The Most Violent Animal on Earth…. is not what you’d expect

Long story short, scurry, sniff, flinch in that order
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[@mcgoldenblade4765]

I love how accurate the term "mob" is as a collective noun for meerkats.

[@prodigalpriest]

Mob works for kangaroos too since those mofos be acting like the Mafia of Australia.

[@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434]

@@prodigalpriest term mob also used for the herd of livestocks. Not really exaggerated because they're really difficult to control and even can be dangerous

[@iffracem]

@@prodigalpriest Also in recent times the Australian first nations people (Aborigine) call their extended family units a "mob" as well.

[@Planetmango48]

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[@thescandinavianclown9057]

Meerkat society literally functions like a mafia

[@professormultipurpose5244]

So from what I understand… Simba is chill Shenzi is a girl boss Pumbaa has a PHD in Physics And Timon is a homicidal maniac

[@greekifreekifan870]

Nah, Timon's mom is the Godfather.

[@weebotaku9200]

SHHHHHH!!!!!!! NOT IN FRONT OF THE KIDS OH! sorry.

[@nightwolf7k863]

@@InevitableOption-ic2vxif not siblings, then cousins

[@mitab1]

​@@InevitableOption-ic2vxif she's not Mufasa's kid he would have killed her in the spot, all the kids in the lion king were all siblings

[@HennryHammerhead]

@@nightwolf7k863 Cousins are more ok depending on how much of a genetic discrepancy there is between the two.

[@zach7]

I think this is funny, because I always knew that human self depreciation thing where people go "we're the only animals who murder each other or go to war" is so demonstrably false.

[@strugglesxxx]

Humans seem to love hating themselves, it's actually odd lmao

[@KateeAngel]

The real point is the extent of damage we do. It is not violence that matters but it's tangible results

[@MrGksarathy]

​@@KateeAngelAlso, a lot of our violence is systemic and impersonal in a way that has no analog in the rest of the animal kingdom. It's probably why we rank so low in terms of direct homicides.

[@ileolai]

its kinda crazy but for all the horrible things we do to each other, statistically, violence amongst people is actually very rare. imagine how much rarer it would be if we could eliminate poverty etc.

[@arianewinter4266]

​@@strugglesxxxIS IT though, WE are the only ones with a Moral compass that tells US ITS wrong and we do IT anyway . . . .thats worse

[@sammykat2hb]

Could an exiled mongoose survive by shadowing a larger, tougher animal? Ideally one that's herbivorous or at least omnivorous, has no species war with the meerkat, and doesn't see it as competition for food? Perhaps...a warthog?

[@lenabluejay1166]

They'd make a great team! Even better if they could get a lion on their side!

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

​@@lenabluejay1166**Hakuna matata intensifies**

[@Nzosaba_Matenge]

​@@thesymbiotenation.4552matata

[@priscillajimenez27]

​@@thesymbiotenation.4552 What a wonderful phrase

[@ethandollarhide7943]

I think anybody that watched Meerkat Manor already knew how murderous Meerkats are.

[@jwlnsilver6354]

Meerkat Manor was the shit when I was a kid

[@inorishiki7803]

I loved watching that show

[@acanthafiore]

I was drawn by their cuteness to watch and follow the series on Animal Planet when I was a kid. Ended up suppressing a lot of memories of that show until this video dropped.

[@TheRogueCommand]

The closest thing to a soap opera I ever watched

[@cassiereroni]

Flower forever etched in my brain!

[@tuqann]

Puts a whole new perspective on Timon's back story and why he Hakona Matata'ed the fuck away from his tribe 😅

[@mariabowers3348]

😂😂😂😂

[@aracelylopezpsyd5794]

Amen to that!

[@waywardgoddess7219]

Also makes his mom's super overprotectiveness unsettlingly clear

[@PersephoneDaSilva]

Hakuna

[@whoasked3961]

I was like "I wonder how far I'll have to scroll for a Timon joke," and it only took one swipe 😂

[@Yuzashii]

as someone with a pet meerkat (story short we found her in the field mother less and mobless and just kinda ended up raising her) yeah she pretty much was willing to throw hands and fades with our much bigger cats and dogs though their homies now... surprisingly she's a fan of scrambled eggs and chicken also loves her beef liver and will even fight us for a piece of pork also she gets scorpions when ever we find her one

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

Nice

[@braedensimon8023]

I love how meerkats were literally declared as one of the only species aside from humans capable of declaring literal war on each other. It’s very iconic.

