This Family Can Kill a Crocodile and Even a Bear

[@Lobo-cg9mv]

Imagine the first person that saw a small creature 1vs1 a bear and winning. No one wouldn't believe him back in the village

[@ruggu]

first of all there is no fucking way on earth that thing is winning against bear and second the time when first person saw a group killing bear, humans werent walking alone

[@spidyonurwall]

@@ruggu calm down he never said that would happen he’s just saying imagine like damn

[@TickIsDaBomb]

@@ruggu Grammar 🤓

[@ruggu]

@@TickIsDaBomb grammar my booty u know what i meant

[@TickIsDaBomb]

@@ruggu we got a chatterbox on our hands. 🤪

[@lutriula]

That was such a great video! Mustelids are my favorite group of animals because I used to have ferrets growing up. Altho domesticated, they have very weird way of bonding with humans. Just as they play rough with each other, they do it with humans to. No matter if it's their family or guests, blood is easily drawn. But they also always have one human whom they will never bite. In play they would just pretend like they're going to but never will. No matter how scared or uncomfortable they would be (talking about vet visits) that would be the one human who never needed thick protective glooves. I had 7 ferrets, knew a few more, and only 1 didn't feel the need for violence, like you'd expect from a pet.

[@daniell1483]

So yes, Mustelids are an impressive group of animals, but I think the video is rather deceptive about their supposed dominance in the wild. Taking the wolverine for example, it is a scavenger primarily, not a predator. The gray wolf is its number one predator, also being killed by both black bears, grizzlies, and cougars. The weasel family has an impressive ability to compete with animals larger than itself, but it is pure hyperbole to imply that this family is essentially an entire genus of top order predators.

[@vanierstreetcats4929]

I run a cat rescue in Ontario, Canada and 3 years ago on the property I live on suddenly all of the groundhogs were a mess, they had broken legs, and they had injuries I couldn't figure out. I live in an area of my city that is in greenspace its not unusual to have close-up personal relationships with the wildlife as the wild buns use my backyard to hutch kits and the kits were just dead in the hutches...it was mother nature but at the same time I was seriously concerned cause I couldn't figure out what was going on until... I use trail cams and set them up under the supervision of a licensed wildlife rehabber. What I got on the camera actually I want to emulate video titles here😁 "Shocked the Scientist" I captured a shot of a weasel species invasive to our area and found out that the weasels do like to PLAY with prey. The poor wee hogs were being trapped and attacked in their underground tunnels that led to our shed where they more or less lived. I gathered from the rehabber who supervised that the weasels like FRESH meat so they not necessarily play but injure the victim and keep the victim unable to defend themselves or relocate so that when its time to eat them they are like their own fresh meat storage container...you know I run animal rescue a lot of things don't get to me anymore but that information...yeah well 🤮 It was a crazy summer, I picked up a lot of dead bodies, it was a massacre and all of it was ONE weasel that we saw on my cams over and over and never trapped it was the weasel we actually wanted to trap and remove. Never happened once I picked up the bodies, trapped the injured hogs and we filled the tunnels and the hutches BAM no weasel since. Now I have a coyote that waits for the kits to run out of the hutches so he can pick them off like M&M's ... isn't mother nature charming?😒

[@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051]

Prey animal's get eaten !?!

[@vanierstreetcats4929]

@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 Yes they do and it's amazing the number of inner-city predators there are. And because one dumb human got a pet weasel and likely released it now there are invasive species in area's that there normally wouldn't be. What can I say predators are gonna prey.

[@Arctic_roach]

I live in Ontario Canada atm

[@vincentramirez6967]

​@@vanierstreetcats4929He was being sarcastic. But, you should post the videos you get on your trail cam. That would be awesome.

