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Nature: We need an inflatable fish! Evolution: Brilliant idea! Let's do it! Nature: Right, how are we going to build this thing? Evolution: Well, I've got this big box of leftover shark teeth...
You're funny! There are such smart funny Fans O'Clint! I think we have the smartest, funniest fans! It's because of who we love watching! If TH-cam gave awards for the most popular TH-cam Host? Channel owner? Person? Whatever! Clint Laidlaw would be the winner HANDS DOWN! We need a meeting! Have your people get in touch with my people and let's get this going! I'm going to call TH-cam as soon as this video is over. Does anyone have TH-cam's phone number?
They're definitely feared in the fishkeeping hobby.... They bite clams like potato chips and accidentally kill fish that wander near its mouth, thinking it's a potato chip. It would definitely eat your finger if you're careless.
"They can't take in or release gas from their swimbladders through their mouths like you and many other fish species can" might be one the best things I've heard Clint say XD The consistency with which you take into account that land vertebrates are fishes is the kind of quality I watch these videos for!
Freshwater pea puffers deserve a Bet Pet video. Those little guys are hysterically funny, very smart and inquisitive, and among the most endearingly personable freshwater fish available and reasonably accessible as a pet to the average person. I used to keep a group of them in a densely planted tank where they were fed bldder snails and bloodworms, and every time I was within sight of the aquarium, they would not just watch me, but would follow my movements and actively try to get my attention. 11/10, will keep again when I'm able to set up another dedicated puffer tank.
Yeah but for anyone else reading this who isn't aware, they generally do need a dedicated tank because, cute though they are, they will ruthlessly shred the fins of almost any non-puffs in the tank. They don't play very nice with others, but they are the answer to the prayers of anyone whose tank has been taken over by snails. They will decimate a snail population.
I love this idea of formulating a hypothesis at the start of the video and then trying to answer it throughout the video. It helps me keep the attention and emulates the scientific process. Congratulations!
Case in point: Flamingos man. Extremophile therapods that not only live but _choose to breed_ in water that's so caustic it strips the flesh from most animals' bones. They can survive pretty much being frozen solid and living at extreme altitudes (4000m+). They have convergently evolved structures for filter feeding with baleen whales...and they're bright shocking pink and look ridiculous (juxtaposing perfectly with how hard as nails they actually are as animals).
@@nerfherder4284I think there is some evidence that having iridescence in their eyes can help some fish see further in water, I’m not sure exactly how that works but that’s what I’ve heard lol. The other theory is just that it helps make the eye less obvious so that the fish can camouflage better
If there was a Disney animated movie starring one of those box fish I would have assumed that they had taken lots of creative liberties. That looks absolutely unreal
Clint’s impression of a normal person is so relatable to me! I rarely succeed in appearing to be a normal person, at least once I’ve started talking, so I’ve generally stopped trying.
Clint's typical interest in animals is my new favorite bit of any series "get a normal pet like a dog" is something I thought I would never hear him say. Even my most unreasonable reptiles are far more manageable than a dog could ever be, then I would be called a nerd.
I dislike it, because he is confusing people with unscientific sensationalism, where he pretends that "fish" is a clade, and therefore dinosaurs are fish, when they are not.
@@KAZVorpal it's more that how we think of "fish" is vague and misleading. He often frames it as a running joke but from a certain perspective every tetrapod is a fish because tetrapods evolved from the same fishlike ancestor as some other fish. If you draw a clade to include all fish, you can't arbitrarily exclude tetrapods just because you think they're too different from the rest of the group; we still share notable traits with distant species that also share a common ancestor.
@@KAZVorpal Bony fish, from which all land vertebrates evolved, are a clade and are considered fish, so I agree with Clint about referring to 'water fishes'
@@KAZVorpal What if.... there SHOULD be a clade "fish" but the zoologists are cowards who resist this eminently sensible idea because of their own flimsy inhibitions.
Clint's "my favorite clade of ray-finned fishes" reminds me of the time I went to the zoo with a friend's family and halfway through the zoo, one of the kids said, "They can't ALL be your favorite animal! You've said that at every exhibit!" and I had to clarify that the fossa is my favorite mammal and the barn owl is my favorite bird, but I also have a favorite feline (snow leopard), canine (painted dogs), corvid (common crow), Lemur (aye aye), non-human primate (golden-handed tamarin), and pretty much every other grouping of animals. Want to know my favorite species in the genus Leopardus? (sadly, she did not. I think she thought I was a bit eccentric. But I'm okay with that. It's the Geoffroy's cat, by the way. They're amazing.)
I learned about the relation of some of these fishes when building my Pokémon phylogeny. (Yes, extremely nerdy, I know.) Quilfish/Overkwill is a porcupine puffer, Alomomola is a mola, and Bruxish is a trigger fish. It even has the weird human-like teeth. Also, my child once had a book about animals where it mentioned that pufferfish inflate their bodies with AIR. I almost cried. Mistakes like that in animal books drive me nuts now.
I thought there a few snakes (hognose and some garter snakes) but they are actually very mildly venomous. So mild that for a long time garter snakes were thought to be nonvenomous. They both get poison from eating toads. If Clint's done an amphibian video, then he's had some poisonous animals that weren't venomous.
