The Island Too Strange to Belong on Earth
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Inspired by the talented @FelixColgrave
Check out the animation that inspired this: • THROAT NOTES
ANNOUNCEMENT: I have a calendar out, based on my book 100 Animals That Can Effing End if any of you are interested: www.amazon.ca/...
Shoutout to the Tasmanians out there, we love y'all.
ps. No, I don't think ALL of Tasmania is wilderness
Music Used:
Don’t Starve Main Theme
Slimy Spring Galaxy- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Greenpath- Hollow Knight
Luigi’s Mansion- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Finding Nemo Game OST
Volcano’s Underground- New Super Mario Bros.
Pikmin Main Theme- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Gusty Garden Theme- Super Mario Galaxy
Mr. L, Green Thunder- Super Paper Mario
Sweet Mystery Galaxy-Super Mario Galaxy 2
Queen’s Garden- Hollow Knight
The Dark World- Zelda, A Link to the Past
Clips Used:
Humpback whales in Tasmania: • Humpback Whales Jumpin...
Screaming brushtail possum: • Screaming Brushtail Po...
Leopard seal jump scare: www.tiktok.com...
Leopard seal on dock in Tasmania: • Leopard Seal encounter
Neil the Seal TikTok page: www.tiktok.com...
Neil the Seal commits a B&E: • Neil the Seal Spotted ...
Bicheno Blue Penguin Experience: • Bicheno Blue Penguin E...
Giant Tortoise: • Giant Tortoises at Ful...
Mapgies the Musical: • Serenaded by Australia...
Chook the lyrebird: • Superb Lyrebird imitat...
Tasmanian tiger in color: • Tasmanian Tiger in Colour
Tasmanian devil toddler attack: • Tasmanian Devil attack!
Tasmanian devil steals chocolate: / 2667241706690165
4:59 Imagine calling in to work like "Yeah sorry, boss. Neil decided to stop by." And your boss is just like "understandable, have a nice day"
"Neil Insurance" comes free when you enter Tasmania
Neil has his own RUclips channel, pretty cool
Jokes on you that actually happened. Multiple times.
I love the image of Neil screaming at that guy n he doesn’t even care 😂
I love the lady just going "NEIL."
a man chasing down a Tasmanian devil saying "the devil got my lindt" is, by far, THE single most Australian thing I have ever heard of.
78% ya mongrel!
Wtf is lindt
@@markmurphy9121
A brand of chocolate. Ergo, that Tasmanian devil snatched food that almost certainly would have killed it after taking one bite.
@@markmurphy9121 Good chocolate. It's sold here in the USA too.
I loved the "it's 78% you mongrel" at the end.
Tasmania is essentially the Australian Expansion Pack
And I’m here for it
This is the best sentence I have ever read
@CharlieRuyung I hope you go swimming with Candiru fish
Most of the animals in this video are in Australia
One of the Jumanjiest places 😅
@@Mrmonkeyman1345 gee, I wonder why. It's almost like Tasmania is part of Australia.
12:08 " an economy sized kangaroo consuming enough product to make horten hear a who ,what, and a how"😂
13:27 "Proving that any animal with an Oreo pattern is running on demon timing." I can confirm this as the owner of a black and white cat named Oreo.
My cat Zephyr is also black and white but too dumb for demon time, except when he gets territorial for no reason.
Edit: nevermind he tried to jump into my mom's lap just to lick her plate while she dozed, and one of his back nails got caught in her leg. He's got some demon in him.
Every tuxedo cat I've met has been a sweetheart and yes, a little dumb 😂. I knew one that had what my brothers and I called a "fish face", wide eyes and a pursed mouth, lol. Her off-black, brownish sister, on the other hand...was a little demon in cute fur.
As the caretaker of a crackhead oreo cat, I can further confirm.
Watched this while my tuxedo cat Eliza was pestering me to pet her.
If you think about it, Lucifer, as a fallen angel, wouldn't be all black like he's usually predicted, since he was an archangel, there would be white spots too. Like an oreo pattern. So of course his earthly minions would get the same, like a club pattern.
Fun fact, I live in Sydney, and in the last ten years we've woken up to possums sleeping in our piano *three times*.
G'day from Melbourne!...I wonder what's so attractive about your piano?? 🤔 Have you asked any wildlife experts?
Possum Nocturne in AAH! Major
@@Eet_MiaAmerican possums are cute. They have fingerless gloves, oversized sweaters and too much eye shadow. They're pretty much goth rats.
Tasmanian possums are a lot cuter though.
Imagine playing the piano and it sounds off, then the classic brushtail growl-scream comes from inside 😂
@@Flesh_Wizard "No, no ... Vibrato, not AGITATO."
XD
"If you saw a thylocine, for their own good, no you didn't." Nice
Where's that at? @ericthompson3982
@@christopherpowell3166 at the very end
Funny enough there is a guy who claims he nows were one dens at but won't tell anyone so it won't get killed
@@jameswilliams2075 Gigachad
We all know rich fuckers or poachers would hunt for sport or for a low rez BUT high in price meal
That guy at the end actually chasing down a _Tasmanian Devil_ to get his choco bar back is the definition of hardcore.
Dude. It was *Lindt*.
That’s his scran that he paid for, I’d be doing the same the bugger don’t have to pay rent, taxes bro don’t need to pay for shit nor work for nothing cuz he’s a scavenger he can got scran someone else’s food
@@xenyacook4232 yeah, that's the reason to *not* run after him! 😂
I don't want to start a chocolate war, but Lindt is sort of bottom barrel with a ridiculous price tag.
