Are These "Extinct" Species Still Out There?
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In this video, we'll look at 10 "extinct" species and see why some people think they're still alive.
1. Pinta Island Tortoise
2. Maui Akepa
3. Montane Monkey-Faced Bat
4. Alcorn's Pocket Gopher
5. Wondiwoi Tree-Kangaroo
6. Japanese Wolf
7. Javan Tiger
8. Formosan Clouded Leopard
9. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
10. Thylacine / Tasmanian Tiger 
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Hey all! Sorry about the music over the wolf video. Music is the last thing added and it was an oversight.
If you want to watch the video with the supposed wolf howl (it's very hard to hear) then search "Japanese Wolf Howl Recording." There is another youtuber (Monarchist 18) who has also uploaded it.
Cuba should give us some woodpeckers
I didn't even heard either
Thx, i was just gonna comment asking you to remove the background musics, very distracting and covers sound when you have videos. Love your even, soothing voice tho! Keep up great interesting videos!
I came to whinge about just that! Great channel btw, I really enjoy your videos.
I seem to remember a story about a Hawaiian duck or goose was found after a storm sitting on a nest of broken eggs. It was captured and in captivity laid another batch of eggs and the species rebounded from a low of one individual. I don't know if I miss remember or not but it might be an intresting story to tell
Lonesome George having descendants makes me so happy
❤❤❤ yes
Maybe he wasn’t so lonesome after all….
Dead beat dad 😂😂 probably has kids all over a bunch of different islands
NEWS !!! The Black-naped pheasant-pigeon which was declaired exstinct for over 140 years was recently caught on a trail camera alive and seemingly well. The fottage is good quality to so you can see the bird clearly, I recomend looking it up and you can find the fottage from the trail camera.
You make out that's it's breaking news 2 weeks ago, this was reported nearly 12 months ago.
@@garymaidman625did you know before you read the comment? No? Then it's news.
@@cameronmackay9666 did I know? I most certainly did. I knew when the news was actually breaking, months before the comment was posted. Hence my initial comment.
@@garymaidman625I didn't know till just now, so it's breaking news for me 😅
@@pikapup8276 fair enough, it's still somewhat old news though. 🤷
My uncle used to have 25 acres of land on a mountainous slope in the Ozarks of Arkansas in the 2010s. I visited him at that time and spent a few nights there to help with upkeeping of overgrown trees and vegetation. He had just bought the land for a few months, so he didn't have any buildings or anything on it yet, so we had to set up camp with and his RV.
That first night, we were at the campfire cooking up dinner. My grandpa was there too. He loved making fires and burning wood just for fun. So he was right at home and was in charge of the 🔥. I was in my 20s at the time and I wasn't afraid of much. I say that because, my grandpa and uncle wanted to go checkout a natural spring, that my uncle had installed a water spigot onto it and they wanted to collect some water to drink and use. So I said, yeah you guys go ahead and I'll watch the fire. So they made their way downward to the spring, I hadn't noticed but they went quite a ways away from the campsite. I can tell because I can see their headlights and flashlight beams going really far down the hilly and rocky terrain. If anybody knows, the Ozarks is pretty much mountainous terrain and woody. So, they were gone for a few minutes. And so I decided to go take a leak, pee, relieve myself, whatever. At this time, it was completely dark but the moon was out providing a twilight lit evening sky. And so without a light or anything, I walked over to the side of my car, suddenly I heard wings flapping and looked towards the direction of it. And there, about 35 feet in front of me, was a bird with a large wingspan, half white and half black from wingtip to wingtip. It startled me but I wasn't freighened. My grandpa and uncle came back and I told them about what I had seen. My uncle said to look it up and see what it was. A few days later, I eventually got a chance to look it up and it turned out to be what I described as a Ivory-billed Woodpecker. I called my uncle and told him, thats what I saw. He told me thats why he bought his property, is because he had been reading about the Ivory-billed and how critically endangered it is. To this day, I am still positive I saw the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. My uncle and grandpa has since passed and that property also since been sold but when I think about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, I think about my uncle and grandpa. Rest in peace, love you always. ❤ ✝️ 🕊
23:30 I am a native Cuban studying to become a zoologist and conservationist. It is one of my life’s mission to map the ecology of Cuba, and part of that is finding a stable population of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers. Hopefully you can make a follow up video in 10 years time with my teams future discovery. I’m holding hope.
