I live in Germany and I once met a beaver next to the river when I was riding my bike along a bikeway and my first thought was "Dude, that is a giant rat"
As a slav, living in eastern Europe, I'm fascinated by your yard. That's more animals than I've seen in my life. Incredible. I'm going to go to Australia just to see that amazing pooping spider 🥰
We are soo lucky to have so much wildlife in our major cities. Sometimes the locals forget how lucky we are and make it their mission to kill local animals 😢
As an Australian this is insane to me… I live in a rural town and I can’t step a foot outside without finding at least five different animal species, our backyard is even smaller than this guys’. I just can’t imagine life without them.
@@anneofgreengables9096 As an internet citizen I'm happy to inform you that slav boi or gurl above was probably joking. Animal life exists even in Eastern Europe, although surely far less than in Ozland. But the pooping spider is certainly worth a visit.
I would never go to Australia, its so many ways to just die there. Literally everything in Australia wants to kill u, and most of the animals there actually can. Quickly.
The beginning of the video hits so close to home. I live in a big Eastern-European city, and we literally don't get any wild animals except pigeons, sparrows and ravens. Once a seagull landed near a subway station and everyone were filming it just because it's something of a rare sight.
Every other country: "Omg Australian wildlife is so exotic and diverse. It must be like another world over there!" Australians interacting with their local wildlife: "You're so weird looking..." *proceeds to stroll down the street in their crocs*
Okay, but could we talk about the plants? There's an alocasia just randomly growing in this man's backyard like there weren't people like me ready to loose a kidney to keep them from random withering and google says there's epipremnum pinnatum and hoyas just... growing there. And, not personally my cup of tea but those ferns are so fucking amazing
The moment I saw the part where they are no longer ignorant nor scared of the wilderness in their backyard really got me thinking “Ausies really are hella built different”
About the fish: Some researchers have discovered that certain birds that eat fish and or aquatic plants that fish lay eggs on or around, can pass fish egg through their digestive tract and then poop them out intact. This is how they figure that manmade water holes and quarries, have developed fish populations.
I would say that isn't a possibility in this circumstance. The fish is a golden white cloud minnow, and they are extinct in the wild. So unless some bird went on a rampage in someone's house, ate all their pet fish and proceeded to shit eggs everywhere or the bird birthed the fish out of thin air, i would assume it came as a hitch hiker from the petstore he got the prawns at
Also also the prawn bit was probably a joke what pet store sells prawns. Odds are some form of animal was being fed white clouds as they are considered feeder fish by some neighbors and they managed to get dropped in
I also developed a love for jumping spiders. They all have their own personalities. Females are big and docile while males are small aggressive which just makes them cuter because when you approach them with a stick they just wave there arms at you like they want to engage in fist n cuffs
@@katalinkiss120not in size and shape. In my area there are bold jumping spiders.the females can get bigger than a dime. The males will have a more snatched waist and longer front legs. Pedipalps are also green and iridescent
@Local TrashCanon You want something crazy and Australian? -The water in Australia is full of Invisible aliens that inject you with venom so bad you will be paralised and even die of cardiac arrest within minutes. -Playpi males have venomous stingers -A law; you can't keep species of snakes that arent native, at least in Tasmania -I live in Tasmania and all 2 species of snakes are venomous -If you wanted to keep a snake in my home state of Tasmania, you'd have to keep either a Dangerous Copperhead or a Dangerous Tiger Snake, Ball pythons and other safer snake species are illegal as they are not native. -You can die in Australia from an octopus no bigger than a tennis ball. -The Great barrier Reef is full of various victims of Carcinisation, the evolutionary phenomina that all the cool kids are doing; Turning into crabs
@@Ididathing every village in my country has large canals.. And in those canals there are cuvier's sward caimans and and anacondas. And sometimes they walk around the villages
We get little jumping spiders here and they will come up to you to check you out if you're not poking at them or moving too much. It's very cute to have one on your wrist and feel it playing with your arm hairs. I swear they are trying to figure out what this strange new pink environment is. I also love how they follow you around with their eyes. I had one living on my house plant, but it disappeared 😕.
Honeslty, being a human is so fucking lame. Like, we have to actually put in a stupid amount of effort to get a mate. We have to simp, look presentable, converse, be likeable. Why can't we just dance or yell for mates like normal animals? Why do we have to be special in the head? The things i'd do to be able to just whip my dick out and do a helicopter to get laid, without being beaten to death by the police and cannibalized by men in suits.
I used to think it was crazy he’d wear no shoes or socks in his workplace. Now I realise it’s insane to not wear shoes or socks in Australia full stop.
Wait till you see the drop bears. Shoes don't matter to them! You could be wearing yeezies or crocs and they'll still have a munch. I wear pluggers so I can kick them bastards off quickly and run..
The depth of this guy man, its insane, he could make a video ab literally ANYTHING and it´ll still be fun and entertaining. I get pure happiness when i watch I did a thing, its so amazingly fun and wholesome, this is definitely one of the best channels on youtube regardless of genre
Just a reassurance from your local bat rescuer, the fungus in bat poop is present in most animal poop and only becomes a problem in huge concentration, and poor air flow, like a cave, which these bats don’t live in. More likely to be an issue in dairy farms than under a flying fox colony 😊
Sponsors of these games are always looking for attention. The funnier or meta it is, the more they are ok with it. A suicide joke about watching an ad? Its not directed at them, its the joke that they think draws in players from the viewership.
Hey mate. Your fish is a golden white cloud minnow. The golden variety is a popular aquarium addition. Native to China, invasive in Australia with some serious laws regarding what to do when you find one (also not allowed to keep them in outdoor ponds). Cheers from South Africa !