@@tammyd.970 I mean, feel free to name better brands! :)
it was a Lindt lol
I live in Australia, I once got lost on a mountain.... the damn lyrebird nearly led me to my death several times cause the bastrads imitated ambulance Sirens and rescue calls.... I nearly fell off a hidden ledge (some deer stopped me), and actually resulted me in falling part way down a small waterfall. Also a few lyrebird sounded like a grizzly bear dispite aus not having them once I was being looked over by an ambulance crew I found that a few decades back a few highschool kids thought it was funny to out up the mountain and play the roars of many deadly animals not in Australia.
Lyrebird? More like Liarbird, clearly.
We have mockingbirds in St.Louis Missouri and my boring story is I’d hear one doing different car alarms LOL
Australian teen version of cow-tipping? 🤪
Dang sounds like you met an irl siren
@@zerohasnovalue1681 It is what it is.
"The seasons are flipped with summer being December to late February and winter being June to September. And if you want to fall without tripping, you'll have to March 1st" holy bars
I mean, yes, but also, he sounds like he was just introduced to the concept if the Southern Hemisphere. XD
@@LastAmongEqualsHe is American
@@LastAmongEquals but isnt summer in australia from october to january???
That is an insane bar
@@Angel-mv5py summer on the southern hemisphere happens during winter in the northern hemisphere
16:10 "78% ya mongrel!" is unreasonably funny
Agreed
hahaha i know right, what did he say before that? he's got my what?
@@ladyyyhokage Lindt, I think (the chocolate brand)
@@The.Heart.Unceasing I thought he said lint so I felt the double-take when he showed it was chocolate instead.
@@ladyyyhokage”he’s got my Lindt (chocolate brand), tassie devils got my Lindt”
Ive personally experienced a toilet frog 29 years ago in Brazil. That ribbit out the blue was terrifying.
I would have stuck to the ceiling like a cartoon character 🤣💀👻
At least you finished your business double quick
"Their vision maybe poor but theyll still Pikachu" while showing a real life Pikachu is perfect
Thanks, I just now got that pun.
As an Aussie, the most terrifying sound I've heard is a kookaburra laughing between 1-3am in the morning. I legitimately thought I was going to die the fight time that happened
We have Barred Owls in my part of the United States. They are incredibly loud and they, like kookaburras, love to cackle at each other deep in the night. One night around 11 PM, one of these lovely birds perched on my windowsill and started serenading a partner out in the nearby forest. These days, I love the sounds they make, but on that particular night in my teenage years, I straight up fell out of my bed in abject terror, not knowing what had just assailed my ears -- and a moment later, the startled owl flapped away in their own fit of fright.
@@HayTatsukomy kryptonite are Wonga pigeons. They let out a soulful whoop every thirty seconds or so all night for a few weeks. Which normally wouldn’t bother me, but they’ll break rhythm in a really harsh way that wakes me up if I happen to be almost drifted off. Like when a rhythmic snorer stops breathing for an indeterminate brief period.
I’m if I didn’t know any better, I would think you guys were making up animals like drop bears or Pokémons
@@ThatNerdKaizen barking lizards are real but.
Wait, what do you mean THE FIRST TIME
3:10 "Their vision might be poor but they'll still peek at you", he says while showing a picture of a real life pikachu. This guy definitely watches battle rap.
For what it's worth, similes and metaphors existed long before battle rap.
@@Strype13unnecessary comment but a comment nonetheless lol
ACTUALY PIKACHU IS INSPIRE 0F 🐁
(M0USE)
@@G0L0V0L0MKEEi thought they were inspired after pikas
A real life pikachu
Sometimes I take being born here for granted.
Growing up in Tasmania grew me crazy as a child since it felt as if nothing ever happened here. We are often written off, no concerts or conventions of events bothering to look our way. As a kid wanting things to do, it was torture. But even as I moved away, I moved back, now as an adult with the ability to find things and appreciate things I never did before.
Tassies gold mate, great place!!
Me mum used to visit an old SA schoolmate.. l started goin' now my kids go on hols...
You can still do what you want (without being a dhead) like it used to be on the mainland.
“it’s like a fairytale frog trying to be a prince but got confused and went for the wrong lips” 💀
😂💀 I’m dead
My worst fear is toilet critters, and I don’t even live in a place that happens lmao
1:25
And then 1:31
XD
I heard that and said "AAAAAAYYYYYYOOOOOOO"
That's a hentai somewhere...
Well, one tazzie DID find herself a real prince... a human tazzie, though...
Queen Mary of Denmark is from Tasmania
Honestly, Tasmania sounds like a place you'd read about in a fantasy novel. Or a sci-fi one. Or both.
Yeah, perfect setting for a "colony on another world" movie or series. Just introduce the local wildlife as, well, local wildlife and you're good to go. Anyone not already familiar with the land of Taz who sees glowing waves rolling in is likely to buy whatever you're selling.
Or complain about the bad CGI. Whichever.
Hey I live in tassie and Neil the seal is such a menace, he has a thing for traffic cones - ones Neil has decided to sleep, he sleeps, anywhere- the road, in front of cars, leaning on poles- also he has fights with poles, he does not like them and constantly is trying to take them out of the ground by pounding on it with his chest.
So yes, Neil is a menace.
