When Otters Were Lion Sized
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This is the rise and fall of giant mustelids.
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Created by Dylan Dubeau
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Danielle Dufault
Editors: Jim Pitts and Cat Senior
Writer: Lauren Greenwood
Producer, Camera Operator: Andres Salazar
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Examining the nature of the beast.
Mustelids are so fascinating and intelligent! There was a documentary on a honey badger living on an animal rescue preserve and he escaped containment multiple times. Once he used a stick that he carried on his back to climb out of the enclosure, and another time he and his companion unlatched a gate using teamwork.
I think his name is farfel or something like that
I remember that one. I was fascinated.
@@wes8052I think it's Stoffel
@@paolopasaol9700 that's exactly what it is
Stoffel is an OG and a Legend!!! He would break out of his enclosure just to go f#*k with the lions. He often chose violence and when he wasn't terrorizing the other animals he would break out just to grief his keeper and then stand on his hind legs and dance on him literally saying "u need to do better" !! 😅 Stoffell is an Alpha honey badger lol
Imagine an animal with the temperament of a honey badger and the size of Jaguar.
Nightmare fuel
Worse, imagine one with the temperament of a stoat
More or less the Amazonian Giant River Otter.
Mass Extinction 😂
@@wallingnaga6563right....they went extinct.
The most impressive feature shared by all mustelids, as pointed out by the scientific community, is how cute they are! They are fluffiness incarnate
Cute, but intrepid!
I want to ride a war ferret so bad can we please science bring these back
@@ConstantChaos1Except with horses, you don't have to worry about the possibility of them turning on you and eating you. A war ferret might do that under certain circumstances.
@weirdredpanda not so fun fact, while less likely horses can and have done that, most "vegetarian" animals regularly eat meat and when driven to it by anything from hormones to hunger horses will actively hunt usually small animals but they aren't picky once they do make the switch. In my area it happened a couple decades back and a few stories going back a bit further (not not reliably verifiable)
I try not to think about that era because quite frankly the giant river otters in South America are terrifying enough. Otters are like super predators and I am so glad they are small.
I've been studying paleontology for years, and somehow I never knew giant mustelids were a thing. These would've been so cool and terrifying to see today, putting the wolverine and honey badger to shame.
Same
And yet, a honey badger would still try to fight one.
They might even win if they've had enough Jack Daniels.
@@robdabanksI'd like to imagine these beasts were like their smaller cousins in that they wouldn't back down from taking on a much larger carnivore for a meal.
It's always fun to learn something new. 😌
Imagine if they hunted in packs like the river otters in the Amazon. The hippos in Columbia wouldn't stand a chance.
Fascinating Mustelid facts.
I just wish people would stop thinking ferrets are rodents.
When I was a kid, I thought ferrets were cousins of cats! Lol
Mustelids have always been a huge pet peeve of mine (thanks to some unpleasant experiences) and this video is just what I needed to see today. Thanks a lot.
That sounds sarcastic lmao
Did someone's mustelid pet peeve you?
Sea otters are objectively the cutest animals on earth
Red pandas, aardwolves, baby gators etc.
They are evil though.... there would be no procreation without rape. They also rape baby seals and anything they can get their nasty claws on!
Sea Otter mating habits, on the other hand, are incredibly NOT cute, and violent in a way that mustelids can be. I do think that sea otters could one day evolve into a true giant marine mammal the way other mammalian lineages have (whales, manatees, seals, and seal lions, etc.), another frontier for mustelids to "conquer". However, I think coexistence with humans means it's probably never going to happen, more of a "if humans never existed" type scenario.
edit: Sorry, more a random comment, not a critique as sea otters look adorable!
They're adorable, but it's stoats for me, especially ermine.
@@petebyrdie4799subjectively, I must be like the only person ever to not find that species especially cute. Yes they are cute, but they are not especially cute. I think River otters are a lot cuter personally. And there are many other species that I would say are way more cute than any members of this group.
It's incredible to think of an otter as big as a lion! I think that in the future with the extinction that will happen in millions of years these "mega weasels" could return. I imagine that when predators like hyenas, animals like meerkats could take their place (a mix between Timon and Bazai from Disney's "Lion King"),
a possible evolution of the meerkats and become a sort of cross between the Jurassic Park raptors and the Disney hyenas. Since meerkats stand upright so often, they may use their front paws for injure the prey until death.
You should do a speculative evolution "world" where this happens. Per someone else's comment, giant sea otters could take the place of whales.
@@weirdredpanda This work of speculative evolution seems a bit too trivial to me. I'm not saying it can't happen, on the contrary it is very realistic: seals already derive from animals similar to otters, and the ambulocetus natans was an ancestor of whales (even if it looked like a cross between an otter and a crocodile).
So interesting! Well, there's still the giant otter, right?! They're so massive, and our crew got them on camera facing a jaguar, we must say, they are brave.
Sorry to contradict you, Danielle, but we have none in Australia either. Even ferrets are forbidden in my state of Queensland. Wish we did.
