+1 Had to look that up when he said that the only way to reach an island in the South Pacific was by boat from South Africa. I'm surprised that slipped past the SciShow team.
So awesome!! You mentioned the area I live in and our blind salamanders :D I love those little guys and I see them nearby in an aquarium when I visit the place nearby that tells about the aquifer etc. - Heidi
So how on earth did the devils hole pupfish not end up on this list? Living in a single water hole in the middle of a desert sounds pretty extreme to me. considering that the livable portion of their habitat is only 8 cubic meters... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Hole_pupfish
I went on the Wikipedia page and under Habitat there’s a photo with the caption “Nearly the entire natural range of the species is visible in this photo.“ That’s insane. 😱
when light hits atoms it causes the electrons to move into a higher orbit and when they move to a lower orbit they release a photon. on transparent objects visible light doesn't have enough energy to move the electrons to a higher orbit and so they just pass straight through
Anza borego's endemic species could be its own list, the park has such variety that it has many endemic species, as well as rare morphs of other species only found in the park
@SciShow, could you guys do an episode on the axolotl? Last year's survey failed to return any wild specimens and it may have finally gone extinct in the wild. It is a real shame,, and a prime example of how being endemic to just one area can hurt a species' chance for survival (specially when that one area is one of the world's largest cities).
I didn't know about the Texas blind salamander in San Marcos, but here in Austin we have two totally separate species of salamander (Barton Springs salamander and Austin blind salamander) that also only live in one place, Barton Springs. I wonder if all these different Central Texas salamanders were at one point the same species, and then evolved separately once they each found their own niches.
there's also that ecosystem scientists recently discovered in a cave like 1 km underground or something that's been cut off from the surface for like 1 million years, had everything from fish to spiders in it or something
Caaros, The King of Chaos yes. In Death Valley there are these fish called pupfish which live, in the case of the devils hole pupfish, a little cave or the salt creek pupfish which live in a tiny stream three times saltier than the sea and is dry half of the year. They're really interesting
Here in Alberta there's a species of snail whose whole global habitat range is limited to five natural sulphurous hot springs on Sulphur Mountain. It's specially adapted to low-oxygen water and higher hydrogen sulfide. In order to protect it, several hot springs which were used as public pools are now closed to the public permanently.
The Texas blind salamander is actually really similar to a specie of salamander living into the huge caves scattered in between East Italy and Slovenia. If you go at the Postumia Cave there is for show during the cave tour.
Yaaay Palau! It's it's in the North Pacific, though, not South Pacific. Jellyfish Lake is awesome. But right now there are few left because of drought maybe from El Niño.
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Great video as always. You guys should really put more pictures though, if we're talking about an animal species I've never heard of, it'd be nice to see more than one picture of it (and for more than a second two).
Gofuck Yaself oh god - a migration is normally an annually movement of a large amount of that species - if they just started to live outside their endemic area, then it would just be a stretch of their area range - no longer being endemic and slowly becoming more generalist
Inaccessible Island is in the Sout Atlantic not the South Pacific, hence why the only way to get there is from South Africa, otherwise that would be a long trip.
My grandpa used to have a rail, but it passed away and the species went extinct. So many endemic birds from my home land have gone extinct due to foreign germs
That's not actually true, though. Those are two different animals (Proteus anguinus and Eurycea rathbuni) that are taxonomically ranked in the same order, Caudata. At least according to a quick google search.
Seaghán Pipistrello Should have smashed those 12 they found under a rock... Ok, not really. But insects and bugs are scary enough without being giant. As long as they don't migrate to where I live, I'll just pretend they don't exist.
My dad went to lord howe island to minister a local church when I was young. I went with him. The population there isn't large enough to sustain a dedicated minister and so people from mainland Australia take holidays there while working for the church. I have had the distinct pleasure of being in direct contact with several of these insects. Some of the locals keep them as pets. They are gentle things. They are extremely heavy, as though they are made of incredibly dense steel. They are not the only species of animal that live on the island which are fascinating though. There is also a species of migratory birds that don't care about humans. When I say that they don't care, I literally mean that. They will perch on your face if you let them. Bizarre things. I used to watch them for hours.
The giant weta which lives on new zealand is the largest living and heaviest species of insect Its about the size of a small rat and cannot jump do to its size Arthropleura was a species of herbivorous centipede that was the size of an alligator The Japanese hornet is a species of hornet the size of your thumb, and has venom that melts flesh, and alerts nearby hornets
There’s an area called Red Hills in my area. They filmed a few westerns out there, (For Whom the Bell Tolls? Or Tombstone? can’t remember haha). BUT There is an endemic fish and some plants there. The Red Hills Roach is the fish. Beautiful small little guys that live in a TINY stream that dry up juuuuust big enough for the roach population
The Texas salamander's Edwards Aquifer didn't almost dry up. The San Marcos, TX spring in which they live nearly stopped flowing out of the ground. The salamanders were able to survive unseen deeper underground and were not really in danger of becoming extinct.
Why would the only boat which goes to an island in the middle of the Pacific takes off from South Africa? Wouldn't New Zealand or Australia be more convenient?
Those are two different animals (Proteus anguinus and Eurycea rathbuni) that are taxonomically ranked in the same order, Caudata. At least according to a quick google search. But they do look quite similar.
Most iguanas of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica are endemic...exceptions like Ctenosaura similis. Please make an episode on them. Ctenosaura bakeri, for example lives in an island call Utila and lives only in the mangrove forest that covers only 8km2
This video made me think of the ovate amber snail, it only lives in the splash zone of Chittenango Falls in central New York, which is near where I live
They don't look too special, but there is a localized species of squirrel in the Olympic mountains. They were locked there during a glacial period, and seemed to just stay when things cleared.
Female ligers can breed. So far the only known liger+ hybrids are Liligers which are Lion+Ligers. Liligers can also breed but again, only with Lions, which they make Li-liligers. A Li-liliger however, makes a lion when it breeds with a lion. Effectively it still has tiger genes, but there isn't enough of a datapool to specifically classify a Lili-liliger as its own hybridization species, as with most hybrids that exceed 3 generations.
