I wanted to cover something pleasant and I wanted to make a video, so here you go:
I hope you enjoy it. Obviously I still need to figure out how to improve sound quality and my narrative flow, but practice makes perfect.
Invasive animals will inherit the future
Very interesting and uplifting, thank you!
Interesting video and theory about raccoons.
> And so, if us humans ever go extinct, I would say the raccoons are a good candidate to take over the world
Reminds me of the following excerpt from “The Ancestor’s Tale” by Richard Dawkins:
“A world without rodents would be a very different world. It is less likely to come to pass than a world dominated by rodents and free of people. If nuclear war destroys humanity and most of the rest of life, a good bet for survival in the short term, and for evolutionary ancestry in the long term, is rats. I have a post-Armageddon vision. We and all other large animals are gone. Rodents emerge as the ultimate post-human scavengers. They gnaw their way through New York, London and Tokyo, digesting spilled larders, ghost supermarkets and human corpses and turning them into new generations of rats and mice, whose racing populations explode out of the cities and into the countryside. When all the relics of human profligacy are eaten, populations crash again, and the rodents turn on each other, and on the cockroaches scavenging with them. In a period of intense competition, short generations perhaps with radioactively enhanced mutation-rates boost rapid evolution. With human ships and planes gone, islands become islands again, with local populations isolated save for occasional lucky raftings: ideal conditions for evolutionary divergence. Within 5 million years, a whole range of new species replace the ones we know. Herds of giant grazing rats are stalked by sabretoothed predatory rats. Given enough time, will a species of intelligent, cultivated rats emerge? Will rodent historians and scientists eventually organise careful archaeological digs (gnaws?) through the strata of our long-compacted cities, and reconstruct the peculiar and temporarily tragic circumstances that gave ratkind its big break?”
And there’s this hilarious episode of The Simpsons where Bart inadvertently introduces an invasive species into Australia:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpzj1IvEhTA
I’ll puy a vote in for the octopus inheriting the Earth.
The occy is intelligent but hampered in development by the death of its parents.
I have seen though that there are occys who can teach each other, so they have culture, which gets around the loss of knowledge between generations after all the parents die.
Occy for the win!
I love raccoons also.
Plucky animals they are.
I’ve had big ones growl at me and run right past me.
I said the same thing years ago – that raccoons were the most likely to inherit the Earth and develop tools and technology, but I’ve changed my mind about that. Something really freakish happened to human brains and I don’t think it’s going to occur again on this planet.
Something really freakish was caused to happen to human brains. FIFY
I love the Raccoon Whisperer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofp26_oc4CA. Feeding them hot dogs. They are as fat as ticks!!!!! Yes, it is wrong; they should be out scavenging for insects, but it makes me happy anyway.
I’m with Dawkins on this one. I vote for rats.
Got three of them forever in my heart. They were our pet rats, and what charming, affectionate, intelligent characters they were.
Rats have hands like ours and they are keenly curious, intrepid climbers and explorers. Being so small, they don’t need much food to keep them going, and of course, they can eat a wide range of things. The future is theirs.
Trash pandas ftw. I red a story where they gained sentience in the distant future once. Cannot remember what it was called though.