Pandas Aren't Bears (They're Closer To Walruses) 

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a RU-vid Videos all about the 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ Phylogeny Group Of Rodents 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a RU-vid Videos all about the 🦔 Phylogeny Group Of Insectivores 🦔 (Insectivora), such as Shrews, Moles, Hedgehogs, Solenodons, Gymnures, Moonrats, Desmans, the Extinct West Indian Shrews, Etc. on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

Wait... so are you telling me that pinniped means "ear foot"⁉️ 👂🦶 It's even weirder that "true" seals are called earless in that case‼️ 🤔

GO WATERBEARS!

Can we start getting primary sources on the video comments for scientific videos? I'm not consistently able to find the sources with Google scholar searches the last few videos.

You’re telling me flying foxes are actually bats????? Smh get outta here

@@napoleon6221wait, napoleon is a lama? Nah your more crazy get outta here!!1!!1

NOT ALL FOXES ARE FOXES!!!!!!!!!

Not all Foxes are Foxes! (I'm told this is a magic formula to make more cool content appear❤)

All foxes are a type of fish 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

At any given time, some lineages will have been expanded and others will have collapsed back down into one species resulting in a constant presence of outliers species intermixed with lots of closely related species. Give it enough time in many of the ones that are expanded currently will collapse back down and the ones that are narrowed currently will expand back out.

He abused the phrase so much that it sent me to an ad break of _two_ unskippable ads. 😅

@@darcieclements4880 The quantum hagfish hypothesis: All species are in a perpetual superposition of being hagfish and not being hagfish.

I like the one I came up witg to describe the opposite of being the hagfish of something. Being the snakes of a group. Like Humans are the snakes of monkies. You can't create a phylogeny of monkies without humans being there as the same way you can't create a lizard phylogeny without snakes being there.

​@@bigkirbyhj666monitors aren't lizards, you can't pull that one on me. Their similarities are mostly shared by reptiles as a whole. I would be happy to call the group drakes or dragons, though.

hahah nice!

@@rockfri Shifu is a panda. Po is a high contrast Chinese bamboo bear.

Yep, I laughed out loud at that 😂😂😂

Yes!!!

Oh wow I read it exactly as he said it! what are the chances for such a long video

Honestly I dislike high contrast Chinese bamboo bears even more after learning it's an imposter. With the true panda being way more cute.

bro got the casual geographic narration

:3

They simply need enough domestication. We already did that to wolves, and are starting with foxes.

@@GygasDistruttore Good luck domesticating bears.

​@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 Russia

Can I preorder a teacup grizzly?

NO! I WANT THEM TO BE WOLVES 😭😭😭 Why does this matter to me? Not 100% sure, but I do think dire wolves is cooler than dire jackels...

@@LouderThanLife7 It is, but we can make references to Anubis now, and that's also cool. We can call the American Anubis Wolf, or something

Oh and “DAA WATERBEARS”

I'm also into that Kind of Thing

Yes!!! I'm into that kind of thing! Bring on the Foxes, and other things.....!

I dont get it.. is this a sexual thing??​@@SmallTownAngel86

@kaviyaneskandari2316 lol if you make it to the point in the video, he says to comment that if you want a breakdown of all the fox/not fox members of the family. I'm into learning about all the mammals, especially Canines 😊

I’m just confused that none of these are actually reptiles.

​@@Reuben.Aotearoahe's expanded to Clint's zoo(logy?) now basically

@@Reuben.Aotearoa They're the hagfish of reptiles.

I assume this is roughly the plan with the phylogeny "films" they're planning to make. Like the snake supercut they made but on a larger scale. Eventually we'll have an 100 hour movie on all animals.

I'm sure the YTPs are already brewing lol

this

Not all "foxes" are 'foxes'

All will be one!

We also don't classify them as archaea

All pandas are red 😉

​@ClintsReptiles I disagree, an albino panda is a light brown colour.

Fair.

