Arctic Geese Chicks Jump Off Cliff to Survive | Hostile Planet
Not yet able to fly, three barnacle geese chicks must free fall hundreds of feet to reach their next meal.
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Barnacle geese nest high in Arctic cliffs, to avoid predators like foxes. Watch as the birds survive an extreme plunge to begin their lives.
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Great job filming it. Nature is so beautiful! but so cruel! God's way of balancing??
Peewewyyywr
Mother Nature is a beautiful psychopath.
These are terrible parents. Their chicks should have been taken away by social services long before all this happened.
The moment the first chick started to jump, my gut twisted. When she got the first bounce to the rock, my tear poured out The other 2 chicks didn't survive, my heart's broken. It hurts 10x than when breaking up with boyfriend. But still want to thank for sharing and make my heart broken :(
If someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you? Baby geese:
i commit suicide if they wanted too
That’s really not fun t
Donald Trump death is hilarious inset it
@Donald Trump death can die hard
@Donald Trump sorry maybe i watch too much horror or bad thing
"only around 50% of chicks make it through the first month" I can see why...
Afterthought Only the ones on the mountain
this is second third
Why?
“..during college year”
Kekw
There's a lot of insane survival strategies in the World, but this has to be one of the most brutal, just get hatched, drop 200 meters, fight off ravens and roll in ice until you hit a rock to stop.
Happy one of them survived, hope it reach adulthood. I so admire the parents for their love and effort to keep their DNA going..
Except not enough effort to keep their DNA going by just watching their chicks potentially fall to their doom. I wonder if they're physically incapable of carrying their chicks one by one on their backs and lowering them down.
Me thinking the first chick will land in the waterfall or snow: Aww, look at his smol wings *chick hits a few rocks and gets eaten* Me: ಠ_ಠ
😂
Me thinking the same ... and shocked at the crow get it ...
SparxDev 😭😭😭
I feel,u bro ;.(
SparxDev the impact of the water can kill you
Imagine sitting on eggs for a month just to see them hatch and free fall to their death
Quite a number of parents are like that ^^;
Like anti vaxxers
@@derpythecookie2185 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ugh, horrible. It would be so horrible
You'd think that these geese would rethink their nesting situation.
3:10 Sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Bruh 😂😂
Cringe
you're a genius thanks
Huge huge respect to the team who shoots the amazing shots. Beautifully explains the hostility & cruelity of planet.. 😍
The planet is not hostile and cruel. Or nurturing. It just is.
nah, struggle for supremacy. that is a feature of this planet
Human kids falls off chair: crying like no other! Baby chick falls like a billion feet: I'm good
Humans have it easy. Cus when grown to like child is able to defend itself. But most humans are..... Well... Uhmm idiots? I mean some people doesnt believe in things that saves their lives. Like "Cool kids" think that seatbelts are for lamers... Yeh no people these days well a few of people only think of being the first to die by doing stuff like those..
@@newriechren2343 I second that
It's the size of life
But you can learn
crow: say sike right now
Child: "did you ever drop me on my head as a baby?" Mom: "No, you jumped off a cliff"
SAVAGE
The dad was a bad dad. He should of been at the bottom to protect its young from predators/crow. 2 against 1 are better odds. Hostile planet is amazing. The will to live
@@00tonytone like the video said, the chicks don't care about their father so the father protecting the chicks wouldn't be very successful, also their birds and their more dumber than humans, so they will probably not think of ghat
Lol
@@mariag2056 well there are exceptions in humans too....there are some peoples who are dumber than "your dumb birds".
What this is, is a very great showcase of how "size" matters a lot when you drop from a very high point. Kurzgesagt made a video about it, explaining in detail how something that's very small can be practically immune to any fall damage.
It's not size, doofy, its weight. You need someone explaining such simple fears of physics and biology? Smaller, lighter bodies mean smaller impact which means smaller absorbtion. If a human drops 2 meters into a lake you'll get a splash. If an elegant does you get half the lake displaced. Impact, weight, size.
@@captainp.2721You want to be a smartass, but you yourself use the word "small".
@@AnnaMarianne you have failed elementary reading comprehension. He didn't use the word " small" wrongly. He used " size" wrongly.
