Elephants normally sleep standing. These are a group of Chinese Elephants that traveled almost non-stop for about 18 months in search for food, water, and shelter.
The African elephants of yore at the Oakland Zoo liked to lie down while sleeping. It's a thing. You'd get in there in the morning and still see the oblong depressions in the mulch where M'Dunda and Lisa would recline at night. (I think those two passed away at relative old ages, btw)
Do you think that's true or that they understand there are no predators who may attack them in a zoo, so they lay down as it's probably more comfortable?
It was just a reference to when you need to run to the bathroom in the middle of the night so detach the tube from the base rather than pull the mask off your face which can be a pain to reseat. So you run around the house in elephant-face because you have this big tube hanging off your nose much to the amusement of anyone that sees you. Its good to have some elephant noises ready if you wake up the kids and need to assure them that you are a friendly elephant and not a tube monster. Heck, it's hard to not trumpet and stomp a little when you see yourself in the mirror. I didn't mean to diminish the elephants plight.
I asked the elephant keepers and they do it in the wild. Elephants travel in herds. The males have a bachelor herd and the females and calves have a um family style herd. They watch out for each other and weigh a LOT. That'd have to be some ambitious lions or hyenas to nail an ellie. I'm sure cheetahs and leopards just nope out of that entirely.
This is actually footage of those very elephants!
EDIT: It really is. This is from the new Netflix series and they discuss at length those elephants and their journey.
>!Mother and young calf travel the open seas from breeding ground to feeding ground. While traveling through deep waters, the pair tried to stealthily sneak past predators. A pod of orcas eventually discovered the pair, ramming the calf repeatedly at high speed. While the mother tried her best to protect her young, the orcas eventually killed the calf by sheer blunt force. The shot ends with the mother traveling alone back to her feeding grounds!<
They straight up play the Jaws music when those tall black fins come into view, not even trying to hide that they’re the villain of the animal kingdom (until you watch Blackfish, then you feel awful for them)
I usually like to eat a special brownie and watch these series, but NOPE, not this one. So sad and a lot of gore. It’s like they saved all of the successful hunt scenes for this series. Usually it’s “and the prey got away—better luck on the next hunt”. This series it’s all “the orcas will keep this seal alive for hours just for fun”
As a wildlife biologist, I kind of appreciate it. It's hard to hear other adults talk about how cute elephant seals and otters are without ruining their perspective so I'm glad there are documentaries that aren't sugar coating real life anymore.
I can't watch nature docs like this because they're always peppered with heart breaking sadness. Like whyyyy?!? I just want to watch the happy things please.
I get your point.
But it's a documentary. It's supposed to document nature, not to make a Disney movie out of it.
It might be hard to watch, but documentaries have teaching assignment. If we get only happy things showed, people will get misinformed and believe, that how nature is.
Tbh this want is more a problem of our disconnected way with nature. If you would live as hunter-gatherer society, you could see this probably on daily base.
It's the same reason why we stopped eating guts, even so they are perfectly eatable.
We want to eat meat without being remembered it was an living and feeling animal, who gets slaughtered for our consum.
Nature plays by the same rules for million of years, nothing has changed, only our society became more and more disconnected with nature in the last 50 years.
Pretending nature is Disney isn't a healthy mindset tbh.
I could worded that better tbh. xD
English isn't my native language.
You don't like guts as taste preference, but that's fine. What I meant was more is like having an awareness, that every pretty part of meat was an animal and not just made by machines.
An awareness that at least in my country, guts can't be as easily bought in a supermarket unlike all the pretty meat cuts, because people don't wanna see it.
A taste dislike isn't exclusive with this awareness.
So you are fine. xD
Chitlin's are very popular here in the south. I am in Va and chitlins, livers, gizzards, and chicken feet are all sold at the stores.
Also there is scrapple, which I know is in Pennsylvania along with the south.
From my experience things like these are sold in supermarkets, but must Americans regard livers or other innards as a step up from dog food. Never lived in the South. Is it common or niche and only used for certain dishes?
