BBC: Tar, Ice Age Killer - Ice Age Death Trap

[OreoDogz]

thumbs up if you are a american!

[SunnyMoon2010]

But tar has pungent odor, animals would have well aware of it.

[spyr099]

well its the end of the ice age movies >.>

[Richardhedditch261]

Tar Pits are not pools of tar which ancient animals accidently fell into, you ridiculous twits. You've been out in the baking Califotnia sun too long. The Tar Pits are in actual fact OIL DEPOSITS in the process of formation from the clustering together of dead animal bodies, often involving diverse ranges of animal species violently flung together due to massive natural cataclysms in the ancient past.

[brandeezy108]

@Richardhedditch261 so wouldn't that make it a pool of tar?

[Richardhedditch261]

@brandeezy108 Immanuel Velikovsky: "..on all continents..bones of sea animals and polar land animals and tropical land animals have been found in great melees;..from the Arctic to the Antarctic...we find innumerable signs of great upheaval, ancient and recent...". Professor Frank Hibber : "...violent storms might explain the peculiar finds of so many animals crammed in caverns and fissures from diferent geological time periods.."

[1215beastman]

i dont think a mammoth has to fear from a tar trap realistically.imean what, a 12 tonned raging beast getting stuck in a few inchs a some sticky mud?

[PHDcsfan]

@1215beastman i agree thats so against psycichs

[TheAmbushHunter]

this narrarator owns. he sounds like capt. price

[twizy123]

if they were able to film it couldnt they just put the camera down for a minute and help the mammoth, dont they know theyre nearly extinct?

[froliciouspanda]

that's what sex with snookie is like

[kiwininja100]

HOORAY :D

[backuganhelper]

Tar would be good for glue

[skyd14120]

thats not a mammoth thats a elephant wtf are trying to play a trick on us?

[awsome0312]

what the keck was that animal WTF :/

[Animalloverzombie]

i mean the elephant new it was tar cause elephants are bright animals so it commited suicide or he farted and fell cause an elephants fart pushes it forward.

[Animalloverzombie]

suicide elephant!

[firemario10]

dumbass elephant

[firemario10]

@sm1carnage lol what a dumbass elephant

[firemario10]

big eyebrowed mamoth , the mamoths a dumbass too , i also agree with tharailwaydra .

[jmr1068204]

This is ta...crude oil at it's stickiest...

[mjf425]

@jmr1068204 lol no its taaa

[KANDAM808]

LOL BBC xDD

[tharailwaydra]

dumbass elephant...

[lithonianinja]

Where can I buy the DVD?

Seriously somebody answer

[MyMusicTwo]

That's stupid!! Elephants are not that dumb! If the elephant smells dead carcas that is in the tar pit! These people and their imagenations! Stupid.

The Human kind killed these animals. Look at the Indian Tipies. It's all Wooly Mammoth skin.

[TheTasmainiandevil]

@MyMusicTwo : they found bones of the animals in the tar pits If they found the bones in the pit you can't really argue that they are making things up. and the humans back then wouldn't have put them in there once they were done with it either. back then we used every bit of the animal. the fur and for the houses, the big bones for the frame to hold the fur on the smaller bones for weapons and the meat was food.

[nazi8per]

@MyMusicTwo You cannot measure their intelligence accurately, you cannot prove that humans drove mammoths to extinction through hunt, you cannot prove that humans chased mammoths into tar pits for fun, which i can assure you they didn't.

When something is 6+ feet deep in tar, i promise, you won't be able to smell it.

Native Americans are thought to have come to the Americas during the same ice age that led to the extinction of the mammoths, and they used non-specific animal hides for housing.

[pokie4life]

it makes me hurl

[pokie4life]

dun dun dun mwhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahs

[LisaMarie216]

I just read that there is the remains on display at the Musuem at La Brea. She is the only human who's remains had been found in La Brea.

[LisaMarie216]

Those are powerful tar pits. I can see how they are easily hidden by remains, leaves, and so on.

[theamazingshazbob]

humans avoid tar pits, sure, but that doesn't mean we haven't all fallen victim to petroleum.

[Dinoman217]

@theamazingshazbob Right now even as we speak, in the gulf is a good example!

[Dinoman217]

@theamazingshazbob This is petroleum!

[whopper1209]

@theamazingshazbob yeah, last year they found a man from 1906 drowned in tar.

so even a 100 years ago they didn't knew any better.

[hulkmeister23]

@theamazingshazbob how did humans avoid tar pits?

[supersmash43]

Not suprisingly humans were smart enough to generally avoid tar pits which is why they are hardily ever found in such naturally-ocurring traps.

[Rinon20]

This video is shit, it's just an elephant rolling in the freakin mud.

[RawDogRie]

great animation, btw the tar pits still exsist but hard to find. i've heard theres 1 in california.

[eaherit]

they built a museum around that one. Labrea Tar Pits I think its called. or something like that.

[truvelocity]

It's over the hill from me, it is a museum and you can walk around the pit they are still getting species out of, but gated off for our protection.

[LisaMarie216]

There. It's the La Brea Tar Pits.

[Tareltonlives]

Good use of elephant footage instead of cheap CGI

[ttbf]

Yeah, pity they had to kill the elephant just for a 2 min clip...

[eaherit]

its rolling around comfortably in a nice mud bath.

[sldklr]

do these tar pits still exist???

[chaingangsolider93]

no....and correct me if im wrong but i think quicksand has sumtin to do with it

[Snotrohmit]

There are only a few known tar lakes worldwide:  * Pitch Lake at La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago * La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles * McKittrick, California near Bakersfield * Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, California * Lake Bermudez in Venezuela

[Animalloverzombie]

@sldklr yes

[jibemorel]

Horrible death

[lonix23]

its so funny in a way.. lolz!!

[pythonman7]

Who ever would have thought a sticky substance that most animals probably thought was mud could be so ... so ... deadly?