Hi friends, I hope you like the new upload! For me it was mindblowing when eagle and hornbill were catching the bats mid-flight! 🦇These two are really pretty cool, but there are still so many other great birds out there! Are there any other feathered friends you are interested in? Let me know! And don't forget to check out how this African parrot ended up in a 🌵in Arizona: ruclips.net/video/92M0oV4Dv9Q/видео.html
I mean, besides needing to be in hide for several days in a disguised tent fighting against flies and mosquitoes all the time? Yeah those camera professionals are incredible
@@Kiyoone yeah, I'd HATE to go on a once in a life time trek through a rain forest instead of working in a cramped office my whole life. Real heroes, these camera people. They should have a holiday.
It's surprising to see fruit eating pied hornbills with bloody bills, and it is something no one thinks of but thanks this great video people will know now. Nice cinematography specially in parts when the birds are hunting. Plus the cave footage is also great. Really up close footage of the Wallace’s hawk-eagle and pied hornbills, all in all it's an amazing video.
Thanks for your kind words, it's glad to hear that you like the video! 🤗 I'll also pass your feedback along to our film crew. And yep, you're totally right, hornbills with blood on their bills aren't the average birder's sighting.
In Singapore, there were several videos of pied hornbills attacking pet birds in cages and fished them out of the cages. There were at least a few photos of them hunting bats in Singapore too.
great video! but isn't it a bit misleading to call them "vegetarian" when they're known omnivores? like, their diet includes a lot of fruit (maybe even primarily), but they are known to eat arthropods, as well as small reptiles and mammals.
As a biologist, you’re right on actually. Hornbills are omnivores that consume fruit and insects, occasionally snakes, lizards, and other small animals.
Thanks! 🤗 You’re totally right! We just wanted to point out that they mainly eat fruits, and that bats are not on their daily menu. Thanks for your feedback!
Many creatures that are considered vegetarian will actually eat meat if the opportunity arises. Deers, cows etc...and other creatures considered vegetarian have been witnessed eating small creatures such as baby birds on rare occasions.
I love bats. This is nature and so it is what it is. As long as there are thousands of bats then nature is still working. Great Channel, thanks for your great work.
If you're a bat lover you need to check out this video 📺"Why this Bat Chooses to Snooze in a Meat-Eating Home": ruclips.net/video/Y1vpBNuGNS4/видео.html
@@rjung_ch Great to hear that! 🦇 And as you've already said above, it is so good to see that in some places nature is still good working. We need to preserve these biodiversity treasures. 🌎
With the two feathers sticking out of it's head the hawk eagle looks like a first stage Pokemon evolution which has yet two evovle in it's more epic final stage😄
It's a shame you didn't catch the hornbill getting one in midair, but obviously this footage is difficult to obtain in the first place. Very interesting!
Just when I thought nothing could surprise me because of the amount of bizarre animal behavior videos I watch, nature still surprises me. The human imagination may be creative but I highly doubt most people could have ever imagined this
@@Kiyoone I think birds(at least some of them) can handle viruses(not sure about bacteria) about the same as bats since they're both flying animals and that causes their metabolism to go up and their body temperatures to rise. And viruses have trouble existing at these higher temperatures.
Back in biology classes we had learned that, since observation, one of the Darwin Fink specieses on the galapagos islands has become primarily carnivore/vampiric. They injure some big birds that nest on those islands and drink their blood. The injuries are minor and the bigger birds not agile enough to defend themselves. Which has lead to the little Finks switching to blood drinking as a primary food source.
I think it's a little farfetched to call it a complete fruit eater, nothing on earth is completely herbivorous or carnivorous since cases like: Cows eating snakes, Deers eating carcases, crocodiles eating fruit and bears eating grass, in my opinion, most animals are either omnivores or carnivores (insects).
very true, i've seen deer eating cooked meat myself, also videos of rosellas (seed eaters) eating pieces of raw beef. "Vegetarian" birds such as seed eaters usually eat protein during the breeding season, up to 1/4 of their diet. the protein mostly comes from insects, but the diet may include reptiles,amphibians, other birds' eggs or even chicks of other species. Birds need the protein to meet their increased nutrition needs during reproduction, and without sufficient access to protein, their attempts to raise offspring to adulthood may be unsuccessful.
