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Jason might not be far off when he said the hairless raccoon was a chupacabra. According to Wikipedia (which cites the book “Tracking the Chupacabra” by Benjamin Radford, and the article “Disfrazado el chupacabras” by Miried González Rodríguez) “Sightings [of the chupacabra] in northern Mexico and the southern United States have been verified as canids afflicted by mange.” While not a canid, raccoons can be argued to be superficially canid-like, and it’s certainly possible that throughout history some number of people have misidentified hairless raccoons as small chupacabras (other than Jason 😜).
@@Snake_Therapy Same here. I tried entering it multiple times with different capitalization but I just kept getting the message that I'm already receiving their best deal. I even checked the site without using Clint's link and there was no difference in listed prices.
The snake one made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂 the snake was doing the same thing she was! It's saw her coming and it felt the need to flee! I just imagine if snakes could scream they both would be screaming 😂
I worked with a tiger in a zoo once. When I saw it in person for the first time I broke out into a cold full body sweat, immediate fight or flight reaction. They are one of those things that you don't realize how big they are until you're less than 4ft away from it. The keepers also had a prior incident where the tiger ripped thru one of its private enclosure fences like it was paper. Beautiful creatures but so terrifying and should absolutely stay in the wild.
Tigers are one of the animals that really scare me. Angry gorillas too, but tigers are just different. You can tell by their eyes that they can kill you without reservations...
I remember having that same physical reaction when I, years ago, entered the alligator enclosure at one of our National Zoos and one of the animals started to roar, that deep, deep, loud sound coming from the depth of its throat….at the exact moment I was literally in the doorway. And I immediately felt this primal fear! Which is of course absolutely not logically explainable, since I had lived my whole life in a big city in the Netherlands: impossible to encounter a crocodile or alligator anywhere else than in a zoo… So the effect must have been one of those ‘ingrained fears’ that humans are born with, after centuries of evolution it is STILL there. AMAZING!!
There’s a rescue center near me and they had two tigers ones name was Jasmine and the other Jafar. They have lived a very long life but Jafar passed away,I think,probably two years ago. Jasmine is still there. She’s a white Bengal and is HUGE! She’s pretty old now I believe in her 20s and hilarious to watch. She’s learned that if she doesn’t grab the pieces of chicken and just groans and chatters about it eventually the handler will just give it to her without her, having to put any effort into it. I think they really don’t want her jumping up anymore to get it though. She’s so old. Such a beautiful animal. It’s crazy to only stand a couple feet away from her. Her paws are as big as my head lol
@@Barkyfortress. Gorillas look intimidating but they’re actually much safer to be around than chimps. Chimps scare the hell out of me. I can’t believe people that have them as pets.
About 20 years ago, a tiger was spotted in my small rural American town. People got pictures of it, and it was in the news. It was very alarming, but everyone eventually stopped talking about it. I learned what happened from a family friend who was a big game hunter. Apparently, a member of his hunting club, was some how able to get this tiger, illegally, for the purpose of hunting it, and it escaped. The story goes that the tiger killed some livestock, and a few hunters waited for it to come back and killed it. They had access to a backhoe and were able to bury it. It’s really scary to think that someone could have died because some jerks wanted to illegally hunt a tiger.
I wish that the tiger would have killed the hunter. Frankly if we restored predator populations we wouldn't need hunters, at all and we could hunt the hunters instead. Now that's the only type of hunt an animal lover would ever want to participate in.
I live near Pine Mountain, Georgia and we had a pretty severe tornado this spring. We also have a Wild Animal Safari here. Two Tigers escaped. It was pretty scary since so many were out cleaning up storm damage. Thankfully they caught them within a few hours.
That text on the screen was nonsense. The man's 'calm energy' didn't influence the elephant to be calm, the man's calm energy freaked it out. The elephant probably wondered if he was some kind of bizarre venomous monkey or something.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 yea im surprised clint didnt mention what the video was saying lmao, elephants dont "read energies" theyre just very used to every other animal in existence high tailing it the other direction when they charge so it was confused💀. They know humans are dangerous so it didnt want to just turn all the way around while the human was still there but it also had no ability to scare the human away either so they were in a stalemate till the elephant decided the man wasnt gonna retaliate if they both just let it go
@@JubioHDXyou have to remember that poachers are a huge problem in South Africa. (Source: I am South Africa) so that elephant was absolutely vibing whether that dude was a ranger or a poacher. If it vibed that ranger was going to try hurt it absolutely would have gone down swinging. Calm, non threatening, but also I’ll put up a fight if needs be energy is a must when dealing with an (wild) elephant. Calm vibes won’t help if there is any intention to hurt the animal. If that elephant had read the sitch wrong and that guy was a poacher it would have been dead. It’s life or death. Likely, it helped that there werent a lot of them, just one guy with a stick (and someone with a camera), if there had been more it might have read the sitch as more threatening and attacked. Elephants don’t want to attack, it puts them at risk and not even for food. F ing poachers. My hatred of them… it makes me angry just thinking about it. That guy was a baller. His vibe was I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if you try fight me. Hard to give off successfully. 10/10 P.s that elephant reminded me of my dog, I don’t know why😂 it seemed almost tame in a strange way, but if it was in a park it absolutely was not.
@@migarsormrapophis2755yeah no, those game rangers are absolute experts at dealing with wild life. He dealt with it perfectly. Elephants know about humans, they know they are dangerous sometimes. Most elephants I’ve game reserves are pretty chill though with people, that one was probably being territorial for a reason. Like a baby elephant or something. I’ve seen rangers deal with elephants and they can tell when they are getting shirty and that’s exactly how the deal with it. I’ve seen other, more novice rangers, and they f it up and can make the sitch worse. That is not a tame elephant, it is not an elephant you can ride. It is a wild animal. There a very specific ways to handle a wild animal like that without getting maimed.
I grew up around elephants in Zimbabwe and while they often would posture with their ears out we would just accept that warning and stop or maybe back out of their pathway a bit while they passed. Even when there were calves with the herds as long as you were calm and didn't come toward them, they left you alone. However, I once had the distinct misfortune of approaching the herd of what was believed to be the largest elephant bull in Zimbabwe (one of the last 'super tusker' elephants) when that bull was in musk. We immediately recognized our mistake and turned around, but like Clint said they want to fight everything during musk. He charged our vehicle for about a kilometer despite us being well away from the herd. Elephants are surprisingly fast for their size and in an old bush jeep in high brush we struggled to get distance between us.
I enjoyed it so much that I searched "identifying tiktok animals" but TH-cam just gave me a bunch of videos about people on TikTok identifying AS animals 😐 guess I will have to wait.
ok as a Thai person, I have to say It is a place that preserves tigers very well. We have the second largest tiger population in the world. It's amazing to learn about them. But it's good that you're concerned because people who want to study these things should know about the potential dangers. However, there has been no case of a tiger killing a person in Thailand for a long time. (People still illegally kill tigers.) There are many ways to learn more about Thailand's wildlife up close and safely. Thai people are kind and happy to share their knowledge about the things they love. If you decide to come to Thailand I hope you have a good time.
I love hearing about the conservation efforts in other countries from the people living there. It reminds me of how much we all, as a world, love our animals.^^
@@ILuvAyeAye I gave some incorrect information ! We don't have the second largest tiger population in the world. But there is an increase in the number of tigers from conservation that is second in the world! Yes, Thailand is a wonderful country especially about its people and wildlife ♥️ (about our sidewalks, not very much lol) thank you for your kind words !
That gorilla was captive raised by the dude (Damien Aspinall) in England and released into the wild in their native range. They were visiting the gorillas they had released a few years after that release. So the gorilla knew the man, knew the people were trustworthy. Not sure a wild born gorilla would have been quite so comfortable with all the hugging!
Gorillas: staring directly at someone and showing your teeth is extremely high level agression. Humans: always make eye contact and smile or else it's very rude.
us standing tall on 2 feet while staring at everything and showing our teeth constantly while talking all loud is alot of the reason so many animals are scared of us too lmao, we look bigger than we really are (though we are in no way small) and seem very intimidating to most animals. Not to mention especially all the african animals evolving next to human species and having to learn that we can genuinely be dangerous as well
@@JubioHDXIts no wonder all of a groups most psychotic species live there lol. Mambas and forest cobras for snakes, hippos and rhinos for ungulates, hyenas for carnivores...
My uncle once had an encounter with a wild gorilla male. He initially froze in shock when this huge ape rapidly approached him up to an arm length, but once it came close, he for some reason extended his hand and tried to introduce himself… yes, to a literal wild gorilla. (One of those brain short-circuit under stress reactions.) That ill-mannered gorilla completely ignored his hand though and instead briskly grabbed a colourful little bag of oranges he was holding in his other hand to quickly storm off with his loot. Later he (the gorilla) was seen happily munching away the oranges, while the bag had become a stylish new addition to this sharp if a little savage dresser’s hat collection. Unquestionably, every dandy in furs needs a proper orange bag hat, so he was completely in the right to enrich his wardrobe (and his breakfast) with Uncle’s fruit bag; who, as a polite and generous hooman in awe of Mr. Gorilla’s impeccable fashion sense, gladly yielded it. I like to think he was more than fairly compensated with this story though.
