ELEPHANTS have WEIRD cousins (and some are coming BACK FROM THE DEAD)!

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Elephants are amazing, intelligent, enormous, charismatic animals that are loved by people all over the world, but their relatives are REALLY WEIRD! How weird? I'd be happy to explain because the Afrotheria (elephants and their closest relatives) has got to be one of the strangest and most diverse groups of mammals on the planet!
#clintsreptiles #elephant #mammals
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@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

Over 33 MINUTES of BONUS content from this video, exclusively for our Stinkin' Rad Fans on Patreon! Patreon is a great way to support Clint's Reptiles AND get awesome extras (including hundreds of other bonus videos)! www.patreon.com/posts/video-afrotheria-87053880

@HassanMohamed-jy4kk 11 месяцев назад

Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a RU-vid Videos all about the Origins and the Inspirations of the Reptiles in Myths, such as Dragons, Wyverns, the Loch Ness Monster, Sea Serpents, Nagas, the Hydra, the Leviathan, the Amphisbaena, the Cockatrice, the Basilisk, Medusa The Gorgon, Typhon, Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent God, Etc. on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

@kennethmullen-qe9hg 11 месяцев назад

I absolutely adored how passionately wide-eyed you'd remained throughout the majority of this entire episode...IT, almost, as if you were daring us all to QUESTION your enthusiasm using the sheer near-brux-like bulgings of those seemingly-unblinking eyes that you've got there... Really the whole thing was oddly impressive and quite fascinatin', AS...WAS THIS INCREDIBLY STRANGE GROUP OF ODDBALL ANIMAL GOOFS GOOFBALLS and perhaps as the most apt descriptor of all, GOOFY GOOBERS (haha! Get it? Because goobers're...aw nevermind! Lol!), just as, in general, the episode in an' of itself was quite rather oddly impressive, about many oddities, as well! Keep up all your excellent work and content and output and videos, my friend (and wild-eyed stranger)! Lmfao!

@user-ce1bc6qi7w 11 месяцев назад

even his writing is adorable

@toserveman9265 11 месяцев назад

Then the Elephant Shrew needs renaming to Shrew Elephant I suppose...

@KenFullman 11 месяцев назад

If you're considering going to Madagascar I suggest you do it quick. Everyone I have heard from that visited Madagascar has been sadly disappointed since the forest there is mostly gone and what remains seems to be run like a park for tourists and lacking in diversity. If the current trend continues, it won't be worth visiting at all in the future :(

@salvadorromero9712 11 месяцев назад

Do marsupials! It's what the people want! (Also monotremes, the hagfish of mammals.)

@bigkirbyhj666 11 месяцев назад

Yes plox!

@billyr2904 11 месяцев назад

I wouldn't describe them as 'hagfish of mammals', because they produce milk and have hair, like... well, pretty much any other mammal. They just lack many characteristics, that basically every other mammal has.

@elkalope4266 11 месяцев назад

@@billyr2904 they are the most distant group of mammals, i think that is what they meant. also, i wouldnt use "because they produce milk and have hair" that doesnt necessarily make them mammals, more so producing milk is a trait all mammals share that other animals dont

@SonicBoone56 11 месяцев назад

Opossums alone are really diverse.

@tuiteyfruity5010 11 месяцев назад

I want it!!!

@pourcelaine 11 месяцев назад

How am I JUST learning that whole swaths of mammals are walking around with CLOACAS?!? LIKE BIRDS??

@isaacbruner65 11 месяцев назад

Beavers have cloacas as well. There is no reliable way to sex young beavers because their genitals look the same. The only way to tell is when they're adults and the females have enlarged mammary glands. I know this from watching videos of baby rescue beavers AKA the best videos ever. Although all mammals most likely had cloacas at some point in the distant past, beavers reevolved this trait because of their aquatic lifestyle.

@Hi_Im_Akward 4 месяца назад

I remember being taught that live birth was a mammal trait. Now I've learned that there are mammals that lay eggs, and several non mammal species give live birth, like some reptiles, and species of sharks as an example. Why were we taught this? My education sometimes feels like a lie.

@katanaki3059 3 месяца назад

Isn’t it cool to learn new things! Thanks Clint!

@WackadoodleMalarkey 2 месяца назад

I already knew that from college, and I let that inform my politics and.. _Yeesh_

@bobroberts6155 2 месяца назад

Wait till you find out that ducks have penises.

