ELEPHANTS have WEIRD cousins (and some are coming BACK FROM THE DEAD)!
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- Elephants are amazing, intelligent, enormous, charismatic animals that are loved by people all over the world, but their relatives are REALLY WEIRD! How weird? I'd be happy to explain because the Afrotheria (elephants and their closest relatives) has got to be one of the strangest and most diverse groups of mammals on the planet!
#clintsreptiles #elephant #mammals
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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?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍
I absolutely adored how passionately wide-eyed you'd remained throughout the majority of this entire episode...IT, almost, as if you were daring us all to QUESTION your enthusiasm using the sheer near-brux-like bulgings of those seemingly-unblinking eyes that you've got there... Really the whole thing was oddly impressive and quite fascinatin', AS...WAS THIS INCREDIBLY STRANGE GROUP OF ODDBALL ANIMAL GOOFS GOOFBALLS and perhaps as the most apt descriptor of all, GOOFY GOOBERS (haha! Get it? Because goobers're...aw nevermind! Lol!), just as, in general, the episode in an' of itself was quite rather oddly impressive, about many oddities, as well! Keep up all your excellent work and content and output and videos, my friend (and wild-eyed stranger)! Lmfao!
even his writing is adorable
Then the Elephant Shrew needs renaming to Shrew Elephant I suppose...
If you're considering going to Madagascar I suggest you do it quick. Everyone I have heard from that visited Madagascar has been sadly disappointed since the forest there is mostly gone and what remains seems to be run like a park for tourists and lacking in diversity. If the current trend continues, it won't be worth visiting at all in the future :(
Do marsupials! It's what the people want! (Also monotremes, the hagfish of mammals.)
Yes plox!
I wouldn't describe them as 'hagfish of mammals', because they produce milk and have hair, like... well, pretty much any other mammal. They just lack many characteristics, that basically every other mammal has.
@@billyr2904 they are the most distant group of mammals, i think that is what they meant. also, i wouldnt use "because they produce milk and have hair"
that doesnt necessarily make them mammals, more so producing milk is a trait all mammals share that other animals dont
Opossums alone are really diverse.
I want it!!!
Fun fact: Arthur's first book was about how, as an aardvark, he thought his fleshy snoot was too weird and wanted to get rhinoplasty. By the end he learned that he was fine just the way he was, but then a few books into the series they decided to use his imagined post-op design instead.
Not "a few books in". The second book. The message of the first book was undermined immediately.
I just looked this up and holy hell it's so phallic and creepy. It makes sense that they had to change it.
This is actually the weirdest thing I learned today, and I watched the video.
@@nowandaround312 looks fine to me
How am I JUST learning that whole swaths of mammals are walking around with CLOACAS?!? LIKE BIRDS??
Beavers have cloacas as well. There is no reliable way to sex young beavers because their genitals look the same. The only way to tell is when they're adults and the females have enlarged mammary glands. I know this from watching videos of baby rescue beavers AKA the best videos ever. Although all mammals most likely had cloacas at some point in the distant past, beavers reevolved this trait because of their aquatic lifestyle.
I remember being taught that live birth was a mammal trait. Now I've learned that there are mammals that lay eggs, and several non mammal species give live birth, like some reptiles, and species of sharks as an example.
Why were we taught this? My education sometimes feels like a lie.
Isn’t it cool to learn new things! Thanks Clint!
I already knew that from college, and I let that inform my politics and..
_Yeesh_
Wait till you find out that ducks have penises.
I did not expect a 1984 reference and I sure as heck wasn't expecting a Star Trek VI reference in this video but I'm super pleased about them. Well done lol. Loved learning about Afrotheria.
I love the crew not getting the reference and Clint dead face delivering it lol.
There is no war in Bah SingSe.
The first 1984 reference was nice, the second one was awesome.
I cackled at the 1984 reference 😆
Wasn’t expecting Orwell, given the book’s apathy to rats 😂
I need to reread that book.
I freaking SHRIEKED!! It made my whole day!
@@MaineDoomno apathy to rats in there. Like every other living being in that book (except maybe the fish in the river) they're a tool in the hands of the government to meet their own ends.