The surprise at the end made me laugh pretty hard! Still chuckling. :)
Wow that’s amazing
I honestly think the giant mustelids like Ekorus or Enhydriodon wouldn't have been as aggressive as their modern counterparts, because mustelids are as aggressive as they are because of how small they are compared to their predators. Even the largest mustelids are relatively small
Oh they're not just that way because of predators, they're that way at their prey. There are plenty that live in areas that don't have giant predators that are absolutely insane. They don't get the same level of coverage because they don't go and be insane at megafauna which people find fascinating, because they don't live where there's a ton of megafauna, but they are if anything worse than the ones that are classically known.
Great Auk next please!🙏🐧
YAY!! thank you for making video about paleo mustelids, i wasn’t expecting this😳 hope you will return to this mischievous family one more time, i absolutely love mustelids and it hard to find more documentary videos with them ;0(
This entire family branch of animals are some of my favorite animals of All time! They are AWESOME! I'd love to see the ancient ones that have existed
Why are some species (skunks, honeybadgersetc) to be so plucky for their size whereas others like otters to be relatively docile?
Have you ever seen river otters? They are anything but docile lol. 😂
@@obamacares8386 You're talking about South American giant river otters. There are also much smaller river otters in North America. North American river otters are not potentially threatening to humans like the South American ones are, but I don't think of any mustelids as docile. They are all ferocious relative to the animals they prey on.
It wasn't that long ago I discovered Hippos and Whales are closely related. Since then, I've been fascinated by this idea that they might actually interact somewhere, maybe Orcas on the African coast? Interaction between a pod of Orcas and hippos or maybe even elephants would be something remarkable to witness. Does it ever happen?
Yeah, if there was an animal to ever try to randomly an elephant or hippo, orcas would be the first to give it a go.
Orcas are known to kill moose off the coastline- they might try the same with a hippo.
This nature animals aren’t gonna be nice to Eachother because of a common ancestor 😭
it's true that hippos are the closest living relative to the whales, but whales diverged at least 54 million years ago so I'm not sure I would call that "closely related"
that was a vicious attack at the end of the video :P
sorry if this is a dumb question, but how was it elected that mustelids are the most widespread family in carnivora? like, even if you discount pets, felids and canines are also everywhere but antartica aren’t they?
Not in Australia, all introduced fairly recently (even the dingo).
@@gerryhouska2859yeah but mustelids also aren’t native to australia, but i just played back the video and realized they never said that mustelids are the most widespread so my question didn’t make sense anyways, i heard wrong lol;)
They ARE widespread in an evolutionary sense, spanning five continents and parts of the sea and many different habitats with largely varying forms
I used to give (already dead feeder) mice to my ferrets as a treat.
They would eat EVERYTHING. You could hear them crunching through bones like potato chips
The clip in the end sent me. Great video as always .
The ending though... 🤣
10/10 content as always. Love this channel! 🙂
I was hoping you would talk about them someday! Glad the day has finally come! xD
Amazing video as always, however I have a question, which mustelid were you drawning? o.O
That would be Megalictis!
That ending was too good!! 🤣
An advantage of scavenging frozen carcasses is that the meat doesn't spoil and could last for days. And if you're the only one with teeth that can handle it, you don't even have to hide it.
That mid-credits scene though 😆
~_~
I heard somewhere that Amazon Giant River Otters are pretty big in size. Somewhere around 4 feet in length I think, if that’s true that’s crazy!!!
Is no one going to talk about the ending 😂😂
Can't you make an episode about Northern Pike? A great underwater beast!
Absolutely love mustelids.
What! That’s crazy how they get so big. I need to know more. I have been watching you guys for so long and love all the research and information that goes into your videos. ❤
Could you make a video about singapore's birds and animals? That will be amazing! Also the Mustelids are very interesting and wouldn't have know about Mustelids. 😁😁😁❤i had aways love your videos🎉🎉
That's an otter with a dark side.
I'd totally want a giant Red Panda! 😅
I'm imagining since these giant Nile otters we're around only 3 million years ago, there's a good chance that some of them killed or were killed by hominins with spears and handaxes
Could you do videos on bird like dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, Microraptor, or Yi?
I would not live long in such a time. I love otters too much. Is this what cat lovers feel like seeing big cats?
I love, love, love Paleologic
A honeybadger the size of a lion is a problem
I need these back so bad, bring the chaos and let me ride a war ferret
Honey badgers and wolverines as big as lions is terrifying.
What should you talk about next? The racoon family, procyonidae, is far more diverse than many realise. Coartis, cacomistles, kinkajous, ringtails.
Imagina un mapache del tamaño de un león
totally imagining Lion sized wolverine. ouch.
Imagine if one of these prehistoric mustilids was roaming their natural habitats nowadays
The Giant Fussa!
I want to see more fight of the bear and mustelid suit! MORTAL KOMBAT!
Very good quality video
How many mammalian lineages became semi-aquatic? We've got Mustelid offshoots Otters & Sea Otters, Pinnipeds like Walrus, Seals & Sea Lions, aquatic Giant Sloths - and of course, the masters of the lot, the myrids Cetaceans...
