Bringing extinct species alive - Hortobagy National Park

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Bringing extinct species alive - Hortobagy National Park

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Be Brave To Act

Күн бұрын

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@cathyhaynes2903 Ай бұрын

What a pleasure it is to see those amazing, ancient wild horses!

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Yes, indeed. It will be also great when one day there will thousands of them running free in the steeps and grasslands all over the world

@leswallace2426 Ай бұрын

I visited the Hortobagy NP in 1990!!! Many wonderful memories (the Hungarian grey cattle), will have to visit again!

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Nice. I think it changed quite a lot since 1990

@erikm8372 Ай бұрын

The mayfly breeding cycle is such a good example of the biodiversity in this place. Not only are the insects coming together to breed, but once they die, it is a yearly feast for the fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals, and any other creatures that are insectivorous! I think you can compare it to the life cycle of the salmon… here in America. The adults return to the rivers to breed and die… just like the mayfly. Then the salmon end up feeding entire ecosystems, from the animals to the plants and the fungi and mycorrhizae network. The high amount of nutrients from all of those dead fish (or mayflies) is spread around the environment too, and fertilizes all the trees and plants!

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

It's true! Thanks for such detailed description of a salmon life cycle. Never thought about that salmon in the end could feed plants and fungi. It's always fascinates me how everything is balanced in the eco system. And how one species depended on another, in many possible and sometimes unimaginable ways .

@olgacvetkova114 Ай бұрын

Wow, what a beautiful place! And such a great job done by all those people who created and maintain this national park! Thanks for sharing, Dima! Be brave to act, everyone! Even some small good deeds to help our planet can make a difference. We just need more people on board! 😉🌱🌳🌲🌾🌿

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Thank you very much Olga. Yes, indeed every action counts. I think the most important thing is not to be ignorant. Every person is capable of doing something for the nature regardless how large or small it is. Thank you also for your support and genue interest in my work.

@Project_2501 Ай бұрын

Very outstanding video! Well done, in every regard!

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

thank you a lot :) !

@Oli_Thompson Ай бұрын

Woah, what a fantastic video covering a fantastic location - they're doing amazing work at this place, clearly! Thanks for sharing

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@achillesheel7314 Ай бұрын

Great work you are doing. Thank you for sharing!

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!!!

@cindywest6536 Ай бұрын

Beautiful video!!! I live in the US and had the great pleasure of visiting the Hortobagy National Park back in 2016! I was extremely impressed. Although I didn't see the Przewalski's Horses (I wish I had been able to see them), I did see some amazing cattle breeds. But my main reason for visiting was for birding. Hortobagy was one of my fondest memories in all of my years of birding trips. I would also like to add that the people of Hungary were very warm and welcoming. If I ever get a chance, I will certainly visit again!!!

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Yeah its a paradise for birding for sure!

@Wildnativeedimentals Ай бұрын

Thank you all, for what you do🙏🏼🌺🌴🇵🇭❤️

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@andreamobeck200 Ай бұрын

Why you dont have thousands more likes?......I dont understand. Thank you so much !!!

@eligebrown8998 Ай бұрын

I never hear any good news f Out of Hungry and that erea of Europe. This is a breath of fresh air. This is awsome.

@DragonFae16 Ай бұрын

Hate to tell you this, but DNA evidence shows that the Takhi (Przewalski horse) are likely descended from a line of domesticated horses, those of the Botai Culture of Central Asia, that no longer exist that subsequently went feral. They are what mustangs and brumbies will be if allowed to stay wild for another 4,000 years. While it is possible that the Botai took horses from the same gene pool as the ancestors of today's Takhi, making them cousins, without definitive evidence, we can't call them the last true wild horse if your definition of a true wild horse excludes those descended from feral animals.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

That’s Interesting, experts in the field told me that they are wild and never been domesticated. So that’s where i got information. But wikipedia also mention your point about Botai horses.

@DragonFae16 Ай бұрын

@@BeBraveToAct To me, regardless of whether they come from previously domesticated stock that went feral or not, they are wild horses. After all, they've been wild for the last 5,000 years at least.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Yeah exactly :) I think the same. The most important that they are still here. And we can save the species

@mikeycbaby Ай бұрын

Also they are filling the same niche in the ecosystem that the non domesticated ancestors did.

