How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System

While the rest of the world’s megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene era, these two big animals have used little animal strategies to bounce back. Way back.
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- Megafauna: Large animals, usually over 45 Kgs.
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- Holocene Extinction: An ongoing extinction event of species due to human activity.
- Fertility Rate: The number of babies an organism has in its lifetime.
- Omnivory: The ability to eat food from two different trophic levels.
- Bubble-Net Feeding: A cooperative hunting technique where groups of whales use bubbles to disorient fish prey.
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[@MinuteEarth]

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[@abinashlama9963]

Hi

[@abinashlama9963]

Sorry I can't

[@abinashlama9963]

So can we help other animal survive the extinction *not panda* like bear and whales

[@Bxll_Bxll]

20 hours ago… o.o

[@nguyenduyphuc3924]

Among us

[@Arun_Kumar_x86]

during this depression time hearing that the population is bouncing back is honey to my ears.

[@schuringleon3207]

It's also honey to the black bears ears

[@doggo7078]

You get it? It's honey, because bees _are doomed_

[@rianantony]

Finally some good fucking environmental news

[@blue_leader_5756]

Also good news, the hole in the ozone layer from a few years back is closing up!

[@speedy01247]

the downside is they are doing so well partially due to others species suffering.

[@tekuaniaakab2050]

Thank you for adding “ursine compadres” to my list of bear synonyms

[@MinuteEarth]

:) that one was bruin for a long time...

[@jasonellis1115]

I know you left this comment two years ago but I'm wondering, what other bear synonyms do you use?

[@johnsteinat5213]

Answering the questions I never knew to ask. I love this channel for the same reason I loved "Questions Kids Ask" books as a kid. I never would have known this, it's interesting and I love knowing this, but I never would have known to ask this question.

[@MinuteEarth]

John is one of our Patreon members so we give him early access :)

[@abinashlama9963]

@@MinuteEarth ohh

[@1_3_37]

@@MinuteEarth ohh

[@alfreddino2071]

@♡t̷o̷y̷ b̷u̷n̷n̷i̷e̷♡ This is how John beat the system..

[@foxbatmc8457]

@@MinuteEarth ohh

[@Horesmi]

So basically the traits that allows an animal to coexist with humans at that of a Tyranid swarm. Got it. Breed fast, devour all.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Being a generalist has always been the best survival strategy

[@PhazoGanon]

So basically the same strategy that humans used to get to the top

[@ledernierutopiste]

@@PhazoGanon I don't think humans are considered fast breeders. But they're great younglings protector mixed with long lifespan, which means that it has the same consequence of increasing the population rapidly.

[@leonaise7546]

@@PhazoGanon Humans aren’t fast breeders. It takes a full year to birth 1 child at a time. And 18 years to cultivate them. And we can’t eat most shit without cooking it

[@timmccarthy872]

The way that humpback whales eat together, bubble-net feeding, is cool as hell. I was able to see it near Juneau, Alaska in 2006.

[@engelsteinberg593]

This sound like dolphin's Hunt time.

[@ellie.bowers.]

The ocean is great 𓆉𓆡𓆟

[@wolfbyte3171]

Got to see the same thing off Massachusetts :D

[@prabhatsourya3883]

@@engelsteinberg593 Dolphins do hunt entire schools of fish in a similar way, though not exactly the same. They use their bodies and flukes to herd the school of fish into a tight sphere, and then capture them by eating through the ball formation. Or, they strike schools of fish with their flukes while coordinating with other dolphins, so that escape is cut off, and the fish are stunned and are thrown straight into their mouths.

[@k1j1j1j]

​@@ellie.bowers. bro got ancient egyptian emojis

[@weegee_hates_the_blind]

the fact they're thriving despite human activity is oddly bitter sweet.

[@Nekromageofapocalyp]

well, since we sort of killed their competitors O:-)

[@ledernierutopiste]

@@Nekromageofapocalyp mostly because they adapted quickly, there wasn't competitors for eating pizza out of a bin in a city, it was a new niche, and black bears filled it succesfully.

