If you are a predator and you want to take down a giant animal, in the vast majority of cases you also have to large. Of course there are some exceptions to this rule as there quite a few predators that specialize in preying on animals that are much larger than themselves but on the whole you need size and power on your side. In this video i will be going into a few strange cases where tiny animals have caused the demise of giant animals as i will be going through 3 Giant animals that are being wiped out by smaller animals.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:42 Moose And The Brainworm
2:58 Nile Crocodile And The Crayfish
5:27 Goliath Grouper And the Lionfish
Attributions
Moose distribution image:
Jürgen Gbruiker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#/...
CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED
White tailed deer images:
Don Sniegowski
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sniegow...
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED
Saltwtaer crocodile images:
chas B
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tarquin...
CC BY 2.0 DEED
Australian red claw crayfish images:
nature.catcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherax_...
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
Redclaw Crayfish footage:
Burrup and Away
/ @burrupandaway
Goliath Grouper footage:
Philip Craiger
/ @philipcraiger
John & Kelly Casey
https://vimeo.com/139654993
CC BY-NC-ND
Lionfish images:
Alexander Vasenin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterois...
CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED
Jens Petersen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lio...
CC BY 2.5 DEED
I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/share-you...
Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parelap...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/09...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_cr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherax_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanti...
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/dis...
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southe....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterois...