@@cuckoobrain7999Oh. Yeah. One thing on the wishlist is a total corn ban, which would theoretically entail gov’t takeover of the internet and a political review of all newly published material.
@@anyascelticcreations I once saw a video of a male elephant in musth bowling over a rhino that was in his way, and I'm gonna choose to believe that's the kind of thing you're referring to...
Honestly.... we're animals.... Would it be weirder if it actually helped? Or if it didn't? Lol (I'm talking non visible, not enough volume to be directly whiffed. Maybe some pheromone stuff still going on in the more primitive areas of our brain?)
Same and once I saw the advert I was like oooh yeah he admits that's why he made the video. Except I don't care at all Ive already LOL'd 4 times halfway through. Fun stuff to brighten my morning
The contrast between this video and John's latest vlogbrothers video next to each other in my subscription feed made me audibly laugh, deep philosophy vs mammoth sex 😂 sums up their interests and internet personalities perfectly
What's wild about that joke is that in this case, there's a very real probability that Hank might actually have an FBI agent monitoring him. John got visited by a spy, after all, so it isn't too far fetched that the government might actually be keeping tabs on the Green brothers. Which means some agent is having to trawl through an endless sea of animals getting freaky.
@@kayden2119There are many things to blame humans for, mammoths are not one of them No reason to suspect humans are the reason they are extinct, yeah, we hunted them, we also hunted a bunch of other animals that are still around
@@kayden2119 It is still survival of the fittest. Humans are investing in saving other species because we benefit/think we might get benefit from them in the future. It might not be the direct economic benefit, but it's their genepool and proteome diversity which might be helpful in some future application, who knows? So, save them.
I'm so happy that you found the rabbit hole of elephants vs cancer. For many years, the elephants at the zoo in SLC UT were participating in studies to help cure childhood leukemia!!!
I wonder about Hank’s algorithm. ONCE I had to order cadaver bags to teach end-of-life care to nursing students. Suddenly I was getting adverts for bail bondsmen!!! I can only imagine Hank’s algorithm sitting in a corner, having an existential crisis…!
One of my graduate professors is a classical historian who, during his dissertation process, wound up getting visits from DHS and the FBI, because of the search terms that came up researching things about the death of Alexander the Great. I wonder where they draw the line between "probably just a grad student" and "well this is concerning."
I try to turn off all personalized ads that I can, and it helps limit how wild my stuff gets, but I get weird ads anyway, so I try not to wonder what it would be like if I didnt... 😂
No no, Hank’s algorithm had *LONG AGO* … well, let’s just say, ordered its own cadaver bag…. It also bought a single 12ga shell…. Or maybe an emp device…
I clicked on this thinking "Oh, he's gonna talk about how some mammoths lived at the same time as the pyramids, I'd like to see how he'd tell that story!" Should've known I'd be tricked into hearing about elephant sex.
"The 25 year old males being like 'I guess I'll just watch...'" is a sentence I wanted to never hear in *any* context, and would like to go back to a time when I hadn't just heard that.
So something else I read that was really cool about mammoths is that most depictions of them with trunks being held like modern elephants . Because of the cold they lived in they might get frostbite on the trunk. So it evolved to flatten out and roll up to keep warm. It was discovered on a frozen baby mammoth.
Humans naturally feel an aversion to the way their family smells, as the occasional study has shown. I would speculate that this is similar for other mammals who share certain behavior patterns with us, like an elephant or their ancestors.
If you listen to interviews with the scientists, yes, they do think mammoths have an aversion or taboo on consanguinity (second cousin or closer) based on the DNA! This helped soften the impact of a limited breeding pool on long term genetic diversity on the island, as the big inbreeding issues tend to pop up in second cousin or closer matings. Apparently elephants today display a similar taboo on consinguinity as well!
Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island during the rime when the Great Pyramids were built. Several plants still have spikes to keep their big and high-up mouths off. Several plants still produce fruit which are evolutionarily intended for mammoths and mastodons to disperse, and now struggle along getting dispersed short distances by water.
That's so cool. I've heard other stories about adaptations in plants where they must have got that way somehow, but nobody knows what for. Like whoever the adaptation was for hasn't been identified yet. Science is so exciting
reminds me of joshua trees and the giant ground sloths! the sloths were hunted to extinction, and now the joshua trees have to rely on inefficient birds and insects for dispersal and pollination :( if i could bring back any extinct animal, it'd be the ground sloths ❤
Male elephants "I'ma secrete stank from glands on my face , and piss down my leg" Lady elephants "damn so sexy" Drunk male Human - Crying in a corner after pissing themselves Female human - Yes officer that guy over there. Sometimes I think i was born the wrong species
Fun fact! Declining populations and poor environmental conditions led to a higher instance of cervical ribs, basically extra ribs all the way up above the collar bone, in mammoth populations. This is a fun fact to me in particular, because at about the same time that research came out, my mom found out SHE has extra cervical ribs when she actually broke one!