@@mrbanjofrog Oh cool. Do you have laws specific to a jurisdiction/area in Australia? Like the USA perhaps. We don't have that in South Africa. We barely have laws, or at least laws that are enforced. Have your minnows been able to breed in your pond? I'm not a karen/narc, I study invasion biology and love fish in general. Curious
@@danielvanblerk4057 well I think so, at least per state. Some states have strict laws and other more laid back. I think they may have bred as I have seen fry but I think the rainbow fish eat them.
This video makes me realize again how lucky I was to grow up in the part of the US that I did (New Mexico). I saw a bunch of amazing wildlife all the time. Elk, Whitetail Deer, Pronghorn Antelope, Coyotes, Mountain Lions, Turkeys, and my personal favorite... the Roadrunner. Of course most of the ones I listed were viewed at a long safe distance, but the fact that I could see them live naturally was amazing. I remember when I was 14 on a trip with scouts watching a roadrunner hunt and kill a rattlesnake. It was one of the most intense things I have ever watched.
"The Butcher Birds are a relative of the magpie." Huh, they look so small and cute though. *Proceeds to impale a baby bird on the tree for a shishkebab buffet*
calling them shy is kinda funny too, out of the dozens of birds I've tried to gain the trust of, they are consistently the quickest to stand on me/eat out of my hand. it took literal YEARS to get the magpies to fully trust me, but the butcher birds just... don't give a shit. I love them so much, they're the cutest, bounciest, fluffiest little baby murderers. also yes my neighbours definitely fucking hate me for giving all of australia's loudest bastards a safe place to get snacks
There's a show called Animals of Farthing Wood. It has this bird. It shows what this bird does. Little baby me just wanted to see the cute animals find a new home.
I was curious about what you said about jumping spiders - apparently you are right about them being intelligent. Research suggests they have intelligence that is equivalent to a 1-year-old human being; they can be taught tricks and learn to recognize people they interact with.
these videos make me appreciate australia so much more, always feels like a pretty barren and desolate place, but even in the backyards of Sydney's it's brimming with diversity and life. and I live in bushland! I'll make sure to pay much more attention to my backyard
I might be a little bit late as im sure someone else has already said this somewhere in the coments, but Salticidae (the whole jumping spider taxonomic family) are known to be one of the most inteligent groups of invertebrates. Often seen taking new aproaches to prey and in some cases, specially with a species known as Portia Labiata, they have shown the capabilities of both remember a prey and act accordingly, hunting with specific tactics, and of hunting in small groups of two or three individuals
it honestly surprises me how many peeps dont see like 10 diff species the second they step out of their household. i've got a backyard far smaller than this dude and its still packed full with wildlife, honestly cant imagine it without them. and im like 99% there's a whole possum family living in one of our roofs lmfao
6:43 Fish "spawn" in bodies of water because birds eat fish eggs, these eggs are evolved so that a small percent will survive the digestive system and be plopped down into the water to hatch. It was a mystery for thousands of years.
@@mikuenjoyerXD Not when those bodies of water are empty. Dude. If there are no fish in the water. As he specifies in the video. Then fish are suddenly in water. They got there somehow. In this case bird droppings.
I love how possums stare, it feels so mutual as their stare isn't " I am terrified of you human" or "back away human or I will kill you". The possum is thinking "oh look a human" and the human is thinking "oh look a possum"
oh my god. roasting the sponsor by that sarcastic tone and the baby bringing money was just so delicious. He says all the damn lines they require so sarcastically smoothly, it's beautiful. it's just suble enough that he can get away with it too.
@@Ididathing Bro I wasn't done looking at the bush turkey?! That thing is incredible. Also this sponsor is the weirdest one I've seen yet, and that's without the noose building side story. They straight up throwing money at players and youtubers alike.
"Australians are like Russians in that their environment is inhospitable to everyone except them" alexander the great, probably edit: woah most liked comment thanks
I live near Chicago and the most exciting things that we have here are deer and coyotes. I've also seen turkeys in our local conservation area, and I've heard an owl hooting in the tree outside. Other than that, it's mostly just squirrels and midwestern birds, with a few hawks and the very occasional eagle
This video is honestly better than some of the Geographic shows, it is funny and it is amazing at the same time. We should take some time to appreciate I did a thing for taking the time to make this video!!
This! I don’t linger in comment sections normally but this video moved me enough to wanna see who else felt this way. Incredibly beautiful and enrapturing. Was that big spiky thing an Echidna?
I don't even live in a grey depressing city but the most interesting relatively common animal around where I live are woodpeckers. And you rarely ever see them, just hear them. And sometimes they decide to peck on metal poles which is really loud. Mainly because they actively seek out the loudest thing they can
I went through every frame when he dropped the glass to make sure he did not actually drop the fish, and I can confirm that he did not actually drop the fish
jumping spiders actually have very, VERY good vision as far as tiny creatures like spiders go! mostly because they jump a lot, and it kind of helps to be able to see where they're going before they make the leap.
I live in New England, so we have a lot of animals, but they're the usual deer, squirrels, porcupines, sparrows, crows, and turkey vultures. Those animals being common is crazy to me. He also just has lemons growing in his yard?
