Hoatzin facts: more dinosaurs than you think | Animal Fact Files

[@Col28]

Now that's a really unique bird! Never heard of them before. Thanks for making the introductions! I love their wing colors and cool hats.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Their colors are amazing! =)

[@brienfoaboutanything9037]

True about Hoatzin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKDFh6l_pM19ZsU

[@ChampaBayBeast]

Hold your nose if you go near one...

[@shilraviuxuz6431]

To phrase it as "we currently believe/speculate" rather than using the phrase "it is understood". We know very little definitively, and I really appreciate the distinction.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

We try to be aware of this with everything we write for this show. There's always more to learn and that new information can change our understanding

[@Sol-Amar]

I agree!

[@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae]

I have no clue as to why I found them ugly, they’re beautiful birds and really remind me of Archaeopteryx

[@jbach1738]

These birds sound so much like turkeys. I've been raising and butchering turkeys for several years now. I use heritage breeds, rather than the broad breasted commercial type birds. All of my turkeys have claws on their wings. Every single one of them. They don't fly super great, but they can fly up to a tree branch to roost, and they use their wing claws to grab a branch and gain stability. The butterball turkeys you buy at the store for Thanksgiving don't have these claws, but all of my red bourbon turkeys have them, and use them.

[@buxiceta9776]

now thats one of my fav birds! i really love dinosaurs! and i didnt knew that some birds had claws in their wings

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Dinosaurs are super amazing! Glad you learned something new. 😊

[@haze6647]

You eat your chicken wing wrong. Chicken actually have very smoll potrouding thumb like bump on their wing, it is not as clear and obvious as hoatzin and the other clawed bird mentioned here but, it is.

[@killerbee2562]

Other birds like chickens have claw too but they're very undeveloped.

[@FieryRed_BE]

Emus, Kiwis and ratites in general all have claws

[@Bradbull111]

I'm 47 and this is the first time I've ever heard of this bird. Very interesting, thank you for sharing

[@Ploskkky]

What a magnificent creature. If there is a bird that reveals its ancestry than this one is it. Just look into those bright red eyes.

[@gobanito]

Just when I thought cassowaries were the most dinosaur of the birds in terms of looks, comes this specimen. Birds are really fascinating animals.

[@rukeyburg1084]

I like the fact that they are visually stunning *and* smell like poo. Kind of a reason why people *shouldn't* hunt or wanna eat them. Seems to be the hoatzin also aren't an endangered species! Love this bird already, it looks so majestic and the more I look into this bird, the more interested I am, they're amazing.

[@travisspellin1698]

They are Guyana's 🇬🇾 National Bird

[@sokkawiseoaf4839]

Huge wings *doesn't fly*

[@welcometothestream8860]

Wing =/= flying

[@rebeccamiles7893]

What a pleasant bird! Just chilling in trees, eating leaves, raising families together. A little stinky, but overall just nice guys!

[@ClipCoyote]

Looks like a Phoenix

[@patricialongbottom876]

Thank you. First time I learn about this.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Glad you learned something new!

[@OchoaShelsea]

Freaking cool I want wings with claws

[@tuneamik1922]

My brother and I saw it once and we thought it was a bird came from sun

[@NA-vk1ml]

This is very interesting, but could you name like one of those symbiotic bacteria?

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Sure! Phylum Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, and Proteobacteria have all been observed in the hoatzin's gut flora among others. Here's a link to an article that discusses this further: aem.asm.org/content/74/19/5905 Hope that helps!

[@SuperBekin]

Fun fact. This is Guyana's national bird commonly known to locals as the canje pheasant..

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

If a Phoenix actually existed this is exactly what I imagine they’d look like.

[@marvalice3455]

Could we get one on fishers? They eat porcupines!

[@lemonwater7169]

MarvAlice woah what??

[@haze6647]

Maybe we misunderstood raptor, maybe they are just a very big vegan iguanas.