That feels like probably the most natural way to find something you didn't know you had. Me: *breaks something* Also Me: "Oh shit, I didn't know I had that!"
Stefan Milo did a video on the last mammoths and Wrangel Island recently, I really recommend it! He interviews a scientist from the team that did the paper Hank's talking about, it's really wild stuff
Yes! I watched that! It’s really interesting- she mentioned that there appears to be a taboo on consanguinity in mammoths based on the dna they have, and that that taboo may have helped the long term genetic diversity on the island despite such a small starting population! So cool!
Some mammals seem indeed to be able to thrive despite inbreeding. In Finland we have a huge population of white tail deer that was introduced from America in the 1930s. The founding population was absolutely miniscule - only 7 breeding individuals. Now there are thousands of them and I don't understand how they haven't succumbed to genetic deterioration.
Because negative traits died out. I am not a Finn and do not claim to know about your ecosystem, but it is safe to assume that there are wolves and bears there, as well as some kind of cat large enough to hunt deer. Inbreeding is not nearly as bad when there are things that can kill the genetically inferior population. Most of the remaining negative traits are probably just chronic illnesses that arent ever really an issue because the deer dont live long enough to suffer from them.
Inbreeding concentrates some bad genes, but an underpopulated environment means more nutrition and less competition. Therefore, good mutations also have a better chance of being passed on. Lots of genetically healthy individuals get killed before reproducing. Also, I think our fear of inbreeding is generally overblown. American bison came back from six individuals. Animal breeders routinely inbreed for several generations with plenty of functioning offspring. Even in humans, the royal families are very inbred and yet only a few lines got bad enough to notice (hemophilia is a dominant gene and doesn't count, since it spreads regardless of how closely related the parents are).
If you check out interviews with the scientists in question, they found a shockingly low amount of consinguinity (which they define as second cousin or closer) in the dna samples for how small the initial breeding numbers were, and from there infer mammoths have a similar taboo to consinguinity that elephants do! This low consinguinity rate despite the 8 individuals starting pop means that the negative impacts of inbreeding are lower than in populations with similar starting populations but without a taboo on consinguinity.
About the tusk stuff, that is where geology and forensics collide. We can actually tell what environment they were in and their experiences in that environment based on chemical traces and growth patterns..... but interesting video.
Haven't watched the video yet but mammoths was the biggest lie of my childhood. When I was a kid in the late 90s early 00s they repeatedly told us we would clone mammoths in the next years, but nothing!!!
Oh that was way too early. We're still working on it but it's pretty close now except for the ethical debate about using an elephant pregnancy term to grow a mammoth which will be on its own without the social support that they really need nor the proper habitat and we are talking about a very intelligent animal here that we're basically going to make and then torture because we can't give it what it really needs. So yeah that's a cool debate. Probably would be better to bring back something smaller with a shorter gestation time first so we can make a whole group of them at the same time.
I live in Montana and do not understand why mammoths didn’t congregate here according to the map. It’s cold as fuck, there’s glaciers lying around, and lots of wide open plains to roam. They’d just _look_ right here, among the moose and bears and elk. Like you’d drive past one on the side of the road without even registering what you just saw, they’d fit in that well.
Because they need so much food and there might have been more nutritious foods elsewhere. They probably also were about as smart as our elephants and just learned their favorite migration routes.
If woolly mammoths were still chugging along while the Egyptian pyramids were built, does that mean that they technically survived into recorded history?
Since "recorded history" dates back more than 6 thousand years (check out ancient China for instance for just one mostly contiguous history of one culture), that would be a yes.
When I was in school I had a History teacher who would sometimes use the rare expression "I couldn't give a fish's earhole." to describe his lack of interest in something. Years later I discovered that growth rings in earbones (otoliths) can be used by scientists to trace the geographic and biochemical life history of a fish.
It's subtle, but if one pays attention when travelling north/south through Toronto, one would notice terraces. These are in fact ancient shore lines of glacial lake Algonquin. It's in the gardens on the edge of these terraces that a few lucky Torontonians have unearthed mammoth teeth.
Oh yeah, mammoths and mastedons were all around the Great Lakes. Every now and then one gets uncovered during construction. Last one I recall, a farmer in Chelsea found mammoth remains in his field while digging to have new irrigation system put in. The farmer contacted the University of Michigan, and the paleontology department did an extremely fast excavation as the farmer had a time table to get his irrigation done and crops harvested.
