Fun fact: not only the tiger pattern is a good camouflage, but it's prey can't distinguish orange and green, so tigers, as a matter of fact, look green to those animals, which is awesome in dense foliage.
@Serana TheNecromancer actually the way he describes it is more like the Predator as he describes the prey animals basically seeing the jungle come out and rip them apart.
@BambiLena666 It’s incredible how this giant beautiful orange killing machine blends in to hunt like the Terminator. It’s fascinating how the simple change in their body language completely shifts your perception of them
Pretty sure he meant that as in unprovoked attacks like what's happening in the movie. Crows generally don't attack people unprovoked. They will if their defending themselves or nests.
Hold up. The man just talked about a particular part of Māori history. Most people probably missed this, but as a kiwi this was so lovely of him to say 💕 cheers for making us feel included
@DontMindMe No, she's the kind who believes that SHE has personally suffered individualistic objectification for "millenia". Therefore she has every "right" to objectify men.
@DontMindMe yeah, I know I'm two years late....but if imakrewitatl if too dense to understand your fun ironic trolling....they're probably not going to understand your explanation.
Agreed, he has a great way of analysing the clips and the animals reactions. Would love to pet a tiger - through the bars and when it's engrossed in eating and there's an expert there also. 😊
Also it was the virus mutating making it also effect humans and other animals. Bats have been being eaten for thousands of years. Hard to know a virus mutated
I had horses when I was like 12 and one time, Dash, my biggest horse, bumbed his butt into my face and I literally got sent flying on the ground. That John Wick scene could be realistic if it wasn't a full grown man because horses will push you around without meaning to... it's insane. They're absolutely massive.
@ThePopeOfDope you probably need to “study” physics a little more...😂. You typed 2 paragraphs and didn’t make a single point or presented any information. I cannot believe you typed that.
Love how he mentioned the extinct native eagles of NZ! My dad would tell me stories of them as a kid, I thought for a long time that they were only myth until I learnt about them in a museum
The whole point of 'The Birds' is, of course, that the birds suddenly start acting in very unnatural way. And they are common birds that are everywhere, Which is the horror element.
It’s true that petting a tiger is an amazing feeling and experience. When I was 10, for a gift my mum and I paid for an experience at our local zoo to feed the lions during their feeding time, after we fed them in their behind the scenes enclosures one of the tigers was pacing near a fence that lead to the tiger enclosure and the keeper with us (who also worked with the tiger) asked us if we wanted to pet its back/side. The keeper was near its face while my mum and I got to pet it for about 5 minutes. We have photos of it and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life and one I don’t think I will ever really have the chance to do again
The crows thing is crazy because in Vancouver Canada where I live every evening we have this huge migration of crows (like thousands of them) that fly across the city together and land on telephone wires and look really spooky. It’s one of the coolest things honestly, love when I get out to see it
it may not be very realistic to weaponize a horse kick, but there's just something about that shot thats amazing. one of my favorite moments in an action movie
@Broch Romkee you can do that with a dog too. Grab it’s bottom jaw and hold its tongue down, instant choking dog. Then just break its neck using its bodyweight as leverage.
WTF are all you people talking about hand to claw combat with a effing tiger?!?! You defend yourself against a tiger with a large caliber firearm. Then eat it and have a nice rug.
@Alia Krerowicz "Put more of yourself into it's mouth" sounds like a rumor started by tigers. LoL. "Hurry get in my belly the other tigers will never find you there!"
@Sam Bromley People in few Indian states live around Tigers.. but dont carry a gun. They have learnt co exist. Someones dies rarely by thier hand. But if it does happen.. there is no backlash against Tigers.. we know they are animals. Also killing Tigers is a federal offence in India
The comanche tribe actually did the thing with the hanging on the side of the horse. They could do it at full speed and to use the horse as a form of cover in a fight.
@Jay Will6 accept the L. Not one single video of a Comanche so much as trick riding or doing horse archery yet tons and tons of video and historical evidence of Cossacks doing both.
11:06 As a horse lover myself, I know you should never get too close to a horse's rear end. If you have to walk behind a horse while you're grooming it, make some type of sound ie. talking or singing to let the animal know that you are there. Also, the bigger the horse, the more severe the injuries can be when they kick you. BTW I think the breed of horse in that clip is either a Quarter Horse, a SaddleBred, or a Thoroughbred
There are more than one horse breed in that clip, but I guess you're referring to the "kicker". That's not the croup and hip of a Quarter or Thorouhgbred, my guess would be on a Morgan, but might be a saddlebred.
I have to contradict Forrest here on the statement 'you couldn't command a horse to kick'. Because you can. It's called capriole and is a so-called air above the ground as taught and ridden in high levels of classical dressage. It wouldn't look like what the horse in John Wick is doing but that movement can also be trained.
I think he meant you can't just command a random horse to kick successfully, like John Wick is doing. Clearly the movie horse has actually been trained to kick on command, but you can't just walk into a stable of horses you don't know and point it's butt at someone and have it kick on command. I mean, unless those are his horses and he's specifically trained them to do this.
or that he said that the odds of a single penguin against a polar bear aren't high, i'd say the penguin has a good shot considering they live on opposite sides of the earth.