[@11Argetlam11]

2:00 that statement is a stretch. We just don't notice extinct smaller animals because that field is pretty much less explored. Some biodiversity studies find 100s of new species in tiny areas like a couple of miles random woodland.

[@johnspartan12]

But he's talking about mammals there, not all fauna.

[@1.4142]

The description has sources and more info about this

[@Dragrath1]

@Matías Fermín Páez This is not quite true very small species can go unnoticed even if they are ecologically important of course organisms where this applies typically are very small tend to live in the soil or low to the ground in underbrush and are either nocturnal or microscopic. These tend to be important by either keeping something else in check or by decomposing or eating something that other organisms can't.

[@maxpowers4436]

Read the description for the sources.

[@garg4531]

That is true Similarly a lot of people talk about there being so many new species being discovered or still unknown to science and the vast majority are teeny tiny animals living in remote jungles and stuff like that, not bigfoots wandering around in people's backwoods

[@Logstickz]

A con to having these two species’ population rebounding so strongly relative to other species of bears & whales is that they consume more of the limited available resources. So they’re putting further constraints on similar species that can lead to decreasing species diversity.

[@speedy01247]

true, we changed the world so much we basically crowned new species Rulers of their domains. (based on how well they can deal with our existence)

[@nehankaranch2149]

Why do we need more and more diversity? lLike honestly whats the point

[@pedrolmlkzk]

They are going ro evolve into new species anyway so who cares?

[@GGoAwayy]

I guess Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home really underestimated the humpback whale's chances for survival.

[@robcandy9273]

It's those unknown aliens that are telling them how to survive

[@kaitlyn__L]

Well, if things had continued as they were when the movie was made, the line would’ve stayed down or gone even further down. It wasn’t an underestimation so much as a knowing worst case scenario - specifically designed to try and make it less likely to happen IRL.

[@travisshooks7374]

Deer and turkey have also exploded. They thrive in the fringe habitat between humans and nature. There were an estimated 1million whitetail deer in North American before European settlement not there are around 30million.

[@davidhanson4909]

This is why every time a deer meets a cow he says, "Thanks, bud!"

[@Dragrath1]

Well are deer really thriving if many of the animals are literally starving to death? Plus white tailed deer like their European relatives are driving the remaining patches of woodland to death by preventing new plants from growing. As far as I am aware basically the only things growing is the stuff deer literally can't eat like pawpaw(which like its relatives in the family Annonaceae aka soursop has a chemical cocktail that includes a potent neurotoxin that if consumed regularly enough can lead to Alzheimer's like neurodegeneration. That and the invasive grass mycrostegium For pawpaw the fruit are safe to eat but the leaves are anything but and thus deer leave them alone. This is why we need predators to restore the landscape of fear so plants can grow again. Hunters don't hunt nearly enough to have an actual impact on deer populations

[@travisshooks7374]

@@Dragrath1 I’m not sure about the poisonous plants but your conclusion contradicts itself. If the deer population is too high where more deer need to be hunted by humans or animals then how can the deer be starving? If the deer were starving they would die off and the population would fall until it found equilibrium with the environment.

[@Dragrath1]

@@travisshooks7374 There is no contradiction it all comes down to distribution of resources the resources are getting spread among more deer with the system reaching a quasi equilibrium of sorts between the number of deer and a periodic variation in deer populations brought about due to starvation and reproduction. So yes there is an equilibrium state that has been reached the issue is it is a very low productivity state where the forests can't regenerate as any new plants try and grow and get eaten back repetitively until they die and deer raising fauns which grow up into hungry nutrient deficient deer. This gets exacerbated as the plants that deer don't eat get to spread and proliferate. Ultimately it is a quasi equilibrium sustained by mature plants continuing to try and procreate. This state can last until the elder plants die either naturally or by humans clearing them out. The end state of such a process is perhaps most poignantly seen in the fate of the temperate rainforest which once spanned across the British isles where the largest plant remaining over most of the historic range is low growing heather and example of complete ecological collapse. You are right that when herbivores die off that populations drop the problem is that the deer numbers replenish quickly as they eat all the new young growth repeating the cycle. More specifically it is a bit of a patchwork where deer populations locally crash and then get recolonized by deer elsewhere perpetuating the cycle as deer migrate around to find food. You can't treat the situation as a sedentary population as deer are mobile so the dynamics are actually far more complex.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@travisshooks7374 If there are twenty people at dinner every night, but there is only enough food for twelve, you either need to uninvite eight people (or let them starve), or have nine to all twenty go malnourished.