Honestly animal science is the science that i really love. Didnt care about godzilla, i saw the trailer for the new gozilla and kong movie and i was hooked. My husband says "why all of a sudden" and i started ranting about how the animals are so well animated and how this is a gorilla obviously and this is obviously a orangatan and this baby is clearly a mix of the two so- and he said it was really boring that i was into godzilla for the animals instead of the fighting
I vividly remember learning about mammoths getting stuck on wrangle Island. That was not related to my major at all but it's one of the things I distinctly remember from my undergrad
Which megafauna were lost in societal memory? I thought most died out with the first people to arrive in Australia. I suppose the Tasmanian tiger is a similar case only smaller but was there any megafauna that died out with European invasions?
First off, R.I.P. Mammoths. Hopefully Colossal Biosciences comes through and hooks us up! Second, BRO.! I grew up watchin the SciShow in my 5th grade science class (I'm about to be 24) and for some reason I'm JUST NOW finding out you have your own channel?!. Seriously just gotta say, YOU! are one of the main reasons I actually enjoyed being in class! I wish I could remember my teachers name but, if she never had us watch your videos, I woulda flunked that class without a care 100%. Fr tho, when we started studying cells, she put on your plant & animal cell anatomy episodes and I swear THAT SH!T brought some of the coolest, funniest, and straight up most fun times I've ever had at school! Glad to see your still kickin and kickin a$$ by the looks of it haha! Fr yo, thank you for all you've givin us! Love ya man and hope your doin good! Now plz excuse me, I gotta lotta catchin up to do!
I LOVE CREATIVE BEAST'S MODELS. I've wanted them for ages, but I've never had the money for them they're so gorgeous and amazing. It's awesome to see them also make Mammoths!
Idk what happened. I was watching a fun RUclips video and then next thing I know I'm spending $300 on wolly mammoth toys. Does this make me the biggest nerd in my life?
Fun fact, in southwestern Virginia a full woolly mammoth fossil was found in Saltville. There’s a museum. Check it out if you’re heading down 81 in Virginia towards Tennessee.
Climate change would seem to have had a lot to do with wooly mammoth extinction, plausibly, but it doesn't really explain Columbian mammoth extinction at all -- beasts that could make a living in a really wide variety of conditions.
@13:22 that would have been so cool! ...But if we had, I think your title would have been something like "How we killed of the last of the Mammoths"... Like the Dodo XD
4:03 that's that machine! In the background! That's the machine where Hank said he was the nerdiest nerd, and I think maybe found a dead mouse? What a throwback!
I am so in love with that baby mammoth figurine, it is so insanely cute. I love that are companies that make things this unique and interesting. I'm getting one theoretically for my little nephew but it's really for me.
I was thinking general protection. If scaled up to the proper proportion, that's a LOT of weight swinging around. I mean as humans we have issues with our equipment, I cannot FATHOM a set that weighed anywhere near what theirs bust weigh, just freely swinging around like most other animals. Especially during precarious reproductive acts
I can't believe I fall for these every damn time! Although, I am the adult girl who still falls for it every time my Dad shows a sudden interest in my interests in the month before Christmas and my birthday - in fact the last one was the first time I ever did the math before my birthday hit. What birthday was that, so you can decide whether or not to be embarrassed for me? Well I don't want to give my exact age but yeah, that second hand embarrassment is warranted.
You know what we would have done if we found an island with woolly mammoths on it? We would eat all of em, like the big furry giant tortoises they are. Nom nom nom.
I had Minecraft on in the background and a sad music track kicked in around 13:00 and it's a testament to music that like, despite the both chill and deeply weird explanation of mammoth sex, I started to tear up a little
Imagine taking your family out on a road trip. You take a wrong turn, the bridge behind you melts and suddenly you are stranded for 6,000 years! Good going dad.
Great video Hank, but now all I can think about was what sauropod mating was like, I guess they had an easier time getting into position because the tail and head/neck could be moved to shift center of mass around? Wild stuff.
These figures are always amazingly well made!! I've bought figures these guys have made before and they are beautiful I'm so happy yall are making these figures together
Stefan Milo did a great video recently on the last Mammoths interviewing the scientists from the paper you reference. A great companion piece for this video :)
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I want a mammoth now
@@overlycautiousstrategist3647 if not friend then why extinct
I have amazing news: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/complexly-and-creative-beasts-studios/prehistoric-elephants
@@sarahc882 It's the eternal Nerdfighter wish for puppy-sized elephants, except we want the big ones now.
puppy-sized mammoth?