[@jesseholland261]

If meerkats and hyenas are related then Timone trying to rizz up Shenzi wasn’t as random as I thought.

[@MewGirlZ]

My favorite take from this video.

[@Aimi_Kaneko]

Wait why are you right about that oh my god

[@lavenderrrcucumberzzz]

My childhood…

[@The_Original_Mc]

getting serious "SWEET HOME ALABAMA" vibes from this 💀

[@ghvstfave]

HE WHAT???? WHEN?????.

[@scorch8007]

Nature really took the saying "looks can be deceiving" to another level with these sand devils

[@dankmemes8254]

​@@InevitableOption-ic2vxno fucking wonder simba grew not lossing hunting instincts teemon was training your boi

[@someoneudontknow3709]

Mearkat mobs legitimately run like a Mafia family all that's missing is a family owned illegal business

[@scorch8007]

@@Thefunniboneman water demons in this case

[@JeromeProductions]

facts!

[@fuadlabib703]

They're just like humans

[@MegaDAli95]

“Words can’t do what war can” is a heavy sentence

[@alexia3552]

You're one of the most linguistically clever people I've ever heard, you're so funny it's unreal

[@buddermonger2000]

Man has about a thousand ways to refer to death and it's honestly quite impressive.

[@greyaye8565]

The fact that a collection of meerkats is called a mob should've made this one unsurprising.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

But there is also a murder of crows as far as collective nouns go.

[@misteral9045]

A group of chimps is called a congress.

[@KingKong-dq6kj]

The fact that there's an animal more vicious than the honey badger honestly scares the shit out of me 😨

[@BullsMahunny]

To be fair, they're just more violent. Honeybadgers are in a class of their own. They're terminally violent as well as intelligent as piss. They're not as dangerous to their own kind as they are to literally everything else around them with a pulse.

[@ThubanDraconis]

Remember that this is a measure of how often a critter kills another critter of its own kind. The honey badger is vicious, but it's also tough, probably tough enough to survive most attacks from other honey badgers.

[@EclipseCircle]

@@BullsMahunny "terminally violent", I'm gonna use this

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@@BullsMahunny So, Honey Badgers just can't kill other Honey Badgers very well, but anything else? 😅

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@@ThubanDraconis Interesting, so Honey Badgers and others on this list may have been top Dawg had they not been so resilient to pain and injury?

[@lisabelle7553]

I was never so emotionally drawn in to any animal show as I was to Meerkat Manor. The drama, the betrayals, the abandonments, shunning, and murders., I cried many times watching that show. I still love meerkats though!

[@Anthony-ol8tg]

The best-known intrauterine cannibal is the sand tiger shark. Although the sand tiger shark has two uteri and produces many eggs, each litter yields just two pups -- one from each uterus. That's because as the sharks develop their embryonic teeth, they start to eat the other embryos, killing their unborn brothers and sisters, as well as the unfertilized eggs. It's survival of the fittest in the womb, until only one shark remains.

[@wolfywox]

I still distinctly remember an episode of Meerkat Manor where one of Flower's daughter had kids. It was the biggest plot twist when she not only didn't kill the pups, but let her daughter stay. We all know that Flower was about that life, and not normally so forgiving.

[@sleepyy_kittyy]

OH MY GOSH YES I REMEMBER THIS! The name Flower is now synonymous with homicide, psychopathy, family crime, and narcissistic parents because of that show. Michael Corleone could never.

[@duttygyal7976]

Yesss! I kept yelling at the screen as a kid to my favorite daughters of Flower to stop messing around! Mozart and Kinkajoo stressed me out 😂😂😂

[@wolfywox]

@@duttygyal7976 Us yelling at our screens as kids: Girl, you know your mom will LITERALLY kill you! 😂

[@ashleekoberna5686]

Omg, I remember this!!

