Coelacanths are terrible, yet lovable anomalies of nature. Here's a few reasons why.

[@Salted_Fysh]

Let me put it like this: If you've managed to survive for 400 million years without any real noticeable change while the evolutionary arms race waged all around you... then you're probably pretty damn perfect.

[@bellingtoned]

Yea sharks have changed more then these Gods

[@MultiNaruto900]

They gotta be doing _something_ right.

[@Glory2Snowstar]

They've still evolved quite a bit, it's just all internal stuff that isn't easily noticeable. The body plan's good though so it stays. That's the perfect part.

[@Izunundara]

Crab: THEY HATE US BECAUSE THEY AIN'T US YET

[@exi_m7074]

@@Izunundara*Carcinization!*

[@lunanasushistax6692]

I like the rabbit. It's a piece of shit that invades everyone's home while acting all cutesy, dies from loneliness, dies from overcrowdedness, dies from being shocked, dies from being bored, dies from partying too hard. The point is that they're fucking idiots and I love them

[@DaveyGunface]

I think a pet rabbit/bunny would be neat, the more idiotic a fluffy creature is, the better a pet it is. I mean, that's why domesticated cats have been getting progressively dumber and dumber, yeah? :P

[@misspurdy27288]

@@DaveyGunface yep, that’s why cats domesticated humans, we’re sufficiently dumb to make good pets.

[@613-shadow9]

@@misspurdy27288 why would a cat make a pet out of something they hate?

[@elcidgaming]

@@DaveyGunface Domestic rabbits are so dumb that they don't get stressed as much by a real threat of being prey lol I have a pet rabbit it isn't even afraid of cats (it should be!) They also have a very high mortality rate when young but they multiply very fast. in a way its the same strategy as a Coelacanth but different stats were priotitized

[@DocHolliday1851]

To be fair, I did slowly introduce my rabbit & cat to each other so now they're friends. My cat doesn't have a high instinct to hunt though, and my rabbit is around the same size. My sister did have a cat that was terrified of my rabbit for some odd reason. He never bit it or anything while they visited, but it'd quickly jog away if my rabbit so much as looked at it. Weird cat.

[@blurobinss]

oh to be a coelacanth, chilling in a cave, doing headstands and staring at a wall

[@zynet_eseled]

If they became smarter, I.E maybe the brain fat was more like 90% instead of 98.5%, it could have led to its extinction.

[@Kalmaro4152]

5inches apart from your coelacanth buds be cause you're not gay

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@zynet_eseled Or worse, it realises just how unpunishable it is, and goes full lionfish mode, and there is nothing anyone can do.

[@Coelacanthformes]

Yes and being old

[@ShallowVA]

Just love that the science community was like “oh my god, these things aren’t extinct?!” and fishermen were just like “what, those? Yeah those things suck. Real garbage fish. Just absolute shit.”

[@deerking7464]

Love how all these videos used of Coelacanths in the sea are them just vibing around, no thoughts, head empty at all times

[@DaveyGunface]

Genuinely, there is like ~5 minutes of decent footage at the very most and all of it is just this thing going ._. while the recorders are going fucking cocoa for cocoa puffs.

[@Ladle_Lover]

@@DaveyGunface That's cause they are very very endangered. There's like ~400 left in the world. Genuinely.

[@scottpeltier3977]

@@Ladle_Loverthe meta ain’t fully dead yet, the fact it’s still clinging to life means a lot

[@Ladle_Lover]

@@scottpeltier3977 I was giving an explanation of why there wasn't much footage not the strats

[@rachaelm3135]

Head full of fat :3

[@shinyaltaria1388]

Coelacanths are the most dedicated playerbase in real life, for the sole reason they haven't changed in so god darn long.

[@princeofrain1428]

Genwunners through and through

[@karno6679]

I mean… horseshoe crab players?

[@The-jy3yq]

@@karno6679 crabs are basically the worker rush of evolution low skill floor low skill ceiling it's easy to accomplish, but it's incredibly hard to come up with additions to that

[@kilderok]

They don't even get a skill tree, what they spawn with is it.

[@RobleViejo]

Coelacanths, Horseshoe Crabs, Dragonflies and Crocodiles are the epitome of the expression "If aint broken dont fix it"

[@Josh1EWawa]

never related to a fish this fast.

[@ethanfrench9111]

Yeah, I have finally found something to stand on my head in dark places with.

[@ninjadolphin01]

You're related to this fish

[@user-dc6pm3mc4b]

@@ninjadolphin01 you might be but I'm not

[@fastinradfordable]

I like u Josh

[@samfish2550]

@@user-dc6pm3mc4b I mean.... Technically every single animal on land with a spine is a fish. This isn't an exaggeration. Vertebrates all to current science have a carp buried in the forgotten depths of our family tree.

