The Good, Bad and the Disrespectful Ways Animals Protect Themselves

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[@alucardelrojo8675]

Keep on keeping on!!!!

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[@professional_fiddler]

Have u found anything even mildly dangerous in England or the UK as whole?

[@mr.smigga-sanatebiggichees5499]

I like how animals are the literal embodiment of "if it works it works".

[@dracothewarrior4316]

crocodilians be like "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

[@annakilifa331]

That is the very concept of evolution. Genes that help their genetic carrier to survive and mate stay, genes that stop them from it don't. If something works, it works and will stay in the gene pool, if something doesn't work, it ends up becoming dinner for something else. Give that concept enough generations and it will give you some pretty freaky stuff that works

[@IAmGodHimself777]

Humans are also animals, just a lame kind off animal.

[@arimars9565]

@@IAmGodHimself777 We’re the embodiment of “You could make a religion out of this”

[@arimars9565]

@@IAmGodHimself777 I’d honestly said we’re the embodiment of “We could probably use this”

[@Big_Bonfire]

I absolutely love the “cuz he sees you”. That shit is so crazy how they just disappear in their natural environment

[@nenmaster5218]

Telltale Atheist, i recommend him. Especially his Kat Kerr Videos if you love to laugh.

[@cheetahman515]

Works the same with snipers in airsoft. Or vietnamese speaking trees. Look exactly like normal ones too

[@micheleparker3780]

I really didn't see him... I'm dead.

[@TygerHillis]

Living proof that i wouldn’t survive a day in the wild

[@w花b]

​@@TygerHillis Did you forget that humans haven't been at the top of the food chain forever? That would simply be you returning to our normal place in nature.

[@hybridhd7436]

My grandpa who's the sheriff in the town where I live by actually has a pet vulture named Reggie. My grandpa has also had Reggie for like 15 years and at this point he's an honorary member of the town's police force, even has a badge and everything.

[@Allantitan]

How terrifying would that be just to see a vulture chasing you down in a full police/deputy uniform 😂

[@RandomPerson-vq9kw]

Like literally, “Bro, there’s a vulture chasing us!” “Okay, Frank time to lay off the drugs!”

[@foldabotZ]

​@@Allantitan With a siren and even the spinning light on its head.

[@Gtoonm]

I think we need to appreciate more how this man has dozens of ways to say death without actually saying it.

[@WhatDillionYT]

i need to see were he keeps those words

[@BOB-wo2nb]

Umm..we do appreciate it lol

[@limiv5272]

@@WhatDillionYT His brain?

[@globaladdict]

@@limiv5272 I feel like that was a overly vague but potentially super secret way of saying what that mouth do?

[@dr.coomer789]

Appreciate??

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I'm mad impressed with vultures after watching that, they can legitimately eat anything, maybe apart from something radioactive, without any repercussions.

[@GoofyAhhWolf]

You're everywhere man

[@toyuki6367]

@@GoofyAhhWolf hes the star on youtube at this point

[@MingChilling-]

galaxy level

[@GoofyAhhWolf]

@@toyuki6367 yeah

[@madscrub29]

Hellspawn is hellspawn, extremely corrosive stomach acid or nah

[@7deepbreaths.sounds]

Casual Geographic is easily one of THE best channels on You Tube ... and this guy is GREAT!! Unbelievably creative and upbeat similes, metaphors, puns and punchlines!!

[@Betsy-R]

He’s my Favorite!! HILARIOUS! He and Randall from Honey Badger & Marula drunk animal videos need to do a collab!😂❤

[@moonkey2712]

you could probably do a whole video just about the (literally) thousands of different kinds of toxin sea cucumbers have. different species have toxins with completely separate chemical makeup, and naturally different effects. medical science is super interested in them, because some of the poisons may be useful in making medicines

[@revenevan11]

In particular, I've heard that they've discovered that a toxin in some sea creature happened to be good at killing fast replicating cells, but not super good at killing slow growing ones... which means it's a candidate for a new chemotherapy drug for cancer! Or at least something similar to it in structure might be! I think that was from a different form of sea life and might've even been past clinical trials, I'm not in the medical field so idk, just a fun fact I read years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if we discover something like that within some random fish's sleeping-bag (sea cucumber anus).

[@DBT1007]

yep. because poison kills things, that means, they probably also kill some unwanted things. like tumor, some elements, bacteria, virus. and that's why medical world got that snake symbol. because snake poison indeed can be a medicine

[@shadowslime3640]

I guess that explains why Pyukumuku has a poison type move called Purify.

