Animal Smarts That'll Blow Your Mind | REACTION | How Deadly | ABC Science

From the extraordinary to the extravagant, nature nerd Dr Ann Jones uncovers and debunks surprising animal behaviour caught on camera in the city.
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Have you ever wondered why cockatoos are raiding your wheelie bin? Or whether squirrels can fly?
Timestamps:
Possums 01:05
Squirrels 05:49
Cockatoos 10:57
Monkeys 17:05
Crows 22:14
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Video Credits:
Possum Attack, Becky Tube: • Possum Attack
Come at me Bro!, ViralHog: • Possum Versus Puppy ||...
Pouch young Plum... , Possums & Allsorts: watch/?v=230...
Opossum in couch , barnapkins: • Soooooo we found a pos...
Mischievous Possum Pushes Skunk into Pond, Trailcampro: • Opossum pushes Skunk i...
Wild Opossum playing dead (Fremont, California), s34nVideos: • Wild Opossum Playing D...
Squirrel jumps off high rise building, ViralHog: • Squirrel Jumps Off Of ...
Squirrel fight, Lori-Ann Willey: • Squirrel Fight May 11 ...
Squirrel Funny! Eats Nuts Out Of Girls Hand & Stuffs His Cheeks, Tiffany Morey: • Squirrel Funny! Eats N...
I look forward to this every day, u/Cat-a-Co (REDDIT): / i_look_forward_to_this...
Slo Mo Stair flight, FryingSquirrels: • Slo-mo Stair Flight 3
Cockatoo car hijacking, Morgana Cole: • Funny cheeky cockatoo ...
Cokatoo bin, Ali McGill: • Cockatoo's getting int...
Cockatoo bothering cat, Cemaree1: • Cockatoo attacks cat
Cockatoo dancing, Pharrell Williams, berniemac3377: • Cockatoo dancing to "H...
Territorial cockatoo tosses goanna lizard from tree, RM Videos: • Territorial Cockatoo T...
Hilarious moment monkey steals bike before riding it in front of crow, Daily Mail: • Hilarious moment monke...
Baboon house invasion, BC stargazer: • baboons invading a hou...
Monkey opening water bottle: • Thirsty Monkey Knows H...
Monkey survives death-defying leap from tower, National Geographic WILD: • Watch a Monkey Defy Ph...
Monkey parkour, Storror: • Langur monkeys jump ma...
Snovember with The Talking Crow, Talking Crow: • Snovember with The Tal...
Neighbourhood Crow Swoops at woman, Caters Clips: • Neighbourhood Crow Swo...
Ворона катается с горки Crowboarding (Crow Snowboarding Roof), Алексей Внуков: • Ворона катается с горк...
Crow Helps Hedgehog to cross the road, Viral Hog: • Crow Helps Hedgehog to...
Smart Crow uses cars to crack nuts in Akita, Japan near Senshu Park, Hector’s Travels: • Smart Crow uses cars t...
Music Credits: "Abando" by The Grogans: / thegrogansband
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[@PortCharmers]

The day after my graduation we went to Dunedin's botanical gardens to take some pictures in full regalia, when a cockatoo in the aviary greeted me with "what's up, doc?", thus becoming the first stranger to address me by my new title. Quite fitting for a zoologist.

[@debgreentree]

That’s absolutely fantastic 😊

[@ulalaFrugilega]

What a perfect thing to happen! Made me lol. How are you doing now?

[@SandyArmyCat2005]

That is super special! Congratulations Doctor!!!

[@meegansandberg1308]

How cute!

[@Kayenne54]

Lmaooo....Give that cockatoo a PhD.

[@AtsircEcarg]

My Stepdad was a veterinarian and he found an injured young crow. He fixed his wing and then released him on his property. The crow lived at his house after that stealing dog food and would “play” with tools and bits and bobs around the barn. If my stepdad was working on something the crow would come and take things or he would throw dog food at the dog to distract him and then steal something to get attention. He stuck around for years until one day he wasn’t there anymore.