Good luck to you but especially in Cuba I don’t think you have much chance. The ivory billed is extinct- mass hunting and losing is habitat has been responsible for making countless species disappear including those which are much more secretive.
Honestly good luck to you dude!
I studied this bird heavily in the US. Have you heard any local reports that point to existence in Cuba, or have you personally seen any foraging signs or heard any rumors lately? I would love to chat with you about it.
@@justinhoward6755 I haven’t started because I want to wait until I’m at my transfer university to put forth a request for an expedition, and I still have to figure that all out. This will probably be once I’m settled there in a years time or so.
@@arcosprey4811 Are you aware of any current efforts to rediscover the ivory-bill in Cuba?
The Australian government will never and has never acknowledged the existence of the Thylacine because of potential loss of logging mining and agriculture. Australia puts more emphasis on short term financial value rather than conservation value.
I've thought the same about the Thylacine and some other animals. Once a thought to be extinct creature pops up there's be tons of attention in the area.
Wasn't there a movie called The Hunter where Wilem Dafoe plays a man who was hired by a logging/mining company to kill the Thylacine?
@@hunterv9983 That was based on a true story. It was in south west WA and the bloke was ordered to trap or shoot and destroy any living Thylacine.
@@hunterv9983 Ordered by state or federal government agencies.
Hardly, trees are a sacred cow in Australia, the gov would prefer a gum tree drops limbs on houses, cars and people then considering the concept of chopping them down. There are carparks all over Canberra blocked off because the gum is dropping limbs but they will not fell it.
Fun fact there’s actually a lost species list containing 25 “extinct” species that may still be out there, including the wondiwoi, Zug’s monitor etc
I've come across this in my research and have considered making a video about it.
But 25 feels like an overwhelming number of species to research. 😅
@@all.about.nature4630Perhaps you could do it in parts perhaps? Idk
@@all.about.nature4630I’ve noticed for content of this subject the longer it is, the more views it gets. As long as you keep it under 90 minutes the algorithm will push.
he did it
Stellar Sea Cow ---> I saw something like this off the beach in Sechelt BC Canada. It was ~1993.
12 people saw it very close up, 12 feet. It swam under us as we stood on a warf. It was as long as an Orca but much fatter around the middle. .. It had a pattern of spots on it's smooth finless back. .. I know all the animals in the Ocean around here and this was unknown.
Everybody else was stunned and had no idea what it was.
Stellers sea cow had no smooth skin ,it was more bark like
Seal perhaps? Big fat one? I’m from Vancouver so I really hope you’re right about the sea cow.. such sweet things.
@@manolodlospavosBro, it’s just an analogy, plus how would you know? You weren’t there to see it alive.
@@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143 i know by describtions from people of this age.there is lots of skins pieces in museums
that video of the woodpeckers really gets to me. knowing that just a species which should be something everyone can marvel at the beauty of is potentially gone. just makes me watery eyed looking at the only known video of them. 23:52
The few who have them hanging in their basements must be enjoying the higher value of their dead bird. Humanity at her best!
Whenever I watch videos like this, it makes me profoundly sad that we have destroyed natural treasures worth countless times more than any manmade artefact. I hope from the bottom of my heart that at least some of these species are still alive.
The only constant is that everything goes extinct. It isn't really sad... it's just the natural order.
@@networknomad5600but many extinctions are not caused by natural causes, and thats what makes them sad
we didnt destroy it man, dont take the blame of previous people. just work towards fixing what you can.
Think of the people who did it as different species. They arent you.
