Pandas Aren't Bears (They're Closer To Walruses)

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2 ай бұрын

Lions and tigers and bears and walruses! Oh my! If the Carnivora is not the coolest and most diverse clade of mammals on the planet, it is certainly the clade most likely to eat you! And the thing is that from the hyena to the skunk, the fossa to the seal, if there isn't something in this clade for you, you're on the wrong channel!
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@ClintsReptiles Ай бұрын

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@HassanMohamed-rm1cb Ай бұрын

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZfaq Videos all about the 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ Phylogeny Group Of Rodents 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

@HassanMohamed-rm1cb Ай бұрын

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZfaq 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?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

@EmpressOfExile206 Ай бұрын

Wait... so are you telling me that pinniped means "ear foot"⁉️ 👂🦶 It's even weirder that "true" seals are called earless in that case‼️ 🤔

@momobongo4977 Ай бұрын

GO WATERBEARS!

@darcieclements4880 Ай бұрын

Can we start getting primary sources on the video comments for scientific videos? I'm not consistently able to find the sources with Google scholar searches the last few videos.

@anthonysimeone365 2 ай бұрын

NOT ALL FOXES ARE FOXES!!!

@napoleon6221 Ай бұрын

You’re telling me flying foxes are actually bats????? Smh get outta here

@cstan868 Ай бұрын

@@napoleon6221wait, napoleon is a lama? Nah your more crazy get outta here!!1!!1

@Hobbesnake5 Ай бұрын

NOT ALL FOXES ARE FOXES!!!!!!!!!

@egyptomaniac6453 Ай бұрын

Not all Foxes are Foxes! (I'm told this is a magic formula to make more cool content appear❤)

@BuIIy_Maguire Ай бұрын

All foxes are a type of fish 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

@Pepsithegoat Ай бұрын

This entire group can be described as "if not friend, why friend shaped?"

@gabiu2429 Ай бұрын

@GygasDistruttore Ай бұрын

They simply need enough domestication. We already did that to wolves, and are starting with foxes.

@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 Ай бұрын

@@GygasDistruttore Good luck domesticating bears.

@PrimordialRoseberryBush Ай бұрын

@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 Russia

@MWSin1 Ай бұрын

Can I preorder a teacup grizzly?

@ernestlam5632 Ай бұрын

Years ago I literally made a meme of the taxonomy of canines saying " Fox's most distant relative another fox"

@HezekiahLaronda Ай бұрын

Take a drink every time "hagfish" is said and you will be waking up in the hospital 🤣

@hellfun1337 Ай бұрын

"High contrast Chinese bamboo Bears" is the best name ever!!

@StefyB5 Ай бұрын

Yep, I laughed out loud at that 😂😂😂

@101094coolio Ай бұрын

Yes!!!

@ilcavaliereoscusa6758 Ай бұрын

Oh wow I read it exactly as he said it! what are the chances for such a long video

@bigkirbyhj666 Ай бұрын

Honestly I dislike high contrast Chinese bamboo bears even more after learning it's an imposter. With the true panda being way more cute.

@Spindinglous_Glingle Ай бұрын

bro got the casual geographic narration

@juiceecherry Ай бұрын

I am simultaneously more informed AND more confused than ever

@dorianr4770 Ай бұрын

this

@diarmuidkuhle8181 10 сағат бұрын

That's what happens when you delve deeper into any of this subject, because living creatures can't be as neatly sorted into mutually exclusive boxes as the human mind would like it. But that's exactly what makes it fascinating!

@joshklapperich9416 Ай бұрын

I love how Clint can talk about naming things based ears for 5 minutes and keep it interesting

@TiggerIsMyCat Ай бұрын

And btw recent molecular analysis has shown that direwolves were more closely related to jackels than wolves, but convergently evolved with wolves.

@LouderThanLife7 23 күн бұрын

NO! I WANT THEM TO BE WOLVES 😭😭😭 Why does this matter to me? Not 100% sure, but I do think dire wolves is cooler than dire jackels...

@TiggerIsMyCat 23 күн бұрын

@@LouderThanLife7 It is, but we can make references to Anubis now, and that's also cool. We can call the American Anubis Wolf, or something

@gableweeb719 Ай бұрын

Your abuse of the phrase "hagfish of (group)" to describe most species is hilarious

@darcieclements4880 Ай бұрын

At any given time, some lineages will have been expanded and others will have collapsed back down into one species resulting in a constant presence of outliers species intermixed with lots of closely related species. Give it enough time in many of the ones that are expanded currently will collapse back down and the ones that are narrowed currently will expand back out.

