Fun animal fact: A Flamingo's head has to be upside down when it eats, they are known for standing in shallow water on one leg, but most people are unaware that due to the way in which they have developed a Flamingo has to use the bristles at the top of its beak to filter out the mud and water that gets sucked in along with its actual food. It therefore has to eat with its heat upside down as otherwise it would be unable to filter its food properly.
Learning the relation between hippos and whales is a logical rollercoaster. First you think, duh, of course the closest relative to a fully aquatic mammal is a semiaquatic one. But then you learn hippos don't and can't swim. Which then gets counteracted by the bone density of both animals (minus the legs) and it all makes sense again.
This is one of the why the evolutionary history between cetaceans and hippos are one of my favorites to learn about lol. Hippos not being able to technically swim but still having scarily good water mobility is something I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get over lmao
Because humans can't seem to comprehend distance, I remember when I was kid there was a book that tried to explain that a blue whale was bigger than 30 elephants with a picture of a train of elephants on a whale's back. Knowing that elephants can go out to sea, your comment just made me think of an elephant riding a whale 😂
I used to watch wild america and Nature on pbs, great shows but theres not much in the way of that level of quality anymore. Its a shame that educational channels are just scripted reality tv now. But when my sister wants to know why i dont like dolphins, i point her here, because its easier to let someone else explain their depraved and sadistic war crimes.
This is so funny. Correct animal facts mixed up with good humour. If only teachers could make their classes more interesting this way … This young man is destined to do great things. I’m actually glad I found this channel. A good laugh can make a difficult day look less gloomy.
The elephant that survived the ship sinking was named Shirley. She just died, at age 72, about a year ago at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. It may sound weird but she has an amazing story. I think one of your videos would do a great justice to her life, I know I'd watch it.
I think it would be wonderful if he talked about some animal rescue groups like the elephant one you talked about, the few different ones for fruit bats in Australia, ect. Get the word out about maybe some views for their RUclips channels
@@angelaholsapple8830 I agree completely, there are a lot of people doing really good things all over the world. It would be nice to see them get more attention.
Didn't know that hippos actually got very little fat and it's mostly just cushion for 30 square acres of muscle underneath. They're like nature's version of Kingpin from Daredevil. But then that explains why they move around way better on land than they have any right to.
Swimming alongside your horse, NOT ON TOP OF is actually a great way to bond with your animal. Horses love swimming, my 21 year old mare could probably outswim my lab
I recently saw a guy bathing 3 horses out in the sea & those critters looked like they were having the time of their lives out there. It was really surprising to see.
I was not prepared to learn hippopotamuses, of all creatures, have such low fat levels. Also, never expected a camel's hump to have an extra purpose. Speaking of, I suspect that instance you mentioned of the shark running into the camel is the story of the founders of Team Aqua and Team Magma (Maxie and Archie are secretly just figureheads).
I could listen to this young man all day an damn near remember everything he said about each animal. The facts are so unique an verifiably true an his delivery is on point.
i learned about mammalian diving reflex in therapy - my therapist taught me to put an ice pack across my forehead/eyes/cheekbones and put my head between my knees to basically pull the plug on building anxiety attacks. because it forces your heart rate and breathing to slow and concentrates blood flow to your brain, it takes away the main physical sensations associated with panic and forces you to think clearly and unemotionally for about thirty seconds. its a good survival mechanism if you fall into ice cold water and you have about thirty seconds to get yourself out before you drown or die of shock. but it also gives you a window of clear thinking time to remove whatever triggered the panic attack and form a de-escalation plan to talk yourself down. best thing i ever learned in therapy.
Go check out wim hof breathing exercises. You know, the guy who basically won all the endurance records like running a marathon in the Sahara desert and climbing Mount Everest in his shorts at 60 years old
I imagine the hippo is the reason why African rhinos don’t tend to swim too well. Glad the video went into hippos, I was wondering if it would come up!
Isn’t it because they contain very little fat? I heard they contain so little fat that rhino milk is the most watery milk in nature, with a fat content of just 0.5%
@@alligatorwithinternetacess3972 normally yes Not in water Because they just cant fight in water properly and can get flipped over Also fyi hippos tend to exist in groups
This guy is the perfect mix of comedy and interesting information. Literally puts modern Animal Geographic and all other shows like that out rn to shame
It's kinda ironic that things like giraffes and apes can't swim too well, but kangaroos literally alter the way their legs work to swim properly. Basically they can't move their back legs independently of each other on land, but this changes whenever they're in the water. And they're really damn good at swimming too.
I’m really happy he talked about what the “mammalian diving reflex” is. I watched a vid on another channel about preserved mammoths with pooling in the brain that they said likely died as a result of that reflex kicking in. I had no idea what it was at the time.
Here's my hippo story. I went on a safari once, and the first stop was Burundi. On the first day we met the ex-ambassador of Venezuela who and had moved there. He offed to take us out on lake Tanganyika in a small boat. At one point he took us over to see the hippos near the shore. We were a bit farther out in the lake. After sitting for a few minutes we heard a splash. The guy immediately jumped over to the outboard and desperately started trying to start the engine. Finally after about 10 seconds it stared. Just after we moved a hippo surfaced right behind us where the boat had been...... Safety tip, when boating near hippos, keep the engine running...... better yet don't go boating near hippos.
Surprised you didn't mentioned Hedgehogs considering the jokes about Sonic not being able to swim. Hedgehogs are actually really good swimmers too and often times do it just for fun
I literally watch your channel for hours. My son is nonverbal and lovess animals. One day whenever he’s ready to talk we’re gonna have so much animal facts to share with each other.
Thats great! Animals are such a facinating topic and many share a hyperfixation on them. IT IS Always nice when Patents Invest in their Kids interests and make Sure they are Seen!
I'd love for you to cover Pygmy hippos, basically looked at all the disrespect common hippos show and took it a step further by not being a hippo and spending a majority of their time out of water...in the rainforest. A hippo that disrespects being a hippo
Just wanted you to know, yeah cold showers are a bit far, but in my mental health treatment they taught me that in extreme circumstances if I’m having an emotional crisis, I can trigger my dive reflex by splashing cold water on myself in order to provide my body with something immediate to focus on so I can escape my toxic thoughts. It really works, if you allow it to. It helped me so many times when I wanted to die
I take cold showers for health/skin reasons and prefer them to warm showers. Trust me, warm showers plus eczema is hell. Not to mention it makes getting out of the shower easier since my body's already used to the cold.
That's interesting. Would you actually take cold showers or would you just splash yourself with cold water, though? How long did the positive effects from doing this last?
2:26 - I actually tried this with a bit of garden hose at a pool I worked at and I can confirm. I was amazed at how quickly the air was actually pushed (felt like sucked) out of my lungs as opposed to be being able to breathe through it.
@@MrBarsanett bro, if I felt like the water was being sucked out of my lungs at around 3 feet, I don't want to imagine 30 ft. Actually wonder what kind of damage that could do, having the air pushed out of a body that fast due to pressure... feel free to try and update us on results! :-p
@@davidyoung3792 sounds like it's possible with dedication and training... but there's a hard line that most people wouldn't be able to cross... I'm actually terrified of drowning though. So maybe I'm biased.