We also have a weird number of murders and missing people, and there’s like a massive bit of tassie that is just bush it’s weird as anywayyyyyyy
Didn’t Ozzy Man Reviews do an entire video on Neil? It was a good one, worth a watch.
@@Sniperboy5551 oh maybe! I’m not sure!! I’ll check it out! Thank you!
Murderers and missing people doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
Please send him in Montreal to take care of the traffic cones ( we have so many, it became an unoffical mascott of the city -_- )
Actually we get no where near the murders and disappearances per capita as most other states, I’m not sure where your getting your info?
If you see a thylasine, for their sake no you didn't. Had me dying man. So good. Glad to see you out here killing it left and right. Education meets comedy, can't ask for more.
"Fall without tripping you have to March, First."
"Eating enough product to have Horton hearing a Who, What, and A How!"
Ah, Lord Casual, I have missed your humor!
Frickin loved that second one and am mad I didn't catch the first one but that's what makes rewatching these videos so good 😂. You discover the things you didn't hear the first time.
Zoo construction workers: *construct*
Lyrebird: _let me sing you the song of your people_
There was also a zoo scare last year cause the blaster birds mimicked the alarm for escaped big cats
I don't know how, but I'm going to use that in conversation sometime soon! 😂
"the sound of satan getting his prostate punched" was something i've never heard before and I've been on this here internet for 20 years.
I have never had my prostate punched. #Me_Satan
Never gonna prostate punch my dad. Sorry bruh
Yeah no you are never gonna prostate punch anything in our family.
No
No
dude a bird perfectly mimicking construction noise is the best thing i’ve seen in a while
I was flabbergasted, that’s genuinely insane
I audibly gasped when I heard it making drilling sounds
Travelled from the mainland to Tasmania to see a mate who'd moved there a few years ago.
Here's few extra facts (from the perspective of the south end of the island, where I was).
1. Tasmanians are mental.
2. They don't seem to feel the cold. They'll go swimming in water that's 15°C and tell you you're a sook for noping out.
2. In summer, the sun sets at 10pmish. Being so close to the Antarctic circle.
3. Flying over the north of Tasmania you'll see some of the oldest old growth forests left on earth.
4. Tasmanians are mental.
5. When Tasmanians (South) are putting on a coat, you're at risk of hypothermia.
6. Their beers are pretty good.
7. In winter, the sun can be high in the sky and blazing away, but it's lucky if it gets beyond 15°C.
One of the most beautiful places I've ever been to!
You forgot to add that when that sun is blazing away in winter you can and will get burnt to a crisp. Same as on overcast days during summer rofl
15°C is 59°F for us Americans, and as someone from the North (basically canada) that isnt that bad, just a but nippy for swimming in. (But if you aren't from the area it is a legal obligation to downplay how cold the water is, i assume tasmanians are the same)
@@jasonreed7522 Yeah, I was about to say 15°C (59°F) that is barely sweater weather, maybe a light jacket if it is breezy, not even that bad of temp for the water when swimming in if the air is warmer. I don't even bother heating my house until the the outside temp averages below 10°C (50°F) consistently (night and day).
That said our average summer night time temps run around 12°C (54°F) and the day times run about 26°C (79°F)
15 c water?? that doesnt sound awful
Also, Tasmanians have 2 heads. I’m a bit surprised you forgot to mention that.
That seal story is so funny. "Yeah boss sorry can't come today, Neal is chilling in front of my car"
Understandable give him some tuna for me and I'll pay you back tomorrow.
@aookami9581 -- Reminds me of when I was late for work because one day there was a sizeable peacock standing on the hood of my car (I lived in the city, so it was definitely unexpected). I wandered closer wondering if close enough human presence might prompt it to leave. Looked in its eyes, and saw a Jurassic Park velociraptor looking back at me, sizing me up (I am not a big person, and this dino-bird was absolutely aware of that). Then I noticed its friend chilling on the roof of the maintenance shed down the way, also looking my way. So I did the wise thing and turned right around and went back inside my apartment.
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Alas for them, they weren't without their own predators. I later heard one of my more robust complex neighbors saying to their friend, "if we hurry...still one more bird, though... they make for good eatin'." After a few days, neither bird was seen again. I did not ask.
Dedicated Neal days on the work schedule
I live in tasmania and yes, Neil the seal is real. He destroys everything, likes chocolate chip biscuits and is so cute. I've never seen him in person, because I was too scared to go up the street to meet him. But that thing on his head (tracker) identifies him. And he goes up and down the state. Even been spotted in the middle of Tassie.
" Oh cool, send me a pic, I'll put it in your file for records."
YES! As a Tasmanian, thank you for sharing our awesomeness! One of the recent booktube videos I did was lacking some lighting because there was a huge tigersnake blissfully sunning himself in front of the door I normally have open 🙄Waiting patiently for the Echidna to come out from under the car so that I can use it and flicking scorpions off the bedding at night are also common occurrences if you live in or next to some of that amazing bush you showed, like I do.
Jack Jumpers are medium sized black ants with orange pincers that do hurt a bit (unless you’re allergic) but Inchmen (also called Bull Ants, over an inch long and very aggressive) will leave you in pain for days and have been equated to Fire Ant bites.
The best household buddy you can have here is the Huntsman Spider! He can get bigger than your hand, is a jumping, ambush predator and will gleefully exchange a safe place in your home for regular pest control duties.