[@ianstiehl1994]

That may not have been true. The film crew has gone on record saying how much of the show was faked. Suffice it to say, some of your favorite cats got replaced throughout the show, without you knowing.

[@dersingsdothman5769]

My family had a zoo trip and they were all: "aww, I want a meerkat." Me: "NO. trust me, no you don't." So glad they can't be legal pets because they were not listening to me.

[@DanielCastillo-go9gv]

show them this video to see how they react

[@gundamdetractor337]

who gonna listen to you anyway? they should get their own meerkat pet, illegally.

[@70Lu07]

​@@gundamdetractor337untameable animals don't belong as pets, it's animal abuse, a meerkat would probably flip the fuck out in such a situation and probably die of stress

[@gundamdetractor337]

@@70Lu07 🤓

[@turkeyman100]

@@70Lu07 You forgot the part where they bite off your fingers

[@emilywenig4390]

So this is why Timon decided to leave his Mob in favor of chilling with Pumba.... I approve.

[@idiomasentusiasticos7954]

Meerkats also have a call for color and (I believe) distance/direction. They have their own unique language. It’s pretty interesting.

[@primrosevale1995]

All this tells me is that Timon’s mom was far more tolerant and lenient than she should’ve and been his Uncle should’ve been long dead by the time he grew up.

[@mattdamutt5681]

Disney, why you always deceiving us?

[@msk-qp6fn]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@brunolinares604]

And his father is never seen in the movie...

[@dreadcthulhu5]

@@mattdamutt5681 You don't want to know how Finding Nemo would have actually gone.

[@ANNIET5775]

@@mattdamutt5681 Disney does a lot more than deceive. Walt was not the kindly grampa he was made out to be, publicly.

[@touremuhammad5983]

5:58 "It's twisted, but that's how Meerkats Manor." Underrated line, right there!

[@klltx2001]

When I heard that line that's how I knew this guy knows. If you HAVEN'T watched Meerkat Manor or heard of it wtf are you doing with your life go watch it already.

[@THRE3KINGZStudios3kz]

I remember binge watching Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet. Better than majority of reality tv shows

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

Yep, since at least the Meerkats won't be tweaking around and using horrible slang... just committing the African equivalent of the Mafia games

[@icarusbinns3156]

Hyenas seem to understand that meerkats and mongooses are related. In a local zoo, the mongoose managed to dig under the divider into the spotted hyena enclosure. One of the smaller boys was sent over to investigate. The ‘oh shit!’ look both faces was rather priceless

[@purplehaze2358]

The fact that we're not even top 40 in terms of most murderous animals makes me very glad that we're the species with the launch codes, and not any of the other ones above us on that list.

[@Style_224]

I was suprise we didn't landed on the list considering the murder rate has ben high over the years

[@eliassvensson5257]

I am interested in the study. What count as murder ? A 2 car crash is that count as murder on 1part? Or only shooting a person.? War? Passive murder like neglect? And do the count the percentage of total deaths against murder or is it to population (how likely you are to get murder of out of 100 people)?

[@SupernalWanderer]

To be fair, it’s a percentage thing. There’s billions of us on the planet, so even with a ton of violence it still amounts to a drop in the proverbial bucket overall.

[@zecharius]

​@@SupernalWandererahh, yeah, that makes sense.

[@Michael-jx9bh]

Our place in the ranking is an average.... There a places (cities, countries) where we rank higher - like Chicago, some places in South America, Ukraine. But it's a numbers game. Still if tabulated at the time of major wars our ranking would go up.

[@dragonriderabens9761]

If the listed animals were only ranked by homicide among their own species, I can imagine that hippos rank lower than I expect

[@keyanklupacs6333]

Hippos are good parents and mates. They just kill everything ELSE like its going out of style.

[@kyleellis1825]

Ants should top the list.

[@azaanimations319]

**laughs in human war casualties**

[@eduardofreitas8336]

@@kyleellis1825 Its that they only listed mammals

[@kyleellis1825]

Ah, missed that part.@@eduardofreitas8336

[@maddiekoester7785]

Huh. Didn’t know that hyenas were a meerkat’s closest relative. That adds a whole new level to Timon proposing to Shenzi in the Lion King 1 1/2!

