What's the Most "Animal" Animal? Crash Course Zoology #2

[@naturepbs]

Thanks for watching! And a special shoutout to those of you who guessed "The drummer from the muppets."

[@kwyj]

whooosh.... it went right over my head until you pointed it out!!

[@MuginsonTV]

Reminds me of one of my favourite quotes from J.B.S Haldane - "The creator, if He exists, has an inordinate fondness for beetles".

[@robinhahnsopran]

This Crash Course course is DELIGHTFUL so far. Thank you.

[@EdaugEthanbYT]

I second that opinion

[@abhishekchatterjee7184]

Absolutely

[@johnny_boi5456]

Me too

[@davidbright8978]

I found it strange that birds are the only class of animals to not have venomous species.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Flying and venom would be too O.P.

[@gardenhead92]

Well flying is already a good way to avoid being eaten!

[@Flippy_Nips]

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself reminds me of those flying snakes in Godzilla vs Kong.

[@sunthlower4812]

...not yet :')

[@PotionForThought]

Maybe there is some yet to be identified or once was and it is now extinct. Nobody can say for sure and if it's the latter it would be impossible to tell from fossilised remains.

[@LordOfNothingreally]

Ooohhh! A new crash course series? Yes, please! Excellent host, she's a natural narrator!

[@Meganedere]

For some reason I thought you wrote "she's a natural selection" and I groaned at a joke no one made

[@dankslurpee]

Still legitimately wondering if I've been saying ZOO-ologist wrong my whole life

[@josiekiwicarvajalkossnar1936]

i've always wanted to be a zoologist but never knew where/how to start! then i stumbled across this playlist and now im addicted! thank you crash course!

[@RedXiongmao]

I admire your restraint at only making one Beatles reference.

[@campbelltaylor5598]

I usually don’t click on KZbin notifications, but this title hooked me 😂

[@sugarqbs]

I'm about to be really disappointed if crab isn't the most animal animal... Edit: Beetles are basically land crabs, close enough. There is still enough time for them to complete their evolution. Soon, all will be crab

[@alexanderofrhodes9622]

Plot twist: crabs are trying to become beetles. They just keep getting stuck at copying the body plan

[@laserfan17]

Remember, everything evolves into crabs, or worms.

[@epauletshark3793]

All evolutionary roads lead to crab.

[@gmailbasic1929]

Return to crabby

[@SpiderdayNightLive]

Phylogenetically, insects are a type of crustacean, so it kinda works.

[@robertskitch]

Somewhat random aside: I've been stuck thinking about the original 'Sonic the Hedgehog' games lately. All the animals that you save from the robots are either mammals or birds (except for one level of Sonic 2 that has turtles) but the majority of the robots that you fight are modelled after invertebrates or fish. It's a weird dissonance where it's a story of nature versus technology, but the view of nature is skewed to being very mammal-centric. It's a bit weird to say about some old platform games, but it feels like a pertinent example of how some people view animals?

[@SpiderdayNightLive]

Yeah, it’s a problem called vertebrate bias, and it doesn’t just show up in video games-it’s a big issue in zoology research too. More time and money is spent on vertebrates (which as we saw are a very tiny % of all animals) than in inverts, even though there are so many more of them.

[@katie1921]

2:49 had to do a quadruple take at the mention of Terry Erwin. “Huh I didn’t know Terri Irwin specialised in entomology! Wow she must have been really young in 1982! Weird that they’re now using her maiden name since that was before she married Steve! ..... Wait who is this man on screen?”

[@timesof44]

I love the way she speaks, very clear and concise, even when pronouncing tricky words she just flows through it smoothly. Well done!

[@ryangriffin1998]

At one point, British biologist J.B.S. Haldane (though often attributed to Charles Darwin), was asked if the study of nature revealed anything about god. He responded with "an inordinate fondness for beetles"

[@user-yi9iq6xr2y]

Thank you so much CrashCourse for these videos. Love the format and the host :)

[@hunterG60k]

As soon as she mentioned "most numerous" I knew it was gonna be a beetle 🐞

[@c.guydubois8270]

"an inordinate fondness for beetled"

[@clever-username]

i knew from the thumbnail. i win.

