Tristan da Cunha - the Monster Mice of Gough Island

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@ZemplinTemplar 8 жыл бұрын

I hope Gough Island will get a rodent-eradication project like the Auckland Islands or Hawadax Island near Alaska had. They proved very successful, despite their goals seemingly daunting at first. When they were initiated, people apparently questioned whether a 100 or 200 year old invasive population of rodents on such remote islands can be destroyed at all. But it worked, thankfully ! IIRC, Stewart Island to the south of New Zealand was also once overrun with rodents, but they got rid of them a few decades ago after starting the preparatory phase of making the island a haven for rare or endemic NZ bird species that weren't doing so well on the mainland. It's equally fascinating and scary how even harmless-looking house mice can start taking on characteristics of island gigantism if they've lived long enough in an environment where the native wildlife has no defensive instincts against them and there are no native predators either. The ones in this video are truly overgrown and fearless. A bad sign when it comes to an invasive species. I think I've read Tristan once had its endemic species of moorhen as well, but it went extinct. Maybe aside from rodent eradication, the Gough Island moorhen species could also be protected by establishing a small backup population on Tristan ? Here's hoping funds and awareness can be raised to get a mice removal project started. I might contribute to it financially once it gets greenlit.

@HDN1956 6 жыл бұрын

After the success in South Georgia an eradication program for Gough Isl. starts March 2019 when the MV "Agulhas II" brings a team on the island.

@voidwalker3008 4 жыл бұрын

Zemplin Castellan put a multi catch mouse trap on that island and problem solve trap emptied by mice eating each other

@Airsix6six Жыл бұрын

This is something that cannot be undone as any moves made that sound like a good idea could end up worsening the situation considering these birds do not defend them selfs that makes them prey to 99% of other creatures even those that would never consider them as prey so it'd be best to just let the situation be as is and just be happy for the rats for being able to live peacefully finally where anywhere else they'd be the prey so I don't feel bad for these birds since they refuse to do a dam thing about their problems they'll go extinct due to being how they are and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I'm just happy the rats can finally call a place safe for them selfs since they always get attacked by everything and never had a place to feel at home and now people wanna hurt the rats for just wanting to be happy for once and not hunted endlessly by everything else. Just let the rats have the place they are cute and great little critters that people consider vermin cause history has given them a hard time. I'm so happy to see the rats not being hunted and killed for once but no one else seems to care cause they find them ugly or a nuisance and just like the birds cause they are pretty but they are dumb and boring and deserve what they get after all if something refuses to help it's self why should we have to do everything for it to survive it'll just die out eventually when people get tired of having to do 99% of the things it should do for it's self atleast the rats are trying to do something with their life's.

@YnseSchaap 8 жыл бұрын

Where do I apply for a mouse catcher job ?

@AfricanFlightStar 6 күн бұрын

Amazing!!! Thank you for making this amazing documentary and putting it up for us all to be able to enjoy.

@Ramonerdna 7 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who finds those birds beautiful on an other-worldly level? Theres just something about the hue that looks unreal. Poor birds don't seem very smart. But they look beautiful.

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

Hunting them is literally not an option we have to poison them all in order to eradicate them . The population of albatross on gorge Island is about 8 million and It is decreasing by 2 million each year because their eggs and chicks literally are being eaten alive by mega mice . At this rate in the coming 5 to 6 years albatross sea birds will be extinct from Gourgh Island.

@johnv7215 3 жыл бұрын

If you poison them it will contaminate the island. Mass trapping would slow it down.

@Airsix6six Жыл бұрын

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

@@rebeccaanderson5626 rats can be eradicated successfully similar to other islands .

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

@@Airsix6six rats can be eradicated successfully similar to other islands .

@jamesashcroft8170 6 жыл бұрын

There is a plan in effect at the moment. A ship will take 2 helicopters out, and they will spread a bunch of pellets over the island. The pellets contain an anticoagulant which kills the mice in 24 hours. The birds don't even need to leave, as it is probably harmless to them, and even if it isn't the birds don't eat cereal pellets anyway.

@johnschofield2818 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting James. Warfarin?

@jamesashcroft8170 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, I'll need to look up the article again.

@ragingbork2701 4 жыл бұрын

Has there been any updates on the mouse problem on the island?