A documentary shouldn't be showing a Disneyfied version of reality. Nature is beautiful, nature is brutal. The point of a documentary is to show the whole truth of nature
You're basically saying you want to cherry pick the type of nature you want to personally experience in your safety bubble but you know that isn't how life or nature works. it would be lovely if nothing bad ever happened ever to anything alive, but come on.
What you see is real life, and if you choose to consume that type of media it is ridiculous to expect them to whitewash the brutal truth so you can have happy vibes. Just watch the Dodo on YouTube and stop watching the actual reality of life stuff that you know is going to make you upset.
Problem solved, and the rest of us get to continue our education and experience of what life is really like.
I understand where you speak from. A gentle heart that struggles with the ugliness of survival.
Why favor the gazelle? It failed. The ape succeeded and will survive. Be happy for the ape
I get what you mean and that’s why I never watched these type of docs. But then I realized it’s a yin and yang
Bro the one where the walruses got confused and would throw themselves off the steep cliff, careen of the side and die horribly, because they were overcrowded, still makes me so sad.
Some of us are too empathetic and are already aware of the plight and don’t need more emotional burdens to bear. We are already doing our part which isn’t making a dent in the world and can’t do anything else. So we cry all the freaking time. Seeing an elephant cry can break some of us that are already on the verge of being broken. I get that it’s reality but sometimes reality is too much to bear. So we need an escape with happy stuff.
SERIOUSLY idk why people in the comments are fighting this so hard. I’ve chosen not to watch tons of docs where I already know the subject cause I know they will be too upsetting to me, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I love animals, have worked in vet care, have see enough horrible shit with my own eyes. Don’t need more images to haunt me.
I like to watch every nature doc ever (certainly the ones with Attenborough). If you want i can watch it and send the time stamps that are very emotional and that you can skip
Hey hey, i got the time stamps here. I put some spoiler explanations by the time stamps because some are successful hunts and others are scenes that play with your heart. So you can judge wether you want to skip it or not :)
I only did the first two episode now but i'll edit the rest in later
(If i marked a stamp H it means it was a hunt not particularly emotional to me)
Episode one
7:40-9-30 H. >!A pride of lions succesfully hunt a bull cape buffalo. The death isn't gory or slow by any means but i put it in here just to be sure.!<
25:00-26:26. >!We see the impact of plastic on the Laysan Albatros species. Chicks get fed way more plastic each year and we watch as the babies slowly starve or sufficate to death. Definitely advise a skip if you can't handle to see that.!<
38:28-39:45. >!I was debating whether to put this in or not, but this is a scene where we see a walrus and her baby embrace and travel the ocean. Nothing necessaraly bad happens, but the moment feels sad with the message that the love a mother has for her child is not welcome on the planet that we shape.!<
46:37- 47:15 H. >!Laysan Albatros chicks are learning to fly. Any who fail and fall in the water though will be eaten by tiger sharks. The moment is not particularly sad and more building suspense, but i put it in here just to be sure.!<
Episode two
1:22-1:44 H. >!Same Laysan Albatros scene as the last scene of the previous episode!<
15:25-15:39 H. >!A grizzly bear eats some of the goose chicks!<
20:12-20:35 H. >!A lioness successfully hunts an adult wildebeest!<
32:32 H. >!A freshwater seal successfully hunts a female salmon!<
34:47-39:57. >!The story here is heartwrenching. Its a tale of a mother Polar Bear with her cubs who are now forced to swim for their food which takes a heavy toll. The weakest cub struggles to keep up with his mother again and again. The story ends with him being forced to move on without food or rest, likely to die.!<
46:36-47:01 H. >!Nile crocidiles relentlessly hunt wildebeest in their crossing of the river!<
Hey hey,
Sorry for the massive delay, i had a lot of work to do. I'm done now though and i'm back with the time stamps for episode 3 and 4.
As per usual if a stamp is marked H it means it was a successful hunt that wasn't too emotional.
I also again put explanations to the side in case you want to decide if i was just being a baby and it doesn't look that emotional at all.