Story from New Zealand. One of my great uncles was catching a lift in a fishing boat to Stewart island from Bluff, in the South island. About halfway across, they saw something in the water ahead. Get closer, and they found Red deer, a stag and hinds, past halfway and going strong. Easy dinner. (For those who would complain about this, deer are an introduced species and quite destructive to the native ecology)
Mammalian Diving Reflex factoid: In 1984 Chicago, a small-statured 10 yr old boy (Jimmy Tontlewicz) fell thru Lake Michigan ice in January. He was in water under the ice a little over twenty minutes and his body temp had fallen to about 80°F. The CFD Water Rescue Team managed to locate and pull his body from the water... the kid spent something like ten days in the ICU, and then went thru almost a year of rehab, but ultimately he managed to make a full recovery. It was huge news back then. He only survived because of our mammalian dive reflex.
You and ZeFrank present facts in such a funny way I'm never quite sure if you're being honest or not... even though every time I google it you both are lol
Check out WATOP as well, that channel is also dope when it comes to educational shit. This dude, ZeFrank and WATOP are quite potentially the best 👌 AnimalLogic too
@@slippyquack7672 TierZoo's also got a unique thing goin' for him; using gaming to demonstrate biology. In fact, he and CasualGeographic have collabed on TikTok a few times.
Honestly I admire hippos for being so good at what they are. They run faster than Bolt, they can live underwater, they can pick fights with anything in Africa and come out ok, they have successfully played the system and become a dominant force in it. But mostly I respect them for being one of the animals that can successfully stand up to humans. They have been picking fights with humanity for thousands of years and still managed to not get extinct, unlike a lot of other large mammals
@@steelbear2063 you think we didn't kill them because they never mess with us? The fact that hippos have a historic record of killing people and are still around shows that it's just not worth the effort.
Yeah, a fun fact about babies is that reflex you’re taking about can save their life. For some reason only babies can do this, but if one finds itself in a lake, the heart rate can dramatically slow down in order to save the brain and whatnot. I think we lose the ability at about 6 months old.
We only lose this ability if we stop practicing it + a good (or old) genetic combination. Some tribes in the north (Siberia, Canada) who survive primarily on fishing still have this reflex even into adulthood.
How is this sponsored by no one? I can't pass you in the qué without watching whatever gems of natural knowledge you have that day because not only are you the wittiest narrator on RUclips but you're great with kids. You make us laugh and that's no small thing. Also, felony ferrets...I'll never get over that one. Thanks man.
I loved everything about how you described the hippos. And yeah, know that they run through the water fast enough to catch boats is terrifying... They got so much gains they are too heavy to move on land, so they got even more gains to be strong enough to run through water like it didn't exist...
This Channel here is entertaining af, but dont stop here. So many others on youtube entertain with crazyness. Most of all Science-Channel and Atheist-Channel, like Sci Man Dan, Logicked, Joe Scott, Oversimplified, but also 'harder Science like Professor Dave doesnt need you to have a Giga-Big-Brain to enjjoy.
Too heavy to move on land? I certainly wouldn't say that since they can move faster than Usain Bolt by running up to 30 mph (Bolt's top speed was 27.33 mph).
@@dragonborn3198 I genuinly wanna hear the opinion of Science-Fans on Some More News newest videos. He does such great Research and calls out the Flaws of Goverment and History so well, i really want more Peoples opinions, especially Science-Enthusiasts though.
Size isn't a problem for swimming, in fact, it's the opposite, like, heard of blue whales? It surprises me because their legs are mainly roundish and they don't have that much range of motion, how to they propel themselves? Can you imagine an elephant doing the american/front crawl?
@@mechtheist Haha, yeah. Quite interesting to imagine. The main factor is, of course, buoyancy. As long as there is a sufficient amount of air trapped among one's interior cavities, size is no longer very relevant. Consider massive cargo ships and/or aircraft carriers and their incredibly large/heavy steel structures whereupon floating doesn't seem the least bit feasible. So long as you've got buoyancy and can produce any sort of paddling motion, swimming/propelling shouldn't be much of an issue at all.
It was an attraction in Florida called Silver Springs that brought in those monkeys. They filmed some Tarzan episodes there. It was in business for something like 70 years.
Learning things I wasn't taught in school 30+ years ago. Love the content and it's always making me grin and laugh purely by the way you present it. Humorous and educational at the same time. My 13 year old daughter loves your videos also.
Kid! You got a bright future! I’ve encouraged my kids to watch you because in this day and age there’s just not enough of your kind. Keep on teaching. You are great at it, and the world needs more people dedicated to increasing knowledge while making it fun!
Dude your the new age bill bye the science guy your a really natural teacher where I’m learning without trying, keep up the good work your probably the most engaging teacher I’ve ever seen
Love your show,or whatever it is. Question has none ever tried to see if rhinos acted differently when given eye corrective anything. Glasses lasic, idk just didn't change any of their activity or reactivity?! I'll get your book,btw!
That's actually a genius idea however it will be damn near impossible to pull off because it's hard to ask a rhino if it can see better with lense 1 or 2 let alone put it on it.
Yeah, I don't know if a rhino's poor eyesight is something that can be corrected with glasses or surgery. Would almost have to give them completely different eyes and... that's a nightmarish thought.
I think the ones that live in zoos eventually catch on to their being in no danger and end up surprisingly chill. Though, yeah, it'd be interesting to find out what they make of having accurate sight.
Very nice video! I do have one caveat to the hippos-can’t-swim-thing: that only applies to freshwater. I’ve heard from several reputable people that hippos can swim in saltwater, where they are more buoyant. This also helps explain how hippos island hopped to Madagascar MULTIPLE TIMES.
Hippos are probably only more buoyant in saltwater due to the fact that saltwater is naturally more dense than freshwater. The denser water is, the easier it is for animals and objects to float in it. You will have a much easier time floating in the ocean compared to the lake.
This is one of my favorites now; it's particularly interesting (yay swimming!) not gory or featuring creatures I'm phobic about (ty for when you give spider warnings btw!). I've always been an animal facts nerd, but I've forgotten a lot and sometimes we realise new info that it's difficult to keep up with when long outta school, not in a relevant career and not knowing any other such nerds, so I really appreciate your videos.
Knowledge is making animals I've seen all my life look more and more alien. It's incredible and I love this planet we live on. Thank you so much for helping us see the world in ways we never did before
My friend I'm 61, mom was a teacher. That was a huge thing when I was coming up. You have a skill, you are a natural teacher. If you enjoy that pursue it to enjoy something your good at is an gift. Ty
Being able to fly for free just wasnt enough, lol. I was shocked to learn that about bats and was shocked the first time I saw how well sloths swim. Love all the one liners - new subscriber
Their wings are made of membrane stretched between their fingers, so I'm pretty sure it's only as absorbent to water as your own skin is. They're quite good swimmers, actually, since they're essentially just flying in a thicker medium. The biggest obstacle is actually getting airborne again: bats can't stand upright the way humans do (their feet are facing "backwards" compared to ours) and thus can't take off from the ground, so they have to climb up a certain distance to be able to be able to have enough height to get back into the air.
@@eliburry-schnepp6012 I was mostly thinking of flying foxes of Australia and southeast Asia in my original comment. Thanks for that! Learn something new everyday. And, yep, they're quite good climbers! Unfortunately, flying foxes do sometimes get stuck in lightwells and glass-walled balconies, where they can't get purchase to climb high enough to escape.
