5 Cute Animals That Are Secretly Brutal
On this planet there are both cute an ugly animals. Every bodies definition of cute is different but cute animals usually have large eyes, lots of fur and are normally chunky. Some cute animals are secretly vicious and in some cases they can even be brutal. In this video I will be covering these animals as I will be going through 5 cute animals that are secretly brutal.
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Grey butcherbird images:
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Grey butcherbird footage:
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Japanese dwarf flying squirrel footage:
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Paul Nicklen Interview:
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Quoll footage:
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In this video I will be covering the koala, the leopard seal, the dingo, the prairie dog and the grey butcherbird.
Dolphin's crimes are so unspeakably evil they were excluded from this video in fear of the video being taken down
Pls do Bottlenose Dolphins
If you watch Casual Geographic you probably know.
Male dolphin pods will kidnap and rape a female until she dies? Nearly as many recorded cases of dolphins taking drowing swimmers even into even deeper water(instead of the shore)
And penguins’ crimes were covered up for over 70 years
@@mugenokami2201 *I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it.*
I'm surprised sea otters weren't included on this list. They're so cute but honestly terrifying. I used to work on sightseeing boats in Alaska and I've seen them do some terrible things.
I’d say that giant river otters are even worse
@@Soul_evacuated_Ian All weasel family species are insane honestly. I dont know anything about giant river otters tho lol
@@Soul_evacuated_Ian Giant otters don't fuck corpses for a living.
Female sea otters are ok but the males... :/
@@leahwyzykowski9464 well let’s just say they’re basically water Wolverine. A group can deter alligators and even jaguars
1:19 I love how the official name for that owl is "Powerful Owl"
I know haha, I had to double check that it's actual name was powerful owl
Right? That was funny when I saw it.
The latin name "Ninox strenua" sounds like a magic spell
Yes
Hes so powerful
"5 Cute Animals That Are Secretly Brutal" Isn't that like 99.9% of the Animal Kingdom like the only 2 species I can think of that are regularly kind are Capybaras and Manatees.
Ok i pull up
And Quokka's I just remembered that after rereading this comment.
Viscachas are a docile species but do attack each other from time to time.
I love how 4/5 of these animals are found in Australia. Yes Leopard Seals can be found along the South Coast of the Mainland as well as Tasmania
Baby animals look cute as a survival mechanism. The rounded head, big eyes, smaller nose and mouth trigger certain protective behaviors in their caretakers, and this works across different species. We humans melt at the sight of kittens and puppies, and, of course, human babies. We want to cuddle them, feed them, protect them. If not for this instinctive behavior towards their young, many species would have died out long before now. Thank you for the opportunity to use my zoology degree! 😁
“Damn! We’re out of drugs!” “OH NO! And out of cash as well! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!?!” “QUICK! Let’s steal a Koala and sell it!” “YOU GENIUS!!!”
Leopard Seals are definitely cute, and while people should be careful around them - and all wild animals, as you point out- I hate that I've seen people mention them as human killers and talk as if they're something to fear. There has been one recorded death (I believe some trips to the antarctic have rumours of deaths) but it is like you are in the savannah with a circling lion and yet because they are seals some people don't take them seriously. You should be cautious, but there is a big difference between caution and creating an atmosphere of fear. As you said, these animals aren't VILLAINS. They are out there where they are supposed to be, we're the ones encroaching.
Well said!
In happy feet leopard seals are evil
@@maevblog9955 My mistake. Happy Feet obviously takes priority on these matters.
Most (if not all) of the attacks from leopard seals were researchers going in too close to observe them ignoring their warning signs and not being cautious!
I love leopard seals but at the same time i think they look absolutely terrifying with their big smart eyes
It's interesting how on opposite continents we have song birds that just sorta went butcher mode. The Shrike here in America and now we just learned of the aptly named Butcherbird
We’ve got Shrike birds, 2 or 3 separate species I think, here in the UK. They are, also nicknamed butcher birds, for the same reasons they impale their prey on spikes and thorns and are pretty good predators
@@Teeniebfable and that's the crazy part, it seems that song songbirds just sorta go serial murder mode even on different continents
@@mjkhan9664 they are all related species as far as I know.