Also when half asleep going to the can at 2am and then wondering why a whole corner or your bathroom ceiling didn't light up, will wake you up way too much. Huntsmen are fine and all but I hate finding one that way.
@@TheDragorniththen if you look away for a second, its gone 😮
After living in Botswana and Australia, Botswana's wild animals are practically domesticated. They run away from you, whereas in Australia they run after you.
I'm curious how kids are raised there with that sort of daily life.. but well, humans do adapt hahaha
@onebear6504 Depends on where your living. In metropolitan area's your kids only going to see animals in someone's apartment, flying overhead or at a zoo, so they need no lessons.
Residential, not much worse. Semi-rural start to need some sense like don't leave shoes outside or they might have a venomous new friend in them (same with gloves, open bags etc). Once you hit proper rural areas, then more likelihood of something happening. Your also probably more aware of what to avoid.
I live semi-rural. I do run into snakes and things in summer occasionally, so don't wear open footwear in longer grass. If you tossed me into certain parts of America and I saw a bear in the wild I'd basically be stuffed. No reason to know about bears, and I believe a bear on your porch is a bigger jump scare than a spider on your ceiling. But you never know. I still stand by my statement of not how I want to find them.
I have lived in Oz for nearly 60 years, but have never been to Tassie, as much as I would LOVE too, but when that Tassie Devil climbed his way out of that wombat's carcass, that was me. NEVER have I known any of these behaviours from our native critters.
Love your work, giving me something to be amazed by EVERYTIME I watch your clips. 😍😍😍
Tassie devils are generally quite scared of humans. Plus, if you stick to the main towns and cities, you won't even come across one anyway. I've lived in Tasmania all my life and I think I've only seen a devil in the wild maybe twice. Tasmania is a very beautiful place and you should absolutely come to visit sometime
Tasmania: So scary it scares Aussies.
@@xenyacook4232it’s bad enough where I live in the United States. I’ve had snakes 3 venomous and 2 rat snakes in my house in the last ten years. A black bear that visits my apple trees, cougars, fox, coyote and wolves. I don’t think I could handle Australian animals
“in his defense, he’s sorry” 2:57
Aw, it’s ok 🥰
Yep, the Thylacine has been found to be completely innocent of the sheep killings and found that it was actually wild dogs that were killing the sheep. Now the farmers have moved onto Dingos. What a surprise.
It's infuriating every time it happens. It should be up to the farmers and government to come up with ways to protect their livestock without culling the invaluable apex predators of their respective areas. It breaks my heart that people exploit and take the easy way out instead of working with nature.
You don't really want dingos in tassie. they're not native and will fuck up lots of the native species. outcompete the quolls etc. I know theyre not native to the mainland unless you count 50 000 years being native.
And dogs really do kill many farm animals, where I live currently its popular to blame the wolves. The problem is, they were almost driven to extinction. Now we have 12k of them. You wanna know how many WILD dogs we have (without owners)? 500k. And those are wild only, we have over 6 million dogs overall in our country, half of them living in a countryside where they are either chained up to their dog house their whole lives or roam completely unattended. Starving dogs killed multiple sheep next to my grandma's house, of course they didnt eat most of them, just left them either chocked or bleeding to death
Farmers have historically tried to wipe out everything that doesn't belong to them and give zero f*cks if they cause extinctions.
Dogs are often pests rather than pets. I hate that rampant dog culture and speciesism (particularly on part of Europeans and other settlers) has led to such a decline a biodiversity
I wanna add a caveat here that if you DO see a Thylocine, 1) you're one of the luckiest humans on the planet and 2) Tell the nearest conservation authority immediately with exactly where and when. This is likely to start a chain of events that hopefully will result in an insane conservation effort, but will also probably piss a good number of people off as well, depending exactly where it happened. If you can get a _picture,_ even more so. Also you'll almost definitely get paid. Thylocines are on the radar of cryptozoologists and they have a vested interest in proving they're out there.
Also contact Forrest Gallante. He’ll probably pay a small fortune to find out the location
I'd move there just for the impossibly slim chance of glancing at one for a few fleeting seconds, and have seriously considered it. People who have seen them really are some of the luckiest people on earth! I've been obsessed with them since I was a child. They are a huge part of why I am so passionate about conservation and cryptozoology. What happened to them was criminal. Oh, and I believe with all my heart that they're still out there somewhere. ❤
@@alexanderren1097 I don't doubt it! He's currently trying to raise 5 million dollars to get some experts together for an extensive expedition into the wilds of Papua New Guinea to find proof of a living population of thylacines. What I wouldn't give to be a part of that!!!!
@@mermaid_at_heart213 random aside but have you ever played a game called Disco Elysium? one of the side characters is a cryptozoologist doing some field work and he's pretty great. He's very used to people criticizing his work, and more than a little tired of dealing with people.
@@mermaid_at_heart213I really, really, hope so. But forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical. If humans are good at one thing, it's wiping out mildly irritating species.
I used to have about five possums living in my wall, I wasn't allowed to remove them because they are protected so they just kind of lived in there for years. They would scratch at the wall every night and I would sometimes hear them screaming in the middle of the night.
I'm not that sane, I'd have taken matters into my own hands
Hey! I’m from Tasmania 😊 Thanks for featuring! Yes, possums are very cute but very scary. Nothing is scarier than hearing Tasmanian Devils while you’re camping though. Nightmare. Nice research, I learned a few things from this!
