"If it bites you and you die, that's venom. If you bite it and you die, that's poison." someone told me that once and that's how I've remembered it ever since XD
@Ir liz theres a useful difference, like tree dart frogs being lethal Or poisonous birds that you can't eat because poison Or venomous snakes, those can be eaten
What about stingrays? It's a nurotoxin poison though their behavior - they stab you me I was stabbed So it stabbed me with nurotoxin poison - immediately painful 😖
What bone are you referring to? I could have sworn this was covered in anatomy, and there was a domestic animal that had a bone in the rostrum, but can't remember which one.
@@slwrabbits Hmm, I think I'm incorrect with the ONLY qualifier. It seems as though they're the only animal with a nose-bone that is a ball-and-socket. And this bone is only found in the Cuban solenodon, not the Hispaniolan species. Another fun fact you can add to the species (and I LOVE this as I'm a bat biologist) is that they use a basic form of echolocation!
So do some ancient sloths. Thanks to fact I’m working on cranial anatomy with ancient sloths in my undergraduate research, solenodon has been mentioned a few times due to the presence of that bone in both groups. (Though it is unjointed in sloths)
Actually, their real-life story of splitting off from hedgehogs in dinosaur times and being nearly driven to extinction on an island sounds a lot like the echidna lore from sonic. If you really want to stretch, you could even try to draw parallels to the master emerald and nuclear warheads.
Fun Fact: The name Solenodon is actually fitting for the little guys as they are pretty old and are prehistoric and are somewhat considered living fossils due to them having around on Earth for a very long time and should have been considered extinct today. Just like Coelacanths are now today.
The video was taking in either Cuba or the Dominican Republic possibly DR due to it looking it like a Hispaniolan solenodon and not a Cuban but I watched a vid similar to it with a man holding it on a leech like a dog and YES I know a lot about solenodons I LOVE THEM
Great episode! cute little venom shew with crazy nose, I approve. I would also like to see episodes about bizarre beast right under our own noses sort of similar to the original horse video. Don't know about other places, but here in the US there is a bunch of weird animals that we don't think about. For example as a fisherman every time you renew your license you get a book with all the updated regulations(in my state don't know about others) and it also usually has info about lesser known or endangered fish with all the information the DEC has on what to do when you see or catch them. There are a bunch of native fish in the US that until the around the 80'sish we were either letting be killed of or actively harming because they "weren't good for anglers". Then a bunch of scientist were like "this is dumb plus these fish are crazy weird and we want to study them". The only one that comes to mind now is the Paddle Fish but I know there are more. Also I am sure other places in the world have things just like this, where the animals aren't in some remote place but near where we live. We just never pay attention to them until some takes a closer look.
The fact they are called Solenodon made me immediately think they were extinct so the video footage confused the heck out of me until I realised this was BB and not Eons, lol.
The -don actually means tooth, is common to use for making names of extinct animals because many times there are only known by their teeth, or just because it sounds cool.
Fun Fact: The name Solenodon is actually fitting for the little guys as they are pretty old and are prehistoric and are somewhat considered living fossils due to them having around on Earth for a very long time and should have been considered extinct today. Just like Coelacanths are now today.
I grew up seen these "rare"critters..they started becoming scarce when the indian mongoose and cane toads were introduced to protect sugar cane from beetles and rats...it backfired😟💪💯🇩🇴
Thank you, Robin. I’ve been wanting to read for so long. I buy so many books and don’t even touch them. Really appreciate your videos because they hype me up to read. I just need to dive in and read five or ten minutes a day at first. Once books get their hook in me I think it will be a lot easier. Also very interested in your note taking video-as someone who wants to go into the philosophy and art criticism fields, it’s important and useful for me to take notes.
intuitively that kind of venom should be most useful against birds or bats, since with low blood pressure they are completely crippled but not completely dead. Is it possible that solendons used to hunt certain species of birds of bats, but the preys some time ago evolved in such a way that would make them basically untargetable by solenodons, thus pushing the mammal to change their diet to arthropods and fruit?
