Why doesn't Australia have an apex predator?
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Combat Wombat was the name of a Jodaka dirt bike in the early '70's
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Fun Fuct: there are no reason for depicting Tylacoleo such as some kind of strange, rodent faced felid, like paleoartist do.
It could have, and probably had... the shape of a giant, meat eater Koala XD.
They are strict realtives and, on more, they are both arboreal.
Great chance it could have been a cute and fluffy killing machine XD
And all I can think is...MORTAL WOMBAT!!!
Lol. Yes 😂
Didgeridoo cover of Utah Saints 😂
It started playing in my head immediately
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FINISH HIM xD
As an Australian I always laugh when people say they’re afraid of snakes and spiders, you guys have BEARS that can rip you apart, that is absolutely terrifying
Here in Canada there’s a very slim chance that you’d get attacked by a bear. I’m always more scared of getting attacked by a mountain lion than a bear! As for snaked and spiders, I think they freak more people out because they are smaller and well camouflaged so it’s harder for us to spot them until it might be too late and we’ve been bitten. That’s just my guess anyways :)
Bears can't hide in my bathroom and spook me when I'm showering :(
Does your cities have big spiders? Chances of getting a bear at home is much much less. There are not as many bears as are spiders😂 I am scared of snakes in my country during monsoon. We have a lot of snakes!
I know, as Aussie, Bears and mountain lions seem so scary. Like if I’m walking around and I come across a snake or a spider I can walk or run away from it and it either won’t chase me or is very slow. But I’m pretty sure there’s no easy way to run from a bear
Never had to shake a bear out of my shoe in the morning
These still exist. They're called "Drop bears" and hunt exclusively on tourists.
lol
tourist taste delicious
Better put that vegemite behind your ear
Exactly my thought. We know that Drop Bears and Koalas are almost identical. They both sleep in the day. Only diff is DB's eat meat and don't like the smell of Vegemite.
She forgot Australia has the Huntsman Spider (atticus). Monster sized, and those naturally super steroid kangaroos that make arnold Schwarzenegger look like a girly boy.
Note that Carnifex can mean either butcher or executioner in Latin, and literally means "Meat-maker."
to some it means "distraction"
To me it means "brutal riffs and screaming"
Read a fantasy book once and that's what they called the military surgeon
The likes ratio
man Geedubs names for Tyranids makes more sense.
RELEASE THE COMBAT WOMBAT
The Romans would've fought one if they were still around
@@13wayz70 I'd pay to watch them fight a flightless bird like an emu 😂
Colossal is working on bringing them
back!
Combat Wombat released in 2020 if you want to see it so badly lmao
Mortal wombat?
They've actually got the dropbear, the most terrifying predator on earth of course.
Searched all the comments to find this. Glad someone remembers the true terror.
The dropbear might have actually been real! It might have even been this "marsupial lion" even.
Oh boy, I had to Google that 😂
The dropbear may be deadly, but they're only about the size of a Koala, right? I don't think they count as large mammals 😅
@@alexw.7097they definitely can get pretty big in size, adults are known to be bigger than a dog. The species has actually steadily been growing in size each year, Australian president Anthony Albanese actually issued a public safety warning last year.
@@alexw.7097nah mate drop bears are the size of a small child their just not shown so we can still have tourists come
You have Emu's. You don't need predatory mammals, lol They won a war against humans, lol
Cassowary’s are even more dangerous
Birds are reptiles
@@stefthorman8548birds are birds not reptiles 🤦♂️
Birds are dinosaurs and they still behave like dinosaurs
Aboriginals beat the Thunderbirds and other MEGA fauna.
The most recent was the Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine. But they do have things like Dingoes (Similar to Coyotes) and on Tasmania they have the Devil’s.
Dingoes were introduced from Asia around 4,000 years ago
dingoes were descended from domesticated dogs too, so they're less predatory
@@bigdecolonisationenergyDingos have been here since the Aboriginal people as far as we know, they're considered very much native.
@@violassesLMFAO no? Their lineage split a long time ago from the animals that would become modern dogs? And they WILL eat people after actively hunting them? I know multiple people that have been corralled into the water on K'gari by a flanking pack intending on waiting them out. Are you American or just entirely oblivious?
@@leona5123well she’s not wrong the estimate for their arrival is between 4,000 to even as far back as 18,000 years ago by Asian sea farers. Indigenous people have been in Australia around 60,000 years. They are considered introduced technically but sometimes their considered a native species because they were here prior to Europeans.