@@OPEK. "Don't take the blame of previous people" Nor take their profits too??
Much/many of today's wealth came from the Exploiters of yesteryear , Vanderbilts, British Royalty, De Beers, Cecil Rhodes, and all involved in the Afrikan Slave business,,,.
If you hang on to the riches/profits of forefathers, then you did and are destroying it!
Pay to restore whichever part of the whole your forefathers destroyed/exploited;
AND I'LL START BELIEVING YOU'RE WORKING TOWARDS FIXING THINGS.
12:40 one minor issue, we can’t really listen for the supposed howls in the video because of the background music
The fact that most or all of these absolutely beautiful creatures are dead and mostly due to us is just so sad:( I just imagine what it'd be like to be the last of your kind crying out for a mate or even just a friend and to never hear a call back, truly knowing you are absolutely alone makes me cry.
I am extremley sceptic about a lot of claims of what exists in a area. A live in a area of Sweden that don't officially have any lynx but that is bullshit. We have them captured on security cameras around pepoles houses, hunters game cameras, regular phone pictures and if all that should not count the number of cat's in Sweden ghat can attack and serousley maul a Jämthund, Hamiltonstövare or female German shepherd should be kind of limited...
But as I said they don't exist here. 😐😐😐
As a Japanese the Japanese otter, seal, and wolf remain important parts of our culture and i still believe they're out there somewhere. Lots of the country is empty or dying.
I mean, you murdered all the Japanese wolves.
@@TheShinyFeraligatryeah its gross
@@TheShinyFeraligatrnot to mention the brutal whaling culture.
yikes... but also lmao@@TheShinyFeraligatr
@@TheShinyFeraligatr I find it unlikely that @Raptorsified was one of the individuals who participated in the extermination of the Japanese Wolves since all of those individuals would be 100+ years old if they were still alive today. It is very likely that your own country has driven at least some species to extinction before you were born, but by your own logic I should be holding you accountable for their extinctions. Would that be logical?
May want to mute the music during the Japanese wolf trail cam footage. Cant hear anything.
Sadly I realized that after I uploaded (I add the music last and didn't rewatch the whole video after doing so). If I mute the music now, I also mute the howl. But you can find the video by searching "Japanese Wolf Howl Recording."
Sorry.
My favourite "probably-extinct-but-could-still-be-out-there"-animal is probably the glaucous macaw. It's currently listed as critically endangered, possibly extinct. Their main food source is the nut of the yatay palm. There was a large destruction of its habitat in the early 1900s. For now, sadly only rumours about possible sightings exist.
This is fascinating, thank you!
I found this channel a few months ago with older videos like the one this is a remake of. I am very happy to have updates on these animals, and that you have better equipment!
RUclipsrs please stop over worrying about audio. General viewers don't care. We used to have to manually track VHS tapes so your audio is just fine ❤
I always wonder about other endangered species that live in these places. One of the arguments for focusing on charismatic megafauna in conservation is that big animals need large areas of protected land, and thus any other animals that live in those areas are protected by proxy. If efforts are put in place to protect the ivory billed woodpecker's habitat, will that protect other animals that are definitely still alive.
Yes but protecting land for the sake of an extinct species is not an effective method to protect that land.
We should be protecting and conserving that land for animals which are alive and we shouldn’t have to even mention an extinct species.
@@Revelationscreation if the land would not be protected otherwise then I'd say it is plenty effective. Ideally yes we shouldn't have to mention specific animals to warrant protection, but the world is not ideal.
Damn you're getting rewarded for your efforts. This came up in my recommendations, great video and keep it up :)
This was a great video, I feel like the clip with the deer where we were supposed to listen for the howl, Maybe the background music could’ve been turned off, but I enjoy your videos and thank you for creating them.
Yeah I couldn't hear it either..
16:27 The Taiwanese government once holds a symposium about the reintroduction of cloud leopards in 2018, but the indigenous peoples community seems indifferent to this idea. In my opinion, the authority should put the focus on the existing ones such as leopard cats and Formosan black bears, and curbing stray cats and dogs in the suburban mountains.