"I absolutely do not recommend you to buy endangered animals online as they are always ridiculously overpriced. Instead you should buy it from me at a reasonable price with free shipping" This guy is an entrepreneur in the making
I kinda did from the good edits but what do i know i just live on long island with no wildlife other than the water snakes, Italian wall lizards, yellow sac spiders,some wolf's bears and moose in mainland (because Long island is in New York if you didn't know),brown recluses,wolf spiders and our many species of insects being on a technical island(even though we get snow and the temp. has gotten to 16 degrees And yes i know iceland is also an island but we also get actual 90 degree heat in summer so our weather varies and i just realized i typed so much and its currently 4:02 am in long island so i should go to sleep,)
@@Callawaygolfer I’ve noticed that bro why. Are you Assuie. Because you guys do not give a fuck. I can’t even walk in my California yard that has occasional really small weak puny thorns. Y’all built different
Oh wow... An actually wholesome video where Alex showcases several animals he's seen in his backyard. What a nice change from his regular montage of whacky life-endangering inventions. * Shatters a fish's skeletal system with shards of glass flying everywhere * Oh my... Well, no matter, it was probably an accident anyway. * Smashes a screeching thing (sugar glider?) to sell it at a lower price in the competitive animal-napping market * Ah, well okay... I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less than the quality content that is usually produced by this channel... * Crushes thousands of "unseeable" lifeforms under his foot * * Proceeds to "buy plastic from Chinese slaves" to document the creatures he is destroying * Geez, wow, okay, this is getting kinda... * Grills fruit bats and makes sandwiches out of them * OH GREAT HEAVENS!
As a Canadian who has dealt with Canadian Geese nesting in their backyard, I can tell you that I have fought the deadliest of battles against wildlife.
I don't even live in Canada but I have to deal with Canadian geese all the time, not necessarily nesting, but they occasionally decide that my back yard is the perfect place to start being territorial about when I used to have people over. Though, they often give in if there are enough people, but there was one that was quite threatening, it was genuinely scary. And it's not like they ever attack, I usually chicken out first and retreat back indoors, so props for actually being able to deal with them. I actually haven't seen any this year, I wonder if I even will this year...
First video I saw of yours, and now I've binged them all lol. This is one of my favs, and I recommended it to my sister who showed her work friends. Being from depressing Michigan, it has blown all our minds the animals you can so easily see there. The fish in the glass joke really surprised me the first time watching rofl.
The German word for bat (Fledermaus) is made from the old German word for fluttering and the word for mouse. The word for fruit bat (Flughung) is made of the words for flight dog. So we call them fluttering mice and flight dogs. Edit: As someone pointed out in the comments I was slighly wrong with my translation so I editited it. I don' want to spread misinformation. The bats here only fly at dusk and night and are pretty small, I've only ever seen them as a blur flying above me.
@@spacecthulhu399 For people who don't speak it, you guessed right, "vleermuis" = bat and literally translates to "flying mouse". I'm also reasonably sure (second language, native English-speaker) that flying foxes, like the fruit bats IDAT showed, are vleerhond, literally "flying dog". In English we call them flying foxes so to be fair we're not better lmao.
Never seen a fruit bat in my yard, but sometimes when I'm at mates place for a party late into the night some might fly overhead, and it's pretty cool when you notice.
Being a wildlife photographer in the UK is like being an ice sculptor in the Saharah. living in australia would be like living in the middle of a glacier
I live in Denmark and yeah this is insane to me, the most exciting animal here are hedgehogs or badgers. I guess unless you count the sea stuff like whales and seals but those aren't easy to spot.
New subscriber here. I love your sense of humour, and I REALLY love Flying-Foxes…but then I love most animals, arachnids, reptiles, and bugs . You just gave me a grand slam, thank you.🖤🇨🇦
I remember when I was about 3 or 4, me and my family stayed in a holiday house is Byron bay and there were so many lizards and bush turkeys in the backyard
nah dw bro. Australia’s animals are all pretty safe as long as you don’t try and interact and stay a healthy distance away. Although in september magpies can be bitches
So you don't know the meaning of depression lol that's ok there special classes at school for people like you I think it's called the " slow kids class" lol
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I love how it only takes you a camera and a trip to your yard to do a National Geographic documentary
Integza spotted 👀
TOMATO DETECTED ON [ANYWHERE] SOIL. LETHAL FORCE ENGAGED.
Didn’t expect to see you here lol
And a soccerball which i spent hours gluing leaves to
@@Ididathing i legit though it was real nest until you kick it lmao
Butcher Birds are metal af
Wow a verified account with little to no likes.
Too much d
@@CheePufStudios times have changed
Yea what the person above me said
Birds aren’t made of metal silly
I live in Germany and I once met a beaver next to the river when I was riding my bike along a bikeway and my first thought was "Dude, that is a giant rat"
In Australia we have legit water rats. Like actual "water rats" lol.
Germany got water pigs. And big ass rats that live in water
In the us we’ve got muskrats, they’re essentially foot long water rats and they’re terrifying
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dann gibt es noch nutrias
As a slav, living in eastern Europe, I'm fascinated by your yard. That's more animals than I've seen in my life. Incredible. I'm going to go to Australia just to see that amazing pooping spider 🥰
We are soo lucky to have so much wildlife in our major cities. Sometimes the locals forget how lucky we are and make it their mission to kill local animals 😢
As an Australian this is insane to me… I live in a rural town and I can’t step a foot outside without finding at least five different animal species, our backyard is even smaller than this guys’. I just can’t imagine life without them.
@@anneofgreengables9096 As an internet citizen I'm happy to inform you that slav boi or gurl above was probably joking.
Animal life exists even in Eastern Europe, although surely far less than in Ozland.
But the pooping spider is certainly worth a visit.