It was noted in the paper that a lot of vertebrates in the Caribbean were made extinct around the time of human colonization, in particular smaller species of hutia and spiny rats. That's probably what the solenodon's venom was for.
I was just thinking a collaboration between bizarre beasts and PBS Eons would be a great way to reach out to more people who would be interested in the show! I love both so much
How does Shrew and Solenodon venom compare to Platypus venom in chemical composition? Im curious uf theres any crossover in the type of venom used, to see if saliva based compounds are the basis for all mammalian venoms, or if its just what Shrews and Solenodons have adapted to use. (Im aware that Platypus inject venom through a leg barb and not through biting, but the venom could still have evolved from the same source before being adapted to be used by a different part of the body. Teeth used to be a defensive feature of the skin before our ancestors adapted to store them in the mouth and use them for chewing, so evolution has proven that it will move and reuse body parts as needed.)
Hank set up the company that makes sci show, sci show space, are partnered with PBS for Eons, had videos with his brother etc Plus at least 4 podcasts that I know of When he has time to eat or sleep however, is the real mystery!
Huh, so that’s what they are. These guys have popped up a few times in my undergraduate research on sloth cranial anatomy. Nice to be able to put a face to the name, as it were.
Waiting on a cool turtle to show up in one of these episodes. Turtles in general are such a big question mark in evolutionary theory and would love to see what cool things you could dig up! Maybe the sideneck turtle or the mata mata?
Hank is everywhere!!! Hahaha. I first figured out who he was by my science teacher in high school. Crash Course is legit one of the best learning methods, because it's entertaining and informative!
bright colors are generally a warning pattern, as in stay away from me touch me and you will die or be hurt badly. poison dart frogs are brightly colored and have contact poison on their skin, skunks have a warning pattern and spray noxious oily stink if you disturb them, coral snakes have venom and use both a warning pattern and bright colors. the only other reason for having a bright color is as a sex display and octopuses are not sexually diamorphic.
Yup, every time I see one of those tourist pictures with them (because they're so pretty) I'm like "Put that thing back where you found it or so help me!-" lol 😬
Literally just proteins in saliva, or other protein-rich bodily fluids in other animals, and since genes code for proteins, and genes mutate spontaneously... sometimes those proteins get weirdly useful, and usefully weird. Also: recall how all milk is just modified, nutrient-rich sweat. Same sorta thing, really.
All living things operate on more or less the same chemical language. In their genes, but also in their proteins and stuff. That means you can sort of "hack" the bodies of other creatures by making the same kinds of chemicals they rely on. For example, animals normally have blood clotting agents floating around, so they close up their wounds. What happens if you make a LOT of that stuff, and store it in a gland? Anyone who eats you might have a really bad day.
3:45 i disagree hank, when you are an evolutionary biologist your default hypothesis when you see the same adaptation in several species within a group the first thing that goes to your brain is ✨ convergent 🦕 evolution ✨ not a common ancestor, and especially not if the ancestors was 70 billion years ago
Learned something new. I knew there were a handful of venomous mammals but I thought they had to be closely related. So to learn that venom adaption was independently evolved was new. So cool!
This is so cool!! I also really loved the nice and simple, easily digestible way you described the process of evolution!! I was also wondering why in some of the video of the Solenodon’s some of them have what looks like ropes around their necks and dragging around a bit?
I dont like the presumption that its specifically either for predation or intra species competative defense. For one thing its a slow acting cenom that works better on mammals than on the typical invertebrates in its diet, that tend to have a low chance of escape anyway. So capture is an unlikely advantage. Intraspecies combat is plausible, but lowering blood pressure is a pretty inefficient way get your opponent to tap out since it takes a while for that competitive advantage to take effect, and rhe longer the fight goes on the greater rhe chance of you getting injured as well. Now that doesnt mean it couldnt have been repurposed to act as venom in rhese other applications rhat also happen to work in these other situations, but its primary function is likely to aid in digestion, as these types of creatures tend to have high metabolic rates, and consume ablot of food in proportion to body mass. If the selective pressures continue to specialise mechanisms, then its also plausible that a clear purpose in capturing prey or defense, or both would be faboired and overshadow any other hypothetical original purpose.
