6 "Vegetarian" Animals That Actually Eat Meat
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- So these animals are vegetarian... except they love meat? Join Hank Green and SciShow and discover that some of the animals you think of as just cute grass-eating creatures might actually be more interested in chomping on your meaty bones.
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Almost any land mammal will eat baby birds. There's a reason my ecology teacher called them "nature's popcorn."
They're my popcorn too
**crunch**
Oh my. How in the hell the ground-nesting birds still exist?
That deer ate a bird!
This is why birds hate the world
Turtle: boo hoo hoo... I... what are you doing?
Butterfly: *YOUR TEARS SUSTAIN ME*
Turtle: Dude, that’s disgusting! I’m outta here! *slow mo run*
...
...
...
Butterfly: I seen caterpillar crawl faster. Now, give me your tears!
Turtle: NOOOOOOOOO
Since when butterflies become sadistic edgelords!?
Hehe I should have made a butterfly oc
This comment reminded me of cartmen licking the bullys tears on south park
@@caintheweirdo9945 , since always. We just give them a pass since they're pretty and pollinate plants for us.
man baby birds just cant get a break
And people wonder why most birds are assholes.
What do you expect? Nuggets are delicious!
Baby birds: nature's multi-vitamin...
Probably because they're everywhere and defenseless.
They do seem to be the most vulnerable 😔
Then there are those carnivores who munch on plants.
Looking at you, cats.
That’s actually fore bathing purposes it helps make the hair balls the so kindly leave around the house
@@specturv9836 then there are the shorthaired cats that simply munch on plants for fun.
@@sus4644 short haired kitties also swallow hair when they groom.
They might also be flossing their teeth, or getting their equivalent of a breath mint. And, of course, there are the more psychoactive plants. Catnip is a trip!
@@brigidtheirish Catnip is a member of the mint family. I planted round my house when we had kits! And it's also kinda invasive, so needs grooming.
Also my pup was a carrot stick maniac!!😘💗😂☺️❤
"This is life, and no one gets out alive, so being able to eat dead things is a pretty good way to make a living." I'm gonna quote you on that, Hank.
Wait, are rodents not considered omnivores? I grew up on a farm with a serious, constant rat problem, and if a chicken died and the body wasn't discovered soon enough, rats would hollow it out like a handbag. They'd eat from underneath, so it would seem relatively normal until you picked it up and realized it was a shell. They also frequently killed and ate chicks.
thats why you get a bunch of cats
Ew
Jesus Christ that’s disturbing
..and chickens eat mice when they can. But yeah my family told me that they chickens they used to have would get invaded by rodents sometimes and you'd see chicks with 1 leg.
Mice and rats are omnivores. The eat what they can.
"Squirrels will act as predators when completely healthy, so there must be some other reasons."
I mean, to be fair, squirrels are one of the most psychopathic animals I've ever seen, so.
Yeah, but have you ever seen a cuter psychopath?
@@squelchotron8259 the cute psychopath in my attic is going to be evicted in the next few days! no more chewing or scratching, hopefully before it chews into a wire and burns my house down
My dog says they're evil. Something about a plot to drive everyone nuts and then they'll cash in.
@@hillbillyhippy Your dog's name Mel by any chance?
@@daisyphinney1038 naw, he's a Duke. Pittie and I think boxer. He's old and wise now.
Snake: I fear no man, but those things.
*Squirrels walking around*
Snake: It scares me
As a snake i can say snakes are scared
Dude some times venom helps the snakes in their fight with squirrels...
Squirrels get eaten and I have encountered few fights....
Snakes:9
Squirrels:1
Was the most ovious result.....
@@TheOneWhoAsked4373
Ok not all snakes
But i am scared for squirrels
Lol
Snakes and spiders don't deserve their reputations. They're just huge baby dumbasses :(
Guard: My King, the Necromancer is sending a skeleton army towards the castle!
King: RELEASE THE DEER!
Guard: What?
King: And the Squirrels.
Guard: ...
OverLord
King: And the butterflies...
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
King:And the moth larvae.
:Are we going to release the hippos?
:no no, only if he sends out zombies.
and now we finally know why bambi wouldn't stop saying bird (>.
Bahaha omg perfection
I just shouted god dammit and disturbed everyone in the Costco food court. You bastard.
I"m glad I was at home alone while reading that given how long and loud I laughed.
o...m....g.
