Great video. The history part was wrong, the islands were discovered by Spain.. they belong to Argentina, btw. thank you for mentioning the name Malvinas. Hope my comment did not bother you. I recently discovered your channel, and it is great. Guess KZfaq recommended a video of your channel because of the emphasis you have on Sri Lanka... "the tigers of (i don't remember)". So YT taught wildlife + Sri Lanka this video is for him. But these tigers were some other thing, part of a human catastrophe.

never apologize for sharing information. toes be damned.

@@Hy-Brasil I didn't see this until now but thanks for saying that. It might seem like a small thing, but I'm neurodivergent and have had a lot of struggles with this kind of thing so it's nice to be assured it was okay ^^;;

Exactly!

a good/wholesome thing being terribly taking advantage off. :(

@@AegleCreations Thank you for such a depressing video.

It literally looks like an animal like the Capybara that could’ve made a good pet if people didn’t kill them all. 😞

Kinda like the dodo

Average british citizen moment*

@Easttowest For food and pelts.

We did it to thylacene too

humans kill more sheep than any animal

Ask the modern day Chinese

European colonialists to be precise😊....

@@houssem711 like other peoples don't hunt animals to extintion.

Yea...true nature of early European settlers

Some people. Speak for yourself only. A lot of us would do anything to help them instead.

@@NubhavK Not the general settlers. Mostly the militaries, and 1% money chaser robber barons. Not the general public.

@@michaelcraig9449 all right sure mate

Our true nature is that we’re just animals and not as special as we think are. This isn’t our world. We’re just a part of it, and we’re about to pay steep price for acting like we own the place

Thank you!

Yea and the only ones who deserve it is humans.

White man*

@@ZaidFrmDa922 in this case perhaps but he Maori eliminated the Moa’ birds on New Zealand so not sure that race is the real issue here but if it makes you feel superior go ahead knock yourself out.

@@ZaidFrmDa922 racist comment.

I am still mad that we killed all the mammoths.

@@ZaidFrmDa922 must have irrefutable proof of this to assume. But what else would a racist say

Europeans*

@@yansideabacoa6257 eh humans across the globe have caused mass extinction not just Europeans

Thylacines never were apex predators. They were much smaller than commonly assumed, so not hunting animals close to their own size or larger. Australia’s ACTUAL apex land predators were killed off much earlier when the aboriginals first showed up. There was no apex predator in Australia for tens of thousands of years until dingoes were introduced, and even afterwards there was no native apex predator in Australia because the thylacine was never one in the first place.

@@bkjeong4302 I didn't said nothin about Australia, just Tasmania itself, there, the Thylacine was the apex, do not have other larger predator there on land, the other are small, in maximum, there is a medium sized predator, the Tasmania Devil. Thylacines were half the size of dingos in height and a bit longer in lenght, they weren't so little.

I am also unfairly condemned by accusation of killing sheep. Don't let them hunt me to extinction bro!

There are no crocodiles in Tasmania. The closest crocodile habitat is over 1000 miles north, in Queensland.

@@tiagoking1312 That's small as land predators go; most land predators around the size of a thylacine (thylacines only weighed around 15kg, far less than what colonists claimed) are too small to regularly hunt prey around their own size.

Human -kind in a nutshell i guess

They lived uninterrupted for *6 million years* according to the video.

They trusted humans because their ancestors had been domesticated already on the mainland. So sad and horrible. One of the most tragic stories ever.

It's all about money. If each pelt got you $1,000 you would be tempted too. People back then couldn't fathom the Earth having a finite supply of resources, hell, most people didn't even have a clear picture of what the earth was at the time. Also the notion of a species going extinct didn't carry the same weight back then that it does today. The only redeeming factor in all of this is that we eventually saw the err of our ways and now we fight to save species that were previously decimated.

