Don't feel too bad. The largest crocodilian ever was a caiman, the purusaurus. Though if anything it's probably just ashamed that it's descendants that aren't the black caiman are so nerfed
One cool thing about the apex predators in South America (which includes anacondas, black caimans, jaguars, river otters, and harpy eagles) is that they all have such different diets and micro-habitats, they can co-exist with each other without much competition and conflict with each other unlike African carnivores. In essence, the top tiers of the Amazon signed a contractual agreement to not mess with each other as adults and now bully the entire jungle with no consequences. Of course, they sometimes break this agreement, especially jaguars as shown in this video.
There’s a misconception that the old South American apex predators (terror birds and the like) went extinct due to competition with migrant species from North America, but they differed so much in their niches & hunting methods that I doubt they would’ve minded each other’s presence.
Honestly the saddest part is that unlike the ones featured in his "animals that got the middle finger from evolution" video, Caimans didn't distribute their evolution points unwisely or anything; they just had the extremely horrendous luck of being in the same area code of other animals perfectly adept to screwing them over. Each point of life just brings a new variety of difficulty: Hatchling: Quick meal for Herons and Rats Juvenile: Target for Anacondas Adolescence: Preyed on by Jaguars and deals with angry Otter neighbours Adulthood: Deemed too dangerous to live by humans All while risking getting its life subscription suddenly cancelled by an electricity-wielding fish.
It's like having the Caiman on top of a food chain pyramid... But then there's another pyramid on top of that and it's those other apex predators 😂 poor Caiman
Not Really Black Kaiman Slaps. The smaller Caimans Like the Yacare Caimans are the Problem. For meassure between a Black Kaiman and a Yaccare Caiman lays a difference in 400 Kilo.
I've read something about electric eels that goes something like this: during hot climates,when the water bodies gets drier,in order for oxygen,this absolute maniac of an animal will just shoot electricity into water to create oxygen by hydrolysis. It gets it's oxygen, and food from the fishes that comes looking for oxygen
@@maxanderson3733 I mean a virus is basically a computer that injects its mRNA into a cell and has it replicate itself. A virus isnt alive, not even by the definition of how a single celled organism is alive. Its like a rock falling into your mouth and making you produce more rocks. Loads of shit in nature is odd if you really think about it.
I'm glad you hit on the bizarreness of electric eels. I was always amazed how an animal can just kill shit with electricity made by their body. How the f....
Exactly! Idk why people don’t take a moment to comprehend that there exist a animal that can produce literal fking electricity but we all just forget about it! Now imagine if a mammal like a rodent had that type of ability. It would legit be a real life Pokémon.
@@Jkd_77 Here's a fun list of REAL elemental animals. Electric: Electric Eel Oriental Hornet (It's stripes are Solar panels that generate electricity) Ballooning Spiders (use their threads to fly on electric currents in the air) Echidna (sense not emit. This is Knuckles' Emerald radar in Sonic Advance 2) Electric Stingray Electric Catfish Sharks (Sense not emit, Ampullae of Lorenzini pores around snout.) Plant Pollen (Has static charge, that's how it sticks to Bees) Fire: Black Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire) Whistling Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire) Brown Falcon (carry burning twigs around to spread fire) Heat: Bombadier Beetle (shoots boiling acid) Japanese Honeybee (swarms enemy and generates body heat to cook) Pistol Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken) Mantis Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken) Water: Archerfish (Spit water at prey outside the water, can compensate aim for light bent by water surface) Walrus (Gush water at the seafloor to hunt) Whales Dolphins Octopus/Squid Ice: Pseudomonas Syringae (Creates ice, can freeze water above 0C) Metal: Scaly-foot Snail (Iron shell) Eucalyptus trees (absorb Gold into their cellular structure) Various plants (absorb metals into their cellular structure) Light: Fireflies Angler Fish Flashlight Fish Bioluminescent Plants Bioluminescent Fungi Bioluminescent Bacteria/microbes Octopus/Squid (Some use their chameleon skin to make light) Tons of deep ocean creatures communicate by producing light Dark or Ghost: Assassin bugs (wear corpses as disguises) Cordycep (parasitic Zombie fungus) Parasitic Worm (snail eyestalk zombie infection) Toxoplasma Gondii (reduces host's fear of danger/risks) Poison: Hooded Pitohui Ifrita Rufous Shriketrush African Spur Winged Goose European Quail Hoopoes Ruffed Grouse Bronzewing Pidgeon Red Warbler Maned Rat/African Crested Rat (Lophiomys imhausi) (Rubs poison from plants into specialized stripes of hairs) Various Reptiles Various Amphibians Various Fish, and Aquatic Animals Various Arthropods (Insects, Arachnids, Crustaceans) Various Plants Various Fungi
Man, the Jaguar sounds like a weirdly respectful cat. Most of em would toy with you first, these guys just take Thanos’ advice and give you a _relatively_ painless death
To be fair, the highly diverse Crocodylomorphs weren't true crocodiles, just related, most true crocodiles were had more or less the same body plan (with a few exceptions of course)
One thing that always makes me chuckle is the knowledge of what the Electric Eel's name was prior to the discovery of Electricity, before that it was known as the "Angry Catfish"
The Amazon scares me because, as a man of the north woods, most of our predatory animals feed on prey animals. In the Amazon, it’s alpha predators feeding on other alpha predators.
Damn, the Cayman really is that kind of guy who picks the "extra hardcore" mode on the difficulty level selection screen thinking "what's the worst that could happen"
I don’t want to sound like a party pooper, but I think it has something to do with the North America-South America fauna drift which led to many invasive species being sent to both continents until they reached equilibrium. Of course, caimans still have it dirty.
I'm an electrician, while in school we were told about test with electricity and something called the "Let go factor" in which people of varying sex and age where shocked at various amps to see at what amperage they could no longer let go of the circuit do to muscle contraction. What they came up with was between 4 and 6 millionths of an amp. So when G.F.C.I.'s where created they were designed to trip between those peramitors.
I always did feel caiman were the least of the crocodilians, especially when I learned they get bodied by otters. On a side note, “it’s quite possible that no wild zebra has ever died of old age” is one of the best lines I’ve heard in a while.
@@OldZilla Someone didnt watch the entire video, fully grown caimans only get preyed by humans, last time I checked not a single animal is born fully grown, also kinda funny you link a video from Mexico when we're talking about South America, like you're not only bad in biology but also geography, the amazonian jaguar is the biggest jaguar in the world bigger than the north american variant, but even if you consider both the same for the sake of "keeping your point" the video is bad we can't see the animals, that can be a cougar, a dog or even another reptile, before you comment anything stupid again look it up Amazon river on google and learn a bit how different is the habitat, I mean there's a reason for the Nile having big herbivores casually drinking water by the crocodiles and not a single herbivore brave enough to get close to the Amazon river not even deers, forget turning everything into chew toys they won't even have enough to go trough the month.
Chameleons as well. Like lizards that can change color??! In seconds? And thOse Octopuses and sea creates that can change not only color but also texture to match any kind of object! And birds that can mimic human voices, birds that can fly for 7 months without landing a single time, spiders that make bubbles of air to dive underwater with! Jellyfish and angler fish that have neon lights to attract prey and invisible skin!!! Madness!
@@pharaohsmagician8329 those animals are unique, but the eel is a real life pikachu. Electricity is seen in lighting and power plants, yet the eel just has it.
Thank you for pointing out how a lot of the time the reason for jungle predators running fades with each other is because of humans destroying their habitat. The jungle is thick, diverse, and most of the time a fairly self sustaining environment but with the massive amount of deforestation it's driving a lot of these powerful animals into competition with each other and worse, humans.
I'm responding to this just because it's seriously uncool how your comment about deforestation was INSTANTLY replied by a porn bot. Like dude, serious stuff like this deserves more respect.
@@ivyinkwell1754 It's crazy. And I swear this bot problem seriously became an issue during the start of the pandemic and it hasn't been fixed yet. They're literally spamming links of viruses and these social media platforms apparently can't fix it. I see some channels like the SIDEMEN channels suffer more with bots, I once saw someone post a comment and around SEVEN bots instantly replied like what?!!!
Fun literature fact: in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Frankenstein actually reanimated his creation not with lightning like the movies suggest, but with a giant tank filled with upwards of hundreds of electric eels.
Black caiman: _chilling in water_ Sparky catfish (since electric eels are more closely related to catfish than to actual eels): “You need a _spark_ in your life!” Emerald steroid serpent: “C’mere & gimme a hug!” Crip weasels: _sadistic chuckling that escalates into full on psychotic laughter_ Caiman: “Aye, leave me alone; I’m just tr-“ Jaguar: _”Hola. Prepárate para morir.”_ (“Hello. Prepare to die.”) Caiman awakening from nightmare: *_”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-“_*
The Amazon is the most violent place on the planet, and we're not mentioning the virus and parasyte that can infect you if drinking water or getting cut by some plants.