[@aminamm3103]

That guy was being so dramatic about that possum and when it came out it was the cutest lil baby

[@meegansandberg1308]

In cases like that, my grandpa would tell me, "They're more afraid of you than you are of them. "

[@MahiMahi-yu5jo]

His cat and dog hardly reacted. There was no danger to be had. But i get it, it's easy to freak out about things you're not used to...

[@MahiMahi-yu5jo]

There was a crow in my school who was very aware of who was scared of him and who was not. At lunch, he used to hop onto where the girls who were scared were sitting and had them running away screaming. He then helped himself to their lunches. People like me, who weren't scared of him, he approached cautiosly and politely asked us for food. 😅

[@ellefitzpatrick6339]

There’s nothing better than watching a video of a person who delights in their job. Thank you Dr Ann! We love you!

[@raymondo162]

NO 'WE'don't. abc science?? A1 gurning festival. YOYOY ??

[@Angel-od1bt]

Imagine how much easier childbirth would be if humans had a pouch and just had the baby come out undercooked and developing in the pouch for a bit. 😂

[@meegansandberg1308]

Undercooked 😂😂😂

[@gentlechaos5911]

I mean tbf human babies are already pretty undercooked. Our head size at birth is so large (bc of big brain ooga booga) that it is among the most difficult births in the animal kingdom. The baby physically couldn't stay inside any longer or we'd die giving birth (even more often). Thats why babies are so useless for so long, compared to other species.

[@DaniS398]

The opossum pushing the skunk in the water...lmao....that felt kind of personal.

[@joeybulford5266]

I think they have a rivalry that stretches back millennia

[@robertandkristinhall5006]

Australian possums are much cuter then American ones! Ours look like giant mutant rats lol

[@joeybulford5266]

@@robertandkristinhall5006 I honestly didn’t know those were called possums

[@robertandkristinhall5006]

@@joeybulford5266 Honestly I don't even know if that's the correct name I was just guessing! Lol

[@joeybulford5266]

@@robertandkristinhall5006 That’s what they were called in the video

[@lisahontschik8700]

Oh my, I’m not from Australia and I’ve only recently discovered Dr Jones… What a national treasure you have in her! She’s an absolutely brilliant, empathetic and completely charismatic expert. I’m enamored!

[@joeybulford5266]

Haha same. I just started watching her videos a few days ago. I was surprised to see she’s been around for years

[@paraboo8994]

The nut caching and letting them be cracked by cars was something the crows did where I lived a couple of years ago. These crows had worked out to drop their nuts on the zebra crossing across the main road. Then they'd sit on the traffic light and wait for the green pedestrian signal to retrieve their nuts. Absolutely amazing creatures. There was a woodland near and so many crows lived there, the sky in late afternoon would sometimes be black when they all swarmed out.

[@NavigatorMother]

I could watch that kind of (?mis-) behaviour, for hours I think. I just love their dour personalities... "This tree's mine, and this roof is mine, and this car top is mine, don't you creatures get it?"

[@TheWitchesBrume]

@@NavigatorMother : Funny, I've never seen a crow (or raven) behave in a relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy manner...

[@ABCScience]

Annndddd Ann Jones is back! 🤓 What do you think of our new series, How Extra?

[@penelopeeee8348]

woo hoo!!!

[@terryevans5476]

Love Anne's videos

[@wombat.6652]

Yes!!! Great!!!!! More please ???

[@bridgetgee1659]

Yay! Yay! Yay!

[@AussieAquatic]

LOVE IT!!!!

[@H_A_L_7]

Squirrels used to hide their nuts in my outside pot plants, some even grew. Every spring when i want to garden, I put their nuts alongside the pots.

[@ABCScience]

Love this!

[@g.strobl4458]

I'm pretty sure they do knowingly plant them. Or part of them, really.

[@wolfqueen6391]

I am just discovering this show...and I'm hooked!

[@dawnvickerstaff]

I think the nut-cracking car gig is an example of 'tool use'. Crows are scary-smart.