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

Black bear opens a mcdonalds trash bin "Serious gourmet shit going on here"

[@kwanarchive]

I think it's most likely the "rebound" is more like a Dead Cat Bounce. Fish stocks are also collapsing.

[@Somerandomdude-ev2uh]

at 1:25 is that black bear eating car fumes? or is it squished fruit? like jam? OMG, it's traffic jam

[@MinuteEarth]

Roadkill!

[@Somerandomdude-ev2uh]

@@MinuteEarth Nah mate, its traffic jam

[@garg4531]

Traffic jam's definitely one way to put it xDD

[@illiacvie]

1:26 it's only matter or time until bear will add human to their diet

[@kynwurtz]

uh oh

[@MoodRealm_Native]

Polar Bears already have, the only species of bear that hunts humans.

[@gming8225]

aaand they gone extinct

[@TheExalaber]

Black bears already eat humans on occasion. It is one reason why they are much more dangerous than Grizzlies

[@magilviamax8346]

If one even tries it will be hunted and killed remorselessly in a matter of hours. This happen with tigers and lions too, no matter if they've been famished by humans.

[@mrman5517]

1:18 even if humans had decimated the whale's food supply, wouldn't that still leave 90% of the food?

[@shaider1982]

I see what you did there. It's like disaster, it's meaning (roughly connotation) has changed over the centuries disaster literally meant ripping apart a star (see the old video from vsauce). Likewise, decimate means to get rid of literally a tenth of something. These days, it meant to deplete.

[@jaschabull2365]

@@shaider1982 I thought "disaster" was basically the idea of something being ill-fated, as the stars were against you (astrology and all that jazz). Never remembered it literally referring to something happening to the star itself.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@shaider1982 and here I’d misremembered it as _leaving_ one in ten, not _killing_ one in ten. Thanks for making me look that up.

[@CyanLightning]

Whale whale whale, this video is interesting. Yeah, I know the pun is unBEARable, I am going to go now

[@MonkeyJedi99]

And I read your comment in Don Knotts' voice.

[@pedroakjr2371]

It's like if a climax species started acting as a pioneer. smart, but easier said than done, otherwise everyone would just do it.

[@jcortese3300]

So the question is basically, "Can it eat our trash?"

[@BinaryReader]

The thought of some Whales and Bears doing ok despite human effects on the environment makes me happy, then I think about the thousands of other species being driven to extinction, then I feel sad and anxious for them. The Anthropacene is not working out ok on aggregate.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

New species will evolve

[@bienneandrei5238]

What will happen if all big animals do this strategy? Will their prey can become endangered?

[@MinuteEarth]

Good question!

[@balrajpadda7558]

​@@MinuteEarthAnswer it lol. You just left him with "good question". I will try to answer it. If prey population declines so do predators because less food. Prey will also develop strategies to tackle it so it doesn't die off. I tried to answer it maybe it is correct.

[@Celis.C]

How to beat the system: take humans out of the equation

[@LordMagden]

Kirk went to all that trouble to save those whales then came back to a timeline where they didn’t die off in the first place

[@MonkeyJedi99]

... yet!

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

I seriously thought this was a video on cryptocurrency.

[@roytescaro6313]

I clicked on it thinking it was about FINANCE. Still very interesting though!

[@Bogwedgle]

Generalists thrive in the collapse of an ecosystem. Animals that can adapt and vary their diets and strategies are filling in the holes left by the collapse of the populations of other more specialised animals. It's a bad sign, not a good one, populations exceeding historic highs means that the various species that kept those populations in check are gone or unable to compete.

