The falcon received the message to "Abort Mission" at the very last second. The falcon had mistaken the British pigeon as a terrorist due to faulty intelligence. Fortunately the error was caught in the nick of time.
@DONtendulkar10 The peregrine falcon is the most widespread of the birds of prey. You can find them on every continent, save Antarctica! You may have not seen them because, well, they're fast, and you have to be looking for them.
Ive seen pergrines catch pigeons on the level with out any altitude energy left but its usually because the pigeon wasnt aware due to a lot of reasons.
A pigeons level flight is just a bit faster the female perigrine and this is where a male perigrine comes into his own as he smaller more agile and he is bloody fast so they make a formidible hunting team.
pigeons can been fast and agile when being hunted,a pigeon can be released from its home 500mls away early morning and be back home the same day! why do you think we relied on em in the war??
LOL, it does not matter if it was a pidgeon or a cheetah, nothing beats 200 miles per hour! And the fact is 80% of the time the falcon is protecting it's nest. If their kill rate was so low, there would be none of the world's fastest animal, they would be long gone. A Peregrine will kick you and Chuck Norris' ass...count on it!
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I was birdwatching at College Lake near Cheddington(Uk) and i saw a Peregrine Falcon take out a Woodpigeonin in the air, it was surprising but amazing! The Peregrine Falcon is the Ultimate Killer!
pleaseeeeee some one help me my English is not good and I can't understand all of it :(( I need English subtitle for this video pleaseeeee some one help me understand what he is saying :)
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why wouldn't they show a hit, like.. ok their hit rate is low but uploading a video for the perfect predator and not showing the epicness is pointless.. still amazing.
i bet the pidgeon was like "wtf was that crazy ass bitch doing".. and whats the point of doing like 200 MPH if 1/5th of the time you miss -.- the pidgeon didnt even see it :/.. it would of been like a chav and an old women
@DannysDoos BBC are full of shit, peregrines are hardly the perfect predators, they have learnt to dive to catch their prey cause they cant out pace them. Pigeons are the fastest level flying birds around.
@GeorgesBarras they are feral unhealthy birds begging humans for food, their trusting nature means the likes of you can kick them, pigeons are the fastest level flying bird in the sky, and they are a human bred species, rock doves placed in captivity which were bred into smaller more agile pigeons and escaped so became feral pigeons.
I see this great video has been colonised by a few creationists, so just in case any kids are influenced by them, here is the simplest (best) explanation for why this falcon has such good eyes and can fly so well. All currently alive wild Peregrine Falcons were bred under the influence of their parent's prey. So in that wise, they were bred by prey species which were able to be caught. This does not need a magic man in the sky, (a very complex entity which itself requires explanation).
So over many many generations they get better at seeing and flying and prey get better at evading. This is a Natural process which results in the design we see. So yes, design is the right word, but the designer is nature, not any external woo woo actor. Just as a beach with waves will rearrange stones in order of size, or rivers will carve channels, natural selection will carve body shapes. Search for Darwin's pigeons for some cool examples of how humans can do the same thing, for our pleasure.
@GowanBray Not a creationist or religious by any measure, but I have a hard time buying into Darwinian evolution absent an explanation of it's major, glaring flaw: irreducible complexity.
Not that a theistic counter-theory is any alternative...
@ramv36 of course the bottom line is that both intelligent design and Darwinian evolution are processes currently explained by magic........One features a 'magic sky being-deity' who designed all creatures, the other features 'a magic unexplained, unobserved, force of nature which selects traits for your future survival based on your past lack thereof and expresses those traits in your offspring'.....Pick your magic force carefully.
That's easy to help with. There are no examples of "irreducible complexity". You may have been taken in by the famous "bacterial flagellum", but that has been shown to be composed of elements which themselves had a function prior to the current function. Doesn't need to be linked to current function. Search YT for Ken Miller, mousetrap or Dover trial. You r correct theistic creation is not a strong alternative, Occam helps here, which is more likely ? A simple nat process or a complex creator ?
of course "selection" based on adaptations suited to the environment is what happens. Semantic nuance and assumption are getting in the way. I do not frame this issue in terms of Sunday School concepts of "hand of God", or in terms of evolution being a self created (wrong trigger word to use perhaps....relax) method of natural selection. Nonetheless, the plain facts of a falcon's "design", (its eye for example) speak volumes of a Creative intelligence behind all this, however it happened.
@beachcomber2008 ...."evidence" for a Creator is obvious and overwhelming, as more and more scientists are realizing. Your insistence otherwise is blind. Thousands of reputable scientists have (sometimes reluctantly) concluded that no other explanation (however difficult for our tiny minds) is possible.
