You forgot to mention the feral camels of Western Australia, which due to their unique environment, are already beginning to evolve into their own unique sub-genus.
I mean, I don't think it's that surprising that camels could have lived in (sub)arctic environments. Especially considering Bactrian camels. Have you ever seen how many clothes people from Mongolia wear? Also, deserts get cold at night. The main adaptation in common with these two environments is to the dryness and scarcity of resources.
Well the loose definition of a "desert", is an area lacking in liquid water. A desert can be hot or cold. And many of the animals we see today, that we associate with warmer environments...either originated in colder environments, or had relatives that lived in colder environments. Camels and horses, really thrived in North America, and much of this time was during ice ages or cooler/drier interglacial periods. And the camels that made the first trek from North America to Eurasia, were a cold weather species.
Actually, Whales (Cetacea) are more often treated as a separate order from Artiodactyla, to be fair, the superorder Laurasiatheria contains only eight extant orders, Soricomorpha (Shrews, Moles, Desmans, and Solenodons), Chiroptera (Bats), Erinaceomorpha (Hedgehogs, Gymnures, and Moonrat), Pholidota (Pangolins), Carnivora (Carnivorans), Perissodactyla (Odd-Toed Hoofed Mammals), Artiodactyla (Even-Toed Hoofed Mammals), and Cetacea (Whales), therefore this more often treats Artiodactyla and Cetacea as separate orders and the orders Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha are not closely related and do not form a monophyletic group.
If you like talking about this so much why not do so in your own RU-vid videos? This comment is only tangentially relevant to the video and doesn't even directly address it.
There are eight extant species of camel placed into four genera, a camel is any even-toed hoofed mammal representing the family Camelidae, all extant camels live exclusively in Africa, Asia, and South America, earlier camels lived in North America Taxonomy: • Family: Camelidae (Camels) •• Subfamily: Camelinae (Modern Camels) ••• Tribe: Lamini (Modern Humpless Camels) •••• Genus: Vicugna (Vicuna and Alpaca) ••••• Species: Vicugna vicugna (Vicuna) ••••• Species: Vicugna pacos (Alpaca) •••• Genus: Lama (Guanaco and Llama) ••••• Species: Lama guanicoe (Guanaco) ••••• Species: Lama glama (Llama) ••• Tribe: Camelini (Humped Camels) •••• Genus: Dromedarius (Dromedaries) ••••• Species: Dromedarius arabicus (Asian Dromedary) ••••• Species: Dromedarius dromedarius (African Dromedary) •••• Genus: Camelus (Two-Humped Camels) ••••• Species: Camelus bactrianus (Greater Two-Humped Camel) ••••• Species: Camelus ferus (Lesser Two-Humped Camel) Contrary to popular belief, not all camels are found exclusively in deserts, only dromedaries (genus Dromedarius) are used to living in deserts and other tropical climate such as savannas and jungles, while other camels (genera Lama, Vicugna, and Camelus) do not live in deserts at all, they are used to much colder or more temperate climate, the camels found in South America such as llamas, guanacos, vicunas, and alpacas live in the mountainous areas of Southern South America, while the two-humped camels or bactrian camels are found in the Himalayas, the main natural predator of the two camels native to the Himalayas is the Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia), other predators include the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), and Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), camels are one of the remnants of megafauna, this makes sense as Africa and Asia are the only continents to have many currently living megafauna that are placental mammals.
Actually, it's debatable that Llamas lived only in mountainous zones, as there is archeological evidence that a short variety of Llamas existed in the coastal zone of Perú and that it was literally wiped out by Spanish colonizers, who despised it, favouring european cattle instead
This makes closer sense since the fur of the Greater Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus), Lesser Bactrian Camel (Camelus ferus), Guanaco (Lama guanicoe), Llama (Lama glama), Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna), and Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is longer, shaggier, and denser than the fur of both the African Dromedary (Dromedarius dromedarius) and Asian Dromedary (Dromedarius arabicus), this makes dromedaries the only tropical camels while all other camels do not live in tropical climate such as deserts and jungles, while all other camels are not found in deserts or jungles.
Fun fact: camels can eat the creosol bush found in the American southwest. The creosol bush has adapted specifically to be unappealing to depredation. This behavior only reinforces there north American ancestry.
@@beastmaster0934 I'd say if anything it evolved to not be eaten by every other mammal or animal, and it just so happened the camel didn't have any fucks to give then and now. But that's what I like about Evolution and science there is an explanation it's just the biggest factor is time
Thanks for doing a video on my favorite animal Animal Origins. I always like seeing camels in zoo's and it is amazing to see fossil camels that lived all over North America until the end of the pleistocene epoch and during the late miocene and pliocene epochs they migrated into Eurasia, Africa, and South America which means they lived on every continent except Australia ( at least until the 1800's when they were introduced there by British colonists) and Antarctica. My favorite prehistoric camel is aepycamelus because it has a long neck like a giraffe and is nicknamed the giraffe-camel.
I would never have thought someone’s favourite animal would be the camel, I guess they are very useful in the desert and their milk is apparently highly nutritious and really good for you, have you ever tried it?