[@MazdaTiger]

unless it becomes the case of "Darwin's Finches" where once a generalist species starts to diversify into several specialized species it's one of the strange quirks of evolution, life *always* finds a way

[@dieterreteid6365]

I don't know, if you have read my prior message to you, dear Minute Earth Team(in this comment section), but I honestly do care about, what you have to say about that Matter, and would Love to talk with you about it

[@ivan.flrs2]

an organisation that focuses on making space flight more equitable would do better trying to make EARTH more equitable ffs

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Indeed. Especially considering space hops will likely never be affordable for the vast majority of people (and if they DO become affordable to everyone, then it will be pumping WAY too much CO2 into the atmosphere, furthering the ongoing slow catastrophe of global warming).

[@laurentiuvladutmanea3622]

You are talking like the 2 are incompatible. They are not. Hell, the space race is responsible for giving us the tehnology necesary to discover that climate change is trully happenig and how bad it is. Not only that, but if space flight becames cheep enough it will become economicatly efficient to built orbital solar plants(which are more eficient than terestrial solar power)

[@martijn8491]

@@laurentiuvladutmanea3622 you are talking about conducting actual science in space. The current 'space race' is about space tourism, which is simply using proven technology to give rich people a ride to high up in the atmosphere. That has nothing at all to do with the amazing technologies that came out of the actual space race, the ISS and space science projects.

[@nehankaranch2149]

@@martijn8491 Rich people always do things first, but thats good for all of us. Rich people got the first cars, planes, etc. It will soon become availble to the masses

[@garg4531]

I think black bears and humpbacks are just naturally more flexible, at least the black bears are. As mentioned in the vid they're already pretty generalists so adapting their diet to include man-made food sources wasn't that big of a leap for them Also it's nice thinking that humpbacks will still be around even in the future :)

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

Well I mean that's just how cool these Bears & Whales are just different from their larger counterparts,also this was a great video.

[@berendmuller1794]

looks like bear will be back on the menu boys!

[@eestaashottentotti2242]

When swimming, you see a humpback whale open its mouth beneath you, you know they have added another item to their diet.

[@davy1220]

I thought this was about crypto lol

[@picklebulb1489]

WAY?

[@randomrom747]

Gen Alpha brain behavior

[@davy1220]

@@randomrom74765 iq comment

[@won_topgun]

Coz Whales are the ones who have enormous amounts of crypto saved up and bears are obviously those who bring the market down

[@rs86]

At first, I thought this would be a video about stonks

[@SockPuppet-q4x]

Black Bears also benefit by not being aggressive and generally afraid of humans. This is why while there are plenty of black bears in my area. there are no more grizzlies.

[@aamirkhawaja9206]

I thought this video was going to be about investing LOL the title and thumbnail 😅😂

[@nebojsag.5871]

1. Be small 2. Eat all 3. Breedin' y'all

[@petersmythe6462]

"What if I be really big so nothing can hurt me, at the cost of mobility, reproduction, stealth, offense, and the ability to hide?" *-Stellar's Sea Cow*

[@petersmythe6462]

Humans: "the perfect prey animal doesn't exi-"

[@hissamfr]

Congrats on millions of views, well...not yet, but soon enough.

[@AmIWhoIThinkIAm]

Me looking at an avocado, as a giant sloth dies, while the narrator just straight up lies.

[@ingoseiler]

There is actually no concrete evidence that giant ground sloths were the distributor of avocado. No corprolites and different ranges. Today birds spread avocado by puking up the seed after eating. These birds most likely spread avocado in the time before humans as well!

[@mikotheraskum2014]

:0 they adapted so fast And its my first time i got soo soon on one of your vids minute earth!

[@KnowArt]

_Some_ species bouncing back, we're going back to space... I mean, you'd almost get excited for the future again

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Depends on what you mean by 'we', heh heh.

[@laurentiuvladutmanea3622]

@@IstasPumaNevada Kepping into acount that the vast majority of tehnologie and modes of transportation become cheaper and more affordable as time passes. While it is posible that most of us will not go to space, it is extremly likely that the people born now will. Although this depends on how bad climate change will affect the economy of the world.

[@8bitRemakes]

new favourite video thumbnail on YT ✅

[@Sarah..star2009]

Can You do one about horses?

