Cuscus: The Weirdest Animal You've Never Heard Of

[@watchmecatchpike7145]

"Because of this the bear cuscus is very slow, very lethargic and slothlike." Me too Cuscus. Me too

[@jezebulls]

Unlike us, they don’t have to worry about health insurance and taxes.

[@teejay6063]

😂 👍

[@laserworkstv]

2:55

[@moralfortitude...2217]

🤔right...

[@Erewhon2024]

Moral of the story: eat meat.

[@isaacthemonke233]

This looks like somebody tried to draw a monkey from memory, then made it a marsupial

[@wormworm580]

I got scratched by a cuscus once and so I went and put neon coloured bandaids on but when I came back to see the cuscus again it got really invested in my neon bandaids and scratched me even more. The moral of the story: don’t wear neon pink and green bandaids into cuscus territory.

[@SoulDelSol]

No way. No one knows what these are

[@wormworm580]

@@SoulDelSol Oceania moment I guess

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Maybe the cuscus confuses them for leaves.

[@RomulusTheWild6693]

Finally, leaser known animals are getting the spot, can you do bee flies next most people have never even seen one and when they do they are often terrified and try to swat them despite their ecological importance and being completely harmless to humans and animals in general they also look cute and weird like if a humming birds and bumble bee had a baby only down side is that their larva are parasitoid for other insects

[@gavinlamp5426]

"Okay, what do you want to be?' Cuscus: "I want to be a lemur. No, a sloth. No wait! An opossum! No wait, a binturong!"

[@darhaha3391]

There are some others marsupials that are also rare and few know about them. I'd really like to know more about the water possum. World's only semi-aquatic marsupial. I think in a few million years they could evolve into marsupial whales 😂 imagine that

[@siggyvdz8213]

Amazing ! Thanks for this discovery !

[@juritudi57yearsago59]

Thatd be so cool having a marsupial whale, it probably give birth on the surface tho

[@plasmarine5781]

Wow they are so cool! I had never heard of them before this. Absolutely love them

[@SoulDelSol]

Can't happen bc how is it going to breath stuck in a pouch

[@darhaha3391]

@@SoulDelSol lol 😂🤣

[@casbot71]

For some reason calling someone a _"Cuscus"_ was a insult in a school I went to in Sydney Australia (pre internet), with full awareness of what it was.

[@facewrinkles3886]

Well people use sloth as a derogatory term and I could totally see a similar characteristic animal being thrown around like that. Australia moment!

[@Nondualstandpoint01]

I’d love to see a video of the super rare giant japanese salamander! Love your videos💚

[@isaiahmcguire1822]

They did a video on the giant salamanders.

[@obamessiah]

There's probably a video of one on KZbin. Do a search for it. It's real easy.

[@quayevano]

I'm 51 years old and from the Philippines, but it's my first time to hear and know about these beautiful creatures.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

I had heard of this animal, but didn't know anything about them. Now that I do, they're one of my favorite marsupials. Thank you.

[@fish-champ]

Can you do the livestreams of drawing the animals weekly? It’s really relaxing to watch them

[@zaidnail3544]

I've never heard of a cuscus, what a beautiful animal. You think you can talk about the blue spix's macaw next, please.

[@3r3bu5x9]

this animal used to be abundant in my locality 20years ago. Fascinating creatures.

[@gerryhouska2859]

Never heard of? Bought one from Koki market, Port Moresby, sold as food, bought as a pet for my children. Nice, gentle creature.

[@fullscorpion5285]

"Big...round...(zooms away from balls)...spots! " Got me! 😂

[@sassa82]

Its so fascinsting that there are so many different mammals on this planet.

[@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz]

Spotted Cuscus: "It's a miracle! It's an Australian Christmas bloody miracle!"

[@TheVeritas1]

Danielle, Don't feel bad. I'm older than you and had never heard of the cuscus until one appeared in a KZbin video. What a fascinating creature.

[@agerven]

You are right, never heard of these nice animals before! Learned a lot in this video, especially about how cute and special they are :) Diversity and evolution of nature seem almost endless!