@@eotikurac One animal bites another one. If the animal that was bit dies, the other animal was poisonous. If the animal that bit dies, the other animal was venomous.
I have some video ideas from a raptor nerd. Please do a video on the caracaras and falcons, OR a video about the Harris Hawk, the only dinosaur we know for 100% certain hunts in packs. Heck, a phylogeny video on the entire Accipitridae family would ROCK. More people need to see videos of goshawks flying through the forest and packs of Harris Hawks in the desert! Our living predatory dinosaurs are so incredible.
I've never know which was correct. I knew both words but not their true meaning. I thought "Fish" meant ALL fish. I thought "fishes" was wrong. Deer and Deers gets me too. Deer? Plural and singular? Deers? 2 deer? Oh heck..
And they can TOTALLY recognize people! My doctors office has a Puffer in their GORGEOUS Salt water aquarium. I've at watched other people walk up to it and look at the fish. When I walk up to it, he swim-runs over to me and I swear he likes me!! I get to feed him when I visit and he is just my favorite Lil fishy! He maintains eye contact with me...I wish I could afford a salt water tank. I'd only have coral and puffers!😊
Amazing video! This one really made me think. My takeaways are: 1) Rib loss is an exaptation to puffing in Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae, meaning the ancestral loss of their ribs allowed the evolution of their puffing behaviour, as opposed to the loss of their ribs occuring because of the evolution of their puffing behaviour 2) Genetic analysis is essential to establish precise evolutionary relationships between clades, which themselves are necessay to differentiate adaptations, exaptations and atavisms. Based on morphological analysis alone most traits would be considered adaptations, imo 3) Molas are closely related to pufferfishes. That's news! 4) Tetraodontiformes is a stinkin' rad group of water fishes 🔥
The bit at the end was really convincing. I'd love shorts like that. But more than anything, it made me appreciate your regular videos. They can be a refuge of wonder and excitement.
That was exactly what I thought the second he said that!😅😅 this is going to be one of my fav videos of his! What a man! I so jealous of Leisha! She's so beautiful and funny. They are so perfect together. She has one of the rare, truly Good, God and animal loving man. They are rare and difficult to find.... but they're out there... somewhere. I also know he truly thinks that HE'S the lucky one. He adores her. Isn't love grand?❤
Yeah, but not Will. No offense, Will, but you're Will, and this really needs to be someone named Clint. Bonus points if their last name isn't Laidlaw, but something close, like Clint Ludlow, or maybe Clint Restingregulation.
Love puffer fishes too. I have pure freshwater ones in my aquarium, there are a few species that are freshwater, most are marine or brackish... Mines are carinotetraodon irrubesco 😊 By the way, they use their caudal fin as a rudder indeed, but it's a secondary use: the main use is rapid acceleration, so propulsion like most fishes. It's not used for cruising, only very short intense acceleration for evasion or predation, sometimes intraspecific fights between males. This is the case for all freshwater puffers (tetraodons) I have observed, I guess it's the same for marine or brackish ones...
You've made me very happy. I love Puffers and would love to have one. I thought they could only live in Salt water!! They have fresh water puffers too!! I'm starting my search today! Thankyou!
@@susanmartin3762 you have multiple pure freshwater species, from the cheap easy to find (in my place, Europe) carinotetraodon travancoricus (very small, 1 inch), and never had success keeping them), the red eyed 4 species (carinotetraodon irrubesco, lorteti, salivator and boornensis), my preferred (2-3 inches), tetraodon schoutedeni (very very nice but hard to find and expensive, 4-5 inches ), and quite different Amazon puffer (schooling and more active, relatively fast swimmer, but with a lot of problem due to teeth overgrowth - 2 ''). You have also much bigger ones like fahaka and mbu but those require seriously big freshwater tanks... And there are also very inactive and very predatory species which tend to burrow, I do not remember the names (suvaati?)... So yes, a lot of possibilities
There are a lot of species you can choose, the very small carinotetraodon travancoricus (1''), cheap and the easiest to find at least in europe, but never had success keeping those. My preferred, the red eye species (carinotetraodon irrubesco, lorteti, boornensis and salivator, 2-3''), the very nice but expensive and hard to find tetraodon schoutedeni 3-4'', much larger ones like fahaka and mbu but those needs seriously big freshwater tank, too large for most people. And you also have inactive burrowing predatory species, like suvaati IIRC. And there is the amazon puffer, a small (2-3'') very active schooling puffer, very different as it needs to be in group (while the other puffer tends to male - male fight and nip fins of other fishes, so groups or communal tank with other species are difficult)... But the Amazon puffer suffer from teeth overgrow in captivity, that's why I never tried those. Good luck 👍
Hi ya’ great video! Not sure if you’ve heard this before (you probably have) but for the sake of those who haven’t. As a short hand for the difference between poisonous and venomous: if you bite it and you die , it’s poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it’s venomous. Apologies if this has been provided elsewhere.
It is useful since at least in Spanish we don't make a distinction between the two if it it is a substance than when introduced in the body kills you or harms you badly it is "veneno" doesn't matter if it's injected or ingested, so for a long time I didn't know the difference. We do technically have a word that is cognate with the english word poison but it is more of a synonym that also means "toxic harmful substance"
My grandmother had a huge house when I was a kid. She liked hosting big family gatherings at the holidays where everyone spent the night. In her basement, she had a bar, and the lights were made with taxidermied porcupine puffer fish.