[@L_mattox]

Meerkat Manor exposed me to some brutal truths about nature, when I was prolly a little too young for them. But I watched it anyway, because they looked cute.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

My great-grandmother, who was the youngest of 12 sublings, was nursed by her oldest sister (who was 20ish-years-old and had just had a child of her own), because my great-great-grandmother had a difficult time birthing her youngest child and struggled to nurse, and they didnt have formula back then. This is less screwed up than mongoose society though.

[@MrDibara]

At least with your ancestors' case, it was a "desperate times call for desperate means" kind of deal. They just had no other choice. Meerkat society makes that kind of shit A NORM! 😫

[@Lasagna_Garfield_]

That’s actually so sad I hope your great grandma had a good life outside of so many kids, that’s gotta be incredibly physically/mentally taxing :(

[@pinkishhaven5158]

@@MrDibara true that. Here in my region it's still very common. My cousin's daughter was my milk sister, and my nephew was nursed by other moms in the maternity ward when my SIL's milk hasn't come yet.

[@jamesproctor4568]

I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that I blindly assumed this was a story from the US.

[@rstreet5537]

Wow

[@frippertroniks]

I giggle and kick my feet around when Casual Geographic uploads another video

[@killert_7759]

Same bro

[@bensonlee9600]

Literally so true

[@antoniog56]

Same I be writing about it in my diary too

[@martindunstan8043]

We're with you my friend 🤣👍

[@dasdiesel3000]

I'm happy you feel safe enough to tell us bro enjoy

[@tiny99990]

I love how you can not just hear but *FEEL* how pissed and angry that Meerkat is, he is just cursing his way back to that hole...

[@Scavenger82]

🎶Dig a tunnel. Dig, dig a tunnel.🎶 Scurry, sniff, flinch. "Everything the light touches....belongs to someone else." 😂😂

[@Mint-Lynx]

Anyone who's grown up watching Meerkat Manor will likely be less surprised at the result.

[@burdeegirl]

Seriously though. We loved that show as kids in my house, and it was ridiculous how violent those little critters are.

[@rhunter42dragon]

Indeed. Poor Mozart and Shakespeare. 😭

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

True. That show taught me how savage meerkats can be. I was a kid back then, but I couldn't forget and this video only reminded me of what I already learned. The fact they're called a "mob" when in groups makes so much sense. lol

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

Mozart and Shakespeare had it rough. :( I got attached to quite a few of the Meerkats in that show.@@rhunter42dragon

[@VillianousKitty]

Im a former zoo worker, and despite working with crocodilians, emus, livestock, foxes, monitors, genets etc i never felt the need to wear steel toed boots... until we got meerkats... they're vicious af 😅😂

[@niccalee]

I absolutely loved Meercat Manor as a kid, so I am not surprised by this.

[@Richardtheophilus95]

It's always the cute and cuddly that are most homicidal...who remembers moopsy from startrek: lower decks?

[@EGOHVCbcn]

I watched a bunch of Meerkat Manor when I was little and even though you do see a lot of this happening, only now am I realizing how effective a cheery british narrator and upbeat music were at sugarcoating how brutal it was

[@wrongfootmcgee]

inoculated to extreme violence

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

I was always waiting for a snake to show up to get got by the gang.

[@Abominatrix650]

Even as a kid, I felt something was up with the pregnant daughter of the queen. And I had basically no ability to pick up on social cues back then. That's how hard the alarm bells were ringing for that young meerkat

[@flowerfaerie8931]

I barely even remember the show, it’s just a vague recollection of constant violence *and Flower’s death.* That fucking traumatized me man.

[@xXbellabyrdXx]

@@Abominatrix650wait… that’s why Flower kept kicking her daughter out!?

[@brandongriffey9474]

The best animal channel on KZbin has blessed us once again

[@Buffredplays]

fr fr

[@flawless_Cowboy]

Our favorite monkey 🤗

[@Misto_deVito6009]

At least a close second but definitely

[@brandongriffey9474]

He's #1 and it's not even close

[@dripguy5177]

Facts

[@shep9231]

Whoever writes your scripts really needs a raise. Because I watch these videos and I'm dying of laughter inside of five minutes.