I would never go to Australia, its so many ways to just die there. Literally everything in Australia wants to kill u, and most of the animals there actually can. Quickly.
i know!!! I'd love a yard like that
Thankyou to all the people living in depressing countries that sent in depressing footage of themselves! Hang in there!
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As a person who went a post-soviet country I can tell you, we go crazy when we see ducks.
Ahaha thats very cute
Another Eastern European here, this is very true
I live in Finland and I see boring animals like 50 different birds, squirrels, ducks, swans, deer, moose, moles, mice,
@@eelek2365 I mean as a Eastern European I see bears
A mutated duck in chenobly must be exciting to see
Can you just make this a series? This is one of the most enjoyable couple minutes i’ve ever spent on youtube
More than a couple minutes mate
@@X_w45ey89 you know what Anna? I sure hope it is
there's only so many animals in Australia, but I'm sure he could at least make a part 2
I agree
The beginning of the video hits so close to home. I live in a big Eastern-European city, and we literally don't get any wild animals except pigeons, sparrows and ravens. Once a seagull landed near a subway station and everyone were filming it just because it's something of a rare sight.
Moved from South FL to North FL and saw a Eastern red-tailed hawk in my backyard, felt exactly like this lmao
Every other country: "Omg Australian wildlife is so exotic and diverse. It must be like another world over there!"
Australians interacting with their local wildlife: "You're so weird looking..." *proceeds to stroll down the street in their crocs*
Very accurate
with their crocs or in their crocs?
@@user-bo1ej5im9t why not both?
@YOU DON'T WAN'T DE SMOCKE strolling down the road in only speedos and thongs
@@bigoctane1177 my type of people
rip random fish that evolved from a single cell in a pond that was probably going to evolve farther into a human and become the worlds smartest person
Well, was...
You should have just left the fish
@@TxRxIxP it was a joke he didnt kill the fish
you would have to breed over and over again to evolve and seeing that fish was alone that would be impossible
@@elvishewalter102 it was a joke nerd
"So beautiful! There are more colors than an oil spill!" 😂 I haven't laughed this hard at something in awhile
You should have added the Echidna as a bonus animal! You're so lucky you saw one while filming- He was such a widdle cutie!!
omg they are SO cute!
It was about his garden, the echidna wasn't in his garden
Our resident tawny frog mouths had a baby one year and their happy soft hooting was the cutest thing ;.;
Please dont step on it
Burn the pond
@@Ididathing I stepped on their huge pile of crap on the ground, but that's how I found them :#
3D print them some nests that don't fall apart
@@siphonix924 yes
Ah yes, the traditional Australian pastime of going out to the local woods and bullying random creatures by calling them names.
my daily hobby 😌
The kookaburra laughs at people why can't we?
my uncle is from Australia and he can confirm
I have an echidna that lives under my house
I wouldn't dare that. I'd be to afraid to be killed of one of these real live monsters living is Australia
Okay, but could we talk about the plants? There's an alocasia just randomly growing in this man's backyard like there weren't people like me ready to loose a kidney to keep them from random withering and google says there's epipremnum pinnatum and hoyas just... growing there. And, not personally my cup of tea but those ferns are so fucking amazing
The moment I saw the part where they are no longer ignorant nor scared of the wilderness in their backyard really got me thinking “Ausies really are hella built different”
This guy just randomly found a echidna. That’s fine, that’s fine.
Lol
found an echidna outside my house once LOL
Echidna??? Where???
@@vanceoz4080 I thought he said sydney in the vid, idk tho
thats normal
We're slowly gravitating towards a new genre of nature documentary of meme structured documentary. I dig it.
Look up round planet on Netflix its basically just like this.
do you know zefrank
Hood nature
Now known as casual geographic
But still just as soothing. Sign me up
I am here for all of these guys! I love it and subscribe to all! Lolz I just found this guy. I love it.. 🤣
My grandparents live in Perth and their backyard is basically a zoo. It has kangaroos, all types of birds, lizards, spiders and more.
as someone who doesnt like spiders, i can confirm, jumping spiders are oddly adorable and they tend to act like cats and/or dogs
About the fish: Some researchers have discovered that certain birds that eat fish and or aquatic plants that fish lay eggs on or around, can pass fish egg through their digestive tract and then poop them out intact. This is how they figure that manmade water holes and quarries, have developed fish populations.
I would say that isn't a possibility in this circumstance. The fish is a golden white cloud minnow, and they are extinct in the wild. So unless some bird went on a rampage in someone's house, ate all their pet fish and proceeded to shit eggs everywhere or the bird birthed the fish out of thin air, i would assume it came as a hitch hiker from the petstore he got the prawns at
@@borisdragosani7584 extinct AND non native
Also also the prawn bit was probably a joke what pet store sells prawns. Odds are some form of animal was being fed white clouds as they are considered feeder fish by some neighbors and they managed to get dropped in
Can confirm 100% it would have come with his aquatic plantts
@@Ididathing That's probably where the bats learned to do it from
This honestly feels like I’m watching a funny planet earth
Watch round planet
Underrated comment 😆
I also developed a love for jumping spiders. They all have their own personalities. Females are big and docile while males are small aggressive which just makes them cuter because when you approach them with a stick they just wave there arms at you like they want to engage in fist n cuffs
I think you will find they are different species and males and females look the same
@@katalinkiss120not in size and shape. In my area there are bold jumping spiders.the females can get bigger than a dime. The males will have a more snatched waist and longer front legs. Pedipalps are also green and iridescent
I love how all the spiders totally posed for your pictures
I did a thing's backyard has more animals than a russian zoo.
* North Korea *
For our first exhibit: медведь.