@@paschan fr I think I’d rather take my chances in Australia over the Amazon cuz there are things like bullet ants and other things I never wish to see in this lifetime
I mean, Death & Saint Peter still had to come for him in his sleep, but it was the Amazon that convinced Teddy Roosevelt to have a lie down in the first place.
i love when youtubers do smooth transitions like that or just skit transitions just to make it more entertaining and honestly makes me want to use the product/play the game more.
This guy's anecdotes, narration, and Supreme knowledge is downright epic. Being a person who loves watching national geographic videos. He gives information in a humorous, yet accurate way. He deserves the millions of views he receives. Stay blessed 💯🙏🏾
"Can you imagine that? Being born into a family that competed with dinosaurs only to get spawn-sniped by a rodent." I never imagined I would be laughing this hard while watching animal documentary videos.
They only need one good meal to be satisfied for weeks. Being cold blooded means saving a lot of energy. There will be another zebra soon enough. Everything need water eventually. The crocodile just needs to wait for food to come to it.
There used to be two giant dangerous crocodiles that lived in prehistoric times in South America, after the dinosaurs died out. Barinasuchus, a big land crocodilian cousin, and Purussaurus, the giant caimin, both lived in the same areas in the Miocene epoch in South America.
It's like that trope in anime or video games where what was once a boss or major threat early on becomes a stock enemy at later levels/seasons just to show off how much things have escalated.
A quick note on the orca: Scientists just documented orcas hunting a fully grown blue whale and eating its tongue while the whale was still alive before devouring it completely
@@AntoDesormeaux they are too big to have functioning legs. However, hippos are related to cetacians. You can tell by the amount of disrespect a hippo have!
@@KlavierMenn Thank goodness for physics then. If the buddhists are right after all I hope I reincarnate as a hippo or a honey badger. Yeah. That would be awesome. Not an orca though, I'm not depraved
i love what you do on your channel bro. ive always loved learning facts about nature but you put a funny spin on it as well, sprinkled with your personality makes your videos a good watch. just wanted to thank you for your input. i appreciate it and im sure many people think the same way.
Sure, caiman got it rough, but at least they're not Gharials. Those things can't eat anything tougher than a normal fish without breaking their jaw. Meanwhile the False Gharial, which can eat turtles, is actually just a pointy Caiman and not related to the Gharial at all. In fact, its actually because of how fragile Gharials are that many zoos have to keep a close watch on them because gharials dying from broken snoots is frightfully common. Heck, gharials can suffer from a deviated septum just like humans though which can cause them to suffocate to death. So while Caimans are disrespected constantly by its neighbors, Gharials were disrespected by evolution and genetics itself, they are just born on an entirely different difficulty setting.
To be fair, it's possible that rodent-like mammals or dinosaurs with similar niches did eat crocodilian eggs back in the dinosaur era, but it's still embarrassing
Bro, I love the way you can explain life in the wild! You would be a riveting teacher, teaching about the animals from the Artic to the Amazon to the savanna's & Eastern Asia!
Finally someone acknowledges we share a planet with an aquatic creature with electricity powers. But imagine electric eels grew to the size of anacondas or bigger and lived in the ocean instead of the Amazon river. We would have a real life electric leviathan, a sea monster straight out of fantasy. Idk why but that sounds terrifying and cool at the same time.
Just a quick FYI - jaguars are not the only big cat that goes for the head; leopards that hunt gorilla usually puncture the back of the skull to damage the cerebellum and subfossil human skulls in southern africa have leopard bites in the same spots. Different approaches for different prey.
@@Mason-vz2kl Humans are horrific too. The shit poachers do, fur farms, the meat industry, etc. lol Surely, you're not really as naive as your comments suggest... You're acting as if humans don't do even crueller shit.
The Alligator Wendy's story has some background. The culprit, Joshua James, threw the 3.5 foot 'gator into the drive thru window after receiving his drink. Apparently his mom stated that it was done as a "stupid prank," with no intention of death or harm. The gator was said to have been plucked off the streets by Joshua, and stored in his pick-up truck which he would soon drive into the wendy's. The man was fined $6,000 bail a day after his arrest and the alligator was restored to the wild where he hopefully still lives.
@@jaybingham3711 It is throughoutly impossible for them to still be alive. They definitely went extinct. There is no way that a 12 meter (40 foot) crocodilian wouldn’t be noticed swimming around in a river/swamp or resting on a shore.
@@mystictomato9466 @Mystic ToMato I don't know... pussasaruses do run around on a bunch of the corners of my neighborhood. So, in that respect thay are extant. And I've even been told that some are queer. I just tell people who bring up such facts that dem duhway nature (and her designer...evoultion) do. Me personally, it sure don't bother me a lick. Speaking of licks, you gotta be careful attempting the lick of a pussasarus. A) They cover a lot ground trying to zero in on where the players intend to congregate to open the bubbly. After a full day's successful reconnaissance, it's hard for anyone to remain perfectly fresh. B) Some pussasaruses get more work than the average. Be careful with these kind because all that volume they partake in bring in a litany of conditions one must contend with. So yeah, lick carefully.
@@PhishyUltima6064 it doesn't come out alive against black caiman either. There is a distinction between black and normal caiman, that being that the black caiman is basically twice as big, only being killed by us, because humans will be humans, we invade an animal's habitat, call it our own, and then brutally extinguish any species we don't like. Or at least try to.
“Seals get griefed by everything.” Killer whales to seals: “Looks like a great day to launch you eighty feet into the air.” Seagulls to seals: “It’s the perfect day for you and me to reenact Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.” Otters: “I likes ya, and I wants ya. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Choice is yours…”
I heard the otter version on Aba & Preach's video - was it Flake Johnson? It definitely was some F. Johnson person. That aside, the use of words is absolutely perfect!🤣👍🏻
I can confirm that seeing the crocodile get murked everytime both in fiction and in documentaries was a struggle when it was your favorite animal as a kid.
Speaking of us, Alligator Alley, a highway in FL across the Everglades from Ft Myers to Miami, was a two lane road at ground level for many decades. It was called Alligator Alley after how may alligators crossed the road from one body of water to the other, and were hit by cars. Yes, eff up your wheels if it was big enough, then you get to sit in the dark swamp in your car waiting for roadside assistance to tow you to the closest city, Ft Myers or Miami. Florida finally raised most of the road, fenced it and put under passes for the critter that unfortunately had Mayhem on the Highway paved through their homeland.
I would say impala. It’s the main target in the African savannah and is even considered prey for secondary consumers. The impala needs to be careful cause it’s a target in the plains, bushes,waterhole, etc.
It's not disrespected though😂, First of, it's a prey it feeds on grass like other herbivores that's what it's meant for (predator food) on the other hand Crocs are apex predators Secondly, the crocodile is a type of dinosaur, one of the few which are still in existence, so that alone deserves some respect. Trust me the Impala isn't even disrespected at all, more like the opposite.
Humans were naturally the most disrespected before we became intelligent and decided to become the biggest bully the world has ever seen. I think caimans and impalas see us as a source of inspiration to end their suffering.
"Someone breaks in to your house you defend your self then the police comes in and knocks out your entire family tree" this is so true especially these days not to the Cayman almost all wild animals in general do people seriously not know what wild animals are I honestly feel bad for them not to the animals but for those humans being stupid
I think it's less like co-existence and more like Florida man tolerates their existence. Then again, since he could probably create a makeshift nuclear device out of nothing more than a clock, a banana, a coathangar and some dishsoap, perhaps we all live at the whims of Florida man...
Caiman earns it simply by being around for so long. But others on the list of being most disrespected? - House sized cats, predators so efficient yet bodied by foxes/ coyotes/ jackals and hawks and anything in water, getting griefed by raccoons and opossums and weasels and such. Considering the only reason the Scottish Wildcat survived against badgers and such is it's attitude?... should be indicative of what kind of life they live. - Crabs and lobsters. They've been around longer than crocs. Have you ever gone to the beach? Then you've walked on their graveyard. They get eaten by everything under the water and above, nowhere is safe, and even after their remains are pecked over and mutilated by everything. Octopus, starfish, cormorant, salmon, human, bear, doesn't matter the delicious sea spider is gonna get eaten. That and lobsters supposedly have immortality unlocked, yet they're literal bottom feeders while being at the bottom of the food chain... - Mosquitos. No one wants them around, everyone eats them, they're unknowing vectors of countless multi-species infections, they survive on other animal's blood (Think about that life, and not in a romanticized teen book drama sense. Surviving on other creature's body fluids. How disrespectful while being disrespectful), they are eaten by everything as larvae (frogs, fish, dragonflies) and are still eaten as adults by the above and more (bats, birds, other insects, plants...). The only reason they survive is because they breed so much... which makes us all hate them even more. -Arguably bats. They've been aroundish since the late cretaceous yet can't catch a break. The insectivores are size capped due to their prey and flight, so can't get big enough to fight back against the hordes of snakes, owls, cats, and such that camp their homes. Seriously, you have to fly past snakes to leave your cave just to be stealthed by owls all night you know you're weak sauce. Vampire bats are glorified mosquitoes, hunted by the same predators as their cousins. Fruit bats and others lucky enough to live in habitats that support that life... aka Australia? They contend with everything their cousins do but are weaker in strength and sense because their food doesn't fight back... with far more arboreal snakes, venomous snakes, and habitat competition.