@levison7935 3 жыл бұрын

It was postponed last year due to Covid but they are resuming mid-year.

@zerok9238 2 жыл бұрын

@@levison7935 they failed. Last year, they used helicopters to drop grain containing rat bait onto the island. The program was funded up to £ 9.2 million, but by the end of 2021 it was judged as a failure

@klaasdeboer8106 2 жыл бұрын

@@zerok9238 It is allready hard to eradicate mice in one singe house, let alone an entire island, they are not as smart as rats, but when they see and smell a sick mouse and smell what it has eaten, they will probably not eat the bait.

@faridmuslim7415 2 жыл бұрын

Thats why i hate Jerry

@erikm8372 2 жыл бұрын

They did achieve it, albeit on a couple other islands. So, it is possible. They've also come to like, 95% success rate in other places, too. Poison may not be the best choice, as it can be somewhat contaminating to the environment... they need to construct a larger trap of some sort, almost like those circular fenced traps used for wild hogs, but a smaller version. They place food inside, but it doesn't immediately trigger the trap with one animal. Someone, like a ranger or worker, will watch via a livestream/trail cam, and be notified whenever animals are present in or around the trap... more importantly, they leave the trap open, undisturbed and with bait, for a week to get the target animals used to it - as a safe food source. They'll be easily spooked if it goes off the first time and never return. After they start associating the trap as a safe place, with food, hopefully they start to redirect their appetite away from birds; then, once a sufficient group is inside, the person watching on a live stream locks the trap around them, alive, and then they are dispatched.

@TopLob Жыл бұрын

It's so weird. I was on google earth, spun it around and ended up in the middle of the ocean. Then I found the first island I could see and looked it up. And I find that there's a manmade disaster going on on this completely deserted island in the middle of nowhere.

@harekrishnajairam 5 ай бұрын

You know humans and our inventions are the only hope for life to survive beyond this planet's life. It's going to get swallowed by the sun someday.

@zergu-yf3gd 2 ай бұрын

@@harekrishnajairam no it isnt stop believing everything you are told

@Ramonerdna 7 жыл бұрын

People suggesting cats and owls seem to be ignoring the fact that cats and owls are more likely to eat the birds than to chase the mice. The birds would make a much larger meals and are obviously easy targets.

@sashawalls9693 6 жыл бұрын

Yep, it was just make it more worst introducing another invasive species too take out the other one its better to take off the birds off the island then plant baits (like they are gonna do next year).

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

happened on other islands

@nicolasjochem1814 2 жыл бұрын

This video is really well done :) I'm a fan now

@eniomachadocruz3347 2 жыл бұрын

Magnifico video, pena que foi muito curto,,

@videovoer8130 9 ай бұрын

While the rodent eradication project is undergoing, could there be a smaller island being built next to Gough Island where birds can nestle without threat of predators?

@whiterabbit2786 8 жыл бұрын

How do the penguins get to the shore if it is so rocky and steep?

@johnschofield2818 6 жыл бұрын

They're "rock hoppers", Andrew.

@TheGrmany69 8 жыл бұрын

As the chicks don't move from their nest you only have to set albatross safe mice traps around them, it should be easy, controlling the main parts where mice lives as shrub fields, as their food resources are low identify them would help.

@andrewhall7930 3 жыл бұрын

You'd need to set thousands upon thousands of traps. other than that, it would be easy.

@andrewhall7930 3 жыл бұрын

So Gough's peak is known as Edinburrah Peak, and Tristan's town is called Edinburrah of the 7 seas. Curious how there is such an influence of Scottish names.

@erikm8372 2 жыл бұрын

...Edinburgh? Because many of the islanders have Scottish ancestry, and some of the earliest humans on the island were Scottish themselves...maybe? Just a guess. Lol.

@erikm8372 2 жыл бұрын

I'd Wikipedia or google it.

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

its portuguese

@Ragman205 2 жыл бұрын

Please be warned: this video contains graphic and disturbing imagery.

@gillianchillman-black2857 7 жыл бұрын

wow..I'd never heard of these islands!

@nadinebrown7644 5 жыл бұрын

Pete Marra didnt mention these Islands huh? I bet he didn't mention the Marion Islands.