I'm like 99%sure I seen an ivory billed in southern Arkansas about 2005-2006.
It definitely had a white bill, so if it was a pileated it was a mutant
Having spent my life in the ozarks, I've seen more white billed pileated than black/grey billed ones. Their white markings continue seamlessly through the head into the beak, but they're still very distinctly different from ivory bills. The big difference with the ivory bill is the single white stripe and the strong, sharp contrast from where the black of the feathers ends and the yellowish ivory of the break begins. I've obviously yet to see one, but I'm hopefully one day I'll catch a glimpse
They're all gone. Why pretend otherwise?
Ile have what you had lol
Yet no pictures… no proof of any kind. I wouldn’t claim to have seen anything that’s presumed extinct without proof- no naturalist or birder would do so.
I know I saw one in northeastern Oklahoma, just 2 miles from the Arkansas line. It was sited 4 different times. Our first sighting was when it was feeding on a tree not more than 20 feet from our 25:11 back door. This was around 2008-2009. It was seen by 5 different people.
This is a fascinating video, thank you for it! This topic is of great interest to me.
This world is vast, and some species do indeed seem to have survived in small numbers even though we don't see them anymore. Many of them live in very remote or inhospitable environments to humans such as dense jungles, steep mountains or the ocean. A good example is Dryococelus australis (the Lord Howe Island stick insect), 24 of which were discovered stubbornly clinging to life under a melaleuca (tea tree) bush on a steep sea stack called Ball's Pyramid in 2001. They've since been bred in captivity in the thousands and there was talk a while back about reintroducing them to Lord Howe Island itself, where invasive black rats had killed them all. The rats have apparently been extirpated from the island since then.
By no means do I think everything is still around, but some species seem like they may be. Recently several shark species in Asia not seen in many decades and presumed extinct have been rediscovered. I highly suspect the ivory-billed woodpecker to be alive in Cuba and Louisiana at least. Thylacines may still be around too; the sightings and photo captures are intriguing. Tasmania and especially New Guinea seems more likely than mainland Australia, but there have been sightings on the mainland since the species' apparent extinction in 1936. It's likely some were misidentified dingoes, but perhaps not all.
This is a wonderful channel, i hope you get the growth and views you deserve for your hard work
The ivory-billed woodpecker had the nickname "good lord bird", and this extinct bird has been recently revived with CGI tools because it snagged a small but important role in the six-part tv series "The Good Lord Bird" with Ethan Hawke in the role of the famous militant abolitionist John Brown and the ivory-billed woodpecker in the role of the good lord bird. John Brown and his sons believed that this bird would bring them luck if they possessed a feather. But it should never be killed because a dead good lord bird was a bad omen. This series about the last few years of John Brown, who has been immortalized in the song "John Brown's Body", is great. But the good lord bird is killed in the first episode, and subsequently a lot of bad things happen to John Brown and his rag-tag followers.
Great video keep the work up 3k subs is criminally low for a channel like this
Wow, I just watched the old one yesterday so I’m excited to see an updated one!
Thank you for presenting reliable information.
I really love your videos!! They’re so interested. Thank you for making them 💞
Great content, just subscribed. Awesome channel!!
Great content! Glad i found this channel
Great content! Congrats on the subs! 15k in 3 weeks!!
Great video! I just found your channel and it’s super cool! Keep it up 😎
A terribly sad but excellent video.
Love your videos so much ❤❤
Loved the video 🔥
That patreon shoutout was so cute haha ❤
totally underrated channel, keep up the good work!
It’s amazing how fast we have decimated some species.. At some point something will happen to scale us back..
Awesome video!!
fantastic video
Love the video!
I just found this channel. Nice video. I liked & subscribed, but I forgot to leave a comment .... oh wait!
I was scared that this was an ai generated fake facts type of video then I checked your about and heard your none AI voice, also you deserve way more subscribers, I subscribed; love animal facts.
