next day though. A few months went by and I worried about him. Then I saw him flying overhead (he has distinctive missing feathers). The last few times he’d had a “friend” with him. So seems to be thriving and yet still comes to check in with me. Definitely see how are sometimes described as “puppies of the sky”.
and everyone clapped
"Oow, that's a comma." Beatifully delivered.
14:48 “if there are no condors alive, just know that I have died”
…so you’re a condor?
Dressed as a human
That explains his creativity, lol!!
Did he stutter?
😂
Two Condors in a trench coat (more size accurate)
@JustAFuzzyKiwiDefinitely not. Three condors in a trench coat would look like Shaq
1:40 Chile mentioned🗣🗣🗣🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🔥🔥🔥
similar to the Texas flag
I was at a rehabilitation centre with my family in 2017, and the guide showed us how he holds a vulture on his arm while feeding it. he asked if anyone in the group wanted to try it, and no one budged, but I immediately went forward and wanted to do it! Having a vulture sitting on your arm is really heavy! It was so cool!
Torn between "I want one" and "If I get one it will give me Tuberculosis"
My uncle helped with a lot of the work to restore the California Condor on Catalina Island off the coast of California. Really proud of the work he did! Gonna share this with him and family.
Why has @emiliecarlis made an identical comment?
Awesome 🤩 👏
"Vulture populations in the U.S. are generally healthy, stable, and increasing, with millions of birds across the country. The Turkey Vulture population increased by roughly 1.8% annually from 1966-2019, while the Black Vulture population grew by approximately 3.4% annually during the same period"
from a basic google search.. meanwhile he's showing they're down to 60,000 ...? but this data clearly says there's millions across the country?? he doesn't cite anything where does he get his numbers from?? please inform me if you know.
@ericwtfsky Hes talking about the condors
@Troy-f5b8tah dangit .. yea sorry.. question still remains if anyone has any vulture knowledge
Bearded vultures might be my favourite bird just for how cool they look. They also coat themselves in mud/water rich in iron oxide (aka rust) and we still don't have a solid idea why! The best theories are that its either cosmetic to signify social status or that it might have antibacterial effects
it is war paint ÔvÔ
Maybe something to do with self inoculating against tetanus
Could this be why?
Iron oxide and lead reduction involves processes where iron oxides act as agents to reduce lead compounds or where both are reduced from smelting waste (SWS) at high temperatures, often exceeding \(1500^{\circ }C\), to recycle metals. Lead oxide (\(\text{PbO}\)) is more easily reduced than iron oxide (\(\text{Fe}_{2}\text{O}_{3}\)) due to lower stability. Iron oxides are used in metallurgical, environmental, and electrolysis contexts to manage and recover lead.
Maybe the "rust soak" extracts lead from the birds blood. Feathers are very brittle bones. Maybe porous.
*pants heavily as I restrain myself to info dump seven paragraphs of information on bearded vultures*
@the_gnome2006 do it
12:20 that specific vulture is known to consume a diet of almost exclusively whole bones
Yeee, I love them, they're my favorite vulture
Bearded vultures are so awesome, top 1 vulture
Yum
@kingconrad4577 Yeah, but "bearded vulture" makes them sound like hipsters who will judge your carrion as "too mainstream."
Now, if you were to announce: "Behold -- the LAMMERGEIER!", now THAT sounds epic and worthy of awe, a living myth on the wing.
Or "ossifrage" -- The Bone-Breaker! Comes with its own built-in electric guitar riff.
@Beedo_Sookcool Lammergeier sounds really cool ngl
As a former goth kid I just liked them because of the death aspect but now I love them completely an entirely and would die for them and maybe they’ll eat my corpse
love your name! have you seen any of the videos of someone talking about crappybarbara? hilarious! 😅
Become a Zoroastrian and you will get your wish. Traditionally, they would lay their dead atop a dakhma or "Tower of Silence" and let the scavengers and the elements take care of it because they consider both the Earth and fire to be sacred, so burial or cremation were not options.
