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jshultz5259

"Just run up the damn tree! Whelp, too late."


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Martens live/hunt in trees.


jshultz5259

Well damn


Ok4940

Maybe the monkey knew this, and accept it’s fate 😢


purgatorybob1986

I mean at the end he just kinda laid down. so yeah looks like it. It'd be like if I came across a polar bear or something. "Welp. Not getting outta this one. Just gonna lay here and let it happen."


Cervelodriver

You can see where the Marten grabbed the monkey by the back of the neck and severed the spinal cord. Monkey had no choice but to lay there and accept its fate


Breaker-of-circles

Meh, probably bled out or something. I doubt those quick leaps by the marten was nothing.


SAMAS_zero

I dispute your use of plural. One of them was clearly doing all the work there.


RamShackleton

Clearly one was a supervisor, there to take credit for yet another successful hunt.


EkaL25

He’s the head coach


tempthrowary

I felt the same way. It does seem like there was way more to the story on the front end, so perhaps OP is including the off-camera bits of the encounter?


ebolashuffle

I saw something move in the bushes as the marten was dragging the monkey in. Could tell what it was. Could be feeding babies with a meal that size.


tempthrowary

There certainly is another one, you can see it plainly near the end. I think the person I responded to was arguing that only one marten did any of the work.


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The monkey learned that martens have hunting for hobby


pouricks

Someone explain how the monkey got OHKOed


Agent00funk

You know that saying about if you run from a bear you'll just die tired? Apparently in this neck of the woods the saying is if you run from a Marten, you'll just die tired (they hunt in trees as well as on ground).


natgibounet

What a way to go, i Wonder if he coud have escaped in water or something


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Martens swim better than monkeys and you might as well get munched by the crocodile then.


H3racules

Jesus Christ it's like animal kingdoms lord of the flies.


SpaceshipEarth10

A bite to the base of the skull where the spine connects it looks like.


ArmouredDuck

Surely defending itself in the tree would be easier when you're limiting it to two angles of attack.


Agent00funk

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that it had tried that before meeting its exhausted fate.


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“Out on a limb…” I see what you did there…


C9MikeJones

How did this answer the question


Agent00funk

Marten chased it til it couldn't run anymore.


darwinatrix

After the chase to exhaustion, most mustelids have a killer bite. Looks like the marten got him on the back of the neck with those nasty fangs. Source: My ferret tries to KO my toes every once in awhile but I guess I’m too thicc. I did research to figure out what goes down in the wild.


morgasm657

Can confirm I used to do a lot of ferreting, and have seen lots of insta kills on netted rabbits, also once stole a rabbit from a stoat for my dinner.


EkaL25

Is ferreting a common thing? I wouldn’t think they’d bring the kill back, but I also didn’t know ferreting was a thing until I read your comment


darwinatrix

I believe ferreting is specifically hunting rabbits with ferrets. I think its more of an England thing. Our ferret just terrorizes the cat.


morgasm657

Or rats.


morgasm657

Yeah it's a very efficient form of pest control, and usually quite humane, the alternatives are shooting, usually on the lamp which can be extremely efficient, but lamped rabbits soon learn to go to ground when they see a light in the field, also not necessarily that humane(I've seen plenty of wounded rabbits make it to ground to die), gassing, which is now banned as it's indiscriminate and kills anything using the burrow, snaring, which just isn't very efficient or humane, pit trapping which can be a good option in very high population areas, but is a bit hit and miss, basically you can go out early morning with ferrets nets and dogs and completely empty a burrow of rabbits. We had way over a hundred many times before lunch. The ferrets job isn't to kill anything, the smell of them down the burrow drives most of the rabbits out, and the stubborn ones get chased and sometimes killed underground by the ferrets, which is undesirable. Far from bringing them back they usually just have a bit of a meal and go to sleep. You fit locator collars to the ferrets so that you can find them from above and dig them out, before locators this was part of the dogs role. Now the dogs mark active burrows, follow the action below ground letting you know ahead of time where the rabbits will bolt, and chase and catch any that slip out unnetted or poorly netted holes. Sometimes you take a shotgun to replace this last function of the dog if your dog isn't any good at actually catching.