@AnnoyingNewsletters Ай бұрын

He abused the phrase so much that it sent me to an ad break of _two_ unskippable ads. 😅

@Morat48 Ай бұрын

@@darcieclements4880 The quantum hagfish hypothesis: All species are in a perpetual superposition of being hagfish and not being hagfish.

@bigkirbyhj666 Ай бұрын

I like the one I came up witg to describe the opposite of being the hagfish of something. Being the snakes of a group. Like Humans are the snakes of monkies. You can't create a phylogeny of monkies without humans being there as the same way you can't create a lizard phylogeny without snakes being there.

@mandowarrior123 Ай бұрын

@@bigkirbyhj666monitors aren't lizards, you can't pull that one on me. Their similarities are mostly shared by reptiles as a whole. I would be happy to call the group drakes or dragons, though.

@21Kyzix12 Ай бұрын

I want a supercut of when Clint says "We'll talk about that in another video", but then it plays the entire video that actually talks about it up until the point he says that he will talk about another thing in another video where the video will then cut to the video talking about that thing. I imagine it will eventually loop through every single video on the channel.

@Reuben.Aotearoa Ай бұрын

I’m just confused that none of these are actually reptiles.

@himitsu_tokusketch Ай бұрын

@@Reuben.Aotearoahe's expanded to Clint's zoo(logy?) now basically

@sniperdubey Ай бұрын

@@Reuben.Aotearoa They're the hagfish of reptiles.

@DJFracus Ай бұрын

I assume this is roughly the plan with the phylogeny "films" they're planning to make. Like the snake supercut they made but on a larger scale. Eventually we'll have an 100 hour movie on all animals.

@AntiquatedApe Ай бұрын

I'm sure the YTPs are already brewing lol

@zacharyflagler4578 Ай бұрын

This series is just Clint slowly going insane over confusing phylogeny. Quality content

@RipleySawzen Ай бұрын

Saying a panda is more closely related to a walrus than a bear is like saying a socket wrench is more closely related to a screwdriver than a hammer.

@greensteve9307 Ай бұрын

Yeah, what's wrong wit that analogy?

@RipleySawzen Ай бұрын

@@greensteve9307 It's deceptive

@GreatDinkino1 Ай бұрын

“Not all foxes are foxes” because I’m in to that kinda thing!

@GreatDinkino1 Ай бұрын

Oh and “DAA WATERBEARS”

@FranziskaNagel445 Ай бұрын

I'm also into that Kind of Thing

@SmallTownAngel86 Ай бұрын

Yes!!! I'm into that kind of thing! Bring on the Foxes, and other things.....!

@kaviyaneskandari2316 Ай бұрын

I dont get it.. is this a sexual thing??@@SmallTownAngel86

@SmallTownAngel86 Ай бұрын

@kaviyaneskandari2316 lol if you make it to the point in the video, he says to comment that if you want a breakdown of all the fox/not fox members of the family. I'm into learning about all the mammals, especially Canines 😊

@Cassiopea525 Ай бұрын

I always thought of seals as ‘walking seals’ and ‘not-walking seals’ because that felt like a more obvious difference in movement instead of ears.

@deserabailey8500 Ай бұрын

"not all bad smells smell bad to all things" LOL Best quote ever!

@august6625 Ай бұрын

The seal classification discussion at 16:48 is positively unhinged and I love it haha.

@C_B_Hubbs Ай бұрын

I feel the urge to make a joke about a seal that couldn't afford to get into a circus because it was pinnae-less, without a pinna to its name.

@Gildedmuse Ай бұрын

**slow clap of respect**

@theblighted57 2 ай бұрын

Not all Foxes are Foxes, Da water bear!

@GilGTG Ай бұрын

Not all "foxes" are 'foxes'

@ShrkyMrk Ай бұрын

All will be one!

@tadblackington1676 Ай бұрын

One of the things that most impresses me about the caniforms is the amount of convergent evolution that has occurred within the group. You can see anteaters, apes, spitting cobras, pleisiosaurs, snakes monkeys, ground sloths and even tyranosaurs mirrored at least in part in the caniforms.

@HeidiBullard Ай бұрын

I had a neighbor growing up in the 80's who had a kinkajou as a pet. It was awesome to get to meet something so exotic as a kid. My dad (the local veterinarian) made sure to study up on as much exotic medicine as he could for any just in case moment.

