American Reacts The Majestic Wildlife Of Scotland | Facing The Atlantic | Real Wild

[@karlbmiles]

The Rocky Mountains where I live are still growing due to tectonic plate pressure. Tall mountains are young mountains, and Colorado alone has 52 peaks over 14,000 feet, Mont Blanc for comparison is 15,766 feet. The first stage of mountains as they grow older is to get jagged and pointed, like the Matterhorn in the Alps, due to glaciation. Eventually further glaciation removes the points and jags creating sloping hills that eventually lose their height. American old mountain chains include the Appalachians and Ozarks.

[@lolsaXx]

Yes, many of the lochs we call lochs are infact fjords or sea lochs. However, the moment you figured that out they were talking about Loch Maree which is a fresh water loch. That's where I was born, near the mouth of Loch Maree.

[@alexmonroe613]

I don't know how it was explained previously but Glaciers "flow" - they travel (slowly) like a river but with the tremendous weight and all the rocks stones and boulders attached to them they are like giant pieces of sandpaper gouging out the classic "U" shaped valleys and lochs/fjords we see today after the glacier has melted away. The "terminal moraine" - a phrase every geography student rolls their eyes at having to remember, is the enormous pile of rocks and boulders pushed along at the front of a glacier and often left deposited after the glacier has gone.😁

[@productjoe4069]

Scottish mountains are both smooth and low because they are *old*. The orogeny (mountain building) that created them happened half a billion years ago. The hills in the south of England (and north of France) are much more recent (they are a side-effect of Africa crashing into Europe like the Alps), but they're further away from the collision site so much smaller.

[@rachelbuchan5407]

Dontcha just love the way they missed out the Shetland Islands between Orkney and the Faroe Islands

[@lolsaXx]

They missed out many islands.

[@martinmillar7137]

Love this channel..am pretty sure mcjibben is ma long lost bro ❤ saor alba 😂

[@milespostlethwaite1154]

The UK used to be almost totally covered in forest. Man slowly turned it into farmland. Tree felling accelerated massively when they needed the trees to make navy ships. It took 50 acres of oak trees to build one warship and the ships only lasted about 10 years.

[@AD270479]

@ 17:44 That's 'Loch Shin' bud.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Thankfully there is some great progress being made with rewilding in Scotland restoring the land to the way it used to be before it was destroyed to make way for a few v rich people to shoot grouse.

[@Dan-B]

Calcium is good for plants in a similar way that it’s good for our bones, it’s important for strong plant structure (building cell walls and membranes) it also helps keep the soil together.

[@andrewobrien6671]

Beavers hve been inroduced as a flood prvention measrue. Apart from being beautiful they are a natural form of protecting the evironment

[@helenwood8482]

Reintroduced. They have also now been reintroduced in England.

[@angelabushby1891]

I think they are in Yorkshire as well now

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I went on a school trip to North Wales many, many years ago to study the geography. With all the landscape features created by the advance and retreat of glaciers. If you see a U shaped valley it was cut by ice, a V shaped valley was made by running water.

[@lolsaXx]

Where are you from? We learnt this in geography at the age of 11.

[@alexmonroe613]

@@lolsaXx He went on a school trip when he was 8... catch up!🤣😂

[@AD270479]

@@alexmonroe613 He literally doesn't mention when it was, or what age he was, what are you tripping on? A school trip 'many, many years ago' is all they mentioned, which can be from the age of 5, to the age of 18... + They never asked what age they were, they asked where they were from...catch up.

[@lolsaXx]

@@alexmonroe613 I was just curious where he was from. I grew up in the North West Scotland and never took any specific trip to learn about UK land formation.

[@lolsaXx]

@@AD270479 they're just trying to be funny.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

That "waves of land" is because Scotland's mountains are among the oldest in the world. They've been slowly worn down over millions of years, plus by the glaciation of the ice ages. The weather is warmer than the equivalent latitude in the US because of the Gulf Stream - the warm ocean current that travels across the Atlantic from the Caribbean. And yes - beaver pelts were a major part of the early Canadian economy - you should do a video on the Hudson Bay Company, which basically ran about half of what is now Canada.

[@belindakennedy5828]

A Lot of Canada resembles Scotland ,it's obvious before the land shift it was part of Scotland and part of coldest parts of europe Sweden Scotland Iceland etc,native Canadians have the same clan systems etc.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

@@belindakennedy5828 Doesn't necessarily follow from that that there's a connection though (yes I know, there is geologically and prehistorically). Where I live in New Zealand also resembles Scotland, and the Māori iwi and hapu are exactly like Scottish clans and septs - but there's no connection at all there.

