Temperate Rainforests of Tasmania

[@GcTheHardstyler]

Joey having a conversation about Germans, Techno and mdma with an Echidna is giving me life 🤣🤣

[@BubuH-cq6km]

as Jeff Williams says "Better to be a Smart Fellar than a Fart Smeller"

[@fluuufffffy1514]

Or, one could be both... 'Scuse me

[@Cheeseness]

I live in Tasmania, and it was very nice to see my two favourite Tassie animals make an appearance here. Echidnas, with their little backwards feet and cute waddle have longer fur and have bouts of torpor over the winter down here (in some parts of the mainland, they're essentially nocturnal to escape the daytime heat - for an "ancient species," they sure seem adaptable). Nothing makes me happier than hanging out with one in the wild. I love the way that yellow tailed black cockatoos contrast against the character and behaviour of many of our other larger parrots. Sulphur crested cockatoos are known to be boisterous and destructive, constantly shrieking, and there's a reason that "pack of galahs" is an Aussie idiom. The yellow tailed black cockatoos though, seem shy and sound like a creaky barn door. It's very nice to sit and enjoy their quiet company. Thanks for showcasing some of our beautiful forests!

[@betula2137]

Cute little schnozz can win over anyone

[@Cheeseness]

@@betula2137 It's more than just a nose - there's a little mouth on the end as well :D

[@betula2137]

@@Cheeseness When it's in the ground, the whole Earth is at the end of the schnozz. Such power the echidna wield

[@nefariousyawn]

Freakin beautiful. I'm really glad you stumbled on that echidna.

[@transamericanlife]

I love the conversations with the flowers and wildlife. ☺️

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Me, too! Made me so happy, I stopped grinding coffee, and sat grinning and spellbound when he met the Echidna.

[@sarahcathousecritters]

Yes, he makes botany and ecology entertaining doesn't he.. Tends to give me a laugh too. 😄

[@charlesfichter68]

“She said we didn’t look like botanists, I take that as a compliment” 😂 I’m done

[@betula2137]

We need a botanist to document the petrified fossil you've become

[@linden5165]

Watching these has made me realise how little I knew about Tasmanian flora. I'm a New Zealander and studied botany here. It amazes me how much similarity but also difference there is, but of course that makes total sense. The tree ferns and coprosmas are so familiar, but it feels weird to see them with eucalypts instead of just podocarps and beech.

[@robmanueb.]

Hope he makes it to NZ!

[@sebastianmarquez3014]

You should see all the Coprosma spp with arborescent lobelias here in Hawai'i!

[@Toddis]

That spiny boy deserves a treat 🦔

[@georgenecopprimerenecopprimi]

So cool you got to bond with a local Echidna! I've only read that Tassie Echidnas love German house, so it's nice to get confirmation on that, getting into the deep convos down there, it's appreciated, thanks!

[@bilz0r]

I live about an hour away from mount field, and it's so nice seeing your commentary on this area. Loved the echidna too! Keep up the good work. Also, the cockatoo you're hearing at the end of the video is a Yellow Tailed Black cockatoo, Anda funerea, relatively big for this area of the world, with a wing span of 2 feet.

[@jessicathomas73]

Love those cockatoos, I have a few photos from around one of the many waterfalls in Tassie. They were tearing at the moss on the trees.

[@Jack-mf5lw]

You're super lucky to live there! Nature in Tasmania seems pretty awesome I wish we had those kind of parks in my country, you're beyond blessed

[@betula2137]

@@Jack-mf5lw We are so lucky. We need to take it a bit less for granted (and stop doing what we're currently doing: being the biggest deforestation hotspot for a developed country), and do a bit of therapeutic urbanism for good measure (for people to more experience our nature day-to-day, which reduces stress & increases productivity, etc)

[@Jack-mf5lw]

@@betula2137 Absolutely, don't give up and keep on fighting deforestation in every possible way! Peaceful or not just make it work, I live in an antinatural hell hole where every valley is filled with concrete, we spend a lot of gov money just to keep what's left of our biodiversity intact. There is no such thing as a first-growth forest here and people go to other countries just to "see nature", you cannot afford to lose this battle!