For our second exhibit: медведь два.
@@DustMug and for are third exhibit grass
@@DustMug голубь.. и голубь только белый
Which is a shame because there are many awesome wild animals in Russia...
Actually nvm, not really a shame, don't touch them
me: maybe the animals in Australia aren't so bad they have flying dog-
"they have deadly fungus in their poo you get by inhaling it"
me: oh
That's with most bats though. A lot of them carry disease.
Yeh this isnt just an australian thing
@Local TrashCanon You want something crazy and Australian?
-The water in Australia is full of Invisible aliens that inject you with venom so bad you will be paralised and even die of cardiac arrest within minutes.
-Playpi males have venomous stingers
-A law; you can't keep species of snakes that arent native, at least in Tasmania
-I live in Tasmania and all 2 species of snakes are venomous
-If you wanted to keep a snake in my home state of Tasmania, you'd have to keep either a Dangerous Copperhead or a Dangerous Tiger Snake, Ball pythons and other safer snake species are illegal as they are not native.
-You can die in Australia from an octopus no bigger than a tennis ball.
-The Great barrier Reef is full of various victims of Carcinisation, the evolutionary phenomina that all the cool kids are doing; Turning into crabs
@@Ididathing most bat guano has fungus... My cousin got a lung fungus disease from bat guano.
@@Ididathing every village in my country has large canals.. And in those canals there are cuvier's sward caimans and and anacondas. And sometimes they walk around the villages
We get little jumping spiders here and they will come up to you to check you out if you're not poking at them or moving too much. It's very cute to have one on your wrist and feel it playing with your arm hairs. I swear they are trying to figure out what this strange new pink environment is. I also love how they follow you around with their eyes. I had one living on my house plant, but it disappeared 😕.
What the fuck.
Maybe it's still in your home.
This video gave me SOOOO MUCH JOY! As someone who suffers with chronic depression this is literally life saving medication! Thank you so so much
"Incredibly dumb and greedy animals which will do anything to impress a mate."
Sounds familiar
Yeah sounds like your mom
Your momma 😎
Wait a minute didnt i see i did a thing comment in this reply section, guess he deleted it kinda sus ngl
Honeslty, being a human is so fucking lame.
Like, we have to actually put in a stupid amount of effort to get a mate. We have to simp, look presentable, converse, be likeable. Why can't we just dance or yell for mates like normal animals? Why do we have to be special in the head?
The things i'd do to be able to just whip my dick out and do a helicopter to get laid, without being beaten to death by the police and cannibalized by men in suits.
@@sgtsaltstick2729 have fun surviving
I used to think it was crazy he’d wear no shoes or socks in his workplace. Now I realise it’s insane to not wear shoes or socks in Australia full stop.
What the fuck is this wording
It’s quite common in ausland just don’t step on the spiders snakes crocs rays sharks devils dingoes and queenslander
@@tyetr9853 Probably either a non native speaker or doesnt proof read for grammer. It's also an awkward sentiment to convey without being wordy.
Wait till you see the drop bears. Shoes don't matter to them! You could be wearing yeezies or crocs and they'll still have a munch. I wear pluggers so I can kick them bastards off quickly and run..
The problem is, the spiders sometimes hide in your shoes
The depth of this guy man, its insane, he could make a video ab literally ANYTHING and it´ll still be fun and entertaining. I get pure happiness when i watch I did a thing, its so amazingly fun and wholesome, this is definitely one of the best channels on youtube regardless of genre
Just a reassurance from your local bat rescuer, the fungus in bat poop is present in most animal poop and only becomes a problem in huge concentration, and poor air flow, like a cave, which these bats don’t live in. More likely to be an issue in dairy farms than under a flying fox colony 😊
Next I did a thing video: training bees to swarm and attack people
Hmmm, sounds like practical idea !
-This is a suicide mission
-ok
you can actually train bees
@@mathewsosa9282 you don't, just throw the whole hive at the people
It better be
This guy really just put footage of himself making a noose over the sponsored segment.
But no seriously how did that get approved by the sponsor?
He followed the guidelines and rules but did it his own way
It's the best sponsored segment I've ever seen. Way to take their money and give them the finger at the same time.
@@leandervr you should take a look at the Internet Historians sponsor spots. Those are even better (and there's many)
Sponsors of these games are always looking for attention. The funnier or meta it is, the more they are ok with it. A suicide joke about watching an ad? Its not directed at them, its the joke that they think draws in players from the viewership.
Its just bloody good aussie humor. The sponsors knows what their getting themselves into
Hey mate. Your fish is a golden white cloud minnow. The golden variety is a popular aquarium addition. Native to China, invasive in Australia with some serious laws regarding what to do when you find one (also not allowed to keep them in outdoor ponds). Cheers from South Africa !
Not in nsw, they are sold at many pond shops in nsw and we have some in our pond. And he lives in nsw
@@mrbanjofrog Oh cool. Do you have laws specific to a jurisdiction/area in Australia? Like the USA perhaps. We don't have that in South Africa. We barely have laws, or at least laws that are enforced. Have your minnows been able to breed in your pond? I'm not a karen/narc, I study invasion biology and love fish in general. Curious
@@danielvanblerk4057 well I think so, at least per state. Some states have strict laws and other more laid back. I think they may have bred as I have seen fry but I think the rainbow fish eat them.