3:52 wow i just lost some respect for cash.
just some? 💀
Well he lost a lot of himself cause of that fire so I imagine he lose some respect for himself as well
Respect for the dead both the wildlife and Cash
No one is perfect. Not to mention Johnny wouldn't give a shit what you think about him back then.
@marche800 because he hurt himself today to see if he can feel
This is the first time I'm hearing about Johnny Cash and the condors. 😬
Yeah, like, I get it if it was an accidental fire caused by engine problems... these things do happen, but his callousness about it is shocking.
That man was always an asshole
@ANPC-pi9vu There's a reason he sounded so sincere when he covered "Hurt." He really did a lot of shit he regretted.
@Pazuzu4All You really defended a guy who killed an endangered species by bringing up a song. ick
@GrimdarkCorpse Get over it
My uncle used to call me condorito when I was a kid, I remember I used to hate it and would try to fight him over it... thank you for bringing back a sweet memory of my childhood man. 💜
That’s cute 🥰
Now I'm curious why you got the nickname "little carrion eating bird"
My dad called me “weasel” and man do I miss it.
2:14 can’t let this man perform this hell of a tongue twister and let it go unnoticed. wild.
0:40 Total Drama Reference caught.
I don’t get it
@RandomEntertainmentOfficalthe background music here is the song "Condor" from Total Drama World Tour. They are trying to calm the condor down to put back the eggs and win the challenge.
Ball knower
even better, later on in the condor baby training section about the power lines, there's a blink and you'll miss it reference to cody crashing into power lines!
@orangeblossommapping6:08
I knew that was a Condor as soon as i saw the baby. Condors are awesome in my book. 🎉
Condors should be awesome in everyone's books. Who wouldn't love a giant friendly sky puppy that saves us from any number of truly horrid diseases?
Yes... and they are cute! I don't care what anyone says, they're cuties.
@samijodavis9204uh no they are cool that’s the right word for it!!
@FantasticFawnleap I didn't say they weren't cool. I just said they were cute.
@samijodavis9204no they are cool you don’t call a bird of prey cute when they are adults that makes no sense!!
Love how Casual's first video of 2026 is about vulture on steroids
What are you? a bot? a multiuser account? what are you!?!?
@Taha_Medya An angry borzoi
Bruh how....... you're everywhere man
@Taha_Medya Hes a weird coked out PDFile stalker named Erik Spoelstra (yea like the basketball coach, but this guy is Dutch) that got exposed on twitter. He cant show his face anywhere else on social media anymore, so he lives on youtube now.
2:44 I've always heard about how bad DDT was for birds and how it affected their eggs, but I never saw what it actually did to the eggs, holy shit
14:56 I hope the commenter goes far and does amazing things in their life!
11:23 I will not stand for the slander of my boys
Hatersgonnahate
I think they’re pretty in a “we’re the wrecking crew” kind of way.
The Dark Crystal reference... definitely a man of culture.
mmmmMMMMMmmm :)
@Pridiot I'll forever remember Chamberlain
@Pridiot😂😂😂😂😂😂
I will never forgive Netflix
A man of vulture
Petition to change the phrase: "Damn, vultures." to "Damn, butterflies." IYKYK
"When the wind is slow and the fire's hot, the vulture waits to see what rots" 🔥🔥🔥
"Oh how pretty, all the scenery-THIS IS NATURE'S SAAAAACRIFIIICE!!!!"
WHEN THE AIR BLOWS THROUGH WITH A BRISK ATTACK
THE REPTILE TAIL RIPPED FROM ITS BACK
I used to live in Chile and Condors are so insanely huge it's not even funny XD
Condorito is decently popular as well and I've personally seen him as the mascot for several restaurants
Vultures are the most vital parts of so many ecosystems. We owe a lot of animals an apology, and earth in genral actually.
That’s what happens when you experts use science as a means to control something when science has never proven it can control anything
💯💯 beyond words
We owe the earth nothing. It’s just a bunch of rocks. We only owe ourselves an easier life by making sure we don’t destroy the systems that work to our advantage.