[@vanierstreetcats4929]

@@vincentramirez6967 oh I do realize it was sarcasm as I believe the person who I replied to understood mine lol

[@jonrunargislason1884]

What a fantastic job you are doing WATOP both educating and entertaining your plebs... Keep up the good work and I think this is your best vid to date ❤

[@shawnnelson1028]

I see a lot of weasels here in Alaska. My grandma used to tell me not to mess with them, or they will dig into my heart. Elders also told stories of whistling at northern lights and getting heads severed, for the lights to play soccer with. Long story short, Inuit tell their kids messed up stories.

[@MasterBlaster220]

Messed up people.

[@randym7961]

No worse than the stories told to children all over the world down through the ages. Think about Werewolves etc etc make weasels eating into your heart seem pretty tame.. Look at my post above , they likely came across a dead person in winter that a weasel had moved in to, more often than not there is some truth to stories like that ..

[@SassuWunnuOn]

and spotted hyena's closest relatives are mustelidaes a genome which includes all species from the weasels' family. if someone keeps ferrets at home and listen to their constant vocalizations then he can find out it resembles a hyena's laughter very much. also weasel's bite force is enormous for such a small animal. it comes from the proportions of weasel's skull where jaws constitutes the minority of skull's length, leaving the remaining area of long neurocranium for anchors of big jaw muscles. whole this structure acts as a lever, similarly to a tool called bolt cutters.

[@Trianglewitch.]

Hyenas belong to the feliformia suborder along with the cats they aren't related to otters

[@karamedley6229]

Mustelids are little badasses of Earth, my God their boldness and ruthlessness is incredible on a slightly scary level. Poor lynx, swans, and other creatures.

[@Abyz_]

I'm from brazil and I've even heard of otter families challenging jaguars

[@andrewler13theundeadwarrio51]

I love how u added the Dark Souls Death screen, I forgot to be active 1 month ago, the time your vid came out.

[@ronaldsantosjapan]

Thank you narrator for pronouncing cache correctly. Too many people these days wrongly say “CASHAY” for cache.

[@jacob.tudragens]

The Fabulous Honey Badger would be a great Marvel character! Like Wolverine, but in pink spandex!

[@StonerDeer]

My first full length video from you. Kept me hooked. Love the work you do and love seeing the animals. Your sense of humor keeps me laughing. Hope you are well

[@ahha6304]

Enjoy the video friends! man I miss when Steve still post this line

[@johnholmes6897]

I'm one of those wilderness whackos. Love extreme living . Extreme hunts, and fishing in wilderness areas. Ran into a wolverine 1 time. Sat in my jeep while it chewed thru my tires. I was pretty convinced it was going to chew thru the door. Lol

[@beccathib3656]

Hilarious story!🤤🤤🤤

[@humongousfungusamongus3871]

There are a slew of videos on the internet of people allowing their dogs to aggressively bark @ & attack wild animals. I feel no pity for anybody that allows their dogs to do so with deadly consequences to their dogs....NONE.

[@oshirockingham9655]

Nature is like a street fight, it's wonderfully unpredictable. And Mustelidae is the most unpredictable family of predators, they're full of aggression and will take on anything. One day you see a mongoose chase a group of notorious macaques and eat one of them, one day you saw a mongoose clear a pen of chickens, and one day you see a mongoose get eaten by chickens after a failed raid attempt.

[@Bobbb-f3i]

I used to hunt when a teenager with dogs and ferrets, I had a really cute little polecat that was so friendly with people but always wanted to fight my dogs and slept in the rabbits carcass after eating. They have no fear at all, the problem with hunting rabbit with them is they'd eat a kill and then sleep for a couple hours and we'd dig it up. It was a balance, if you toon it out hungry it would kill and eat, if you took it out after eating it wouldn't hunt(they don't kill indiscriminately like that in captivity, even when used for hunting and used to live food, fioxes do though) so we had to feed them a few hours before and let it sleep. You could get muzzles for them but I didn't like using it, I did have a ferret finder beacon on it though to dig it out. A lot of ferret hunters used nets over the rabbit setts, and I would if a farmer wanted a cull, but if I was hunting for food for my dogs and ferrets or to sell the food, I would have lurchers near the sett on quick release leashes and put the ferret in to scare them out for the dog but this polecat would always try to sneak past the sett and go for the dogs. It always let me catch it and push it back in but it amazed how it wanted to attack something dozens of times its size. Before I started working with farmers and gamekeepers I poached and a pal found a young stoat in a trapdoor tunnel trap that a farmer had set up around his pheasant roost and raised it as a ferret and it was a great worker and not at vicious and came to him after each hunt.

