Missing Divers, Charles Manson, & the Rarest Fish in the World

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The DEEPEST hole, the CUTEST fish.
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This video was greatly informed by the book "Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World" by Christopher Norment. Thank you, Mr. Norment, for your passionate and exhaustive research as well as your insightful storytelling.
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@skybingus 2 года назад

The tiny pupfish going about their lives in their hole, unaware that giant beings fight passionately for their success, just for the sake of seeing them thrive is so wholesome

@peacenow42 Год назад

too bad we don't do the same for some people...do you know how many died building qatar's world cup cite? That diminishes us even mire. NOT wholesome at all

@rachelking4907 Год назад

This feels like a movie plot, and I'm here for it

@gilgameshofuruk4060 Год назад

@@peacenow42 6,500. And for months nearly every RU-vid video was preceded by an advert for holidays in Qatar. But it's for football! Yay! Never mind about human rights, there are some overpaid prima Donnas kicking a ball around. Yay! But with all the crap going on in the world today, I do find it encouraging that in a country notorious for big business running amok and money and the pursuit of money being all important, in one tiny corner such effort is being made for a fish. Maybe I'm just an old fool, but it would be nice to think it marks some sort of turning of the tide against big business's abuses of people and the world.

@Debbie338 Год назад

@@peacenow42 I suspect most people on here agree with your overall opinion, but maybe this isn’t the place? When people jump in with “what about” subjects, it detracts unnecessarily from the subject at hand. Perhaps you should ask her to do a segment on all those deaths, instead.

@peacenow42 Год назад

@@Debbie338 this is social media and the rules are that people can go off-topic. Now if this were a classroom....

@thatjillgirl 3 года назад

People who explore underwater caves have a lack of fear that astounds me.

@kimberly_erin 3 года назад

A lack of common sense obviously

@kimberly_erin 3 года назад

Why do non of them bring a rope either

@nycapplesJH 3 года назад

Or a death wish

@boldanabrasevic3020 3 года назад

Not just underwater caves, but caves in general. I still sometimes think about that guy who got stuck in a small cave opening, upside down, after he went the wrong way.

@maryuma2TheMoon 3 года назад

I know I can't even go into an MRI without panicking

@anneboyd7811 Год назад

The pupfish are thriving! A news release dated September 29, 2022 from the National Park Service says that 263 pupfish were recently counted at Devils Hole, the highest autumn count in 19 years. This follows a spring 2022 count of 175 pupfish, the highest spring count in 22 years. (The population normally fluctuates from spring to fall as individual fish only live about 12 months.)

@deed5811 Месяц назад

According to Death Valley National Park, they counted 191 pupfish in April 2024 which they say is the highest spring count in 25 years.

@long_term_karma9899 Месяц назад

@@deed5811 Yeah I saw that on the news and immediately thought of this video

@tana3875 Месяц назад

This is positive climate news. So glad to see it 💕

@jamie-leighgibson2338 28 дней назад

It’s been ages but I need to know why have they have the hole gated when u can walk a bit down to get close to the pupfish?

@missnellie33 19 дней назад

⁠@@jamie-leighgibson2338the place you can walk down to is a different pond with a slightly different species of pupfish that is not as endangered

@lionelmason339 2 года назад

I worked construction for years with one of the idiots who went swimming in the hole. He was always a disrespectful little jerk and I was totally unsurprised to learn he had disregarded warnings not to interfere with one of the most endangered species on the planet.

@brodielynn5273 Год назад

…I hope you slapped him lol

@OriginalDonutposse Год назад

One of the dead ones?

@sleepiestmoth 3 года назад

"They're just smaller, they're not territorial, they're a little needy, they're just trying to be your friend!" Pupfish are friend shaped confirmed.

@dr.jackbright963 3 года назад

I am pupfish

@OfficialWRX 3 года назад

Have you given your life to Christ? If not, why haven’t you been trying to get your life right with him so that you may have eternal life?...

@shinethief3785 3 года назад

Yeah there basic discription sounds like kirby.

@dr.jackbright963 3 года назад

@@OfficialWRX god is dead and penicillin killed him, he should have told us he had a allergy

@monksmom1 3 года назад

@@dr.jackbright963 yes, I heard about that. So sad....

@emcaco 3 года назад

If a billionaire needs a hobby, their options could include becoming Batman and breeding pupfish

@kstormgeistgem461 3 года назад

i vote for the pupfish breeder. less damage to the surrounding city and healthier for all involved.

@tatsuhirosatou5513 3 года назад

Nope, while you can have a batmobil you can't purchase pupfish.

@roberttysec4122 3 года назад

I feel like convincing pupfish to get it on and watching them is more of an aquaman thing.

@spinejackel 3 года назад

okay but,... if i remember right, bruce wayne actually does breed roses in one of the comics (but says albert does.) if he can successfully breed incredibly fickle flowers, he could also absolutely successfully breed incredibly fickle fish pupfish for batman when?

@roberttysec4122 3 года назад

@@spinejackel sure, but pupfish are off-brand for him. He’d be all about some batfish.

@gluk8838 2 года назад

I love that whenever Caitlyn mentions an indigenous tribe or people, she always takes the time to make sure she pronounces their names and terms correctly.

@magnusbane420 Год назад

She's a white person from Hawai'i, you better believe she learned to respect cultures from a young age, with the added bonus that the native Hawaiian language is very complex and diverse, meaning someone who knows it can pronounce other unfamiliar languages

@jeanneratterman Год назад

It is the respectful thing to do. 💕

@peacenow42 Год назад

@@magnusbane420 she's a human it a 'white' person....one race the human race

@magnusbane420 Год назад

@@peacenow42 I paraphrased what Caitlyn said in her video about the cult that moved to Hawaii, it's her own words

@peacenow42 Год назад

@@magnusbane420 so does that mean I am not allowed to say mine?

@ifsheisgonetowherethere6259 2 года назад

“We don’t know if the Devils Hole pupfish has or ever will serve any of these important functions, which seems unlikely as long as the species remains restricted to its single cavernous refuge. We do know that the pupfish, like all species, has a fundamental right to exist that is independent of its value to humans.”

@SraTacoMal 3 года назад

Can we just take a moment to commend Caitlin's bravery for going so close to an underwater cave with corpses inside?

@VanK782 3 года назад

True!

@fleurpouvior2967 3 года назад

Agreed. But also, where did you get the cute little feather friends? I need one in my life, and for my grumpy little birb boi who does not get along with other birbs

@WaffeHo 3 года назад

She was protected by the power of her bangs.

@Pattygblanco 3 года назад

She deserves recognition for that 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@TheVirtualFashionista 3 года назад

Agree! I was thinking that the whole way through. Man, talk about confronting your fears.

@ameliasprague1991 3 года назад

"is it our fault that they're dying?" The answer is almost always yes.

@C.V317 3 года назад

Moral of the story: humans can’t stop touching things.

@rn2787 3 года назад

Considering the fact that we're humans, yes, the answer is always yes.

@marklatimer7333 3 года назад

Thousands / millions of creatures have gone extinct without human interference, if a species decides it wants to exist in such a precarious environment it's hardly my fault, the species is destined to fail, get over it and build me a spa resort.

@harrietcraig7817 3 года назад

White privilege kills just about everything.

@_swesters_ 3 года назад

@@marklatimer7333 shut up MARK

@savagegardenrox 2 года назад

The thing is, the pupfish now are holding onto the environment around them. Their presence is protecting the existence of Devil's Hole, keeping it from being drained or the surrounding area being needlessly developed.

@mimisezlol 4 месяца назад

A bunch of inadvertent threshold guardians

@jacktorrance2633 18 дней назад

Also keeping farmers from irrigating land for growing food.

@ramenluver2098 Год назад

Pleased to announce an article came out today in my local Vegas paper! The pupfish population is on the rise to 236 goin strong! That’s the highest in nearly two decades. Go pupfish

@harridan. Год назад

YAY!

@thehellenicneopagan Год назад

Awesome 💯

@craiganderson7398 3 года назад

I feel the best argument for the conservation of the Pupfish is: "You know who else wanted to make the Pupfish extinct? CHARLES MANSON!!!!". :D

@nycapplesJH 3 года назад

Best argument that could be made

@GenXfrom75 3 года назад

You are NOT WRONG! LOL

@crackedcontent1846 3 года назад

Best comment

@MinatheRaichu 3 года назад

@@jonvn I dunno how nice you can be when you were raised in prison and high *all* the time

@dayaautum6983 3 года назад

Another argument that could be used... "Know who else wanted to start a race war? Charles Manson!!".. Three guesses who that argument should be used against. Just saying.

@123PJorgensen 3 года назад

Caitlin as pupfish singing Starshine is EVERYTHING.

@HeidiJoy94 3 года назад

The bangs, honestly, are uncanny.

@pipitameruje 3 года назад

All hail the new editor!

@badger1296 3 года назад

Yeah, that's where I am at, now. 😳⚓🤣

@beowulfandstuff5547 3 года назад

Yes, we live for it

@sennaka 3 года назад

I....did not expect that and fell out laughing.

@EmmaSpAce111 2 года назад

I love the pupfish, they are small, blue, have adorable faces, and are a bane to corporations. Truly a gift to the world

@Jansie_NL 3 года назад

"is death really that bad?" a single death? No. man made extinction? Yes. Is it worth a 4,5 million dollar fishtank? To me it absolutely is. 4,5 million might seem like a lot but looking at the big picture it's barely worth a grain of sand in the Sahara. I really loved where you took the point from that question though, I was kinda expecting the cynical approach.

@miserablepumpkin9453 2 года назад

We could literally steal the money to conserve the Devil's Hole Pupfish for like 200 years from Jeff Bezos or any other greedy multibillionaire and none of them would notice. Millions are big money only to people who will never have any.

@shadowmatrix0101 2 года назад

4.5 million of your tax dollars going to save a fish. Fish we can't even see because they've bobwired everything up. You're worried about fish being extinct? What about our extinction? The kids going to poorly funded schools that don't have nutritional meals or learn from 10 yr old books because the government doesn't seem to have enough money set aside to help fund our teachers or our students in low income areas. But save a rare fish that the regular taxpayer isn't even allowed to see? Hell yeah, we have an extra 4.5 million to build a tiny house and keep those fish alive. Like, wtf? Fuck humanity, save the fish?

@Laf631 2 года назад

@@shadowmatrix0101 There are more than 8 billion people, and if you watched the video, you'd know there aren't even 800 pupfish. Humanity is doing fine.

@jobecki 2 года назад

Um no that is a complete waste of money

@barkley2824 2 года назад

@@shadowmatrix0101 Yes. Human beings have imposed themselves into essentially every crevice of planet, and therefore bear an inherent responsibility of not fucking destroying the millions of environments and species that we have infringed upon. Humanity’s needs don’t take any special priority over those of fellow species’, even though we ceaselessly behave like they do.

@jazzycat8917 3 года назад

My therapist: "Pupfish Caitlin isn't real, she can't hurt you" Pupfish Caitlin: 14:25

@gael606 3 года назад

My kinda humour!

@67jpt 3 года назад

Caitlin at 4:50 is creepier.

@laurajarrell6187 3 года назад

What is so funny, if someone comments, like this, I can hardly ever get to the time stamp. But I had slid back, accidentally stopping right at 14:25!🥰✌

@TFairy-bp5te 3 года назад

Haha! I was coming here to comment that I think that may be the creepiest thing on the internet...

@AlexisBurman 3 года назад

@@laurajarrell6187 You just click on it?

@Katie-mw7pd 3 года назад

“What you in for?” “Shot a fish.”

@LivinLezley 2 года назад

this comment made me laugh into asthma spasm, thank you, it made my day!

@bonemeal_boi Год назад

*edges away*

@SeanONeill-mw4jc 4 месяца назад

.... and I would do it again! 😅

@dataexpunged4784 2 месяца назад

Thankfully not in a barrel this time

@sportsphotos31 3 года назад

I hope people appreciate the attention to detail. When I saw Rolf on the Fish Stick box, I lost it. Fantastic production work.

@khyvich 2 года назад

So waaaaaaaay back from 1977 to about 1981, I was a student researcher at The Desert Research Station in Hinckley, California. We had created a pond to try to support one of the pupfish. It was a Death Valley specie and was successful as far as I remember. Sadly, a googlemaps search shows the pond is no longer there. Once, a cattle stampede ran across the station grounds and a few cows drowned in the pond. The smell was horrid and I remember that some pupfish died and floated to the surface. We had to collect and count them.

@SansVertigo 3 года назад

It’s like keeping a pet at this point. An entire species as a pet. A really expensive pet. And I’m all for it.

@Dee-jp7ek 3 года назад

That's a nice flex for our species whenever we make contact tbh. "Why are you protecting them?" "Because we can and we love them"

@pauliusthemad3498 3 года назад

You know what? Not even that expensive, there are far far more expensive pets on earth - looking at pandas

@Ass_of_Amalek 3 года назад

I think the point is that making small exceptions to species protections is a slippery slope to much larger environmental destruction. often enough, endangered species are not detected or not officially noted in areas that get destroyed for industry or construction, and it's good when the law is strong enough and sufficiently supported by government funds that in those cases when activists push for conservation, even irrelevant little species are sometimes taken seriously. I'm really impressed that conservationists managed to prevent the fish being poisoned when they floated in the way of a big construction project.

@Ass_of_Amalek 3 года назад

Paulius The Mad fun fact: all big pandas belong to the chinese state, pandas in zoos elsewhere are on loan from china for hundreds of thousand of dollars per year (apparently they reliably draw many visitors and function as a status symbol for the zoo), and any baby pandas born also belong to china. china can recall their pandas whenever they want, and they use their loan pandas as a reward for countries that have good relations with china - it's known as panda diplomacy. yes, really, it's serious politics. any country that has pandas in one of their zoos has them because it currently treats china favorably.

@jessicalanqvist9839 3 года назад

@@Dee-jp7ek b Liz pp

@twothreebravo 3 года назад

One of the greatest reason to keep these pupfish alive is that they are really the only thing left keeping people from putting in irrigation wells for farming and draining the water table in that area.

@bewilderbeastie8899 3 года назад

tiny little heroes

@BansheeBeatzz 3 года назад

Mhmm. The food system here is such a destructive mess.

@bunzeebear2973 3 года назад

If the water is salty, you will not be able to farm anything. And that water is salty.

@Gloria-ro4vn 3 года назад

NO one lives there so by protecting the fish you are protecting dry barren land from being turned into fertile land that produces food for the masses.

@lisagd22 3 года назад

@@Gloria-ro4vn That could work for a while, but the water crisis in Southern California is an indication that trying to turn the desert into farmland is not the best plan in the long term.

@SitaraAleu 2 года назад

Here's my take: if after all this effort in trying, if the pupfish still somehow go extinct in spite of our best efforts, then it can't be said we didn't at least try and we should feel proud of that. Nature overrides us nearly every time. The fact that we're even ABLE to defy her on occasion is astounding to me. Maybe we'll save them, maybe we won't, but it can't be said we didn't try.

@benmcreynolds8581 2 года назад

I'd be curious to see what genetic mutations they've got that let them live in such hostile environment that other fish couldn't ever live in. Are they considered extremophiles?

@JDrevolver66 8 месяцев назад

Probably not an extremophile but they're quite adapted to low O2 saturation, apparently practicing 'paradoxical anaerobism' torpor, not breathing oxygen for a couple hours and producing ethanol as metabolic end-product.

@cherrypop973 3 года назад

Hot take: animals have innate value and are worth saving regardless of how they benefit us.

@rainbowstalker3760 2 года назад

Good take

@MOONFIREmagess 2 года назад

💯%...👍

@sharonkaczorowski8690 2 года назад

I believe the loss of any species diminishes us as human beings.

@bridgetteperry9802 2 года назад

good taking

@Fawnfreckle 2 года назад

THESE PUPFISH ARE IN TERRARIA! I KNOW THIS IS PROBABLY OFF TOPIC BUT IM NEARLY CRYING WITH HAPPINESS HELPPPP

@nerium.nerium 3 года назад

Please add a "Save the Pupfish" bumper sticker to the merch store.

@gemmalouise4903 3 года назад

Theres a merch store??!!

@nerium.nerium 3 года назад

@@gemmalouise4903 yep, it's in the description labeled as The Good Death Store.

@bottle1211 3 года назад

Please add "Kill the Pupfish" bumper sticker to the merch store.

@BellaLu26 3 года назад

I want a kill the pupfish sticker

@thewonderfulwizardofcodsaq3472 3 года назад

Make it small tho

@murlocholmes4684 2 года назад

We need more videos like this, I LOVE SEEING AGRESSIVE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES. I’d love to see more content like this.

