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Beavers are always my go to example of how difficult it is to reconstruct fossil animals. A paleontologist in the distant future might look at a beaver skeleton and just classify it as yet another moderately oversized rodent, the Cenozoic was full of those things and the all look roughly the same, big rat. A really good paleontologist with a well preserved fossil might look at the wear patterns on the teeth and make computer models of the jaw to come to the wild theory that these things probably ate wood pulp, they might look at the shape of the tail vertebrae and conclude that they might have supported a paddle shaped tail, which would imply that they were good swimmers. But even in this wild scenario where the futures best paleontologists decide to waste there time studying an unremarkable rodent fossil, I doubt they would ever even suspect the dam building. Makes you think just how many extinct organisms had amazing behaviors that we will never know about because behaviors don't fossilize.
All it takes is a bit of perspective, bone shape can inform muscle attachment which would show strong tree-chopping jaws, changed water flow will show up in the geology of the land and sometimes dams and burrows fossilize, as well as the chewed-through trees! Speculation has gotten so much better in paleontology, and, while I'm sure there will always be new things to learn and discover, science gets better and better all the time.
Arthropods always turn into crabs or flies; mammals always turn into either mice, moles, or seals; non-avian reptiles always turn into lizards. What do birds always turn into? Maybe chickens or kiwis?
Dormice are not squirrels, squirrels are more closely related to beavers, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice, whereas dormice evolved earlier.
I think you may have made a mistake, considering beavers kangaroo rats and gophers still belong to the family of muroidae, while dormice, squirrels and groundhogs belong to the family of sciuromorpha. Groundhogs and squirrels are each others' closest relatives though!
I am watching this video in the company of two of my dwarf rats, Puck and Peter Quince, while sharing apple crumble with them. I'm afraid in spite of all my attempts to explain to them that this video is a very important lesson about their ancestors and relations, they remain distracted - much more excited about the crumble. I have been hoping for a rodent video for ages though so I am psyched enough for all of us 😄
By the time he's done with the animals, a lot of our understanding of phylogenies will have changed. We are in a golden age of taxonomy with the advent of DNA analysis and a lot of phylogenies are still in flux.
Recently I saw a video calling muskrats “beavers” and thought “someday Clint is going to have something to say about this.” Little did I know, TODAY’S THE DAY
The groundhog family who lives under my porch and I are thoroughly enjoying this video together. Love your content, I’m so happy you continued to cover different families and genera like this!
Australia’s golden bellied otter rat or Rakali is an interesting one and missed. It is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. They have learnt to eat poisonous cane toads by flipping them over and eating into their under belly avoiding eating the skin.
PSA: don't do a shot every time Clint says "mice" in this video - you might die But also I had no idea Muskrats were basically giant American mice, that's super neat! Keep it up with these phylogenies!
@@indyreno2933 Did you watch the video? They are well within the clade of mouse-like animals called mice, and even if You draw the line at Mus, or Muridae, it's not incorrect to consider all Eumuroida mice.
@user-sc7ld7cj6h, in case you should notice, mouse-like rodents (suborder Myomorpha) are actually divided into four superfamilies: Platacanthomyoidea, Dipodoidea, Cricetoidea, and Muroidea, the lasiures (family Platacanthomyidae) are the sole extant family of the Platacanthomyoidea superfamily, which evolved first among mouse-like rodents (suborder Myomorpha), which is then followed by Dipodoidea that contains the families Dipodidae (Jerboas) and Spalacidae (Kopatels, Zokors, Bamboo Rats, and Grawes), leaving the most recent split to be between the superfamilies Cricetoidea and Muroidea, the former contains the families Calomyscidae (Calomyscuses), Cricetidae (Hamsters, Lemmings, Muskrats, and Voles), Zapodidae (Jumping Mice and Birch Mice), and Sigmodontidae (New World Mice and Rats) whereas the latter contains the families Muridae (Old World Mice and Rats), Gerbillidae (Gerbils, Jirds, Sand Rats, Link Rat, Spiny Mice, Brush-Furred Rats, Rudd's Mouse), Cricetomyidae (Pouched Rats, African Rock Mice, Climbing Mice, Fat Mice, Gerbil Mouse, Delany's Mouse, Nikolaus's Mouse, White-Tailed Rat, Karoo Mouse, Togo Mouse, Vlei Rats, Groove-Toothed Rats, Whistling Rats, and Maned Rat), and Nesomyidae (Malagasy Rodents).
@@InventorZahran I've never Heard of them, but I'm going to look them up now! I've fostered red squirrels, and rats are such a delight. One of my friends has Gambian pouched rats and capybaras. Rodents are so intelligent and social.
Sooner than later would be awesome on the squirrel video😊 I'm a fan of chipmunks, too. These phylogeny videos awakened a part of me that I think I forgot when I got my full time job. (Creatures! All of the creatures!)
Clint, I'm sure you get this all the time, but I am so glad your channel exists. Your sense of humor and enthusiasm makes it easy to want to root for your success, and the whole team's hard work makes it fun to learn about the cool critters you cover. Keep it up brother Clint & team
And they're among the closest relatives of us primates, along with rabbits. Since we still have our canine teeth and rodents (and rabbits) don't have them, one wonders if perhaps the rodent/rabbit line split off from the primate line. In other words, rodents and rabbits may have evolved FROM us, rather than primates evolving from rodents and rabbits. Another "dun-dun-DUN" moment in evolution.
I encountered a deer mouse in the vestibule of a McDonalds, and it was so gorgeous it looked like a Christmas card illustration come to life. I very gently encouraged it outside with my handily pointed boot toe. I am a rodent fan in general, but man, the deer mouse was ADORABLE.
When i was a kid, i was walking home from school one day. passed a guy mowing his lawn. Some how right behind him was a baby squirrel. Took it home and raised it. Was a really good and fun pet.
I discovered this on my own a few years back: that "Rat" and "Mouse" are thrown around without any regard to relation, and pretty much based entirely on size and general appearance. I ran into a similar problem when trying to figure out the difference between ducks and geese.