But mosquitos at least can claim a high human body count with their diseases. There are big carnivores that never could dream of killing as much humans as mosquitos and their diseases.
@@zakazany1945 Does it really count, though? More like a kill-assist if anything. Imagine having a body count *that* high, but in the end it’s 99% half-wins.
About the habitat destruction: we decreased it for some 20 years, but it has worsen in the last 5 years. Check out what illegal mining has done to the Crepori river, one of the polluted rivers that end up in the bigger Tapajós river, one of major importance in the Amazon ecossystem.
@@Eminster The way I see it, the first thing we have to do is to vote out Bolsonaro. His government is the main force behind this recent blow up in forest destruction, not only in the Amazon rainforest, but also in the Pantanal wetlands. It would be great to see him impeached, but he bought enough deputies (our version of representative) to make sure this didn't happen, despite the several crimes he engaged in. But our general elections are this October, and it looks like our former president, Lula da Silva, will be elected president again, if not in October, then in November, if we need a second turn of elections. The Worker's Party presidencies (Lula's and Dilma Roussef's) had many flaws regarding environmental protections and protections for native peoples and other traditional populations of the forests, but they still represented advancement in those areas, and in those years the destruction of the Amazon forest continued, but it slowed down. What to do then? We have some key institutes responsible for monitoring and protecting our "wild" ecossystems and a National Foundation responsible for the protection and relations between the government and native people - all of those working along with our Federal Police. Bolsonaro spent his 4 year term removing as much scientists and professionals commited to their work, from those institutions, and transfering federal police directors who did their job, from those environmental protections positions to other offices. In their place he put several lackeys who believe in his message of obliterating the forest and natives in the name of progress (especially military officers and military policemen), and those people stalled and dismantled the work of serious public servents. He also cut a lot resources from those institutions. Our next president will, first of all, have to reinvest in those institutions and remove the far-right-wingers from the director positions to put in place people who believe in climate change and in the necessity of protecting biodiversity in our ecossystems. We'll need several operations to fiscalize and detain illegal miners, illegal lumbers and illegal settlers. While those ecossystems are being secured, the government will need to sit down with Native peoples and other traditional peoples of the forest and environmental NGO's and movements to discuss policies that do more than just take us to the level we were during the 2010s, but to improve more than we have ever. We'll need new agreements for protection policies and we'll need economic policies that boost production activities that strengthen the peoples of the forest while keeping the balance with the ecossystems. And this is just talking about Brasil, which holds the largest amount of the Amazon rainforest and of the Pantanal wetlands. Out presidency will probably have to mend relations with countries like Bolivia and Venezuela and celebrate new agreements with them, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay.
@@tunasci Something to keep in mind: The Amazon Rainforest maintains its own climate via feedback loops. Disrupt any of those feedback loops, and the _entire area covered by the Amazon_ will change to a different climate … a much, much drier one that won't be able to sustain farming to the level of does right now. Cut down more than 25%-30% of the Amazon Rainforest, and the rest goes - it all turns into savannah, like the Serengeti. And all of that is _before_ we consider the effects from losing so many trees will have on CO2 (and oxygen) levels in the atmosphere. Bozonaro is destroying Brazil's future with his policies. And, if you ask me, the rest of us humans should be _paying Brazil an oxygen tax_ to keep the Amazon Rainforest intact. You guys _own the Earth's lungs._ We should be paying you to take good care of them.
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“Being related to a reptile that competed with dinosaurs only to get spawn-sniped by rodents” Weren’t some dinosaurs themselves occasionally spawn-sniped by proto-mammals?
But despite being disrespected that much, they are still alive for +110 million years which is more than enough to gain respect in my eyes. Pound for pound, they are one of the best survivors ever on the planet alongside sharks
5:16 I just wanna point out that actually the Green Anaconda can grow way beyond 20 feet. In Brazil, those snakes can easily grow past 20 feet, with many around 30 feet being found. But in fact, the bigger ones grow up to 36 feet and weight just under 900 pounds.
You know there's a standing US$50,000 reward for anyone who can catch an anaconda 30 feet long or more, or really any snake for that matter. I believe it's being offered by the New York Zoological Society.
@@brianshaggy Maybe up in Central and North America, but not down here in South. There are many articles about massive snakes with some almost reaching 900 pounds. There are articles with snakes even bigger than 36 feet, some saying that Anacondas can grow up to 50 feet and are even heavier, but those usually don't have proof about the actual size or weight of the snakes.
Ain`t sure about the smaller members of the Cayman family, but the biggest of them all, the Black Cayman, is certainly *not* to be disrespected with impunity. Considering that the Amazon rainforest/river ecosystem is entirely devoid of megafauna, it is amazing that, without large herbivores to prey upon, not one, but two crocodilians endemic in that habitat (Black cayman and Orinoco crocodile) quite regularly reach a length of 5 m and weigh in at half a ton.
Not entirely devoid of megafauna. There are tapirs and spectacled bears - and, of course, the giant snakes mentioned in this video. The jaguar does prey on juvenile caiman, but adult caiman have been known to monch a cat in turn. Large specimens of capybara and anteater technically qualify as well - and giant otters and giant armadillos come close to megafaunal status, weighing in at 60-80 pounds or so. Also, if you look to the water (caiman can and will exploit seafood), there are giant stingrays that grow to six or eight feet long, as well as manatees (though, of course, only adult caiman will take only young manatees). Quite a buffet - and that's not even counting the relatively recent entrées like giant sloths and glyptodonts, who were around recently enough to feature in indigenous oral traditions. Also remember that predators often don't bother to take animals of similar body size. A wolf won't trouble itself with deer, if there are lots of rabbits and woodchucks about; same with caiman and modest-sized fish and terrestrial riverside nummies.
As a huge fan of crocodiles, it always makes me sad to hear when my boys gotta go through a rough time like this, you would think as social animals they'd attempt to defend each other, but I guess all that cold blood makes 'em less protective of their own kind.
Not just being cold blooded but their brain structure isn’t as advanced to other animals like the mammals. Reptiles have some of the lowest IQ levels of any animal class. Not saying they are stupid like turtles but they are just pure instincts which is why it’s hard to actually have a crocodile listen to you than say a lion or tiger.
Don't most animals have what we'd consider superpowers, though? Migrating birds can sense and navigate Earth's magnetic field. Octopuses have the equivalent of invisibility cloaks. Bats and dolphins see with sound. I'll admit that generating enough electricity to straight up switch other creatures OFF like a damn light bulb is pretty OP, though.
Despite all that, Caimans actually are almost at the top of the food chain. As nowadays the whole endangered species law thing is being enforced more and more.
when he said that it caught the attention of the worst predator of them all, i knew exactly what he was talking about, but hearing it still made me laugh.
Love that you included the poaching of the Caymans in this video I'd love to learn other animals struggles in future videos, thanks for the great content!
Didn't expect Caiman, but you followed up the reveal with good points. Still don't know if that's the most disrespected but it sure is at least in the top 10.
Thank you for discussing caiman, they are my favorite subgroup of crocodilians and get slighted by legit everything. Beautiful creatures, especially the Yacare and Cuvier's.
This dude is one of the best content creators hands down because he makes learning funny and informative and educational all at the same time and for all ages YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT
"Imagine calling the police because someone broke into your house, and the police proceed to take out everyone in your family tree." I feel like there are dozens of cases of this in the US.
I just stumbled across this show on TH-cam a couple weeks ago, and since then, it has become my go-to watch. Given that politics, war, and a number of other grim subjects can deplete my energy store to exceedingly dangerous levels, it has been a blessing to find a show that is interesting, about animals (species I much prefer for the most party over homo sapiens), very well put together, smart, entertaining (the m.c. is knowledgable, funny, and is not afraid to do, say, and be things that many others shy away - if not run and hide - from), and has enough Black content to keep me doubly entertained, happily reminding me of one of my adopted families back when. It is also always a joy to see Black men who are bright-to- brilliant, scientists, unafraid to demonstrate their intellectual and verbal prowess, and still remain cool enough to scare racists all the way to the next Klan meeting. Most of all, just really interesting stuff by someone who genuinely knows and loves animals, as do I... well, at least 1/2 - I do love them. And am learning things while enjoying the show. So thank you young man!
The greatest disrespect must be from it being the descendent of the giant prehistoric caiman, Purussaurus. Now there's some debate between who was actually Prehistoric King Croc between Purussaurus, Sarchosuchus and Deinosuchus, in terms of size. But check out Purussaurus' skull and tell me that wasn't a tank of an animal when compared to the other two.