[@anthonygillette]

Don’t forget, theres a frog so small it can’t balance or jump properly; due to their small ears. and they hurt themselves when jumping. And this frog has a mating cry that can’t be heard by the species, because their ears are so small, and we’re not quite sure how they find mates. Even though they have a mating cry. They think it might just be that they can see eachother make the calls, but the sound is not involved. I believe it’s called a Pumpkin Toadlette

[@alvarohernani6645]

Isn't evolution a bitch?

[@foolishmuleth6757]

I was so sure it'd be endangered but no. Apparently despite all these faults and being bad at frog stuff. They're labeled as "Least Concern" so what do I know? I guess despite being so lacking in a lot of categories they got their shit more figured out than I do

[@bobbywhite5319]

Ngl their toxins are working overtime

[@snakewithapen5489]

They also have flourescent skeletons that glow under UV light! Because juveniles don't have as bright of a glow as adults, there is a theory that that is related to how they find and choose each other to mate.

[@Darlf_Sevil]

When you so bad at evrything that god itself sayid: oh me... What i done to you... And than he carrry your entire spiecies

[@vanderkarl3927]

I have a certain amount of respect for coelacanth mains. They have absolutely no regard for the meta (based), and don't get as bodied as they really ought to be simply because they're unbearable in PvP. Everything they do is objectively wrong, but they haven't had to change their playstyle even through several patches simply because absolutely nobody wants to deal with them, not even the devs, not even most human mains, which is saying something because those assholes just love to flaunt their OP P2W stats and tech however they can, including fucking with the priorly unfuckable. That said, I can see why they don't get many new players, since playing as them is just. So. Boring. Hell, even plant players get to have an strategic and engaging resource/time management loop and a fierce meta. I'd only recommend playing coelacanths to people who don't want to interact with the meta but aren't really into, well, fun.

[@MLPGamer44]

So like season 4 Urgot top mains in league???

[@DaveyGunface]

@@MLPGamer44 I miss old Urgot. I miss when there was an unequivocal WORST champ in the game and you could bet I mained that fucker. The satisfaction of 8,000 pings and all chat spamming "URGOD" the second you achieve anything higher than a double kill or .8 KDA was heartwarming.

[@Peter_Turbo4]

The other week I encountered a Clan of Corvid Players running a janky meme strategy of mimicking the human playstyle, it was just a mix of Crows, Ravens & Other Corvids pretending to be a society for no other reason than to have a Milsim Roleplay 10/10 would spectate again

[@randompersonyoudontknow5763]

Here's something arguably even more boring than the coelacanth, Cave fish! Like really any kind. You kinda just stay in a cave and hope some other players excrete waste so you can get xp.

[@samfish2550]

They are basically just vr chat but everyone in the chat is antisocial.

[@TheAnon03]

If it's gone over 400,000,000 and EVERY major extinction event including "The Great Dying" without really changing at all then it may be the one of the best animals ever.

[@scottpeltier3977]

“What’s an extinction? Oh that time when things got quieter? I slept very well back then!”

[@niggacockball7995]

Just like the horseshoe crabs

[@kyledunn3747]

Thought he said 4 or 40 million

[@TheAnon03]

@@kyledunn3747 He definitely says 400 Million BC

[@kyledunn3747]

@@TheAnon03 k

[@sirskitariibush5570]

Yeah, the spot of my favourite animal is contested between sharks and crocodiles for the same reason: youc could go back in time for millions of years, take a look at their predecessors and think "Yep, that's a shark/crocodile".

[@DaveyGunface]

Crocodiles/Alligators are fucking sick, I don't know how else to put it other than I genuinely forget that they're a real animal until I see footage of them doing their thing.

[@desertdude540]

"Sharkodile" would be a great title for an absolutely terrible Sci-Fi Channel movie.

[@everythingsalright1121]

Blahaj!

[@zathtanks]

sharks an d crocodillians are both far less evolutionarily stable.

[@Bloxfruitsistrashlmaocope]

Holy shit, thats for me too

[@slaughterlord4190]

Some Facts remind me about the Greenland Shark, they are pregnant for 8-18 years and need over 100 years to become adults... It's kind of an wonder how they survive

[@gyppygirl2021]

Greenland sharks also have poisonous flesh!

[@gamedominatorxennongdm7956]

Good luck eating that shark raw, might as well swallow cyanide with it.

