Why Aren't There Snow Monkeys in North America or Europe?

[@Burgerzaza]

I believe its also worth noting on the convergent evolution point: while its true no monkey species developed independently, or made it to the temperate forests of north america, this allowed a completely unrelated species to fill their ecological niche and develop many similar traits including intelligence and opposable thumbs in concert with behavioral similarities. Ofcourse im speaking of Raccoons.

[@W1LDTANG]

Ah yes, the good ole trash panda...

[@atticus._]

are squirrels like tree rats or something?

[@JD-tl4zs]

@@atticus._ tree mice

[@KaseeSmith]

@@atticus._they’re worse than tree rats. They can destroy your whole attic 😢

[@W1LDTANG]

@@atticus._ Yes, yes they are....

[@DzzO]

Here in Brazil we have a lot of Saguis (Callithrix). They are so tiny I am sure they could survive a lot of time on a vegetation raft.

[@olivere5497]

It would be a good tv show too, 'monkey raft'

[@slwrabbits]

I was thinking, aren't they so small that they would need to eat constantly? But then, if the raft were large enough, it could have enough edible vegetation to help the little guys make the trip.

[@Kurominos1]

as much as i know Saguis are more carnevore(insectivore) then plant eating so theyr would be defenetly some small critters on a bigger raft otherwise most animals if healthy can survive 1-5 weeks without food without much trouble @@slwrabbits

[@firstnamelastname5925]

Anthropologists tell us that monkeys reached the Americas with makeshift rafts but that it was impossible for prehistoric humans to have done the same thing 🤔

[@felipecosta-kv2fx]

​@@firstnamelastname5925Ancient paths of land, Now long buried by the ocean

[@WojciechP915]

What are you talking about? There are 8 million of them in Quebec.

[@vladimirlenin843]

Lol

[@TheAstroFarmer]

As a citizen of quebec, i approve this message.

[@antarcticmapper3460]

So the citizens of Quebec are monkeys?

[@arandomzoomer4837]

💀

[@potat2976]

What makes it even better that I can't even understand french, they're like real white monkeys!

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

I can’t believe a monkey would just sit on a driftwood and float across the ocean like it knows what it’s doing

[@marcpaulus6291]

I dont know what to think of this floater theories. I mean, you needed at least a pair of male and female. They have to life long enough to reproduce several times. And then the whole population is incestous as fuck and wont make it really far. So you would need to have a divers group to land on the same place AND get a regular stream of new arrivals so the gene pool wont get fucked up.

[@oreodepup]

What’s more likely is massive storms toppled coastal trees and brought monkeys over to South America. The monkeys got lost at sea and happened to survive rather than choosing to do that insane journey.

[@npvuvuzela]

Humans did the same as well… this is the origin of human habitation in Polynesia

[@An-kw3ec]

In Mexico and Guatemala, monkeys dont live at elevations where frost is common, these regions have some lush forests, maybe new world monkeys simply cant handle cold climates. Florida despite being subtropical, still gets its extreme temperature swings. It seems they dont like anything colder than 10 ° C

[@r.guerreiro140]

On southern Brazilian highlands they can endure -10°C or lower

[@An-kw3ec]

@r.guerreiro140 Maybe is the type of forestry, above 1000 meters in central to northern America, forests become coniferous and deciduous, which is one of the barriers between Brazil and the southern cone too, forests in chile are too cold year around for monkeys,plus the forests become temperate with the lack of enough canopy for arboreal monkeys.

[@r.guerreiro140]

@@An-kw3ec Maybe, but on the regions I mentioned the dominant tree is a kind of ancient pine called Araucaria angustifolia, which seeds are very nutritious and are available during winter time If it's of your interest, I suggest you to search on Wikipedia for "Alouatta guariba clamitans", the Southern brown howler You'll find also a beautiful picture of the mantioned pines Maybe this species is the southern most one, since it may live even on North West Uruguay, far bellow the forests of province of Missiones in Argentina

[@Wyi-the-rogue]

As a Floridian there are not many monkeys in Florida except the ones who escaped during hurricanes

[@felipecosta-kv2fx]

​​@@An-kw3ecGood point. Unless monkeys develop adaptations to eat pine cones and become lighter to climb the thinner branches, I can't see them standing a chance.