[@ingloriousbetch4302]

Opossums make amazing, affectionate pets if they can't be returned to the wild....for someone whos willing to treat them correctly. They can be super hilarious, too. There was an older lady in my hometown who had a pet opossum, raccoon, skunk, and squirrel. She had rescued them from traps, or they were too inured to fully recover. After she got the skunk, no one ever tried to burgle her home or solicit. Lol, when the JWs would try, she'd just open the door so they could see Steve the skunk.

[@RoughLinen-TriciaRose]

I have seen video of monkeys at a temple stealing sunglasses and other items from tourists to trade them for food. THAT is so clever!

[@blackpeter70]

Aw, who gave the outrageously gorgeous Dr. Jones the thumbs down?! Own up, you heartless dullard! Thank you, Doctor. Another terrific vid, and I'm glad you're surviving the pandemic with flying colours, and flying possums.

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

there's always about 2% thumbs down, no matter the video 🤷‍♂️ maybe it's the theist in the comment section; didn't like the evolution reference (Paul Revere1776)

[@blackpeter70]

@@fukpoeslaw3613 Shouldn't they be out shooting road signs, or something? While social distancing, I mean?

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

@@blackpeter70 they probably shoot with one hand, steer with their knee and dislike with the other hand... anyways, social distancing's guaranteed

[@denisepeterson2082]

Right! I absolutely love her!! Some people however 👅 SUCK

[@blackpeter70]

@@denisepeterson2082 She still won't go out with me, Denise. I'm a broken man. 😺

[@gazepskotzs4]

I missed Dr. Ann !, my favourite nature film narrator. It used to be Sir Attenburough who's films i still love to re-watch

[@snoox27]

She's so funny

[@akabutu7565]

OMG! I am loving Dr Ann, her commentary is not only informative but so freak'n funny! Love these videos, thank you for making my day!

[@ABCScience]

You are so welcome!

[@davidsavage6227]

My blue headed pionus parrot is the BEST! He doesn’t like noise in his environment and will make noise to convey his displeasure. He is the most wonderful bird I have ever had.

[@vgil1278]

I never heard of that kind of parrot, so I looked it up. Amazing, beautiful colors!

[@CourtneyTunbridge79]

Ive not long found Dr Ann Jones and i gotta say.... i frigging love her, she super cool and i feel embodies who most of us Aussies are, when people think Aussie and nature they think Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee, we arent all like that.

[@lostrau]

when i was a baby, my parents sister and i went to a farm with baboons (i’m south african). after a day or two my dad can back into the house and came face to face with a baboon in the kitchen holding a packet of chips under one arm and a bunch of oranges in the other (and one in his mouth lol). he freaked out a little bc a baby had been kidnapped my a grieving mother baboon a few weeks earlier, and so kind of didn’t want these baboons stealing me! so he realised that he had accidentally cornered this baboon in the kitchen and was like ‘shut’ and then made a whole big deal of acting big and stupid to “accidentally” let the baboon run past him bahahaa. everybody was okay on the end and the baboons had a nice lunch.

[@meegansandberg1308]

United States here. Did you just say a grieving mother baboon kidnapped a human baby?!😮

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Possums are urban dwellers in the US, though they look very different from the Australian variety. One evening, I once saw one walking through my neighborhood with her babies on her back.

[@kathryngeeslin9509]

Back when I had a lot of cats I somehow got an opossum inside and my cats kept it hidden til half grown. When I found out what they were so secretive about I made sure it could forage then tried to evict it (no idea what sex it was). Never made friends, never moved quick enough to close the door on it, quit trying for the winter, come spring it willingly went out (mostly). Very good insect exterminator. Over generations "my" possums have become wilder/less tame, seldom duck inside, and I was irritated this summer to have an insect problem. Have only a few cats, only one who knew the invaders. Actually miss having someone yank on my toe to wake up and open cat food. They're weird.

[@vgil1278]

Some people think they're ugly, but I think they are beautiful!

[@ulalaFrugilega]

@@kathryngeeslin9509how exactly did your cats hide the opossum, please?

[@meegansandberg1308]

What aussies call opossums are called possums in the United States. And I agree with the other commentary. Possums are cute with their little white faces. I've seen mamas carrying babies on their backs too.