I have to say, this video made me want to visit Tasmania. This looks like paradise to me. I don't think I could get bored at everything Tasmania has to offer!
@spectre-8 Great
Whats your thoughts on if the thilasine is around?
@@Foxhound141_67 I hope it is around somewhere. A lot of people think if it were to be hidden in a small population somewhere, it would be the west coast. Most is inaccessible by boat or even road since there aren’t even many roads (a few mining towns and small dirt roads by cliffs) so I hope they’re somewhere safe! I’ve only seen thylacine remains in the Hobart museum 😔
@spectre-8 what a shame, I think I've seen them in the field museum in Chicago IL but that's about it. Let me now if they find it and ill let you know if we see a big foot lol
The guy at the end, chasing that critter for his chocolate, is great stuff.
Everyone else: that animal just took my chocolate, shucks I was going to enjoy that later.
Australians: Come back here you little bugger! That's my chocolate...
I’d be ready to throw hands at a taz devil if they stole my chocolate, not gonna lie. I don’t even live in Tasmania, I’m from the states 🤣🤣☠️☠️. Ain’t no one gonna eat my chocolate 😒😒☠️
To be fair, chocolate is poisonous to some animals.
@@maddenboseroy4074 Yeah but being Australian animals they are not like other animals. You don't want the local wildlife to get a taste for chocolate, It just makes them stronger and angrier, especially when they've eaten it all, and there's none left. 🙃
You're genuinely not gonna mention that Dan had NO idea about Platypi but got it all correct? He just picked teal cause he thought it looked good, he didnt know what Platypi sounded like so he told the VA to make a curring sound and dude, i think we're only just starting.
This right here. Dan even has a short on youtube explaining the colour thing. It's one of the best coincidences of any cartoon.
The fact they actually sort of sound like Perry is also kinda nuts
sorry to be a grammar N*zi, but it's officially now platypuses. Same with octopuses and hippopotamuses. Love from you're local spelling 🐝🚨👮😅😬
@@PaulDidIt You're gonna be the grammar police, but use "you're" instead of "your"? Lol no hate from me, that was just hilarious
@@slimothyjames4577 that is hilarious!!
Mate I'm a born and bred Tasmanian but live in Melbourne now and this description of Tassie is the best one I've heard you should visit Australia and Tasmania one day as it's one of the most beautiful places on earth.
The penguins being unbothered by red light might be related to red light not penetrating well through water, so their eyes aren't adjusted to it. Submarines sometimes use red lights to observe deep sea fish without spooking them as it's believed they don't see red too well. The Stoplight Loosejaw has red bioluminescence for similar hunting purposes.
"why weren't you here for work yesterday??"
"oh neal was in front of my car"
"OHHH NEAL, good to know he's in town"
kinda like a cow sleeping on the road in india, traffic is not happening.
I see you don't know Neal the seal
This guy probably is the reason why I don’t chuck the nearest rock at any animal in the woods I find but instead run bc ive watched long enough to know whatever it is is gonna kill me
@Seeyou776 parts of my brains are missing
And don't forget what could be under the rock.
3+3=7 idk reading this comment messed me up
You don't chuck rocks at animals because they could kill you. I don't chuck rocks at animals because that is being a dipshit
Running is the fastest way to die. Cougars can jump up to 40ft horizontally from a sitting position and run 40-50 mph. Black bears 30-35 mph also big cats can't resist a chance to kill any more than a house cat.
Next holiday destination? Hm... or maybe a Brazilian snake island? Our crew was brave enough to go and bring us some crazy footage of an island where there are no human inhabitants, just 2,000 golden lanceheads.
Tasmanian checking in here. While most of the world gets foxes, we get quolls. Just the other week, my neighbour lost two chickens to them. They broke into th chicken shed, bit the head off one, and pulled the other up a nearby tree. I don't live out in the bush either. Suburbs, and next to a highway.
We also have possums visit most nights. They'll run across the roof or wooden balcony... they're also not afraid to confront and fight cats, as one of our cats would constantly get into a fight with them.
And, one of my most surreal experiences here was to shower in a shower that faced a Tasmanian rain forest, that was my mother's backyard.
For anyone wondering, Aussie possums are actual possums, not related to the American opossum.
You have foxes now, just like Australia.
@@the_man_with_the_silver_eyesYou say it like you just brought them over to spite the commenter
Do you believe in thylacines?
@@olachens Thank you for the hint!.
Maggies can be really sweet! If you ally yourself with them by giving them snacks and chatting to them, they'll hang out with you and bring their babies. I've heard people swear they sometimes bring you gifts too, they love to steal stuff
crows, but cats.
the hell is a maggie? you mean magpie? because I'm looking up "maggie animal" and all I get is an Animal Crossing character
Maggie is Australian slang
@@grandmasteryoda6717short for magpie, welcome to Aussie slang, in which we shorten and add new sounds to words. Eg. Servo = service station, the phrase chuck a u-ey = make a u-turn.
Some of it is regional too.
I've never even been to the down under, and I understood a maggie.
As an Australian I can honestly say that we don't need zoos, Australia IS the god damn zoo. We got so many crazy, random, fucked up animals that Australia alone could have an entire season of National Geographic, hell maybe even 2
You said it, compatriot!
Yep! I visited last summer from America and it was so fun! Kangaroos were everywhere, as were cockatoos, ibis, and wallabys. And Sydney was super cool. Definitely would visit again.