Lmfao
Animals do not give a crap how we classify them. The "strict carnivores", as we've labeled them, do not solely live off of meat, but frequently supplement their diets with grasses, berries, tree bark, etc. Conversely, the animals we've labeled as "strict herbivores" also consume animals from time to time. Regardless of how you want to label it, life must feed on other life, be that life plant, fungus, animal (or in the case of bacteria, other bacteria), and animals do not discriminate how that life is classified if it suits their nutritional needs.
Also, plants will even feed on other plants or animals! Not all plants are strict photosynthesizers.
Heres an example, had a female dog that I let out of leash and first thing on her list was to rush as fast as she could to a dig place with yellow dirt & sand and swallow as much as she could.
Gotta get those minerals, Marie.
Some strict carnivores do only eat animal products (not exclusively meat but also eggs and milk). They can't generally eat plants, you may often see cats nibbling on grass but they'll be throwing it up 10 minutes later.
Digesting plants is actually a lot harder than digesting meat. Pretty much anything with a stomach can digest meat.
@@BigUriel Well not anything. If the animal's stomach pH isn't low enough, they could get sick from it, I believe.
@@AzathothTheGreat you either don't know much about gardening or are simply set in old big ag ways of thought. Honestly, I bet you don't even own a single plant.
The reason those products are the most widely used in agriculture is because they are an enormous waste product of the animal ag industry and they have to get rid of it somehow. You can most definitely garden and grow plants without blood, bone, fish meals, or even manures. In fact, you risk contamination when you use those products as they can contain bacteria such as e. coli and salmonella. It is healthier to use composted vegetation, leaf mold, mycorrhizae(fungi), rainwater, and attract live worms and other beneficial insects.
It can also be beneficial to carefully use small amounts of well composted manure, but definitely not the huge sloppy dumps that is used in traditional agriculture.
Also, you are misinformed about what veganic gardening is, and just because you seem to have something against veganism, you decide to spread misinformation even though I'm sure you know you are quite ignorant in the matter and have never even done the research.
Veganic is a form of organic gardening. It's in the name, how you missed that is beyond me. Veganic gardeners most certainly do not dump synthetic ferts or "artificially manufactured chemicals into the earth".
The traditional agriculture you are defending is where those synthetic ferts, herbicides and insecticides are being heavily used, on top of contaminating crops, soils and fresh water sources with bacteria from animal ag waste material.
@@AzathothTheGreat I thought this was common knowledge? Do people not know this? Don't most people go to elementary school? This is literally in the nitrogen cycle.
Old timers in rural Texas where I grew up used to set out cow and horse bones for sheep and goats to gnaw on.
That was even with mineral blocks. The animals seemed to simply prefer bones.
Uh I wonder why they preferred it. I wonder if it was because it had different nutritional stuff in it. Or if they preferred it because it was more natural to them. Who knows though. Maybe it just tasted better to them. It was interesting to find that out though.
@@Nirrrina Maybe in the same way a Koala won't recognize eucalyptus leaves on a plate and require it attached to a tree? Mineral blocks *work* in the way salt licks work for mountain goats, but they probably don't act on instinct like bones do, and domestication screws with animal mental capacity.
This means the Killer Rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is not so far-fetched as we thought...
NuxVom Bunnicula!!
Rabbits aren't rodents....
Run away!!!
Or the one that attacked Gabrielle on Xena.
Lagomorphs the group including Pikas Hares and Rabbits also exhibit some carnivorous behavior such as eating carrion or as mentioned in the video insects.
"We don't have any evidence that deer kill people", maybe their just really good at covering up their "tracks".
They've just developed really good silencers for their human hunting rifles.
Dylan Dunn +
*walk into a deer killing someone *
deer: no one will believe you
me: .....
*10 minutes later *
me: im telling you officer the dear did it !
officer: good one your cellmate would love that story
cellmate: the dear was hunting us!!
Dylan Dunn actually deer do kill allot of people. Ppl try to pet them and get kick
Eating the evidence?
Herbivores: I only eat 🌿
Carnivores: I only eat 🍖
Omnivores: food is food
We don't eat plastic
Кенжетайұлы problem is that doesn’t make sense because plastic ain’t food.
Yes
@@user-rn5dl6tf8r plastic ain't food tho
@@user-rn5dl6tf8r bacteria do
Just to help stop the spread of misinformation: Rabbits/bunnies are not rodents, but rather lagomorphs. They differ in skeletal structure and a diet. (They won't eat as much animal protein)
Wait... whats the difference between a Rabbit and a Bunny?
@@1enaic Age :)
Yes, thank you!
I don't recall Hank saying they were rodents. I could be mistaken though.
@@DANGJOS 3:33
A squirrel is a rat with better PR.
Same with Doves and Pigeons
kriszyke I like rats. They are cute.