[@Xkbtbox]

Humback whales:work smarter not harder

[@gamerogamers0914]

LOL WHY DO I LIKE THE THUMBNAIL SOOOO MUCH

[@JohnHudert1]

2:38 or maybe they just so happened to have an evolutionary step that helped in this particular situation… or both species are just smarter than the average bear/whale

[@Tht1prsn69]

Sheeeesh whale got dat drip

[@beastmaster0934]

In terms of whales, there’s other baleen whales that seem to be doing well. Like Pygmy right whales, Bryde’s whales, and Minke whales. All of these baleen whales are rather small, and feed on fish as well as krill. So they, along with the humpback whale, will probably be the only baleen whales to survive and live alongside humans.

[@ambergris5705]

Other species are rebounding. It's far from pre-hunting levels, but it's a good sign that we're going in the right (whale) direction

[@truthboom]

imagine people eating bear meat and the bear eat its own kind meat from trash

[@Leonardo-Py]

great video!!

[@cathytee6024]

This made me so happy thank you :)

[@gameapple4365]

Life finds a way.

[@pedromartins6810]

That thumbnail goes very hard

[@bigmanimation]

I think that would make a "big" problem That is a "massive" populaytion growth

[@abcxyz9852]

Were the winners ever announced or did I miss it??

[@greendude2616]

Being big and acting small can sometime work

[@hannahwalters3602]

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. God bless and Christ be with you

[@lilsprugga]

Well, that was interesting.👍😁

[@johnny_veritas]

I thought this was about insider trading, as bears and whales are also financial terms.

[@floweytheflower5261]

jumpscared by a mouse

[@themangix357]

Omaze? MO POWA BABEH!

[@MadDoofer]

Soon Bears will be the master of land And Humpbacks will rule the seas!

[@shaminahossain8666]

That thumbnail tho

[@frostyhotcocoa7809]

the days of black killer bears and humpback leviathans are approaching

[@Rubieeeeeee]

I love you minuteerth

[@mesarosmm]

From thumbnail I was convinced this is about stock market..

[@Guest_13750]

Oh no

[@kvd1]

I’m pretty sure elephants have a huge amount of foods on their diet and a slow reproduction rate, And a tigers diet is a N/A rather than a pacific diet, and do to the fact that tiger’s are also a invasive species in Texas, and still endangered in its native east and south east Asia area, of all the endangered giant species on earth, only the Bangal tiger is a invasive endangered species, and while other endangered animals are endangered themselves, but their food sources are a different story, because since these species are endangered but their food sources ether overpopulated or/and invasive, take the panda bear for example, the panda is a endangered species, but it’s bamboo food sources are invasive species, do to human activity, and before we use bamboo for buildings and furniture, and because of its fast growth (and sometimes fast growth means fast reproduction), the bamboo plant can out grow native species and can even crop pests like aphids, and I like to call the bamboo plant the aphids habitat and breeding ground and because of its fast growth and reproduction, and the once endemic plant parasites can also start having a larger menu of to suck or consume other plants including crops, and sometimes weeds, and that’s why we should not have nice things?!.

[@frankiehompson2746]

Why are you guys allowing a sponsor connected to virgin galactic? The emissions from that company is unjustifiably terrible for the planet. Is Exxon a sponsor too?

[@uarthchylde]

as long as there's no vetoes on info, who cares

[@IstasPumaNevada]

@@uarthchylde Everyone should care, including you. Unless you happen to not live on Earth.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

The overall contribution of emissions is miniscule; if we roughly equate rocket propellant (including LOX) to gasoline, the U.S. uses enough gasoline to launch a Falcon 9 every 45 seconds, 24/7, with VG flights using much less than an F9. And space tourism probably won't ever be cheap enough to come close to that scale of use. A bigger problem I think is the obscene wealth inequality that is required for such a company to have customers; it is in part the greed creating that inequality that also contributes to global warming and actively prevents seeking solutions to it.

[@sampanackal6184]

I thought of a decentant of black bear if we humans went extinct, it called the bulkwalker a herbivorous bear that grew much bigger then it anstetor

[@josephjackson1956]

God DID say be fruitful and multiply. And those who do it best get to survive.