So interestingly enough, the mammalian diving reflex works on an even deeper level than many other autonomic functions. As someone with autonomic disfunction it can help stabilize my vitals much better than anything else.
FINALLY!!! Someone else mentioned the freaking Florida Monkeys!!! I was having to lead a bunch of Juvy kids on one of our canoe trips down the Silver River, and one of those thieving monkeys made off with my backpack that was full of the munchies that were SUPPOSED to hold me over for a weekend away from any store. But whenever I tell people about this they all like "Monkey's in Florida, you crazy bro!"
Fun fact: we almost got hippos in Florida. Well, almost throughout the whole southern United States. During the early 20th century, there was a meat shortage and economic crisis that Congress considered solving with hippopotamus ranching. They expected the hippos would not only provide a new source of meat, but also gobble up invasive water hyacinths clogging major waterways. I’m fairly sure they’d escape and establish a healthy breeding population, and be pretty hard to get rid of, especially with the firearms at the time. Also, remember that incident with the kid being killed by an alligator at Disney World? I’m certain that had hippos come to America, Disney would have multiple instances of children getting just eaten by a hippo. Plus, imagine the property damage they could cause. No wooden fence is stopping them.
So what I'm hearing is that half of what makes florida man, florida man, is the fact the land itself is just nuts. As a result they go crazy too but as to adapt to the land instead of as an undiagnosed coping mechanism.
Jumping off the bottom of the pool is one of the things I teach to new swimmers. If you fall in fully clothed, it's way easier to just hop your way to an edge.
@@Strype13 buoyancy is if you displace more water mass than your own weight. Hippos are pretty much neutral in this case, they're only slightly heavier than an equal volume of water.
One thing I'll say, although babies can hold their breath when going in water they're not the great at swimming and can drown, so don't be afraid of your baby going under the water but make sure you get them back on the surface for air. I remember back in science I was told babies can swim but after watching science documentaries I found out in adulthood that most things in school just weren't true, but yeah, baby can go under water but baby don't really know how to get back up.
Water Babies swimming schools teach children 3 and under to swim. One of my nieces took the class right after they started, before we moved to a much more rural area. She became a lifeguard, AND taught all her younger relatives to swim. Can they swim automatically, just because they're in water? Doubtful. Can they learn incredibly easily? Yes; I saw it.
@@MelissaThompson432 I appreciate the comment but I wasn't saying they can't learn from a young age just they can't swim automatically just that they can hold their breath, your comment is kind of pointless. If people expect their baby to swim it's really dangerous, teaching is perfectly fine and was not what I was saying, sorry if you got confused I'll try to be clearer next time.
Infants have many inborn reflexes that make swimming and learning how to swim properly much easier. They can also learn the moves, but they don't have the strength to utilize them. They also can't consciously hold their breath or put their head above the water, which can pose a risk of drowning if they aren't supervised by an adult.
@@pirig-gal Yeah, I know. My comment is short but it does explain that they're not great at swimming and can drown, I already know this. Didn't say they can't just they're not great at it. And as soon as the water hits their face they immediately hold their breath, it's a reflex they have but they also can't hold their breath for long as they are babies.
Funny thing about hippos (for me, at least): they're called "Nile horse" in Serbian and German, and "water horse" in Hungarian. That's all the languages I speak, but I love the connection.
Sweetheart, you are SO cool! Watching your videos really did het me tbrough Lockdown! I love animals, but watchingbinfo on them from YOU, is just So much more fun than any other animal shows or videos! I hope 🙏that you get BIG! You are someone incredibly brilliant AND FUN to watch and listen to. My hubby has even gotten into watching your videos! We both love watching your videos - and, when I get down, which is a problem I've had since I was a child (unfortunately), watching your videos makes me happy! THANK YOU, SINCERELY AND FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! 🙏💖😊
Camels have for some reason always been one of my favourite animals without any particular reason and every time this man talks about them I have another good reason to like them.
This is one of your best long form videos! I learned so much and there was a cohesive theme throughout the entire video, with an excellent ending. The visuals were on point. I am 37 and I love the natural world and I was still learning so much and slack jawed at some of those pictures. The hippo muscles?!? Rip. Your work is getting better and better.
2:09 OMG bro… thank you for explaining why I used to get the “shock” from cold showers in the winter. I used to find the cold water would instantly make me feel like I couldn’t breathe and pretty much forced me to take a huge breath and hold it in. The water was so cold that I couldn’t regulate my breathing. Man those were rough days. And no I wasn’t doing it for fun, all we had back then was an extension chord running from someone else’s apartment to power our fridge and microwave. Never taking another cold shower in my life if I can avoid it.
I believe Manatees and Dugongs also have relatively dense bones, as did the semi-aquatic ancestors of whales. Having more dense bones to achieve more neutral buoyancy is a pretty common adaptation for terrestrial animals that have evolved into an aquatic or semi-aquatic niche. It makes it easier to stay at whatever depth they want in the water without having to spend energy to stay there.
By far you are the greatest RUclips channel that I follow and I love your content because it’s quick into the point. If I had a high school teacher like you I would’ve graduated easily within two years. Straight to the point kind, charismatic, And a real great content creator. I love this effing channel. Keep up the great work!
I am legit looking your book up right now. I have probably never had this much fun learning about animals, even if your book is about something else other than animals, it has got to be interesting. Keep it up, man. You are amazing! 👌🏻
I've watched a lot of people over the years talking about animals none of them kept my attention and interests in animals like Steve keep up the good work
My friends: It's impossible to make teaching entertaining. Casual Geographic: YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME MORTAL? All jokes aside though, this channel is one of the best I've ever seen in it's field. Awesome facts combined with an awesome sense of humour makes this channel really stand out to me. I will definitely stick around for a while.
The diving reflex reminds me of when I scared my dad half to death by falling in the pool when I was around 2 years old. I just disappeared in the second everyone had their backs to me and he ran over to the pool to just find me staring up at him from under the water holding my breath and I was totally fine.
Moral of the video: the relative of a whale can’t swim but the heaviest land animal and a creature from the place known for no water can for hours across shark territory. Though only one of them is probably safe
Well, if you want to take distant relatives into account, then it makes sense why elephants would be able to swim. While hippos are close relatives of whales, elephants are close relatives of sirenians, a clade that includes dugongs and manatees. Both of them are perfectly adapted to life underwater, but being herbivorous, they aren’t very fast. Besides, the fossil record indicates that the trunk did evolve like a snorkel in probosocideans, only being used for different purposes later on.
this guy honestly needs his own tv show. Like imagine on adult swim you have your daily animal facts and comedy show. he can keep the tiny microphone edit:why did this get so many likes?
Congrats on the book! That’s amazing! This video holds the record of your content that I stopped and re-played, due to the density of details. Which is basically brain candy so THANKS!! 😀 Caught the rhyme on irrelevant and 🐘- I’m not sure if intentional but 😁 You are really good at science communication and I always look forward to new work. Fantastic job on this one.
If anyone ever wants to try the plus-size snorkel thing I recommend getting a hollow pool noodle, going a few feet under water, and trying to use it as a snorkel. It still works at like 4 feet deep but you can seriously feel the difference.