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

yeah but have you ever heard of sea cuccumber soup? Edible sea cucumber exists and people have been eating them for a long time in Asia, the funny part is that those sea cucumbers don't taste as bad asmentioned here

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[@dakotamartinez8310]

He makes these animal facts fun, and into the point.

[@nopeace2114]

“Good personality”😂

[@Zak-tk8wv]

lol

[@michaelvo7162]

The hairy frog one was freaky, but then I realized that exact thing exists in the game "Dead Island"; an enemy not only breaks his arms to reveal bones to stab/slash you with, the jerk even sharpens the ends of the bones sticking out. I like thinking the devs heard of this frog and based the enemy character off of it.

[@evansellers5205]

The berserker

[@snapslingpeavine1371]

I genuinely did not know dwarf sperm whales existed, _let alone_ the fact that they produce their own ink. Animals nowadays truly are quite interesting.

[@herpderp3916]

Alongside them, there are also pygmy sperm whales, which look very similar but still count as a separate species.

[@catjuulcultmember1631]

... **nowadays**?

[@richiewesson4051]

I didn't know they were basically ocean Lemmings, that will yeet themselves into death

[@amazingaces4389]

I know right. Had to do a google on that afterwards

[@mamapetillo8675]

Yes. I feel incredibly uninformed, now. My man here is chock full-o facts. Teachers are superhero’s, in their way.

[@gachagameralice7587]

This guy is the only person other than Oversimplified who can slide smoothly into a sponsorship spiel

[@NightSkyNyx]

I'd also nominate TierZoo with them for smooth transitions as well

[@savagepro9060]

"slide smoothly"

[@MingChilling-]

casually explained??

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Idk man, Linus Tech Tips has a pretty smooth transition game. Speaking of smooth, nothing tastes better than my morning smoothie out of my LTT water bottle. Available at…

[@Initiallyleo]

Oversimplified definitely likes to bring their sponsorships in where you least expect it 😅 “I have a promo code!” “For the financial burden of war?” “Yes.” (Segues into talking about Honey)

[@Logan-hn3ws]

Used to live in Arizona when I was a kid. We’d catch and release horned lizards for fun. It was Arizona, there wasn’t much else to do. I think our record was a dozen in a single day. Weird thing is, they never once used their blood defense against me or my siblings. Guess they were so used to is they didn’t see us as a threat. A friends dog on the other hand…

[@intercat4907]

I've never seen it live either, after a childhood in New Mexico.

[@Kneon_Knight]

@@intercat4907 Never saw it in Colorado either.

[@intercat4907]

@@Kneon_Knight "... we were so far out in the sticks even the horney toads were boring ..."

[@Kneon_Knight]

@@intercat4907 I hear that. 😆

[@genevievec.8002]

Nevada here, and I used to catch them as a kid, never saw it. Some neighbor kids showed me one once right after it had done it (it was in a weird netted cage, and you could still see the blood on the netting) but that's the closest I've ever come to seeing one shoot blood out their eyes.

[@inyrmind]

Fun fact, when my grandma was a little girl she'd go out of her way to find the horned lizards near her family's farm. She always thought they were crying whenever she saw their eyes bleeding like that. She didn't realize that they actually shot out blood until one day when I was watching animal planet when I was visiting her as a kid.

[@swarmling4017]

i like just knowing about horny toads, its like "yeah those things that hang out on my porch are wild" and its just fun, also its nice to see my grandma was not the only one to think that way.

[@PippiCat-ti4jd]

This is proof that lids wholesomeness can be weaponized

[@Csp499]

You might question how evisceration is at all helpful to a sea cucumber, but let's be honest; if you got into a scrape with someone and they vomited out their entire digestive system at you, would you really be inclined to fuck with them any further?

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[@Csp499]

@@iamafuckingfailure Someone named "save tf2" is a bot. Oh the irony

[@rosemarie1817]

No, no I would not be.

[@observingeye9579]

Well to be fair if they did that, they'd be dead...so i wouldnt have to

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

some sea cucumbers thought of this and went "if im going to throw my stomach at people anyways, why don't i evolve a specific organ for that purpose" and they gained a tentacle like organ for this exact purpose, when spitted out it entangles with the enemy fish and turns the predactor into prey, or so im told

[@gorneth8313]

This man's content-to-sponsorship slide in is so smooth that at this point im damn sure he picks specific animals to talk about after getting the sponsorship request

[@nicoleb695]

I didn't even know Dwarf Sperm Whales were a thing, let alone they can basically "ink" predators to make an escape. That's so cool! Thanks dude, learned something new today!