Fall damage: human dies Geese Chick: Hold My Grass
Nice nothing against ya but they are goslings
@@cfong_sports394 lmao
Lol hold my grass
Muddy Wood Ducks oof 😵
These comments are way over done
Put some respect on that 3rd chick. It saw its siblings die and still jumped that 400ft rock down.
Not sure they have brains like that
He was suicidal, but didn't succeed
Oh thankyou spoiler
It didnt know the siblings are dead, he was probably thinking they were enjoying happy meal down there where mamma also went. So he had to jump.
Karls Biscaydak it was down in the comments u looked down if you dont want a spoiler then dont
Bro it looked like they had enough of life and jumped 😭😭
Poor mom fought to protect her baby, but she lost😢.
As my math teacher used to say 'Those that are stupid will die'.
“It survived”: 😃 “But is dangerously exposed”: 😞
I feel Bad for them
Meanwhile the scrawny derp headed one brain damaged itself to victory
Probably the crow was just like the witch in Rapunzel and wanted a child by his one. I like to think that the crow was a loving Mama to this little chick :D
@Anonymously Yours if u see in perspective of crow it's no wrong!,
If the mother isn't dumb enough to attack the attacker and leave her chick but just give it all away at the end.
chick: *falls * Me: *crying * chick: *alive * me: are you serious?
Crow: Sike
@@philhm7027 LMAO
Then dies 🤣🤣🤣
Tenshishi ikr
Gravity: Am I a joke to you?
I couldn't take my eyes off this video. Only one geese chick survived. Too sad, but life goes on... Thanks for uploading it.
How life is terrible for birds I hv feels too much pain whenever little⛄ bird hitted to rocks. amazing clips. God's helps their lives
1/3 survives Mom: “We did alright honey.”
anti vax moms be like
jimmy fox lmaoo
Lmao
Meatloaf would not be impressed
Votesk lol I would have thought
The birds at my local park are living the good life.
lol
lol...now i feel bad foar feeding pigeons ~(^..)
They have it easy af
They are! That's why there are so many of them.
For real...
Sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear Sing with me, if it's just for today
Their life is literally an inspiration. How they dodge a near certain death is fantastic...
Mad respect for all the camera angles…they’ve seen this before and knew where to look.
imagine surviving that fall only to get caught by a predator
Pretty sure that actually happened so they had to go and record a second set of geese because it was an unsatisfactory ending.
JengaTower911 thats how the first chick died
Nah, as in this was the second set they recorded but in the first set all the chicks were eaten by a fox. I think that was a thing that happened.
@@cynda4467 imagine being lazy and forgot to get Tetanus vaccine. when you got injured by stuff. yup thats me
*Insert MeMe of Titanic flute*
Baby geese: Falls and survives the impact amazingly Crow: Five second rule
Lol
Lol 😂
Nice and tender now too.
That mamma goose could just have stayed with the chick and protectet it insteat of going rampage on that crow xD guess she didn't think that far
Brickleberry? :-D
Okay, mother nature dropped the ball on this one. That survival skill really needs to be re-evaluated😳😶
It brings to mind something I heard, that nature does not care about getting it right, just making sure it's good enough.
I amazed by seeing the fall from 4oon foot , still one chick survive . Nature is the best teacher indeed.
*free falling from the sky* *body slams* *lays for a moment* I'M OKAY *gets snatched*
*Gets eaten by crow*
Crow Says: No more
Shakeel Baloushi *Nevermore
Nickanelle Mendoza OMG omg 😂😂😂😂😂
I felt bad for it but LMFAO
I didn’t sign up for this roller coaster of emotions- Edit: 2 years, 20k likes 😳 Wow, thanks!
Same bro same
Sophia Camacho TBH I just laughed so hard when they jumped off cuz I pictured them shouting YOLOOOOOO falling down xd
@@jozkomrkvicka1281 lmao
i wasn't even worried one bit just look at how much a baby geese weigh? they are not heavy enough to die from falling. they hit terminal velocity immediately so that means they will never fall fast enough to die.
This is really upsetting to watch sadistic even esp the narrator's voice .....
A wonderful birth ,a natural life ,and a respected parents 🙏
I thought all of my buddy will die but MashaAllah they survived their first life lesson ❤️
That was the most horrific thing I've ever witnessed
I'm honestly traumatized
Dunno about that.. have you ever seen Elton John wearing a thong.. horrific! 😂
@@ayelet2679 lol
3:12 *the suspence*
hahaha
PTSD For the whole family.