@@ClintsReptiles All extant ones; perhaps Simocyon was less vividly colored. ;)

​@@ClintsReptilesIf you compare the Qinling Panda with the red panda I think the comparison makes more sense‼️ Since the Qinling panda used to be less rare than it is today, maybe that's the "panda" they originally thought looked like a red panda⁉️ 🤔

**slow clap of respect**

Yeah, what's wrong wit that analogy?

@@greensteve9307 It's deceptive

Waterbears! Moss piglets! The cutest creature that can survive through exposure to the vacuum of space!

I second this!

Let me guess They're technically speaking not even really todes

I nearly clicked away until I saw this, glad I didn't 😂😂

Probably the scariest thing my ever for prairie dogs

For Prairie dogs it's like Alien working with Predator

Perfectly pronounced, pinnipeds are pretty precise

@@noivernblast3366 Absolutely astonishing aliteration

As a sea lion i aprove this comment

Dead male Sea Elephants are quite possibly the biggest stink created by decomposition ever created.

Man you had pretty good taste as a kid. My favorite mammal was probably a chicken

Ever since an 80s movie as a kid the ferret is my favorite animal the domesticated and the American Blackfooted Ferret. Mustelids are badass.

Mustelids are my favorite!! I have a pet mink and ferrets.

I think walruses fall under "we all know they are adorable but we call them 'cool' or the like instead so they can maintain their image, which is very important to them" *_walrus chest bump_*

See dog is still a term used for all of the members of that clade in English. It might not get used as often now but it's definitely a term that I've read before in reference to all three clades.

At least it's a little bit more systematic as the whole group is called "Robben", the group without the pinnae is called "Hundsrobben", because they include the "Seehund", the group with pinnae have the fitting name "Ohrenrobben" and the third group are the "Walrosse", so no discussion about the name of the group. ... although, I think that most Germans wouldn't name "Seelöwen/Seebären" as "Robben"...

they’re called sea wolves(atshikw) by the Innu/Naskapi of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, grey seals specifically(unuatshikw) are as when they call they look like they’re howling edit: i found out grey seals will kill seals of other species and harbour porpoises, probably also why they’re called sea wolves then. brutal man.

Isn't the seal the "Robbe"? Same thing?😮

Isn't the seal the "Robbe"? Same thing?😮

Goo goo g'job with the video indeed

here's another clue for you all

Frank, harbinger of carnivorans

Frank, just Frank

That might need to happen!

When I use my iPhone to take a picture of my ferrets if you go into the information panel it says Polecat lmao it’s always made me wonder about the phylogeny of mustelids and the domestication of ferrets.

@@davidgessin-mccully3919 I think that ferrets are actually a domesticated form of European Polecat and BTW I don't know about you, but I prefer considering *ALL* members of the Mustelidae clade "weasels" just like how all members of the Canidae clade are often considered "dogs" and all members of the Felidae clade are considered "cats" I mean "Mustelidae" literally means "weasel" in Latin after all.

Oh I use that term for the entire group. If I go multi phylogenetic, I say weasily type appearing things because there are other not very closely related groups that look similar in their body plan and behavior.

@@brfisher1123 So do you call all canines dogs? Like if you see a fox do you go “look it’s a dog” no you’re going to say “look it’s a fox” even though it’s a canine. The domesticated ferret is member of the weasel family yes but they aren’t actually a weasel neither is a polecat. A weasel is just one species of mustelid, polecats are another of which the domesticated ferret Mustela Putorious Furo (little thief in Latin) is a considered a subspecies of due to their ability to hybridize and survive in the wild.

@@davidgessin-mccully3919 What about lions and tigers? People often consider them a species of cat even though they are not domestic cats.

And yet they're more likely the culprit of those sheep and cattle attacks (on the mainland) than the Thylacine which was subsequently driven to extinction.

