Martens The Most Strategic And Fearless Hunters Of All Time
Martens are nocturnal, elusive, shy, and extremely intelligent, and let’s not forget cute. But they are also predatory animals that can kill considerably larger snowshoe hares and marmots. Have you ever seen a Marten in action? If you haven’t, you should watch, as we look at martens, the most strategic and fearless hunters of all time.
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MARTEN VS SQUIRREL
A pine marten is about the same size as a domestic cat. It is distinguished from its mustelid cousins by its heart-shaped face, large brown eyes, slim sinuous body, a rich chestnut-brown coat that darkens in the summer, colorful apricot-colored bib, and long tail, bushy in the winter. A pine marten hunting a red squirrel was spotted during a winter visit to Yellowstone National Park by some tourists. The chase lasted over 45 minutes and was enthralling to watch. The marten is quick, but the squirrel knows its way around and runs in all directions to confuse the marten. They must be so dizzy running around this tree trunk like that. This is incredible to watch, and the agility displayed by the squirrel is mind-boggling. According to the filmmakers, the squirrel made it out alive. That’s nice to hear, for a change. A sadistic man killed a squirrel and nailed the animal to this tree to see what the marten would do. The marten was unable to retrieve the squirrel, so it licked the blood off its head and went back to eating some dates. It eventually took the squirrel away. The Marten and squirrel played a game of cat-and-mouse for 20 minutes. Squirrels are extremely intelligent and use everything in their arsenal to escape attacks. This pine marten is munching on a squirrel’s head. The head almost looks like a walnut in the marten’s mouth.
MARTEN EATING CARCASS
These martens have taken over a carcass that may have been this jungle cat. The cat looks troubled but decides to leave, nonetheless while the martens are digging into the carcass. This dead squirrel carcass was wrapped around bramble and a camera was set up to see if the goshawk would return. The goshawk did return, and 15 minutes later, a marten showed up. The marten eventually freed the carcass but returned later that night, as well as a fox. A pine marten eats through a deer carcass it finds at night.
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All the members of this family are exeptional hunters
Them and their kin are all ferocious. From weasels to minks to otters to wolverines.
To see them hunting deer in packs is mental!
Wow you just named them all
How dare you forget the honeybadger
What vicious little killers martens are! Such determination to bring down preys far bigger than themselves.
Martens are not vicious, they are predators who do what they were meant to do by nature.
I hate martens. They better not near my chihuahua or attack my chihuahua or i will them first with my gun. Martens will be sorry coz I will them right away. Sorry But I don't like them.
Thankfully, Martens and other members of their related species (Mustelidae) are not of huge size otherwise due to their aggressive nature they would have been systematically removed long ago. Can you imagine one the size of a Wolf? It doesn’t bear thinking about does it? I had a ferret less than a quarter the size of my cat and if allowed would have attacked it, probably my Jack Russell as well, a formidable little creature I’m sure you would agree.
do not
Wolverine small version
@Antony Steele, actually, the Mustelidae family now only contains the subfamily Mustelinae, which contains thirty extant species within twelve genera and two tribes, the tribes are Neogalini (New World Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks) with nine extant species within four genera being the Haida Ermine (Leucictis haidarum), the Alaskan Weasel (Neogale eskimo), the American Ermine (Neogale richardsonii), the American Little Weasel (Neogale allegheniensis), the Colombian Weasel (Neogale felipei), the Amazon Weasel (Neogale africana), the Black-Footed Ferret (Neoputorius nigripes), and the American Mink (Neovison vison) and Mustelini (Old World Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks) with twenty-one extant species under eight genera being the Siberian Weasel (Kolonocus sibiricus), the Japanese Weasel (Kolonocus itatsi), the Chinese Mountain Weasel (Oreogale altaica), the Vietnamese Mountain Weasel (Oreogale tonkinensis), the Indonesian Mountain (Oreogale lutreolina), the Yellow-Bellied Weasel (Flavogaster kathiah), the Black-Striped Weasel (Cryptogale strigidorsa), the Bare-Footed Malayan Weasel (Pocockictis nudipes), the White-Headed Malayan Weasel (Pocockictis