Meet the Tiny Foxes That Shouldn’t Be Alive

Meet the Tiny Foxes That Shouldn’t Be Alive | WIRED

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7 жыл бұрын

A decade ago the tiny island fox was on the brink of extinction. Now, thanks to a radical reordering of its California island ecosystem, the fox is coming off the endangered species list.
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Meet the Tiny Foxes That Shouldn’t Be Alive | WIRED
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@nenafan1 7 жыл бұрын

They are freaking adorable!! Hopefully they can keep on growing their population!

@Dubstequtie 2 жыл бұрын

I went to Catalina island the other day, and I got to see one of these little guys. I am so happy they were protected and cared for with such determination, foxes are amazing creatures.

@janehughart9290 3 жыл бұрын

Saw quite a few of these little guys about 8 years ago when I went camping on the islands for a week. They’re cute but be advised they’re also little thieves so it’s best to keep your food and trash in safe, fox-proof containers.

@graytlo 7 жыл бұрын

Next up, rhinos. Seriously, we gotta save those beautiful beasts. And fast.

@ramonawhitaker4503 7 жыл бұрын

graytlo YES.

@graytlo 3 жыл бұрын

@just an SDR fan here I can’t find anything online saying that’s true. Their eggs have been harvested in a push to save their species.

@MissLaurneyBean1 7 жыл бұрын

All I can say is yay for the foxes!!

@nonchalantd 7 жыл бұрын

looks like a wild chihuahua

@ramonawhitaker4503 7 жыл бұрын

nonchalantd My favorite comment...

@kahanuermeyas-tulu4056 3 жыл бұрын

No it doesn’t ugly.

@moshewakatelutiw6233 3 жыл бұрын

looks like my chihuahua. Just brown colored and more aggressive facial features

@3v1l73ddy 7 жыл бұрын

To all of you speaking like they went genocide on the boars. They didn't. The boars were not native to the islands, they flourished and brought other predators that tore at the island. The foxes WERE native. They didn't commit genocide because the boars still exist naturally where they were supposed to. What they did was undo a previous stupid human mistake to allow the islands to return to their original ecosystem; with the small grey foxes. This problem of non-native animals causing a muck is a world wide problem. Foxes are killing Australia's Little penguins because they were introduced there and shouldn't have been. Foxes are by far my favourite animal and they are magnificently beautiful creatures, but perhaps they should do to the foxes on phillip island what they did to the boars in this video. It would save the little penguin, who is native, and return some equality to the ecosystem. If you wanna be mad, be mad at the dumb humans who introduced these animals to the wrong places in the first place.

@user-cw2py6wh8l 4 жыл бұрын

There's no excuse for genocide.

@bighongus4243 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-cw2py6wh8l stop killing bugs.

@beleven13 2 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@antonioferrari241 Жыл бұрын

Scientists: How are you not dead!?! Island fox: I have no idea!

@ChrisRoxDuhh Жыл бұрын

Thinking going to Channel Islands NP and can't wait to see the little guys

@beleven13 2 жыл бұрын

Precious foxes!

@SharkLordProductions 10 ай бұрын

Fun fact, these guys are thought to have been at least semi-domesticated by the indigenous peoples living on the Channel Islands. That's why they're so tame and docile to the researchers

@sethmitchell2176 7 жыл бұрын

What a cute little foxlet x3

@spencersholden 2 жыл бұрын

I got to see one when I went to Catalina Island. Dang raccoons bringing rabbis never wiped out the population.

@gorutra 3 жыл бұрын

I just went to Santa Cruz Island and just go to hear a fox running through the bush. Next time.

@NormanF62 Жыл бұрын

They have no fear of man or of predators due to ecological naïveté. That’s their Achilles heel but its also their salvation because it’s easy to round them up and keep them out of danger.

@Mike-01234 2 жыл бұрын

wonder how did the fox get to those islands?

@gavind351 2 жыл бұрын

Same way there's red foxes in north america, europe and asia. Glaciers!

@NormanF62 Жыл бұрын

During the last Ice Age, there was a huge island off the California coast and their mainland gray fox ancestors walked across the frozen ice bridge to the island. Then the weather warmed, sea levels rose and the once huge island split into its present fragments. Due to the requirements of island life, the gray fox shrank drastically in size and developed into different species on the islands on which it lived.

@accesser 7 жыл бұрын

this made me happy

@runemaster451 7 жыл бұрын

adorable

@AlvinCornelius 7 жыл бұрын

What does it say?