@bonecanoe86 11 месяцев назад

I did not expect a 1984 reference and I sure as heck wasn't expecting a Star Trek VI reference in this video but I'm super pleased about them. Well done lol. Loved learning about Afrotheria.

@M0053yfate 11 месяцев назад

I love the crew not getting the reference and Clint dead face delivering it lol. There is no war in Bah SingSe.

@88porpoise 2 месяца назад

The first 1984 reference was nice, the second one was awesome.

@agentraptor1272 11 месяцев назад

One time in science class, we were making food webs. I had been given pictures to make an African savannah food web. I wanted to be a nerd and classify the animals better. (Instead of vulture I found out the exact species which was the Indian vulture that was in the picture) One of the pictures was of the giant anteater. I found that anteaters are found in the Americas not Africa. I pointed it out to my teacher and asked to change it to an aardvark. I explained that it's unlikely for a lion to swim across the Atlantic ocean to eat a giant anteater. They let me change that to an aardvark.

@skylaroconnor2903 11 месяцев назад

Way to roast your teacher 😂

@reubendaly827 11 месяцев назад

Had a question on my one of my finals about black vultures eating a dead rhinoceros! The things they put it the curriculum are sometimes quite out there!!

@ZhovtoBlakytniy 11 месяцев назад

You had a good teacher that can say "whoops, my bad!" When I was in 3rd grade my teacher did not want to accept that squirrels are mammals 😅

@agentraptor1272 11 месяцев назад

Well they just printed out the worksheet for us to put together and probably just assumed that it was right. I would blame the company that made it instead of my actually pretty cool science teacher.

@johaquila 11 месяцев назад

@@ZhovtoBlakytniy Squirrels can fly from tree to tree, so obviously they are birds. 🙂

@WallStreet06 11 месяцев назад

I started watching this channel for stinkin rad lizards. I feel I have been tricked into learning biology and phylogeny.

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

😅

@Hi_Im_Akward 4 месяца назад

Same, and I'm here for it.

@Lazy_Fish_Keeper 2 месяца назад

@@ClintsReptiles if you (and RU-vid) had been a thing, my kids would have enjoyed homeschooling more! Now, my grandboos and I get to watch you together ☺️

@Stealthcoconut 11 месяцев назад

I cackled at the 1984 reference 😆

@MaineDoom 11 месяцев назад

Wasn’t expecting Orwell, given the book’s apathy to rats 😂

@ladykoiwolfe 11 месяцев назад

I need to reread that book.

@lindsyfish6704 11 месяцев назад

I freaking SHRIEKED!! It made my whole day!

@lindsyfish6704 11 месяцев назад

@@MaineDoomno apathy to rats in there. Like every other living being in that book (except maybe the fish in the river) they're a tool in the hands of the government to meet their own ends.

@baileyalpha7926 11 месяцев назад

Took me a minute to get it

@normalhuman9878 11 месяцев назад

Afrotheria are the dollar store phylum. It’s full of off brand species. That’s not a bad thing though, sometimes the off brands can be better than the name brands.

@Xhumed 10 месяцев назад

Alditheria.

@neasulavuori4955 7 месяцев назад

hi Mike, fancy seeing you here

@yxx_chris_xxy 2 месяца назад

No, Afrotheria are more like the Red Bull company: One product (elephants) is super famous, while Red Bull organics, cola, ginger ale, etc., are the random stuff.

@lucascova7875 24 дня назад

It’s not even a phylum

@Yitzhakofeir 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact about Hyraxes, they have been confused for rabbits at least twice. First in some European bibles (when translating the Bible, Hebrew of course had no word for Rabbit since they don't exist in the Middle East, but most European languages had no word for Hyrax for the reverse reason. So in older translations you often see Hyrax (Shafan שפן) translated as Rabbit. The reverse happened with the word Hispania. When the Carthaginians showed up in Spain the one thought it was an Island (Hi in both Punic and Hebrew) and noticed it had a lot of Rabbits, which they took for some sort of weird Hyrax, and called it hi-shapan, Isle of Hyraxes. The Romans appropriated the name, pronounced it according to Latin and added -ia so you'd know it was a place and and boom, you get Hispania

@jaschabull2365 10 месяцев назад

Didn't know hyraxes were the namesake of Spain! Or that rabbits didn't live in Israel. Curious that there are lagomorphs in all 3 Old World continents, but not the hub of those 3 continents.