[@asceticblur]

Just a request. May we talk about the horned toad? I grew up in northern Texas and there used to be a lot of them but now they're incredibly endangered. Please give some love to this strange blood squirting reptile. They deserve to survive.

[@Tactical_Turtwig]

As someone who remembers Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet, this completely makes sense....

[@kevonlordoftheslimes9084]

SAME

[@chee.rah.monurB]

How bad was it?

[@PondLeHockey1234]

Dude Flower would choose violence any time it was necessary and sometimes just because. I loved her.

[@commandermercury6654]

Flower was one of the icons of my childhood…and even after watching this video I still have no regrets! 😅

[@naxireal869]

😂 Is it bad I'm basically rewriting Timon in my head now as literally having said nope to the genocidal warfare and generational trauma? It oddly makes his character make so much more sense 😂

[@BubSodaPop]

Great now i'm having fanfic ideas😂

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

​@@BubSodaPopperhaps a prequel about how fucked up Meircat society is in Lion King?

[@BubSodaPop]

@@thesymbiotenation.4552 if i ever make that fic i want it to have "Scientifically accurate ™"energy

[@dtxspeaks268]

​@@thesymbiotenation.4552we literally saw Timon's family in Lion King 1 ½ (2004). So no need for a prequel (although tbf, modern Disney has been running out of ideas and will retcon or remake their classics).

[@alexisakanson-qj3yt]

Timon and Pumba at the end had me rolling😂

[@bob7975]

Meerkats are really just small cute honey badgers.

[@DorsenFilm]

Shoutout to Lion King for downplaying meerkats as being «so low on the food chain, theyre underground». In fact, shoutout to Lion King for indirectly misinforming laymen about how nature works to such a degree that we are still untangling the hyena mess.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Oh, cripes, Disney can't get a damn thing right, but especially so when it comes to wildlife. Even in the original "Snow White" from 1937, they had all those charming little North American woodland critters apparently inhabiting the Black Forest. And, lest we forget "White Wilderness," a so-called "nature documentary," where Disney had a stagehand standing by to actually throw live lemmings over a cliff for the camera, just to perpetuate their "self-cancelling" myth.

[@hkn9723]

Maybe The Lion King is really just the lion's anti-hyena propaganda.

[@J.A.huscher]

​@@hkn9723 it was also based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet, which may explain why parts of the movie are inaccurate to the animals' nature

[@hkn9723]

@@J.A.huscher I was making a joke but yes.

[@goggles8691]

​@@J.A.huscherbecause Shakespeare famously didn't have a clue how nature worked?

[@HeisenbergFam]

You know its a great millennium when Casual and TierZoo upload on same day

[@iguess7]

bruh how much free time do u have💀you've had to have watched so many videos

[@Whooper628]

I swear this guy has never seen grass😂😂

[@queenTeigh]

Only thing better would be a Lindsay Nikole upload too

[@Danny-hb1fb]

yeah Heisenberg

[@Jeff-xx7dw]

This guy is everywhere WTF

[@airaz1235]

I see why Timon left his family to sing, eat bugs and raise a lion cub in the jungle with a worthog.

[@Flamefrosty]

If Timon didn’t have poomba he could’ve easily taken on scar by himself

[@willofx4413]

No winder Timone left his family. They're secretly mobsters.

[@Coyoteari]

I mean there’s a reason they made a whole reality show about the little bastards

[@burdeegirl]

That show had more drama than any Kardashians show, I swear.

[@jojvote1812]

Meerkat manor is one hell of a show, if you haven’t watched it you have too

[@deeboy4378]

Chinchillas are like real life mogwai's, my nephew had one once, so many rules, he was not ready for the responsibility lol

[@shegone7760]

My first trip to a zoo i saw a meerkate gangfight. They literally squared up on each side of the cage and one of em made a signal and they all started fighting. So that is to say i am unsurprised by the results. Additionally...maybe it was my 10 year old mind, but pretty sure one of em flipped me off...