Except they aren't all facts.
i love these videos that correlate with ancient history/evolution/nature
Just a bit of correction - the IBWO is thought to certainly be gone in Cuba. The likelihood of its existence relies much more in the US, where there is significantly more habitat. The Cuban bird is also a subspecies, and they have slightly different habitat requirements.
There is a lot of untouched wilderness in Tasmania.
If there was only one specimen of the Montane monkey-faced bat ever recorded, would it be possible that she is a mutant of another species with distinct markings?
Plans for this weekend include turning wine into water.
you would hear the wolf howl if the music wasn't so loud.
It’s disgusting what our species is doing to the planet.
Are you sitting back chilling and watching others ?
such is the way of this world. humans will be extinct down the line. the earth will recover, our cities will crumble and be consumed by vegetation. we are simply part of the cycle.
You mean winning?
winning what?@@barbarossa1780
@@barbarossa1780 I mean technically yes, we(our species) will most likely survive nuclear war or other climate altering events, but most other species will die.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Well put
Forest galante be watchin this takin notes.
He actually found one of the Tortoises in 2019.
Forest Galante is a charlatan.
@@takodabostons Actually he didn't... the Expedtion leader did and then he called over the team, which included Forrest.
@@nickdentoom1173that’s debated
great video, you deserve more views
Forrest Galante found the supposedly extinct Fernandina recently after 112 years.
Ya did an episode on extinct or alive
Excellent presentation. Hopeful for Slender-billed curlew, vaguely hoping for Bachman's warbler, and even more vaguely Eskimo curlew. Just maybe South Island kōkako. Wonder if any can be brought back with genetic engineering? Passenger pigeon would be an obvious example but, once possible the list is huge, remaining habitat-dependent. A deeply saddening topic really.
Playing God is a slippery slope ethically.
I like this video. Thanks
Love the ambient background music. What’s the piece called?
What music do you use in these videos? It’s so pretty.
I thought that the ivory billed woodpecker should've been on this list, thank god i didn't have to comment that.
One day i wanna travel the world and search for extinct animals
That would be a literal dream
The way you are pronouncing “pileated” is sending me 😂 I’ve never heard someone say it that way. We see those woodpeckers frequently here in Georgia
New sub
I mean even if the ivory bill is extinct it’s still pretty great that that that video led to Audubon purchasing all that habitat to preserve from destruction
There was no faint wolf sound in the deer video
This is so freaking awesome!!!!
13:30 Love that this is from my city in Borneo, an island where it’s not densely populated at all and where no tigers have ever roamed except in prehistoric times 😂
You know, once in a while, here in Indonesia you will hear people saying that the Javan tigers are still out there and there have been sightings, but it’s difficult to be convinced when you know your fellow countrymen believe in mythical beings and tigers are often considered to be magical in nature 😁 But I hope to be proven wrong and someday we’ll see the return of Javan tigers, and other extinct animals in the world, while we’re at that.
3:53 this female tortoise is not only a hybrid but the great granddaughter to freaking Lonesome George awesome
I believe that there might be a small flock of Carolina Parakeets left or that last flock has died not so recently. I seen a flock of green birds with red and yellow in the early season of winter in Wisconsin. Parrots and parakeets don't migrate and definitely can't survivor a snowy winter
animals are a conspiracy it's just people in costumes
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DNA Instinct makes each distinct
Most distinct is the Scholar instinct
A scholar seems one to live longer
Some have distinct warrior instinct
Warrior species group first to go extinct
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Informative video but a sad one
Not sure that i saw an ivory billed woodpecker but i remember when i was about 6 in oklahoma and i heard a noise that only woodpeckers make, so i look pit my window and im not sure but the ivory billed woodpecker looks more like what j saw than the othere more common one. This was is southern oklahoma btw
The answer should always be "maybe".
Remember, the coelacanth was once extinct.