Took me a minute to get it
Fun fact about Hyraxes, they have been confused for rabbits at least twice. First in some European bibles (when translating the Bible, Hebrew of course had no word for Rabbit since they don't exist in the Middle East, but most European languages had no word for Hyrax for the reverse reason. So in older translations you often see Hyrax (Shafan שפן) translated as Rabbit. The reverse happened with the word Hispania. When the Carthaginians showed up in Spain the one thought it was an Island (Hi in both Punic and Hebrew) and noticed it had a lot of Rabbits, which they took for some sort of weird Hyrax, and called it hi-shapan, Isle of Hyraxes. The Romans appropriated the name, pronounced it according to Latin and added -ia so you'd know it was a place and and boom, you get Hispania
Didn't know hyraxes were the namesake of Spain! Or that rabbits didn't live in Israel. Curious that there are lagomorphs in all 3 Old World continents, but not the hub of those 3 continents.
I was actually a bit confused that more people didn’t know about them for that reason. the NIV uses hyrax but I think people generally use other versions
Wait, the bible says that rabbits chew the cud (which they obviously don't), but if they were referring to hyraxes instead......wait, do hyraxes chew the cud?
@@filharmonix No, they are incapable of regurgitation. When agitated, they make a weird flappy-mouth grunt, which may have been mistaken for chewing cud.
@@jaschabull2365 What are the African lagomorphs, and how long have they been there? I'm genuinely curious.
I started watching this channel for stinkin rad lizards. I feel I have been tricked into learning biology and phylogeny.
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Same, and I'm here for it.
@@ClintsReptiles if you (and TH-cam) had been a thing, my kids would have enjoyed homeschooling more!
Now, my grandboos and I get to watch you together ☺️
Does anyone else come to Clint's channel to cheer themselves up? I can't stay blue with his infectious positivity. Thanks Clint, you're always brightening my day :)
Its part of my weekend morning routine. His positivity is infectious, and really can set the tone for the day.
@eric_has_no_idea and just so funny too.
YES! It’s one of the things I absolutely adore about this channel!
Really though haha.
Love your username ❤
This might be the coolest phylogenetic video yet! I’m still hoping for a mollusk edition 😊
Me too!
me, 3!
One time in science class, we were making food webs. I had been given pictures to make an African savannah food web. I wanted to be a nerd and classify the animals better. (Instead of vulture I found out the exact species which was the Indian vulture that was in the picture) One of the pictures was of the giant anteater. I found that anteaters are found in the Americas not Africa. I pointed it out to my teacher and asked to change it to an aardvark. I explained that it's unlikely for a lion to swim across the Atlantic ocean to eat a giant anteater. They let me change that to an aardvark.
Way to roast your teacher 😂
Had a question on my one of my finals about black vultures eating a dead rhinoceros! The things they put it the curriculum are sometimes quite out there!!
Well they just printed out the worksheet for us to put together and probably just assumed that it was right. I would blame the company that made it instead of my actually pretty cool science teacher.
@Say-Palyanytsya Squirrels can fly from tree to tree, so obviously they are birds. 🙂
@Say-Palyanytsya What kind of a world was he living that he thought this furry warm thing was not of a family of other furry warm things?
Afrotheria are the dollar store phylum. It’s full of off brand species. That’s not a bad thing though, sometimes the off brands can be better than the name brands.
Alditheria.
hi Mike, fancy seeing you here
No, Afrotheria are more like the Red Bull company: One product (elephants) is super famous, while Red Bull organics, cola, ginger ale, etc., are the random stuff.
It’s not even a phylum
Elephants are just off brand mastodons.
Hey, the footage at the start of the video was one of the tenrecs at the zoo where I used to work! He was a funny little guy, docile enough to be an animal ambassador for outreach programs, especially once you brought out the mealworms.
I loved this--more phylogeny please! I geek out on this stuff! Plus, love your delivery and descriptions--cloaca vs. scrotum...if I ever find myself observing shrews in Madagascar, I know how to identify!
I'm a vet student and I gotta say I learned so much more in this video than from any on TH-cam about animals. I knew maybe three of these factoids before watching this. Thank you so much!