Australia could have 4 seasons, 2 movies, and a documentary written about it and they STILL wouldn't cover everything weird down there 😂😂😂
right lol I live in an "inner suburb" and we've got one tree with a handful of kookaburras living in it, one tree with lorikeets and rosellas, a tree which is visited by gigantic flying foxes at night that are the true scariest sounds out there, 2 bush turkeys and a baby bush turkey, resident water dragons that bask at our pool, so many geckos that one landed on my hand the other night in bed and stayed on it while I walked around showing the family LOL and of course possums eating up our passionfruits at night. incredible place to be on earth, absolutely lovely. (disclaimer: to be transparent and accurate there's also hundreds of spiders, ants, and anoles I didn't bother to mention because duh, and surely some snakes I don't know about since the dog brought a dead one into my bed the other week. yes you read that correctly. I napped with a dead snake and a dog chomping on it without bothering to see what she had in her mouth and the scales stuck to my doona in the wash and were littered all through the house but yea absolute heaven, we live in)
@@smoothsailin9351 You summed our country up perfectly. Did you perhaps forget to mention the inevitable family clan of Noisey Miners hanging around? 😁
"If you see a thylacine, no you didn't" was a perfect addition to an amazing video.
Thanks for the mention big King! Come visit us one day ya bloody legend! You're an honorary two-head now, here's your complimentary "No mainlanders allowed!" Sign.
I can HEAR the accent!
bro the Brushtail Possum sound is fucking crazy, straight out of a horror game
I once made the mistake of pitching my tent under a possum's tree and beside a wombat's den 1/10 would not recommend 🥴
@@pyrpyr5Wolf😂I just came here to say, try camping below them! 😂 The ones I pitched below were munching on the leaves of the tree making sounds like a human eating a carrot all night on top of the crazy noises they make. Hahahaha. Nothing better than having tourists rock up who have no idea about them!
@@nicolepowell3121 I'd lived in outback Queensland up until I went down to Melbourne for Australia Open so I had no idea there would be anything louder than the corellas and ravens 😂
We should appreciate that our example of horror is games and not a pissed-off kangaroo.
@@pyrpyr5Wolf I live in SE Melbourne and have a brushtail frequent my bedroom window every night for the warmer 6 months of the year. They sound like a corella having a full blown asthma attack.
"Sorry Boss, I'm gonna be a little late...yeah....yeah, its Neil again"
OMG that's all I was thinking about😂😂😂😂😂
Here say hi Neil "ARRRRGGHHHHHHH" Neil says G'day 💀
No idea how this video came across my feed...but damn glad it did. Dude's humor and delivery are fantastic, all while showing me the alien world of Tasmania.
My first time on your channel and I loved it, that final bit “He’s got me Lindt” … “78% yer mongrel” took me totally off guard! 😂😂😂😂
I didn't know what the hell he was saying until I saw the package. Trying to take his chocolate! 🤣
Great, now I've found another animal as cute as hippos that I'll have to go out of my way to remind myself is dangerous. "Must not pet danger weasel. Must. Not. Boop. Do Not Boop... Whatever you do don't- awww it wants my chocolate, c'mere lil guy 🥰"
"And if you want to Fall without tripping, you'll have to March first". Clever line. If I didn't hear wrong 👍👍👍
Clever line? The entire video was full of puns. It was a clever video, most likely because he had to try to rationally describe the most irrational place on earth.
Clever lines are what I love about Casual Geographic
@3:10 "And their vision might be poor but they'll still Pikachu"
...i sees what you did there
One of the most common birds native to Tasmania is the Native Hen, commonly referred to as the "turbo chook". They are extremely swift, have blood red eyes, and their call sounds like newly-weds testing the bed springs on their honeymoon.
7:20 I've been to a Canadian petting too 14 years ago and they had a Kangaroo you could pet, he was a big boy and he handled the snow like any other animal. They had him in a barn during the winter but still let him into the snow field and he loved it. He bounced real EXTRA like a dog when snow fell .
7:14 *
That was a Cangaroo, nothing like a kangaroo, all over Canada, along with the house hippos.
I love how the Aussies just casually accepted Neil as their neighbor & went about their business
Just too big to get rid of. In the north of my state, it's moose. 1800 pounds, totally fearless, and likely to react to your presence like a bar brawler whose beer you just knocked over. Putting up with them is the smart move.
Your poetic speech is actually so pleasing to the ear, on top of being educating. Really enjoy your content for many reasons!
Is poetic speech code for AI writing now?
@spot.themagicninja6087 you mad you're not versed in verse.. haha,
@@spot.themagicninja6087He’s been doing this style for many more years than AI has been good enough to fool people into thinking it’s intelligent.
Your final comments about Tasmania are absolutely correct. I've done some work down there and had to be super-aware of the resentment they felt needing assistance from someone who lives on the mainland. It was like visiting a strange tribe, it literally tooks weeks before they would open up and collaborate with me.
The rest of your video is spot-on. Tasmania is absolutely beautiful and filled with amazing wildlife
An ERB AND Casual Geographic. What a lovely Friday.
A man of culture I see
RIGHT?? Man we're eating good today lads!
(Minus points for the fckin audio jumpscare tho goddamn akdjdjd)
I still gotta watch that 🤩
THEY'RE STILL A THING!?
@@j.jbinks9669, yes 😎
Magpies become friendly with you if you don't pose a threat.
They can even bring their young to meet you, like an introduction once they have fledged.