[@adreabrooks11]

@@meegansandberg1308 They're actually called opossums here too; we're just lazy and drop the "o" a lot. I like to joke with people that the "o" is silent. =3

[@maryanndixon4365]

In Canada, we have flying squirrels.

[@ABCScience]

That's cool MaryAnn! The closest we have in Aus is the sugar glider. Very hard to find: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider

[@CarrieArt7]

Baboon: Growls Man: I'm just going to step back for a second, you take care 😆

[@victoriasmith6825]

I love both possums and opossums...just maybe not so super close. They and i have a healthy respect for space between eachother ❤

[@jtotheroc]

I absolutely love the Virginia Opossum, for some reason i think theyre extremely adorable. The greatest thing is that theyre not afraid of humans, and they try and intimidate you by growling and showing their teeth, but theyre essentially all talk no action.

[@Rubytuesday1569]

Good job Dr Jones, I love your style! I watched crows at an outdoor cafe open packets of sugar and eat it. I love them, they're so clever. ☮️

[@LazloVimes]

She’s baaack! She’s the best :)

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Those dance moves would work on me. Much more effective than a 'pick-up' line.

[@gfear24]

Yay! Dr. Ann is back!!!

[@Taixuxu]

Dr. Ann's videos make my day. I always finish her videos happier than I started it.

[@denisepeterson2082]

OMG I just seen the video with the crow snowboarding the roof the other day! Sooo cute!

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

So good to see Dr Ann again. Enjoyed this thank you.

[@1bigemptyspace]

Crows are so cool!! They’ve memorized the garbage schedule in NYC and they’ve been known to have friendships with wolves, even playing fetch with them!!

[@BradGryphonn]

Good to see Ann back on the interwebz.

[@Opiuth]

Wait, what.. no Aussies commenting Cockies? Dr.Ann your person is so nice to watch. Whatever you are doing, I wish you the best! 👍🙂🐨

[@infinithree6969]

Watched all Dr. Jones videos. I love her personality, I'll learn a lot from her 🥰😍🤩

[@lilnastyy1604]

We need a revision on squirrels after watching so many work out assault courses and remembering puzzles for days.

[@carolebrooks8929]

Dr Jones, you are amazing and brilliant . Love your videos

[@Niki-xr6cw]

sulphur crested Cockatoo get my vote every time ,super smart and a combination of beautiful and cute and out right amusing .

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

Dr. Jones is so fun to watch! I really enjoy these videos. LOL! 👍🏻😆

[@Julia.Taunton-Clark99]

4:34 THE OPOSSUM LITERALLY SAID *’GET REKT’* LOL 😂

[@franciscouderq1100]

This Lady has one of the nicest laugh and smile I know

[@valkyrie2443]

Your absolutely genuine love for animals is infectious

[@lorettaellis49]

I absolutely Love Ann She is Choice and she makes my days ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you Ann ❤❤❤

[@brokendad2222]

Having been told when young that crows could tell the difference between a man with a gun and a man with a stick we tried to find out if it is true. They do seem to know the difference.

[@losrin5447]

i adore animals especially ravens and crows 🐦‍⬛ they’re just so quirky and cute and intelligent and so so so misunderstood. animals are awesome

[@colleenkirkpatrick5379]

The fact that she referenced 💋KISS (my childhood favourite + Elvis+Dolly Parton= one weird kid) has earned my👍& one more for content!

[@meegansandberg1308]

Back in the 80's, when I lived with my younger daughter's father, we moved into a new place. The first evening we spent there, he was looking out the kitchen window. He called me, very excitedly. "Come here quick! It's the biggest rat I've ever seen!" I looked out the window to see the back end of an opossum waddling off our back porch!😂😂😂 Some people think opossums are ugly, but I think they're cute with their little white faces. Even if they do look a little like Gene Simmons. 😂

[@AndyJade-df6dj]

My grandmother used to feed crows back when she was alive, and some of those birds were so clever, one of them knew how the door bell worked.

[@anniek4681]

The squirl with the big jump, at 6:42 yep, it did. I saw this video another time, where it was longer. You can see the squirl running away...so yeah it did survive.

