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Learn more about Kangaroos here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCEAWeZYuBQxsZ3lHyUxqlSQ
Baby animals are cute.
Sometimes it needs one of the smallest animals to save one of the biggest.
The human-elephant conflict is getting more problematic and harder to solve. Growing human populations need more land and thus wildlife is pushed into smaller areas. Elephants will often eat up crops from farmers or break water pipes in local communities putting the people who live there in danger.
Lucy King from Save The Elephants (https://www.youtube.com/@savetheelephantskenyahas) came up with a brilliant solution for said issue. Instead of putting up electric fences, which have proven in the past to not work very well for keeping elephants out, they now put up beehive fences. Since elephants are scared of bees, this is the perfect solution.
Sloths are the ultimate couch potatoes of the animal kingdom. Besides being slow, sloths have some unique abilities and features that help them survive despite their slow-paced lifestyle. Actually, their slow lifestyle might even be the reason why sloths have been around for such a long time.
Read more about sloths here: https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/sloth
Beluga whales, also known as canaries of the sea, because of the variety of sounds they make, have an interesting method of communication. Belugas are extremely fascinating animals living in groups called pods. They use sounds to communicate with one another, as well as their melon. The melon is the beluga's squishy forehead that can change in shape. Researchers have identified at least five different melon shapes belugas use during social interactions.
Read the scientific paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-024-01843-z
Learn more about beluga whales here: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/beluga-whale
Disclaimer: I do not support keeping wild animals in captivity. Although this study was conducted on captive beluga whales, I still find it interesting and wanted to make a video about how belugas use their melon to communicate with one another. For a better understanding of the topic I included footage of captive beluga whales, however, I do not support aquariums, zoos, or any other facilities that keep wild animals captive.
Just five months ago, an elephant in Samburu National Park gave birth to twins. And just two years earlier, another elephant from a different herd also gave birth to twins in Samburu. This might sound like a coincidence at first, but it likely isn’t.
The general probability used to describe the chances of an elephant being pregnant with twins is 1%. I even mentioned this in my last video. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that the likelihood of twin elephants being born differs greatly from one region to another. Samburu and Tarangire have a much higher probability of twin births than Amboseli, for instance.
All of this can be explained by genetics. The genetic makeup of an elephant population is slightly different from one region to another. This results in one area having more twin elephants than another.
A lot of the footage of twin elephants was filmed and published by Save The Elephants as they closely monitor wild elephants in Kenya.
Read more about twin elephants here: https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/2020/52-48-Pastorini.pdf
Elephants are pregnant for nearly two years! They have the longest gestation period of all mammals! Such a long pregnancy has advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages is that newborn elephants are nearly fully developed and can walk only a couple of hours after birth. Since elephant herds are always on the move, walking and being able to keep up with the herd is a critical skill to have to survive.
Baby elephants are often said to be clumsy, goofy, and funny. In this video, I dive deeper into the astonishing world of these "little" creatures and talk about less-known facts about baby elephants. Hope you enjoy :)
Read the scientific paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.25.554872v1.full
The paper was published by Michael A. Pardo, Kurt Fristrup, David S. Lolchuragi, Joyce Poole, Petter Granli, Cynthia Moss, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, and George Wittemyer in August of 2023.
Scientists have been studying languages in various animals for a long time. While some animals are known to copy sounds from one another and use these sounds as an imitation, evidence of something as complex and abstract as name-giving in non-human animals has never been found before.
African bush elephants, also called African savanna elephants (lat. Loxodonta Africana), are the first non-human animals that are now known to have individual "vocal labels" for one another.
This is a huge milestone in elephant research and animal research in general and leaves me excited about what will be found out in the future about these incredible animals.
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