@Pranav_Bhamidipatistfu maybe
@idgaf5794 How would you control things then
That day when I learned that Johnny Cash was a piece of dung from an animal video.
He was on drugs. He came to regret it in his sober years
Seemed pretty based to me
It was one of the many wrongs he spent his old age trying to right.
@wikipediaintellectual7088 You think getting high, starting a fire, and nearly wiping out a species and then saying "Why should I care?" is 'based'? That is the LEAST 'based' thing to ever happen.
@kellymartin2603
Yes I do.
Destroy all animals
14:37 okay, that's just straight up posing to assert dominance.
14:31 Cmon you can't beat the classic T pose to assert absolute dominance
Mighty Eagle lookin
With the fur neck coat too? Dude looks like an old but still dangerous warlord giving a speech in his compound on the alps
@franciscoguinledebarros4429 that's very specific, but he got that shit on though.
Looks like a more elegant, imposing version of "come at me, bro". Like, "Thou seekest to challenge mine fine self? Ha! *En garde, impudent varlet!"* maybe?
@13:24 ooo that’s a comma 😂
That got me too! lol Probably the only thing that got an actually audible reaction from me.
Same
I did not expect Johnny Cash to make a csmeo as a villain in this story
As always, no one respects sanitation workers :(
" Weighs as much as an adult man." Ight later bruh
the ancient totems of the Americas have always been the Eagle, Jaguar, and the Condor.
And let's not forget Brother Coyote, who is basically Loki cosplaying as a canine.
right??? they're super mega ultra respected and admired here in my country, they are so magestic and beautiful
and the hummingbird
Isn't the andean trio Condor, Puma, Snake?
@manuelortega4152 in the andes prob but i meant the whole continent.
I am a weirdo who actually thinks that birds like Condors, Vultures and so on are unironically adorable.
I 1000% Stan Vultures.
Turkey vultures are cutey patooties change my mind
i like the funny decomposer chicken
“The presence of plus sized prey in the Pleistocene.” - Bars 😂 2:17
0:34 I want to hug the floof. He’s got fluffy pantaloons!
He would probably let you
“Pantaloons,” are those his fluffy capris?
Aka pants
@mnemonichotpocket Bloomers
This explains something that I was so used to.
Growing up, there were always stories every now and then of a California Condor flying into a city, usually scratching the ever loving crap out of someone's car roof - but I don't hear those stories any more. It makes all the sense in the world that the ones coming into cities were raised by people and the stories stopped because they got smarter about how they raised captive condors.
I've seen them in Colca canyon, as well as in Arequipa. My guide told me that he had seen that at times, after the mate of a condor died, the remaining condor would commit suicide. It would circle up and up as high into the sky as possible, only to fold its wings to crash into the canyon bed. So yeah, they mate for life, apparently.
I'm half and half about that, it's so impressive that it might just be made up for the touries.
Or it might not, no disrespect intended to either condors or guides :)
@Julia-lk8jn I agree, I asked him to double check and he reassured me. But did not 100% convince me... The reason I think it coudl be true is that my father had a Crimson Rosella couple in his aviary for almost 20 years and one time the male died. The female was calling him all day and the next day my father found her dead next to the water tray with the head in the water. Again, 2nd hand story, but my father is convinced. Sometimes a story that just might be true is so good that you have to choose to believe it :)
@EelcoWind Haha yeah. This is the kind of story that probably won't impact your life's choices in anyway so might as well believe it's true. I am certainly willing to believe it. Not that far fetched.
Animals also have personalities. Perhaps it was and old bird and when his mate died and he couldn't reproduce anymore he decided to end it.
Johny Cash asking "why should I care" to being called out for a hatecrime against a wild animal is such a rich people thing to do
I just love vultures in general. Actually look into their personalities, intelligence, and just how important they are to the ecosystem and you'll love them too.
They are little sweethearts. Dramatic
I don't know why, but it just makes me think of how kids get so excited and friendly with garbage men.