"Solenodon" had me thinking, "why does it sound like a dinosaur" Oh. Because it's been around since the dinosaurs. Good for them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 👍
Hank - How many shows do you host and produce! I have yet to see any of them that I didn't enjoy. Is there any chance that you could put together a list of shows you produce so that we could send that list off to Guinness for record consideration? Being a nerdy scientist myself, I am hard-pressed to find any significant errors other than some relatively minor ones which I can count on one hand in total throughout all of your productions. Another idea would be to produce a short video on the backgrounds of all the various hosts and crews. The various shows obviously have exceptionally talented people on them which are a pleasure to listen to. Thank you and everyone else for all their hard work and enthusiasm.
I got giddy at the 5 second clip of a yellow lipped sea krait (the blue and black striped snake in the intro that only had half the screen) bc its my favorite elapid and one I gave a little DNA of to my main fursona for her blue striped tail and venomous fangs (her name is magpie she's a hybird between a savannah cat and an opossum)
Love it, as always! I'm currently reading "Runes of Evolution" by Simon C. Morris and wondering if you took that book as an inspiration for the show? If not it's just another example of convergence ;p.
I was sitting in this river near a friends place and this platypus came up to me and sat almost on my lap as it was extremely hot weather and the water was cool and I’m assuming the platypus was tame or had gotten used to humans and was so glad it was a female as the males, their spurs and aggressive nature, cute but no thank you. Excellent series of videos
Solenodon definitely live in Central and South America still today. There are dozens and dozens of local adaptations that make one Solenodon totally different looking than Solenodon living side by side with each other.
Is it possible Solenodon may have spread to Guatemala? I was hiking around a place called Lago Atitlan at night and saw a roughly 1kg animal clumsily plop onto nearby wire fence and lazily scuttle into the jungle. It had been crawling along a stone wall and I think it fell when we startled it. I concede it could have been an opossum, but not like any I've ever seen. To this day the critter it most resembled, at least from the events I piece together in my mind, is a Solenodon.
This animal is so rare that even in the specimmen in the national zoo it's hard to locate, i mean, i dont know if its just me, but not a single time i have been able to see i in the zoo
No zoo outside their native range tries to keep solenodons these days. There is a captive population in the national zoo of the Dominican Republic but it is not on public display. Zoos in southern Cuba occasionally have housed almiquis (Cuban solenodons) temporarily for scientific studies.
@@eljanrimsa5843 so thats why, they arent on public display, but is weird to me why the guy that told me this said like "there are a few solenodons around, try to spot them"
Yo finally a venomous mammal that isn't a Platypus, like Platypi are cool and all but when it comes to venom in mammals you don't even hear about shrews let alone Solenodons.
Here's a random idea that I've pulled out of thin air: Do most venoms became less potent when stored at warmer temperature? If so then could venom be rare in mammals because they are endotherms? I can't say I've ever heard of a venomous bird either.
There also isn't in English, at least not the way he describes it. Venom means what this video says it does, but the (usual) meaning of poison is broader and includes venoms. The use of the word "poison" to mean "non-venom poison" - is recent - is jargon, not standard English - does not invalidate the older and much more common definition of "poison", which includes venom
@@golddragonette7795 I always imagined he used his flame to help get the channel off the ground in high fashion, but wished for some explainer as to why he stopped hosting.
@@finalmage6 I suspect he's just too busy, he's recently had a book come out too. Bizarre beasts is newer so it maybe you right he, he was only presenting to get it established then on to the next one
Pertaining to the evolution of this mammal via hereditary lineage. What has me curious is why this trait is so strong to be existing today without there being a very close relative to them that doesn't have this trait? The main factor mentioned is that it supposedly made hunting prey easier and yet what I feel is lacking is what gave them difficulty in doing so without the venom.
If I sign up for the pin club do I only get the newly realised pins? If so I'm sure I'm not the only one that would buy them directly from a merch store. Great lil collectable for a great cause!
Venom is a type of poison, they aren't mutually exclusive. I have seen you mislead people about this in several different videos now. I understand that in specialised fields like herpetology some people use a definition of "poison" that excludes venoms, but this is jargon. It's like how the word "power" has a definition in physics and engineering that is much more specific than its usual definition. That doesn't make the usual definition wrong.