@melc1949 OK, cutting to the chase: your eagerness to find an "authority" to cringe before speaks more for the evolutionary survival mode, successful within you, which has kept your ancestors, & you, safe from the paranoid attentions of despots
It is obviously & palpably so strong as to FORCE you to believe in something for which, like ALL things which have never existed, there's no evidence whatsoever
However it is the task for each of us to rise above the evolutionary leash which holds us back
@beachcomber2008 ...as expected, your "scientific" attitudes are really based on an anti-religion attitude based on ignorance. You presume that I must be eager to "cringe" before some sort of despotic "authority" figure, some pie-in-the-sky deity that is primitive and ignorant. Sorry, but you're wrong. Lots of scientists whose thinking is not pre-determined by bias and ignorance have concluded that there is pattern, predictability, purpose, and "plan" evidenced throughout the universe.
@melc1949 with humans who cannot accept this simple consequence of being an animal on a planet
While you believe in a "Creative Intelligence" you will never allow yourself to understand the TRUTH behind your existence, and by so doing you´ll remain a planet-bound ape, sowing intellectual confusion wherever you go
Whereas HUMAN natural philosophers will one day meet ALIEN natural philosophers amongst the stars. This is the only "belief" I can accept.
@beachcomber2008 I also took years to "liberate" myself from Sunday School. However, my conclusions (such as they are at this time) are based on continued observation with an open mind, and accept the overwhelming evidence of design, and designer. An ant is stunning enough, never mind a peregrine falcon. Personally, I think the more you see, and know, the more you have to just shake your head in amazement at the billions of complex, intricate, and perfectly made life forms on planet earth.
There you go again, pushing away at incomprehension. It isn't GOD or CHAOS at all
It's the way evolution works and life survives
It began as a single entity on a toxic and bombarded planet and had no future option BUT to diversify
That physical rule applied, and worked then as it applies and works now
Here's a tip: metaphysics didn't work then just as it doesn't work now, except perhaps to encourage dreams of immortality and murder in the minds of men
Respond to this video... ...which points to some sort of Creative Intelligence, however impossible it is for us to define, imagine, or understand it.
they forgot the part where the pigeon gets scared and shits it self, which is what scientist believe is responsible for most bird shit stained t-shirts
they forgot the part where the pigeon gets scared and shits it self, which is what scientist believe is responsible for most bird shit stained t-shirts
"carbon or amino acids in inorganic matter. That's absurd"
They both exist in SPACE. Carbon always did, of course, because main sequence stars produce it by fusing hydrogen
It has been known for fifty years that organic compounds can be produced by passing sparks through a mixture of water, and gaseous compounds, and more recently a whole range of organic compounds have been detected spectroscopically in space
I knew it wouldn't be long before you denied reality
@beachcomber2008 : Where do you think the water, gaseous and organic compounds came from? Why does the same basic thing occur when "sparks" pass through them. Not random chaos, but predictable order ("natural law") occurs every time. Try harder. You don't think enough.
@melc1949 Ah, you NOW say "Predictable order ("natural law") occurs every time", where before you said "It is reasonable to conclude that Order and Design, not random chaos, are the cause"
Show me where the "design" is
The "natural law" springs from the possible ways in which BANG energy could be constrained to occupy spatial dimensions in the first place
This process is analogous to how a snowflake is formed
Don´t sweat the small stuff - no "design" is involved
@beachcomber2008 Well, maybe you're blind. Explain how every snowflake has the same number of points. Your "scientific" explanations for this merely help clarify how the design is accomplished. "Bang energy" has managed to produce countless life forms working together in eco-systems that defy our understanding. Do you really think all this is the result of blind, random chance, atoms colliding and forming structure, function,and yes, "design" just willy-nilly, by accidental luck?
@melc1949 I have already told you that little CHANCE is involved. It is YOU who keeps trying to introduce chaos, as if it were an option, when it will always remain the antithesis of ORDER
Just as GRAVITY overcomes CHAOS, so does EVOLUTION subvert CHANCE
When you yourself (and all of us) are carrying some 200 additional mutations within your mix of parental genes, each generation, I reckon that makes for quite a lot of "willy-nilly accidental luck", don´t you?
@melc1949 "Explain how every snowflake has the same number of points" LOL
The basic shape of an ice crystal (microsize) is a flat hexagonal prism
Water is a polar molecule and when liquid will flow on the axes set by the original ice crystal, maintaining an equal surface tension equidistant from those original axes
Within those constraints, the snow crystal´s appearance would then randomly depend upon the arrival of water condensing out from the existing water vapor in the ambient atmosphere.
@beachcomber2008 HAHAHA, I totally laughed when I read that one. It reminded me of Bill O'Reilly's explanation for a "God" when he asked an atheist "How doe the tides work, huh?" The gravitational force that the moon exerts on the Earth Bill.
@melc1949 You know, alot of things in nature are reptitive? Physics and chemistry don't dictate that things form in random chance per say. Snowflakes form in specific patterns primarily because that is the most energetically favorable energy conformation of crystalline H2O. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that someone else doesn't understand it and can explain it to you.