Yesss Clint would be the guy to pick up on weirdos like Kyogre - generally assumed to be an orca - but is it?? Its "tail fins" are noted in the dex as a footprint. Could it be the patterning is throwing us off and it's actually a mosasaur, fitting with its reptile brothers Groudon and Rayquaza? Maybe!! :D
You know what, if anybody else said "weirdest mammal" about anything that's not a Platypus I'd think they were crazy or forgetting the Platypus, but somehow, I expect Clint will make a strong case for the Naked Mole Rat
eusocial, surprisingly long, lived, nearly blind, tiny mammals without fur, that also happen to be nearly immune to cancer. Yeah naked Mole Rats are very weird
I've had pet rats since 2010, with a 6 month break in between... when I got Gerbils. Then got rats again :') Also mice aren't new to me. I still have one pet mice left. She is about 3y old now and I expect her passing any day now.. sadly. Two rats left who are 2y3m old now. They are such amazing pets. I followed the National Pouched Rat Society for a while. Also learned about how to care for them and learned they are not for me. On top of that, I would have to check if they're even allowed where I live. They're also called hero rats for they are trained to detect landmines.
Living in New York, it's not a TRUE rat unless it lives in the subway, bites tourists, lays it's eggs in the shoes of homeless people, and only uses its leathery wings to fly.
@@metal_pipe9764 Yeah, they pair off and make little nests in the shoes that get left in the subway tunnels, and then the rat-king lays eggs for the whole colony, and the pairs fight over getting to incubate the eggs and raise the larvae.
Squirrels scare me more than snakes. They are too shifty. Also National Lampoon Christmas Vacation taught me to never turn my back on a squirrel or stick my face in random trees.
A USAnian friend told me in answer to my question how was your short holiday, that he got kicked out of a national park in the USA because rangers had found squirrels carrying the Yersinia pestis bacterium - that's the one you need to avoid like the proverbial plague. Bats can carry rabies too and my hypothesis is that part of the vampire-fables is based on people having contracted rabies from bats or dogs and next becoming rabid attackers. Kentucky Fried Movie will teach you about "People who love to live dangerously" not to mention the catholic girls.
@@jpdj2715 not only do you need to avoid Yersinia pestis like the proverbial plague, you need to avoid it like the actual plague, because it's the actual plague, the Black Death.
Sir I paid good money to lean this at college! ur giving this info out in such an entertaining and engaging way, makes me want to thank you for refreshing my love for learning about the little things that make every animal unique!
I just love rodents. I have mice, hamsters gerbils and guinea pigs as pets. Can you one day do a video on the African egg eating snake. I'm interested in a snake I don't have to feed rodent.
i love learning about the relationships between species and groups of animals. thank you Clint for making such high quality and informative content! i had no idea that primates and rodents were so closely related o:
@@rogeriopenna9014Capybaras are in the clade he hasn't gotten to yet/will be in the next video when he makes it. It's got capybaras, guinea pigs, porcupines, chinchillas, and others that I can't think of off the top of my head
I adore rodents. And I have a friend who lives on the Olympic Peninsula and had a mountain beaver show up in his yard. Was really cool. I just get Douglas squirrels get real chatty at our window. And beavers to!
For me it's always the info he throws in as a side note that blows my mind. humans are so closely related to rodents?!? And that's why we can get so many diseases from them?? the more you know
If you're referring to the superorder Xenarthra, then you should know that anteaters are actually more closely related to sloths than to armadillos, armadillos (family Dasypodidae) are the only extant family in the order Cingulata, whereas both sloths and anteaters constitute the order Pilosa.
Rats? I was mice once. They locked me in a room. A squirrel room, with beavers. Beavers? I was rats once. They locked me in a room. A mice room, with squirrels. Squirrels? I was beavers once. They locked me in a room. A rats room, with mice. Mice? I was squirrels once. They locked me in a room. A beaver room, with rats
I've had almost every rodent pet when I was younger, rats were my favorite! And another reason I can't nor don't want to feed my snakes live lol CAN'T DO IT. ❤
I used to have giant squirrel popsicles in my back yard, at least in the winter. The rest of the year they were just giant squirrels with no visible tails. Or groundhogs. Or woodchucks. You know, whichever. How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Thank you, Clint, for educating me on the creatures that terrify me more than anything else. Pushing through the discomfort of looking at rodents was worth it to learn that everything is mice
i really love this series on the families and(/or?) clades of various aminals, Clint. evolutionary biology is so fascinating. and you’re great at presenting it, thank you ❤
Hi Mr. Clint! I love your channel so much and it's made me interested in getting a snake. My parents think the Corn Snake would be the best option. I told them that it is better to buy a snake from a reptile expo more than a chain pet store, correct? I've also done the appropriate research on Corn Snakes and I think it would be best to buy one at a Reptile expo, they are also fans of your channel, and they want some advice from you directly because they love your happy manerism! So, do you agree that it would be best to get my Corn snake from the reptile expo? Should I get the enclosure beforehand at a pet store, or get everything from the reptile expo? Or, do you think it would be best to get one at a pet store? We're beginners so we don't know if Corn snake is the best option. We were also thinking Rosy Boas could be good but we don't want a ball python because it could get too big. There's a reptile convention coming up in my community on June second and I want to be ready. Thank you for your time and your awesome channel!
Some things to add: The poorly named “Mountain Beaver” by all accounts should be called “Sewellel”. If you delve deeper into the phylogeny of the Cricetidae, it becomes apparent that muskrats are just giant Nearctic water voles, and lemmings are just short-tailed tundra voles. Funnily enough, my childhood mammal book (which was A. published in the 1970s and well before my actual birth, B. claims the “cliff thing” to be true about lemmings, and C. had almost no cladistics at all except for a vague phylogeny of mammals at the beginning and another one for fossil elephants) claimed that muskrats and lemmings are voles and turned out to be correct by accident. When you cover the murid rodents in their respective video, do at least give a mention to some of the Australian mice that went extinct and the one (Gould’s Mouse) that came back from extinction; a persistent misconception is that all rodents in Australia are nonindigenous pests, when in fact many are of conservation concern in their own right. Finally, do make sure to explain where the Anomaluromorpha fits into the tree. You seem to be copying the phylogeny on Wikipedia, and that clade isn’t on that tree. Looking at some scholarly phylogenies, it seems that suborder is actually closer to the Muroidea/Castoroidea group than squirrels are.