You are MOST DEFINITELY the greatest Content creators of trivial animal content that I've ever seen.... yo seriously fam...your content is one of the best in this space! Top shelf delivery....and you got jokes!! Keep doing what you do. I'm copping that book for sure!
Like last week or something me and my dad were fishing and it was pretty dark and when my dad casted his line it plopped into the lake but then started to reel in really fast. I told my dad to slow down and not scare the fish and he said that he wasnt even reeling in his line. We got closer to the mysterious thing bobbing towards land and it crawled out on land while looking like an alien it was really dark so we shined the light at it for closer inspection and it was a bat. SO yes bats can swim pretty fast.
@@Recoome_Kick This Channel here is entertaining af, but dont stop here. So many others on youtube entertain with crazyness. Most of all Science-Channel and Atheist-Channel, like Sci Man Dan, Logicked, Joe Scott, Oversimplified, but also 'harder Science like Professor Dave doesnt need you to have a Giga-Big-Brain to enjjoy.
1:50 I enjoy the cold showers. Feels much better than a warm shower, very relaxing, it's great for the nervous system and recovering from workouts, and it's much better for my skin. I don't do anything to impress anybody ever.
Man. I feel like I've learned so much about animals watching these videos. I even have some funny names for some animals thanks to you. So thanks for making learning fun. I know a lot of people say it, but I think it's always worth saying that your content is awesome.
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Fun animal fact: A Flamingo's head has to be upside down when it eats, they are known for standing in shallow water on one leg, but most people are unaware that due to the way in which they have developed a Flamingo has to use the bristles at the top of its beak to filter out the mud and water that gets sucked in along with its actual food. It therefore has to eat with its heat upside down as otherwise it would be unable to filter its food properly.
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@@Forgotten_home they're bots, RUclips has a massive scam bot problem.
That is a fun animal fact.
@Don't read profile photo bet
@Don't read profile photo I can’t read.
Learning the relation between hippos and whales is a logical rollercoaster.
First you think, duh, of course the closest relative to a fully aquatic mammal is a semiaquatic one.
But then you learn hippos don't and can't swim.
Which then gets counteracted by the bone density of both animals (minus the legs) and it all makes sense again.
This is one of the why the evolutionary history between cetaceans and hippos are one of my favorites to learn about lol. Hippos not being able to technically swim but still having scarily good water mobility is something I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get over lmao
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Finally its here
Whales still have remnants of their leg and arm bones I think
@@gingerfuu9174 their front fins are their hands and fingers. Not sure about legs
My friend, do I have news for you about Manatees
I Imagine that at least one swimming elephant came across a whale and was surprised that there was an animal bigger than he was
I wonder if it was more curious or scared in that instance.
Depending on the whale, probably scared.
Or, that one elephant was mercilessly annihilated by a pod of orcas.
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Because humans can't seem to comprehend distance, I remember when I was kid there was a book that tried to explain that a blue whale was bigger than 30 elephants with a picture of a train of elephants on a whale's back. Knowing that elephants can go out to sea, your comment just made me think of an elephant riding a whale 😂
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“The list of mammals that can’t swim”
Bro put himself up there 💀
@ツ nahh what😮 that’s crazy
god damn cuh
THat's because human adults aren't natural swimmers, it's something that we have to learn culturally.
im glad someone else noticed this haha
@BigMan69 Holy shit im dying🤣
I know this sounds corny, but you genuinely make learning fun. You'd make a great teacher if you wanted to follow that path.
He's already teaching me...and you
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I used to watch wild america and Nature on pbs, great shows but theres not much in the way of that level of quality anymore. Its a shame that educational channels are just scripted reality tv now. But when my sister wants to know why i dont like dolphins, i point her here, because its easier to let someone else explain their depraved and sadistic war crimes.
Thank you!!
well ,tbh, learing can always be fun if the teachers are good enough
This is so funny. Correct animal facts mixed up with good humour. If only teachers could make their classes more interesting this way … This young man is destined to do great things. I’m actually glad I found this channel. A good laugh can make a difficult day look less gloomy.
Here's a normal comment so it isn't just bots responding to you.
Another similar type of deal is tierzoo, who "gameifies" biology to teach it. But yeah, hood nature is great
He's more of chaotic neutral. My favourite
this man is a born biology teacher
My day wasn't like that
The elephant that survived the ship sinking was named Shirley. She just died, at age 72, about a year ago at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. It may sound weird but she has an amazing story. I think one of your videos would do a great justice to her life, I know I'd watch it.
She died! OMG I have not watched there RUclips in a while and didn't know thank you for this comment!
I think it would be wonderful if he talked about some animal rescue groups like the elephant one you talked about, the few different ones for fruit bats in Australia, ect. Get the word out about maybe some views for their RUclips channels
@@angelaholsapple8830 I agree completely, there are a lot of people doing really good things all over the world. It would be nice to see them get more attention.
RIP Shirley
The stories she could of told
Camels out in oceans, or seas, is nuts. I can't imagine seeing that.
Mofos go from the dryest place to the wettest place without even caring.
@Morgan Null more like desert moose
I imagine dolfins not cammels 🤣🤣
Fat floats and they have a whole hump
@@Flesh_Wizard I'm aware of that. It still would be a shock.
Didn't know that hippos actually got very little fat and it's mostly just cushion for 30 square acres of muscle underneath. They're like nature's version of Kingpin from Daredevil. But then that explains why they move around way better on land than they have any right to.
Yea I agree 👍
Hippos are sadistically stupid fast for No Reason,a 🦏 rhino can barely keep with it on land,let alone water
They may not have any right to... but nobody is taking them up on it...
@@andersjjensen The muscles say they can..... I'm not arguing against them. Are, You?
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@@andersjjensen Oh, some have tried to argue with them over it. And they are never seen alive again.
Swimming alongside your horse, NOT ON TOP OF is actually a great way to bond with your animal.
Horses love swimming, my 21 year old mare could probably outswim my lab
Sounds fun.
I just had to emphasize not being on top of them cause then you both could sink and possibly drown lmao I didn't think it'd get noticed°-°
I recently saw a guy bathing 3 horses out in the sea & those critters looked like they were having the time of their lives out there. It was really surprising to see.
Interesting to know. Horses and me are more similar than I thought.
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I was not prepared to learn hippopotamuses, of all creatures, have such low fat levels. Also, never expected a camel's hump to have an extra purpose. Speaking of, I suspect that instance you mentioned of the shark running into the camel is the story of the founders of Team Aqua and Team Magma (Maxie and Archie are secretly just figureheads).
That... makes some sense after watching this video. Very odd sense but still.
You know what else reminds me when I know about hippos? Sumo wrestlers. They're also not fat but they're absolute tanking units, exactly like hippos.
@@MollyHJohns except they are actually fat
@@MollyHJohns Indeed! So many people forget (or don't know) tha the lads are walking slabs of muscle.
Honestly terrifying lmao.