@surly_mel 2 года назад

These little guys have survived in that cave for millennia and can teach us a great deal about living in adverse environments. That being said, it's a shame we had to shield them against human stupidity.

@user-tk3ou5ru1n 3 года назад

Only Caitlin can make a 20+ minute video about a hole in the ground enjoyable A true queen

@davidgaugamela9801 3 года назад

@homo sapiens... 1.5 million subscribers for good reason.

@loretta_3843 3 года назад

Oh so true 😉

@javierwarner3032 3 года назад

Making a hole in the ground interesting for 20+ minutes is part of her job desceiption.

@LadyCoyKoi 3 года назад

The only hole in the ground where the green grass never grows around it.

@alaapsarkar Год назад

No, it's the hole that is interesting.

@dominique6195 3 года назад

Never knew how much I needed a mortician yelling through a gate "How you doin in there, pupfish?!?" I feel better now

@golfgrabu 3 года назад

Hey hi, nice name by the way!

@justaduck3615 3 года назад

Are you a pupfish.

@golfgrabu 3 года назад

@@justaduck3615 For Caitlin, I can be whatever she wants!!!

@dominique6195 3 года назад

@@golfgrabu Honorary Pupfish!

@macabrecitrus2127 2 года назад

There is evidence that fish eggs can survive a journey in birds stomachs ! So maybe that was the case for the pupfish ancestors

@sbretclark Год назад

Been binge watching and OMFG you are exactly what I love about RU-vid. People talking about shit they are passionate about and know about. I love everything about you and your channel, including 1- awesome sense of humor and 2- recognizing that reasonable minds can disagree. Thank you for wonderfully discussing both sides of the save the animals/ignore the animals debate. Everybody thinks there is no middle ground - but there is and if we're going to save the world, we need to find it!

@kristinm6612 3 года назад

With a name like pupfish, why WOULDN’T you want to do everything in your power to save them? 🥺

@michelleshephard9690 3 года назад

Gotta say Pupfish is a very cute name 'My little Pupfish'... Absolutely should be a term of endearment

@Mark-sd5jk 3 года назад

Maybe Bc it’s first name is the “devils hole”

@triccele 3 года назад

@@Mark-sd5jk that's just another pro on my list

@macabrecitrus2127 3 года назад

@@triccele 👀

@macabrecitrus2127 3 года назад

🐶🐟

@soaphunnie 3 года назад

“So what are you in for?” “I killed.” “A man?” “A fish.” 😱

@princeapoopoo5787 3 года назад

When you catch a sea bass in animal crossing for the fiftieth time that day

@badger1296 3 года назад

That's when the convict says, "What'd kill a fish for; they're our number one source of fun!" (Think of Shawshank Redemption) 😳🤣🤣🤣

@rookmaster7502 3 года назад

Sometimes a fish is more than just a fish.

@lokiopensloloc5680 3 года назад

@@rookmaster7502 sometimes a fish is a pupfish.

@aldranzam3456 3 года назад

a PUPfish it has pup in the name, you can't kill a pup and not go to jail!

@commandrogyne 3 года назад

Just some food for thought: we put more effort into preserving under 500 fish than we have into restoring the land they exist on to the people who took care of it for thousands of years. im not shitting on this video, it was excellently done and im glad the fish are ok! Just something i was thinking about.

@LaughingCrowStudio 2 года назад

I was delighted to discover the Furnace Creek pupfish some years ago and saw them again last spring. Adorable little things in one of the most hellish environments and the remnants of prehistoric fish from when Death Valley was a massive lake. Which is badass in and of itself! I've always wanted to see the other species of Pupfish- but thought they were unable to be visited by the public! Thank you so much for this video!

@CelestiaQuinn 3 года назад

The little pupfish just living their happy little lives unaware of all the people fighting over them🥺

@qalbi_ibn_lari 2 года назад

Who knows, maybe we're like the pupfish and something out there fights to keep us alive.

@zahrianeal1230 2 года назад

@@qalbi_ibn_lari I wonder what they are thinking keeping us alive 🤔

@bennitori4 2 года назад

@@zahrianeal1230 They're probably enjoying lots of popcorn while smirking at our antics. Why would you let something full of this much entertainment value die off?

@notNajimi 2 года назад

@@qalbi_ibn_lari I hope they fight harder, we’re doing a lot of stuff to kill ourselves out here

@desperadox7565 2 года назад

@@qalbi_ibn_lari Spaceships with bumper stickers "Save/Kill The Humans"? 😎

@miss-jerk175 3 года назад

Oh to be a tiny fish competely ruining a huge company's plan to ruin the environment (yes a dessert is an environment and doing that much changing to the land would have had heavy negative affects on everything around) just by existing

@thatonedog819 2 года назад

I always hated when people would talk about "greening the desert to save the world!" Cause like.... Deserts are important ecological habitats. Man made deserts, sure.... But natural deserts? Fuck them.

@terrietackett8964 2 года назад

Listen to the song, " A Horse With No name ".

@graciethebelle 2 года назад

If that's not some big dick energy, Idk what is.

@cartoonistanonymous 2 года назад

I don't want to be pedantic in Cait's comment section but that typo always makes me think of the Raisin Ruins from Kirby's Dreamland and I just had to share. 🌵🍧🦂🍬

@typacsk 2 года назад

@@cartoonistanonymous Makes me think of the "dying in a dessert" joke from Archer :)

@lucyhellbroke 2 года назад

Yo, I grew up around there, and I am more than familiar with trekking through there, as much as I am also familiar with Spahn Ranch… but I didn’t know about the pupfish issue. I am a local friendly activist and ecologist, so it’s good to know about this stuff. Thanks for enlightening me!!!

