Battle Between Two Bull Elephant Seals | 4K UHD | Seven Worlds One Planet | BBC Earth

For over two months, this bull elephant seal has held his territory on one of the most crowded beaches in the world. To retain his ground, he'll have to fight off any intruders who come his way.
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Seven Worlds One Planet (2019)
Millions of years ago incredible forces ripped apart the Earth's crust creating seven extraordinary continents. One Planet: Seven Worlds, presented by Sir David Attenborough, will reveal how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.
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[@festivebear9946]

Crazy to think that this is the world we live in, absolutely fascinating to see these animals. Once you start paying attention, you'll see that we don't need an alien world, we have enough "aliens" here to explore. We just take it all for granted.

[@aeronblack9249]

We must make a difference

[@creativeearthian1702]

Beautiful comment

[@Wooo-jw5un]

Were All Aliens Bro

[@hootinouts]

I couldn't agree more. Also, these amazing creatures need to be preserved and prototected lest they be lost forever.

[@jamesworley9888]

It's not about ''needing'' an alien world to exist, its about looking for evidence of there being one. Exploring science with the intention of ''needs being met alone'' takes the fun out of it. Science should be explored for all it's wonder and what all it has in store for itself. Not to draw rash conclusions based on anyone's needs for anything being impossible. Science should be a thing of awe mystery and wonder. Science without religion is lame and religion without science is Blind!!!! Blessed by natural law are all they who study science in it's purity with unconditional love.

[@Shyguy21ify]

the cinematography here should not go understated, feels like I'm watching a blockbuster film except it's all real. Whoever took these shots, be proud. You're a master at your craft.

[@arym1108]

Almost more like a Pixar film, or maybe cgi like avatar

[@ileolai]

the close up shots of their claws and teeth were amazing

[@hootinouts]

This never gets old. I find them not just utterly fascinating but their grotesqueness to be comical.

[@aleksandarristic2329]

0:46 after too much spicy nachos

[@stomp21]

That bull even though losing 10kg everyday was still bigger and stronger. Incredible.

[@wergonsturm]

It took me a second to realize the people crowding the beach were actually penguins 💀

[@13KcMagicGirl13]

Because of Neil, I found out about these adorable creatures, and I cannot get enough of them

[@nealaskme6272]

Magnificent creatures!!! I hope they are still around in another century

[@Tilly3012]

humanmade climate change says no.

[@penguinsrbirds2]

This just sounds like the most horrific toilet sounds. I'm actually worried about playing this without headphones, lol.

[@lindaannelineharwood4891]

"You thought you'd stick your nose into my business? I think not!!!"

[@OnionSavoya-jf5hz]

The suren beauty of mother nature on full display here.

[@I.C.Weiner]

Meanwhile the penguins are betting on the games. 10 fish on the challenger

[@lionlikemessenger]

So much of nature is about survival and replication; the preserving and passing on of one’s genes.

[@DavisJ-ln6fw]

Thank goodness humans have a choice to do more.

[@elijah.franklin2602]

Aye animals are impossibly simple in ways that humans will never understand. Eat/Hunt, Sleep, maybe a fight or too, mate and repeat. I wish human life was that simple

[@naikomichail]

filming is insane. amazing

[@darrentan4579]

Antarctica 🇦🇶

[@Borgaboe]

Yes

[@tichu7]

Amazing moving camera angles. I've seen wild elephant seals, but they're always a disappointment compared to the closeup angles that we see on BBC Earth.

[@sneakhyperion9297]

1:07 when you step on that sharp lego piece

[@ronlacker326]

You make fart sounds? Weirdo

[@needsbeer]

When I lived in Vancouver we would see these on occasion.

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Thats amazing.

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

@@needsbeer the pups are cute water puppies🥺

[@needsbeer]

@@Littlekoji-df1cf Yes they are. Just don't get to close because they can surprisingly move fast and they are mean like my ex Sydney

[@unsolicitedditkapics9722]

Lol listen to the video only and you'll think someone is blowing up a toilet

[@michaelfriesen2820]

Audio.

