Tenrecs Will Not Stay In Their Lane

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If all crustaceans “want” to look like crabs, then tenrecs “want” to look like basically any other small mammal. These weird little guys are endemic to Madagascar - they’re native to nowhere else on Earth.
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@BizarreBeasts Год назад

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@YoungGandalf2325 Год назад

I can't wait until someone discovers the Human Tenrec.

@mk_rexx Год назад

Withiout competition to lemurs, I bet they will also fill the primate niche

@SkippOtter Год назад

Bigfoot is actually a tenrec

@frailvoid5844 Год назад

they'll never find me, NEVER

@t.a.c7292 Год назад

It could be any one of us

@pango-y8j Год назад

Marvel is coming out with a New movie - tenrec Man

@Musicanimedork01 Год назад

Reading the title I thought this was a species that evolved to be VIOLENTLY against crabs

@The1Helleri Год назад

Something to keep in mind is that the rafting hypothesis is rarely alluding to a clump of leaves on a log carrying one pregnant rodent to an island where it's rescued by washing up on the beach. Big enough rivers actually produce floating islands. Interlocked root systems of semi aquatic plants sprawl out into shallow water. There's a build of sediment that gets trapped in these roots, and when conditions are right these mostly vegetation peninsulas can loose their anchoring, break off and float down river. In Columbia on the Megdalena river some German researchers found one such island slowly drifting down river. It was 80 meters in diameter, had mature tree growing on it and a troop of howler monkeys. These islands can sometimes work their way down river without being permanently caught on a bank, and make it out to the ocean. They are basically giant lily pads. Tide, currents, and winds can carry them far enough to run into and island beach if they don't capsize first. Which can bring dozens of new species to an island. Some of which may see their island populations go extinct. Some won't even make it but die on the way. But a few might adapt and find an open niche or take one over.

@stevecarter8810 Год назад

Golden comment thanks

@ElysetheEevee 4 месяца назад

I'm just thinking of that one floating bunch of vegetation and whatnot that floats toward that bridge every year and a dozen people volunteer wirh boats to move the island back so it doesn't crash into the bridge. It's in the US. In Maine, I think. That was my first thought with this, haha. Your explanation makes a lot of sense, though.

@potaterjim Год назад

"Holy crap, this tenrec has quills, and a vibrant coloring, and even chirps like a cricket." "Hmmmm yes You're right it _does_ live in a lowland"

@Nylak-Otter Год назад

I mean, come up with a one or two word descriptor for that nonsense as a preface to the species. And no, "weird ass tenrec" is not permitted.

@potaterjim Год назад

@@Nylak-Otter the chirping quilled tenrec!

@DM-wp9vq 8 дней назад

Highlighter Skunk-Hog Tenrec

@reywashere5284 Год назад

The same thing happened with Madagascar's frogs - the Mantellidae got there and filled all the frog niches available. They have poison-dart frog lookalikes, tree frog lookalikes, even toad lookalikes!

@pango-y8j Год назад

Aye aye Sir

@ArawnOfAnnwn Год назад

Do they have cane toad lookalikes? Should be a real winning strategy given how successful it's been for the original.

@comfortablynumb9342 Год назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn came toad populations stay in control in their native range. It's only when they get relocated that they get out of control because they have few predators outside their habitat. They're native to Costa Rica and common there, but they're not a threat to the native animals and enough animals eat them to keep them in check.

@victory8928 Месяц назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwncane toads only became as successful as they were cause they were introduced into areas that hadn’t already been able to handle their toxins. If more australian predators could tolerate the poison, cane toads would be in much smaller numbers

@EmmanQuinones5234 Год назад

Carcinaization is convergent while Tenrecification is divergent. While all crabs will become *the one* someday, the tenrecs will become *the many.* Honestly, both prospects are highly terrifying and highly entertaining to consider in thought haha.

@officersoulknight6321 Год назад

Skinwalker mouse

@HaloInverse Год назад

"Wait, _all_ mammals are highly-specialized tenrecs?" _(cocks gun)_ "Always have been."