Don't give them ideas, the spiders'll evolve to be even BIGGER.
It’s so interesting that the Aboriginal people lived for 10 000-20 000 years alongside these marsupial lions.
There are extremely old rock paintings that depict this animal, very cool to know.
To think my ancestors probably fought with them -with the dingoes we brought along- is crazy, I'm surprised they didn't go with the sabertooth wombat as a name though lol, it seems fitting for those teeth.
@@mojowwwav4357 Those beasties were long gone before dingo's were introduced .
@@tarsinsigmundson2714 oh yeah, lol, only 3000 years ago they were introduced, could have sworn they followed as scavengers over.
They also lived alongside giant kangaroos and now-extinct oversized lizards
why are we not talking about our apex bird predator: Cassowary
who needs killer mammals when our birds do the job
Because they aren’t predatory…
@@Grungus37 wait until mating season.
@@Grungus37might aswell be
"Australia has no big predatory mammals."
Humans:
Crocodiles
@@shaebrown2872 Crocs are reptiles...
Dingos who outcompeted thylacines for the same ecological niche: 🙃
@@shaebrown2872ah yes my favourite mammal, the crocodile
@@M4_Sherman587😂😂😂😂
Who needs an apex predator when every insect and reptile is lethal?
Except they're not
Who would win: Australia's crocs, snakes and monitor lizards OR a common Brazilian toad.
Maybe that's why these things went extinct. They're food started eating them back.
Australia is probably the least dangerous continent except for Europe in terms of wild life.
@@whome9842 burh
I mean… Cassowaries exist and they’re probably the most angriest bird of all angry birds.
Remember, Emus won wars against humans.
@@TheAccidentalVikinghow?
@@chakaislife3046 Use google to look it up.
@@TheAccidentalViking It was a failed eradication program that was made fun of as a war and yanks can't seem to understand. lol
The Karen of birds
"where are the big Australian predators?"
me: tf? crocs and big as poisonous snakes aren't big enough for you? what about dingos? they are just a hill Billy wolf
It took sometime for me to understand what she is trying to convey...😮
she said predatory mammals tho, not predators
@@offtheleashman dingos?
@@Ubernewb111 dingoes aren't very big they're maybe a little smaller than a coyote
@offtheleashman I guess. I think the premise of "with how many things in Australia that can kill you, don't you think it strange that there isn't more of this certain type of thing that can kill you?" kinda silly, but hey, cc's gonna cc
Combat Wombats IS WAY better than “marsupial lion.” I will now exclusively refer to these magnificent creatures as Combat Wombats!
Definitely a late 80's early 90s cartoon.
Ace the leader
Max, the gadget guy
Daisy, the female knive expert
Randal, but everyone calls him Rad he's originally from California but moved to Australia because of the knarly waves he loves to make things go boom. Oh yeah, he's an opposum
Lilly thief and cat burgler turned spy
Joey is a young bandicoot who wants to be part of the team.
The intro is a metal thrashing guitar
Combat Wombats on the move.
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The Combat Wombat getting a Wombo Combo
When you realize we are the predatory mammals lmao
Thank you
don't ruin her story lol!
Aren't there dingos in Australia?
@@lyrebird1088she said predatory mammals "like wolves or big cats" we aren't like wolves or big cats 😅
@@MC-BOT Yep
Australia also had predatory lizards - the Komodo Dragon had a slightly bigger relative in Australia competing with the Tasmanian Tiger (large dog size) and Tasmanian Devil (medium dog size) predators along with the Marsupial Lion.
The 6kg/2.8 meter wingspan Wedge Tail Eagle is quite capable of taking out medium size prey too. The slightly larger 15kg / 3m wingspan Haast’s Eagle migrated to New Zealand from Australia too.
And don't forget the terrestrial crocodile, Quinkana!
That giant komodo (Megalania iirc) was too big for those other Aussie land creatures to compete. It was almost 25ft long.
@@Awesomeficationify Except Australia’s megafauna was around at the same time, with 4 meter giant wombats (the size of hippopotamus to small elephants) and 3 meter tall giant kangaroos roaming around at the same time (actually at the same time as early humans arrived).
25 feet (7.8 meters?) is probably too big for Megalania. I've seen estimates putting it at low like 5 or 6. Which, it should be mentioned, is still a car-sized predatory lizard.