This is like saying nobody's completely an introvert or an extrovert, and that we're all ambiverts. Which is a fact that popular media isn't ready to accept for some reason. The layperson doesn't even know this.
supplementing their diet? maybe they lack some minerals or iron or calcium or something that they can get from the bats? Deer are also known to chow down on baby birds if the opportunity is there.
And by this turn are we to understand that these parrots can digest small mammals? Is it that they - like an owl - regurgitate indigestibles? Quite extraordinary.
Is it behavioral evolution at work? I wonder if the fruits aren't plentiful like they used to be. It's hard to imagine these creatures changing their behavior without environmental pressure. The other thing I noticed is how they caught the bats with their beaks as opposed to their talons like the eagle. They're not simply mimicking, they're emulating. That, if it becomes regular and routine would be analogous to cuisine for humans, in other words: culture.
That eagle is a beaut! And those hornbills stupefied the heck outta me. Not to mention, they ate that flying rat like it’s been in their menu for eons 🤯 Thank you for this…Yup! You learn something every day 🤙🏼
Most animals labeled as "vegetarians" or fruit eaters tend to, every once in a while, get some form of vitamin or needed nutrients from carrion or even live animals. Cows have been known to eat snakes, deer munch on bones, etc.
Fascinating behavior! It's really interesting that the hornbills seem like they might be copying the hawk eagle's tactics. I think we often don't give animals enough credit for their ability to learn and adapt.
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Let alone the fruit-specialized beak, I wonder how the pied hornbills manage to digest an entire bat with their frugivorous digestive tract. I'm familiar with toucans raiding nearby nests for chicks and eggs, but their digestive system has a few more adaptations for the omnivore diet. Do the pied hornbills have any adaptations that allow any percentage of successful digestion of an intact bat? My specialized education is so limited to human biology and micro-organisms, it's embarrassing. Forgive me, ornithologists. Rofl
in a word, poorly. much like humans managing to digest animal proteins and fats. we're not really spec'd for eating things like bats, yet we're known to do it from time to time. primary herbivores having the ability to be opportunistic omnivores isn't uncommon. and like (toco) toucans as you point out: yes, pied oriental hornbills (and humans) also have some adaptations that allow for opportunistic omnivory. and please forgive any pedantic tone (not what i'm going for, just trying to be thorough).
Hornbills are all omnivores. This is "old" footage with a new narrator. Ain't knocking the hustle, but the writer and narrator on this video are not fully on point on the subject matter.
There's a type of hornbills that live primarily on land called the ground hornbills ( bucorvus ) and are carnivores. So they might shares some ancestry trait to that behaviour.
They will eventually evolve into smarter, bigger, and more powerful apex flying raptors. Animal protein and fat can make them stronger into the next level of evolution.
@@loktom4068 we don't actually know that, but what a fascinating speculative evolutionary future! i would love to see some artist renderings of giant, hornbill-descended killing machines. and the idea of "evolutionary levels" the way you're presenting it is inaccurate, but point taken
I think it's fascinating how omnivores were once considered a minority, but more and more "herbivores" are now found to be opportunistic feeders that might occasionally snack on a baby bird or other small animals, and many "carnivores" supplement their diet with plants.
Rabbits are cannibals and is known to be omnivore , so i'm not totally surprised to see other species. But it sure is interesting to see other seemingly harmless species kill for survival or pleasure.
I am actually pretty surprised that hornbills can digest bats despite them being fully intact. I am pretty sure even humans, despite having a more "omnivorous" diet than them, would have hard time digesting that while the body is still covered by fur and there are so many bones in it that could block some organs.