[@NightSkyNyx]

Same here! And also with the Malaysian Calabasas Ant that kamikazes itself, I’ve never heard of them up until now and it makes me wanna learn more about them lol

[@Justyouraveragedaeodon5]

I knew them but not being the sloths if the we a

[@Gojoenjoyier]

Same

[@pinkcupcake4717]

I had a whale and dolphin Moment back in middle school, and my books definitely skipped these whales!

[@MamaPinks]

Meeeee tooooo! 🙋‍♀️😃

[@DiscordDynasty]

"Imagine you try and fight a guy and he gives himself an open fracture and tries to slash you with it" Pretty hard to imagine at first, until I did all at once, got horrified, and then realized 'Interesting horror concept actually'

[@lm_faiith]

It's kimimaro

[@natejohns8716]

It's called a Florida man

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@@natejohns8716 as a Floridian I agree

[@zerosumgame5700]

I wrote a bone sword backstory involving a guy getting his arm chopped off in battle, cursing his enemy for the sloppy cut, then jams the jagged spear of exposed bone into his opponent's gut. This act of defiance against death mildly amuses the Nameless God of Death, who blesses the bones to become a lifestealing blade that cannot be dropped. That is all backstory of the bone sword, which is modified by the time you receive it, in game. The warrior who's bones became the sword did so on his deathbed, sacrificing his still-living hand to place a grasping hilt on the blade's "elbow" for the next able warrior to wield this blessed and cursed weapon. Frog sounds like a badass, from this perspective.

[@heylittleniglet]

The novel Beat the Reaper has a scene like this. Been a while since I read it but the main character uses one of his lower leg bones as a weapon

[@intercat4907]

Someone at NordVPN has a wonderful sense of humor. I'm spreading the word. Thanks for these.

[@jackbauer408]

Haven’t been able to watch the video yet because my dad and I aren’t listening to it together on the ride home from fishing on the river until tomorrow morning. But we are both so excited to listen to this on the way home! We love your content and on one occasion you had my dad laughing so hard we had to pull over on the expressway (it was how the grizzly bear would stand taller than a basketball hoop). It’s a genuine tradition of ours on weekends. We go out at 4:30am, we fish for smallmouth bass (catch and release) until 9 or 10-ish, then we get McDonald’s breakfast and listen to your videos and Jim gaffigan on the way home.

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Awww that's so sweet

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That's amazing! :)

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This comment made my entire bday. Tell your dad I appreciate both of y’all

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@@mndiaye_97 I will! And happy bday! Hope it’s a good one!

[@cynthiabloem71768]

Your comment made me smile. My Dad and I use to go fishing on Saturdays. I miss my Dad everyday.

[@thecalieffect]

I'm so happy you didn't go into details about Petrels and it's "friendship" with penguins.

[@Mael_Str0M]

He does in previous videos

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hmm didnt expect to see a powerful duelist here, but i guess you are smart in more ways than one brother

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@@diaryofagoat-lass1023 bruh, if nature is too explicit for you, then you need to get therapy

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Do you ever wish that you could selectively forget things just so you can enjoy things fresh like the first time? This is one of those moments whenever I see a notification pop up from this guy. I want to go back and binge watch his videos all over again. Edit: fresh* not flesh. I promise you I'm not a zombie that enjoys flesh.

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Same. Also based Lain.

[@blimpnerd2190]

Zombie moment?

[@viscountrainbows6452]

​@@blimpnerd2190 I was bouta say; autocorrect dun worked the mans over 😹

[@pinkishhaven5158]

I got until the hairy frog. I can take rotting carcass (I was eating fried chicken lol), but not creepy hair like stuff. ew

[@ianrager]

@@pinkishhaven5158 Don't worry, the hairy frog either gets worse, or simply gets far more badass and metal (depending on what kind of person you are). How? Leave it to the man himself, to explain it in a way that only he ever could. Or don't, it's entirely up to you. I don't judge. Edit: It's at 11:08 if you wanna skip the hair-like structures, and get straight to the point (you'd understand why that was an unintentional, albeit somewhat welcome pun). Edit 2: Go to 11:38 if you wanna skip the hairy frog entirely. The choice is yours, and the only correct or incorrect answer(s), are the ones that you decide to be so.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I talked with some falconers at a Ren fair who also would rehabilitate birds like owls and vultures. They said that, because a vulture's stomach acid is so acidic, the procedure for if someone gets vomited on is the same as if they'd had battery acid thrown in their face. Those birds are no joke.