I kept a saltwater tank for awhile and puffers were some of my favorite fish to keep. Just so friggin cute and interactive. The fact they will murder all your snails and many of your hermit crabs was less than ideal, but they’re worth it for their cute blimping around and exploring. Jawfish are probably the only fish I kept that might compete, but I had a lot more success with puffers - the Jawfish kept deciding to jump out of my aquariums.
I loved this episode, these are some of the coolest fishes. I was hoping you would touch on the short boxy shape as a defence mechanism. I caught a documentary some time ago where they demonstrated strikes being deflected. Instead of out swimming a predator, the puffer simply changed direction to avoid the strike. It was like Akedo.
Giant Ocean Sunfish are so awesome. I love them. Them and the weird seahorse faced fish. Bizarro Clint? I would LOVE to see Mr. Clinton's General Animal Interests. "I dont have a PHD, I'm not a teacher. Is this a good pet? I dunno maybe? Have you considered a pet rock?"
The structure of this video is so, so engaging! I love the approach of showing stepwise how phylogeny can be used to make informed guesses on the evolutionary history of traits rather than just presenting the ending hypothesis, and with a crazy cool example 😁
I’ve raised pea puffers for years and they are so fascinating! They are so curious and observant! You can walk by the tank and they will watch you plus they would often make extensive eye contact with you. You could see them look at you for a little, look at a snail to snack on, then look at you to see if you’re still there watching. They definitely aren’t as smart as like a dolphin or octopus but they are still smart little guys
Conspicuously spiny pufferfishes are my favourite animal so my dream Clint's Reptiles video was a phylogeny video on the Tetraodontiformes. Thank you for making my dream come true Clint! And thank you for teaching me so many new things about my favourite family of fishes. I had no idea the three-toothed puffers even existed!
I love the mola mola! What a weird and wonderful bunch of fishes! Brings me back to my vertebrate bio class big time. Also yes, please, more 'normal guy' Clint! You can play the character so well!
I was diving and turned around to see a very spiny pufferfish, almost needed a change of underwear! Today I learned that I need not be worried as I wasn't going to eat it 😂 thanks for the information!
Another excellent video Clint! Did not know pufferfishes were related to sunfish 💚 On one of my snorkels I had the pleasure of spotting a large Shaw's Cowfish and the iridescent patterning was beautiful to watch. Now I know why they seemed so chill with me taking a silly amount of videos filming them.
Every phylogeny video helps me learn more about not just animals, but creating my own evolutionary branches for my world building! Thank you for learning!
Whenever I'm in the mood to learn something and not sure if I want to do a proper deep dive on my own, I always come here to watch (or rewatch) your phylogeny videos! They are so interesting and I love how you make the information accessible and digestible -- you're an excellent educator! I also love the other video formats you do, I just have to say that these videos are some of my favorite content on the entirety of youtube! I'm hoping to be able to support you on Patreon in the near future, but for now I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us and giving me good foundations to continue learning zoology on my own as well :)
Dude I have never seen those little yellow box fishes before today. They're crazy adorable! Thanks for showing us all so many cool species. The skeleton of the box fish was crazy too! I thought they were normal puffers too
Great episode Clint, some fascinating fish. I do like the faces of the puffer and box fishes......the black spotted puffer/dog faced puffer possibly being my favourite . Trigger fish are often gorgeously coloured, but I learned to give the goliath trigger fish a wide berth if they showed you their sides - they'll bite bits off your swimming fins apparently 😮
Super interesting video, in an easy to follow format! Loved the bit at the end with a "normal" Clint - would watch more for fun, but the true draw is your effusive and infectious excitement about the details!
5:26 this almost reminds me of the Cars anatomy meme the way these guys just look like cartoons. Like its hard to imagine complex organs and body functions behind that cute face. 😭
@@croingan9749 Not quite at the cutoff yet, then. We have the second installment on insects coming soon (maybe 2hrs?) and someone else was asking for jellyfish, which seems like a topic with a lot of weird side branches. I think he's got the material.
I love pufferfish, their face is so derpy and look like the puppies of the sea❤. I made a sculpture of a porcupine puffer in ceramics class and my teacher was impressed with my techniques.
This was such a great video on how we determine ancestral traits. You could base a whole assignment just on having students give their own thoughts on how they think it went and why.
Clint one of the interesting about things about Poppers is they love to explore their enclosures so the more that they're escaped and filled with plants and such they love it they will chomp on clamps snails mussels that kind of stuff depending on the size of the puffer you don't want to feed so the tea huge to something small and they always have to be chewing on something otherwise their beaks will grow too large and they won't be able to feed anymore or you'll have to file down the teeth. Were the more interesting things about puffers too is about their eyes as being independently movable is those puffers that live in a home that has a television nearby they will watch the TV or if they're in a fish store aquarium store they will watch the customers and they recognize certain customers to come in often they're like swim up to them like little puppy dogs and like fan of fins and like pressure teeth against the glass and smile now there's a real smile but they pull their teeth the the lips back so you can see their teeth they're just a really cool fish they're very highly intelligent and they get depressed if they're putting a place where they can't hunt for snails at least and can't interact with the stuff right in their tanks they love to play with plants they don't chew them up they just like to swim in them and hide them they're like little caves anything that's can interest them and give them some place to feel safe and comfortable They love any place that is a little Heidi holes or grottoes between plants they love that stuff and they really do well in in pairs or trios so long as they're not all the same sex if you have one male and two females you still might have approached but not as bad as having two males and one female but the best way to have it is one male one female and have fun with it.