The only thing capable of wiping out humanity entirely would be a Gamma Ray Burst however even that wouldnt be able to affect you if you were underground. An asteroid strike would also fail to wipe out humanity, it would actually do less damage than the Gamma Ray Burst and we now possess the technology to redirect asteroids. Nature has a very small chance of wiping out humans

White ppl*

@@ZaidFrmDa922 The English

@@ZaidFrmDa922 if you look at megafauna extinction rates by continents the highest rate is actually in precontact south America and Europe is actually quite low

@@ZaidFrmDa922 Tan people* There are no humans with pure white or black skin, we are all shades of brown and orange

@@conornorris6815 exactly. People always blame it on Europeans when in most cases they were already driven to near extinction by the native peoples (in some cases). For example the moa was driven extinct by the NZ natives long before European settlers arrived

you have it see it right,we created a world full of ugly barren destructive and cursed things also in humanity and we cannot cope with pure innocence because we living by ouer own choice rather in hell than in a paradise accourse not we all love the evil from this world but we cannot behaved pure good without any darkness to answerd to the living creatures that naievely joyfull welcomed us with kind and friendly manner to the unknown that we are as visitors.we like to overexploited the world make everywhere when we settle space for ourself as overproductive species alone and driven other livings beings in extinction or kill it only for fun.how many peacefull and naievely friendly society,s to visitors has survived it to this day?and how many the more bloodthirsty agressively expansionistic society,s and religions the warmongering colonising migrating conquerers has founded the modern world?you have the answer.

@@ataranaoahakaraaf3786 did you seriously write all this out or did you just copy and paste it

Thank you!

@The Dark Wolf Project, actually, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the Pampas Wolf (Dusicyon avus), the Andean Wolf (Dusicyon cultridens), the Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis), the Zhoukoudian Wolf (Aenocyon variabilis), the Armbruster's Wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri), the False Golden Wolf (Aenocyon ferox), the Edward's Wolf (Aenocyon edwardii), the Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus), the West Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon nehringi), and the East Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon gezi), the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), the Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon lupaster), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves, wolves are an informal and polyphyletic group and are not a taxonomically defined or natural grouping, which is why there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called "wolves".

@@indyreno2933 sorry, I should have used Latin and said they are not part of the same genus as C lupus, C rufus, lycaon , latrans etc, those closely related to the Grey wolf.

@The Dark Wolf Project, actually, the Canis genus only applies to just eight extant species, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi), and the Dingo (Canis dingo), only six of these are wolves, the extant members of the Canis genus is entirely absent from Africa.

@@indyreno2933 I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make anymore.

Thanks!

@@AegleCreations Don.t forget to subscribe Thank you ❤️❤️🙏🙏

Thanks for the suggestion… will try that - it’d be on a more positive note I guess, rather than the destruction man is capable of.

Yes the video would restore our faith in humanity again hahaha also there is species like the woolly Mammoth where scientists seriously consider to clone them and reintroduce them again in order to prevent large amounts of methane gas in Siberia where a healthy eco system could prevent worse outcomes

Then you would have small maned wolves, not Falkland wolves. I don't know how close both species are genetically, but if they're viable, it is possible to fertilize a female maned wolf with the genes from a Falkland wolf obtained from existing specimens in museums and labs. Repeating this process and with some artificial selection or selective breeding you would end up with a legitimate Falklands Islands wolf.

@@porculizador That would be the ideal for certain, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in the whole cloning thing. It hasn't produced impressive results so far. But with gene splicing--hey it might just work. I think you may have something there.

That wouldn't change their dietary needs. Maned wolves have a diet consisting of 50% Amazonian fruit which doesn't grow on the Falklands.

What would stop the Falkland islanders from slaughtering them all again?

@@Ozraptor4 Usually, reintroductions are tolerated fairly well by locals, especially toward the later efforts of species reintroductions. Scientific criteria such as the IUCN Red List criteria help in a successful reintroduction

It was in the original record of John Strong’s landing in 1690, which was written by a shipmate of his. As I mentioned in the documentary, they took one animal on board and kept it for several months, before it jumped out to sea after hearing the canon fire from ships during a battle with the French.