[@khounhongkeoxayachack6437]

We all love your video❤❤❤

[@elementaljones1542]

I subscribed to you!

[@khounhongkeoxayachack6437]

@@elementaljones1542 ty bro

[@elementaljones1542]

​@@khounhongkeoxayachack6437 You're Welcome!

[@ImNotVoid9]

Glad to see you still posting

[@yaeldragwyla8170]

A note on weasels "killing all the birds in the henhouse": Weasels love to catch, kill, and eat *rats*. When you find a weasel in the henhouse and blood all over, you can bet that weasel was going rats in there. Rats love to kill helpless birds, such as chickens confined in a cage. So if you find a weasel in there, very likely there were rats in there and the weasel went after the rats and killed it in there, hence all the blood.

[@randym7961]

If you look you can find videos of Weasels slaughtering chickens. What's worse is cats as they are bigger and can do more damage. You all too often hear people say animals just kill what they will eat and that is BS many animals especially weasels,cats etc will kill for the fun of it . A mountain Lion gets into a flock of sheep and will kill until it is too tired to kill any more . What's worse is House Cats, in North America birds and small animals here did not evolve to deal with these small cats and Billions are slaughtered every year by this invasive species ..

[@justinbellotti7838]

They use minx as rat exterminators. Infested farms can be cleared by 3 or 4 minx.

[@rogerdudra178]

I was blessed with seeing a great many of these weasels at Bridger Bowl skiing in southern Montana.

[@GreenPoint_one]

Wolverines called glutton gluton? In germany we call it "Vielfraß" meaning eats alot

[@nikiTricoteuse]

Imagine a country at the bottom of the world where the native fauna was almost exclusively birds and that, because there were no mammalian predators, many of them had lost the ability to fly and mostly nested on the ground. Now picture that same country a couple of hundred years after the colonisers introduced cats, dogs, weasels, stoats and ferrets. Here in Aotearoa/ New Zealand our native birds are being absolutely decimated by introduced predators. Some are feral cats but, the vast majority of damage is done by the mustelids. Interesting to learn that they have underground caches for prey because, conveniently for them kiwi nest in underground burrows and that would also explain why they decimate the entire burrow, kiwi, egg and all, often without eating any of it. If you're wondering why on earth anyone would be insane enough to introduce killing machines like them here, it was because the early white settlers had introduced rabbits as a source of easy food. The rabbits in their homelands, were kept in check by predators but, here they had NO natural predators and bred in their millions. The mustelids were introduced to take care of the rabbit problem. Sadly, they took almost no time at all to decide that, a bird sitting on its egg in a burrow, that not only had no natural defences against it and didn't even know it was a predator, was a MUCH easier target than something that would run away and or fight back. The rest as they say, is history.

[@Lobo-cg9mv]

Now imagine a 1vs1 between a honey badger and a Wolverine.

[@theoteddy9665]

wolverine is a bigger badger, crearly wolverine has few competitors but they would be tiger or a bear.. wolverine has also chemical weapons, so I would say wolverine is top G on land

[@yoselinjones1381]

Honey badger kills pythons it can take a few bites from it so I think honey badger btw it has gaint claws and also big chomps

[@EmpressOfExile206]

​@@yoselinjones1381You know the wolverines claws are just a big right? Except the wolverines claws are razor sharp and the honey badger has blunt claws lol Also, the wolverine can chew through and eat bone! The honey badger.. not so much😂

[@roastbeast3275]

theyd actually work together to defeat every army on earth

[@yomama0015]

giant otter vs. wolverine would be fun

[@jeremywanner4526]

Wolverine’s have been my favorite animal since I was a kid,before I ever discovered the X-men.