When it’s Casual Geographic, you’re bound to learn more about the African Homicide Horse
I could listen to this young man all day an damn near remember everything he said about each animal. The facts are so unique an verifiably true an his delivery is on point.
i learned about mammalian diving reflex in therapy - my therapist taught me to put an ice pack across my forehead/eyes/cheekbones and put my head between my knees to basically pull the plug on building anxiety attacks. because it forces your heart rate and breathing to slow and concentrates blood flow to your brain, it takes away the main physical sensations associated with panic and forces you to think clearly and unemotionally for about thirty seconds. its a good survival mechanism if you fall into ice cold water and you have about thirty seconds to get yourself out before you drown or die of shock. but it also gives you a window of clear thinking time to remove whatever triggered the panic attack and form a de-escalation plan to talk yourself down. best thing i ever learned in therapy.
That's really interesting. Thanks. I'm about to go look it up now.
@@ohno8569 Does it work?
@@sunnypeach1328 Obviously 🤦♂️. It's a reflex, it's not something you can learn or unlearn. If you meet the requirements, it'll trigger.
This was massively helpful actually so thanks
Go check out wim hof breathing exercises. You know, the guy who basically won all the endurance records like running a marathon in the Sahara desert and climbing Mount Everest in his shorts at 60 years old
I just love how his vids comfort me and make me even more afraid of every single ocean animal
And bird.
Guess there's a reason why the ocean and its creatures were such a great inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft and his works. The ocean is trully ruthless.
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I imagine the hippo is the reason why African rhinos don’t tend to swim too well.
Glad the video went into hippos, I was wondering if it would come up!
Isn’t it because they contain very little fat? I heard they contain so little fat that rhino milk is the most watery milk in nature, with a fat content of just 0.5%
Nah man, a white rhino would clap a hippo
@Depp. What Is Here?
@Don't read profile photo don't
@@alligatorwithinternetacess3972 normally yes
Not in water
Because they just cant fight in water properly and can get flipped over
Also fyi hippos tend to exist in groups
I would've been a straight A student if all information could've been taught to me like this. The content is easy to digest for long periods of time
This guy is the perfect mix of comedy and interesting information. Literally puts modern Animal Geographic and all other shows like that out rn to shame
1015?
Ikr
It's kinda ironic that things like giraffes and apes can't swim too well, but kangaroos literally alter the way their legs work to swim properly. Basically they can't move their back legs independently of each other on land, but this changes whenever they're in the water. And they're really damn good at swimming too.
I didn't even know that humans can't naturally swim
If you don't know humans are apes
But how?
@@MrsChocolock brain thingy, I think
@@pirig-gal Like us automatically able to hold breath longer if in water.
@@KimberleyB "automatically"
I’m really happy he talked about what the “mammalian diving reflex” is. I watched a vid on another channel about preserved mammoths with pooling in the brain that they said likely died as a result of that reflex kicking in. I had no idea what it was at the time.
Here's my hippo story. I went on a safari once, and the first stop was Burundi. On the first day we met the ex-ambassador of Venezuela who and had moved there. He offed to take us out on lake Tanganyika in a small boat. At one point he took us over to see the hippos near the shore. We were a bit farther out in the lake. After sitting for a few minutes we heard a splash. The guy immediately jumped over to the outboard and desperately started trying to start the engine. Finally after about 10 seconds it stared. Just after we moved a hippo surfaced right behind us where the boat had been...... Safety tip, when boating near hippos, keep the engine running...... better yet don't go boating near hippos.
@driedmangos8433 It seemed like a good idea at the time.
@@zemlidrakona2915, the way all great stories begin.
Cant hippos just chill a little they look so cute but are so dangerous
@@Xx_SuperPenis_xX they can't chill. Being chill is what gets you put on everyone's grocery list
@@r.j.penfold same with gazel, you don't see them attack anything that breaths in there direction
Surprised you didn't mentioned Hedgehogs considering the jokes about Sonic not being able to swim.
Hedgehogs are actually really good swimmers too and often times do it just for fun
Sorry your only replies are bots, well, there's me too now but, still.
Yes
@Don't read profile photo You Tryin' to Hide yo'Self,Eh,Monk'e?
@Don't read profile photo are ya haven a chuckle m8, that’s funny but I’m the one with the degree (note, I don’t have a degree)
I forgot that was even the case. Also nice TFP Megatron pfp goated show
I literally watch your channel for hours. My son is nonverbal and lovess animals. One day whenever he’s ready to talk we’re gonna have so much animal facts to share with each other.
Would learning sign language help?
Thats great! Animals are such a facinating topic and many share a hyperfixation on them.
IT IS Always nice when Patents Invest in their Kids interests and make Sure they are Seen!
I'd love for you to cover Pygmy hippos, basically looked at all the disrespect common hippos show and took it a step further by not being a hippo and spending a majority of their time out of water...in the rainforest. A hippo that disrespects being a hippo
Thats exactly the kinda content I want from this channel
Just wanted you to know, yeah cold showers are a bit far, but in my mental health treatment they taught me that in extreme circumstances if I’m having an emotional crisis, I can trigger my dive reflex by splashing cold water on myself in order to provide my body with something immediate to focus on so I can escape my toxic thoughts. It really works, if you allow it to. It helped me so many times when I wanted to die
I take cold showers for health/skin reasons and prefer them to warm showers. Trust me, warm showers plus eczema is hell. Not to mention it makes getting out of the shower easier since my body's already used to the cold.
@@xanious3759
As someone who also has eczema, you are a stronger person than I because ain't no way I'm taking cold showers lmao
That's interesting. Would you actually take cold showers or would you just splash yourself with cold water, though? How long did the positive effects from doing this last?
This is the most amusingly factual slander that I've heard. Keep up the good work!
Yea it's pretty great 👍
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2:26 - I actually tried this with a bit of garden hose at a pool I worked at and I can confirm. I was amazed at how quickly the air was actually pushed (felt like sucked) out of my lungs as opposed to be being able to breathe through it.
u got a 30foot deep pool?
@@NippyNep I didn't make it down to 3 feet that way.
The pool needs to also be 30ft, to stimulate the water pressure at that depth 🤣
@@MrBarsanett bro, if I felt like the water was being sucked out of my lungs at around 3 feet, I don't want to imagine 30 ft. Actually wonder what kind of damage that could do, having the air pushed out of a body that fast due to pressure... feel free to try and update us on results! :-p
@@davidyoung3792 sounds like it's possible with dedication and training... but there's a hard line that most people wouldn't be able to cross... I'm actually terrified of drowning though. So maybe I'm biased.
Story from New Zealand.
One of my great uncles was catching a lift in a fishing boat to Stewart island from Bluff, in the South island.
About halfway across, they saw something in the water ahead. Get closer, and they found Red deer, a stag and hinds, past halfway and going strong.
Easy dinner. (For those who would complain about this, deer are an introduced species and quite destructive to the native ecology)
I guess that’s one of the reason why so many mammals can become invasive. Can’t even put them on a damn island smh 🤦♂️
Easy dinner indeed.
Mammalian Diving Reflex factoid: In 1984 Chicago, a small-statured 10 yr old boy (Jimmy Tontlewicz) fell thru Lake Michigan ice in January. He was in water under the ice a little over twenty minutes and his body temp had fallen to about 80°F. The CFD Water Rescue Team managed to locate and pull his body from the water... the kid spent something like ten days in the ICU, and then went thru almost a year of rehab, but ultimately he managed to make a full recovery. It was huge news back then. He only survived because of our mammalian dive reflex.
