It was great to do this, would definitely like to play again. This was a blast, and somehow I pulled a win out of this. It was a really great list of real and mythical animals.
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
These are fun to research, and you all did so well in answering them! Out of 21 possible answers (3x7) you collectively answered 18 correctly. It's so fun to see you all show off your animal knowledge. Thanks for playing, and congratulations on your win! Anyone else reading this, go subscribe to @Ecotasia!
@GeoZoo-official.2 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush i'm already subbed! This was so much fun, and I hope you do it again
@BioBush2 жыл бұрын
@@GeoZoo-official. Excellent choice, subscribing to Ecotasia. There are a couple of variation ideas for future episodes. This will not be the last episode of Real Animal/Fake Animal.
@TheWildlifeBrothers3 жыл бұрын
I loved the sound byte easter egg at the end, that was a fun little secret! This was so much fun Steve, I can't thank you enough for hosting us once again! Evan and I absolutely love doing these videos, I think this is a concept that we would love to do again with you, maybe in a livestream format as a subscriber milestone special or something. Congratulations again to JJ (who won't see this until they're back from the Amazon) for a well-earned victory! Next time I'll brush up on my Megamouth Shark facts... Thanks so much as always Steve! - Harrison and Evan
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Hi Harrison and Evan! I don't know how well this idea would work with other people, but it works with you two because a) you have a library of obscure animals in your heads and can search it quickly and b) your presentation experience makes it interesting to watch the two of you think and answer questions. The livestream concept is interesting, and would be a fun way to celebrate a milestone. Thank you for sharing your animal knowledge here and I hope viewers realize how much they will learn on your channel!
@Ecotasia3 жыл бұрын
I think I should run the next one since I won, I have a list of some really weird animals that sound fake on paper.
@TheWildlifeBrothers3 жыл бұрын
@@Ecotasia I would love to do this with you as the host JJ!
@gsxrman63193 жыл бұрын
I am impressed. Diversity of life on earth is incredible. When people anthropomorphize or imagine alien life in forms to be similar to the ones you use in the game they are probably being limited to our experience
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. A species does not even need a different planet to be different in significant ways. Naked mole rats are like our cousins on the species family tree, and they are eusocial, poikilothermic, blind, immune to some forms of pain, etc. It makes me wonder how many senses are out there that we just don't know enough to look for. Thanks for watching, James!
@yingmin16363 жыл бұрын
I have an idea for some of the animals of the next edition. To make it even more difficult, throw in some fake animals that are not folkloric or mythical, but obscure modern inventions from humorous books such as “Little-Known and Seldom-Seen Birds” and such. (For your information, I have not actually read the book) No one will be able to guess the specific made-up animal, and the competitors would have to trust their guts on the factuality of the description.
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
That is a really good idea! There are modern mythical animals as well. My rule for descriptions is that if you knew the animal you could pick up enough details to identify it. (So no describing the Yeti as "It lives in the mountains and eats food." ) Even famously obscure modern animals like Pokemon could get around people being familiar with the historical myths.
@Ecotasia3 жыл бұрын
There are also a lot of cryptids that easily could be confused as real.
@CoolCrittersYT3 жыл бұрын
I knew the sponge one let's go!!! Great video, very engaging!
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Hi CoolCritters! That's awesome that you knew it. That was the single hardest one in my opinion, because it described two species. Good work, and thanks for watching!
@CoolCrittersYT3 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush That's funny, it was actually the only one I knew the species on. I hope more of these come soon!
@Ecotasia3 жыл бұрын
I am fairly sure the shrimp colony in the sponge were shown in the original blue planet series on BBC
@GeoZoo-official.2 жыл бұрын
I played along, it was crazy fun, 1)The first one, I was literally clueless. More than one tail? sounded too unrealistic. 2)For the second one, I was thinking lemurs, but I did think it was a real animal, so I got that one. 3)The third one was also pretty confusing and I thought it was a mythical creature. Got that one wrong 4)Immediately, for the 4th one, I thought basking sharks, and I was crazy surprised that Harrison and Evan were also thinking of the same thing, and when you told that the have lure for prey, I realized that basking sharks don't really eat other fish. Angler fish was my next guess, but they are way too small. Squids have beaks so I ruled them out, so fake to me! Got it wrong. I never heard of the megamouth. 5) Fake to me, does not fit any description of animals I know, and I got it right. 6) Fake, and I got it right 7) Thorny devil? no, I don't think so, I'm so stumped Fake? (The length of this segment threw me off), I even think of parasites, but it was obviously symbiosis? anemones!, Real! I got it right but wrong animal I guess. I typed this down in real time, and I'm so happy with what I got right and wrong. So much more to learn I guess!
@BioBush2 жыл бұрын
Hi GeoZoo! It was fun to read your thought processes. You did well, even though my descriptions blur the lines between plausible fictitious animals and implausible real animals. You also demonstrate a broad knowledge of animals. Thank you for playing along!