I'm rewatching this because I needed some fun in my day and I just realized that the tiger with over 400 human deaths Clint's talking about is the Maneater of Champawat. As I understand it, she survived being shot by hunters but the bullet broke some of her teeth. That made humans her best option for prey because she could hold on to them properly even with half her front teeth on one side missing or damaged. Her story is fascinating, if a touch sad.
@@IrieRogue thats a bit off. The people she killed likely had absolutely nothing to do with her being harmed and had loved ones who had to deal with the pain of them being eaten by a tiger... yes it was a humans fault. But saying that her killing other humans is "karmic" isn't at all accurate. 😕
I can't hear chupacabra without thinking of my old ornithology professor. Nighjars, nighthawks, and whipoorwills are all in the "goat sucker" family. They literally are the chupacabra.
And it's cut like a horror movie, because the first split second I thought it was being filmed from a (presumably enclosed) car, and then my stomach dropped when I heard the motor rev and realized there's nothing between him and the tiger. I'm amazed that human got home safely to share the video.
The motorcyclist could have survived for a while had he been wearing road armor and full helmet. Chances an Indian was wearing hardened motorcycling armor is slim to none.
As a vet tech who always wanted to work in zoo medicine, this was so amazing to watch! After hearing Mr. Laidlaw is an instructor, I feel so jealous of all the students who have had the opportunity to study under him, he seems like an awesome teacher!!!
My mother and I have raised and released orphaned baby raccoons, and I’ve never seen one hairless in my life, but I knew immediately by how it moved, that it had to be one, I was just SO confused because it had no fur 😭 hope lil buddy ok 🥺 That last gorilla video was SO heartwarming… he was so gentle and curious. They’re terrifying if they’re upset of course, because they’re massively stronger than us, but they’re such smart, intuitive, and lovely creatures. They want to learn and explore, they try to bond and form repertoire. Incredible creatures. All great apes are so fascinating.
There are breeds of (semi) naked cats, so it was obvious that wasn't some "mysterious" animal. Just one without hair. And the face of a naked cat is very similar, so it was obviously somewhat related. And yes, raccoons are close to mustelidae like otters, skunks and weasels, then seals, then bears, then dogs, then cats. Once you take off the fluff it becomes very obvious.
Watching Clint talk about the gorillas at the end was so touching to me. Watching him with his face in his hands and then speaking about wanting a similar interaction with a gorilla with an emotional voice.. I was almost brought to tears. It’s lovely to see someone so passionate about an interest. ❤
Same! You can totally tell how much he loves gorillas and wishes that were him in the video. I hope he gets to have a similar experience one day and that we get to see video footage of the encounter. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Part of me can't help but wonder if Clint is neurodivergent. His reactions to things are very similar to mine. Then again, we could also just have similar personalities
"They don't necessarily want to fight everything that they could beat in a fight" Which is probably good because elephants could beat a lot of things in a fight if they remember not to inhale a chuckwalla.
Just a little note, the period of hormonal surge (mostly testosterone) in bull elephants which can lead to very aggressive behavior (BTW, also the reasons adolescent bulls are kicked out of the all-female, matriarchal herd when they reach that stage) is called must or musth
Who else immediate identified the hairless racoon? Racoons just have a very recognizable look and way of moving and behaving. Also, it was rifling through a dumpster while being completely unperturbed by the humans around it.
I absolutely did. I took one look at it and said, "raccoon with sarcoptic mange". IIRC, alopecia is much less common than sarcoptic mange. I also made a Montauk Monster joke further up because I couldn't help myself!
Oh my gosh yes! My family loved this video and we are hoping this segment, "Zoologist Reacts" stays around. This was very entertaining, and extremely educational. We learned so much from this video.
Fun fact: there are two different groups of rodents called "mole rats" that evolved convergently! The mole rat in that video is a spalacid mole rat, which are also called blind mole rats because their eyes are not just small, but completely covered over by skin. They live in Eurasia and are more closely related to actual rats and mice than to the other group called "mole rats". That second group is formed by the naked mole rat and bathyergid mole rats (or blesmols). They are, as you note, African in origin, and are more closely related to guinea pigs and porcupines!
I'm guessing you mean old world porcupines, because old world and new world porcupines are parallel evolution like the two types of mole rat. And for that matter European moles and Africa golden moles are also two different groups of animal that evolved into the same niche with a similar body plan.
@@iseriver3982 You are correct that the different porcupine groups also represent a case of convergent evolution. African mole rats are more closely related to both types of porcupines than to rats and mice, so I did not specify for the sake of simplicity.
" . . . related to guinea pigs . . ?" Yeh, that makes sense, considering the noises it was making. My guinea pig Maverick would grunt/squek like that. He was a funny little dude, had the most beautiful, long, flowing mullet the eighties ever witnessed, was totally blind and had a pair of nuts bigger than mine. He was called Maverick because he zoomed around like a little rocket - being blind didn't slow him down, he had a seeing-eye-bunny friend who lived with him...
I am more terrified of spiders than I am snakes. I've seen a diamondback up close and just kept my distance. My husband has seen bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and even a wolf. As long as you know what to do, animals are usually not scary. I just have an irrational fear of spiders I'm trying to face.
Arthropods broadly freak me all the way out. It's the way their legs move. Something about it is just intolerably creepy. I used to live in Florida, alligators are very dangerous but like... just stay out of their way.
I used orb weaver spiders to help my fear. The ones near me are large, round, orange and harmless. If you get one off its web it will start making a web in your hands because it thinks you’re a tree. Very pretty and very slow and docile
Have you heard of peacock spiders? They're about the perfect beginner level spider for getting used to them - tiny, harmless, beautiful, with a lot of character.
@@matthewlindsley3298I encounter so many orb weavers while working, I used to be absolutely terrified of spiders but they really helped me get over it, I still struggle to touch them but I can move them gently with a stick or something when before even looking at images of spiders make me squeamish.
The issue is that snakes will not approach you voluntarily. But spiders have very short ranged eye sight. They can't see you unless you are within a meter or so.
Enjoyed this, especially the unidentified creatures segment. Siphonophores are truly fascinating - if you're taking recommendations for a second round, there's footage from a 1991 Japanese ROV of Bathyphysa conifera that is absolutely bone chilling. I cannot imagine being on the other end of that ROV and stumbling on such an otherworldly siphophore
That elephant: "bro... why you so calm? It's weird, man... Here, I'll give you one more so you can react normally. Maybe you just didnt see it. No? Still nothing? That's just weird... im just gonna go..." 😂
The little pose he strikes/holds at 41:16 after putting her hat on…seriously makes my heart feel like it’s going to explode from a cuteness overdose!😂❤
Reminds me of the zoo orangutan that gets some sunglasses dropped into the enclosure and models them for a while. So adorable. They see us wearing something all the time, and want to try it out when they get their hands on it, see what all the hype is about.
Wow I also had to check the video length. Could easily have been 15 minutes, the time just flew by. Definitely a great new type of video for this channel
It not only was so fascinating and wholesome and funny and educational and brilliant that it felt too short, but so ridiculously packed full of incredible knowledge that 44 minutes doubled because I had to watch it twice!😂
I'm extremely surprised it's taken me this long to find your channel, I'm autistic and have a special interest of animals, specifically birds and reptiles, these videos are amazing! I have so much to add to my fun fact roster
That tiger scene is unreal, the first time I had that "there is a dangerous predator around" you talked about the amazon not having was in Alaska seeing polar bear in the wild. I've seen black and brown too, and they deserve respect and caution but they're rarely interested in getting anywhere near humans. Being in tiger habitat seems like it would feel the same or scarier than polar bear ranges.
Clint, I just want to give a shoutout to how incredibly grounded you seem. Despite being as thoroughly educated as you are, you don't do things like assert yourself as "Dr. Laidlaw", or have any air of arrogance. While obviously I don't know you in person, I'd like to think your personality in these videos is somewhat reflective of your real personality, all the same. And yeah, just felt it's worth mentioning how much I appreciate being able to watch someone as knowledgeable as yourself, while not being put off by a stuck-up attitude!
Thank you so much! I find that kind of thing rather off-putting personally. If your education makes it so you know your stuff, show me by the stuff you know, not the title you present.
@@ClintsReptiles Just fyi; for the longest time I thought that the testosterone- fueled state of “heat” bull elephants go into was called “musk.” I was recently corrected by Dr Russel Burke, (professor of bio at Hofstra U) who said the correct term is; “musth.” *I was understandably shooketh and said to him; “but professor, surely you ‘musth’ be mistaken...!* 😂 _Ba DumTissssssssssssssssssssss_ _(Seriously though, it’s called “musth,” pronounced “must”)_
@davidvento5481 I knew this also and wondered why such a knowledgeable person as Clint IS didn't use the correct word. Maybe they are used interchangeably?
@@davidvento5481Even when people pronounce it correctly, my closed captions always say "musk". It used to crack me up, but now I realize it is literally teaching people the wrong word. Sigh... 😂
I saw the bit on the fossa, and I've seen internet pictures. A male fossa's reproductive anatomy is nightmare fuel. It was hilarious seeing Clint describe it like that at the end to the camera man's horror.