I always love these kinds of birds that remind me how many actual animals look like video game monsters 😂
1:19 - I love hearing about birds flying using thermals - ever since I read Animorphs, I KNEW that birds flying had an AMAZING advantage of nature
Yeah same here, I've used the term thermals many times and people have never heard it or know what it means
Hard to forget thermals when It was mentioned 20 times each book
Ive found my people!!! Wassup?!😂
@whothehellismalachi6270 "take a shot every time thermals are mentioned" 🚑🚨
Reading those books as a kid gave me a few dreams about flying as a bird
Chile mentioned‼🔥🔥🔥
1:44 There was a Tintin episode where Snowy was grabbed by a condor and taken to it's nest, luckily, he survived
Feels weirdly appropriate to get this video on one extremely endangered bird while watching a nest cam for another (kākāpō).
That's so cool e hoa. Judging by the time you posted this comment, l must have been watching Kākāpo (my keyboard doesn't have the proper o) cam at about the same time as you were writing it. 😊
It appears we owe a whole lot of things apologies...
Youp, I've been appreciative but now I see I should have maybe used my external voice on it a bit more
Donald Trump for one
No we don't. Mother Nature isn't some gentle old woman. She's an indifferent, heartless bitch that routinely genocides her own creations, and has done since long before we arrived.
She's sent the Ice Age, diseaes, viruses, parasites, supervolcanos, hurricane, tsunamis, predators, asteroids and a plethora of other death harbingers at us, trying to kill us, but because we survived we owe her an apology? She can get f'd. She made us what we are.
@samholdsworth420What?
@samholdsworth420yeah really should have left him in his happy place, offering free shoots in his hotels for cameos, instead we dragged a somewhat alive mummy into government for lulz
Achievement unlocked: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION! 😅THIS GUY IS FUCKING HILARIOUS!! subscribed on the spot!
Condors are literal giga chads. Despite being massive and all learned here, they seem to have more 'empathetic intelligence‘ than you would expect them to have ❤
Condors are majestic, no wonder they became the national bird of Chile.
Or they blackmailed them... I'm good with either take.
not just chile. Several South American nations have the Andean condor as their national birds. Chile is one, but it's also ours (Colombia) Ecuador's and Bolivia's
Condors and Cassowaries really remind people what Birds evolved from.
A front facing takahē is literally a theropod. The fingerprint of the tyrant king.
@overlookers Heheh. "Swamphen."
Helix curves don't evolve as in change from 1 kind to another.
Condors and cassowaries are the absolute opposite attitude wise, though. The later actually act as if they are today's velociraptors, lmao.
And shoebil
"Acknowledge your father" got me seriously off guard lol
10:04 Holy shit you are the goat for using a SpongeBob Movie Game sound effect. I remember the Flingers all too well.
Ayyyyy someone else recognized it!
I often think the same thing when hearing the music he uses for the background
Lmao i'm 99% sure he's used the stage music from 3000 miles to shell city and shell city dead ahead before.
im surprised so many people recognised it lmao
The Spongebob Movie Game on PS2 was my jam when I was a kid. I still play it at over 30 when I can't think of anything else I want to play.
As someone who has worked with birds of prey in captivity, the vultures had the most personality. They would always watch what you were doing, get really close and chew on your shoes. It was always really hard to clean their enclosures because anytime you tried to move a piece of debris they really liked, they would just take it and put it back.
I still remember the scale in Brevard Zoo people could step on to weight themselves on how many days it would take for your dead body to be picked clean.
Tiptoeing around the subject of death is honestly kind of criminal in and of itself.
Death happens.
And we need to know how it would naturally be taken care of.
That scale is such a cool idea; I also want to know how many condor meals I would add up to.
Indeed. This is one of the reasons I really like the Ask A Mortician channel. (Link: www.youtube.com/@AskAMortician)
Damn. I'm sorry to hear that JC did that and that he didn't think it was a tragedy.
The way i immediately screamed "CONDORS" my babies
I knew condors and vultures were important but dang!!!
I'm an animal planet kid so I've cherished these birds as long as I can remember.