[@gallopinggargoyles7891]

Hoatzins are also born with a tooth to help them get out of their egg

[@AnimalFactFiles]

That's true! Many birds have this. =)

[@spicycodeine9475]

Galloping Gargoyles so do ball pythons

[@jalacnu5755]

7crores question about this bird in KBC (INDIA)🙏

[@joet101]

How do they taste ?

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Don't these also have teeth instead their bill? As a kid I thought these were archaeopteryx that were discovered to still be living on an island like in The Lost World.

[@totanjha7456]

After,kbc 7crore question?😆

[@abhishektripathi8597]

CAME HERE AFTER 7 CARORE QUESTION IN KBC

[@yadurocky]

It was 7 Crore question in KBC India 😜

[@pdmullgirl]

Saw this bird on another one of your videos and wanted to learn more. Did a search, and boom, another one of your videos!! Pretty cool. And yep, learned something new! ❤️💜💚

[@AnimalFactFiles]

So glad you enjoyed the content! Trying to tackle the animal kingdom one video at a time. =)

[@raphlvlogs271]

why do they have red eyes?

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Hmm.. It's how they developed? I'm honestly not sure if there's a reasoning behind their eye color - like if it adds any benefit or anything like that.

[@Nature-Guardian]

This is my spirit animal.

[@archive2500]

"Technically, it's currently understood that all living birds are descendants of avian dinosaurs." I am sorry but birds are the avian dinosaurs themselves, you meant the non-avian ones instead.

[@worder_berg]

Wow, they really looks like a chicken and at the same time like a paradise birds. Looking for those birds from encyclopedia to learn more so thanks for video! P.S Sorry about my English, I'm trying to taping more clearly, but it's doesn't work all time, so correct me if I was wrong!

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Your English is great! So glad this video was helpful for you

[@Honex15]

This is amazing

[@maximumsteve]

Great video, but no climbing footage.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Unfortunately there isn't currently any available in creative commons media (at least that we could find) - would have loved to include that

[@GeroidWells]

Now thats my national bird! I live in guyana the hoatzin is called the canje pheasant and its the national bird of guyana

[@atronachh]

I wonder if this is just a transitional phase that we are witnessing, and if the hoatzin will continue to evolve, loosing wings completely and keeping the claws its entire life, so that it becomes something like a bird squirrel. Maybe eventually it will leave trees and become dinosaur-like

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Wow that would be really cool! Only time (lots of it) will tell!

[@haroldmaiz6324]

Creo que faltó mostrar a los pichones con garras y nadando como es característico de está especie única. Gracias por la información. Ben Jenne desde Vzla.Pais de estas aves.

[@Raptoria7]

It’s more likely the claws are a remnant from their dinosaur ancestor, since ducks and chickens also have them (albeit just one). scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/30/clubs-spurs-spikes-and-claws

[@grass_snake80]

probably not since the forest it evolved in is being rapidly altered by human activity

[@reptilian132]

Maybe it will develop technology and then their young will be glued to their iPhones

[@rahulghosh9101]

You are here after KBC 7 crore question?

[@The_Observer619]

Very interesting and unique bird, now i can see why it's my countries national bird

[@MrMexicansteve]

Is it edible tho

[@garyjimenez6536]

Zefrank needs to make a video of these birds

[@sharmatika510]

Make an documentary on lophophorus.

[@Okowa407]

Here in the Bolivia savanna Biome we feed them raw meat from our yards and porches everyone calls them Serere Bird I think it comes from indigenous Chiquitano Besiro savanna people

[@AnimalFactFiles]

That's so cool! Thank you so much for sharing!!

[@ndutone]

Cool and Informative but.. why use the same shot over and over of birds sitting on branch!? Especially when talking about the claws or how they climb 🤔

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Unfortunately, there are very few photos available of this bird that are creative commons licensed. We have to work with what we can

[@juliantobias2267]

Im sure that the creators of Pokemon made Ho-oh from the hoatzin. Well I feel like they might have bcuz it looks similar

[@danieln9226]

Maybe the idea of the Phoenix came from this bird? Seems likely, considering where it lives.