[@DerpDerp3001]

There is a third reason as there are already raccoons in North America that take the monkey niche.

[@clasqm]

Opossums too.

[@FakeGoogleName]

Great video - every time you release I'm waiting for it to blow up, the production quality and content can't go under the radar forever. Even if it doesn't happen I'm very happy you make these great, entertaining and informative videos unlike any others I've really come across, and your interest and passion for this niche of topics (geography, meterology, biology) really shines through.

[@casualearth-dandavis]

Thanks, that means a lot. These are niche topics, so I'm happy if even a few curious people find these videos.

[@FreeSpeechXtremist]

​@@casualearth-dandavisjust found you and you got my sub this is a question I've always wondered great video

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

@@casualearth-dandavis Ah cause they dont even have non snow monkeys!

[@khango6138]

The quality and information in each video is insane, how come I have not been recommended to your channel before? Amazing work!

[@damienjohns3108]

Hello Australia here. I've always been curious as to why Australia has the animals that it does. They are strange when you start looking around the rest of the world. And as for this video, why don't we have a monkey here either? We are so close to New Guinea and Indonesia. You would think that they would be everywhere.. thanks mate. Great video

[@andrewst9797]

Tasmanian Aborigines lived in a very cold climate with only the most primitive of shelter and no clothes.

[@bradygrahe3859]

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[@camelopardiaalara7759]

The reason that there are no monkeys in Austrailia is that; there's a "Biogeographic line" splitting the Austrailian, New Zealand, Papua Nya Guinean, and parts of the Insonesian fauna from the Asian fauna, called the "Wallace Line". The lines origin comes in part from ancient sea levels, where the water line was low enough that animals could travel from island to island by foot, but not over the Wallace line since the water there was too deep. Why the Austrailian fauna is so funky is 'cause it originated from South America, travelled over (warm) Antartica, landed in Austrailia and then got isolated for a couple of (milions?) of years.

[@abdusqamar9667]

Im surr there are orangutangs in the north or is that in indonesia. On that topic ive heard ancient peoples burnt a lot of the forests

[@reetheturtle5295]

austalia is cool because it has unique types of trees/ferns (an ofc endemic species) as someone else said these evolved on the isolated antarctic region too

[@jaredf6205]

Technically, I am a snow monkey in North America. I love hanging out in hot springs and hot tubs in the snow! Edit: if you think apes can't be considered monkeys, you don't know enough about taxonomy.

[@Wyi-the-rogue]

Nono ur a snow ape

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

Technically you are not a snow monkey... You are a snow monkey in an *extremely* loose manner, not technically.

[@jeromepain8447]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono🤓

[@proallnighter]

More like a snow ape

[@jaredf6205]

@@proallnighter Apes are most definitely Monkeys. There's no scientific basis for them not being, you're just using an old traditional sense of the word.

[@gunterxvoices4101]

What do you mean? We have a few Finnish people here in Michigan...

[@jeoffrygrieder]

Thank you for this post. I've been pondering about this question for many years! 🙂

[@cacogenicist]

Probably Japanese macaques could make a living just fine in the coast ranges of northern California, through the Oregon Coast Range, up to the Olympic Peninsula, and probably Vancouver Island.

[@LosPalms]

Agreed, maybe even as far up as coastal Alaska

[@domwells3507]

Fantastic video - I never comment on KZbin, but I'm doing so now to help with the algorithm- you deserve to get big

[@trustnugget280]

Don't know why I haven't watched this video sooner but better late than never. Awesome video! Well structured and just about the right amount of information to explain everything without getting lost in details.

[@gregallsmagic]

There are actually some Rhesus Macaques in Florida, but they’re not native. I think someone released about six of them into the wild in the 1930’s.

[@ArmoredProtagonist999]

For a Tarzan Movie and apparently they have herpes.

[@rustyshackleford9888]

Quality content! Crazy how I've never found this channel before. Earned my sub!