[@ToxicWyvern1]

Cuscus, the creature so nice, they named it twice

[@Semirotta]

Adorable little critter.

[@estervillafane]

Que maravilla de programa. No tenía idea de que existía este animal con estos bellos colores 😮

[@Turdfergusen382]

You’re a beautiful human. Thanks for all the cool content

[@elNathNY]

Very cute. They look similar to strepsirhini primates.

[@MouthEater999]

I used to love the cuscus in like 3rd grade when I was obsessed with animals. I’m so happy they finally have their own video!

[@ToastedTater420]

They looks somewhere between a possum and a lemur. Very cute

[@marymccluer1630]

Hey, you asked for suggestions on other animals to cover. I grew up in a swamp on the East coast of central Florida in the 70s. There were these amazing large grasshoppers in our area that were bright yellow with large red and green spots. They moved very slowly, at a crawl or would else sit still, and avoided jumping. I thought they must be poisonous, but I wasn't sure. Over the years, I've looked for information on these grasshoppers but have never found mention of them. I'm not sure if they even still exist. Thanks.

[@oliviapriest8986]

you may be thinking of lubber grasshoppers! they're amazing!

[@farhanatoerien3437]

I have never heard of or seen of this creature- THANK YOU 🙏🏾

[@Astrapionte]

I just love marsupials. Oddly, my favorite feature of theirs are their hands. Koalas and cuscuses, for example, have those amazing fingers and bird like claws 😊

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

And these sweeties are EAST of "The Wallace Line", so within the Australian fauna area. It makes sense that they are marsupials.

[@sharendonnelly7770]

The cuscus is truly and enigma, fascinating and truly an excellent example of convergent evolution, i.e. monkeys, sloths, marsupials. Every video I watch I grow to appreciate the incredibly intricate artwork that represents the animal discussed. Wow factor 10+. Great video!

[@greenserenity]

I really appreciate this channel. I love how you add a tad of humor and how you offer the information. And then all those cuuuuute animals! Amazing!! Thank you for being such a great inspiration!!

[@TeethToothman]

Danielle and I are pretty much the same age and I learned about Cuscus' from Jack Hanna when I was little. I think around 6 years old or so. I never forgot because of how much he talked about them smelling like popcorn.

[@theburningman5047]

Damn… the Illustration at the beginning is breathtaking 👍🏼 Really well done

[@arfriedman4577]

I'm older than you and I never heard of either. They're beautiful.

[@jwanaavery9599]

Looks beautiful and slow, but really scary at night

[@roryasrorri701]

as an Indonesian, the first time i heard a dish called couscous, i was like: "they eat cuscus? why? why?? oh. not that cuscus. my bad."

[@Nikki0417]

They really are like a mash-up of all the other marsupials. 😂

[@DestroyerOfWeebs]

Cuscus is also the name of one brazilian food, you don't know how scared i get when i saw that exist an animal called cuscus

[@e.s.lavall9219]

Isn't the food spelled couscous?

[@DestroyerOfWeebs]

@@e.s.lavall9219 None of my parents or friends spelled like that, so idk

[@rakshithprajwal5069]

Clicked on Animalogic Video after Years. Happy to see Danielle still with the Team!

[@AlainaLindsay]

This was so cool!! Thank you for the great video

[@Numbskulli]

Excited to watch this!! I just recently learned about these fellows.

[@EATSxBABIES]

My favorite Disney character. David Spade did such a good job voicing him. :)

[@tutubism]

i thought they were some type of lemurs at first. their existence reminds me that marsupials are incredibly diverse & adaptable animals. thank you for sharing! :)

[@Vico649]

The title sound like the worst animal you never saw in your wildest dreams.

[@rivaljunior6369]

I'm majoring Biology Education now, and one of my task is to research Marsupials and from that task i learned about this species and suprisingly i found this animal actually from my country 😂😂😂

[@JackieMatthews610318]

Due to their arboreal life, cuscus seems to have evolved somewhat in a similar direction to primates, especially lemurs and other primitive monkeys.

