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# Cicada swarms and nasty storms and fish walking out of the sea (Really?) | 0:00:06 | 0:00:10 | |
# Elks in trees and foaming seas and giant mayfly moths (Huh?) | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
# Zombie snails and friendly whales and completely frozen frogs | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
# You what? | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
# They're wild and weird, wild and weird | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
# Really really wild and really really weird | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
# They're wild and weird, wild and weird | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
# They're really really wild | 0:00:26 | 0:00:27 | |
# They're really really wild and weird. # | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
Coming up on today's show, some bizarre behaviour. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
Elk with anger management issues. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
A fish on an afternoon stroll. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:39 | |
And a goat that likes to put its feet up. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
Er, Tim? | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
-Yeah. -Why are you behaving so bizarrely? | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
Well, earlier on this morning I had THE best bit of chocolate cake | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
I've ever eaten and I was thinking that | 0:01:10 | 0:01:11 | |
if I do the wobbly thing then I can go back in time and eat it all again. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
Oh. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:16 | |
HARP PLAYS | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
OLD TIME MUSIC HALL TUNE PLAYS | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
HARP PLAYS | 0:01:34 | 0:01:35 | |
Hm. Do you mean like that? | 0:01:38 | 0:01:39 | |
That was my chocolate cake. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
Oh, sorry. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:42 | |
-Shall we watch some clips now? -Yeah. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
I've got more bizarre behaviour to show you. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
-Let's get under way in the US of A. -Oh, very poetic. -Thank you. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:54 | |
This is Estes Park in Colorado, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
nestled amongst the stunning scenery of the Rocky Mountains. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
A beautiful natural oasis where man and beast exist in peaceful harmony. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
Peaceful, that is, until you switch to a heavy metal soundtrack. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
HEAVY METAL MUSIC | 0:02:09 | 0:02:10 | |
-Uh-oh, uh-oh! No, no! -'Whoa!' | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Because every autumn the normally placid elk of Estes Park go on | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
the rampage, attacking anything that moves, including cars and trucks. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:26 | |
Talk about road rage. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
'Back up, people. Back up.' | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
When their ears go back and their eyes get real big | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
and their head just out, then you're in trouble. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
They will charge their reflection in windows. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
People dive over fences. They run in the water. They climb trees. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
Whatever they have to do to get out of the way. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
Jane and Rick are part of the town's elk response team. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
What's an elk response team? | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
It's a bit like the Fire Brigade | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
only less fires and more elk. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
Oh. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
Jane and Rick are responsible for making sure that elk don't | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
get themselves into too much trouble. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
Every year we have elk with Christmas tree lights | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
on their antlers. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
Tangled up in Christmas tree lights? | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
They're not very bright, are they, these elk? | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
I've taken a bicycle off of an elk. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
Garbage can lids. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
Every kind of fencing material you can imagine. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
Er, Naomi, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
would you, er... | 0:03:27 | 0:03:28 | |
So what have the people of Estes Park done | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
to deserve this British behaviour? | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
Is it time to call in an expert? | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
It most certainly is. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
How about one leaning on a log? | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
No problem. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
Wildlife consultant Chris Rowe has been studying | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
the elk of Estes Park. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
The Estes Valley has probably some of the best elk habitat | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
that you can find anywhere. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:49 | |
And within this general area we have a population that's | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
several thousand elk that reside here throughout the entire year. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:58 | |
You've got the population of people | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
and you've got the population of elk. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
For most of the year, it's a pretty peaceful coexistence. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
There's only a couple of times during the year | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
where all of a sudden we have conflict. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
Every autumn the elk take part in the annual rut. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
It's the time of year when the males are trying to defend their patch | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
and attract the ladies. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:17 | |
What's that, Tim? | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
This is my new aftershave for attracting the ladies. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
Eau de elk. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:25 | |
As we move into the month of September, | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
their aggression and their intensity level on protecting those cows | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
really, really ramps up. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
They're not afraid to lock antlers and get physical. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
Given the fact that Estes sits right smack dab in the middle | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
of some of the most perfect habitat, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
all this occurs right in town, in and around the houses, | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
in and around the vehicles, | 0:04:56 | 0:04:57 | |