@melc1949 Also, a common misconception amongst creationists and ID proponents is that evolution by random design is impossible. It reflects a lack of understanding about what evolution is amongst anti-evolution people. Evolution is not pure random chance. Evolution is a macro process were by certain organisms develop/enhance traits that allow them to occupy specific ecological niches. The role of chance is minimized and not as significant as you are trying to make it out to be.
@beachcomber2008 BTW, this discussion is better served beyond the "religious" versus "anti-religious" mindsets that are common. I am not engaging you in a religious/atheist debate. Honest logic points firmly to purposeful design, whether you like it or not.
@melc1949 The problem with this debate is that you have come into it as many people who are anti-evolutionists come into such debates - with a rudimentary understanding of physics, chemistry, genetics and evolution. Evolution, again, is not random chance. It is a selective process - that's why it is also called natural selection. The minute a process is "selective," it is no longer random chance.
@Gilgamesh417 THANK YOU!! Im tired of people arguing from a platform of ignorance. If you're going to argue EDUCATE yourself on WHAT you're arguing against.
@melc1949 I believe that my last statement to you, as quoted, is "you have come into it as many people who are anti-evolutionists come into such debates." You may not be one but you are 1. Using many of the same points that they do and 2. Haven't read the science or done proper background research which, if you had read, you wouldn't have used any of the points that you use because you'd understand they are bunk.
If you are trying to provoke good debate, try again using good background info.
Respond to this video... well then, the process could be said to be purposeful. I have spent 40 years listening to various evolutionists prattle on about random chance, the results of which necessarily required billions of years. Perhaps billions of years were required, but as an agnostic existentialist back in the late 60's most of their strivings seemed illogical and implausible to me. Religion had nothing to do with my reaction to their loose language, and thinking.
@Gilgamesh417 well there you go, you prove my point. A "selective" process that accomplishes a necessary adaptation of course is not random chance. It is deliberate, according to the language implications of "selective".
@melc1949 What point? A selective process independent of any external force except the environment - there is no magic hand of some supreme deity coming in to "select" the process. The "selection" is simply that animals not best adapted for their ecological niche at the time are removed because they cannot compete. Do you understand that process? Do you understand that the "selection" occurs within the close system described? That there is no need for a "designer?"
I'm sorry, are you deluding yourself that I've implied that there's some sort of intelligent designer at work doing the selection? The selection occurs entirely within the closed system of an animal within the ecosystem - an animal not best adapted for its ecological niche is removed from the process and thus nature, with a degree of chance and independent of some "hand of God," is "selects" for the animal most fit for survival at that period of time.
@melc1949 If you had actually wanted a purposeful debate, you'd come in debating specific taxonomical trees, the theropod to birds question, did feathers develop on dinosaurs for purposes other than flight, etc. and not with a half-assed understanding of science.
@melc1949 Please mate, for your own good. After reading the bible read Darwin's evolution of species and do some thinking. It's 2011 and there is quite a lot of evidence pointing to there being no intelligent creator. Think for yourself mate, don't let others tell you what is or what is not. I'm not, I'm just suggesting a different way of looking at things. I hope you can find your way out of religion. Cheers :)
@bihsoldier91 That's a rather simple-minded deduction, but of course right wing religious types cannot understand the complexities of nature. It's fair to say that even the Peregrine Falcon is not perfect, and certainly not created by a supreme being made up in a fairy tale book.
I accidentally witnessed one of these birds dive onto a rabbit one time, and get their dinner. The speed was astounding to see. I wondered how fast they could go. Absolutely amazing animals!
@Rhienzi Since they prey almost exclusively on small to medium-sized birds, seeing one go after a rabbit would be super rare. Are you sure it wasn't a hawk?
@falcoperegrinus82 ...No, I have to admit ignorance to being able to determine specific birds of prey. But it was extremely fast ,and tucked its wings so that it looked bullet shaped as it approached the ground. It snatched the rabbit and immediately flew off with it. It was in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Still an amazing site to witness.
Peregrine Falcons Rule!!!
TopAnimals567 2 days ago
crazy I luv it
0Niz0 5 days ago
The falcon received the message to "Abort Mission" at the very last second. The falcon had mistaken the British pigeon as a terrorist due to faulty intelligence. Fortunately the error was caught in the nick of time.
fodoon 5 days ago
they kind remind me of the great white shark of birds
RoSe24GrEenTeA 6 days ago
this video sucks, its a bunch of cgi isnt it ? fuck anyone who puts non disclaimered cgi in a nature film.
robotsweat 2 weeks ago
so amazing!my favourite animal!
GothIAm17 2 weeks ago
The Buggati Veyron of birds....
NotoriousSponge 3 weeks ago 4
Anticlimatic.
campion1211 3 weeks ago
felt bad for the falcon
abdulrehmankhancomme 4 weeks ago
i don't know why i watched this
MsDelow 1 month ago
TACTICAL BIRD INCOMING!!!:D
freakynoobn 1 month ago
hayabusa
halimhadi89 1 month ago
in the car world pigeon prius falcon bugatti veyron
NateDaBiker 1 month ago
wait.............there are falcons in london??? how come ive never seen one?!