Whats the background audio
love this❤
The thylacine thing was and is total BS sadly, for like ten years they had thousands and thousands of traps set and never caught a single one, not one, it's dead :(
Everyone leave’s out Aotearoa (New Zealanda) i could talk for hours about our species and imo the recently extinct ones (and there are many) are the most intriguing.
This opinion is unpopular and maybe original but Māori did not cause the absolute extinction of the Moa. Just like the Kereru (NZ wood pigeon) it was pressures from European colonisation such as deforestation and the introductions of invasive species and diseases which decimated their populations not hunting by Māori although i dont deny our part in the dramatic reduction of the species im just calling out the outdated theory from a century when the British were telling us they saved us from savagery and at the same time erasing our heritage and banning our language and whare wananga (specialist schools of higher learning)
So with the pigeons we now know that it wasn’t those bloody Māoris doing what theyd done for a thousand years, it was instead the ‘scientific’ Europeans whod just cleared most of the bush for their polluting livestock and even drained the wetlands which is the ecosystem that supports the highest concentrations of biodiversity in NZ. In contrast Māori were seminomadic and cultivated mostly root vegetables and did hunter gatherer things. Another point is one third of the Māori lunar calendar is dedicated to giving back to the different aspects of their local environments personified by atua (gods). So to wrap up Māori definitely had a great impact on Moa populations but in this case Pākehā ensured the rubber hit the road to Valhalla.
edit- makes more sense to say they put the last nail in the coffin
The Maori themself tell us that those birds disappeared from the islands well before contact with the Europeans (17th century if I remember correctly). Also the native fauna of New Zealand having no natural fear of humans was easily hunted by the Maori until their extintion. Deforestation was a common practice for the Maori as wood was important not only for the construction of buildings, forts, boats and weapon, but also for their agricolture, that relay on fresh burnt soil to produce the most. Also hundreds of years. Maori reached New Zealand around the 1200
@@gabrielecavaleri7525 we dont need your guesses. According to Rereata Makiha my tūpuna Nukutawhiti and Ruanui settled Hokianga in mid September 1054AD. We know this thanks to the Chinese who helped us put a date to the astronomical observations from the voyage recorded in our oral traditions. Although we claim to have settled first so do many other tribes who hold their own records.
@@gabrielecavaleri7525 get too close to a tui and itll fly away. Animals arent statues
Hi there. I've seen some of your content before and it's pretty informative, so keep it up! However I've noticed that this updated vid still has some inaccurate information such as referring to all Galapagos tortoises as subspecies of one another when most of them are distinct enough to be separate species, albeit with a bunch of hybrid populations mixed in there. Also as far as I'm aware back in 2018 maybe 2019 a more thorough examination all tiger populations showed that there were only ever 2 subspecies of tigers, the mainland and island subspecies being further divided into distinct populations. I hope that this message finds you and that you can look into stuff like this a bit more. Take care dude.
Hey. Thanks for the comment ans for watching the videos. The hard part about these types of videos is that the scientific community doesn't agree on all of these issues, especially when it comes to subspecies vs full species. The definition varies depending on who one speaks to.
For example, a species can be classified as a group of animals that can produce fertile offspring. In that case, the Galapagos tortoises are all a single species, as they can all breed successfully together and regularly do, and many scientists consider them subspecies. The first time I made this video I said they were separate species and have several comments from people insisting they were a single species.
I also researched the tiger subspecies you mentioned, and again, the scientific community doesn't agree entirely. So sadly, not all information in every one of my videos will satisfy both sides of the argument, and I tend to choose the information thay aligns with the majority of the research I find online. And no matter what I say, someone will comment that I'm wong. 😂
@@all.about.nature4630 Thanks for the response! I suggest you pin a message of this sort in the comment sections of your future videos to clear up any confusion or disagreements in regards to something being distinct or just a subspecies. Since I can't guarantee it'll work that well or won't backfire you can just move on as usual I guess. Anyways have a nice day!
no offense, but I think a detail that (relatively) minor to the overall vid might be more fitting as elaborative info rather than direct criticism towards the creator
Population growth is no longer exponential - it peaked decades ago. There's a popular misconception that the global population is growing exponentially. But it's not.
i think the ivorybilled wood pecker and the tasmanian tiger also the formosan clouded leopard could still be out there some were and i think the others on this list could be to i just hope they are
10:05 "it was later describe to be a separate species, due to its distinct coloration"
lol we got more reasons than coloration to classify different human ethnic groups as other species. biological/zoological classification is so inconsistent.