You and ZeFrank present facts in such a funny way I'm never quite sure if you're being honest or not... even though every time I google it you both are lol
what would happen if they collabed? I think it'd be briliant.
@@feykro4152 maybe.. It's still 2 very different ways of going about it. Might be interesting though.
Check out WATOP as well, that channel is also dope when it comes to educational shit. This dude, ZeFrank and WATOP are quite potentially the best 👌
AnimalLogic too
@@slippyquack7672 TierZoo's also got a unique thing goin' for him; using gaming to demonstrate biology. In fact, he and CasualGeographic have collabed on TikTok a few times.
Honestly I admire hippos for being so good at what they are. They run faster than Bolt, they can live underwater, they can pick fights with anything in Africa and come out ok, they have successfully played the system and become a dominant force in it.
But mostly I respect them for being one of the animals that can successfully stand up to humans. They have been picking fights with humanity for thousands of years and still managed to not get extinct, unlike a lot of other large mammals
Yeah, these demons have my respect
Stand up? Bruh you think we didn't kill them all because we can't?
@@steelbear2063 you think we didn't kill them because they never mess with us? The fact that hippos have a historic record of killing people and are still around shows that it's just not worth the effort.
@@jordy7625 Mine too and also my fear.
Cause they're kinda ugly and you can't get any good from them otherwise would extinct them easily
Yeah, a fun fact about babies is that reflex you’re taking about can save their life. For some reason only babies can do this, but if one finds itself in a lake, the heart rate can dramatically slow down in order to save the brain and whatnot. I think we lose the ability at about 6 months old.
We only lose this ability if we stop practicing it + a good (or old) genetic combination.
Some tribes in the north (Siberia, Canada) who survive primarily on fishing still have this reflex even into adulthood.
Can confirm, my dad forgot my sister in the bath one time and came back sprinting in to her at the bottom of the tub smiling while looking up.
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 oh cool! I didn’t know that, but I can definitely see how it’d be useful.
@@Volvith haha, that’s kind of amazing, and I don’t know why.
oh god, how many babies had to drown for genetics to evolve this ability?
How is this sponsored by no one? I can't pass you in the qué without watching whatever gems of natural knowledge you have that day because not only are you the wittiest narrator on RUclips but you're great with kids. You make us laugh and that's no small thing. Also, felony ferrets...I'll never get over that one. Thanks man.
I loved everything about how you described the hippos. And yeah, know that they run through the water fast enough to catch boats is terrifying... They got so much gains they are too heavy to move on land, so they got even more gains to be strong enough to run through water like it didn't exist...
This Channel here is entertaining af,
but dont stop here.
So many others on youtube entertain with crazyness. Most of all
Science-Channel and Atheist-Channel, like Sci Man Dan, Logicked, Joe Scott,
Oversimplified, but also 'harder Science like Professor Dave
doesnt need you to have a Giga-Big-Brain to enjjoy.
Too heavy to move on land? I certainly wouldn't say that since they can move faster than Usain Bolt by running up to 30 mph (Bolt's top speed was 27.33 mph).
Ah their definitely too heavy, Even tho they can run about as fast as Usain bolt.
@@dragonborn3198 I genuinly wanna hear the opinion of Science-Fans
on Some More News newest videos.
He does such great Research and calls out the Flaws of Goverment and History so well, i really
want more Peoples opinions, especially Science-Enthusiasts though.
Must all meatheads feel the need to incorporate the word "gains" into everything they speak about?
The delivery of “Water pressure is irrelevant if you’re an elephant” was too good
I was hoping for “irrelephant” but I’ll take it.
When something several tons heavier than me like an elephant can swim better, I never knew they were this good in swimming, especially for their size.
Strange way to structure a sentence, but yeah. I see what you were trying to say.
Size isn't a problem for swimming, in fact, it's the opposite, like, heard of blue whales? It surprises me because their legs are mainly roundish and they don't have that much range of motion, how to they propel themselves? Can you imagine an elephant doing the american/front crawl?
@@mechtheist Haha, yeah. Quite interesting to imagine. The main factor is, of course, buoyancy. As long as there is a sufficient amount of air trapped among one's interior cavities, size is no longer very relevant. Consider massive cargo ships and/or aircraft carriers and their incredibly large/heavy steel structures whereupon floating doesn't seem the least bit feasible. So long as you've got buoyancy and can produce any sort of paddling motion, swimming/propelling shouldn't be much of an issue at all.
Why tf are you in every corner of youtube??
wow they changed profil pic😱
It was an attraction in Florida called Silver Springs that brought in those monkeys. They filmed some Tarzan episodes there. It was in business for something like 70 years.
Learning things I wasn't taught in school 30+ years ago. Love the content and it's always making me grin and laugh purely by the way you present it. Humorous and educational at the same time. My 13 year old daughter loves your videos also.
@scale Go away bot.
Kid! You got a bright future! I’ve encouraged my kids to watch you because in this day and age there’s just not enough of your kind. Keep on teaching. You are great at it, and the world needs more people dedicated to increasing knowledge while making it fun!
AWW
Agree
Bruh, I agree
The fact that I learn more here than my biology class-
This content is amazing and we appreciate every time you upload!
He is to biology as TFE is to us military and sabaton is to history
Buddy I think you mean Zoology. Biology is just for humans
@@Bhatakti_Hawas Nope, biology is the study of living organisms.
Dude your the new age bill bye the science guy your a really natural teacher where I’m learning without trying, keep up the good work your probably the most engaging teacher I’ve ever seen
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"New age"???? WTF? It's Bill Nye, numbskull. Note the capital letters--you need more education than just YT videos.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague I went to penn state u don’t have to type correct grammar on RUclips comments wtf
Love your show,or whatever it is. Question has none ever tried to see if rhinos acted differently when given eye corrective anything. Glasses lasic, idk just didn't change any of their activity or reactivity?! I'll get your book,btw!
That's actually a genius idea however it will be damn near impossible to pull off because it's hard to ask a rhino if it can see better with lense 1 or 2 let alone put it on it.
Yeah, I don't know if a rhino's poor eyesight is something that can be corrected with glasses or surgery. Would almost have to give them completely different eyes and... that's a nightmarish thought.
I think the ones that live in zoos eventually catch on to their being in no danger and end up surprisingly chill.
Though, yeah, it'd be interesting to find out what they make of having accurate sight.
i dunno.. if you gave a rhino good eyes they could potentially become the dominant species 😅
@scale you owe me 4 minutes and 33 seconds of my life back
I remember learning about how it was figured if certain animals could swim or not. Apparently it involved a lot of throwing animals into water.
Yeet
🤣
yup, and doing it until they died, it was a cruel experiment
Very nice video! I do have one caveat to the hippos-can’t-swim-thing: that only applies to freshwater. I’ve heard from several reputable people that hippos can swim in saltwater, where they are more buoyant. This also helps explain how hippos island hopped to Madagascar MULTIPLE TIMES.
Hippos are probably only more buoyant in saltwater due to the fact that saltwater is naturally more dense than freshwater. The denser water is, the easier it is for animals and objects to float in it. You will have a much easier time floating in the ocean compared to the lake.
@@starstorm1267 I think they know that.
@@starstorm1267 I think that's precisely the point. As I understand it, the higher the salt content, the more buoyancy anything in it will display.
