Bandicoot: The Real Life Crash

These are the survivors of extinction, the earthworm’s bane, the real-life Crash, the Bandicoot.
-----------
Support Animalogic on Patreon:
/ animalogic
Subscribe for new episodes on Fridays
bit.ly/Subscrib...
-----------
CREDITS
Created by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp
Written, Directed, Shot and Produced by: Dylan Dubeau
Hosted by: Danielle Dufault
Edited by: Jim Pitts
Story Editor: Cat Senior
Associate Producer, Research, and Camera Operator: Andres Salazar
-----------
Examining the nature of the beast.

[@TaimatCR]

Mad respect for the scientists that named the genus after crash

[@AlvinCornelius]

Boy do I have a news for you...

[@postedcringe2430]

@@AlvinCornelius he's talking about the fossil one

[@zoroearc2582]

Wait until you hear about the real pterosaur called Aerodactyl and the dicynodont species Bulbasaurus

[@RosheenQuynh]

There are nerds in the scientific community. They named DNA after Sonic and Robotnik iirc

[@TheLastTocharian]

Certainly it wasn't Cortex.

[@beth2996]

Next up, Italian man: The Real Life Mario

[@rattyeely]

Reminds me of a article I once read about a real old southern man who inspired Mater from Cars

[@frog1443]

I’m a short Italian man so they could interview me

[@chanbricks4461]

@@frog1443 But are you a plumber?

[@bestuan]

Human episode

[@davidreyas6003]

Then, Hedgehog: the real life sonic

[@stephaniesharifi2185]

“WOAH!” -Crash Bandicoot

[@takenname8053]

WOAH!

[@user-yf6zz3cl8i]

**WHOA**

[@azuretasugach6124]

WOAH

[@SenseiRaisen]

Woooah!! *sad noise*

[@mkhairiy78ify]

*W H O A*

[@tipsfedora3714]

I was legit waiting for a fact regarding the spinning attack.

[@ottojetto4067]

The species can be found in Tasmania islands too... Bandicoots must've been inspired by its devils...

[@tipsfedora3714]

@Muse Suse Then its gonna be a montage of them just going full on beyblade across the fields

[@slipknot95maggot]

I'm pretty sure if she starts talking about the effects of cocaine on bandicoots she risks demonetization

[@ValAllenSamonte]

@@ottojetto4067 hold it... that makes sense!

[@GraemeGunn]

Why though? Also, why admit publicly and online that you're stupid? Edit: if this is a joke I missed it because it wasn't funny.

[@Dr3Mc3Ninja]

Imagine being such a gamer, that you become a scientist, purely to discover a new bandicoot, to name it Crash.

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Gotta fund that gaming addiction some way :P

[@manuellord2010]

Someone actually named a species of Pterosaur after the Pokémon Aerodactyl. Close enough, I guess

[@renamamiya5997]

Now that’s what I call a pro gamer move

[@bailujen8052]

Or Perci from sonic boom

[@adriangarcia1778]

crash bandicoot haha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@smegid586]

I better hear you say "whoa" at least once in this.

[@youraveragemexorican]

*never* _Whoah_ haha i didn’t say it! :p i said whoah

[@RosheenQuynh]

🤣

[@Strawhatlucky38]

LMAO

[@Helicopter7]

Fun fact:

[@mrsavage4837]

Fun fact: Bandicoots only say woah when they mate

[@danwentz3283]

Next episode, Dragons: the real life Spyro

[@musiew683]

They did bearded dragons, I wish they were purple and gold though :(

[@brodylake345]

Yes please

[@oneparticularlysmartape]

And after that. Italians, the real life Mario's. Wait...

[@RosheenQuynh]

@@oneparticularlysmartape 😂

[@RosheenQuynh]

YES! Avi Kaplan would 100% approve! 😍 Spyro's the best dragon!

[@dinomation]

How come he isn’t wearing blue pants?

[@theguyonthecouch42024]

Because he's home!!!😁

[@sweettea735]

Its cousin doesn’t have shame!!

[@PsychoSavager289]

He's just been attacked by one of the sword-wielders on the Arabian levels, the ones that make his pants fall down.