This video makes me realize again how lucky I was to grow up in the part of the US that I did (New Mexico). I saw a bunch of amazing wildlife all the time. Elk, Whitetail Deer, Pronghorn Antelope, Coyotes, Mountain Lions, Turkeys, and my personal favorite... the Roadrunner. Of course most of the ones I listed were viewed at a long safe distance, but the fact that I could see them live naturally was amazing. I remember when I was 14 on a trip with scouts watching a roadrunner hunt and kill a rattlesnake. It was one of the most intense things I have ever watched.
"The Butcher Birds are a relative of the magpie."
Huh, they look so small and cute though.
*Proceeds to impale a baby bird on the tree for a shishkebab buffet*
Shrike moment, lol
i am horrified
“Yep, I can see the relation now…”
calling them shy is kinda funny too, out of the dozens of birds I've tried to gain the trust of, they are consistently the quickest to stand on me/eat out of my hand. it took literal YEARS to get the magpies to fully trust me, but the butcher birds just... don't give a shit. I love them so much, they're the cutest, bounciest, fluffiest little baby murderers.
also yes my neighbours definitely fucking hate me for giving all of australia's loudest bastards a safe place to get snacks
There's a show called Animals of Farthing Wood. It has this bird. It shows what this bird does.
Little baby me just wanted to see the cute animals find a new home.
"More colourful than an oil spill" made me do a legit spit take xD
I was curious about what you said about jumping spiders - apparently you are right about them being intelligent. Research suggests they have intelligence that is equivalent to a 1-year-old human being; they can be taught tricks and learn to recognize people they interact with.
these videos make me appreciate australia so much more, always feels like a pretty barren and desolate place, but even in the backyards of Sydney's it's brimming with diversity and life. and I live in bushland! I'll make sure to pay much more attention to my backyard
Finally, someone that makes time worth it
He was jus doing a thing
Me when i need a video to watch while eating
Yes
He makes great videos tho
Wow.
your time must be worth nothing
Imagine just hanging out in your yard and all of the sudden youre making a NetGeo quality content. That was awesome bro
dont insult i did a thing by saying his content is on the same level as natgeo
Man, I swear this comment said “NeoGeo quality” but I was half sleep
@@niwatorimeat Netgeo lol
@@Ididathing they better provide you with that budget,we need more exclusive plastic bat eating clips
@@Ididathing just say how many zeros you've gotta get till you make a record breaking attempt
I might be a little bit late as im sure someone else has already said this somewhere in the coments, but Salticidae (the whole jumping spider taxonomic family) are known to be one of the most inteligent groups of invertebrates. Often seen taking new aproaches to prey and in some cases, specially with a species known as Portia Labiata, they have shown the capabilities of both remember a prey and act accordingly, hunting with specific tactics, and of hunting in small groups of two or three individuals
it honestly surprises me how many peeps dont see like 10 diff species the second they step out of their household. i've got a backyard far smaller than this dude and its still packed full with wildlife, honestly cant imagine it without them. and im like 99% there's a whole possum family living in one of our roofs lmfao
6:43 Fish "spawn" in bodies of water because birds eat fish eggs, these eggs are evolved so that a small percent will survive the digestive system and be plopped down into the water to hatch. It was a mystery for thousands of years.
Poggers
Thanks
Theory*
Fish spawn in water because they live in water?
@@mikuenjoyerXD Not when those bodies of water are empty. Dude. If there are no fish in the water. As he specifies in the video. Then fish are suddenly in water. They got there somehow. In this case bird droppings.
I love how possums stare, it feels so mutual as their stare isn't " I am terrified of you human" or "back away human or I will kill you". The possum is thinking "oh look a human" and the human is thinking "oh look a possum"
perfect explanation
yes haha it's always such a neutral regard of each other. kinda nice actually.
Same, it's a very warm feeling they bring me joy
Who won the staring contest tho
Been on a hike with scouts, where at night one decided to try and eat a banana through someone else's tent skin. Made a hell of a mess
I can't believe the sponsor allowed him to show a clip of him tying a noose 🗿
The dude could do a whole new channel of just national geography. His voice is perfect for it, too, the editing pretty legit
oh my god. roasting the sponsor by that sarcastic tone and the baby bringing money was just so delicious. He says all the damn lines they require so sarcastically smoothly, it's beautiful. it's just suble enough that he can get away with it too.
Thanks mate ahaha
I was giggling like a mad-man the entire time, this definitely goes on my list of favourites
i find your taste for babies with money concerning, are you a butcher bird.
He tied a fucking noose mid ad
@@Ididathing Bro I wasn't done looking at the bush turkey?! That thing is incredible. Also this sponsor is the weirdest one I've seen yet, and that's without the noose building side story. They straight up throwing money at players and youtubers alike.
"Australians are like Russians in that their environment is inhospitable to everyone except them"
alexander the great, probably
edit: woah most liked comment thanks
Post soviet country's: no
100% true
Just a lot less scarier
@@Usual_User during soviet countries too
bro australians are just in a world where their environment could kill them in 700 ways and thats only with plants
I live near Chicago and the most exciting things that we have here are deer and coyotes. I've also seen turkeys in our local conservation area, and I've heard an owl hooting in the tree outside. Other than that, it's mostly just squirrels and midwestern birds, with a few hawks and the very occasional eagle
this video probably bought this guy a Lamborghini because I watch it so often,Australians are so lucky to have such an interesting fauna
"You can catch flies with honey, but you catch more honies being fly."
- Ghandi
"Stop misquoting me on the internet!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Smooth
"What the hell?"
-Sun Tzu
@@hemlock42069 "Fuck this shit! I'm outta here!"
- Jesus of Nazareth
@@hemlock42069 Also: Hello my Lord 😈
This guy knows the game he's promoting is trash and he doesnt hide his opinion about that!