DONtendulkar10 1 month ago
@DONtendulkar10 You blinked, and it were gone? :)
AGrandt 1 month ago
@DONtendulkar10 The peregrine falcon is the most widespread of the birds of prey. You can find them on every continent, save Antarctica! You may have not seen them because, well, they're fast, and you have to be looking for them.
TheLoneZebra 4 weeks ago
@TheLoneZebra It´s even the most widespread animal of all, not just birds! Making it todays most successful predatory animal!
ptango666 1 week ago
A 20% kill rate is actually pretty good in the animal kingdom, I think cheetahs have kill rate of about 33% and look how good they are
JazzLassie6020 1 month ago
@JazzLassie6020 cheetahs have a 50% rate, it's lions on 30%
dagreatmogul 3 weeks ago
Lol what a stupid ending.. like if u thought it was gonna be better.
blackburgerKING 1 month ago
0:00 - 0:02 Same view on Cher Lloyd's "With your love" video :D
TheRandomcracker 1 month ago
so just do it 5 times....
blockhart 1 month ago
Thats a falcon lol
MIKAM0RI 1 month ago
oh and blue bar pattern on wing and then blue check pattern?
nanglauj 1 month ago
is it me, or does anybody notice that the pigeon isn't the same pigeon the falcon got locked on? white feathers, then none?
nanglauj 1 month ago
LMFAO, wickedone. Topgun.
DICKIEMONSTER 1 month ago
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ninjavariation 1 month ago
only 20% success rate !!! unbelievable
jagmanak 1 month ago
I feel like this is green screen
axe251 1 month ago
wth am I doing here...I got an exam tomorrow -.-
goofernator 1 month ago 29
the 10 dislikes are pigeons
TheVinegaroon 1 month ago
Fuck you, BBC. No one wants to see the pigeon get away. I don't care if you have to make this video 5x as long, show us a kill!
rmm453 1 month ago
is the guy or lady brittish
ST3VeNRaCiest 2 months ago
if they have 20 percent kill ratio that means if they try 20 times a day they kill 4 pigeons a day
tabarich1 2 months ago
Ive seen pergrines catch pigeons on the level with out any altitude energy left but its usually because the pigeon wasnt aware due to a lot of reasons.
A pigeons level flight is just a bit faster the female perigrine and this is where a male perigrine comes into his own as he smaller more agile and he is bloody fast so they make a formidible hunting team.
SnottyAust 2 months ago
Anti-climactic much???
0rangefly125 2 months ago
pigeons can been fast and agile when being hunted,a pigeon can be released from its home 500mls away early morning and be back home the same day! why do you think we relied on em in the war??
kev01293 2 months ago 2
Its so epic then...then .. awe... missed
blackjfo5 2 months ago
I wish I could be a peregrine falcon for a day
Nicro327 2 months ago
so nice vid
stvdante777 2 months ago
LOL, it does not matter if it was a pidgeon or a cheetah, nothing beats 200 miles per hour! And the fact is 80% of the time the falcon is protecting it's nest. If their kill rate was so low, there would be none of the world's fastest animal, they would be long gone. A Peregrine will kick you and Chuck Norris' ass...count on it!
unclearless 3 months ago
2:20 problem officer?
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BestofYTChannel 3 months ago
Where is that amazing building located? Also, I am interested in the Nat Geo footage of a Crowned eagle strikintg a monitor lizard.
f2mel2 3 months ago
@f2mel2 I think it's in London.
Tarikace15 3 months ago
@f2mel2 it's london indeed.. :D
DeadMansEye 3 months ago
As sad as it was, that was possibly The Most Epic FAil i'v witnessed today
jayman691 3 months ago
I was birdwatching at College Lake near Cheddington(Uk) and i saw a Peregrine Falcon take out a Woodpigeonin in the air, it was surprising but amazing! The Peregrine Falcon is the Ultimate Killer!
hstadam94 3 months ago
that was such a boner kill
kikzker1 3 months ago
I was all ready for an epic poof of feathers....
jrw97 3 months ago
is not full episode
guldon 3 months ago in playlist Inside the Perfect Predator
Wow! Wonderful and amazing!
TheFlyingHorse1 4 months ago
if i would be an animal..i wanna be a bald eagle...they look cool.. they kick ANY falcon's or other birds EVEN WOLF BUTTS!
jorensalinas 4 months ago
pleaseeeeee some one help me my English is not good and I can't understand all of it :(( I need English subtitle for this video pleaseeeee some one help me understand what he is saying :)
Mspape1234 4 months ago
If i could chose any animal i could be, it would be the peregrine falcon
1997hotwings 4 months ago
damn man, its a missile with feathers!