[@mathjesticgaming1188]

Its his day off

[@RogerRockmore]

The shoes as well when he gets blown up and you see the smoke lol 😂

[@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929]

Crash Badicoot is the original bandicoot. Who would've guessed the videogame series was an origin story of the species.

[@jeuress025]

yes

[@aspopulvera9130]

Just think they copy paste the character 😂

[@bluecoldtails6884]

r/wooosh

[@muziksph627]

I rally hope you are just joking

[@sanik2146]

Muziks PH r/WoOoOsH hOw CoUlD yOu NoT gEt ThE jOkE?

[@BerserkerRider94]

Danielle certainly has one of the most amazing jobs ever.

[@Eibmozluver]

I was going to say the same thing.

[@renzgeorgevidal8200]

I agree 👍😊❤️

[@guyfawkes5350]

Indeed

[@gojo1414]

100 🙌

[@smitty1647]

stealing my heart?

[@PsychoSavager289]

Based on her references to the Komodo Bros and the polar bear, I'm guessing Danielle's favourite in the series in Crash Bandicoot 2. And I'm cool with that.

[@guntherhermann4225]

Now that you mention it, the music that plays in the first half of the video almost sounds like a lawyer-friendly version of the Turtle Woods stage in Crash 2.

[@brooklynyte]

There are few distinct, quality, narrators on KZbin... This woman is definitely one of them.

[@katiobrien7854]

Not to mention a totally wonderful artist. She is one of the best artists of critters past and present.

[@charlieswandi3525]

Zefrank1 is gold

[@johncoryell]

I disagree, she’s putting lots of random emphasis on the words… Like she’s trying to make the content interesting because of her enthusiasm and not because of the quality of the content

[@rodshop5897]

@QTee Yep, some folks don't like quality narration. I guess we just shrug and enjoy Danielle's great work.

[@slimer6023]

@@katiobrien7854 Simp!

[@Gandaleon]

More like Bandi-CUTE amirite? XD I didn't even know that Bandicoot was the name of an actual animal.

[@greta8849]

Gandaleon i was gonna say that

[@regulardudedoingregularstu1046]

Now as you made that pun. By the rules of the internet you have to show yourself out. But yeah omg right, also didn’t expect bandicoot as a real animal name.

[@RosheenQuynh]

I must be an animal nerd because I knew lol

[@RosheenQuynh]

@Pyro Thermite ...Wut?

[@supertacticaldroid1751]

I am still wondering why a bandicoot was chosen for a video game.

[@OpEditorial]

You're not wrong, most Aussies have never seen a bandicoot in the wild either, the double blessing of conservation and COVID-19 that's really helping these critters get back on their feet

[@brandonforrester2455]

I don't know why, but i read your comment in an Aussie accent lol

[@noorking8501]

Its a shame that earth dont need us but we need it badly, here take some corona let the earth take a break from us

[@kwamemwangs2173]

Covid ain't a blessing, let's get that straight

[@noorking8501]

@@kwamemwangs2173 for nature it is yes and we are nothing without nature if you're wondering

[@jacobhoover1654]

@@noorking8501 how is covid helping?

[@lamdelmundo8492]

The question is: should warehouses be concerned about the safety of their crates? 😂🤣

[@m4rk3rz_]

I say keep the go kart keys hidden

[@abdlhmdx]

That’s probably why they don’t use wooden crates much these days

[@mrsavage4837]

@@abdlhmdx 🤣

[@julianoutlaw876]

🥭 🥭 🥭

[@DtWolfwood]

Ok thats interesting to learn Crash is an actual genus lol

[@JonkoJointson]

So is Pikachu, based of pikas

[@Galungaguy224]

Jonko Johnson yes actually

[@chaosgamer7348]

Jonko Johnson wow didn’t know a Pika was a thing!!! Learn something new everyday!

[@wustenfuchsgaming1226]

@@JonkoJointson just that Pikachu comes from pika, in Crashs case they created a new genus named after the famous Character not vice versa.

[@TheLaXandro]

And Sonic Hedgehog is a gene.

[@michaelmarkcavita7979]

Spent my whole life thinking Crash was a fox and Bandicoot was just a surname or something...demmet...