Actually, lemmings and muskrats are not voles, they're more closely related to hamsters than they are to voles, making hamsters the most derived of the family Cricetidae, also, "Anomaluromorpha" is not a valid taxon, anomalures (superfamily Anomaluroidea) and springhares (family Pedetidae) both belong to the suborder Sciuromorpha (Squirrel-Like Rodents), the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is considered the most basal of all squirrel-like rodents with the dormice (family Gliridae) being the second most basal, with the two most derived clades of squirrel-like rodents (suborder Sciuromorpha) being one that contains the anomalures and pedetoids and the other that contains the sciuroids, castoroids, and geomyoids, in fact, squirrels (family Sciuridae) and beavers (family Castoridae) are the only extant families of the superfamilies Sciuroidea and Castoroidea respectively, in fact, among the hamster family, the voles (subfamily Arvicolinae) are the most basal subfamily, then followed by the muskrats (subfamily Ondatrinae), leaving the lemmings (subfamily Lemminae) and hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae) as equally the most derived subfamilies.
@@indyreno2933 Last I checked, Ondatrinae and Lemminae are not valid taxa. As of 2024, these are the most up-to-date phylogenies of the Arvicolinae: peerj.com/articles/16693.pdf At best Lemmini (note the spelling) is a basal clade within the Arvicolinae if it’s even a natural group at all. Likewise, none of the phylogenies place Ondatrini (again, note the spelling) as being closer to Cricetinae than to the Arvicolini. Considering previous comments, Indy is not likely to concede; I am simply pointing out where the taxonomy stands.
@@dispholidus My macaw is like "whatever" when she sees one, but my grey can be vicious. I'm not sure why. I didn't get her until she was 11 years old, so maybe she used to hunt mice before I got her or something :)
A huge fan of squirrels here, back in the late 80's I decided my first tattoo would be one. Took a while but got it done '00. Love them so much that some still call me squirrel 🐿 🥰
Yes, Clint, 🙏 hurry and make the rest of this video! I'm not sure how many more mice - or not-mice - I can take, but I'm dying to know the rest of what's out there to learn. I've been terrified of rodents since my brother's gerbil bit me, and its razor-blade-like front teeth sliced easily through the pad of my finger. Stitches ensued. Fear of rodents became entrenched. I'm 60 and still have an overwhelming fear of rodents. Love reptiles. Rodents = terror. I DO think they're cute! I'm not touching one. I'm hoping education helps. 🐁 🦫🐇 🦫 🐁 🦫 🐇
@@ClintsReptiles What does what mean? Rat? Unlike some you have errantly implied to be clades, rat isn't even phenetic. It is a common term that people use for large, rodent-like creatures, like the marsupial rat. One cannot hold common names to a phylogenetic standard, for obvious reasons. Regular people need to be able to name things based on their perceptions. It simply isn't science when they do so.
I could watch these videos all day, I wish someone had the energy to make a video describing each and every species in detail. I would love to see what kind of weirdo’s exist in the world.
Just starting this episode and when Clint mentioned that none of the first group were native to America, but were introduced, I immediately thought of Fivel, from An American Tale. Also, when he mentioned the largest mouse in The Colosseum, I was hoping he’d make a reference to the ROUSs from The Princess Bride. Maybe those will be mentioned later.
My wife and I were born and raised in northern Illinois, where we frequently encountered squirrels and developed a deep affection for these delightful creatures in our neighborhood. Having recently relocated to East Central Kentucky, we have noticed a distinct absence of squirrels in our vicinity, and we greatly miss the presence of our furry-tailed friends. In Illinois, my colleagues affectionately nicknamed me "Mr. Squirrelly" due to my enthusiasm for squirrels. Both my wife and I are biologists with a profound love and passion for all things related to science. We would be thrilled if you could produce a video on squirrels, highlighting the various species and their unique characteristics. Such a video would not only satiate our curiosity but also reignite our joy in observing and learning about these fascinating animals.
Kangaroo rats was my husband's study animal for his PhD and I assisted him. They have typical rodent teeth but jumping back legs and eat seeds and leaves and fruit and a few insects. It is true they are primitive mammals and are early rootstock of the rest of the mammals
We live trapped for study animals so we could release other species . We took some animals back to where caught to release. We had to keep some but rehomed them with sciencex̌
You didn't mention pocket mice a small version of kangaroo rats very well adapted to dry environment. Don't need water like some kangaroo rats which is what we studied they get water from the vegetation they eat and have specialized kidney so they hardly pee retaining the fluid by concentrating the urine well. If you dig up their underground chambers they make for home they store lots of material seeds and leaves for use when it's cold in the winter. They also have specialized chizzel shaped front incisors to remove the outter layer of the leaves so they only eat the inner juicer part. They stay underground when it's too cold. They also live longer than some other r
Is the naked mole-rat the weirdest animal? It's a great question. I explored this in a video I made by counting rare and exceptional traits of the platypus, the naked mole-rat, and homo sapiens. The results concluded that people are the weirdest mammal. (Yay us?)
At some point, it seems to me, that we almost have to re-name every single animal, based on our current understanding of evolution and how species are actually related. Because our naming system is SOOOO mired in the mis-understandings, based on the limited knowledge and resources of the time, from the past thousand years, at least. Especially around the 1800s, when the scientific community was going around "discovering" a bunch of stuff, and naming everything in sight, and putting all this new scientific knowledge in books for all posterity. Bless 'em, they were doing the best they could, and their efforts have paved the way for our current understanding. But the use, and mis-use, of terms that have so much cross-use can get so confusing!! Mice, rats, hamsters, muskrats (in love or single), naked mole rats from Africa that are not African mole rats... Can we do an Etch-A-Sketch shake on the whole animal names thing and start over with a clean slate, and come up with some logical system? (We'd have to keep a cross-reference to the old names, for historical research purposes, but for all future intents the new names should be used.) Then of course there's all the "bears" that aren't bears, and "wolves" that aren't wolves, etc...
You should know that the word "molerat" refers exclusively to the family Bathyergidae, members of the taxa Spalacinae and Thachyoryctini are more correctly referred to as "kopatels" and "grawes" respectively.
I am excited for a squirrel video! When I was in grad school, my thesis involved fossil ground squirrels. Although I never got to finish my research due to some medical issues, I have special place in my heart for squirrels.
@ClintsReptiles, quick cultural questions that do have answers people might want to know: Why are lady parts sometimes called a "beaver?" Why do we refer to female anatomical parts with animal names, such as the other name for a cat, while we refer to male parts with names for tools, such as a "rod," or, "dirk"? Is there sexism in Biology? lol Meanwhile, please cover why we humans have two kinds of lice. That one is a page-turner. I guess gorilla nests were comfy...? Meanwhile, there is a reason I wipe down public toilet seats, and put toilet paper down on them when I need to sit.