@thechosenone5644 10 месяцев назад

I was actually a bit confused that more people didn’t know about them for that reason. the NIV uses hyrax but I think people generally use other versions

@filharmonix 7 месяцев назад

Wait, the bible says that rabbits chew the cud (which they obviously don't), but if they were referring to hyraxes instead......wait, do hyraxes chew the cud?

@MWSin1 6 месяцев назад

@@filharmonix No, they are incapable of regurgitation. When agitated, they make a weird flappy-mouth grunt, which may have been mistaken for chewing cud.

@DavidSmith-vr1nb 4 месяца назад

@@jaschabull2365 What are the African lagomorphs, and how long have they been there? I'm genuinely curious.

@katelillo1932 11 месяцев назад

This might be the coolest phylogenetic video yet! I’m still hoping for a mollusk edition 😊

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

Me too!

@daisypekin6787 11 месяцев назад

me, 3!

@weeredfrog 11 месяцев назад

Does anyone else come to Clint's channel to cheer themselves up? I can't stay blue with his infectious positivity. Thanks Clint, you're always brightening my day :)

@eric_has_no_idea 11 месяцев назад

Its part of my weekend morning routine. His positivity is infectious, and really can set the tone for the day.

@weeredfrog 11 месяцев назад

@eric_has_no_idea and just so funny too.

@snikkisnikki 11 месяцев назад

YES! It’s one of the things I absolutely adore about this channel!

@r1b3y38 11 месяцев назад

Really though haha.

@Wispertile 11 месяцев назад

Love your username ❤

@OtakuUnitedStudio 8 месяцев назад

Fun fact: Arthur's first book was about how, as an aardvark, he thought his fleshy snoot was too weird and wanted to get rhinoplasty. By the end he learned that he was fine just the way he was, but then a few books into the series they decided to use his imagined post-op design instead.

@JohnDoe-nq4du 15 дней назад

Not "a few books in". The second book. The message of the first book was undermined immediately.

@7337blackwolf 11 месяцев назад

Hey, the footage at the start of the video was one of the tenrecs at the zoo where I used to work! He was a funny little guy, docile enough to be an animal ambassador for outreach programs, especially once you brought out the mealworms.

@ravenwolf7128 11 месяцев назад

I loved this--more phylogeny please! I geek out on this stuff! Plus, love your delivery and descriptions--cloaca vs. scrotum...if I ever find myself observing shrews in Madagascar, I know how to identify!

@IrinaGreenman 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for this video. I had a chance to do a photographic safari in Kenya in the 90s, and it was an unforgettable experience. Watching elephants silhouetted on the horizon every sunrise while drinking my first cup of coffee, is probably the memory that sticks with me the most vividly.

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

That sounds amazing!

@mountainontheplain5504 11 месяцев назад

I'm a vet student and I gotta say I learned so much more in this video than from any on RU-vid about animals. I knew maybe three of these factoids before watching this. Thank you so much!

@flightlesschicken7769 11 месяцев назад

I believe you mean factlet. A factoid is something that sounds like a fact but is not, while a factlet is a small fact. It’s a common misconception :)

@meisteremm 11 месяцев назад

"Most 9 year olds don't draw animals with their testicles hanging out." And then there was me, who got sent to the guidance counselor's office for exactly this. Even then, I knew that I was dealing with a bunch of prudish Phillistines who wouldn't know art if its testicles were hanging out for everyone to see.

@diktatoralexander88 4 месяца назад

When I saw the Simpsons movie when it came out, (i was a kid then) I got inspired by the scene where Bart is riding the skateboard. I drew a picture of a boy cutout with testies drawn in the way Barts was in the movie. My parents found it and were talking to me about it. It got them really concerned.

@michaelkalin2209 11 месяцев назад

100% am into that kinda thing, i live for your phylogeny videos!

@rasmusn.e.m1064 11 месяцев назад

When I was a kid and we still called the Asian elephant the Indian elephant, a cool rule of thumb to distinguish them was that the African elephant's ears look like a map of Africa and the Asian one's look like a map of India. Anyway, I love these videos, especially when it's groups that we don't often think about. ps. Who is better? Tenrecs or solenodonts?