@naturewithgabe3 жыл бұрын
Another great installment of real vs fake. 👏
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Hi Gabe! Thank you! They all did so well. 19/21 possible correct answers between the three of them, and it was fun to hear their logic while they succeeded. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching again this week!
@naturewithgabe3 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush you have some great participants they know a ton!
@Ecotasia3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it was interesting to have to figure this out on the spot
@joykurtz73553 жыл бұрын
Fascinating and so much fun !!!
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words, Joy! They all did so well in showing their animal knowledge. We had fun too. Thank you for watching!
@woopwoopboopboop473 жыл бұрын
Great Collab !
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it, Vedant! It's so fun to work with these people, because they have so much knowledge and have practice articulating it. The hardest part is finding an animal that challenges them! Thank you for watching!
@woopwoopboopboop473 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush Yes !
@woopwoopboopboop473 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush and there was no chace of me not liking it !
@Ecotasia3 жыл бұрын
It was a lot of fun
@marcopohl48753 жыл бұрын
1: I'm calling Kitsune, which is fake (Correct) 2: no idea, I'm gonna throw out a guess and say real? (Correct) 3: nope, no idea at all (2 was obvious in hindsight, but this is not) I'm guessing fake though (Wrong) 4: ANGLERFISH! REAL! ...I didn't know the megamouth had a lure... but I guess I still got in on a technicality (correct?) 5: sounds fake to me. (Correct) 6: Isn't that this flat snake from Japanese mythology? Fake! ...again right by technicality (Correct?) 7: sound similar to an anemone, and I have accidentally been spoiled by another comment that the sponge is going to show up, so Imma say real (Correct) 4 or 6 (depending on how you count) out of 7. Nice!
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Good job Marco! You totally got 6/7. Guessing the exact animal is a bonus (good job on the kitsune) but just having a sense of "this sounds real/fake" is enough. It was fun to read through your logic on each question. Thanks for playing along with Harrison, Evan, and John!
@marcopohl48753 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush btw, you didn't respond when I asked you about SCP, it's ok if you don't know/like it, I just want to know how much context I have to give
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
@@marcopohl4875 Sorry, I have never heard of it before. It is related to writing?
@marcopohl48753 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush Yes. it's a creative writing community that started out doing horror but now does basically everything. Members all use a shared universe (although you can deviate from established canon), it's about a conspiracy theory-esque organization, that (kinda like the illuminaty) that tries to cover up the existence of supernatural things (called anomalies) to protect us normals, the group is named the SCP Foundation. I started a writing group with a few friends that are also into SCP because I just write better in a team and this way I can practice to get into writing on my own. I figured I tell you so I can more easily ask creature design questions. An example of something we can talk about now, that you have the context: we want to use Foundation Site 3 (which we made up ourselves, no previous writers worked on it before) as our main setting, and one character who works there is the Head of Research, Dr. Jon Black, who was an attempt by an unknown group to make a bird as smart as a human (smart animals are kind of a trope in SCP) so your input would be very interesting for this character. We got in contact over dragons, might make one here too. That sort of stuff.
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
@@marcopohl4875 Cool! Can I say I'm glad you found this channel? I am in for theoretical creature-building. Okay, so bird brains are small and efficient. They don't have a cortex (wrinkly part) so people thought they were not smart for a long time. Like, literally incapable of higher thought, a biological instinct machine. Bird brains are organized differently. They have smaller, denser neurons (but roughly equivalent processing power per neuron). If you scaled a bird brain up to the size of a human brain it would have more mental power than a human. The big, dense brain would would run hot (not good) or slow (not good) or have some thermal diffusion assistance (sounds science horror-ish). And I bet they would be hungry. I have heard that thinking hard takes up ~20% of base metabolism in humans. Something interesting to consider from the story side is that bird intelligence is fundamentally different than human intelligence, and they will probably not recognize how smart their bird is with human intelligence tests. My favorite parrot intelligence story is from Alex the Grey. They gave him a nut on a string. The test was to see if he could coordinate foot and beak to gradually pull it up. Crows could do this. So Alex looked at the nut, looked at the researcher, and said, "Pick up nut." Was he saying he understood the goal? Was he demanding the researcher do his work for him? The intelligence shines through in breaking the experiment and achieving the results in unexpected ways. I made a video about parrot intelligence: biobush.tv/birdgeniuses and would recommend (people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birdbrain.html) for information about brain structures. All right. Questions or speculative ideas?
@animaleducationwithcoleshi54813 жыл бұрын
Looked like fun guys!
@BioBush3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Cole! This is a fun format, and it lets people with broad animal knowledge really shine. John suggested doing this as a livestream game someday so that everyone can test their knowledge. I appreciate you watching again this week!
@animaleducationwithcoleshi54813 жыл бұрын
@@BioBush Its always interesting!
@Ecotasia3 жыл бұрын
But if we do a livestream we need to make the clues limericks, that would be fun