@raylordofkhalah28 Год назад

its divergent for the tenrecs, and convergent for the specific tenrec and another animal they are very similar to (Example, mole tenrec)

@maximedaunis8292 Год назад

I don't know why, i was expecting to see a fight between a tenrec and a crab

@Musicanimedork01 Год назад

Ratking but tenrecs

@averageduck1327 Год назад

Tenrecs literally are the Ditto's of real life. They look the same but you can tell something isn't quite the same 😂

@draconinja2728 Год назад

They even got them Ditto eyes xD

@francorodriguez3499 Год назад

the eevees

@Nikki0417 Год назад

Madagascar has so many unique species. It's like a tiny Australia that doesn't want to kill you.

@HaloHighlightz Год назад

Lol by far the most spot on description of Madagascar I’ve seen

@lunchb0x1986 Год назад

I hate how everyone thinks Aussie wildlife is dangerous. Yeah there's some deadly spiders and snakes, jelly fish and Crocs up north. But. We have no bears, no mountain lions/cougars/bobcats (I don't know if they're the same things or not), no coyotes and no wolves. I personally think north American wildlife is more dangerous.

@Z4RD4N34 Год назад

@@lunchb0x1986 Bobcats are different. You forgot bison and moose.

@J_Pawsadas-PTSDEnjoyer Год назад

@@lunchb0x1986 bears can't reside in my home, accidentally be stepped on, or appear mostly clear in water

@Nikki0417 Год назад

@@lunchb0x1986 bobcats are a different, much smaller species that aren't known for attacking humans. Also, the top 10 most dangerous snakes all come from Australia. In fact, 20 out of 25 most venomous snakes are from Australia. The reputation's well earned.

@suicicada Год назад

I thought she was going to say “Fish Tenrecs” as the answer to how they got to Madagascar lol

@fishea Год назад

I have heard the rafting thing referred to as "sweepstakes colonization" because of its unlikely odds and huge possible payoffs for the animals involved. Glad to see it explicated here, yes! Go tenrecs!

@loofy530 Год назад

I love these little critters, so very varied and all so very cute!

@michaelcarlton1484 Год назад

The pattern of her blouse and the designs on her collar make her look like Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus.

@ComradeCorvus Год назад

I am honestly surprised that there isn't a tenrec pokemon yet. The lowland streaked one gives off massive electric type vibes.

@empressmanchae Год назад

Oh yes I saw some fanmade ones named Tenric and Tenectric. P cool!

@damiancruz42 9 месяцев назад

Probably because Sega beat them to it

@Z4KIUS Год назад

"endemic to Madagascar" and that explains everything: they took their chance and filled a lot of niches, the same way marsupials turned into an almost dog, an almost badger/wolverine, few other "almosts" and even a weirdo Kangaroo

@NewMessage Год назад

"OMG, hedgehogs are totally out this year. Shrew is where it's at!"

@blobbertmcblob4888 Год назад

Madagascar just needs something that isn't a cat, that looks like a cat. Wait, the Fossa has that covered, nvm.

@ANTSEMUT1 Год назад

It's still part of feliformia, so not that far away from cats.

@MatthewFTabor Год назад

All of those different tenrecs expressing evolutionary convergence with so many other mammals is also a really good example of DIVERGENT evolution, since they're all so much different from each other despite their shared origin.

@Ug-lordetheunmovable Год назад

So what I'm hearing is this little man is real life equivalent to Eevee?

@nerdyfan21 Год назад

Didn’t know Surge’s kind were so interesting haha

@Notabot-2112 Год назад

If the lowland streaked tenrec isn't already the basis for a pokémon, it should be.

@deadlydingus1138 Год назад

It kind of looks like cyndaquil.

@terpsidance. Год назад

It's the basis for a Sonic character, I'll let you guess which one

@chantekiddo2293 Год назад

It would be cool to have one as the base for a base default one and the others as base for various evolutions like eevee

@tonyhakston536 Год назад

@@terpsidance. if you’re talking about Shadow, that’s a misconception. If you’re talking about Surge, I don’t think the specific species of Tenrec was ever stated.

@Zippythewondersquirrel Год назад

Ditto

@PerogiXW Год назад

lowland streaked tenred is like "I will become a dandelion"

@americaroleplayer Год назад

Sometimes I'll get the pin a few days before the video goes up and have several days to build up the anticipation and excitement of seeing these videos. You guys NEVER disappoint! :D

@MikeyandFriendsTNA Год назад

Brilliant episode. I got that old feeling I use to get in school when I was learning something truly fascinating. It was rare because I didn't like school lol but still, great episode

@Auryce Год назад

A little off topic, but the hair color is pretty. Whoever did the gradient did a fantastic job.