leucocephalus), the Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis), the Stoat (Mustela erminea), the Missing-Toothed Pygmy Weasel (Mustela astoodonnivalis), the Sichuan Weasel (Mustela russelliana), the Mediterranean Weasel (Mustela numidica), the Egyptian Weasel (Mustela subpalmata), the Morocco Weasel (Mustela moroccana), the Algerian Weasel (Mustela algeriensis), the European Ferret (Putorius putorius (cladistically including the Domestic Ferret (Putorius putorius furo))), the Steppe Ferret (Putorius eversmannii), the European Mink (Palaeovison lutreolus), and the Caucasian Mink (Palaeovison turovi), many other taxa formerly included within Mustelidae are moved to different families, otters are reranked as a full family (Lutridae), while many other subfamilies have been relocated and merged into different families, the subfamilies Mydainae (Stink Badgers and Fossil Relatives) and Mephitinae (Skunks) are relocated to the family Mephitidae, the four badger subfamilies Mellivorinae (Short-Faced Badgers), Helictidinae (Ferret Badgers), Melinae (Old World Badgers), and Taxideinae (New World Badgers) are all relocated under one family (Melidae), and the subfamilies Guloninae (Wolverine, Tayra, Martens, and Fisher) and Ictonychinae (Zorillas, Muishund, Shulang, Huro, and Grisons) are both now classified under the family Ictonychidae, while the families Melidae (Badgers), Lutridae (Otters), and Ictonychidae (Zorillas, Muishund, Shulang, Huro, Grisons, Wolverine, Tayra, Martens, and Fisher) are all grouped with Mustelidae (only subfamily Mustelinae) under the superfamily Musteloidea, the family Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers) is not actually part of this superfamily and instead evolved independently, the Mephitidae family actually belongs to a whole different superfamily, which is the superfamily Procyonoidea, making skunks and stink badgers more closely related to raccoons, bassarisks, coatis, olingos, olinguitos, kinkajous, and red pandas than they are to weasels, ferrets, minks, badgers, otters, zorillas, muishunds, shulangs, huros, grisons, wolverines, tayras, martens, and fishers.
The bigger energy needs caused by the increased size probably outweight the additional hunting success. The niche of the animal is being an agile, small and good climbing predator. It doesn't need size.
@@ClassicCoreNightcore No it doesn’t, you’re correct, it certainly has everything.
Do not let their cute appearance fool you. :3
Can you imagine if these things were the size of a bear?
No
They are like an small version of wolverine
They would be soon extinct because we would be on the menu
Nothing can fight with them, they eat them up alive,, everytime he aims, he takes a piece of flesh, snakes ,dogs ,cats whatever, I think humans, but I am going to fry the one in my roof.
Well marten will think twice about attacking adult healthy cat but they often are insane enough to do it and have a reputation of cat killers in rural areas. They will try to avoid one another but if they face each other marten will attack. Definitely no love for one another. Regarding resemblence to honey badger, they are not particularly close but martens are close to wolverines, maybe not as tough as honey badgers but even more ferocious. Also marten's temper is more wolverine-like than for example weasel-like. I mean cats are also efficient killers but martens are scary.
Quero ver tentar pegar um diabo da tasmánia!
A cat can defend himself against a marten, if its feral enough
Incredible and tenacious hunters Marten are. 💪🏼🙏🏻✨
Looks like martens will fight a coyote or a pit bull quite well.
Not a pit bull!!!
People are so stup1d... no they wont fight a pit bull...
Poor little deer the mother watching he's death
I want to see Marten vs a Honey Badger
Honey badger would win
Martens vs mongoose vs otter honey badger vs Tasmanian Devil.
They're doing the tango😀😃😀😃😀 but it hurts
HAHA, that intro with him on the back of that deer..... /epic
Nice 👍 video good courage
Ictonychidae (Zorillas, Muishund, Shulang, Huro, Grisons, Wolverine, Tayra, Martens, and Fisher (contains 10 genera: Pekania, Charronia, Martes, Eira, Gulo, Galictis, Lyncodon, Vormela, Poecilogale, and Ictonyx)) vs Eupleridae (Malagasy Carnivorans (contains 7 genera: Mungotictis, Galidictis, Salanoia, Galidia, Fossa, Cryptoprocta, and Eupleres)), which one of these carnivoran families would win in a fight?
Gula gula
Pound for pound, if I was a betting man I would bet evens, Lions think twice about getting close and personal with Honey Badgers considering they attack the dangling bits, that would put me on the back foot every time, it doesn’t bear thinking about does it? Ouch!
The Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis) is not a member of the family Ictonychidae.