@sammedic 4 жыл бұрын

Posing for photo with Albatros .... How the Woman filming crew grasping the beaks of an adult Albatros and stretching the wing widely & smiling 6:18

@Analyseis Жыл бұрын

look at 1:02 i discovered something swimming on the bottom, right behind the "elevator"... its maybe a seal

@klaasdeboer8106 2 жыл бұрын

The monster mice themselves are allso a unique species evolved on an island, under unique circumstances. Maybe it is better to kill them, but they are a unique species, can would they mate with normal mice?

@grahamnicholson6567 3 жыл бұрын

can't hear a bloody thing for the inane music sometimes

@RonaldBarone 7 жыл бұрын

They can use trap cages. If they really want to eliminate them, just install like 50 cages ( specially designed to catch mice). They can drown them, very simple, no need for new animals to kill them, no need to use pesticides.

@Lucidfilth 7 жыл бұрын

RonaldBarone Mice are smart, they will figure out eventually the traps are dangerous. They have to think of something different, wipe the mice from the island. Poison puts other animals at risk.

@gslep11 6 жыл бұрын

They announced that are going to drop poison bait to kill the mice in 2019. Before this they will collect birds they believe will eat the bait and move them temporarily into bird sanctuaries. Its the only effective method other than DNA reengineering which isn't ready yet

@Airsix6six Жыл бұрын

I love these rats so much im glad they finally aren't being hunted for once they deserve it for all the shit we humans and other animals give them honestly they have it the hardest of any species and never can catch a break from anyone but no one ever thinks of it that way they just see them as ugly vermin that have no use to us even tho rats save thousands of people each year from wrecks and accidents and cave ins due to bombs and save bomb victims cause of their smell ability and how they can foretell catastrophe ahead of time. Quit hating on them people they have the world against them yet no one ever wants to help the little guy anymore they just wanna piggy back off the strong cause they are too weak to help them selfs but these little dudes need no one to piggy back off of and they make us look weak cause they are so tiny yet brave and strong.

@CC_Th1rst 8 жыл бұрын

Those are some beautiful birds. Since humans introduced the mice there with ships, then it's our responsibility to remove them, in order to protect the native species. The birds do not possess any defense mechanisms? Cool. Then plant some obvious mouse traps right next to the nests of the birds and get the infection under control.

@DoomFinger511 8 жыл бұрын

That's a heck of an undertaking consider there only seems to be a dozen people trying to take care of an entire island.

@sashawalls9693 6 жыл бұрын

Nope they don't due to them evolving with no natural predators on the island they pretty much evolved defenseless.

@TheGrowCave 3 жыл бұрын

that would cost millions of dollar and not help what so ever.

@wackadakka3134 4 ай бұрын

they had a similar problem on south georgia and successfully dealt with it .

@anthonystitt7015 3 жыл бұрын

I've been there. An OK place.

@wolfnaf582 6 жыл бұрын

Gostei muito desse vídeo

@johnschofield2818 6 жыл бұрын

Sim, muy bom.

@cc22oo99 5 жыл бұрын

Show de bola

@c0t556 8 жыл бұрын

How did mice get onto that island?

@gslep11 6 жыл бұрын

19th century sailor ships

@quintinrobertson1843 8 жыл бұрын

I have been to Gough Island on a number of occasions. You should mention the various amounts of night bird species that only fly in the dark. I have never see this anywhere else. The mice are a big problem.

@whiterabbit2786 8 жыл бұрын

How do the penguins get to the shore to feed?

@quintinrobertson1843 8 жыл бұрын

Most of the penguins breed on low rocky areas, I think they called Macaroni penguins and only come certain months of the year. They also make their way to higher ground if there is possible grassy verge or access to good places.

@Goooogle 7 жыл бұрын

So you've actually been there? That's awesome!! What do you do for a living? I would like to travel the world when I'm older

@teddymills1 5 жыл бұрын

Tristan is one of the remotest places on earth and Gough even more remote than Tristan. You must be working at that weather station. Awesome.

@TerrainOfficial Жыл бұрын

Hi, hello, I read its prohibited for the visitors / tourists, were you a part of the SANAP team or what?

@kimp.dr.n2652 7 жыл бұрын

Im amused by how many people are using mices instead of the correct word mice.

@larryg1902 3 жыл бұрын

You’re easily amused

@geefreck 4 жыл бұрын

Is there an animal that eats mice exclusively, and indifferent to the birds themselves?