I kinda thought Mountain Beavers were called that not because of any living resemblance to actual Beavers, but because if you make a hat out of their fur, it resembles an actual Beaver hat, and so you could get a faux beaver hat while up in the mountains where there are no real Beavers.
My hubs and I used to have a flying squirrel. He was a rescue, so we referred to him as a roommate rather than a pet since he wasn’t bonded to us. He was a beautiful boy, who survived MBD in his early years with us. He died at the very elderly age of 14 in 2021. It was mildly distressing to see a flying squirrel with massive cataracts, because these guys are plentiful little prey rodents that don’t normally make it much past a year old in the wild. His name was Arrow, and he was the best roommate as long as you didn’t expect him to contribute financially, and didn’t mind some 3am antics. Would love to see some squirrel deep dives!
As a lifelong rodent fan (probably starting with Mickey Mouse as a kid), I obviously enjoyed this. I should also point out that the word "muskrat" probably actually derived from the Abenaki (the natives of parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec) word "moskwas", since the original English word was "musquash"; the animal's slightly rat-like appearance and musky territory-marking fluids probably included the folk etymology-derived word "muskrat".
I always laugh, when I talk with sailors about what they have seen on a voyage across the ocean..... they normally respond, plenty of flying "rats of the sea"..... (translation) Seagulls.
Who knows, if we allow them to live, beavers or muskrats might become fully aquatic, and flying squirrels might master powered flight instead of just gliding.
Ah yes the furry meatballs of the forest and field. Question: Have you considered doing a video like this on gymnosperms and angiosperms or are plants too far outside your field?
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Can you do a video on the Ornotishian Dinosaurs?
English is not my first language so there will be some spelling mistakes.
I should REALLY get off my ass and cover this topic in my Rats of NIMH fan fiction.
Squirrel video
When you think you've escaped the mice, there is one mouse out there to really mess with you: the titmouse. It's a bird.
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Therapods are my favourite mice😊
Thing is, it would be more proper with modern language to say mousy tit but oh well
fun fact: goldcrests, which are also birds, are called mouse rabbits in Polish
Therefore T-Rex is my favourite mouse?
really the whole mice phylogeny is like that astrounauts meme... "wait it's all mice?" "always has been"
Came here to say this lol
Size classification
mouse -> rat -> big ass rat
Big as rat -> crappy Barbara
Looking at the video, more like
mouse -> rat -> beaver
@@MalloonTarka Mouse -> rat -> beaver -> R.O.U.S.
you forgot the RUS-es
PIRATS ! HaRRRRRRRRRR !! 🤣
Beavers are always my go to example of how difficult it is to reconstruct fossil animals. A paleontologist in the distant future might look at a beaver skeleton and just classify it as yet another moderately oversized rodent, the Cenozoic was full of those things and the all look roughly the same, big rat. A really good paleontologist with a well preserved fossil might look at the wear patterns on the teeth and make computer models of the jaw to come to the wild theory that these things probably ate wood pulp, they might look at the shape of the tail vertebrae and conclude that they might have supported a paddle shaped tail, which would imply that they were good swimmers. But even in this wild scenario where the futures best paleontologists decide to waste there time studying an unremarkable rodent fossil, I doubt they would ever even suspect the dam building. Makes you think just how many extinct organisms had amazing behaviors that we will never know about because behaviors don't fossilize.
Sometimes behavior does fossilize. Have you heard of the “devil’s corkscrews”? I think PBS eons has a nice video about them.
Some goes for spiders, you would never know that they weave webs by looking at their fossils.
All it takes is a bit of perspective, bone shape can inform muscle attachment which would show strong tree-chopping jaws, changed water flow will show up in the geology of the land and sometimes dams and burrows fossilize, as well as the chewed-through trees! Speculation has gotten so much better in paleontology, and, while I'm sure there will always be new things to learn and discover, science gets better and better all the time.
They'd probably have an idea, maybe not of the design of a web, but if a spider managed to get fossilized, then its web might've too
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Concidering even the first mammals were fairly rodent like, it makes sense that everything would be mouse-coded.
Arthropods always turn into crabs or flies; mammals always turn into either mice, moles, or seals; non-avian reptiles always turn into lizards.
What do birds always turn into? Maybe chickens or kiwis?
If rats are big mice, and squirrels are, as we say in the midwest, tree rats, then squirrels are simply big tree mice.
and since dormice are like small squirrels, they're the regular tree mice we need to finish it out
What does that make groundhogs/marmots?
Dormice are not squirrels, squirrels are more closely related to beavers, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice, whereas dormice evolved earlier.
@@thomicrisler9855Marmots are basically squirrels without fluffy tails. So... big mountain mice?
I think you may have made a mistake, considering beavers kangaroo rats and gophers still belong to the family of muroidae, while dormice, squirrels and groundhogs belong to the family of sciuromorpha. Groundhogs and squirrels are each others' closest relatives though!
I am watching this video in the company of two of my dwarf rats, Puck and Peter Quince, while sharing apple crumble with them. I'm afraid in spite of all my attempts to explain to them that this video is a very important lesson about their ancestors and relations, they remain distracted - much more excited about the crumble. I have been hoping for a rodent video for ages though so I am psyched enough for all of us 😄
Is a dwarf rat a small rat or a slightly bigger mouse? This are the hard questions Clint leaves us with
@@wumbojetbiology can never make it easy on us 😂
@@wumbojet They're in the genus Rattus, so I think that makes them rats, if they weren't, you could probably call them slightly bigger mice.
I think if clint's video has taught us anything, it's that they can be both big mice and small rats at the same time. 🐀🐁🐀
@@TB-qn4umSchrödinger's Rouse: it is both a rat and a mouse at the same time, until you look at it.
Ok, that seque with "look at the bones!" "OK, let's" was SO CLEVER!!
So much to cover in these videos. At least you won't be running out of phylogeny material, because there is always more.
There is no end in sight!
By the time he's done with the animals, a lot of our understanding of phylogenies will have changed. We are in a golden age of taxonomy with the advent of DNA analysis and a lot of phylogenies are still in flux.
Recently I saw a video calling muskrats “beavers” and thought “someday Clint is going to have something to say about this.” Little did I know, TODAY’S THE DAY
Well, they are both fish of course.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 the hagfish of mice?!