@wisconsinkraut3445 Ай бұрын

The fact we don't classify the pinnepeds as the flopping, the running, and the ornery Victorian gentlemen seals is criminal.

@metal_pipe9764 28 күн бұрын

We also don't classify them as archaea

@DrygdorDradgvork Ай бұрын

Pinnaed pinnipeds and pinnaeless pinnipeds? Preposterous proposition, professor.

@noivernblast3366 Ай бұрын

Perfectly pronounced, pinnipeds are pretty precise

@Hurricayne92 Ай бұрын

@@noivernblast3366 Absolutely astonishing aliteration

@perrydowd9285 Ай бұрын

Yes! Let's have a tardigrade vid. My mate Dave first mentioned them to me. He said they were an eight-legged mammal, blushed and said, "Animal! I meant animal! It's 5:30 in the morning., I'm not awake yet."

@JonathanAwesomepants Ай бұрын

Waterbears! Moss piglets! The cutest creature that can survive through exposure to the vacuum of space!

@Eloraurora 44 минут бұрын

Poor Dave

@SendItKelly Ай бұрын

That seal speech was legendary. 😂

@Eriorguez Ай бұрын

The panda bear is a bear that resembles a panda. The red panda is, well, a red-colored panda.

@ClintsReptiles Ай бұрын

All pandas are red 😉

@TheBT Ай бұрын

@ClintsReptiles I disagree, an albino panda is a light brown colour.

@ClintsReptiles Ай бұрын

Fair.

@Eriorguez Ай бұрын

@@ClintsReptiles All extant ones; perhaps Simocyon was less vividly colored. ;)

@EmpressOfExile206 Ай бұрын

@@ClintsReptilesIf you compare the Qinling Panda with the red panda I think the comparison makes more sense‼️ Since the Qinling panda used to be less rare than it is today, maybe that's the "panda" they originally thought looked like a red panda⁉️ 🤔

@joshmiller3055 Ай бұрын

The end segment about mammals returning to the ocean was incredibly funny. I would highly recommend watching until the end.

@KalebPeters99 Ай бұрын

I nearly clicked away until I saw this, glad I didn't 😂😂

@eacalvert Ай бұрын

Yay more Clint! I love your channel b/c you're just so darn enthusiastic!

@illadiel6049 Ай бұрын

Watching this at higher speeds only emphasizes how Clint-like Clint is...

@susieleehorton6398 Ай бұрын

Badgers and coyotes working together is the cutest thing ever. But not for the prairie dogs 💀

@Charlie-Charlot Ай бұрын

Probably the scariest thing my ever for prairie dogs

@dapeach06 Ай бұрын

For Prairie dogs it's like Alien working with Predator

@Archaeus_ Ай бұрын

Zoologist here, phylogeny on nematodes would amaze/trigger a lot of people lmao

@AtractaspisSp Ай бұрын

I second this!

Ай бұрын

Let me guess They're technically speaking not even really todes

@mauzawa Күн бұрын

"GET A HORSE!" had me rolling on the floor

@brianvernon7754 Ай бұрын

“Grabbing it with your face” got me bro! 🤣👍 Thoroughly enjoyed it sir. Thank you

@egg_bun_ Ай бұрын

Clint. I am begging you to put the "Blond Slim Shady" bit in a short. That part was HILARIOUS.

@little_isalina Ай бұрын

Turns out Master Shifu is the main character of Kung Fu Panda

@rockfri 24 күн бұрын

hahah nice!

@sydhenderson6753 9 күн бұрын

@@rockfri Shifu is a panda. Po is a high contrast Chinese bamboo bear.

@theabnormalosnow1091 Ай бұрын

another great video Clint! and yes you should definitely do a video on badgers and the mustelids! such an underrated group i would love to see talked about more.

@josephburger2377 Ай бұрын

Clint you started to overload my brain and all I started to hear was “seal seal seal seal!”

@sphere_of_facts111 Ай бұрын

Have you ever tried to grab a ground squirrel or prairie dog with your face? - Clint 2024

@ItzJustHistory1916 Ай бұрын

“Hey Frank, you’re breedin’ a lot” - Unsuccessful Seal Ancestor

@freeze0583261 Ай бұрын

Dear Clint. You are the best, and I've learned so much from watching you. Sincerely, an ever curious fan

@liquidcancer4573 Ай бұрын

Hey Clint, I love your presentation style. It's very captivating because you obviously love the topics at hand.

