5 Amazing Animal Behaviours Caught on Spy Camera | BBC Earth

the mothers have reason to be worried a male from another pride will readily kill their young the instant is the stage a preemptive strike working together they're a match for any male but unfortunately their hair-trigger aggression has caused a serious mistake this male is from their own pride event their remaining aggressions on each other for highly strong predators violence comes with the territory it's best not to take it personally Cubs are usually a few weeks old before their mother risks introducing them to their father he tends to be a bit rough the kids the Cubs are mesmerized by this 200 kilo Goliath he may be a hundred times bigger than they are but lying down he seems relatively harmless even so touching him is playing with his fuels can be even shorter than their mothers there's nothing quite like putting your head in the lion's mouth in parenting lions are from the old school they aren't afraid of disciplines like human children comes our more Restless than their parents but they soon learn to relax for 20 hours each day she's the biggest meerkat they've ever seen and require serious examination she's been made to smell like the colony so this reassures me each day different volunteer set up a crash giving all the child support and Lada could wish for this year rules including sentry duty it demands concentration and it's easy to lose focus and sometimes it's good to have someone watching your back being a sentry is a risky business as they are easy targets for predators but with young pups to protect they take greater risks by climbing higher here they can see predators earlier but are vulnerable to birds of prey their self-sacrifice is about to be tested but this is no ordinary Cobra it's a spy Cobra with no regard for her own safety she prepares to face the snake [Music] [Music] [Music] she react as she would to the real thing bravely protecting the colony with no thought for herself our aim is to harass the snake into leaving but the spy snake holding its ground the meerkat calls for reinforcements this is where fraternity comes into its own [Music] an intimidating wall of meerkats face up to spy Cobra [Music] they push their luck as far as the deer goading the snake to strike [Music] real snakes tie our easily so it's a matter of wearing it down [Music] but one meerkat senses there's something different about this serpent in me Lu can move like a real snake but it shows no sign of leaving spy snake has been well and truly rumbled satisfied he's harmless the meerkats go back to what they enjoy best relaxing among friends our story begins with a tantalizing glimpse of something very special a cow just ten days old wild cubs as young as this have never been filmed before for their first six weeks most Cubs usually hide away in their dens hardly glimpse in daylight these are unusually adventurous they seem totally unaware of the dangers although their eyes are just opening they won't see clearly for another six weeks they're the mother's first litter and they're going to be quite a test for her the Tigers must pick them up by the scruff of the neck it's a delicate operation and it had too much pressure and she'll hurt her cub she can bite through the force of nearly 500 kilos but this requires the gentlest touch Tigers usually have two or three comes before are quite a handful and these already seem more challenging than most the ratio between the sexes among newborns is usually equal true to form two of these cubs are male and to a female it will be rare indeed for all four of them to reach maturity many dangers lie ahead at this size they make a snack for even the smallest predator their mother must make sure that everyone is accounted for with to back in the den and one on its way there's only one straggler left to worry about the Cubs contact cry make sure he's not forgotten as long as the Cubs call their mother is compelled to keep retrieving them but this would try any mother's patience the young Cubs life is very precarious had the mother been away hunting at a moment like this the outcome could have been very different [Music] she's clearly going to be a devoted mother but she still has a lot to learn this is not the way to do it human such behavior is unprecedented it gives us an extraordinary opportunity to follow these Cubs as they grow at a jungle hut this female finds a saw despite being totally wild somehow she has worked out what to do with it like us a rainy terns have an opposable thumb that allows them to grasp and handle objects with precision over 20 years ago a rescue orangutan learned how to solve by watching people constructing the huts here but this is a totally different and wild orangutan she seems to take pride in her work even clearing away the sawdust she's so smart she uses her feet was a vice to steady the branch filming a wild born and free living orangutan mastering this complex task is remarkable but no she's not the only orangutan sawing spy orangutan has joined her [Music] seems to be bringing out a competitive streak she's becoming even more enthusiastic [Music] but for a novice sewing is tiring world she's lost all momentum [Music] then finally calls ER today spy orangutan may have machine-like stamina but is the astonishing and versatile mind of the real orangutan that's won the day she certainly earned her rest every leak in River has a resident population of hippos they too are social creatures but they are also a territorial spy hippo is going where a few others dare to go he needs to be cautious [Music] his subjects are notoriously bad temper and they could be anywhere [Music] it's never a good idea to get on their wrong side spy hip who has been given a warning we must avoid sudden movements as he gets closer your wiggling shows confidence facing one of Africa's most dangerous animals spy hippo must hold his ground the pod is made up of females looked over by a single male fortunately females are less aggressive spy hippo is already capturing some of the closest views that have ever been seen but hippos spend much of their time below the surface as the hippos dive zoo must spy hippo he mimics their movements rather than swim hippos walk underwater [Music] through the mark spy hippo glimpses an extraordinary sight [Music] fish are shadowing the hippos every move these are Barb's they usually feed on the riverbed but when the hip was appear they shawl around them as spy hippo moves closer it's clear that their skin is a maze of cuts and scratches these fight marks easily become infected and parasites can also invade this is where the fish come in together they set up an underwater clinic with the hippos as willing patients the barbs may be skin specialists but they'll try a bit of dental hygiene too [Music] [Music] after having a full-body treatment the hippos seem to enter a trance [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Channel: BBC Earth

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Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, meerkats, funny meerkat videos, wildlife compilation, animal compilation, amazing animal behaviour, animal behaviour on camera, spy camera, spy in the wild 2, tiger videos, tigers, bbc earth tigers, hippos, lions, bbc earth lions

Id: uIKJgxbhAzM

Length: 17min 33sec (1053 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 17 2020

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