Dramatic Vole Escape Caught on Camera

[@donnamack6797]

As a person who had dozens of bulbs destroyed by voles in the past, I found it hilarious that I was rooting for the little guy!

[@heinrichmenzel7163]

How does that happen?

[@amiralavi5585]

@@heinrichmenzel7163 probably her onion bulbs were destroyed by voles

[@Cleric775]

Maybe you should hire an owl and a weasel.

[@mctommed8604]

well look at his little head and look at the vicious demon owl 😂😂😂

[@flatcapman]

@@mctommed8604 the owl is a She and a mother so no doubt food for her mate and owlets. Owls are beautiful and gain more respect around people. They want to see how soft her feathers are

[@shendaraalshedir1933]

Omgoodness, so tiny & vulnerable hunted from the ground AND the air, plus humans who treat them like vermin. It's a wonder how they survive! The camera work here is indeed stunning, as others have commented. So glad Nature can be seen on Utube now as l no longer have cable tv. PBS you really are THE BEST!!🏆👍🏻😄🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦

[@hankh4549]

How in the world do they film this kinda stuff ?? This is amazing !!

[@lrj3000]

It's fake AF, did you see anything actually escape?

[@toddhowarddressedasatellyt702]

@@lrj3000 why would they fake a nature documentary

[@toddhowarddressedasatellyt702]

Small cameras in the tunnels

[@lrj3000]

@@toddhowarddressedasatellyt702 Why? The clicks man, the clicks

[@AngelusBrady]

@@toddhowarddressedasatellyt702 A lot of times nature documentaries are unable to get the footage that they either want or need. So they compile different clips that they have filmed to tell a story of what would have happened when a documentary isn't filmed. Occasionally, if they can't film what happens in the wild they'll film it in zoos, animal sanctuaries, national/federal parks, greenhouses, botanical gardens, or a special studio for smaller animals and/or plants.

[@troyano6548]

Awesome footage. The camera crew did a remarkable job 👍

[@ghenkhoash2440]

The weasel was like: oh crap, I'm outta here!

[@flatcapman]

the weasel is a She and a Mother so her 1st concern was her family seeing the Owl

[@TankieBoi]

2:20 The owl winks as if it heard the compliment 😂

[@NINJASAZUKI]

🤣🤣

[@shadow_of_4th_dimension]

The owl's looks look when he said "but there is one creature who can hear his every move" was deadly. Beautifully captured.

[@paulafigueiredo1745]

Wow. 👍 👍 Incredible footages. Congrats PBS

[@davidnyc487]

Incredible camera footage 😊

[@jhariej.5979]

Thank you, for these wonderful glimpses into nature. Namaste'

[@hunterG60k]

Would have been an epic twist if the owl had caught the weasel! Also, who got to poke the fake owl feet through the snow? ;)

[@SpoilerAlert__]

The vole RC was pretty cool too

[@lovewillwinnn]

🤣. I thought the same thing about the owl 🦉 talons LOL!!!!!

[@touchofgrey5372]

I watched it in the slowest possible speed and it looks real! What do find not real in that footage?

[@dukeduke7569]

This was my first time I ever wanted a rat to get away😂😂😂😂😂

[@phillipayoung10]

Footage: Incredible The flight: flawless The escape: priceless

[@Raison_d-etre]

The flight was not fast enough.

[@WeighedWilson]

The editing: bogus

[@brianquigley1940]

wonderfully contrived editing of footage! love it!

[@onitasanders7403]

Simply amazing, simply amazing! How wonderful it is to see how the rest of the world lives. 😊😂😮

[@I.____.....__...__]

- The owl blinks one eye at a time to avoid ever losing sight of its target. So owls are smarter than people in _Doctor Who._ - Videos like these are great, but they always make me wonder how fake they are. I mean, how the HECK do they get these shots? How do you get a shot of a weasel running TOWARDS the camera in a tiny hole? How do you get shots of the owl lunging towards the vole as well as the vole escaping at the same time? How do you know what's going to happen in order to arrange cameras in all the right places to get shots of the event from multiple angles? As fascinating as these are, I'm certain they're fake, at least fake like reality-shows. They might really have happened, but what we're seeing isn't the actual event, but a reenactment or footage that's stitched together from multiple events to recreate the event. Still, nature-photography is the most impressive photography of all and renders zoos obsolete. Who needs or even wants to see poor animals locked up in cages, bored and listless, waiting for their next meal, when you can watch these instead?