Yea that's a lot of spikes... more than a house-cat for sure with it's tiny pee-pee. The females have spikes on their clit! that's fucking nuts. They also have a bone like males have for their penis (not humans lol), and it starts out long, but gets shorter as they age. Very unusual and cool.
I worked on a tall ship in Washington State that sailed all over the state's waterways and coast. We had all kinds of animals around us before from Harbor seals to Sea lions, Harbor porpoises to Whales, orcas and more- but one of the coolest was a cormorant that landed on our aftmost rail on the stern, and dried it's wings on deck before flopping about the deck a bit and flying away.
I've seen hundreds or maybe thousands of golden and bald eagles at one time before! When I went to Devil's Tower as a teen, they were nesting on it and circling it. It's an absolutely incredible structure and the entire area feels so strange and beautiful, but the eagles were honestly my favorite part.
@ClintsReptiles No Clint! Don't download the Chinese spyware that's banned in China! - Some random IT guy on the internet you have no obligation to listen to.
I've worked around tiger country and met numerous people who have had encounters with tigers. They will monitor what people do and pay attention to our habits, which for the most part is just being curious. But for a group of people lost on a mountain side was a bit more sinister. Also I read a collection of stories from forest monks in Thailand prior to European arrival. They considered elephants a significant threat as most other animals will not molest a monk meditating under a tree, however elephants would randomly kill monks. The forest monks did have a high appreciation and affection for the intelligence of cobras. Possibly partly as a meditating monk is a nice place to curl up and stay awhile.
Thai natives say elephants do possess an equal if not greater risk to people than tigers. Those venturing into the wilderness in areas frequented by tigers will often wear human face masks on the back of their heads. The reason for this being that tigers prefer catching their prey unaware and the rear-facing masks act as a deterrent to a tiger scoping them out as potential prey. Some people also paint rear-facing eyes on their cow’s backsides for the same reason! The herper Rupert (of “Rupert’s Reptiles” on YT) goes wandering all around the jungles in Thailand -alone & in a group apparently unconcerned by the possibility of tiger attacks. The diversity of species there is totally amazing! He also is currently organizing tours -perhaps consider contacting him as he seems to know all the hot spots for herping. TBH, I’d take what Chandler says with a grain considering the result of his recent careless free-handling of wild cobras in India. His cavalier, impetuous nature is not setting the best example for reptile keepers with organizations like FWC, etc..
@@davidvento5481granted, the results of Chandler's India adventure speak for themselves, but I don't think he does anything to support your point here considering he's also just gone through tiger country basically smile and don't think about it. Until you get back to ppl and learn those claw marks on the tree you were under were probably not in fact bears.
What if they are fed? Like if I were to put out some food. I imagine tigers become like bears. Maybe some acclimate well to humans and others don’t? .. yes they are agile carnivorous wild animals (cats to boot are the hunters of all hunters) maybe so so much like bears although, I presume .. as long as they are not hungry and they are not provoked or threatened then they should be relatively harmless?? Like tarantulas. If they’re not hungry and there’s no reason to be defensive.. Cats and tarantulas have a lot in common already anyways.
@@Kittypaws90 Most tigers don't attack people, it seems that only some "man-eater" tigers will go out of their way to stalk and kill people (most of the time isolated unarmed people, they don't like to attac groups of humans and won't attack armed people unless they're cornered). The most likely explanation is that man-eaters are sick or injured tigers, unable to kill anything stronger than a human, as it's thought that tigers don't like human meat. There's two exceptions however, some tigers took a liking in human meat during wars after eating many corpses, and in the Sundarbans, between India and Bangladesh, there's so much tigers that even healthy tigers attacked humans. However, those attacks have dropped considerably these last years due to better management from the local authorities (only three people per year are killed, versus fifty or sixty a year before ^^).
I loved this!! That Komodo really did look like he was regretting his life choices about halfway through dinner to be fair... and OMG Mole Rats are so freaking adorable!! That little grunt!
The komodo really did! 😂😂😂 I was like, "that's a little big, but it's probably okay". Then you could practically hear it think, "ah, carp!" Halfway through.
Heck no! He bit that guy two-four days ago and tracked it since. He expended A LOT of energy doing that. All I saw was THUROUGH enjoyment on the capture. Even ramming it into the ground to help it in! That stud has the next MONTH to bask and be lazy! If you are not human on this planet and you can go a month without worrying about food? You are top tier!
Haoko, the gorilla, likes to play with his babies. He is super gentle and careful with them. He is not a wild gorilla, and lives in a zoo. The mothers don't always approve of his actions, but he has never hurt them, and he gives them back after a chase.
I love how the elephant tried a second mock charge just to make sure. Seeing no reaction to a charge from a smaller animal must've been the weirdest thing to them!
Oh, this was delightful! The elephant video reminded me of an encounter I had when I was on safari in Kenya in the 90s. My group was in a safari van, and we were photographing a family of elephants, including a teeny baby that didn't even have tusks yet. One of our group accidentally used the flash on his camera and it spooked them, and the adults flared their ears at us. The baby *freaked* and came at the van in full charge, and actually nearly skidded into us (our guide pointed out later that this was the one moment we were in actual danger, because if the baby *had* skidded into us it could have been hurt and then we would have had a bunch of *angry* adult elephants on our hands). There was this moment when we could see the wheels turning and the "ohhhh, this thing is much bigger than I thought it was" on the baby's face even as it never stopped moving, just kept running as it turned around and galumphed right back to its mama's side. 😂 Adorable and terrifying memory!
YES!!! I usually watch while my clothes are in the washing machine...before I get into whatever messy chores I have planned for the weekend. Today I'm painting my closet.
I literally said to my husband an hour ago, "I'm going to charge my phone & watch my Saturday morning vids of Serpa & Clint like cartoons when we were kids"
35:08 I'm here from your second Tiktok video! My vote is on Jaguarundi for this guy, and here's why; Jags have smaller ears, nose, and eyes than the Fossa, which I think this guy has, but the ears are very rounded, giving them a similar look, especially when folded back. But the selling point for me is that the Fossa is more of a tree dweller, while the Jag is more at home on the ground. That critter reads Jaguarundi for me, for sure.
This! Jags also have a lot more of a boxy, squared face shape which you can see on the video at a pretty good angle when the creature turns its head before the jump. I thought I was going crazy!
Oh the lancetfish story made me sad. Fishermen shouldn't deep sea fish unless they are going to keep them. Seems cruel to kill by decompression and throw them back anyway. Great video as always!
Yeah. That poor creature was not only going through decompression sickness but it jas those massive eyes and lives in low light areas. So it was probably blind from the excessive light. Don't deep sea fish unless you're going to put the creature out of it's misery and eat it.
@@hoominbeeing K1lling an animal and letting it's body just sit feels like a shame and a waste to me. I know nothing in nature goes to waste, everything is recycled in some form or another but to end a creature's life for no reason other than clout just bothers me.
Your passion for all the different animals, their behaviour, their relationships, their biology - it’s so infectious! It makes me feel excited and curious about the natural world like it’s the first time again - and always fun when I can identify species along with a zoologist !
The first time I heard a gorilla pound it’s chest, I was surprised it sounded less like King Kong and more like someone dropped a bunch of coconut shells. Also please do more of these.
First time watching you. Liked and subscribed. I'm a documentary junkie and your presentation wowed me. Informative without being boring. Explained simply without dumbing down. You've got a new fan.
You talking about the tigers and mountain lions reminds me of that big news story from a few years ago when a young mountain lion tried to kill a grown man. It turned into a wrestling match and the man choked the mountain lion to death, made it to the hospital, and survived. That’s a next level battle of survival right there. Very rarely do we see raw, hands on prey vs predator fights where the one being hunted actually kills the predator during the fight
@@rickandmorty9706 We're only Apex if we have weapons. Take away our weapons, and we get knocked down quite a few notches. No claws, small teeth, thin skin, a lot of very fragile areas that can incapacitate or kill you very quickly.
Was that the one where they determined that it was a juvenile mountain lion and found its starving siblings not far from where that guy killed that "kitten" ? Take a lot of wind out of his sail when it became obvious he killed a hungry cub.
You know, it would be kind of fun to put together a super cut of all the times Clint identifies his favorite animals. At least anecdotally, it feels like there's a lot of different animals that are his favorite (which there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with). I just think it'd be a cute and funny little video.
This guy's blow-by-blow of the elephant encounter is everything. I nominate him to be the animal encounter sportscaster forever! Also, what I wouldn't give to know everything about how that footage of the tiger chasing the motorcycle came to be. Who is the driver, where was he and what did he do when he finally lost the Tiger and stopped the motorcycle? Where is the camera filming from? How does this footage even exist?!
I need more of these, this was so fun. I dont go on tiktok because of all the other junk but curated animal videos are wonderful. I love the explanations and having no stress that if a video has potential for harm, neglect, or normalizing dangerous things it wont be ignored like so many "fun animal comiplations". This video was so refreshing.
One time when my parents took us hiking in the Alps, we saw some paragliders being chased by a pair of Goldies who were clearly annoyed by the presence of the intruders into their territory. The paragliders must have been scared shitless.
Clint - you constantly entertain and astound with your seemingly endless fund of knowledge of so so many creatures great and small! You swiftly and expertly weaved your way through every category and section sharing your observations and making your points along the way. I was quite impressed and thoroughly entertained. Thank you as always.