Has rainforest continue it's distraction , food sources become scares or limited , and animals makes there food alternatives that leads to new evolution of species
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Hi friends, I hope you like the new upload! For me it was mindblowing when eagle and hornbill were catching the bats mid-flight! 🦇These two are really pretty cool, but there are still so many other great birds out there! Are there any other feathered friends you are interested in? Let me know! And don't forget to check out how this African parrot ended up in a 🌵in Arizona: ruclips.net/video/92M0oV4Dv9Q/видео.html
Yes, Asian STORKS
@@ghazalaansari9283 Great suggestion, thanks!
Peacocks are the same.. They looks stunning and adorable but has cobras and vipers on their menu.
I saw a deer eat a bird
Speaking of birds and bats, I wonder if we can see an episode on bat hawks, the most specialized bat hunter
Lets appreciate how they shot this. Shooting these kinds of footage is exxtremely difficult in the rainforests tall trees, unless you are on a hill.
I mean, besides needing to be in hide for several days in a disguised tent fighting against flies and mosquitoes all the time? Yeah those camera professionals are incredible
@@Kiyoone yeah, I'd HATE to go on a once in a life time trek through a rain forest instead of working in a cramped office my whole life. Real heroes, these camera people. They should have a holiday.
It's surprising to see fruit eating pied hornbills with bloody bills, and it is something no one thinks of but thanks this great video people will know now. Nice cinematography specially in parts when the birds are hunting. Plus the cave footage is also great. Really up close footage of the Wallace’s hawk-eagle and pied hornbills, all in all it's an amazing video.
Thanks for your kind words, it's glad to hear that you like the video! 🤗
I'll also pass your feedback along to our film crew.
And yep, you're totally right, hornbills with blood on their bills aren't the average birder's sighting.
Every since I saw a toucan, deer and turtle eat baby birds, nothing surprises me anymore
@@neonice
prob cause nature will not follow a certain path anything and everything can change and randomize :)
Din cauză că omul taie pădurile și ei rămân fără hrană.
@@skoci5159 No, because pretty much all herbivores will occasionally eat meat or chew on bones to supplement their diet with protein and calcium.
In Singapore, there were several videos of pied hornbills attacking pet birds in cages and fished them out of the cages. There were at least a few photos of them hunting bats in Singapore too.
great video! but isn't it a bit misleading to call them "vegetarian" when they're known omnivores? like, their diet includes a lot of fruit (maybe even primarily), but they are known to eat arthropods, as well as small reptiles and mammals.
As a biologist, you’re right on actually. Hornbills are omnivores that consume fruit and insects, occasionally snakes, lizards, and other small animals.
Thanks! 🤗
You’re totally right! We just wanted to point out that they mainly eat fruits, and that bats are not on their daily menu. Thanks for your feedback!
All hornbills aren't the same depends what species or on the environment
So basically, they're generalists like humans.
Many creatures that are considered vegetarian will actually eat meat if the opportunity arises. Deers, cows etc...and other creatures considered vegetarian have been witnessed eating small creatures such as baby birds on rare occasions.
Those birds look so prehistoric. A glimpse into what dinosaurs could have resembled
The beak also looks kinda like that of a smaller pterosaur species (although they're only distantly related).
I love bats. This is nature and so it is what it is. As long as there are thousands of bats then nature is still working.
Great Channel, thanks for your great work.
If you're a bat lover you need to check out this video 📺"Why this Bat Chooses to Snooze in a Meat-Eating Home": ruclips.net/video/Y1vpBNuGNS4/видео.html
@@terramater I watched it 10 months ago, a great video as all of them are
So good to see someone reasonable instead of wHy DiDnT yOu SaVe it??
@@rjung_ch Great to hear that! 🦇
And as you've already said above, it is so good to see that in some places nature is still good working. We need to preserve these biodiversity treasures. 🌎
With the two feathers sticking out of it's head the hawk eagle looks like a first stage Pokemon evolution which has yet two evovle in it's more epic final stage😄
The final evolution is a Harpy Eagle.
hornbills actually eat meat decently often! but they do eat fruits predominantly.