[@barrypoontang]

how the shit did you edit your comment a month ago in a video posted 2 days ago?

[@fordprefect80]

My family holidayed in TAS back in 82. We spent a month traveling around the Island in a 78 Fairlane towing a caravan with three in the front, four in the back. My parents argued the whole time, it was great.

[@jonathangehman4005]

So much of what I pick up on this channel(other than the casual profanity and social critique) is bits like "Worlds largest Angiosperm"(Eucalyptus Ragnans) or "Only Parasitic Conifer"(Parasitaxus) etc. Stuff that sticks in your head and makes you curious enough to go look it up later to see what's what. I know a tiny bit about an incredibly vast subject that gets more and more interesting as I snoop around. Curse you Tony! And your pal Al too! I was perfectly happy messin' around with Musclecars until you got me into this shit

[@nicolasbertin8552]

I used to live in Australia and I've been to Tassie 3 times. It's a gorgeous area, and the plants are just amazing. The rainforest of the Tarkine, in the North West of the island, is just stunning. You may read that it's hard to go there, but a few areas are within walking distance of some pretty good dirt roads. If you like temperate rainforest, there is also the Otways near Melbourne (North of the Great Ocean Road) which has stunning flora. And since you like desert plants too, I really urge you to explore the Mallee country (if you're still in Australia at the time of this video being released), with national parks like Hattah Kulkyne, Murray Sunset, Little Desert, and for plants, especially Wyperfeld. Most of the land surface of these parks is only accessible with 4WD, but the 2WD accessible areas are still enough to have an amazing taste of these desert plants. The australian desert has no cacti, but they make up for it with the gorgeous mallee style eucalypts, and the amazing diversity of birdlife.

[@betula2137]

The outback is so full of life. Also, the Tarkine is kind of under threat (currently being logged and mined and the money sent away from us too), even though it's worthy of being heritage listed (as the TWWHA is the highest-rated UNESCO site on Earth, and you only need 1 criterion to be listed)

[@kimiroar2644]

The New England accent does need a BIT more practice, it's giving way more of a Connecticut transplant, Joey, coming from a Bostonian entomologist. 👍

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Sorry I was huffin fahts

[@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515]

I was eatin chowdah

[@walkerfeet8729]

I'm not too interested correcting spelling, but i'm having some meta-dissonance. Do you study bugs?

[@Finnnicus]

@@walkerfeet8729 no they study bahgs

[@espalier]

I’m entertained by the Australian D, that morphs into a D+J, or just a J.

[@hhheee3939]

"I like ur shnoz, its like a gonzos shnoz".

[@bybeach4865]

So this is Tasmania. Read a bit of the history, it's original inhabitants and the arrival of the British. Sad story, we finally had our way. with an indigenous culture. Interesting plants and an amazing Cockatoo, as well as the Echidnae. Material culture-wise, I just got a new tv, and seeing your videos makes it even more worth-while, besides the video games I play on it.

[@betula2137]

A slightly more heart-warming story, though it's a tiny light in a sea of ineffable tragedy, is when the D'Entrecasteaux expedition visited Recherche Bay twice in the 18th century. The members were moved by the natural beauty, as one would be, and planted a garden. The second time round they met the local Lyluequonny, who had documented and named the plants in the garden in a scientific manner; one of the reasons the French were there was to document stars for navigation (the first written experiment done in Australia, of course science had been done for 40k years on Tasmania), and discussed with the unrivalled local knowledge. So many interesting stories too, of course, most are lost, but even the ones which come from few sources provide a bit to the imagination beyond the sense of loss. In a way war memorials should hold strongly, we had Tarenorerer who united formerly-warring nations to defend this Land (and got the closest to winning militarily, though she died after exile during the genocide), or Tongerlongeter who led his nation to help protect the ancient alliances and trade routes in the south-east. Sadly we know least about the west except for the sturdy villages built to withstand difficult weather, and as people who had lived in isolation for longer than the east.