@vsolyomi Ай бұрын

There should be a Hagfestival. Where all hagfishes of all clades come together and celebrate!

@Malvikins Ай бұрын

"All foxes are fish!" Wait what was I supposed to shout again?

@marvalice3455 Ай бұрын

I'm really grateful to clint for his willingness to break frame.

@DrMarioMorales Ай бұрын

Amazing vídeos about clates and just damn funny scripts!!! Thanks!!

@michaela4470 Ай бұрын

Not all foxes are foxes. Also, some seals in german are called "Seehund" which means Sea dog. Da water bears

@darcieclements4880 Ай бұрын

See dog is still a term used for all of the members of that clade in English. It might not get used as often now but it's definitely a term that I've read before in reference to all three clades.

@red.aries1444 Ай бұрын

At least it's a little bit more systematic as the whole group is called "Robben", the group without the pinnae is called "Hundsrobben", because they include the "Seehund", the group with pinnae have the fitting name "Ohrenrobben" and the third group are the "Walrosse", so no discussion about the name of the group. ... although, I think that most Germans wouldn't name "Seelöwen/Seebären" as "Robben"...

@S3lkie-Gutz Ай бұрын

they’re called sea wolves(atshikw) by the Innu/Naskapi of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, grey seals specifically(unuatshikw) are as when they call they look like they’re howling edit: i found out grey seals will kill seals of other species and harbour porpoises, probably also why they’re called sea wolves then. brutal man.

@actionmarco8556 Ай бұрын

Isn't the seal the "Robbe"? Same thing?😮

@actionmarco8556 Ай бұрын

Isn't the seal the "Robbe"? Same thing?😮

@anothersquid Ай бұрын

Sea lions used to gather for breeding on the beach where I went to university (Vancouver Island). One thing everyone learns really quickly: they're a lot more agile on land than people generally give credit for. The bulls are huge, angry, and surprisingly mobile.

@mrpeddlethesealion Ай бұрын

As a sea lion i aprove this comment

@tauncfester3022 Ай бұрын

Dead male Sea Elephants are quite possibly the biggest stink created by decomposition ever created.

@cooliipie Ай бұрын

Very well laid out and informative. Learned a ton 😮

@nikmarshall2989 Ай бұрын

“Speak softly and carry a big stink” really got me. 😂

@sjzara Ай бұрын

We should classify by wetness, cuteness, and adorableness. All seals are wet, and many are cute, but all are adorable (such as the walrus). Pandas are dry, cute and adorable.

@samarnadra Ай бұрын

I think walruses fall under "we all know they are adorable but we call them 'cool' or the like instead so they can maintain their image, which is very important to them" *_walrus chest bump_*

@houstonaglover Ай бұрын

I need a skunk t-shirt that says "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stink"

@ClintsReptiles Ай бұрын

That might need to happen!

@noahhosking495 Ай бұрын

These videos always blow my mind, big ups 💥

@nauroodle Ай бұрын

It’s always insane to me that this channel doesn’t have a million

@AaronDC83 2 ай бұрын

YAY! PUPPIES! Not all foxes are foxes!

@craigtevis1241 Ай бұрын

"Ironically, the walrus is the Yoko of the seals" ... I saw what you did there.

@jose.montojah Ай бұрын

Goo goo g'job with the video indeed

@MattMcIrvin Ай бұрын

here's another clue for you all

@QuartetofCrickets149 Ай бұрын

Thank you for giving skunks the love they deserve!

@rightthen17 Ай бұрын

New to the channel. I like your presentation a lot, very cute and fun, and engaging!

@Thulgore Ай бұрын

The mustelid group fascinates me more than any mammal I can think of the american badger has been my favorite mammal since I was a child. Something about them amazes me. Mustelids and corvids are mindblowingly special.

@wtbanation6268 Ай бұрын

Man you had pretty good taste as a kid. My favorite mammal was probably a chicken

@davidgessin-mccully3919 Ай бұрын

Ever since an 80s movie as a kid the ferret is my favorite animal the domesticated and the American Blackfooted Ferret. Mustelids are badass.

@circuitRx Ай бұрын

Mustelids are my favorite!! I have a pet mink and ferrets.

@p.l.g3190 Ай бұрын

Go tardigrades, go anythingforms, go Legos! Get my drift, Clint? Looking forward to all of it.