Dingos have naturalized to Australian ecosystems because they and humans (mostly the latter) outcompeted and extincted the Thylacine. Then, with their niche wide open, the Dingos just fit in as a replacement. It's like if you went to rob a mansion, killed the butler, and because you killed that butler the head of the mansion hires you to replace them. You're doing well because now you have a steady paying job, and the mansion is doing well because someone is still inside working as a butler, but 100% the original butler is punching the air in the afterlife.

@@zecuse That was far more likely to be roaming/feral domestic dogs, as there's never been dingos in Tasmania.

They are (Canis familiaris) and they are feral as they was owned by humans, feral being of domesticated ancestry that reverted back to a wild state, but i'd refer to them as being a feral native land breed, rather than just feral (referring to the more modern feral dogs).

@@malusignatius Which is why I specified in parentheses "on the mainland". News of Thylacines (mistakenly) being the culprit making its way to Tasmania isn't out of the question. The humans then running on that assumption then drives them to extinction on the island as well.

Do your world include dog mermaids a.k.a. seals?

I'm slowly building up a fantasy world as well and boy I am both dreading but also excited about making up little creatures and then putting them on a map. it's going to be difficult too bc a lot of them will be hybrids, so then I have to think about the habitat and habits of the creatures I'm putting into them, and I want to make sure I put creatures together that make sense.. so I won't have a gryphon-type creature made of a south american bird and a european mammal. though it could be fun trying to think of something to make that work... hmmmmm

my boyfriend tells me to just throw creatures together that look cool and not worry about it but I cannot!!

Oh that's weird cuz the generally accepted reason is that it helps them see better in bright light which is why animals with eyes adapted to darker specially likely to have these masks as it adds some protection without needing to lose the eye working well at night. There's a reason why humans put the face mask on and it's probably the same reason why so many predators have face masks. The face mask is not unique to mammals either and I don't know that warning makes a lot of sense here because a lot of these animals are also prey items and completely defenseless against bigger critters. I can't imagine a paper saying that predators want to stand out at night would hold up very well to scientific scrutiny.

@@darcieclements4880 The paper addressed that and concluded it probably didn't fit since they weren't exclusively nocturnal or something like that. Smaller predators would want to be visible so that larger animals don't get too close to them.

I don't just _love_ walruses... I AM THE WALRUS! Goo goo g'joob

As a Spanish speaker, it still amazes me that English doesn't have a commonly used word for "oreja" and they have to resort to scientific terms like "pinnae".

Fun fact, Mustelinae is the only living taxon of the family Mustelidae, while many other taxa have been moved to different families, skunks and stink badgers are both now moved to the family Mephitidae, all fifteen extant badger species under seven genera and four subfamilies are now lumped together into the family Melidae, the otters have been evaluated into the family Lutridae, and the zorillas, muishund, shulang, huro, grisons, wolverine, tayra, and martens are all lumped together into the family Ictonychidae, similarly, Viverridae is now restricted only to the civets, while the mongooses, malagasy carnivorans, genets, oyans, linsangs, and feripaka are all moved to different families, the feripaka is now considered the only living member of the family Nandiniidae, the linsangs are now considered the only living genus of the family Prionodontidae, the oyans are now considered the only living genus of the family Poianidae, the genets are now considered the only living genus of the family Genettidae, the mongooses have been evaluated into the family Herpestidae, and the falanoucs, fossa, fanaloka, and vontsiras that are all native to Madagascar are lumped together into one family called Eupleridae, this makes Mustelidae and Viverridae equally the most heavily reduced families of extant carnivorans, while Musteloidea includes badgers (family Melidae), otters (family Lutridae), and ictonychids (family Ictonychidae) and Viverroidea includes nandiniids, prionodontids, poianids, genettids, mongooses, and malagasy carnivorans, mephitids are not part of the Musteloidea superfamily, instead the Mephitidae family belongs to the superfamily Procyonoidea, which more closely relates skunks and stink badgers to the raccoons, bassarisks, red panda, coatis, kinkajou, olingos, and olinguito of the families Procyonidae, Ailuridae, and Nasuidae respectively.