[@PerceptionVsReality333]

I couldn't tell what they were.

[@ridhosamudro2199]

"Looks like a fox" -Nathan Drake, on the appearance of Crash (Uncharted 4, 2016)

[@diceSparkles]

stupid

[@TaurusToyVideos]

@@diceSparkles Stupider like a fox!!!

[@mrsavage4837]

Me too lmao

[@n0isyturtle]

Spoiled kid playing Crash on PS1: "This game's not realistic!" Naughty Dog: " But have you seen his walk cycle?"

[@TailsIsDisappointed]

Can this "Crash" race in a kart though?

[@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929]

Possibly.

[@ครยฬร]

Perhaps

[@HarmonyBunny]

Or spin through boxes and collect color-coded minerals?

[@buddythemoth]

Don't know, But one things for sure They can totally crash a kart

[@methanesulfonic]

no, he keeps crashing on the road

[@chrisr__]

The music for this video is amazing. I like the xylophone inclusion, reminds me of the Crash Bandicoot OST.

[@Enter_the_Toshiverse_1996]

I didn't know this is what real life bandicoots looked like. Given the design of Crash and this one bandicoot seen in a comic book in a episode of Sonic Boom, I always thought they were a species of wild canines. I had no idea they were actually a species of rodent like marsupials

[@SuperBC1975]

Bandicoot Untold: The real-life inspiration for a video game legend.

[@Nube-Gamer]

7:30 The Crash Bandicoot live action movie looks great!

[@0u70fSync]

Better than Sonic the Hedgehog

[@heavygaming2007]

Too bad, there is no live-action Crash Bandicoot currently.

[@Flymetothemoona]

I never knew bandicoots are a real thing 😭 omg I loved playing crash bandicoot when I was younger

[@shrom6753]

hooooooowwwwww did youuuuuu noooootttttt knowwwww!

[@TaimatCR]

I believe the credits of the first one show a picture of a bandicoot at some point

[@joshuastreet8664]

@@shrom6753 Bandicoots arent very commonly taught about, at least where I'm from in the USA. Unless you're just really into animals, there's not really a reason to know about it.

[@shrom6753]

@@joshuastreet8664 im sorrry you dont find pandas in the usa do you know what those are (please tell me you know what pandas are)

[@joshuastreet8664]

@@shrom6753 I said they're not commonly taught about. The opposite of pandas, which are incredibly well known. So widely known, that wildlife conservation organizations use the Panda as their logo lol. Can't really compare them.

[@pokefriend123]

It must be hard for Australia to keep restocking their crate supply when they have wild Bandicoots running all over the place

[@phoebeakuse7764]

I'm twelve and I want to grow up to be like Danielle

[@user-yf6zz3cl8i]

Awe. I hope she reads this

[@iamfenrir5386]

If you mean to be like her as in what she does: Grab a camera, some flash cards and a book on animal facts. Start there.

[@aaronmangilaya585]

"Bandicoots are from Australia" Well that wasn't surprising.

[@mw6ngi0]

Everything is from Australia now.

[@RosheenQuynh]

😂

[@ridhosamudro2199]

Wait a minute, isn't Australia doesn't exist?

[@maixe13]

“Wait it was all Australia?” “Always has been”

[@apatheticAnxiety]

We get some great video game animals. I eagerly await the popularisation of the Platypus

[@Noah-lo9vb]

As someone with depression, this channel is one of the few that ALWAYS brings me joy. I find myself with my jaw dropped in excitement by the end of the video. Thank you so much!

[@jucjuc314]

I hope you can 'win' over depression and don't suffer from it too long. These videos, love and care for nature, gardening, help me too through tough times. 🙋😊

[@Noah-lo9vb]

@@jucjuc314 Thank you! That's so great to hear :D I'm glad we both gain some joy and peace from these videos

[@CaraTheStrange]

For me the one thing that always cheer me up is TWICE music, that got me through one of the hardest times in my life.

[@auradzrts691]

Taz and Crash have one in common, less talking, more swirling around! Love them both.