What others are there in the Paleontological record?
No matter how often you tell me they were Leopard- or Lion-sized, when I see the pictures, my brain immediately depicts them as small.
6:10 "Wow, what a tiny antilope."
giant river otter breeding is thrown off heavily with just the presence of humans, I think one study showed 2 years without any births. I'd be curious if that was an extinction trigger.
*Casual Geographic sweating profusely*
I am just swell to say this is beautiful! The artwork. Just state of the art, okay! Go drawings
Very cool!
I simp for danielle 😍
Burrow's End watchers wya
Pls do a video about austroraptor
♪ Other animals can fly,
Majestically through the sky,
But they can walk.
(They can walk.) ♫
Hey animalogic do you guys have a video on European Badgers? I thought you did but I i cant find it
This video reminds me of a question I had earlier: were there any mammals that filled the niche of crocodiles (aquatic ambush hunters)?
Creo que los antepasados de las ballenas cumplían esa función
Insert "10 Weasel sized Pumas or 1 Puma sized Weasel" joke.
The answer is A btw! while 10 Puma Kittens are cute and in an emergency easily defeated with a bucket of water and some heavy metal to drown out the sounds, a Puma sized Weasel scares the crap out of me😅
Puma sized Honey Badger would be a WMD😂
Came for the otter, stayed for the Danielle
MUSTELIDS ARE GOOD.
Yes 💙
Honey badger go BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
God I thought mustelids were already scary. Giant mustelids would be horrifying.
With giant otters, there was a lot of otting going on…
Rainbow coloured hair 🤪💫
You showed a mongoose just after the first minute? 1:04
Will Earth ever have the giant mustelids descended from the extant species today?
Fun with mustelids and Amy Farrah Fowler
Todos hablan de los felinos canidos y osos que se olvidan de los otros mamíferos carnivoros
That's a lot'a ott'a
This was a time when otters ate lions!
You've made a bit of a mistake you say "Mustelids include extant long hunters such as weasels, otters, and wolverines. In addition to stemming back tens of millions of years to the Oligocene, this ultra-successful family is also the largest in the order of Carnivora. The diversity of habitats, diets, and features of mustelids today is the greatest of any carnivoran family. They have colonized almost every ecological niche, from marine ecosystems to tree canopies throughout the world, except, of course, Antarctica"
You forgot to exclude Australia, as there are no mustelids in Australia.
They Otter know better!!.
Please tell me there was a giant honey badger
How Australopithecines may have forced a 200 kilograms carnivore to go extinct?
Did they choke to death after eating long legged primates or something?
1:04 why is there a mongoose in a video about mustelids?
Glyptodonts would be great.
So madly in love with you (Heart emoji)
I own an otter sized lion.
Me too, my apex predator just chewed through hoodies strings
Nonsense, 30 million years ago?
How have you determined that?
Where is it documented?
I am weasel
WEASELS WEASELS WEASELS WEASELS WEASELS
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again… Danielle Dufault is drop dead gorgeous!! lol got a crush on her! Sooooo beautiful
Fantastic Video as always!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 💖❤️💖❤️
The Dobhar-chu, a cryptid from Ireland, is described as a lion sized otter. Interesting that there is fossil evidence of such a beast.
Im a professor in biology and I never knew their were such giant mustelids!
Hopefully you teach your students a fun fact!
Hopefully you teach your students a fun fact!
Always more to learn. I'm halfway through the video and I'm still waiting for them to mention giant river otters because I mean those things are terrifying and they're still alive today. To put it into perspective, that species is Apex in the River systems where they're found to the point that they periodically just slaughter all of the crocodilians in the area. They don't always do this, probably because the crocodilians aren't entertaining enough, but it's pretty rare for the crocodilians to come out on top when they come in direct conflict with each other.
Still otter-ly adorable!
Awesome. What animal do you like?
Hope everyone has had a wonderful thanksgiving weekend! Cheers animalogic!
Excellent on the video on giant mustelids, my friend! My favorite species of the Mustelidae are the Wolverine, the Giant Otter, and the Snowstlker from the Future is Wild. And please continue to make more videos on these strange and wonderful prehistoric animals.
Most people: Getting scared of a lion-sized otter that can both swim and run at you
Me: Thinking about how adorable their babies are 😍
I just realized that Danielle not only presents the show, but also does the artwork used in it.
I think in one video she mentioned she worked for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Which if your into Toronto I recommend
Mustelidae is thought to be both the oldest and the most successful group of animals in the order of Carnivora. There are 66-70 different Species and they likely appeared before the canines.
Honey badger still don't care...
i unmake all mustelids i see. lmao.
also nice dress dude
I would like a video regarding the diverse ecotypes and cultures of the Killer Whale and why they don’t really engage with one another.
Wow Das Oppers
Fascinating, I didn't know that honey badgers had a much smaller cousin in South America, that look just about identical to them....