[@MsJevious]

I live in Arkansas. We have road runners here, they are amazing little birds when they get to know you. We had one that would sit at our window and wait for me to let my small dogs out so they could play chase around a tree in our yard. It was they funniest thing. The dogs even understood it was a game and had a lot of fun playing with it.

[@elfullin]

Cockies on bins 😂😂 I can’t, you’re hilarious!

[@-Sian-]

The flying squirrel was actually a sugar glider... belonged in your first category of possums 😅

[@clairetattersall5951]

I'm doing an Australian zoology course. I'm originally from Broome, but now am in Queensland. Watching these videos always make me so happy ❤😊

[@ABCScience]

Good luck with your studies! Thanks for watching.

[@ZadenZane]

4:58 when you say "fight or flight" isn't it more accurate to say "flight, flight or play dead"..? I had a friend who had panic attacks and she kind of looked a bit like that possum when they were happening.. she couldn't control it, either.

[@reneemckinnon5731]

I live in country WA and my nan would take me with her as a teenager so she could go to her specialist doctors appointments in Perth safely. I’ve always had a huge love of animals so she would take me to the zoo on a lot of these trips and there were squirrels just roaming freely around the zoo grounds! I don’t know if they still do but it was always awesome to see them ❤

[@reneemckinnon5731]

Apparently they have moved out into the city as well lol www.agric.wa.gov.au/news/media-releases/look-out-pest-squirrels-perth#:~:text=Northern%20palm%20squirrels%20were%20familiar,and%20accidental%20movement%20via%20vehicles.

[@01chittock]

I found your clips on here, and I must say your laugh is contagious, and I love your outlook on the world’s wild life! Understanding the pros and cons, and the reality of life!

[@adiarainfoster]

If you ever see Mark Rober's squirrel obstacle coarse, you might change your mind about squirrel intelligence 🤣

[@ClownWorldRebel]

Australian possums are so much cuter than North American ones…

[@FredtheDorfDorfman1985]

Antenna maintenance workers get aggravated with squirrels because they like to fill microwave antennas full of nuts, since parabolic microwave antennas typically have a cover over the dish. The transmission quality starts suffering, and when the maintenance worker takes the antenna’s cover off, hundreds of nuts come pouring out.

[@meegansandberg1308]

And lots of hungry squirrels.

[@log2232]

Love these, Ann's narration & laughter is the best

[@shelleybleu4903]

Possums are adorable and cute. Opossums are so ugly they are cute too.

[@peshadowbird7320]

To the Crow/Hedgehog interaction: there might be a third (assumed) reason for the picking. Hedgehogs very often have exoparasites, such as fleas and ticks (FAT Ticks!) So, maybe the crow is just out there for a juicy snack - which of course would be a benefit for the 🦔 lil fella also. Just a thought of a veterinary nurse...

[@linrae4737]

It will always be Birds, No. 1. You just gotta watch Alfred H's movie "The Birds"!!!

[@bonniewyke1750]

This is a great series! Thanks!

[@NewMessage]

Trawling the internet... not trolling. BIG difference.

[@hollzie7348]

Years ago, I used to despise the giant ravens at my former apartment. My neighbor would feed them almost every day when they landed which was close to my bedroom window. They would squawk louder and louder and grow in numbers. So at the break of dawn, I would wake up to the loudest alarm clock ever!! 😖 No matter how much i tried to scare them away, it seemed to make it way worse. Now, i can tolerate and respect them. It's not their fault they behaved that way. They were getting fed all the time and letting others know where the food was. The ravens knew that the more of them in numbers would make it harder for other animals to get the food. Also, another reason why they likely behaved that way was because I had to cat who would sit in the window and watch them. They are very smart birds!

[@awright119021]

There was a squirrel that jumped off the power line to my huge pine tree in my backyard. It missed the branch and windmilled til it hit the ground with a loud thud. It jumped right back up and ran up the tree. Completely blew my mind because I was sure I just watched it die!

