What the Hell is Chalicotherium?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2022
- Chalicotherium was unlike anything alive today. And it was successful, being around for millions of years. But what animals was it related to? And why did it become so different from other mammals?
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Ahh, yes, these are well known animals. Can be tamed by giving them beer, and when threatened, they throw their shit at what spooks them.
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I knew there’d be a comment like this in this video 😭
Ah yes the infamous underrated Horse Gorilla
I think it's more of a sloth / giraffe, or sloraffe or giroth if you will.
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@@canis2020 amazing
Pokèmon? Or Chinpoko Mon? 😄
@@canis2020 It's a gorilla bear sloth horse.
"they walk like gorillas and eat like pandas but their closest modern relatives are actually horses"
Walking with beasts
Calicotherium, megatherium and therizinosaurus are the perfect example of convergent evolution trough the time
Yep, it's wild that we don't have anything that like it right now, with the closet being maybe a panda.
@@RaptorChatter we do have.. the giant Anteater which also closely related to Sloth
@@mhdfrb9971 Giant Anteaters are not treetop herbivores though. True convergent evolution happens when animals share an ecological niche, and thus similar pressures result in similar features.
@@patreekotime4578 but they walk on bare knuckle
Stay the heck away from therizinos. They shred through even flak armor with ease
Everyone’s favorite gorilla horse.
Fun Fact: Some chalicotheres survived into the Pleistocene, such as Hesperotherium, which survived up until 500,000 years ago.
Yeah, I couldn't find a really good source for that recently, so just shot for more general recent ones.
@@RaptorChatter When you mentioned that it ate fruit, I realized that minor climate change could have doomed it simply by conditions that support Conifers over Deciduous Trees, as the cool forests of the North have cones instead of fruit...
Chalicotheres always reminded me of the giant sloths. Maybe not exactly the same body plan but close considering how distantly related they are.
ark survival evolved
I was thinking the same thing
Chalicotheres are among my favourite extinct mammals as well!
Have you done a video on them yet, or might we see one down the road?
I loved your videos you did on livyatan (sp?) and terror birds -- the most recent of yours I've viewed!
I like gomphotheres
Evolution: so you want to look like a giraffe, a horse, a sloth or a gorilla.
Chalicotherium: Yes!
I've always thought that horses seemed a little stuck up and snooty, and now I know why; they've been perma flipping all of us off!
Chalicotheres have a very similar build to giant ground slothes
It just wants some beer
Ah yes, my favourite bear, gorilla, horse. Tbh always thought they kinda looked like giant ground sloths as well
You mean bear-gorillahorse? Half bear, half gorilla, half horse? Or is it half horse, half beargorilla?
Mammals seems to be the only animal class so far where dome skulls occur in more than one mammal group.
And both of them occurred around the exact same time.
Ray-finned fish have 6 different groups with independently evolved heavily armored dome shaped foreheads used for display and ramming. Four of these are cichlids.
edit: found another unrelated dome-headed cichlid.
Mammals are definitely an animal class where you can find a mammal group.
Archosaurs evolved it at least twice, once in the triassic with Protopyknosia and once in pachycephalosaurs, also potentially hadrosaurs like Kritosaurus and Brachylophosaurus at a much lesser extent.
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Me personally, I have a chalicothere addiction.
I wish there was more representation of them in the media besides being fodder.
Thank you for this video
Ark callicotherium: “random horse shit go”
@@battlefora3dscollab Literally. Lmao
When your neighbors included: Smilodon Populator, Andrewsarchus, Daeodon, Megistotherium and the Giant Short Faced Bear, you're bound to be on someone else's meal prep. But subduing a 2,000 pound Hippo-Sloth-Gorilla-Horse is no easy challenge.
@@battlefora3dscollab beer
I've been fascinated with them since I was in elementary school. I was curious what you meant by their representation in media. Does that mean that people just speak of it as prey for other creatures?
They’re also poop flinging fans of beer lol
the Miocene was such a fantastic time in earth's history, and I hope we get more stuff about it.
My favorite Ark tame just a big drunk poop throwing beast
You tame them with BEER!