I believe you mean factlet. A factoid is something that sounds like a fact but is not, while a factlet is a small fact. It’s a common misconception :)
Thanks so much for this video. I had a chance to do a photographic safari in Kenya in the 90s, and it was an unforgettable experience. Watching elephants silhouetted on the horizon every sunrise while drinking my first cup of coffee, is probably the memory that sticks with me the most vividly.
That sounds amazing!
These videos about phylogenetics are absolutely amazing. I know little about the field myself, but the way it's explained by Clint is very easy to grasp, yet doesn't shy away from depth either. Just perfect. Please keep making more!
100% am into that kinda thing, i live for your phylogeny videos!
I touched a lesser hedgehog tenrec at the local zoo once. A keeper showed it to us during a tour that I went on for a university biology class. This tenrec was named Raj and his brothers were named Sheldon and Leonard I believe.
I've learned a lot from your channel, but these types of videos where you explore entire clades are my favourite. Thank you for sharing such magnificent content!
Clint's unmitigated joy is infectious. I love these videos so much! Please make more, and yes to all the topics you suggested!
Absolutely adore this video my friend! Afrotheria is by far my favorite clade!
You may have been the one that drew them to my attention. Such an incredible group!
My favorite clade is Eukaryota
My favorite is Muraenidae.
When I was a kid and we still called the Asian elephant the Indian elephant, a cool rule of thumb to distinguish them was that the African elephant's ears look like a map of Africa and the Asian one's look like a map of India.
Anyway, I love these videos, especially when it's groups that we don't often think about.
ps. Who is better? Tenrecs or solenodonts?
Yay, Afrotherians! I work with a variety of animals as a zoo educator. My FAVORITE animal in the whole zoo is a lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec. Tenrecs are adorable and fascinating. A cloaca! Related to elephants! Spiky hair but not even close to hedgehogs! Very cool to see you make a video about these animals. I have fed worms to an aardvark and touched her soft nose; she's charming and very large. Thanks for talking about these animals!
Afro? Like the hair?
Afro as in from Africa so same root word as the hairstyle for 3b to 4c hair.@@cooliipie
Clint I must say that this is your best video, among many videos that are already excellents. Maybe it's because of the subject, which is fascinating, but really this is an absolute master piece. Only thing is I was sad it ended, I would have liked to have you speak 2 or more times longer about afrotheria. Really superb work 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much! It was a joy to learn about this fascinating group, and I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to share these things with all of you.
Yes!!!
Got the Orwell quote right away. I love your sense of humor!
This may sound like a huge undertaking, but can we have an episode on amphibian phylogeny? The order Anura is utterly confusing to me, especially because many of them look the same to me.
amphibians in general seems kinda broad, think it should be an episode on just Anura at most (although Anura alone is already huge)
maybe when he finishes the reptiles and mammals? really want a caecilian video...
No lie this might be one of my favorite videos from you ever!!! Brilliant, fun, and interesting.
2 Things:
1) If you haven't already done them might I suggest Xenarthra or Eulipotyphla?
2) I was shocked the first time I found out hyraxes were close relatives of elephants. However once I started looking closely at them they really do have elephant looking skulls. It's almost as if someone had replaced a pika's skull with a miniature elephant skull but kept the skin and flesh intact. [Chews in hyrax]
@1TakoyakiStore, Eulipotyphla is not a valid taxon, shrews, moles, desmans, and solenodons are each other's closest living relatives and are more closely related to bats than to hedgehogs and gymnures, which on the other hand are more closely related to both pangolins and carnivorans, which is why they belong to two separate orders: Soricomorpha for the shrews, moles, desmans, and solenodons and Erinaceomorpha for the hedgehogs and gymnures.
by far one of the best videos by clint. i have gone back to this SO many times to use in studies, work, friendly chats and so on!