@@AegleCreations ah thank you, I guess since they had no real natural threats it makes sense. Do you have a link to the shipmates writings if that’s okay?

Just the white man

@@jeegunugger1871 all people are exactly the same.

Agreed about the date of arrival in the New World… there is a chance, as you say, the date being pushed back due to new evidence.

@@AegleCreations Most isolated species are especially evasive in behaviour as a result. So interesting that this wolf was naturally friendly to humans, almost to an extent it was desperate for human affection, as domesticated dogs today were selectively bred by us to encourage friendliness towards humans. I cant imagine the population of wolves on the Falkland's was high enough, for long enough for there to have been much potential for much genetic change to occur naturally. Unless the lack of other animals on the island caused the wolves to become extremely lonely (poor lads) I dont know how else you would explain it! Sorry for the tangent your video really got me thinking :)

It’s common for island species to be unafraid of humans. Just like dodos etc

@MadZin Moo, actually, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the Pampas Wolf (Dusicyon avus), the Andean Wolf (Dusicyon cultridens), the Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis), the Zhoukoudian Wolf (Aenocyon variabilis), the Armbruster's Wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri), the False Golden Wolf (Aenocyon ferox), the Edward's Wolf (Aenocyon edwardii), the Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus), the West Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon nehringi), and the East Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon gezi), the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), the Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon lupaster), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves, wolves are an informal and polyphyletic group and are not a taxonomically defined or natural grouping, which is why there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called "wolves".

@@indyreno2933 From a taxonomy standpoint, a wolf is any member of the genus Canis. It has a much broader common usage due to how widely known the word and wolves themselves are, and other animals' similarities to them. The red panda and giant panda aren't closely related at all, with the red panda being most closely related to mustelids, while giant pandas are bears. Scientific names more closely follow relatedness than common names do.

Actually, the red panda is more closely related to raccoons than to weasels, hence, raccoons and red pandas belong to the superfamily Procyonoidea, which is split into four extant families, Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers), Procyonidae (Raccoons, Ringtail, and Cacomistle), Ailuridae (Red Panda), and Nasuidae (Coatis, Olingos, Olinguito, and Kinkajou), also, the giant panda is not a bear, the biggest required feature that makes a bear a bear is the ability to roar because all bears roar, the giant panda cannot roar, therefore it is not a bear, the giant panda is the only extant member of the family Ailuropodidae, which is only classified within the broader superfamily Ursoidea, also, not all wolves belong to the Canis genus, the Canis genus only applies to six wolf species in addition to the oceanian wild dogs, the only six wolf species included under the Canis genus are the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the pale-footed wolf of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent is more closely related to the oceanian wild dogs than it is to the other five wolf species under the Canis genus, the Canis genus is entirely absent from Africa, thus the Canis genus contains only eight extant species, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi), and the Dingo (Canis dingo), the new guinea singing dog and dingo (collectively known as oceanian wild dogs) are not considered wolves, therefore, not all Canis reps are wolves and not all wolves fall under the Canis genus, thus making wolves a polyphyletic group.

The wolf from the islands was domesticated by indigenous tribes of the patagonia and brought to the islands, the tribes didn't stay in the islands for too long but the domesticated wolf did

It's possible a common ancestor survived for 5.3 million years after the divergence. So for much of that time, atleast three species branched out.

Or they diverged from other Canid lineages 6 million years ago, and last shared a common ancestor with each other 70,000 years ago.

Penguins, mostly

seawolves xdd

hm, killing 20 will earn someone a 100 box on a daily base ; not bad.

Why did the thylacine gone extinct in the Papua and mainland Australia?

I'm pretty sure he did go to Tasmania, not sure he saw the thylacine tho. Thylacines are slightly larger on average than Falkland wolves and Tasmania is much larger (over 5 times larger) than the total area of the Falkland islands.

What Darwin was referring to was that it was the only four legged critter on the island.