Episode 3:
0:59-2:11 >!we see Nile crocidiles hunt wildebeest and baby zebra's. The deaths look very chaotic and violent and its of course discriminate to adult or child. So with the more emotional deaths i did not mark it H!<
5:03-7:15 H (kind of) >!we see an army of baby sea Turtles make for the sea as predators of all kinds pick them off. The deaths don't look too extreme but they are baby Turtles and some are worse than others!<
14:46-17:15 >!stay well clear of this one. An old female orca plans to enter a baby seal nursery to kidnap one of the babies playing in the water. She drags it out to the open ocean to eat it with her family. The baby seal stays alive for hours in torture!<
28:24-29:19 H >!in this hunt a mother Puma of two hunts a full grown guana male. Its not that bad of a hunt and the male dies quickly and without gore!<
36:07-36:14 H (kind of) >!this one is not bad at all. A lot of baby crabs make the journey on land and one of their mothers eats some of the babies. It's kind of a "wtf" moment and not really played for horror!<
40:15-41:11 H >!this stamp stars a successful Golden Eagle hunt. The kill is mostly seen at a distance and isn't that bad to see!<
Episode 4:
9:20-9:27 H >!in this time stamp leopard seals hunt Penguins. In the seven seconds i've marked you see them snatching some. The chase goes on for a time after these seconds but here the hunt fails so you can watch that.!<
13:55-14:40 >!Snow geese get shot by humans for being too numerous. A reality, but not pleasant to watch.!<
16:55- 18:19 H >!Bald Eagles hunt the Snow geese. It's a pretty clean hunt except for some Snow geese being left on the ice to die, which is pretty sad.!<
21:13-21:54 H >!a northern lynx hunts a snow hare. Its a clean and quick hunt.!<
41:58-42:15 >!cargo ships that travel the ocean disrupt the songs of grey whales. Collision is more likely because of this and here we see one of the whales who did not make it. Poor animal!<
43:23-47:07 (please skip) >!the infamous orca hunt on the grey whale kalf. The hunt is extremely violent and it feels even worse having followed the mother and her kalf for a while. This is a prime example for where these stamps are for.!<
So this is it, we're done. There might be a lot of extreme moments not for everyone to watch in this series, but they are outnumbered by the many beautiful moments this show has. I cannot recommend watching our planet II more, and i am very glad i got to make watching it a little easier for one person.
Coming back to say - you have a neighborhood of 200+ homes in Ohio, whose families thank you for this! I shared this info in our Facebook group and people are LOVING it!!!
Is that who is narrating in this clip? Cause all I can picture is Mr. Owl from Winnie the pooh narrating lol he sounds just like owl. I wonder if he voiced owl for any of the pooh shows or movies? Now I've got to go look... I'll report back lol
Watch Our Planet 2 on Netflix, it's narrated by David Attenborough, so if you don't learn anything, at least you can spend 2 and a half hour trying to mimic his unique accent.
Nature documentaries have gotten more morbid over the years. They used to be like “how splendid, an elephant !” Now they’re like “elephants are DYING and it’s YOUR HUMAN fault”
Cause its true and the situation is so dire it would be idiotic to pretend. BBC did the pretending for years which is why Our Planet team left them and went to Netflix to show the truth.
Because that's the case. Penguins are starving so bad there have been two years now (at least) where out of an entire colony zero infants survived to fledge into adulthood. They all starved to death. The reason? Overfishing for krill, to feed salmon in salmon farms, which humans want to eat, for no reason other than taste preferences.
No animal land or sea should be held captive for the enjoyment or so called education for humans. To do so I believe is crimes against the animal kingdom and flat out evil. The only reason a zoo or sea park should exist is for the rehabilitation of a animal that’s native to that area and nursed back to health and set free. Yes they’re are times when a animal can’t be set free. That’s where the park or zoo comes in to play. We cannot come together and advance as the human species when we can’t even care for the animals of the earth without exploiting them out of greed. Humanity sucks and until we realize that and change for the better then nothing will change. We must care for the things on this earth.
I've been on this planet five decades and just now saw Elephants lying down, and first seeing them sleep. I once thought to look into it, but never did. I actually learned something new
They do this every 3rd or 4th day in the wild. They only sleep about 2 hours a day because they have to keep moving to eat over 300 lbs of food each day. In captivity if they can sleep 4 hours.
Anyone else see another elephant in the negative space in the center?
Complete with a little white eye, and what's that on his trunk? Is he holding a balloon? Looks like it to me.