If I’d had a teacher this knowledgeable, entertaining, and as easy to understand, I might’ve chosen a different path…but still extremely appreciate your content! Thank you!
Clint's knowledge is incredible, the way he has those facts ready about all kinds of animals... but can we also acknowledge that he knows someone who's been on human centipede??? :D
I'm with that elephant, good read on the man lol. That's like a person seeing a rat and this thing just looks at you when you charge it. "Nah that thing is sick or venemous, im outta here."
Videos like this remind us all Clint is WAY more than the typical PetTuber. The animal knowledge is AWESOME. When majority of TH-cam is fluff, so nice to see actual education vids. I have been going Podcast route lately for my animals smarts. GOOD JOB WITH THIS VIDEO. AWESOME.
Kinda surprised you didn't have a blue-ringed octopus encounter in the "dangerous encounters" section. it's astounding how few people actually know about them.
your description of how big eagles appear is so accurate. I was crabbing on a dock and heard a thud behind me. i turn around and see a bald easgle standing a foot away from me. It felt like he was almost 4' tall but this was likely due to the close proximity and shock. I threw him one of the crabs from my trap, and I am pretty sure it sat there for another minute just deciding if I would make a better meal.
They have replica of a life-sized bald eagle nest at our zoo. It's big enough that children love to curl up in it. They don't look that big high up in trees, but they are huge.
I saw them in Alaska a few years back and I wouldn’t be surprised if the one you saw was 4 feet tall. I felt like they were between 3 and 4 feet but I didn’t see them up close
That eagle probably saw dogs begging for food and was like "Oh what the hell, I'll give it a shot, too." except instead of bribing you for a crab with cuteness it bribed you with FREEDOM.
Thanks to Clint, and other great communicators like him, I was able to i.d. most of the animals on the "weird" section! (Misidentified salp as a sinonophore and that weird fish, the lancetfish, got me.) Again, thanks to Clint who's channel is one of the few cherished things I have in common with my daughter and granddaughter.
I was on a hike somewhere I frequent and was... Stupidly comfortable. I walked through a couple bushes and there were a few snakes warming in the sun. Hadn't seen snakes there before so was quite surprised and even more so when I realized I was standing on one! Thankfully it didn't bite me and it wanted away from me just as much as I wanted away from it 😂
I think - for me - this is in my top 5 videos you've ever done! Mostly because it's nice to get a variety of information about a variety of animals. I feel like I've learned so much interesting info in just 45 min. Please do more of these!
I don't know why this popped up in my feed but I'm SO GLAD it did! This was absolutely fascinating! I very much enjoyed watching Clints explanations & his general excitedness he gets while talking about animals! Def sub here ❤
Found this channel like two days ago and have been binge watching every single video, not only is it super refreshing to listen to someone who actually knows what they’re talking about, he’s hilarious, what an amazing channel ❤
Hey Clint, maybe you can make a video about reptiles that take care of their young. Its not really an widely known fact that some reptiles make awsome parents.
Can't believe I am just now seeing this video. Thank you, Clint, this was very entertaining and informative. Loved every bit of it, I hope there's more in the future.
I subscribed not only because the content is fascinating... but I LOVE watching someone who's so knowledgeable and obviously loves what he does. Well done! 👏👏👏
Thanks for the work you do. Discovered your channel recently and really enjoy your content and appreciate the effort you put into education. Takes me back to years working in exotic animal sales and trying to educate people on the reality of ownership for different animals. I wish there had been a resource like this to point them towards. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Absolutely loved this video Clint and Crew! Loved that Clint would go off into random extra information and how happy and intrigued he seemed to be. It was just a lovely video.
Big thanks to Ridge for sending me this wallet and supporting the channel! Here’s the site if you want to check them out! > ridge.com/clint & use code CLINT
Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos all about the Origins and the Inspirations of the Reptiles in Myths, such as Dragons, Wyverns, the Loch Ness Monster, Sea Serpents, Nagas, the Hydra, the Leviathan, the Amphisbaena, the Cockatrice, the Basilisk, Medusa The Gorgon, Typhon, Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent God, Etc. on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍
Oh, left a comment but the 10% off code doesn’t seem to be working. Not for me anyway!
Jason might not be far off when he said the hairless raccoon was a chupacabra. According to Wikipedia (which cites the book “Tracking the Chupacabra” by Benjamin Radford, and the article “Disfrazado el chupacabras” by Miried González Rodríguez) “Sightings [of the chupacabra] in northern Mexico and the southern United States have been verified as canids afflicted by mange.” While not a canid, raccoons can be argued to be superficially canid-like, and it’s certainly possible that throughout history some number of people have misidentified hairless raccoons as small chupacabras (other than Jason 😜).
@@Snake_Therapy Same here. I tried entering it multiple times with different capitalization but I just kept getting the message that I'm already receiving their best deal. I even checked the site without using Clint's link and there was no difference in listed prices.
29:00 is lancetfish edible though?
The snake one made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂 the snake was doing the same thing she was! It's saw her coming and it felt the need to flee! I just imagine if snakes could scream they both would be screaming 😂
The snake was like "get away get away....Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!" 😂 I felt bad for both of them. 🐍😩
yea the snake was like "omg omg omg wtf do i do now" and saw the woman run across so it got the hell out too
It started going away once she screamed too. It was just as terrified as she was😂
🐍-Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
@@ClintsReptileshilarious that there's a "translate to English" button. You successfully screamed in Snake!
I worked with a tiger in a zoo once. When I saw it in person for the first time I broke out into a cold full body sweat, immediate fight or flight reaction. They are one of those things that you don't realize how big they are until you're less than 4ft away from it. The keepers also had a prior incident where the tiger ripped thru one of its private enclosure fences like it was paper. Beautiful creatures but so terrifying and should absolutely stay in the wild.
Tigers are one of the animals that really scare me. Angry gorillas too, but tigers are just different. You can tell by their eyes that they can kill you without reservations...
I was extremely shocked at the size of hyenas
I remember having that same physical reaction when I, years ago, entered the alligator enclosure at one of our National Zoos and one of the animals started to roar, that deep, deep, loud sound coming from the depth of its throat….at the exact moment I was literally in the doorway.
And I immediately felt this primal fear!
Which is of course absolutely not logically explainable, since I had lived my whole life in a big city in the Netherlands: impossible to encounter a crocodile or alligator anywhere else than in a zoo…
So the effect must have been one of those ‘ingrained fears’ that humans are born with, after centuries of evolution it is STILL there.
AMAZING!!
There’s a rescue center near me and they had two tigers ones name was Jasmine and the other Jafar. They have lived a very long life but Jafar passed away,I think,probably two years ago. Jasmine is still there. She’s a white Bengal and is HUGE! She’s pretty old now I believe in her 20s and hilarious to watch. She’s learned that if she doesn’t grab the pieces of chicken and just groans and chatters about it eventually the handler will just give it to her without her, having to put any effort into it. I think they really don’t want her jumping up anymore to get it though. She’s so old. Such a beautiful animal. It’s crazy to only stand a couple feet away from her. Her paws are as big as my head lol
@@Barkyfortress. Gorillas look intimidating but they’re actually much safer to be around than chimps. Chimps scare the hell out of me. I can’t believe people that have them as pets.
About 20 years ago, a tiger was spotted in my small rural American town. People got pictures of it, and it was in the news. It was very alarming, but everyone eventually stopped talking about it. I learned what happened from a family friend who was a big game hunter. Apparently, a member of his hunting club, was some how able to get this tiger, illegally, for the purpose of hunting it, and it escaped. The story goes that the tiger killed some livestock, and a few hunters waited for it to come back and killed it. They had access to a backhoe and were able to bury it. It’s really scary to think that someone could have died because some jerks wanted to illegally hunt a tiger.
Horrifying that this severely endangered cat lost its life because of some idiots. Humans are truly capable of the most detestable behaviour.
We Americans shoot first and ask questions later.
Edit: Some don't even bother with the second part. 😞
Sounds like something from Secondhand Lions.
I wish that the tiger would have killed the hunter. Frankly if we restored predator populations we wouldn't need hunters, at all and we could hunt the hunters instead. Now that's the only type of hunt an animal lover would ever want to participate in.
I live near Pine Mountain, Georgia and we had a pretty severe tornado this spring. We also have a Wild Animal Safari here. Two Tigers escaped. It was pretty scary since so many were out cleaning up storm damage. Thankfully they caught them within a few hours.
The elephant trying to scare the man for the second time had me rolling 😂
IKR? It almost would fall into the gamer yelling "your momma!" category! 🤣
That text on the screen was nonsense. The man's 'calm energy' didn't influence the elephant to be calm, the man's calm energy freaked it out. The elephant probably wondered if he was some kind of bizarre venomous monkey or something.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 yea im surprised clint didnt mention what the video was saying lmao, elephants dont "read energies" theyre just very used to every other animal in existence high tailing it the other direction when they charge so it was confused💀. They know humans are dangerous so it didnt want to just turn all the way around while the human was still there but it also had no ability to scare the human away either so they were in a stalemate till the elephant decided the man wasnt gonna retaliate if they both just let it go
@@JubioHDXyou have to remember that poachers are a huge problem in South Africa. (Source: I am South Africa) so that elephant was absolutely vibing whether that dude was a ranger or a poacher. If it vibed that ranger was going to try hurt it absolutely would have gone down swinging. Calm, non threatening, but also I’ll put up a fight if needs be energy is a must when dealing with an (wild) elephant.