@quitlife9279 Ай бұрын

I've looked into the study, and it cannot prove that Przewalski horse were descended from Botai horses, as it's also possible they were both descended from the same ancient wild ancestor population, so yeah i don't think you can definitively say they aren't wild either based on that.

@robertrobert7924 Ай бұрын

I was hoping to see Wisent Bison and an improved version of the Aurochs with a larger shoulder hump. Loved the Wild Horses. Wish Mammoths could be brought back.

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Ай бұрын

I can agree to bringing back recently extinct species, provided there is space for them which allows a good quality of life. I can find no reason to bring back the mammoth which no longer belongs in any modern ecosystem and could cause great damage to native modern species. It would very cool, but nut wise.

@BigJFindAWay Ай бұрын

That’s easily remedied. Contact the body positivity people and send them to Hungary and let them dress in hairy suits. You’ll get all the mammoth you could want.

@SemajResarf 17 күн бұрын

@@sharonkaczorowski8690 they are gonna put them in siberia to battle climate change. Something silly like that anyway.

@kellyharrison5184 Ай бұрын

Great video! Great channel, and great philosophy! You have a new subscriber.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Very happy to hear that

@jameskelman9856 Ай бұрын

Nicely done , Thanks

@666Kazekage666 Ай бұрын

I'd like to see them clone an auroch bull and take that shortcut

@rejmons1 Ай бұрын

The last aurochs were not shot down! The last herd of aurochs in Jaktorów Forrest (the king's property) had a special king's official who cared for them. For instance, he gave them food in snowy winters, counted the population of aurochs and a special royal decree ordered other officials to cooperate with him. Bad luck - the last years of the XVI and the beginning of the XVII were the most frosty and snowy times in the Nort of Europe in known history. Baltic sea was regularly frozen so people on horses and merchant carts wandered through it! And in these times came to this part of Europe the unknown there a deadly for aurochs cattle disease epidemic. At the very beginning of the XVII century, almost all the population of aurochs was dead. Only one female remained. This female aurochs lived for the next twenty years alone but was still fully cared for by the king's official. She died in 1627 year and her horn was given to the king after her natural death and the king ordered it to be set in silver as a souvenir of this wonderful animal!. By the way: In the time of war between Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the middle of the XVII century was stolen by the Swedish and now is in Sweden.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Oh wow! Where did you get all this information from?

@thenewhope8171 Ай бұрын

This is the reason i subscribed to mossy earth, to do something

@pr7049 Ай бұрын

Only visent european bison, tsaiga antelope and turpan wild donkey lacking.

@jimroberts3009 Ай бұрын

They should really be called Aurochs-looking or Auroch-like cattle. They're not real Aurochs. They're not a genetic match (genotype) for the Aurochs they just look similar (phenotype). So sadly the Aurochs is still extinct. For more about the breeding of Aurochs-like cattle look up the the "Taurus Programme ".

@pelangisinghasari7036 Ай бұрын

But they still from domestic auroch

@BigJFindAWay Ай бұрын

Ok Karen.

@jimroberts3009 Ай бұрын

Auroch were never domesticated.@@pelangisinghasari7036

@seandefreitas6673 Ай бұрын

Hungary is a place I'd love to visit for it's beautiful architecture, I'll put that National Park on the must see list when I get there.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Perfect! You won't regret it !

@reddixiecrat Ай бұрын

Who is overseeing the back breeding of these aurochs?

@JosephDeLuna-yj8vg 26 күн бұрын

Nice To Know!!!

@paulvandenberg5341 Ай бұрын

Well done, Hungarians!

@PaleoGość07 Ай бұрын

If we can bring aurochs back only by selective breeding we can bring other species too...

@jed_91 Ай бұрын

Mint video

@michaellowry9634 12 күн бұрын

Can't just leave nature alone ? Always have to fiddle with it , to what end ? ? ? Ours !

@Invading-Specious Ай бұрын

What the Heck cattle?

@21stcenturypeasant5 Ай бұрын

Exactly that, heck-cattle :D Okay but jokes aside, it's the specific breeds of cattle, that are bred by those fascist fucks back in the 1930's. The breed couldn't really survive in the wild in it's own, but it gave a strong basis for future project that reached to re-surrect aurochs in the wild. There may never be aurochs again, but cattle that acts and looks the same, is possible.

@MrGaborseres Ай бұрын

Awesome 👌 👍

@kristinebailey6554 18 күн бұрын

Those horses are beautiful! But. ...........they are not the only wild horses in the world. We have wild horses in many U.S. States.