[@dapperbe]

"David Attenborough narrating over constant farting"

[@zaheerkhanbabar8097]

This is life.

[@mesaeddie]

When I was a kid I saw an Elephant Seal Bull at the St.Louis Zoo. I had never even heard of one this being over 60 years ago. I thought it was a statue sticking up out of the water. It grunted loudly sunk beneath the surface and scared the hell out of me. If you ever get the chance to visit the St. Louis Zoo make sure you do .

[@SpiritMover314]

One of the best Zoo’s in the world….And it’s FREE!!!

[@stevenelbert8989]

Really when did the st louis zoo have elephant seals I've been going there my whole life and I don't recall seeing them there

[@mesaeddie]

@@stevenelbert8989Really , it was a long time ago but I know what I saw. I was 9 or 10 which means around 1960. On another trip I saw Marlin Perkins drive by in a golf cart. It is one of my favorite Zoos with an incredible Lion and Gorilla exhibits.Later in he 70's when I was in the Navy I worked across the street and I lived around the corner from the San Diego zoo in Balboa Park.Both very nice Zoos.

[@3winanimal]

@@stevenelbert8989 In zoos, these wild animals are everywhere, but they are trained not to harm humans.

[@stevenelbert8989]

@@mesaeddie it was in the 1960 oh okay I was born in 1999 that explains it

[@Eminence_1337]

Damn I love that outro it never gets old.

[@jtthallious8653]

Fascinating as usual,, well done

[@nolleyramdeer5122]

The subtitles don't match what Sir David Attenborough says. 0:15 David Attenborough says: 'This bull elephant seal holds the mating rights to 60 females'. What's actually written: 'This bull elephant C o Sumatra, March, June 60 females'.

[@jeremytitus9519]

No I’m pretty sure those subtitles are accurate

[@blucat4]

One of the more underwhelming of the BBC Earth videos. Most are truly great.

[@darrentan4579]

King Penguin Bird Paradise

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

Excelente a minúcia do camara man...Uma batalha de gigantes!! O dominante e o dominado ...a dualidade também se assiste no mundo destes animais!!Ganha a lei do mais forte?! ou do experiente?!...

[@sohistoriatriste9428]

A Mãe natureza é maravilhosa Deus é Maravilhoso

[@aiseu]

dam so this what be goin on down there

[@avazarastunov6482]

Отличный бой👍

[@mondodistopico4760]

Mamma mia😵

[@aswaltan8962]

Wonderful place

[@fonich5186]

Father and grandfather after couple of beers

[@nathancomixproductions466]

Reminds me of Happy Feet 2.

[@laalaa99stl]

Ah yes, the source for BBC Earth's end cards. 😊

[@mariokartstar]

I'd still like to know what the music is for these end cards. I can't seem to find it.

[@Silence_OF_Darkness-xo1ir]

Imagine the very early early humans first seeing something like that coming their way 😱

[@jahrusalem3658]

Would've shat themselves XD.

[@loza9585]

@@jahrusalem3658 i think we all would shit ourselves

[@MrOiram46]

@@jahrusalem3658 They wiped out the mammoths though 🤣

[@jahrusalem3658]

@@MrOiram46 Yeah, doesn't mean they can't be intimidated by a several-ton animal.

[@DavisJ-ln6fw]

@@MrOiram46 No we didn't. We sped it up their extinction but we didn't make them extinct .

[@drewbert420]

Was amazing to watch 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@boompa92]

I witnessed these battles in California. Impressive to see, but I can't forget the smell like rotten liver coming from the animals.