[@matthiasroppel7093]

love your videos , you should have popped over to New Zealand while you were close and looked at some of our ancient Kauri trees that are still standing . Keep doing what you do !!! bringing nature to the armchair

[@k33k32]

I'd like to see our host talk to a Kakapo

[@sarahcathousecritters]

Yes, he would absolutely love New Zealand. The nature is absolutely amazing.

[@pvtpain66k]

I love when you're talking at an animal then the conversation turns introspective about how you think others perceive you.

[@hankvine2149]

Happy New Years Joey... Saludos desde tuxtepec Oaxaca... Your knowledge is priceless and your humor/sarcasm is equally priceless...

[@xXScissorHandsXx]

That mid-woodland critter convo was the bee's knees lol 4:40

[@lulularoar7157]

You never fail to have me laughing and learning new things about our beautiful plant 🌍 thanks for high energy, realness and cute conversations with 'the only egg laying mammal' 🌟

[@mozismobile]

I love the mental transition from "some dude in the USA with the fast talk and the accent" ... "in Tasmania". Gives me a whole new way of looking at the country.

[@Miranda-fm2hs]

Gonzo Schnoz. Most accurate description of the day!

[@nathyatta]

I went there today! Great spot. In the morning I was at the Big Trees walk in the rainforest, then drove up to the alpine area and spent the arvo there. What an awesome national park!

[@Friaspordias]

Getting slammed here in the Bay Area with rain, LOVE IT WE NEED IT!. Sausal Creek is roaring in Dimond Park!!

[@IdontKnow-gm7eu]

@23:51 the mushroom you picked up looks to be from the family Russulaceae, but I'm not sure. I'm saying this based off of the fact that a lot of Russulas have similar gills, stems and characteristics. It has to be ectomycorrhizal as you said.

[@Wethecenter]

Thanks man…. Easily one of my favourite episodes….. saw it on patreon … had to watch again today!!!

[@calnative4904]

Happy New Year Joey, looking forward to more of your entertaining and informative content.

[@dumoulin11]

What a fantastic episode, plus I got to see an Echidna and a Rosella!

[@erutuon]

I watched half, watched the rest a few days later, and watched the beginning again. Love the friendly echidna and cockatoo heckling, the giant eucalyptus, the orchids in the mass on the laaags....

[@EnglishDave6767]

Ahh yeah! Happy New Year, Joey! Love those tree ferns. Cheers, from Oregon.

[@elevatorphish]

PLEASE tell me you went and saw the magnificent Dicksonia antarctica specimens at Russell Falls.

[@betula2137]

Lots of fungi too

[@azuredivina]

HOW CUTE!!! man. what a wonderful professional hobby of yours. :)

[@AuntyDolan]

dog woods huffing farts in the car parks

[@user-ol2mr4bx7c]

thanks for doing that really long lecture I downloaded it to absorb over every train journey I love you for doing that

[@thesilentone4024]

Do you know what thirsty cement is if not would be ok looking it up and letting people know in your next video how useful it can be. Ok so if cities used it will reduce sand mining and help ecosystems and reduce flooding and increase groundwater aquifer and soil levels in cities.

[@andrewashman3333]

Light gathering of the camera is fine.

[@sparkpenguin]

very little makes me happier than when tony calls me a prick for liking something.

[@charlesdeuter]

Oh man, I came back through Blue tier forest reserve after a trip to Bay of Fires when I visited Tasmania, and I gotta say it can't be understated how fucking cool it is to see a half Dozen Echidnas just chilling by the side of the road. Wish I spent more time there, but you can say that about just about any place in Tasmania!

[@wishlist_12wishlist55]

Me luuvs Tasmania's nature! Fantastic 🤩😍🥰

[@megaflux7144]

i am SO happy that you got the opportunity to explore this island. well deserved and well done.

[@100oracle]

Came here to say i love techno and house music and i love your channel.

[@damonroberts7372]

LOL I think the Boston accent _does_ overlap with 'Strayan a bit. Both are non-rhotic, at any rate.