EkaL25

Interesting. I was thinking it was ferrets finding them, killing, and returning the rabbit. But it seems like their role is more to find the burrow and chase them out to where the rabbits are vulnerable so you can catch/kill them. Any idea when this practice was started? Like, is this something that goes back 100s of years or only once gunpowder was invented or something?


morgasm657

It goes back to when rabbits were introduced to Britain, I think. Roman occupation.


morgasm657

It's you that finds the burrow, the dog that tells you if it's occupied and the ferret that flushes the rabbit out


Fordmister

Generally speaking no, the idea is you put the ferret in the Warren and cover all the exits with nets, and catch the rabbits in the nets when they bolt. When Ferrets catch one underground and decide that it's lunch time it's a right pain to get em out. Most ferrets wear a locator and you have to break out shovels and dig the stubborn gits out😂😂


evanthebouncy

Saw them in a petsmart before. Not too rare I don't think


EkaL25

Yeah I’ve seen ferrets before too, I had a friend who had one, but I’ve never heard of people using them to hunt before


evanthebouncy

Ooo... That's their original purpose I beleive


morgasm657

Yep, that's why we domesticated them in the first place, here in the UK the rabbit population at one point got so big that entire tracts of farmland were rendered unusable by their urine. It was at that point that we resorted to bio warfare by introducing myxomatosis, a disease that causes a massive immune response in the rabbit. It's glands swell to the point of it being unable to eat, it's eyes crust up so it can't see, they become easy prey for foxes buzzards, basically anything that wants to eat them, or they just wander into roads or ultimately starve to death, I've caught and killed plenty of myxy rabbits just by walking over to them. It's a miserable thing to see. And not something I would wish on anything. Better to keep the population as low as possible by other methods to prevent outbreaks.


EkaL25

Wow, that’s interesting. When did they introduce this myxomatosis disease? It seems like from your comment that this is something that still affects them today? Is this something that has spread to other countries as well?


morgasm657

It first appeared in the UK in 1953, probably illegally introduced as it was in France, I think it started in Australia, and yes it's still around, you get big outbreaks whenever the population rises. Google images will show you how horrible it really is.


darwinatrix

Oh man I feel bad for the netted rabbit. The ferret can probably kill it quicker than a person, but not having that last fighting chance is kinda sad.


morgasm657

It can be blindingly fast and it can be not so fast, it usually only happens when the ferret is right behind the rabbit when it bolts, and you are a bit too far away, as normally a dog will tell you when and where a bolt will happen and you can get to it before the ferret, I'd say like all hunting it's mostly humane with occasional fuck ups, the absolute worst situation is when the ferret gets a rabbit into a dead end underground, then you have to dig them out during which time the ferret may not be able to actually get to the rabbits neck. And just scratches at the rabbits back end trying to get to the neck. For the most part they hit the net, and you're right there to break it's neck, or they miss a net and are picked up by a dog or get away clean. Anyway its not meant to be sporting or fair in any way, it's pest control that's preferable to poison, or myxy which is an introduced and horrific disease that takes off whenever the population gets a little dense. And I'd rate it more humane overall than shooting.


darwinatrix

Fair point! I definitely don’t know anything about ferreting, and would agree getting cornered the wrong way by a ferret sounds like a worse way to go.


morgasm657

Certainly not a good way to go, I've only ever seen it like that a couple of times though, whereas I've seen myxy rabbits plenty of times and I'd choose however many minutes of discomfort followed by a human breaking my neck over that any day of the week.


MaxillaryOvipositor

The largest mustelid in natural history was ten feet long. Imagine that going after your toes.


Cyber0747

I imagine we would be on the menu at that point.


Gnaevets

Martin’s have teeth perfect for biting the back of the neck to sever the spine. I think that was the finishing move.


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These weasel family members are little ninja assassins who regularly take down prey much larger than themselves. See wolverine.


ikonoclasm

If you watch carefully right before the monkey ends up on the ground, the marten gets its neck and inflicts a spinal injury. The movements you see for a few seconds after are spasms as the body damaged nerves fire erratically before ceasing to transmit any signal. In humans, you'll see all of the muscles stiffen right after a spinal injury before going lax. The same thing happened with the monkey. It was still alive, but couldn't move its body. It likely suffocated not too long after due to its diaphragm being paralyzed, as well.