To be fair, Crows haven't historically hurt people but another type of Corvid has; Magpie's. I think if a Crow wanted too they could do a fair bit of damage. Going for the eyes would be a pretty effective strategy. Some lady here in Australia lost her eye when a Magpie swooped her
I went to a big cat sanctuary for my birthday once and when we were visiting the tigers, someone asked the caretaker, "can you go in there and pet him?" The caretaker replied, "no, he would absolutely eat me," and it was so funny because up till that point it was Jango this and Jango that, talking about how cute Jango is lol
love the fact that if you freeze frame the 'tiger' attack on JCVD , it is actually a plush toy in the scene where he is on the ground during the first pounce.
Love your breakdowns! When someone swings to the side of the horse to use them as cover, I always learned it as the "Indian hide" trick. Super fun to do and easy for someone with experience riding.
Yeah I got questions.. also crows, as a guy who befriended a murder, can absolutely destroy a human solo and utterly obliterate a human as a group. Long story short guy tried was on my property uninvited and the crows did not like that... so they chased him off. Life lesson feed crows and earn their trust... they will pay you back for kindness.
There is evidence of predation AND impact with evidence of carrying (claw marks showing drag scratches like what is see. On typical Eagle kills on smaller animals). Also the smaller Eagle Owl and Golden Eagle both hunt deer and goats, and can carry them short distances. So you are incorrect entirely.
On Joe Rogan podcast he also called a Jaguar a leopard because leopards are much larger 🤔🤔 for a wildlife expert that honestly seems to know his stuff, he says some weirdly erroneous things
@JesseMerrick9797 I didn't get that far because I had to pause to go off about the Haast eagle he lied about too at 3 ish minutes. The haast eagle taking children was a myth. The bird, native to New Zealand, has been extinct for 620 years, and was able to carry a max of 5lbs. That's less than the average newborn.
Him saying crows don't bomb out of the sky, or attack, indicates he has clearly never been to Vancouver BC during their mating season. We have friggen virtual maps that indicate the hot spots because they are so frequent.
It struck me as weird that he'd say there's nothing a bird this size could do to really hurt someone, given they have claws and sharp beaks. They might not pick someone up and fly off with them, but I don't think that's what they were doing in the film either.
Apparently they don't hunt either... he should hang out in richmond and watch the bunny's get swooped off. Or tell that sparrow that got snatched off my deck it's still alive.
@MissVanity Not just Vancouver. They can be a menace up here on the Sunshine Coast as well. And there are also the barred owls that target joggers with pony tails.
Best idea for a tiger horror movie or attack scene is character jumps into lake/river/ off waterfall into pool below to escape it, only for Tiger to come in and start swimming towards him.That would be far more terrifying then generic chase and lunge.
I love how Forrest gently picks on JCVD for getting attacked by an animal and talking to the group about it instead of running or fighting or screaming, when Forrest professionally finds and often gets attacked by animals and talks to his audience about them instead of running or fighting or screaming.
For anyone interested in Forrest and wildlife, you should listen to his podcast “The Wild times”. Him and his two buddies do tons of segments on wildlife and it actually has funny aspects to it. As a biology student, you learn a ton and it feels like you’re just hanging out with some friends.
So as a long time horse trainer, I'll say that slap on the back probably would not make the horse kick, but more likely make it run forward. I thought the far more accurate situation was when he had the hand on the horse's flank. A ticklish horse, with a hand on the flank, could absolutely be coaxed into kicking with a squeeze at the right time like that. Maybe he just got lucky with a ticklish horse. However, that first shot with the slap was pretty unbelievable.
Hey Forest, horses can be trained to kick on command. It’s not common any more since they are used in war but the royal lippizaners of Spain still perform this maneuver. It’s called a courbette and war a maneuver used to help his rider fend off attackers on foot.
What a great video this is! Thank you for answering all those questions! I have had many similar questions like those! Thank you for making this video! I really enjoyed it!
While the Haast Eagles might not exist any longer, Wedge-tailed eagles do here in Australia and I've seen them take on flocks of chickens including the oversized guarding roosters. An unattended infant could definitely be taken by one of them. Hasn't happened that I know of, but they could.
I'm definitely no expert but I have seen a murder of crows circle an owl and then attack it. Everyone on the street like that owl because it would sit in one specific tree and hoot at night. It was easily the most insane chaotic thing I have ever seen in my life.
As I recall, the large gathering of these crows was based on a true incident that was witnessed in a small town in CA, a few years prior to the making of this movie.
Louis C.K. had a rather hilarious bit about finding a bat in his house, the thought that this is one day going to happen to me is in equal parts terrifying and hilarious
It's awful. My apartment is in an old building, and a summer that I do not get one is rare. I've had two in the last 2 weeks. These days, if I'm standing on the train platform and a pigeon comes flying over my shoulder, I lose my sh#$t
To be fair, the bats themselves aren't dangerous, it's the diseases they carry, but that's like saying a serial killer with a knife isn't dangerous because it's the knife that's dangerous and not killer itself.
Him saying crows don't bomb out of the sky, or attack, indicates he has clearly never been to Vancouver BC during their mating season. We have friggen virtual maps that indicate the hot spots because they are so frequent.
I love crows. Because when I was in high school I fed one a single chip, and it proceeded to constantly bring me little rocks and shiny things it found at the same time every day
I studied animal sciences in college, and then went onto a degree. Spent a lot of time working with various animals, including working on an active farm, with all the animals you'd expect, including horses. I love horses. One time we were grooming the horses, scraping out their hooves, and a girl on the course walked around the back of the horse and it kicked out, kicked her in the chest, right over the lower couple of ribs. It broke the ribs but luckily didn't puncture a lung. She still has a crescent scar to this day. Another friend of mine was riding her horse and it slipped over. As it was trying to get back up it stood on her thigh, that thigh is still numb even years later. Horse rule #1: NEVER WALK AROUND THE BACK OF A HORSE!