A biotech company was planning to bring them back in a few years
Elephant musth? The tesla guy?
Oh wow...
Thank you for this
HAH
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*The Tuskla
Classic Hank Green video as it took only 55 seconds to mention animal sex
Barely 40 seconds really
And I'm still upset it took that long
Those are rookie numbers, he fell off
Getting back to the old-school roots
🎶 We’re just people who love Mammoths…who love Mammoths 🎶
So I can google "worm sex", "elephant sex", and "mammoth sex", but when I google "human sex" we have a problem? Smh my head
Don't worry, I'm sure project 2025 will put an end to all of that stuff 😂
@@jonathancrowder3424 I know what project 2025 is but I don't understand what you mean
@@cuckoobrain7999Oh. Yeah. One thing on the wishlist is a total corn ban, which would theoretically entail gov’t takeover of the internet and a political review of all newly published material.
@@crow-jane Thanks, yeah I knew that I was more confused by the phrasing I guess
@@cuckoobrain7999Lol, I know. It sounds like they are excited about it.
The older female elephants guarding the younger females from the aggressive males is something that I’m so glad I now know.
If only they guarded young rhinos too.
@@anyascelticcreations I once saw a video of a male elephant in musth bowling over a rhino that was in his way, and I'm gonna choose to believe that's the kind of thing you're referring to...
@@korganrocks3995 aaahhh, no. It was something else.
Women gotta stick together. I've done this in a club too.
Human women do this too
Next time I go to the club, I'm peeing on my leg.
Look, it happens!
Happened to Drake
That's my signature dance move. Success rates may vary.
Honestly.... we're animals....
Would it be weirder if it actually helped? Or if it didn't? Lol
(I'm talking non visible, not enough volume to be directly whiffed. Maybe some pheromone stuff still going on in the more primitive areas of our brain?)
@goosenotmaverick1156 we don't make those pheromones human dont really make that much/ any pheromones
I really love these "let's learn with hank" videos.
Yeah same I could watch hundreds of these rabbit hole Hank videos
Same and once I saw the advert I was like oooh yeah he admits that's why he made the video. Except I don't care at all Ive already LOL'd 4 times halfway through. Fun stuff to brighten my morning
Learn Chaotically with HanK
The contrast between this video and John's latest vlogbrothers video next to each other in my subscription feed made me audibly laugh, deep philosophy vs mammoth sex 😂 sums up their interests and internet personalities perfectly
His googling history must be diabolical
Google: Yeahhhh...we're uhhh....gonna have to flag this guy's IP address...!
Honestly tho
Honestly he's gotta be on at least a couple "lists" 😂
Why there is nothing wrong about it you must just be a Lil f*cking kid to think that
Bluds bouta get banned from google
Hank’s FBI agent never has a boring day…
Hank is the reason why the concept of "whitelisting" exists.
Hank has a solid crew of FBI agents, trying to keep up with him is a 5 person job
@@verdatumyeah Hank is just in the "weird but harmless" category.
What's wild about that joke is that in this case, there's a very real probability that Hank might actually have an FBI agent monitoring him. John got visited by a spy, after all, so it isn't too far fetched that the government might actually be keeping tabs on the Green brothers. Which means some agent is having to trawl through an endless sea of animals getting freaky.
0:25 in our defense... We were hungy.
And cold! They weren't called woolly for nothing!
Honestly, it's survival of the fittest, and I am tired of people villainizing humans cause of stuff like this.
@@kayden2119There are many things to blame humans for, mammoths are not one of them
No reason to suspect humans are the reason they are extinct, yeah, we hunted them, we also hunted a bunch of other animals that are still around
@@kayden2119 It is still survival of the fittest. Humans are investing in saving other species because we benefit/think we might get benefit from them in the future. It might not be the direct economic benefit, but it's their genepool and proteome diversity which might be helpful in some future application, who knows? So, save them.
@@Deathnotefan97 Its seen as a bit suspicious that the only place megafauna didn't go extinct was on the continent we evolved on.
I'm so happy that you found the rabbit hole of elephants vs cancer. For many years, the elephants at the zoo in SLC UT were participating in studies to help cure childhood leukemia!!!
So cool!
My brain fully read that acronym as SLUT 😂
But hats off to those beeg bois helping out the kids
I read SLC UT as SLUT and was very confused
Setting aside the cool thing here, I misread that abbreviation you used and I'm pretty sure you know what I saw.
The mental whiplash from watching Crash Course Religions #2 followed by this is hard to describe.
