Animal Facts They Don't Teach You in School

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Specimen use made possible by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

[@HuskitaLover]

I love how he boasts about having every animal that has ever lived.

[@iselok]

Laughs while having an illegal t rex skull

[@isaacsandgren2306]

WUT IS DIS GUTS JOB? BESIDES MY DREAM JOB WHAT IS THISS!!!

[@Fan_Of_Things6876]

He has water bears and brine shrimp don’t forget the hybrids

[@siryizzur]

it isn't actually "his" collection. it is an institution that he is allowed to access (via career, volunteering, or education)

[@hikarihakai1285]

@@siryizzur basically he has great connection

[@2js4lifeplayz86]

I love how he said "Do you ever just look at your beaver skull and wonder what is that gap?" like we have a beaver skull laying on our table.

[@wakin7907]

you're telling me you don't have a beaver skull laying on your table?

[@gazepskotzs4]

​@@wakin7907 ikr i have to remove mine from the table if i want to use it like everyone i know

[@null0357]

@@wakin7907 yeah it's pretty tedious task to clean em

[@JazzyAndJayz]

​@@null0357 ikr

[@Sukunasleftnut]

Seriously such an inconvenience when I'm trying to use my computer

[@princepratihar370]

What I love most about his videos is the storytelling, the charisma and the sheer amount of flex of him having every animal ever

[@siryizzur]

he doesn't have every animal ever. he has access to an organization's facility containing every animal ever.

[@Pjs2008]

@@siryizzur it’s a joke but okay

[@siryizzur]

@@Pjs2008 what's a joke? he literally has people convinced that this is his own private collection. it's not a joke, it's a lie. big difference. "bUt OkAy" 🤓

[@m4nman]

@@siryizzur he is not lying or convincing everyone this is a private collection. at the start of one of his videos he names the Chicago academy of science and he always references the space he's in as "the museum" or "the collection" etc. if you're confused or were convinced that this *one* guy had all of these scientific specimen all to himself(which he never claimed), that's your problem.

[@siryizzur]

@@m4nman please link me a single video where he mentions "the museum".

[@francobuzzetti9424]

please never stop saying "my collection, of every fish..ever"

[@OddAnimalSpecimens]

Hey hey - so I have access to one of the largest natural history collections in North America. We basically have specimens of every animal that's alive on earth. I need more video ideas, so what animals would you like to see / learn about next?

[@engelucy1]

marsupials, deep ocean fish that live in the dark, animals that are missing a sense (blind, no mouth..etc) and how they've adapted. Are there any poisonous birds? Invasive species and the damage they can do--that'd be interesting. We've got spotted lantern flies here and there are signs everywhere encouraging people to kill them. I also remember zebra muscles were a big problem when I was a kid and that in Hawaii wild pigs are an issue. It'd be interesting to know what they each do that's so bad.

[@beppemorris573]

Smallest specimens maybe?

[@srp4551]

Orcas!

[@kailawkamo1568]

Snake hemipenes

[@alyagami1304]

komodo

[@engelucy1]

remember those animal countdowns from the 90s on animal planet? Worlds most dangerous etc. this reminds me of that but much more chill. Into it.

[@acanthafiore]

The Most eXtreme? I used to watch it alot back in early 2000s

[@fricklet9684]

I never lived in the 90’s to really compare the two, but I can imagine what you mean.

[@snug_as_a_bug]

DEADLY 60 WITH STEVE BACKSHALL

[@mightypanda1349]

"Do you ever look at your beaver skull " 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Man it is so cool to have beaver skull at home.

[@rodrigoVgaspar]

Amazing content. Biology student here, and it’s really nice to see all that info presented like this!

[@littletinygamer2396]

Biology student? I'm just some random kid watching random thing I can find on youtube

[@gigibiru913]

I don't like to look at beetles and katydids but he keeps mentioning interesting facts that makes me keep on watching. So uncomfortable yet entertaining. Good video.

[@Hyuzuka]

Same, bro. The bigger the insect, the more unsettling it is to look at. At least they're not moving during those close-up shots, could you imagine? 😣😣

[@onlysnowflakesreplytomycom2080]

1:48 "We're gonna review the Stingray on the floor. No reason why."

