10 Bizarrely Human Animal Behaviors

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"Exactly how it sounds"

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Yes please!

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I literally have been posting on every new video coming out for an upvote petition to make it happen. I don't feel like they are finding my posts lol

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isn't he already?

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i think he is, since he's also retiring the Fact Fiend channel.

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I think he is now permanent , but the videos are not been shown in the order that they were recorded.

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It is, he needs to stop saying interim. lol

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[@Baldevi]

Our dog [a huge German Shepherd] smiles, frowns, pulls the sad face, displays anger without baring his teeth, etc, and as he has aged [he is now an very vital healthy 8 year old] his expressions have refined so much and he responds so quickly to stimuli, it's obvious he's been observing us humans and learning our expressions. And then there is Nova, a 13 year old Brown Headed parrot [a mountain-ranging African parrot] who learned to laugh and chuckle at about 6-7 years old. She's a rescue, saved at the age of 2-3, and she was very standoffish and wary for a few years until she felt sfe to trust her Mom. Nova is NOT mimicking our laughs either. She has her own sense of humor. And she understands our verbal language as much as our physical cues. One of us can tell a joe or relate an amusing anecdote and Nova often laughs before the other Human can! She also chuckles if the other parrot [same breed] or the dog are disciplined where she can see or hear it. Her chuckles and laughs [and recently, she's started to GIGGLE] are not mimicking as she has at least 5 different tones, lengths and volumes, mainly appropriate to the humorous moment. She also can be heard laughing after she's been put to bed in another room. I'll say something sarcastically or ironically, and Nova will laugh or chuckle from the other room! yet she does not laugh simply because someone is speaking, even after a period of silence, so she's not just laughing because someone is talking. She does not laugh when a laugh is not called for either. Again, after almost 10 years observing Nova's humor, she's not mimicking, not anymore at least. And when a Joke does not amuse her she makes a strange little sound like "oh, that sucked," which can include topics that are new to her vocabulary and experience, or are at her expense. We can go to her cage and tell her a joke in an utterly neutral voice and expression on our faces; Nova laughs anyway! So, sometimes she might be taking cues from tones of voice, cadence of speech, etc, but she does also understand humor. She even laughs at comedy videos [not pure visual humor, since she cannot really see a laptop screen, but she has laughed at purely visual humor on a larger TV screen.] So there those who think animals are pure instinct and are Soulless. Get over your Human Hubris. All Creatures have feelings and possibly humor in their Souls as well!

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I love your plushie anteater Snoot!

[@brohen]

With FactFiend deFunct, yeah, Karl needs to be perma host. Also, if anyone in contact with Karl sees this, I would love if backlogged or unfinished videos (like FactFiend Raw) got uploaded for a bit to help me cope. Plus, the monetization, if any, could still go towards the teams retirement fund.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Its like that old song "aint nobody got time for bird sex" 😂😂

[@Iowa599]

Dogs can also talk, sorta, my dog knows only a couple "words". A "huff" when she wants or needs something, then a "snort" (thank you) when she gets it.

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Love your hosting style, Karl...serious, yet funny sometimes...just great

[@silverscreenmike]

Casting a vote for Karl to just say "I'm your host"!

[@itsapittie]

I used to own a farm with a 100 yard driveway to the house. About halfway, there was a huge pear tree. In the fall, pears would fall to the ground and ferment. Deer would then eat them and become inebriated. I literally had to watch for staggering drunk deer in my own driveway. In Alaska, moose will sometimes get drunk on fermented crabapples and menace pedestrians. Apparently moose are mean drunks.

[@ryanrichmond9931]

Oh Smallwood! I get it. Like how a very large man is called tiny, right?

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

In my area you gotta be 6'+ (usually) and at LEAST 300lbs to even qualify as a "tiny" lol last one I met/know is like 6'5" and almost 400. Dude isn't fat he's just built 😂 nice dude, but also a little scary just from sheer size alone. He's nice as could be.

[@LongDongJohnson0705]

Orcas wearing salmon hats is an example of trends and fashion

[@anothersquid]

Parrots definitely have a sense of humour.

[@Cavemanjason]

If you listen carefully, you can still hear the curses and swears of Andrew Jackson's parrot.

[@bamacopeland4372]

​@@CavemanjasonThat's always one of my funny stories I'd love to tell. Had to be removed from the funeral for swearing so much.

[@partyontheobjective]

What, no mention of that time Orcas wore dead salmons as hats? I'm disappointed. :(

[@LillibitOfHere]

I had a small female squirrel realize I wasn't as dangerous as the bigger squirrels that chased her away from the bird feeders in my garden. She hung out with me for 3 years, got bold enough to climb legs to check pockets for peanuts, and would bring her babies around. She showed up looking pretty sickly one spring and as much as I hate it, I let nature be nature (I live in a wooded area). I now have what I think must be her grandchildren who will watch to see me in the kitchen window, wait for me to knock on the window, and then they go to the back door for a couple peanuts.