Ungulates were one of the first mammal groups to undergo significant radiation and diversification after the KT extinction. There were even carnivorous ungulates, the mesonychids. I'm honestly surprised there weren't flying ungulates!
So the Mesonychids are part of the even toed ungulates, so not related to Chalicotherium that closely. But also yes, they were very unique and I should do a video on them.
Mesonychids were supposed to be cetaceans ancestors
This is one of my favorites as well as the marsupial lion, arsinotherium, and many other prehistoric mammals, reptiles, and synapsids from all eras (except carboniferus when giant bugs were a thing lol)
LOL, Gorilla Horse or Horse Gorilla, it was still a pretty crazy-looking critter! Thanks for this video - would love more from the same era. 🤔🙂❤️❤️
It's a shame they died out, imagine having show riding competitions with those creatures!
Sounds about as safe as doing that with elephants, lol
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 They use elephants for riding and competitions, so.
We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spend decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever. -Kenneth Branagh
Sure, but when we're pushing more and more of them to extinction it's also important to keep a good amount of biodiversity, so that when species do die out there's a better chance that some will be equipped to survive.
@@RaptorChatter your right, in a way
My friend couldn't remember the name for these one time and called them the "horse monster with fingers" I think it's more catchy than tapir gorilla lol
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Thanks! And we plan to keep making more content.
Having a video about Desmostylus would be awesome! Thanks for this great video.
Thanks for another interesting journey into the past to explore a fascinating animal.
You ask an ARK player, What the Hell is Chalicotherium? They will tell you it’s the bear that likes beer.
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I love chalicotheres! Thank you for covering them!!!
Thanks Raptor chatter. Good stuff
Hi zeke, great subject for a video
I see at least superficial relation to sloth or giant sloth.. and perhaps some adaption to less chewing and more complex gut biochemistry processing made possible by an increase in body size and a decrease in energy use...
"Oh, shit! I have a horse due tomorrow, and I haven't even started it yet!"
I think that the three sloth kind of has the same body plan. They have short hind legs and very long front arms. Which they use to grab food while they sit on there hind end albeit in a tree but still the same. When walking on the ground they also use there nails/knuckles bent back and walked on.
Thank you for the video.
Chalicotherium are fascinating!! And I bet they were kinda adorable.
They are a beach bob's worst nightmare.
I want one as a pet now.
Are you familiar with ark survival?
very informative thx
love the freaking t-shirt!
Ark Players: Hey I know that guy
What a beautiful creature.
would love to see a video on Proborhyaena which might be the largest carnivorous metatherian of all time.
Also known as the thing you'd be running backwards firing a shotgun into its face until it ignores the shotgun shells hitting its face and instantly kills you with a single bute
One of the most interesting paleo creatures to exist were the Paranthropus Bosei or robust australopithicus. Not only were they a human ancestor but they were the only primate to eat primarily grasses.
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These animals ( Nestoritherium Hesperotherium) certainly meet Gigantopithecus in southeast Asia during the pleistocene since they live in similar environment and era
What about the alcoholism ?
i tamed one in ark, by using beer 🤣
Who else is watching this because they recognized the chalicotherium from Ark: Survival Evolved?
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Now I want a shirt with a Chalicotherium Image and Gorilla Horse written under it. idk why but i so badly want that. Look a squirrel ...
People keep calling it a gorilla horse, or a horse gorilla, but that's not really accurate. It was more like a sloth horse. Or rather, the horse version of the giant ground sloth.
Horse Sloth it is then
Such a cool animal
Looks like something I'll make in Spore.
The title gives me Saberspark vibes
It seems to me that this species' niche eventually got taken over by the pachyderms -- animals which were likely better adapted to doing a generalist mix of long-range grazing on grasses as well as stationary browsing on tree and bush fruit; while, chalicotherium was likely more specialized with regard to browsing and less-inclined towards grazing.
That's very possible, and I'm not entirely sure if anyone has investigated that. It'd make a great research project for a grad student or something.
The strangest perissodactyl.
You can tame them with beer!
As far as its similarities to pandas, it seems like they swapped teeth.