Just looked it up. That thing was just built different. The Sarco is basically just a big Gharial, and the Deinosuchus was just a really big gator. But fuck, the Purrusaurus was just the ancient gator equivalent of a juggernaut.
i swear with that 70k newton bite force, it could probs clap even the strongest dinos at the time, spino (not really the strongest but is pretty aquatic), the rex, carcharodontosaurus, etc. its just a goddamn beat.
Story time- So, theres an event that comes to my town yearly called repticon and one year, my family went, and there was a baby caiman for sale. My grandmother lives on a farm with 2 very large ponds. My dad was this close 🤏to buying it to put into the pond. It was only about a footlong, so we couldnt do that. Theres turtles in that pond that couldve eaten that caiman in a bite. But it was a fun thought, having an alligator in the family pong lmao
Born and raised in Bolivia, I understood the black caiman to be one of the scariest animals out there. After watching this video, though, I kind of feel bad for them. I think I'm more afraid of otters at the moment.
8:44 That happened in my city! And it's a good reminder that cayman have the temperament of a species bullied by everyone in the neighborhood; they're as aggressive and territorial as a Karen being faced with shop security.
dam did the cayman just throw a bite or was it actually trying to eat him? what city if you dont mind me asking and why the hell was the dude swimming in a river with cayman!?!?
@@justamango942 Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. That dude is homeless and seems to have some mental problems, and the cayman only delivered the one bite. That was territory beef on the cayman's part. EDIT: I should clarify that this body of water is a lake on the federal university's property, and in itself a nature reserve. It used to be on the outskirts... about 40 years ago. Nowadays it's preserved as ever, and almost in the downtown section.
@@justamango942 Weird how my reply to this got deleted. For those that didn't read it before the ban and don't know, that guy had a history of mental illness, and the cayman had territorial beef with him. He only got bit once and let go.
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oh no bots
@rakine bruh
I bet you can’t ruin hummingbirds
You bringing up Electric Eels got me to thinking about something. How many River Otters and Jaguars have been killed by Electric Eels?
“Being related to a reptile that competed with dinosaurs just to get spawn-sniped by rodents” really got me. I feel really bad for Camen
Don't feel too bad. The largest crocodilian ever was a caiman, the purusaurus. Though if anything it's probably just ashamed that it's descendants that aren't the black caiman are so nerfed
@@crinsombone5380 Debatable. What about Deinosuchus (Alligator on Juice) or Sarcosuchus (Gharial on Juice)??
* Caiman *
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@@touremuhammad5983 purussaurus is the biggest, do some research
One cool thing about the apex predators in South America (which includes anacondas, black caimans, jaguars, river otters, and harpy eagles) is that they all have such different diets and micro-habitats, they can co-exist with each other without much competition and conflict with each other unlike African carnivores. In essence, the top tiers of the Amazon signed a contractual agreement to not mess with each other as adults and now bully the entire jungle with no consequences.
Of course, they sometimes break this agreement, especially jaguars as shown in this video.
They're a mafia oh my god
@@princessjello this comment made me crack up
From this video I learned we should stay away from the Amazon as it is a scary neighborhood.
There’s a misconception that the old South American apex predators (terror birds and the like) went extinct due to competition with migrant species from North America, but they differed so much in their niches & hunting methods that I doubt they would’ve minded each other’s presence.
@@princessjello The ones they kill are just the ones who betrayed the Apex family
Honestly the saddest part is that unlike the ones featured in his "animals that got the middle finger from evolution" video, Caimans didn't distribute their evolution points unwisely or anything; they just had the extremely horrendous luck of being in the same area code of other animals perfectly adept to screwing them over. Each point of life just brings a new variety of difficulty:
Hatchling: Quick meal for Herons and Rats
Juvenile: Target for Anacondas
Adolescence: Preyed on by Jaguars and deals with angry Otter neighbours
Adulthood: Deemed too dangerous to live by humans
All while risking getting its life subscription suddenly cancelled by an electricity-wielding fish.
It's like having the Caiman on top of a food chain pyramid... But then there's another pyramid on top of that and it's those other apex predators 😂 poor Caiman
"finally i've reached the fully grown stage guys, i'm unstoppable 💪"
-cai_man-gamer29, his last words before getting teamed up by humans
They took over the meta, and then everything else adapted to exploit them.
@4D1N imagine being sad because bad
o.o
The Cayman is a pretty solid player in casual servers that unfortunately spawned in an an international ESports championship.
Cayman is like a new player to a sped lobby of gta 5
Not Really Black Kaiman Slaps. The smaller Caimans Like the Yacare Caimans are the Problem. For meassure between a Black Kaiman and a Yaccare Caiman lays a difference in 400 Kilo.
I've read something about electric eels that goes something like this: during hot climates,when the water bodies gets drier,in order for oxygen,this absolute maniac of an animal will just shoot electricity into water to create oxygen by hydrolysis. It gets it's oxygen, and food from the fishes that comes looking for oxygen
That is metal
OH.
Savage
OK seriously how the heck does something like this exist in *_real life_*
@@maxanderson3733 I mean a virus is basically a computer that injects its mRNA into a cell and has it replicate itself. A virus isnt alive, not even by the definition of how a single celled organism is alive. Its like a rock falling into your mouth and making you produce more rocks. Loads of shit in nature is odd if you really think about it.
I'm glad you hit on the bizarreness of electric eels.
I was always amazed how an animal can just kill shit with electricity made by their body. How the f....
Exactly! Idk why people don’t take a moment to comprehend that there exist a animal that can produce literal fking electricity but we all just forget about it! Now imagine if a mammal like a rodent had that type of ability. It would legit be a real life Pokémon.
@@Jkd_77 Here's a fun list of REAL elemental animals.
Electric:
Electric Eel
Oriental Hornet (It's stripes are Solar panels that generate electricity)
Ballooning Spiders (use their threads to fly on electric currents in the air)
Echidna (sense not emit. This is Knuckles' Emerald radar in Sonic Advance 2)
Electric Stingray
Electric Catfish
Sharks (Sense not emit, Ampullae of Lorenzini pores around snout.)
Plant Pollen (Has static charge, that's how it sticks to Bees)
Fire:
Black Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire)
Whistling Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire)
Brown Falcon (carry burning twigs around to spread fire)
Heat:
Bombadier Beetle (shoots boiling acid)
Japanese Honeybee (swarms enemy and generates body heat to cook)
Pistol Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken)
Mantis Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken)
Water:
Archerfish (Spit water at prey outside the water, can compensate aim for light bent by water surface)
Walrus (Gush water at the seafloor to hunt)
Whales
Dolphins
Octopus/Squid
Ice:
Pseudomonas Syringae (Creates ice, can freeze water above 0C)
Metal:
Scaly-foot Snail (Iron shell)
Eucalyptus trees (absorb Gold into their cellular structure)
Various plants (absorb metals into their cellular structure)
Light:
Fireflies
Angler Fish
Flashlight Fish
Bioluminescent Plants
Bioluminescent Fungi
Bioluminescent Bacteria/microbes
Octopus/Squid (Some use their chameleon skin to make light)
Tons of deep ocean creatures communicate by producing light
Dark or Ghost:
Assassin bugs (wear corpses as disguises)
Cordycep (parasitic Zombie fungus)
Parasitic Worm (snail eyestalk zombie infection)
Toxoplasma Gondii (reduces host's fear of danger/risks)
Poison:
Hooded Pitohui
Ifrita
Rufous Shriketrush
African Spur Winged Goose
European Quail
Hoopoes
Ruffed Grouse
Bronzewing Pidgeon
Red Warbler
Maned Rat/African Crested Rat (Lophiomys imhausi) (Rubs poison from plants into specialized stripes of hairs)
Various Reptiles
Various Amphibians
Various Fish, and Aquatic Animals
Various Arthropods (Insects, Arachnids, Crustaceans)
Various Plants
Various Fungi
@@Jkd_77 an electric eel is basically a swimming Pikachu
@@Jkd_77 Not to mention the fact that Australia has a literal freakin' chimera.
@@cartooncritique6625 You mean the platypus?
"Some alligators have to live in Florida", his humor is on point. Love the videos.
I laugh my ass off 🤣
An alligator's natural predator: Florida man
I literally spit my drink all over my screen because of that line lol.
After 1 watching one video I was hooked...he could do stand-up, his humor is off the cusp, very sharp and witty kid.
Man, the Jaguar sounds like a weirdly respectful cat. Most of em would toy with you first, these guys just take Thanos’ advice and give you a _relatively_ painless death
i mean it probably hurts a lot but only for a second
The crocodile family has changed quite a lot actually from massive to tiny from carnivores to herbivores terrestrial or semi and fully aquatic.
To be fair, the highly diverse Crocodylomorphs weren't true crocodiles, just related, most true crocodiles were had more or less the same body plan (with a few exceptions of course)
@@seandewar47 semantics.
In some ways but the semi aquatic ones wavent
Did you just say a herbivorous crocodile family?
But they haven't evolved into crabs yet.
One thing that always makes me chuckle is the knowledge of what the Electric Eel's name was prior to the discovery of Electricity, before that it was known as the "Angry Catfish"
Pffff-- angry.