@@indyreno2933 It’s a member of the weasel family, that is if you want to get technical about it, I don’t, can we agree that it has all the ferocity of all the creatures that you named? And, I certainly would not like to get in the way of an angry one as I’m sure you and any one else with a brain cell wouldn’t, that said, thanks for pointing that out, that’s the great thing about the comment section, we can always learn something no matter what we think we know, and if you ever think about getting up close and personal with any of the said ‘critters’ make sure you’re protected above and below, as I’m sure you know, those ‘dangling’ bits don’t grow back. Take care and good luck and good health to you and all.
@Antony Steele, actually, Mustelidae is polyphyletic, the skunks, stink badgers, badgers, otters, zorillas, muishund, shulang, huro, grisons, wolverine, tayra, martens, and fisher are not part of this family anymore, otters are reranked as a full family (Lutridae), while the skunks, stink badgers, badgers, zorillas, muishund, shulang, huro, grisons, wolverine, tayra, martens, and fisher are all relocated to the families Mephitidae, Melidae, and Ictonychidae respectively, leaving the Mustelidae family to include only the subfamily Mustelinae, which contains thirty extant species under twelve genera and two tribes, the tribes of Mustelinae are Neogalini (New World Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks) with nine extant species under four genera being the Haida Ermine (Leucictis haidarum), the Alaskan Weasel (Neogale eskimo), the American Ermine (Neogale richardsonii), the American Little Weasel (Neogale allegheniensis), the Long-Tailed Weasel (Neogale frenata), the Colombian Weasel (Neogale felipei), the Amazon Weasel (Neogale africana), the Black-Footed Ferret (Neoputorius nigripes), and the American Mink (Neovison vison) and Mustelini (Old World Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks) with twenty-one extant species under eight genera being the Siberian Weasel (Kolonocus sibiricus), the Japanese Weasel (Kolonocus itatsi), the Chinese Mountain Weasel (Oreogale altaica), the Vietnamese Mountain Weasel (Oreogale tonkinensis), the Indonesian Mountain Weasel (Oreogale lutreolina), the Yellow-Bellied Weasel (Flavogaster kathiah), the Black-Striped Weasel (Cryptogale strigidorsa), the Bare-Footed Malayan Weasel (Pocockictis nudipes), the White-Headed Malayan Weasel (Pocockictis leucocephalus), the Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis), the Stoat (Mustela erminea), the Missing-Toothed Pygmy Weasel (Mustela astoodonnivalis), the Sichuan Weasel (Mustela russelliana), the Mediterranean Weasel (Mustela numidica), the Egyptian Weasel (Mustela subpalmata), the Morocco Weasel (Mustela moroccana), the Algerian Weasel (Mustela algeriensis), the European Ferret (Putorius putorius (cladistically including the Domestic Ferret (Putorius putorius furo))), the Steppe Ferret (Putorius eversmannii), the European Mink (Palaeovison lutreolus), and the Caucasian Mink (Palaeovison turovi), while the families Melidae (Badgers), Mustelidae (Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks), Lutridae (Otters), and Ictonychidae (Zorillas, Muishund, Shulang, Huro, Grisons, Wolverine, Tayra, Martens, and Fisher) all fall under the superfamily Musteloidea, the family Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers) does not actually fall under this superfamily and instead evolved independently, it falls under a whole different superfamily, which is the superfamily Procyonoidea, making skunks and stink badgers more closely related to raccoons, bassarisks, coatis, olingos, olinguitos, kinkajous, and red pandas.
The prey of weasels die violent, bloody deaths!
The video is good but the quality is not very good
This is the same as another video here in KZhead. Who copied who?
Loved this one!
Just imagine is they where the size of large dog
Wolverines
marten and squirrel played a game of cat and mouse for 20 minutes.... it's too much information for me to process.
Tremenda plaga
"LOOK AT HOW VICIOUS AND BLOODTHIRSTY THESE FIGHTING ANIMALS ARE" Yup. Americans. Called it.
But in this respect humans are unmatched.
1 samurai Swing to Marten, Its all I need 😁
shot a 6 point bull elk, and a Martin come running right up to me, looked at the elk then me, I threw it a chunk of meat, that sucker growled at me like 6 feet away then trotted off up the hill, didn't want no snack?
Up here in Canada Martins are on the menu for fishers, coyotes, coy-wolves and wolves.
Lies
@@onestepatatime0868 Where do you live?
8:58 that's not a pine marten but a stone marten.
They are a very destructive animals.
Martens are not destructive, they are just predators filling the job nature intended for them. Of course, when somebody steals other people's serious footage (mine for instance) to use in a complete BS video like this, it looks different. Shame on him.