[@alvirosy]

must be such an experience! :'D

[@davidfitcher2953]

2:25 Victory Laugh

[@svent2938]

Finally the story behind that beautiful outro

[@boringvloggershankar9503]

Slow motion fight scene

[@lizardninja007]

Sounds like me after eating taco bell at 1:27 - 1:37

[@WJen8]

Basically my family reunions 😅

[@lalruatfelatlaichhun.2053]

Like him that.😊

[@jamesmayday657]

Looks like my family fighting over the last turkey leg at Thanksgiving

[@1969kodiakbear]

St Andrew's Beach. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

[@chilisgrl]

This is so dramatic. But I can relate to this. It is pretty much like to battle between me, my sister(middle child), and my brother(the youngest) Fighting over the remote or to bake with our nana

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

This reminds me of the sauropod fight in prehistoric planet.

[@wolfman2.055]

They drew inspiration from this to write that scene

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

@@wolfman2.055 I can see that😄

[@footfault1941]

They may have thick skin, but look at those hideous wounds! Some very fresh! No easy life.

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

Subtitles are wild on this one.💀

[@TheOneHereNow]

Sorry, dad just got back from a colonoscopy 😂😂😂

[@mahdikhan9443]

Where did the video audio go

[@AyeAyeMon]

I've never seen that animal before

[@anmy1962]

2:00 Wow.😂

[@sforza209]

I would love to see someone ride one of those male elephant seals.

[@chiekofukuda4668]

ナレーションが好き❣️激しいバトルであまり傷つかないといいけど😱平和でありますよう様に💓

[@3winanimal]

戦争で誰かが傷つき、

[@nekoneko5777]

only male beings do wars, the inferior Ys

[@Calafated]

Where clodsire

[@DeinocheirusEnjoyer]

they sound like taco bell restrooms

[@commanderbell1965]

Being Bull Elephant Seal is a hard life.

[@CastleKnight7]

“Get!”

[@matthewlindstrom8728]

They are funny the way they let the penguins run

[@phasm42]

4 tons, holy shit that's a big boy.

[@josephpachev8753]

These seals are SIMPS 😂

[@raphael7411]

Bros has the biggest harem

[@darrentan4579]

King Penguin SeaWorld Abu Dhabi

[@alchemy5750]

It's so weird to see seals still having claws/nails on their flippers. A reminder that indeed they evolved from bears.

[@paleopal]

They didn't evolve from bears. Bears are just their closest living relatives.

[@keithwilson6060]

Scarier than even two grizzlies fighting.

[@virbradez03]

Byran: WE ARE OUTSIDE

[@LennoxmeineckeGHG]

Oh wow, they are really aggressive 🤐🙁🤯

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Can't let others take the booty😏

[@sherryelder9511]

Unspoiled wilderness and no human inhabide places where wildlife is untameable is another reason I will live off grid and where I'll be.

[@wildone8397]

Bro won't even share just one of his hundred ladies 🤣😆

[@bigguyg2]

Part of that looked like a.i.

[@brandonvillatuya9539]

0:45 lol

[@chavruta2000]

Holding, number 68, offense. replay first down.

[@indyreno2933]

Southern Elephant Seal Classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Placentalia Magnorder: Boreoeutheria Superorder: Laurasiatheria Grandorder: Ferae Mirorder: Pancarnivora Order: Carnivora Suborder: Caniformia Infraorder: Cynopsia Parvorder: Pinnipedia Superfamily: Phocoidea Family: Cystophoridae Subfamily: Cystophorinae Tribe: Miroungini Genus: Mirounga Species: M. leonina

[@ronlacker326]

This post: too longica

[@ilyasanzo]

Terrifying

[@serejahrai]

What a sounds! Try to listen, but don't watch)))

[@jojobegood]

💐

[@SmogBot]

best part 1:29

[@Zuxtron]

No, best part is just a few seconds earlier, 1:22 with all the penguins screaming "OH LAWD HE COMIN, GET OUT THE WAY!"