[@ivonsmith4255]

Excellent video about these wonderful creatures! BUT also absolutely hilarious narration! Just so funny and exactly how I would do it! And I'm funny!!! hahaha - Im joking but that was amazing! Thanks guys!!

[@sclark9011]

My wife is a honey badger.....she badgers me "honey mow the lawns" and "honey put the rubbish out"

[@cheesuscrust3755]

wouldn’t the creature called a “basilisk” in the video actually be called a cockatrice?

[@xenocid164]

Exactly thats what i kept thinking the cockatrice is the chicken and basilisk the snake

[@PennyPlant-fr1gd]

My late husband got me a Ferret for my birthday one year. I didn't want it. She scared me. He always got me gifts he wanted for himself.

[@deeespinal9666]

That eerie scream as it decended when he said "meet the etc" is the stuff nightmares are made of.

[@kendallkahl8725]

You should cover honey badgers, hog badgers, Skunks, African striped pole cats, Yellow throated Martens and the rest of the family of furry maniacs.

[@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135]

Out of all the years of hiking and hunting the great basin I have only seen one weasel and one wolverine. Both in Idaho. Neither bothered me but the weasel curiously checked me out. He looked like a misshapen squirrel.

[@cimbakahn]

I think all of these come from the same family: Weasels, Badgers, Otters, Ferrets, Martens, Minks, Wolverines / Stoats, Ermines, Polecats, Sables, Mongoose, skunks?, Fishers, Tayras, Ring Tailed Vontsira?, Fossa?.

[@MrNommerz]

Badgers, fishes, and wolverines have a serious rep in Canada. They do not give a fuck, they really are fearless.

[@glenjennett]

I don't know if they are part of the same family, but I feel like you should have included Honey Badgers and Tasmanian Devils in the video. It was informative for the ones you did talk about, though.

[@CLK-tq2eh]

Hi love your and I am 1 of the first comments😊

[@spidyonurwall]

The thumbnail kill me lol watop thank you for being at the top (yes I did that and I have no shame) ty for making my brain bigger than an ant love you man.

[@summergillis9962]

what a great job the creator our God did

[@XxxJALEBOBAHALxxX]

Wolverine enters the room Deadpool happened! ❤😅☠️

[@klaasdeboer8106]

As a Dutchman I had to get used to your way of speaking, but I do appreciate your content! And the Otter is making a comeback in the Netherlands. Would be fun if I get to see one around Amjsterdam!

[@curiouscatlabincgetsworrie7755]

"Weasels Ripped My Flesh" - The Mothers of Invention

[@ShadowThiefBakura]

In Germany the Wolverine is called Vielfraß which also means glutton :D

[@killercompy631]

Wolverines are just always on berserk mode i remember them from yakari i iften watched it as a kid and the wolverine rly terrified me i was rly scarred of wolverines as a kid and i now know i had every right to be

[@randym7961]

Dude no Cat just Fisher. Many years ago in the Black Hills of SD in late November I came across the carcass of a dead Doe Whitetail deer , She was frozen solid and I notice there were a couple holes of maybe a few inch across in her body. Looking at the closest hole I saw it was a tunnel into her body and when I looked at the second hole out popped a pissed off Weasel ! The little critter had made his meal into his home . The deer was up under a down tree so not noticeable to Magpies or Crows who would have called for Coyotes to come tear it open so they could eat. I stopped back a few times over the next couple weeks and it still had the little devil living in and eating the carcass .. Now the little monster didn't kill the deer she had likely been hit by a car on a road a quarter mile away and had crawled up under the tree and died . Kind of gruesome if you think about it living in your winter larder lol

[@BlackCappedChickadee]

Pop goes the weasel: Gore edition.