@PaulLemars01 3 жыл бұрын

Humans.

@geefreck 3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulLemars01 Humans eat mice exclusively, and are indifferent to birds? ... Let's assume that's true. We release tribes of homo sapians onto the islands. They eat all the mice, but leave the birds alone. When the mice are gone, the humans themselves on the island die off due to eating mice exclusively. Makes perfect sense 👍

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

@timjones1583 7 жыл бұрын

look on KZbin for mouse and rat traps, very effective. or bring rat terrier dogs, they can be trained to leave the birds alone

@igorvairikh7203 6 жыл бұрын

Как туда попасть ?

@patrooney2283 7 жыл бұрын

they need to bring in rat dogs, then they can be removed. Bringing in wild animals may just create another problem. I have seen rat dogs do a number on vermim.

@kaikai9201 3 жыл бұрын

Then youd be killing the mices.

@ashleyjacques7480 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaikai9201 yea the mice are invasive. They came from ships visiting the island.

@Airsix6six Жыл бұрын

@ias400 6 жыл бұрын

Poison the mice? Most of the native animals; seals, penguins and the albatrosses themselves do not feed on land so would be unaffected. You could avoid harm to the moor hens by scattering the poison pellets in the albatross nesting area. There has to be something wrong with this idea, or I'm sure it would have already happened, but I can't quite figure out what the problem is.

@sashawalls9693 6 жыл бұрын

They are gonna removed the birds from the island first then plant baits.

@ias400 6 жыл бұрын

Which birds? I don't see that the seabirds are a real problem, just wait for breeding season to end, and they will leave of their own accord. The moor hens on the other hand . . . they certainly can't fly away. If they gather them up, what will they do with them? I still think this strategy will depend on the careful placement of the poisoned bait.

@sashawalls9693 6 жыл бұрын

Not by that i mean they are gonna remove them like put them in a bird sanctuary or rehab whatever you call it till the mouse eradication is over.

@jamesashcroft8170 6 жыл бұрын

@HInc7647 6 жыл бұрын

What is more shocking is that they have known about this problem since 2001 and still have done nothing about.

@nadinebrown7644 5 жыл бұрын

Too busy hating and vilafying cats, you know the most natural biological rodent exterminator

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

@healthinspector4827 4 жыл бұрын

Just tell to the chinese that those mice have some medical property of and they will be wipe out in matter of months.

@unpopuIaropinion 3 жыл бұрын

you are so smart westerner arent you ?

@bwghall1 3 жыл бұрын

Is Chris Packham doing anything to help with his knowledge and connections, anyone?

@ravoniesravenshir3926 2 жыл бұрын

I thought when you said "Monster Mice" i was imagining R.O.U.S.'s or Rodents Of Unusual Size. No they are just punk house mice... they should set up some grain barrels around the island and see what they catch.

@zerok9238 2 жыл бұрын

In 2021, RSPB used helicopters to drop grain containing rat bait onto the island. The program was funded up to £ 9.2 million, but by the end of 2021 it was judged as a failure.

@LeonCoretz 7 жыл бұрын

Everyone wants to bring cats. Does no one realize that the cats would also hunt the birds? And, clearly, few have learned the lessons of history: whenever humans introduce a new species, it invariably screws up the local ecosystem. Even when the introduction is intentional, it typically causes other problems that are just as bad or worse than the original. That said, I think a study should be conducted introducing a small number of neutered felines, maybe a dozen or a score, and see what effect they have. Also I'm curious; how are the birds not capable of feeling pain? Even if they don't have the instinct to perceive threat, you would think they would react to the pain of being bitten... eaten.

@sashawalls9693 6 жыл бұрын

León Coretz The birds can feel pain its that they evolved on a island where there's no natural predators so they evolved defenseless but your statement is true introducing another invasive species would not help another invasive infestation the only thing you can really can do is either take the birds off the island and plant baits(which they are planning to do next year) or kill off all the mice on that island.

@ideamaker 7 жыл бұрын

Here's an idea, put all the birds you can find in a zoo temporarily, then unleash a pack of house cats on the island and your mouse problem is solved, afterwards collect all the cats and return all of the birds, the end!!!

