Mice, Rats, Mice, Beavers, Mice, Squirrels, and More Mice...
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2024
- Rodents are the most successful group of mammals on the planet. Some, like rats, mice, and squirrels are very familiar. Some are just plain weird! Let's explore them all!
#clintsreptiles #rodents #biology
====
Clint is a professional biologist and educator, but above all, Clint LOVES reptiles and he loves to share that love with everyone he meets. Whether you're lover or a hater of reptiles, you can't help but get excited with Clint!
We post a new video every Saturday morning! So stay tuned!
Be sure to SUBSCRIBE: th-cam.com/users/clintsrepti...
====
PATREON: / clintsreptiles
MERCHANDISE: www.clintsreptiles.com/merch
SUPPORT Clint's Reptiles by shopping AMAZON here: www.amazon.com/shop/clintsrep...
Schedule a virtual ONE-ON-ONE with Clint! square.site/book/JYBMZXG2X02F...
====
FACEBOOK: / clintsreptilevideos
INSTAGRAM: / clintsreptiles
TWITTER: / clintsreptiles
WEBSITE: www.clintsreptiles.com/
DISCORD: / discord
====
To contact us for BUSINESS purposes: clintsreptiles+business@gmail.com
====
You guys are so RAD!
====
Fan mail? Yes Please!
Clint's Reptiles
770 East Main Street # 127
Lehi, UT 84043
If you would like to send a LIVE animal - FIRST: please send us an email to make sure we can take it in. clintsreptiles+LIVE@gmail.com
Over 31 MINUTES of BONUS content from this video, exclusively for our Stinkin' Rad Fans on Patreon! Patreon is a great way to support Clint's Reptiles AND get awesome extras (including hundreds of other bonus videos)! www.patreon.com/posts/video-patreon-104789321
Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos all about the 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ Phylogeny Group Of Rodents 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos all about the 🦔 Phylogeny Group Of Insectivores 🦔 (Insectivora), such as Shrews, Moles, Hedgehogs, Solenodons, Gymnures, Moonrats, Desmans, the Extinct West Indian Shrews, Etc. on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
Can you do a video on the Ornotishian Dinosaurs?
English is not my first language so there will be some spelling mistakes.
I should REALLY get off my ass and cover this topic in my Rats of NIMH fan fiction.
Squirrel video
When you think you've escaped the mice, there is one mouse out there to really mess with you: the titmouse. It's a bird.
❤
Therapods are my favourite mice😊
Thing is, it would be more proper with modern language to say mousy tit but oh well
fun fact: goldcrests, which are also birds, are called mouse rabbits in Polish
Therefore T-Rex is my favourite mouse?
Size classification
mouse -> rat -> big ass rat
Big as rat -> crappy Barbara
Looking at the video, more like
mouse -> rat -> beaver
@@MalloonTarka Mouse -> rat -> beaver -> R.O.U.S.
you forgot the RUS-es
PIRATS ! HaRRRRRRRRRR !! 🤣
Beavers are always my go to example of how difficult it is to reconstruct fossil animals. A paleontologist in the distant future might look at a beaver skeleton and just classify it as yet another moderately oversized rodent, the Cenozoic was full of those things and the all look roughly the same, big rat. A really good paleontologist with a well preserved fossil might look at the wear patterns on the teeth and make computer models of the jaw to come to the wild theory that these things probably ate wood pulp, they might look at the shape of the tail vertebrae and conclude that they might have supported a paddle shaped tail, which would imply that they were good swimmers. But even in this wild scenario where the futures best paleontologists decide to waste there time studying an unremarkable rodent fossil, I doubt they would ever even suspect the dam building. Makes you think just how many extinct organisms had amazing behaviors that we will never know about because behaviors don't fossilize.
Sometimes behavior does fossilize. Have you heard of the “devil’s corkscrews”? I think PBS eons has a nice video about them.
Some goes for spiders, you would never know that they weave webs by looking at their fossils.
All it takes is a bit of perspective, bone shape can inform muscle attachment which would show strong tree-chopping jaws, changed water flow will show up in the geology of the land and sometimes dams and burrows fossilize, as well as the chewed-through trees! Speculation has gotten so much better in paleontology, and, while I'm sure there will always be new things to learn and discover, science gets better and better all the time.
They'd probably have an idea, maybe not of the design of a web, but if a spider managed to get fossilized, then its web might've too
"And while we're on the subject of upsetting things -"
Ad starts.