[@auradzrts691]

Two actually, they're from Australia

[@whizofdisguise9541]

And three: they look nothing like their real life counterparts

[@markshortall3384]

This is such a pleasent youtube channel

[@theorangepersonman]

I know! I love how she includes positive notes, like I’m glad I found out the population is making a slow recovery, that brings me joy

[@BlazinBro786]

this would've been a great sponsor for the new crash 4 game

[@Tombola1993]

I wonder of they horde crystals, gems and time relics too?

[@michaelleahy123]

haha love it😻😻

[@Yitsul]

they have to be experimented on and rejected by a mad scientist first

[@seenl6eight258]

Bruh, don’t forget the Aku Aku masks and 100 Wumpa Fruit

[@Tombola1993]

@@seenl6eight258 Yeah, that too, brudah.

[@VelociraptorAnimations]

@@Tombola1993 and they say “woah”

[@bigtonsilhuman7017]

My partner and I live in clarendon South Australia. We have southern brown bandicoots here and we are lucky enough to have lived on a property with them hoping around in the garden! They are surprisingly smart and have very interesting personalities. They would steel our picknick food regulary..

[@goldenbar9895]

I love watching your vids with my bearded dragon. She keeps trying to eat everything that moves.

[@ddenozor]

Everytime you die on Crash Bandicoot game,one of this cuties die instead. Stop this violence!

[@ukiuki3834]

Your name is so close to being Danny DeVito.

[@michaelesposito2629]

Sorta? I never ever would have thought this tho. And still not really now.

[@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929]

Maybe it is.

[@WillyMacShow]

We can still hope

[@codeyrogers2376]

Stahp it

[@ozanozdinc9197]

Finally someone said it

[@SilverJ17]

3:25 The last of the genus bearing Crash's name when they died: "Woah!"

[@Guydude777]

Bandicoot? More like bandi-cute! These fellas got class.

[@sucl1673]

A bandicoot once got stuck in my schools fence with a 711 cup lid on it, and now because of that it’s now our school mascot. Weird story

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Definitely made my day and greatest bday gift in learning that a genus is called Crash Bandicoot.

[@byebyebabyblue]

wait bandicoot is an animal?

[@melancholymedusa1070]

It sure is.... there is a lot more to Australian fauna than Kangaroos and Koalas.

[@byebyebabyblue]

i just thought bandicoot was his last name

[@TheCriticalCarcharodon]

No, it's a vegetable.

[@sunsunsunh]

indeed is a vegetable. the video is just misleading people

[@Jamseth_Ingramious]

*Always have been*

[@Subscribebytch]

Next up- Bear takes in orphan bird: The real Banjo-Kazooie

[@jessiegodfrey9871]

I think it was interesting about the bandicoot named Crash from Crash Bandicoot Games! I've never seen it before in real life! But I enjoyed it! 😉👍

[@calebsmith7913]

I’m positive that one of the drafts for the bandicoot sketch involved shorts.

[@scottwales5966]

"Hi, im Danielle Dafoe" You know im something of a Scientist myself

[@thamasaurus]

It's Dufault

[@Tyler_18_]

Thames Tan it a joke

[@jmdoza3938]

Said she's an artist working on a conservatory which is, I kinda say is awesome.

[@billytrespassers3123]

I forget that most Australian creatures are in fact "real" and not "creative re-imaginings."

[@YoungZibzy]

I thought her safety vest said PIMP @1:35 ish

[@Shenaniganz_z]

It's called susundri when it comes into my home. Its so rare to see this cutie, but I get very hyped whenever it comes. 🤣 🤣

[@thany3]

So there's an animal in Australia that is NOT trying to kill you all the time.

[@Reisende193]

The Eastern Bard Bandicoot, best known for its epic poems and ballads

[@TheGamer2001]

Someone needs to show this video to Caddicarus!

[@sugarbun9036]

I love how they listed Dingos and Crocodiles first

[@sophiefugl6782]

I know she was looking at the endangered ones but as an austrailan seeing someone be amazed and awed by one of these oversized rats is hilarious. Try having them infest your school and eat your lunch lmao

[@DruNature]

I mean deer are oversized rodents here and they can be pests too, but they are still pretty darn cute. Mice are like the cutest animals ever, but basically a plague level pest.