@@wedaktofi9939 TF is wrong with you?
@@searedscallops318 just report it. Bots don't read comments ✌️
@@searedscallops318 that must be confusing for people on that era. "Yeah this fish will bzzt and then brr and you dead"
That's hilarious!
Had to give a like for the “he isn’t okay man” pun. That was gold.
Ok
"It isn't okay man"
@@latonyanewsome0 "He's not okay man".
Your channel is one of the few I watch consistently on YT. Good job on making wild animals interesting in a very weird way.
For real though, like I don’t even like animals like that, but his jokes and overall personality just makes this topic more interesting
@@lollove9974 ok
The Amazon scares me because, as a man of the north woods, most of our predatory animals feed on prey animals. In the Amazon, it’s alpha predators feeding on other alpha predators.
same with gang violence in south america
i wouldn't want to be born in their cities either
this
true that's probably what makes it so special to westerners like me
And then there’s about 80% of it that hasn’t even been explored because the conditions are too much I wonder what predators lurk deeper within
Eh as somebody from Brasil
It’s kinda scary I guess
Damn, the Cayman really is that kind of guy who picks the "extra hardcore" mode on the difficulty level selection screen thinking "what's the worst that could happen"
I've been playing Metro recently and I feel called out. lol
I don’t want to sound like a party pooper, but I think it has something to do with the North America-South America fauna drift which led to many invasive species being sent to both continents until they reached equilibrium. Of course, caimans still have it dirty.
Caiman* You're thinking of the Cayman Islands.
"He may be A caiman but he's not ok man" I almost choked to death. Friends, remember not to eat or drink while this guy is on the joke flow
word lol he got me with that one too hahahaha
He gets mad respect from the dad joke community for that one🤣
This guy needs to do a collab with Moistcritikal
IKR!
That last line really got me cracking up😂😂😂.
I'm an electrician, while in school we were told about test with electricity and something called the "Let go factor" in which people of varying sex and age where shocked at various amps to see at what amperage they could no longer let go of the circuit do to muscle contraction. What they came up with was between 4 and 6 millionths of an amp. So when G.F.C.I.'s where created they were designed to trip between those peramitors.
I always did feel caiman were the least of the crocodilians, especially when I learned they get bodied by otters.
On a side note, “it’s quite possible that no wild zebra has ever died of old age” is one of the best lines I’ve heard in a while.
Put a Nile Crocodile in South America and their fate would be the same.
@@FWU100 i doubt that if its a full grown one
What about those smol alligators they have in China?
Im actually surprised that they havent died out yet seing that they seem to be.,............well kinda useless
@@OldZilla Someone didnt watch the entire video, fully grown caimans only get preyed by humans, last time I checked not a single animal is born fully grown, also kinda funny you link a video from Mexico when we're talking about South America, like you're not only bad in biology but also geography, the amazonian jaguar is the biggest jaguar in the world bigger than the north american variant, but even if you consider both the same for the sake of "keeping your point" the video is bad we can't see the animals, that can be a cougar, a dog or even another reptile, before you comment anything stupid again look it up Amazon river on google and learn a bit how different is the habitat, I mean there's a reason for the Nile having big herbivores casually drinking water by the crocodiles and not a single herbivore brave enough to get close to the Amazon river not even deers, forget turning everything into chew toys they won't even have enough to go trough the month.
Yeah. It is weird how everyone just accepts that an animal can produce electricty and utilises it as a weapon. Its basically a superpower.
Foreal
Chameleons as well. Like lizards that can change color??! In seconds? And thOse Octopuses and sea creates that can change not only color but also texture to match any kind of object! And birds that can mimic human voices, birds that can fly for 7 months without landing a single time, spiders that make bubbles of air to dive underwater with! Jellyfish and angler fish that have neon lights to attract prey and invisible skin!!! Madness!
@@pharaohsmagician8329 those animals are unique, but the eel is a real life pikachu. Electricity is seen in lighting and power plants, yet the eel just has it.
I love when real life stuff sounds so surreal or fictional on retrospective, its so cool
What are we supposed to do about it 😭
Thank you for pointing out how a lot of the time the reason for jungle predators running fades with each other is because of humans destroying their habitat. The jungle is thick, diverse, and most of the time a fairly self sustaining environment but with the massive amount of deforestation it's driving a lot of these powerful animals into competition with each other and worse, humans.
I'm responding to this just because it's seriously uncool how your comment about deforestation was INSTANTLY replied by a porn bot.
Like dude, serious stuff like this deserves more respect.
@@ivyinkwell1754 It's crazy. And I swear this bot problem seriously became an issue during the start of the pandemic and it hasn't been fixed yet. They're literally spamming links of viruses and these social media platforms apparently can't fix it. I see some channels like the SIDEMEN channels suffer more with bots, I once saw someone post a comment and around SEVEN bots instantly replied like what?!!!
@@Thawhid oh but instead of fixing the bloody bots, TH-cam instead chooses to remove the bloody dislikes.
You are so right
@@2007ghettonissanaltima Gee, it's almost like corporations act strictly in the interest of profit or something.
Fun literature fact: in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Frankenstein actually reanimated his creation not with lightning like the movies suggest, but with a giant tank filled with upwards of hundreds of electric eels.
The Caiman was in S tier during ancient times, but now it dropped in usage due to Gen 5’s monstrous power creep in the latest patch by evolution.
Excellent reference. Take my like.
Ahhh.. gaming terms, love it.
Black caiman: _chilling in water_
Sparky catfish (since electric eels are more closely related to catfish than to actual eels): “You need a _spark_ in your life!”
Emerald steroid serpent: “C’mere & gimme a hug!”
Crip weasels: _sadistic chuckling that escalates into full on psychotic laughter_
Caiman: “Aye, leave me alone; I’m just tr-“
Jaguar: _”Hola. Prepárate para morir.”_ (“Hello. Prepare to die.”)
Caiman awakening from nightmare: *_”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-“_*
@@demi-femme4821 Honest Question: What's the reference?
@@danielawesome36 TierZoo reference
I think this is less nature disrespecting the caiman, and more showing just how goddamned dangerous the Amazon is.
@@zoofari7505 OH, it is. If those poor things lived in Australia, they'd be extinct.
@Ops Blac That's more a sign of how badass cats are.
The Amazon is the most violent place on the planet, and we're not mentioning the virus and parasyte that can infect you if drinking water or getting cut by some plants.
@@paschan fr I think I’d rather take my chances in Australia over the Amazon cuz there are things like bullet ants and other things I never wish to see in this lifetime
I mean,
Death & Saint Peter still had to come for him in his sleep, but it was the Amazon that convinced Teddy Roosevelt to have a lie down in the first place.
“Dragons are armor plated bench pressing weapons of mass destruction”
*Starts an ad*
His transitions though
it was so fluid that it puts cats being liquid to shame
i love when youtubers do smooth transitions like that or just skit transitions just to make it more entertaining and honestly makes me want to use the product/play the game more.
@@eb924 what
Smoothest ad transition I've ever seen.
right, very smooth
This guy's anecdotes, narration, and Supreme knowledge is downright epic. Being a person who loves watching national geographic videos. He gives information in a humorous, yet accurate way. He deserves the millions of views he receives. Stay blessed 💯🙏🏾
"Can you imagine that? Being born into a family that competed with dinosaurs only to get spawn-sniped by a rodent." I never imagined I would be laughing this hard while watching animal documentary videos.
Ok
@@Marvelfanatic3658 Ok
That's the synapsid revenge, my buddy
But fr how tf are you gonna live in a family that could put a T-rex on a #R.I.P twitter thread but lose to a cat
“He might be a caiman, but he’s not okayman”
The best thing I have heard all day!
Like there's so many smooth phrases this dude uses that makes my day feel brighter somehow.
The fact that the crocodile rages after not catching the zebra just proves it truly gets disrespected
Edit: thanks for the likes 👍🏾
I thought I was the only one who noticed that lmao
"I SPENT MILLIONS OF YEARS EVOLVING TO GET HERE AND THIS IS WHAT I GET?!"
They only need one good meal to be satisfied for weeks. Being cold blooded means saving a lot of energy. There will be another zebra soon enough. Everything need water eventually. The crocodile just needs to wait for food to come to it.
Jesus christ, how many spambots can be in one reply section?
@@williamgeorge3111 I once saw a comment reply section with 10 in a row. It gets bad.
This man is not only educational, but funny. One of my favorites ⭐
Obviously a favorite!!!
There used to be two giant dangerous crocodiles that lived in prehistoric times in South America, after the dinosaurs died out. Barinasuchus, a big land crocodilian cousin, and Purussaurus, the giant caimin, both lived in the same areas in the Miocene epoch in South America.
There also use to be an species of crocodile that could run as fast a dog
@@brunoalessandrocalero4255 really? What's their name?