[@morgan4574]

Great White Shark males don't reach sexual maturity until they're 35! Seconding I'm hoping for a Greenland Shark vid to follow the Coelacanth

[@1stCallipostle]

Aren't they having a really hard time surviving now?

[@youtubecensorship842]

@@1stCallipostle No one knows. Most of our "endangered" labels are false because we have extremely flimsy understanding of species numbers beyond what we have in pens. Plenty of "confirmed extinct" species end up popping up decades later. Now take that uncertainty, and multiply it by 3000% for any stats on sea creatures.

[@Admiral_Chip]

I’m going to school for biology and this is pretty accurate lmao. My other favorite fish that exists because it’s useless is the ocean sunfish (mola mola). Also tasting awful is a legit evolution, lots of bugs have it namely the BoxElder bug

[@DaveyGunface]

I do really enjoy the fact that the Mola Mola just lays an ungodly amount of eggs. If Coelacanths could do THAT instead of having terrible pregnancies we'd be in business.

[@Pihsrosnec]

unfortunately for the sunfish, it's still not inedible enough to avoid parasites. fortunately for the sunfish, it is inedible enough that birds tend to only eat the parasites when they sunbathe. also how weird would being a parasite cleaner be? I'm just imagining a scifi or fantasy story in which humans have a symbiotic relationship with some giant sea monsters to remove and consume parasites, imagine walking across a giant sunfish

[@powerup3005]

Mola mola are far more evolutionarily adept than most give them credit for, they're actually better swimmers than originally believed, they purposely sunbathe to remove parasites, it's thought that's also the cause of their breaching behavior where they launch themselves out of the water and slam back down just like many other species. I don't believe that eating jelly fish is a poor strategy, it's vital to an ecosystem and plenty of species do it. It's definitely a more viable strategy to focus hunting an entire genus vs specializing to just eat a handful of select plant species that are very nutritionally poor (Looking at you koalas, and both types of panda)

[@Admiral_Chip]

@@powerup3005 Oh i know most animals have a ecological niche and they serve one but they are kinda a dumb lookin fish and i dont see a huge difference between eating something like jelly fish and pandas with bamboo but thats because im a red panda apologist lol

[@ryeonspeed]

@@Admiral_Chip red pandas aren't even actual pandas, they're more closely related to raccoons

[@DarkraiDrive]

I love how they dont fuck enough to evolve but are also simultaneously the pinnacle of evolution considering they're the oldest and most successful unchanged species not once but twice.

[@draconicdestruction5352]

they are the epitomy of "if it aint broke dont fix it"

[@latheofheaven1017]

Not the same species at all. Coelacanth is a genus not a species, and the many species of Coelacanths in the fossil record are not the same as the two species that are alive today.

[@srblackhat1]

Can you imagine swimming into a cave, turning on a lantern, and suddenly there are 5 natural perfect fishes looking at you like 🗿

[@bl4ck514]

this has contributed nothing to my life, please make more

[@cEighteen]

Davey could talk about literally anything & I'll be entertained. He was probably my favourite youtuber, tragic what happened to him

[@DaveyGunface]

Did I die? :(

[@TheVoidIsCold]

@@DaveyGunface Sometimes we can still hear his voice

[@ManlyBog6448]

@@TheVoidIsCold 😞

[@karno6679]

He got eaten by the ceolocanths

[@dittm3r]

@@DaveyGunface I heard on Reddit that you ate the ceelow-camp and didn't wake up in the morning

[@antonioferrari241]

Panda: Is it possible to learn this power? Coelacanth: Not from a mammal.

[@luipaardprint]

For me it's the sloth, it's basically the landbased version of a coelacanth. It can only survive on leafs that are poisonous, and have so little nutritional value that it literally doesn't have the energy to turn on its brain most of the time.

[@silverschmid4591]

what about koalas? aren't they the ones that eat poisonous leaves?

[@ianraymo350]

@@silverschmid4591 yea they mean koala's.

[@TheGayestAspen]

Koalas literally needing to eat their mother's poop to be able to eat said poisonous leaves:

[@luipaardprint]

@@ianraymo350 i did not mean koala's, I meant sloths. They're similar in diet, but sloths have some other quirks that make them worse/better.

[@luipaardprint]

@@silverschmid4591 You can look up 'the insane biology of sloths' by a channel called real science if you're interested.

[@lamarepository248]

He has not changed for 400 million years because he is without flaw.

[@DarkScorpionPete98]

*10,000 years.

[@__-be1gk]

It's very surprising how few animals have evolved to taste bad

[@isuckatusernames4297]

now to be fair, we only started farming thel relatively recently.