Oddly enough what exactly constitutes a venom? Is it more by chance at times than eventual evolutionary tailoring? There could be some chance that there's an animal out there where our own saliva proteins are toxic to them. (With some birds that also happens to be the case with bacteria found in our saliva, even though the compounds in saliva itself aren't proven to be toxic to them.)
Can we have a paper club? Like PBS' Spacetime does? I always want to participate in theirs but I have only a passing interest in astrophysics and a professional interest in zoology. 😮💨
"If it bites you and you die, that's venom. If you bite it and you die, that's poison." someone told me that once and that's how I've remembered it ever since XD
I recall someone responding with "what if I bite it and it dies?" or "what if it bites me and it dies?" Forgot which one.
@@michaelyu2744
Answer one: Then _you're_ venomous. Or you just bit it hard too hard.
Answer two: _You're_ poisonous, or taste really bad.
@@kylestanley7843 and then there's "what if I bite it, and someone else dies?" "that's voodoo."
@Ir liz theres a useful difference, like tree dart frogs being lethal
Or poisonous birds that you can't eat because poison
Or venomous snakes, those can be eaten
What about stingrays?
It's a nurotoxin poison though their behavior - they stab you me I was stabbed
So it stabbed me with nurotoxin poison - immediately painful 😖
Solenodons are also the only mammal with a nose bone. Just one more weird fact in the fact bank for them.
What bone are you referring to? I could have sworn this was covered in anatomy, and there was a domestic animal that had a bone in the rostrum, but can't remember which one.
@@slwrabbits Hmm, I think I'm incorrect with the ONLY qualifier. It seems as though they're the only animal with a nose-bone that is a ball-and-socket. And this bone is only found in the Cuban solenodon, not the Hispaniolan species. Another fun fact you can add to the species (and I LOVE this as I'm a bat biologist) is that they use a basic form of echolocation!
@@meredith4422 That's pretty cool, I never thought of an animal having a joint in its nose.
So do some ancient sloths. Thanks to fact I’m working on cranial anatomy with ancient sloths in my undergraduate research, solenodon has been mentioned a few times due to the presence of that bone in both groups. (Though it is unjointed in sloths)
@@meredith4422 Wow, mega brownie points for having a ball and socket joint, though. That's pretty out there!
Feels like an obscure enough mammal to join Sonic's entourage. We'll call her Selina the Solenodon.
Excellent 😂
don't give them ideas..
They are more closely related to hedgehogs than like, ALL of sonic’s other friends.
Actually, their real-life story of splitting off from hedgehogs in dinosaur times and being nearly driven to extinction on an island sounds a lot like the echidna lore from sonic. If you really want to stretch, you could even try to draw parallels to the master emerald and nuclear warheads.
Original character Donut steel
I like how they have a name that makes them sound prehistoric
And when they go extinct, the name won't be weird anymore.
Fun Fact: The name Solenodon is actually fitting for the little guys as they are pretty old and are prehistoric and are somewhat considered living fossils due to them having around on Earth for a very long time and should have been considered extinct today. Just like Coelacanths are now today.
They fully are prehistoric. Cretaceous, even!
This is how the Solenodon do
I want a crossover episode now 😂😱
Haa.
Zefrank much?👍
Zefrank 😂😂
I want to see some behbehs.
This is how "the solenodon" do! zefrank right dangit! Good comment though I was thinking the same thing 🤣
The only bad thing about this channel is that I have to wait another month for the next episode.
My question: why is that solenodon on a leash? Whose job is it to walk the solenodon?
yours
The solenodon can have some walkies. As a treat.
The walking job belongs to the person with access to the fridge with the anti-venom
The video was taking in either Cuba or the Dominican Republic possibly DR due to it looking it like a Hispaniolan solenodon and not a Cuban but I watched a vid similar to it with a man holding it on a leech like a dog and YES I know a lot about solenodons I LOVE THEM
@@elihinze3161 a solenedon can also have a little salami 🖤
I just found out Water Shrews, an animal I can find in my country are somehow venomous.