Quite heartwarming knowing I've got little bros in the trees looking out for me!
15:30 woah, i never thought i'd hear casual geographic mention felix colgrave lol. he's one of my favorite animators!
Second this
“Went for the wrong lips” is wild 💀
that brush tail with them pastiries was like
"do with me what you must i have already won"
"If you want to Fall without tripping, you'll have to March first..." my guy is on another level
"Their vision might be poor but they'll still peek at you (Pikachu)" goodness me sir, impeccable wordplay indeed...
When you introduced the brush tailed possum a warning would be nice. I listen to you at work and I have to hear headphones man. Ow. But great video 👍
This is straight-up the best video you've ever done. I hope I can someday write something with least half of the flow and creativity this had.
Also, as a fan of Felix Colgrave, it was cool to see he inspired this video. He's an incredible animator, and it's always nice to see legends influencing legends
I was wondering if anyone else had mentioned that! I legit jumped out of my chair when I heard what this vid was inspired by
Ai written scripts help.
1:54, that ant was just straight up suicidal😅
Nahhh it's about that warrior mentality, bro. In the ant's mind, it was its greatest risk ever taken. For the spider it was 9:15 on a Tuesday morning.
Does anyone what that sound affect was, when the ant was jumping bin looking for it for time.
@@bestpriest2224
Almost like: "IF I'M GOING DOWN YOU'RE COMING WITH ME- aw crap." [nom nom]
It's from the show Ed Edd n Eddy@channelnamenotfound1751
HEY THATS ME I LIVE THERE
also omg thanks for the felix colgrave mention, because for about a year now ive been looking for this music video i remember watching years ago, but i couldnt remember what it was called or who it was by. Turns out it was the source music video by none other than felix colgrave.
The lyrebird that learned the sound of construction tools? Wow. But the one imitating a crying child is scary as heck.
Your description of Tasmania is vivid and imaginative. The combination of unique biodiversity, sustainability, and the uncanny facets of animal life really paints a peculiar yet fascinating picture of the land.
5:52 yo this is probably the same kind of regression/loss of function that a good number of fish experience, because red light is absorbed the fastest in water, only traveling like 10ft before red light isn't visible many species can't see red light bc they had no reason to devote energy to maintaining the ability to see red light. Bc penguins have been evolving in water for so long they probably don't need to see red light very much/at all bc they normally can't see it while in the water anyway
@Jack_Rabbit17 interesting, never knew that it was common with birds
You really outdid yourself on this one, 11/10! Love your content, you didn't have to plan my next vacation, but you did anyways. Much love bro 🧡
Thank you!!
I hovered above the video for a few seconds, watching the video and reading the CC... I was like, who is this modern day Shakespeare and why is he so wise in the way of words
Needless to say, you've got yourself a new subscriber@@mndiaye_97
Love the way you make your comedy sound so poetic 😂 you have a way with words
You, sir, are a true wordsmith. Been subbed for a couple years now. Thank you for all your hard work.
This dude has needed an animal planet show for longest time. He's the bomb.
This is the kinda content I live for.. informative, entertaining, can make me laugh or cringe at the drop of a hat.
You as a creator aren't afraid to go back and correct yourself once you learn new things down the line which is so... so freaking awesome!
I feel like I stumbled across a version of Animal Planet that was built for my twisted sense of humor. I've been subbed for a while, it's always a good day when I find a new Casual Geographic video.
Thank you for all your hard work, the amount of time it takes to pool all this information and cut it down into entertaining snippets like this is astounding.
9:20 Platypus???
🧢🪖⛑️
*PERRY THE PLATYPUS ?!!??*
"He´s the semi-aquatic mammal of action!"
I'm from Tasmania and can confirm that everything in this video is correct, which unfortunately includes the roadkill part D:
Seeing a wallaby sitting calmly while covered in snow is pretty cool. Regarding the penguins and red light, there are literally signs at the beaches where they sleep/breed that remind people to only use red light, and to try to remain motionless so-as to not scare them. Lastly, some of the trees here are completely insane and hugely varied. Between ancient Huon Pine, massive eucalypts and manferns that could support a house, plus many more varieties of tree, you end up with completely different and equally awesome environments, at only a short drive away. You can go from rainforest to alpine to pasture to bush in like 2 hours
What about the toilet toads?
@@JB-yb4wnThat would be the worst for me, I don't like frogs.1
@@1Rez_EZ1
Did you see all those guys setting up house in the tank? It looks like a frog spa.
@@JB-yb4wnFrogs in the toilet are pretty common throughout Australia especially if you live in or near rainforests, generally I think people just check the toilet before sitting down so you don’t get an unwelcome surprise (at least I do). That or hope for the best.
@@EwLifeGross
I would never get used to things crawling out of my toilet.
"The seasons are flipped" not me sitting in South Africa thinking thats completely normal. Christmas time for us is flip flops, watermelons and swimming. Theres even sometimes Summer Santa items like t shirts or cups with Santa in flip flops and sunglasses.
I’m biased but southern hemisphere summer is the real summer imo
The bars that you come up with are half the reason I follow lol Keep up the great work!
Tasmania is super interesting.
Also great humour and footage as usual.
I also didn’t see the Felix Colgrave shoutout coming.
Anyone who haven’t seen his work already and likes animations, should definitely check him out.