Puffers are my fav fishes for sure! I kept a green spotted puffer, in a brackish/esturine tank for just short of 8 years. I also had to become proficient at raiding snails! Puffers have such interesting charming personalities. The only reason I don’t still have “her” is that her tank developed a sudden catastrophic leak. I still grieve.
Love the videos. This is a nitpick but I really like when you say the number of species for each family, and felt it was missing for most of the families in this video. Gives a sense of the family's scale. Also, if you want to hear which group here I think is the coolest, it's definitely the porcupine puffers.
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Steve's ghost is smiling.
2,700 kg can also me called 2.7 metric tons or in a more fun way, 2.7 MegaGram (Mg).
Hey Clint Laidlaw, could you do a video addressing the newly discovered anaconda species that's supposedly bigger than the green?
"If you are a normal person..."
Yeah, I think that ship has sailed for most of us on here.
Some normies get lost here looking for cat videos. It's been known to happen.
The spiny puffer skeleton looks exactly how I would expect a bad Halloween skeleton of a puffer fish to look
Which ironically makes it a _good_ Halloween skeleton.
Same. I have a bsc in Zoology and i didnt know
I swear I thought he was going to say that was a fake skeleton. I'm shocked that's actually real...
The poor thing looks like it has that disease that turns muscles into bones.
@@Aliandrini feel so bad for people with that disease! I think Special Books By Special Kids recent did a video on a woman with that disease.
Clint: this absolutely wonderful animal
Pufferfish: *blorb*
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Nature: We need an inflatable fish!
Evolution: Brilliant idea! Let's do it!
Nature: Right, how are we going to build this thing?
Evolution: Well, I've got this big box of leftover shark teeth...
Adam: What do I have to give for a wife and companion in life?
Lord: A rib.
His wanton friend Puffer: Take them all! Take them ALL!
You're funny! There are such smart funny Fans O'Clint! I think we have the smartest, funniest fans! It's because of who we love watching! If TH-cam gave awards for the most popular TH-cam Host? Channel owner? Person? Whatever! Clint Laidlaw would be the winner HANDS DOWN! We need a meeting! Have your people get in touch with my people and let's get this going! I'm going to call TH-cam as soon as this video is over. Does anyone have TH-cam's phone number?
Every time I talk to puffer fish aquarists it turns out they've nicknamed one of them something like "the finger eater"
More then a few divers have lost a finger or two due to poking a puffer to much.
They're definitely feared in the fishkeeping hobby.... They bite clams like potato chips and accidentally kill fish that wander near its mouth, thinking it's a potato chip. It would definitely eat your finger if you're careless.
CLINT'S TYPICAL INTEREST IN ANIMALS I WANT TO WATCH THAT
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It'd be the NileGreen of Clint's Reptiles.
Clint's Neurotypical Experience
@@greenefieldmann3014 It would start that way, but I have a feeeeling it would end up closer to NileBlue. 🤣 Just pure chaos
"They can't take in or release gas from their swimbladders through their mouths like you and many other fish species can" might be one the best things I've heard Clint say XD
The consistency with which you take into account that land vertebrates are fishes is the kind of quality I watch these videos for!
But that's incorrect. A swim bladder is a type of lung; a lung is not a type of swim bladder.
@@tulliusexmisc2191 As far as I know, lungs evolved from swim bladders
@@2424LarsOther way around! Some ray-finned fish like gars have functional primitive lungs and no swim bladder
@@alexanderacosta48 Exactly, because the swimbladder has evolved to become those primitive lungs, that's how I've been taught it
fish first breathed water with gills and floated with their swim bladers, them some fish started using their swim bladers to breath.
Freshwater pea puffers deserve a Bet Pet video. Those little guys are hysterically funny, very smart and inquisitive, and among the most endearingly personable freshwater fish available and reasonably accessible as a pet to the average person. I used to keep a group of them in a densely planted tank where they were fed bldder snails and bloodworms, and every time I was within sight of the aquarium, they would not just watch me, but would follow my movements and actively try to get my attention. 11/10, will keep again when I'm able to set up another dedicated puffer tank.
Yeah but for anyone else reading this who isn't aware, they generally do need a dedicated tank because, cute though they are, they will ruthlessly shred the fins of almost any non-puffs in the tank.
They don't play very nice with others, but they are the answer to the prayers of anyone whose tank has been taken over by snails. They will decimate a snail population.
I love this idea of formulating a hypothesis at the start of the video and then trying to answer it throughout the video. It helps me keep the attention and emulates the scientific process. Congratulations!
Agreeded !
Yes, though in this case he makes a good argument the ancestors had all three of these features.
We had a pet Fahaka Puffer for years. She was astonishingly intelligent and hilariously belligerent.
Her name was Martha. Yes. Martha Fahaka.