@LimeyLassen Год назад

Same for the tenrec!

@BizarreBeasts Год назад

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@SunnySalasar Год назад

I would call that normal mammal radiation, tho it is not just affecting mammals. Predators tend to have converging evolution (claws, bone structure, muscle distribution that you will find across innumerable examples same for the thing below). Herbivores tend to have converging evolution. The tenric is just one very successful adorable little critter that due to it's success in so many niches, was able to "radiate" into all these forms or to say it differently, converged in adaptions to those niches.

@ipos1070 Год назад

Incorrect, Madagascar was in contact with africa as recent as 40,000 years ago. When the ice sheets where larger there was a small land bridge of atolls.

@michaelpytel3280 Год назад

Wait for Tenrecs to get to the Moon.

@GreenPoint_one Год назад

Wait for whale tenrecs 😙🙃

@HYEOL Год назад

This voice is so enjoyable

@eljanrimsa5843 Год назад

Adaptive radiation, a rather typical example of when an inconspicuous species shows up on an island and specializes to fill all the niches

@jimmygarza8896 4 дня назад

Tenrecs when there's an unfilled niche: Fine. I'll do it myself.

@JurassicLion2049 Год назад

Oh my gosh… this is where the protagonist of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs gets his name! Jack Tenrec!!!

@RaquelFoster Год назад

Pretty sure my mom's a Midwest Boomer Tenrec who got washed out to sea in the 1970s. She's also a mammal with a low metabolic rate. I think about 65% of Ohio/Pennsylvania is tenrecs. If it's quiet you can hear them making those cricket noises with their cloaca.

@lillithcollins5192 Год назад

Not at all Tenrec related but I'm loving the green hair. This is what I get for having a Biology major and an art minor... I also can't stay in my lane.

@SarahSutaMFA Год назад

Thank you! As someone who double majored in Biology and Radio/Telvision/Film, I completely understand!!!

@pango-y8j Год назад

Have degree in biology as well been to Madagascar 1998 saw two tenrec species Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️🌵 yes I went to Cal poly San Luis Obispo and then Stockholm university rastafari yes I keep on keeping on evolution did my field study in Mocambique on prawns in the mangrove

@TheReZisTLust Год назад

Actually the color green is available to use because the Greneric was found in 769 BC somewhere in the Northeast of China I think it was 🥺

@Sarah.Riedel Год назад

I love your Pin Club charity! My mom spent 2 years in Sierra Leone with the Peace Corps back in 1970 teaching in a tiny remote village.

@triangledefinition Год назад

I wonder if these historical species rafting events are caused by devastating tsunamis and hurricanes or more singular smaller events.

@kevinlasher2812 9 месяцев назад

Finally, someone from PBS who pronounces niche like "neesh" and not "nitch"! omg I feel so much better now.

@joelbell6075 Год назад

I love learning about weird Earth beasts from Pearl! ❤❤❤❤❤

@SeaDog337 Год назад

I'm calling it right now. Crab Tenrecs.

@jannetteberends8730 Год назад

The color of the presenters hair keep me wondering; is it the lighting or a very sophisticated hair painting. It’s beautiful imo.

@naturalistmind Год назад

Always happy to be reminded that so many non bird animals have been blessed with cloacas

@Markus0021 Год назад

"blessed" with cloacas - ok, we'll go with that...

@kellydalstok8900 Год назад

If human women are prone to cystitis because the urethra and anus are in such close proximity, then what about animals that have a SHARED opening for liquid and solid waste?

@pendlera2959 Год назад

@@kellydalstok8900 Obviously it's not a problem if it's so widespread. Humans are probably different because we often have reasons to hold it whereas animals just go when they need to.

@jayAAlves Год назад

They remind me of ditto trying to mimic other pokémon

@SaiyanHeretic Год назад

IRL Eevee

@michaelpickard5252 Год назад

50 years ago I read in a guiness book of records, that the streaked tenrec has the greatest appetite of any mammal and the shortest gestation period.

@sydneymomma11 Год назад

Oh, what a funky fact to learn! Thanks for sharing.

