ermine kills rabbit

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Published 2009-02-03
New Zealand. In the morning I awoke from a strange noise. Beside my was a rabbit killed by an ermine.

All Comments (21)
  • @WobblesandBean
    If you can't handle the way nature operates, then don't watch videos like these. I for one find it fascinating how such a small predator can take out prey three times its size.
  • @borponoida9161
    Rabbits are absolute bottom tier in nature to point that it's comical. (Edit) it's a hare. Corrected myself before someone else did.
  • @monos70
    The next step in evolution for rabbits SHOULD be some, any, instinct of self defense. Its sad that Bugs Bunny IS the only rabbit with more intelligence.
  • @spycley6127
    Rabbits are so powerful and clever in tales even than hyenas or lions 😅😅 but in real life they are just a piece of cake
  • @Crabbiy
    Man, he was doomed from the start. Mother nature really has a thing for misery
  • @dubidam7409
    No matter what size and where the rabbits are, they're still foods for everyone.
  • It's amazing for the first time I see something like that, a small predator has hunted down a much larger prey than itself.
  • @LeighMcnasty
    Elmer Fud couldnt do it, so he got a chipmunk to fuck ol bugs bunny up.
  • @hughvane
    I live in NZ, in a rural environment, where we have hares (like the one in this video), rabbits, weasels (ferrets) and stoats. It is highly unusual to see what I think is a stoat, the smallest of the mustelids in NZ, going for prey as large as a hare. It must have been very hungry, or had a litter to feed. This is a very good film catch - well done! [Hear the call of the shining cuckoo in the background?] People ask why it bites the back of the neck. Mostly to avoid getting kicked and raked by the legs of its prey, also to avoid being bitten.
  • @GrndCruz
    Now that's what I call, determination. That ermine had some serious endurance to take on a much larger hare. It may have been stronger and faster, but the ermine endured to the very end. Because a that, it got rewarded.
  • @57Jimmy
    Like a 6’4” 250lb man being mauled to death by a chihuahua!
  • @MrLeiduowen
    3:45 The stoat was like: "Now what the hell am I gonna do with all that meat?"
  • @DavBlc7
    Here in the UK, it's not a ermine but a Ferret or a stout. My brother in law used it to hunt rabbits in the countryside back in my younger days in the 1970s. Others still used them nowadays.
  • @Brookintellect
    Remind me not to ever come back as a rabbit. They never win
  • "They are capable of taking down prey 5-10 times their own weight, which is the equivalent to a male lion taking down a female Asian elephant." Macdonald, David (1992). The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores. New York: Parkwest. Awesome! go weasels!
  • @DeeTimmyfan
    I think it's amazing to see such a tiny animal that can overpower an animal twice it's size. Nature's most awesome duel!
  • @Goggalor624
    Man those things are cute. If I hadn't seen this video and came upon one of those, I'd probably be like Will Ferrell in Elf where he meets a raccoon and thinks it's so cute and tries to pet it and it attacks his face.