I’m your 1,ooo likes lol
@@veemccoy617 Thank you!!!!!!
Vee that’s not lol u loler
Masahallah subhanallah Alhamdulillah allahuaqbar
Nature is so cruel and yet amazing at the same time.
Every time they hit a rock my heart stops beating omg
Photographer is owesome to do such fantastic shoot ! Breathtaking😅🤩😭
drewtot yup
Every time I see them in a rock my heart starts beating
Same..😢
I can't believe my eyes!!
Chick: *Falls* Aye I survived- Crow: Na fam say goodbye to your family
SAVAGE
IM-
i hope that crow has a long slow death
@@fionaw3838 it would have if it didn't feed...
Or what if the crow was actually like “omg what a terrible mom to just let her babies jump from a cliff! You’re coming with me!” & then she takes the lil baby birdy to her nest to raise as one of her own
Teary-eyed sadness after watching the video *opens comments* --- teary-eyed from laughing so hard all within a 30 second time period... i love the internet..
Ooh noo sometimes nature is cruel and unfair.. I shed tears
Dudes not even a week old and hes survived a 400 foot fall and witnessed his siblings die ☹️
Sounds like every shonen anime character.
They dont think much unlike us
Wow just incredible… they still left him behind to catch up with swimming
Main Protagonist requirements i guess
He walked it off like it was nothing as well
Omg when it hit the ground and didn't move my heart was punctured by pencils
GallopingHearts sorry I’ll use a book next time
I STOPPED THE VIDEO RIGHT THERE TO READ THE COMMENTS. IF IT DIED I WILL CHOKE SOMEONE
OK IT DIED. SOMEONE'S ON A CHOKING SPREE
Count me out......
Omg me tooo!! whenever watch these kinds of videos im like WHY DOESNT THE CAMERA PEOPLE DO ANYTHING?!?!?
"Sing with me, sing for a year Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear Sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away"
lil bro is just like kratos
"50% of chicks wont survive the first month" how about the first 10mins oml
Karen with her unvaccinated kids
@@ptrwith2933 yu wont understand if yur unvaccinated
William Gabriel Gamboa yeah
when a wildlife footage kills more main characters than Game of Thrones
Season 8
@@sobored6165 episode 3
@@helaodinsmommy 4
-In 8 minutes!
15 mins
“Nature’s so beautiful.” Nature:
Gotta give props to the camera person! captured everything so well! and those poor chicks
Chick: “Wow that’s a long ways down” Also Chick: *Yeet*
420 comments
This is not funny
I know, but it’s the way of life. Everything lives and dies. Also I was trying to light the mood
i know but i dont care period
I’m sorry to disappoint
i swear i lost some of my soul everytime they hit a rock
5:57 mati la nakkkk
Yes sister
I sold my soul for at least one to survive now I have no soul send help
Little Grape thank you
Bruh same I felt like a joly in my body when I saw it
This is the greatest nature life video i ever seen !
I love watching the baby fly off the cliff and survive. I saw this as a meme with Pink Floyd's "Is There Anybody Out There" playing in the back and it was so silly to see the little baby falling for so long and survive like it had just fell off a small step. So cute and glad it made it safely to the bottom to be reunited with its mother.
Human sees chick hit the rock: "omg hes gonna die" Chick thinks: "Bruh"
😆😆😆
My teacher show this video, everyone started laughing
@@Ivanzillaking why?!
Sobreviveram ? Quantos
@@Ivanzillaking except you right..?
Food doesn't randomly fall from the sky Crow: oh yea it sure does
Very funny
for toxic people: yes that's what crows represent
Oh, sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear Sing it with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Subhan Allah. ALLAH is beautiful creation ❤❤❤
Baby Geese : "*Jumps off a cliff & survived*" Crow : "*Eats baby geese*" Baby Geese : Am I a joke to you?
Crow: No, not a joke. You are a food to me xD
Stupid joke.
@@smurfyday feel free to make a smart one, ain't nobody's stopping u. some jokes are stupid didn't u know that?
;/
:/
Probably the most stressful thing I've watched on YT. Those impact sound effects...
DeKLEINed
Definitely
The dropping sound effect
How are you still alive?