Amazing! This just shows how little we know about the biology of our own world.
True that!
And glad to hear that you like the video!
Maybe you
It's a shame you didn't catch the hornbill getting one in midair, but obviously this footage is difficult to obtain in the first place. Very interesting!
Search Hornbills pluck bats mid-flight...
Don't knock this lady's hustle, but this is "old" footage with new narration.
@@kernalbert4939 Oh nice, thanks for the info, I'll go find the og video.
Just when I thought nothing could surprise me because of the amount of bizarre animal behavior videos I watch, nature still surprises me.
The human imagination may be creative but I highly doubt most people could have ever imagined this
Always welcome when you're on the lookout for breathtaking wildlife videos! 🤗
3:47 that scene is tremendous
The way the eagle snatches a bat midair. 😮 That leg shoots out and yoink!
Intense, well-filmed, interestingly narrated!
Even a dedicated vegetarian will stoop for a steak dinner occasionally.
The complete silence except for the sound of an "herbivore" shutting its beak around a bat is very chilling.
Interesting to think that their fruit-accostumed digestive systems can handle a whole-ass bat.
They also eat insects, so that may help with the transition.
He got "Woke"😂
But now, seriously, it could be in a risk of infection of some disease righ? Just like people do
@@Kiyoone I think birds(at least some of them) can handle viruses(not sure about bacteria) about the same as bats since they're both flying animals and that causes their metabolism to go up and their body temperatures to rise.
And viruses have trouble existing at these higher temperatures.
Hornbills eat invertebrates and small vertebrates they can catch they were waiting for these bats just like hawks
Bruh the cameraman got wings 💀
Hahaha the shots are really amazing! Kudos to our camera team 😉
When you don’t have the skills for the job but want to do it anyway 😂
Wow, never knew hornbills did this! What a great video, and once again I learned something new from this channel.
Just like Toucans, Hornbills are known omnivores, even though Ground Hornbills are the most carnivorous species.
Was just gonna point that out yes. Even though the two aren’t related, they still have that in common in addition to their similar appearances.
Back in biology classes we had learned that, since observation, one of the Darwin Fink specieses on the galapagos islands has become primarily carnivore/vampiric. They injure some big birds that nest on those islands and drink their blood. The injuries are minor and the bigger birds not agile enough to defend themselves. Which has lead to the little Finks switching to blood drinking as a primary food source.
I think it's a little farfetched to call it a complete fruit eater, nothing on earth is completely herbivorous or carnivorous since cases like:
Cows eating snakes, Deers eating carcases, crocodiles eating fruit and bears eating grass, in my opinion, most animals are either omnivores or carnivores (insects).
very true, i've seen deer eating cooked meat myself, also videos of rosellas (seed eaters) eating pieces of raw beef. "Vegetarian" birds such as seed eaters usually eat protein during the breeding season, up to 1/4 of their diet. the protein mostly comes from insects, but the diet may include reptiles,amphibians, other birds' eggs or even chicks of other species. Birds need the protein to meet their increased nutrition needs during reproduction, and without sufficient access to protein, their attempts to raise offspring to adulthood may be unsuccessful.
I’ve seen videos of deer eating baby birds fallen from a nest before. Just about anything will eat a chickie nugget fallen from its nest though.
This is like saying nobody's completely an introvert or an extrovert, and that we're all ambiverts.
Which is a fact that popular media isn't ready to accept for some reason. The layperson doesn't even know this.
@@danielawesome36 what the fuck is an ambivert
That's was Beautiful.
It's feel like watching something Majestic , like Nature.
supplementing their diet? maybe they lack some minerals or iron or calcium or something that they can get from the bats?
Deer are also known to chow down on baby birds if the opportunity is there.
And by this turn are we to understand that these parrots can digest small mammals? Is it that they - like an owl - regurgitate indigestibles? Quite extraordinary.
They aren't parrots.