@joseignaciomontes5712 Ай бұрын

So fun that i ended up here, this cladistics are so fun!!!

@conlon4332 Ай бұрын

I want videos on so many of these groups! All the foxes and their fox-like relatives, the seals (including walruses), the skunks, the badgers, and the raccoon-relatives.

@newjojosupercutsandmore2489 Ай бұрын

Was not expecting to get a colonoscopy cam of a skunk today but here we are

@onixprime 2 ай бұрын

Frank, the ancestor of all Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses.

@bhuggins6059 Ай бұрын

Frank, harbinger of carnivorans

@rat_dragon Ай бұрын

Frank, just Frank

@Evangelium Ай бұрын

A nice thorough video on Scarabaeidae would be most welcome! 😁

@claireredfield6676 Ай бұрын

I love your enthusiasm.

@cmph7184 Ай бұрын

Watching Clint go off about earless seals for like 5 minutes straight made my day ❤❤

@brfisher1123 Ай бұрын

I think you should do a separate phylogeny video on the mustelids i.e. the “weasels” since the term “weasel” is often used as a polyphyletic term for the smaller mustelid species.

@davidgessin-mccully3919 Ай бұрын

When I use my iPhone to take a picture of my ferrets if you go into the information panel it says Polecat lmao it’s always made me wonder about the phylogeny of mustelids and the domestication of ferrets.

@brfisher1123 Ай бұрын

@@davidgessin-mccully3919 I think that ferrets are actually a domesticated form of European Polecat and BTW I don't know about you, but I prefer considering *ALL* members of the Mustelidae clade "weasels" just like how all members of the Canidae clade are often considered "dogs" and all members of the Felidae clade are considered "cats" I mean "Mustelidae" literally means "weasel" in Latin after all.

@darcieclements4880 Ай бұрын

Oh I use that term for the entire group. If I go multi phylogenetic, I say weasily type appearing things because there are other not very closely related groups that look similar in their body plan and behavior.

@davidgessin-mccully3919 Ай бұрын

@@brfisher1123 So do you call all canines dogs? Like if you see a fox do you go “look it’s a dog” no you’re going to say “look it’s a fox” even though it’s a canine. The domesticated ferret is member of the weasel family yes but they aren’t actually a weasel neither is a polecat. A weasel is just one species of mustelid, polecats are another of which the domesticated ferret Mustela Putorious Furo (little thief in Latin) is a considered a subspecies of due to their ability to hybridize and survive in the wild.

@brfisher1123 Ай бұрын

@@davidgessin-mccully3919 What about lions and tigers? People often consider them a species of cat even though they are not domestic cats.

@Cold-Blooded-Jay Ай бұрын

In a few days, we plan on visiting your establishment in Utah. It would be great to meet you in person since so many of your videos have become a part of my family's life, but we understand you are often busy. Great stuff, man!

@curtiswfranks Ай бұрын

I actually really like the idea of naming every even-numbered large clade after its hagfish subclade. It is a really easy system and makes subsetting very clear.

@peterbereczki4147 Ай бұрын

Okay, I lost it at " The real panda please stand up" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheRPGamer7 Ай бұрын

We only call Clint Slim Shady from now on. I need to hear a diss track on him!

@pencildragon1961 Ай бұрын

Okay... I wrote my piraty comment before I saw the 'bloopers'... I love the description of natural selection at the end... thanks. 😀

@pandakicker1 Ай бұрын

Clint! Your passion never senses to amaze me! It would be super epic if you did a deep dive into all of the Mustelidae. I adore them all so much and they’re all so incredible! Even ferrets are amazing little beings. I had two of them and they were the best pets ever! I wish I could get another pair of them. Maybe in the future! They made me fall in love with their entire family they were so adorable and fun. I loved watching them go through all my things and climb all over my couches chasing each other around and tumbling about. I couldn’t possibly rave about them enough!

@loriw2661 Ай бұрын

So won’t the real panda please stand up, please stand up, please stand up!!? I loved this part of the video. Well done Clint!😂❤️ Not all foxes are foxes

@malusignatius Ай бұрын

The Dingo and it's place in the Australian biosphere is a matter of some controversy. Whilst it's true that they were brought over ~6000 years ago by the First Australians, it's also fair to say that they've naturalised to Australian ecosystems and that conversely, Australian ecosystems have adapted to their presence as well, which brings into question if they can be considered 'feral', at least in ecological terms. There's also evidence to suggest they can suppress invasive predators like cats and foxes. On the other side of the fence, there's a lot of political pressure to classify Dingos as 'feral' due to allegations they attack sheep or cattle, which the evidence of this happening is mainly anecdotal and suspect unto itself. But, if Dingos are treated as 'native', then they get protection under Australian law, which because of the above concerns would be political dynamite. It's a bit like the debate over wolf re-introduction in the US.