Yeah..... I was almost crying when they were falling from the cliff but I got surprised they were still alive❤❤❤
These little dudes are so brave!
It is remarkable any survive at all! tough to watch and amazing at the same time.
İmagine surviving such a horrible fall to end up as some crows dinner
😂😂😂😂
🦅
Couldn't understand why the parent birds couldn't pick them up and fly them down.
@@degsbabe call nat geo and report back
@@degsbabe cuz they're birds 😂😂
Everytime those chicks hit the rock, my heart literally skipped a beat.
Welp, it's a matter of life and death...
😳 That’s not quite how you use that phrase..
@@KG-kq7kn you can though. It can either be positive or negative
i laughed instead but yeah
@@KG-kq7kn If you want then lets call it trial and error
We watched this in my class and everyone started laughing when they fell 😭
That's literally a leap of faith🫣🫣🫣
Nobody: KZhead recommendations: wanna see a bunch of baby geese die?
me:sure 8 mins later also me: NO GOD PLEASE NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@SKY70188 nope after 8 mins I was laughing what horible person am I? :D I just found it both tragic and comedic how they fall just to be snatched by crow.
Martin Budinský no need to remind us of how horrible you are, thx
@@martinbudinsky8912 لم افهم شئ
I thought they were gonna survive 😭😭😭
What a way to start your childhood, with a dislocated shoulder and a broken neck !!
See how thankful we should be?
It's not funny dude. I felt tears in my eyes for sure
@@tiredugandan7035 welcome to the dark side of jokes
@@tiredugandan7035 its funny for me and everyone else
Gaston Woods XD
Sing with me Sing for the year Sing for the laughter Sing for the tear Sing it with me, it’s just for today.
Huge respect to the team 💯👑🙏
Our grandfather : when we were kids, we used to walk 10 mil.... Geese Chick: hold my cuteness.
Lol
Grandfathers ain't cute
TachyTack Attempts KZhead 😂😂😂
Geese mother: hold my dead chicks
so he says hold my cuteness and plunges 400ft to his death?
My heart was pounding through the whole entire footage.
And throught your entire life
Still wondering what the parents said to them before leaving them up there . . . . one by one they jumped ! So young, yet so obedient ! Still, humans claim to be smarter than them all.
It's incredible how they are filmed so that we can see in our phones with legs crossed at our homes...
Awe I love learning more about these animals so animals things I've never one or animals I've never one existed.❤
With those sound effects imma get a heart attack
Amour R lmao one of them scared me rlly bad
ಥ╭╮ಥ
@@monikachxr675 exactly
J Z and to end it too
Hahaha try it with airpods
The 3rd and last chick MAIN CHARACTER INTENSIFIES
Could it be the legendary Plot Armor made by Nature?
That third chick will become Hokage one day. Believe it!
Kurama lol
It's really emotional about how 2 babies died and only the last one survived and now I'm happy that he's safe but I'm also sad of the 2 babies and it also very emotional moment for him when his siblings jumped from the cliff
It’s so sad that the siblings were taken away while 1 chick remained😢
Yo, imagine surviving the fall only for your parents to fail the one freaking job they had which is to defend you... The first guy dang near did everything perfect and yet he gets taken by a freaking bird.
Ikr and the father just watched
An animals job is to mate and produce more, no matter the cost. Stop applying human values to them.
@@Pdalow imagine taking a KZhead comment so serious. You must be a sophisticated one.
scary fact for me is, the guy is still alive while in the beak. Imagine being that guy just snatched away to be eaten alive.
they did what they can do, for them stop laying eggs at all is never an option to multiply their number
Did anyone else yell "NO!" as they saw the crow take that chic?
Okami no as that’s just how life works, some die some live, it’s impossible for everything to live.
@@ShroomChoom I'm fully aware of how life works, but it doesn't seem like you understand the concept of optimism and cheering for things to make it.
@@Kakashi713 Agreed. I totally wanted him to live since he just survived an insane fall.
No.
@@Kakashi713 Yikes, be careful burning people so badly.
Amazing how a tiny creature like those chicks can survive that drop wo
This is brutal. Amazing video clip. Heart pounding every second of it.
Nature kinda f*kd up on this one.
Tell me about it fuuuu
No it s darwinism at its finest actually
@Informed Optimist the ones who let nature control them.
