Forrest Galante asks "What Country Has The Worst Wildlife?" and British viewers nominate the pigeon
The wildlife biologist's newest Short drew hundreds of comments in half a day, while his frozen Antarctic rainforest video passed a million views.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 303,186 views a day, 8.9 times a normal first day on this channel (34,124).
What Country Has The Worst Wildlife?
"What Country Has The Worst Wildlife?" is a cheeky question for Forrest Galante to ask. The biologist made his name hunting for animals the rest of the world had given up on, as host of Extinct or Alive on Animal Planet. This time the quarry is a whole country's wildlife list.
The Short reached about 200,000 views in its first twelve hours, roughly nine times what his Shorts usually manage in a full day. The comments moved even faster. A typical first day brings a few dozen. This one had more than 500 by the twelve-hour mark.
Most of that talk comes from Britain. The most liked comment names the pigeon as the country's most dangerous animal, and a long line of British viewers seem happy to accept a low ranking. A Dutch viewer says the Netherlands is like the UK with even less. Others weigh Brazil's anaconda against Australia's saltwater crocodile, and an Irish viewer complains that the leprechauns were left out. Several viewers point out that Canada gets a mention at the end.
An older upload had its own landmark on the same day. "Scientists Found a Rainforest Frozen Under Antarctica," posted five days earlier, passed a million views. Its premise is real science. Researchers drilling near West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier found preserved roots and pollen from a temperate rainforest that grew there about 90 million years ago.
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What viewers say
As a brit most dangerous animal here is the pigeon
@maani214xxSee it on YouTubeI'm Dutch, which is basically uk but less wildlife
@CorruptedMPSee it on YouTubeHere in Italy classified as wild Life there's only pizza 😭
@ReiSimeoniSee it on YouTube
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as a Brit, I agree we do in fact have some of the worst wildlife
@nasiraibrar8336See it on YouTubePower scaling wildlife is exactly what I needed
@SohamSadhu-k9mSee it on YouTubeNah u just gotta ride the london underground to see a bunch of wildlife.
@MarowakieSee it on YouTubeCan’t believe Ireland didn’t get a mention, our wild Leprechauns are notorious.
@davidmurphy8364See it on YouTubeI actually love these shorts. Keep em coming.
@timstar28See it on YouTubeAs a Brit I wouldn't say not interesting .. we just don't have anything dangerous 🤣
@jamiewelch9455See it on YouTubeI’m glad you mentioned us at the end. The UK giving Canada a reprieve lol
@jaylupin8680See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Forrest Galante
- Subscribers
- 3,000,000 ▲ 30,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 22,140,720
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,505,177 (on a normal day: 3,510,355)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 209,345 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 303,186
The numbers
The figures below show how far this Short ran ahead of Forrest Galante's usual first day, in views and even more in comments.
💡 Test your knowledge
In 2019, Forrest Galante's team found a giant tortoise on Fernandina Island, from a species not seen for more than a century. Which archipelago is Fernandina part of?
Fernandina is one of the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, and the tortoise found there belongs to the Fernandina giant tortoise species.