If I remember right, it's not really strong enough to anything other than irritate you, but my shrew trivia is rusty
@4one14 that is one well read cat you have there.
@@al145 they can't hurt you much, but they do stun insects and let the shrews store them away!
Great episode! cute little venom shew with crazy nose, I approve. I would also like to see episodes about bizarre beast right under our own noses sort of similar to the original horse video. Don't know about other places, but here in the US there is a bunch of weird animals that we don't think about. For example as a fisherman every time you renew your license you get a book with all the updated regulations(in my state don't know about others) and it also usually has info about lesser known or endangered fish with all the information the DEC has on what to do when you see or catch them. There are a bunch of native fish in the US that until the around the 80'sish we were either letting be killed of or actively harming because they "weren't good for anglers". Then a bunch of scientist were like "this is dumb plus these fish are crazy weird and we want to study them". The only one that comes to mind now is the Paddle Fish but I know there are more. Also I am sure other places in the world have things just like this, where the animals aren't in some remote place but near where we live. We just never pay attention to them until some takes a closer look.
So they had the same raw materials and incentives, and ended up with similar solutions, that is so cool!
What about copyright? Did they sue each other?
So called convergent evolution
The fact they are called Solenodon made me immediately think they were extinct so the video footage confused the heck out of me until I realised this was BB and not Eons, lol.
No but there extremely endangered especially in Cuba due to deforestation and invasive animals pretty sad seeing this animal almost dying of
The -don actually means tooth, is common to use for making names of extinct animals because many times there are only known by their teeth, or just because it sounds cool.
Fun Fact: The name Solenodon is actually fitting for the little guys as they are pretty old and are prehistoric and are somewhat considered living fossils due to them having around on Earth for a very long time and should have been considered extinct today. Just like Coelacanths are now today.
I'm glad PBS Eons sent me here! Always excited to find a new science channel! Hank as a host is a double plus!
I grew up seen these "rare"critters..they started becoming scarce when the indian mongoose and cane toads were introduced to protect sugar cane from beetles and rats...it backfired😟💪💯🇩🇴
When I lived in a camper I had shrews get inside. They are so cute. I got some live traps so I could relocate them.
Thank you, Robin. I’ve been wanting to read for so long. I buy so many books and don’t even touch them. Really appreciate your videos because they hype me up to read. I just need to dive in and read five or ten minutes a day at first. Once books get their hook in me I think it will be a lot easier.
Also very interested in your note taking video-as someone who wants to go into the philosophy and art criticism fields, it’s important and useful for me to take notes.
One of my top favourite Hank channels blesses us with a new beast once again!
Solenodons are one of my favorite obscure animals! So excited to see this episode :)
intuitively that kind of venom should be most useful against birds or bats, since with low blood pressure they are completely crippled but not completely dead. Is it possible that solendons used to hunt certain species of birds of bats, but the preys some time ago evolved in such a way that would make them basically untargetable by solenodons, thus pushing the mammal to change their diet to arthropods and fruit?
It was noted in the paper that a lot of vertebrates in the Caribbean were made extinct around the time of human colonization, in particular smaller species of hutia and spiny rats. That's probably what the solenodon's venom was for.
Also the main predator of Solenodonts in the past were birds such as the giant caracara and the stilt owl.
I was just thinking a collaboration between bizarre beasts and PBS Eons would be a great way to reach out to more people who would be interested in the show! I love both so much
Whoo! I always get so excited when I see Bizzare Beasts upload!
Ok but why do I want to boop its snoot
Because it's a long boi
How does Shrew and Solenodon venom compare to Platypus venom in chemical composition?
Im curious uf theres any crossover in the type of venom used, to see if saliva based compounds are the basis for all mammalian venoms, or if its just what Shrews and Solenodons have adapted to use.
(Im aware that Platypus inject venom through a leg barb and not through biting, but the venom could still have evolved from the same source before being adapted to be used by a different part of the body. Teeth used to be a defensive feature of the skin before our ancestors adapted to store them in the mouth and use them for chewing, so evolution has proven that it will move and reuse body parts as needed.)
this dude is everywhere! For how many channels is he presenting?