Calm vibes won’t help if there is any intention to hurt the animal. If that elephant had read the sitch wrong and that guy was a poacher it would have been dead. It’s life or death. Likely, it helped that there werent a lot of them, just one guy with a stick (and someone with a camera), if there had been more it might have read the sitch as more threatening and attacked. Elephants don’t want to attack, it puts them at risk and not even for food.
F ing poachers. My hatred of them… it makes me angry just thinking about it. That guy was a baller. His vibe was I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if you try fight me. Hard to give off successfully. 10/10
P.s that elephant reminded me of my dog, I don’t know why😂 it seemed almost tame in a strange way, but if it was in a park it absolutely was not.
@@migarsormrapophis2755yeah no, those game rangers are absolute experts at dealing with wild life. He dealt with it perfectly. Elephants know about humans, they know they are dangerous sometimes. Most elephants I’ve game reserves are pretty chill though with people, that one was probably being territorial for a reason. Like a baby elephant or something. I’ve seen rangers deal with elephants and they can tell when they are getting shirty and that’s exactly how the deal with it. I’ve seen other, more novice rangers, and they f it up and can make the sitch worse.
That is not a tame elephant, it is not an elephant you can ride. It is a wild animal. There a very specific ways to handle a wild animal like that without getting maimed.
I grew up around elephants in Zimbabwe and while they often would posture with their ears out we would just accept that warning and stop or maybe back out of their pathway a bit while they passed. Even when there were calves with the herds as long as you were calm and didn't come toward them, they left you alone. However, I once had the distinct misfortune of approaching the herd of what was believed to be the largest elephant bull in Zimbabwe (one of the last 'super tusker' elephants) when that bull was in musk. We immediately recognized our mistake and turned around, but like Clint said they want to fight everything during musk. He charged our vehicle for about a kilometer despite us being well away from the herd. Elephants are surprisingly fast for their size and in an old bush jeep in high brush we struggled to get distance between us.
It's like that with most animals. If you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.
Just like moose. Except all moose do that not just the bulls.
I would specifically love to see a whole video of clint identifying and discussing "unidentified animals" it is SO SATISFYING!!
Same! I'm a bit ashamed to admit: I thought salp was fake. Never knew about them before!
I loved it SO much!! I’ve always wondered whether the animals in the videos were fake or not and I ADORE listening to Clint talk about them all.
I enjoyed it so much that I searched "identifying tiktok animals" but TH-cam just gave me a bunch of videos about people on TikTok identifying AS animals 😐 guess I will have to wait.
@@MarcLLBig OOF. Lol.
@@MarcLLLindsay Nikole has a tiktok series about identifying them and she posts them on YT as well
ok as a Thai person, I have to say It is a place that preserves tigers very well. We have the second largest tiger population in the world. It's amazing to learn about them. But it's good that you're concerned because people who want to study these things should know about the potential dangers. However, there has been no case of a tiger killing a person in Thailand for a long time. (People still illegally kill tigers.) There are many ways to learn more about Thailand's wildlife up close and safely. Thai people are kind and happy to share their knowledge about the things they love. If you decide to come to Thailand I hope you have a good time.
I love hearing about the conservation efforts in other countries from the people living there. It reminds me of how much we all, as a world, love our animals.^^
Very good points, thank you so much for sharing that. I have heard Thailand is an amazingly beautiful country as well.
@@ILuvAyeAye
I gave some incorrect information ! We don't have the second largest tiger population in the world. But there is an increase in the number of tigers from conservation that is second in the world! Yes, Thailand is a wonderful country especially about its people and wildlife ♥️ (about our sidewalks, not very much lol) thank you for your kind words !
@@CaptainLuckyDuck we love our animals to much sometimes 😂 now we have problems about the amount of elephants we have
@@BlueA_3545 5th place is not bad considering the size of the country!
That gorilla was captive raised by the dude (Damien Aspinall) in England and released into the wild in their native range. They were visiting the gorillas they had released a few years after that release. So the gorilla knew the man, knew the people were trustworthy. Not sure a wild born gorilla would have been quite so comfortable with all the hugging!
Yeah, I thought that he was acting more like they were family than they were strangers ^^
it's very obvious that a totally wild born animal wouldn't have this response....
clearly familiar with them but still a wild animal (as in, not domesticated) which makes the video amazing regardless i think!
Doesn't they try to make those animals wild?
yes I would have thought that clint surely has seen the Aspinall video.
Gorillas: staring directly at someone and showing your teeth is extremely high level agression.
Humans: always make eye contact and smile or else it's very rude.
Finally, a specific instance where non-masking autistics are vastly superior to neurotypicals lol
Neurodivergents: fully on the gorilla's side on this one. 👍
@@CaptainAMAZINGGG yes, agreed
us standing tall on 2 feet while staring at everything and showing our teeth constantly while talking all loud is alot of the reason so many animals are scared of us too lmao, we look bigger than we really are (though we are in no way small) and seem very intimidating to most animals. Not to mention especially all the african animals evolving next to human species and having to learn that we can genuinely be dangerous as well
@@JubioHDXIts no wonder all of a groups most psychotic species live there lol. Mambas and forest cobras for snakes, hippos and rhinos for ungulates, hyenas for carnivores...
My uncle once had an encounter with a wild gorilla male. He initially froze in shock when this huge ape rapidly approached him up to an arm length, but once it came close, he for some reason extended his hand and tried to introduce himself… yes, to a literal wild gorilla. (One of those brain short-circuit under stress reactions.) That ill-mannered gorilla completely ignored his hand though and instead briskly grabbed a colourful little bag of oranges he was holding in his other hand to quickly storm off with his loot. Later he (the gorilla) was seen happily munching away the oranges, while the bag had become a stylish new addition to this sharp if a little savage dresser’s hat collection. Unquestionably, every dandy in furs needs a proper orange bag hat, so he was completely in the right to enrich his wardrobe (and his breakfast) with Uncle’s fruit bag; who, as a polite and generous hooman in awe of Mr. Gorilla’s impeccable fashion sense, gladly yielded it. I like to think he was more than fairly compensated with this story though.
Guess instead of just reaching out a hand, reaching out an orange would've been the calmer interaction.
I'm rewatching this because I needed some fun in my day and I just realized that the tiger with over 400 human deaths Clint's talking about is the Maneater of Champawat.
As I understand it, she survived being shot by hunters but the bullet broke some of her teeth. That made humans her best option for prey because she could hold on to them properly even with half her front teeth on one side missing or damaged. Her story is fascinating, if a touch sad.
Yeah that is who he was talking about and it was about 436 kills sorry I am an animal nerd😅
From the sounds of it, humans made their own killer there
@@Ace-ace-babyI thought it was because she got hurt and then also had cubs to feed. I don't know if that part is true. Either way, scary nonetheless.
Sounds like a perfect karmic climax. May she long reign as the queen she is in the ether.
@@IrieRogue thats a bit off. The people she killed likely had absolutely nothing to do with her being harmed and had loved ones who had to deal with the pain of them being eaten by a tiger... yes it was a humans fault. But saying that her killing other humans is "karmic" isn't at all accurate. 😕
Hearing Clint say "keep the chupacabra's name out of your mouth" made me laugh way harder than it should have.
When was that in the video?
I didn't hear it and can't find it.
Was it around the hairless Racoon?
@@DWandLoZfan_and_Knuckles During the outtakes at 43:37
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I can't hear chupacabra without thinking of my old ornithology professor. Nighjars, nighthawks, and whipoorwills are all in the "goat sucker" family. They literally are the chupacabra.
That first clip is scarier than any horror movie. Tigers are beautiful, fascinating and absolutely terrifying animals.
And it's cut like a horror movie, because the first split second I thought it was being filmed from a (presumably enclosed) car, and then my stomach dropped when I heard the motor rev and realized there's nothing between him and the tiger. I'm amazed that human got home safely to share the video.
The motorcyclist could have survived for a while had he been wearing road armor and full helmet. Chances an Indian was wearing hardened motorcycling armor is slim to none.
As a vet tech who always wanted to work in zoo medicine, this was so amazing to watch! After hearing Mr. Laidlaw is an instructor, I feel so jealous of all the students who have had the opportunity to study under him, he seems like an awesome teacher!!!
My mother and I have raised and released orphaned baby raccoons, and I’ve never seen one hairless in my life, but I knew immediately by how it moved, that it had to be one, I was just SO confused because it had no fur 😭 hope lil buddy ok 🥺
That last gorilla video was SO heartwarming… he was so gentle and curious. They’re terrifying if they’re upset of course, because they’re massively stronger than us, but they’re such smart, intuitive, and lovely creatures. They want to learn and explore, they try to bond and form repertoire. Incredible creatures. All great apes are so fascinating.
There are breeds of (semi) naked cats, so it was obvious that wasn't some "mysterious" animal. Just one without hair. And the face of a naked cat is very similar, so it was obviously somewhat related.