@karstenvonfjellheim5321 7 жыл бұрын

We can be Heroes...

@skeletonforge4483 Жыл бұрын

So your saying that they are curious and not dangerous, and can be bred easily in captivity. Sounds like we need domesticated island friends

@NotGrimman 7 жыл бұрын

I want one :P

@escarface 7 жыл бұрын

its cute!

@843wj3 7 жыл бұрын

I thought it would be fennecs

@ObsydianShade 4 ай бұрын

Thankfully, the Fennec population is stable, because a lot of them live in the Sahara Desert, where not many humans dwell...or want to, for that matter.

@kiloton1920 Жыл бұрын

2:20 why is he face switching out so badly? Wtf?

@cr0wb3rry 7 ай бұрын

MY THERIOTYPE :D

@cruzada07 3 жыл бұрын

let's save animals that are endangered

@trppo 2 жыл бұрын

These foxes are terrified of her!

@xtps1 7 жыл бұрын

Why???

@DogsBAwesome 7 жыл бұрын

without foxes, you could end up with too many rodents.

@christianninsananda9626 7 жыл бұрын

Why not???

@christianninsananda9626 7 жыл бұрын

xtps1 Over 100,000,000 pigs are killed yearly in the US alone just to put bacon on the table. Over 1 billion pigs are killed worldwide for food annually.

@xtps1 7 жыл бұрын

***** this is sad but an other topic

@DogsBAwesome 7 жыл бұрын

xtps1 Feral pigs are a menace and very destructive

@paulilie8986 7 жыл бұрын

@vs16694 7 жыл бұрын

I'm Early as f. Now stop those posts.

@user-cw2py6wh8l 4 жыл бұрын

Why they kill off the swines? Those hunters are swines.

@bighongus4243 3 жыл бұрын

Why not? Swine are big bullies, eating and destroying everything.

@anonymoushuman7686 2 жыл бұрын

Because the swines were invasive, and ruining the natural ecosystem

@user-cw2py6wh8l 2 жыл бұрын

@@anonymoushuman7686 That's not how evolution works.

@Johkah 7 жыл бұрын

Let's save a population by destroying another! Only cute animals allowed on earth? Gotcha

@xtps1 7 жыл бұрын

MoonBeamLaser it is not the pigs fault and there was a time the fox invaded the islands

@MoonBeamLaser 7 жыл бұрын

xtps1 yeah i blame the humans!

@teachermissshell 7 жыл бұрын

Are you always sarcastically critical or did you make an effort to understand why the feral pigs were eliminated? It has nothing to do with which species is cuter; before man released pigs on the islands, the foxes flourished. As is often the case, human actions messed up the natural balance and nearly caused the extinction of a species. This program simply reversed that mistake.

@Fnatic2010 7 жыл бұрын

How about przewalski's horse then? One polish guy comes and "discovers" these wild horses in 1878. Then comes devils in the disguise of western white man. After century of poaching, this animal went extinct in 1969. But no that is not the end of story, that fucking poachers who resulted extinction, now comes out as angels telling locals how they are going to revive that animal. At least that animal survived and now flourishing but for 30 years, it was extinct in its only homeland and one has to think of primary reason this animal went extinct. Yet now that same culprit is heralded as the savior. That is bullshit and fucking hypocrisy.

@ramonawhitaker4503 7 жыл бұрын

Shelli Wittig Exactly. Here in Texas, we have a serious problem with feral pigs. They are destructive and dangerous, killing pets, livestock, etc.

@haitianrefugee8454 7 жыл бұрын

Wired is looking to be the next Vet Ranch with this crap.

@lauk05 7 жыл бұрын

Who's to say a swine life is worth less than that of a fox?

@GhostSamaritan 7 жыл бұрын

Hypocritical humans. 🐸🍵

@xtps1 7 жыл бұрын

They do not look at the individuals only on the species. So in their mind it is totaly fine to kill as long you do not endanger the species, so an endangered species is more worth as other species. And possibly they think a "cute" species is a ton more worth. What a mimdset like this does to our world? Go and look at the news

@Tdrummer888 7 жыл бұрын

+x BublizZ it wasn't even remotely hypocritical, great job watching the video champ

@iamtristladin 7 жыл бұрын

+xtps1 stupid

@Theredhaunter 7 жыл бұрын

Swine is more tasty.