Channel: Sally Le Page

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: This is how (and why) I caught 859 swans during Abbotsbury Swannery's biennial swan round up. Subscribe for more videos about science and wildlife. 00:00 Intro 00:13 Where do you find so many swans? 01:18 Don't all swans belong to the Queen? 02:27 Why don't the swans fly away? 03:11 Catching the swans 04:42 Can't swans break a man's arm? 05:35 Why are catching so many swans? 08:43 How do you sex a swan? 10:27 Was it worth it? 12:55 Feathery friends A huge thank you to Charlie Wheeler from Abbotsbury Swannery for letting me volunteer in the swan round up and film the whole event: abbotsbury-tourism.co.uk/swannery Edited by Joolzenda and Sally Le Page Additional videography by Phil Caisley Supported by my patrons: Sontag, TimLuq Links to swan research papers: Antibody responses: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016.2159 Population Structure: sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1522353.pdf?seq=1 Age at reproduction: pnas.org/content/pnas/103/17/6587.full.pdf Selection on clutch size: sci-hub.se/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/499378 Prolactin in avian molt: sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016648009000367 Me: Website: sallylepage.co.uk Twitter: twitter.com/sallylepage Instagram: instagram.com/sallylepage Facebook: facebook.com/sallylepage Reddit: reddit.com/r/sallylepage Donate: Patreon: patreon.com/sallylepage (monthly donations) PayPal: paypal.me/sallylepage (one off donations) Amazon UK: amzn.to/2DrD6v7 (affiliate link) Amazon USA: amzn.to/2WRatQY (affiliate link) Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist and science YouTuber. The aim of these videos is to bring science further into popular culture by making science videos that make you laugh, make you feel and make you think.