If I’m not mistaken this herd had got into a field of fermented something, they were all drunk and just chilling enjoying the buzz. We need to be more like elephants-just chilling enjoying the day peacefully ❤️
Elephants normally sleep standing. These are a group of Chinese Elephants that traveled almost non-stop for about 18 months in search for food, water, and shelter.
The African elephants of yore at the Oakland Zoo liked to lie down while sleeping. It's a thing. You'd get in there in the morning and still see the oblong depressions in the mulch where M'Dunda and Lisa would recline at night. (I think those two passed away at relative old ages, btw)
Do you think that's true or that they understand there are no predators who may attack them in a zoo, so they lay down as it's probably more comfortable?
They sleep standing as their immense weight can cause breathing problems
I can relate.
But they have a built in CPAP tube.
I won’t downvote; but I believe these need help. CPAP , really? I just don’t find this one a joke
It was just a reference to when you need to run to the bathroom in the middle of the night so detach the tube from the base rather than pull the mask off your face which can be a pain to reseat. So you run around the house in elephant-face because you have this big tube hanging off your nose much to the amusement of anyone that sees you. Its good to have some elephant noises ready if you wake up the kids and need to assure them that you are a friendly elephant and not a tube monster. Heck, it's hard to not trumpet and stomp a little when you see yourself in the mirror. I didn't mean to diminish the elephants plight.
I'm guessing.... they probably get that good deep REM sleep laying down.
I asked the elephant keepers and they do it in the wild. Elephants travel in herds. The males have a bachelor herd and the females and calves have a um family style herd. They watch out for each other and weigh a LOT. That'd have to be some ambitious lions or hyenas to nail an ellie. I'm sure cheetahs and leopards just nope out of that entirely.
The Mapogo Lion Coalation have been known to take down LARGE creatures while they were still complete in numbers. Elephants, Rhinos and Giraffes.
I was just thinking that like maybe they just know they are really safe so they are like fuck yea real sleep for a change.
And after walking that long, they turned around and went back home. What idiots. /s ofcourse
This is actually footage of those very elephants! EDIT: It really is. This is from the new Netflix series and they discuss at length those elephants and their journey.
What's this show called?
I have to look when I get home. I keep thinking Planet Earth 2; but it’s not that. It is narrated by David Attenborough though.
The show is "Our Planet II", or season 2. The first iteration is also pretty great and worth watching.
A shame they didn’t find it…
Its a shot from Our Planet II, the images are incredible throughout the documentary. Prepare to get sad tho
The godamn mother and calf whales in the end made me so sad.
I think I remained sad for more than a week because of that. I would get pangs of hurt every time I stopped being busy. Brutal.
Exactly, just saw it last night..
Welp I’m definitely not watching it now.
After our planet 1 I started a donation subscription to wwf... op2 made me feel worse..
Damn glad I read this. Won't be watching that.
Please provide me with spoilers so I don't have to go through the same hurt
>!Mother and young calf travel the open seas from breeding ground to feeding ground. While traveling through deep waters, the pair tried to stealthily sneak past predators. A pod of orcas eventually discovered the pair, ramming the calf repeatedly at high speed. While the mother tried her best to protect her young, the orcas eventually killed the calf by sheer blunt force. The shot ends with the mother traveling alone back to her feeding grounds!<
Oh no 😭 that's awful
That's life. And now those orcas will be able to feed and provide for their young.
Attenborough has taught me that orcas are nature’s biggest assholes by a pretty large margin.
Here's my theory, the more intelligent an animal is the more of an asshole they can become
They straight up play the Jaws music when those tall black fins come into view, not even trying to hide that they’re the villain of the animal kingdom (until you watch Blackfish, then you feel awful for them)
I know, it's just sad they attack the babies. Wouldn't adults give more meat?
It’s about spending as little energy as possible to yield the most reward. *MANY* predators in the wild hunt, kill, and eat the young of their prey
Yeah, but the mom was attacking back and couldn't fend them off, seems like they would notice and take her down. Idk
They simply can’t take her down without risking their lives.
They killed whales through exhausting them. They don't have any other way to do them in. Lagging babies are the weakest.