[@Arrrrt5]

I thought he would talk about Financial Markets.

[@OversizedSquare]

If there are more pet owners the population might skyrocket if they survive

[@casualsleepingdragon8501]

HungryHumpback whale trying fish for tje first time: mmh! This is serious gorme shit

[@davidegaruti2582]

humpback whale OP pls nerf

[@Moorb0y52]

Just had to watch because of that thumbnail

[@GeorgeAdams]

Interesting as always; thank you. Does this mean that it would be ethical and a positive impact to ecological diversity to incentivize hunting black bears?

[@dinohall2595]

Not necessarily. If there are sufficient resources to support the entire ecosystem, black bears in large numbers won't be a problem. Also, incentivizing black bear hunting may inadvertently encourage poaching of grizzlies.

[@GeorgeAdams]

Are other bear populations held down because of the explosion of black bears?

[@dinohall2595]

@@GeorgeAdams I don't know for certain, but I think grizzlies and black bears use different resources. Only the grizzlies, for instance, catch the migrating salmon from the river. Thus, their niches do not overlap significantly enough that I would expect a problem.

[@GeorgeAdams]

@@dinohall2595 probably true on food but what about habitat? If we assume all bears like to keep their distance from any other bear, I wonder if the black bears are reducing the availability of “housing”.

[@dinohall2595]

@@GeorgeAdams Again, I'm not an expert, but if different species of bear occupy relatively distinct niches, they should have no reason to be territorial to other species.

[@fenrirgg]

I seriously thought the video was going to be about trading 😅

[@gimmick206]

So is it only applied to humpback whale and american black bear? Isnt the title kinda misleading?

[@samsongao366]

I thought this was about stocks X)

[@ColorInversion]

If you can be a poacher that means Ted bundy was also a poacher

[@ColorInversion]

I swear to god if someone takes this joke seriously I am gonna cringe

[@davidlamers874]

hunting season coming shortly lol

[@One_High_Guy_420]

Whale whale whale what do we have here???

[@ursusthedog5937]

By the title i thought that the video is about crypto currency

[@WSNO]

They cheated

[@jk_ilyu]

Love ur videos

[@MrMegaPussyPlayer]

2:33 Which means they might need to be hunted to give others a chance to rebounce as well.

[@emmanuelsneyaert476]

Is it gowing to disturbe the balance of nature? Is you have to much.

[@ErenWertz]

I think that humans beat the system

[@icost]

It's always us humans.

[@dxtrum]

You have 2 choices: Go big Go home

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

Play Stupid Games Win Stupid Prizes

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

Omaze sounds like mayonaze...

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

Nice 😊

[@kvd1]

One other giant animal that is also doing well(a bit too well if you ask me). Is what I consider as the scariest and the worst overpopulated giant animal on the planet? and that is the nomura jellyfish, and because why this giant jellyfish is super successful and problematic, is that this jellyfish is supposed to bloom once every 40 years, and now it’s blooming yearly and in larger numbers than ever! And the nomura jellyfish can produce and release up to a billion eggs in the end of its 12 month life span, and this jellyfish feeds entirely on plankton and other food particles, and because of its huge diet of and fast growth and population?! And this is one giant that should not be an invasive species, and the nomura jellyfish is even linked to shutting down nuclear power plants in Japan and China, and causing fish populations to decline even more!?

[@Ho3213s]

and also humans beated the ststem

[@importantname]

theres a System?

[@hukalakanakahakanakaheekal4886]

Wait so humpbacks can get pregnant while nursing a baby but most other mammals can't? Humans can too right?

[@MinuteEarth]

It's possible for humans to get pregnant while still nursing, but breast feeding is actually a pretty great form of birth control - 0% during first 3months, 2% between 3-6 months, and about 6% after six months...

[@hukalakanakahakanakaheekal4886]

@@MinuteEarth y’all are awesome :) I’ve been watching this channel for at least 6-7 years. Thanks!

[@Grandemagothebest]

I thought this was about the stock market