[@carltaylor6452]

Beaver have been introduced elsewhere in Britain, including recently into London.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

The reason the calcium is good for the plants there is that it balances out the PH. Peat is inherently acidic because it is made from decomposed plants that were covered in opaque water and thus couldn't photosynthesise. This initially means that they respirate, ie. take in oxygen and release CO2 (acidic), but they eventually die because there is no more oxygen, and then their decomposition releases even more CO2 as well as methane. This is incidentally also how bogs become the perfect places to preserve things that are dumped into them. The anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment is perfect for that. Btw, This was really nice, and I also love nature documentaries, so I would love if did more of those :)

[@claregale9011]

Nature's wonderful, one of my favourite videos you've done Connor 😊

[@AD270479]

Don't think this vid was very good for learning about what wildlife we have. Nothing about eagles, deer, foxes, Scottish wildcats, Dolphins, Whales, many species of shark + many more. I think you're lucky if it even covered 5% of our wildlife... Edit, didn't know that was only half until the end of the vid, still don't think it's going to cover much more based on this half tho.

[@martinmillar7137]

Interesting man.. ken we are also re introducing wolfs 😮 not just beaver 🦫 wolves... I love conservation ❤

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

No we’re not 😂 Some people would like to.

[@VeritySnatch]

i grew up in Shetland, between Orkney and the Faroes. in the summer i had to run the gauntlet of Great Skuas trying to kill me on the way to school

[@mikesaunders4775]

There are Beavers in London (Ealing).

[@anitaherbert1037]

Peat is acidic calcium from the sea shells alkali so balances out the acidic peat.

[@alanscott8542]

I've been to Scotland but this looks magical 😮

[@angelabushby1891]

Also the melting ice carried large bolders down scowering the earth time and time again digging in deep and carrying more debris and bolders scowering even deeper

[@laziojohnny79]

Correction: Wild beaver can be spotted just about anywhere on the British Isles, specially around Newcastle...

[@Thechampissammy]

Otherwise known as the cast of geordie shore. 🤣

[@geoffpriestley7310]

Are Scottish beavers ginger?

[@laziojohnny79]

@@geoffpriestley7310 No but Irish ones are.

[@geoffpriestley7310]

@@laziojohnny79 I've never been to Ireland it sounds interesting

[@scousenotenglish2819]

The gulf stream and jet stream keep the Uk warmer than countries to the right of us. Without these warm air and warm water streams we'd be like Norway in the winter. We are around degrees warmer because of both streams.

[@TerryD15]

Northern Glaciers wouldn't melt in the several ice ages which could last 12000 years, it was simply too cold. They flow like very slow rivers under the effect of gravity even without melting. The bottom of the glacier collects layers of small stones and boulders that help to scrape the underlying land and when they eventually do melt after thousands of years they leave the rubble behind called morraine. The mountains and hills of Great Britain were formed in the extreme past and are no longer growing unlike newer ranges such as the Himalayas, Alps etc and have been eroded, worn and shaped by the 2 to 3 km deep glaciers and subsequent wind and rain. Many U shaped valleys actually have very sharp ridges between them, not all peaks are rounded. that flowed across the land in various ice ages. The valleys are called 'U shaped' valleys as the glaciers flowed like rivers along them scraping them smooth hence the smoother shapes, Simply age and erosion.- happens to us all!. P.S the last ice age alsted for round 12000 years and only ended 10000 years ago.

[@g-man4297]

To anyone not familiar with Scottish wildlife, the documentary shown here only covered a very small % of the actual wildlife, and missed out a lot of areas altogether, but then it would need to be hours long to cover every species and area.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

It realy anoyed me it was lazy, we have a WILD CAT for F's sake.

[@AD270479]

Anybody else thinking 'Dead Man's Fingers' looks a lot more like 'Old Man's Scrotum'?

[@craigollerhead8667]

Ahhh. Beaver in the wild.....

[@martinmillar7137]

Waves of land is actually a perfect way to describe the landscape actually.. pancake being another.. interesting you said that mate.. it's true... Probs need to react to why it's so pancaked like

[@abigail1st]

It’s a shame they didn’t show the puffins on the north coast of Scotland, they are such appealing and funny birds, and they could’ve shown some pine martins or red squirrels…..

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

Puffins are shown briefly in the second half of the documentary (although if I remember correctly) it may be on one of the non-Scottish islands !?

[@belindakennedy5828]

😅scotland is unique in its people wild life and scenary,its relaxing once out of the few small cities they have,the weather is crap though ,love from scotland.

[@lilacfloyd]

7:12 Bigfoot?

[@ianjackson1674]

Please try to avoid saying or implying that England and Scotland are the same thing. However, if there had been no human intervention, the vast majority of Great Britain would indeed be covered in woodland, coniferous predominantly in the north, broad-leaved species in the south. This woodland cover is usually referred to as "The Wildwood". It was well-deeloped within a thousand years of the glaciers retreating. Relatively small parts still survive in many different places.