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BestofYTChannel 4 months ago
"Perfect predator", only 20% of attacks end in a kill.
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damn, i wish it would of cought that pigeon :(
mykseee 5 months ago
Fail.
camillaroseg 5 months ago
jesus christ how high up was that falcon? like 40,000ft, it took like an hour for it to come down
ratgreen 6 months ago 15
To think that I watched this to the end.
sashamaz 6 months ago
Never seen falcons in London lol
iMikyT 6 months ago
@iMikyT you never looked hard enough then, there is a pair that nest on canary warf... don't ask me how i know this
ImXylitol 6 months ago
A falcon in London???
darrouken 6 months ago
why wouldn't they show a hit, like.. ok their hit rate is low but uploading a video for the perfect predator and not showing the epicness is pointless.. still amazing.
TheMikeRobbo 6 months ago
i bet the pidgeon was like "wtf was that crazy ass bitch doing".. and whats the point of doing like 200 MPH if 1/5th of the time you miss -.- the pidgeon didnt even see it :/.. it would of been like a chav and an old women
RisKR3B1RTH 6 months ago
That was the biggest build up to nothing.
iKNOWdrumFU 6 months ago
whats the point of being able to fly and not be able to catch a pigeon...
amohamud2 6 months ago
you shouldn't find any peregrine falcon in London
treadstoneoperation 6 months ago
Falcon got trolled by a pigeon.
melissadallison 6 months ago 27
How the hell are they filming it on its plummet?
NaeJoy 6 months ago
how can 4 people dislike this???????
weapons33 6 months ago
Why did i get goosebumps and almost cry within the first 6 seconds? I don't like pigeons?
CallOfDutyFPS 6 months ago
Not so perfect but pretty damn cool
JJHAN2 6 months ago
Since when have pidgeons been 'fast and agile'? The animal is famed for its ability to be kicked on high streets.
GeorgesBarras 6 months ago 51
@GeorgesBarras actually the pigeon is a very fast and people race them
LiiGiiTzzXx 5 months ago
@GeorgesBarras u are stupid :S
HyperactiveRabbit 3 months ago
@GeorgesBarras i think they mean in the air. street pigeons dont normally regard humans as threats
Nutto666 3 months ago
@GeorgesBarras hahahaha i know your right
biozastron 3 months ago
@GeorgesBarras Pigeons are actually extremely "fast" and "agile". They can out-fly a peregrine in level flight. Ever heard of Pigeon racing?
DannysDoos 2 months ago
@DannysDoos BBC are full of shit, peregrines are hardly the perfect predators, they have learnt to dive to catch their prey cause they cant out pace them. Pigeons are the fastest level flying birds around.
magnusalexa 2 months ago
@magnusalexa they are the perfect predator what are you the perfect troll?
ayrtonsenna2798 2 months ago
@GeorgesBarras they are feral unhealthy birds begging humans for food, their trusting nature means the likes of you can kick them, pigeons are the fastest level flying bird in the sky, and they are a human bred species, rock doves placed in captivity which were bred into smaller more agile pigeons and escaped so became feral pigeons.
magnusalexa 2 months ago
@GeorgesBarras That's cause it's not scared of humans, durr. Noone is preventing you from thinking before you comment.
xStealthClown 1 month ago
@GeorgesBarras What a ridiculous comparison, one thing is a creature made to fly, when the ground!
Quite another when they are flying pigeons are fast and agile while in flight!
luksjjjjj 1 month ago
Wow. They hyped the falcon so much and made it so intense, then the pigeon just trolls it with an evasion like that.
XizelSF 6 months ago 3
@XizelSF what evasion i didnt look like it did anything it looked like the falcon f****d up to me lol
blazeingeagle 6 months ago
I see this great video has been colonised by a few creationists, so just in case any kids are influenced by them, here is the simplest (best) explanation for why this falcon has such good eyes and can fly so well. All currently alive wild Peregrine Falcons were bred under the influence of their parent's prey. So in that wise, they were bred by prey species which were able to be caught. This does not need a magic man in the sky, (a very complex entity which itself requires explanation).
GowanBray 6 months ago
So over many many generations they get better at seeing and flying and prey get better at evading. This is a Natural process which results in the design we see. So yes, design is the right word, but the designer is nature, not any external woo woo actor. Just as a beach with waves will rearrange stones in order of size, or rivers will carve channels, natural selection will carve body shapes. Search for Darwin's pigeons for some cool examples of how humans can do the same thing, for our pleasure.
GowanBray 6 months ago
@GowanBray Not a creationist or religious by any measure, but I have a hard time buying into Darwinian evolution absent an explanation of it's major, glaring flaw: irreducible complexity.