Hank set up the company that makes sci show, sci show space, are partnered with PBS for Eons, had videos with his brother etc
Plus at least 4 podcasts that I know of
When he has time to eat or sleep however, is the real mystery!
I have always been fascinated by the Solenodons.
Huh, so that’s what they are. These guys have popped up a few times in my undergraduate research on sloth cranial anatomy. Nice to be able to put a face to the name, as it were.
Not that it's that lovely of a face!
Well this is a delightful channel I've stumbled across! Why do I keep bumping into Hank in unexpected click-holes?
Love your narration, Mr Green. 🙂👍👍
Waiting on a cool turtle to show up in one of these episodes. Turtles in general are such a big question mark in evolutionary theory and would love to see what cool things you could dig up! Maybe the sideneck turtle or the mata mata?
Hank is everywhere!!! Hahaha. I first figured out who he was by my science teacher in high school. Crash Course is legit one of the best learning methods, because it's entertaining and informative!
I didn’t know blue rings were poisonous! That’s...terrifying. And adorable
bright colors are generally a warning pattern, as in stay away from me touch me and you will die or be hurt badly. poison dart frogs are brightly colored and have contact poison on their skin, skunks have a warning pattern and spray noxious oily stink if you disturb them, coral snakes have venom and use both a warning pattern and bright colors. the only other reason for having a bright color is as a sex display and octopuses are not sexually diamorphic.
Yup, every time I see one of those tourist pictures with them (because they're so pretty) I'm like "Put that thing back where you found it or so help me!-" lol 😬
I never thought about how weird it is that venom is a thing. Like how on earth did it evolve? And what was it made from all of the numerous times?
Literally just proteins in saliva, or other protein-rich bodily fluids in other animals, and since genes code for proteins, and genes mutate spontaneously... sometimes those proteins get weirdly useful, and usefully weird.
Also: recall how all milk is just modified, nutrient-rich sweat. Same sorta thing, really.
All living things operate on more or less the same chemical language. In their genes, but also in their proteins and stuff. That means you can sort of "hack" the bodies of other creatures by making the same kinds of chemicals they rely on.
For example, animals normally have blood clotting agents floating around, so they close up their wounds. What happens if you make a LOT of that stuff, and store it in a gland? Anyone who eats you might have a really bad day.
Came from Eons expecting to see Sarah only to be greeted by Hank. Hank is everywhere!!! XD
3:45 i disagree hank, when you are an evolutionary biologist your default hypothesis when you see the same adaptation in several species within a group the first thing that goes to your brain is ✨ convergent 🦕 evolution ✨ not a common ancestor, and especially not if the ancestors was 70 billion years ago
Learned something new. I knew there were a handful of venomous mammals but I thought they had to be closely related. So to learn that venom adaption was independently evolved was new. So cool!
I think it’s interesting that this animal doesn’t have a common name, it’s so obscure that everyone just calls it by the genus name
HANK!!!!! Love the shirt! Where did you get it?
Really interesting video on such an obscure species, also can't wait to see the video of pbs eons next week
This guy is on every channel!
This is so cool!! I also really loved the nice and simple, easily digestible way you described the process of evolution!!
I was also wondering why in some of the video of the Solenodon’s some of them have what looks like ropes around their necks and dragging around a bit?
Sadly in my dear Homeland people have little respect for wildlife😞 even our manatis get harrassed when people encounter them
He's got quite the snootus on him. 😂😂😂
You are so underated! I just found out about your Chanel today.
I dont like the presumption that its specifically either for predation or intra species competative defense. For one thing its a slow acting cenom that works better on mammals than on the typical invertebrates in its diet, that tend to have a low chance of escape anyway. So capture is an unlikely advantage. Intraspecies combat is plausible, but lowering blood pressure is a pretty inefficient way get your opponent to tap out since it takes a while for that competitive advantage to take effect, and rhe longer the fight goes on the greater rhe chance of you getting injured as well.