I always knew leopard seals were terrifying. You didn’t need to tell me that.
I was like wtf, their brutal hunters that show no mercy
I always tune in to these videos they brighten up my day
I'm glad you like them and i'll keep them coming :)
Herbivores are almost always more terrifying than the carnivores
100% yes! They always look friendlier but don't let that fool you
I love Leopard Seals, they're definitely beautiful, but not cute in the sense that they look cuddly, they give off the same aura as something like a Tiger or Bear.
A cool list idea could be animals that have been documented using primitive tools
Chimpanzees Crows Orangutans Elephants Dolphins Sea Otters Gorillas Octopuses
@@drewlovely2668 eagles and herons use bait too!
never seen a bad tsuki vid
that sounds like a challenge haha
You should have replaced the Prairie Dog with a Honey Badger. Those things look really cute. Like a possible pet but they will attack anything and are extremely brutal predators.
great video. Make an opposite one too. Animals with Bad reputation/looks who are not really that bad. Hyeanas & Dholes are prime candidates.
Yes! Like sharks
#2 Nope! Absolutely terrifying animals!
never thought leopard seals as being cute, they always reminds me of what a mammalian dino would look like, them slender rectangular head, those deep menacing looking eyes, and that mouth, oh my god that mouth...
Ditto; they look so primordial but show a lot of intelligence behind the eyes; it's freaky.
Swans are one animal that is really cute and appears harmless, but there are examples og swans breaking the spines of sheep with there wings and even drowning people when they have cygnets around. Swans who have lost there cygnets in the past tends to get really aggressive around others on the nesting and duckling period
Only as children is any bird considered anything besides horrendous....
"Papa's got a brand new stash" -Gru before Gru
4:18 🤣 I love how he said "penguins"
The Leopard Seal has a very Theropod-like head. Anybody else see that in it?
Yeah, it's basically like a half-mammal-half-dinosaur hybrid, and all freaky.
1:19 For some weird reason, I never thought owls were in Australia. Maybe hawks and falcons, but not owls lol
If I'm not mistaken, there's a couple of owl species native to Australia.
Owls are just one of those species that are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Australia's bird life is generally similar to most Indian Ocean landmasses, with the exception of their ground birds.
Oh wow leopard seal is both caring and dangerous
yeah i love them but i still think they're terrifying
Hey there!
I absolutely love the deep appreciation you present of the animals you describe in your videos, I thought your description of the leopard seal was great, definitely one of my favorite nature channels.
Another 'pretty' animal species that was quite shocking for me to learn about was Shrike Bird, with their pretty gruesome custom. Those pretty small birds have a pretty infamous tradition of hunting prey and leaving their bodies hanging on the thorns of some plants, in a way that looks like gruesome trophies from our point of view. You may mostly find them in Europe. Also some species of dolphins. My gosh, those can be vicious.
I'm surprised you chose Dingoes for cute but vicious dogs instead of Dholes, which are cuter but eat their prey when it's still alive.
Heres another 5: chimps, dolphins, otters, ferrets, and zebras
Why ferrets? Ferrets in our zoo are actually not dangorous, except that they are mature
@@maevblog9955 in the wild, ferrets and other related animals like mongooses are absolute monsters. They take down prey much larger than them and are fearless. Not only that, ferrets are related to wolverines and honey badgers
@@averytheaxolotl5689 ferrets are domestic animals. The ancestor of the ferret that lives in wild are polecats
@@maevblog9955 ferrets are any polecats, not just domesticated. Black footed ferrets are still ferrets.
The Leopard Seal bringing the guy dead or injured penguins reminds me of cats dropping mice, rats and small birds onto their owner's lap.
I would have included the Slow Loris on this list, a small primate with relatively huge eyes and a toxic bite.