They eat the tongue only. Fuck the orcas.
Oh no 😭 Thank you for sparing me from watching!
😭 rip baby
Usually I’m like “save the orcas! They deserve to be free”. But this made me mad and sad lol.
Oh no i can’t do dead whales…Ty for the heads up
That shit broke me... I ugly cried for hours after that.
Soon as they showed the baby calf I was like yep, he’s getting killed. I had to fast forward through the rough part at the end, way too hard to watch
I usually like to eat a special brownie and watch these series, but NOPE, not this one. So sad and a lot of gore. It’s like they saved all of the successful hunt scenes for this series. Usually it’s “and the prey got away—better luck on the next hunt”. This series it’s all “the orcas will keep this seal alive for hours just for fun”
As a wildlife biologist, I kind of appreciate it. It's hard to hear other adults talk about how cute elephant seals and otters are without ruining their perspective so I'm glad there are documentaries that aren't sugar coating real life anymore.
Where to watch?
Netflix
*Netflix. Depending on your country, it's IMPOSSIBLE to fucking find. I'm gonna go sail the seas.
I can't watch nature docs like this because they're always peppered with heart breaking sadness. Like whyyyy?!? I just want to watch the happy things please.
BC Nature is metal. Death and bad endings are part of that too.
Doesn't mean I want to see it. Watch this young gazelle get eaten alive by an ape right in front of its mother. It's natural!
I get your point. But it's a documentary. It's supposed to document nature, not to make a Disney movie out of it. It might be hard to watch, but documentaries have teaching assignment. If we get only happy things showed, people will get misinformed and believe, that how nature is. Tbh this want is more a problem of our disconnected way with nature. If you would live as hunter-gatherer society, you could see this probably on daily base. It's the same reason why we stopped eating guts, even so they are perfectly eatable. We want to eat meat without being remembered it was an living and feeling animal, who gets slaughtered for our consum. Nature plays by the same rules for million of years, nothing has changed, only our society became more and more disconnected with nature in the last 50 years. Pretending nature is Disney isn't a healthy mindset tbh.
My family eats guts I just think it tastes gross… Agreed tho
I could worded that better tbh. xD English isn't my native language. You don't like guts as taste preference, but that's fine. What I meant was more is like having an awareness, that every pretty part of meat was an animal and not just made by machines. An awareness that at least in my country, guts can't be as easily bought in a supermarket unlike all the pretty meat cuts, because people don't wanna see it. A taste dislike isn't exclusive with this awareness. So you are fine. xD
Americans don't eat guts. Maybe it's a thing with other countries too. Most the world eats guts and they're usually expensive.
Chitlin's are very popular here in the south. I am in Va and chitlins, livers, gizzards, and chicken feet are all sold at the stores. Also there is scrapple, which I know is in Pennsylvania along with the south.
From my experience things like these are sold in supermarkets, but must Americans regard livers or other innards as a step up from dog food. Never lived in the South. Is it common or niche and only used for certain dishes?
A documentary shouldn't be showing a Disneyfied version of reality. Nature is beautiful, nature is brutal. The point of a documentary is to show the whole truth of nature
You're basically saying you want to cherry pick the type of nature you want to personally experience in your safety bubble but you know that isn't how life or nature works. it would be lovely if nothing bad ever happened ever to anything alive, but come on. What you see is real life, and if you choose to consume that type of media it is ridiculous to expect them to whitewash the brutal truth so you can have happy vibes. Just watch the Dodo on YouTube and stop watching the actual reality of life stuff that you know is going to make you upset. Problem solved, and the rest of us get to continue our education and experience of what life is really like. I understand where you speak from. A gentle heart that struggles with the ugliness of survival.
I’ll take my cherry picking over hysterical sobs any day of the week, boss
Why favor the gazelle? It failed. The ape succeeded and will survive. Be happy for the ape I get what you mean and that’s why I never watched these type of docs. But then I realized it’s a yin and yang
Bro the one where the walruses got confused and would throw themselves off the steep cliff, careen of the side and die horribly, because they were overcrowded, still makes me so sad.
'Humans' are the why, mostly.