Almost makes me wish I could see ads to have had this joke pop up
@@RipleySawzen Nah. I'm happy for this comment... but ads are *not* worth it for me😅
If rats are big mice, and squirrels are, as we say in the midwest, tree rats, then squirrels are simply big tree mice.
and since dormice are like small squirrels, they're the regular tree mice we need to finish it out
What does that make groundhogs/marmots?
Dormice are not squirrels, squirrels are more closely related to beavers, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice, whereas dormice evolved earlier.
@@thomicrisler9855Marmots are basically squirrels without fluffy tails. So... big mountain mice?
I think you may have made a mistake, considering beavers kangaroo rats and gophers still belong to the family of muroidae, while dormice, squirrels and groundhogs belong to the family of sciuromorpha. Groundhogs and squirrels are each others' closest relatives though!
really the whole mice phylogeny is like that astrounauts meme... "wait it's all mice?" "always has been"
I am watching this video in the company of two of my dwarf rats, Puck and Peter Quince, while sharing apple crumble with them. I'm afraid in spite of all my attempts to explain to them that this video is a very important lesson about their ancestors and relations, they remain distracted - much more excited about the crumble. I have been hoping for a rodent video for ages though so I am psyched enough for all of us 😄
Is a dwarf rat a small rat or a slightly bigger mouse? This are the hard questions Clint leaves us with
@@wumbojetbiology can never make it easy on us 😂
@@wumbojet They're in the genus Rattus, so I think that makes them rats, if they weren't, you could probably call them slightly bigger mice.
I think if clint's video has taught us anything, it's that they can be both big mice and small rats at the same time. 🐀🐁🐀
@@TB-qn4umSchrödinger's Rouse: it is both a rat and a mouse at the same time, until you look at it.
Concidering even the first mammals were fairly rodent like, it makes sense that everything would be mouse-coded.
Arthropods always turn into crabs or flies; mammals always turn into either mice, moles, or seals; non-avian reptiles always turn into lizards.
What do birds always turn into? Maybe chickens or kiwis?
So much to cover in these videos. At least you won't be running out of phylogeny material, because there is always more.
There is no end in sight!
By the time he's done with the animals, a lot of our understanding of phylogenies will have changed. We are in a golden age of taxonomy with the advent of DNA analysis and a lot of phylogenies are still in flux.
Ok, that seque with "look at the bones!" "OK, let's" was SO CLEVER!!
Recently I saw a video calling muskrats “beavers” and thought “someday Clint is going to have something to say about this.” Little did I know, TODAY’S THE DAY
Well, they are both fish of course.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 the hagfish of mice?!
Both are good examples of convergent evolution.
The groundhog family who lives under my porch and I are thoroughly enjoying this video together. Love your content, I’m so happy you continued to cover different families and genera like this!
"in this video, we are going to do a complete phylogeny of pigs"
_3 hours later_
"and finally, the groundhog"
This video has everything, it's got mice, mice, it even has mice!
This has comfortably been the most confusing Clint phylogeny vid so far. Think I’m just gonna call all mammals mice just to be safe
But what about all dogs, bigger dogs, exotic dogs, cat-like creatures, civets, and civet-adjacent non-civets? Are they all mice too?
@@InventorZahran ALL MICE
Australia’s golden bellied otter rat or Rakali is an interesting one and missed. It is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. They have learnt to eat poisonous cane toads by flipping them over and eating into their under belly avoiding eating the skin.
Saturday = Clint's Reptiles Day! 👍
Only on very rare occasions do I miss my Saturday morning Clint's Reptiles! Like when I'm going to a college wrestling tournament!
PSA: don't do a shot every time Clint says "mice" in this video - you might die
But also I had no idea Muskrats were basically giant American mice, that's super neat! Keep it up with these phylogenies!
Muskrats are not mice, they are part of the hamster family.
@@indyreno2933 Did you watch the video? They are well within the clade of mouse-like animals called mice, and even if You draw the line at Mus, or Muridae, it's not incorrect to consider all Eumuroida mice.