@Informed Optimist I suppose if you want to keep the human race small and at the mercy of the "Current" ecological balance. Since it is ever-changing. But were not mere animals in the same sense a dog is, as we can achieve quite a bit more. But if were going to keep going forward we just need to learn to control what we can't currently. If that requires taking two steps back to jump I'm fine with that. But not to regress or be complacent to have no impact. 99% of species to live on earth are extinct with no help from humans. It's how life works, things change. I say we make sure we don't end up on the list, because we can. But let's not delude ourselves into thinking that humans are the only ones who impact our enviroment, everything does, and it would continue to change without us here.
@Informed Optimist who cares. When humans go extict, no one will be complaining stfu.
This 8-minute clip was more tense and heart-wrenching than the entirety of GoT season 8
100%
Say what you want but episode 3 was the most tense thing I felt in my life. We all thought the nk was gonna kill everyone, and the dragons. They lost all hope. So don't say that.
agree!!!
watch bbd earth version that is more intense
GOT is for brain dead people
What a beautiful thing !!
Animals life in harmony with nature despite nature being so brutal with them.
This was almost the most suspenseful 8 min of my life...
ikr in my entire 18 years
This was absolutely horrible! I thought I was going to see something cool, maybe something genius? Instead I saw EXTREME CHILD ABUSE! My eyes are bleeding just from watching this.
@@TisEYEthe1 yeah the video is disappointing
@@TisEYEthe1 Child abuse ? Aren't you overreacting a little bit ? That's just standart nature.
Haha! 1000th like! Congrats, and I agree!
Parents: "Jump." Babies: "Actually, can you carry us in your mouth-" Parents: "I SAID JUMP."
It is sad. Remember when your parents said that " Stork carrying babies" Why can they learn to do that ? The male goose should be the provider. He should go fetch food (which grass by the way - not meat that perish quickly) until his offspring are strong enough to fly.
Ghost stories flashbacks
@@rea_bunnies14 exactly what i was thinking lol
@@liamnoah6648 Why are you applying conservative gender roles onto birds?
@k k The roles that each gendered parent takes in the household are less biological, and very socially constructed. Even then, I think we agree that in nature it's meaningless, because actual nature handles it on a species-species basis.
I will never complain about my life ever again. Nature is truly brutal
I was sitting on the edge of my seat, gripping it. Wow!
This is how my grandpa describe their way of going to school.
Breyden Huffman great!
Dude for one second I thought there was hair on my screen....it was your logo
@@manishapadmawar372 hahaha
🤣🤣Old people be like that
underrated!!
That’s actually so incredible that they can survive a fall like that
Apparently theyre really light, like a feather.
They have air bones
It's so incredible that the crow is so smart
Whatttt theeee hexkklk ??? Holy shityt
That baby geese is made to fall like that
Each hit and damage the chicks took stopped my heart beat
I was so glad when it landed on the ❄️ snow.
Omg, the chick survives a 400m jump and then it just gets eaten, can’t catch a break
😭😭😭😭
Heartbroken at angry to that crow 🤬😡😠 ☹️😢😭
its 400f not 400m pfft
🤣 crows gotta eat too
*wasted* 😭
This more stressful than horror movie.
Yeah. If horror movies took notes from National Geographic shows, we'd have good ones again. The intensity and the tension is beyond anything we get to see these days. Plus, the horror when we see the protagonists we've fallen in love with get brutally hurt or taken away does a lot as well.
@@lepotato135 I've seen u before!
@@mbella7371 I do make an effort to comment on every video I watch. But I'm really glad someone remembers me. Thank you. :')
@@lepotato135 aww :3
@@lepotato135 I think I saw u on a gacha life video...is that true?
the heart braking story, Oh little chiks i am so sorry about your loss and also want to share my love for their parents
they took “dropped as a baby” to a whole new level
im wondering what the dad goose was doing while the rest of his family was having a crisis
He went to buy cigarettes in the closest gas station
He went to the crack house and got high
Classic dad
The dad was at the top, the chicks only fallow their mom to my understanding
Create more probably with another girl
Humans: Hopefully my Baby doesn't get hurt Birds: YEET
Eine einzige Produktplazierung bird: this is how yo become tough.
TF AK and dead.
IM WHEEZING
Lmao
Lol
whenever you say your childhood was rough, think about these chicks
Let’s see these chicks try to watch this.