Good work and nice selection
Pinta Island tortoise - not a species. Clarifying the extinction of a sub-species is more difficult, partly because of potential hybrids, and partly in defining the sub-species or an identifiable population. The best assessment in this case is extinct in that the population of the sub-species as it was originally defined is not viable.
Maui ʻakepa - likely extinct. It's habitat and behaviour make it possible to have evaded observation. However the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared it extinct based on adequate research. A similar species has also gone extinct.
Montane monkey-faced bat - unknown. Almost nothing is known of the species. It is in a poorly researched area, and is easily misidentified by non-experts, however it's existence is likely to be precarious due to the small population and lack of protection. If it is extinct it is a good demonstration of how many species must have gone extinct in the last 200years without ever being identified by science.
Alcorn's pocket gopher - not a species and not enough known about its genetics. As a result a realistic assessment is not meaningful.
Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo - not considered extinct, but very rare, not protected, and not under scientific surveillance
Japanese wolf - not a species. Classification of genetics of Canis lupus too complicated to give extinction the same meaning here as elsewhere.
Javan tiger - not a species, not even considered a subspecies. Extinction not a valid classification.
Formosan clouded leopard - not a species, not even considered a subspecies. Extinction not a valid classification.
Ivory-billed woodpecker - likely extinct. Despite repeated sightings there has been no good evidence for its survival given its renown and persistent efforts to uncover it in a well populated and monitored area. Considered extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Thylacine - definitely extinct. Famous large animal with multiple hunts failing to find any evidence in relatively accessible territory. Sporadic sightings as common in areas where it could not be as where it could be with nothing persuasive, more akin to Big Foot.
I like comments like this which are realistic. Also from a birders perspective woodpeckers are not as elusive as people are giving them credit for. They have some of the loudest and most recognisable calls- they create cavities, most species have different drumming patterns and the larger species strip large amounts of bark.
Also I heard a claim from another RUclips channel that they aren’t seen because they switch to the opposite side of a tree when they are aware of larger animals passing by- this is true however most of the time when a woodpecker is threatened it will just fly off.
It is also troubles me that we are considering them extremely shy and secretive when all video and written evidence seems to point to the exact opposite.
We are essentially creating a cryptid out of this once living species- we can find much similarities with how cryptids such as Bigfoot, moth man etc have been described.
I would say this is pretty thorough. I would also say that the thylacine is an interesting one. Despite being referred to as the 'Tasmanian tiger', it was historically found in Tasmania, mainland Australia and New Guinea, with a number of likely subspecies throughout this range. While I personally believe that they are 100% extinct in Tasmania and mainland Australia, New Guinea is a whole other beast. When groups of biologists travelled to New Guinea, looking for other species, the locals told them about two types of dogs that lived in remote pockets of mountain rainforests. One was an 'orange dog', the other was a 'striped dog'. The 'orange dog' turned out to be the New Guinea Singing Dog, previously thought to have been extinct and a close relative of the dingo. The 'striped dog' is potentially thylacine. Not saying it is, but not saying it's 100% extinct either, if it is still alive, it is in small populations in New Guinea.
@@garymaidman625 A case for the Thylacine in New Guinea, particularly in Irian Jaya, could have been made 20 years ago, but communications in recent years has opened up and there is no sensible suggestion of the creature by the native population. I have seen plenty of reports and stories, but the vagueness, the lack of a direct witness, and frequency are in line with reports of cryptids that we know do not exist. The scientific community has next to no interest in an expectation that the thylacine exists there. There hasn't been any large terrestrial mammal discovered there in well over 100 years, and this would be the largest and most identifiable.