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 actually its her. th-cam.com/video/O78CxqRl7NE/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NathanSweeting (im only joking, shes extremely cute tho)
@@brunoalessandrocalero4255 Cuban Crocodiles can do that
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 kaprosuchus and postosuchus
It's like that trope in anime or video games where what was once a boss or major threat early on becomes a stock enemy at later levels/seasons just to show off how much things have escalated.
orochimaru
Ruin Guard 😕
@@vaynetheeditormitachurl
@@KeizerZX lollll
@@coin4898 true
A quick note on the orca: Scientists just documented orcas hunting a fully grown blue whale and eating its tongue while the whale was still alive before devouring it completely
Where can i see this tongue fuckery?
may those hannibal lecters of the ocean never re-evolve legs
@@AntoDesormeaux hippos
@@AntoDesormeaux they are too big to have functioning legs. However, hippos are related to cetacians. You can tell by the amount of disrespect a hippo have!
@@KlavierMenn Thank goodness for physics then. If the buddhists are right after all I hope I reincarnate as a hippo or a honey badger. Yeah. That would be awesome. Not an orca though, I'm not depraved
i love what you do on your channel bro. ive always loved learning facts about nature but you put a funny spin on it as well, sprinkled with your personality makes your videos a good watch. just wanted to thank you for your input. i appreciate it and im sure many people think the same way.
You betcha...his commentary is a delight to hear..
Sure, caiman got it rough, but at least they're not Gharials. Those things can't eat anything tougher than a normal fish without breaking their jaw. Meanwhile the False Gharial, which can eat turtles, is actually just a pointy Caiman and not related to the Gharial at all.
In fact, its actually because of how fragile Gharials are that many zoos have to keep a close watch on them because gharials dying from broken snoots is frightfully common. Heck, gharials can suffer from a deviated septum just like humans though which can cause them to suffocate to death.
So while Caimans are disrespected constantly by its neighbors, Gharials were disrespected by evolution and genetics itself, they are just born on an entirely different difficulty setting.
When he said the reptile that gets clapped the most i immediately thought of gharials 😭😭😭
Sounds like the pug of the reptile family almost
Not to mention that gharials live in the nastiest river on Earth. I don't know how they or Ganges River Dolphins are supposed to live in that.
@@moblinmajorgeneral Very carefully
@Erisa liani no
To be fair, it's possible that rodent-like mammals or dinosaurs with similar niches did eat crocodilian eggs back in the dinosaur era, but it's still embarrassing
“He might be a caiman, but he’s not okay, man”
That hit hard.
By far my favorite piece of his commentary and comedy. 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Bro, I love the way you can explain life in the wild! You would be a riveting teacher, teaching about the animals from the Artic to the Amazon to the savanna's & Eastern Asia!
Finally someone acknowledges we share a planet with an aquatic creature with electricity powers. But imagine electric eels grew to the size of anacondas or bigger and lived in the ocean instead of the Amazon river. We would have a real life electric leviathan, a sea monster straight out of fantasy. Idk why but that sounds terrifying and cool at the same time.
And that's why I'm developing such a story. Along with space dragons, because we need more science fantasy and dragons. We always need more dragons.
Im wondering why that didn't happen. It'd be super cool... And lethal.
@@stevenrasche3159 hmu if u finish the story
They might not get as big as anaconda, but if you look at videos of giant electric eel, they get too close for comfort.
I mean, look at it :
th-cam.com/video/rkWfxOp6m9w/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=RiverMonsters%E2%84%A2
Just a quick FYI - jaguars are not the only big cat that goes for the head; leopards that hunt gorilla usually puncture the back of the skull to damage the cerebellum and subfossil human skulls in southern africa have leopard bites in the same spots. Different approaches for different prey.
I think he was referring to only the head first.
But yea leopards do that
And you want me to let that bullshit? I’d kill even if it wasn’t gonna kill me.
@@Me-yq1fl God these animals are horrific
@@Mason-vz2kl nature my guy, it have always been horrific
@@Mason-vz2kl Humans are horrific too. The shit poachers do, fur farms, the meat industry, etc. lol Surely, you're not really as naive as your comments suggest... You're acting as if humans don't do even crueller shit.
The Alligator Wendy's story has some background. The culprit, Joshua James, threw the 3.5 foot 'gator into the drive thru window after receiving his drink. Apparently his mom stated that it was done as a "stupid prank," with no intention of death or harm. The gator was said to have been plucked off the streets by Joshua, and stored in his pick-up truck which he would soon drive into the wendy's. The man was fined $6,000 bail a day after his arrest and the alligator was restored to the wild where he hopefully still lives.
Humans are so cruel to animals...
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker funny gator prank doe
@Partygoer =) I'm joking bud, making fun of a fellow Florida man's stupidity
6,000 dollars worth of bail a day? That’s a lot, holy crap.
Also, that alligator was probably eaten at a Cajun restaurant.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 I meant the bail was a given to him the day after his after
Why hasn't Nat Geo or someone else given this dude a show yet? Damn good job sir.
Fun fact: The biggest crocodilian ever (current thought in paleontology) was a Caiman, the Purassaurus.
Pussasaurs? Rumor has it they still exist.
@@jaybingham3711 It is throughoutly impossible for them to still be alive. They definitely went extinct. There is no way that a 12 meter (40 foot) crocodilian wouldn’t be noticed swimming around in a river/swamp or resting on a shore.
@@mystictomato9466 @Mystic ToMato I don't know... pussasaruses do run around on a bunch of the corners of my neighborhood. So, in that respect thay are extant. And I've even been told that some are queer. I just tell people who bring up such facts that dem duhway nature (and her designer...evoultion) do. Me personally, it sure don't bother me a lick. Speaking of licks, you gotta be careful attempting the lick of a pussasarus. A) They cover a lot ground trying to zero in on where the players intend to congregate to open the bubbly. After a full day's successful reconnaissance, it's hard for anyone to remain perfectly fresh.
B) Some pussasaruses get more work than the average. Be careful with these kind because all that volume they partake in bring in a litany of conditions one must contend with. So yeah, lick carefully.
@@jaybingham3711 YOOOOOOO ☠️☠️☠️
@@ytyoungrichnhigh Thank you. Trying to keep it fun. Thought for sure I would have had a "my ex" comment by now.
To be fair, it’s more like “The Amazon as a whole is even more OP ridiculous than a large crocodilian.”
Ah yes because everyone knows that billions of animals together all against just one big crocodilian would probably lose
It isn't. If a jaguar jumped in the water with a Nile or even mugger crocodile, it doesn't come back out
@@PhishyUltima6064 it doesn't come out alive against black caiman either. There is a distinction between black and normal caiman, that being that the black caiman is basically twice as big, only being killed by us, because humans will be humans, we invade an animal's habitat, call it our own, and then brutally extinguish any species we don't like. Or at least try to.
@@serhumano3692 True. Large crocodilians are pretty much untouchable by other carnivores unless they're in open ocean
“Seals get griefed by everything.”
Killer whales to seals: “Looks like a great day to launch you eighty feet into the air.”
Seagulls to seals: “It’s the perfect day for you and me to reenact Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.”
Otters: “I likes ya, and I wants ya. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Choice is yours…”
I heard the otter version on Aba & Preach's video - was it Flake Johnson? It definitely was some F. Johnson person. That aside, the use of words is absolutely perfect!🤣👍🏻
Lmmfaaoooo, not the Chris Hanson special! 😤😭😭🤣
🤣🤣🤣
ever since learning about otters and seals i can't ever look at emmett otterton the same way again
Lolol the boondock's reference
This guy actually makes things fun to learn.
I can confirm that seeing the crocodile get murked everytime both in fiction and in documentaries was a struggle when it was your favorite animal as a kid.
Crocodiles don’t get murked 🤣🤣. But caiman tho
They always have us I the first half
Definitely was my favorite animal. Still will be among my top 10.
*caiman*
@@SD-wj9bv in most movies they get murked
Speaking of us, Alligator Alley, a highway in FL across the Everglades from Ft Myers to Miami, was a two lane road at ground level for many decades. It was called Alligator Alley after how may alligators crossed the road from one body of water to the other, and were hit by cars. Yes, eff up your wheels if it was big enough, then you get to sit in the dark swamp in your car waiting for roadside assistance to tow you to the closest city, Ft Myers or Miami. Florida finally raised most of the road, fenced it and put under passes for the critter that unfortunately had Mayhem on the Highway paved through their homeland.
"Jaguars go straight for the head"
Damn, a Jaguar should've thrown stormbreaker!😂😂
@UCF51tIZfMtOu6AGhnySPqWQ spam bots. Just report them.
Epic af
Why , just why are there so many spam bot comments every freaking where 😣😣
That transition into the dragon add was flawless. . . Well done and not too invasive lmao.
“Some alligators have to live in Florida.” I’m dead LMAO
I would say impala. It’s the main target in the African savannah and is even considered prey for secondary consumers. The impala needs to be careful cause it’s a target in the plains, bushes,waterhole, etc.