@madisonrutherford4462 3 года назад

Working on getting my BS in ecology and I absolutely loved this video and hearing your perspective. Save the pupfish!!

@RachelOLeary 3 года назад

I came for the fish content.

@argonautilus9540 3 года назад

Seeing you in these comments made my day a little brighter.

@RachelOLeary 3 года назад

@@argonautilus9540 glad to be of service!

@XianHaos 3 года назад

Fish Room field trip to the hatchery?

@sunshinesweetlove..8066 3 года назад

Funny so did I. 😅

@isaaclim8645 3 года назад

Omg Rachel O Leary!!! Im subscribed to you and i watch you videos.. it's nice to see the fish keeping hobbyists here too!

@Matt-vs4zz 3 года назад

“If we get copyright claimed for a CHARLES MANSON song, I swear to god...” I died laughing 🤣🤣🤣

@countzero1136 3 года назад

Corpos willl be corpos, so you never know. It would be hilarious though :)

@popartlover101 3 года назад

Oh no how awful 😢

@sarah2.017 3 года назад

He's dead, at the very least.

@nycapplesJH 3 года назад

Lol right

@ScarletImp 3 года назад

@@sarah2.017 RU-vid probably wouldn't care. :/

@SageAsuka Год назад

Finding this video extremely late to the game but my 2020 'interest' became aquatics so hearing about these little guys is incredibly fascinating. I'm glad we could replicate the unique living environment and help them breed more. Because dang that sure is one hell of a little place those guys evolved to live in. Definitely worth protecting and learning more about. Also glad this video didn't end with a tragic article about them being extinct.

@peglamphier4745 Год назад

Came her for Caitlin, stayed for Caitlyn the Pupfish. Pure magic!

@baragouinify 3 года назад

"The pup fish are the most isolated vertebrates in the world" - I'd like to nominate myself for at least second most isolated vertebrate.

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

Awwwwwww.....

@shannonhensley2942 3 года назад

Nah you have internet. Hermits and deep Forrest dwellers are more isolated.

@fishguts_ 3 года назад

@@shannonhensley2942 I'm cottage core

@snakezase2998 3 года назад

Oh boy do I have news for all of you

@mfitzburger5137 3 года назад

That father defending his son over the pupfish killing reminded me way too much of other instances of parents minimizing their son's actions. I half expected him to ask what the fish was wearing.

@gozerthegozarian9500 3 года назад

Yeah, those fish were leading him on with that high fence and that barbed wire....how's a red-blooded fella to resist that kinda temptation?

@lorimiller4301 3 года назад

🥺☹ I'm out, I don't want to hear it.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

Yeah... my comment would have been more like "after everything I've tried to teach him about consequence, he goes and degrades something he says he values because of drunken stupidity. I love him as my son, but now the law is having to show him what happens when you act like a spoiled frat boy, He's a disappointment and if he doesn't devote the rest of his life to environmental awareness and action - and stops drinking to disastrous levels - I'm gonna have to wash my hands of him. I am sorry to everyone that I have apparently failed as a parent". I'm a parent myself, and my mum worked in Courts & Corrections for years. I get how it's supposed to work.

@ashleyw7868 3 года назад

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Are you sure you’re not the father of the pupfish slayer? 🤨

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

@@ashleyw7868 oh, God - are you saying that cause it wasn't harsh enough or cause it was too believable as something a responsible parent would say? Was it too well thought through or not well enough? You know, us parents: always trying to hit the right tone (unless we're a**eholes justifying our terribly behaved children)... What was her outfit like again?

@jMci726 2 года назад

Idk why bc i don’t personally know a pup fish …I’ve never even met a pup fish …but when you asked how far should we go to save the push fish I yelled out “ as far as it freakin takes!” My husband thinks I’m crazy.

@yourpsychoexgirlfriend Год назад

I was in Vegas with my mom a few weeks ago, our trip to the Grand Canyon thwarted by a freak blizzard in Arizona. I showed her this video and she said “alright let’s go see the damn hole then!” The park is beautiful and worth checking out, there are other geothermal springs there and the little Amargosa pupfish will swim right up and kiss your fingers!

@Elenawen2 3 года назад

Ok but now I want to see the reaction of whatever guard is watching the surveillance video of Caitlin banging on the fence yelling "How you doin' in there pupfish?"

@totchi6 3 года назад

He watches the scientists do it after a few drinks most nights. Guarantee scientist drunk angst is a regular event.

@clearlieme 3 года назад

@@totchi6 don't need to be drunk

@mercyjokes2d696 3 года назад

@@clearlieme don't have to be drunk, but with these past couple of years the numbing effects of the Devils Urine really does help!

@FlowceanSoul 3 года назад

Caitlin: “it’s about a fish” Me, who loves learning about fish as much as I do death: “👁👄👁 go on”

@audreymuzingo933 3 года назад

Funny thing is, we have Sheepshead Pupfish down here in Mobile, the RAINIEST city in America. But they are adaptative in a counterintuitively similar way. That is, they can survive in hot little puddles, after being swept there by hurricanes. They're beautiful, with a black/gray mottled body and ELECTRIC blue head and dorsal area. The males anyway. They're good aquarium fish!

@FlowceanSoul 3 года назад

@@audreymuzingo933 Funnily enough my first question was “are there species of pupfish that I could keep in an aquarium?” So you answered my question! 🤣 thank you! Am definitely gonna be looking into all the different types of these now 👀 Also exciting to hear those are in Alabama, since I live in Georgia right near the border of AL!