[@willw5868]

That’s actually a very common evolutionary strategy, mostly with insects. Many brightly colored insects are either poisonous or just bad tasting. This is to earn predators that they are nasty so they don’t make the mistake of eating them.

[@dreadcrimson7966]

Oh, they do sometimes. Then something evolves to not give a shit lmao

[@left4twenty]

Not to mention plants, 95% of them taste terrible

[@Puerco-Potter]

@@dreadcrimson7966 for what we know they evolved to actually like that taste. There is not objectively terrible taste

[@SkittzelzStudios]

“He’s just a cute little man, and has all the qualities a cute little man should have,” cracks me up. I love the way people talk about their dogs, it’s always so funny.

[@Glory2Snowstar]

We seriously need more quality content of people praising random animals like this, it's wonderful. One day, I shall have crafted the finest critique on why pycnogonids are based. Also bats are the best animals they have everything, they are fluffy and spooky and crazy diverse

[@DaveyGunface]

Bats are adorable, maybe not the bigger ones but the smaller ones for sure. Also gotta love their name in German, Fledermaus, which pretty much just translates to "fluttering mouse" which isn't wrong.

[@jasonreed7522]

I was watching a nature documentary and when i noticed the fruit bats looked kinda like foxes and were cute i decided that humans are programmed to think any furry triangular face is adorable. We have no reason to view bats as cute a cuddly considering the disease risk of bats being virus vectors who we should try and stay away from. (But let them eat mosquitoes for us)

[@SpaceHearts160]

@@jasonreed7522 I'm not sure where, but I think I read somewhere that human brains are programmed to think babies are cute and anything that shares traits with babies are also cute. Why are teddy bears cute? Big ol foreheads and Chihuahua eyes. Why are Chihuahuas cute? Big ol foreheads and eyes. There's got to be something about other mammals that spark the same 'aw cute' that babies do.

[@mikedrop4421]

Sequel Edition? Is that the most epic/nerdy way to say you're a junior that's ever been devised?

[@edgybubblegum6404]

@@SpaceHearts160 is this why we love autism creatures

[@Ly_7838]

So......the living embodiment of "No thoughts, head empty"? I've never related to something like I have now

[@WoobertAIO]

How can we be talking about real animals that shouldn't be able to exist, without mentioning the Mola-Mola fish or Koalas?

[@The-jy3yq]

Koalas live in Australia There are basically no predators in Australia that's also the reason for why you can see platypuses(not Perrys) and echidnas(klock klock klock) today (since they come from a time long, and I mean _long_ gone)

[@613-shadow9]

@@The-jy3yq i think you mean echidnas (knock, knock it's knuckles)

[@The-jy3yq]

@@613-shadow9 klock klock klock du u no da way

[@AlinaAniretake]

Didn't you meant pandas?

[@WoobertAIO]

@@AlinaAniretake pandas are different, in the sense that they were seemingly designed to die off naturally at some point, while Mola-Mola and Koalas feel like something someone would create to troll nature itself.

[@Jinxedfromthestart]

Bruh, I was 3 whiskeys deep and went down the KZbin black hole and found this. I don’t know if you said a damn thing during this video or if it was the whiskey speaking through my headphones. Either way you, sir, keep on keeping on, this video made one of my rare days off better. Cheers!

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

I wish there was a KZbin black hole tab Sounds terrifying

[@Toksyuryel]

@@Hypnotically_Caucasian Recommendations, scroll one page down from the top of the list and pick something. After a few layers of this you'll be in some very unique territory.

[@draconicdestruction5352]

bro was so drunk when watching this he started thinking like the coelacanth

[@solanceDarkMOW]

Not a 10 page essay, but I will say that coelacanths as an order [actinistians] have been around for 400 million years, the coelacanth species we have today are relatively recent additions to the order, in the scope of things. Had to say something.

[@Bwizz245]

And to add onto that, the order Actinistia was actually pretty diverse and there are plenty of extinct coelacanths that look almost nothing like the ones alive today

[@thek9408]

It looked at all the fancy evolution everyone else got, and went "no, i do not need this, I need urea in my fucking meat"

[@eggmug562]

Coelacanths are fucking god tier I love them so much Also the fact they haven't had to evolve means they are by nature perfect

[@rabbitweasel]

I just have to say that your delivery on Coelacanths makes the topic 100x better than it deserves to be. Keep up the good work.

[@perihelion1225]

I always love hearing about this fish. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard the word “coelacanth” and this was a great reminder. Thank you!

[@LillianKoi]

This isn't going to blow up unfortunately, but this is by far my favorite video of yours. It's hilarious, passionate and adorable, and I love it.