@user-sc7ld7cj6h, in case you should notice, mouse-like rodents (suborder Myomorpha) are actually divided into four superfamilies: Platacanthomyoidea, Dipodoidea, Cricetoidea, and Muroidea, the lasiures (family Platacanthomyidae) are the sole extant family of the Platacanthomyoidea superfamily, which evolved first among mouse-like rodents (suborder Myomorpha), which is then followed by Dipodoidea that contains the families Dipodidae (Jerboas) and Spalacidae (Kopatels, Zokors, Bamboo Rats, and Grawes), leaving the most recent split to be between the superfamilies Cricetoidea and Muroidea, the former contains the families Calomyscidae (Calomyscuses), Cricetidae (Hamsters, Lemmings, Muskrats, and Voles), Zapodidae (Jumping Mice and Birch Mice), and Sigmodontidae (New World Mice and Rats) whereas the latter contains the families Muridae (Old World Mice and Rats), Gerbillidae (Gerbils, Jirds, Sand Rats, Link Rat, Spiny Mice, Brush-Furred Rats, Rudd's Mouse), Cricetomyidae (Pouched Rats, African Rock Mice, Climbing Mice, Fat Mice, Gerbil Mouse, Delany's Mouse, Nikolaus's Mouse, White-Tailed Rat, Karoo Mouse, Togo Mouse, Vlei Rats, Groove-Toothed Rats, Whistling Rats, and Maned Rat), and Nesomyidae (Malagasy Rodents).
Some did carrier as turist atraction in Prague wierdly enough.
@@indyreno2933 So they're giant water hamsters.
My dad always called squirrels "fuzzy tailed rats". A childhood friend from Brazil once told me Iowa was weird because our monkeys were rats.
HA! That's one way to look at it, I suppose.
Have you seen the enormous Malabar Squirrels of India? They are bigger than some monkeys!
@@InventorZahran I've never Heard of them, but I'm going to look them up now! I've fostered red squirrels, and rats are such a delight. One of my friends has Gambian pouched rats and capybaras. Rodents are so intelligent and social.
@@InventorZahran just looked them up and they are stunning! What beautiful animals! Thank you.
This video has been certified ADORABLE.
This may the most adorable phylogeny in existence. So many big round eyes 😍
Clint is certified adorable
Jerboa is wise in the ways of the desert.
Yes, he creates his own water.
@@cobrown3o What, you can't?
Mua’dib!
You forgot the New York Giant Pizza Rat! 😂👌🐀🍕
They're notorious for raising turtles.
They are part of a splinter group.
Sooner than later would be awesome on the squirrel video😊 I'm a fan of chipmunks, too. These phylogeny videos awakened a part of me that I think I forgot when I got my full time job. (Creatures! All of the creatures!)
My Chinchilla Hugo is sulking now. He feels very left out.
Are they closer related to lagomorphs?
No, chinchillas are rodents.
I think chinchillas, guinea pigs, and capyberas will be in his Rodents Part II video. I hope so. Hugo is having an identity crisis.
I could feel myself spiralling to insanity with Clint trying to escape the mice in this one 0_0
If I remember anything from Latin class, it's the phrase "mus in matella"- a mouse in a chamber pot. It means in over your head.
I had Latin in school for 5 years, why did nobody teach me that phrase!! 😂
Loved the Holy Grail snippet with Tim the Enchanter! 😂🤣
There are some who call me....... Tim?
I feel like the editor has been WAITING for a rodent video so he could put that clip in 😂
What an eccentric performance!
Yes, please, more rodents. They're super cool. They are also arguably the cutest mammals of them all.
And they're among the closest relatives of us primates, along with rabbits. Since we still have our canine teeth and rodents (and rabbits) don't have them, one wonders if perhaps the rodent/rabbit line split off from the primate line. In other words, rodents and rabbits may have evolved FROM us, rather than primates evolving from rodents and rabbits. Another "dun-dun-DUN" moment in evolution.
I discovered this on my own a few years back: that "Rat" and "Mouse" are thrown around without any regard to relation, and pretty much based entirely on size and general appearance. I ran into a similar problem when trying to figure out the difference between ducks and geese.
If it swims like a duck and generally looks like a duck, but has a longer neck than most ducks, i's probably a goose.
You know what, if anybody else said "weirdest mammal" about anything that's not a Platypus I'd think they were crazy or forgetting the Platypus, but somehow, I expect Clint will make a strong case for the Naked Mole Rat
They're some of the only eusocial mammals, for one.
eusocial, surprisingly long, lived, nearly blind, tiny mammals without fur, that also happen to be nearly immune to cancer. Yeah naked Mole Rats are very weird
update from Arizona -- just yesterday I heard some folks referring to gophers as "sand beavers."
so, common names strike again?