[@apollobro91]

Recording video of wildlife requires intensive preparation and hours of patience. It's an admirable job to be a wildlife photographer.

[@lizardninja007]

Sometimes footage that's too hard to capture in the wild is taken at zoos!

[@TheJhtlag]

I'll agree, it's too fantastic that footage of the owl flying straight at you coincidentally happening with the rest of it...but you have to use that somehow.

[@Art-ij6lz]

Honestly why I love the BBC and the planet earth/frozen planet series, the fact they show you they find a carcass and wait for eagles to fight over it at the end of the episodes and the music of course. I am not sure there will ever be better nature films made, its awe inspiring.

[@CrawlunderaRock]

Amazing footage guys, love you 😈🔪🪓

[@4lifejeph]

How in the world did they film this? Outstanding!

[@dontbestupid6664]

Years of experience, millions of dollars f equipment, and months of production. It's a huge and expensive project.

[@TheLostinTheUnknown]

It's just a montage of different clips. None of this actually happened.

[@vaidotassakalauskas3681]

Fantastic film!!!

[@SportsHill]

Beautiful Camera Angles 📐

[@sandeeppradhan6873]

Hats off to the hardworking videography crew!!

[@rulesboypictures]

Superb videography mind-blowing

[@ceciLOVEtaco]

Awesome video , great job !

[@flozander5577]

Poor little Guy ☹️

[@FoxtrotAlpha173]

Nature is amazing 👌 👌

[@keythdanielsen5533]

That owl is beautiful.

[@vipahman]

Actually my dog can also hear the vole. It has killed a few within these snow tunnels without me even realizing what was happening. One jump, one grab, and one rag doll shake with the vole in her mouth and it's all over.

[@codysimmonds2944]

He missed the opportunity to say as quite as a mouse lol

[@jasperherr8694]

just a lil hammie dressing up with a tail for halloween

[@beatpirate8]

omg the vole is so resilient! it must fight so many creatures!! this was so suspenseful!!

[@ArtyMars]

I’d be dramatic too if OWLS wanted to eat me 😢😢😢😢😢😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@ladybug5093]

I ❤ vole 😊

[@LubovUg]

1:00 damn nature, your scary.

[@flatcapman]

The vole is cute and so is the weasel but the Owl drew my attention as She is playing a crane game with her talons being the crane to pick up her prize

[@lordnelson5385]

Just wanted to learn a little more about the holes popping up in my garden, well now I know why the local barn owl likes hanging out around here 🤣🤣

[@nicolehegarty4749]

I have a "pet" vole in my backyard lol 😆

[@MichealAfton-rx9pg]

my goody ahh thinking how tf they got a camera in the vole's home

[@karlbjorkquist7489]

I too wink when going after my fries.

[@beatpirate8]

how many cameras were set underground where the vole made tunnels? amazing thank you!

[@ZadenZane]

Do you think they added the fir branches just to make the little vole's house look more picturesque. And don't his feet freeze, wandering about on snow all day? PS they said the great grey owl is "the largest of her kind" but the largest owl in the world is (according to the internet) Blakiston’s Fish Owl - (Bubo blakistoni)

[@robweaver8872]

Not a single event in this film actually happened. All editing.

[@universegalaxyuniversegalaxy]

Well scary then .

[@touremuhammad5983]

This reminds me of BBC’s Planet Earth: The Hunt, except it was a Pine Marten instead of a weasel chasing the rodent, & there was no owl.