Im impressed that elephants have a sort of “consent” happening. Some humans should take note
I’m getting the vibes that Hank has WAY more time now that he’s not the complexly CEO anymore
I wonder about Hank’s algorithm. ONCE I had to order cadaver bags to teach end-of-life care to nursing students. Suddenly I was getting adverts for bail bondsmen!!! I can only imagine Hank’s algorithm sitting in a corner, having an existential crisis…!
One of my graduate professors is a classical historian who, during his dissertation process, wound up getting visits from DHS and the FBI, because of the search terms that came up researching things about the death of Alexander the Great.
I wonder where they draw the line between "probably just a grad student" and "well this is concerning."
@@IrinaGreenman but also RUclipsr or author is on that list of "maybe?? 🤔”
I try to turn off all personalized ads that I can, and it helps limit how wild my stuff gets, but I get weird ads anyway, so I try not to wonder what it would be like if I didnt... 😂
I've recently had adverts in German & Japanese. Neither of which I speak. I told my wife & she said "You did it. You've won the algorithm"
No no, Hank’s algorithm had *LONG AGO* … well, let’s just say, ordered its own cadaver bag…. It also bought a single 12ga shell…. Or maybe an emp device…
I clicked on this thinking "Oh, he's gonna talk about how some mammoths lived at the same time as the pyramids, I'd like to see how he'd tell that story!" Should've known I'd be tricked into hearing about elephant sex.
"The 25 year old males being like 'I guess I'll just watch...'" is a sentence I wanted to never hear in *any* context, and would like to go back to a time when I hadn't just heard that.
15:30
😂 25 year old Hank totally had to "just watch" at least once! 😂
But you did.
So something else I read that was really cool about mammoths is that most depictions of them with trunks being held like modern elephants . Because of the cold they lived in they might get frostbite on the trunk. So it evolved to flatten out and roll up to keep warm. It was discovered on a frozen baby mammoth.
WHAT
Gee wizz first we had works cupellating and now mammoths?! You're on some kind of roll, Hank
Intellectually musthing or whatever
I have to imagine that Google has a server dedicated to Hank's search algorithm that regularly just melts down and needs replacing.
Humans naturally feel an aversion to the way their family smells, as the occasional study has shown. I would speculate that this is similar for other mammals who share certain behavior patterns with us, like an elephant or their ancestors.
If you listen to interviews with the scientists, yes, they do think mammoths have an aversion or taboo on consanguinity (second cousin or closer) based on the DNA! This helped soften the impact of a limited breeding pool on long term genetic diversity on the island, as the big inbreeding issues tend to pop up in second cousin or closer matings.
Apparently elephants today display a similar taboo on consinguinity as well!
Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island during the rime when the Great Pyramids were built. Several plants still have spikes to keep their big and high-up mouths off. Several plants still produce fruit which are evolutionarily intended for mammoths and mastodons to disperse, and now struggle along getting dispersed short distances by water.
That's so cool. I've heard other stories about adaptations in plants where they must have got that way somehow, but nobody knows what for. Like whoever the adaptation was for hasn't been identified yet. Science is so exciting
@@mariannetfinches You might be interested in the story of the Osage Orange Tree.
@@rodchallis8031And avocados. Think sloth.
"The only memory of the bee is a painting by a dying flower."
reminds me of joshua trees and the giant ground sloths! the sloths were hunted to extinction, and now the joshua trees have to rely on inefficient birds and insects for dispersal and pollination :(
if i could bring back any extinct animal, it'd be the ground sloths ❤
Male elephants "I'ma secrete stank from glands on my face , and piss down my leg"
Lady elephants "damn so sexy"
Drunk male Human - Crying in a corner after pissing themselves
Female human - Yes officer that guy over there.
Sometimes I think i was born the wrong species
The trick is growing until you weigh 3 tons.
@@seigeengine Male goats will urinate into their own mouth and all over their beard to make sure all the females in the district can smell them.
you should try tumblr the women there love guys who cry and piss themselves
Fun fact! Declining populations and poor environmental conditions led to a higher instance of cervical ribs, basically extra ribs all the way up above the collar bone, in mammoth populations. This is a fun fact to me in particular, because at about the same time that research came out, my mom found out SHE has extra cervical ribs when she actually broke one!
WHAT? how does that affect her neck movement??
@@P4Stalot It wouldn't. The extra ribs aren't attached to her neck, they'd stop at a point under her collar bone.
That feels like probably the most natural way to find something you didn't know you had.
Me: *breaks something*
Also Me: "Oh shit, I didn't know I had that!"
The discussion of Mammoth nuts makes me uncomfortable, but I’ve backed this campaign regardless!