Respect
Yeah it’s a pretty fun clip to watch other than some guy who looks like he has been held at gunpoint to talk about the game
14:41 POV: You're an insect in a schoolyard
"What are you making?"
"A bat sandwich "
"WhAt ThE hElL?"
*proceeds to eat plastic*
Yeah that’s the joke?
I think it was liquorice :-)
There was a jumpcut, he didn’t eat the plastic
This video is honestly better than some of the Geographic shows, it is funny and it is amazing at the same time. We should take some time to appreciate I did a thing for taking the time to make this video!!
Dont know if this is true but thanks
It is true man either this took ages to make or this guy did this in a day finding anything round the garden but this is like tierzoo content.
@@Ididathing it is
This! I don’t linger in comment sections normally but this video moved me enough to wanna see who else felt this way. Incredibly beautiful and enrapturing. Was that big spiky thing an Echidna?
Jumping spiders have absolutely no business being that cute. They were my gateway drug into spider appreciation
было необычно увидеть родные места в твоем видео хах. и, реально удивительные животные, а летучие мыши хорошенькие невероятно
at first i was like 'awn whats wrong with the butcher bird he's kind of cute' and then i was traumatized
They are terrifying
why do these things exist
@@cosmiceyness beacausueese
@@cosmiceyness god let satan make a few animals
@@cosmiceyness it Australia what do you expect
why does a random house in Australia have more animal life than my local zoo
I don't even live in a grey depressing city but the most interesting relatively common animal around where I live are woodpeckers. And you rarely ever see them, just hear them.
And sometimes they decide to peck on metal poles which is really loud. Mainly because they actively seek out the loudest thing they can
As an Australian our wildlife is beautiful
I love how he acts like he's disturbing these animals/insects just to piss people off. lol
I am
Amog
@@jones6097 us
@@sasdagreat8052 sussy
@@cock7873 backa
I went through every frame when he dropped the glass to make sure he did not actually drop the fish, and I can confirm that he did not actually drop the fish
Thank you, birds eating each other is nature, killing a fish ain’t 😂
@@jrocksburr2724 huh?
Thanks soldier!
kinda guessed that because he isn't a person who kills wildlife willy-nilly, but thanks for making sure!
Shoot lemme check frame by frame too to make sure he didn’t actually catch a sugar glider in a bag.
jumping spiders actually have very, VERY good vision as far as tiny creatures like spiders go! mostly because they jump a lot, and it kind of helps to be able to see where they're going before they make the leap.
I live in New England, so we have a lot of animals, but they're the usual deer, squirrels, porcupines, sparrows, crows, and turkey vultures. Those animals being common is crazy to me. He also just has lemons growing in his yard?
"I absolutely do not recommend you to buy endangered animals online as they are always ridiculously overpriced.
Instead you should buy it from me at a reasonable price with free shipping"
This guy is an entrepreneur in the making
me: *realising all the non-australians think the thumbnail is real* “understandable it’s pretty crazy here down under”
i hope they do
I almost did
@@Ididathing I did for about 2 minutes
I kinda did from the good edits but what do i know i just live on long island with no wildlife other than the water snakes, Italian wall lizards, yellow sac spiders,some wolf's bears and moose in mainland (because Long island is in New York if you didn't know),brown recluses,wolf spiders and our many species of insects being on a technical island(even though we get snow and the temp. has gotten to 16 degrees And yes i know iceland is also an island but we also get actual 90 degree heat in summer so our weather varies and i just realized i typed so much and its currently 4:02 am in long island so i should go to sleep,)
I was hoping they were all his pets. Very tame wild animal pets 😆
There's no way you actually got away with that ad read
I've been to Australia once I find that my favorite animal there is the emu. Not only are they bulletproof but they're also very delicious
"And their poo contains a fungus that is very deadly."
*FAMOUS LAST WORDS*
rip
More like "I died a thing" am I right guys?
He died
@Cheap good quality bruh
true cause of covid
The scariest thing was you walking barefoot through those weeds.
That's kinda his thing
No that’s kinda normal in Aussie
@@Callawaygolfer I’ve noticed that bro why. Are you Assuie. Because you guys do not give a fuck. I can’t even walk in my California yard that has occasional really small weak puny thorns. Y’all built different
@@matthewplacencia6340 we have gained prickle immunity after centuries of walking on dry grass.
@@matthewplacencia6340 no y'all just too lazy to go outside
Oh wow... An actually wholesome video where Alex showcases several animals he's seen in his backyard. What a nice change from his regular montage of whacky life-endangering inventions.
* Shatters a fish's skeletal system with shards of glass flying everywhere *
Oh my... Well, no matter, it was probably an accident anyway.
* Smashes a screeching thing (sugar glider?) to sell it at a lower price in the competitive animal-napping market *
Ah, well okay... I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less than the quality content that is usually produced by this channel...
* Crushes thousands of "unseeable" lifeforms under his foot *
* Proceeds to "buy plastic from Chinese slaves" to document the creatures he is destroying *
Geez, wow, okay, this is getting kinda...
* Grills fruit bats and makes sandwiches out of them *
OH GREAT HEAVENS!
I fell in love with bats! They're so cute! When they hang on trees and fly around, they look very much like our crows.
As a Canadian who has dealt with Canadian Geese nesting in their backyard, I can tell you that I have fought the deadliest of battles against wildlife.
Oof xD
"ay mate may i politely ask you to get out of my garden ey?"
If they charge you try to grab em by the neck, that’s their weak spot and it looks hilarious
Look out ey?
