Battle Between Two Bull Elephant Seals | 4K UHD | Seven Worlds One Planet

Battle Between Two Bull Elephant Seals | 4K UHD | Seven Worlds One Planet | BBC Earth

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Жыл бұрын

For over two months, this bull elephant seal has held his territory on one of the most crowded beaches in the world. To retain his ground, he'll have to fight off any intruders who come his way.
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@festivebear9946 Жыл бұрын

Crazy to think that this is the world we live in, absolutely fascinating to see these animals. Once you start paying attention, you'll see that we don't need an alien world, we have enough "aliens" here to explore. We just take it all for granted.

@aeronblack9249 Жыл бұрын

We must make a difference

@creativeearthian1702 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful comment

@Wooo-jw5un 11 ай бұрын

Were All Aliens Bro

@hootinouts 10 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. Also, these amazing creatures need to be preserved and prototected lest they be lost forever.

@jamesworley9888 8 ай бұрын

It's not about ''needing'' an alien world to exist, its about looking for evidence of there being one. Exploring science with the intention of ''needs being met alone'' takes the fun out of it. Science should be explored for all it's wonder and what all it has in store for itself. Not to draw rash conclusions based on anyone's needs for anything being impossible. Science should be a thing of awe mystery and wonder. Science without religion is lame and religion without science is Blind!!!! Blessed by natural law are all they who study science in it's purity with unconditional love.

@Shyguy21ify 6 ай бұрын

the cinematography here should not go understated, feels like I'm watching a blockbuster film except it's all real. Whoever took these shots, be proud. You're a master at your craft.

@arym1108 6 ай бұрын

Almost more like a Pixar film, or maybe cgi like avatar

@ileolai Ай бұрын

the close up shots of their claws and teeth were amazing

@hootinouts 10 ай бұрын

This never gets old. I find them not just utterly fascinating but their grotesqueness to be comical.

@aleksandarristic2329 Жыл бұрын

0:46 after too much spicy nachos

@wergonsturm 5 ай бұрын

It took me a second to realize the people crowding the beach were actually penguins 💀

@nealaskme6272 Жыл бұрын

Magnificent creatures!!! I hope they are still around in another century

@Tilly3012 Жыл бұрын

humanmade climate change says no.

@stomp21 5 ай бұрын

That bull even though losing 10kg everyday was still bigger and stronger. Incredible.

@13KcMagicGirl13 4 ай бұрын

Because of Neil, I found out about these adorable creatures, and I cannot get enough of them

@lionlikemessenger Жыл бұрын

So much of nature is about survival and replication; the preserving and passing on of one’s genes.

@DavisJ-ln6fw 5 ай бұрын

Thank goodness humans have a choice to do more.

@elijah.franklin2602 4 ай бұрын

Aye animals are impossibly simple in ways that humans will never understand. Eat/Hunt, Sleep, maybe a fight or too, mate and repeat. I wish human life was that simple

@lindaannelineharwood4891 Жыл бұрын

"You thought you'd stick your nose into my business? I think not!!!"

@penguinsrbirds2 Жыл бұрын

This just sounds like the most horrific toilet sounds. I'm actually worried about playing this without headphones, lol.

@naikomichail Жыл бұрын

filming is insane. amazing

@sneakhyperion9297 Жыл бұрын

1:07 when you step on that sharp lego piece

@ronlacker326 7 ай бұрын

You make fart sounds? Weirdo

@unsolicitedditkapics9722 Жыл бұрын

Lol listen to the video only and you'll think someone is blowing up a toilet

@michaelfriesen2820 2 ай бұрын

Audio.

@darrentan4579 Жыл бұрын

Antarctica 🇦🇶

@Borgaboe Жыл бұрын

Yes

@tichu7 Жыл бұрын

Amazing moving camera angles. I've seen wild elephant seals, but they're always a disappointment compared to the closeup angles that we see on BBC Earth.

@I.C.Weiner 9 ай бұрын

Meanwhile the penguins are betting on the games. 10 fish on the challenger

@needsbeer Жыл бұрын

When I lived in Vancouver we would see these on occasion.

@Littlekoji-df1cf Жыл бұрын

Thats amazing.

@Littlekoji-df1cf Жыл бұрын

@@needsbeer the pups are cute water puppies🥺

@needsbeer Жыл бұрын

@@Littlekoji-df1cf Yes they are. Just don't get to close because they can surprisingly move fast and they are mean like my ex Sydney

@mesaeddie Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I saw an Elephant Seal Bull at the St.Louis Zoo. I had never even heard of one this being over 60 years ago. I thought it was a statue sticking up out of the water. It grunted loudly sunk beneath the surface and scared the hell out of me. If you ever get the chance to visit the St. Louis Zoo make sure you do .