[@rossmarshall566]

This is my new favorite video of all time. I hope you never feel restricted to make only video game stuff.

[@Brant-vh5mk]

I thought of a relicanth evolving into itself, then a graphic of that was immediately shown after. 10/10 video.

[@wadespencer3623]

The thing about coelacanths is they actually have changed quite a bit. For one there used to be way more! The only modern ones live deep in the ocean. There used to be coelacanths that lived in fresh water, coastal ones, coelacanths everywhere. Ours are just the last of a larger family. Some of the freshwater ones were nearly 20 feet long, look up Mawsonia. Also, they are closer to us land vertebrates than they are to what we normally think of when we say "fish". Closest relatives are stuff like lungfish, which can breathe air for a long time.

[@worstspytf2824]

The only reason Coelacanath's might not be my new favorite animal is because Tardigrades have survived in the vacuum of space when Nasa threw them out of a rocket. (As well as many other things that would kill most other organisms)

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

Tardigrades are also chonky

[@juliabarrow-hemmings6624]

Tardigrades are weird because they will survive the most extreme punishment, yet their most prolific predator in the world isn't some super specialised hunter or anything, its a goddamn snail, not even a special snail, just a regular ass snail... After snails their most common hunter is themselves though, because why not. Tardigrades basically saw the resistance traits and went "Oh dang, I can become immune to nuclear bombs!? Sick", and then promptly forgot to get any normal defences.

[@Puerco-Potter]

@@juliabarrow-hemmings6624 they are the Megumin of defense.

[@0g0mogosepikworld31]

@@Puerco-Potter I hate that this makes sense and I want you to know it

[@SweetThingsSourPeople]

Never forget that they were fired out of a gun, they did not survive that

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

If they're too awful to eat I'm shocked they didn't evolve. No pressure forcing them to. Those shark bites may be juveniles testing the world out, occasionally a fish gets bit. I'm sure that young shark will never try eating one again.

[@karno6679]

Most likely because tasting bad wasn’t a disadvantage so the ones with that gene still did get to reproduce, and tasting bad doesn’t effect the other thing that could kill them, not getting enough food.

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

@@karno6679 I should have said I'm *not* surprised lol. Not gonna edit it now though.

[@EnergyBurst2]

20:45 Holy moly I actually guessed it right. I always found Coelacanths really cool from a paleontological perspective, so it was crazy to hear just how.... lame they truly are. still doesn't really change that I like them, but it was a bit of a sad revelation though those headstands are pretty cool as well as how rare they are in OG animal crossing, where I first learned of the Coelacanth.

[@karno6679]

This is my new favourite video on KZbin my goodness. Coelacanth superiority they are better than humans. This channel is amazing, you manage to convey so much emotion even with the intentionally monotone voice.

[@cannonballking7]

Aw yeah, Davey Gunface out here with the biology lessons, in a fun well put together way which genuinely leaves me with more than I began with. Keep up the amazing work, and have a lovely day.

[@giantlips1462]

Cannonballking7… i’ve finally got you where i want you…and now… i would like to thank you for being epic👍

[@cannonballking7]

@@giantlips1462 Wherever my trails take me I'm glad I can always count on some positive words from the true giant lips. Thank you friend, I want you to know that your words mean a lot, and that you too are epic.

[@funkengine3855]

If God is proud of the shark and the horseshoe crab, then surely he forgot about the coelacanth

[@theenderdestruction2362]

Nah he just made it as a joke

[@ShaqNasty557]

I love how they just stare at walls and do headstands, they're just so dumb you cant help but love them

[@iamjustkiwi]

This is why I love your channel Davey, you aren't afraid to completely break from the mold of gaming videos to put out something you are just passionate about. All of your videos are on my "rewatch constantly because I relate" list and you are just a nice seeming guy which sadly isn't too common in the gaming space.

[@Starfish_Duder]

Wait until you find out how long opposums have been around. Your backyard trash cat has been around since the Cretaceous man.

[@tannerray5014]

“Specifically rural Kansas.” Felt that in my bones. Growing up, my town’s water wasn’t technically safe to drink. Too high nitrates made it borderline poison and the town had to give out free bottled water to at risk members of the town.

[@DaveyGunface]

It's crazy, and I may be projecting here but people just got so condescending about it. No Jonathan, age 57 elementary school P.E. teacher, I CAN drink the dangerous chemical water but I would ultimately prefer not to. Leave me be.