[@si_vis_amari_ama]

I saw a cocky at Kirrawee railway station with a variation on the wheelie bin trick.There were open top, barrel-shaped bins on the platform. The bins had recently been emptied, so the food at the bottom of the bin was out of reach. No worries if youre a cocky. Just pull up the plastic bin liner with your beak, grasp that bit with your foot, repeat, repeat... until the bottom of the bag reaches the top lip of the bin. Thats how you get the food when your smarter than every one else with feathers.

[@BBoxCleaner]

I do have a bit of a counterpoint to her comment about the intelligence of squirrels. They are actually quite adept at problem solving. Mark Robert’s KZbin channel has three different videos of the squirrels living in his neighborhood solving different mazes he built for them over the years. Highly recommend them, as he also explains the physics behind how squirrels can survive falls like the one shown in this video.

[@raraavis7782]

I second that. They're tenacious little problem solvers. Love Mark's squirrel 'Ninja Warrior' contests 😅

[@mygirldarby]

Squirrels are very smart. I agree.

[@Alice-nn3oo]

The best nerd ever!! I love this person!

[@Beth_Alice_Kaplan]

One of my besties has traveled and lived in both Australia and New Zealand, and the cheekiest bird she’s encountered is the kea.

[@joeybulford5266]

There’s a BABOON in my bathroom!! Those are the problems I expected as a kid

[@lauraw.7008]

4:38 they are also great at clearing out ticks.

[@NavigatorMother]

I've been wondering what your name is - oi love your serieses! They're great! Well done, Ann!🎉😊😂❤❤

[@cathleenc6943]

Horses may not spontaneously dance, but they definitely will react to music and keep time with it, sometimes without encouragement. I used to drive a carriage downtown and the horse I usually drove, Belle, was sometimes kind of slow. I started suspecting that she was walking faster to faster music, but it got confirmed one day when a group of conventioners asked me to turn on polka music, and I have never seen that horse walk so fast, because she was keeping time with the polka music! High level dressage horses definitely keep time with music during freestyle routines, not just because they're being cued to, but because it's either innate or they just like it.

[@ptd0123]

Crows are my favourite bird along with Australian Magpies

[@Robin3615]

"Cockys" sell for several thousand dollars as pets here in the US. I see videos of the inside of their houses and I wonder why you would bring something like that inside your house to destroy it. My pet parrot is 9 inches long and has never damaged any furniture or woodwork. She tries with the kitchen cabinets but I found a very easy solution. Love the video,

[@meghanwilson3173]

The house with the baboon problem needed a Boerboel!

[@seatbelttruck]

That guy with the opossum in his couch... with how he was reacting I thought it'd be a big, fat, ragged looking one, not a cute lil' baby. *Sigh* Seeing those cockatoos made me miss Gracey. When I was a teenager, she lived at the local pet store as a sort of mascot. I was scared of her at first because she always looked like she was trying to snap at me, but it turned out she just liked having people blow air into her mouth for some reason. We bonded over mutual boredom while my sister was picking out hamster supplies. She unfortunately died of smoke inhalation when there was a fire in the shop. I'd never want to have a pet cockatoo (keeping zebra finches kind of turned me off birds as pets), but visiting her there was always a joy.

[@naamahsartistry]

When I was little, my parents took me to Healesville Sanctuary (Victoria, Australia for those who aren't familiar). Back in those days the birds were caged in relatively small aviaries compared to now. Anyway, I was looking up at one sulphur crested cockatoo, when suddenly my finger was bitten. I was holding onto the cage wire. So the cocky I was watching kept me occupied so his partner in crime could bite me. I can attest to how strong those beaks are!! My poor finger bled like crazy and I screamed the place down lol.

[@shellyboob4630]

I adore crow's, I feed a pair, amongst many others., and the bow to me, and the predator call. When I walk my do I take cat biscuits with me for the crow's, and when they see me they let me know they are there and I throw the biscuits for them. There is one that is getting closer when it lands. As I said I adore them!❤❤

[@mygirldarby]

Skunks and opossums are total enemies and the skunk almost always wins their skirmishes with opossums. It didnt surprise me that the oppssum pushed the skunk into the water, 😅. I bet those two have had many fights and the skunk always got the best of the opossum. In fact, opossums can pretty much lose against any animal in a fight. They can make themselves look a little scary, but in reality, they are not well-equipped for fights.