+TheSassi42
Yeah, rats are cute. I've had some as pets. Nice and smart creatures.
Shaggy tailed tree rats
Laff700 don't rats pee on thier feet and spread it everywhere they go? How is that cute xD
Let’s be real, you’d probably enjoy hunting pigeons that landed in your enclosure if you were stuck in a zoo. Damn pigeons taunting you with their freedom.
Justin That's kinda true. Pigeons are annoying af.
+Himura Rin
They are also smart af.
pelicans do it too, even if not stuck in a zoo. Maybe it's just the reaction they get from people that gives them kicks
But Hatoful Boyfriend taught me to love pigeons!
Technically they are called rock doves
New hypothesis: squirrels have a rare need for large amounts of copper in their diets. This is why they chew on electrical wire
They're just trying to rise up against metroman
@@siyacer quality reference 👌
Vegans: "Stop eating meat! Live in harmony with the nature!"
Cow, casually chewing on beheaded chipmunk body: "Wow what a nerd"
Its not about harmony xD Its about enviroment, ethics and actual health benefits. I bet you hate those posts about people who abuse animals or kill dogs for meat. Being vegan means extending that compation to other animals at cost of your own convinience. Just like zero waste movement to reduce waste you create. Mocking it is kind of silly when most scientists warn us about climate change. Cheers and good day to you.
@@AhriOfAstora but most people who go vegan/vegetarian don't even consult a doctor to see if they have any medical conditions that could give them more health problems if they go vegetarian - like nutrient deficiencies. Like literally no vegetarians I have ever met actually consulted a dietitian before going vegetarian, and one vegan person was actually against the idea of seeking medical advice prior to making a decision. So, how many health benefits? Also, many of the environmental things have been debunked, although there are true benefits to the environment.
@@atriyakoller136 True, we don't. Most meat eaters do not consult one before going to kfc xd You can compare heart diesease data to see clear corelation with animal product overconsumption. Even comparing different diets from around the world and health problems. Less meat is always advised yet most populations abuse that amount to the extremes. I wish more people would go to see dietician but its not the case for both sides. Historicly most people would eat a lot of lentils and veggies, brown bread etc, only on celebrations they could afford to spoil themselves. Nobility ate way more and that clearly shows in records who had what. Remember that you asked me a question, Im not forcing you to go vegan. Have a nice day :3
@@atriyakoller136 They haven't been debunked. Farming over 70 billion animals a year and having to grow crops for them is very land intensive. 50% of habitable land is ariculture, 77% of that is livestock and meat if you include grazing land and land for livestock feed. This data comes from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization. You can also find interesting data in the FAIRR protein producer index produced in 2019.
Reading materials aimed at cattle farmers it's easy to find data pointing to a beef cattle requiring 22lb of feed per day, while it's hard to get an exact figure because they only live two years, and calves clearly won't be eating 22lb worth, it's still save to say it amounts to a high volume compared to the amount of meat produced. A lot of what I know comes from farming resources for livestock, not some silly vegan blog.
Personally environmentalism isn't my reason for being vegan (I disagree with killing animals purposely without need, and I disagree with culling of new born chicks in the egg industry and the artificial insemination of cows), but there's no denying land and water use for livestock is much greater than that of plants.
As for the dietitian comment, most people don't require one so long as they take things steady, don't rush it, and don't listen to idiot vegan youtubers. Some people do have conditions that means they can't have a vegan diet, but they're not the majority. I will however say that parents should consult a professional nutritionist (not a general doctor), most people don't seem to know how to feed their kids on an unrestricted diet these days, let alone a restrictive one.
On that note I highly recommend the channel "Unnatural Vegan" (at least some of us are sensible).
@@AzureScorch I don't argue, but lthe only thing I am against is parents making their children vegan. Children should have a say in it. And also get all the nutrients. But, I'd say a lot of people actually need to consult a doctor because deficiencies can go unnoticed unless you start, and once you switch it's harder to control. But that's coming from me, someone who has an intolerance to legumes and can't live without meat to the point I get fatigued if I don't eat beef at least a couple days in a month
"Squirrels have no problems with eating snakes"
-shows a picture of a full grown boa constrictor
no hate, but a questionable choice in snake picture lmao
Technically correct, but yeah, they should have picked something like a little garter snake.
I mean hey there is that story where a group of black squirrels tore a stray dog to shreds and carried off bits of its meat, so I'm sure they can take down a boa constrictor given the chance.
Sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds": "The Squirrels".
@@Ratty524 Source?