Do they attack human also?
Al parecer no les toman muy enserio hasta que ya es demasiado tarde
Fisher🤐🤐🤐😂😂 That is a marthen or marten.., chasing a squirrel.
please, change the way you comment, I like the video,but I cut the sound...sorry
Imagine the Martin as size of lion or tiger
I'm now scared of Martins
Marten vs Mink
Either you die or I live, this is a cruel fact. 要么你死，要么我活，这是残酷的事实。
Yesterday the farmer mowed the grass, I could watch the marten chasing a baby deer, it was hurt, it held it down for some time and it looked like they flew up in the air, suddenly everything was gone. Its definitely my house marten , my house smells like HELL
He better not run into HONEY BADGER.... or his number ONE status will become past tense 😊..
Ga ada takutnya😂
My 3lb ferrets routinely beat up my 15 pound cat. Yellow throat martens can grow up to fifteen pounds themselves and hunt in groups of 2 or 3. They'd have no trouble taking down a domestic cat... There's even a recorded incident of them killing a 3 year old (nearly full grown) giant panda
Vampire elk? That's not a thing. haha
Most likely means either East-Asian water deer, or Asian Kasturi (Also called the Musk "deer", not a deer, it's in its own family, and is more related to Cattle than Deer).
tiny squeaky wolverines....
In the Philippines Marten is immortal Its name is Coco 😅
-_- "to show the mother her baby is dead" Like no dude it was taking its dead prey, not torturing the mother animal. This isn't the house that Jack built
Uncle ray a old hardcase logger bears cougars coyotes didn't scare him in the woods but martin scared him shitless
Vampire elk is rediculous.
Marten is very danger
It's a murderous rat.
90
Wats wit the annoying camera clicks
Stoats on steroids 😅
Actually martens are not in felidae with cats thyere in canidae with dogs seals badgers and more
You mean the suborder Feliformia (Cat-like carnivorans), and suborder Caniformia (Dog-like carnivorans). Felidae (Cat-like kin) is the family that includes the felines and Pantherins know as the Cats. Canidae (Dog-like kin) is the family that includes the canines known as Dogs, Wolves, Jackals, Foxes. So Martins are in the Order-Carnivora, Suborder-Caniformia, Infraorder-Arctoidea, subclass-Mustelida, Superfamily-Musteloidea, Family-Mustelidae, subfamily-Guloninae, Tribe-Martini, genus-(Martes).
Cat is coward in front of this evil
Not a feral cat
Cat kills martens
However, a cat can't stand against the marten's bigger cousin, the fisher...
@@Soulbotagem-BR depends what cat, what if it's a Puma or Jaguar ? The Fisher would be lunch
@@BruceKent00 I think you're smart enough to understand the allusion...
@@Soulbotagem-BRlies
@@BruceKent00 the domestic cat, which is what is being discussed...
Marten:Snake Cat Stot Weasel: Snake Mouse
😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦😦
Hi Sir I want to talk to you about something, I want to upload the videos from your KZhead channel to KZhead by translating it in Hindi, I will give you 50% of the profit from this, there should be no problem of copyright, if you like the deal, then reply i am from india.
I wouldn't get messed up with this guy. This footage is all stolen (from me for instance).
لا يمكن
I don't remember you asking for permission to use my footage? Ah, that's probably because you never did. A large number of people go to great trouble to actually study these animals (various species of mustelids), and you steal their (and my) content to make a BS video like this. You clearly cannot even tell the various martens apart. Disgusting. I suppose the word 'copyright' means nothing to you?
Are you going to sue for damages and injunctive relief?
It was never meant to be this way. All of nature is longing for Jesus Christ to return and make things right again (Romans 8: 18-23).
😂😂
@@user-mk6qn2gc4o It's true thought. Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. -Genesis 1: 29-30 One day it will be that way again.
Ur voice is very disturbing.
You mention David Attenborough. His narrations are short, insightful and informative. Yours are verbose, childish and inaccurate. Why describe what we can all see? Sometimes less is more.
And he mispronounced his name. And Attenborough doesn't have an irritating voice that should never ever be used to narrate content.
this is a horribly edited video and his voicre is annoying, nothing about this is informative
Teeth like shark
These need to attack people's loud house dogs and annoying cats!
Cats are more awesome than you.
nah they need to attack people who say dumb things for sure tho :)
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8:58 that's not a pine marten but a stone marten.
Marten is very danger