@@petersmythe6462 which if you captive breed them would happily give you a ride on its back, after all Komodo Dragons used to for toddlers at London zoo..
"No wolf equivalent" Thylacine untill 100 years ago has left the chat. EDIT: this is now my most liked comment thx!
She specified mammals; those were marsupials.
@@jensmith4411 marsupials are mammals
@@jensmith4411learn how animal classifications work lol
Was mostly extinct on the mainland long before European settlement
@@jensmith4411😂😂😂
I’m Aussie, and when I was doing my zoo archaeology course at university, one of the guest lecturers talked about our extinct megafauna. My favourite one was called the “Demon Duck of Doom” or Dromornis 😂 it was a gigantic bird, 2.5m (8’) and 250kgs, most closely related to modern ducks and geese.
The 40 mph land crocs are nightmare fuel
Omg. Today I learnt. Thank you!
Quinkana ☠️
Oh another bird for your military to lose to fun ^_~
So horse sized ducks did exist
As someone who has died from a Thylacoleo in Ark more times than I can count, this gives me a bit of reassurance
My first experience in the redwoods.. I was on my argie, flying around low in the woods. Thoroughly enjoying the scenery, loving the beautiful stream and charming woodland sounds.. I was briefly considering making a base there. And then one of those bastards yeeted out of a tree, ripped me off my bird and killed me.
Thylas are actually one of my favorite creatures.. but only when they're on my side. Definitely my favorite thing to shred titanosaurs with.
As an Australian, I'm fine with not having large predators. The small dangerous stuff is plenty sufficient.
Edit: I don't consider kangaroos or emus predators. Though I will admit a salt water croc is also plenty sufficient for killer creatures in Australia.
Yeah man. You got all sorts of creepy crawlers that can mess you up.
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@@Freebase_lace MIss the point often or always?
New Zealand has no predators either right?
@@zap2747 Kiwi has no major land Predators. No bears, wolves, coyotes, badgers, wolverines
..etc
petition to officially change it's scientific name to Impetum Vombatus (Combat Wombat)
Australia apex predator... Salt water crocs?
They're limited to aquatic systems.
She said “large predatory mammals” so the saltwater crocs are out.
Humans?
@@jeffreyyucel9373 Dingos???
@@veritorossidingos compared to apex predators everywhere else are really weak.
There’s no wolf equivalent dingo left the chat
Eh. They’re just dogs
@@quakxy_dukxyes and no. It has been agreed upon that the Dingo evolved before domesticated dogs did. It shares similarities with both a wolf and a dog, but it is not either of them.
@@mattevans1643 I know they’re not actually dogs but they may as well be
The dingo was introduced to Aus ~8,300 years BP. There really isn’t any carnivorous marsupial here.
dingoes dont really count since they were introduced by humans.
Their spiders are big enough to scare all the mammals away
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Only in Tasmania, not a large predator
@@BigL.10 incorrect. The thylacine was prevalent on the mainland of Australia as much as it was in Tassy.
not for like 3500 years, so its not relevant to this conversation. Otherwise you may as well group in all the bigger animals from the past@@GingerNinjaPlus
@@BigL.10
The last Thylacine died within living memory in captivity 1921. The species was alive and well before European colonists arrived.
@@WhatIsSanity not on the mainland, which was exactly my point. You lack comprehension skills
This is mentioned in the amazing book Sapiens. Basically, the theory goes that apex predators in Africa and other places that contains other homo genus members earlier than Sapiens had more time to gradually experience our cousin's increasingly deadly evolutionary advantages. This allowed the predators time to evolve to coexist with us (mostly by avoiding us). That meant that they were prepared for when we arrived on the scene later. Meanwhile, Australia was completely isolated from all forms of Homo members until we arrived 45k years ago, so its predators quickly met their fate soon afterwards.
Sounds good on the surface, but the numbers involved are insufficient to support such a simplistic poorly thought out theory focused on a multi variant subject.
Dingos!
This theory can’t stand on its own as it’s disproven by all predators living in the Americas, which had no member of the genus homo for far longer than Australia. Furthermore, the Tasmanian Tiger was most likely pushed out by Dingos 2’000 years ago on the mainland (long after humans arrived), so reality is that Australia always had large predators, the last native mammalian one just got replaced by newly migrated dogs.