@@Bluesit32 for example the dead sea.
@@Lestibournes Exactly.
This is one of my favorites now; it's particularly interesting (yay swimming!) not gory or featuring creatures I'm phobic about (ty for when you give spider warnings btw!). I've always been an animal facts nerd, but I've forgotten a lot and sometimes we realise new info that it's difficult to keep up with when long outta school, not in a relevant career and not knowing any other such nerds, so I really appreciate your videos.
Knowledge is making animals I've seen all my life look more and more alien. It's incredible and I love this planet we live on. Thank you so much for helping us see the world in ways we never did before
Yeah🙂
I learn more from this channel than I do during any school day
Probably because he explains it in a way that keeps you interested
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@flower has eaten No,That's not Here,JUST LIKE A WEIGHT COUNTER THAT CAN ACTUALLY HOLD YO MOTHER'S WEIGHT.
Your content isn’t just fun to experience and informative it’s important for youth.
You’re the man 😎
My friend I'm 61, mom was a teacher. That was a huge thing when I was coming up. You have a skill, you are a natural teacher. If you enjoy that pursue it to enjoy something your good at is an gift. Ty
Being able to fly for free just wasnt enough, lol. I was shocked to learn that about bats and was shocked the first time I saw how well sloths swim. Love all the one liners - new subscriber
I never would have guessed that bats can swim. I figured that if their wings got wet, it compromised their ability to fly well. 🦇
Their wings are made of membrane stretched between their fingers, so I'm pretty sure it's only as absorbent to water as your own skin is. They're quite good swimmers, actually, since they're essentially just flying in a thicker medium. The biggest obstacle is actually getting airborne again: bats can't stand upright the way humans do (their feet are facing "backwards" compared to ours) and thus can't take off from the ground, so they have to climb up a certain distance to be able to be able to have enough height to get back into the air.
There are some bats that can even take off from the water.
@@evenmoor Depends on the species. A few species can take off from the water and vampire bats can take off from the ground
@@evenmoor Luckily, most bats are also excellent climbers.
@@eliburry-schnepp6012 I was mostly thinking of flying foxes of Australia and southeast Asia in my original comment. Thanks for that! Learn something new everyday. And, yep, they're quite good climbers! Unfortunately, flying foxes do sometimes get stuck in lightwells and glass-walled balconies, where they can't get purchase to climb high enough to escape.
So interestingly enough, the mammalian diving reflex works on an even deeper level than many other autonomic functions. As someone with autonomic disfunction it can help stabilize my vitals much better than anything else.
Every single time I watch you I’m blown away at your humor/ intelligence/ charm.. plus I always feel awesome after watching as well. 🤣😊
FINALLY!!! Someone else mentioned the freaking Florida Monkeys!!! I was having to lead a bunch of Juvy kids on one of our canoe trips down the Silver River, and one of those thieving monkeys made off with my backpack that was full of the munchies that were SUPPOSED to hold me over for a weekend away from any store. But whenever I tell people about this they all like "Monkey's in Florida, you crazy bro!"
😂😂 sorry for laughing
Fun fact: we almost got hippos in Florida. Well, almost throughout the whole southern United States.
During the early 20th century, there was a meat shortage and economic crisis that Congress considered solving with hippopotamus ranching. They expected the hippos would not only provide a new source of meat, but also gobble up invasive water hyacinths clogging major waterways.
I’m fairly sure they’d escape and establish a healthy breeding population, and be pretty hard to get rid of, especially with the firearms at the time. Also, remember that incident with the kid being killed by an alligator at Disney World? I’m certain that had hippos come to America, Disney would have multiple instances of children getting just eaten by a hippo. Plus, imagine the property damage they could cause. No wooden fence is stopping them.
Florida getting like Australia more invasive species than native !
What about herpes though
So what I'm hearing is that half of what makes florida man, florida man, is the fact the land itself is just nuts. As a result they go crazy too but as to adapt to the land instead of as an undiagnosed coping mechanism.
Jumping off the bottom of the pool is one of the things I teach to new swimmers. If you fall in fully clothed, it's way easier to just hop your way to an edge.
When you talked about swimming mammals i was so hoping you would talk about the hippos inability to swim and got exactly what i asked for
I suppose when you're fat enough to displace all of the water around you, simply bouncing off of the riverbed is enough to suffice in most situations.
@@Strype13 buoyancy is if you displace more water mass than your own weight. Hippos are pretty much neutral in this case, they're only slightly heavier than an equal volume of water.
Hippos live in water out of spite haha
@@kevmasengale6903 Hippos probably curse at the water every day. lol
The RuneScape music in the background is top tier. That’s actually one of my favorite songs from that soundtrack.
One thing I'll say, although babies can hold their breath when going in water they're not the great at swimming and can drown, so don't be afraid of your baby going under the water but make sure you get them back on the surface for air.
I remember back in science I was told babies can swim but after watching science documentaries I found out in adulthood that most things in school just weren't true, but yeah, baby can go under water but baby don't really know how to get back up.
Water Babies swimming schools teach children 3 and under to swim. One of my nieces took the class right after they started, before we moved to a much more rural area. She became a lifeguard, AND taught all her younger relatives to swim.
Can they swim automatically, just because they're in water? Doubtful.
Can they learn incredibly easily? Yes; I saw it.
@@MelissaThompson432 I appreciate the comment but I wasn't saying they can't learn from a young age just they can't swim automatically just that they can hold their breath, your comment is kind of pointless. If people expect their baby to swim it's really dangerous, teaching is perfectly fine and was not what I was saying, sorry if you got confused I'll try to be clearer next time.
Infants have many inborn reflexes that make swimming and learning how to swim properly much easier. They can also learn the moves, but they don't have the strength to utilize them. They also can't consciously hold their breath or put their head above the water, which can pose a risk of drowning if they aren't supervised by an adult.
@@pirig-gal Yeah, I know. My comment is short but it does explain that they're not great at swimming and can drown, I already know this. Didn't say they can't just they're not great at it. And as soon as the water hits their face they immediately hold their breath, it's a reflex they have but they also can't hold their breath for long as they are babies.
Funny thing about hippos (for me, at least): they're called "Nile horse" in Serbian and German, and "water horse" in Hungarian. That's all the languages I speak, but I love the connection.
And hippopotamus means river horse
in Russian they're called behemoths.
It’s ”flodhäst” (river horse) in Swedish.
"Life is already too hard for you to get folded by a liquid."
My new favorite sentence.
Undoubtedly one of the best channels on RUclips
Sweetheart, you are SO cool! Watching your videos really did het me tbrough Lockdown! I love animals, but watchingbinfo on them from YOU, is just So much more fun than any other animal shows or videos! I hope 🙏that you get BIG! You are someone incredibly brilliant AND FUN to watch and listen to. My hubby has even gotten into watching your videos! We both love watching your videos - and, when I get down, which is a problem I've had since I was a child (unfortunately), watching your videos makes me happy!
THANK YOU, SINCERELY AND FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! 🙏💖😊
Camels have for some reason always been one of my favourite animals without any particular reason and every time this man talks about them I have another good reason to like them.
This is one of your best long form videos! I learned so much and there was a cohesive theme throughout the entire video, with an excellent ending. The visuals were on point. I am 37 and I love the natural world and I was still learning so much and slack jawed at some of those pictures. The hippo muscles?!? Rip. Your work is getting better and better.