[@nenmaster5218]

Telltale Atheist, i recommend him. Especially his Kat Kerr Videos if you love to laugh.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

@@nenmaster5218 Not to be rude, but in the context of birds throwing battery acid in my face this recommendation does nothing but terrify me.

[@yonaalter]

Casual's consistently clever creativity clearly corroborates contemplative cognition! Awesome presentations: thank you for bringing boring biology to life.

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I have a stage 4 disease and my life is absolutely a nightmare. I'm not having much to look forward to ......except your work really is a bright spot to my day. Young man u have a gift and so much to look forward to. You gonna be super famous and do all the talk shows etc. You definitely have charisma and quick wit. Thank you for giving me something to look forward to these scary days. Blessings to you and your loved ones and anyone reading this. 😃👍💯🍻

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Please never give up ;; Wishing you to get through with it soon

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Nah bro. You are amazing

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As an Australian who's watched your videos for ages I'm so happy to see you just keep getting better.

[@mrsteve4569]

A couple of days ago, one of your videos popped up in my feed. I don’t know why it did, but I clicked on it and watched it. Since then, I’ve watched about six. They are fantastic! Thanks for the informative videos, and congrats on the success.

[@besquareorbethere8093]

Those exploding ants at 11:38 remind me of an eerily similar species of termite called Neocapritermes Tarucua which have chemical filled pouches in their back that they will mix together if the colony is attacked causing them to burst into a sticky toxic goo that deters and possibly kills attackers.

[@astranix0198]

Grenade termites?

[@cap10zomb]

they should add grenade termites to Grounded

[@jhfrail]

My new favorite channel. Interesting. Informative. Hilarious. And narrated by a voice so smooth, even the most horrific detail sounds relaxing.

[@squingldoo4518]

I love how this guy went from just talking about animals and how cool or weird they are to having around 2 million subscribers

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

That’s cuz he does more than “just talking about animals and how cool or weird they are”. He also informs and entertains.

[@BOB-wo2nb]

Cause he's freakin hilarious!

[@dogishappy0]

10:10 idk why, but this reminds me of a toad story from 2005 in Hamburg, Germany. The toads would expand as a natural defense, but since the crows ate their liver, the expanding would cause them to explode. If you didn't mention this in a video already, I think this little factoid is right at home on your channel.

[@msdd7610]

in the olden days, people used to hold needles and poke the toad gently and hold the needle, and so when the toad puffed up, it would explode

[@dogishappy0]

​@@msdd7610 yikes

[@msdd7610]

@@dogishappy0 yh, pretty messed up

[@eafesaf6934]

@@msdd7610 why is it messed up? Did they do it out of fun or did they think to distinguish poisones toads from non?

[@Y4ZYAZ]

Hamburgers were also created in hamburg so they're German food not American food, so technically you could call a hamburger a foreign delicacy.

[@kylie151]

i honestly wish the hairy frog male was my dad because they actually care about their kids while my dad dipped while i was 6 also huge fan i love biology and paleontology and when i need more facts on animals to tell my family and honestly creep the shit out of them i come to your channel i appreciate what you do because your the only channel i can watch for days and come back for seconds

[@thesoftlife1033]

Your mom has to be so proud of you and the success your love if animals has brought you!!😘😘😘

[@Si74l0rd]

If you're curious, Hagfish skin is sold to make eelskin goods, such as wallets and handbags. All that slime makes for lovely supple skin. Got no clue why anyone would want to eat it though!

[@roadroller8851]

Weeelll people do for some reason want to eat pufferfish which have enough toxin to send you to a reunion with your great grandparents if handled with even the slightest mistake so I guess people just want to try to eat anything

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Nature's natural sauce 😋👌

[@dragoncubes1074]

I adore eel wallets, and even when I learned the source of the "eel", I still love them. The leather is so very soft.

[@inrii]

If it's anything like the eel that goes into unagi, then I get it

[@Si74l0rd]

@@inrii In the UK we eat jellied eels, but we don't eat hagfish. Though to be fair I'm not sure which is more disgusting!

[@JoeL-yq1iv]

this is the fourth amazing ad segue you've had. I don't even feel annoyed by the video interruption, it's so smooth.