@Jax Nah, talked to a literal trained doctor and he's said that nerve damage is something almost to the point now, with technology becoming better and more accessible to help doctors and therapists, it is becoming easier to fix these human issues. She should look into this newly developed thing, in which we have a sensor that can be implanted anywhere in the body -- for example, under the tip of a severed finger or that thigh that got crushed. The sensor connects to another nerve that functions properly and restores tactile sensation to the injured nerve. Pretty cool huh?
This reminds me of a dream I had once in which a tiger the size of a small elephant was confronting me, and all I had to defend myself with was a pocket knife, which I knew would probably not even pierce its hide, let alone do any real damage.
dear Forrest, thank you! your 3 videos helped me to overcome acute feeling of being depressed and burned out after my exam, and to remember that I still love biology (tho molecular one). thank you! will wait for a book about all your bizarre experiences! ;)
Fun fact: One of those trained ravens was aggressive and consistently attacked one of the actors or the crew (Can't remember cuz my memory isn't great) during the making of The Birds.
I think the tiger exposing itself isn’t too far fetched. It happens with mountains lions, the ones where I live aren’t very scared of people and will sometimes walk right by a camp site without a care in the world. It all depends on how much they have seen people.
For those that wondered The Haast Eagle he is talking about in the beginning was the biggest bird by weight, but not necessarily by wingspan. He got the size a bit wrong. Although they had a weight of 10-15 kg (22-33lb) for the females and 9-12 kg (20-26lb) for the males, they only had a wingspan of 8-10ft similar to the biggest living eagles now
Im kinda late to watch this video but i enjoy it so much..i love animals and im learning so much just by watching his explanations..but i wonder what he thinks about the movie 'Life of Pi'😊👏🏻
@Harshal Bhoir watching the videos on his entire life doesn't change the fact that this video was full of incorrect information. Between referring to ravens and crows interchangeably, saying polar bears are predators to penguins, and that it's impossible to have a horse kick on command, his "expertise" leaves something to be desired.
"Mom! Mom! We found a bat!" The kids, playing with super-soakers, accidentally knocked down a bat roosting under our deck. I grabbed a box and came out and covered the poor little bat. I then questioned all the children and determined that none of the children had touched the bat - these were 10 to 12 year olds and relatively truthful. I sent them off to go fill their super-soakers at a different hose tap. I opened one end of the box and had everyone step back to let the bat fly out when it was ready. Only then did it occur to me to called all the parents of the children who weren't mine and to tell them about the bat encounter and also to ask them to talk to their children to ensure that none of the children had touched the bat. If any of them had told me that they had touched the bat, the bat would have had to go off to the county animal control to be tested for rabies and there is no way to do that without killing the bat. After the bat was released, any child who admitted to touching it would have had to have gone for rabies shots.
"I'm not quite understanding how horse butt is the same consistency as a bounce house." Favorite quote by far! I've been kicked in the thigh by a Haflinger & didnt fall back, so that's accurate & hilarious. 🤣🤣
Most kinds of bats can actually bite humans and might do so if they are handled wrongly. Never touch them with your hands. Our bat specialist got himself vaccinated against rabies, because he handles injured bats regularly and has been bitten before. If you need to get them out of curtains, use a towel to gently shove them into a box, place the box outside somewhere up high and cat-save and let them fly away. Nonetheless, they are in fact fascinating animals and if you ever have the change to hear them with a bat detector, do so!
I actually saw in person someone getting kicked by a horse, and yeah John wick is 1000% accurate, only thing I have to add is that the guy was thrown a good distance painful and funny asf
My horse is the opposite of "bomb proof", and I live in an area for "bomb proof" horses (Norco, California). He has a history of unknown abuse and spooks at everything. Makes for an interesting relationship.
When I was at my cousin's we were in the pasture with all the animals and I sneezed and the horse quickly walked away lmao. They're goofy animals the things that don't spook them could spook anyone but the things that do scare them are do little and nothing 😂
Is there any KZclip channel of horse-owners telling their stories like this...? I found this comment thread so fascinating & amusing! (Haven't been round any horses for about ten years now but they're such interesting critters, and seem really intelligent - despite their sometimes very over-active prey-fear responses! 😋)
As respect to the crows and ravens, there is one time and only once did I see them gather like they did in the movie. There was about 50-80 crows all sitting on my house and the neighbor's house and the electrical lines, all very close. My mom and the rest of us just looking through the window because this, as he said, is not normal. All of a sudden, a hawk flew out of the palm tree (we've seen it a few times in the previous weeks) where we knew there was a crow's nest, it must have been eating the babies. When the hawk left the tree, all 50-80 birds took off and swarmed it, trying to peck at it mid air. I will never forget that. the hawk didn't come back for awhile either.
Hey Forrest, what about the Australian Magpie, it is a very territory basted bird, mostly in spring when has chick. It is one of the most feared birds in Oz, due to it's overwhelming persistence. Maybe U should look into them?
@Cookie 123 This reminds me of a story where a mailman in Vancouver, Canada (i think) had a crow nesting along his route that would swoop at him when he tried to deliver mail. So he started bringing food and the crow became his best friend and would even hop into the mail truck and ride along.
I had a pet crow when I was in school - it had a damaged beak & I hand-reared it. It lived outside & regularly flew down to land on peoples heads or shoulders - the locals were aware & didn't seem to mind, but probably scary for strangers....