Both are good examples of convergent evolution.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 according to the church, anyway!
The groundhog family who lives under my porch and I are thoroughly enjoying this video together. Love your content, I’m so happy you continued to cover different families and genera like this!
"in this video, we are going to do a complete phylogeny of pigs"
_3 hours later_
"and finally, the groundhog"
This has comfortably been the most confusing Clint phylogeny vid so far. Think I’m just gonna call all mammals mice just to be safe
But what about all dogs, bigger dogs, exotic dogs, cat-like creatures, civets, and civet-adjacent non-civets? Are they all mice too?
@@InventorZahran ALL MICE
Australia’s golden bellied otter rat or Rakali is an interesting one and missed. It is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. They have learnt to eat poisonous cane toads by flipping them over and eating into their under belly avoiding eating the skin.
Saturday = Clint's Reptiles Day! 👍
Only on very rare occasions do I miss my Saturday morning Clint's Reptiles! Like when I'm going to a college wrestling tournament!
PSA: don't do a shot every time Clint says "mice" in this video - you might die
But also I had no idea Muskrats were basically giant American mice, that's super neat! Keep it up with these phylogenies!
Muskrats are not mice, they are part of the hamster family.
@@indyreno2933 Did you watch the video? They are well within the clade of mouse-like animals called mice, and even if You draw the line at Mus, or Muridae, it's not incorrect to consider all Eumuroida mice.
@user-sc7ld7cj6h, in case you should notice, mouse-like rodents (suborder Myomorpha) are actually divided into four superfamilies: Platacanthomyoidea, Dipodoidea, Cricetoidea, and Muroidea, the lasiures (family Platacanthomyidae) are the sole extant family of the Platacanthomyoidea superfamily, which evolved first among mouse-like rodents (suborder Myomorpha), which is then followed by Dipodoidea that contains the families Dipodidae (Jerboas) and Spalacidae (Kopatels, Zokors, Bamboo Rats, and Grawes), leaving the most recent split to be between the superfamilies Cricetoidea and Muroidea, the former contains the families Calomyscidae (Calomyscuses), Cricetidae (Hamsters, Lemmings, Muskrats, and Voles), Zapodidae (Jumping Mice and Birch Mice), and Sigmodontidae (New World Mice and Rats) whereas the latter contains the families Muridae (Old World Mice and Rats), Gerbillidae (Gerbils, Jirds, Sand Rats, Link Rat, Spiny Mice, Brush-Furred Rats, Rudd's Mouse), Cricetomyidae (Pouched Rats, African Rock Mice, Climbing Mice, Fat Mice, Gerbil Mouse, Delany's Mouse, Nikolaus's Mouse, White-Tailed Rat, Karoo Mouse, Togo Mouse, Vlei Rats, Groove-Toothed Rats, Whistling Rats, and Maned Rat), and Nesomyidae (Malagasy Rodents).
Some did carrier as turist atraction in Prague wierdly enough.
@@indyreno2933 So they're giant water hamsters.
My dad always called squirrels "fuzzy tailed rats". A childhood friend from Brazil once told me Iowa was weird because our monkeys were rats.
HA! That's one way to look at it, I suppose.
Have you seen the enormous Malabar Squirrels of India? They are bigger than some monkeys!
@@InventorZahran I've never Heard of them, but I'm going to look them up now! I've fostered red squirrels, and rats are such a delight. One of my friends has Gambian pouched rats and capybaras. Rodents are so intelligent and social.
@@InventorZahran just looked them up and they are stunning! What beautiful animals! Thank you.
...i never thought about it before, but yeah, theyre basically filling the same niche as smaller monkeys
You forgot the New York Giant Pizza Rat! 😂👌🐀🍕
They're notorious for raising turtles.
They are part of a splinter group.
This video has been certified ADORABLE.
This may the most adorable phylogeny in existence. So many big round eyes 😍
Clint is certified adorable
Sooner than later would be awesome on the squirrel video😊 I'm a fan of chipmunks, too. These phylogeny videos awakened a part of me that I think I forgot when I got my full time job. (Creatures! All of the creatures!)
Hey now, lemmings do the whole cliff thing. If Disney pushes them.
Jerboa is wise in the ways of the desert.
Yes, he creates his own water.
@@cobrown3o What, you can't?
Mua’dib!
Clint, I'm sure you get this all the time, but I am so glad your channel exists. Your sense of humor and enthusiasm makes it easy to want to root for your success, and the whole team's hard work makes it fun to learn about the cool critters you cover. Keep it up brother Clint & team
Loved the Holy Grail snippet with Tim the Enchanter! 😂🤣
There are some who call me....... Tim?
I feel like the editor has been WAITING for a rodent video so he could put that clip in 😂
What an eccentric performance!
Yes, please, more rodents. They're super cool. They are also arguably the cutest mammals of them all.
And they're among the closest relatives of us primates, along with rabbits. Since we still have our canine teeth and rodents (and rabbits) don't have them, one wonders if perhaps the rodent/rabbit line split off from the primate line. In other words, rodents and rabbits may have evolved FROM us, rather than primates evolving from rodents and rabbits. Another "dun-dun-DUN" moment in evolution.
I encountered a deer mouse in the vestibule of a McDonalds, and it was so gorgeous it looked like a Christmas card illustration come to life. I very gently encouraged it outside with my handily pointed boot toe. I am a rodent fan in general, but man, the deer mouse was ADORABLE.
My Chinchilla Hugo is sulking now. He feels very left out.
Are they closer related to lagomorphs?
No, chinchillas are rodents.
I think chinchillas, guinea pigs, and capyberas will be in his Rodents Part II video. I hope so. Hugo is having an identity crisis.
update from Arizona -- just yesterday I heard some folks referring to gophers as "sand beavers."
so, common names strike again?
When i was a kid, i was walking home from school one day. passed a guy mowing his lawn. Some how right behind him was a baby squirrel. Took it home and raised it. Was a really good and fun pet.
funfact: Jerboa are called Springmaus (Jumpmouse) in german!
I discovered this on my own a few years back: that "Rat" and "Mouse" are thrown around without any regard to relation, and pretty much based entirely on size and general appearance. I ran into a similar problem when trying to figure out the difference between ducks and geese.
If it swims like a duck and generally looks like a duck, but has a longer neck than most ducks, i's probably a goose.
If I remember anything from Latin class, it's the phrase "mus in matella"- a mouse in a chamber pot. It means in over your head.