@gslep11 6 жыл бұрын

They are going to drop poison bait to kill the mice in 2019. Before this they will collect birds they believe will eat the bait and move them temporarily into bird sanctuaries as you mentioned

@zxmrmayhemxz8191 6 жыл бұрын

No, they need to introduce owls and weasels to island, especially the weasel who has a rapid metabolism, just 4 of those small mammals would single handedly bring those mice populations down to controllable numbers.

@Wasserkaktus 6 жыл бұрын

Do you realize how many birds there are, and how sensitive they would be to that kind of stress?

@Wasserkaktus 6 жыл бұрын

@@zxmrmayhemxz8191 The weasels would probably just go after the birds, since they are easier prey. The only two solutions are poisoning the mice, or developing some sort of AI-programmed robots who can and will only kill mice.

@zxmrmayhemxz8191 6 жыл бұрын

@@Wasserkaktus for the type of weasels I'm talking about are specialized mice killers naturally.

@Goooogle 7 жыл бұрын

Are there any news regarding the elimination of mice?

@gslep11 6 жыл бұрын

They announced that are going to drop poison bait to kill the mice in 2019. Before this they will collect birds they believe will eat the bait and move them temporarily into bird sanctuaries.

@sammedic 4 жыл бұрын

Hundreds of mice, rats come in Ship with flooding/ crowding film crews each year who flood on the island during breeding season

@chrisdickinson1762 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

@quistan2 6 жыл бұрын

"The crane of fun."

@Kalle1854 8 жыл бұрын

is there no posibility to hunt down the mices?

@redfernexpeditions 8 жыл бұрын

+Kalle1854 - Yes, there are proposals being considered to eradicate the mice with poison. This would be very important to undertake to safeguard the millions of seabirds on Gough Island for the future. Since many unique bird species and invertebrates occur on Gough, the rodent eradication programme is very important to support!

@CC_Th1rst 8 жыл бұрын

If those birds don't care about the presence of people (like how that guy was just sitting next to one in the video), then just plant an extremely alluring trap right next to some birds' nests to kill large portions of the mice population.

@RonaldBarone 7 жыл бұрын

I believe they shouldn't use poison, in Brazil we use a very environment-friendly solution. We use cages to trap the mice. It works very well. And you can drown them in the ocean. They will die, so you throw them away in the ocean get the cages to hunt more.

@jamesashcroft8170 6 жыл бұрын

@johnschofield2818 6 жыл бұрын

@The Guru of Kang nes soos skilpaadjies, né? ;-)

@robertjensen1048 6 жыл бұрын

I kinda miss the days when there were still thousands of unexplored spots on the planet. Today, humans seem obsessed at filming every fucking acre.

@fritzjagr5121 4 жыл бұрын

I really wanna go out to that island with my air rifle and stake out there, shooting every mouse I see. It really does make a huge difference. When I first moved to my house, the area was filled with invasive rats, mice, squirrels, and domestic cats. I started to feed birds, and when I see these invasive predators skulking about, waiting to kill baby birds in the spring, I target them and shoot 'em all! It's been two years, and the native songbird population has bounced back, and I've built feeding stations and homes for them to help them with habitat loss (perpetrated by humans). No more cats and rats and squirrels raiding nests and killing native birds has made a visible difference, and they flourish in the habitat they were meant to have, free from the perils of these vicious, invasive predators.

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

Do you understand that this is an entire Island? Hunting them is literally not an option we have to poison them all in order to eradicate them . The population of albatross on gorge Island is about 8 million and It is decreasing by 2 million each year because their eggs and chicks literally are being eaten alive by mega mice . At this rate in the coming 5 to 6 years albatross sea birds will be extinct from Gourgh Island.

@riskhai7426 3 жыл бұрын

Chunha is the hindi word for mouse

@andrewwebster2598 4 жыл бұрын

It’s so sad

@euclideszoto997 5 жыл бұрын

Just litter the island with poison laced chocolate. End of mice problem.

@emerica4u 5 жыл бұрын

so weird, the atlantic yellow nose looks animated.

@viajero435 5 жыл бұрын

Que piensan hacer para killer al mices los próximos que corren dangerous os de human and9 people

@MrJJackFLASH 6 жыл бұрын

It will take a few decades to eradicate the mice.