I don't even live in Canada but I have to deal with Canadian geese all the time, not necessarily nesting, but they occasionally decide that my back yard is the perfect place to start being territorial about when I used to have people over. Though, they often give in if there are enough people, but there was one that was quite threatening, it was genuinely scary. And it's not like they ever attack, I usually chicken out first and retreat back indoors, so props for actually being able to deal with them. I actually haven't seen any this year, I wonder if I even will this year...
Please freestyle-narrate an entire nature documentary.
First video I saw of yours, and now I've binged them all lol. This is one of my favs, and I recommended it to my sister who showed her work friends. Being from depressing Michigan, it has blown all our minds the animals you can so easily see there. The fish in the glass joke really surprised me the first time watching rofl.
Here in Europe, we have a bird called the shrike and feeds in the same way as the butcher bird
Geez, I thought that I was suffering from big morningwood. This dude has got a whole forrest underneath his blanket 17:47
also its not even censored, is that even allowed?
Thank you for making me look back at that I would've missed the reappearance of the sexy log lmao.
I read the title as 'Meet the weird Australian in my yard' and after 'my normal Australian house tour' I was really there for it
By the way, fish eggs can hitch a ride on the feet of water birds, so that’s probably how they wound up in your pond
Cool fact: All australian Magpies are actually british magpies sent over as convicts, naughty magpies.
The German word for bat (Fledermaus) is made from the old German word for fluttering and the word for mouse. The word for fruit bat (Flughung) is made of the words for flight dog. So we call them fluttering mice and flight dogs.
Edit: As someone pointed out in the comments I was slighly wrong with my translation so I editited it. I don' want to spread misinformation.
The bats here only fly at dusk and night and are pretty small, I've only ever seen them as a blur flying above me.
They really do look like dogs
Zo ik dutch and dutch and german overlap a fair bit so what my cestoin is is the word vleermuis ?
@@spacecthulhu399 For people who don't speak it, you guessed right, "vleermuis" = bat and literally translates to "flying mouse". I'm also reasonably sure (second language, native English-speaker) that flying foxes, like the fruit bats IDAT showed, are vleerhond, literally "flying dog". In English we call them flying foxes so to be fair we're not better lmao.
Makes sense, they look almost exactly like a dog with wings lol
fledermaus and flederhund?
I love how almost every Russian was slav squatting. Feet planted firmly on the ground too, perfect form
its natures way
Heels to the sky, western spy
Never seen a fruit bat in my yard, but sometimes when I'm at mates place for a party late into the night some might fly overhead, and it's pretty cool when you notice.
Being a wildlife photographer in the UK is like being an ice sculptor in the Saharah. living in australia would be like living in the middle of a glacier
This unique combination of dark humor and fascination of animals and insects is exactly what I wanted to watch right now.
The rewatch value of this video. Not one of the crazier ones but it’s so wholesome that I’ll be revisiting this, sober.
Good to hear!
What a mood
The ad read. Holy shit
That spider has a greater sensor size than a full frame camera at 9:04
I live in Denmark and yeah this is insane to me, the most exciting animal here are hedgehogs or badgers. I guess unless you count the sea stuff like whales and seals but those aren't easy to spot.
Okay so we got badgers here but you see them bassicly never, id love to see one someday. Im not dying before i see a whale tho.
@@thesaviorofsouls5210 I've never seen one in person either.
Ja, men hvaler ser man kun når myndighederne syndes at det er en god ide at sprænge dem i luften med dynamit, efter de strander.
In Australia we see whales and seals all the time just go to the beach or a rock wall and they r there
@@lucasmcmath7672 really? Maybe i should, wanted to go there anyway
imagine paying all this money to sponsor I did a thing to not even spell Enemies correctly. Beautiful
I mean, have you seen Internet Historians sponsor ads?
@@sandygehrmann6309 yes and they are works of art
@@cucomberguy5603 completely agree :)
Lmao what a trash game
New subscriber here. I love your sense of humour, and I REALLY love Flying-Foxes…but then I love most animals, arachnids, reptiles, and bugs . You just gave me a grand slam, thank you.🖤🇨🇦
I remember when I was about 3 or 4, me and my family stayed in a holiday house is Byron bay and there were so many lizards and bush turkeys in the backyard
To the German speaking guy: we have feral ring-necked parakeet populations in Germany!
@@Ididathing We will anyways :D Love your videos!
Afaik in Cologne there are whole trees with big swarms of ring-necked parakeets.
@@EHSOable Same in Düsseldorf
Hi
The upside of living in a depressing country is that even the animals are depressed so they don't bother attacking you
unless if its a giant rat that want your food it has happened to me a few times
@@Ididathing psychologists are also kinda depressed.
There is vodka tho. I guess that counts as something.
nah dw bro. Australia’s animals are all pretty safe as long as you don’t try and interact and stay a healthy distance away. Although in september magpies can be bitches
So you don't know the meaning of depression lol that's ok there special classes at school for people like you I think it's called the " slow kids class" lol
@@daggermouth4695 Are you okay? Do you need a hug?
bro has an ecosystem on his back yard
you do too mate
@@tickletaxel1368 plot twist he lives in space
your videos are so funny yet heart felt and immaculate
When you dropped the glass “with the fish in it” I cracked up laughing! Took me off guard! Good one 🤣😂
Thanks! And dont worry i didnt actually kill it
@@Ididathing 🤨
@@Ididathing what did u do?
@@Ididathing thank god I was genuinely worried ghjfsadk I love fish too much to enjoy a joke like that :(
@@Ididathing please dont tell me you hurt yourself while making that scene. The glass sound is scary