[@SIyMarbo]

waiting for Zefrank to dub this in his morgan freeman voice

[@roshankore1]

7 crore ka sawaaal 🤔

[@TikeWates]

If they actually have clawed wings that would be incredible.

[@bilalsayed201]

there exists also a bird from south america another bird with claws on its wings and has teeth like probes on their beaks then grow out its full black with red under feathers the name anyone? seen it once on a documentary and apparently they migrate to my part of the world, so happened to see it face to face recently i think it was under a year or two in age the name anyone?

[@lotofbitsabout]

I'm 51 yrs old and have never seen These!

[@freddeliz2419]

Thank you so much

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Thanks for watching!

[@anelcarballo5932]

Hoatzin look like archaeopteryx

[@theanimalshow6538]

Do skuas plz

[@christianaquilina5434]

The only reason this bird exists is to flare up the argument between scients on the evolution of flight

[@hoatzinn3106]

Very cool indeed.

[@umuthafaqa2706]

So they're basically a small deinonychus

[@charlesdu84]

Love them!

[@aonghusofaolain8686]

I would have guessed vultures were a distant relative. Not doves

[@ethanmccormack9561]

What do you mean more dinosaur than you think? Birds are dinosaurs, birds were the only dinosaurs that didn't go extinct.

[@t-rexstudioproductions781]

Hoatzins are one of the Birds are (well probably) more Dinosaur-y Unlike other birds that are *NOT* dinosaurs

[@illustratormuhittin]

thanks.

[@strattuner]

a green leaf dinosaur that lives in trees and can't fly more than a mile,and stinks to high heaven,poor things im on a soft diet too,they look like raptors,wonder what they look like featherless

[@silviaconsonni586]

Hoopoes, but crazy😂

[@jadenl629]

OMG!😱 These animals basically look like dinosaurs!🤯 Great video and I hope you reach 100k subscribers soon!😁

[@withlessAsbestos]

They literally are dinosaurs, All birds are technically dinosaurs, but they have dinosaur like features not found in other birds.

[@aldi9802]

That's cause ppl who reconstruct and reimagine dinosaurs look at birds like this for inspiration

[@bambinazo123]

Those claws are useful for babies

[@AnimalFactFiles]

For sure! They really help the babies get around!

[@Jeremyjji]

*Elden ring music plays*

[@Milk-xo5ne]

The stinkbird

[@briannewton3535]

I have only discovered these birds exist. Thanks for this video, it was so interesting, and has added to my knowledge of the Hoatzin (Supposedly pronounced "Watson") and the dinosaur/bird link. I watched an episode from Paulogia called "(Ken) Ham & AiG News - Crocoduck is real!" ultimately debunking dumbass creationist views of evolution, which ultimately led me here.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

So glad you found us and learned something new here! Thanks for watching!

[@Okowa407]

Here in the Bolivia savanna Biome we feed them raw meat from our yards and porches everyone calls them Serere Bird I think it comes from indigenous Chiquitano Besiro savanna people

[@briannewton3535]

@@Okowa407 it certainly is a distinctive bird. And they like raw meat too. I love learning new stuff, thanks.

[@ParallelOrb]

Hoatzin! Sherlock Holmes' has been looking for you! Another case to be solved!

[@user-np3cp2cb7u]

is there any recipe to this creature? i wonder what's the best way to process their meat.

[@otpays8552]

can we stop pretending this isnt what all bipedal dino's looked like

[@ivanbuzov6279]

It is not dinosaurs,it is just birds and they anestors are birds also

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

Birds are dinosaurs, and evolved from dinosaurs.

[@ivanbuzov6279]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect i believe birds only evolved from onother original birds

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@ivanbuzov6279 And where did the first bird species come from? And, substantiate your claim.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@ivanbuzov6279 Your lack of response shows you haven't a clue. Muted.