@sashawalls9693 6 жыл бұрын

Well they are gonna take the birds off the island and plant baits.

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

@avimae4225 6 жыл бұрын

Who is going to collect the dead mice bodies?

@187SicknesS 6 жыл бұрын

So many meeces

@romankraner1288 8 жыл бұрын

horribly mices...bring there barn owls

@TheGrmany69 8 жыл бұрын

that's worse

@microkosrae 7 жыл бұрын

no no no much worse!!

@Ramonerdna 7 жыл бұрын

Owls eat other birds so...they're more likely to kill the albatrosses than the rats are

@smithkelsey9293 6 жыл бұрын

Bring in a few Stoats.

@nickbrown6457 3 жыл бұрын

Great videos mate, I absolutely love your content. But wearing the same blue shirt in every one? And the blue shirt looking really dirty in some of your videos! I don't know why you don't buy a couple of new shirts to wear, or maybe wash the blue one a bit more often.

@reycomojares8083 6 жыл бұрын

How sad

@kimarleyferguson4656 3 жыл бұрын

Gough island is apart of africa

@raymondleggs5508 5 жыл бұрын

take all the birds away and move them to another island then blast the island to crumbles then burn it then nuke it from orbit 6 times

@jeffryhammel3035 4 жыл бұрын

I do think you're being funny.

@KingOfAllAnimals 8 жыл бұрын

poison grain scattered will take out the mice and not harm the sea birds.

@jamesashcroft8170 6 жыл бұрын

That's the idea. The plan is underway to finish in 2020 I think.

@mickyparuch926 8 жыл бұрын

put sterile snakes on the island to wipe out the mice? lmao, mabe not, but the point im trying to make, is that there must be some creative way to save this species, what a beauty.

@klaasdeboer8106 5 жыл бұрын

Reptiles are not very effective they eat one fat mouse and go to sleep for ages.

@raymondleggs5508 5 жыл бұрын

mysteriously pulls up with a ship full of hungry cats

@maszlagma 3 жыл бұрын

Lol that would probably worsen the situation, house-cats kill millions of birds on mainlands causing harm to local endangered bird population around the globe

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

@imaginehydreigons5377 4 жыл бұрын

I still dont understand why they dont just send in cats. Cat's smell and presence is enough to repel mice. Yes cats do pose a threat against the birds but cats dont reproduce like mice.

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

Because the cats will eat the birds . This is a horrible horrible idea You should never ever introduce an alien species into an environment. Also know that so given the chance cats literally throw devastation on entire ecosystems look what happened at Macquarie Island

@zj1710 7 жыл бұрын

Put 2 male snakes. Then they will compete who gets mice the most.

@Bulbagaba992 5 жыл бұрын

These birds should learn to adapt or they’ll be wiped out in a decade or two.

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

At this stage Hunting them is literally not an option we have to poison them all in order to eradicate them . The population of albatross on gorge Island is about 8 million and It is decreasing by 2 million each year because their eggs and chicks literally are being eaten alive by mega mice . At this rate in the coming 5 to 6 years albatross sea birds will be extinct from Gourgh Island.

@Bulbagaba992 3 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccaanderson5626 that’s very alarming. I wonder what’s the status now? Is there an improvement or is it still worrisome?

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

@@Bulbagaba992 The situation is even worse now especially because these mice have evolved over a period of two centuries to grow in body size by about 50% as compared to a normal house mice . The government had planned to start Rat radication campaign by dropping poison pellets but now that thing has been postponed for about an year because of covid . Considering the fact that eradication itself takes about 1 year . The population of Albatross sea birds is expected to decline by 4 million in the next two years before the project is completed .

@kendacywiggins3776 4 жыл бұрын

I think the mice want revenge or just eat it cause it’s called monster mice

@kjcarter100 6 жыл бұрын

Guys a cat isn't going to hunt a hawk, owl or Falcons

@nadinebrown7644 5 жыл бұрын

Cat will hunt mice,hawks will hunt cats. Cat haters have lost their collective minds. And this is what will happen if cats are eradicated.

@orvincastanares1439 7 жыл бұрын

They should add some small snake population to the island, big enough to kill mice but small enough to not harm the birds.

@Karakulimbro 8 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that the best way against small rodents are larger mammals. Someone rightly said that there need to think about cats. Also a good idea be to settle of owls. But apparently the government does not care about the island fauna.