[@LandgraabIV]

Alouatta caraya and Alouatta guariba live in the Araucaria moist forest in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, where the average annual temperature is 14°C~16°C, and they undergo frosts for most of the winter, frequent negative temperatures and occasional snow.

[@jayperson2081]

You should also look up the Bering strait why the Japanese monkeys and northern Chinese monkeys didn’t come that way with the human population

[@novedad4468]

Interesting thought

[@refindoazhar1507]

You should look up the location of Bering strait. It is nearly 3000 km north of japan, and japan is already an outlier as being home to the northernmost species of non-human primate.

[@profeseurchemical]

humans used coastal boats to get to america, and the pacific is much much bigger than the trip from africa to brazil rafting wise. things still wash up from asia on the northwest american coast but stormrafts would get too water logged?

[@SpecialEDy]

It's counterintuitive because of climate, but nearly all of Europe is as far North as Canada. Even the Mediterranean, with Spain and Italy at roughly the same latitude as New York City. Europe is very warm because of Ocean and wind currents. The entire nothern hemisphere acts as a heater for the winds that blow up through Europe. I imagine that an Ice Age could, besides cooling the whole planet, disrupt the wind currents that make Europe temperate.

[@mrbaab5932]

So, if there are vegetation rafts, how is there a "Walace Line" between Indonesia and Malaysia on one side and Australia and New Guinea on the other side?

[@Galoxieview]

The Primate family tree actually originated in North America. The migration to South America was a reintroduction.

[@mnemonicpie]

Biden family is the proof of your claim

[@4TheFellas]

.I would believe this far before a floating vegetation raft that could cross the Atlantic theory.

[@senecavermeulen8110]

@@4TheFellasthe reintroduction that @Galoxieview mentioned was via vegetation raft. look up rafting for yourself

[@4TheFellas]

@senecavermeulen8110 I have. Quite a bit. It's still very far-fetched. There's no shortage of scientists who would agree that this theory is full of holes.

[@4TheFellas]

@senecavermeulen8110 Like most theories, this will be proven incorrect as more data is found. The raft theory flys in the face of Occam's razor. The theory is akin to putting a million monkeys in a room of typewriters and hoping for a sentence to pop out. It's more plausible they were already there and we simply haven't found the evidence.

[@EdwardHamiltonDavis1]

Excellent! An inspiring video. It makes me curious about other biogeographical patterns!

[@raphlvlogs271]

Rodents also got in to the Americas in a similar way

[@8ferarry8]

Plesiadapiformes - close relatives or even direct ancestors of modern primates were in fact quite widespread in NA.

[@frigidlava617]

, your videos answer a lot of questions I’ve always thought about. Hope your channel blows up soon!

[@paulmackenzie4752]

I'm actually pissed about not having monkeys here

[@Rs07Jehts]

Great video, Quality already surpasses some major geography channels!

[@franciscoandrade8588]

The sargassum sea patch manages to reach Florida, so would Caribbean monkeys have been able to use that route?

[@SurrealKangaroo12]

Thanks for this. I’ve always wondered that.

[@hagfish4998]

It's not fair!! I want monke!! 😡

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

I still find the storm vegetation rafts far fetched. Not impossible but still very shaky hypothesis. How could they survive such a thing and then not only thrive but reproduce a stable population affer arriving to the Americas. Idk, im not an expert of course, it just feels like there has to be more likely explanations of the spread of primates.

[@Kellethorn]

Fun fact: when the original Tarzan movie was filmed in the early 1900's, they simply released all the monkeys and apes they had into the wild. There has been a quickly growing population of monkeys and apes in the Ocala region of Florida ever since. I've always wondered if they'll one day spread across the continent from there.

[@cringycam2546]

This isn’t true. That was a rumor, what really happened is some guy released them on an island as a small tourist attraction and to make Florida feel more tropical. He didn’t realize the monkeys could swim, so they swam away off the island and started a life

[@ScottJB]

Start of the planet of the apes?

[@Mr.Plant1994]

Based on the Caribbean monkeys if humans hadn’t intervened it’s possible they would of eventually got to Florida on tree rafts.