And yes, raccoons are close to mustelidae like otters, skunks and weasels, then seals, then bears, then dogs, then cats. Once you take off the fluff it becomes very obvious.
If this video went on ALL DAY LONG, I'd watch the entire thing. I especially liked the unidentified animals. We definitely need more of this.
LIKEWISE!! I'm on my second watchthrough in a row. I'd love to see more of these!
Yesss came to the comments to say the same!! Liked the video but LOVED the unidentified animals segment!!
Me too 😂❤
Watching Clint talk about the gorillas at the end was so touching to me. Watching him with his face in his hands and then speaking about wanting a similar interaction with a gorilla with an emotional voice.. I was almost brought to tears. It’s lovely to see someone so passionate about an interest. ❤
Same! You can totally tell how much he loves gorillas and wishes that were him in the video. I hope he gets to have a similar experience one day and that we get to see video footage of the encounter. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Find yourself a partner who holds you like that gorilla and looks at you the way Clint looks at that gorilla.
@@MrDj232 I totally have! He's also got a pretty epic beard to bring in the "hairy" part of the gorilla. 🤣
I cried lol
Part of me can't help but wonder if Clint is neurodivergent. His reactions to things are very similar to mine. Then again, we could also just have similar personalities
"They don't necessarily want to fight everything that they could beat in a fight"
Which is probably good because elephants could beat a lot of things in a fight if they remember not to inhale a chuckwalla.
My thought was "everything they could beat in a fight? You mean everything on land?" XD
few people realize that this is why there are no wild elephants in the American Southwest!
@@scrubjay93 The TRUE reason American mastodons went extinct
Chuckwalla?
@@krankarvolund7771Rhinos Hippos and Nile crocodiles could still cause them a lot of harm.
The reason the elephant stopped is because the cameraman was right behind that guy, and wasnt moving.. Everyone knows the cameraman never dies 😁😁😁
*coughs in Blair Witch*
🤣🤣🤣@@fathomlives
There was an occasion when the film in the camera was developed and that explained some final moments.
It may have involved a polar bear.
Just a little note, the period of hormonal surge (mostly testosterone) in bull elephants which can lead to very aggressive behavior (BTW, also the reasons adolescent bulls are kicked out of the all-female, matriarchal herd when they reach that stage) is called must or musth
Who else immediate identified the hairless racoon?
Racoons just have a very recognizable look and way of moving and behaving. Also, it was rifling through a dumpster while being completely unperturbed by the humans around it.
I absolutely did. I took one look at it and said, "raccoon with sarcoptic mange". IIRC, alopecia is much less common than sarcoptic mange.
I also made a Montauk Monster joke further up because I couldn't help myself!
I thought it was the dreaded “Chupacabra” searching for a goat to suck!
*Ba Haha!* 😂
Yep. I thought at first maybe a hairless dog, but then you see the face and it's just v raccoon.
Nothing but a full sequencing will convince me it's not a chupacabra 🤪🤣🤣
@@lindsyfish6704 Mange typically has other symptoms like scabbing, infection, lethargy, and emaciation (especially in such severe cases).
Oh my gosh yes! My family loved this video and we are hoping this segment, "Zoologist Reacts" stays around. This was very entertaining, and extremely educational. We learned so much from this video.
I throughly enjoyed it too, Clint always entertains and educates. 👍🏻
But you're exposing this rational grown man to TikTok; the costs aren't worth it for your family's enjoyment. Sorry.
I would love more of it too, I also watch one where the young man does family safe, animal/reptile quick facts video.
Fun fact: there are two different groups of rodents called "mole rats" that evolved convergently! The mole rat in that video is a spalacid mole rat, which are also called blind mole rats because their eyes are not just small, but completely covered over by skin. They live in Eurasia and are more closely related to actual rats and mice than to the other group called "mole rats".
That second group is formed by the naked mole rat and bathyergid mole rats (or blesmols). They are, as you note, African in origin, and are more closely related to guinea pigs and porcupines!
I'm looking forward to digging into the rodents soon! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Super cool!
I'm guessing you mean old world porcupines, because old world and new world porcupines are parallel evolution like the two types of mole rat. And for that matter European moles and Africa golden moles are also two different groups of animal that evolved into the same niche with a similar body plan.
@@iseriver3982 You are correct that the different porcupine groups also represent a case of convergent evolution. African mole rats are more closely related to both types of porcupines than to rats and mice, so I did not specify for the sake of simplicity.
" . . . related to guinea pigs . . ?"
Yeh, that makes sense, considering the noises it was making. My guinea pig Maverick would grunt/squek like that. He was a funny little dude, had the most beautiful, long, flowing mullet the eighties ever witnessed, was totally blind and had a pair of nuts bigger than mine. He was called Maverick because he zoomed around like a little rocket - being blind didn't slow him down, he had a seeing-eye-bunny friend who lived with him...
I am more terrified of spiders than I am snakes. I've seen a diamondback up close and just kept my distance. My husband has seen bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and even a wolf. As long as you know what to do, animals are usually not scary. I just have an irrational fear of spiders I'm trying to face.
Arthropods broadly freak me all the way out. It's the way their legs move. Something about it is just intolerably creepy. I used to live in Florida, alligators are very dangerous but like... just stay out of their way.
I used orb weaver spiders to help my fear. The ones near me are large, round, orange and harmless. If you get one off its web it will start making a web in your hands because it thinks you’re a tree. Very pretty and very slow and docile
Have you heard of peacock spiders? They're about the perfect beginner level spider for getting used to them - tiny, harmless, beautiful, with a lot of character.
@@matthewlindsley3298I encounter so many orb weavers while working, I used to be absolutely terrified of spiders but they really helped me get over it, I still struggle to touch them but I can move them gently with a stick or something when before even looking at images of spiders make me squeamish.
The issue is that snakes will not approach you voluntarily. But spiders have very short ranged eye sight. They can't see you unless you are within a meter or so.
Enjoyed this, especially the unidentified creatures segment. Siphonophores are truly fascinating - if you're taking recommendations for a second round, there's footage from a 1991 Japanese ROV of Bathyphysa conifera that is absolutely bone chilling. I cannot imagine being on the other end of that ROV and stumbling on such an otherworldly siphophore
That elephant: "bro... why you so calm? It's weird, man... Here, I'll give you one more so you can react normally. Maybe you just didnt see it. No? Still nothing? That's just weird... im just gonna go..." 😂
The little pose he strikes/holds at 41:16 after putting her hat on…seriously makes my heart feel like it’s going to explode from a cuteness overdose!😂❤
this is the comment I was looking for. The same exact reaction to that pose lol
Monke moment
Reminds me of the zoo orangutan that gets some sunglasses dropped into the enclosure and models them for a while. So adorable. They see us wearing something all the time, and want to try it out when they get their hands on it, see what all the hype is about.
Oh, this was 44 minutes long?! Felt like 20 minutes, to be honest. Proves this was much fun.
I had to check the length of the video, because it really didn't feel that long. lol
Wow I also had to check the video length. Could easily have been 15 minutes, the time just flew by. Definitely a great new type of video for this channel
It not only was so fascinating and wholesome and funny and educational and brilliant that it felt too short, but so ridiculously packed full of incredible knowledge that 44 minutes doubled because I had to watch it twice!😂
I'm extremely surprised it's taken me this long to find your channel, I'm autistic and have a special interest of animals, specifically birds and reptiles, these videos are amazing! I have so much to add to my fun fact roster
My son is too!
That tiger scene is unreal, the first time I had that "there is a dangerous predator around" you talked about the amazon not having was in Alaska seeing polar bear in the wild. I've seen black and brown too, and they deserve respect and caution but they're rarely interested in getting anywhere near humans. Being in tiger habitat seems like it would feel the same or scarier than polar bear ranges.
I honestly love how you just looked so concerned about every category and then the second you heard gorillas you just looked so excited😂😂
Clint, I just want to give a shoutout to how incredibly grounded you seem. Despite being as thoroughly educated as you are, you don't do things like assert yourself as "Dr. Laidlaw", or have any air of arrogance. While obviously I don't know you in person, I'd like to think your personality in these videos is somewhat reflective of your real personality, all the same. And yeah, just felt it's worth mentioning how much I appreciate being able to watch someone as knowledgeable as yourself, while not being put off by a stuck-up attitude!
Thank you so much! I find that kind of thing rather off-putting personally. If your education makes it so you know your stuff, show me by the stuff you know, not the title you present.
clint is BASED
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Just fyi; for the longest time I thought that the testosterone- fueled state of “heat” bull elephants go into was called “musk.” I was recently corrected by Dr Russel Burke, (professor of bio at Hofstra U) who said the correct term is; “musth.”
*I was understandably shooketh and said to him; “but professor, surely you ‘musth’ be mistaken...!*
😂 _Ba DumTissssssssssssssssssssss_
_(Seriously though, it’s called “musth,” pronounced “must”)_
@davidvento5481 I knew this also and wondered why such a knowledgeable person as Clint IS didn't use the correct word.
Maybe they are used interchangeably?