Stefan Milo did a video on the last mammoths and Wrangel Island recently, I really recommend it! He interviews a scientist from the team that did the paper Hank's talking about, it's really wild stuff
Yes! I watched that! It’s really interesting- she mentioned that there appears to be a taboo on consanguinity in mammoths based on the dna they have, and that that taboo may have helped the long term genetic diversity on the island despite such a small starting population! So cool!
"Who's the biggest nerd in your life? They want this!", It's me. I'm the biggest nerd, and i DO WANT THIS! 😆
" *_Do_* Elephant's giant hot testicles make them less susceptible to cancer? The answer might shock you!" ~That one RUclipsr
Hanks uploads are the epitome of what people mean when they say "doing the lords work"
0:42 "and I feel like I can speak on this issue because" I am a wooly mammoth.
oh hey I'm like 90% sure I joined the kickstarter for that guys first foray into figure making! they're absolutely gorgeously sculpted
Idk man, I “we” may have never seen mammoths having sex but *somebody* definitely has…
probably lots of somebodys
Very good point...lots of (dead) people have seen wooly mammoth sex, and that's pretty cool.
Maybe one day we'll find a cave painting or pre-historic carving which will answer some of our questions
@@hankschannelAre the two things related.. the seeing and the dead..
Some mammals seem indeed to be able to thrive despite inbreeding. In Finland we have a huge population of white tail deer that was introduced from America in the 1930s. The founding population was absolutely miniscule - only 7 breeding individuals. Now there are thousands of them and I don't understand how they haven't succumbed to genetic deterioration.
Because negative traits died out. I am not a Finn and do not claim to know about your ecosystem, but it is safe to assume that there are wolves and bears there, as well as some kind of cat large enough to hunt deer. Inbreeding is not nearly as bad when there are things that can kill the genetically inferior population. Most of the remaining negative traits are probably just chronic illnesses that arent ever really an issue because the deer dont live long enough to suffer from them.
Inbreeding concentrates some bad genes, but an underpopulated environment means more nutrition and less competition. Therefore, good mutations also have a better chance of being passed on. Lots of genetically healthy individuals get killed before reproducing.
Also, I think our fear of inbreeding is generally overblown. American bison came back from six individuals. Animal breeders routinely inbreed for several generations with plenty of functioning offspring. Even in humans, the royal families are very inbred and yet only a few lines got bad enough to notice (hemophilia is a dominant gene and doesn't count, since it spreads regardless of how closely related the parents are).
If you check out interviews with the scientists in question, they found a shockingly low amount of consinguinity (which they define as second cousin or closer) in the dna samples for how small the initial breeding numbers were, and from there infer mammoths have a similar taboo to consinguinity that elephants do! This low consinguinity rate despite the 8 individuals starting pop means that the negative impacts of inbreeding are lower than in populations with similar starting populations but without a taboo on consinguinity.
Writing my thesis on mammoths, such fascinating animals! Hope we get those models, ordered one for myself as a graduation present😊
That's soooooo cool
I love traveling down these rabbit holes with you. Thank you for sharing.
Elephant holes
I appreciate Hank's sweet Dial-A-Song tee shirt.
About the tusk stuff, that is where geology and forensics collide. We can actually tell what environment they were in and their experiences in that environment based on chemical traces and growth patterns..... but interesting video.
Haven't watched the video yet but mammoths was the biggest lie of my childhood. When I was a kid in the late 90s early 00s they repeatedly told us we would clone mammoths in the next years, but nothing!!!
They did they just turned them into a meatball
Came here to say exactly this.
Made me look like a damn fool running around excitedly telling people about Mammoth clones. lol
@@gnarlgoyleeven that was a lie. It was like a goat meatball with some mammoth dna in it.
Oh that was way too early. We're still working on it but it's pretty close now except for the ethical debate about using an elephant pregnancy term to grow a mammoth which will be on its own without the social support that they really need nor the proper habitat and we are talking about a very intelligent animal here that we're basically going to make and then torture because we can't give it what it really needs. So yeah that's a cool debate. Probably would be better to bring back something smaller with a shorter gestation time first so we can make a whole group of them at the same time.
External testes are an adaptation unique to boreoeutherians (there some exceptions like whales, which lost them secondarily), which elephants are not.
Fuck fact. Asian elephants are closer to the wooly mammoth than they are to modern African elephants.
If they were still around We would have turned them into a series of very warm hats and jackets.
You make that sound so lovely
I just made a joke about starting a new website, Days Since Hank Green Last Mentioned Animal Sex, but it definitely got flagged by the spam filter
I live in Montana and do not understand why mammoths didn’t congregate here according to the map. It’s cold as fuck, there’s glaciers lying around, and lots of wide open plains to roam. They’d just _look_ right here, among the moose and bears and elk. Like you’d drive past one on the side of the road without even registering what you just saw, they’d fit in that well.