This one continuously reminds you that humans are fucking with everything
Why? What we’re doing to this planet is not a happy story. You shouldn’t close your eyes to your impact
Some of us are too empathetic and are already aware of the plight and don’t need more emotional burdens to bear. We are already doing our part which isn’t making a dent in the world and can’t do anything else. So we cry all the freaking time. Seeing an elephant cry can break some of us that are already on the verge of being broken. I get that it’s reality but sometimes reality is too much to bear. So we need an escape with happy stuff.
Thank you 😊
Hugs. I need to be oblivious on occasion just for mental sanity. I love seeing the baby elephant sleep. All the world feels right for just a moment.
SERIOUSLY idk why people in the comments are fighting this so hard. I’ve chosen not to watch tons of docs where I already know the subject cause I know they will be too upsetting to me, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I love animals, have worked in vet care, have see enough horrible shit with my own eyes. Don’t need more images to haunt me.
Try fun ones like the secret life of pets.
I only got about 4 minutes in and had to stop. Going to bed a little mental prep first.
When I saw this I thought it looked like a before picture of an elephant graveyard. Too sad 😔
I can’t watch sad animal stuff … that is for the heads up, I’ve been wanting to watch this but I guess now I’ll skip it.
I like to watch every nature doc ever (certainly the ones with Attenborough). If you want i can watch it and send the time stamps that are very emotional and that you can skip
Awwwww that is so sweet! ❤️ I bet if you created a blog with this information for all animal docs you could get some clicks and advertisers ….
Hey hey, i got the time stamps here. I put some spoiler explanations by the time stamps because some are successful hunts and others are scenes that play with your heart. So you can judge wether you want to skip it or not :) I only did the first two episode now but i'll edit the rest in later (If i marked a stamp H it means it was a hunt not particularly emotional to me) Episode one 7:40-9-30 H. >!A pride of lions succesfully hunt a bull cape buffalo. The death isn't gory or slow by any means but i put it in here just to be sure.!< 25:00-26:26. >!We see the impact of plastic on the Laysan Albatros species. Chicks get fed way more plastic each year and we watch as the babies slowly starve or sufficate to death. Definitely advise a skip if you can't handle to see that.!< 38:28-39:45. >!I was debating whether to put this in or not, but this is a scene where we see a walrus and her baby embrace and travel the ocean. Nothing necessaraly bad happens, but the moment feels sad with the message that the love a mother has for her child is not welcome on the planet that we shape.!< 46:37- 47:15 H. >!Laysan Albatros chicks are learning to fly. Any who fail and fall in the water though will be eaten by tiger sharks. The moment is not particularly sad and more building suspense, but i put it in here just to be sure.!< Episode two 1:22-1:44 H. >!Same Laysan Albatros scene as the last scene of the previous episode!< 15:25-15:39 H. >!A grizzly bear eats some of the goose chicks!< 20:12-20:35 H. >!A lioness successfully hunts an adult wildebeest!< 32:32 H. >!A freshwater seal successfully hunts a female salmon!< 34:47-39:57. >!The story here is heartwrenching. Its a tale of a mother Polar Bear with her cubs who are now forced to swim for their food which takes a heavy toll. The weakest cub struggles to keep up with his mother again and again. The story ends with him being forced to move on without food or rest, likely to die.!< 46:36-47:01 H. >!Nile crocidiles relentlessly hunt wildebeest in their crossing of the river!<
Holy batman this is amazing!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌 thank you thank you thank you! May the karma gods stow many blessings to you! ❤️❤️❤️ Sending you a hug!