Hitchcock kind of tortured the lead actress of "The Birds". He at one point had tied real crows to to her body during an attack scene and she as they panicked they pecked, flapped and scratched her in a mania. It led to some of the scenes looking like real horror and panic. Because it was.
When I was hunting once I came along a creek line that was heavily wooded and I thought I heard a group of men mumbling very weirdly in the distance but it was a bunch of crows up in the trees. They were making really weird noises
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"What can you do to defend yourself against a Tiger? Not much: it's a Tiger." Is my new favorite line.
@Hiraghm what if he had a pointed stick ?
How to fight a tiger: don't
All you need is a big ball of wool
@zieg0r dare you to throw rocks at a tiger. 🤣 See how far that gets you. And please make sure you're recording.
Fun fact: not only the tiger pattern is a good camouflage, but it's prey can't distinguish orange and green, so tigers, as a matter of fact, look green to those animals, which is awesome in dense foliage.
@Serana TheNecromancer actually the way he describes it is more like the Predator as he describes the prey animals basically seeing the jungle come out and rip them apart.
@BambiLena666
It’s incredible how this giant beautiful orange killing machine blends in to hunt like the Terminator. It’s fascinating how the simple change in their body language completely shifts your perception of them
@Unkind_Grape plus they stand out unless they live in places with snow.
Jaguars too, it's amazing, you can only see them once they get pretty close.
Forrest: "Let's stop right there"
Me: thinking he's gonna break down why a crow is biting a kids ear
Forrest:...yEaH tHaTs PrEtTy FuNnY
He's golden
He did kinda explained later
Great moment haha
That was so hilarious 😂😂😂
Cracked me up🤣
"Crows don't just dive bomb people. Crows don't do that."
*Sweats in Australian, looking to the skies for Magpies.*
Pretty sure he meant that as in unprovoked attacks like what's happening in the movie. Crows generally don't attack people unprovoked. They will if their defending themselves or nests.
Sweats in Missouri checking for swans
Haha lol
@J M THANK YOU! People call them "Canadian geese" and I twitch every time.
@Princess Azula Of the Fire nation there is no such thing as Canadian geese. They are Canada geese named after John Canada not the country of Canada
Hold up. The man just talked about a particular part of Māori history. Most people probably missed this, but as a kiwi this was so lovely of him to say 💕 cheers for making us feel included
no one cares to know about maori history lol
If You’re a kiwi
Are you a Bird or fruit?
Why do you think people missed it? You aren't special lmao
You presume wrong. People do listen
@Kceam not saying they did often but they were certainly capable as their main prey was Moa which were heavier/bigger than a human child
I want to marry this man. He loves animals, is intelligent, handsome, and is articulate. I want one lol.
@E Dawg no he’s not that accent is very American, even if he was born in SA he’s American
Cringe.
I would also like to marry this man because likes animals and i also like animals 😂😏
@DontMindMe No, she's the kind who believes that SHE has personally suffered individualistic objectification for "millenia". Therefore she has every "right" to objectify men.
@DontMindMe yeah, I know I'm two years late....but if imakrewitatl if too dense to understand your fun ironic trolling....they're probably not going to understand your explanation.
I could listen to this guy talking about animals during the entire confinement/curfew/quarantine.
Forest knows his reptiles and sharks. Not the best for big cats or bears etc.
He has been on a few podcasts.
He's got his own podcast now @wildtimespod. This is it! Check it out.
@Tammy Jones
No one goes near them when they're eating. 😬
Agreed, he has a great way of analysing the clips and the animals reactions. Would love to pet a tiger - through the bars and when it's engrossed in eating and there's an expert there also. 😊
Forrest Galante: "There are only a few bats that bite people"
2020: "What about people who bite bats"
Also it was the virus mutating making it also effect humans and other animals. Bats have been being eaten for thousands of years. Hard to know a virus mutated
Wow has this comment aged poorly.
@John Kieley Ozzy Osbourn... Duh...
2020 or Ozzy
"I'm not quite understanding why horse butt is the consistency of a bounce house " 😂😂
I had horses when I was like 12 and one time, Dash, my biggest horse, bumbed his butt into my face and I literally got sent flying on the ground. That John Wick scene could be realistic if it wasn't a full grown man because horses will push you around without meaning to... it's insane. They're absolutely massive.
He's clearly not been on the internet long enough
That horse was just dummy thicc
Chuck Haggert he would have been putting force into it though. Or vice versa. This comes down to basic physics.
@ThePopeOfDope you probably need to “study” physics a little more...😂. You typed 2 paragraphs and didn’t make a single point or presented any information. I cannot believe you typed that.
Love how he mentioned the extinct native eagles of NZ! My dad would tell me stories of them as a kid, I thought for a long time that they were only myth until I learnt about them in a museum
You've got to admit, as dangerous as tigers are, they're beautiful beasts, for sure.
I would say a good 80%, even up to 90% of animals labeled as "dangerous" are also quite beautiful
@Nathan Jasper XD
For sure. Very regal animals.
The whole point of 'The Birds' is, of course, that the birds suddenly start acting in very unnatural way. And they are common birds that are everywhere, Which is the horror element.
@Lisa Fish yeah lol
Birds dive bombed housed to unalive themselves
Kinda reminds me of that show where all of the animals start acting unnatural
He only picks it apart, because he's supposed to tell what's realistically animal behavior / look and what isn't.