Is it behavioral evolution at work? I wonder if the fruits aren't plentiful like they used to be. It's hard to imagine these creatures changing their behavior without environmental pressure. The other thing I noticed is how they caught the bats with their beaks as opposed to their talons like the eagle. They're not simply mimicking, they're emulating. That, if it becomes regular and routine would be analogous to cuisine for humans, in other words: culture.
nature really never ceases to amaze, great video!
This is amazing right?! 🦇
Beautiful cinematography
Thank you so much TJ - our camera crew have really outdone themselves again 😊
Its common for pied hornbills to prey on smaller birds here in my country.
Where are you from? 😊
Hornbills will also readily raid the nests of other birds
This is just incredible
It really is right?! 🦇
This is indeed a case of marvellous filmotography and narration too
wow Wow it is so cool we get too se this rare footage!
That eagle is a beaut! And those hornbills stupefied the heck outta me.
Not to mention, they ate that flying rat like it’s been in their menu for eons 🤯
Thank you for this…Yup! You learn something every day 🤙🏼
Absolutely fascinating!!! I am insanely grateful to be able to observe this! It was amazing!
Your videos never cease to amaze
Wow beautiful shots!
They are amazing right?! Kudos to our camera team 🦅
I love this channel so much 😍
Omg this makes us so happy to hear! Thank you so much Hank! This means a lot to us 🥰
In nature food is food, no matter the origin
Now this is quite interesting, Barneo always has surprises😄🙌
Great video yet again. I always learn something new when I watch ur videos.
I love your work ! You guys are amazing.
Thank you Pavan - this really means a lot to our team! 😊
Most animals labeled as "vegetarians" or fruit eaters tend to, every once in a while, get some form of vitamin or needed nutrients from carrion or even live animals. Cows have been known to eat snakes, deer munch on bones, etc.
I worked with hornbills. And i’m not suprised at all. They would catch smaller songbirds like sparrows if they entered their enclosure.
Wow that sounds amazing! Where did you get the change to work with them? 😊
Great video, spectacular photography and totally new information
Hi Sam! Thank you so much for the kind words, and thanks for watching our videos!
Eagles sure is pretty awesome and their video was so good
Cheeky hornbills probably secretly admire the hawk, even if they harass him from time to time
Amazing video bird friend 👍
Fascinating behavior! It's really interesting that the hornbills seem like they might be copying the hawk eagle's tactics. I think we often don't give animals enough credit for their ability to learn and adapt.
Pretty sure this video was taken from BBC earth just changing the voice over.
Hi, nice to see that our audience is taking copyright very seriously.
We take it very seriously too! No matter if you're watching one of our RUclips videos, TV docs or Netflix films, you'll always find all the credits & footage sources at the end of our production. We do like our friends at BBC and we would never steal any footage from them. If you recognise footage it's because we've already done quite a few co-productions. ✌🏽
Regarding the shots from exactly this video you can find all further information here: www.terramater.at/productions/borneo-earths-ancient-eden
Wow.. that's really surprising. Has any research paper been published on this on this behaviour?
Dinosaurs are still amazing.
Terra 😍 love u❤️❤️❤️
Nice sized protein packages for the hornbills.
Let alone the fruit-specialized beak, I wonder how the pied hornbills manage to digest an entire bat with their frugivorous digestive tract. I'm familiar with toucans raiding nearby nests for chicks and eggs, but their digestive system has a few more adaptations for the omnivore diet. Do the pied hornbills have any adaptations that allow any percentage of successful digestion of an intact bat?
My specialized education is so limited to human biology and micro-organisms, it's embarrassing. Forgive me, ornithologists. Rofl
in a word, poorly. much like humans managing to digest animal proteins and fats. we're not really spec'd for eating things like bats, yet we're known to do it from time to time. primary herbivores having the ability to be opportunistic omnivores isn't uncommon.
and like (toco) toucans as you point out: yes, pied oriental hornbills (and humans) also have some adaptations that allow for opportunistic omnivory.
and please forgive any pedantic tone (not what i'm going for, just trying to be thorough).