You are absolutely right
That picture of the leopard seal staring at the photographer through the ice is freaking terrifying. What is it planning?
That leopard seal sounds just like a house cat who thinks its owner sucks at hunting.
The most vicious animals I've ever encountered are Groundhogs when cornered by domestic dogs! Any other time they are fairly shy though. Also never knew Koalas were so mean until the viral video awhile back of the territorial battle over a tree!
I have always been really creeped out by the leopard seals. They have such freaky faces.
Yeah, it's basically creepy-cute; definitely invokes the 'uncanny valley' phenomena.
Fun fact: America has its own Butcherbird but it's called a Shrike, which also impales its victims on thorns & barbed wire.
That’s like what the Loggerhead Shrike does in America he sticks bugs on Barbwire to eat them
Absolutely binging your channel today my man.
Please make Top 10 most expensive animals in the world 1. Palm Cockatoo 2. hyacinth macaw 3. albino bengal tiger and albino lion 4. arowana 5. stag beetle 6. chimpanzee 8 albino python 9 chinese crested dog 10. japanese macaque
This video popped up in my feed about an hour ago. I’m already hooked, so no need to reel me in. 😁
Love these videos wish you luck with the algorithm!
awesome video tsuki
Loved this video 💗
I'm glad you liked it :)
I love grey butcherbirds. We get a pair of them that come around to our house regularly to get fed. They swoop mid air to catch food thrown in the air. They're such clever and friendly little birds performing a range of aerial tactics. I love them.
It’s always interesting how we apply emotive and moralistic descriptions to animals just doing what they have evolved to do. There is nothing good or bad about it, brutal or cruel etc. Those terms are meaningless when applied outside of human society and this should provide pause for thought about the nature of reality.
really only a handful of animals seem to be intelligent enough to exhibit malicious behaviour. Orcas and Crows are both on that line.
pet dogs actually kill more people each year than dingoes... one lady lost both of her arms, at the shoulders last week to a dog attack in Australia but she survived!
If just as many people owned dingoes, dingoes would kill more.
Thats actually because dogs have more rabies
It's because more people are around dogs than Dingoes, and there's more dogs than Dingoes..Not because dogs are more dangerous. It's like saying more die from cows a year than from Orcas! Cows are a more common thing to see than Orcas and people interact more closely with Cows than Orcas on average.
@@testerwulf3357 Or like how retail is one of the deadliest jobs, because so many people work it.
@@kyleellis1825 As Mark Twain put it: Beds are the most dangerous places in the world! Most people die in one! Trains are much safer!
Love ur vids brother and Arni as well!!! 😆
other animal who looks cute but is brutal: Arnie the dog. When he looks like he's hoping you are doing well, he's thinkig about eating you.
Gray seals - Might seem harmless, but they still are large, powerful animals (up to 400 kgs.) which can kill large prey items such as small sharks, seabirds, porpoises and even other seals, with cannibalism not being unknown to them. One of them even killed a dog which ventured in its territory, right in front of the pet owner's eyes! Bonobos - Althought considered the "good" counterpart to "evil" chimps, they still are able to exhibit occasional predatory behaviour, not being above even to hunt for smaller primates. Cases of cannibalism have also been documented. Bottlenose dolphins - They practice infanticide and are also known to kill smaller cetaceans, either to reduce competition, or sometimes possibly just for the "fun" of it: them, and humans, might be the only species proven to have killed just for the sake of it! They also are known to force pufferfish to release Tetrodotoxin in the water just to get high on it.
Koalas's sound is like a donkey trying to mate with a wild boar
leopard seals look like a cartoon with their large mouths, or sock puppets maybe
Leopard seals are basically the seas wolfs
We need more channels like this on KZhead
Nice video 😀👍
there's a cryptid called the dropbear its features looks like a koala when a person passes by they drop down and kill them
i have heard about the dropbear haha, The pictures look scary
Rogue Koalas or Koalas with rabies. DEFINITELY AUSTRALIAN
@@TsukiCove agreed... would be a cool minecraft mob though
I’ve been warned about drop bears from native Australians. If I am ever in their territory, I shall wear a protective helmet and shoulder pads. 🤣🤣🤣 New tourism slogan: “Australia: the land of things trying to kill you.”