@@Ratty524 Assuming that is true (and the source is very questionable - it comes from a local news agency in a backwater part of Russia, and there is no evidence other than 'witness' reports - ie, it is about as reliable as bigfoot or UFO sightings)..... a boa is a *lot* harder to kill than a stray dog.
I've always wondered why more animals aren't omnivores--it kind of seems like a no-brainer survival strategy. I guess the answer is just that more animals ARE omnivores than we realize.
The upside of digesting fiber is the whole world is food rendering the hunt superfluous.
My grandpa often told me not to let the chickens close to horses. "Else they might eat the chicks" he would say. Now I believe it
I've see a gif with this
There are so many videos out there of horses eating chicks😢
Rats eat anything. Campers will tell you a squirrel is just a athletic fluffy tailed rat that will eat fruit, nuts, meat, bread,, marshmallows, etc.
“This is life, and no one gets out alive, so being able to eat dead things is a pretty good way to make a living.” -Hank Green
Kinda puts a new spin on Snow White and her deer and bird gathering
SuperVstech I can't unsee that mental image. Ty.
rip birds
“Ooh~ herbivores! I’m _so_ ~ scared!” -Simpsons
You implying snow white was feeding the birds, to feed the deer, to feed the white? Are you saying snow white was a servant of Dracula biding her time to invite him into the Dwarves home?
lol
Humans: these are herbivores
Nature: are sure about that!
@Commentator *cough* ruclips.net/video/TdTXaFtDqZE/видео.html
Anyone who owns rodents (hamster, gerbils, etc) should definitely supplement their diets with mealworms or crickets! They're omnivores!
FireBirdTheEpic I used to give my lab rats crickets just to watch them chase them around.
Mine are hamsters.they get mealworms, dried locust, cooked chicken, boiled eggs and fish. As well as seeds, berries, fruits and vegetables. They also love honey.
Call me crazy but when I had my rats they got chicken sometimes lol muffin lovvvvvved chicken
utterbullspit
No, guinea pigs are vegans. They’re not even allowed to have honey treats, they’re bad for them.
My guinea pig ate all of his babies. It was interesting for me to see this at 8 years old.
I have no beef with what they are doing. They don't wanna starve and meat their end, their lives are at steak.
So are you gonna post this on Reddit or should I?
Sebastian Elytron xD
Reddit!!!! Put on reddit now.
I’m liking this, just wish you’d have faith in your audience. You don’t have to spell it out to be sure they get the joke.
Ocean DeBarros
I would but I can't get that to snip
Hundreds of comments and not one hungry, hungry hippo joke. C'mon Interwebz, stop slacking.
I have failed. I have brought dishonor upon my family
Of course therre aren't any jokes... there weren't any survivors.
They're too busy crying about bunnies not being rodents. Which was never claimed, btw. Check, if you don't believe me.10:00
Of course there was. Someone above said they thought hippos ate marbles....
kid: dad I got B12 deficiency
dad: *T H E N G O E A T S H I T*
😂😂🤣🤣
This comment brought me such joy.
5 STARS
*Giraffe eating leaves off a tall tree*
"What's that noise?"
*cheep cheep cheep!*
*Chomps*
"Mm, crunchy"
I live in an area with lots of deer, and now I'm afraid. Behind those innocent "doe eyes" are a gang of stone cold killers. 😂
Carries Lyme disease for ticks
Baby birds slurpers are what they are 🐥
Bruce Wayne's parents was killed by deers.
@@NomadicCreatorMY Just like Bambi, coincidence? *I. THINK. NOT!*
(Da nana nana da nana nana da nana nana Batbi.)
After living in a suburb with two different herds for around a decade, I feel nothing for sweet little bambi. I have seen a doe gnawing on the bones of a fawn who didn't make it. It's weird, to say the least.
Rodents are considered omnivorous for a long time hank. Never heard of anyone claiming they are herbivorous before now. (I'm a brazilian biologist btw)
Agreed, same goes for bonobos.
Hank is American, yhey arent known to be the brightest tools in the shed.
I'm American and know most rodents are omnivores. As a matter of fact, a few islands that have had rat infestations have had their bird populations to plummet from rats eating the baby birds. Also, I rescued a baby squirrel and had it as a pet, we actually put a special type of cat food in it's milk bottle. We mixed goat milk and cat food. The squirrel grew up to be strong and healthy. Later in life the squirrel would eat out if our dogs bowl along with the nuts and veggies we fed it.
@@harrisn3693 not americans. just the vegans. they're the only ones that missed the mark on this one.
@@harrisn3693...Really ?
I've once busted my knee while outside and had a butterfly land on the blood (and for those of you that don't know they can taste with their feet)
I can taste with my feet! Oh... no... wait...