Not that a theistic counter-theory is any alternative...
ramv36 3 months ago
@ramv36 of course the bottom line is that both intelligent design and Darwinian evolution are processes currently explained by magic........One features a 'magic sky being-deity' who designed all creatures, the other features 'a magic unexplained, unobserved, force of nature which selects traits for your future survival based on your past lack thereof and expresses those traits in your offspring'.....Pick your magic force carefully.
ramv36 3 months ago
That's easy to help with. There are no examples of "irreducible complexity". You may have been taken in by the famous "bacterial flagellum", but that has been shown to be composed of elements which themselves had a function prior to the current function. Doesn't need to be linked to current function. Search YT for Ken Miller, mousetrap or Dover trial. You r correct theistic creation is not a strong alternative, Occam helps here, which is more likely ? A simple nat process or a complex creator ?
GowanBray 3 months ago
that was the most intense thing I have ever witnessed... almost humorous they created that much tension with birds...
AndyRock1 6 months ago
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AndyRock1 6 months ago
Sad :( so much like the Cheetah you just want to root for them (plus cmon we have enough pigeons :P)
M0U53B41T 6 months ago
Since when does the BBC not know how to spell pigeon?
siddistani 6 months ago
@siddistani Pidgeon is an older spelling. Kid.
rlinfinity 6 months ago
200 mph winds, and omg wheres the breaks
MrOppositesattract65 6 months ago
Anti-climax of death...
Morgam06 6 months ago
damn, how bbc actually shoot the video ? awesome !
InfinityBryan 6 months ago
Airazor from Beast Wars would be proud.
PurpleRanger 6 months ago
This, people, is what we call an anticlimax. : /
anaikahas 6 months ago
So anti-climactic.
Torro321 6 months ago
So i guess they're not perfect, are they?
132bumblebee 6 months ago
damn nature. you scary
popovic011 6 months ago
of course "selection" based on adaptations suited to the environment is what happens. Semantic nuance and assumption are getting in the way. I do not frame this issue in terms of Sunday School concepts of "hand of God", or in terms of evolution being a self created (wrong trigger word to use perhaps....relax) method of natural selection. Nonetheless, the plain facts of a falcon's "design", (its eye for example) speak volumes of a Creative intelligence behind all this, however it happened.
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 "the plain facts of a falcon's "design", (its eye for example) speak volumes of a Creative intelligence"
The plain facts of a falcon's "design"", in the absence of ANY evidence of a "Creator", speak volumes for Evolution
You should be plainly instructed by your refusal to accept EVIDENCE. It should tell you something!
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 ...."evidence" for a Creator is obvious and overwhelming, as more and more scientists are realizing. Your insistence otherwise is blind. Thousands of reputable scientists have (sometimes reluctantly) concluded that no other explanation (however difficult for our tiny minds) is possible.
melc1949 6 months ago
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beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@melc1949 OK, cutting to the chase: your eagerness to find an "authority" to cringe before speaks more for the evolutionary survival mode, successful within you, which has kept your ancestors, & you, safe from the paranoid attentions of despots
It is obviously & palpably so strong as to FORCE you to believe in something for which, like ALL things which have never existed, there's no evidence whatsoever
However it is the task for each of us to rise above the evolutionary leash which holds us back
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 ...as expected, your "scientific" attitudes are really based on an anti-religion attitude based on ignorance. You presume that I must be eager to "cringe" before some sort of despotic "authority" figure, some pie-in-the-sky deity that is primitive and ignorant. Sorry, but you're wrong. Lots of scientists whose thinking is not pre-determined by bias and ignorance have concluded that there is pattern, predictability, purpose, and "plan" evidenced throughout the universe.
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 with humans who cannot accept this simple consequence of being an animal on a planet
While you believe in a "Creative Intelligence" you will never allow yourself to understand the TRUTH behind your existence, and by so doing you´ll remain a planet-bound ape, sowing intellectual confusion wherever you go
Whereas HUMAN natural philosophers will one day meet ALIEN natural philosophers amongst the stars. This is the only "belief" I can accept.
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@melc1949 and also that the behavior of those that upheld religion was, in the main, not merely unexceptional, but worse, than those that didn´t
My following 55 years have been notable for a feeling of liberation...
I calmly accept that my existence will cease when I die, though I fear for my children who will continue having to share their world
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@melc1949 The "bias and ignorance" of Religion (C of E) was "predetermined" into me at age 4
It took 8 years. I had to learn for myself there was no real truth in the Bible
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 I also took years to "liberate" myself from Sunday School. However, my conclusions (such as they are at this time) are based on continued observation with an open mind, and accept the overwhelming evidence of design, and designer. An ant is stunning enough, never mind a peregrine falcon. Personally, I think the more you see, and know, the more you have to just shake your head in amazement at the billions of complex, intricate, and perfectly made life forms on planet earth.