PS: Obviously there is also some „arrogance“ in saying that there was no large mammal predator, when humans do fit this niche absolutely for 45k years in Australia.
@@davidgantenbein9362 interesting counter point!
@@davidgantenbein9362 What are you talking about with North America not suffering from large carnivorous mammal extinctions, although it´s true that a decent amount of carnivourous animals still exist in North America it is much lower than the amount that were before humans arrived, the megafauna of America was actually affected even worse than in Australia.
Dingos after hearing these:
*Angry wild dog noises*
Dingos are the lamest apex predators, though.
@@TheRedRaccoonDog also, I'm pretty sure that dingos are not native to Australia. I could be wrong though.
@@iaminaconstantstateofdreadcorrect they were introduced to Australia. A very, very long time ago. It’s considered that the first humans that arrived here brought them at least 50,000-75,000 years ago.
The dingo ate my baby
@@TheRedRaccoonDogI don’t think it’s lamest. I mean right next door in New Zealand, and the most they have are feral house cats.
Koalas are the apex predator. They're just trying out the vegan lifestyle right now.
Like Pandas, Koalas have chosen to largely eat a terrible food source and don't have the energy to do much as a result. If they ever acquire a taste for meat, we're doomed.
You mean drop bears
@@arthurjeremypearson thylacoleo is already the irl drop bear, it was a wombat (marsupial like a koala) with elite climbing ability that ambushed large pray from trees and had the greatest bite force of any known mammal.
They’re too stoned to care😆
Dingos be like: 👁️👄👁️
Dingos only happened cause humans brought dogs with them.
@@sorrenblitz805 I know but that doesn’t mean they’re not there
theyre not really that big tho right?
@user you're right and humans and emus
In neighbouring New Zealand the lack of any apex predators is also a recent phenomenon. Like, less than 1000 years ago New Zealand had the largest eagle ever recorded that hunted moa, flightless birds bigger than ostriches, and it's possible it could have hunted humans too.
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The Emu and Casowary be like “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
a.k.a. the prime examples of big predatory MAMMALS
And dingos
@@EpicQibliFanEh, europeans brought them over. Isn't she talking about native animals?
@@HiroHitohshe never said that, specifically
There was a war LOL
"Australia has no big predatory mammals"
Nuh uh we call them Australians
We also had Megalania. Now THAT was a lizard
I’m sorry but screw megalanias…… ark players will understand
The contempt in her voice when she said “humans” was palpable
The only humans here 40,000 years ago were indigenous people who have very effective methods of looking after habitat so I think it's more likely to be climate. It's since European colonisation that most species have become extinct or endangered. Ex. The Tasmanian Tiger was hunted to extinction in less than 100 years
@@user-sk3jk9el5swow that's a very ignorant take. In both Australia (~40-50,000 years ago) and the Americas (~10,000 years ago), it only took hundreds to thousands of years for humans to hunt most large mammals to extinction. This was particularly possible because many of these large mammals didn't know to be scared of bipedal apes and hadn't evolved any defense mechanisms that were effective against spears and arrows.
When she said 40,000 years ago it just sounded like they naturally went extinct. Animals going extinct is normal 😂 not everything is humans faults besides probably in the past 200-300years
@@user-sk3jk9el5sIndigenous people developed effective methods of looking after the environment after tens of thousands of years learning the importance of taking care of it the hard way.
40,000 years is almost exactly when humans first colonized Australia, that's a very unlikely coincidence
@@AlexanderRM1000 Actually, their is ( very solid, and almost undisputable) evidence that the Aboriginal people have been here for over 65, 000 years, 25,000 years before you said, which is definitley enough time to learn how to take care of the land, and for animals to learn to be scared of humans. It is also 25,000 years that the Aboriginal people and the ancient animals lived without either goiing extinct
Eons: "Isn't it weird that Australia has no big predatory mammals?"
Me: "Uhh, aren't dingos a thing?"
Dingos are actually kinda small.
"The average wild dingo male weighs 15.8 kg (35 lb), is 125 cm (49 in) long and stands 59 cm (23 in) tall at the shoulder. The average wild female weighs 14.1 kg (31 lb), is 122 cm (48 in) long and stands 53 cm (21 in) at the shoulder."
Also weren't dingoes introduced by the ancestral aborigines?