… what do you call it when you can fit your toes in your mouth?
@@garychap8384 toefu?..
@@SineEyed best comment ever ; )
@@garychap8384 I woulda had nothin without your awesome set-up.. 😘
Kinda hard to believe no one else jumped on that in all this time, honestly..
7:09 _I THINK MOTO MOTO LIKES YOU_
it has never sounded more terrifying than now. Run yo. MOTO MOTO likes em choky
holy hell you made that scene a lot more darker
Deer
As peaceful as they seem at a first glance, grazing near the edge of the woods in the early morning, deer do have some serious appetite for meat and bones. Especially male deer need lots of calcium and phosphate for growing their antlers and to prevent ostheoporosis, and often their herbal diet alone doesn't suffice. Apart from non-destructive autocannibalism, in which case they eat their antler velvet or even dropped antler, deer have also been observed killing and eating birds, insects, small mammals and fish. Sometimes, deer don't kill the birds, but instead just eat their bony legs or the eggs of ground-nesting species.
Reindeer
Reindeer have also carnivorous cravings, and for the same reasons as their relatives; growing an antler requires a lot of energy and nutrients. They seem to have developped some kind of preference though when it comes down to choosing their prey; in some areas, reindeer have been observed killing and eating up to 10% of the lemming populations - annually.
Horses
Everyone, who ever saw a raging horse, on tv or out in the real world, knows , that these animals can pose a real threat when they feel provoked or pressed. Not as well-known might be the fact though, that they have been seen to sometimes chase, kill and eat other animals. There are countless reports of owners who witnessed their horse killing dogs, rats, mice, birds and even sheep and goats or standing over the lifeless body of an animal, licking it's blood and eating from the carcass.
Sheep
In the Shetland Islands, lots of deer and sheep live on blanket bog over mineral deficient rock, and unsurprisingly the vegetation is poor in calcium and phosphate. In one particular island called Foula there have been reports of up to 200 tern chicks were found with missing limbs. The sheep were even observed turning over the chicks in their nests before biting off their legs. They seem to be very careful though, not to swallow any meat, skin or feathers, and only eat the bones. There are also reports from Australia and other places around the globe where similar behaviour can be observed, mostly due to lack of minerals in the vegetation.
Cow
Apart from eating their own placenta, there are also cases of cows killing and eating other animals. One of those cases made headlines in the DAILY NATION, a newspaper from Kenya. A farmer from a a small village witnessed one of his cows eating a sheep it had killed. Assuming, that the cow was starving, he increased the fodder and water supply, but it continued chasing after sheep.
Duiker
One would assume that these little, adorable creatures can do no harm. But this assumption couldn't be further from the truth; out of all the Ungulates they are the most ferocious hunters.
Since Duiker only have very short intestines, they are dependant on highly nutritous and energy-rich food sources like fruits, which are rare in the jungles they inhabit.
Apart from eating ants, they even prey on much bigger animals, like reptiles, birds and little mammals. Because of their carnivorous nature they are kept apart from birds in zoos.
Hippo
While it is well known, that hippos aren't gentle giants but can become very dangerous, it might be more counterintuitive to assume that they eat meat. When it is mating season, and the bulls don't have enough time to sustain their energy-needs by simply eating grass, they often eat from carcasses they find or they kill in order to get their precious calories. Scientists have even documented cases of cannibalism.
Elephant
For over 2 decades elephants have been observed exhuming and eating human corpses, and there are many cases like the slaughter of 17 people in India's West Bengal that suggest that such a behaviour is often linked to a malice against hunters or captors.
An especially grim event that made headlines around the world took place in 1945, in the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland. Bertha Walt, an employee and typist at the Zurich Zoo bonded with Chang, an Asian elephant that was held captive at this time. Although he was known for his temper, she eventually got the permission to sleep near his enclosure. Bertha, blinded by her affection for the animal, decided one day to sneak in the elephants cage with a loaf of bread. The next morning, noone could find her, but there were blood splatter around the elephants enclosure. Later, bits of Walt's half digested clothes, handbag and bones were found inside Chang's droppings.
Mesonychidae
As you might've noticed, all of the animals mentioned so far are Ungulates, except from the elephant, which is a member of the Paenungulata. All are considered herbivores with the exception of hippos and and duikers, which are categorized as omnivores. Archeologists did find fossils however that belong to members of the family of Mesonychidae. They are known as the only true carnivorous Ungulates that ever existed.
edit: The name of the woman who was eaten by Chang was Bertha Walt, not Emma Walt.