[@ivanbuzov6279]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect they are created Like that from begining ,ok you have your teory about Archaeopteryx fossil,ok,nice teory but not real proof that birds evolved from two leg dinosaurs,i believe that is just a bird Like hoatzin today not evolved dinosaur, macroevolution is interesting teory but not real science we all already know that, i have my beliefs,you have yours,but none of us know the real truth about the begining of everything

[@fefek1]

Acheroraptors.

[@jashwattieramlochan9375]

This bird is only found in guyana.

[@sunnynexxt]

KBC Squad🤣😂

[@rebeccazamora4395]

Remind me of chickens.

[@zaloalvarez6947]

Man made bird

[@radio2712]

How is here after watching forrest galante .

[@nayeemather6497]

I'm click baited 🤣🤣

[@justtestingmycurrentskills747]

Hurricane Hoatzin

[@dalbir58]

Who came here after watching KBC

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Too bad Sahil hadn't watched this video beforehand

[@rklala614]

Who have come here after KBC ..hit like

[@DV87777]

Ole stank bird. 🤙🏼

[@JoeCannon1982]

...Name that Pokémon...

[@naomirampersaudtropicalpet6815]

This Bird my country National bird we Also called it the Canje pheasant because of the Canje river and because we were ruled once by British the crown on it's head caught the king and Queen's eye because the wore crowns also so that's why they are Guyana's national bird we are not allow to shoot them till to this day i's against the law

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing this!!

[@miyamotomusashi3968]

This breed of bird farts alot. They're basicly like flying cow's. Farty birds!

[@johnadams2063]

The poo bird. That's what the natives call them that's right. The poo bird

[@touayaaj84]

This is a dinosaur

[@breakergemini329]

Raptors

[@sanctuary8043]

Do hyenas please

[@marvalice3455]

Spotted striped or brown?

[@sanctuary8043]

Spotted

[@kenvadopratt2433]

I don’t wanna hear nothing bout no dinosaur the never existed

[@unusuariorandom1455]

Your mom never existed

[@quijybojanklebits8750]

I'll pet the poop bird if I have a gas mask and gloves.

[@davidchavez81]

Mohawk, spikes, vegan, smelly. It's the crusty punk of the animal kingdom.

[@menakamydreams2193]

Who came here after KBC 7 crore questions, Hit like...

[@timeb9300]

I heard they fart alot

[@vwapatriyotla2322]

Delicious as$ dinosaurs

[@rodericgurrola1745]

So I guess hoatzins related to a cow because it has a stomach similar to one. Just kidding but I was trying to make a point just cause has a certain feature that another animal has doesn’t mean it’s related to it. True the way you say it sounds convincing but still. We don’t say ravens are our ancestors but they have intelligence that beats apes 🦍. It really is just an interpretation of your world view. In my worldview God made some animals with similar features but still completely different and unique. Yours they all came from a random accident that came from nothing. I’m not saying your idiots to me you are smart intelligent people. You’ve just been taught to accept it without questioning it or doubting it and this has been happening for so long that people just bought into it. Anyway that’s all I’m going to say God bless you all. And one more thing Jesus loves you and he wants to be with you he will forgive anyone no matter what bad thing you did. Bye

[@johnforte838]

If birds are dinosaurs then how can any look more “dinosaury” than any other? 🤔

[@anon515]

since they are evolved and lost many features such as the tail, wing claws, and teeth which some still have claws, and chicken dna can be altered to reactivate tail growing

[@johnforte838]

@@anon515 but if they ARE dinosaurs then don’t they LOOK exactly like a dinosaur?

[@anon515]

@@johnforte838 technically speaking i guess so, they would just be referring to the ancient dinosaurs everyone thinks of, before they could be classified as birds

[@archive2500]

Right. He still fails to keep his logic. But I definitely get it, he definitely meant the non-avian ones. The "pre-bird" look.

[@ashleelmb]

A bird that farts and burps all day n night, smells like shit, is too lazy to fly and looks like the Skeksis from the 1982 movie, The Dark Crystal... I don't this this planet would miss them if they became extinct.

[@The_Mimewar]

That’s a Pokémon. Stop it