2:00 what is that tortoise in the bottom?
Whats the name of This song??
15:59 even still, we should be happy a more than endangered animal might have sightings with multiple cubs, that's truly better than find nothing at all at least in my book. Still winning the conservation game!
So what are your thoughts on Forrest Galante's: Extinct or Alive series, are any of these animals that he featured valid?
The Zanzibar Leopard he caught on trail cam is DEFINITELY valid
As a Javanese i still believe that Javan Tiger are still out there,i live between the Merapi and Merbabu mountain and most of us still believe that they still live here,not to mention that during the merapi eruption in 2010 near my grandfather home the volunteer that evacuate people found the footprint of large cat above the ash after ash rain and loud roaring every night before the mountain erupted which i also have heard once, and there been a group of researchers that do their research in ujung kulon national park to find the evidence of their existence and also make sure no poacher hunt for Javanese Rhino
Probably the Javan leopard, which is also a large cat and gives a roar.
@@garymaidman625 that also make an exciting discoveries, since Javanese Leopard mostly live in the Merbabu mountain instead of Merapi
This video however also proves that while a species might be physically excinct, they aren't actually exctinct due to the possibility of their DNA living on in other similair species, like with extinct Tortoises.
About the Japanese wolf, as far as I know all the Japanese dogs that could be mistaken for a wolf like shikoku, hokkaido, Kai and Akita have a curled tail which no wolf on the planet has, the Akita can't wear its tail straight and down like that. I guess a case could be made for the Kai as it does not have as pronounced of a curl but the species is brindle and the Akita (not the white) they all have the "urajiro" white marking that should also be easily distinguishable, the shikoku like the video said is the one that most resembles a wolf in terms of coat colouring.
So it should be pretty easy to distinguish a wolf from a dog, unless it's a none native species of dog like a husky or a malamute.
There is still prey enough for tiger in Java , just not enough paddy field 😔 , my guess is there are in Meru Betiri , Alas Purwo or Ujung Kulon
I think you should make a video on the pink headed duck of Asia
Good news is that the Formosan clouded leopard has been spotted for the first time in 35 years.
I've heard that exact same bird when I was in Maui
The video of the woodpecker is blurry but the amount of white feathers looks exactly like on the drawing.
Wow!!!!!! Mind blown.
I know, I surprised my third grade teacher with the existence of tree kangaroos for a school project.
10/10 stuff
When I was a kid in the 1970s I went Duck hunting in the flooded timber along the Choctawhatchee river with my uncle. Kind of a slow with not many birds flying so when this big woodpecker flew in and lit on a tree in front of me I shot it.
I’ll be honest I thought it was a Pileated woodpecker but looking at I saw it was much bigger then a Pileated and had a heavy cream colored bill a to much white on its wings
Showed it to my uncle and he said Good Lord! Thats an Ivory Bill and they are extinct!
I was an Amateur Taxidermist and wanted to mount it but he said we were probably looking at a big fine and maybe even having our guns confiscated if we got caught, was shooting a nice Winchester model 12 I had got for my birthday so I sure didn’t want that so we just buried it in the backyard
I did go back later and dig up the skull
I have always wondered if I killed the last Ivory Bill
Possible. Dr. Geoff Hill of Auburn University did research on Ivory bills in the Choctawhatchee. He and his team seemed very confident that they saw ivory bills, and heard them on several occasions in the 2000s. This might've certainly been one of the last strongholds for them if they did make it into the 70s, which I tend to believe could be true.
Awful that you shot a woodpecker, but you were a kid. All woodpeckers are protected and have been protected ever since the migratory bird act in 1918(albeit woodpeckers might've been added shortly after, I am not certain).
I did a small search out in the area of lost lake campsite in the Choctawhatchee. It's great habitat if any birds still exist.
Annoying background music and volume too high, otherwise I like your series of videos
👍 Carsten