Sources (possibly incomplete list, if you want to verify information and a source is missing, let me know and i will take care of it):
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150123-hippos-cannibalism-animals-food-science/
scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/12/20/carnivory-in-cows-and-deer/
www.dailysun.co.za/News/International/Cow-ate-my-sheep-20150423?mobile=true
content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794126,00.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer#Diet
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsche#Ern.C3.A4hrung
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikanisches_Hirschferkel#Nahrung
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0825_030825_carnivorousdeer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonychidae
da139114 very interesting, thanks for the post, it was a good read in supplement to the video.
you're welcome, glad if it helped. i wrote this a while ago with the intent to make a video about it, but i never did. so i thought i'll post it and maybe my work was not all for nothing =)
da139114 that was the best and worst thing ive ever read.
+vixenred can you elaborate? always like to improve myself, but your comment is somewhat cryptic ;)
da139114 +
It's like the lines between what's an herbivore and what's an omnivore are getting blurred. Maybe all herbivores have some omnivory in them.
Life attains energy in the most efficient manner at hand, that's the only line there is.
probably true. Throws the arguments of most vegans and vegetarians out the window
Not slothes. They are simply too slow to catch living things
Sunriser you're stupid. A lot of carnivores also eat plant based foods.
did you even read my comment?
Me: I'm going the the store, need anything?
Deer and squirrel: B O N E
I knew Watership Down was more terrifying than people wanted to admit. There was always that undertone of cannibalism!
The cartoon was bad. The book was nightmarish. I've been saying so since I read it in 3rd grade. People think I'm kidding. XD
When I first moved to Florida, my wife and I were walking down the street and my ADHD ass pointed and shouted, "OOOH LOOK! A SQUIRREL!" The joke ended when we looked up at it and saw it was gnawing on something. It was a lizard, or half a lizard at that point.
Hey, just so you know! Bunnies aren't rodents! They're lagomorphs :)
Yeah, someone else pointed out they aren't really floppy-eared rodents like I keep teasing my friend who cares for "rescue bunnies". As a friend. I went to feed her bunnies while she was away. Darned things very nearly took my hand off as I reached in with a handful of hay. They went hungry for that day.
I saved a baby squirrel from my cat. I took it to a vet and they told me to give it goat milk and canned cat food. They told me that squirrels need protein from meat as well. This really surprised me. He grew up to be very healthy and I released him. He is still in my yard to this day. Living fine. Guess the vet was correct.
3:38 OBJECTION!
Rabbits are not rodents. They are Lagomorphs, residing in a completely different taxonomic order.
Objection sustained but
Most people don't know that and
rabbits/hares have continually growing teeth like rodents.
They are very closely related so for the sake of the video its easier to just throw em in the same category
Thanks for that 🤔
Squirrels do eat birds and their eggs; a sight to behold waking up looking on the nest outside my window - beautiful childhood memories.
My childhood friend once mercykilled a pidgeon with a broken wing. He wrung it's head 'till it snapped. Oh, those innocent childhood years.
I thought hippos primarily ate marbles
Ha!
HA!!
marbleivores.
Only when pressed to do so.
There’s no such thing as Herbivores, just specialized animals that take advantage of opportunity.
There is also no such thing as true carnivores
@@karentjuhh101 there is such a thing as animals that absolutely WILL die without meat though.
It isn't so much about what an animal "can't" consume as it is about what a given specimen MUST consume.
Welp, I'm sending this video to as many vegetarians I can
Why? Herbivores hardly ever do this.
How about vegans?
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Lol , they sneak cheese burgers.😊
Vegetarians are omnivores so..
yyeeeeesssssss
Number 5 Hippos: "Lettuce eat meat." It's like they don't carrot all that they're supposed to be herbivores... such hippo-crites.
I applereciate all the corny puns Master.
Master Therion lol
Master Therion Hippos are evil.
Read my coment on the video please
Wow. That was amazing.
gosh dangit, I also could've been on this list if only I was a vegetarian.
Tut tut tut
Muscle Hank musclegod I notice you
Then you wouldn't be Muscle Hank, you'd be Wimpy Hank.
Love you SciShow!!!! How much can you bench Hank?
Muscle Hank
Congrats!
Thanks for verifying what I saw one winter, a squirrel eating a dead squirrel, it was scarry, with blood on its chest and nawwing on a bone, I was shocked, and most people didnt believe me.