Except impalas are pure prey, they don't got a standing to lose like a predator.
hartebeest get it worse in my opinion
It's not disrespected though😂, First of, it's a prey it feeds on grass like other herbivores that's what it's meant for (predator food) on the other hand Crocs are apex predators
Secondly, the crocodile is a type of dinosaur, one of the few which are still in existence, so that alone deserves some respect. Trust me the Impala isn't even disrespected at all, more like the opposite.
Humans were naturally the most disrespected before we became intelligent and decided to become the biggest bully the world has ever seen. I think caimans and impalas see us as a source of inspiration to end their suffering.
@@oluwakayodefavouraiyepeku6310 crocs and dinos along with some Jurassic bullshit compromise the archosaurs
"Someone breaks in to your house you defend your self then the police comes in and knocks out your entire family tree" this is so true especially these days not to the Cayman almost all wild animals in general
do people seriously not know what wild animals are
I honestly feel bad for them not to the animals but for those humans being stupid
3:46, capybara killed me
Same lol 😂
He's like 😯😮
The alligator being able to co-exist with the Florida Man makes it the most impressive crocodilian.
I think it's less like co-existence and more like Florida man tolerates their existence. Then again, since he could probably create a makeshift nuclear device out of nothing more than a clock, a banana, a coathangar and some dishsoap, perhaps we all live at the whims of Florida man...
Caiman earns it simply by being around for so long. But others on the list of being most disrespected?
- House sized cats, predators so efficient yet bodied by foxes/ coyotes/ jackals and hawks and anything in water, getting griefed by raccoons and opossums and weasels and such. Considering the only reason the Scottish Wildcat survived against badgers and such is it's attitude?... should be indicative of what kind of life they live.
- Crabs and lobsters. They've been around longer than crocs. Have you ever gone to the beach? Then you've walked on their graveyard. They get eaten by everything under the water and above, nowhere is safe, and even after their remains are pecked over and mutilated by everything. Octopus, starfish, cormorant, salmon, human, bear, doesn't matter the delicious sea spider is gonna get eaten. That and lobsters supposedly have immortality unlocked, yet they're literal bottom feeders while being at the bottom of the food chain...
- Mosquitos. No one wants them around, everyone eats them, they're unknowing vectors of countless multi-species infections, they survive on other animal's blood (Think about that life, and not in a romanticized teen book drama sense. Surviving on other creature's body fluids. How disrespectful while being disrespectful), they are eaten by everything as larvae (frogs, fish, dragonflies) and are still eaten as adults by the above and more (bats, birds, other insects, plants...). The only reason they survive is because they breed so much... which makes us all hate them even more.
-Arguably bats. They've been aroundish since the late cretaceous yet can't catch a break. The insectivores are size capped due to their prey and flight, so can't get big enough to fight back against the hordes of snakes, owls, cats, and such that camp their homes. Seriously, you have to fly past snakes to leave your cave just to be stealthed by owls all night you know you're weak sauce. Vampire bats are glorified mosquitoes, hunted by the same predators as their cousins. Fruit bats and others lucky enough to live in habitats that support that life... aka Australia? They contend with everything their cousins do but are weaker in strength and sense because their food doesn't fight back... with far more arboreal snakes, venomous snakes, and habitat competition.
But mosquitos at least can claim a high human body count with their diseases. There are big carnivores that never could dream of killing as much humans as mosquitos and their diseases.
@@zakazany1945 Does it really count, though? More like a kill-assist if anything. Imagine having a body count *that* high, but in the end it’s 99% half-wins.
Lobsters don't die of old age, but at some point they get too large to molt properly and die
@@patrickhector I guess Mother Nature really doesn't like when you try to enact "God Mode".
House cats are arguably one of the most respectable animals
They just decided one day to enslave the apex predator of the world and it worked
About the habitat destruction: we decreased it for some 20 years, but it has worsen in the last 5 years. Check out what illegal mining has done to the Crepori river, one of the polluted rivers that end up in the bigger Tapajós river, one of major importance in the Amazon ecossystem.
Isn't theree away to stop this?
@@Eminster It's not easy, and it will take a very long time to do it and still develop our country, while protecting our soverinity.
@@Eminster I just wrote an essay answering you, and in the end I accidentally deleted everything u_u
@@Eminster The way I see it, the first thing we have to do is to vote out Bolsonaro. His government is the main force behind this recent blow up in forest destruction, not only in the Amazon rainforest, but also in the Pantanal wetlands. It would be great to see him impeached, but he bought enough deputies (our version of representative) to make sure this didn't happen, despite the several crimes he engaged in. But our general elections are this October, and it looks like our former president, Lula da Silva, will be elected president again, if not in October, then in November, if we need a second turn of elections.
The Worker's Party presidencies (Lula's and Dilma Roussef's) had many flaws regarding environmental protections and protections for native peoples and other traditional populations of the forests, but they still represented advancement in those areas, and in those years the destruction of the Amazon forest continued, but it slowed down.
What to do then? We have some key institutes responsible for monitoring and protecting our "wild" ecossystems and a National Foundation responsible for the protection and relations between the government and native people - all of those working along with our Federal Police. Bolsonaro spent his 4 year term removing as much scientists and professionals commited to their work, from those institutions, and transfering federal police directors who did their job, from those environmental protections positions to other offices. In their place he put several lackeys who believe in his message of obliterating the forest and natives in the name of progress (especially military officers and military policemen), and those people stalled and dismantled the work of serious public servents. He also cut a lot resources from those institutions.
Our next president will, first of all, have to reinvest in those institutions and remove the far-right-wingers from the director positions to put in place people who believe in climate change and in the necessity of protecting biodiversity in our ecossystems. We'll need several operations to fiscalize and detain illegal miners, illegal lumbers and illegal settlers.
While those ecossystems are being secured, the government will need to sit down with Native peoples and other traditional peoples of the forest and environmental NGO's and movements to discuss policies that do more than just take us to the level we were during the 2010s, but to improve more than we have ever.
We'll need new agreements for protection policies and we'll need economic policies that boost production activities that strengthen the peoples of the forest while keeping the balance with the ecossystems.
And this is just talking about Brasil, which holds the largest amount of the Amazon rainforest and of the Pantanal wetlands. Out presidency will probably have to mend relations with countries like Bolivia and Venezuela and celebrate new agreements with them, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay.
@@tunasci Something to keep in mind:
The Amazon Rainforest maintains its own climate via feedback loops. Disrupt any of those feedback loops, and the _entire area covered by the Amazon_ will change to a different climate … a much, much drier one that won't be able to sustain farming to the level of does right now.
Cut down more than 25%-30% of the Amazon Rainforest, and the rest goes - it all turns into savannah, like the Serengeti.
And all of that is _before_ we consider the effects from losing so many trees will have on CO2 (and oxygen) levels in the atmosphere.
Bozonaro is destroying Brazil's future with his policies.
And, if you ask me, the rest of us humans should be _paying Brazil an oxygen tax_ to keep the Amazon Rainforest intact. You guys _own the Earth's lungs._ We should be paying you to take good care of them.
_'Cause at the end of the day, this might be a caiman. But he's not okay man..._
I WAS NOT READY FOR THAT!!!
It is actually night where I live and I got the notice of this video. Guess i'm awake now! Best reason to get up: watching a casual geographic video
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Yes
Jesus the bots got to EVERYONE
@@theworldsworstmeandude yeah its bad
I will never get over how smooth his Segway in and out of ads are. Likely the only channel idk about ads/sponsors break
Oversimplified is also usually really smooth with their ad transitions
And then there are channels when you look forward the sponsorship segment. For example Neytrix and Terrible Writing Advice.
Especially since the Sponship War is now near finale.
Should check out the history channel oversimplified. He loves doing that
“Being related to a reptile that competed with dinosaurs only to get spawn-sniped by rodents” Weren’t some dinosaurs themselves occasionally spawn-sniped by proto-mammals?
Pretty much any animal that lays eggs is going to be spawn-sniped by small mammals at least a few times.
Yeah early mammals were egg eaters
Proof that mammals are historically a menace
0:05 is perfection 😂🪦🦦
But despite being disrespected that much, they are still alive for +110 million years which is more than enough to gain respect in my eyes. Pound for pound, they are one of the best survivors ever on the planet alongside sharks
Reading this comment and be like:
Is this one of my people?
@@bermudasbeast2302 Thanks man
5:16 I just wanna point out that actually the Green Anaconda can grow way beyond 20 feet. In Brazil, those snakes can easily grow past 20 feet, with many around 30 feet being found. But in fact, the bigger ones grow up to 36 feet and weight just under 900 pounds.
my goodness!
You know there's a standing US$50,000 reward for anyone who can catch an anaconda 30 feet long or more, or really any snake for that matter. I believe it's being offered by the New York Zoological Society.
I think you're over exaggerating a bit there, the world record is 500 lbs
@@brianshaggy Maybe up in Central and North America, but not down here in South. There are many articles about massive snakes with some almost reaching 900 pounds. There are articles with snakes even bigger than 36 feet, some saying that Anacondas can grow up to 50 feet and are even heavier, but those usually don't have proof about the actual size or weight of the snakes.