right in the middle of the street a lot of times. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
During the autumn rut the males are so driven that they'll look upon | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
virtually everything as a threat to their dominance. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
Anything that moves is fair game. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
And even a few things that don't. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
They will charge a tree. They will fight bushes. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
They will attack swing sets. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:18 | |
They have volleyball nets. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
So it's clear. For a male elk protecting his patch, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
absolutely anything is on the hit list. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
And if the idea of being chased down by a 300-kilo, | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
antler-wielding, angry animal isn't your idea of fun, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
then you might want to avoid an autumn break to Estes Park. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
-Not bad, Naomi. -Thanks. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:39 | |
On the internationally recognised bizarre scale of 1 to 10, | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
I would award that story a lemon. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
This story, on the other hand, is more of a meringue. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Join me in the quiet suburbs of Florida, | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
a place where you might expect to see the odd dog out for a walk. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
But not this. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:58 | |
What in the world? | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
-How weird is that, huh? -It is weird. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
Hopping around in the yard? | 0:06:03 | 0:06:04 | |
My God. Where are they coming from? | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
'Gardens and homes are being overrun...' | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
I don't know. That's weird. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
'..by a type of fish.' | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
-A fish? -Mm. A fish. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
-What, like a fishy fish? -A fishy fish, yeah. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
And it's not just this neighbourhood. It's happening all over Florida. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
After a storm, these strange creatures appear | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
as if from nowhere to walk the land. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
-There's one over there. -Where? | 0:06:34 | 0:06:35 | |
-Over there. -That is blowing my mind. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
What could be behind this utterly bizarre behaviour? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
-It's a mad scientist, isn't it? -What do you mean? | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
A mad scientist who's crossed one species with another | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
and that's why it can walk and breathe on land. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Don't be ridiculous. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
-What is it then? -A catfish. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
Ha! A cat and a fish. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
No. Just a regular catfish. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
The long feelers that look like whiskers give it away. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
It's a species appropriately named the walking catfish. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
Concocted in a secret laboratory by a crazed genius. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
No, born in the water like every other fish. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
But if it's a normal fish, why is it out of the water? | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
Well, let's ask scientist Bill Loftus. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
-Oh, is he a mad scientist? -No. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
But he does know how catfish can breathe out of the water. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
It does this by use of a specialised organ that lies behind | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
the gill chamber inside of its head | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
and it can take oxygen from the air through that organ | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
and put it into its bloodstream. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:43 | |
That's an amazing adaptation for this animal to allow it to get | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
out on land and to move around. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
-But where are these fish out of water going? -Erm? I don't know. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
The chip shop? | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
Well, it turns out some were heading for Florida resident | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
Colin Calway's garden pond. | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
When you're looking at a pond every day you know the type of fish | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
you've got in there and there's a strange activity, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
something's not right and you've got to find out what it is. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
We've pumped the pond down and instead of approximately | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
10,000 rosy barbs, | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
we had what looked like 10,000 walking catfish in their place. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
The catfish had eaten all of Colin's other fish. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
Walking catfish are very broad feeders | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
so they will feed on fish, invertebrates, amphibians | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
and pretty much the whole gamut of aquatic insects. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
So the catfish are taking to dry land in search of new feeding grounds. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
And when they clean out one pond, they just walk off to find the next. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
They'll wait for that night when a good thunderstorm comes, | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
or rain comes or a very heavy dew | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
and then they'll leave the pond in large numbers | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
and they'll keep moving up the ditches and through the grass | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
until they find another pond. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:57 | |
They'll clear that one, then move on again. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
Wow. It is lucky that Colin is not a tropical fish farmer. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
And that pretty well wiped us out as tropical fish farmers. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
Oops. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
So, if it's bizarre behaviour you're after | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
then you need look no further than the walking catfish | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
because it really is the original fish out of water. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
A walking fish. How do you top that? | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