@zecuse Ай бұрын

And yet they're more likely the culprit of those sheep and cattle attacks (on the mainland) than the Thylacine which was subsequently driven to extinction.

@christiancinnabars1402 Ай бұрын

Dingos have naturalized to Australian ecosystems because they and humans (mostly the latter) outcompeted and extincted the Thylacine. Then, with their niche wide open, the Dingos just fit in as a replacement. It's like if you went to rob a mansion, killed the butler, and because you killed that butler the head of the mansion hires you to replace them. You're doing well because now you have a steady paying job, and the mansion is doing well because someone is still inside working as a butler, but 100% the original butler is punching the air in the afterlife.

@malusignatius Ай бұрын

@@zecuse That was far more likely to be roaming/feral domestic dogs, as there's never been dingos in Tasmania.

@zebedeemadness2672 Ай бұрын

They are (Canis familiaris) and they are feral as they was owned by humans, feral being of domesticated ancestry that reverted back to a wild state, but i'd refer to them as being a feral native land breed, rather than just feral (referring to the more modern feral dogs).

@zecuse Ай бұрын

@@malusignatius Which is why I specified in parentheses "on the mainland". News of Thylacines (mistakenly) being the culprit making its way to Tasmania isn't out of the question. The humans then running on that assumption then drives them to extinction on the island as well.

@TwilitbeingReboot 29 күн бұрын

The little impromptu dramatization of evolution in action at the end was peak Clint Blooper.

@MartinusvanTeelivecaricatures Ай бұрын

This was quite the journey!

@zacg_ Ай бұрын

I respect the work you put into these videos. The origins of the English word "panda" are fascinating and i appreciate that you included that. Good reminder that the concept of naming is really about language and not about pure objective science, especially when you remember that evolution doesn't really categorize things in the way we want it to.

@IAmBene Ай бұрын

I was just researching canids for a worldbuilding project and it was such a pain to organize them because maned wolves aren't wolves and South American foxes aren't true foxes and then you have a bunch of animals called jackals... And trying to populate a fantasy world with real world animals, while finding a balance between sticking to how these animals are actually related and mapping their habitats onto my fantasy world, taking into account the climate, available food, and other competitors for similar niches, and making sure their distribution makes sense (as in, like, not having them on a continent that they couldn't conceivably have reached) is kinda tricky. But it's a lot of fun, and your videos always give me inspiration for my worldbuilding.

@sendmorerum8241 Ай бұрын

Do your world include dog mermaids a.k.a. seals?

@iniminimoshimo Ай бұрын

I'm slowly building up a fantasy world as well and boy I am both dreading but also excited about making up little creatures and then putting them on a map. it's going to be difficult too bc a lot of them will be hybrids, so then I have to think about the habitat and habits of the creatures I'm putting into them, and I want to make sure I put creatures together that make sense.. so I won't have a gryphon-type creature made of a south american bird and a european mammal. though it could be fun trying to think of something to make that work... hmmmmm

@iniminimoshimo Ай бұрын

my boyfriend tells me to just throw creatures together that look cool and not worry about it but I cannot!!

@ghostman1611 Ай бұрын

5:55 this clips is so cute! The coyote getting excited waiting for his buddy

@elnat7700 Ай бұрын

This was a ride. I thought I was gonna watch an an answer to why pandas are more related to walruses and I somehow came out extremelly informed about Carnivora, and inmensely confused at the same time.

@logenvestfold4143 Ай бұрын

I love the fact that raccoons have a relative that looks like a cat-monkey hybrid.

@MunchyMakesStuff Ай бұрын

I had a skunk friend at my old house. He lived in the neighborhood and I almost had him with enough trust to touch him before I moved. I could kinda just sit n chill with him around.