[@betula2137]

The LIST Map is a handy resource by the way, with tasveg layers to spot some nice little spots, including the wet sclerophyll forest (with or without rainforest understorey), and temperate rainforest (Nothofagus or Atherosperma, or both). Some of the 'parklike' stands are at higher elevations, like near the Vale of Belvoir or the Rattler Range

[@donkeylambtaxi8725]

Loving your reaction to echidnas :) we DO have the best monotremes

[@napalmholocaust9093]

16:17 that is Chlorociboria aeruginascens, turquoise stain. I had to check its distribution to make sure. It is. Same stuff as in the states. The color is a compound called Xylandian. Used in medieval European inlay as "green oak". Not good for much, too punky. Stabilizes ok but a lot of color gets pulled-out in heat cure resins. Haven't tried alumilite and pressure yet.

[@IJN-gr6qn]

Lovely content! Cheers from Brazil!

[@myaccount551]

I really need to know how you seem to have all this amazing information ready to go. How are you so well-versed? I’m sure practical experience is essential, but do you have any reading/resource tricks or recommendations? That or I’m assuming you have a photographic memory haha

[@Aaron_Thomas95]

Omg thank you for coming to tasmania!!!

[@mellarius188]

Welcome to Australia. Your reaction to our spikey friend the echidna is hilarious.

[@shamanim1354]

I slapped my knee like a Tennessee banjo savant when he hit that 'COLONIES!" How does he keep doing it...

[@TS-eo9uf]

In the past week, I've been to SF Botanical Garden 2x, after never having gone before. Made me happy for you to reference a tree there that I (assume) I've seen.

[@flamingstag2381]

would have loved to see ur take on "macquaire island " a true beacon of light !!!!!!!!!!

[@caidenmurphy9486]

I also grow some stuff from South America because North America has kind of came in contact with it for a long time so it's not as bad and most are nightshades which potato beetles are great at controlling and they benefit native bumble bees but not the invasive honey bee

[@64Pete]

You got me with the huffin' farts in the carpark, champagne comedy right there brother. The lesson was on point.✌🇦🇺

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Bird says: "hell yeah I can do this. Can do whatever I want here, Mr. Tourist from wherever, I am goddamn native, so... go fuck yourself, bye." And he does mean it in a friendly way❣️ Also, what Joey says about ppl not liking him after 15 minutes is the opposite of my impression from videos with guests. They almost all seem kind of shocked, certainly wary, and uncomfortable at first, then warm to him until they hate to see him go in the end. 😂

[@kharnifex]

Nice one!

[@_NewtonMeter]

I could listen all day

[@caidenmurphy9486]

Hi great video also I was watching one of your other videos where you were planting trees in California illegally makes me happy can you do more of that?

[@vireogilvus]

Tasmania is definitely on the bucket list. They really could use a few tiger beetles, but still on the list. The birds and plants though, and can't argue with monotremes just waddling around

[@64Pete]

20:20 bird calls were corellas or cockatoos, not the rosies. Rosies are much quieter, more like chattering. (I also need to stop commenting before the end of the lesson 😇)

[@kathawk1165]

cool! your blue wood looks like a Chlorociboria sp.

[@josephmcfarland7467]

The ketamine jokes made me laugh out loud for the first time in months. Thanks brother.

[@MBroam]

Massive banger trees! Also, that echidna was adorable.

[@gypsylee333]

I love those tree ferns I've tried to have them and I think my place is too dry, they croaked :( you showed a lot of restraint not petting the echidna, I think I would've tried lol so cute!

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Alright, I said: Mr. Santoro, please restore my failing sympathy for humanity! Of course he did. And then we met an Echidna to boot! I feel fortified now, thanks.

[@norfolkyeti]

Guinea wind bag 😂😂 You’re vids are sweet dude👍

[@jaredknapp8886]

Happy new year. Upload more monotreme videos and no one gets hurt.

[@plant.more.trees.]

Great video! Thanks

[@alistercaddy1208]

I was just in Baja and there was a tree with 3 cacti growing off it. It looked fake or something but the cacti were naturally growing originating as bird doodoo no doubt.

[@turfblacksmith]

English, Welsh, Irish & Scottish all contributed to the Aussie accent... that's fair dinkum.

[@transamericanlife]

And beer!

[@timebert9467]

Hey mate, love your work. FYI you got your dogwood and your hazel mixed up in this one.