I had Latin in school for 5 years, why did nobody teach me that phrase!! 😂
I could feel myself spiralling to insanity with Clint trying to escape the mice in this one 0_0
I'd be interested in your opinion on Pokémon categories and how you would construct Pokémon phylogenies!
Yesss
Clint would be the guy to pick up on weirdos like Kyogre - generally assumed to be an orca - but is it?? Its "tail fins" are noted in the dex as a footprint. Could it be the patterning is throwing us off and it's actually a mosasaur, fitting with its reptile brothers Groudon and Rayquaza? Maybe!! :D
You know what, if anybody else said "weirdest mammal" about anything that's not a Platypus I'd think they were crazy or forgetting the Platypus, but somehow, I expect Clint will make a strong case for the Naked Mole Rat
They're some of the only eusocial mammals, for one.
eusocial, surprisingly long, lived, nearly blind, tiny mammals without fur, that also happen to be nearly immune to cancer. Yeah naked Mole Rats are very weird
I've had pet rats since 2010, with a 6 month break in between... when I got Gerbils. Then got rats again :')
Also mice aren't new to me. I still have one pet mice left. She is about 3y old now and I expect her passing any day now.. sadly. Two rats left who are 2y3m old now.
They are such amazing pets. I followed the National Pouched Rat Society for a while. Also learned about how to care for them and learned they are not for me. On top of that, I would have to check if they're even allowed where I live. They're also called hero rats for they are trained to detect landmines.
Living in New York, it's not a TRUE rat unless it lives in the subway, bites tourists, lays it's eggs in the shoes of homeless people, and only uses its leathery wings to fly.
Eggs?
@@metal_pipe9764 Yeah, they pair off and make little nests in the shoes that get left in the subway tunnels, and then the rat-king lays eggs for the whole colony, and the pairs fight over getting to incubate the eggs and raise the larvae.
Squirrels scare me more than snakes. They are too shifty. Also National Lampoon Christmas Vacation taught me to never turn my back on a squirrel or stick my face in random trees.
Well, squirrels can carry rabies and snakes can't. Since my country doesn't have that venomous snakes squirrels are riskier to me...
I never got bitten by a squirrel, but I once got bitten by a gerbil, and that hurt a Hell of a lot more than the times I've been bitten by snakes.
A USAnian friend told me in answer to my question how was your short holiday, that he got kicked out of a national park in the USA because rangers had found squirrels carrying the Yersinia pestis bacterium - that's the one you need to avoid like the proverbial plague.
Bats can carry rabies too and my hypothesis is that part of the vampire-fables is based on people having contracted rabies from bats or dogs and next becoming rabid attackers.
Kentucky Fried Movie will teach you about "People who love to live dangerously" not to mention the catholic girls.
@@jpdj2715 not only do you need to avoid Yersinia pestis like the proverbial plague, you need to avoid it like the actual plague, because it's the actual plague, the Black Death.
YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT A SQUIRREL
Sir I paid good money to lean this at college! ur giving this info out in such an entertaining and engaging way, makes me want to thank you for refreshing my love for learning about the little things that make every animal unique!
Soooo glad I found your channel! Your enthusiasm is contagious
I don't know how to tell you this but in German, Shrew are called "Spitzmäuse" which means "pointy mice". It never ends!
18:47 - I love that I can hear your crew laughing in the background! 😂
"Don't get into rodent taxonomy. You will regret it."
- Ben G. Thomas, "Every Time Things Have Evolved Into Moles"
I just love rodents. I have mice, hamsters gerbils and guinea pigs as pets.
Can you one day do a video on the African egg eating snake.
I'm interested in a snake I don't have to feed rodent.
i love learning about the relationships between species and groups of animals. thank you Clint for making such high quality and informative content! i had no idea that primates and rodents were so closely related o:
I was worried Clint was about to tell my the Capibaras were not rodents. Instead, everything is mice, I can live with this.
I can also live with that.
Did he even mention capybaras? Did I just miss it?
@@rogeriopenna9014Capybaras are in the clade he hasn't gotten to yet/will be in the next video when he makes it. It's got capybaras, guinea pigs, porcupines, chinchillas, and others that I can't think of off the top of my head
@@TiggerIsMyCat but are they mice? :)
@@rogeriopenna9014 We'll just have to wait and see... 😉
I love all of these videos! Learning so much about how all these awesome species are related and even hearing about many for the first time!
I adore rodents. And I have a friend who lives on the Olympic Peninsula and had a mountain beaver show up in his yard. Was really cool. I just get Douglas squirrels get real chatty at our window. And beavers to!
No matter where they are from or how they are related, we can agree, every mouse is adorable.
For me it's always the info he throws in as a side note that blows my mind. humans are so closely related to rodents?!? And that's why we can get so many diseases from them?? the more you know
I love your videos, Clint. I'd love to know more about armadillos, anteaters and such. They're so mysterious.
If you're referring to the superorder Xenarthra, then you should know that anteaters are actually more closely related to sloths than to armadillos, armadillos (family Dasypodidae) are the only extant family in the order Cingulata, whereas both sloths and anteaters constitute the order Pilosa.
@@indyreno2933 thanks so much, that's very interesting.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats make me crazy.
Can't relate, I've never been crazy
Crazy? I was crazy once...
Rats? I was mice once. They locked me in a room. A squirrel room, with beavers. Beavers? I was rats once. They locked me in a room. A mice room, with squirrels. Squirrels? I was beavers once. They locked me in a room. A rats room, with mice. Mice? I was squirrels once. They locked me in a room. A beaver room, with rats
😐😐😐😐😐 so funny hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I've had almost every rodent pet when I was younger, rats were my favorite! And another reason I can't nor don't want to feed my snakes live lol CAN'T DO IT. ❤
This episode was a mess 😂 I love it!
'Bouncy stilt mice' - love that description! ❤
I used to have giant squirrel popsicles in my back yard, at least in the winter. The rest of the year they were just giant squirrels with no visible tails. Or groundhogs. Or woodchucks. You know, whichever. How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Thank you, Clint, for educating me on the creatures that terrify me more than anything else. Pushing through the discomfort of looking at rodents was worth it to learn that everything is mice
Mice to meet all these guys.
i really love this series on the families and(/or?) clades of various aminals, Clint. evolutionary biology is so fascinating. and you’re great at presenting it, thank you ❤
GIANT CLOUD RAT
whoever named the mountain beaver, also called sewellel, was likely just looking at a pelt.