[@jP-zt8cz]

*When he said “except” at **5:01** an ad just came up.*

[@cannibalbananas]

I'm always sad seeing dead animals, but I love the way all of these facts were presented. So educational and entertaining. Nature is super fascinating.

[@Munchkin.Of.Pern09]

Same thing. Then my Natural History and Ecology of Ontario professor brought in a taxidermy arctic fox and I was all over that thing (metaphorically. No touching allowed).

[@Munchkin.Of.Pern09]

THIS TIME HE BROUGHT A WOLVERINE.

[@quocbao0898]

I love how he takes a special part of a creature to talk about another creature with similar details

[@CodingCorvus]

Might be because of my dad being a biology teacher or that I was fortunate to have some passionate teachers myself, but I was taught a couple of these facts.

[@CodingCorvus]

And as for the specimens me and my dad own. We have some skulls of birds. I have the skull of a snapping turtle and the skull of a fox. And a dried flying dragon(Draco Volans if you want to look it up without going to fantasy land)

[@prosuperbrobaboozel255]

We need this guy as our science teacher

[@griffithwes0074]

Fun fact: the stingray color camouflage can also be found on aircraft camouflage, a lot of older aircraft had a bright almost bluish or white bottom and a green or tan terrain color on top.

[@mysticusfreeze]

Stingray barbs were long used for piercing the skin to shed blood in Mesoamerican religious rituals. Seeing the barbs up close made me realize why lol.

[@martinaps]

dude i love these videos they teach me so many interesting things

[@ernie6421]

the transition questions between topics and topics are flawless

[@IchiHishi]

My teacher actually taught me some of these stuff here in Brazil. Dude, how I miss those classes.

[@onyxwolfreaper21]

The transitions are so subtle and smooth

[@DragonMaiden77]

Whenever I want my comment to stick out, I’ll go to the longer videos instead of the shorts. When you showed us the Saw fish, I noticed it had the same looking mouth/facial anatomy as the stingray. Are they related?

[@ChasingDragons420]

Sawfish are in the same family as Rays.

[@CretaceouscCreator]

Man skeletons really were just lego sets all along. 💀

[@kyegaming3193]

Entomophobic human here. Thank you for helping to make these amazingly evolved creatures less scary ❤

[@LionessTruth]

I just joined your channel. thank you so much for sharing info that I never knew about. your videos are super interesting and your teachings makes me realized there is so MUCH in this world that I never knew seen or learned.

[@fricklet9684]

This is quite fascinating, I’ve wanted to go into Psychology/neurology, but I’m wondering about studying the brains of various animals. Possibly even evolutionary patterns, such as figuring out how exactly the anglerfish found a way to make it’s modified dorsal spine bioluminescent, or what the advantages of having “breathing holes” in an insect’s legs are. (Perhaps it assists in feeling vibrations in the ground?) Anyways, keep up the good work!

[@AngryBitterNeckbeard]

Evolutionary adaptations are not intentional. Anglerfish didn't find a way to make their modified dorsal spines bioluminescent, it's just that the Anglerfish that had bioluminescent bacteria growing on their dorsal spines were more likely to attract prey, causing the traits that allowed those bacteria to thrive in them to be passed down to further generations with greater success. The same goes for breathing holes for insects. The point of breathing is to provide oxygen to an animal's cells. If an animal is small enough, this can be done by simply allowing oxygen to get close to their insides and letting it diffuse into the cells. Insects are suitable for this. Our system of breathing through lungs (and its ancestral system of gills) are later adaptations developed by animals that have too much mass for their surface area to diffuse ambient oxygen into their cells by default. That's why when a vertebrate animal evolves to become extremely small compared to its lunged ancestors, its lungs begin to disappear because it becomes easier to diffuse oxygen through contact with air. For example, some salamanders, shrews and frogs have very limited and vestigial lungs. Likewise, the reason we don't have gigantic insects that can eat us is because the diffusal-based breathing system used by insects would not be able to deliver sufficient oxygen to an animal of that size. We see evidence of this in prehistoric insects, which got to be waaay larger than their modern descendants because the planet had more oxygen available at the time.