@SemajResarf 17 күн бұрын

These horse are an ancient breed. We have wild horse where im from but they look like normal horses.

@DeeSmith001 Ай бұрын

Aurochs are bigger than that. 6 feet at the shoulder

@kamilg5368 Ай бұрын

fajne miejsce

@KisHeszusz Ай бұрын

The wierdest thing is Hortobágy shouldn't be a dry plain. It was originally a marsh with forests

@hanspeter5372 Ай бұрын

I wouldn’t consider the lifespan of a mayfly just two hours (imago stage) but would add all the years of nymph stage on top which I would consider the real life of this insect. I love them so much!

@AndrewSpry Ай бұрын

Brilliant video.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@braddbradd5671 Ай бұрын

I think they have those horse in Enfield on a nature reserve or they could be Polish but they say there wild

@damaslpressath Ай бұрын

this is all breed from last russian "Przewalski"horses", named after russian Przewalski (polish origin family) and the Aurochs is defenitivly extinct, this is just a breeding of different types of cattle that have certain traits of the aurochs. But of course it is a completely different animal just looking like ;)

@braddbradd5671 Ай бұрын

@@damaslpressath I just found out there Konik Ponies from Poland ,,I do believe that some people crossed these with Przewalski and produced something else ..But i guess there all tough little buggers that can look after them selves any were in Northern Europe

@markshen3280 Ай бұрын

Is tourism destroying this wildlife reserve? I think that tourism should be kept to a minimum to reduce loss of animal species.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

From what I've seen it's not at all. For example it's only 1 herd of horses which you could see from safari , about 25 of them. The rest (and in total they have 300) are kept in biosphere reserve (which is huge area) , and no one could visit it. Those horses have no contact with any humans at all. Also the tours they are doing are highly educative, it's not like they are trying to make money or build a business model and make it mass tourism. From my impression it is still more about education. From my experience in many other places I usually can notice that straight away. And i really oppose mass tourism. But it's a good point which you brought up

@Bob_Adkins Ай бұрын

Ecotourism is usually more beneficial than harmful. And don't forget, the ancestors of these animals had contact with humans hundreds of thousands of years ago.

@behavior852 17 күн бұрын

WOW!!!

@SemajResarf 17 күн бұрын

The germans did the same thing with the cows. In the 2nd war

@bill5982 Ай бұрын

Introduce beavers to help with with the wetlands.

@katherinekoza6536 Ай бұрын

The Hortobagy is the flattest land i have ever seen . Visited 1976 .

@Iemand-q826 Ай бұрын

they sould introduce a pheasant type bird near the auroch and horse group so they can eat the fly larva wich grow in the dung this wil decrease the fly population and increase the quality of life landrace chickens, partridges or black neck pheasants would be good options

@Hamishtarah Ай бұрын

Herman Goering (WWII) tried to recreate the Auroch race, he created a new race of aggressive cows, after WWII a Briish farmers kept them. They kept their behaviours and were alwyas keen on attacking other annimals and humans of course one day they manged to kill the farmer and the most aggersive ones were culled. Some specimens may still exist in the UK.

@BeBraveToAct Ай бұрын

That’s interesting, some one was mentioned to me that the recreation was started by nazis in Germany somewhere around WWII

@ajaxtelamonian5134 Ай бұрын

The Chillingham cattle in the UK are quite wild.

@erinkinsey8831 Ай бұрын

Victor Orban is a great man for doing this.

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Ай бұрын

At what point does a “feral” horse become a “wild” horse…if they’ve run will first hundreds or thousands of years aren’t they wild?

@BigJFindAWay Ай бұрын

They’re feral when they just start running around with the wrong crowd. They’re wild when they run around with the wrong crowd and do drugs.

@Random-fd1oh Ай бұрын

Holocene park

@Zebred2001 Ай бұрын

Great video but please spare us more "climate change" hysteria. There is no crisis!

@michaelwalker5932 18 күн бұрын

Yeah right climate scientist you sound like a trump maggat

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Ай бұрын

Greed is the source of all suffering. Capitalism encourages greed and has no ethical underpinning to remotely balance the imperative to profit. The consequences are dire.

@BigJFindAWay Ай бұрын

Communism is much more destructive if ecology than capitalism is. Look up Aral Sea.