@Tom-jv5ek 11 месяцев назад

These videos about phylogenetics are absolutely amazing. I know little about the field myself, but the way it's explained by Clint is very easy to grasp, yet doesn't shy away from depth either. Just perfect. Please keep making more!

@leonasceramics 11 месяцев назад

I've learned a lot from your channel, but these types of videos where you explore entire clades are my favourite. Thank you for sharing such magnificent content!

@anthonysimeone365 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely adore this video my friend! Afrotheria is by far my favorite clade!

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

You may have been the one that drew them to my attention. Such an incredible group!

@salvadorromero9712 11 месяцев назад

My favorite clade is Eukaryota

@Corvus_Clemmons 11 месяцев назад

My favorite is Muraenidae.

@vincentx2850 11 месяцев назад

This may sound like a huge undertaking, but can we have an episode on amphibian phylogeny? The order Anura is utterly confusing to me, especially because many of them look the same to me.

@DJFracus 11 месяцев назад

amphibians in general seems kinda broad, think it should be an episode on just Anura at most (although Anura alone is already huge)

@quickestscoped7603 23 дня назад

maybe when he finishes the reptiles and mammals? really want a caecilian video...

@Cat-tastrophee 11 месяцев назад

Clint's unmitigated joy is infectious. I love these videos so much! Please make more, and yes to all the topics you suggested!

@mstie3252 11 месяцев назад

Yay, Afrotherians! I work with a variety of animals as a zoo educator. My FAVORITE animal in the whole zoo is a lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec. Tenrecs are adorable and fascinating. A cloaca! Related to elephants! Spiky hair but not even close to hedgehogs! Very cool to see you make a video about these animals. I have fed worms to an aardvark and touched her soft nose; she's charming and very large. Thanks for talking about these animals!

@cooliipie 11 месяцев назад

Afro? Like the hair?

@WHATTHEHELL666 10 месяцев назад

Afro as in from Africa so same root word as the hairstyle for 3b to 4c hair.@@cooliipie

@1TakoyakiStore 11 месяцев назад

2 Things: 1) If you haven't already done them might I suggest Xenarthra or Eulipotyphla? 2) I was shocked the first time I found out hyraxes were close relatives of elephants. However once I started looking closely at them they really do have elephant looking skulls. It's almost as if someone had replaced a pika's skull with a miniature elephant skull but kept the skin and flesh intact. [Chews in hyrax]

@indyreno2933 11 месяцев назад

@1TakoyakiStore, Eulipotyphla is not a valid taxon, shrews, moles, desmans, and solenodons are each other's closest living relatives and are more closely related to bats than to hedgehogs and gymnures, which on the other hand are more closely related to both pangolins and carnivorans, which is why they belong to two separate orders: Soricomorpha for the shrews, moles, desmans, and solenodons and Erinaceomorpha for the hedgehogs and gymnures.

@isaacbruner65 11 месяцев назад

I touched a lesser hedgehog tenrec at the local zoo once. A keeper showed it to us during a tour that I went on for a university biology class. This tenrec was named Raj and his brothers were named Sheldon and Leonard I believe.

@crablegs21 11 месяцев назад

I think it might be fun to do a video highlighting the ambiguity of the traditional method of classifying organisms by their characteristic and traits by determining where fictional creatures might fit into our phylogenetic tree. Like the sandworms from dune or wookies from star wars

@MoeOuan666 11 месяцев назад

Clint I must say that this is your best video, among many videos that are already excellents. Maybe it's because of the subject, which is fascinating, but really this is an absolute master piece. Only thing is I was sad it ended, I would have liked to have you speak 2 or more times longer about afrotheria. Really superb work 👍👍👍👍👍

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! It was a joy to learn about this fascinating group, and I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to share these things with all of you.

@egg_bun_ 9 месяцев назад

Yes!!!

@ghostboy4115 10 месяцев назад

Okay fellow bio nerds i have a cool thing that happened in my backyard that i want to share. This Barred Owl has been calling out in my backyard alone for YEARS at this point, but yesterday night I thought his song sounded odd like there were multiple chatting together so I looked it up and I found out the sounds matched that of a courting duet!! My little guy finally found somebody!! Im so happy for the little friend. I hope they have a long and happy life in the woods in my backyard. I was having a rough night of insomnia bs but figuring that out made me happy-cry and I was finally able to go to sleep.