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

I've heard that these Honey Badgers, Wolverines, large snakes, lizards, crocodiles, big cats like jaguars, and even domesticated pets are eaten in some Asian countries. So sad! Humans are the ultimate notorious creatures who destroy everything, that includes their peers.

[@iminzayn5442]

Asia? Most Animal you've said don't even live in Asian country. 😆

[@NeovenatorGuy]

​@@iminzayn5442People specifically bring the animals listed with them to asia to eat them

[@NotTheOneAtAll]

Marvel definitively Logan the right moniker. Wolverines are vicious.

[@ParisTheGreat]

So basically weasels be stat padding like Westbrook out here?! Okay got it!😂😂😂

[@saragirma6577]

I don't care what anyone think they are cute and adorable.

[@ube-23s]

Ok, Then what?

[@saragirma6577]

POL protect them which I actually donate to animal protection lobbyist. The most dangerous animal is human. There are many people who see these animals as dangerous and pests and exterminate them. Trying to be smart ass in your safe space of social media.

[@tracepillar8382]

Marten is one of our national simbols. Used to be hunted for fur. But now it's protected and their numbers have skyrocketed. Our currency was Kuna before €. Which means marten. They are killer machines we have them in Cities now. They kill everything and are very agile and quick. And beautiful.

[@vincentsun886]

Caimans cannot be taken as alligators. Most Caimans are about strong as most monitor lizards, quite some of them are even weaker than Komodo Dragons. Giant otters don't stand a chance against black caimans (who both were excluded from the caiman family and casually prey on other caimans), who occasionally kill jaguars.

[@jeffmays1755]

I have a friend, who work in the L.A zoo, and she was the wolverine handlers. She told me they had a great relationship.

[@celtic889]

Yeah no put any of them up against a Kodiak, Polar bear or a nile/saltwater croc and they are getting clapped

[@fredford7642]

Good video! Thank you!

[@rogerdudra178]

I saw a wolverine once in Glacier Park country. Maybe 1/4 mile away, that was close enough.

[@samwilliams1142]

You completely missed honey badger and north American badger.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

16:20 That's not what begs the question means. It begs THE question, just one. Is your argument circular, does the premise contain the proof?

[@dwightbanks8202]

What about the Honey Badger? They fight lions and leopards! 😮

[@JosueLorenzo-u9o]

Ooo and watop you can make a video about the faster digger like aardvark and american badger

[@totallynotdsl8507]

Didn't talk about the honeybadgers that survived multiple lions, am sad ;-;

[@thefinn2018]

ppl mistake caimans with crocs

[@brox2098]

The fact that the lynx and bears lost in this video had my jaw on the floor

[@migueldemaria3830]

new fear unlocked: being attacked by a pack of giant otters

[@josephde-zordi7324]

so well presented and engaging, never even heard of fisher cats

[@nashsigmon6004]

Weasels are the worst for farmers, I had a weasel kill my entire chicken coop in one night; it's so small it can enter through chicken wire and get inside. They will slice the chickens to pieces, they do it for sport.

[@animegamer5089]

fav chanel

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

Gustav the Granddad Crocodile Vs. one Ganges otter. Who would win?

[@awartank]

Hmm.. Wondering why the honey badger didn't make the list. Too docile, mayhaps.

[@MrMojitoguru]

Everyone needs to learn Weird Al's "Weasel Stomping Day!" song.

[@noelhutchins7366]

I purposely sought-out KZbin News-casts reporting rodent-plagues, Australia, NYC, Manhattan, Long-Island, and anywhere a weasel-family natively inhabits; to comment a suggestion: fostering a big-group of native-species in the infestation-zone to just lay-waste to the pests and reach equilibrium. Fostering means not poisoning them, snapping them in traps, or letting someone make hicks panic over them existing.

[@HuddledEragon]

Now imagine if a Typhlosion was real and just imagine how dangerous it would be to go near one because if you think about a Typhlosion it's a part of this animal species, basically it would be a human size fire breathing Wolverine, Honey Badger, Weasel or Mustelids that would be on top of the food chain to be the number one apex predator to ever live.

