So the marten chases the hare down the road away from the camera, then the film just stops. What happened? Then we have a closer shot of the marten in the snow. Then the hare is running towards the camera and decides to turn around and run back down the road. Then the marten does this, the hare does that … and so on. This is basically a chase scene from scooby doo. The only thing missing is them running in and out of different doors. If these film clips are of the same marten chasing the same hare, I’d love to know how the camera managed to catch all of this? And why there is such a lack of continuity in the film overall?

I am absolutely floored that a marten can hunt a hare down, had no idea they had that kind of speed and endurance. thanks for posting this amazing footage!

Damn dude...martens got endurance like Devon Larratt!!

I just can't get enough of this video...

Martens are BAD A** !!!!! Right up there with badgers and wolverines. No fear !!!👹👹

Martens are cute little killers :-)

That marten is giving a middle finger to natural selection.

Looks more like the marten had been trained to hunt and then retrieve it.

Marten has enormous power for its weight..see how it drags a Hare effortlessly..Bunny is so heavy and cannot survive against these slim and trim killers

Nice use of the rabbit run

You probably can tame them, though you'd gave to get one really young and and you'd have to go through a few generations before they were properly tame, but people keep ferrets and they are very similar creatures (only ferrets are domesticated).

Nice video.. I watched this myself in Northern Ontario twice. The marten just keeps following and the snowshoe keeps circling back to its home range until the marten gives up or catches it.The 2 times I seen it the rabbit won once and lost once.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the rabbit start screaming at 1:42. That's when the marten finally got the hare.

Now that is some fantastic wildlife video, well done

I'm only 25 seconds in, and WOW, what a chase! Will the rabbit run out of steam?? Let's continue!

This video is so great! I'm working on a facts video about martens and other mustelids. Would it be possible to use a clip of this video to help explain their behavior?

See how the Marten chooses the smoother ground to run on so it's far easier & it just never gives up, its relentless when it persues it just runs & runs

Wow... fantastic job!

As Pink Floyd said........" run rabbit run ". 😎

WOAH, look at those critters go, their legs are like blurs!

Awesome!

How did You manage to type it? Have You had more cameras? Great!

How did you record this?

The marten is a bad ass hunter💯

These basterds can chase prey for ages, agile as fuck, can also climb trees. They are like canines and felines combined. Imagine if they were as big as a Tiger or a Jaguar! They'd probably take down any terrestrial creature.

Friggen awesome, I shot a rabbit a couple years ago & just after I shot him a marten came out. Love this video, i'll have to watch this one a few time's ..!!

HOLY SH_T!!!!! that was awsome !!! thanks for the vid.

Hares aren't any too brite. They's why they breed like rabbits. Kind of like humans ...

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No, the author of the video probably did NOT shoot the hare. Turn up your sound. At 1:42, the marten disappears into the bushes where the rabbit just went. At 1:43, you can faintly (but clearly) hear the rabbit screaming and squealing. The hare probably ran into the bushes and then froze. Martens are supposed to have a good sense of smell, so by holding still, the hare would just be signing its own death warrant. So I highly doubt that the author of the video shot the hare. There was no need, the marten caught it, as you can clearly hear at 1:43-1:46. What the author DID probably do- once the hare was dead- was separate it from the marten, drag it out onto the road, and set up a camera. The marten isn't going to run away very far, and this allowed the author to grab nice close up shots of the marten dragging the hare back into the woods for a meal.

this is good the hare giving the martin a run for its money but does it get away

All righty. :)

0:46 you're food.

great footage!

Was the rabbit ambushed by both you and the marten here? Why did the marten hit your gear? An explanation would be nice.

No way in hell a martin catches a snowshoe hare in deep snow like that. I suspect this whole thing is a set up.

LOL.....the rabbit suffered a massive coronary after running about 30 miles.

Look how stiff the hare’s body was when the marten went to drag it off. Not a fresh kill at all and slightly frozen from it sitting there for some time.

Plenty of people believe a rabbit can simply outrun a marten. Short term in can. But ermines, stoats, martens, and others of that species have unbelievable endurance

I had seen a marten killed a calf. Becareful marten is such a fearless predator that's capable of killing big animals many times their size.