@georgedunn320 Год назад

Really? Exceeding that of the Pygmy shrew? [Its body weight every 12 hours.]

@theghosthero6173 Год назад

Mind you somehow until about 1000 years ago, tiny Hippos lived on Madagascar. They probably swam the 400km between african and the island, somehow (lower water level?). So the tenrec floting there isn't the wildest idea.

@GaryDunion Год назад

5:18 I think I saw The Cloaca Sitiation supporting R.E.M. in 1986

@monti_skunk Год назад

Pigmy hedgehog tenrecs were my favorite animal in elementary school! :)

@dracodracarys2339 Год назад

imagine if there was a terraformed earth like planet with no vertebrates on it and then someone turned tenrecs loose on it and let them evolve for 500 million years

@duartelopes5223 Год назад

Guaranteed Twilight Zone episode. Person thinks they've travelled back in time for some gunslinging action and gold rush stories, but actually they're in the Tenrec Old West, where tenrec cowboys tend to tenrec cows, vigilantly watching for tenrec wolves.

@jerosjulianjr.infante7971 Год назад

Tenrecina, the world of Tenrecs

@RootVegetabIe Год назад

@@jerosjulianjr.infante7971 A Tenric Tale by Ten Tenric

@bugguyonline Год назад

I LOVE BIZARRE BEASTS!!! thank you for making this great show!!

@nekkidnora Год назад

God, tenrecs have been boggling my mind for years. It's like EVOLUTION GONE CRAZY!

@Zagaroth Год назад

Off topic: I love the green hair look! My wife and I have been experimenting with different dyes for her hair and I occasionally mess with a bit of left over dye for my hair or beard (discovered the hard way that I have to make sure it doesn't have unpleasant fumes for beard dying...)

@kinglyzard Год назад

I love divergent and convergent evolution together like this.

@trenthawkins Год назад

0:50 OH MY GOD THEY DEVELOPED MANDIBLES! ... oh, wait, no, sorry, it was just eating a grub.

@ryanreedgibson Год назад

Another great value for YT! What an awesome channel!

@arved.jeltsch Год назад

Ha, I really expected to hear the term "adaptive radiation" in this context 😮

@comfortablynumb9342 Год назад

So how long until tenrics evolve into crabs?!

@zoolapin Год назад

tenrecs are the origins of choosing a class in mmorpgs

@jonothanthrace1530 Год назад

That first tenrec is what happens when you buy a DIY porcupine and have pieces left over.

@freetalkn657 Год назад

That sounds like a real life Eevee.

@greensteve9307 Год назад

OK, well done to RU-vid for recommending this vid. Subscribed.

@krankarvolund7771 Год назад

And as another weird thing about Tenrecs, they're cousins of elephants, lamantines and other weird african animals ^^

@scottbubb2946 Год назад

When they were handing out niches, the tenrec volunteered for all of them. Aw, man, I made this comment then she said it.

@tobiasnunya4034 5 дней назад

Hearing "free ecological real estate" stated so casually and then remembering the origin of the phrase "it's free real estate" had me really giggling about how much memes have invaded our speech

@smoppet Год назад

I showed a picture of the lowland streaked tenrec to my mom once and when she asked, "what's this?" I just said, "me."

@miguellilly8859 Год назад

1:00 there are so many mole mimic, I did not even know about this one.

@dahemac Год назад

Super nice. Thank you.

@AceofHearth Год назад

Tenrec is a Poison/Fairy Pseudo-Pikachu Pokemon. You can't convince me otherwise.

@FreedomAnderson Год назад

The “Pikachu clones” are always electric type.

@AceofHearth Год назад

@@FreedomAnderson I'm talking about Mimikyu and Azumarill line. Neither are electrics. I didn't say Pikachu clones, I said pseudo-pikachu. Pikachu clones are rodents and tenrecs are not rodentss, so at best they would be pseudo-pikachu, not pikachu clones.

@FreedomAnderson Год назад

@@AceofHearth What does the Azumarill line have to do with Mimikyu? Azumarill is not like Pikachu. Mimikyu is a ghost that wears a costume. It’s actual body does not resemble Pikachu.