[@rongusta11]

Don’t know to be annoyed or amused as a gamer if I lived in Australia lol

[@rufusthehunalprophet6648]

Australian animals often have cute names. Who doesn't enjoy the sound of "kangaroo" and "kookaburra" (And the actual sound kookaburras make)

[@pierreabbat6157]

"Bandicoot" is (as far as I know) the only name of a marsupial that originates in a Dravidian language. It originally referred to a rodent found in India.

[@petersargeant1555]

There are 3 predator free reserves in Victoria where the Eastern Barred Bandicoot is being protected. More have been found in Tasmania and some are taken to the mainland for breeding programs to increase DNA diversity. There are currently in excess of two million feral cats loose in Australia.

[@effteekay5617]

So if I’m getting this right, the Crash games have mostly Australian animals? So can Tiny actually be a thylacine?

[@Nkodtb]

Yeah and in game the wumpa islands are based off of islands off the coast of Australia

[@Warpwaffel]

Those guys are seriously Bandicute.

[@gaygengar]

it looks like a shrew mixed with a kangaroo.... a kanga-shrew, if you will

[@wick7201]

I feel like all your videos should at least have over 500k views each vids you’ve shared so much information with us with such high quality.

[@OrochiJr97]

Blue Hedgehog:The Real Sonic. Purple Dragon:The Real Spyro.

[@helldog3105]

I love this show. Thank you so much for all of the hard work that you put into this video series to share with us the amazing world of animals.

[@michaelcapponi2]

0:08 that wasn't a wedge tailed eagle lol. i'm a pretty poor birdwatcher (for instance i can't actually name the species), but wedge tailed eagles are very obvious to ID, so this was very obviously not that.

[@soko4710]

I'm not hugely familiar with Australian birds of prey, but I think that it was a black kite.

[@killerdude666]

I remember playing crash bandicoot as a kid great memory refresher thanks Danielle

[@dussasthebrigand-poet6054]

All my childhood thought crash was a fox, and bandicoot was his family's last name.

[@itsarendezvous]

It's wild that I just saw a tweet asking if crash was a Tasmanian devil. Someone responded saying he's a bandicoot, I had no idea that was a species of animal until I searched it. I did that research like 20 minutes ago, now this video uploaded yesterday, was recommended.

[@boneycheeeze8234]

Could you do a video on the Tauros cattle and the organization Rewilding Europe next?

[@RedPowerV-HouseofRandomness]

Next Up, Hedgehog: The Real Life Sonic

[@geronimo8159]

Didn't even know there was an animal like that... thought "bandicoot" was just his last name... 😑

[@bone8352]

Teenagers man. Jk you can't know everything 😉

[@royaltyfreevid]

I thought crash was a fox 😂

[@EGeorgev]

That makes sense at first, but then you have Tawna Bandicoot, who is his girlfriend aka not related to him, so why would she have the same last name?

[@Dell-ol6hb]

I think they just liked the name Bandicoot, bc crash looks nothing like it, like it looks like he wasn’t even modeled after it

[@cintronproductions9430]

IKR? Crash looks more like a fox.

[@gsilverfish]

You're right on the money here. In fact before being named Crash Bandicoot, one name up for consideration was Willie Wombat, even though he wasn't designed to look like a wombat either.

[@AdamYJ]

I think they wanted to draw on a real animal that people knew little about. Like how a Tasmanian Devil is a real animal but the Looney Tunes character is basically something Warner Bros. animators made up.

[@ridhosamudro2199]

"What is that thing, a fox?" -Nathan Drake, when he's playing Crash Bandicoot. (Uncharted 4)

[@PKMNspacemodulator]

I just learned last week that bandicoots were real animals, thank you for this timely video

[@atribecalledjudah5436]

I saw some in Redlands in 2006, someone had them as pets and must have released them in an empty field. It was near Mentone in Redlands California.

[@derp3305]

Time to buy him some shorts, sneakers, and fingerless sport gloves. 🤓

[@rattyeely]

I never knew billbies and bandicoots were related! They're both so cute, weird little rat-bunny-kangaroos

[@samkelly5045]

Quite interesting how Crash was inspired by a Bandicoot even though they don’t have much similarities.