Some of my favourites and also his most popular videos include *Fever the Ghost, The Elephant’s Garden,* and *Double King.* They’re all relatively short and easily watchable/bingeable and trippy as well. So I would recommend anyone to give them a try regardless of circumstance.
I love Felix but missed the reference. Where’s it at?
At 15:27.
@@EonWhite oh, that’s super obvious. I was more distracted when I watched this than I realized
It's easy to understand why you have 3.3M subscribers because this vid is nothing short of brilliant! So beautifully written and narrated, it raises the video to an art form. So rare is the combination of funny and informative; kudos.
6:23 No way!! That's EXACTLY what the Magic Beanstalk looked like in my childhood dreams 😅
Watching this video while high and listening to Mike Shinoda, and tomorrow, I believe I'm gonna wake up with an urge to go to Tasmania and a fervent conviction that that tree I dreamt of obviously couldn't exist on Earth.
Don’t worry guys, the rest of Australia is just as messed up.
As someone who lives in the state Victoria (the closest to the Tasmanian DLC) I can confirm this and uh
The magpies try to kill me every spring, the weather is either hot and burning and chaotic or cold and slightly less burning and chaotic, and the kangaroos are literally in my backyard (they break… many things.)
It’s definitely a goal to visit little Tassie though
This is a cool idea for videos, man!
Focusing on a single location and exploring all the environmental wildlife quirks of the place sounds refreshing
Great video! Possums sound like cats hissing into a microphone turned up to 11. I had one let me know about it when it was up in my laundry cupboard late one night. I tried to suggest it go out the window next to it, but it jumped right towards my face instead then bolted into the wardrobe & attached itself to the carpet. Their grip is like Velcro mixed with super glue. It was an interesting night.
😂😂❤
This video was quite packed full of information. The pace was good too (normally I speed videos up, but I didn't have to for this one).
I probably won't be visiting Tasmania, but this was a nice "postcard."
Heading to Tasmania for my PhD later this year, hopefully! Super excited.
Your channel is fuckin dope man, so many people choose to make absolute nonsense, but you really do a great job at balancing entertainment and humor with education.
As an Australian growing up in rural Victoria I was camping out alone one night when I first heard a possum making that weird noise it makes and I immediately went into full adrenaline mode, I pulled out a machete I had near the campfire and I just started swinging wildly into the night and yelling at full volume "COME AT ME" "LETS GO" "COME GET SOME". I had never heard anything like it before and I knew we don't have any big mammals like bears or tigers to be afraid of, infact even most Kangaroos will not attack you when you get too close, they usually stand perfectly still and eventually hop away, but in those few minutes of pure terror my mind couldnt process what could possibly be making that noise. After a while of shining my flashlight around and swinging my machete I realised the noise was coming from high up in a tree and when I finally gained the strength to investigate I realised it was just a Possum. I'll never forget that night.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
15:06....only humans will train a dog to do literaly anything....
Because dogs have that perfect mix of obedience and intelligence to train them to do many tasks. Although some are smart enough to bypass those invisible fences we invented, so we can bypass bureaucrats' and landlords' resentments towards waist height fences.
Bro why did you go so hard on the bars in vid!?!? Phenomenal
Employee: “Sorry boss I can’t come to work today.”
Boss: “Neal?”
Employee: “Neal.”
10:40
Some reasons could be 1) bioluminescent bacteria like how sloths have bacteria in their fur, 2) a lot of animals can see more colours then we can see, and I know that birds can see some shades of UV (they use it to keep their chicks apart and to know where tf the beaks of their chicks are and what side is up and down on the babies), so that could be a good reason as well
Fun fact btw: There is an Australian shrimp that can see literally *every* colour in the world
9:02 He Looks Like You Told Him A Bad Joke
"How does anyone find that funny"
@@HellCromeE I Found It Funny
@@HobbCap that's what I think the bird would say hence the quotation
0:50 BARS
“and if you wanna fall without tripping, you’ll have to march first”
Edit 10:30 Dr Travouillon is where I first learned about this research he theorized it’s how mammals mostly could communicate to each other due to the glow being Prominently displayed on their backs. But nocturnal animals it was most prevalent. And many had it on their stomach which he thinks friendly animals would be able to then reference whereas predators wouldn’t get the chance.
I’m not scientist , not by a country mile, but it seems also likely evolutionary aspects are at play. Chicken and the egg, so to speak. Maybe a glitch in the species slowly became widespread through mating that for whatever reason back fur and skin absorb less of the chemical that reproduces this affect. And the ones that do have it on their back that are nocturnal were understandable hunted easier by the animals that can see this. It would make them light up perfectly. So the remaining animals are the ones with the deformity that left only nocturnal animals mostly that had it on their stomach which isn’t visible to anything predator stalking that stands taller than the prey
8:37 Congratulations. I’ve been a subscriber for years, and for the first time, you finally got me screaming at my phone.
Tasmania is literally the closet place on earth to visiting a habitable alien planet.
4:32 it’s good Neil is getting more publicity as he’s a precious boy
I've watched a few of your episodes and I gotta say, whoever picks your music background, give'em a raise. I really hope you become the next David Attenborough. Your series is a treat.
Bro… I’ve been following you since basically day 1, and you’ve never ceased to improve. The information is incredible, the videos and editing are on point… But what has always amazed me is how you blast out phrases like “Danger Oreo” and “Medley of Mind F#€£ery” without taking a breath. You obviously have Steve Irwin, David Attenborough and Sam Jackson on Zoom