GREATLY looking forward to your video on the elephants- Such a fascinating and long-lived group that tried all sorts of odd adaptations and tusk shapes, and even ended up taking over the world!...well, for a brief time, at least.
hyraxes look so determined 🥹 I love them
I think it might be fun to do a video highlighting the ambiguity of the traditional method of classifying organisms by their characteristic and traits by determining where fictional creatures might fit into our phylogenetic tree. Like the sandworms from dune or wookies from star wars
The genuine joy he has talking about zoology is so infectious!
Love these phylogeny videos! It would be cool to see a video dedicated to all the extinct (plus the one soon-to-be-brought-back) Elephantids. Though personally I'd love to see all the Elephantiformes, as there's some pretty crazy tusk and jaw setups among the whole suborder.
*soon-to-receive-an-imposter
Great video Clint, It really flew by, kept me interested the whole time.
Your channel is quickly becoming 1 of my favorites.
I work at a museum where part of my job is presenting animals for education. They have a couple lesser hedgehog tenrecs (the spikey non-hedgehog) and they are SOOOO cool!!! The kids are always shocked when I tell them tenrecs are actually more related to elephants than true hedgehogs 😄 thanks for the vid!
this has to be one of your best videos. Im so glad you started diveriging from reptile only videos to cover so many other types of wildlife. :)
I absolutely love how this channel discusses parts of taxonomy no channels usually do or this high-quality. Also I would love to see a video on tiger salamanders :)
The Afrotheria group is just fantastic. 💚
I'd love to learn if elephant shrew would make the best pets. For a friend I mean!
(joke aside, I knew about them vaguely but after seeing them scavange for food with their funny little noses I can't get over how cute they are)
This already enjoyable episode has been highlighted by Clints brilliant humor. What a way to start the day~
I can’t express how much I appreciate these types of videos. I have no choice but to become a patron. Love your content.
I reread The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide so many times as a kid, but it's from 2008 and it's already outdated. It groups elephants and hyraxes with ungulates, for example.
Molecular phylogeny is a powerful tool!
please keep making these! they’re so educational and fascinating. i want to be a zoologist and i love learning about all the animals. plus these are strangely comforting post breakup 😗
I'd like to see the literal translations for all the scientific names in a little pop-up. You usually explain the important ones, but I'd still like to know the rest as well. I love your videos keep it up :)
not all names like for the Dugongidea, but for the Paengulata for example, I don't wanna pause the video every time and look it up xD
@@mlkin3169 Paengulata means "almost ungulates" ^^
@@mlkin3169 Dugongidea = resemblance of (Dugong), with genus (Dugong) being the families true representative, the only living genus we have left, the word Dugong from a Austronesian language (Tagalog), basic translation being Lady Of The Sea.
@@krankarvolund7771 to more translate, almost-hoofed.
What a cool group of animals. I think Aardvarks are adorably goofy looking, they always make me smile. I love your videos, your enthusiasm is contagious!
Dude, what a gift you have. Nerdy? Sure, but even more so, cool. You're informative while being fun and interesting. You take complex things that most adults have never been able to understand and paint a picture that most of us can see.
And you aren't a phony like Bill Nye.
We are lucky to have people like you. Keep up the good work.
What an amazing comment! Thank you so much.
Ditto! Excepting the stab at Bill! That guy was pegging defcon 3, battling it out w the climate deniers! Indeed, it is an honor to be among his ilk!
I recently learned something amazing about Australian marsupials. Some Australian marsupials have convergently evolved trichromacy like primates! But, whereas primates re-evolved the ability to distinguish red from green like reptiles can & most mammals can't. Some Australian marsupials have re-evolved the ability to see ultraviolet, which reptiles can see, but most mammals can't!
Every time I get online each Saturday, your videos are the first thing I click on. Your enthusiasm is infectious, and yes, I'm totally into this kind of thing. I try to display a similar attitude when working with the public at my job at a science museum.
The "Eusocial Arthropods" label above the anteaters and other convergently-evolved "kin" of the aardvarks kind of made me chuckle. It is just missing the "consumers of--" but it makes my little brain happy.
I will be sure to look for pangolin nests and echidna hives lol!
There is just something about mammals for me that has a bigger portion of my heart that makes me squeal cute! So more phylogenetic trees of mammals please.