@SpiritMover314 Жыл бұрын

One of the best Zoo’s in the world….And it’s FREE!!!

@stevenelbert8989 Жыл бұрын

Really when did the st louis zoo have elephant seals I've been going there my whole life and I don't recall seeing them there

@mesaeddie Жыл бұрын

@@stevenelbert8989Really , it was a long time ago but I know what I saw. I was 9 or 10 which means around 1960. On another trip I saw Marlin Perkins drive by in a golf cart. It is one of my favorite Zoos with an incredible Lion and Gorilla exhibits.Later in he 70's when I was in the Navy I worked across the street and I lived around the corner from the San Diego zoo in Balboa Park.Both very nice Zoos.

@3winanimal Жыл бұрын

@@stevenelbert8989 In zoos, these wild animals are everywhere, but they are trained not to harm humans.

@stevenelbert8989 Жыл бұрын

@@mesaeddie it was in the 1960 oh okay I was born in 1999 that explains it

@dapperbe Жыл бұрын

"David Attenborough narrating over constant farting"

@nolleyramdeer5122 Жыл бұрын

The subtitles don't match what Sir David Attenborough says. 0:15 David Attenborough says: 'This bull elephant seal holds the mating rights to 60 females'. What's actually written: 'This bull elephant C o Sumatra, March, June 60 females'.

@jeremytitus9519 6 ай бұрын

No I’m pretty sure those subtitles are accurate

@OnionSavoya-jf5hz Ай бұрын

The suren beauty of mother nature on full display here.

@mariadaluzmoutinho5701 Жыл бұрын

Excelente a minúcia do camara man...Uma batalha de gigantes!! O dominante e o dominado ...a dualidade também se assiste no mundo destes animais!!Ganha a lei do mais forte?! ou do experiente?!...

@jtthallious8653 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating as usual,, well done

@sohistoriatriste9428 Жыл бұрын

A Mãe natureza é maravilhosa Deus é Maravilhoso

@Eminence_1337 Жыл бұрын

Damn I love that outro it never gets old.

@user-bb8ic7oc2i 9 күн бұрын

The music at the end was so captivating. It reminded me of Interstellar.

@blucat4 Жыл бұрын

One of the more underwhelming of the BBC Earth videos. Most are truly great.

@zaheerkhanbabar8097 Жыл бұрын

This is life.

@avazarastunov6482 Жыл бұрын

Отличный бой👍

@1969kodiakbear Жыл бұрын

St Andrew's Beach. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

@aswaltan8962 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful place

@laalaa99stl Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the source for BBC Earth's end cards. 😊

@mariokartstar Жыл бұрын

I'd still like to know what the music is for these end cards. I can't seem to find it.

@mondodistopico4760 Жыл бұрын

Mamma mia😵

@lizardninja007 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like me after eating taco bell at 1:27 - 1:37

@indyreno2933 Жыл бұрын

Southern Elephant Seal Classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Placentalia Magnorder: Boreoeutheria Superorder: Laurasiatheria Grandorder: Ferae Mirorder: Pancarnivora Order: Carnivora Suborder: Caniformia Infraorder: Cynopsia Parvorder: Pinnipedia Superfamily: Phocoidea Family: Cystophoridae Subfamily: Cystophorinae Tribe: Miroungini Genus: Mirounga Species: M. leonina

@ronlacker326 7 ай бұрын

This post: too longica

@footfault1941 Жыл бұрын

They may have thick skin, but look at those hideous wounds! Some very fresh! No easy life.

@fonich5186 Жыл бұрын

Father and grandfather after couple of beers

@davidfitcher2953 Жыл бұрын

2:25 Victory Laugh

@boompa92 Жыл бұрын

I witnessed these battles in California. Impressive to see, but I can't forget the smell like rotten liver coming from the animals.

@alvirosy Жыл бұрын

must be such an experience! :'D

@jamesmayday657 Жыл бұрын

Looks like my family fighting over the last turkey leg at Thanksgiving

@chilisgrl 7 ай бұрын

This is so dramatic. But I can relate to this. It is pretty much like to battle between me, my sister(middle child), and my brother(the youngest) Fighting over the remote or to bake with our nana

@svent2938 Жыл бұрын

Finally the story behind that beautiful outro

@darrentan4579 Жыл бұрын

King Penguin Bird Paradise

@Littlekoji-df1cf Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the sauropod fight in prehistoric planet.