@audreymuzingo933 3 года назад

@@FlowceanSoul I used to catch them, quarantine a while and then sell them on Aquabid, shipped them all over the US! But my favorite was the Sailfin Molly (look those beauties up--gorgeous and easy to raise; they give live birth just like guppies). They're everywhere in ditches here too, in fact I almost always find those and the sheepshead pups in the same spots. BTW in case you're not familiar, Aquabid is like the Ebay of aquarium organisms and supplies. That's where you'll find species that you'll never see in Petco or even Mom n' Pop pet stores. I will say about the pupfish--they're not super aggressive, but a little bit territorial, like each one likes his little place in the tank and will chase others away. They can live with other species, but will absolutely eat babies of other species.

@jenbingham0914 3 года назад

Me, sitting in my fish room watching this. If I could have a Devils Hole aquarium I totally would, those fish are stinking adorable and so scientifically unique I love it!

@FlowceanSoul 3 года назад

@@audreymuzingo933 Mollies are precious! My friend actually has a tank of Lyretail Molly who I just saw last night and their babies just gave birth the other night! The fry are so tiny and cute 😭 makes me want a livebearer REAL bad!

@veronicafernandez5998 2 года назад

There's a Moth Radio Hour about this hole and a diver who wanted to find his friends body in there. The way it is described is very detailed and I still remember the awe and terror I felt while listening many years later. Maybe I'll try to find a link to it after the video :)

@margotrosendorn6371 Год назад

Life finds a way, am I right? I think such unique species should be preserved for the wealth of information they have about adaptation. Imagine what we could learn!

@Surferess 3 года назад

Lol my husband literally went to Death Valley and counted Pupfish when he was a teenager, with his Oceanographer dad. I played this video for him, and he really thought you nailed this topic!

@matleeena 3 года назад

ohh I was wondering, how do they count the fish?

@kurtnulf3362 2 года назад

@@paulette2442 And this is why these fish are so important A hole bunch of people are making a living off of our tax dollars counting fish better than getting a real job

@Ennead13x 2 года назад

kurt nulf idk about you, but two stints a year doesn't net me a lotta cash. It's part of their job, not the entirety.

@kurtnulf3362 2 года назад

@@Ennead13x Am sure the government has many such projects like this to keep you college boys in clover While the taxpayer bust there but to make a living and pay for this nonsense

@vandilore 2 года назад

@@kurtnulf3362 yea that 4 million dollar pupfish house tax was really rough on me and the 328 million other people in the us

@wendychavez5348 3 года назад

I would rather have 200 Devils Hole pupfish than one bomb. Just sayin'.

@wendychavez5348 3 года назад

The mermaid in me agrees.

@forge20 3 года назад

The problem with both bombs and pupfish is that you can't have just one.

@_Fizel_ 2 года назад

@@wendychavez5348 Forget to hit 'reply' or forget to log off main XD

@RCSVirginia 2 года назад

This is an excellent video that is so well-researched, produced and put on film. Not only that, but it is, also, clever and creative, and makes one think. Well done!

@ShadowXII 3 года назад

My favorite thing about your videos is how confident in your goofy sense of humor and showmanship you are. Making death fun!

@Thiccolo86 3 года назад

Title: " *Rarest Fish in the World* " Me: *_this is the information I crave_*

@serenepoppy1408 3 года назад

Yeah, I feel like all the fish nerds are going to be coming out of the cracks for this video. It’s unfortunate that the wild population is so low (wiki says 136 individuals in 2019), so there’s problems with the founder’s effect and apparently there has been hybridizing with closely related species. But there’s been successful breeding efforts off-site in the last decade!

@Thiccolo86 3 года назад

@@serenepoppy1408 we can also only guess as to just how far back the current genetic makeup goes, not that they aren't thousands of years old or minimally evolved, but even with perfect conditions and little to no disturbance environmental shifting will step in and throw stones from time to time on its own. Now the quickly shifting impact that mankind is having on the environment will have to tell with time on the evolution of the pups.

@shaezartsy978 3 года назад

This whole pupfish war sounds like some Scooby- Doo villian scheme

@marieroberts5458 Год назад

With the current drought situation and the ongoing water crises *nevermind global warming * those little pupfish many have saved thousands of lives, since those water hogging amusements were never built, the water table has not been drained to destruction and no one has added even more heat to the area. Further, you mentioned that Devil's Hole can react to earthquakes and other deep earth phenomena, and that little quirk may yet save heedless human lives, as an early warning. Thanks for a wonderful video. Happy New Year

@0yodelingpickle526 9 месяцев назад

Caitlyn, on cozy cold autumn days i go to my kitchen, bake a pear cake and listen to your videos, this is happyness for me

@Kairi98503 3 года назад

I honestly want a live cam of the pup fish, so we can just watch them existing. I don't know why but the thought of watching the rarest speices of fish just going about their day is something I want to do.

@FF-bq6fz 3 года назад

Yes!!

@BeerElf66 3 года назад

My city's cathedral has a webcam set up for the nesting birds, so why not? Would be brilliant!

@joshuahanley7251 3 года назад

A very good idea. Seems only right that if tax payers are going to foot the bill for it, that they also be able to observe and appreciate them more as well. Not like they don't already have the necessary tech already in place. An app or website that monetized remote viewing of real time, on site aqua scapes from around the world, with a goal of conservation funding those sites, would be a very cool thing to see!

@annoyedshedevil 3 года назад

How do we get your comment pinned so its seen by more people? It is a brilliant idea!