Unfortunately, I do not speak English well, so I did not read all the comments. Firstly, it's not a marten, but a sable. Shooted, most likely, in Siberia. Secondly, the voice of the shed hare-whitecable is clearly heard on the video. This is me to the fact that the video is not a fraud. I apologize for the bad English (used Google-translator).

Não entendí, Como o coelho morreu?

Great video guys!

NICE VIDEO

Just a couple dudes working some shit out.

God, my Transylvania Hound wouldn't have believed her luck if both of these came running by. She's have had them killed and buried inside of 2 minutes.

nice video, only if they could be tame I will love to have one, joust so I don't feel bad for hopping that they being taking out of the wood were they have being part of what I think why I haven't seeing many squirrel, bird, foxes, grouse, pheasant, turkey,rabbit, and so on.

...before shooting the hare and giving it to the marten

The hare was caught some where in the bushes that's why Marten catch it other wise he was not able to catch the hare

Sweet. Keep "Livin' Outdoors"

I think it had a heart attack. It's been known to happen.

Cameraman vs the hare

👍🏻

Great camera work -- your are fortunate to have witnessed that

We didn't understand music. What's he got to do with the video?

This video looks staged.

I was gonna film my bobcat .lynx.and fox but since you folks go straight to comments to argue points i want no part in this Bs. We all have 2 eyes 2 ears and one mouth.if we watch and listen twice as much as we yap we will be much wiser folk!

Не на того напала. Ну его нафиг ХD

In reality the rabbit is faster. Obviously the marten is smarter

Marten 150 CC VS Hare 250 CC I think Hare the winner

It was a set-up by the cameraman, he blocked the exit for the hare, and it had to run back down towards the Martin, once that happened the hare had two problem the idiot with the camera and the Martin

MANTAGEM

liiiiiiike

우리동네 뒷산의 들고양이들이 산토끼를 잡아서 뜯어먹더라

Someone killed those hares and left them for the marten to find.

Wonder full editing

你阻擋了兔子的路線 影響他逃生，既是如此，就該救牠，不然就是你害了牠。

Marten's reaction is definitely one of surprise to see Hare's dead and still.... So He might have not killed it.... It could be not the same marten to find the hare dead.... while the chasing marten is still lost somewhere panting trying to catch its breath after a frutiless chase.... It's a mystery as to the hare's death, I can only think a heart attack fron fear and exhaustion

Lol

Switch from chasing alive hare to a dead one😏

Por tu culpa fue cazado aquel conejo

This was close to Smithers B.C while I had a client out moose hunting in Nov 2011.

You fucked with it...

All that running only to still get fucked up. 😭😭

utanmasa tavsanı yakalayacak

Poor decision making on the part of the hare.

you should be ashamed! that rabbit earned his victory.

I just put the hare on the road after the maten killed it and set the camera beside it, walked away hoping for the best. Did this twice and the second time he hit the camera with the hare before going dragging it into the timber to feed.

nice, weird system the hare's have! walk a while, then turn, walk in theire own tracks and when jump out of the tracks! they take the dogs for a ride...

When you're determine for something.. just follow the example of this critter.. high endurance and fearless mammal.

Nice

b/s

lol the marten definitely didn't kill that hare, watch how he walks up to it like "well hello there". If he killed it on his own they wouldn't have had time to position the camera, and he wouldn't have left the hare there. It'd also be bloody from the marten actually biting through it's neck/throat for the kill. I mean marten's are so cute so any footage is nice, but come on

Poor Hare, he had to look out for the Marten and this psycho..

I don't believe the marten caught the hare. You shot the hare.

I'll

awesome

You blocked the path of that rabbit to get your precious video. Ever hear of interfering with wildlife? Its a federal crime.

0:44 you basically scared the rabbit back towards the marten, you altered the natural outcome.

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Lol. Your video never does actually show the Marten "catching" the hare. So, you set the dead hare out on the road towards the end and put a camera on the ground and waited for the marten come and grab it?

Ахуеный фильм !

TL;DW 1:46

Did the camera man caused the hare to turn back toward the marten?

this video was a setup thing. someone force the hare to go back the same way and the hare may be shot to feed for the marten.

Your intervention really destroyed the law of nature Hare should be escaped 😏

Pretty sure you killed the rabbit and all the marten did was stumble upon it.

1.47 setup. Cut. Boom. You shoot rabbit, and give it to martin.😜

Bloody camera man

if you wernt in the way Hare would have got away