Hi Mr. Clint!
I love your channel so much and it's made me interested in getting a snake. My parents think the Corn Snake would be the best option. I told them that it is better to buy a snake from a reptile expo more than a chain pet store, correct? I've also done the appropriate research on Corn Snakes and I think it would be best to buy one at a Reptile expo, they are also fans of your channel, and they want some advice from you directly because they love your happy manerism! So, do you agree that it would be best to get my Corn snake from the reptile expo? Should I get the enclosure beforehand at a pet store, or get everything from the reptile expo? Or, do you think it would be best to get one at a pet store? We're beginners so we don't know if Corn snake is the best option. We were also thinking Rosy Boas could be good but we don't want a ball python because it could get too big. There's a reptile convention coming up in my community on June second and I want to be ready. Thank you for your time and your awesome channel!
Some things to add:
The poorly named “Mountain Beaver” by all accounts should be called “Sewellel”.
If you delve deeper into the phylogeny of the Cricetidae, it becomes apparent that muskrats are just giant Nearctic water voles, and lemmings are just short-tailed tundra voles. Funnily enough, my childhood mammal book (which was A. published in the 1970s and well before my actual birth, B. claims the “cliff thing” to be true about lemmings, and C. had almost no cladistics at all except for a vague phylogeny of mammals at the beginning and another one for fossil elephants) claimed that muskrats and lemmings are voles and turned out to be correct by accident.
When you cover the murid rodents in their respective video, do at least give a mention to some of the Australian mice that went extinct and the one (Gould’s Mouse) that came back from extinction; a persistent misconception is that all rodents in Australia are nonindigenous pests, when in fact many are of conservation concern in their own right.
Finally, do make sure to explain where the Anomaluromorpha fits into the tree. You seem to be copying the phylogeny on Wikipedia, and that clade isn’t on that tree. Looking at some scholarly phylogenies, it seems that suborder is actually closer to the Muroidea/Castoroidea group than squirrels are.
Actually, lemmings and muskrats are not voles, they're more closely related to hamsters than they are to voles, making hamsters the most derived of the family Cricetidae, also, "Anomaluromorpha" is not a valid taxon, anomalures (superfamily Anomaluroidea) and springhares (family Pedetidae) both belong to the suborder Sciuromorpha (Squirrel-Like Rodents), the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is considered the most basal of all squirrel-like rodents with the dormice (family Gliridae) being the second most basal, with the two most derived clades of squirrel-like rodents (suborder Sciuromorpha) being one that contains the anomalures and pedetoids and the other that contains the sciuroids, castoroids, and geomyoids, in fact, squirrels (family Sciuridae) and beavers (family Castoridae) are the only extant families of the superfamilies Sciuroidea and Castoroidea respectively, in fact, among the hamster family, the voles (subfamily Arvicolinae) are the most basal subfamily, then followed by the muskrats (subfamily Ondatrinae), leaving the lemmings (subfamily Lemminae) and hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae) as equally the most derived subfamilies.
@@indyreno2933 Last I checked, Ondatrinae and Lemminae are not valid taxa.
As of 2024, these are the most up-to-date phylogenies of the Arvicolinae: peerj.com/articles/16693.pdf
At best Lemmini (note the spelling) is a basal clade within the Arvicolinae if it’s even a natural group at all. Likewise, none of the phylogenies place Ondatrini (again, note the spelling) as being closer to Cricetinae than to the Arvicolini.
Considering previous comments, Indy is not likely to concede; I am simply pointing out where the taxonomy stands.
10:55 - Appreciating the Sheer Delight in Clint's eyes 🐭
My african grey does not like members of these clades and will act quite viciously toward them.
Your parrot attacks rats?
@@dispholidus Oh yeah. Well squirrels, chipmunks, field mice, and voles for sure. I guess she thinks she's a falcon.
@@anothersquid Clint would tell you falcons are not that distantly related from parrots, at least compared to other raptors.
@@dispholidus My macaw is like "whatever" when she sees one, but my grey can be vicious. I'm not sure why. I didn't get her until she was 11 years old, so maybe she used to hunt mice before I got her or something :)
A huge fan of squirrels here, back in the late 80's I decided my first tattoo would be one. Took a while but got it done '00. Love them so much that some still call me squirrel 🐿 🥰
The Muus is Loose In the Huus
Yes, Clint, 🙏 hurry and make the rest of this video! I'm not sure how many more mice - or not-mice - I can take, but I'm dying to know the rest of what's out there to learn.
I've been terrified of rodents since my brother's gerbil bit me, and its razor-blade-like front teeth sliced easily through the pad of my finger.
Stitches ensued.
Fear of rodents became entrenched.
I'm 60 and still have an overwhelming fear of rodents.
Love reptiles.
Rodents = terror.
I DO think they're cute!
I'm not touching one.
I'm hoping education helps.
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Rat is not a clade. It is polyphyletic. This means it's a term that applies to different species that are not all one clade.
And what does it mean?
Your comment is as useful as saying "fish is not a clade 😡"
@@ClintsReptiles What does what mean? Rat? Unlike some you have errantly implied to be clades, rat isn't even phenetic. It is a common term that people use for large, rodent-like creatures, like the marsupial rat.
One cannot hold common names to a phylogenetic standard, for obvious reasons. Regular people need to be able to name things based on their perceptions. It simply isn't science when they do so.
And what did I say about the term "rat" in this video?
@@KAZVorpal Rat = Big Mouse
I could watch these videos all day, I wish someone had the energy to make a video describing each and every species in detail.
I would love to see what kind of weirdo’s exist in the world.
Holy moly the hamster rat looks like a Roborovski hamster ! Also I’m so glad you did a mouse vid as I’m a proud mouse mum
My 7yo daughter and I love your videos. Your videos are entertaining and informative. You also have a very gentle personality. Thank you
You're screwing with us and loving every minute. We're enjoying it, too, so keep it up!
Just starting this episode and when Clint mentioned that none of the first group were native to America, but were introduced, I immediately thought of Fivel, from An American Tale. Also, when he mentioned the largest mouse in The Colosseum, I was hoping he’d make a reference to the ROUSs from The Princess Bride. Maybe those will be mentioned later.
There is an absolutely adorable video of a hibernating dormouse snoring
I just learned more than I have ever learned in one day😂 and it’s summer vacation to!