@@TiggerIsMyCat Not sure, but don't call them "Aborigines", because the term has bad stigma and history. "Aboriginal people" is the right term ("Aboriginal" is an adjective).
Dingo's are not originally native to Australia, Introduced from Indonesia around 5000 years ago (give or take a few thousand years depending on the paleontologist )
@@mr.goldfish1530 Thank you for teaching me that. Aboriginal people.
Idk, some of those Kangaroos are really built and very violent.
Why doesn’t Australia have large predatory mammals?
Humans: We are outside ecological niches now?
Guess she isn't familiar with the Salt Water Croc
@@Its_Me_Romano I didn’t realize crocodiles were mammals 🤔😅
@@PrinceDuCiel7 title talks about apex predators in Australia
@@Its_Me_Romano The video mentions specifically mammals And I specifically mentioned mammals.
I think you should mention the Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), which is another example of a large native carnivorous marsupial. it was widespread across Australian until it was displaced by dingos around 2000 years ago. But there was a large population of thylacines on Tasmania (an island state of Australia) until European settlement, and the last one known only died in 1936.
While not native, Dingoes also deserve a mention as it was them who took over this niche when they were introduced to Australia at least 3500 years ago. Dingoes are placental mammals genetically very similar to dogs.
I was looking for this comment!
Due to its actually quite weak bite force Thylacine tended to fill the niche that cats do in other places.
I don't know where you git that information but thylacines weren't displaced by dingoes, they were wide spread all over Australia until Europeans came dusplacec them, killing them due to thylacines killing live stock and Europeans raking their land, thylacines also had a bounty on their heads dueto being seen as a pest fir killing livestock and killed off by humans, unfortunately the nainland population got killed off sooner than Tasmania population obviously
They're still alive. They're just hiding.
You beat me to it. If your going to mention something like this then why not mention the tiger that humans killed into extinction?
A saltwater croc seems like an apex predator.
Some of the first words in the video are "predatory mammals".
dingo @@edvelociraptor1794
Its actually the dingo
@@edvelociraptor1794 a saltwater crocodile preyed on a girl who stayed at my hostel. Rip
Evil villain: “Choose which cage you will enter…..the one with the 6 meter saltwater croc……or the one with the ferocious Koala!”
Me: “Come ‘ere, Fuzzy Wuzzy.”
When you got your BA from the California School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
COMBAT WOMBAT!
Best super villain name ever!
i think there already is/was a comicbook character by that name
they must be brought to justice, Trial by Wombat
@@peterstangl8295There is an Australian animated movie. She’s a superhero tho, not a villain.
Australia was also home to three dragons: in the deserts and outback, megalania, a giant monitor lizard possibly over 4 m long prowled the bush; the top predator of the jungles and Forrest was a terrestrial (or possibly semi-aquatic) crocodile called Quinkana; finally, one dragon still rules, with the saltwater crocodile being by far the largest Predator on the continent and second only to humans in the food chain.
I'll admit that I'm pretty drunk right now, but combat wombats has me dying 😂
Combat Wombat used a wombo combo on its victims😂
Also don’t forget that there are several other large predators in the reptile population as well as the stellar’s sea eagle.
Salt water crocodiles are the largest extant reptile predators weighing up to a TON. Never mind the active hunters in the outback, the goanas.
Thylacaleo was tiny. It was 2 feet at the shoulder.
No there can't be crocodiles, we have no real predators - the Yanks said so... And in other news, I'll be encouraging them to take a swim in Darwin, for no reason at all😂😂
@@leona5123 lmao imagine. Death by sand tiger.
And the burrunjor
Thylacoleo wasn't tiny dude, it was closer to the size of a jaguar/lioness. May look tiny when compared to megalania/quinkana/salties
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And croc
@@xangierichardsxshe did say mammals at the beginning of the video
I wouldn’t say they’re very scary or large.
Dingos were introduced by humans.
dingo was brought to Australia 4,000 years ago by some Asian dudes
Seeing Steve Irwin take on Thylacoleo would’ve been amazing
Oh, yes please. The man was an egregious cretin. His heart was in the right place but his head was up his arse.
Dinnertime Garfield 😂😂
*_MORTAL WOMBAT_* (mortal combat theme with random wombat screams)
The drop bear is truly a fearsome predator of the Australian mainland
It is sad this is so often overlooked. They are very deadly.
Koalas? They're not predators.