Now that doesnt mean it couldnt have been repurposed to act as venom in rhese other applications rhat also happen to work in these other situations, but its primary function is likely to aid in digestion, as these types of creatures tend to have high metabolic rates, and consume ablot of food in proportion to body mass.
If the selective pressures continue to specialise mechanisms, then its also plausible that a clear purpose in capturing prey or defense, or both would be faboired and overshadow any other hypothetical original purpose.
Solenodons sound very 'Doctor Who' to me.
Now that you mention it, you're right! Oh, what an awesome arc that would make!
"Solenodon" had me thinking, "why does it sound like a dinosaur"
Oh. Because it's been around since the dinosaurs. Good for them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 👍
Hank - How many shows do you host and produce! I have yet to see any of them that I didn't enjoy. Is there any chance that you could put together a list of shows you produce so that we could send that list off to Guinness for record consideration? Being a nerdy scientist myself, I am hard-pressed to find any significant errors other than some relatively minor ones which I can count on one hand in total throughout all of your productions. Another idea would be to produce a short video on the backgrounds of all the various hosts and crews. The various shows obviously have exceptionally talented people on them which are a pleasure to listen to. Thank you and everyone else for all their hard work and enthusiasm.
Solenodons look like something Jim Henson designed.
That nose! So cute!
I got giddy at the 5 second clip of a yellow lipped sea krait (the blue and black striped snake in the intro that only had half the screen) bc its my favorite elapid and one I gave a little DNA of to my main fursona for her blue striped tail and venomous fangs (her name is magpie she's a hybird between a savannah cat and an opossum)
The best first 10 seconds. Holy crap that was a roller coaster
Love it, as always! I'm currently reading "Runes of Evolution" by Simon C. Morris and wondering if you took that book as an inspiration for the show? If not it's just another example of convergence ;p.
I think that might be the best looking pin yet
Pretty rare is when people think you've gone extinct.
1:18 huh? Wasn't that the setting of Treasure Island?
Hank Green is the Chuck Testa of Science YT. This was promoted on EONS with Sarah Suta... Nope! It’s Hank Green.
2:30 ... biting eachother's feet???? I'm k*nkshaming
I was sitting in this river near a friends place and this platypus came up to me and sat almost on my lap as it was extremely hot weather and the water was cool and I’m assuming the platypus was tame or had gotten used to humans and was so glad it was a female as the males, their spurs and aggressive nature, cute but no thank you. Excellent series of videos
I'm terrified of shrews because they are tiny fast venomous things who can kill snakes alot bigger than them
And how do you know they kill snakes, in this episode it does not say that.
@@zahirmurji nature documentary
Thanks I just saw a clip where a Shrew attacked a snake and started eating it when it was still alive.
@@zahirmurji shrews mean business
This series is soooooo good.
Solenodon definitely live in Central and South America still today. There are dozens and dozens of local adaptations that make one Solenodon totally different looking than Solenodon living side by side with each other.
i noticed your thumbnails says "venomous mammal" but the image is not any of my in-laws. might consider correcting this.
Is it possible Solenodon may have spread to Guatemala? I was hiking around a place called Lago Atitlan at night and saw a roughly 1kg animal clumsily plop onto nearby wire fence and lazily scuttle into the jungle. It had been crawling along a stone wall and I think it fell when we startled it. I concede it could have been an opossum, but not like any I've ever seen. To this day the critter it most resembled, at least from the events I piece together in my mind, is a Solenodon.
why do some of them have strings around their necks?
I would want a pet Solenodon except I couldn't provide it with the food it needs.
Makes you wonder what the particular commonality in shrew like critters makes them develop venom when there are so many similar critters that don't.
Use their DNA, make venomous hare army, be unstoppable
And here I thought the platypus was the only venomous mammal.
These solenodons be spitting venom
Hank Green: BUT!!! There's a twist
Me: 😮
I´m a simple dominican, I see Solenodon, I like
I'm liking this background. Very Pediatric Dentistry.
His wittle mohawk 😩🥺
This animal is so rare that even in the specimmen in the national zoo it's hard to locate, i mean, i dont know if its just me, but not a single time i have been able to see i in the zoo
Shrews are nocturnal animals who run away in the moment there get spotted. At least I´ve never saw in my life apart of pictures and videos.