Actually, maned wolves are still wolves, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is depicted larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), White Wolf (Canis albus), Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves too, wolves are not a taxonomically defined group of dogs, they are only distinguished from other dogs such as foxes, jackals, and wild species with the word "dog" in their name, usually by their larger body size, wolves are a polyphyletic group as there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called wolves.

@@indyreno2933 Citation needed (as usual when it comes to you)

@@indyreno2933 thank you for taking the time to explain that. Most people think their specialists in the chat. Some ( u) are... Much appreciated

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

@@lukedarsey4134 The guy's a hack. Literally no taxonomist recognises "white wolves" and "sea wolves" as separate species, and the Latin name "Flavocyon" is just made up.

Because they are selfish and greedy humans with no heart.

It's disgusting

We

@@greatplainsman3662 speak for yourself.

Everything is everyone's else fault. Must be a democrat.

Actually, maned wolves are still wolves, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is depicted larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), White Wolf (Canis albus), Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves too, wolves are not a taxonomically defined group of dogs, they are only distinguished from other dogs such as foxes, jackals, and wild species with the word "dog" in their name, usually by their larger body size, wolves are a polyphyletic group as there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called wolves.

@@indyreno2933 No, buddy... Maned wolves are not wolves. When it comes to common names there are many misnomers because there are no rules, but it is generally accepted that wolves are in the genus Canis --all canids you mentioned in the genus Canis can be called wolves including the domestic dog, but foxes, false foxes, warrahs, bush dogs, raccoon dogs, etc are not wolves because they're in a different genus.

@@indyreno2933 You've got it confused. Named a few grey wolf subspecies there. The sea wolf is still under the grey wolf species and so is the pale footed wolf. Basically grey wolves are the majority of wolves on earth. The only thing you named that isn't apart of the grey wolf species is the red wolf, ethiopian wolf and golden wolf. The rest are sub species of the grey wolves

@@indyreno2933 and no manned wolves are not classed as wolves either. Nice try tho

@Sam O, actually, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) has only eleven extant subspecies, including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris), other subspecies traditionally conspecific with the grey wolf have actually been relocated to different species names, the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon) has two subspecies, the Columbian Wolf (Canis crassodon columbianus) and the Vancouver Island Wolf (Canis crassodon crassodon), the White Wolf (Canis albus) has seven extant subspecies, the Tundra Wolf (Canis albus albus), the Arctic Wolf (Canis albus arctos), the Hudson Bay Wolf (Canis albus hudsonicus), the Mackenzie River Wolf (Canis albus mackenzii), the Baffin Island Wolf (Canis albus manningi), the Greenland Wolf (Canis albus orion), and the Barren-Ground Wolf (Canis albus tundrarum), and the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon) is revealed to be a distinct species with two known subspecies, the currently living Algonquin Timber Wolf (Canis lycaon lycaon) and the extinct Manitoba Wolf (Canis lycaon griseoalbus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) has two extant subspecies, the Arabian Wolf (Canis pallipes arabs) and the Indian Wolf (Canis pallipes pallipes), interestingly, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))) is actually the most basal extant representative of the Canis genus, while the White Wolf (Canis albus), Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), and Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon) are all more closely related to the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), while the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) is more closely related to the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi) and the Dingo (Canis dingo) (collectively known as oceanian wild dogs), interestingly, the common golden wolf and ethiopian golden wolf are actually most closely related to each other and do not fall under the Canis genus anymore, both species are reclassified into the genus Flavocyon, with the scientific names of the common golden wolf and ethiopian golden wolf being Flavocyon lupaster and Flavocyon simensis respectively, in fact, the golden wolves (genus Flavocyon) are classified within the subtribe Canina (Old World Wolf-Like Canines), however, they are not a sister taxon to the Canis genus, golden wolves are instead a primitive offshoot that is more derived than the other African genera Lupulella (African Jackals) and Lycaon (Painted Dogs), but is basal to the Cuon/Prolupus/Canis clade.