@wolfman2.055 Жыл бұрын

They drew inspiration from this to write that scene

@Littlekoji-df1cf Жыл бұрын

@@wolfman2.055 I can see that😄

@creampuff28 9 күн бұрын

Face only a mother could love.

@chiekofukuda4668 Жыл бұрын

ナレーションが好き❣️激しいバトルであまり傷つかないといいけど😱平和でありますよう様に💓

@3winanimal Жыл бұрын

戦争で誰かが傷つき、

@nekoneko5777 Жыл бұрын

only male beings do wars, the inferior Ys

@Silence_OF_Darkness-xo1ir 8 ай бұрын

Imagine the very early early humans first seeing something like that coming their way 😱

@jahrusalem3658 7 ай бұрын

Would've shat themselves XD.

@loza9585 7 ай бұрын

@@jahrusalem3658 i think we all would shit ourselves

@MrOiram46 6 ай бұрын

@@jahrusalem3658 They wiped out the mammoths though 🤣

@jahrusalem3658 6 ай бұрын

@@MrOiram46 Yeah, doesn't mean they can't be intimidated by a several-ton animal.

@DavisJ-ln6fw 5 ай бұрын

@@MrOiram46 No we didn't. We sped it up their extinction but we didn't make them extinct .

@WJen8 2 ай бұрын

Basically my family reunions 😅

@aiseu Жыл бұрын

dam so this what be goin on down there

@drewbert420 7 ай бұрын

Was amazing to watch 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@lalruatfelatlaichhun.2053 Жыл бұрын

Like him that.😊

@anmy1962 Жыл бұрын

2:00 Wow.😂

@matthewlindstrom8728 6 ай бұрын

They are funny the way they let the penguins run

@TheOneHereNow 3 ай бұрын

Sorry, dad just got back from a colonoscopy 😂😂😂

@sherryelder9511 Ай бұрын

Unspoiled wilderness and no human inhabide places where wildlife is untameable is another reason I will live off grid and where I'll be.

@mahdikhan9443 4 ай бұрын

Where did the video audio go

@LennoxmeineckeGHG Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, they are really aggressive 🤐🙁🤯

@Littlekoji-df1cf Жыл бұрын

Can't let others take the booty😏

@boringvloggershankar9503 Жыл бұрын

Slow motion fight scene

@sforza209 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see someone ride one of those male elephant seals.

@brandonvillatuya9539 9 ай бұрын

0:45 lol

@nathancomixproductions466 7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Happy Feet 2.

@phasm42 Жыл бұрын

4 tons, holy shit that's a big boy.

@AyeAyeMon Жыл бұрын

I've never seen that animal before

@CastleKnight7 Ай бұрын

“Get!”

@Auroral_Anomaly 7 ай бұрын

Subtitles are wild on this one.💀

@commanderbell1965 4 ай бұрын

Being Bull Elephant Seal is a hard life.

@keithwilson6060 5 ай бұрын

Scarier than even two grizzlies fighting.

@raphael7411 Жыл бұрын

Bros has the biggest harem

@Calafated 4 ай бұрын

Where clodsire

@wildone8397 5 ай бұрын

Bro won't even share just one of his hundred ladies 🤣😆

@virbradez03 10 ай бұрын

Byran: WE ARE OUTSIDE

@jojobegood Жыл бұрын

💐

@josephpachev8753 Жыл бұрын

These seals are SIMPS 😂

@SmogBot Жыл бұрын

best part 1:29

@Zuxtron 10 ай бұрын

No, best part is just a few seconds earlier, 1:22 with all the penguins screaming "OH LAWD HE COMIN, GET OUT THE WAY!"

@ilyasanzo Жыл бұрын

Terrifying

@DeinocheirusEnjoyer 8 ай бұрын

they sound like taco bell restrooms

@armanonlinetv1291 Жыл бұрын

Masha Allah

@alchemy5750 8 ай бұрын

It's so weird to see seals still having claws/nails on their flippers. A reminder that indeed they evolved from bears.

@paleopal 7 ай бұрын

They didn't evolve from bears. Bears are just their closest living relatives.

@darrentan4579 Жыл бұрын

King Penguin SeaWorld Abu Dhabi

@bil0279 Ай бұрын

1:45 haha fart war

@AiltonBritoEnglish Жыл бұрын

👋🇧🇷

@bigguyg2 Жыл бұрын

Part of that looked like a.i.