I'll get my B12 from steak, thank you
yes
So.... some animals traditionally thought of as vegetarian aren't entirely vegetarian? I'll be sleeping just fine tonight.
lol yeh interesting title for it's content. I think it was trying hard not to do a clickbait or vegan attracting title & just a video for the channel's regular fans who are interested in science - maybe? That's my best theory anyway
So that creepy video of the cow eating a chick is lore accurate
Now I can't help but wonder about Cow and Chicken. **shot**
There's one of a cow swallowing a fully-grown pigeon in one piece.
These seems to be also an old myth about historical cases where horses suddenly started eating meat.
So it looks like the tales about Diomedes horse stables were based on fact!!!! Erk.
I once had a horse who loved pepperoni pizza. All horses will drink beer
It’s not a myth. Horses too eat chicks.
Some northern horses are fed on fish routinely during the winter, had one who would raid the grill if you turned your back
@@quasarsmom guess there wasn’t too much grass at that point.
You know what I really learned from this, this all goes back to Jeff Goldblum's quote in Jurassic Park. "Life finds a way".
I frickin LOVE this channel so much I could eat it. Thanks scishow for the funny, strange, and enlightening content.
Maybe you'll get some B12 from that
And here I thought frugivores ate the frugal.
Lol
*Stops eating poop.*
Aww man, I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time...
So to the vegans and vegetarians our there, always remember to supplement! You can't get everything from plants!
I'm very concerned about the sad turtles.
Don't worry they mostly cry to get rid of salt from the water. Mostly... Sometimes they need a hug...
@al qu
So do I...
Guess there's more then just bears to worry about while camping now. Gotta look out for some crazed deer and squirrels attacking me in my sleep. Thanks for that SciShow!!!
There was a story told by someone on youtube maybe rusty west video where a man claimed to have climbed a tree to get away from a bunch of foxes.
Butterflies that drink tears are the most awesomely goth thing I've ever heard of.
We recently learned that opossums eat mice, rats, voles etc. They have a high need for calcium in their diet. We hired a company to trap an opossum we saw in our attic. He had been up there eating little black roof rats. After luring him out they closed off all points of entry and all is quiet now. Creepy.
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Actually becoming part of the diet study just adds data to the diet study. I mean someone else will have to write it down for you, but yeah. There's that at least
Duh. Grad students are brought along to eliminate risk to the prof.
Oh, great. Now I'm worried zombie butterflies are going to eat us all.
Brilliant B-movie plot!
Butterflies aren't able to eat, but they can drink.
Prettiest apocalypse ever. Being smothered in butterflies doesn't sound like that bad a way to go
This confirms that I actually did see a squirrel eating a hot dog...
The "carrion butterflies" you mentioned just inspired a Regional variation of the Caterpie line for a Pokémon fan game of mine, as the Region I've devised is constantly below freezing and blanketed in snow.
I remember once when I was young, my father and I were butchering a springbok on the farm. The chickens swarmed the tree where the carcass was hanging and drank the blood as it dripped into the sand. Nature, you scary.
hugo van dyk do I see a fellow South African?
Hell, chickens will eat anything. Insects, mice, each other, even us. Especially us. Seriously, watch your back around chickens.
I see that. Mammal blood is a much richer source of iron and other minerals than some plants or even insects.
Damn, nature... You scary...
Bambi said “bird”... OH LAWD
What I learned in this video: Baby birds are nature's fast-food.
It's true... Because my pet squirrel used to eat chicken from up our hands... At first we were shocked but later we just got used to it.
Also more amusing was when the squirrel used to drink tea and coffee from our morning cups daily. Don't know why but they would crawl under our shirt and pee on our shoulders.... Their own way of marking the territories I think 😅😅😅
Yes they are. They aren't as stupid as some of us like to think.
The stealing drinks and peeing seems more like establishing dominance.
@@gregreilly7328 as in; I take your drink, eat your chicken and then piss on you, beeeaaaatch
Ok so here goes another fairytale from childhood into the bin.
Shivam Shukla like the gruesome blood baths when Snow white forgets to feed her deer friends with mineral rich treats?
Il Al My comment was rhetorical I know that almost every mediaeval story was either bloody or racist or nothing innocent.
Shivam Shukla basically! :D
I actually have seen videos of hippos rescuing antelope from crocodiles and trying to help them stand up. One of the antelope had intestines hanging out, but the hippo tried to save him , standing him up and breathing into his mouth. I am now even more impressed that the rescuing hippos didn't try to eat the antelope!
So if B12 cannot be found enough in plant-based food, where i comes from to make the vitamins?