@TheGrmany69 8 жыл бұрын

And also we could introduce foxes, they will eat all the chicks so the mice couldn't feed anymore. Do you understand the wrong logic, right?

@romankraner1288 7 жыл бұрын

i think,if owl,some small species,(Scops owls) they can catch small mices,but albatros chick are too big for them...scops owls need tree holes for reproduction...with artifical nest boxes can be regulate amount of predators

@patrooney2283 7 жыл бұрын

Karakulimbro : you have to be sure that whatever you bring in doesent cause more problems!!! Cats & owls would still kill the birds! !!

@michable100 6 жыл бұрын

too small? You would think that of mice too wouldnt you think? So no, introducing anything else from the mainland is a really bad idea and would only make things worse

@bas182341 6 жыл бұрын

Cats also hunt down the birds.......

@gerrynightingale9045 5 жыл бұрын

*I think it's wonderful to see these creatures obey God's mandate of "KILL AND EAT ONE ANOTHER TO LIVE"* ( *Although I wonder if He enjoys the screams of agony of the creature being eaten alive...surely it must be pleasing to Him since it takes considerable time before death occurs!* ) *How truly wondrous to bear witness to 'God's Mandate for All that Lives'...*

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

You fucking kidding me?

@RedRebel8 4 жыл бұрын

How about we get other birds to teach them to build nests in trees?

@tess764 4 жыл бұрын

Have you seen any tree in the island?

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

There aren't any trees 🌴 on Gourgh Island

@kazah86 7 жыл бұрын

we should invent robots that will hunt mice

@whatever04811 8 жыл бұрын

Just bring cats

@mistergrieves 8 жыл бұрын

The cats will go after the birds, too.

@alexkomarov5672 7 жыл бұрын

cats just not hunt mice but also bird too

@VoltageLP 7 жыл бұрын

There were almost 4000 cats on Marion Island, it took decades to eradicate them even using feline viruses

@ruthierogers3907 6 жыл бұрын

Or bring rat snake to eat the mice

@wannaknowit291 6 жыл бұрын

Mice would gorge on cats too at night......

@cristinapsaroudakis6821 3 жыл бұрын

why cant they bring some cats

@zergu-yf3gd 2 ай бұрын

cos they will eat all the birds

@MauricioForero 5 жыл бұрын

Snakes and owl is the solution. 🐍

@thepuirox1997 4 жыл бұрын

Snake can't survive to that climate

@rebeccaanderson5626 3 жыл бұрын

Nope

@wes2262 5 жыл бұрын

Put a Burmese Python on the island and see what happens.

@chasedbyvvolves9256 5 жыл бұрын

They'll eat chicks, too. A small but mouse eating snake could work better

@rossphillipgerard Жыл бұрын

Mice traps dude

@chrisholt7248 7 жыл бұрын

Those mice are out for blood!

@Snarky79 7 жыл бұрын

+Chris H:-- Time to roll out Jackdoggerdog whose experience, put to solution, would give those chicks half a fighting chance.

@nadinebrown7644 5 жыл бұрын

@@Snarky79dogs aren't effective against rats. You know why? Dogs can't go where rats can.

@jonminnella4157 4 жыл бұрын

introduction of foxes and coyote might solve the problem

@cintsastorychannel7898 Жыл бұрын

They just need 100 neutered cats problem solved

@laorzales5085 6 жыл бұрын

maybe small non venomous snakes?

@nadinebrown7644 5 жыл бұрын

Snakes are too slow to kill mice effectively.

@Yes.no.maybe.so. 3 жыл бұрын

when there's more then one mice its called meece hello

@Mokinono45 6 жыл бұрын

Mice killing the birds is natural selection. HA! go mice go, eat dem baby birds

@LOUI-e7h 6 жыл бұрын

Yes. Cheer them on cool guy

@deputydog7669 6 жыл бұрын

PELICANS WILL EAT THEM

@butthole4exitonlymohamond779 3 жыл бұрын

they need to put cat in those area to catch mice!

@dracovenit9549 8 жыл бұрын

New Zealand has led the way with pest free islands both real oceanic islands and "islands" on the land. We can eradicate all mammalian pests. All it takes is the will at this point. We have the people and technology.