[@TheresaONeill-ze3jb]

I love crows AND Ann!!😅

[@janemiettinen5176]

My Finnish mom visited South Africa back when she still smoked. Of course she left her ciggies and lighter on the hotel balcony, only for two monkeys to appear to take a good look on the potential loot; the cigarettes were thrown all the way down from 4th floor, but the bright pink lighter was deemed worthy. Cant blame them one bit, I like pink things too.

[@meegansandberg1308]

You should have seen the lengths my step-dad had to go to to keep the raccoons out of his trash bins. He tried bungee cords over the lids. The little devils knocked them over and worked as a team to rip the lids off. He finally bungeed the lids closed and literally CHAINED them to his fence. They couldn't get the bungeed lids off unless the bin was laying on the ground. I raked a lot of trash for him before he got it right. Raccoons are smart and resourceful.

[@kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126]

You have obviously never watched the ridiculously elaborate setups done here on KZbin to figure out just how smart a squirrel really is. Smart!! Really really SMART!! Designer of obstacle course and lock boxes to keep food from squirrel 🐿️ ZERO! Little bitty squirrel figures it out EVERY SINGLE TIME! SMART!

[@woodstream6137]

This host looks so familiar, reminds me of a coworker years ago. Australian possums are so much cuter than American opossums.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

I’d bet a good bit that first squirrel survived.

[@arthurryanorilla356]

4:29 Possum be like.... You stinks take a bath...🤣

[@meegansandberg1308]

I love crows. There's a lot of them living in my neighborhood. I don't know what kind of crows they are, but they're all black and very beautiful. Every thing about them is black. Their feet, eyes, beaks are all a deep dark black. The only downside is when I want to sleep late with my windows open. They're very noisy.

[@michaelteret4763]

More, please!

[@brain189]

The way they say squirrels is so cute

[@Kayenne54]

Heard a ruckus in the house, middle of the night, like someone was trying to get a sliding door opened in the spare room. Peeked in, and a possum strutted casually out, made his way to the kitchen door, and sat waiting for us to open it. We opened it, because we are good servants. He just strolled out. He'd made his way in through the spare room window someone had left open, but the sliding door had tricked him, because it had been closed for a change. He'd obviously done this route before. (Aussie possum). Also young people were, once again, adjured not leave leftovers on plates all over the spare room, where a computer was. Ah well. At least he got fed regularly. 16:58 and the most important information on cockatoos - is that they can live over 80 years. Longer than most humans. On that basis alone, they should never be household pets, unless there's a good reason for caring for them (i.e. they cannot fly or be rehabilitated into the wild, because they were exported to a foreign land). Even galahs can live a very long time. Most parrots, actually. Be mindful when taking that responsibility on.

[@ABCScience]

Love this story!

[@tandiparent1906]

❤I didn't know flying squirrels were that far north(?)

[@adreabrooks11]

There are two species of flying squirrel in North America. The southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) lives primarily in the US, from the Great Lakes and Southern Quebec southward, and as far east as the ocean. The northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) lives mostly in Canada - though reaching into New England, Alaska, and pocket-populations elsewhere. It lives coast-to-coast, and as far north as it can find trees, reaching well into the Northwest Territories. EDIT: I stand corrected. Apparently, the Humboldt's flying squirrel (Glaucomys oregonensis) have been recognized as a distinct species from the northern squirrelies - so now we have three species. Seems they live along the West Coast, from southern British Columbia to southern California.

[@LayAloria]

Love love your videos!

[@felixhenson9926]

Wow the second squirrel video are of red squirrels! Very rare, i'd bet they're in Scotland

[@bravobby8773]

I love crows so much! When i see them in the road i always make sure to slow down and move over in hopes they remember 😅 i would love to befriend my local fam!

[@cathleenc6943]

Squirrels are good for the environment because they bury a lot of their nuts in little caches, but don't always come back to all of them, so they're effectively planting tree seeds, which sometimes grow into new trees.