Living in New York, it's not a TRUE rat unless it lives in the subway, bites tourists, lays it's eggs in the shoes of homeless people, and only uses its leathery wings to fly.
Eggs?
@@metal_pipe9764 Yeah, they pair off and make little nests in the shoes that get left in the subway tunnels, and then the rat-king lays eggs for the whole colony, and the pairs fight over getting to incubate the eggs and raise the larvae.
I'd be interested in your opinion on Pokémon categories and how you would construct Pokémon phylogenies!
Clint, I'm sure you get this all the time, but I am so glad your channel exists. Your sense of humor and enthusiasm makes it easy to want to root for your success, and the whole team's hard work makes it fun to learn about the cool critters you cover. Keep it up brother Clint & team
Squirrels scare me more than snakes. They are too shifty. Also National Lampoon Christmas Vacation taught me to never turn my back on a squirrel or stick my face in random trees.
Well, squirrels can carry rabies and snakes can't. Since my country doesn't have that venomous snakes squirrels are riskier to me...
I never got bitten by a squirrel, but I once got bitten by a gerbil, and that hurt a Hell of a lot more than the times I've been bitten by snakes.
A USAnian friend told me in answer to my question how was your short holiday, that he got kicked out of a national park in the USA because rangers had found squirrels carrying the Yersinia pestis bacterium - that's the one you need to avoid like the proverbial plague.
Bats can carry rabies too and my hypothesis is that part of the vampire-fables is based on people having contracted rabies from bats or dogs and next becoming rabid attackers.
Kentucky Fried Movie will teach you about "People who love to live dangerously" not to mention the catholic girls.
@@jpdj2715 not only do you need to avoid Yersinia pestis like the proverbial plague, you need to avoid it like the actual plague, because it's the actual plague, the Black Death.
YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT A SQUIRREL
When i was a kid, i was walking home from school one day. passed a guy mowing his lawn. Some how right behind him was a baby squirrel. Took it home and raised it. Was a really good and fun pet.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats make me crazy.
Can't relate, I've never been crazy
Crazy? I was crazy once...
Rats? I was mice once. They locked me in a room. A squirrel room, with beavers. Beavers? I was rats once. They locked me in a room. A mice room, with squirrels. Squirrels? I was beavers once. They locked me in a room. A rats room, with mice. Mice? I was squirrels once. They locked me in a room. A beaver room, with rats
😐😐😐😐😐 so funny hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
"Don't get into rodent taxonomy. You will regret it."
- Ben G. Thomas, "Every Time Things Have Evolved Into Moles"
For me it's always the info he throws in as a side note that blows my mind. humans are so closely related to rodents?!? And that's why we can get so many diseases from them?? the more you know
Sir I paid good money to lean this at college! ur giving this info out in such an entertaining and engaging way, makes me want to thank you for refreshing my love for learning about the little things that make every animal unique!
Mice to meet all these guys.
This episode was a mess 😂 I love it!
i love learning about the relationships between species and groups of animals. thank you Clint for making such high quality and informative content! i had no idea that primates and rodents were so closely related o:
I was worried Clint was about to tell my the Capibaras were not rodents. Instead, everything is mice, I can live with this.
I can also live with that.
Did he even mention capybaras? Did I just miss it?
@@rogeriopenna9014Capybaras are in the clade he hasn't gotten to yet/will be in the next video when he makes it. It's got capybaras, guinea pigs, porcupines, chinchillas, and others that I can't think of off the top of my head
@@TiggerIsMyCat but are they mice? :)
@@rogeriopenna9014 We'll just have to wait and see... 😉
I adore rodents. And I have a friend who lives on the Olympic Peninsula and had a mountain beaver show up in his yard. Was really cool. I just get Douglas squirrels get real chatty at our window. And beavers to!
I encountered a deer mouse in the vestibule of a McDonalds, and it was so gorgeous it looked like a Christmas card illustration come to life. I very gently encouraged it outside with my handily pointed boot toe. I am a rodent fan in general, but man, the deer mouse was ADORABLE.
I love all of these videos! Learning so much about how all these awesome species are related and even hearing about many for the first time!
Soooo glad I found your channel! Your enthusiasm is contagious
funfact: Jerboa are called Springmaus (Jumpmouse) in german!