[@perry92964]

it will get to live for a little while longer, that weasel isnt going to give up that easy

[@foreverealm]

It is so precarious, to be a little vole. 💧

[@5mnz7fg]

3:11: Eagle owls are the largest owls.

[@bonnytexas6527]

Hmmm. And I thought the owl would be oh so amazed at catching the ermine . . .

[@THEBIGJL1234]

Bro got double teamed

[@Troy-ol5fk]

Voles are cute

[@walterbyrd8380]

It boggles my mind to wonder how they got these videos. Even if you knew, in advance, what was going to happen, it would be difficult to record.

[@이이-n4z8y]

Largest of her kind? Not quite

[@gin2x]

💕💕💕💕💕

[@sonicbaseballzoodreams]

That was close

[@zacharykeller7243]

pillow fort adventures

[@rebeccaburke9009]

Yigh. Run. ❤

[@senthilkumaran5255]

how did they film the owl's claws piercing in the snow when the hunt was improptu??! like how did they know to place the camera there exactly?

[@stephenfennell]

I think the vole is in a glass-sided cage. Some of its tunnels come up to the glass, so they can film the vole as it moves around its tunnels. The owl claw at 2:37 can be a claw from a stuffed owl that someone plunges in in front of the camera, inside the glass cage. You can play the video one frame at a time if you're using a keyboard, by pausing the video and then pressing fullstop ("period" in America) to go forward one frame, or comma to go back one frame. That way you can see that the owl's claw doesn't close at all, which I think proves it is not a real live owl.

[@t-rexstudioproductions781]

owl used Talon Grab but it missed! the wild vole fled

[@JimCvit]

This vole might have escaped this owl but the vole in my yard that’s been terrorizing me and digging tunnels wasn’t so lucky in escaping me today.

[@5mnz7fg]

Next time the owl may prey on the weasel...

[@facitenonvictimarum]

🙏 Pray for the owl babies and weasel babies that will have to go hungry now -- just because that selfish vole decided to live.

[@AngelusBrady]

Don't worry, another documentary showed the rest of the footage. The vole is killed by the weasel, fur ripped off, and turned into a blanket.

[@katielyb]

I thought for sure that vole was hit

[@이이-n4z8y]

I like how they mix three unrelated videos together to make it look like they are the same event.

[@DemonetisedZone]

And they just happened to have a camera at the spot where the vole takes cover? ..and camera was facing the right way? Its obvious this was edited from many hours of footage. Dont get me wrong it is still interesting, i just wish they would be more honest about how its made!

[@frankavenilla9668]

Catch the note at the end of the clip? "All creatures in this clip are paid actors, none of whom were harmed in its filming." 😄

[@DBSGEEK7]

Wish the music was mission impossible music for the vole. Would have been dramatic

[@nbanime25]

Nice script bro

[@joylynch5204]

The vole looks like a cross between a rat and hamster

[@indyreno2933]

Except, voles are classified under the hamster family.

[@Junketh71]

Isn’t the eagle owl the biggest modern owl, period?

[@AngelusBrady]

I've seen weird standards when it comes to size. Eagle-Owls are the biggest in terms of mass/weight. But Great Grey Owls are longer from head to tail.

[@macadoo2530]

The Harpy Eagle is a pretty incredible specimen.

[@davidviner5783]

Illustrative but possibly fake. No frames with vole and owl together.

[@AngelusBrady]

Of course I've seen footage of this clip in a different documentary that shows what happens later. The vole escapes the owl but is then killed by the weasel. The weasel rips the vole's fur off and uses it as a makeshift blanket to keep itself warm during the winter.

[@pathologicaldoubt]

😱😱😱

[@andytjhin7670]

😀😀

[@lrj3000]

Serious clickbait PBS, shame

[@bradjohnson7784]

This is cool but so fake at the same time

[@WanderTheNomad]

Seeing all the predators going after voles makes me wanna catch and eat one myself

[@SetaSayin]

I wonder how an owl would taste like