@@davidvento5481Even when people pronounce it correctly, my closed captions always say "musk". It used to crack me up, but now I realize it is literally teaching people the wrong word. Sigh... 😂
I saw the bit on the fossa, and I've seen internet pictures. A male fossa's reproductive anatomy is nightmare fuel. It was hilarious seeing Clint describe it like that at the end to the camera man's horror.
I need a non-censored version of that outtake xD
Yea that's a lot of spikes... more than a house-cat for sure with it's tiny pee-pee.
The females have spikes on their clit! that's fucking nuts. They also have a bone like males have for their penis (not humans lol), and it starts out long, but gets shorter as they age. Very unusual and cool.
I tried looking for it out of morbid curiosity and all i found was furry porn :/
@@bogwife7942 I giggled at this comment. XDDD
@@bogwife7942 ew, i hate furries so goddamn much for sexualizing animals to that extent
I worked on a tall ship in Washington State that sailed all over the state's waterways and coast. We had all kinds of animals around us before from Harbor seals to Sea lions, Harbor porpoises to Whales, orcas and more- but one of the coolest was a cormorant that landed on our aftmost rail on the stern, and dried it's wings on deck before flopping about the deck a bit and flying away.
Seeing whales at work. What a dream
I've seen hundreds or maybe thousands of golden and bald eagles at one time before! When I went to Devil's Tower as a teen, they were nesting on it and circling it. It's an absolutely incredible structure and the entire area feels so strange and beautiful, but the eagles were honestly my favorite part.
Love this. If you ever did make it to tiktok, you could legit just spend all your time stitching animal videos that you’re tagged in. 😂😂
I just discovered that this is a thing. Crazy! That might just need to happen!
@@ClintsReptiles Oh my god yess!! you gotta do that id love to watch 😂
@ClintsReptiles No Clint! Don't download the Chinese spyware that's banned in China! - Some random IT guy on the internet you have no obligation to listen to.
I would get tiktok specifically to watch this
@@ClintsReptiles no please don’t do ticktock. That app is a cancer
I've worked around tiger country and met numerous people who have had encounters with tigers. They will monitor what people do and pay attention to our habits, which for the most part is just being curious. But for a group of people lost on a mountain side was a bit more sinister.
Also I read a collection of stories from forest monks in Thailand prior to European arrival. They considered elephants a significant threat as most other animals will not molest a monk meditating under a tree, however elephants would randomly kill monks. The forest monks did have a high appreciation and affection for the intelligence of cobras. Possibly partly as a meditating monk is a nice place to curl up and stay awhile.
Makes sense, a warm monk would also be inviting to me if i would be cold blooded
Thai natives say elephants do possess an equal if not greater risk to people than tigers. Those venturing into the wilderness in areas frequented by tigers will often wear human face masks on the back of their heads. The reason for this being that tigers prefer catching their prey unaware and the rear-facing masks act as a deterrent to a tiger scoping them out as potential prey. Some people also paint rear-facing eyes on their cow’s backsides for the same reason! The herper Rupert (of “Rupert’s Reptiles” on YT) goes wandering all around the jungles in Thailand -alone & in a group apparently unconcerned by the possibility of tiger attacks. The diversity of species there is totally amazing! He also is currently organizing tours -perhaps consider contacting him as he seems to know all the hot spots for herping. TBH, I’d take what Chandler says with a grain considering the result of his recent careless free-handling of wild cobras in India. His cavalier, impetuous nature is not setting the best example for reptile keepers with organizations like FWC, etc..
@@davidvento5481granted, the results of Chandler's India adventure speak for themselves, but I don't think he does anything to support your point here considering he's also just gone through tiger country basically smile and don't think about it. Until you get back to ppl and learn those claw marks on the tree you were under were probably not in fact bears.
What if they are fed? Like if I were to put out some food. I imagine tigers become like bears. Maybe some acclimate well to humans and others don’t?
.. yes they are agile carnivorous wild animals (cats to boot are the hunters of all hunters)
maybe so so much like bears although, I presume .. as long as they are not hungry and they are not provoked or threatened then they should be relatively harmless?? Like tarantulas. If they’re not hungry and there’s no reason to be defensive..
Cats and tarantulas have a lot in common already anyways.
@@Kittypaws90 Most tigers don't attack people, it seems that only some "man-eater" tigers will go out of their way to stalk and kill people (most of the time isolated unarmed people, they don't like to attac groups of humans and won't attack armed people unless they're cornered). The most likely explanation is that man-eaters are sick or injured tigers, unable to kill anything stronger than a human, as it's thought that tigers don't like human meat.
There's two exceptions however, some tigers took a liking in human meat during wars after eating many corpses, and in the Sundarbans, between India and Bangladesh, there's so much tigers that even healthy tigers attacked humans. However, those attacks have dropped considerably these last years due to better management from the local authorities (only three people per year are killed, versus fifty or sixty a year before ^^).
I loved this!! That Komodo really did look like he was regretting his life choices about halfway through dinner to be fair... and OMG Mole Rats are so freaking adorable!! That little grunt!
The komodo really did! 😂😂😂
I was like, "that's a little big, but it's probably okay". Then you could practically hear it think, "ah, carp!" Halfway through.
Heck no! He bit that guy two-four days ago and tracked it since. He expended A LOT of energy doing that. All I saw was THUROUGH enjoyment on the capture. Even ramming it into the ground to help it in! That stud has the next MONTH to bask and be lazy! If you are not human on this planet and you can go a month without worrying about food? You are top tier!
Can't believe I ate the whole thing!
"oh my God... SOOO MUCH DANGER."
😂
Haoko, the gorilla, likes to play with his babies. He is super gentle and careful with them. He is not a wild gorilla, and lives in a zoo. The mothers don't always approve of his actions, but he has never hurt them, and he gives them back after a chase.
That elephant looks more concerned than calm about the man just standing there 😂. It’s like he got creeped out.
The elephant was literally side-eyeing the man!
I love how the elephant tried a second mock charge just to make sure. Seeing no reaction to a charge from a smaller animal must've been the weirdest thing to them!
Oh, this was delightful!
The elephant video reminded me of an encounter I had when I was on safari in Kenya in the 90s. My group was in a safari van, and we were photographing a family of elephants, including a teeny baby that didn't even have tusks yet. One of our group accidentally used the flash on his camera and it spooked them, and the adults flared their ears at us. The baby *freaked* and came at the van in full charge, and actually nearly skidded into us (our guide pointed out later that this was the one moment we were in actual danger, because if the baby *had* skidded into us it could have been hurt and then we would have had a bunch of *angry* adult elephants on our hands). There was this moment when we could see the wheels turning and the "ohhhh, this thing is much bigger than I thought it was" on the baby's face even as it never stopped moving, just kept running as it turned around and galumphed right back to its mama's side. 😂 Adorable and terrifying memory!
Clint is to me as an adult what Saturday morning cartoons were to me as a kid: excited all week to wake up and watch!
YES!!! I usually watch while my clothes are in the washing machine...before I get into whatever messy chores I have planned for the weekend. Today I'm painting my closet.
I literally said to my husband an hour ago, "I'm going to charge my phone & watch my Saturday morning vids of Serpa & Clint like cartoons when we were kids"
This is SO true!
The same excitement level!
35:08 I'm here from your second Tiktok video! My vote is on Jaguarundi for this guy, and here's why; Jags have smaller ears, nose, and eyes than the Fossa, which I think this guy has, but the ears are very rounded, giving them a similar look, especially when folded back. But the selling point for me is that the Fossa is more of a tree dweller, while the Jag is more at home on the ground. That critter reads Jaguarundi for me, for sure.
This! Jags also have a lot more of a boxy, squared face shape which you can see on the video at a pretty good angle when the creature turns its head before the jump. I thought I was going crazy!
You are the sweetest person I think I’ve ever seen. Haha 😅 love how much you dig animals and sharing about them.
Oh the lancetfish story made me sad. Fishermen shouldn't deep sea fish unless they are going to keep them. Seems cruel to kill by decompression and throw them back anyway. Great video as always!
Yeah. That poor creature was not only going through decompression sickness but it jas those massive eyes and lives in low light areas. So it was probably blind from the excessive light.
Don't deep sea fish unless you're going to put the creature out of it's misery and eat it.
Except in the ocean nothing is ever wasted. That fish became a meal for one or many other creatures.
Seems pretty cruel to k1ll fish in general when you can just eat plants rather than animals
@@glenngriffon8032How is eating it any better?
You're still k1lling it
@@hoominbeeing K1lling an animal and letting it's body just sit feels like a shame and a waste to me. I know nothing in nature goes to waste, everything is recycled in some form or another but to end a creature's life for no reason other than clout just bothers me.
He got so excited when he pulled out the skulls, you can tell he loves this stuff 🥰
Yup. Like, he wants to show you this one, then he’s like No wait, this one shows it better, and then hol’ up- this one is so cool 😄
Your passion for all the different animals, their behaviour, their relationships, their biology - it’s so infectious! It makes me feel excited and curious about the natural world like it’s the first time again - and always fun when I can identify species along with a zoologist !
clint practically tearing up with joy and jealousy watching that gorilla video 😂 me too man, me too
You are so knowledgeable and the pure joy seen on your face when you talk about animals is so heartwarming.
The Smile on your face when the word Gorilla was uttered is Priceless 😁
I love them so much!