@@reubenmanzo2054 that’s what they want you to think, but we all know it’s not true. Behind that fuzzy face is a ferocious monstrosity, laying waste to whoever comes within their reach
@@reubenmanzo2054drop bears are a breed of koala, similar to how pugs are a breed of dog
"Where are Australia's equivalent of wolves?"
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Dingoes aren't native to Australia.
@@SamStone1964 THEY AREN'T????? This is like French Fries all over again...
@@SamStone1964Say that to my Native relatives and see what happens, I dare you!😅 Moron.
@@bambimonstahh They're invasive wild dogs
@@SamStone1964Brought from Europeans or something and probably had something to do with the extinction of the Thylacine but that was mostly humans probably.
Petition to make "Combat Wombat" the actual name of the species
What is the Latin for "combat wombat" ?
@@johnbaker1256Impetum Vombatus? it literally translates to "attack wombat"
I’m fond if Vombatus pulsans. the striking wombat. Because in a scifi comedy i once read, dude had a pulsar gun called The Combat Wombat. Its a great haha
@@simondeepwhat was the comedy?
@@monch2277 Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, by Larry Correia. Very tongue-in-cheek audiobook. He also wrote Monster Hunter International, which is like if Clint Eastwood rewrote the Supernatural tvshow, but he plays it down for Tom Stranger, besides the satire
The ick face you made in reference to humans is exactly how I feel about people who do things like that
Convergent evolution is so neat! I especially love the fish/cichlids of the African lakes. Most fish there evolved from 1 common ancestor and each lake fish that can look similar but are unrelated to the other lakes
I feel sorry for the Dingo not being acknowledged
But those guys are the results of feral imports, right?
the dingo was introduced by humans in australia, they are descendants of dogs
@@tomas_silva07isn’t dingo just wild dogs that really weren’t domesticated.
@@notchs0son wild dogs that weren’t domesticated are called wolves haha, but no their ancestors were domesticated dogs, by the australian aborigines that brought them there and “abandoned” in the wild, occupying ecological branches in their ecosystem
@@tomas_silva07I'm not sure why that means anything.
COMBAT WOMBATS! I now know how I’m going to address the Christmas cards to my kids next year.
I was going to comment something about how this is an incredible punk/thrash band name or also an incredible The Warriors -style gang name, but honestly calling a gaggle of children "combat wombats" might be my favorite application of the phrase 😂
Lol, the disgust when she said "humans" 🤣
Agreed.
I've rarely been annoyed by a person this quick
why
Australia, where every animal is either incredibly strange, incredibly deadly, or both.
I can confirm because I'm an Aussie.
Saying "What was that?" in indigenous Aussie lingo.
Now I rly want an Australian sports team with the name “combat wombats” 😭
There’s an Aussie MMA fighter who’s nick name is the Combat Wombat ahahah
@@mikeoxlong3367 this makes me so happy!
Teacher: Today we are going to name each country's apex predator. We'll start with Australia.
Australia: Yes
You should've also mentioned thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) a.k.a. the marsupial wolf.
A.K.A. the Tasmanian tiger, too.
Also a recent development, far more recent in fact- it went extinct less than a century ago, and its extinction was almost entirely human-driven.
yeah that's what i was expecting this video to be about!
megafauna is usually classified as something over 40kg, the average thylacine doesnt qualify as a large predator, medium at best. same with the current dingos that live on the island that outcompeted the thylacine.
I feel like the video needs to be renamed, Why doesn't Australia have an apex mammal. I was literally about to go goblin mode because it said no apex predator, and I was gonna be like, the largest reptile on the planet lives there, hello? Salt water croc, hello? But then they clarified apex mammals. Rework title, please.
The Dingo is upto 45 pounds which is about 20 lighter than a wolf, likely due to their omnivorous diet, however, they are incredible climbers and can jump around 6.5 feet. They are also extremely flexible and move over obstacles with ease, meaning in a enclosed environment, they have the upper hand.
Dingoes are normally lone animals whereas wolves hunt in packs, ultimately making wolves more deadly in open environments.
However, the Australian Saltwater crocodile is one of the largest and most aggressive crocodiles in the world and they spend much more time on land than alligators.
The reality for most Australian animals is that they adapted to environments where food was scarce, so many of our animals are considered to have amazing problem solving however, the trade off is that they are smaller. It's also important to realise we do have other animals which are not carnivorous but are deadly, such as a kangaroo which can grow to around 6 feet and crush a human ribcage with a single kick.