[@hydroxyl5130]

I think the thumbnail gave me a hunch

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

Not sure what the most animal animal is, but the most bizarre beast is definitely hank green

[@jacobschuck3468]

Who the eff is hank?

[@abhishekchatterjee7184]

Hank is Great.

[@billyfox6368]

@@jacobschuck3468 He was one of the original Crash Course presenters. He presented the philosophy one for example.

[@coquimapping8680]

@@jacobschuck3468 He and his brother Phil made this channel. They’re also the vlogbeothers.

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

@@jacobschuck3468 ex. Hank is a food crop native to North America, which was once thought to be poisonous by Europeans, but in fact Hank is not poisonous, hanks simply leeched the lead from the pewter plates that Europeans ate off of

[@muhmalikali]

I am very happy with this zoology course !! Thank you Crash Course and PBS

[@naturepbs]

We're so glad!!

[@heliosdelsol]

@ 5:37- WHAT IS UP WITH THAT FROG!?!?!

[@wawae3u]

Ooo I didn't notice that. It's probably an adaptation or mutation?

[@IHateNumbersOnNames]

I staggered too, but looking at it now, I think I see it. Its "knees" are bent backwards and are in-between the camera and its butt. The joint connecting its red little stubby toes is an ankle? Then we go towards the butt for knees? No wait... The knees are the ankle, and the thing I called the ankle is where the toes join the feet? Idk. But it looks like it has 6 limbs probably because some joints are lined up like I said, butt-joint-camera

[@empie_1]

Need to know, thats one funky dude

[@c-djinni]

His second joints do not connect to the main body as it seems on the first glance. The legs form a Z with upper line hidden by the diagonal.

[@Quintinia]

That freaked me out too at first! I think what appears to be 2 sets of back legs is just its legs folded back all the way and then its feet pointing outwards. If you look closely you can see its "knees" tucked against its bum.

[@malkum77ify]

I've loved zoology since I first discovered it when I was 9!

[@mad_max21]

Reject humanity. Return to beetle.

[@SpiderdayNightLive]

glad to see the secret invertebrate agenda i put in the series is working

[@harayaespadrilles6108]

I love her voice!!! 😊😍

[@1.4142]

There's literally a carpet beetle on my wall.

[@PGJ0908]

This series seems so interesting, but I'm kinda afraid to watch it. I fear that there'll suddenly be a big ass spider on screen that'll make me faint

[@unvergebeneid]

Me, when you take the last slice of pizza without asking.

[@NIDELLANEUM]

Random comment here reminding you to be happy and to do that thing

[@laurel9629]

Aw thanks man

[@niko-ni6ps]

When you say arthropod i thought u were gonna say crab, cuz I just love the meme

[@joshuagcwong734]

I'm almost finished my second year of my zoology degree, this would've been helpful a while ago 😂

[@kucimaka8092]

This seal in the intro is sooooo cute :) koNene

[@veronicamcghie5238]

I'm so glad the host is saying niche correctly

[@MarvinElsen]

5:36 Does that frog have 2 PAIRS of hindlegs? Or am I seeing things? O_o

[@SpiderdayNightLive]

The legs are so long they fold up back to the body, but there are only 2

[@nameofuser5743]

it is a frog that got hybridised with a beetle.

[@Wombat_Dad]

When you said Terry Erwin, I thought you meant Teri Irwin for a second

[@rukbat3]

Anyone else think of John when she started talking about hectares? 😉

[@gosnooky]

No one will ever be more popular than the Beetles.

[@gregoryfenn1462]

I’m a little surprised the most “modal” animals isn’t a microscopic animal.

[@jacksondosreis1700]

7:35 i never thougth that I'd see a billboard chart analogy outside the gay world

[@JobvanderZwan]

I was expecting it to end with an explicit Beatles pun

[@8cordas381]

I came here for biology. Got a statistics class. Loved it.

[@TitoTitoTitoTito]

Idk why but I think of cappybaras when someone says "animal"

[@johnwalters1341]

...And the commonest type of BEETLE is the weevil, of which there are around 97,000 known species.

[@conordoerksen640]

This is some dope stuff! Wowy

[@tanvisharma6856]

It would be amazing if they gave google tests or homework. I would love to do that.