[@unknownvariable9239]

I would’ve loved biology a lot more if this guy was my teacher

[@arrtemy1103]

YES

[@dopaminedi]

@its nice knowin ya fatherless

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

He is our teacher!

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

Same here.

[@Gr8tBlueHeron]

That gecko, exploding ants - now we're getting into stuff I've never heard of before! You are really digging deep for some obscure shit, and I love it! This is the best way to learn!

[@soapssie]

You are the only person to speak so fast and I actually process the information

[@lillithcollins5192]

I'm a Biologist and I did a brief stint with Leech's Storm Petrels (admittedly in Canada and not a species in the Southern Hemisphere) they actually smell really good. Kinda like musky wet earth. Also they have adorable babies that they basically feed until they they jiggly little balls of fat.

[@speedstick8981]

Oh boy, time to see things I didn’t think I would even see in nature again.

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

did not expect to hear "kamikaze ant" today, but here we are

[@speedstick8981]

@@rokkraljkolesa9317 hey I got two bots…fuck me

[@JohnPaul-yf9xd]

Hey Mr. Casual , You are a gracious and humble narrator. Quick and to the point with plenty of time to punctuate your glorious essays with a relevant quip. The unique delivery plus the way use the microphone is almost hypnotic. It reminds me of Bob Barker, "The Price is Right " and his Mic with the exaggerated long thin cylindrical stem. Again I will keep up with the thumbs up.

[@bloodybee3553]

I sit through all of your sponsorship adds at least once out of pure respect.

[@dinomation]

I feel pretty bad for the dwarf Sperm whales. Imagine having having to evolve a giant brown cloud to defend yourself.

[@richiewesson4051]

Imagine all the cool things octopi have. Super intelligence, outlandish ability to collect data, camouflage, etc etc. And the DSW just goes "I wanna poo inky"

[@LouisWinthorpe622]

Be in the sea with a big shark swimming towards you and you won't have to use your imagination. You'd probably find out that we have evolved a similar involuntary thing.

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

Little short guys spout out a bunch of 💩 from their mouths when threatened so it makes sense.

[@SteveSolkela]

That was honestly the smoothest transition into an advertisement I've ever seen. Friggin incredible work man. Absolute MVP of youtube!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I'm surprised you didn't mention ~ "The Bombardier Beetle." That shoots toxic acid out it's back door hole and literally can kill and burn other critters and it stinks terribly.

[@dragoncubes1074]

Yes, that would have been an excellent addition to this vid. I'm sure he'll do him eventually.

[@discordiacreates6669]

He covered it in a previous video, unfortunately I don't remember which but if you want fun acid spraying beetle facts, they're somewhere on his channel. Good luck locating the video ^^'

[@partituravid]

But is it delicious?

[@tyrongkojy]

Squirting blood from the eyes makes sense, considering the rest of the lizard. No other holes, and the hide is too tough, but eyes are mucosal and have surface blood vessels. It can't break its own skin elsewhere, but the eyes are quick and easy.

[@TheSkullofHell]

8:05 the music giving me nostalgic vibes 😢

[@jacktheomnithere2127]

2:12 yes, i actually did. almost instantly. i'm rather happy about it :) 3:29 i hear Walking With Dinosaurs music in the background. specifically, from the episode Cruel Sea. 9:28 if that defense mechanism was in its throat, and mixed in the flammable substance you mentioned... i'm pretty sure it's as close to a dragon we're going to get (whether the liquid is ignited or not).

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

yeah imagine if they used the theme from the titans episode to show a 4 cm lizard, oh the irony

[@megablazepr3603]

Bro if it pees over its defense mechanism, we alr got ourselves a fire (pee is made of amonia)

[@BloodAndCookiesx]

I knew I heard music from the Cruel Sea episode.

[@silashurd3597]

Thanks for the warning CG👍 I’m sure some people are gonna need it

[@MrChiusolo]

I can listen to these videos all day - easily my favourite narrator

[@keithdavidson7667]

Watching the reptiles and tomato frog defenses, it makes me wonder what sort of weird things dinosaurs could have been capable of? Probably hard to tell if a prehistoric lizard could shoot blood from its eyes by looking at their bones.

[@BigRedShadevil]

Your videos are the only thing that makes me almost wish I had grandchildren. My sons are all childless adults and I support their decisions. However, if I was a mamaw I’d binge these with the kiddos

[@notsousual2938]

Somehow KZbin knew I was feeling a little frazzled and blue after a stressful day at work and threw this channel in my recommendations. For that I am forever grateful.