[@Voidapparate]

What about the gelada monkeys? They seem to be quite adapted to high elevation and freezing winters. Could they be introduced into Europe and North America?

[@nailguncrouch1017]

Introducing animals to new environments never turns out well. Ask Australia about rabbits and foxes.

[@Voidapparate]

@@nailguncrouch1017 It's far more nuanced than new animal=bad, if everything is taken into account and thought through than it could work.

[@RasakBlood]

@@Voidapparate Why would you risk introducing a nonnative animal when history have firmly told you its bad many times over. Also why? And who would pay for it? Your unnamed nuances fail to pass the first common sense test.

[@ГлебТкаченко-р6ы]

​@@RasakBloodit is not about being native, it is about niche

[@mathewroosevelt6624]

Europe and North America already have enough grazers thanks to cows, sheep and goats

[@yungamurai]

Awesome video man, the algorithm really blessed me today. Instant sub and I can’t wait to see what you come out with next!

[@bolsa3136]

Laurisilva forest patches are still prevalent in Madeira Island. In case anyone wishes to see pre glacial european forests.

[@MagaracDebeluhar]

We prefer the term, Yakubian

[@clasqm]

Chacma baboons routinely survive sub-zero temperatures in the Cape mountains and the Highveld. Their ancestors and ours moved into the savannah at roughly the same time. They went the traditional way, developing massive canines. We went with rocks and pointy sticks. Imagine if it had gone the other way round!

[@reffwe]

Great video - biogeography is so fascinating

[@Intelligenthumour]

If I remember correctly the ancestor to all primates was found in North America, wasn't it?

[@Johnwick52923]

Great videos dude

[@joebidet2050]

There are... Many in Detroit

[@NormanNorthman]

This is a very well done video. 👍

[@solution4551]

Great video! Do you think that raccoons could be considered convergently-evolved with monkeys?

[@casualearth-dandavis]

That is an interesting thought. A small-medium sized intelligent omnivore with an enhanced ability to manipulate objects. They lack a true opposable thumb--but then again, so do colobus monkeys. Regardless, their success as an introduced species in Western Europe, the Caucasus, and Japan is telling.

[@everettduncan7543]

​@@casualearth-dandavisnot to mention as a native here in North America

[@felipecosta-kv2fx]

If monkeys did reach America, Maybe they'd have fierce competition with raccoons...

[@AA-cf4es]

No, because they don't have social structures as strong and helpful as primates.

[@GPN007a]

Ever been to Aspen? They're everywhere. 😂

[@aleksandry.7213]

if only they made it to Florida, we would have had monkeys hopping around the trees near my house, this makes me hella sad

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

you love problems in life

[@richardweerts7310]

I’d actually been wondering this for a really long time, I’m so happy I found this video!

[@exploryfor]

super interesting as usual !

[@jessehunter362]

I think that you count out the possibility of rafting from the carribean to florida too much. Off the top of my head at least three species did raft from the carribean to florida, green anoles, florida reef geckos, and a fossil species of thunder snake. Given these, and the surprisingly large amount of freshwater fish and plant fauna are shared between specifically northern cuba and southern florida, I suspect that the cuban fossil monkies might have had a chance to reach florida, or possibly just the bahamas.

[@casualearth-dandavis]

This is a good point, and I admit I was never 100% satisfied with that explanation, largely for the reasons you described. The other hypothesis I wanted to discuss (but didn't, for brevity) was climate. As you mention, Southern Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas share many fauna and flora. There are some differences, however--Boas, like the Abaco boa, have no equivalent in Florida. Southern Florida is far more prone to infrequent, but intense, cold snaps (for instance, the one which killed 96% of branching coral in the Florida keys, in the 1970s). Early primate colonists, if they ever rafted from Cuba/the Bahamas to Florida, may have lacked the necessary adaptations to survive these temperatures. Aridity could also be a factor, as the climate was drier in the Caribbean during glacial periods. Even today, arid conditions exist in the southeast Bahamas, and may have hindered primate colonization from other Caribbean islands.