[@bompkin1506]

@@AngryBitterNeckbeardGod created them so

[@nicolasfreiria2862]

breathing holes, called spiracles, are found along the abdomen of bugs not on the legs. The small holes found on the legs of the katydids are for hearing not breathing. We learn about insect and fish breathing systems during a-level biology in the UK, if you're in the UK and going into A-Level and interested in evolution I strongly recommend you do biology!!!

[@mudbucket1354]

what do i need to study in order to study animals like this cause wow. you're making me want to drop forensic anthropology

[@DeadGirlsPoem]

Zoology

[@burpboy-]

"every animal ever" me sitting with my cat which he doesnt have

[@razkaji]

The whole knee-ear thing is just mind blowing 🤯🤯

[@joshuavideoproductions8526]

"do you ever look at your beaver skull? "

[@shhh673]

It's like you took the mantle from Jaques Cousteau and now you're presenting us the entire animal kingdom.

[@GTNoName]

This channel is so underrated, hope youtube algorithm hit soon . Love ya vid man, keep it going, the content is superb

[@Maddismukke]

Fellt ma brain growing while watching this! Hopefully someday this phenomenon will be explained when I will be in a specimen-jar like this...

[@dumbfukx]

all rodents have a gap like that tbh, as a rat owner, when one suddenly died and others started cleaning up, i had the experience of seeing a skull and there was a gap too, since they are chewers

[@myself3209]

1:37 Because it makes them harder to see. If you look down into the water, the dark color blends in with the dark er seaground, while if you look at them from the downside against the brighter surface of the water, their brighter belly makes them harder to see too. Many sea creatures use that.

[@feebieloo]

Your videos are quite possibly my favourite thing on KZbin ❤

[@wylinout2257]

This channel is freaking AWESOME!!! Thank you so very much!!! Keep up the fascinating work 👍

[@Direblade11]

I WAS taught about the top/bottom water camo in school

[@RamArt9091]

I always though the spinal cord was completely encased within the vertebra. Well, i suppose I finally found out.

[@findleythegolden3054]

He is amazing at transitions!

[@fatherplatypus2316]

Evolution truly is fascinating

[@pardeep_08]

İt was worth watching Amazing

[@demonking86420]

4:00 so THAT'S what happened to Mr. Puff

[@Zl0N]

You’re very good at explaining things and articulating your thoughts well thank you bro 🙏

[@twilightraven1232]

This video helped me identify a weird bone I found on the beach. I had no clue what it belonged to. It's a puffer fish spine. 😱

[@patrickdewhurst3378]

lol

[@TotallyTinyHatBoy]

“So guys you havent seen the other room, of, you guessed it! A ROOM FULL OF WHALE AND SHARK SPECIES!”

[@ctitan3751]

I nearly jumped out of my seat hearing that with headphones

[@jjjc0711]

That “rainbow cricket” looks like it’s actually a rainbow grasshopper.

[@yinja3406]

i think it is funny how he says "now do you ever look at your beaver skull" as if we have all organisms to live on earth

[@chickendrawsdogs3343]

Now I'm really curious about the dyeing process of the specimens.

[@Xhardrocker]

this was informative and entertaining, pacing is perfect as well

[@justanalien6317]

This guy is the most underated animal channel

[@lynx3662]

Not me casually staring at my pufferfish taxidermy

[@ursomajor5607]

I am incredibly jealous that you have all this stuff.

[@moppupaws]

"i'll go into my collection of every fish ever" what a flex

[@Ownagegast2]

I love how you did the transitions going from animal to animal, really good job man

[@badguacamole3709]

This is the most evergreen short I've ever seen

[@tubofficial1]

All specimens: Sailfish Skull Rattlesnake Rattle Stingray Stinging Barb Turtle Seahorse Softshell Turtle Shell Buoyanding's Turtle Shell Pufferfish Pufferfish Skeleton Blue Whale Vertebrae Giant Chameleon Giant Chameleon Skull Anglerfish Fish Bushmaster Tail Skeleton Bushmaster Skull Giant Rainbow Cricket Cricket Snail Katydid Beetle Giant Sabertooth Longhorn Beetle Ramora Beaver Skull

[@cattz.are.silly.]