The Birds was based on an historical event, when there was an unusually large algae bloom.
Hitchcock's The Birds would've been 100% more scary if he'd used geese instead of crows.
Would be at least 50% more accurate, too
And absolutely realistic
With this amount of birds everyone would be screwed because Geese can fly extended distances and are irrationally territorial 🤣
Or magpies
Swans are even more terrifying!
It’s true that petting a tiger is an amazing feeling and experience. When I was 10, for a gift my mum and I paid for an experience at our local zoo to feed the lions during their feeding time, after we fed them in their behind the scenes enclosures one of the tigers was pacing near a fence that lead to the tiger enclosure and the keeper with us (who also worked with the tiger) asked us if we wanted to pet its back/side. The keeper was near its face while my mum and I got to pet it for about 5 minutes. We have photos of it and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life and one I don’t think I will ever really have the chance to do again
I love this guy so much.
He's so knowledgeable but always seems to want to know more about almost everything.
The crows thing is crazy because in Vancouver Canada where I live every evening we have this huge migration of crows (like thousands of them) that fly across the city together and land on telephone wires and look really spooky. It’s one of the coolest things honestly, love when I get out to see it
They are loud though. Both ravens and crows
it may not be very realistic to weaponize a horse kick, but there's just something about that shot thats amazing. one of my favorite moments in an action movie
His, love and enthusiasm for animals is so contagious and awesome, could talk about animals to this man forever
"What can you do to defend yourself against a tiger? Not much. It's a tiger."
@Broch Romkee you can do that with a dog too. Grab it’s bottom jaw and hold its tongue down, instant choking dog. Then just break its neck using its bodyweight as leverage.
WTF are all you people talking about hand to claw combat with a effing tiger?!?!
You defend yourself against a tiger with a large caliber firearm. Then eat it and have a nice rug.
@Alia Krerowicz "Put more of yourself into it's mouth" sounds like a rumor started by tigers. LoL. "Hurry get in my belly the other tigers will never find you there!"
understandable
@Sam Bromley People in few Indian states live around Tigers.. but dont carry a gun. They have learnt co exist. Someones dies rarely by thier hand. But if it does happen.. there is no backlash against Tigers.. we know they are animals. Also killing Tigers is a federal offence in India
He's so good at this. The animal breakdowns are my absolute favorites.
Right? He gets the whole “movie/entertainment vs realism” concepts better than the other experts.
The comanche tribe actually did the thing with the hanging on the side of the horse.
They could do it at full speed and to use the horse as a form of cover in a fight.
@Jay Will6 who is Ryan Keith? You are talking gibberish. What's happening in 19 months? Are you threatening violence?
@Jay Will6 accept the L. Not one single video of a Comanche so much as trick riding or doing horse archery yet tons and tons of video and historical evidence of Cossacks doing both.
11:06 As a horse lover myself, I know you should never get too close to a horse's rear end. If you have to walk behind a horse while you're grooming it, make some type of sound ie. talking or singing to let the animal know that you are there. Also, the bigger the horse, the more severe the injuries can be when they kick you. BTW I think the breed of horse in that clip is either a Quarter Horse, a SaddleBred, or a Thoroughbred
There are more than one horse breed in that clip, but I guess you're referring to the "kicker". That's not the croup and hip of a Quarter or Thorouhgbred, my guess would be on a Morgan, but might be a saddlebred.
I have to contradict Forrest here on the statement 'you couldn't command a horse to kick'. Because you can. It's called capriole and is a so-called air above the ground as taught and ridden in high levels of classical dressage. It wouldn't look like what the horse in John Wick is doing but that movement can also be trained.
I think he meant you can't just command a random horse to kick successfully, like John Wick is doing. Clearly the movie horse has actually been trained to kick on command, but you can't just walk into a stable of horses you don't know and point it's butt at someone and have it kick on command. I mean, unless those are his horses and he's specifically trained them to do this.
I would happily sit and watch this man talk about animals in movies for hours.
So informative and eloquently put
So no one gonna talk about how he's a wildlife expert and his name is Forrest
And Galante mean rich so its a rich forest
Bear Grylls
@clever username no. He wasn’t named after the war criminal who massacred black troops at the Fort Pillow massacre and creator of the KKK 🙄
or that he said that the odds of a single penguin against a polar bear aren't high, i'd say the penguin has a good shot considering they live on opposite sides of the earth.
No we will not talk about his name.
To be fair, Crows haven't historically hurt people but another type of Corvid has; Magpie's. I think if a Crow wanted too they could do a fair bit of damage. Going for the eyes would be a pretty effective strategy. Some lady here in Australia lost her eye when a Magpie swooped her
@Zayne S he says that? Whats the point of ur post lol
That's a magpie. Magpies ARE a different species than Crows!
Hitchcock's birds were not good CG or bad CG. They were hand-drawn animated birds. This guy has a great presence and a pleasant delivery.
I went to a big cat sanctuary for my birthday once and when we were visiting the tigers, someone asked the caretaker, "can you go in there and pet him?"
The caretaker replied, "no, he would absolutely eat me," and it was so funny because up till that point it was Jango this and Jango that, talking about how cute Jango is lol
Forrest could do this once a week and I'd tune in. Love the knowledge and enthusiasm. Pure gem!
I thought they must be running short of good ideas for the breakdown but this was actually incredibly cool and hillarious.
They could have Forrest Galante back every week and I'd be happy.