Because they need so much food and there might have been more nutritious foods elsewhere. They probably also were about as smart as our elephants and just learned their favorite migration routes.
wasn't montana in mammoth times a ice sheet?
If woolly mammoths were still chugging along while the Egyptian pyramids were built, does that mean that they technically survived into recorded history?
Since "recorded history" dates back more than 6 thousand years (check out ancient China for instance for just one mostly contiguous history of one culture), that would be a yes.
When I was in school I had a History teacher who would sometimes use the rare expression "I couldn't give a fish's earhole." to describe his lack of interest in something. Years later I discovered that growth rings in earbones (otoliths) can be used by scientists to trace the geographic and biochemical life history of a fish.
4:19 Female elephants are real girls' girls is what I'm hearing. Women protecting women, we love to see it
Bro, those mammoth figures would make CRAZY ttrpg pieces.
3:47 WTF is up with your bookshelf Hank? 😂
It's a custom design he asked for! I can't remember the craftsperson at the moment, tho he made a couple videos about it.
I definitely do not regret having this on while cooking
This sounds like a science based punk rock song
You know that if we had discovered an island with 300 mammoths on it, we would have eaten them all.
Sad but true.
It's subtle, but if one pays attention when travelling north/south through Toronto, one would notice terraces. These are in fact ancient shore lines of glacial lake Algonquin. It's in the gardens on the edge of these terraces that a few lucky Torontonians have unearthed mammoth teeth.
First giraffes back in 2007, now worms & mammoths...
Edit: and elephants
That’s a LONG time to be pregnant 😮
And they only give birth to a 200 lb. baby elephant.
0:35 "...the extinction of the wooly mammoth's butt."
I see Hank Green has watched the latest watched Stefan Milo ^_^
(I recall John mentioning him in a DH&J episode, that's how I know of him too)
Oh yeah, mammoths and mastedons were all around the Great Lakes. Every now and then one gets uncovered during construction. Last one I recall, a farmer in Chelsea found mammoth remains in his field while digging to have new irrigation system put in. The farmer contacted the University of Michigan, and the paleontology department did an extremely fast excavation as the farmer had a time table to get his irrigation done and crops harvested.
I didn't really ask myself how Mammoth's/elephants reproduced but i guess i can count on you to both ask these questions and answer them for me 😅
I love being curious about things. This wasn’t one of them. Have a good day, or not, up to you (whomever reads this).
Honestly animal science is the science that i really love. Didnt care about godzilla, i saw the trailer for the new gozilla and kong movie and i was hooked.
My husband says "why all of a sudden" and i started ranting about how the animals are so well animated and how this is a gorilla obviously and this is obviously a orangatan and this baby is clearly a mix of the two so- and he said it was really boring that i was into godzilla for the animals instead of the fighting
This is a valid reason for divorce, honestly.
Your husband does not match the vibes
@@P4Stalot he's an attack on titan anime guy and I'm just sitting there going "aha, boy turns into cat" at faruba
@@crow-jane I know right?! It's like when I found out he'd never seen lord of the rings!
I vividly remember learning about mammoths getting stuck on wrangle Island. That was not related to my major at all but it's one of the things I distinctly remember from my undergrad
12:54 Speaking as a PhD student studying palaeontology in Australia, Hank, you're literally talking about Australia and the loss of its megafauna.
Which megafauna were lost in societal memory? I thought most died out with the first people to arrive in Australia. I suppose the Tasmanian tiger is a similar case only smaller but was there any megafauna that died out with European invasions?
First off, R.I.P. Mammoths. Hopefully Colossal Biosciences comes through and hooks us up!
Second,
BRO.! I grew up watchin the SciShow in my 5th grade science class (I'm about to be 24) and for some reason I'm JUST NOW finding out you have your own channel?!.
Seriously just gotta say, YOU! are one of the main reasons I actually enjoyed being in class!
I wish I could remember my teachers name but, if she never had us watch your videos, I woulda flunked that class without a care 100%.
Fr tho, when we started studying cells, she put on your plant & animal cell anatomy episodes and I swear THAT SH!T brought some of the coolest, funniest, and straight up most fun times I've ever had at school! Glad to see your still kickin and kickin a$$ by the looks of it haha!
Fr yo, thank you for all you've givin us! Love ya man and hope your doin good! Now plz excuse me,
I gotta lotta catchin up to do!