[@jessehunter362]

⁠@@casualearth-dandavisThe climate in Pleistocene florida was fairly consistent with the modern climate, with very few major faunal shifts relative to the rest of the continent- thunder snake is another name for a family of small boas, and we know that there were giant tortoises and capybaras, so it probably wasn’t that much colder than it is now, given the invasiveness of both those things in the modern day. I wonder if the extent of the Everglades has something to do with it? A big flooded savannah with only isolated pockets of trees to hide in might be enough to trap the population, keeping them small and at risk of cold snaps, and that’s without factoring in the more open forests and savannah that mammoths would have helped create. Probably not one thing only, either, these factors are really good at compounding.

[@casualearth-dandavis]

@@jessehunter362 I would not be surprised if the Everglades and their vast treeless expanses played a role. New World monkeys coexisted well with proboscideans in Central and South America, but yes, that probably wouldn't have helped either.

[@felipecosta-kv2fx]

​@@jessehunter362So even if they reached a place like Florida, They wouldn't last enough to advance to other areas because, again, these monkeys need their trees?

[@tadblackington1676]

How thing proceed going forward is going to be interesting as macaques, the most adaptible of old world monkeys, have been introduced into Florida and Gilbraltar. I haven't heard of them spreading too much yet but...

[@novedad4468]

It's difficult for them to spread out ot Gibraltar. The Rock is almost and island with a very narrow and controled border and very densely populated areas surrounding it. Furthermore, the Mediterranean habitats are not too dense in tree coverage, so they most likely would have to survive from human waste.

[@Mr.Plant1994]

Garage monkeys seem fitting lol

[@feelinfroggy8089]

They are also in a sanctuary down in Texas, since a rancher heard they needed a home, from Japan. They roam the acres they have there.

[@LukeFromLasVegas]

Wonderful video and well-done narration. Very much enjoyed. 🌍

[@samuelgibson780]

Given enough time, I think convergent evolution probably is inevitable, since it's a system which operates within common constraints, regarding the laws of physics.

[@jamesleyda365]

Oh there are if only they would be recognized

[@themechanictangerine]

The Barbary macaque used to live as far north as Germany. It lives in Gibraltar and in the Atlas mountains in Morocco where it snows in winter.

[@eotheewakan879]

Another great video,very compelling indeed.

[@adamkattan1677]

Great video very interesting

[@JungleJargon]

South America and North America were both connected to Africa up until one hundred years after the global flood when the continents broke apart. Jaguars were also separated from leopards. the greater grison was separated from the honey badgers of Africa, tapirs were separated from tapirs, crocodiles from crocodiles, parrots from parrots, possums from opossums, funny rabbits and funny camels were also separated along with deer and all of the rest of the animals unique to North and South America.

[@4TheFellas]

Where can we find these massive floating vegetation rafts today? One's large enough to sustain life across the atlantic? I would need more proof to believe that theory.

[@aronc24]

I love your videos. You ask things I never thought to ask, but am dying to know. Lol

[@plotholedetective4166]

Dilly Texas ask you to kindly hold our beer. We have the largest free roaming monkey sanctuary in America where a few hundred japanese snow monkeys are allowed to just hang out.

[@WretchedRedoran]

My dad has had a horrible and devious plan to import golden snub-nosed monkeys to the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada for a long time. He thinks it would be absolutely hilarious. I pray that he never succeeds.

[@SmokingLaddy]

The 40 acre bog island on Chippewa Flowage in Wisconsin has been floating for decades, not sure why documentary makers seem to think a floating landmass would only last days. Furthermore the gap between Africa and S. America 40M years ago was still huge, only about 1/3 less distance.

[@beefbeef5342]

Great explanation

[@gartengeflugel924]

Quite interesting to learn about these reaaons, they make sense. Living in Europe I'm always a bit sad how low our species diversity is. I pretty much only know this from the plant perspective, but disappointing to see genera represented by a handful of species here when they abound in Asia and America. Also those interesting relict genera and older plant families of course are also missing, which is quite disappointing. Great video, cheers from Germany

[@eliletts8149]

Wow! This was a very informative video! I learned a lot in this video!