@IceGangsta Ай бұрын

"Depending on how the phylogeny shakes out in the end" is my new go-to phrase

@LordProtectorPepper Ай бұрын

I know there is a lot to covered before you’re ever hurting for video ideas but I’d love to see an “outcast or outlier” episode where you talk about animals that have evolved either just bizarre features or traits that simply don’t fit in with there closest relatives. Even in a broad way like a video talking about carnivorous mammals that aren’t of the Carnivora family or something like that

@adg9430 Ай бұрын

Clints reptiles is now turning into clints phylogenies

@Call-me-Al Ай бұрын

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@erikarnold4737 Ай бұрын

I gotta say the clade explanations are some of my favorites from Clint. Just the amount of data and surprising stuff gives a really good overview of how all this stuff links together. And it breaks my brain.

@nealwoods3482 Ай бұрын

What i really appreciate about clints videos is that they are also a stealth history of biology lesson. So many of our names come from outdated classification methods. At first glance, Clints seemingly semantic obsession over naming convention is just silly. But it actually walks you through how classification has changed with newer, better information. Seriously, i hope kids who watch this rewatch the videos every couple years, its the same energy as a family show that gets deeper and more layerd the older you get!

@lexslate2476 Ай бұрын

I like it when Clint gets extremely nerdy about taxonomy.

@RG4327- Ай бұрын

The Dutch word for seal is zeehond. Means sea dog, seems appropriate!

@tokahuke Ай бұрын

Well, about earless seals, in Spanish you can easily say what you want, Clint: "focas sin orejas" means _exactly_ "pinnaless seals" (as opposed to "focas sin oído", "earless seals"). So there you have it: the deffective English language.

@haitike Ай бұрын

As a Spanish speaker, it still amazes me that English doesn't have a commonly used word for "oreja" and they have to resort to scientific terms like "pinnae".

@YouEra Ай бұрын

Clint's zoology class! Yeah!

@theitineranthistorian2024 21 күн бұрын

excellent video

@tiffyj Ай бұрын

I know this comparison is ridiculous, but Clint always reminds me of David Tennant's Doctor Who. A little bit in terms of looks, but especially when it comes to the enthusiasm for their fields of interests (astrophysics vs zoology). 😝🪐💫 🐍🦎😝

@kasenchristy90 2 ай бұрын

I didn't realize I would be seeing a high def skunk prolapse today lmao

@lastorcarante9303 Ай бұрын

I am so looking forward to that promised full video on pinnipeds

@SuperDaveP270 Ай бұрын

Holy cow that whole breakdown of possible ways to describe seals was HILARIOUS! Not all foxes are foxes, da waterbears, and all those---yes please!

@TheAlexSchmidt Ай бұрын

I did try to look up why so many carnivorans have "mask patterns" on their faces and found a paper that concluded that warning colors were the most likely explanation, since the high contrast on their faces makes them stand out even at night.

@darcieclements4880 Ай бұрын

Oh that's weird cuz the generally accepted reason is that it helps them see better in bright light which is why animals with eyes adapted to darker specially likely to have these masks as it adds some protection without needing to lose the eye working well at night. There's a reason why humans put the face mask on and it's probably the same reason why so many predators have face masks. The face mask is not unique to mammals either and I don't know that warning makes a lot of sense here because a lot of these animals are also prey items and completely defenseless against bigger critters. I can't imagine a paper saying that predators want to stand out at night would hold up very well to scientific scrutiny.

@TheAlexSchmidt Ай бұрын

@@darcieclements4880 The paper addressed that and concluded it probably didn't fit since they weren't exclusively nocturnal or something like that. Smaller predators would want to be visible so that larger animals don't get too close to them.

@rylieread1865 Ай бұрын

Speaking of walruses and their glory (because, agreed, who doesn't love a walrus?), I once saw one at a zoo during feeding time, and it came up to the glass, blasted all the masticated food in its mouth right against it, then sucked it back in. Big toddler "look what's in my mouth!" then opening wide to display a nauseating bolus of crackers and processed deli slices energy. And I loved it 🥰 Also I continue to be amazed that a (former) subscriber was not only shocked, but *appalled* to discover your weirdness?? I thought the adorkable charisma is why we're all here!! Aside from the high-tier educational content, of course. Nerds are weird! Either join us or get out of our way! 😤 we have hyperfocuses and/or special interests to attend to, and we've been looking forward to them all day. 'Scuse me, just gotta scootch on by ya, ope! Sorry, my controller is just right by ya, thanks. Gotta fight a dragon while listening to phylogeny videos.

@jose.montojah Ай бұрын

I don't just _love_ walruses... I AM THE WALRUS! Goo goo g'joob