When I was back in the 10th grade, my science teacher had this slideshow on her computer, and every slide was just a picture of momma chipmunk teaching several young how to catch frogs. I can't remember the exact number of offspring she had, but it sounded like more than chipmunks usually have, and my teacher really entertained the idea that this family of chipmunks had some advantages by expanding their diet this way. But I really just remember this one picture, and the mom was holding the frog like how people hold hamburgers, and the frog legs were just hanging out.
Turtle tears is my band name
Turtle tears make a great soup base
I'm gona start slapping ravenous squirrel stickers next to those "I am not chicken nugget" signs.
"No one gets out of life alive" sounds like a pretty good thing to tell a chicken right before you lop their head off.
"That's probably why bunnies and some rodents eat their own feces"
*cough* What? Well, so much for them being adorable...
The way its explained. I just imagine a deer looking at a fitness tracker like " Oh looks like I need more amino acid and b12.
YO those inchworms in Hawaii will dig into your flesh! When I lived there as a kid, we’d go camping and sometimes I’d wake up the next morning with a pimple that just appeared outta nowhere. My mom would take her tweezers and pull out an inchworm.
I have pet mice and I always include a tiny amount of meat in their "care packages" (a small sampling of food I eat, wrapped up in a napkin as a treat that also encourages their foraging instinct). Out of the 170 mice I've had in my life, only a small number really eat it, but they, at least, have a choice.
I've also noticed that my mice will also attack and eat bugs like mosquitoes and "cigar beetles" that land nearby. I've worked on discouraging this, since they're dirty, wild bugs, not food from home, but it does pop up from time to time.
A deer eating meat sounds like a catching a vegan friend snarfing down a double cheeseburger.....
Vegetarianism = choice to not eat meat.
Herbivorism = having a digestive system designed to process vegetables and not meat.
Calling non-human animals "vegetarian" gets on my nerves. The closest would be the panda, which is a full-fledged bear that somehow survives on bamboo. But still, that's not really a conscious choice, is it?
I was also thinking about their choice of label. Calling herbivores vegetarians. LOL
Even the Crocodile Hunter stayed as far away from hippos as possible. I saw an episode where he crossed a hippo-infested river. They were about 100 yards away from the hippos, but had to whisper so they didn't get noticed.
I've rescued abandoned baby birds and carefully fed, cleaned (there is a lot of cleaning!) and kept them warm.
Some I've taught to eat, fly and look after themselves, the majority I have sadly been unable to save.
Most abandoned baby birds are abandoned for a reason - such as bird canker or chest infections - which typically require a ton of expensive medications to cure and even then, not always.
I've never had a baby bird imprint on me, most of them readily fly away as soon as I'm confident they can fend for themselves. a few come back once or twice to say hello.
Looking after baby birds has been exhausting and even though I know so many are not going to make it, it still tears a chunk out of me when I can't save one. Even with birds who appear to be terminal cases, I do everything I can to make sure their last moments on earth are as comfortable as possible.
...so it turns out I was wrong, I'm supposed to be eating those small chicken pops.
Bunnies aren't rodents. They're lagomorphs.
He said "bunnies and some rhodents". No mistake there.
Coromi1 No, he said, “and other rodents like mice, beavers, and bunnies...” What you quoted isn’t even in the video.
True. I am surprised I got that one wrong.
@@BrentsCardsAndCoins 10:00
Bad Teeth watch the entire video.
This makes so much sense as I've had to balance diets for cattle in college. Getting enough calcium and phosphorus to cattle without supplements would be so fricking difficult.
Damn, those animals are more healthy than me
Cockatoos are omnivorous. Their feet can sense grubs in trees and their powerful beaks can tear up the wood.
Thanks to this video now we're going to see a slew of horror films containing killer rabbits and squirrels.
Vegans: you dont need to eat animals
Animals on this video: hahahaha...stupid humans
what you're an hippo now?
Christophe Paitrault let's hope not. Hippos are terrifying as is, despite cuties like Fiona. I sure wouldn't want super-intelligent hippo overlords.
lol obviously cows, bunnies & hungry hippos are smarter than vegans :)
considering the op I doubt the super intelligent overlord apply though :)
Thats what the Hippo overlords want you to think
I remember watching a documentary about the attempt to breed captive gorillas. They failed for a long time until they found out that the male gorillas were missing an important nutrient for successful reproduction. The only way to get that nutrient was from eating meat.
Finally i can prove to my friends about the blood sucking butterflies in Ecuador. They are the scariest thing I've witness in my life
*OH DEER* 😳
Blanche Yap 👏👏👏
turtle tears is the name of my emo band.
Flesh eating bunnies....next scary movie material!
Also a lot of people forget the fact of insects being animals, and a lot of "vegetarian" animals usually target insects to ate.