[@kodoklengket]

Come to Sulawesi. Go to Tangkoko National Park. Last time I was visited, there were are home-stays near the park. Get a day time and night time tour from the rangers there, you will find tarsiers, kuskus, and macaques. Manado has an international airport, so easier to access worldwide.

[@rarefarera6946]

Thank you for consistently expanding my knowledge or animals with lovely entertaining videos

[@obidean3964]

"Cuscus" Adorably exotic name, just like itself

[@Chaos89P]

Heard of the cuscus back in the 90's. I forget what the commercial was about, but one of the things the announcer said was to the effect of "Ever have a cuscus on your head?" There was a cuscus clinging to the guy's head, probably just hanging around.

[@emm6064]

I knew about them but somehow keep forgetting they are marsupials. (no idea why). Bit of a marsupial sloth/monkey combo.

[@sdizzy3863]

Love you Danielle! You make me smile and your love for animals is commendable!

[@leost152]

They look like a tree marmot. Once I scared a marmot and he climbed a tree. He was hanging from a branch with one hand and a friend from Brazil called him a Canadian sloth.

[@TopFix]

New drinking game, take a shot every time she says cuscus

[@TROLL_FACE_00]

They're actually look more like primates, particularly in the Lemur Family than any other marsupials.

[@zain1smith]

Awesome. I heard this animal before since I used to live in that large island

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Very cute. Here was me thinking there was only one noun in the world pronounced like "cooscoos" Yet here is this cutie, and there is the couscous in the supermarket!

[@TheHighlander2024]

Hi Danielle! 👋🏿😎 Your illustrations and presentations are always awesome!!!! Thank you for sharing the vids. #Cuscus! 👏🏿🙌🏿👍🏿

[@theitineranthistorian2024]

i have learned, somewhere. the name, personalities, appearance and behavior is delightful. they move in stages.

[@canis2020]

These things look like a possum and a lemur did the forbidden dance

[@noonda7]

Hi @animalogic! Love you and your videos! Can you please cover a Colugo next?!

[@salejrei3564]

As a kid I used to collect sticker albums, one of the very first I had was about wildlife, the cuscus was there, it seemed pretty interesting but I never searched about it until 25 years later I came across your video, it's amazing to actually see it 😍 it feels like going back in time, great job 🙌🏿

[@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr]

I’ve heard of them, but when I ate one at a Moroccan restaurant I assumed it was some kind of cereal. How do they turn them into those little granules?

[@Remissio712]

Has more like a rice like texture or bulgur texture 🤣

[@edchanful]

Aahhh yess cuscus from my country Hopefully Animalogic can make a video about a red cat from Kalimantan, the cat is almost extinct n not a lot of people know bout this creature

[@braendyn]

oh a panther-monkey. They seem like they would be friends with Yapoks, Kinkajous, and Binturongs.

[@ElephantSoul]

Amazing video

[@yallimsorry5983]

Wanna say I love these videos, and so does one of my cats! He comes in and watches the entire thing! Or we watch them together in the bed, lol. Thanks so much for making these.

[@e.s.lavall9219]

I knew cuscuses existed but didn't realise there were more than one species! (I'm Australian) One thing hasn't changed- I LOVE THEM

[@erickj.933]

Make a video about mandrials, those monkeys with colorful faces😮 pleaseee🥲

[@tessat338]

I have never heard of this animal before!

[@dmedina6835]

Always a great video and 34 - I was thinking 22 - rock on and keep sending that awesome content

[@misanthropicmusings4596]

The north american marsupial is pronounced possum, but spelled opossum, yet I've never heard anyone refer to them as opossums.

[@microwaveoven9170]

As big of an animal nerd that I am, I was also surprised when I didn't know what a cuscus was

[@golfgrabu]

Soo cuuute! But for me the weirdest animal will always remain the platypus.

[@hugotavaresgomes9539]

Cuscus is a coconut sweet famous around Brazil, and consumed everyday in Nor-west of Brazil.

[@RosariaDewi]

I live in Indonesia my whole life and never heard of them (or probably did, but in different names). I feel sad that there is still some people that poaching them, knowing it would not sell much anyway..