[@WoobertAIO]

@@DaveyGunface the water near (around a 100km radius) mining zones or near mountains tends to be either disgusting af, or straight away poison. If you go hiking one day in a volcano-riddled land like Japan, Chile, or most countries in Oceania, and see an unnaturally blue river/stream - that water is saturated with either sulphur or sulphuric acid, and anything with lungs or gills that approaches it has a decently high chance of perishing from breathing too close to it.

[@edgybubblegum6404]

did really good on the chapters for this davey, glad you finally got around to doing this idea :)

[@bombvoyage5686]

I love the reason they think it’s hunted by something “we hit it with a stick and it ran away therefore it knows things hunt it and it runs” genius theory truly

[@Trent-m6j]

Makes sense. If you smack a orca with a stick, it eats you.

[@Zegathra]

5:05 the amount of evolution these thing have done is not a change of their bodies, but like a change of what clothes they wear. And the drip ain't changed much.

[@wolfgangervin2582]

As a lifelong fan of the Darius series (a long-running series of side-scrolling shmups where the bosses are modeled after sealife), I am VERY familiar with this fishie. The bosses modeled after this old boi (King Fossil and it's ilk) are prevalent throughout the series, often being the first boss.

[@brenndanmcdonaugh1672]

You can't convince me that a Coelacanth's brain doesn't travel through it's fat filled braincase like the DVD Logo and triggers a thought when it hits a wall.

[@skelehedron3070]

Truly one of the perfect lifeforms, rivaling the great *crab*

[@scottjs5207]

The behavior makes sense when you consider the theory that deep sea predators really don't have much a metabolism due to being so large. The Irish deep sea Shark (can't remember it's exact name) lives 500 years blind and just kinda mosey through the water.

[@lilthreegame7991]

My favorite animal is the pangolin. Imagine an armadillo with dragon scales was mixed with an anteater, and then given claws that could break through concrete. And they sometimes live inside hollow trees which is adorable as hell.

[@andrewp8284]

Unfortunately I think they’re the most poached animal in Africa, or at least one of the most poached, from something I read.

[@JackFrost008]

@@andrewp8284 yes and pet trade...

[@ДаниилАмиров-ь5б]

-my fav animal is coelacanth! -oh yes. they are cool. loke them) -they do headstand as a prey technic -NOW im totaly sold

[@jidk6565]

my favorite animal of all time is the Thylacine! cute example of convergent evolution of a dog-like marsupial!

[@jidk6565]

that is sadly a bit on the dead side

[@Lettucem3n]

There is a chance it might not be dead tho

[@EvilSewnit]

@@Lettucem3n a very small chance, but a chance nonetheless

[@jidk6565]

​@@EvilSewnit i can hope But yeah .. prolly dead

[@billbadson7598]

_”This isn’t even my final fo… oh? Hold on a moment, wait, is… oh actually it looks like this is my final form.”_

[@aquamarinerose5405]

I'll personally note that I think there's a difference between your favorite choice of pet and your favorite choice of wild animal. Which yes, I know that's kinda pretentious, but I mean it because like... If you're enough of an animal nerd. I know damn well there's probably at least one relatively obscure animal that you don't have any reason to meet IRL but just think are really neat.

[@Z.O.M.G]

They live simple lives without much worry. I envy them for that

[@left4twenty]

Anime Fighters: "this isn't even my final form" Coelacanth: "Hold my drink..."

[@crystallemming6027]

I love all sarcopterygiians but the coelacanth definitely stands out. Just a lovable luddite living its statistically impossible life.

[@vincentender1486]

Dragon fish, I was made fun of as a kid for wanting my science project to be that. Note in the late 90's there wasn't too much info on them as a species but I stubbornly plugged on. And now I've found out there are more species and it makes my inner child happy.

[@jaschabull2365]

Which one, the deep sea one or the pegasus one that's a distant seahorse relative?

[@daburd3979]

My favorite is the Kakapo, the worlds fattest parrot. They can't fly their only defense is to stand very still and hope you leave, which worked well until humans introduced rats, cats, and stoats which hunt by smell. They also will not mate unless there is good fruit growth meaning they only have a mating season every 2-4 years. There is also the incident in which a male Kakapo named Sirocco attempted to mate with a zoologist (look up "shagged by rare parrot" if you haven't seen it). Sirocco was later named "spokesbird" of conservation by the New Zealand PM despite his status as a sex offender.

[@perpetuusaugustus6514]

They have had changes in the bone structures in their heads, which are usually significant for every type of animal even though it may be too subtle to appreciate at first glance.

[@veto_5762]

Congratulations, you just managed to made me watch half an hour of someone ranting over a fish

[@srblackhat1]

Wait was it a half hour wtf, it went so quick!