@megiab 3 года назад

great idea

@TimeBucks 3 года назад

It was a great storytelling

@WhitneyDahlin 3 года назад

I agree! She is truly a great story teller! She can talk about anything and make it interesting. She really does have that talent

@cyndicombs1419 3 года назад

Omg... I am the 666th like on this comment 😳😳😳

@lurji 3 года назад

stfu verified

@brendawhitehead7575 2 года назад

What gets me, is that humans might be the pupfish of the universe. Here we are on this tiny shelf of the universe, unable to thrive anywhere else, and constantly on the brink of mass extinction.

@kathleenl.7125 2 года назад

Caitlin, you are a treasure and you inspire me to work harder and try to do my job as well as you do yours. Thank you for being such a terrific educator.

@yaboibueno69 3 года назад

Sees Charels Manson: "You had my curiosity" Its about a fish: "Now you have my full attention 👀👀"

@ZDDSquid 3 года назад

I know this isn’t a “corpse” but you should make a video on Henrietta Lacks. She was an African American woman who has a tumor that doctors took samples from and ended up using them all across the world for medical use and she was never told that her tumor cells did this. She died not knowing but her cells still live to this day. Idk if that would count but I think it would be cool.

@catnekokotyonok5180 3 года назад

@ZDF Squid 🐙 I think that that is a great idea! Check some of the links under the video to see if you can get your idea closer to Caitlin & her team. Even snail mail! ✌️

@blazertundra 3 года назад

I agree. Henrietta would make for the perfect iconic corpse you've never heard of.

@christmastiger 3 года назад

YES I would love to see this! I feel like her story is so insanely important for science but also heartbreaking and it needs more attention.

@LisaMarieParadee 3 года назад

Also, her family was never reimbursed for the research "He-La" cells contributed to.

@98Zai 3 года назад

@@LisaMarieParadee Fun fact "hela" means "to heal" - "make whole" in Swedish. Perhaps her immortal cells will cure the terrible affliction of death.

@damonroberts7372 2 года назад

This is the only video on RU-vid (excluding music clips) that I've watched through more than twice. It's _that_ good. Thank you, Caitlin!

@ginnymiller2448 2 года назад

As a fellow deathling, I would find it amusing if some scientists discovered that the dead people in the cave were somehow benefiting the pupfish population 🐟🐟💀🐟🐟

@unclearctica2792 3 года назад

As a fish keeper who just finished binging this entire channel yesterday, this video seems like it was made for me. It probably was, so thanks Caitlin

@majaluning3624 3 года назад

I can’t believe you thoroughly entertained me by taking about fish for 23 minutes

@stevengill1736 Год назад

It's really neat that they took such effort in preserving the area. - thanks for covering it!

@Manyroadsnorules 2 года назад

Excellent video! Thank you! I was driving around that area yesterday, it would look so ugly with any type of farm, gas station or anything that is not just picture perfect, clean Nature. Thank you pupfishies for protecting that whole area!

@bethmoore7722 3 года назад

The pup fish might say to us, “Do not ask for whom extinction looms. It looms for your whole insane species.”

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

glub glub. And not a moment too soon. The bees and the frogs agree

@philhughes3882 3 года назад

lazy homebody - I dare say the entire natural world be glad to see the back of us. Christ, come to think of it, I would.

@bethmoore7722 3 года назад

@@lazyhomebody1356 The bees and the phytoplankton should go on strike until we’re gone. It wouldn’t take long.

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

@@bethmoore7722 Or the ants should stop cleaning up and bury us 12 feet under rotting dead things

@fairrider3346 3 года назад

WHY WOULD THEY SAY THAT???? YOU MIGHT SAY THAT. I DO NOT THINK THEY GIVE A SHIT.

@laurachapple6795 3 года назад

Does Rolf Hirsch know there's a video on RU-vid where he just gets dragged for twenty-three minutes?

@CiiDre 3 года назад

I have to hope so

@froggydoodle808 3 года назад

Is there a way to contact him?

@deanchampion6777 2 года назад

I so adore that you have so much knowledge and have committed yourself to sharing your knowledge - your selflessness and efforts make me cry.

@2002drumsonly 2 года назад

Your content is so good, beyond excellent that watching your videos again and again is a joy. I must say, the work you put into your videos is outstanding. Your personality and your genius as an actress, personality and person outshine many others. You are a one-person play. You are captivating as your imagination takes the viewer into a journey you create in an honest, clean and talented way of .... enjoyment. You set the bar as far as quality, informative, captivating content goes. Well done! 10/10! You are unique and gifted.

@necordektox879 3 года назад

I understand the Nevadans being upset about the production of a farm halted, but destroying a rare one-of-a-kind animal for a mall is the most 80s thing I've ever heard. All it needs is a ragtag group of misfit friends and you got a Steven Spielberg classic right there.

@daeminimon 3 года назад

Drinking game: take a shot every time Caitlin says “pupfish” (Don’t do this. You will die)

@thegardenofeatin5965 3 года назад

I drank an entire pina colada during the runtime of this video. We'll call that good enough, yeah?

@FluffyPancakes36 3 года назад

That’s 7 shots in the outtro alone

@wendychavez5348 3 года назад

Ok to use water instead of alcohol? Pupfish friendly! Unlike the vomit/chum those kids gave them.

@dyejedi 3 года назад

you'd at least get drunk enough to break into devil's hole and murder a pupfish while skinny dipping.