Considering your in-dept scientific approach and great educative value, would you be able to do a video of "Mammoth, the best pet..." summarizing how close or not we actually are to do it (and viable population? Asian elephant mutants?), why we think we should and shouldn't and how realistic this is overall?
I remember that episode of Crocodile Hunter that he found the Dugong. It was so EPIC!! RIP, Steve Irwin. He is sorely missed.
Are we sure the nose of the elephant shrew is convergence? Just look at the proboscises of the extant afrotherians it seems to be a common theme, and the ones that don’t all seem to have heads structured in a way that could have supported larger noses. Come on, let me imagine a time Africa was full of weird noses. 😂
Jokes aside, I do think I’ve found my literature rabbit hole for this evening. 😊
Such a pleasure to hear all those Latin names pronounced properly! thx for the video!
I'm working on it. Little by Little I'm getting better.
@@ClintsReptiles For a native English speaker, you are doing an awesome job! But even those of us who have a Romance language as their main language do butcher the Latin pronunciations quite often! Mostly with ae, oe and ii sounds!
Hold on, there's actual plans to bring back the mammoth? With a set year and everything? That's amazing, feels like one of those things that have just been vaguely considered a possibility since forever.
I currently live in Mauritius and when i saw a Tenrec for the first time even i thought it was a hedgehog or a mole of some kind. But when i searched it on youtube, Clint's video was the first to pop up. Thanks for this informational positivity filled video❤
I think you should consider going over the pinnipeds someday! :)
Me too!
Yes to a mole video, but also another one that addresses placental mammals with cloacas. That shattered everything I thought I knew about cloacas!
I'd love to see a video just on elephant evolution please!
Also disappointed nobody on your team got the 1984 reference.
Bring back the Wolly [16:50] Mammoth! Love your work. I watch it with my eight year-old. Your enthusiasm for the subjects is contagious.
No elephants that evolved to look like crabs ?
I just got a male and female Tenrec 2 weeks ago. They are totally incredible critters, and I couldn't be happy with these guys!!
Make a video about ducks PLEASE I've been asking for months
I won't forget the quackers!
These long format videos are much more interesting than your short ones. I learn about so many new animals.
Can you buy a Wolly [sic] Mammoth at Wolly World?
"Most 9-year-olds do not draw mammals with their scrotums hanging out." My grand-daughter was really into tigers when she was younger. One day I found a large, plastic tiger, lying down, that I figured that she would like. Shortly after giving it to her, she came up to me and asked "Papa, what is this?" I had not been aware, until that point, that the tiger was "anatomically correct".
Afrotheria as heck! Should be a t shirt.
I don't know exactly what I was expecting from this channel but I am loving your enthusiasm and I will be watching more. :)
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?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍
Loved the Orwell reference. Thanks for your work it's always good heart warming education that brightens my day.
Okay fellow bio nerds i have a cool thing that happened in my backyard that i want to share.
This Barred Owl has been calling out in my backyard alone for YEARS at this point, but yesterday night I thought his song sounded odd like there were multiple chatting together so I looked it up and I found out the sounds matched that of a courting duet!! My little guy finally found somebody!! Im so happy for the little friend. I hope they have a long and happy life in the woods in my backyard.
I was having a rough night of insomnia bs but figuring that out made me happy-cry and I was finally able to go to sleep.
I would absolutely love to learn more about the golden "mole"! I've never heard of it and you made it sound really cool!
One bit of unsolicited feedback: I love how clearly excited you are about this content, but your delivery style can make it a little hard to listen to you, since your volume at the beginning of statements comes as a harsh punch and then goes back down so quickly. I don't want to miss anything, but the volume spikes make it kind of uncomfortable to have you at a higher volume. It seems like something that shouldn't be too hard to fix in post, but I don't know anything about this stuff. Thanks for the video!
THIS was the phylogeny video I wanted! Elephants have been my favorite animal since I was 1 year old. I got to see both bush elephants and rock hyraxes in the wild when I was in Kenya. It boggles my mind that elephants are closely related to something that looks like a grumpy guinea pig.
This is a fantastic vid! Thank you for producing it. I will watch more of them. Your clever comments intertwined with science kept me engaged. Thank you again!