Pandas use their carnacials for eating bamboo, instead of having grinding molars like these guys.
The underrated op "dino" of ark
An ancient giant sloth I think?
Aren’t they quite similar to giant ground sloths?
One hell of a punch 🫤
Fun fact:therizinosaurus also defended itself with those claws because it would be the only way to protect itself
It loves beer 🍺
It seems to have a lot in common with a ground sloth.
Anisodon is the horse gorilla panda we need in our lives as well. Begin cloning trials ASAP!
6:45 actually the techical names are Artiodactyla (even-toe ungulates) and Perissodactyla (odd-toe ungulates)
Apparently they love beer, who knew.
Give it beer
Chalecotheres invented the Chalecovision.
This explains the unusual shape of the controller.
Chalicotherium Is the First in my cloning wishlist
It's funny, but this body plan is one Nature seems to like. The first land animal I can recall having this long front legs, short back legs form is Moschops and it's relatives. It seems to be a very good adaptation for a low to mid-level browser. Even the dinosaurs had a group with this body plan :the therizinosaurs.
It really does seam pretty great for many animals
I've heard it called 'Gorilla-Horse Mimic'.
You forgot to mention they like drinking beer
I love Chalicotherium the Pebble Beast
nah just give them beer and your chilling
A Gorilla Horse. Or for the more erudite among us… an Ook Ook Neigh Neigh.
looks like a giant capybara
While inaccurate the nickname Gorilla Horse sounds like the perfect name for them in a game like D&D.
Sloth + Gorilla + Horse = Chalicotherium?
Do you have a video on the bizarre shark, Helicoprion?
Maybe it was pulling down the branches and then the branches would spring back up and the claws would shear off the leaves, as the branch moved past the claws, that's how I imagine it.
Odds are the claw wouldn't be that sharp, it would probably be more dull like with modern sloths
That is an odd-toed animal. Its toes are very odd indeed.
What are they?
They are a treasure we never got to see in action
Well, depends on the "we" Homo the genus probably saw some relatives at least. But in the modern day, yeah, there is nothing like it.
I'm surprised that you didn't make the link with ground sloth like Megatherium, who also seem to have similar adaptations ? Is there a reason for that ? Am i wrong to think that they had a similar strategy ?
No, they most likely were similar. In my script I had mentioned them alongside therizinosaurs as animals with similar strategies, but I was recording having just gotten over covid, and forgot while recording, whoops
@@RaptorChatter Is it an idea to put all this clawed 'herbivores' like anteater, aardvark, sloth and the extinct species into a family ? or are they already classified elsewhere ? Maybe closest related to the armadillo's as well ?
It looks like this critter got the front legs that would have fit a Tyranosaurus Rex.
Its the Beer drinker from ARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Laughs in Ark: Survival Evolved*
Is there a pattern that would suggest that having megafauna young at the the same time as peak fruiting (or just after) let you do a calorific/nutrient rush to get a elephant sized baby within a year? That'd let you outproduce the other megafauna that could possibly work on a 18 month schedule but would have periodic winter babies or non-fertile seasons. So double Chalico births per Elephant over two years.
Not right now. But there might be some stable isotopes relevant to specific times of year which could support that. I'm not an isotope person though, so you'd be better off asking someone who uses those methods. It also could be a great project for someone looking for a grad school! That idea seems good, but understudied
it's literally a Donkey Kong
1/4 Hippo, 1/4 Horse, 1/4 Gorilla and 1/4 Sloth.
Size matters, especially with terrestrial tetrapods. There's a host of Cenozoic land mammals that would have matched many Cretaceous dinosaurs in body size. If those larger than largest mammoth mammals were alive today, would a fossil of an animal the size of a mammoth seem extraordinary?
All the kick ass stuff is gone...
What is a Chalicotherium? The little bastard who throws shit at you in Ark.
Me and the squad: *inhales*
D K ! DONKEY KONG! D K! DONKEY KNOG
Im surprised you didnt mention megatherium.
ah yes the 3-toed horse that knucle-walked and had claws that could cut open a cave bear lol