Yea..they're just killer Koalas made up to scare tourists from what I've heard from Auzzies! It's hilarious
love ur vids they are the best
Thanks for the support I'm glad you like them :)
Yes, I used to be swooped by a butcher bird every time I mowed the lawn. I don't like hats, but I had to buy one. There's a local dog who is a cross between a dingo and a kelpie. She is extremely friendly and gentle, which was a surprise to me. She got a lot of pats and treats, so the strategy worked.
Koalas are highly aggressive. I've seen someone's hand after a koala attack, it was SHREDDED.
As an Australian I really hate to add yet another of our cutest animals to the list but the quokka, the so called “happiest animal in the world”, is said to sacrifice its joey by throwing it out of its pouch into the path of a predator so it can make its escape.
Don't know if you've done this already, but can you cover the Wake Island rail?
lol, as you started to talk about koala I thought you say Drop Bear 🤣
So THAT'S the name of those feathered bastards. Waking me up at the crack of dawn, the little buggers.
If you think koalas are cute and don’t think leopard seals are, you’re wrong 🤔 lol thanks for another banger !!
Awesome video
Great video
Male ducks to female ducks are vicious Great content recently 👏
Sea Otters! They... err... are famously horrible to baby seals. :/
On butcherbirds: they are BRAZEN and will go after your pets. I know people who have owned Guinea pigs and rabbits, and for them butcher birds were a major concern as their hutch was outside. But being inside doesn’t mean your pets are safe. I have a budgie, and while he’s out of his cage, butcher birds will linger outside the windows and stare at him hungrily. On several occasions we’ve entered the room his cage is in and found a hungry butcherbird on his cage, trying to get to their ‘snack’. He’s pretty safe in there as long as he’s not by the cage walls, and I doubt they could get in. Our dogs are actually pretty good at keeping the butcher birds away, despite being very docile with my budgie, so that’s an added layer of security. I feel like they recognise that the butcherbirds are trespassing at the very least, if not also trying to eat an established family member.
Prairie Dogs can also carry plague.
Most things can..you can carry it too
Hey Tsuki where did your Thailand biotope go?😃
@Tsuki How about a video on out of place animals? Here in the UK we have breeding populations of wallabies, scorpions and parrots none of which should be here there are others but that's the three that come to mind.
Is channel is underrated
Butcher bird honestly seems like a shrike with it's skewering behavior
You should add the pacific electric ray in a video one of the only saltwater fish that can electrocute
Here's a fun fact serving as a reason for why dogs in general should be here: The reason dogs like chew toys is because they trigger the same response as the agonized whimpers and cries of prey did for their wolf ancestors as they ate them alive.
Wolves don't eat things alive, they kill things then devour them. But yes squeaky toys activate their hunting instincts as things they'd normally hunt would squeak when bit or would give away the position of food! My mom actually heard squeaking in the back yard once and went out to see my dog playing with a baby mice..she killed it with a shovel afraid our dog would get sick!
My parents bought a squeaky plastic shoe for our dog many years ago. But the dog didn't like it, so he brought it out to our entrance and left it among the other shoes. "Thanks, but no thanks!" Then my dad removed the squeaker and gave it to the dog again, and now that it only said "phhhhh" when he bit it, he loved it!
There is some confusion in this video. Prairie Dogs are Ground Squirrels. The Richardson Ground Squirrel, for example, found ubiquitously on the northern plains on the US and Southern Canada, is also commonly called a prairie dog (as well as Gopher).
Splendid 👍👍
Dangerous animals and starting with koala, I was like Is this a drop bear joke?