Definitely want to see an episode on Marsupials. And also, how about more info on the "coming in 2027 woolly mammoth"? And, yes on Madagascar!
Bonus points for the Star Trek clip! One of the best lines in the movie!
Iman was great in that role.
The 1984 reference hit me like a freight train. Not what I was expecting from my goofy phylogeny video.
This guy's delivery for all the things is great. So animated.
This was GREAT! So much enthusiasm and fun references, loved the Star Trek snippet. Will definitely be watching more of your clips.😂😂❤
This episode made me really want to see Clint discuss what all the major animal niches are, and what fills them in different places. I think that could be an interesting way to discuss convergent evolution in more detail.
that golden mole is SO CUTE!!
Great video, this clade is a fascinating thing to look at and a great way to teach the processes of evolution (alongside the Marsupials). It was Steller's Sea Cow that was hunted to extinction back then, the Dugong is its closest extant relative and has been on the brink for many years.
One thing I was wrong about for a good long time is that the tiny 'Elephant Shew' that REALLY looks like a little mouse (Short Eared E.S.), is actually in the same family as the ones that look like a little deer-elephant thing. I thought it was a coincidental name but in fact all the elephant shrews are genera of Macroscelididae despite not looking that much alike, outisde of a wiggly nose. Compare Rhynchocyon petersi to Macroscelides flavicaudatus for example. Also, awwwwwwwwww.
Mustelidae. One of the most diverse groups amongst the carnivorans.
Plus they've got so many awesome species and you could probably get some to show off during the show
Thank you for putting that degree to use. I love this series and I love that you love this series ❤️
I got that reference!
This may be one of the best videos you’ve done. It’s so obvious how much you adore this subject and I love it, especially since this line is one of my favorites!!! I had also forgotten dugong were still extant and it makes me very happy to be reminded.
11:03 Yes please. Every time convergent evolution is brought up, I think of how Australia got all the marsupials... except the american opossum. It's such a unique trait, albeit shared by such visually diverse animal groups, but seems to only happen in one island.... except the one time it's not.
Wow, what an amazing video! This channel has always be synonymous with quality content for me, but this was a blast. Easily one of my favorites!
Yes! Madagascar would be incredible. I learned so much today and will share this with family and friends. Awesome!
This is some of Clint's best work! Wow! What a great video!! ❤❤
Your enthusiasm for biology is contagious! Keep it up.
Great video, love all your stuff. I'd like to see more about the elephant group, I am fascinated by them and their extinct cousins, mastodons.
He’s so happy! I’m smiling this whole video.
wtf! why is this guy the best youtube host ever? How Have I never heard of him? Instant subscibed, the text, the host, the content, it's delightful!
Man, that episode was a trip, and given the newspeak, I'm not sure how much of it I should trust.
12:30-12:21 THEY AINT XD has me cackling. Love these videos and would love to see the Marsupial one!!
Clint, you are an AWESOME nerd. Your content is fantastic. This video was fascinating .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish huge success to your channel!
Marsupials are awesome! Maybe with a mention of the long extinct thylacoleo?
Though, if you got the time on the sideline, I would love a video on the cute little sub family morelia.
Mainly because I like listening to ppl talk about bradlies without calling them carpets, but also because the whole morelia gang seems to have been reorganized in the last few years.
Marsupial videos? Yes, please 😁
And more details on how the heck the marsupial mole has an extra forearm bone. It's bad enough that we didn't get to descend from any of the critters with 6 or more phalanges per hand pr from New World monkeys to have prehensile tails, but now I find out we could have gotten at least one of Wolverine's claws⁉️
Disappointed that Clint had to explain the _1984_ reference to the ever-so-young help. 😂 What is the world coming to? _~tsk tsk~_
Whoaaaa. It’s almost like they didn’t even exist when the book was written and popularized. Crazyyyyy
The youth of today! In my time, we had to memorize two Orwell novels between breakfast and going down t’ mine!
Elephants are my very favorite mammal, followed by Dugongs and Manatees! Thank y’all for another great video!
A very interesting and energetic talk. Orwell would be proud !