It’s funny how hard he shakes the snakes tail

[@icaroporpino]

This video is so amazing. It deserves so much more views and likes jeez

[@StolasOwl27]

Bro took Animal cemetery to the next level (all jokes aside your videos are awesome)

[@L8zar-boy15]

The king of informational transitions, take notes middle-schoolers

[@tatter_vroom]

this isn't a bar of soap... guess what comes next its a miniature angler fish :)

[@IDKLOLLL-oy7yo]

Okay but why is this the most entertaining thing I have ever watched

[@NomadicSheep01]

Handsome and great subject matter 💕😊 biology always has been my favorite class, more reason to stay glued 😄 keep up the great work

[@secretvanilla7279]

that was cooler than I expected

[@Laylais_lemon]

I don't think my school teached anything about animals amazing vid btw

[@tahmid8918]

Man I love this kind of video

[@victorbeil9516]

I love that shit. I always find it very interesting, to learn about things someone else thinks of as common knowledge. We learned about the rattlesnake fact in preschool. But i also for a long time didnt realize that February just has 28 days.

[@mogenoof]

that was the longest run on paragraph ever also you and casual geographic should do a collaboration

[@That-Google-Guy]

10:30 “that way, when they’re CHOMPING WOOD they don’t SWALLOW or (long pause for emphasis) CHOOOKE (spikes camera HARD) on any wood chips The jokes are getting more subtle y’all, but also much funnier.

[@Pixer_14]

The cricket one, yeah that one, my school already teached me that

[@tobingallawa3322]

The rattle snake rattle thing I have known since I was a kid and we would catch them. This is all interesting, and I guess mostly things I did not learn in school, but all stuff I knew before I finished college

[@user-vy8nr8fp2k]

My favorite types of videos

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

These are such amazing understandings - wonderful diagnostics!

[@thelastorangetictac5294]

"Do you ever look at your beaver skull..." Me who doesn't have a beaver skull: ☻☻☻

[@ghost-fs7th]

Did anyone else heart convulse at the rattle sound 😭 I don’t even live near them but we must be hardwired to fear that sound

[@ridermaut99]

Bro explains things by explaining, explaining things💀 I love rewatching your videos and learn things i didn't know :)🦈

[@type1hero146]

Bro completed his animal crossing museum 💀💀💀

[@fslurrehman]

Very interesting and informative. It's because the presenter loves his work.

[@thatonecloud7694]

My Tripophoby went FERAL

[@Ryan-gl8ez]

I learned so much in 10 minutes.

[@emilybrackett2840]

Wow, the first video I've watched, and I've learned so much.

[@collinpugh9219]

I really had no idea J-Rock was this smart, but really appreciate all his insight... Still waiting on that colab with snoop Dogg from the last season of TPB though

[@whendarknessfalls6969]

To be fair, i graduated in 2011 and we've learned alot since then.

[@davipb]

Fun fact. Despite being at the front part of the snail, the "breathing hole" IS on its butt. Gastropods torsion is weird as f.

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

this dude is an admitted moth breather because when I breath, I breath through my nose.

[@lucasg.4009]

Fantastic video, nice humor and really interesting facts. I am new to this channel, but I will stay my biology friend, that is for sure

[@dreamlord1979]

Wow! Amazing segways from topic to topic! I couldn't look away!

[@velligis4996]

I bet you could do an amazing Owen Wilson impression.

[@user-mi6in1bg8n]

also I like how he thinks we all have beaver skulls

[@tdog_]

horror movies dont give me nightmares but this will 💀💀

[@DaMikeyEnjoyer]

Man this guy may not be rich, but like Animal Lover said, he has EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL IN THE WORLD.

[@scottadams5118]

Thank you youtube recommended feed for suggesting something I actually want to watch

[@Al_Grey]

I pride myself on knowing animal facts but the turtle one is totally new to me wow

[@ashobiz]

I don't understand anything but I love watching your video. It is top quality.

[@Reflec999]

Whale vertebrae reminded me of cable trays.

[@BradGryphonn]

Entertaining and educational. I learned a few new things today.

[@just_a.boy_from_mars]

10:29 No wait dad I wasn’t done learning

[@I_am_looking_for_GF]

The stingray camouflage is like ww2 plane camouflage