😂 Samuel L Jackson would be proup
I didn't even read it as "fahaka" at first. I read it as "fahka" lmfao
“Clint’s Typical Interest In Animals” NEEDS to be a thing, if only for April 1.
"No living dinosaur is cooler than a great white shark"
Now that's fighting talk that is 😂
Ok! Let's go! 🐦🐓🦅🦉🦜🕊️🦢🦆🦩🦚🐧 vs 🦈. Please name your living dinosaur that is cooler than a great white
Case in point: Flamingos man. Extremophile therapods that not only live but _choose to breed_ in water that's so caustic it strips the flesh from most animals' bones. They can survive pretty much being frozen solid and living at extreme altitudes (4000m+). They have convergently evolved structures for filter feeding with baleen whales...and they're bright shocking pink and look ridiculous (juxtaposing perfectly with how hard as nails they actually are as animals).
@@jredmane Haha just replied to my own post with flamingos as a starter for 10 😂 hear me out with that one!
Secretary Birds. ... At least that's my answer before I start remembering how metal flamingos are.
I’m going with the black sicklebill
Oh, wow. Those giant iridescent eyes on the pufferfish makes them look like plushies.
There must be a function for it right? Seems like little flakes of glitter floating on their lens.
@@nerfherder4284I think there is some evidence that having iridescence in their eyes can help some fish see further in water, I’m not sure exactly how that works but that’s what I’ve heard lol. The other theory is just that it helps make the eye less obvious so that the fish can camouflage better
If there was a Disney animated movie starring one of those box fish I would have assumed that they had taken lots of creative liberties. That looks absolutely unreal
I'd argue this is your best phylogenetic video. The exploration of evolution here taught me so much!! Well done sir!
Clint’s impression of a normal person is so relatable to me! I rarely succeed in appearing to be a normal person, at least once I’ve started talking, so I’ve generally stopped trying.
The closest living relative of the group are anglerfish, which are also ribless. I think it is very likely that this trait is ancestral.
Clint's typical interest in animals is my new favorite bit of any series "get a normal pet like a dog" is something I thought I would never hear him say. Even my most unreasonable reptiles are far more manageable than a dog could ever be, then I would be called a nerd.
I've never heard of a box fish before now and it is easily the cutest fish I've ever seen.
Love the constant use of the term "water fishes"
I dislike it, because he is confusing people with unscientific sensationalism, where he pretends that "fish" is a clade, and therefore dinosaurs are fish, when they are not.
@@KAZVorpal it's more that how we think of "fish" is vague and misleading. He often frames it as a running joke but from a certain perspective every tetrapod is a fish because tetrapods evolved from the same fishlike ancestor as some other fish. If you draw a clade to include all fish, you can't arbitrarily exclude tetrapods just because you think they're too different from the rest of the group; we still share notable traits with distant species that also share a common ancestor.
@@KAZVorpal Bony fish, from which all land vertebrates evolved, are a clade and are considered fish, so I agree with Clint about referring to 'water fishes'
@@KAZVorpal What if.... there SHOULD be a clade "fish" but the zoologists are cowards who resist this eminently sensible idea because of their own flimsy inhibitions.
@@cobusvanderlinde6871 One might even say the scientists inhibitions are a bit.... fishy
Why is this one of my favorite series ever? So upbeat, so educational and so FUN!
Same!
i love getting a personal biology lesson every few days :)
Me too bro
I have to believe this video was made for me and me alone.
I keep three species of puffer and three species of trigger!
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Clint's "my favorite clade of ray-finned fishes" reminds me of the time I went to the zoo with a friend's family and halfway through the zoo, one of the kids said, "They can't ALL be your favorite animal! You've said that at every exhibit!" and I had to clarify that the fossa is my favorite mammal and the barn owl is my favorite bird, but I also have a favorite feline (snow leopard), canine (painted dogs), corvid (common crow), Lemur (aye aye), non-human primate (golden-handed tamarin), and pretty much every other grouping of animals. Want to know my favorite species in the genus Leopardus? (sadly, she did not. I think she thought I was a bit eccentric. But I'm okay with that. It's the Geoffroy's cat, by the way. They're amazing.)
Takeaway from Clint videos - you can have many many favorites and love them all passionately!
Half of all the funny looking fish in one clade? Hooray.
I learned about the relation of some of these fishes when building my Pokémon phylogeny. (Yes, extremely nerdy, I know.) Quilfish/Overkwill is a porcupine puffer, Alomomola is a mola, and Bruxish is a trigger fish. It even has the weird human-like teeth.
Also, my child once had a book about animals where it mentioned that pufferfish inflate their bodies with AIR. I almost cried. Mistakes like that in animal books drive me nuts now.
oo sounds like a fun project!
That would be very funny. They inflate and immediately sail away like a helium balloon
I love it when somethings the 'Hagfish' of another thing :)
Is this the first time Clint has had to tell us that an animal is poisonous but not venomous? Usually it’s the other way around!
I thought there a few snakes (hognose and some garter snakes) but they are actually very mildly venomous. So mild that for a long time garter snakes were thought to be nonvenomous. They both get poison from eating toads. If Clint's done an amphibian video, then he's had some poisonous animals that weren't venomous.
i think he made the difference clear in at least one video. venom is injected, poison is injested.
@@eotikurac One animal bites another one. If the animal that was bit dies, the other animal was poisonous. If the animal that bit dies, the other animal was venomous.