I mean im also a goth but that's a more recent thing, lol
@grantpowell4135they're so ugly that they're cute, I love them 🥰
Damn, never heard that Johnny Cash story. That's absolutely insane. What a pos.
Seriously! 😒 I hadn’t heard it either
I may still enjoy some of his music, but Cash was definitely an asshole for at least a good portion of his life. I still remember when Joaquin Phoenix played him in Walk The Line, since that was how I first learned about Johnny Cash in my childhood. The very name of that film comes from one of his most popular songs-the one originally dedicated to his first wife, before he eventually wound up with June Carter. It's a bit telling how the only line Cash could follow for the longest time was either in his music or on the counter (dude went through some major drug issues).
It's heartbreaking to know how his reckless behavior not only hurt his loved ones, but also took the lives of so many precious creatures. I've come to adore vultures, over the years, so it definitely stings to be reminded that not enough of humanity appreciates them. 🥺
Well he said his car was on fire. So it was probably an accident. Unless he lit the car on fire. He lack of remorse is the hard part.
Yeah, it’s a famous story. But in defense of Cash, the man was a junkie back then, and his mind was not in the right place. It was also the 60s
Naw not really shit was hilarious
I saw a California condor when there was about 15 left in the wild. It rode an updraft on a cliff about 20 feet from me. A memory I'll carry forever. Condors are HUGE!
I haven't heard anything about condors in so long that I forgot they existed. Woah. They are so cool and so needed. They deserved better :( I am so glad that people helped!
8:41 if you want a good example of this, look at the urban ranch rescue. He has a few vultures he's rehabbed and tried to release at least 5x, but they either walked up to people trying to make friends, and he had to come pick them up again, or they would just fly back to his place and hangout 😂
Precious little creatures
I remember I was about 15 my family and I went to the San Diego zoo and we came across a couple of bird handlers one had a falcon the other a griffin vulture I asked if I could pet the vulture his eyes closed and tucked his head in he was so full of bliss just by my head scratching he almost fell of the handlers arm I’ve love these birds ever since
There is a place in Chile called Portillo, around 9k ft over sea level, where I went a couple of times to see the snow accumulated along the road
It wasn't uncommon to see the condors gliding some meters above ours, they looked so masive, and unreal
I learned of the condor through an origami book when I was 6. I’ve loved them ever since
My favorite vulture is the bearded vulture; they look like the crime boss of the old world.
Condors are also the national bird of my native country, Bolivia. Love them for that reason alone, lol. And I used to read the hell out of Condorito when I was younger.
I’m working on flying airplanes as a career and on my very first solo flight I came about 8 inches from a kinetic meet and greet between a turkey vulture and my left wing
One pilot to another, ALWAYS pull up if you think you’re on a collision course with a bird. Their instinct is to dive if they’re in danger!
Thanks for the tip.
Those poor birds...planes aren't very kind to them. Then again, the airline indrustry in general isn't very kind to the earth or humans
Also, in Peru we have the gallinazo, or the small vulture, and it is very beautiful. It is part of the design of the coat of arms of Lima.
I'm old enough to remember when the California condor was so endangered that there were only 22, not 27, left in the world and that's when all the conservation efforts finally started
"Don't worry he's just a baby"
In nature, that particular combination of words is often worrying
That baby is HUGE😮
But with these birds is actually just fine, vultures, condors, and other scavengers of the sort, and all of the biggest of them, are actually pretty loving animals. And other than the vomit and stink they aren't like super aggro, preferring playing to fighting, tho ofc that can still result in injury. Tho some captive ones feel really bad if they hurt their keepers when playing and even try to make them feel better and be on their best behavior for a few days.
Obviously the wild ones are different... tho they have been known to take a liking to ppl too, and they are a gregarious species, and we are a species that creates a lot of meat waste, so naturally they are rather fond of us.
Only good question is where is the mother
Agreed lol
Yeah, babies often don't know their own strength. 😅
vultures are so cool. we have a lot around my house sometimes. they make this oof sound when they take off like an old man getting out of a recliner.
