Are These 'Extinct' Species Still Out There?

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In this video, we'll look at 10 "extinct" species and see why some people think they're still alive.
1. Pinta Island Tortoise
2. Maui Akepa
3. Montane Monkey-Faced Bat
4. Alcorn's Pocket Gopher
5. Wondiwoi Tree-Kangaroo
6. Japanese Wolf
7. Javan Tiger
8. Formosan Clouded Leopard
9. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
10. Thylacine / Tasmanian Tiger

[all.about.nature]

Hey all! Sorry about the music over the wolf video. Music is the last thing added and it was an oversight.
If you want to watch the video with the supposed wolf howl (it's very hard to hear) then search "Japanese Wolf Howl Recording." There is another youtuber (Monarchist 18) who has also uploaded it.

[BobBob-trwi]

Lonesome George having descendants makes me so happy

[bam]

NEWS !!! The Black-naped pheasant-pigeon which was declaired exstinct for over 140 years was recently caught on a trail camera alive and seemingly well. The fottage is good quality to so you can see the bird clearly, I recomend looking it up and you can find the fottage from the trail camera.

[arcosprey]

23:30 I am a native Cuban studying to become a zoologist and conservationist. It is one of my life’s mission to map the ecology of Cuba, and part of that is finding a stable population of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers. Hopefully you can make a follow up video in 10 years time with my teams future discovery. I’m holding hope.

[zalired]

The Australian government will never and has never acknowledged the existence of the Thylacine because of potential loss of logging mining and agriculture. Australia puts more emphasis on short term financial value rather than conservation value.

[peterashby-saracen]

Whenever I watch videos like this, it makes me profoundly sad that we have destroyed natural treasures worth countless times more than any manmade artefact. I hope from the bottom of my heart that at least some of these species are still alive.

[_boogatti_]

12:40 one minor issue, we can’t really listen for the supposed howls in the video because of the background music

[coffeecupofficial]

that video of the woodpeckers really gets to me. knowing that just a species which should be something everyone can marvel at the beauty of is potentially gone. just makes me watery eyed looking at the only known video of them. 23:52

[sarahluchies]

I found this channel a few months ago with older videos like the one this is a remake of. I am very happy to have updates on these animals, and that you have better equipment!

[Shins_Jim]

While no pure Pinta Island Tortoises are known to be alive, the fact that so many hybrids, halfbreeds even, are alive is still neat and inspiring. They still live on, just not by itself. They halfway exist still thanks to the other species and who knows they may be bred back into it's own distinct species within a generation or two.

[karamedley]

The fact that most or all of these absolutely beautiful creatures are dead and mostly due to us is just so sad:( I just imagine what it'd be like to be the last of your kind crying out for a mate or even just a friend and to never hear a call back, truly knowing you are absolutely alone makes me cry.

[Raptorsified]

As a Japanese the Japanese otter, seal, and wolf remain important parts of our culture and i still believe they're out there somewhere. Lots of the country is empty or dying.

[wooyoungisbaby]

Holy smokes. I love it when a youtuber says "thank you for [number] subs!!" and you go look and it's *way* higher. This video is only 9 months old, too! That's awesome, dude, congrats :)

[Sweatymilkshake]

May want to mute the music during the Japanese wolf trail cam footage. Cant hear anything.

[Noa_Lynn]

This was a great video, I feel like the clip with the deer where we were supposed to listen for the howl, Maybe the background music could’ve been turned off, but I enjoy your videos and thank you for creating them.

[sammykane]

Damn you're getting rewarded for your efforts. This came up in my recommendations, great video and keep it up :)

[BinroWasRight]

This is a fascinating video, thank you for it! This topic is of great interest to me.

This world is vast, and some species do indeed seem to have survived in small numbers even though we don't see them anymore. Many of them live in very remote or inhospitable environments to humans such as dense jungles, steep mountains or the ocean. A good example is Dryococelus australis (the Lord Howe Island stick insect), 24 of which were discovered stubbornly clinging to life under a melaleuca (tea tree) bush on a steep sea stack called Ball's Pyramid in 2001. They've since been bred in captivity in the thousands and there was talk a while back about reintroducing them to Lord Howe Island itself, where invasive black rats had killed them all. The rats have apparently been extirpated from the island since then.

By no means do I think everything is still around, but some species seem like they may be. Recently several shark species in Asia not seen in many decades and presumed extinct have been rediscovered. I highly suspect the ivory-billed woodpecker to be alive in Cuba and Louisiana at least. Thylacines may still be around too; the sightings and photo captures are intriguing. Tasmania and especially New Guinea seems more likely than mainland Australia, but there have been sightings on the mainland since the species' apparent extinction in 1936. It's likely some were misidentified dingoes, but perhaps not all.

[bimmjim]

Stellar Sea Cow ---> I saw something like this off the beach in Sechelt BC Canada. It was ~1993.
12 people saw it very close up, 12 feet. It swam under us as we stood on a warf. It was as long as an Orca but much fatter around the middle. .. It had a pattern of spots on it's smooth finless back. .. I know all the animals in the Ocean around here and this was unknown.
Everybody else was stunned and had no idea what it was.

[taze]

My uncle used to have 25 acres of land on a mountainous slope in the Ozarks of Arkansas in the 2010s. I visited him at that time and spent a few nights there to help with upkeeping of overgrown trees and vegetation. He had just bought the land for a few months, so he didn't have any buildings or anything on it yet, so we had to set up camp with and his RV.

That first night, we were at the campfire cooking up dinner. My grandpa was there too. He loved making fires and burning wood just for fun. So he was right at home and was in charge of the 🔥. I was in my 20s at the time and I wasn't afraid of much. I say that because, my grandpa and uncle wanted to go checkout a natural spring, that my uncle had installed a water spigot onto it and they wanted to collect some water to drink and use. So I said, yeah you guys go ahead and I'll watch the fire. So they made their way downward to the spring, I hadn't noticed but they went quite a ways away from the campsite. I can tell because I can see their headlights and flashlight beams going really far down the hilly and rocky terrain. If anybody knows, the Ozarks is pretty much mountainous terrain and woody. So, they were gone for a few minutes. And so I decided to go take a leak, pee, relieve myself, whatever. At this time, it was completely dark but the moon was out providing a twilight lit evening sky. And so without a light or anything, I walked over to the side of my car, suddenly I heard wings flapping and looked towards the direction of it. And there, about 35 feet in front of me, was a bird with a large wingspan, half white and half black from wingtip to wingtip. It startled me but I wasn't freighened. My grandpa and uncle came back and I told them about what I had seen. My uncle said to look it up and see what it was. A few days later, I eventually got a chance to look it up and it turned out to be what I described as a Ivory-billed Woodpecker. I called my uncle and told him, thats what I saw. He told me thats why he bought his property, is because he had been reading about the Ivory-billed and how critically endangered it is. To this day, I am still positive I saw the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. My uncle and grandpa has since passed and that property also since been sold but when I think about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, I think about my uncle and grandpa. Rest in peace, love you always. ❤ ✝️ 🕊

[sohumpanda]

This is a wonderful channel, i hope you get the growth and views you deserve for your hard work