@@juanausensi499 Nope, that's the wrong way around. If you bite something and it dies, you're venomous. If you die, it was poisonous.
I have some video ideas from a raptor nerd. Please do a video on the caracaras and falcons, OR a video about the Harris Hawk, the only dinosaur we know for 100% certain hunts in packs. Heck, a phylogeny video on the entire Accipitridae family would ROCK. More people need to see videos of goshawks flying through the forest and packs of Harris Hawks in the desert! Our living predatory dinosaurs are so incredible.
"Water fishes"! LOL yes I love that distinction! Thank you Clint!
Love how you bring back previous videos- like tossing aside the inaccurate toy/model
I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT WHEN CLINTS REPTILES UPLOADS!! I just got off work, time to relax and learn about fishies!
Finally someone who knows the differeence between fish (plural) and fishes.
I've never know which was correct. I knew both words but not their true meaning. I thought "Fish" meant ALL fish. I thought "fishes" was wrong. Deer and Deers gets me too. Deer? Plural and singular? Deers? 2 deer? Oh heck..
I love pufferfish! They are genuinely some of the cutest fish ever
And they can TOTALLY recognize people! My doctors office has a Puffer in their GORGEOUS Salt water aquarium. I've at watched other people walk up to it and look at the fish. When I walk up to it, he swim-runs over to me and I swear he likes me!! I get to feed him when I visit and he is just my favorite Lil fishy! He maintains eye contact with me...I wish I could afford a salt water tank. I'd only have coral and puffers!😊
Amazing video! This one really made me think. My takeaways are:
1) Rib loss is an exaptation to puffing in Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae, meaning the ancestral loss of their ribs allowed the evolution of their puffing behaviour, as opposed to the loss of their ribs occuring because of the evolution of their puffing behaviour
2) Genetic analysis is essential to establish precise evolutionary relationships between clades, which themselves are necessay to differentiate adaptations, exaptations and atavisms. Based on morphological analysis alone most traits would be considered adaptations, imo
3) Molas are closely related to pufferfishes. That's news!
4) Tetraodontiformes is a stinkin' rad group of water fishes 🔥
I can't stop laughing every time I see one of those derpy little boxfishes just barely moving through the water.🤣
The bit at the end was really convincing. I'd love shorts like that. But more than anything, it made me appreciate your regular videos. They can be a refuge of wonder and excitement.
Can we get a "Puffing Life" t-shirt 😂 sounds gangsta 😂
That was exactly what I thought the second he said that!😅😅 this is going to be one of my fav videos of his! What a man! I so jealous of Leisha! She's so beautiful and funny. They are so perfect together. She has one of the rare, truly Good, God and animal loving man. They are rare and difficult to find.... but they're out there... somewhere. I also know he truly thinks that HE'S the lucky one. He adores her. Isn't love grand?❤
I used to keep puffers and never really noticed the pelvic fin thing before, heh.
Humuhumunukunukuapua´a is related to mola mola?! didn´t know that! amazing (probably my two favourite members of this clade)
PLEEEEASE do a clip show of a "normal" guy doing all of Clint's video formats 😂😂😂 I am begging! 🙏
Boyfriends, the best pet mammal? 🤣😂🤣
That would be perfect for a April fools video.
Would loooove that
We need(want) this.
Yeah, but not Will. No offense, Will, but you're Will, and this really needs to be someone named Clint. Bonus points if their last name isn't Laidlaw, but something close, like Clint Ludlow, or maybe Clint Restingregulation.
This channel is fantastic. You are fantastic Clint and all who help you. 30min Clint vid? Hell yeah. Immediate click.
A virtuosic performance. Clint is at the top of his game here.
I like the pelvic fins/bones/ribs framing device for going through the clade, well done.
Pufferfishes didn't choose the puffing life, the puffing life choose them!
I'd buy a "Puffing Life" T-shirt from Clint 😂👍🏻
Boxfish are hands-down one of the cutest types of fish (maybe only behind leafy seadragons). There are also cute sharks, like whale sharks
Clint I wanted to say I love your best pet series and I hope you don’t stop doing them. I would love to see one for opossums!
Trigger (fish) warning.
Love puffer fishes too. I have pure freshwater ones in my aquarium, there are a few species that are freshwater, most are marine or brackish... Mines are carinotetraodon irrubesco 😊
By the way, they use their caudal fin as a rudder indeed, but it's a secondary use: the main use is rapid acceleration, so propulsion like most fishes. It's not used for cruising, only very short intense acceleration for evasion or predation, sometimes intraspecific fights between males.
This is the case for all freshwater puffers (tetraodons) I have observed, I guess it's the same for marine or brackish ones...
You've made me very happy. I love Puffers and would love to have one. I thought they could only live in Salt water!! They have fresh water puffers too!! I'm starting my search today! Thankyou!