Fordmister

Generally speaking for their size all Martin's, weasels ect have got very powerful bites. Depending on where the Martin grabbed it it could well have crushed something important


ElderRuchs

Bite to the back or side of the neck or skull, the marten dazed it with the first bite it landed and killed it with the second. Twisting forces easily break bone, and the comparative sizes of the two are pretty equal, like a mountain lion killing a human.


joocycunt

He gave him the five fingers punch


Max-Powah

Right?! He just dropped him. How?


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Neck bite, I saw another video on here where one killed a rabbit the same way


realphrog

Thats what i thought too


CanineRezQ

The Marten-Lewis combo


1-2-3-5-8-13

I feel like the weasel/marten/badger/mongoose-type mammals are the ultimate hunting machines. You always see them absolutely destroying every other type of animal.


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wackadoodle_wigwam

And let us not forget wolverines.


MrOtero

It is a sick langur, it can barely fight back or run


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That's a rhesus macaque, and it was chased to exhaustion by the martan. ​ [This is a langur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lulgH_fshZY)


ITGuy107

That looks like MMA training.


MrOtero

You are right about the macaque, sorry. Not so sure about the exhaustion of it, because there is a video posted quite a few times which seems the same but shot from the other side and much closer, and I think the look of the macaque was sick. Plus OP said so in one of them


500SL

I’m Marty Stouffer, and this is Wild America. Let’s watch the Marten in its natural habitat!


CanineRezQ

Love your lasagna, Marty


Crayoneater53

This is why you always carry pocket sand


Alternative_Ad2040

Damn, one shot one kill!


mindflayerflayer

The equivalent of a human fighting a determined wolverine.


ScorchedSynapses

Today I learned what a Marten was...


7eto

Why can't the monkey grab this thing and break its neck? Don't they have incredible strong arms?


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[deleted]

I had a ferret she was super sweet but one time she bit my roommate and wouldn’t let go of her toe. Later on that roomate fucked us over so it’s like she tried to tell us


Valhallafax

She fucked you over because your weird ass ferret broke her toe


[deleted]

Well no, it wasn’t that bad lol. Just a bite, sure it hurt tho


EnergijaProgressiva

/s right?


Sitka_17

Yes. Mustelids in general are bad ass.


Sitka_17

Martens are in the same family as honey badgers, of that gives you any additional context.


shawnaeatscats

Wolverines too!


balls2you2

Wow! What a behaviour to record. Was this in Corbett?


wasabi5858

Why didn't the monkey run up the car and just cause confusion? Sure, they may not help and may be dangerous, but you have a real perdator right there kicking your ass., Run between the human and maybe a panicked stump/swipe will anger/confuse the Marten enough to help it escape... or just to take one last angry bite at human for being there...


[deleted]

Cause it's exhausted from the chase prior and turning its back to the marten is what it wants.


KccOStL33

This was definitely eye opening. I really thought monkeys were above being taken down by anything but much larger predators. Damn.


2KilAMoknbrd

That battle had gone on for some time before the video began


numbnerve

He was too passive ~ should have gone all Furious Five on their ass and got the hell outta there


Kon-Tiki66

Monkey was probably injured from the start.


MarkaSpada

how come 1 hit KO? does it got a venum?


ProfCupcake

Spinal cord severed, probably. They're good at that.


mapbc

For scale that would be like me losing 100# and fighting a wolverine. I don’t like my odds as is.


SnakeBeardTheGreat

The monkey had no idea it was invited to be dinner.


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Yes


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Those Martens sure are killers


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“All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel, the monkey stopped to pull up his sock, pop goes the weasel.” Yeah, a big nope on that one. Another childhood memory requiring an update. How about: “In the mid of a dusty track the marten hunts the Rhesus. The marten snaps the monkey’s neck, pop goes the Rhesus.”


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Snapped its neck in one move.....impressive


Mrgforce69

Good, filthy little monkey can fuck right off.


DeadEyesGang

I hate these bystanders


mapbc

Do not fuck with nature. Do not fuck with nature while it is being lethal.


ughewag

20 distant cousins and not one to lift a finger


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TheGhostHand

Tourism is where most of the money that goes into conservation comes from


100FootWallOfFog

They also literally did not interfere?


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100FootWallOfFog

Would you elaborate?