[@orangeninja8022]

I love horned lizards!!!! I used to work as a zip guide, and there were horned lizards all over the park. I'm pretty sure that the ones on the zip course were used to people, though, cuz I used to pick them up all the time and never got blasted with eye-blood. They were just chill and adorable ☺

[@theyeknomym7559]

LOL!!! I was on acid one time and couldn’t stop laughing about buttholes with teeth. The sea cucumber fact just brought me back 16 years!

[@dramacitynative]

I love how he seamlessly goes from narrating to talking about Nord VPN!! This dude is impressive!💯

[@deadlydingus1138]

Shoutout to scavengers for keeping this world strange and relatively clean.

[@spamuel98]

In regards to the horned toad shooting its own blood out of its eyes, I think (if I'm remembering correctly) that it's repurposing tear ducts for the action, similar to how that one stage performer drinks through their eyes. You can get an idea of how it might feel by clamping your mouth shut, pinching your nose, and trying to exhale really hard. That's because most of the tubes and cavities in your skull are connected to a degree.

[@Cathowl]

Yeah I used to be able to blow bubbles out my tear ducts that way. I can't any more, but I can imagine that same process being reused for a projectile.

[@leafpile4737]

I went to a summer camp at a raptor center like a decade ago. I got to be in the same cage as most of the raptors because we (employee+2 kids including me) were gathering their pellets. The vultures don't actually smell that bad and they were super sweet. However... If you are wondering what vulture vomit smells like (or at least "domestic" because I can't think of a better word)... It smells like a rotting deer carcass in the middle of a hot summer day. I've smelled quite a few dead animals because of living near a few bodies of water (and owning chickens which then means rodents banking on the free food and water), but vulture upchuck... The person handling him on a glove was nervous and he very much picked up on that. His puke looked like rusty cave water if you were for some reason wondering. That camp was fun minus the other kids who had personalities worse than that vulture's stomach spawn and ruined it. And yes, the raptors were very well taken care of.

[@mamaikea]

Family: “Why are you so scared of nature?” Me: *This.*

[@lyrieth8833]

When I was little like 7 or 8, I lived in the middle of nowhere, closest town was 30 mins away. My grandma and I were driving home from the store when we crossed paths with a vulture, we must have scared it because it threw up the nastiest smell I have smell in all my 41 years! So terrible! That year I learned that grown vulture puke is the nastiest smell and that baby vultures are poof balls of feathers in the beginning that are pretty cute.

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

Small flocks of large Turkey Vultures can be seen flying over my city, but I haven't heard about any of their bad habits (we also have eagles, owls, hawks, osprey, and more). I figure the vultures are watching for crashed (and deceased) hot-air balloon pilots to clean up after.

[@CrunchyCelery]

I can be in the worst, most beat, abused, dang near in tears, 😅😅unsmiling, depressed and painfully emotional mood and your video just cracks me up with belly laughing! Thank you! Unfortunately it leaves me feeling sad that I’m not capable of doing many of these things to the ones using me & hurting my feelings all the time. 😕

[@187mrsmith]

Who else randomly came across this channel an now can't stop watching his video ⁉️😂😭😂😭😂 This guy is awesome

[@dogishappy0]

Same, lol.

[@norringtonlover]

I laughed way too hard at the Shawshank reference as well as all the puns and jokes you threw in, especially the one about the horned lizard only being 4 inches long! 🤣 Also, I really appreciated the advice at the end, in particular the hug your mother part! Love and appreciate your mom while you’ve got her! 💕

[@richiewesson4051]

especially considering that horned lizards are pretty chill. I could see one at a kegger like 'and then i told that stupid coyote BLLEEEAAHHHHH!"

[@keithlibner9259]

I had one as a pet when I was young.

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

@@keithlibner9259 -- when I lived in south central New Mexico, kids would catch horny toads for pets. Kids probably still do as the reptiles are easy to feed (they eat bugs, so good to have in a garden).

[@cidh9531]

It’s a talent to make your sponsors entertaining they are hardy noticeable, much less annoying than other channels. Love your work, my 14 year old introduced me and I’ve have to explain only a minimal amount of your content because he doesn’t catch it all. lol.

[@johngladman4291]

Bro I could say so much about the emotional trauma we’ve all shared through your vids. But your transitional puns from one animal to the next is quite impressive.