Thank you, Clint, for educating me on the creatures that terrify me more than anything else. Pushing through the discomfort of looking at rodents was worth it to learn that everything is mice
Holy moly the hamster rat looks like a Roborovski hamster ! Also I’m so glad you did a mouse vid as I’m a proud mouse mum
Whenever I want to be confused about things I thought I knew, there's always Clint going on about something headache-inducing. Love it!
I could watch these videos all day, I wish someone had the energy to make a video describing each and every species in detail.
I would love to see what kind of weirdo’s exist in the world.
A huge fan of squirrels here, back in the late 80's I decided my first tattoo would be one. Took a while but got it done '00. Love them so much that some still call me squirrel 🐿 🥰
'Bouncy stilt mice' - love that description! ❤
I'm surprised there wasn't a quick joke about Mus sounding the same as Moose lol
I kinda thought Mountain Beavers were called that not because of any living resemblance to actual Beavers, but because if you make a hat out of their fur, it resembles an actual Beaver hat, and so you could get a faux beaver hat while up in the mountains where there are no real Beavers.
Hey now, lemmings do the whole cliff thing. If Disney pushes them.
You're screwing with us and loving every minute. We're enjoying it, too, so keep it up!
My wife and I were born and raised in northern Illinois, where we frequently encountered squirrels and developed a deep affection for these delightful creatures in our neighborhood. Having recently relocated to East Central Kentucky, we have noticed a distinct absence of squirrels in our vicinity, and we greatly miss the presence of our furry-tailed friends.
In Illinois, my colleagues affectionately nicknamed me "Mr. Squirrelly" due to my enthusiasm for squirrels. Both my wife and I are biologists with a profound love and passion for all things related to science.
We would be thrilled if you could produce a video on squirrels, highlighting the various species and their unique characteristics. Such a video would not only satiate our curiosity but also reignite our joy in observing and learning about these fascinating animals.
10:55 - Appreciating the Sheer Delight in Clint's eyes 🐭
I used to have giant squirrel popsicles in my back yard, at least in the winter. The rest of the year they were just giant squirrels with no visible tails. Or groundhogs. Or woodchucks. You know, whichever. How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
I've never heard of a giant cloud rat before, and it is the cutest thing ever! I learned something new today, and it's adorable! Thanks!
I don't know how to tell you this but in German, Shrew are called "Spitzmäuse" which means "pointy mice". It never ends!
Absolutely loving these phylogeny videos!! Thank you so much for all the work you do!
i really love this series on the families and(/or?) clades of various aminals, Clint. evolutionary biology is so fascinating. and you’re great at presenting it, thank you ❤
GIANT CLOUD RAT
This video had more mind blowers jam packed into one video than I think any other individual video you’ve made which is saying a lot because all your videos blow my mind lol
Thank you for taking the time to make these cuz if you didn’t I’m fairly confident I’d never learn so much of this incredible information
Your videos are well conceived, beautifully written, excellently delivered, and satisfyingly edited. Thank you very much
Love how Clint smiles when he says "You'd probably be burned at the stake!"
I love this series Clint and crew, just great!
My 7yo daughter and I love your videos. Your videos are entertaining and informative. You also have a very gentle personality. Thank you
I just love rodents. I have mice, hamsters gerbils and guinea pigs as pets.
Can you one day do a video on the African egg eating snake.
I'm interested in a snake I don't have to feed rodent.
I don't think I'll ever tire of hearing Clint say 'mice'.
18:47 - I love that I can hear your crew laughing in the background! 😂
There's a hagfish in every clade.
this video was made for me!!!!!! I love mice so much!!!!!!!! thank you for sharing the wonders of my favorite little guys!!!!!!!
Finally! Some TV both my boa and I can enjoy together, thanks Clint!
whoever named the mountain beaver, also called sewellel, was likely just looking at a pelt.
There is an absolutely adorable video of a hibernating dormouse snoring
This video was totally rad!😊 more please! 😁
The Muus is Loose In the Huus
Yes pleaaase I very much want the part 2 to this! You can't just cut the clades in half and leave us hanging 😭
I am excited for a squirrel video! When I was in grad school, my thesis involved fossil ground squirrels. Although I never got to finish my research due to some medical issues, I have special place in my heart for squirrels.