[@diegop2311]

I wash down my Irish tacos with my Scottish mezcal.

[@Tamaresque]

😄"It's so funny what the British accent morphed into . . ." says the man with the very strong N.Y. accent! I cannot for the life of me figure out what you're saying about the carpark, even KZbin subtitles are bamboozled. "A lot of people huffing fats in these car parks" is the first iteration, and "... huffed any fats in a cat pack" is the 2nd.🤣🤣🤣 Nevertheless, I love your videos. 🥰 (Disclaimer: my family moved from MI to AUS in 72. I've been in Tassie since 86.)

[@wtfsalommy3250]

Happy New Year, ya Silly Bastids...

[@Yabbagabbagool]

i got to get down to tasmania one of these days!

[@ranradd]

The new official Echidna Whisperer channel, nice.

[@chiseldrock]

best in the new year Joey

[@Travecmo]

Feels like your on another planet

[@mylesbartunek5920]

I love how boston he is 😅 or maybe new York? But I think boston. It makes learning about plants soo great 😂

[@ThomasTheFapEngine]

Loved Your previous video on Huon "Pines", I never knew it was a misnomer. Thanks for Your insight, You're a bloody legend, and from all My fellow Taswegians, I'm sure we appreciated having You here on the island, come back anytime :D

[@joshuaferguson5756]

This is the coolest place you've been yet!

[@Scrambles7]

Holy shit, you were just up the road from my house!!!

[@raystephens9550]

Have to tell you Tony, don't let an echidna climb into your car. Had to pick one up off a road up the hills near Melbourne once upon a time, which had an injury to its nose, a blood nose. Appeared healthy enough to release an hour or so later back near where I picked him/her up. No further bleeding and pretty feisty for an echidna, but I had to unbolt and remove the rear seat the SW Ford Cortina to get it out of the car after it had climbed under. Was maybe a junior, a little one, about 30cm or a foot from its arsehole to breakfast, and I have seen them much bigger. They're peaceful critters. Never met an angry echidna, which unlike the platypus male, do not have the venom spike on their rear ankle, which gives them a right to throw their weight around, so to speak. Not exactly like an angry moose or a hungry bear if you happen to be tied to a tree... Sometimes it is not a good idea to be a tree hugger protesting logging of habitat, because you may only tempt a hungry bear once. Or, so I am told by people with much more experience with large omnivores than I.

[@currenconner7098]

Genuine opinion of bass music

[@tastiger91]

Cockatoos are noisy bastards when there's a group arguing.

[@malkie638]

you and "callmekris" on a forest walk , potential for much hilarity. happy new year Tony

[@Vanbooskie]

Cah pahk Regnans, Nice

[@sarahcathousecritters]

Is this footage from a return visit to Australia or from the previous trip Down Under? 🙂 The nature is amazing! Will have to get my butt over there one day. ❤

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

From last month

[@Stian_lovas]

Joey, the last fungi you showed is a type of russula

[@KatBurnsKASHKA]

really cool to see this. thank you!

[@tuukan2]

stuck in khole :D man you're a legend

[@raystephens9550]

Thanks Tony, you do good work. (Gonna GFMS in your honour later, or in memo because these days it could kill me between collapsed lungs)

[@peterbathum2775]

Cough syrup techno. Nice.

[@mylesbartunek5920]

Low-brow biology is me in a nut shell 😂 god damn I love this

[@craighoover1495]

Thank you Joey, for me the zoology stole the show. However those tree ferns boggled me.

[@MUSTASCH1O]

In Europe, the green elf cup fungus turns wood green like that. I'm no mycologist but maybe the one in this video is in the same family.

[@An-kw3ec]

These southern temperate forests resemble the highland moist forests found in central america, with both contributions of ancient Antarctic flora and neotropical-australian elements. Maybe how earth looked 50 million years ago, when Antarctica still had forests. There not many broad leave evergreen temperate forests, most are deciduous or conifer evergreen. Southern china and Japan have them.

[@greenbeecolony1911]

That looks badass good job keep the vids comin

[@benbohemier5721]

5:06 when Joey calls you a German house musician