Condors even got a Superhero: Condorman!
1:26 Dark Crystal was my favourite childhood movie and your vids are my comfort watches, so this reference was the crossover of the century for me specifically. 😂
Same!
I love that movie ❤
Do you remember the board game. I remember it from th 1980s
Every time I encounter the one at my local zoo (Cleveland metropolitan zoo) that bird stares me down and follows me around the exhibit! For some reason he's made me his arch nemesis 🤷🏾♀️😩🤦🏾♀️....
9:06 Fun Fact:
A close relative of the Egyptian vulture in Australia, the black-breasted buzzard, uses the same technique to crack open Emu eggs.
I’ve loved vultures since childhood…watching them soar in circles is beautiful. I never thought of them as ugly. Hubby and I once saw a large tree full of them…we stopped to watch them for quite some time. It was decades ago but I can still see them.
I live in a small cliff side in Patagonia and my living room window points to a mountain peak where Condors have their nests.
Sometimes when they go down to the valleys they pass by the valley down my porch and I can see them flying in all their glory just a hundred feet away.
It makes me jump and shout whit joy every single time
Kenvidia 🖤
I saw a California condor in person while out on the road here in Arizona. And it's my favorite bird watching experience I've ever had.
I’m severely jealous!
I can’t help but like them cuz they remind me of the time my grandpa taught me and my lil sibs how to sunbathe like vultures; with your eyes closed, head up and arms open wide right in front of the sun. Imagine 4 kids + 1 grumpy old man t-posing across a hiking trail (said grumpy old man in the middle of said vulture conga line), basking in the sun, living our vulture dreams and that’s us. 😂😂😂
4:16 bro why are you making me cry? I’m literally tearing up at this point. These birds are so beautiful.
I'm so glad to hear that the California Condor has rebounded! As a Girl Scout in the 1980s, I remember that concern for this species was real and very much mainstream. It seemed like caring about the environment was the norm; environmental stewardship wasn't the purview of either political party, it was taken as a necessity for life on Earth.
I hope we can return to that understanding of ecology.
They look like little versions of the giant claw
Well the Giant Claw was based on a condor... even though its supposed to be a 4th dimensional alien
@godzilla9568 And it's the size of a battleship... from what I heard.
3:30 I asked Billy and Joel about that fire, and their response was "We Didn't Start The Fire".
This was the song I first thought of too! 😂
@jadeybaby007the defendant contends that it was nvm
These birds are beautiful in their own right, I can't believe they're so maligned.
Awesome story. My company provides internet to a condor station in CA. They are absolutely amazing up close..
i forget where i first saw it, but it was a post about the differences between ravens, crows, magpies and other black birds. And for one of them it said it was similar size to a vulture. Being from texas, and seeing the turkey vultures and black vultures etc regularly and knowing that condors are a type of vulture, I immediately went " have you seen a vulture?" turns out the post was from a british person, and vultures in the UK are a lot smaller than its north and south american cousins.
also whenever i see a condor, i immediately sing in my head "my momma done told me..." iykyk
Actually, there are no vultures in the UK, other than the occasional vagrants from continental Europe. They do have buzzards, which are technically what we would call hawks in the US, though there is sort of a mix-up between buzzards and vultures here: When English settlers first arrived in the Americas, they referred to vultures as “buzzards” because a) they were unfamiliar with vultures, seeing as there are none in England, and b) the flight of the birds reminded them of buzzards back in England. As a result, “buzzard” has stuck as a colloquial name for vultures in the US. That being said, it makes sense that the person who made that post wouldn’t know how large vultures really are.
@kolorsoftherainbow4295 the post might have said buzzards not vultures, but like you said we often refer to vulture and buzzards like they are same
My aunt got to work on the California Condor project back in the early 2000s she should send me videos and photos and it’s one of the many reasons I’m going for my ornithology and herpetology degree
That’s awesome!!! 👏🤩 You should share this video with her
"Plus size prey in the Pleistocene"
I always love your alliteration!