💯 every time 😍
Just watch joe rogan experience he does a whole thing w him and it’s way better then this Bc u can see his real personality
I love his accent! And he is easy on the eyes
he has his own show! It's called Extinct or Alive, its pretty interesting : )
I liked and unliked this to keep it at 420
“It’s a tiger, it’s going to win” 😂😂 love it
No bs 😂
“Flying birds won’t really attack people at all”
Australians during magpie season: Are you sure about that?
love the fact that if you freeze frame the 'tiger' attack on JCVD , it is actually a plush toy in the scene where he is on the ground during the first pounce.
I love the fact that he can tell what is just movie magic and isn’t meant to be real. I also love the fact he needs to see Welcome to the Jungle
I love this guy! His passion for what he does is off the rickter scale! Keep doing it Forrest!
This guy is one of the best breakdowns. Keep bringing him back GQ!
AGREED
Love your breakdowns! When someone swings to the side of the horse to use them as cover, I always learned it as the "Indian hide" trick. Super fun to do and easy for someone with experience riding.
I can watch his movie reaction and explanation videos all day.
Matthew McConaughey actually spent time in a tiger enclosure while tripping on peyote once and that's just insane to me.
Okay but is no one going to talk about the wildlife expert saying a POLAR BEAR is a predator for PENGUINS??
@Gerard Magnarelli I thought it might be that guy! He gets everything wrong lol
Yeah I got questions.. also crows, as a guy who befriended a murder, can absolutely destroy a human solo and utterly obliterate a human as a group.
Long story short guy tried was on my property uninvited and the crows did not like that... so they chased him off. Life lesson feed crows and earn their trust... they will pay you back for kindness.
There is evidence of predation AND impact with evidence of carrying (claw marks showing drag scratches like what is see. On typical Eagle kills on smaller animals). Also the smaller Eagle Owl and Golden Eagle both hunt deer and goats, and can carry them short distances. So you are incorrect entirely.
On Joe Rogan podcast he also called a Jaguar a leopard because leopards are much larger 🤔🤔 for a wildlife expert that honestly seems to know his stuff, he says some weirdly erroneous things
@JesseMerrick9797 I didn't get that far because I had to pause to go off about the Haast eagle he lied about too at 3 ish minutes. The haast eagle taking children was a myth. The bird, native to New Zealand, has been extinct for 620 years, and was able to carry a max of 5lbs. That's less than the average newborn.
That JCVD tiger attack is excellent I had no idea that existed and the pose of the tiger as it leaps is hilarious
i love this guy. the energy is 100% glad they brought him back
Him saying crows don't bomb out of the sky, or attack, indicates he has clearly never been to Vancouver BC during their mating season. We have friggen virtual maps that indicate the hot spots because they are so frequent.
@L Dunham poor kitty! did the cat get away?
It struck me as weird that he'd say there's nothing a bird this size could do to really hurt someone, given they have claws and sharp beaks. They might not pick someone up and fly off with them, but I don't think that's what they were doing in the film either.
Apparently they don't hunt either... he should hang out in richmond and watch the bunny's get swooped off. Or tell that sparrow that got snatched off my deck it's still alive.
@MissVanity Not just Vancouver. They can be a menace up here on the Sunshine Coast as well. And there are also the barred owls that target joggers with pony tails.
Yes, I’ve been swooped by crows during mating seasons a few times, but they are clearly trying to avoid hitting you, not attack you.
I could absolutely listen to him for hours I hate that this is so short and I learned so much I love it
Best idea for a tiger horror movie or attack scene is character jumps into lake/river/ off waterfall into pool below to escape it, only for Tiger to come in and start swimming towards him.That would be far more terrifying then generic chase and lunge.
As someone who lives is Australia and has to brave magpie season, I can tell you small flights birds are nuts!
I love how Forrest gently picks on JCVD for getting attacked by an animal and talking to the group about it instead of running or fighting or screaming, when Forrest professionally finds and often gets attacked by animals and talks to his audience about them instead of running or fighting or screaming.
Expert: "Crows are nothing to be afraid of"
Also expert: "A large group of crows is called a murder"
That is because they are scavengers and often flock to corpses, indicating that a murder has taken hold.
I really love these videos. Forest is honest but can still laugh at the movie scenes. Great info but funny and entertaining.
I want this man to have his own KZclip where he talks about animals all day every day
For anyone interested in Forrest and wildlife, you should listen to his podcast “The Wild times”. Him and his two buddies do tons of segments on wildlife and it actually has funny aspects to it. As a biology student, you learn a ton and it feels like you’re just hanging out with some friends.
I love these GQ!!!! Please make more!! ♥️ thank you 😊
So as a long time horse trainer, I'll say that slap on the back probably would not make the horse kick, but more likely make it run forward. I thought the far more accurate situation was when he had the hand on the horse's flank. A ticklish horse, with a hand on the flank, could absolutely be coaxed into kicking with a squeeze at the right time like that. Maybe he just got lucky with a ticklish horse. However, that first shot with the slap was pretty unbelievable.
"What can you do to defend yourself against a tiger? Not much...It's a tiger."
😂😂😂
@FablesScribe I can't see it's ball's - the interview😂
David Skylark: *Do not be a gentleman you go right for the f*cking balls*
I literally could listen to him talk about animals forever
Hey Forest, horses can be trained to kick on command. It’s not common any more since they are used in war but the royal lippizaners of Spain still perform this maneuver. It’s called a courbette and war a maneuver used to help his rider fend off attackers on foot.
What a great video this is! Thank you for answering all those questions! I have had many similar questions like those! Thank you for making this video! I really enjoyed it!