@nothingtoseehere5678 10 месяцев назад

The genuine joy he has talking about zoology is so infectious!

@revol2933 11 месяцев назад

Africa: * doesn't have some important mammal group living in it * Africa: Fine, I'll do it myself

@NitroIndigo 11 месяцев назад

I reread The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide so many times as a kid, but it's from 2008 and it's already outdated. It groups elephants and hyraxes with ungulates, for example.

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

Molecular phylogeny is a powerful tool!

@boglenight1551 11 месяцев назад

Are we sure the nose of the elephant shrew is convergence? Just look at the proboscises of the extant afrotherians it seems to be a common theme, and the ones that don’t all seem to have heads structured in a way that could have supported larger noses. Come on, let me imagine a time Africa was full of weird noses. 😂 Jokes aside, I do think I’ve found my literature rabbit hole for this evening. 😊

@stacypalermo3506 6 месяцев назад

I remember that episode of Crocodile Hunter that he found the Dugong. It was so EPIC!! RIP, Steve Irwin. He is sorely missed.

@ciclossickasssideshow 11 месяцев назад

This content is so important, it's helping create digestible content I can show my son to fill in the gaps that his school is missing on biology. It's got the perfect amount of information, just enough to pique the interest without overloading. I would love to see more content on long term care for animals, such as how to care for tortoise day to day, perhaps to detailed content on how to spot illness in animals so we know when to take to a Vet, or perhaps a discussion on how to spot redflags etc.

@nmci8959 10 месяцев назад

GREATLY looking forward to your video on the elephants- Such a fascinating and long-lived group that tried all sorts of odd adaptations and tusk shapes, and even ended up taking over the world!...well, for a brief time, at least.

@jenniferandrew3373 11 месяцев назад

Got the Orwell quote right away. I love your sense of humor!

@Fushicho 10 месяцев назад

Yes to a mole video, but also another one that addresses placental mammals with cloacas. That shattered everything I thought I knew about cloacas!

@brfisher1123 11 месяцев назад

I think you should consider going over the pinnipeds someday! :)

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

Me too!

@GaleneIanthe 11 месяцев назад

Love these phylogeny videos! It would be cool to see a video dedicated to all the extinct (plus the one soon-to-be-brought-back) Elephantids. Though personally I'd love to see all the Elephantiformes, as there's some pretty crazy tusk and jaw setups among the whole suborder.

@bubbykins4864 11 месяцев назад

*soon-to-receive-an-imposter

@embyrr922 11 месяцев назад

The 1984 reference hit me like a freight train. Not what I was expecting from my goofy phylogeny video.

@Colopty 11 месяцев назад

Hold on, there's actual plans to bring back the mammoth? With a set year and everything? That's amazing, feels like one of those things that have just been vaguely considered a possibility since forever.

@MrDuck420 11 месяцев назад

Make a video about ducks PLEASE I've been asking for months

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

I won't forget the quackers!

@matizluv1316 11 месяцев назад

The "Eusocial Arthropods" label above the anteaters and other convergently-evolved "kin" of the aardvarks kind of made me chuckle. It is just missing the "consumers of--" but it makes my little brain happy. I will be sure to look for pangolin nests and echidna hives lol!

@rimibchatterjee 11 месяцев назад

For a tiny moment I thought “V for Vendetta”, then I was like, no, 1984!

@DistanceTraveled 11 месяцев назад

There is just something about mammals for me that has a bigger portion of my heart that makes me squeal cute! So more phylogenetic trees of mammals please.

@janzizka9963 10 месяцев назад

Considering your in-dept scientific approach and great educative value, would you be able to do a video of "Mammoth, the best pet..." summarizing how close or not we actually are to do it (and viable population? Asian elephant mutants?), why we think we should and shouldn't and how realistic this is overall?

@derp_dragons 11 месяцев назад

The Afrotheria group is just fantastic. 💚 I'd love to learn if elephant shrew would make the best pets. For a friend I mean! (joke aside, I knew about them vaguely but after seeing them scavange for food with their funny little noses I can't get over how cute they are) This already enjoyable episode has been highlighted by Clints brilliant humor. What a way to start the day~

@fredsanford336 11 месяцев назад

Dude, what a gift you have. Nerdy? Sure, but even more so, cool. You're informative while being fun and interesting. You take complex things that most adults have never been able to understand and paint a picture that most of us can see. And you aren't a phony like Bill Nye. We are lucky to have people like you. Keep up the good work.