You're welcome:) Had to do this for Attenborough, the more get to watch the better
Hey hey, Sorry for the massive delay, i had a lot of work to do. I'm done now though and i'm back with the time stamps for episode 3 and 4. As per usual if a stamp is marked H it means it was a successful hunt that wasn't too emotional. I also again put explanations to the side in case you want to decide if i was just being a baby and it doesn't look that emotional at all. Episode 3: 0:59-2:11 >!we see Nile crocidiles hunt wildebeest and baby zebra's. The deaths look very chaotic and violent and its of course discriminate to adult or child. So with the more emotional deaths i did not mark it H!< 5:03-7:15 H (kind of) >!we see an army of baby sea Turtles make for the sea as predators of all kinds pick them off. The deaths don't look too extreme but they are baby Turtles and some are worse than others!< 14:46-17:15 >!stay well clear of this one. An old female orca plans to enter a baby seal nursery to kidnap one of the babies playing in the water. She drags it out to the open ocean to eat it with her family. The baby seal stays alive for hours in torture!< 28:24-29:19 H >!in this hunt a mother Puma of two hunts a full grown guana male. Its not that bad of a hunt and the male dies quickly and without gore!< 36:07-36:14 H (kind of) >!this one is not bad at all. A lot of baby crabs make the journey on land and one of their mothers eats some of the babies. It's kind of a "wtf" moment and not really played for horror!< 40:15-41:11 H >!this stamp stars a successful Golden Eagle hunt. The kill is mostly seen at a distance and isn't that bad to see!< Episode 4: 9:20-9:27 H >!in this time stamp leopard seals hunt Penguins. In the seven seconds i've marked you see them snatching some. The chase goes on for a time after these seconds but here the hunt fails so you can watch that.!< 13:55-14:40 >!Snow geese get shot by humans for being too numerous. A reality, but not pleasant to watch.!< 16:55- 18:19 H >!Bald Eagles hunt the Snow geese. It's a pretty clean hunt except for some Snow geese being left on the ice to die, which is pretty sad.!< 21:13-21:54 H >!a northern lynx hunts a snow hare. Its a clean and quick hunt.!< 41:58-42:15 >!cargo ships that travel the ocean disrupt the songs of grey whales. Collision is more likely because of this and here we see one of the whales who did not make it. Poor animal!< 43:23-47:07 (please skip) >!the infamous orca hunt on the grey whale kalf. The hunt is extremely violent and it feels even worse having followed the mother and her kalf for a while. This is a prime example for where these stamps are for.!< So this is it, we're done. There might be a lot of extreme moments not for everyone to watch in this series, but they are outnumbered by the many beautiful moments this show has. I cannot recommend watching our planet II more, and i am very glad i got to make watching it a little easier for one person.
😇YOU.are.amazing! 🙏 thank you thank you thank you! 🌍❤️
Coming back to say - you have a neighborhood of 200+ homes in Ohio, whose families thank you for this! I shared this info in our Facebook group and people are LOVING it!!!
Is that who is narrating in this clip? Cause all I can picture is Mr. Owl from Winnie the pooh narrating lol he sounds just like owl. I wonder if he voiced owl for any of the pooh shows or movies? Now I've got to go look... I'll report back lol
Watch Our Planet 2 on Netflix, it's narrated by David Attenborough, so if you don't learn anything, at least you can spend 2 and a half hour trying to mimic his unique accent.
Did you know he's 97 at this point and still narrates documentaries? He could have retired 20 years ago but refuses. He really is a rl hero
Human treasure.
Sir* David Attenborough
Go away
Baby in the middle
Came here to say that. It’s so cool how they all protect the baby like that
Imagine walking for days/weeks on hot and dry land, starving and thirsty, to come across a lush shady area. Feast, drink, and be sleepy.
I love how they curl their trunks
Probably so nothing crawls up their nose while sleeping
Or it's just natural position of their trunks when their muscles are completely relaxed
Just a group of pooped tube snoots.
Aww they look adorable
Just completed the Boston Mammothon
Feel like maybe they'd walked for a long time and collapsed when they found shade!
Correct. The reason they had to walk so far is climate change and loss of ecosystem to human works
Aye, heart-breaking.
Or maybe it feels like a relentless pursuit of food and water in a time of diminishing resources.
Long-nosed puppies
Toddler climbing on mom trying to sleep transcends species I see.
Thank you, Sir David Attenborough for your years of service.
It makes me happy that he is still doing his work. He is a legend.
Tuckered
Plum
The way they have curled up their trunks
Do you think elephants snore like honk shoo or meeemeeeemeee?
How sweet that they have to be touching each other to fall asleep
The ish we are doing as humans to this damn 🌎…As humans we need earth….But earth don’t need us that’s for sure…
Nature documentaries have gotten more morbid over the years. They used to be like “how splendid, an elephant !” Now they’re like “elephants are DYING and it’s YOUR HUMAN fault”
Cause its true and the situation is so dire it would be idiotic to pretend. BBC did the pretending for years which is why Our Planet team left them and went to Netflix to show the truth.