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 "shake your head in amazement"
There you go again, pushing away at incomprehension. It isn't GOD or CHAOS at all
It's the way evolution works and life survives
It began as a single entity on a toxic and bombarded planet and had no future option BUT to diversify
That physical rule applied, and worked then as it applies and works now
Here's a tip: metaphysics didn't work then just as it doesn't work now, except perhaps to encourage dreams of immortality and murder in the minds of men
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
Respond to this video... ...which points to some sort of Creative Intelligence, however impossible it is for us to define, imagine, or understand it.
melc1949 6 months ago
4 people, that disliked this video, got attacked by the falcon.
ImamAbuHanifa 6 months ago
A apt perfect example of a ruined orgasm!
jalaami 6 months ago
Cool!
SpoiledLogic 6 months ago
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they forgot the part where the pigeon gets scared and shits it self, which is what scientist believe is responsible for most bird shit stained t-shirts
michael0001able 6 months ago
they forgot the part where the pigeon gets scared and shits it self, which is what scientist believe is responsible for most bird shit stained t-shirts
michael0001able 6 months ago
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falcons over the skies of london? i hardly knew other wild life existed in such a conjested city except pigeons and squirrels.
12345brye 6 months ago
falcons over the skies of london? i hardly knew other wild life existed in such a conjested city except pigeons and squirrels.
12345brye 6 months ago
"carbon or amino acids in inorganic matter. That's absurd"
They both exist in SPACE. Carbon always did, of course, because main sequence stars produce it by fusing hydrogen
It has been known for fifty years that organic compounds can be produced by passing sparks through a mixture of water, and gaseous compounds, and more recently a whole range of organic compounds have been detected spectroscopically in space
I knew it wouldn't be long before you denied reality
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 : Where do you think the water, gaseous and organic compounds came from? Why does the same basic thing occur when "sparks" pass through them. Not random chaos, but predictable order ("natural law") occurs every time. Try harder. You don't think enough.
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 Ah, you NOW say "Predictable order ("natural law") occurs every time", where before you said "It is reasonable to conclude that Order and Design, not random chaos, are the cause"
Show me where the "design" is
The "natural law" springs from the possible ways in which BANG energy could be constrained to occupy spatial dimensions in the first place
This process is analogous to how a snowflake is formed
Don´t sweat the small stuff - no "design" is involved
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 Well, maybe you're blind. Explain how every snowflake has the same number of points. Your "scientific" explanations for this merely help clarify how the design is accomplished. "Bang energy" has managed to produce countless life forms working together in eco-systems that defy our understanding. Do you really think all this is the result of blind, random chance, atoms colliding and forming structure, function,and yes, "design" just willy-nilly, by accidental luck?
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 I have already told you that little CHANCE is involved. It is YOU who keeps trying to introduce chaos, as if it were an option, when it will always remain the antithesis of ORDER
Just as GRAVITY overcomes CHAOS, so does EVOLUTION subvert CHANCE
When you yourself (and all of us) are carrying some 200 additional mutations within your mix of parental genes, each generation, I reckon that makes for quite a lot of "willy-nilly accidental luck", don´t you?
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@melc1949 "Explain how every snowflake has the same number of points" LOL
The basic shape of an ice crystal (microsize) is a flat hexagonal prism
Water is a polar molecule and when liquid will flow on the axes set by the original ice crystal, maintaining an equal surface tension equidistant from those original axes
Within those constraints, the snow crystal´s appearance would then randomly depend upon the arrival of water condensing out from the existing water vapor in the ambient atmosphere.
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 HAHAHA, I totally laughed when I read that one. It reminded me of Bill O'Reilly's explanation for a "God" when he asked an atheist "How doe the tides work, huh?" The gravitational force that the moon exerts on the Earth Bill.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
@Gilgamesh417 That still tickles my funnybone too. Hijacker. :)
beachcomber2008 6 months ago
@melc1949 You know, alot of things in nature are reptitive? Physics and chemistry don't dictate that things form in random chance per say. Snowflakes form in specific patterns primarily because that is the most energetically favorable energy conformation of crystalline H2O. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that someone else doesn't understand it and can explain it to you.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
@melc1949 Also, a common misconception amongst creationists and ID proponents is that evolution by random design is impossible. It reflects a lack of understanding about what evolution is amongst anti-evolution people. Evolution is not pure random chance. Evolution is a macro process were by certain organisms develop/enhance traits that allow them to occupy specific ecological niches. The role of chance is minimized and not as significant as you are trying to make it out to be.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
@Gilgamesh417 ...I agree with you.
melc1949 6 months ago
@beachcomber2008 BTW, this discussion is better served beyond the "religious" versus "anti-religious" mindsets that are common. I am not engaging you in a religious/atheist debate. Honest logic points firmly to purposeful design, whether you like it or not.
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 The problem with this debate is that you have come into it as many people who are anti-evolutionists come into such debates - with a rudimentary understanding of physics, chemistry, genetics and evolution. Evolution, again, is not random chance. It is a selective process - that's why it is also called natural selection. The minute a process is "selective," it is no longer random chance.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
@Gilgamesh417 THANK YOU!! Im tired of people arguing from a platform of ignorance. If you're going to argue EDUCATE yourself on WHAT you're arguing against.
rojman123 6 months ago
@Gilgamesh417 ...I am not the least bit "anti-evolutionist". Try again.