[@berryman5145]

Me seeing the notification for this video: OMG is friday already! Idk what surprised me more, the fact that I'm so lost in time and it's only june, or the fact that I automatically associate your videos with the day of the week.

[@bibtorhunter6763]

The old school rs sound tracks are wicked !

[@lethalethan07]

The way he transitions from the topic to the sponsor gets me every time. God, I love this channel.

[@Salamanders01]

It’s really fun to watch you cover this stuff because having taken zoology and taxonomy it’s refreshing to see someone else teaching a mass of people about the same stuff for free

[@LF-Little-Fox]

I’ve already seen many animals and insects that did strange defense technics before, but these ones always had been the strangest ones, though the sea cucumber I will admit is the first time I’ve learned about itself. And what I learned was more than what I expected to hear tbh lol. But yeah, that’s one reason I come here, to learn about animals and insects and even become introduced to ones I’ve never heard of, like the dwarf sperm whale. Love the videos my dude!

[@Initiallyleo]

I always learn something and regret/enjoy (but mostly enjoy) learning it! I have a new list of animals to avoid like the plague.

[@robinpage2730]

The golden-Tailed gecko's tail fluid+ammonia equals dragon's fire breath. Let us hope nature never figures that combination out

[@CrypticNazo]

Imagine if dragons were real as dinosaurs that used this and we just haven't found an intact enough DNA sample to confirm it yet

[@errortryagainlater4240]

@@CrypticNazo the idea of a giant pterosaur that can also breathe fire gives me a crippling fear of god.

[@dw4897]

I have not binged watched some yter, like this in a couple years. The words and how you put your sentences in the way you do, is awesome.

[@Scobragon]

Man, this was a great channel to find, you have very charismatic way to explain horrible things.

[@katherineclawson3494]

There is a lizard in Australia that’s like the horned lizard called the Thorny Devil/Dragon depending on where you are. They definitely live up to the name, they’re so spiky they look like living burs. They don’t shoot blood (I don’t think so, at least) but some people think they do due to mixing them up with the horned lizard

[@e_is_for_existential_crisis]

Yeah, they have special irrigation scales, and no, I don't think they do blood shooting :)

[@Johnny-dj4xe]

I love every adjective you have ever used. That's why I watch every mf video you drop. Thanks for properly educating the audience in the most animal planet for dummies way.

[@stevenwilson879]

Ok. Back in west Texas, when horned lizards (aka horney toads) were common, we caught them all the time. Rarely did they attack with bloody eye squirt. They were harmless (sorry Casual Geographic, you're one of my favs). Unfortunately,now they are somewhat rare. Not sure why.

[@Laura-it2zb]

Loss of habitat, pesticides, etc.

[@fortytudo]

>Not sure why. When something is going extinct, you can bet your ass humans have to do something with it.

[@pathfindersavant3988]

There's many reasons why Horned Lizard populations would go down, though the big three are habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and loss of food. For Horned Lizards, 60-90% of their diet consists of native ant species, usually some manner of Harvester ant, and the require access to a deceptively broad feeding range with multiple ant colonies to be able to sustain themselves. Because of this, when local ant populations die off due to pesticides or competition from invasive ants (such as fire ants, which the lizards won't eat), the lizards will leave and try to find somewhere else to survive. Or die. Further, Horned Lizards need certain specifications for their habitat. They need a good mix of vegetation for multiple reasons, from shrubs to rest under to cool down during really hot days to healthy grass and forb populations to feed the ants. They also require loose enough soil as at night they dig themselves into the ground as a safe place to go to sleep (exception are the few species of mountainous horned lizards found in places like the Davis Mountains and Mexico, who instead survive by disguising themselves as small stones). So, with the need for wide ranges, mixed vegetation, loose soils, and access to multiple different ant colonies, you could imagine how human development and activity could easily disrupt this and lead to declining populations, and that's not going into how easy it is for the horned lizards to be killed by things such as motor vehicles, tillers, chickens, cats, and other human introduced elements and features. Further there's also the chance that, depending on the type of pesticide used, the toxin could accumulate up to the lizards, making them sick or dead

[@stevenwilson879]

@@pathfindersavant3988 Sure. Everything you said is true. It's just hard to imagine that something so common in the cotton fields back then is rare now. Very sad. Nostalgia is kicking in.

[@stevenwilson879]

BTW......we always let them go. No harm. Just kid fun.