@AceofHearth Год назад

@@FreedomAnderson "For months prior to the release of Pokémon Gold and Silver, Marill was often referred to as "Pikablu", likely because of its slight resemblance to Pikachu. " It is even referred to as "Pikablu" on the Topps trading cards for the first movie.

@jeremeybeasley5682 Год назад

Crab final form video iconic

@cicad2007 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video on Tenrics. Never even knew they existed! (Btw, nice blue on your hair). 🙂

@howdy4504 Год назад

"They're from Madagascar" Ah, that makes sense. All the weirdos usually hang out there

@brendanhoffmann8402 Год назад

When I was a kid Tenrecs were my favourite animal!

@sydneymomma11 Год назад

I just learned about them...3 minutes ago, lol. How neat to know about them for such a long time. Can you share some of your favorite facts?

@brendanhoffmann8402 Год назад

@@sydneymomma11 When I was a kid I had a big encyclopedia of animals with illustrations. It didn't have much info but it was the first time I learned about convergent evolution.

@upcycler Год назад

What a great narrator! Thank you

@Frenchylikeshikes Год назад

I'm just amazed at the viodiversity on this planet. I discover animals and plants I had never heard of in my life before all the time.

@ThatJaymsWisdom Год назад

Still the best channel on RU-vid. And today, also the best hair on RU-vid.

@DisheveledSuccess Год назад

Ah yes the Hadel Tenrec 0:58 Hadel sounds intensifying 😂 really neat versatile lil anachronisms

@sion8 Год назад

I've never heard of these until today! They're like Ditto.

@iskog.831 23 дня назад

Wake me up when they find out all 10 Recs.

@alicearaujo2030 Год назад

they're like irl eevees

@Qossuth Год назад

Today I learned about tenrecs. Thanks for that :)

@user-un8tv1pp8m 5 месяцев назад

I am loving that hair colour scheme!

@PaintedDog Год назад

0:52 this Tenrec’s eyes makes it look like Ditto trying to impersonate a hedgehog

@jamielandis4606 Год назад

This one is really bizarre!

@9The0Unknown7 Год назад

Pretty confident that hedgehogs have spines, not quills. Never been stuck by my hedgies, no barbs. Had a porcupine quill stick in my fresh though. Might be wrong…. But my ears caught that.

@MuFu23 11 часов назад

I now wish to build my own Tenrec-based ecosystem. All the keystone species shall be the various forms of tenrecs. If a tenrec cannot fit the role needed, we will make one.

@capybaraswacreatures1428 Месяц назад

The Tenrec Tenrec 🤣🤣

@MakingtheCase Год назад

So the Tenrecs are basically the real-world versions of Ditto?

@ste76539 Год назад

Thank you for saying the word 'niche' correctly. Every time I hear a RU-vidr say "nitch" a little piece of my soul dies. Also, cool hair ;-)

@NekoNinja13 Год назад

Her hair is fabulous! 🤩

@v.m.9198 11 месяцев назад

Science: Stay in your lane. Tenrecs: Hater.

@potatoeoverlord9430 Год назад

I was distracted and I thought at first they were saying that Tenrecs were a kind of crab, which would be interesting indeed.

@alexw.7097 Год назад

I now need to look up giant otter shrews??? So many weird animals in this one, even outside of the tenrecs

@fslayer1290 Год назад

It seems the tenrec is the closest thing to a real life Eevee. 😊

@jamiebray8532 Год назад

Plus Madagascar was a lot closer as well 50 million years ago.

@CaritasGothKaraoke Год назад

“…does something no other mammal does: they stridulate.” Me: summons cat by rubbing fingers together. I am, in fact, a mammal.

@pamelapilling6996 Год назад

Tenrec are amazing Bizarre Beasties.

@seaturtleslastname8286 Год назад

Your hair is stunning cant stop staring lmao

@TheJuggtron Год назад

Quick query about the tectonic animation at 2:30, is the Indian plate now not related to the Australian plate?

@wynoglia Год назад

Tenrecs see the drip around them and go "bet"

@Eveseptir 9 месяцев назад

I think I'm in love, with tenrecs.

@Hawkpelt94 Год назад

Can you explain the difference between convergent evolution vs parallel evolution for someone who is having a hard time understanding from Google search results?

@FreedomAnderson Год назад

Convergent evolution is distantly related species, parallel evolution is closely related species.