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

Never heard the Caledonian Pine Forest or the Atlantic Rain Forest referred to as the Wildwood.

[@Janie_Morrison]

I won't stop you from doing your work I will go

[@Mickman007]

I agree about the dream job situation even if I would like it just for a while for the experience and probably see the northern lights

[@sungi7814]

The british Islands are so treeless, even thogh there is the best fertile climate. All the more i love the new and remaining scottish forests.

[@carltaylor6452]

Most of the trees were felled between the bronze age and the middle ages, I think.

[@sungi7814]

@@carltaylor6452 And today no young tree stands a chance because of all the sheep and deer.

[@laziojohnny79]

Without people all of western Europe would be covered with forests. The name Holland derives from Holzland, meaning Woodland in ancient Dietsch, (simplified) the language German and Dutch derives from.

[@ngaourapahoe]

Put it on, it is not too late !

[@leohickey4953]

Harriers are hawk like birds; skuas are related to gulls.

[@robertlangley1664]

We have beavers in Devon but the wildlife in Scotland can be frightening especially when jocks don’t were any thing under there kilts not a pretty sight 🥵😡😤

[@claudiavictoria3929]

6:09 Jesus lol

[@secondtimearound2539]

@claudiavictoria3929 😆

[@marieparker3822]

The Faroe Islands belong to Denmark.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Please get out of the belief that loch means lake only, it doesn’t. It means a body of water either completely or mostly surrounded by land. I grew up on the Firth of Clyde and directly across from where I grew up are three lochs that run off of the Clyde (there are many more than three, these are just the ones that are part of the view specifically where I grew up)…the Holy Loch (where there was a US Naval base until around ‘92), Loch Long and the Gareloch…none of which are lakes and I would personally describe them as a waterway cul-de-sac. It also disregards the uniqueness of the other three countries of the UK when even though you are watching a video about one of those countries England is the first word out of your mouth. All four countries are different from each other and should be treated as unique. Most of the UK’s mountains are in Scotland, as is most of the UK’s freshwater sources. It is also worth remembering that between its mainland and hundreds of islands, Scotland covers almost a third of the UK landmass whilst having around a twelfth (or maybe even less) of the population. I have to say though that this video does make me homesick and so relieved that I’ll be heading home for a couple of days very soon.

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

Greetings from the head of Loch Long.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@kirsteneasdale5707 Greetings from an often homesick Gourockian that’s south of the border.

[@isla1687]

idk if you have done anything similar but a really cool video for you to watch would be scottish inventions, trust me we invented a lot more than you would think for such a small country. there are several videos and websites that list a handful of them so i don’t have any specific recommendations but it would still be cool to see you find out some of our contributions:))

[@martinmillar7137]

Just rain.. alll the raaaaaain

[@duncanmit5307]

💜👍💜👍

[@laziojohnny79]

Well New England is a lot closer to the actual north-pole as the average map shows of course, so thats partly why you guys get colder weather dispite being on the same lattitude as Spain. Which also get's fierce winters at times to be fair.

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

Scotland is much further North than New England. Scotland lies between 54 degrees North in the south and 60 degrees north in the north whereas New England is between 40 degrees north and 47 degrees north. Scotland is on the same latitude as Alaska which ranges from 51 degrees North to 71 degrees North.

[@laziojohnny79]

@@kirsteneasdale5707 Cool... but I never mentioned Scotland so what's your point?

[@Verdent777]

This not England.

[@helenwood8482]

Yes, before humans, the whole UK was wooded.

[@angelabushby1891]

The Battle of Scarba Flowe ( not the right spelling) in WW1

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

Scape Flow. Not a battle. It is where the Germans surrendered their fleet but decided to scuttle their ships when they got there. You can still see a couple of the wrecks on the beaches and one of the masts sticking above the water

[@angelabushby1891]

@@kirsteneasdale5707 it WAS in WW1

[@R_McGeddon117]

President Trumps mother, Mary Ann MacLeod, was born and brought up on the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

This was a shockingly lazy film. Where were the Wild Cats, Cappercailies, Pine Martins, our Sea Eagles, Puffins,Res Squirrels, Haggis and Midgies because they are vimpire we gits which gang up, they try to kill. The Orkney wee mouse is amazing there only there but they came with the Vikings. Yep this showed the stunning land but not the wild life. Just thought Dolphins and Whales. My great, great grand mother and father were born on thoughs last island, sheep farmers, they must have being doing well there honeymoon was in Paris.

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

You forgot Golden Eagles, whales, dolphins and basking sharks.

[@belindakennedy5828]

For gods sack does he not listen ,the lakes( lochs) are fresh water ,he is to busy in his mind looking for flaws in the narrators explanation,yes question it after you watch it not during it.🤷