Mountain Beavers are the Drop Bears of Squirrels
I can't watch right this second, but just seeing a new one of these available made my morning~~
I really love these videos. Please just keep making phylogeny videos, I can watch them all day.
No matter where they are from or how they are related, we can agree, every mouse is adorable.
I like "bouncy stiltmice". In Dutch, it yields a nice alliteration into the bargain: "stuitersteltmuizen".
Rattus Norvegicus is an excellent album
Oh I love the bug tie in this video!! I've got a similar button down shirt, love bugs
Some things to add:
The poorly named “Mountain Beaver” by all accounts should be called “Sewellel”.
If you delve deeper into the phylogeny of the Cricetidae, it becomes apparent that muskrats are just giant Nearctic water voles, and lemmings are just short-tailed tundra voles. Funnily enough, my childhood mammal book (which was A. published in the 1970s and well before my actual birth, B. claims the “cliff thing” to be true about lemmings, and C. had almost no cladistics at all except for a vague phylogeny of mammals at the beginning and another one for fossil elephants) claimed that muskrats and lemmings are voles and turned out to be correct by accident.
When you cover the murid rodents in their respective video, do at least give a mention to some of the Australian mice that went extinct and the one (Gould’s Mouse) that came back from extinction; a persistent misconception is that all rodents in Australia are nonindigenous pests, when in fact many are of conservation concern in their own right.
Finally, do make sure to explain where the Anomaluromorpha fits into the tree. You seem to be copying the phylogeny on Wikipedia, and that clade isn’t on that tree. Looking at some scholarly phylogenies, it seems that suborder is actually closer to the Muroidea/Castoroidea group than squirrels are.
Actually, lemmings and muskrats are not voles, they're more closely related to hamsters than they are to voles, making hamsters the most derived of the family Cricetidae, also, "Anomaluromorpha" is not a valid taxon, anomalures (superfamily Anomaluroidea) and springhares (family Pedetidae) both belong to the suborder Sciuromorpha (Squirrel-Like Rodents), the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is considered the most basal of all squirrel-like rodents with the dormice (family Gliridae) being the second most basal, with the two most derived clades of squirrel-like rodents (suborder Sciuromorpha) being one that contains the anomalures and pedetoids and the other that contains the sciuroids, castoroids, and geomyoids, in fact, squirrels (family Sciuridae) and beavers (family Castoridae) are the only extant families of the superfamilies Sciuroidea and Castoroidea respectively, in fact, among the hamster family, the voles (subfamily Arvicolinae) are the most basal subfamily, then followed by the muskrats (subfamily Ondatrinae), leaving the lemmings (subfamily Lemminae) and hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae) as equally the most derived subfamilies.
@@indyreno2933 Last I checked, Ondatrinae and Lemminae are not valid taxa.
As of 2024, these are the most up-to-date phylogenies of the Arvicolinae: peerj.com/articles/16693.pdf
At best Lemmini (note the spelling) is a basal clade within the Arvicolinae if it’s even a natural group at all. Likewise, none of the phylogenies place Ondatrini (again, note the spelling) as being closer to Cricetinae than to the Arvicolini.
Considering previous comments, Indy is not likely to concede; I am simply pointing out where the taxonomy stands.
Rodents especially the smaller ones are irresistibly cute.
Run away! Run away!! Lagomorphs are scary.
It's a pleasure to have a zoological geek-out fest with you and all the other stinkin' rad nerds out there in TH-cam land!!!
I love these phylogeny videos, they’re my favorite genre of your videos
My favorite Saturday morning entertainment! I always seem to be watching these while making breakfast 😊
It’s a shame that squirrels apparently don’t make great pets from what I heard, they are by far my favorite rodents 😔 🐿️
Clint I am STOKED at the possibility of a squirrel video!!! I currently own a couple of Graphiurus murinus and hope to have a Glaucomys sabrinus in future. In the meantime thanks for this one because as a lifelong lover of mice, rats, hamsters, and essentially anything tiny and fuzzy, it was a delight to know how much more closely related they are than I originally thought! I mostly only ever paid much attention to the genus of things, figuring beyond that was above my pay grade as a hobbyist, but you are indoctrinating me into the concept of clades. XD
The only reason I have never gotten a rat as a pet is their short lifespan. They are wonderful pets. Loyal and sweet.
Ive been waiting for this one 😍😍😍😍😍😍 my favorite little guys!!