[@octaviojimenez561]

Me: I'm gonna be productive today KZbin:

[@naturepbs]

This counts as productive!

[@howdy4504]

Plato would've loved this

[@johnnysnowman99]

Nice one.

[@sanabadruddin1820]

Girl I have that same denim shirt as you!

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Inb4 Crashcourse Zoology announces that a 3 legged 2 armed animal is discovered

[@milliosmiles5160]

The drummer from The Muppets.

[@ericmccauleymusic]

Can you do a crash course on construction please

[@khalliwalli-obaidfarooqui]

nice sharing.

[@zerohcrows]

Could you please make a crash course on music/music theory.

[@handlejl225]

You ever see a video title that you just can’t not click on?

[@jvjv8093]

Mmm, Monke

[@hollandscottthomas]

Crab. All will become crab.

[@modernlacuna]

um what did you say about parasitic wasps? I'm scared now

[@kimurakurokane999]

Could you please make a video about Richard Owen, the one who named "dinosaur"?

[@Surkit914]

And here I was thinking the status of "animal" was a boolean function...

[@mr.amogus2981]

My guess is that the animal is the nobel Crab, nature keeps on making new ones

[@rohayani3761]

awww this is so cute

[@epauletshark3793]

You are wrong, the correct answer is obviously Animal, from the Muppets.

[@candaceh4236]

😀 I love this

[@timefortjer6705]

now we're asking the real questions

[@stillkickin3919]

I'm glad Paul didn't fall out of the tree. (give me a break on the spelling :)

[@MultiLeandrini]

I must say I love the content of this channel and I love zoology (i'm a biologist myself) but I shall make one critic: It is hard to not be Homocentric (thinking the human is the apex of evolution, or "the most evolved life") when you guys represent human on this sort of scales like in 1:57

[@robertiktomi8498]

Well, they said "diverged latest"; which animal species (other than domesticated forms) is much younger than Homo sapiens ?

[@SpiderdayNightLive]

Hey Leandro, thanks for the feedback. One of my goals in the series is to break away from homocentric depictions of evolution, which is why we showed that as a phylogenetic tree and not the linear scale that you are probably familiar with. We say that humans are a late diverting group (H.sapliens is about 200k years old which is not much) not that they are more evolved. Keep watching, I think you will be pleased with the upcoming episodes.

[@veronicamcghie5238]

Not the Terri Irwin i'm used to hearing about

[@artificialintelligence2653]

Who is the most ‘human’ human here?

[@delusionnnnn]

Cuttlefish.

[@StopANDgoFAST]

Wouldn't an ant be at the top?

[@hashmithasureshkumar3335]

crash course, can u please do a show just for marine biology, as a separate segment

[@Broke-disastrous-guy]

My favourite Beatle is george

[@elizabethCorkins83]

Hi 👋🏻

[@ngoctrand.6032]

Regardless, all animals are equal...but some are more equal than the others

[@re_animator]

It turns out it's man.

[@metabeard3788]

MORE ANIMAL THAN ANIMAL

[@aperson22222]

Ugh, I hope the parasitic wasp doesn't become the mode animal. That would just be depressing.

[@Flint_Inferno]

Hmmm yes, what's the most "floor" floor?

[@tanoshiihito1279]

2:15 Indonesia

[@Mobin92]

Why does the number of species matter and not the number of individual animals? Just because you can categorize beetles into many different kinds, doesn't make them more important.

[@oldcowbb]

mean animal is not too bad a definition in machine learning sense

[@cedricvelarde]

So Dr Genus from OPM created the most animal animal on steroids

[@2yeon]

early to crash course yay

[@seal5465]

what happen to the guy who always speack to the mice?

[@Joseph-gq5jn]

Only originality can attract 12.2m sub. WTG

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Yay

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Hi crashcourse.

[@ucle799]

😁

[@ashwanisinghofficial]

Please start a podcast. I see it the only way to consume all your content. In video format it would be tedious. 🙏

[@ericsebastiancarlos6379]

Ant

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RAAWWRR

[@سجادالطائي-ش6د]

Pleace can you sub this video to arabic

[@vela5074]

O my gosh I'm so early

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Hi

[@miserablepunk]

Second