[@BonaparteBardithion]

The local zoo has some meerkats and sometimes they'll bite the tips of each other's tails off.

[@Aflay1]

Always remember that Timón is the outlier in his meercat family, and he was lucky to be alive.

[@marcoangel4300]

So Tamón isn’t a scared little weasel but is actually a homicidal crazed one?

[@lizebotha8783]

you'd never think Timon is so murderous O_O

[@mangaanimefan3089]

Love seeing how many other people watched Meerkat Manor! R.i.p. Flower 🌼 As they said, "she was a formidable leader". I think she even showed mercy once and let a litter of grandchildren live.

[@chanchan6380]

😢OMG I watched it in morning... flower

[@hikarinile]

And that time she took in a pup from the rival group just before she died.

[@mangaanimefan3089]

@@hikarinile Aww, little Axle. 🥰

[@monstersociety3360]

​@@hikarinileWait, I dropped off of Meercat Manor - THAT HAPPENED?? Wow, that behavior goes against everything in this video COMPLETELY!

[@wolfspirit7239]

She let SEVERAL litters of grandkids live She never got rid of any of them herself At least according to the narrative the writers put in

[@Bohemianstory]

I noticed through my years of learning about animals and humans is always the "cute looking" ones are the most violent of them all. 😳

[@RedFloyd469]

Makes sense too, evolutionarily speaking. Animals aren't bloodthirsty psychopaths (most of the time), they're just trying to survive and rear offspring. So if your species' whole deal is that you are big and scary looking and visibly a threat to anything that might try to get some free calories, your evolutionary tactic to go to is to instead scare the opponent into going away. Fighting is just extra energy you are expending for no reason if you have intimidation as an extra tool in your bag. However, if your species is small and relatively easy to kill (on your own) your evolutionary tactic will likely be sheer force of numbers or just plain homicidal tendencies. Or of course, both. Human beings, meerkats, zebras, and all the most violent animals on this list (which happen to be ape-related) all share both the "small in stature, big in number" and "meanspirited" attribute. We lack the obvious sheer physical presence of big predators or big herbivores, so we have to compensate. And unfortunately, the larger the number of members in your species, the higher the cost of living. If food is scarce BECAUSE of those numbers, it's an unfortunate part of reality that the weak have to be removed and life within the group is generally brutal.

[@SugarandSarcasm]

@@RedFloyd469so we also have “little dog syndrome”. Makes sense

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Oh, you've met my first ex, then? 😉

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

@@RedFloyd469 Same reason that, while the apex predator in an environment might be the most equipped to kill you, it's almost always the prey animals that are most willing to.

[@spindash64]

⁠​⁠@@RedFloyd469 I’d argue humans DON’T fit into that second group as much as we like to pretend. At least, considering that we don’t even break top 40 on the Murderlympics

[@torquenation8233]

Although humans didn't place high on the list, the top 2-6 or so is related to us😂

[@Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend]

Anyone remember meerkat manor? I grew up watching it when I was like 5 and now at 23 it’s still my favorite type of mongoose thingy

[@MrDibara]

I think that's why Timon turned out so different from the usual meerkat. Bro dipped his family and started vibing with Pumba! Best decision of his life ever!

[@Yogaji]

Cartoon gives Context that Timon was a sentinel that failed to do his job due to laziness, and was out casted by his family. Pretty accurate, actually

[@MrDibara]

​@@Yogaji *DAMN.* 😳 I'd say bri still lucked out on that one, cause look how he turned out thanks to Pumba!

[@mercuryrising4406]

this man is renewing my childhood. i used to be very interested in animals, so much so that i wanted to be a vet. i love learning but i lost a lot of passion on the way. it makes me feel like a kid watching animal planet again watching these videos. thank you

[@t.brooks7602]

May that passion send you to work with animals in some way, if not by chasing that childhood dream. It's never too late!! 💚💚

[@justinechaine5679]

I'm an animal health technic student! :)

[@clevername123]

If you're a fan of Meerkat Manor who misses the show, there's a reboot that aired recently which follows the lives of Flower's descendants. It's called Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty.