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 I believe that my last statement to you, as quoted, is "you have come into it as many people who are anti-evolutionists come into such debates." You may not be one but you are 1. Using many of the same points that they do and 2. Haven't read the science or done proper background research which, if you had read, you wouldn't have used any of the points that you use because you'd understand they are bunk.
If you are trying to provoke good debate, try again using good background info.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
Respond to this video... well then, the process could be said to be purposeful. I have spent 40 years listening to various evolutionists prattle on about random chance, the results of which necessarily required billions of years. Perhaps billions of years were required, but as an agnostic existentialist back in the late 60's most of their strivings seemed illogical and implausible to me. Religion had nothing to do with my reaction to their loose language, and thinking.
melc1949 6 months ago
@Gilgamesh417 well there you go, you prove my point. A "selective" process that accomplishes a necessary adaptation of course is not random chance. It is deliberate, according to the language implications of "selective".
melc1949 6 months ago
@melc1949 What point? A selective process independent of any external force except the environment - there is no magic hand of some supreme deity coming in to "select" the process. The "selection" is simply that animals not best adapted for their ecological niche at the time are removed because they cannot compete. Do you understand that process? Do you understand that the "selection" occurs within the close system described? That there is no need for a "designer?"
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
I'm sorry, are you deluding yourself that I've implied that there's some sort of intelligent designer at work doing the selection? The selection occurs entirely within the closed system of an animal within the ecosystem - an animal not best adapted for its ecological niche is removed from the process and thus nature, with a degree of chance and independent of some "hand of God," is "selects" for the animal most fit for survival at that period of time.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
@melc1949 If you had actually wanted a purposeful debate, you'd come in debating specific taxonomical trees, the theropod to birds question, did feathers develop on dinosaurs for purposes other than flight, etc. and not with a half-assed understanding of science.
Gilgamesh417 6 months ago
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@melc1949 Please mate, for your own good. After reading the bible read Darwin's evolution of species and do some thinking. It's 2011 and there is quite a lot of evidence pointing to there being no intelligent creator. Think for yourself mate, don't let others tell you what is or what is not. I'm not, I'm just suggesting a different way of looking at things. I hope you can find your way out of religion. Cheers :)
ipr111au 6 months ago
Such a tease
rubiks15 6 months ago
the way this bird is built shows that god created it ....just look at its design stunning!
bihsoldier91 6 months ago
@bihsoldier91 That's a rather simple-minded deduction, but of course right wing religious types cannot understand the complexities of nature. It's fair to say that even the Peregrine Falcon is not perfect, and certainly not created by a supreme being made up in a fairy tale book.
tomestubbs 6 months ago
Most Amazing Video!
sultan23b 6 months ago
*thud*
MrJoobledoo 6 months ago
dog damn pigeons
SStockstill 6 months ago
Very interesting!
TrancePuzzle 6 months ago
Fast and agile pigeon...?
Kirbylikestoblaze 6 months ago
Well I don't know about some of the rude comments but me myself & my grandkids loved it no matter what the outcome was. Thank you very much
jannicemull 6 months ago
fail
TheDarkKnight03 6 months ago
moral of this video, everything has a weakness.
gmanskater1234 6 months ago
This is now my favorite bird!
Asadullah21 6 months ago
this is all going on above the stock exchange... damn
ipr111au 6 months ago
Well that was disappointing lol
2007meangreen2007 6 months ago
"the pidgeon spotted her"....more like the pidgeon spotted the bbc filming her
mrcaptainawesomesir 6 months ago 26
wow
annehodgson 6 months ago
LOL
VamptasticVamp 6 months ago
Falcon.. pissed at the end... not getting her kill...
"what the hell are you lookin at?"
lol...
but seriously a good clip.. how could they film it... awesome!
saznrai 6 months ago 7
The music is so intense!
slevscythe 6 months ago
I accidentally witnessed one of these birds dive onto a rabbit one time, and get their dinner. The speed was astounding to see. I wondered how fast they could go. Absolutely amazing animals!
Rhienzi 6 months ago
@Rhienzi Since they prey almost exclusively on small to medium-sized birds, seeing one go after a rabbit would be super rare. Are you sure it wasn't a hawk?
falcoperegrinus82 6 months ago
@falcoperegrinus82 ...No, I have to admit ignorance to being able to determine specific birds of prey. But it was extremely fast ,and tucked its wings so that it looked bullet shaped as it approached the ground. It snatched the rabbit and immediately flew off with it. It was in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Still an amazing site to witness.
Rhienzi 6 months ago
THAT BITCH GOT OWNED! lol
airwashere 6 months ago
Falcon Kick!!!!
shinomora 6 months ago 9