[@philthycat1408]

I wonder what they drank on those rafts. They’d be hellava thirsty by the time they arrived.

[@CourtlandMiller1994]

Does this rafting still occur? If not, why?

[@Aelfraed26]

A small correction: Argentina also has temperate forests

[@salam-peace5519]

As a german I had no idea we had monkeys living here as recently as 40.000 years ago. Considering how much the earths vegetation zones and biomes have changed and how animal species have been migrating and spreading into new areas naturally many times, maybe we should overthink the concept of "invasive" species. Species spreading into new areas is part of nature (humans are just accelerating it), and not all "invasive" species are bad. While some can cause harm to other species/ecosystems, some just live in an area without causing any harm and fit well into the ecosystem, sometimes occupying previously unoccupied ecological niches, some can even be beneficial to the ecosystem. If they don't cause much harm to the ecosystem and other animals or humans, I think monkey species being introduced to Europe and North America is not a bad thing. They are quite similar to us humans and I think we could live in peace with them like people in other countries where they are native do, and the ecological niche they would occupy is largely unoccupied.

[@nathan-498]

We evolved out of that stage.

[@ГлебТкаченко-р6ы]

New sub here, this channel will explode someday

[@anthonyboomer641]

Where do monkeys find "DRINKING WATER" on a vegetation raft, in the ocean?

[@EnriqueAmbia]

What about the Gibraltar monkeys?

[@oscartjerrild9689]

Very interesting video, although near the beginning you say that primates didn’t originate in the America’s. Although I recently heard in a PBS Eons video that actually some of the first primates may have lived in Montana and Canada. Although American primates probably died out after spreading to the rest of the world. Thus, the rafting from Africa theory is a very likely although contested origin of the monkeys in the Americas nowadays

[@casualearth-dandavis]

The primates which are in the Americas now, most likely didn't originate there. But you're correct, the earliest fossils of primates do come from North America.

[@carlosandleon]

The modern american monkeys drifted from Africa for sure

[@SpoiledBread24]

What would happen if humans put some monkeys in the northern America temperate forest or in Florida?

[@sc1338]

There actually are some. Look up silver lake macaques in Florida, and monkey island South Carolina. Idk why he didn’t bring it up

[@christophermolitor4554]

He forgot about the part where they got outcompeted by the Great American Wood Ape now known as the Squatch.

[@ronanclark2129]

1:53 (the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me)

[@RaffiJaharian]

I read that the oldest primate fossils are from North America but some how that lineage went extinct

[@lanceparker4796]

They need a hot spring or pool. If man-made ones were available I bet snow monkeys would thrive.

[@greenchristendom4116]

But what about Sasquatch, Yetis?

[@geemcspankinson]

Oh, but there are...

[@LiamRappaport]

I thought I had a good knowledge base of money types, but there were so many kinds of monkeys in this video that I've never seen before!

[@bluecollarmenproductions]

Why didn’t they just drive?

[@GBlockbreaker]

i unironically thought this was a text to speech video until the last couple seconds lol

[@humbledb4jesus]

i'm going to say that as homo-sapien began their migration throughout the americas, they came into direct competition with other primates and eventually pushed them to extinction because of our skills with fire and tools plus, we learned from abe simpson's that monkeys are pretty tasty...

[@shibolinemress8913]

What if some monkeys escaped the pet trade, zoos, animal shelters, etc.? Could they survive in the wild in Florida, for example?

[@sc1338]

Yes, the already do. Look up monkeys in Florida and South Carolina

[@shatnermohanty6678]

Great video 👍 Could you make one on why Tigers are found only in the Far East Russia and why didn't they migrate to other parts of Siberia even though the climate , flora and fauna are the same

[@mnemonicpie]

Because climate, flora and fauna are not the same🤔

[@shatnermohanty6678]

@@mnemonicpie what and where is the dividing line ?