[@supermakermatic2111]

Huge Crash fan here, Crash wasn't initially designed to be a bandicoot, they made the design first and chose the species later. Species considered included a potoroo and wombat - while a wombat has never been featured in a Crash game, the character Pinstripe (the guy with the suit and gun who runs the power plant in the first game) is a potoroo.

[@estebangutierrez160]

I mean out of all the Bandicoots that were anthropomorphic-ized Crash, and to some extension Crunch, look more like the Bandicoot.

[@VelociraptorAnimations]

@@supermakermatic2111 also the potoroo originally was a bandicoot when crash was a wombat

[@matlavi4075]

Great vid! It’s awesome that bandicoots are making a comeback irl and in games.

[@alexciera1427]

1:36 okayyy I... I hold up i thought it said PIMP

[@KaiserAllen]

I love the references. I am smiling for the entire time the video was running!

[@invisiblejaguar1]

I'm glad I'm watching this because it's making me wanna play Crash and I'm about to 😊

[@williamandrews5798]

Wish there was a video of a guy cosplaying as Dr. Cortex standing in a field with the animals saying “Oh no, I’m surrounded by bandicoots!”. 😱

[@sleepycats5311]

Australia really got serious animals I have to see!

[@peterritchie5593]

the eastern barred bandicoot was considered extinct on the main land due to destruction of habitat (grasslands) until a colony was found living in a tip at Stawell !

[@DCdabest]

It's truly impossible to overstate the devastation that introduced species have had on the Australian ecosystem.

[@andrewthehoople]

"But the weirdest looking bandicoot, which isn't a bandicoot" is the one we used for the thumbnail in a video about bandicoots, lol.

[@zennyfieldster4220]

If some hunters are so into hunting, then let’s get them plane tickets to send them to Australia or other invasive specie infested places. I remember seeing a post where a hunter had 50+ foxes lying on his driveway only to discover later that they were in Australia.

[@achmadhusein389]

You never knew how dangerous this creature till he go wumpa-wumpa and destroy anything he touch

[@AmunDeus]

Keep your crates away from these critters! (Btw Crash looks nothing like the real life version, video game developers are liars)

[@stratosp2542]

I'm so appreciative of your beautiful videos

[@walmartpimp2]

Next up, Worms: The Real Life Earthworm Jim

[@CarmenGarcia-uu4mn]

Crash Bandicoot,Coco Bandicoot,Twana Bandicoot and Crunch Bandicoot are been caught on camera in Australia,New Zealand and Tasmania!

[@Ruzovy_]

I love reading the comments of the confused Americans lol

[@Chaos89P]

I'm American, and I knew about the bandicoot for at least 10 years. The eastern barred bandicoot, however, I'm not so sure about. Definitely not the Crash genus until today.

[@lugialover2496]

Dr. Neo Cortex: Crash Bandicoot, my old nemesis...how the heck are you? Still gathering crystals? Old habits die hard, don’t they?

[@VelociraptorAnimations]

I thought I was the only one who remembers the wrath of cortex game!

[@lugialover2496]

@@VelociraptorAnimations Nope. Others do

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

Aw, it's just a kangaroo-rat.

[@Oosystem]

I read some time ago, the video game was going to be named Willy Wombat or something like that. (I also liked "Dash Dingo", as it was shown in The Simpsons). Anyway, it is an Australian animal :).

[@painznuggets5035]

The people that said first didn’t even watch the video

[@Maroon33]

No shit

[@eoincampbell1584]

that has always been true

[@ladyrumn6403]

Ikr..

[@amysarahace]

Yes

[@--Paws--]

They're like the shrews and hedgehogs of Australia and New Guinea.

[@Misto_deVito6009]

THEY'RE REAL?!

[@Ruzovy_]

Yes I held one before after my mum hit by a car.. we took it to the vet it was ok

[@hermanherman5834]

I always thought these animals were supposed to be dumb because I played the Crash games growing up.

[@JessHull]

Dingo's often take their babies.

[@GetToThePointAlready]

Do one on Agaronia propatula (Carnivorous sea snail!) They surf and chase prey!