2:09 OMG bro… thank you for explaining why I used to get the “shock” from cold showers in the winter. I used to find the cold water would instantly make me feel like I couldn’t breathe and pretty much forced me to take a huge breath and hold it in. The water was so cold that I couldn’t regulate my breathing. Man those were rough days. And no I wasn’t doing it for fun, all we had back then was an extension chord running from someone else’s apartment to power our fridge and microwave. Never taking another cold shower in my life if I can avoid it.
I believe Manatees and Dugongs also have relatively dense bones, as did the semi-aquatic ancestors of whales.
Having more dense bones to achieve more neutral buoyancy is a pretty common adaptation for terrestrial animals that have evolved into an aquatic or semi-aquatic niche. It makes it easier to stay at whatever depth they want in the water without having to spend energy to stay there.
Dude is like younger David Attenborough with a funnier way of explaining things. Love the vids, keep them comming!
The man never disappoints... Learning mixed with humor is a great combo😁...
Spontaneous generation of continuous laughter. Describes this channel best.
By far you are the greatest RUclips channel that I follow and I love your content because it’s quick into the point. If I had a high school teacher like you I would’ve graduated easily within two years. Straight to the point kind, charismatic, And a real great content creator. I love this effing channel. Keep up the great work!
I am legit looking your book up right now. I have probably never had this much fun learning about animals, even if your book is about something else other than animals, it has got to be interesting. Keep it up, man. You are amazing! 👌🏻
Went and pre-ordered it. No regrets!
For the hippopotamus part:
Hippo in Greek means horse
And potamus means river
Hippopotamus in Afrikaans (South Africa) is "seekoei", which directly translates to "see cow".
I've watched a lot of people over the years talking about animals none of them kept my attention and interests in animals like Steve keep up the good work
My friends: It's impossible to make teaching entertaining.
Casual Geographic: YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME MORTAL?
All jokes aside though, this channel is one of the best I've ever seen in it's field. Awesome facts combined with an awesome sense of humour makes this channel really stand out to me. I will definitely stick around for a while.
Cause you're friends are boring
There's also onlyjayus & bright side.
The diving reflex reminds me of when I scared my dad half to death by falling in the pool when I was around 2 years old. I just disappeared in the second everyone had their backs to me and he ran over to the pool to just find me staring up at him from under the water holding my breath and I was totally fine.
I've learned more about animals from you than 12 years of formal education. Well done!
0:29 that’s my homie Kody. He got me and my wife a ninja blender as a wedding gift 😂
Him: "What do these animals all have in common?"
Me: "They're mamm-"
Him: "No, and it's not that they're all mammals."
Me: "I- okay..."
I've never in all my life heard that fact about elephants being able to stand water pressure and dang it I've always wondered. You're my hero now.
This young man is epic ! Great work, well presented and 20 minute topic in less than 9 minutes. I'm off to more of his videos.
"Someone tried it with my with my 8th grade me and my soul almost filed for divorce"
LOL one hell of a swim lesson!
Moral of the video: the relative of a whale can’t swim but the heaviest land animal and a creature from the place known for no water can for hours across shark territory. Though only one of them is probably safe
Sharks treat hippos like the white flight movement 🤣
Well, if you want to take distant relatives into account, then it makes sense why elephants would be able to swim. While hippos are close relatives of whales, elephants are close relatives of sirenians, a clade that includes dugongs and manatees. Both of them are perfectly adapted to life underwater, but being herbivorous, they aren’t very fast. Besides, the fossil record indicates that the trunk did evolve like a snorkel in probosocideans, only being used for different purposes later on.
this guy honestly needs his own tv show. Like imagine on adult swim you have your daily animal facts and comedy show. he can keep the tiny microphone
edit:why did this get so many likes?
That's genius
"This videos is sponsored by absolutely no one" Biggest Flex on RUclips 💪
Congrats on the book! That’s amazing!
This video holds the record of your content that I stopped and re-played, due to the density of details.
Which is basically brain candy so THANKS!! 😀
Caught the rhyme on irrelevant and 🐘- I’m not sure if intentional but 😁
You are really good at science communication and I always look forward to new work. Fantastic job on this one.
I love how much he called me out with the cold shower thing, that was hilarious 😂. I’m still doing them though sorry man.
Haha 😂 funny
Seriously though why the cold showers? Genuinely curious might start doing them myself if you convince me! 🤣🤣 x
Mr. Geographic is perhaps one of the funniest and most genuine people I've seen on the Internet in quite some time. Keep it up good sir.
If their was a show with this guy in it,I would watch it everyday
Bro, you got me with that sponsorship. I also did not know that about bats.
If anyone ever wants to try the plus-size snorkel thing I recommend getting a hollow pool noodle, going a few feet under water, and trying to use it as a snorkel. It still works at like 4 feet deep but you can seriously feel the difference.
Fun fact: the reason why our fingers get wrinkly when we’re in water for awhile is so we can have a better grip while under water.
4:47 Lmao. He listed himself in the corner there.
You are MOST DEFINITELY the greatest Content creators of trivial animal content that I've ever seen.... yo seriously fam...your content is one of the best in this space! Top shelf delivery....and you got jokes!! Keep doing what you do. I'm copping that book for sure!
Your humor and content give me life. Thank you. ❤
Like last week or something me and my dad were fishing and it was pretty dark and when my dad casted his line it plopped into the lake but then started to reel in really fast. I told my dad to slow down and not scare the fish and he said that he wasnt even reeling in his line. We got closer to the mysterious thing bobbing towards land and it crawled out on land while looking like an alien it was really dark so we shined the light at it for closer inspection and it was a bat. SO yes bats can swim pretty fast.
Bro not me thinking a hippo was about to pull up 😆
I don’t think one can survive fishing up a hippo. Hell, the hippo might eat you out of spite for the crime of standing over there.
@@Appletank8 I know that's why I was worried
@@Appletank8 thankfully it wasnt a hippo lmao.
Let's all appreciate the amount of effort this man puts in his videos, amazing. Keep grinding bro, I love the videos
I so watch this while taking a huge shit but I missed the toilet damn.
@@Recoome_Kick This Channel here is entertaining af,
but dont stop here.
So many others on youtube entertain with crazyness. Most of all
Science-Channel and Atheist-Channel, like Sci Man Dan, Logicked, Joe Scott,
Oversimplified, but also 'harder Science like Professor Dave
doesnt need you to have a Giga-Big-Brain to enjjoy.
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@@theleastobnoxiouschildyouknow huh
1:50 I enjoy the cold showers. Feels much better than a warm shower, very relaxing, it's great for the nervous system and recovering from workouts, and it's much better for my skin. I don't do anything to impress anybody ever.
Hi everyone just know that I am rooting for you 🙋🏻♂️👍🏻
Man. I feel like I've learned so much about animals watching these videos. I even have some funny names for some animals thanks to you. So thanks for making learning fun. I know a lot of people say it, but I think it's always worth saying that your content is awesome.
2:27 "soul nearly filed for divorce" is getting added to my lexicon now
Their should be a quote book
He should sell a quote book as merch.
"Jesus walked on water n hippos walked under it out of spite" 😂😂😂