No zoo outside their native range tries to keep solenodons these days. There is a captive population in the national zoo of the Dominican Republic but it is not on public display. Zoos in southern Cuba occasionally have housed almiquis (Cuban solenodons) temporarily for scientific studies.
@@eljanrimsa5843 so thats why, they arent on public display, but is weird to me why the guy that told me this said like "there are a few solenodons around, try to spot them"
Yo finally a venomous mammal that isn't a Platypus, like Platypi are cool and all but when it comes to venom in mammals you don't even hear about shrews let alone Solenodons.
the solenodon looks like the rodent of unusual size
Was this the inspiration for the Rodents of Unusual Size in The Princess Bride?
Is this the solenoid from my car or am I in the wrong place
Are you not doing variations on each pin anymore? I really enjoyed that game-like part of it. Just too expensive to produce?
The solenodon pin is glow in the dark! The moon glows
Here's a random idea that I've pulled out of thin air: Do most venoms became less potent when stored at warmer temperature? If so then could venom be rare in mammals because they are endotherms? I can't say I've ever heard of a venomous bird either.
Why is there a rope around the neck of the one at the end?
In German there is no difference between poisonous and venomous. We only have one word: giftig.
There also isn't in English, at least not the way he describes it. Venom means what this video says it does, but the (usual) meaning of poison is broader and includes venoms.
The use of the word "poison" to mean "non-venom poison"
- is recent
- is jargon, not standard English
- does not invalidate the older and much more common definition of "poison", which includes venom
@@oliverwilson11 it's a distinction pretentious prople feel the need to constantly make.
I feel 10 times smarter now
I love me some PBS Eons, but what happened to Hank hosting it from time to time? Where did that go 🤨
He probably ran out of time in the day tbf
@@golddragonette7795 I always imagined he used his flame to help get the channel off the ground in high fashion, but wished for some explainer as to why he stopped hosting.
@@finalmage6 I suspect he's just too busy, he's recently had a book come out too. Bizarre beasts is newer so it maybe you right he, he was only presenting to get it established then on to the next one
You should do a video on plum moths.
Pertaining to the evolution of this mammal via hereditary lineage. What has me curious is why this trait is so strong to be existing today without there being a very close relative to them that doesn't have this trait? The main factor mentioned is that it supposedly made hunting prey easier and yet what I feel is lacking is what gave them difficulty in doing so without the venom.
If I sign up for the pin club do I only get the newly realised pins? If so I'm sure I'm not the only one that would buy them directly from a merch store. Great lil collectable for a great cause!
i am loving hank's shirt
Maybe we will see a venomous form of Cyndaquil in the future.
Venom is a type of poison, they aren't mutually exclusive. I have seen you mislead people about this in several different videos now.
I understand that in specialised fields like herpetology some people use a definition of "poison" that excludes venoms, but this is jargon. It's like how the word "power" has a definition in physics and engineering that is much more specific than its usual definition. That doesn't make the usual definition wrong.
Can you do a video on eels and how they migrate and reproduce?
There aren't any venomous birds, so there seems to be some correlation between warm-bloodedness and being nonvenomous
@@meganbruneau2283 snakes are not warm blooded
The Crash Course Guy
Confirmed in my house in Indonesia, i caught 1 solenodon
even if the venom kinda makes sense
the glands being placed inside teeth is a weird thing to get to
Can we use the venom to make a blood pressure medication?
Thank you
Oddly enough what exactly constitutes a venom? Is it more by chance at times than eventual evolutionary tailoring? There could be some chance that there's an animal out there where our own saliva proteins are toxic to them. (With some birds that also happens to be the case with bacteria found in our saliva, even though the compounds in saliva itself aren't proven to be toxic to them.)
Can we have a paper club? Like PBS' Spacetime does? I always want to participate in theirs but I have only a passing interest in astrophysics and a professional interest in zoology. 😮💨
I wonder what effect it would have on a human
Human would die from the infection on the bite site.
Bizarre Beasts/PBS Eons crossover episode! Need a Vlogbrothers/PBS Eons next.