[@Seadalgo]

I think the Mara was that for me. I think I was 29 when I first heard of it and wondered how it slipped by me

[@shlingusdingus4174]

This animal looks like a gecko if it was a mammal.

[@boyfriendwannabe1825]

FunFact : Sulawesi island is called Celebes in english.

[@ReeveProductions]

I love learning about all these weird and interesting animals. Can we do the Kenyan sand boa next? So cute and derpy!

[@chimz1310]

no because this is the realest channel on yt sometimes love y’all!!!

[@omiNITROUS]

That one chair everyone's grandma had but its been animated by a warlock.

[@TaraMolohon-lb1zn]

I found this to be one of the critters that wouldn't leave us without losing all the terrible things we did over time. Yup, you can kinda see why when you watch this crazy entertainment on the sidewalk right in front of us. I'm glad they decided to just be nice and hope for the best with this wild behavior and hope for the future.

[@strikerevimus]

I've heard of the Cuscus before, as far back as when I was a kid myself. I can prove it too with something not mentioned in the video... While I don't know if it's true for all of them, I know that on talk shows that had a Cuscus for a wildlife segment, the host always commented on the smell. They say that the Cuscus smells like, of all things, pop-corn! The animal handler explained that the smell is a deterrent to predators, hence why it smells like that. I personally don't understand how that would deter a predator, given most people love the smell of pop-corn and I know a lot of animals love it too. But it's true, the Cuscus the shows had on them smell like pop-corn, and we all know that there is nothing in nature that is done without reason.

[@jimurrata6785]

I believe you are thinking of the binturong. Kind of similar, but very different.

[@kellydalstok8900]

I don’t particularly like the smell of popcorn, but it wouldn’t deter me if I had an opportunity to stroke that fluffy fur.

[@papasmoke89]

I've known about the Cuscus because of Jack Hanna. When I was a kid I loved my Zoo Life with Jack Hanna VHS tapes.

[@naturegirl92584]

Wow. You win. It has been a good long time since I've seen an animal I haven't been acquainted with

[@saskiaviking9447]

4:05 the balls of this fella

[@ArtByFameli]

You may have never heard of them, but I've known about them for most my life and I'm 39 lol. Probably just means you weren't as curious about nature in years past, or didn't have as easy access information. Anyone who'd regularly watched Animal planet in the late 90s and early 2000's knows about these animals

[@maryrosekent8223]

Because this is an animal that I’ve never encountered in my wide-ranging readings, so when the woman with the mellifluous voice mentioned it, I assumed it was something found on Madagascar-home of strange, hardly known critters. [Also, I’ve only ever heard tarsier pronounced tar-shure.]

[@kanojune5754]

I mean several Kuskus and Tarsius are found within Indonesia, where two realm collided.

[@maryrosekent8223]

@@kanojune5754 Thank you for the clarification!

[@chermal7311]

Imagine discovering a brand new type of animal that shares similarities to sloths and koalas but looks like it could be more related to our distant relatives. Even Charles Darwin would be amazed!

[@SherpaQueen420]

Me, an animal nerd since I was old enough to read: "Yeah I know the cuscus. Spotted is my favorite."

[@charlottemacdonald7116]

Same 😊

[@crimsonfirelily]

I love these Cuscus! I had no idea we had so manu Opussum species. I absolutely love learning this! Thank you 💜 this is a new favorite! ✌🥰

[@UnconditionalSurrenderG]

My new favorite Pokémon

[@NWforager]

its a cute slothy gecko cat monkey 💖 Hi Danielle

[@lovenature]

Awesome!!

[@Fede_99]

Awesome video! this type of shorter video talking about more obscure animals than usual are my favorite from this channel, as they are the ones that made my discover it in the first place years ago. If I can suggest a subject for a next video I would love to see one about Desmans, I love those weirdos, they're so bizarre and interesting.

[@dwightehowell8179]

Did she really say these things can jump between branches? Yes she did!!😆😆😂😂🤣🤣

[@escanorpride9652]

Cuscus: The weirdest animal. Platypus: Hold my beer.

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

Good animal! I've been intrigued by cuscus for a long time... being close to Australia