[@jackvos8047]

The Australian Magpie falls into most of these categories. As far as I'm aware it's just "cooking" aka food processing that they don't participate in. They have a fairly complex language and as well as mourning their dead they have a system where an old, sick or injured bird will choose who will inherit their territory by dying in the territory of their chosen heir.

[@Overfloable]

Karl!! You're still here!!!

[@42Oregon]

absolutely solid! full time host!!

[@olencone4005]

Cows will also seem to mourn their dead -- I grew up next to a cow pasture, and every time one would get struck by lightning or died from some other cause, the entire herd would form a huge circle around the body and start the most sorrowful mooing. You could hear the difference in tone from their normal sounds. They'd do this for hours, and even after the herd had dispersed small groups would sometimes form smaller circles and continue the process.

[@ravensdotter6843]

Hi Karl with a K: tell the author he forgot one trend of fashion namely the west coast of America orcas who wore dead salmon as hats.

[@JoeThornhill]

Can we just stop to appreciate the balance of birds at 14:19. I mean, never mind practically all of there body weight is hanging out In front of their legs but those are just the adjustments we can see.

[@rey273]

i like karl a lot but damn i always gotta skip ten seconds of karl explaining how to spell his last name

[@somethinunameit637]

The lack of credit people give to animals astonishes me. My pets were able to recognize a cremated box as their brother and mourned at his burial. We did everything we could to help them be apart of his unfortunate passing and used words they new to explain why we left his body at the vet

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Yay Karl!

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"Quest For Fire" is a great movie.

[@olga138]

Karl, I don't know why you think your last name is so weird. I had an uncle whose name was Dick Haard----why his parents named him Richard is beyond me. I guess what I'm saying is stop apologizing for your last name. Great video, by the way. Top Tenz is one of my favorite channels.

[@rubenrosales725]

Yeah this was a interesting episode

[@sergeykomarov2203]

As a child, I had a German Shepherd and a cat. When the cat had kittens, the dog loved to play and lick them. In winter, when the cat went for a walk, to keep the kittens warm, she placed them between the dog's hind legs. The dog is patient and gently warmed the kittens until the mother arrived. When the dog died, the cat brought her kittens and placed them on the dead dog's body so they could say goodbye to her one last time.

[@donaldwert7137]

Sounds to me like it's less human behavior in animals than just behavior common to all animals, including humans.

[@michaelallain7706]

Seen wolves smile. Amazed me. Speculate a connection between human handlers and them in captivity. Still, would not be surprized, nature not hedging her bets and all.

[@joeschmoe5009]

I just wanna know, why did the tide pods get that trend, but dishwasher pods didnt? What a bunch of dingbats

[@scottf2450]

For an educational fact based show, it is pretty hard to watch him refer to a Bonobo as a Monkey.....

[@LeBionArc]

You're both right and wrong. You can't evolve out of a clade and both monkeys and apes, including humans, belong to the old world monkeys clade. We're all technically monkeys. Monkeys just aren't apes.

[@tondekoddar7837]

Was that a jab at mental Simon ? 0:30 :) Good for you, he's bound to appreciate it, british humour ic

[@bradlevantis913]

I believe scientists realized Coco wasn’t actually signing as a means of language/communication (it was more like a dog doing a trick to get food). And that’s why there is no active research on it anymore. Another fun and interesting script

[@deelee5958]

I like this guy more because Simon’s accent I simply cannot understand

[@mpznidarsic]

The drongo bird figured out meerkat language and will impersonate alarms to steal food from the meerkats. But we're the smartest because computers 😂. Also watch spy in the wild to watch monkeys have a funeral for the spy camera doll because it fell out of a tree and stopped moving.

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nice

[@MF_UNDERTOW]

Is the writer related to Molly?

[@Mithrandir39]

Bonobos are not monkeys. *LOL*

[@ToptenzNettop10]

They're apes. What'd he say?

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He said something like ... "What did you expect. They're monkeys" *lol* @@ToptenzNettop10

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Nothing against Karl- but I miss Simon Whistler

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UNION UNION ARE WE!!! you may be a Smallwood but your a Hardwood. UNION!!! Make that cheap b Simon pay your full worth!!

[@Aiko2-26-9]

Karl, what happened to you in your school days to make you so defensive about your name? It's a fine name and only amusing to young teen boys. Much better than Schwarzenegger or Aoyade or Frankenstein. My sister's married name is Illback. Every few years some idiot makes a remark but that's about it. Embrace the name!

[@Besina_Sartor]

Your obsession with your last name is getting weird. I get you were bullied at school but dude, we're adults now.

[@daniellekennedy8118]

Oh thank goodness someone finally said it! YES! move on! We love you and your presenting style and NO ONE gives a rat's behind what your last name is!

[@rogertrent9842]

We the People are a curious breed of animals... So where's the Simon Whistler guy? FJB...

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

Don't know why but he gave up a few chs. Still has a lot of chs of his own.