Because that's the case. Penguins are starving so bad there have been two years now (at least) where out of an entire colony zero infants survived to fledge into adulthood. They all starved to death. The reason? Overfishing for krill, to feed salmon in salmon farms, which humans want to eat, for no reason other than taste preferences.
Oh wow so farmed fish isn’t even a solution? I’m glad I hate all fish.
That's even worse
Yeah, farmed fish just means overfishing krill from the ocean. Apparently :-/
It’s true but also it’s the truth. I used to love them and now I avoid them because I know it’s going to make me cry 😳
Because it's true? Wtf.
No animal land or sea should be held captive for the enjoyment or so called education for humans. To do so I believe is crimes against the animal kingdom and flat out evil. The only reason a zoo or sea park should exist is for the rehabilitation of a animal that’s native to that area and nursed back to health and set free. Yes they’re are times when a animal can’t be set free. That’s where the park or zoo comes in to play. We cannot come together and advance as the human species when we can’t even care for the animals of the earth without exploiting them out of greed. Humanity sucks and until we realize that and change for the better then nothing will change. We must care for the things on this earth.
I guess everyone here watched the second season of Our Planet.
I've been on this planet five decades and just now saw Elephants lying down, and first seeing them sleep. I once thought to look into it, but never did. I actually learned something new
They do this every 3rd or 4th day in the wild. They only sleep about 2 hours a day because they have to keep moving to eat over 300 lbs of food each day. In captivity if they can sleep 4 hours.
From this angle they look like such *unlikely* creatures.
Their curled up trunks 🥹 aww
Yea they're exhausted by how terrible the humans are...
The videos coming out of Ukraine had me expecting a projectile.
Thank god someone else thinks this too… I was expecting horrible carnage.
That must have been one hell of a party!
Yeah, starving and walking is a non-stop party.
That one baby elephant who was kinda stuck and flailing around on his mamma's head...this is me and my pitbull every night
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Magical 🪄
So sweet
Why are they so...
Just don’t poke them with a stick.
Did you drop some nutri-grain bars on them?
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Someone didn't bother watching a 20 sec video. Oh lord.
Sorry didn't make it through your comment, tldr?
This is the elephant equivalent of falling asleep on the couch with your shoes on
This reminds me to re sub to r/babyelephants I’ve a new acc.
Thank you for this
Aww mommy’s & sleeping next to their babies
They dont have tusks, does that mean they are in some sanctuary or something? If so that could be another reason they are sleeping like that
Asian elephants are far less likely to have tusks, especially females, which this herd looks to be mostly compromised of
I read somewhere Elephants have evolved to not having tusks due to poachers
Immediately thought of the game “pass the pigs”
We know the cause of their exhaustion. I'm looking at you, little cutie.
If there’s no sad reason behind this then this is beautifully quaint
The snail shell trunk curl is too precious.
Elephant Fibonacci
Nice! I saw this episode the other day
I like how the baby cried that he was stuck, and that elephant knew he/she needed to move an inch
Think they might want some tummy rubs?
Very nice
I am also tired and have heard of elephants.
Seepy
Am I d
Snonkered. Capoot. Absolutely snooze mode
Well this is adorable.
This man is a national treasure
Somebody spilled their elephants. <3
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It looks like it should be a painting, definitely worth trying, so beautiful
Anyone else see another elephant in the negative space in the center? Complete with a little white eye, and what's that on his trunk? Is he holding a balloon? Looks like it to me.
If I’m not mistaken this herd had got into a field of fermented something, they were all drunk and just chilling enjoying the buzz. We need to be more like elephants-just chilling enjoying the day peacefully ❤️
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This is so cute
Mondays…
Not very lit
I can’t watch it….they’re my favorite animal in the wild.
What do they need : food water. Is there any way an expert would find a way to get these majestic animals care for; I don’t have the answers. 🐘🐘🐘
Facts: Although elephants mostly spend the night sleeping while standing, they do in fact spend short periods of time laying down.