[@killercroc99]

I got the Anderson Silva reference, and the worst part was the sequel with Weidman suffering the same fate...

[@EchoWinters1234]

I'm curious and scared. Do I want to know? My curiosity is killing me

[@LewisZilla]

@@EchoWinters1234 one of the greatest mma fighters of all time, Anderson silva, got cocky against an up and comer chris weidman. Chris weidman checked one of his kicks, and you see Silvas leg basically wrap around Weidmans before flailing around like jelly. And the exact same thing happened to Weidman fighting someone else in 2021

[@koriw1701]

6:55 I love your double-entrende, the verbal easter egg (are those a thing?) your comment: "Vomiting half-digesting sewer-smelling foulness I can't even imagine...or maybe I just don't want to." was pulled straight out of Shawshank Redemption as one of the lines very similar to something Red might say. Here's the original script line: (Something about my (sic) friend) Andy who "...crawled through a river of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine; or maybe I just don't want to." Although, imho, the script had Red say that line *way* too often, "that I just can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to..."

[@webernogueira1119]

You are a Zelda fan my friend, every episode i hear lovely music (even by snes version) from one of my favorite series...and love your channel more every day! Keep the good (excellente, fantastic, NEEDED!) work. Our dopamine depends on it.

[@StormCrow95]

Honestly, the gecko makes me think of Shin Godzilla's tail beams, while not being surprised that's a thing...

[@austrakaiser4793]

7:43 that bird regurgitating and spitting its stomach acid actually jumpscared me. In fact I could feel it hitting me in the face... wait a fu**ing second.

[@Dishdog2]

This video was vile and put me off my lunch. Outstanding work as always

[@zachhatten7740]

Still remember screaming, "SPIDER BROKE HIS LEG!" during that fight. Thanks for making me relive that ♡ great channel, love your content.

[@Ralwor]

Man, I appreciate your content because you show the stuff that the nature shows hold back. 🤣🤣🤣 Cool video dude. 🤘

[@Ralwor]

@JHONNY I don't drink. 🤣😝

[@Angela-iw2ss]

That's a bot-

[@Juan_blooms]

This channel right here teaches me way more than school ever could mainly because school refuses to teach me about all of this maybe that’s a good thing

[@nenmaster5218]

Then dton stop here. Science-KZbinrs and Atheist-Channel are very entertaining and/or funny nowadays, duh!

[@jasonbader431]

Go to school for years learning nothing about animals, comming here learned alot

[@bimmermac]

I knew the honey badger was a badass but the eye blood Squirting lizard, corrosive gland ant and the bone breaking frog have earned my respect.

[@fevre_dream8542]

8:50 because the eyes have both a robust blood supply and a huge amount of very fragile capillaries (small blood vessels) that are easy to rupture.

[@Spartan117Lon]

Your fascination with using various versions of Legend of Zelda background music in your videos keeps me coming....also the fun facts

[@fredyrodriguez8881]

7:11 I like how the music changes to elevator to haunted house

[@SynNickel9]

Luigi's mansion

[@jordy7625]

6:36 Damn, Vultures really take the phrase "Nerves of Steel" to a whole nother level, huh

[@k.lambda4948]

Dude, you're like if David Attenborough was an insult comic. Just the best ever.

[@Agent719]

I like the trend of using Metroid music when talking about insects, especially ants.

[@hullinstruments]

Dude you’re an incredibly skilled comedic writer. Definitely one of the best channels I found this year. You’re in the top 1% of talented comedy writers here on KZbin. Others that I really enjoy are Zefrank Ordinary things Jay foreman many kudos Definitely put you in that group and so glad to have found your channel!

[@hullinstruments]

“Pupil period” You got me !!!that’s hilarious!

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Pitch Meetings Hot Ones Girl With The Dogs Useless Farm These are all really good channels too..

[@100GTAGUY]

I just wish Zefrank would upload as often as this guy tbh. Enjoy both of em though.

[@gabe_0364]

a youtube video timed like a tiktok with enjoyable but still somewhat educational content is EXACTILY what i needed

[@blackavar5723]

So for some reason, my cat goes and does the unspeakable with his favorite blanket every time he hears one of these videos. I think he has a crush on Casual's voice.

[@dudebroski9460]

i was riding with some friends in an old volvo station wagon when we were kids, we all had the windows down, and then we hit a buzzard. but it didnt die, it got tangled up in the roof rack and then threw up all over the car and of course it came in thru the open windows. it was foul on levels. i dont share often but... there ya go