Hornbills are all omnivores. This is "old" footage with a new narrator. Ain't knocking the hustle, but the writer and narrator on this video are not fully on point on the subject matter.
There's a type of hornbills that live primarily on land called the ground hornbills ( bucorvus ) and are carnivores. So they might shares some ancestry trait to that behaviour.
They will eventually evolve into smarter, bigger, and more powerful apex flying raptors.
Animal protein and fat can make them stronger into the next level of evolution.
@@loktom4068 we don't actually know that, but what a fascinating speculative evolutionary future! i would love to see some artist renderings of giant, hornbill-descended killing machines.
and the idea of "evolutionary levels" the way you're presenting it is inaccurate, but point taken
Very nice 👍😊👍
Thank you G. Medoza 😊
Thats a quite interesting way of adapting behaviour.
So this is how the eagle taught the hornbill LoL
Amazing video.
Beautiful, beautiful video
Evolving at its finest.
Amazing to witness this new behaviour right?! 🦇
Oh this is very interesting.. and wonderful at the same time, can I know where this shooting location at? Because Borneo/Kalimantan is my hometown..
Very interesting vid. I've never seen it before.
Thank you 😊 great to hear that you learned something new!
Cool 👍👍👍
Thank you 😊
Excellent video thank you👍👍👍
Hi, Imee!
We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
That was sick! 👏
The hornbill looks like a smaller version of the quetzalcoatlus
Very beautiful!
Hornbill: That doesn't look so hard.... Bet I could do that... Hey bro, watch this!
3:47 fuck, that is precision
i didnt know that fruit eating hornbills eat bats
I think it's fascinating how omnivores were once considered a minority, but more and more "herbivores" are now found to be opportunistic feeders that might occasionally snack on a baby bird or other small animals, and many "carnivores" supplement their diet with plants.
They will become the next new Jurassic Park Flying Raptor.
Bats leader Batagon the great:We the flying mammal union shall fight the avian menace in every turn and battle!!!!!!
Fascinating bat hunters!
Right?!
Amazing!
What's the name of the music playing at 0:30?
Here you go 🎶: ruclips.net/video/2fTy4Kf693U/видео.html
@@terramater Thank you so much!
@@Nyambui Always welcome! 🤗
I watched this video hundreds of time over and over very carefully. But didn’t spot even one bill with horns
Whoever read Silverwing from Kenneth Oppel now knows all birds against bats. how dare the come out while the sun is still shinnig
Rabbits are cannibals and is known to be omnivore , so i'm not totally surprised to see other species. But it sure is interesting to see other seemingly harmless species kill for survival or pleasure.
I am actually pretty surprised that hornbills can digest bats despite them being fully intact. I am pretty sure even humans, despite having a more "omnivorous" diet than them, would have hard time digesting that while the body is still covered by fur and there are so many bones in it that could block some organs.
You guys come to borneo Island. Welcome to our island. Which country you guys filming this video? Malaysia or Indonesia?
I think many people are unaware that the hornbills also eat animals. The title is misleading
A hobrbill used to snatch bird chicks from our trees. It seems that this is not a bew behaviour.
Those bats are like sardines, but live in caves
In other news "Hornbills are being ravaged by a new coronavirus. Scientists are figuring out how did that happen."
Deer and Reindeer are also known to chomp on baby birds.
As always camera man the unsung Hero
is it not wrinkled lip?
Wow this is insane WOW JUST WOW WOW
Imagine what would happen to them in millions of years-
Very amawesome
I'm interested if the hornbills will split into a fruit eating species and a bat eating species in the next 1 million years?
Remindsme of the first time i see a Tucan attack ant eat a parakeet
So... Bird flu + COVID could happen at once?🤣
Amazing video! Keep up with the great job guys!!!
Has rainforest continue it's distraction , food sources become scares or limited , and animals makes there food alternatives that leads to new evolution of species
loved the video really surprised me