[@rodagrail3231]

Very interesting...thank you.

[@chreeess]

Wolverines are some of my faves, they are so cute and ferocious! Also the wolverine and goat head video is a few years old! (;

[@julianwells4006]

missed out Honey Badgers

[@garygilliam3236]

Great job Little Guys!

[@matthewsecord7641]

Don't think a wolverine ever ate a moose whole. But despite being absolutely adorable looking, they are stupidly tough.

[@alexstone7594]

'They must be 'otter" their minds".

[@Khigha87]

You mean to tell me, post covid, that there's technology to vaccinate via candy!?

[@Cwmira453]

It's said that the Dobhar Chu, a particularly agressive irish cryptid, is a giant otter.

[@Annathroy]

The Marten aswell

[@fredyrodriguez8881]

Imagine seeing a giant basilisk being defeated by a small weasel

[@xo9152]

This information is otterly rewarding to watch

[@deadmanlyndon]

actually its the big boy that the basilisk fears and that's big bro, honey badger

[@amgdeg4897]

4:15 "people around that time had no grasp on the laws of physics" Tell that with a straight face to the Quran which has verses like this : "And He [Allah] is the One Who created the day and the night, the sun and the moon-each travelling in an orbit" 21:33 The Quran has been persevered for more than a thousand years, no one could have added that verse in when The sun orbit was discovered, leading me to claim that only allah is the creator of there universe

[@jekku4688]

Well this is terrifying. And makes Monty Python's "white fluffy bunnies" not so far fetched.

[@Raz.C]

So what you're saying (@ 1:35 ish) is - Weasellian Jiu jitsu is the deadliest form of martial arts, right? Or is Krav Ma-Wolverine more deadly?

[@fredbays]

the wolverine at one time roamed as far south as the mason Dixson line. It was the white man with the fire arm that forced them out of USA. U will still find some in Norther most USA but not many. The native Ams prized there fur for cowling on winter head gear.

[@MaximumPrime5908]

Have you made a video about Tasmanian Tigers

[@cygnustsp]

Awesome. Totally awesome.

[@mauveferret7076]

I'm watching this and looking at my lazy AF "I think I'm allergic to tapwater" catsnakes passed out on a blanket.. Ma dancing little murder meece. 💜

[@JosueLorenzo-u9o]

Good but i need a american badger this animal can dig super fast and figth with bears wolfs cougar even grizzly bear I love thid channel

[@arjuntoon]

The duck in the middle of the boat bro 💀😂

[@bebemo6178]

Imagine the first person saw a small creature 1vs1 a bear and winning. No one would believe him back to the village

[@rogersmith8339]

They are phenomenally clever animals as well as fierce.

[@Thedoug369]

Weasels are definitely bloodthirsty little bastards, but, let's give credit where credit is due, the Honey Badger is the true savage of the mustelids.

[@Scavenger_4_Tech]

4:39 this is such an awesomely told story so far

[@yagamijubei28]

i saw a video about the weasel during the winter, it gains a coat called ermine, its some scary camouflage. the prey was in the snow and it was like something invisible grabbed it. then i saw the black on its tail.

[@kittty2005]

And if you wound a wolverine it will track you down and ambush you and kill you, and if you get away, don't ever go back to it's territory, when it gets your sent after you return you're doomed, it never forgets, I thought badgers ,otters, skunks and ferrets were part of the list too.

[@shiftyferret9654]

Y i k e s Just about everything about wolverines is extremely overblown or just wrong. Wolverines are shy, they are afraid of bears and wolf packs. (The wolverine was fighting a coyote, not a wolf btw). They are absolutely afraid of us. They -appear- fearless in a fight as a defense. Become bombastic and terrifying. Both the bear and the wolverine know the bear could kill it, but it will risk substantial damage in the process. A predator with a broken jaw? Dead. So often the larger predator will back down. IF a wolverine can avoid an encounter all together, they will ghost. They are remarkably good at being elusive.