Just...
This man is the only informing channel I watch.
Do you know that you're supposed to use a rubber?
And he's even more fun than some videos that are supposed to be entertaining.
Ain`t sure about the smaller members of the Cayman family, but the biggest of them all, the Black Cayman, is certainly *not* to be disrespected with impunity. Considering that the Amazon rainforest/river ecosystem is entirely devoid of megafauna, it is amazing that, without large herbivores to prey upon, not one, but two crocodilians endemic in that habitat (Black cayman and Orinoco crocodile) quite regularly reach a length of 5 m and weigh in at half a ton.
Not entirely devoid of megafauna. There are tapirs and spectacled bears - and, of course, the giant snakes mentioned in this video. The jaguar does prey on juvenile caiman, but adult caiman have been known to monch a cat in turn. Large specimens of capybara and anteater technically qualify as well - and giant otters and giant armadillos come close to megafaunal status, weighing in at 60-80 pounds or so. Also, if you look to the water (caiman can and will exploit seafood), there are giant stingrays that grow to six or eight feet long, as well as manatees (though, of course, only adult caiman will take only young manatees).
Quite a buffet - and that's not even counting the relatively recent entrées like giant sloths and glyptodonts, who were around recently enough to feature in indigenous oral traditions.
Also remember that predators often don't bother to take animals of similar body size. A wolf won't trouble itself with deer, if there are lots of rabbits and woodchucks about; same with caiman and modest-sized fish and terrestrial riverside nummies.
As a huge fan of crocodiles, it always makes me sad to hear when my boys gotta go through a rough time like this, you would think as social animals they'd attempt to defend each other, but I guess all that cold blood makes 'em less protective of their own kind.
Not just being cold blooded but their brain structure isn’t as advanced to other animals like the mammals. Reptiles have some of the lowest IQ levels of any animal class. Not saying they are stupid like turtles but they are just pure instincts which is why it’s hard to actually have a crocodile listen to you than say a lion or tiger.
LIVIN IN A CAIMAN PARADISE, actually its more like HELL if you think about it
Yep. Always thought it's weird how we acknowledge an animal has the superpower of electricity and we're just like: "Okay..."
Don't most animals have what we'd consider superpowers, though? Migrating birds can sense and navigate Earth's magnetic field. Octopuses have the equivalent of invisibility cloaks. Bats and dolphins see with sound. I'll admit that generating enough electricity to straight up switch other creatures OFF like a damn light bulb is pretty OP, though.
@@blackpajamas6600 exactly 😂
@@blackpajamas6600 Those others don't, essentially, shoot electricity.
@@Superkangaroox Okay, point taken. I guess we can view the animal kingdom as the original Avengers. XD
@@blackpajamas6600 That's....pretty accurate, lol
Despite all that, Caimans actually are almost at the top of the food chain. As nowadays the whole endangered species law thing is being enforced more and more.
That's good to know!
3:24 i like the cat just haply walking away
when he said that it caught the attention of the worst predator of them all, i knew exactly what he was talking about, but hearing it still made me laugh.
I’m always looking forward to you uploading more because it does really make my day that much better😊
@rakine wtf
Yeah those are spam bots, seems like this vid was hit especially hard, I think there are 3 boys posting simultaneously. Just report them.
1:26 "Lollipop of the amazon"
Me: *eating a lollipop while watching this*
Love that you included the poaching of the Caymans in this video I'd love to learn other animals struggles in future videos, thanks for the great content!
The crocodile family seems to be the only ones that's lasted as long as they did out of the big reptiles
So they must be doing something right!
9:35 "This might be a Cayman, but he's not O-cayman". Delivery was on point 👌
Man that otter was pissed 😂🤣😭😭 4:10
"Worse predator of them all" An unskippable advertisment starts playing. 😂 The timing of that honestly had me laughing.
Didn't expect Caiman, but you followed up the reveal with good points. Still don't know if that's the most disrespected but it sure is at least in the top 10.
"Crocodilians have been terrorizing anything alive longer than Saturn has had rings." Damn! That's heavy.
I simply love this young man’s commentary. 💕
The way you describe the animals is great
"This aquatic honeybadger is long enough to not have to lie on tinder" the thought of a damn otter bieng equal length with me is mind blowing
*Emphasis on the "lie on tinder" part.*
Thank you for discussing caiman, they are my favorite subgroup of crocodilians and get slighted by legit everything. Beautiful creatures, especially the Yacare and Cuvier's.
This dude is one of the best content creators hands down because he makes learning funny and informative and educational all at the same time and for all ages YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT
"Imagine calling the police because someone broke into your house, and the police proceed to take out everyone in your family tree."
I feel like there are dozens of cases of this in the US.
More like north Korea
They all ask, “Is that a Caiman”
But no one asks, “Is that an Ok-aiman”
“Because we all no the answer”
0:53 This mother saving her baby from the crocodile was one of the sweetest and saddest things I’ve ever seen 💔
I just stumbled across this show on TH-cam a couple weeks ago, and since then, it has become my go-to watch. Given that politics, war, and a number of other grim subjects can deplete my energy store to exceedingly dangerous levels, it has been a blessing to find a show that is interesting, about animals (species I much prefer for the most party over homo sapiens), very well put together, smart, entertaining (the m.c. is knowledgable, funny, and is not afraid to do, say, and be things that many others shy away - if not run and hide - from), and has enough Black content to keep me doubly entertained, happily reminding me of one of my adopted families back when. It is also always a joy to see Black men who are bright-to- brilliant, scientists, unafraid to demonstrate their intellectual and verbal prowess, and still remain cool enough to scare racists all the way to the next Klan meeting. Most of all, just really interesting stuff by someone who genuinely knows and loves animals, as do I... well, at least 1/2 - I do love them. And am learning things while enjoying the show. So thank you young man!
“It’s like every jaguar alive saw this video and decided they had enough of their shit”😆😆😆💀💀💀
01:41 ,, Damn... that Komodo Biceps even bigger than my thighs..
Hearing you call a Caiman a 'discount crocodile' was probably the funniest thing I have heard in a good long time.
My boi Black Caiman alone has to carry Caiman’s reputation cause of his weak cousins
The greatest disrespect must be from it being the descendent of the giant prehistoric caiman, Purussaurus. Now there's some debate between who was actually Prehistoric King Croc between Purussaurus, Sarchosuchus and Deinosuchus, in terms of size. But check out Purussaurus' skull and tell me that wasn't a tank of an animal when compared to the other two.
Just looked it up. That thing was just built different. The Sarco is basically just a big Gharial, and the Deinosuchus was just a really big gator. But fuck, the Purrusaurus was just the ancient gator equivalent of a juggernaut.
@@white_ninja9828 sarco was a knife, the deino was a cleaver, but the purru was just a f*cking axe
i swear with that 70k newton bite force, it could probs clap even the strongest dinos at the time, spino (not really the strongest but is pretty aquatic), the rex, carcharodontosaurus, etc. its just a goddamn beat.
Story time- So, theres an event that comes to my town yearly called repticon and one year, my family went, and there was a baby caiman for sale.
My grandmother lives on a farm with 2 very large ponds.
My dad was this close 🤏to buying it to put into the pond.
It was only about a footlong, so we couldnt do that. Theres turtles in that pond that couldve eaten that caiman in a bite. But it was a fun thought, having an alligator in the family pong lmao
Nice video and awesome way to raise awareness about poachers, they suck.
I propose we start vibe checking poachers of endangered species with Sharps buffalo rifles
I like the gamer terms you throw in there. Great presentation
Born and raised in Bolivia, I understood the black caiman to be one of the scariest animals out there. After watching this video, though, I kind of feel bad for them. I think I'm more afraid of otters at the moment.
Yeah, try to tell people not to kill them or cut down their forests please.
@@webbess1 you're one of those who tells people to finish their meal because there are hungry people in africa.
@@deafshark9932 basically one of those people that get on other people for things but don't do jack shit themselves
you're a good guy bringing awareness to people about this stuff
8:44 That happened in my city! And it's a good reminder that cayman have the temperament of a species bullied by everyone in the neighborhood; they're as aggressive and territorial as a Karen being faced with shop security.
dam did the cayman just throw a bite or was it actually trying to eat him? what city if you dont mind me asking and why the hell was the dude swimming in a river with cayman!?!?
Faced with Shop security lol.
@@justamango942
Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. That dude is homeless and seems to have some mental problems, and the cayman only delivered the one bite. That was territory beef on the cayman's part.
EDIT: I should clarify that this body of water is a lake on the federal university's property, and in itself a nature reserve. It used to be on the outskirts... about 40 years ago. Nowadays it's preserved as ever, and almost in the downtown section.
@@justamango942 Weird how my reply to this got deleted.
For those that didn't read it before the ban and don't know, that guy had a history of mental illness, and the cayman had territorial beef with him. He only got bit once and let go.
After this guy said “it’s the amps that kill.” I could hear styropyro yelling in the background.