Just scrolling the replies, and i love you guys. You are delightful. And weird as heck. I feel very at home here
Hey Hank, you know you don’t have to know absolutely everything about everything, right? You’re allowed to draw the line at mammoth sex
Allowed to is very different from wanting to
How dare you
I LOVE CREATIVE BEAST'S MODELS. I've wanted them for ages, but I've never had the money for them
they're so gorgeous and amazing. It's awesome to see them also make Mammoths!
These figures look so cool but so expensive 😭
Idk what happened. I was watching a fun RUclips video and then next thing I know I'm spending $300 on wolly mammoth toys. Does this make me the biggest nerd in my life?
Fun fact, in southwestern Virginia a full woolly mammoth fossil was found in Saltville. There’s a museum. Check it out if you’re heading down 81 in Virginia towards Tennessee.
3:08 Isn't there a Vlogbrothers video that includes a giraffe's *whole* business in the *thumbnail*? 😂
Climate change would seem to have had a lot to do with wooly mammoth extinction, plausibly, but it doesn't really explain Columbian mammoth extinction at all -- beasts that could make a living in a really wide variety of conditions.
An elephant never forgets… to get consent. 👍
This was a WILD ride of a vlog.
Nice t-shirt Hank. Dial-a-song forever
HANK DID YOU READ CLAN OF THE CAVEBEAR? THERE IS A MAMMONTH SENX SCENE IN ONE O THEM BOOKS.
@13:22 that would have been so cool! ...But if we had, I think your title would have been something like "How we killed of the last of the Mammoths"... Like the Dodo XD
4:03 that's that machine! In the background! That's the machine where Hank said he was the nerdiest nerd, and I think maybe found a dead mouse? What a throwback!
It was only some bugs! But Yes!!
I am so in love with that baby mammoth figurine, it is so insanely cute. I love that are companies that make things this unique and interesting. I'm getting one theoretically for my little nephew but it's really for me.
Un the fragile parts ...are inside maybe for protection from unstable sex acts
I was thinking general protection. If scaled up to the proper proportion, that's a LOT of weight swinging around. I mean as humans we have issues with our equipment, I cannot FATHOM a set that weighed anywhere near what theirs bust weigh, just freely swinging around like most other animals. Especially during precarious reproductive acts
I can't believe I fall for these every damn time! Although, I am the adult girl who still falls for it every time my Dad shows a sudden interest in my interests in the month before Christmas and my birthday - in fact the last one was the first time I ever did the math before my birthday hit. What birthday was that, so you can decide whether or not to be embarrassed for me? Well I don't want to give my exact age but yeah, that second hand embarrassment is warranted.
You know what we would have done if we found an island with woolly mammoths on it? We would eat all of em, like the big furry giant tortoises they are. Nom nom nom.
I had Minecraft on in the background and a sad music track kicked in around 13:00 and it's a testament to music that like, despite the both chill and deeply weird explanation of mammoth sex, I started to tear up a little
The 1/35 looks like it could be a badass D&D figurine 😅😍
Just donated as a believer!
I’m in love with these rabbit hole videos!! It’s the best. Someday, I hope people wanna just ‘science rabbit hole’ with me.
😂 25 year old Hank totally had to "just watch" at least once! 😂
Giant Hot Elephant Testicles is my Mastodon cover band name.
Here is a thought: could the unusually high p53 levels have meant they were more resistant to the negative effects inbreeding?
Imagine taking your family out on a road trip. You take a wrong turn, the bridge behind you melts and suddenly you are stranded for 6,000 years! Good going dad.
"It's a bad vibe." Cracked me up.
Great video Hank, but now all I can think about was what sauropod mating was like, I guess they had an easier time getting into position because the tail and head/neck could be moved to shift center of mass around? Wild stuff.
sauropods had very light necks and heads (cuz hollow bones like birds); check out scientifically-accurate sauropod hands!! 🤯
These figures are always amazingly well made!! I've bought figures these guys have made before and they are beautiful
I'm so happy yall are making these figures together
2 years pregnant is my nightmare. Very grateful for my hysterectomy now. No thank you!
Stefan Milo did a great video recently on the last Mammoths interviewing the scientists from the paper you reference. A great companion piece for this video :)
I liked the highlighter moving, it got my attention 💯❤
Stefan Milo made a great video about those last mammoths a few weeks ago!
“Don’t hangout with that elephant, IT’S A BAD VIBE”
At least we still have elephants and cute highland cattle, so, two aspects of mammoth 😅 (speaking visually, for the cattle)
Hank is just like me, I love going in rabbit holes of the most weird things
Please do your research, it's so much fun
Seems to me like elephants have a better understanding of consent than some men.