@@susanmartin3762 you have multiple pure freshwater species, from the cheap easy to find (in my place, Europe) carinotetraodon travancoricus (very small, 1 inch), and never had success keeping them), the red eyed 4 species (carinotetraodon irrubesco, lorteti, salivator and boornensis), my preferred (2-3 inches), tetraodon schoutedeni (very very nice but hard to find and expensive, 4-5 inches ), and quite different Amazon puffer (schooling and more active, relatively fast swimmer, but with a lot of problem due to teeth overgrowth - 2 ''). You have also much bigger ones like fahaka and mbu but those require seriously big freshwater tanks... And there are also very inactive and very predatory species which tend to burrow, I do not remember the names (suvaati?)... So yes, a lot of possibilities
There are a lot of species you can choose, the very small carinotetraodon travancoricus (1''), cheap and the easiest to find at least in europe, but never had success keeping those. My preferred, the red eye species (carinotetraodon irrubesco, lorteti, boornensis and salivator, 2-3''), the very nice but expensive and hard to find tetraodon schoutedeni 3-4'', much larger ones like fahaka and mbu but those needs seriously big freshwater tank, too large for most people. And you also have inactive burrowing predatory species, like suvaati IIRC. And there is the amazon puffer, a small (2-3'') very active schooling puffer, very different as it needs to be in group (while the other puffer tends to male - male fight and nip fins of other fishes, so groups or communal tank with other species are difficult)... But the Amazon puffer suffer from teeth overgrow in captivity, that's why I never tried those. Good luck 👍
Watching Clint try to talk about creatures as a lay person is hilarious, lol.
Hi ya’ great video!
Not sure if you’ve heard this before (you probably have) but for the sake of those who haven’t. As a short hand for the difference between poisonous and venomous: if you bite it and you die , it’s poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it’s venomous.
Apologies if this has been provided elsewhere.
It is useful since at least in Spanish we don't make a distinction between the two if it it is a substance than when introduced in the body kills you or harms you badly it is "veneno" doesn't matter if it's injected or ingested, so for a long time I didn't know the difference. We do technically have a word that is cognate with the english word poison but it is more of a synonym that also means "toxic harmful substance"
The normal clint outro was hilarious. It's scary how many people who are actually like that, that I know.
My grandmother had a huge house when I was a kid. She liked hosting big family gatherings at the holidays where everyone spent the night.
In her basement, she had a bar, and the lights were made with taxidermied porcupine puffer fish.
I am honored to know Clint and I have the same favorite order of (ray finned) fish.
This video is why i like Clint. He isn't only knowledgeable but also has personality.
the level of inconsistency with any evidence of how these guys evolved is trippy as heck
Awwww was hoping for the secong insect installment
You won't need to wait long
@@ClintsReptiles yay! Also my favorite fishes (marine) would have to be the assortment of cool eels.
I kept a saltwater tank for awhile and puffers were some of my favorite fish to keep. Just so friggin cute and interactive. The fact they will murder all your snails and many of your hermit crabs was less than ideal, but they’re worth it for their cute blimping around and exploring. Jawfish are probably the only fish I kept that might compete, but I had a lot more success with puffers - the Jawfish kept deciding to jump out of my aquariums.
I loved this episode, these are some of the coolest fishes. I was hoping you would touch on the short boxy shape as a defence mechanism. I caught a documentary some time ago where they demonstrated strikes being deflected. Instead of out swimming a predator, the puffer simply changed direction to avoid the strike. It was like Akedo.
I had no idea porcupine puffer skeletons looked like that. It's like they're made of caltrops!
Clint's Typical Interest in Animals should be an April Fool's video one year
“Oh, you’re a zoologist? Name every animal.” 😎
Giant Ocean Sunfish are so awesome. I love them. Them and the weird seahorse faced fish. Bizarro Clint? I would LOVE to see Mr. Clinton's General Animal Interests. "I dont have a PHD, I'm not a teacher. Is this a good pet? I dunno maybe? Have you considered a pet rock?"
This is a great video I hope that you do a video on the phylogeny of icthyosaurs and/or pliosaurs
The structure of this video is so, so engaging! I love the approach of showing stepwise how phylogeny can be used to make informed guesses on the evolutionary history of traits rather than just presenting the ending hypothesis, and with a crazy cool example 😁
I’ve raised pea puffers for years and they are so fascinating! They are so curious and observant! You can walk by the tank and they will watch you plus they would often make extensive eye contact with you. You could see them look at you for a little, look at a snail to snack on, then look at you to see if you’re still there watching. They definitely aren’t as smart as like a dolphin or octopus but they are still smart little guys
Conspicuously spiny pufferfishes are my favourite animal so my dream Clint's Reptiles video was a phylogeny video on the Tetraodontiformes. Thank you for making my dream come true Clint! And thank you for teaching me so many new things about my favourite family of fishes. I had no idea the three-toothed puffers even existed!
I love the mola mola! What a weird and wonderful bunch of fishes! Brings me back to my vertebrate bio class big time. Also yes, please, more 'normal guy' Clint! You can play the character so well!
Cover freshwater puffers as well.
Marine biology is its own specialty for a reason - it is a whole other world in the pelagic and benthic zones of the world
I was diving and turned around to see a very spiny pufferfish, almost needed a change of underwear! Today I learned that I need not be worried as I wasn't going to eat it 😂 thanks for the information!
Another excellent video Clint! Did not know pufferfishes were related to sunfish 💚
On one of my snorkels I had the pleasure of spotting a large Shaw's Cowfish and the iridescent patterning was beautiful to watch.
Now I know why they seemed so chill with me taking a silly amount of videos filming them.