[@jamesclarke3112]

Fun fact I got chased by one in new Zealand

[@rishin8012]

PETER V/S CHRIS

[@armanonlinetv1291]

Masha Allah

[@bil0279]

1:45 haha fart war

[@nickkuiper32]

Every video got better with lots or fart noises

[@kirayoshikage1491]

Sheesh that sounds pretty miserable, having to fight constantly and not even getting a chance to eat

[@AiltonBritoEnglish]

👋🇧🇷

[@matthewlindstrom8728]

Did the elephant seals sing the song that goes like rolin rolin rolin movin movin movin keep those doggies moving road hogs rain and wind and weather helping forever wishing me girl was by me side

[@MkUltraJrk]

all i have to say is damn

[@rixxy9204]

Reminds me of my ex

[@ronlacker326]

Funny, cause your ex told me the same thing about you

[@rixxy9204]

@@ronlacker326 No... she really didn't. My ex was about as fit as a double bass.

[@darrentan4579]

Penguin 🐧

[@hadassah2998]

The epic battle of blubber against blubber. The epic battle of the blubber. These spectacular creatures made me smile and laugh. They are cute in their own unique way. But🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 battleling bulge to bulge. Its like who ever gives the biggest bulge punch wins.😂😂🤭🤭 omg he almost squashed the baby!😵‍💫🥵

[@Fiyaaaahh]

I always wondered why elephant seals didn't evolve to have bigger teeth to win these battles. Does anyone know?

[@colinfisher6750]

There’s probably no need for the teeth to be bigger since they get the job done, as shown here. They’d most likely only develop bigger teeth if they needed to kill their opponent.

[@Fiyaaaahh]

@@colinfisher6750 I can't image how having bigger teeth than what they have currently does not give them a huge advantage in these battles. I'm not saying they should have tusks like real elephants, just bigger than what they are now. I can't think of any evolution pressure that keeps them this small.

[@TheRed971]

The teeth don't really come into play during these fights. All males have tons of scars from bites against other males. The REAL damage they inflict upon another is when they use their weight and mass to slam into their opponent. As the narrator says, "blubber 15cm thick protects from the cold, but not from the impact of a 4 ton opponent." Not that the bites don't hurt, but it's the slam that does 90% of the damage.

[@Fiyaaaahh]

@@TheRed971 But still 4 tons behind a long tooth should cause more damage than 4 ton behind a small one, right?

[@TheRed971]

@@Fiyaaaahh The design of the animal would change completely by that point. In order to compensate for the longer fangs, the blubber would have to be even thicker, which means the animal is now possibly larger and heavier than it was before. Without that change, longer fangs mean that fights between males would result in more fatalities since the fangs would pierce deeper and cause more potentially fatal injuries.

[@Predation_records]

Most disgusting animal in the carnivora order lol

[@bossmatsymoto]

🎀дякую🇺🇦

[@hearteyedgirl]

After taco bell be like:

[@richardjonsson1745]

Can't help but wonder how much of their fight is just "crazy testosterone frenzy" (just look at those crazy eyes...) and how much is carefully masured tactics. Either way, it is earhtshaking.

[@ianphillips1455]

Protect the Seals 😢

[@ronlacker326]

Why should we protect the seals when we refuse to even protect people?

[@3winanimal]

he battle between two bull elephant seals is a spectacle of nature that captivates both curiosity and controversy. While some see it as a display of dominance and power, others question the ethics of animals fighting for supremacy.

[@iweigh34stone]

why would people question the ethics of nature? what would they do about it anyways?

[@izzysnow4904]

Ethics of animals? Wasn't aware animals or nature had any ethics. They (animals) are guided by instincts not a moral compass as humans.

[@lassenker07]

Ethics of animals fighting? That's just nature. What will they do? Tell the seals to stop fighting?

[@whishiwhooshi5783]

My guy, that's just what they do. What are you gonna do? Stop the 4 ton seals from fighting?

[@sampletexttablet8558]

Something tells me that this is an AI generated response.

[@catholicfemininity2126]

Cool. Named after ST. Andrew, Jesus' apostle.