[@lukeaberdene-wallwork8029]

AVNJ would be livid just reading the title. Coelacanths are his favourite.

[@DaveyGunface]

I fear that I have provoked his ire

[@lukeaberdene-wallwork8029]

Zach is coming for you, you might want to leave the country

[@blueishdergon]

You know what I like? I like Mudskippers. Spiny little landfish that live in holes, jump, eat dirt, and fight each other!

[@DellcetedGamer]

I hated Relicanth as a kid. After this video, I still hate Relicanth, but also his real life counterpart as well. Awesome video btw

[@fragilistico]

Goddam it you convinced me, if anyone asks me "what's your favourite animal" I'd still say cat, but the coelacanth will be my second choice

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

Pangolins are my favorite animal hands down. No specific species. Love em so much, they're one of the only things I actually donate money to in order to help their conservation.

[@jaschabull2365]

Pangolins are awesome, hope being poachers' favourite target doesn't mean we lose these mammalian dragons.

[@charlesmcclure8000]

It's me, random commenter. Do another animal video sometime! This was just so entertaining. I laughed, I learned, I laughed again. You did a great job. I am into your gaming content as well, but this? This was art. Just keep them 5 inches apart 😉

[@DaveyGunface]

Holy hell, thank you so much for the support dude! It genuinely means a lot! I'd love to cover another IRL topic soon, one of my next videos is going to be deeply personal although it isn't exactly the same style as this one. For animals, hell there's a lot of weird and bizarre goons I love. Bats are weird little bastards in all of the coolest ways, axolotls are a cliche pick but olms take their bizarre characteristics to an extreme that hardly even seems real. For something less bizarre Armadillo Lizards are just adorable little guys and I think they're genuinely underrated as an animal. Plus you can actually have them as pets so the information would probably be genuinely useful for some one out there unlike the Coelacanth :P

[@eggmug562]

I first learned about these thanks to relicanth and I've loved them ever since.

[@shades4dogs]

clicking on this vid about fish (especially coelacanths, which i like) by a youtuber i didnt previously know, then getting the one-two punch of world of warcraft footage and the OFF ost was really surreal to me. got blindsided by the overlap in big interests there. LMAO (love your editing btw, really enjoying this vid)

[@alpharius3661]

Funny enough I’ve got a similar reason for the Nile crocodiles being my favorite. They have remained unchanged for millions of years. They are also able to just choose to become pancakes and solute being insane killing machines that have perfected the art of ambush, they still get bodied by an idiot with a shovel givin them a big ol boop with it

[@austinjohnson6642]

Thank you for this video it made my day a lot better

[@Flowery0]

My favourite animal is nerpa- the seal from lake Baikal. Mainly because cute and how did you get here, this lake is >20° from the closest place where the normal seals live

[@an0rmalname179]

The Coelacanth is way too God damn relatable.

[@kvproductions2581]

To think that you could be born, grow up, have a childhood, a family, watch your parents die, divorce your wife, watch your children get married, and die of old age and all that time a single of these frigging ":3" looking fish would still be alive just headstanding and wall-staring somewhere in the middle of who-knows-were is surreal It's not the them existing around us, its us existing around them

[@FormerlyMantisDragon1995]

I already considered the coelacanth to be my favorite fish after helping with an After Effects project with a teacher I had back in high school (who’s unfortunately now dead from cancer, rest in peace, she was an amazing teacher), but after watching this video, I gotta say, it has given me even more reasons to favor this fish out of all the fish that exist in the world

[@parkerstroh6586]

They live untill 100, mature at 55, gestate for 5 and give live-birth to basically mini-coelocanths. They perfected their hunting manoever of looming and staring at the ocean floor, owing to this, they have not meaningfully changed in hundred of millions of years. They were discovered by a fish scientist when he took a crummy photo of one in an Indonesian fish market. Nice. Did I miss anything? Don't upvote this comment because I don't want to spoil the video.

[@magnafoxodyssey2127]

Thanks

[@DaveyGunface]

Thank YOU for the support captain, I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

[@panosplays4297]

Im preety sure that this is what inspired the pokemon relicanth.

[@DaveyGunface]

Nah it's actually based on a dog

[@memey6978]

@@DaveyGunface w h a t

[@clownworld4655]

Really? What made you think that?? Looks more like it was inspired by a cat to me

[@rackynjeff]

My dad was alive in 1938. fun fact, I’m in my 30s. These guys may be the kings of stupid in the sea, but the koala is the dumbest land animal I think. Evolution did the koala so dirty.

[@MrTortoisefrfr]

The coelocanth is the embodiment of: "If it aint broke, dont fix it."