They have razor sharp nails and teeth. And they also carry a DNA-contaminating disease
As much as it completely sucks, I dont think we can stop koalas going extinct. Pandas either, theyre literally so underwhelming that without human aid, they’d go extinct. An animal that cant fend for itself while being fully healthy and sometimes even strong in its species, I feel is just kind of not needed
They purposefully eat things horrible for their health..there's no saving something like that! Pandas can't even taste meat, and they'd do so much better if they ate meat..or at least didn't eat bamboo, anything but bamboo. Koalas eat leaves that no joke toxic and make them sleepy..along with slowly ruining their teeth to the point most wild ones eventually die from being unable to eat due their poor teeth health or they're simply killed by something else. There's literally no saving creatures who cannot functionally survive without dropping like flies without human help, we should honestly let them go and use that money for species that can bounce back and survive..it's sad but it's true; we can't save everything.
I miss the intro, that music always made me smile
leopard seals look like cold and calculated hunters, i don't see any cuteness in them. their long muzzle make them look like predators, which they are.
Should of stuck with seals in general. Seals can be mean..My brother was once out in the ocean, a bit from the beach (I think boogie boarding or something, or swimming) and we all watched as he legit got slapped by a seal! We all laughed our asses off over that one, at least he didn't get attacked or anything just playful seals that gave him a flipper to the face.
Deff pretty adorable getting adopted as a new child by a leopard seal. This may be a similar situation as has been observed in other wild animals, like that one lioness that got captured on film adopting a young antelope. It is thought she did this because her own cubs previously had died, and she was still in mother mode mentally and hormonely. This may have been the situation with the leopard seal in this story trying to feed that photographer, She may have adopted him as her cub in attempt to fulfill her mothering compulsion she still had from the recent loss of a cub.
Mothering instincts really are strong like that! Penguins often show this off extremely..if they don't succeed in laying an egg hormones take over anyways and in the need to nurture they'll take care of rocks, ice, snowballs, and even kidnap other chicks to smother them with affection! Also seen cats take in other creatures to nurse along with their own, and dogs especially take up nursing and raising other animals when they loose their litters (once seen a dog take care of an orphan lion cub, raised it with her pack of other dogs, the lion was one of them till they could put the lion in a pride; the cub couldn't be in a pride before for obvious reasons, and they wanted it to experience pack behavior so it wouldn't be too isolated and would accept being in a pride easier so they chose a pack of happy dogs). Hormones and the instinct to nurture is very strong in animals.
I'm surprised koala and pandas are not extinct yet
shit when you have a yandere leopard seal as your secret crush...
Where is Honey Badger???? Wait a minute, no one would find that devil to be cute
I’m surprised that you didn’t include chimpanzees. Many view them as cute and goofy. But, they can be very aggressive to their own kind as well as humans.
"They intended to steal a koala and sell it for drugs"
Well I’m sure glad I said no when asked if I would swim with a Leopard Seal. I’m alright not being drowned/gifted with dead penguins.
I've never found leopard seals to be cute. Cool yeah, but cute? They look like sea dragons to me
'powerful owl' got me laughing kinda ridiculous name lol
Why did you get rid of the intro i need to know if Arni is doing well 😢
The prairie dogs that live near the beaches in California are semi docile, very vocal, chubby, chunky, and very territorial.
good job tsuki
Skunks, these little cute animals will eat rats, snakes, and bees.
“Even Obama loves them” 😂
US Presidents always did. Teddy Roosevelt had one I think, and he's the reason why it was called a teddy bear.
butcher birds are really friendly and their song is the best. i've seen a lot of dingos and none of them have been an issue, but you can't trust kids around dingos they do silly things like run and scream which triggers the dingos hunting instinct. koalas are nice to look at, nothing good comes from trying to hold one.
Should have collaborated with Casual Geographic for this XD
"maybe the dingo ate your baby" I can't believe you didn't use the Seinfeld reference.
So there is a species of owl called the flipping Powerful Owl and i somehow never heard of it?!?
Hilarious story about the koala terrorising the would be zoo thieves. Even funnier that they found stealing a crocodile easier. Score one to Blinky Bill.