@serejahrai Жыл бұрын

What a sounds! Try to listen, but don't watch)))

@MkUltraJrk Ай бұрын

all i have to say is damn

@chavruta2000 8 ай бұрын

Holding, number 68, offense. replay first down.

@kirayoshikage1491 4 ай бұрын

Sheesh that sounds pretty miserable, having to fight constantly and not even getting a chance to eat

@Fiyaaaahh Жыл бұрын

I always wondered why elephant seals didn't evolve to have bigger teeth to win these battles. Does anyone know?

@colinfisher6750 Жыл бұрын

There’s probably no need for the teeth to be bigger since they get the job done, as shown here. They’d most likely only develop bigger teeth if they needed to kill their opponent.

@Fiyaaaahh Жыл бұрын

@@colinfisher6750 I can't image how having bigger teeth than what they have currently does not give them a huge advantage in these battles. I'm not saying they should have tusks like real elephants, just bigger than what they are now. I can't think of any evolution pressure that keeps them this small.

@TheRed971 Жыл бұрын

The teeth don't really come into play during these fights. All males have tons of scars from bites against other males. The REAL damage they inflict upon another is when they use their weight and mass to slam into their opponent. As the narrator says, "blubber 15cm thick protects from the cold, but not from the impact of a 4 ton opponent." Not that the bites don't hurt, but it's the slam that does 90% of the damage.

@Fiyaaaahh Жыл бұрын

@@TheRed971 But still 4 tons behind a long tooth should cause more damage than 4 ton behind a small one, right?

@TheRed971 Жыл бұрын

@@Fiyaaaahh The design of the animal would change completely by that point. In order to compensate for the longer fangs, the blubber would have to be even thicker, which means the animal is now possibly larger and heavier than it was before. Without that change, longer fangs mean that fights between males would result in more fatalities since the fangs would pierce deeper and cause more potentially fatal injuries.

@rishin8012 Жыл бұрын

PETER V/S CHRIS

@jamesclarke3112 8 ай бұрын

Fun fact I got chased by one in new Zealand

@hadassah2998 6 ай бұрын

The epic battle of blubber against blubber. The epic battle of the blubber. These spectacular creatures made me smile and laugh. They are cute in their own unique way. But🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 battleling bulge to bulge. Its like who ever gives the biggest bulge punch wins.😂😂🤭🤭 omg he almost squashed the baby!😵‍💫🥵

@nickkuiper32 7 ай бұрын

Every video got better with lots or fart noises

@Predation_records Жыл бұрын

Most disgusting animal in the carnivora order lol

@bossmatsymoto Жыл бұрын

🎀дякую🇺🇦

@rixxy9204 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my ex

@ronlacker326 8 ай бұрын

Funny, cause your ex told me the same thing about you

@rixxy9204 8 ай бұрын

@@ronlacker326 No... she really didn't. My ex was about as fit as a double bass.

@declup Жыл бұрын

How exactly is the victor determined? In the video, we only see the challenger decide to back down, but why? How does he know that he's lost? And what would be the consequences if he decided to continue fighting anyway? Or even abandon the fight and go elsewhere in the other bull's territory?

@stansman5461 Жыл бұрын

They intimidate each other as they square up. After that they raise up and grunt. This is to intimidate the other and show off their size. He backs off because he is intimidated. He believes he will lose. If he didn't, he would've fought. If they fight, they risk getting gravely hurt. And the challenger much rather fight tomorrow than be injured to the point he won't be able to fight again. Edit: they also did fight. The smashing into each other. The challenger felt hurt and felt at risk of injury more so than the hope of injuring the other.

@elijah.franklin2602 4 ай бұрын

Basically it's a matter of submission

@declup 4 ай бұрын

@@stansman5461 -- Is there any external sign of injury? It doesn't look like it, so I guess observers would be inclined to assume the challenger's taken enough internal damage or pain to warrant giving up. Since the video doesn't provide any evidence of internal injury, that can only be an assumption, though.

@richardjonsson1745 Ай бұрын

Can't help but wonder how much of their fight is just "crazy testosterone frenzy" (just look at those crazy eyes...) and how much is carefully masured tactics. Either way, it is earhtshaking.

@matthewlindstrom8728 6 ай бұрын

Did the elephant seals sing the song that goes like rolin rolin rolin movin movin movin keep those doggies moving road hogs rain and wind and weather helping forever wishing me girl was by me side