@ClintsReptiles 11 месяцев назад

What an amazing comment! Thank you so much.

@neepsmcfly4176 11 месяцев назад

Ditto! Excepting the stab at Bill! That guy was pegging defcon 3, battling it out w the climate deniers! Indeed, it is an honor to be among his ilk!

@joanfregapane8683 11 месяцев назад

I love all your content, but this is probably my favorite episode yet. So interesting and fun! Thanks!

@smallmen3627 11 месяцев назад

I absolutely love how this channel discusses parts of taxonomy no channels usually do or this high-quality. Also I would love to see a video on tiger salamanders :)

@mlkin3169 11 месяцев назад

I'd like to see the literal translations for all the scientific names in a little pop-up. You usually explain the important ones, but I'd still like to know the rest as well. I love your videos keep it up :)

@mlkin3169 11 месяцев назад

not all names like for the Dugongidea, but for the Paengulata for example, I don't wanna pause the video every time and look it up xD

@krankarvolund7771 11 месяцев назад

@@mlkin3169 Paengulata means "almost ungulates" ^^

@zebedeemadness2672 11 месяцев назад

@@mlkin3169 Dugongidea = resemblance of (Dugong), with genus (Dugong) being the families true representative, the only living genus we have left, the word Dugong from a Austronesian language (Tagalog), basic translation being Lady Of The Sea.

@zebedeemadness2672 11 месяцев назад

@@krankarvolund7771 to more translate, almost-hoofed.

@HepCatJack 10 месяцев назад

No elephants that evolved to look like crabs ?

@Sage-hj6mg 11 месяцев назад

please keep making these! they’re so educational and fascinating. i want to be a zoologist and i love learning about all the animals. plus these are strangely comforting post breakup 😗

@murphyw8426 11 месяцев назад

This guy's delivery for all the things is great. So animated.

@jameschristiansson3137 11 месяцев назад

Can you buy a Wolly [sic] Mammoth at Wolly World?

@ThePhantomofFilm 11 месяцев назад

Afrotheria as heck! Should be a t shirt.

@brennah7360 11 месяцев назад

I work at a museum where part of my job is presenting animals for education. They have a couple lesser hedgehog tenrecs (the spikey non-hedgehog) and they are SOOOO cool!!! The kids are always shocked when I tell them tenrecs are actually more related to elephants than true hedgehogs 😄 thanks for the vid!

@NagiSanzanin 11 месяцев назад

Wow, what an amazing video! This channel has always be synonymous with quality content for me, but this was a blast. Easily one of my favorites!

@yuyuyu25 11 месяцев назад

I'd love to see a video just on elephant evolution please! Also disappointed nobody on your team got the 1984 reference.

@ZhovtoBlakytniy 11 месяцев назад

Hyrax skulls even resemble elephant skulls quite a bit! I first became familiar with the hyrax when I started learning about perfumes. The hyrax excretes solid urine which is used in perfumery as an animal scent and additive that helps perfumes stick and prolong the fragrance. This additive does not hurt the animal, unlike beaver castoreum.

@cooliipie 11 месяцев назад

So does a dog skull. I'm not buying it

@CanonessEllinor 9 месяцев назад

I burst out laughing seeing the Elephant Shrew… such a silly little goober

@georgefleming4956 11 месяцев назад

I can’t express how much I appreciate these types of videos. I have no choice but to become a patron. Love your content.

@HassanMohamed-jy4kk 11 месяцев назад

@grittygrits9420 11 месяцев назад

This is a fantastic vid! Thank you for producing it. I will watch more of them. Your clever comments intertwined with science kept me engaged. Thank you again!

@jeremiahfreitag5242 7 месяцев назад

Great video Clint, It really flew by, kept me interested the whole time. Your channel is quickly becoming 1 of my favorites.

@TheOuroboros84 10 месяцев назад

this has to be one of your best videos. Im so glad you started diveriging from reptile only videos to cover so many other types of wildlife. :)

@friskybitzboi 10 месяцев назад

You wouldn’t think there’d be 1984 references in a video about elephant phylogeny but Clint makes it work

@kinley.-. 6 месяцев назад

The way Clint said “they ain’t” made me laugh so hard omg 😭😭😭😭

@Simbabe54 10 месяцев назад

What a cool group of animals. I think Aardvarks are adorably goofy looking, they always make me smile. I love your videos, your enthusiasm is contagious!