[@jafsrob]

take any shot of a basking shark basking and now just imagine its just screaming. makes the shot 10000000 times better.

[@LunarStateGovernment]

I canth believe you made this

[@TheGreatDanish]

Bravaceps Bagginsi, Baggin's Rain Frog. It is a common rain frog from the coast of South Africa, existing only a rocky beach there. It is the worst at doing frog things. It cannot swim. It cannot jump. It cannot lay eggs. It is a terrestrial frog that gets moisture through its belly as it crawls along the damp, misty rocks of the early morning, hunting bugs before it digs back into the ground to wait for the next cool, foggy day. In these burrows, it lays live young, skipping past the egg and tadpole stage to lay Froglets. It's tiny, its adorable, and its a bit stupid. I love it.

[@Designed1]

the worst part about the coelacanth is that it's pronounced "see-la-canth" Edit: another favorite animal of mine that is similar to the coelacanth is the olm, and i'm pretty sure scientists once found an olm that literally did not move for 7 whole fucking years.

[@FireBirdTheEpic]

When you asked me what my favourite animal was and i instantly thought "seal!" and then you showed a seal, i knew the video was worth watching! Specifically i love ribbon seals most, but also leopard seals, harbour seals, and harp seals, but really any species of true seal! I do not like sea lions/fur seals.

[@alchemysaga3745]

Your affection for the coelacanth is very reminiscent of the affection many Pokémon fans have for Quagsire. The whole "this thing is too dumb to have survived this long, yet somehow has, and I fucking LOVE them for it." Surprised I guessed the pregnancy length right. ... and I know this is barely related to the video topic but... I fucking *LOVE* foxes- both the standard red fox (who can survive in nearly any environment, and have a minimum of 47 different subspecies *on their own!*) but also the vulpine group on the whole. There are foxes on every continent, sans Antarctica. They're just... adaptable little dudes.

[@thedtc7650]

I saw this video in my recommendeds and decided to watch. Immediately I recognized your voice, but I couldn’t remember from where. It took me 10 minutes to realize you were the Pokémon war crimes guy

[@DaveyGunface]

It's a title and a crown I wear with a heavy burden

[@ekszentrik]

I love the fleshy lobes on this guy. Also love how their favorite pastime is staring at the wall, menacingly. Imagine being a species that just looks at flat featureless surfaces good chunk of the day lmao Also RIP maybe 100-200% of views for a WoW snippet being used as a preview. - Written from my fleshy lobes.

[@Moss_Dude]

This video just made me purchase a fish breeding simulator

[@minacapella8319]

They're kinda awesome tbh. Just the most chill, simple animal in existence. We could all learn a bit.

[@VioletOrbWeaver]

i loved this! i found funny the monologue at the beginning about people either not having a favorite animal or having a banal answer, because my two favorite animals are the coleacanth and any spider with a penchant for weaving (not picking faves among nature’s most elegant artists tho, that’s like comparing picasso and da vinci). suffice to say, i LOVED this video and loved seeing someone else passionate for these absolutely gorgeous and absurd animals. although i identify with spiders more, the coelacanth is deep in my heart. i’ve had a special love for it ever since catching one in animal crossing i was 8 and becoming absolutely intrigued with the title of “living fossil.” ever since, it’s been a tradition for one to be a central decoration in every future AC game, and i’ve developed a passionate love for the guys. it also helps that they’re one of the most interesting looking fish i’ve ever seen- their appearance alone hooks me in.

[@jacobschrift2448]

The west Indian ocean version has been my favorite animal since I saw its exhibit in the Smithsonian as a child. It and manatees made me want to be a marine biologist for pretty much my entire childhood.

[@ЛеонардБолотов]

the best video i've seen on youtube for years, thanks davey

[@thecrab2408]

glad to see another coelacanth enjoyer in the wild. sure know im not gonna see a coelacanth in the wild anytime soon

[@I_Am_Bowi]

Being the only person on the planet with Relicanth as favourite pokemon I can very much relate to you

[@tinkerermelon6599]

I like Coelacanths for 2 reasons: Pokemon & Yugioh. - Pokemon: Relicanth is cool and its connections with the Regis just add to its mystique. - Yugioh: There's an old Normal monster named "Souleater". It's my second favorite Fish monster in the game, and it is kinda reminiscent of a Coelacanth. My favorite Fish monster in yugioh is "Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth" who's just... the coolest thing ever.

[@d33pblu3]

My favourite animal will always be the European Pond Turtle. Mostly because my ancestors decided to call it ‘the iron frog’ and also because it’s adorable. Turtles are generally great and I will keep one someday.