My wife and I were born and raised in northern Illinois, where we frequently encountered squirrels and developed a deep affection for these delightful creatures in our neighborhood. Having recently relocated to East Central Kentucky, we have noticed a distinct absence of squirrels in our vicinity, and we greatly miss the presence of our furry-tailed friends.
In Illinois, my colleagues affectionately nicknamed me "Mr. Squirrelly" due to my enthusiasm for squirrels. Both my wife and I are biologists with a profound love and passion for all things related to science.
We would be thrilled if you could produce a video on squirrels, highlighting the various species and their unique characteristics. Such a video would not only satiate our curiosity but also reignite our joy in observing and learning about these fascinating animals.
Whenever I want to be confused about things I thought I knew, there's always Clint going on about something headache-inducing. Love it!
Kangaroo rats was my husband's study animal for his PhD and I assisted him. They have typical rodent teeth but jumping back legs and eat seeds and leaves and fruit and a few insects. It is true they are primitive mammals and are early rootstock of the rest of the mammals
We live trapped for study animals so we could release other species . We took some animals back to where caught to release. We had to keep some but rehomed them with sciencex̌
You didn't mention pocket mice a small version of kangaroo rats very well adapted to dry environment. Don't need water like some kangaroo rats which is what we studied they get water from the vegetation they eat and have specialized kidney so they hardly pee retaining the fluid by concentrating the urine well. If you dig up their underground chambers they make for home they store lots of material seeds and leaves for use when it's cold in the winter. They also have specialized chizzel shaped front incisors to remove the outter layer of the leaves so they only eat the inner juicer part. They stay underground when it's too cold. They also live longer than some other r
I've never heard of a giant cloud rat before, and it is the cutest thing ever! I learned something new today, and it's adorable! Thanks!
Naked mole rats look like giant tardigrades and I love them! 😂
Is the naked mole-rat the weirdest animal? It's a great question. I explored this in a video I made by counting rare and exceptional traits of the platypus, the naked mole-rat, and homo sapiens. The results concluded that people are the weirdest mammal. (Yay us?)
At some point, it seems to me, that we almost have to re-name every single animal, based on our current understanding of evolution and how species are actually related. Because our naming system is SOOOO mired in the mis-understandings, based on the limited knowledge and resources of the time, from the past thousand years, at least. Especially around the 1800s, when the scientific community was going around "discovering" a bunch of stuff, and naming everything in sight, and putting all this new scientific knowledge in books for all posterity. Bless 'em, they were doing the best they could, and their efforts have paved the way for our current understanding. But the use, and mis-use, of terms that have so much cross-use can get so confusing!! Mice, rats, hamsters, muskrats (in love or single), naked mole rats from Africa that are not African mole rats...
Can we do an Etch-A-Sketch shake on the whole animal names thing and start over with a clean slate, and come up with some logical system? (We'd have to keep a cross-reference to the old names, for historical research purposes, but for all future intents the new names should be used.)
Then of course there's all the "bears" that aren't bears, and "wolves" that aren't wolves, etc...
You should know that the word "molerat" refers exclusively to the family Bathyergidae, members of the taxa Spalacinae and Thachyoryctini are more correctly referred to as "kopatels" and "grawes" respectively.
I am excited for a squirrel video! When I was in grad school, my thesis involved fossil ground squirrels. Although I never got to finish my research due to some medical issues, I have special place in my heart for squirrels.
@ClintsReptiles, quick cultural questions that do have answers people might want to know: Why are lady parts sometimes called a "beaver?" Why do we refer to female anatomical parts with animal names, such as the other name for a cat, while we refer to male parts with names for tools, such as a "rod," or, "dirk"? Is there sexism in Biology? lol Meanwhile, please cover why we humans have two kinds of lice. That one is a page-turner. I guess gorilla nests were comfy...? Meanwhile, there is a reason I wipe down public toilet seats, and put toilet paper down on them when I need to sit.
Lol. Love Monte(Monty, I thought it looked off, thanks)Python.
*Monty.
I kinda thought Mountain Beavers were called that not because of any living resemblance to actual Beavers, but because if you make a hat out of their fur, it resembles an actual Beaver hat, and so you could get a faux beaver hat while up in the mountains where there are no real Beavers.
My hubs and I used to have a flying squirrel. He was a rescue, so we referred to him as a roommate rather than a pet since he wasn’t bonded to us. He was a beautiful boy, who survived MBD in his early years with us. He died at the very elderly age of 14 in 2021. It was mildly distressing to see a flying squirrel with massive cataracts, because these guys are plentiful little prey rodents that don’t normally make it much past a year old in the wild. His name was Arrow, and he was the best roommate as long as you didn’t expect him to contribute financially, and didn’t mind some 3am antics. Would love to see some squirrel deep dives!
Yes pleaaase I very much want the part 2 to this! You can't just cut the clades in half and leave us hanging 😭
I'm surprised there wasn't a quick joke about Mus sounding the same as Moose lol
Title should be;
_"Clint goes down the Muroidea Hole."_
Just Say'n! ;O)-
Run away! Run away!! Lagomorphs are scary.
Your videos are well conceived, beautifully written, excellently delivered, and satisfyingly edited. Thank you very much
I can't watch right this second, but just seeing a new one of these available made my morning~~
Absolutely loving these phylogeny videos!! Thank you so much for all the work you do!
As a lifelong rodent fan (probably starting with Mickey Mouse as a kid), I obviously enjoyed this.
I should also point out that the word "muskrat" probably actually derived from the Abenaki (the natives of parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec) word "moskwas", since the original English word was "musquash"; the animal's slightly rat-like appearance and musky territory-marking fluids probably included the folk etymology-derived word "muskrat".
I always laugh, when I talk with sailors about what they have seen on a voyage across the ocean..... they normally respond, plenty of flying "rats of the sea"..... (translation) Seagulls.
Who knows, if we allow them to live, beavers or muskrats might become fully aquatic, and flying squirrels might master powered flight instead of just gliding.
I love Jerboas, one of my all time favourite animals I learned about growing up as a kid.
Ah yes the furry meatballs of the forest and field.
Question: Have you considered doing a video like this on gymnosperms and angiosperms or are plants too far outside your field?
this video was made for me!!!!!! I love mice so much!!!!!!!! thank you for sharing the wonders of my favorite little guys!!!!!!!