So do I, I love watching videos of D'Jecco and his boys Jabali and Ringo!
The first time I heard a gorilla pound it’s chest, I was surprised it sounded less like King Kong and more like someone dropped a bunch of coconut shells.
Also please do more of these.
Neat!
Clint's absolute adoration for the animal kingdom is so infectious. These videos are such a treat. Gorilla lovers rise up.
13:35 "And it's very very apparent when they're in musk!" 😁 😂
First time watching you. Liked and subscribed. I'm a documentary junkie and your presentation wowed me. Informative without being boring. Explained simply without dumbing down. You've got a new fan.
You talking about the tigers and mountain lions reminds me of that big news story from a few years ago when a young mountain lion tried to kill a grown man. It turned into a wrestling match and the man choked the mountain lion to death, made it to the hospital, and survived. That’s a next level battle of survival right there. Very rarely do we see raw, hands on prey vs predator fights where the one being hunted actually kills the predator during the fight
Hercules reincarnated XD
Yeah it's not a fair fight vs the planet's Apex predators (humans)
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We're only Apex if we have weapons. Take away our weapons, and we get knocked down quite a few notches. No claws, small teeth, thin skin, a lot of very fragile areas that can incapacitate or kill you very quickly.
Was that the one where they determined that it was a juvenile mountain lion and found its starving siblings not far from where that guy killed that "kitten" ? Take a lot of wind out of his sail when it became obvious he killed a hungry cub.
You know, it would be kind of fun to put together a super cut of all the times Clint identifies his favorite animals.
At least anecdotally, it feels like there's a lot of different animals that are his favorite (which there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with). I just think it'd be a cute and funny little video.
Absolutely wrong it would not at all. It would be a cute and funny video yes, but not little at all. At least ten hours.
This guy's blow-by-blow of the elephant encounter is everything. I nominate him to be the animal encounter sportscaster forever! Also, what I wouldn't give to know everything about how that footage of the tiger chasing the motorcycle came to be. Who is the driver, where was he and what did he do when he finally lost the Tiger and stopped the motorcycle? Where is the camera filming from? How does this footage even exist?!
I'm guessing that was from a gopro or other small camera on the cyclist's head/helmet!
When I saw this video the first time, the caption said there was a second person sitting behind the driver froggy style and filming
There were 2 persons on the bike
@@TdHf-g7o Ah-HA! Now I get it.
I love how this channel mainly focuses on reptiles (hence the name) but Clint’s also just so knowledgeable in general about so many animals
Please do more of these. That was so fun! I love to hear your knowledge on these random topics!
I need more of these, this was so fun. I dont go on tiktok because of all the other junk but curated animal videos are wonderful.
I love the explanations and having no stress that if a video has potential for harm, neglect, or normalizing dangerous things it wont be ignored like so many "fun animal comiplations". This video was so refreshing.
One time when my parents took us hiking in the Alps, we saw some paragliders being chased by a pair of Goldies who were clearly annoyed by the presence of the intruders into their territory. The paragliders must have been scared shitless.
Non-vertebrate chordates are some of the weirdest animals ever! I’d love if you talked more about them in the future!
Clint - you constantly entertain and astound with your seemingly endless fund of knowledge of so so many creatures great and small! You swiftly and expertly weaved your way through every category and section sharing your observations and making your points along the way. I was quite impressed and thoroughly entertained. Thank you as always.
I’m loving how smart this guy is.. I could listen to him all day. His enthusiasm for animals is contagious!
Watching this grown man be absolutely enthralled by these animal vids has brightened my day- thank you for this.
If I’d had a teacher this knowledgeable, entertaining, and as easy to understand, I might’ve chosen a different path…but still extremely appreciate your content! Thank you!
Clint's knowledge is incredible, the way he has those facts ready about all kinds of animals... but can we also acknowledge that he knows someone who's been on human centipede??? :D
I'm with that elephant, good read on the man lol. That's like a person seeing a rat and this thing just looks at you when you charge it. "Nah that thing is sick or venemous, im outta here."
I firmly believe that in the first clip the motorcycle backfiring is the only thing to change the tigers mind.
Videos like this remind us all Clint is WAY more than the typical PetTuber. The animal knowledge is AWESOME. When majority of TH-cam is fluff, so nice to see actual education vids. I have been going Podcast route lately for my animals smarts. GOOD JOB WITH THIS VIDEO. AWESOME.
Hearing a father say TikTok is a poison on society is always nice
I just binged the whole zoologist reacts series a few days ago!! so excited for another one
It's one of my favorite series'
37:16 those look like the guy that created sally in the night before Christmas lol
Kinda surprised you didn't have a blue-ringed octopus encounter in the "dangerous encounters" section. it's astounding how few people actually know about them.
Probably not a huge number of videos of people with them, since the encounters tend to either be kinda boring, or not TOS friendly.
@@Albinojackrussel there's a few on youtube shorts and tiktok.
@@Albinojackrussel I've seen videos of people handling them, I don't think they're especially easy to anger.
your description of how big eagles appear is so accurate. I was crabbing on a dock and heard a thud behind me. i turn around and see a bald easgle standing a foot away from me. It felt like he was almost 4' tall but this was likely due to the close proximity and shock. I threw him one of the crabs from my trap, and I am pretty sure it sat there for another minute just deciding if I would make a better meal.
They have replica of a life-sized bald eagle nest at our zoo. It's big enough that children love to curl up in it. They don't look that big high up in trees, but they are huge.
I saw them in Alaska a few years back and I wouldn’t be surprised if the one you saw was 4 feet tall. I felt like they were between 3 and 4 feet but I didn’t see them up close
Saw some bald eagles at the Carolina Raptor Center. They certainly felt 4 feet tall to me (5’2”). At the very least, they could reach my armpit.
That eagle probably saw dogs begging for food and was like "Oh what the hell, I'll give it a shot, too." except instead of bribing you for a crab with cuteness it bribed you with FREEDOM.
Thanks to Clint, and other great communicators like him, I was able to i.d. most of the animals on the "weird" section! (Misidentified salp as a sinonophore and that weird fish, the lancetfish, got me.) Again, thanks to Clint who's channel is one of the few cherished things I have in common with my daughter and granddaughter.
Please make this a weekly series! I loved every minute of this video! I could listen to you educate me all day! 😂❤
You are SO full of knowledge, its brilliant to see, thanks for educating us! I love listening to you talk with passion about animals.
Randomly stumbled upon this. Fantastic. I love the enthusiasm and passion he has for animals. May go on a binge
I was on a hike somewhere I frequent and was... Stupidly comfortable. I walked through a couple bushes and there were a few snakes warming in the sun. Hadn't seen snakes there before so was quite surprised and even more so when I realized I was standing on one!
Thankfully it didn't bite me and it wanted away from me just as much as I wanted away from it 😂
I think - for me - this is in my top 5 videos you've ever done! Mostly because it's nice to get a variety of information about a variety of animals. I feel like I've learned so much interesting info in just 45 min. Please do more of these!
The pure joy in your expression watching the Gorillas was so beautiful. It made my day❤
the tiger and elephant clips made my heartrate skyrocket omg...i cannot imagine being able to stay calm in the face of a charging elephant.
I love how passionate he talks about everything, LOVE IT!!
Totally want more videos like this! Love learning about the lesser known critters
I don't know why this popped up in my feed but I'm SO GLAD it did! This was absolutely fascinating! I very much enjoyed watching Clints explanations & his general excitedness he gets while talking about animals! Def sub here ❤
Last video was heart warming as heck, thanks guys.
The way you say ❝Hi ! There ❞ melts my heart.
Found this channel like two days ago and have been binge watching every single video, not only is it super refreshing to listen to someone who actually knows what they’re talking about, he’s hilarious, what an amazing channel ❤
Hey Clint, maybe you can make a video about reptiles that take care of their young.
Its not really an widely known fact that some reptiles make awsome parents.
King Cobras and a lot of crocodilians
@@starlight0313 butterfly agamas, crocodilians and monkey tail skinks came to my mind but king cobras I didn't know
@@starlight0313I’ve heard that African rock pythons watch their young for a couple of weeks after they hatch.
And crocodile skinks!
birds
First time watching one of your videos. I love your personality, presence, and wealth of knowledge on animals. It was a great video! ❤
Can't believe I am just now seeing this video. Thank you, Clint, this was very entertaining and informative. Loved every bit of it, I hope there's more in the future.
I subscribed not only because the content is fascinating... but I LOVE watching someone who's so knowledgeable and obviously loves what he does.
Well done! 👏👏👏
Thanks for the work you do. Discovered your channel recently and really enjoy your content and appreciate the effort you put into education. Takes me back to years working in exotic animal sales and trying to educate people on the reality of ownership for different animals. I wish there had been a resource like this to point them towards. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Idk why TH-cam recommended this to me but I am so excited it did. This was awesome, please do more of these! From a fellow snake and reptile lover 🫶🏻💜
Absolutely loved this video Clint and Crew!
Loved that Clint would go off into random extra information and how happy and intrigued he seemed to be.
It was just a lovely video.
Seeing how happy he got with gorilla’s feeds my soul
I think my kink is just watching nerds geek out on topics they're passionate about. I can watch Clint talking about animals for days.