Yes came here to see salties mentioned. They are scary mofos.
“No wolf” (we do have normal dogs)
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Dingoes are like medium sized dogs they hardly compare to wolves
The dingo is a feral dog, just one that went feral a long time ago.
Ik
She has bigger claws than any marsupial lion.
Yeah those nails are disgusting
It's a predatory look
@@tinyrogerts6449 shut up
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King of hide and seek that yowie fella
"Wombats that chose violence" 😂😂😂
Finnally someone that comments to that instead of the Combat Wombat
I like how you use a marsupial to prove that Australia had no big predatory mammals.
He looks so goofy and I’m here for it 😭 ❤
I think you should mention the Thylacine. It was hunted to extinction in the 30's
And some goober always swears to have seen one every few years...sigh...
@@bemusedbandersnatch2069Its likely that some lived to the 60s or 80s but its probably extinct today and it should be mentioned that it was near extinction before Europeans even arrived.
Megalania Quintana Giant Wombats Giant Kangaroos Marsupial Lion…. Abos….
She literally just disregarded dingoes and thylacines and went straight to prehistoric.. also large birds like emus and cassawories
@@user-sk3jk9el5s>predatory mamals
>cassowary and emu
uh huh
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Aggressive? Yes, however, to the best of my knowledge, the death birds are not carnivorous.
@@MtNomi Not to mention, it doesn't meet the criterion stated immediately at the beginning of the video: It's not a mammal
Not a predator.
Not a mammal, first and foremost :D
@8Hshan The video was about APEX PREDATORS, so first and foremost, it's not a predator.
We DO have apex animals though. The Big Merino can devour a grizzly bear for breakfast. The Big Banana and Big Prawn can easily tag team a shark durian superhybrid. Everything is bigger here because the extra gravity from being upside down stretches everything bigger, and the blood draining down to our brains makes everything more vicious.
Combat Wombats 😂😂😂 I'm obsessed with this. This would make a great aussie band name. 😅
combat wombat is already an aussie hip hop group
@@tamamakiiti587 🤣 Oh, that's funny. Great name.
I'm so proud that I used the term 'combat wombat' for some time now, independently from this video, and now I hear it here.
"Wombat that chose violence" just sounds so much like a paradoxical thing, that it would fit right in with everything else in Australia! ❤
Dingos and there where Tasmanian tigers
Don't listen to her
THE SPIDERS GOT THEM
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But, they are actually marsupials not mammals
Did everyone just forget dingos exist or...?
@@anon4854 it took my baby so i left it alone
@@rachelmcclain5367
Marsupials are mammals.
@@anon4854I think dingoes are just dogs brought by colonizers??
“Combat wombats” is my new favourite term, it just beat out “illegal seagull” lol
"where's the equivalent of Australian wolves?"
The Dingo:
then there was Megalania
It's wild seeing them all in the Australian museum. Which reminds me I've not returned for the new gem and mineral exhibit yet.
Wait what... Australia does have an Apex Predator Mammal. Its literally us.
“Combat Wombats”
Love it😂😂😂
Australia has big spiders, those huntsmen are the apex predators.
"Wherever there is a niche, life will dig in."
What's really weird is you have a witch's hat on and pointy fingernails.
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Well, uhm... they are no mammals. And they are crocs, no gators.
What about the thylasine or Tassie Tiger. They were around more recently.
Rest in peace Australia's marsupial predators
The dunnart is the new apex
There are still carnivorous marsupials. Just not big ones.
How about the Tasmanian Tiger. It also lived in Southern Australia next to Tasmania.
Isn’t it weird this doesn’t make any sense .. it has plenty of large predatory animals
How to be a narcissist is three steps.
1-Dress flamboyant
2-Talk with your hands to distract from your costume.
3-know absolutely nothing about you're talking about and pass it off as fact.
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Tell me you are a crazy self-hating vegan without telling me you are a crazy self-hating vegan.
Her disdain for "Humans" is ridiculous !
If you don't like your species then get lost!
Her disdain for "humans" is well earned. Humans aren't cleaning up after themselves, and they're destroying the planet.
When i visited Melbourne Museum in 2019, they had a Thylacoleo skeleton on top of a display cabinet beside the entrance in one of the galleries, so that you walked under it when entering, but didn't notice it until leaving. Very effective.