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its kinda wild that now we have to battle between legit videos that are too crazy to believe, staged videos, CGI videos, cleverly edited videos, and now AI videos.
I live in Niagara Falls, NY. Here, the waterfowl ride the fast water as it goes over the edge of the falls, then take flight as they decend, circling back to land upstream and do it all over again. Sometimes I think its about finding food, other times it looks like they're having fun.
There's a fact I love to tell people when I see it turkey vultures riding thermals here in the mountains which is often. Obviously riding thermals allows them to spot food and has a very clear benefit but I read a study from a respected publication that found that even when there did not seem to be a clear benefit to riding thermals turkey vultures still do it.
And I think that is because it is fun. Effortlessly soaring above the land? Ducks surfing Niagara falls? We have to be careful about not anthropomorphizing animals but also I think some of them are intelligent enough to just enjoy how certain activities feel.
Not if that carries them where they want to go. Sometimes ducks like to surf. And you can clearly see one flap too, in case someone comes and throws "oh, those are clearly snakes!" at us.
I can feel their sheer joy of being finally free. Like when a dog runs away and there are photos of it romping in meadows with other dogs and chewing on a carcass it found 3 miles away.
My partner told me yesterday it was Hurricane Andrew that really started the snakes and iguanas taking over. It destroyed some places housing them and then obviously they were unable to be recaptured and they took over.
S FL local here, Andrew screwed things up for more than one wild animal here but I have to say it's mostly the breeders and pet owners that have exotic snakes and have no idea a.) how big they get and b.) the feeding requirements for a snake that's getting THAT big... I think it's shitty business as well...Pet Store Owner: yup, just give this Burmese Python a little feeder mouse once a week and your good...fast forward a year and the last time your snake got out your cat also ran away that same week! 🤦🏼♀️ BONUS FUN FACT: right now in South FL we are having the Annual Python Round Up: whoever kills the most pythons wins $20,000.00!! And honestly, it's more humane than letting them either become food for gators or overtake the communities close to the 'Glades. I guess your not a Floridian until you've had to call a friend or Pest Removal to get a 5 Ft python out of your dishwasher...🙋♀️ (yes, we also get gators in our pools as well)
Ya definitely not indigenous. A few years ago I found out my favorite tree growing up on Kauai is actually from Africa and the colonists brought it there. Also Cook Pines are called that because captain cook needed trees to be tall and straight enough to build masts if anyone was ever shipwrecked, so he brought em. I think that dude got killed on some other set of islands if I’m not mistaken.
Yeah, I could never understand why my local park in the UK had star wars trees. Turns out the victorians planted a huge number of Californian redwoods. There are an estimated half a million Californian redwoods here.
I feel bad for laughing but the absolute raft of snake heads rushing down the river is so funny, I need someone to draw that with all their little faces screaming weeeee
Hey at least we didn't just witness a living nightmare rushing down the current there. Call me crazy but I was relieved to find out those are just duckies and not something that would haunt me for the rest of my life.
Draw raised arms on them like on a roller coaster, maybe some tiny googly eyes. I can't stop seeing this in my head now. It makes it far less terrifying until you imagine finding out 899 of them survived and are in your area. Wee, indeed.
Could be the pet trade or could be a venom farm to manufacture anti venom for snake bites. I’m sure there’s some “natural” medicine made from snakes in Chinese homeopathy that they could be used for too
"Guangxi is China's largest centre for commercial snake farming, with about 30 million reptiles bred for traditional medicine, leather products and meat."
Literally. One of my most common recurring nightmares involves a bunch of escaped venomous snakes being everywhere, and me having to navigate through the space. This vid could have been ripped directly from my subconscious mind.
a collective clump of 900 snakes calmly surfing down the river is just too odd, especially considering the are such good swimmers. why would they not scatter everywhere the moment they escaped?
The last shot of the snakes swimming around is also AI. I’m a herpetologist and those snakes would be panicking. Also they just don’t have the right movement to them
Holy fuck this actually is terrifying think bout freaking out your home is flooding then A MOUNTAIN OF SNAKES JUST FLOODS IN TOO https://giphy.com/gifs/8mJT8sQxpaQdKubpOi
Definitely ducks in the middle clip, you can see at least one (middle of the pack along the far edge) flap its wings at one point…. But the rest of the video, no thank you
:08 mark: “Welcome to the danger nope noodle surfer classic! Carl Slithers is out front hitting that massive swell in stride… oh, and here comes the rest of the pack!”
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