This is such a cool way to teach people how to use the scientific method!
Every phylogeny video helps me learn more about not just animals, but creating my own evolutionary branches for my world building! Thank you for learning!
I loved the discussion of different hypotheses for evolutionary pathways in this. I would be happy to see something similar again in a future video.
Whenever I'm in the mood to learn something and not sure if I want to do a proper deep dive on my own, I always come here to watch (or rewatch) your phylogeny videos! They are so interesting and I love how you make the information accessible and digestible -- you're an excellent educator! I also love the other video formats you do, I just have to say that these videos are some of my favorite content on the entirety of youtube!
I'm hoping to be able to support you on Patreon in the near future, but for now I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us and giving me good foundations to continue learning zoology on my own as well :)
Dude I have never seen those little yellow box fishes before today. They're crazy adorable! Thanks for showing us all so many cool species. The skeleton of the box fish was crazy too! I thought they were normal puffers too
Great episode Clint, some fascinating fish. I do like the faces of the puffer and box fishes......the black spotted puffer/dog faced puffer possibly being my favourite . Trigger fish are often gorgeously coloured, but I learned to give the goliath trigger fish a wide berth if they showed you their sides - they'll bite bits off your swimming fins apparently 😮
I love their little galaxy eyes!
Super interesting video, in an easy to follow format! Loved the bit at the end with a "normal" Clint - would watch more for fun, but the true draw is your effusive and infectious excitement about the details!
Awesome video! I think we would all die for a comedic series of "Clint's Typical Interest in Animals" !!!
5:26 this almost reminds me of the Cars anatomy meme the way these guys just look like cartoons. Like its hard to imagine complex organs and body functions behind that cute face. 😭
I just discovered Clint. I really hope he's actually the loveable weirdo I'm watching and this isnt just an act.
I think my wife would tell you that it is no act...
@@ClintsReptiles I've now gone back to your first videos, and I feel I can also say that it is no act 😂 I love your videos, keep them coming!
In the end we need a supercut from all the Phylogeny video
@@croingan9749 I thought they wouldn't support videos over 24hrs. Is he over the limit yet?
@@Eloraurora he is at ca. 17hrs
@@croingan9749 Not quite at the cutoff yet, then. We have the second installment on insects coming soon (maybe 2hrs?) and someone else was asking for jellyfish, which seems like a topic with a lot of weird side branches. I think he's got the material.
Great episode I never heard of box fish(es) either kind, and the Sunfish has always been one of my favorites! Thanks for making these!
Thank you for reminding me that molas and pufferfish are related, I adore these unusual piscine pals and they're all so strange and wonderful
I love pufferfish, their face is so derpy and look like the puppies of the sea❤. I made a sculpture of a porcupine puffer in ceramics class and my teacher was impressed with my techniques.
aaah, finally some fish!...never even mentioned the pea puffer...son of a.....
One of the most delightful animals in the world! Love those tiny beans!
Technically he's almost entirely covered fish up to this point...
*cheeky smile*
Pufferfish remind me of little aquatic bumblebees. I adore them.
This was such a great video on how we determine ancestral traits. You could base a whole assignment just on having students give their own thoughts on how they think it went and why.
Diodontids are basically South Park Canadians
You have taught me so much, ty. I'm so impressed with your brilliance.
Clint one of the interesting about things about Poppers is they love to explore their enclosures so the more that they're escaped and filled with plants and such they love it they will chomp on clamps snails mussels that kind of stuff depending on the size of the puffer you don't want to feed so the tea huge to something small and they always have to be chewing on something otherwise their beaks will grow too large and they won't be able to feed anymore or you'll have to file down the teeth. Were the more interesting things about puffers too is about their eyes as being independently movable is those puffers that live in a home that has a television nearby they will watch the TV or if they're in a fish store aquarium store they will watch the customers and they recognize certain customers to come in often they're like swim up to them like little puppy dogs and like fan of fins and like pressure teeth against the glass and smile now there's a real smile but they pull their teeth the the lips back so you can see their teeth they're just a really cool fish they're very highly intelligent and they get depressed if they're putting a place where they can't hunt for snails at least and can't interact with the stuff right in their tanks they love to play with plants they don't chew them up they just like to swim in them and hide them they're like little caves anything that's can interest them and give them some place to feel safe and comfortable They love any place that is a little Heidi holes or grottoes between plants they love that stuff and they really do well in in pairs or trios so long as they're not all the same sex if you have one male and two females you still might have approached but not as bad as having two males and one female but the best way to have it is one male one female and have fun with it.
Excited for Clint to learn every single extent animal species so he can finally definitely determine what pet is best for me
Puffers are my fav fishes for sure! I kept a green spotted puffer, in a brackish/esturine tank for just short of 8 years. I also had to become proficient at raiding snails! Puffers have such interesting charming personalities. The only reason I don’t still have “her” is that her tank developed a sudden catastrophic leak. I still grieve.
I've always loved the look of box fish!
Love the videos. This is a nitpick but I really like when you say the number of species for each family, and felt it was missing for most of the families in this video. Gives a sense of the family's scale. Also, if you want to hear which group here I think is the coolest, it's definitely the porcupine puffers.
I like the phylogeny graphic having an ocean overlay in the background. That little detail adds a lot of charm!