I could listen to him talk all day, he’s hilarious
While the Haast Eagles might not exist any longer, Wedge-tailed eagles do here in Australia and I've seen them take on flocks of chickens including the oversized guarding roosters. An unattended infant could definitely be taken by one of them. Hasn't happened that I know of, but they could.
Gordon Ramsay breaks down cooking movies.
This needs to happen
Ramsey cannot even make good thai food. Give that vidya a watch. Grandma scoffs at his google search cooking.
Food wars
Tejas Bhandare GQ already did that with a chef unfortunately not with GR😞
I'm definitely no expert but I have seen a murder of crows circle an owl and then attack it. Everyone on the street like that owl because it would sit in one specific tree and hoot at night. It was easily the most insane chaotic thing I have ever seen in my life.
As I recall, the large gathering of these crows was based on a true incident that was witnessed in a small town in CA, a few years prior to the making of this movie.
Louis C.K. had a rather hilarious bit about finding a bat in his house, the thought that this is one day going to happen to me is in equal parts terrifying and hilarious
It's awful. My apartment is in an old building, and a summer that I do not get one is rare. I've had two in the last 2 weeks. These days, if I'm standing on the train platform and a pigeon comes flying over my shoulder, I lose my sh#$t
I love this dude, want more videos of him doing this
not at how this man breaks it so beautifully. i actually learned things and hes detailed ab it. my fav breakdown so far
“Bats aren’t at all dangerous to you”
*sweats in quarantine”
To be fair, the bats themselves aren't dangerous, it's the diseases they carry, but that's like saying a serial killer with a knife isn't dangerous because it's the knife that's dangerous and not killer itself.
Having been bit my a Bat doing research, it hurts but it's not a big deal.
@franny c it was in indonasia. Bats are eaten on regular basis in some island of Indonesia
@Nematoda Rine nop you can eat them and don't get sick.
Him saying crows don't bomb out of the sky, or attack, indicates he has clearly never been to Vancouver BC during their mating season. We have friggen virtual maps that indicate the hot spots because they are so frequent.
Can he have his own show? I could watch Forest every day!
I love crows. Because when I was in high school I fed one a single chip, and it proceeded to constantly bring me little rocks and shiny things it found at the same time every day
I studied animal sciences in college, and then went onto a degree. Spent a lot of time working with various animals, including working on an active farm, with all the animals you'd expect, including horses. I love horses.
One time we were grooming the horses, scraping out their hooves, and a girl on the course walked around the back of the horse and it kicked out, kicked her in the chest, right over the lower couple of ribs. It broke the ribs but luckily didn't puncture a lung. She still has a crescent scar to this day. Another friend of mine was riding her horse and it slipped over. As it was trying to get back up it stood on her thigh, that thigh is still numb even years later.
Horse rule #1: NEVER WALK AROUND THE BACK OF A HORSE!
@Jax Nah, talked to a literal trained doctor and he's said that nerve damage is something almost to the point now, with technology becoming better and more accessible to help doctors and therapists, it is becoming easier to fix these human issues.
She should look into this newly developed thing, in which we have a sensor that can be implanted anywhere in the body -- for example, under the tip of a severed finger or that thigh that got crushed. The sensor connects to another nerve that functions properly and restores tactile sensation to the injured nerve. Pretty cool huh?
Nerve damage like that doesn’t heal, so unfortunately your friends thigh is going to be numb for the rest of her life.
This reminds me of a dream I had once in which a tiger the size of a small elephant was confronting me, and all I had to defend myself with was a pocket knife, which I knew would probably not even pierce its hide, let alone do any real damage.
dear Forrest, thank you! your 3 videos helped me to overcome acute feeling of being depressed and burned out after my exam, and to remember that I still love biology (tho molecular one). thank you! will wait for a book about all your bizarre experiences! ;)
"No, don't stick your fingers in animals' butts, people." What a buzzkill
Yeah, tell that to a farm vet. They do that every f.. n day.
@0 wonderful story 10/10. Take my upvote.
I'm angry because I have been attacked by a crow. I had a sandwich and it bit me on the shoulder and pooped on my hair then flew away.
This guy is one of the most quotable and entertaining experts ever lol
Fun fact: One of those trained ravens was aggressive and consistently attacked one of the actors or the crew (Can't remember cuz my memory isn't great) during the making of The Birds.
This one time, either a bat flew in through our pet door, OR our cat brought it in. Either way it started fly around our house. That was scary
I think the tiger exposing itself isn’t too far fetched. It happens with mountains lions, the ones where I live aren’t very scared of people and will sometimes walk right by a camp site without a care in the world. It all depends on how much they have seen people.
When I saw that he was gonna talk about Black Sheep, I half expected the horror movie with the killer sheep.
For those that wondered
The Haast Eagle he is talking about in the beginning was the biggest bird by weight, but not necessarily by wingspan.
He got the size a bit wrong. Although they had a weight of 10-15 kg (22-33lb) for the females and 9-12 kg (20-26lb) for the males, they only had a wingspan of 8-10ft similar to the biggest living eagles now
Heaviest *flying* bird, I assume! Though NZ did also have the heaviest bird, full-stop, right? The moa.