-With a goat. -Goat? | 0:09:23 | 0:09:24 | |
You can't top a fish with a goat. You'd squash the fish. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
Just watch this, Tim. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
To finish our exploration of all things bizarre, | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
we're heading to Tennessee in the deep South of the USA. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
These may look like perfectly normal, healthy goats | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
but some of them are acting very strangely indeed. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
Ah! Did you see that? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
Goat down. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:46 | |
And another. And another. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
They're dropping like flies. Big goat-shaped flies. What's going on? | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
Well, let's ask local farmer Gene McNutt because he had a shock | 0:09:52 | 0:09:57 | |
when he and his family first arrived in the area. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
We moved here to Tennessee in 1988. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
My wife immediately wanted a new goat. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
One of our neighbours was kind enough to bring her home | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
a 6- or 8-week-old goat. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
That goat became the pet of the house. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
The McNutts adored their new pet | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
but then one day Gene had a very unnerving experience. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
One day, the goat falls down. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
And it looks like it has gone stiff with rigor mortis. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
And I said, "Oh, no, I've killed my wife's goat." | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
Ooh, I hate it when that happens. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
What have I done? Has it had a heart attack? | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
And I'm standing there just in total amazement trying to figure out | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
what am I going to do. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
So what on earth had Gene done to his wife's goat? | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
I know. He'd used his psychic powers on the goat. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
-Look at that stare. -Er, no. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
Suddenly the goat wiggles a little bit, gets up and walks off | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
as if nothing had happened. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
I decided to say nothing to my wife about it | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
since the goats appeared to be OK. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Never tell your wife about your psychic powers. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
He's not a psychic, Tim. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
TIM'S MIND: 'I wasn't talking about him.' | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
I asked a neighbour about the goat | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
because it was something that had never happened before | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
and he says, "Oh." He says, "Those are just old nervous goats." | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
He says, "They're from around here." | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
It seems Gene's experience wasn't a one-off. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
All over the deep South, | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
goats were heading south only to rise again unharmed. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
That's nothing unusual. I get that every time I think about... | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
So what was behind this bizarre behaviour? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
Well, there could be a clue in what triggers their downfall. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
It's all right, I'm back. I'm back. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
I've just got to avoid thinking about... | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Almost any noise that is unusual will cause the goat to stiffen | 0:12:03 | 0:12:10 | |
or fall over and it will stay in a fallen position | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
for 30, 45 seconds and sometimes even up to a couple of minutes. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
Most animals are programmed with a fight or flight response | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
when threatened or surprised. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
Their muscles suddenly tense up as they prepare to run away or attack. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
It turns out that these goats in Tennessee have | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
a glitch in their system. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
Instead of tensing up for a split second when they're startled, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
they seize up completely. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
It's all down to a genetic disorder called myotonia congenita | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
and it's unique to this particular breed called fainting goats. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Well, if you're going to call them that, what do you expect? | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
Of course, in the wild | 0:12:54 | 0:12:55 | |
this condition would prove fatal for a goat. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
They'd fall off a mountain or be eaten by a predator | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
but because these are domestic goats, it seems they've simply | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
learnt to live with this peculiar condition. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
When they're young, a lot of things will make them faint. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
But as they get older, even though they'll stiffen up, | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
most of the time they'll find something to lean on | 0:13:13 | 0:13:18 | |
or they'll get their balance because they know, if they're off-balance, | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
then they're going to fall over. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
Oh, that would be a right pain in the... | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
So, for the gates of Tennessee, it looks like this is | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
one type of bizarre behaviour that's here to stay. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
I don't know about you, Naomi, but I could watch goats fainting all day. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
For sure, but what about you, Tim? | 0:13:41 | 0:13:42 | |
What is this mysterious thing that, every time you think about it, | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
-it makes you faint? -Do you really want to know? -Yeah. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
WHISPERING | 0:13:49 | 0:13:50 | |
# Wild and weird, wild and weird | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
# Really really wild and really really weird. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
# They're wild and weird, wild and weird | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
# They're really really wild | 0:14:00 | 0:14:01 | |
# They're really really wild and weird | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
# Wild and weird. # | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 |