[@mnemonicpie]

@@shatnermohanty6678 idk dude, those territories are unique

[@shatnermohanty6678]

@@mnemonicpie that region is called the Taiga and it stretches from Scandinavia , across Russia and onwards to Alaska and Canada . And it includes the range of the Siberian Tiger . Maybe the answer also includes the range of the extinct Caspian tiger whose closest relative is the Siberian tiger

[@mnemonicpie]

@@shatnermohanty6678 there are no Siberian tigers in Scandinavia😁 it's a unique taiga, geographical position (longitude, latitude) matters and the type of terrain also.

[@Garbage.geologist]

so when are you doing more sam O’Nella 🧐

[@jasonz7788]

Great job thanks 👍👍

[@willempasterkamp862]

There are south american ant-eater, cats and canides, and there are african equivalents. All these species don't live in trees. It seems to me they didn't all cross the ocean on rafts however it is a nice theory. What about the big continent splittng into two and animals drifting apart evolved differently, seems a lot more plausible.

[@flavortown3781]

I don't think that your logic holds up, a terrestrial speice could get washed into rip current through storm surge and flash flooding in the flood planes of a river.

[@doglover31418]

The cats and canids walked into S America quite recently, when the isthmus of Panama established a link from N to S.

[@willempasterkamp862]

@@doglover31418 Yes but the ant-eater and monkeys didn't. S America and Africa have their own species. not a single species lived on both sides or has a very close variation on the other side. Burning sun and no drinking water makes it almost impossible to cross an ocean for a land animal. Most species would panic and try to swim with land still in sight. Only from rats and mice is known they piggybacked with humans on ships. Today some maritime species as oysters and crabs in their juvenile form can survive in drinking water tanks and this way spread around the world.

[@doglover31418]

leopard is similar to jaguar@@willempasterkamp862

[@vladimirlenin843]

How do monkey cross grassland tho

[@malcolmt7883]

There's just not much demand. I mean, have you ever heard anyone complain about the lack of monkeys?

[@Willow-oz7gs]

Good video. But I felt you could have had a more conversational tone. Also the editing is good but could be better it would be nice to see some more creative transitions.

[@janboreczek3045]

Well, we are still physiologically adapted to the tropical regions. Without our technological adaptations like clothes we would have trouble even witd temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius, and below 10 it would start being physically dangerous.

[@An-kw3ec]

This is relative to each human ecotype. Europeans, East Asians, Siberians, Native Americans all have some common cold weather adaptations. Straight-wavy hair for head insulation-oil scalp distribution, more shallow vascular skin along with less melanin, smaller nostrils-airways entrances, wider ribcages, different metabolism, etc.....

[@janboreczek3045]

@@An-kw3ec Still, they are not fully adapted, as without technological innovations like fire or clothing even they would die in low temperatures

[@areaxisthegurkha]

That is due to the lack of our body hair or the fact that we stopped producing it in the evolutionary process. Earliest human beings would have a chance in adapting.

[@parsnipproductions8875]

@@janboreczek3045 exactly. The small adaptations made by groups who lived in cold regions long enough for evolution to take notice are due to marginal cases, where people were stuck without technology at some point and died, whereas in those same marginal situations (hunting, getting lost in the woods etc) someone with better cold weather adaptations would survive

[@montyskeetch4082]

20 degrees Celsius is warm

[@TroySchoonover]

I'm just here to say that Snow Monkeys is a great name for a band....

[@phaedraoiva8550]

really interesting never took the ocean currents into consideration thank you

[@TheSpecialJ11]

No snow monkeys? Clearly you haven't been to the Upper Midwest and Canada. They're all over the lakes, playing ice hockey.

[@invertedsausage8649]

Uh wrong. I’m currently a primate living in Northern reaches of North America. Just a hairless one.

[@BENOTAFRAID689]

If the video was too long for you, basically: all of North America's snow monkeys were killed off in an extinction event caused by a conflict between the ancestors of the modern Hopi Tribe and the reptilians who survive to this day in the Hollow Earth. So that's why.

[@cjthebeesknees]

We must rally and rendezvous with our fellow monke brethren across the world and begin our counter-attack into the hollow earth and slay these abominable serpents, monke strong together.