Really enjoyed these, keep it up GQ
Im kinda late to watch this video but i enjoy it so much..i love animals and im learning so much just by watching his explanations..but i wonder what he thinks about the movie 'Life of Pi'😊👏🏻
Loving forrest's breakdowns
Vaulting/trick riding is the term Forrest was looking for. Tbh I laughed so hard during this video 👌
“My sisters a big rider, I’m not” - Forrest Gallante
🤣🤣
* Googles what Forrests sister looks like *
I can't be the only one to understand that differently
this guy is good . he needs to have his own show .... he DOES have a show
@Harshal Bhoir watching the videos on his entire life doesn't change the fact that this video was full of incorrect information. Between referring to ravens and crows interchangeably, saying polar bears are predators to penguins, and that it's impossible to have a horse kick on command, his "expertise" leaves something to be desired.
@0 no man he is legit i just read and watched his videos his entire life he's given to what he loves
@VG4PC he can't be that good he said the penguins were going to be in the same environment as polar bears
@Kronos Your mama does
Nobody cares.
"What can you do to defend yourself against a tiger? Not much, it's a tiger." Well said animal guy, well said
"Mom! Mom! We found a bat!" The kids, playing with super-soakers, accidentally knocked down a bat roosting under our deck. I grabbed a box and came out and covered the poor little bat. I then questioned all the children and determined that none of the children had touched the bat - these were 10 to 12 year olds and relatively truthful. I sent them off to go fill their super-soakers at a different hose tap. I opened one end of the box and had everyone step back to let the bat fly out when it was ready. Only then did it occur to me to called all the parents of the children who weren't mine and to tell them about the bat encounter and also to ask them to talk to their children to ensure that none of the children had touched the bat. If any of them had told me that they had touched the bat, the bat would have had to go off to the county animal control to be tested for rabies and there is no way to do that without killing the bat. After the bat was released, any child who admitted to touching it would have had to have gone for rabies shots.
"I'm not quite understanding how horse butt is the same consistency as a bounce house." Favorite quote by far! I've been kicked in the thigh by a Haflinger & didnt fall back, so that's accurate & hilarious. 🤣🤣
Most kinds of bats can actually bite humans and might do so if they are handled wrongly. Never touch them with your hands. Our bat specialist got himself vaccinated against rabies, because he handles injured bats regularly and has been bitten before.
If you need to get them out of curtains, use a towel to gently shove them into a box, place the box outside somewhere up high and cat-save and let them fly away.
Nonetheless, they are in fact fascinating animals and if you ever have the change to hear them with a bat detector, do so!
I actually saw in person someone getting kicked by a horse, and yeah John wick is 1000% accurate, only thing I have to add is that the guy was thrown a good distance painful and funny asf
“Horses aren’t very alarmed by people running” I’ve seen horses spook at butterflies and leaves....😂😂 but yes, movie horses are amazing
My horse is the opposite of "bomb proof", and I live in an area for "bomb proof" horses (Norco, California). He has a history of unknown abuse and spooks at everything. Makes for an interesting relationship.
When I was at my cousin's we were in the pasture with all the animals and I sneezed and the horse quickly walked away lmao. They're goofy animals the things that don't spook them could spook anyone but the things that do scare them are do little and nothing 😂
Is there any KZclip channel of horse-owners telling their stories like this...? I found this comment thread so fascinating & amusing! (Haven't been round any horses for about ten years now but they're such interesting critters, and seem really intelligent - despite their sometimes very over-active prey-fear responses! 😋)
I've almost fallen off because my horse spooked at a child
@LudwigElric118 Chickens are basically velociraptors, I don't blame the horse lmao
I got really excited thinking you were going to review the New Zealand zombie sheep movie "Black Sheep". That one should be included in the next video
As respect to the crows and ravens, there is one time and only once did I see them gather like they did in the movie. There was about 50-80 crows all sitting on my house and the neighbor's house and the electrical lines, all very close. My mom and the rest of us just looking through the window because this, as he said, is not normal. All of a sudden, a hawk flew out of the palm tree (we've seen it a few times in the previous weeks) where we knew there was a crow's nest, it must have been eating the babies.
When the hawk left the tree, all 50-80 birds took off and swarmed it, trying to peck at it mid air. I will never forget that. the hawk didn't come back for awhile either.
The genius thing about "The Birds" is that it takes something normal and makes it abnormal, thus making a perfect horror conceit.
Hey Forrest, what about the Australian Magpie, it is a very territory basted bird, mostly in spring when has chick. It is one of the most feared birds in Oz, due to it's overwhelming persistence. Maybe U should look into them?
I would actually love to see this guy react to animals in modern video games like Red Dead 2
This man has clearly never been attacked by a magpie
Magpies can't really hurt any part of your body except your eyes
Big Eggolego lol wot mate I never said I was lmao
Phobos I doubt you’ve been bitten by a shark twice
@Cookie 123 This reminds me of a story where a mailman in Vancouver, Canada (i think) had a crow nesting along his route that would swoop at him when he tried to deliver mail. So he started bringing food and the crow became his best friend and would even hop into the mail truck and ride along.
I had a pet crow when I was in school - it had a damaged beak & I hand-reared it.
It lived outside & regularly flew down to land on peoples heads or shoulders - the locals were aware & didn't seem to mind, but probably scary for strangers....
Hitchcock kind of tortured the lead actress of "The Birds". He at one point had tied real crows to to her body during an attack scene and she as they panicked they pecked, flapped and scratched her in a mania. It led to some of the scenes looking like real horror and panic. Because it was.
When I was hunting once I came along a creek line that was heavily wooded and I thought I heard a group of men mumbling very weirdly in the distance but it was a bunch of crows up in the trees. They were making really weird noises