@wanderingspark 11 месяцев назад

THIS was the phylogeny video I wanted! Elephants have been my favorite animal since I was 1 year old. I got to see both bush elephants and rock hyraxes in the wild when I was in Kenya. It boggles my mind that elephants are closely related to something that looks like a grumpy guinea pig.

@Capslok23342 11 месяцев назад

that golden mole is SO CUTE!!

@trabash505 11 месяцев назад

This is some of Clint's best work! Wow! What a great video!! ❤❤

@shelbyhiromi 3 месяца назад

hyraxes look so determined 🥹 I love them

@jeremypreston5009 10 месяцев назад

Mustelidae. One of the most diverse groups amongst the carnivorans. Plus they've got so many awesome species and you could probably get some to show off during the show

@carolynrosser1574 10 месяцев назад

This was GREAT! So much enthusiasm and fun references, loved the Star Trek snippet. Will definitely be watching more of your clips.😂😂❤

@teefs3851 11 месяцев назад

Love these phylogenetic explanation videos! Happy to hear about any and all animals! 😁

@TSUNAMI-MAMI 10 месяцев назад

No lie this might be one of my favorite videos from you ever!!! Brilliant, fun, and interesting.

@scabbynack 9 месяцев назад

"You'd have to be on a boat for a very long time" caught me so off guard 🤣

@riloretro7821 8 месяцев назад

That picture of the Golden Mole's three forearm bones is absolutely fascinating I have NEVER seen a mammal leg like that before.

@36-aniruddhmanagoli63 8 месяцев назад

I currently live in Mauritius and when i saw a Tenrec for the first time even i thought it was a hedgehog or a mole of some kind. But when i searched it on youtube, Clint's video was the first to pop up. Thanks for this informational positivity filled video❤

@sharkladyindisguise 11 месяцев назад

I got that reference! This may be one of the best videos you’ve done. It’s so obvious how much you adore this subject and I love it, especially since this line is one of my favorites!!! I had also forgotten dugong were still extant and it makes me very happy to be reminded.

@SageandDust 11 месяцев назад

Every time I get online each Saturday, your videos are the first thing I click on. Your enthusiasm is infectious, and yes, I'm totally into this kind of thing. I try to display a similar attitude when working with the public at my job at a science museum.

@RD9_Designs 11 месяцев назад

Definitely want to see an episode on Marsupials. And also, how about more info on the "coming in 2027 woolly mammoth"? And, yes on Madagascar! Bonus points for the Star Trek clip! One of the best lines in the movie!

@maryeckel9682 10 месяцев назад

Iman was great in that role.

@Dr.Chibbins 11 месяцев назад

Otto the Ottershrew’s is Perry the Platypus’s replacement when he’s taking a personal day

@patmeonduhback4384 10 месяцев назад

Clint, you are an AWESOME nerd. Your content is fantastic. This video was fascinating .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish huge success to your channel!

@RC_Murphy 11 месяцев назад

I don't know why the delivery of, "They ain't," hit so hard, but I'm glad I have some self control this morning or my laptop would be marinating in coffee. lmfao

@eliharper6616 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for putting that degree to use. I love this series and I love that you love this series ❤️

@user-zf8hw2nz2e 4 месяца назад

Man this is the best and most info dense channel I’ve ever found! I friggin love it!!!!🎉🎉😂🎉🎉

@rickevans7941 10 месяцев назад

Loved the Orwell reference. Thanks for your work it's always good heart warming education that brightens my day.

@jamesliddle6107 4 месяца назад

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” Thank you professor.

@Boofyre 11 месяцев назад

Great video! Glad I chose this to end my night with. 🎉

@jillmondt5398 10 месяцев назад

A lot of fun references, Clint. Your vids are always educational. 👍

@Eleni_E 11 месяцев назад

I don't know exactly what I was expecting from this channel but I am loving your enthusiasm and I will be watching more. :)

@Aozame 11 месяцев назад

The relationship between hyraxes and elephants would probably be a lot clearer if the giant hyraxes were still around, the largest among them approached rhino size and probably looked more elephant-like in life than the handful of tiny extant species do.