@angelat.8997 3 года назад

😂

@shannongarland4607 2 года назад

I appreciate your videos, all the topic of death has always really bothered me. But my mother died on December 11th of this year and I just finds your videos comforting

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 года назад

I'm glad they are being cared for. I think they are hecka cute little fishies

@sadpeepolv6185 3 года назад

the last time i was this fast, i found out caitlyn is scared of cave diving corpses and acquire a new phobia

@PerkyHedgewitch 3 года назад

When I saw the title I though "missing divers, that's like her favorite thing ever right?" 🤣

@moonbook12 3 года назад

Omg same

@gracehaven5459 3 года назад

I get anxiety just thinking about it now

@WaffeHo 3 года назад

Is her new phobia a fear of being crushed by a giant pendant?

@dbeiler5525 3 года назад

As a bonafide marine biologist, and member of the order, I approve this message

@CapitalLuke 3 года назад

As a (hopefully) future marine biologist, I said "haha cute little pup fishy" at least twice during the video

@WobblesandBean 3 года назад

I'm a zoology student and I want to work in the pupfish facility

@casihamilton3773 Год назад

With how much water levels in the desert have been dangerously depleted, pupfish or no the thought of that water source going down by 3 feet was terrifying in and of itself.

@f.l3450 Год назад

You have one the best channels on RU-vid. I am easily distracted but your entertaining delivery keeps me engaged.

@malloryjordan6764 3 года назад

I wish we could all fight this hard for every endangered species out there

@JosephDavies 3 года назад

What fascinates me is how that research station has managed to create and manage the right ecosystem for these fish. That's gotta be a feat of engineering, chemistry, soil and water science, biology, and more. It makes me hopeful that the discoveries they make there could be used in helping human habitats elsewhere on Earth, and possibly beyond Earth as well.

@OrdinaryEXP 3 года назад

I guess that's also part of the incentive.

@JosephDavies 3 года назад

@@OrdinaryEXP Indeed! It's one of those things that often gets overlooked when talking about research that seems very narrow or "useless"; everything is interconnected, so increasing our body of knowledge and improving our methods can sometimes have profound unforeseen benefits. :)

@dustiibunnii 2 года назад

Money is a hell of a drug

@jenniferwhitewolf3784 2 года назад

We could use some of that technology in Portland Oregon... the Marxist Socialist Demoncrats in charge are doing everything they can to destroy the ability to live in the city. Its an effing cesspool of human waste on the sidewalks and economic despair..

@coyoteartist 2 года назад

That part is pretty rad

@devindonovan8201 Год назад

Fish are my favorite animal and you taught me something new today, thank you so much, I'm obsessed with the continued survival of these beautiful little blue creatures 💙

@leslielousma7913 2 года назад

I’m 58 and just learning all this! Thank you for all your videos. Thanks to your human composting video, I’ve decided on that instead of cremation!

@mytsukey 3 года назад

In my conservation course, they tell us that by saving one species from extinction could help give condervationalists the information on how to save other species important to human survival.

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

100%

@DrowSkinned 3 года назад

I wonder if focusing on human survival is where we are going wrong in general. I'm not wording my thought well but it just reminds me of how astronomers used to think that everything in the sky revoled around earth 🌎.

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

@@DrowSkinned It's like...we are cutting down and burning down the Amazon rain forest, and there are undiscovered plants in there, which might cure cancer

@mirjanbouma 3 года назад

@@DrowSkinned it's not ideal, but it is a way to get the apathetic in board.

@suzykennedy3559 3 года назад

As a biologist I loved this! A teacher of mine researched the devil hole pupfish and their adaptation to oxygen low environments. Theres a lot to learn from this kind of extremophile vertebrate Save the pupfish!

@Justin.Martyr 3 года назад

*I'm Going to TELL YOU WUT I KNOW!!!!* *IF I was on the Asphault GeTTing Murdered, NONE of YOU wouLd Do SQUOT for Me!!!!*

@jeffwang6460 2 года назад

The case of the Devil's Hole pupfish is an interesting demonstration of how people can be hyperfixated on saving certain animals because we find them particularly cute or unique. Paleologically, the pupfish is a very young species, and even without human interaction could be wiped out instantly by a flash flood or earthquake. As a whole, preserving ecosystems is much better idea.

@MySerpentine Месяц назад

Having a 'spokesman' species doesn't hurt, though.

@zoe_dawg 5 месяцев назад

These are so good! I appreciate the quality

@queenoffrance6397 3 года назад

The sheer amount of government buzz around the pupfish is so large that I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding them.

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

Remember the alien autopsy? Pupfish

@queenoffrance6397 3 года назад

@@lazyhomebody1356 There is no such thing as lizard people, they're just pupfish.

@FA-dv5he 3 года назад

🤔

@gigicolada 3 года назад

Pupfish emoji would look like this but with a tiny smile 🥺

@michellep3814 2 года назад

I want more videos like this. Caitlin and fish content are my most favorite things ever.

@charmaintrout174 2 года назад

This is the third time I've watched this episode and I already know there's will be a fourth one day. I'll still enjoy it just as much. 💓🐟

@damarisguerra5306 3 года назад

Caitlin getting over her fear of deep water caves by dedicating an entire video to a rare pupfish that would be your friend

@megan9097 3 года назад

"THreeeeeaaatening the PupFIIIIISH" and "He was gonna murder all the pupfish!" will now be added to the repertoire of weird stuff I mutter to myself as I potter around the house.

@Grumplebumple 3 года назад

Big same

@BelleFlower15 3 года назад

I was looking for this comment

@Hanaconda_Aquaponics 3 года назад

You peeps are going to confuse your relatives and any carers when you get dementia in old age and *these* are the phrases you remember. 😂

@annehedonia156 5 месяцев назад

The singing pupfish!!! "Good morning, Starshine. The Earth says hellooo." 🤣🤣🤣 I haven't heard that jingle in decades! You are beyond hilarious. You're in your own category! Thank you for the huge laughs.