Great video! The first time I have seen this kind of topic on Camel evolution was PBS Eons version or take on the topic. They talked about how Notth American camels evolved from forest-dwelling animals like horses, to the ships of the deserts we know today. Perhaps you can a video on the evolution of whales and dolphins, cats and dogs, the big cats or about the bear dogs.
Most animals that were once domesticated, lose their original wild adapted form, through the process of domestication. Once that form is gone, it's gone. Hence the reason that them reverting back to the wild(for various reasons) makes them feral. They are not the original form going back to the wild, but an altered one.
@@Ispeakthetruthify Thanks for the explanation. But then what are wild descendents of feral animals? Are we just not far enough from the origins of domestication itself to say that such organisms exist? That's what makes little sense to me. Like, the dingo is the descendent of domesticated dogs that arrived with humans (If I recall correctly anywat) but up until 2018 it was given an IUCN listing like any other wild animal, after that point the organization considers them feral dogs. It all seems very arbitrary, which I guess IS what classification is.
ive noticed that some of my paleontology channels will release videos about the exact same animal within the same week. Are you guys getting together and discussing this? Is it just a coincidence? how does this keep happening?
One possibility is that they take video recommendations and have an overlapping audience, so the audience is requesting the same types of videos to all channels, and then those videos get made by multiple channels. A less friendly possibility is that one channel hears about what another channel is doing when they post teasers and previews in the days/weeks prior and are trying to beat their “competition” to it.
Whales (Cetacea) are more often treated as a separate order from Artiodactyla, to be fair, there are only eight extant orders within the superorder Laurasiatheria, being, Soricomorpha (Shrews, Moles, Desmans, and Solenodons), Chiroptera (Bats), Erinaceomorpha (Hedgehogs, Gymnures, and Moonrat), Pholidota (Pangolins), Carnivora (Carnivorans), Perissodactyla (Odd-Toed Hoofed Mammals), Artiodactyla (Even-Toed Hoofed Mammals), and Cetacea (Whales), therefore Cetacea and Artiodactyla are more often treated as distinct orders and the orders Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha are not closely related and do not form a monophyletic group.
YET AGAIN, here's Reno posting outdated, inaccurate/made up taxonomies. FOR THOSE UNAWARE, this commenter; Dogmatically ignores criticism and continually posts flawed taxonomies. It's always the same; he posts flawed taxonomy, I correct it, he ignores it and posts even more bs.
🤔 Why do I see lots of dromedars having just one hump on your intro when you’re talking about camels having two? At least that’s what I learned to distinguish them 🤷♀️
Isn't the arctic technically a desert? so it's not really surprising that they would have evolved there. Also IDK about the Middle East/Africa but I'm pretty sure I've heard that while the summers are pretty hot, the Gobi gets really cold in the Winter even today.
Even humans do not mourn the death of their children like camels, they become crazy, walk without purpose and make sad sounds, and do not overcome their sadness like other creatures. And if her owner wants to make her go somewhere, he takes her dead child and she follows him
Did you know people artificially breed camals to llamas there called camas. This hybrid looks alot like what you would think some of the extinct species looked like
4:46 The artist seems to have gone out of his way to show Miolabis spitting at the predator. It does not seem likely this would have been a particularly effective defense strategy.
I enjoy your educational videos and the only negative thing that I can say about them is the audio is quiet and I have to turn my volume all the way up to hear what you are saying.
I have basically been looking for a channel like this ever since I stumbled upon RU-vid like... 10 years ago. Awesome man, thank you so much for your work!
Hi pal, I've just discovered your channel and loving it, sometimes I spontaneously wonder the most varied of things. History and evolution based on philosophy is my thing, personally. I'd love to see a video on humans, but more analysis like how or why we didn't keep snouts or why we're bipedal etc, if that's something you would do? :) Thanks so much for sharing your studies with the world :D
lol captive breeding programs for the wild camel. While it's not so bad, as they won't be intentionally artificially selecting. They'll remove the natural selective pressures and introduce artificial ones. End result pseudo domestic wild camels. Kind of self defeating.
Wow CAMELS woo fuggin’ hoo! I’m SICK of hearing of all these woo-hah animals while there’s one group of mammals that has been ignored and neglected. To this day you hardly see any documentaries and hardly any videos on them: I’m talking about LAGOMORPHS FUCKING STOP IGNORING THEM ALREADY!!😡🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰
@@wolfie1703Easy: I am on Lagomorphs AKA Bunnies AKA rabbits and hares 🐇🐰and pikas. All adorable, complex, cute, unique, playful, creative and smart, like dolphins, but only better at communicating once you bother to understand how they communicate. Most ancient cultures knew all of this and worshiped them because they were in much closer contact with nature - only stupid, vapid modern culture so completely out of touch with nature forgot about them as it killed ancient traditions like Native American, African, and its own European and Asian ones.🐰✨❤
@dubistverrueckt Lagomorphs have been overshadowed by their cousins, the rodents and this is not okay. Most people don't even know there is an order called Lagomorpha. They are a very interesting group