[@tysondennis1016]

Meerkats: *exist* Meerkats: KEEEL!!!

[@supersaiyandiclonius3056]

1:44 so when Timon tried to marry the lead Hyena in the Lion King, it wasn't THAT big of a violation of the natural order.

[@blackbeardgamer5909]

I learn more about the dark side of animals here than any other channel. I hope he makes these forever lmao

[@lucyfer6g6]

you took the thought out of my brain lol 🖤

[@augustrempelewert4377]

This actually explains a lot about Timon's mom from Lion King 1 1/2.

[@SharpForceTrauma]

seeing how meerkats operate, calling them a "mob" seems fairly accurate 😂 from the don, to consigliere, to enforcer, to the soldiers

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

Meerkats are the animals that looked at _Game of the Thrones_ and went “Child’s play.”

[@stardragon5849]

It's no wonder that Timon left his family & people behind to enjoying a bug eating paradise with Pumba. Edit: honestly looking back at Hyenas, they are underserved to be seen as villains like Sharks.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Love sharks. All those great videos on KZbin about sharks coming up to people for help removing hooks, or to get hugs and skritches!

[@SnowFox102]

@Beedo_Sookcool Meanwhile river hippos are depicted as cute, dopey, soft friends while in reality they can and will kill anything that looks at them funny.

[@raptormage2209]

Poor hyenas got it the worst in that movie, being depicted as lowly scavangers that can only survive by eating the scraps of lions when in reality they are straight up rivals with lions and they even dominate them population wise in certain parts

[@dankmemes8254]

​@@SnowFox102bold to assume that Timon didn't kill his mop and hides it

[@astuteanansi4935]

@@raptormage2209 It would have been more accurate if they had been striped hyenas, who are mostly scavengers. But they seem to be spotted in the movie However, at least a female is correctly the leader of the group

[@wahmaster]

I want “YOINK” to be a running gag in your videos! 😂

[@Serai3]

Fun fact: If you sit in the meerkats' terrirtory long enough, a scout will climb to the top of your head to look around.

[@thalmoragent9344]

*"Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm?"* Also... 6:35 *"YOINK"*

[@thalmoragent9344]

7:37 RIP to that Meer Cat

[@ianyoder2537]

Meerkats according to Disney: Funny tunnel digging gay step parent. Meerkats according to reality: *MURDER*

[@madmanminkler1382]

"Where grocery shopping is a treasure hunt" Fantastic line

[@edomarpez1840]

0:24...already crying my eyes out in laughter!!!! what a gem!

[@joeycappelletti6770]

called it, Meerkats are so vicious, i remember you talking about them a while ago and how vicious they were

[@pixiesouter9461]

"sand assault squirrel" At this point I'm 30% here for the facts I didn't know, 10% here for the facts I already knew, coz it makes me feel smart lol and a full 60% here for the animal names you come up with. Oreo donkey Murder dolphin Sea puppy All actual phrases I used regularly now. Thank you for the service you provide.

[@Mac14329]

He’s a wordsmith.

[@mysticmek93]

The relationships between mongoose, hyenas and cats all makes more sense the more viverids you see. Ie: civets and genets. See the different kinds of em and its like "oooohhhh" It's like lookin at a blueprint for their ancestors in a funny way!

[@Ari.exe619]

The fact that you use Hollow Knight music in the backing track just makes me so happy.

[@MakoSica]

Chickens also differentiate their alarm calls between ground predators and birds of prey. From my personal experience, they also change pitch and other qualities to say how fast or big it is. With goshawks, who will land on the ground and pursue prey under bushes, my chickens at least will change to “ground predator” call when the hawk starts running around.

[@BestOneEver247]

what does it mean when a rooster crows?

[@vinisha2969]

​@@BestOneEver247crowing is their territorial call

[@MakoSica]

@@BestOneEver247 Crowing often lets other roosters know where their territory is. But crowing is also a lot like human shouting in that it can express different things under different contexts. Roosters will crow when the sun rises, when their hens take a good piece of food they found, when they’re excited or nervous, or when even when there’s danger about at night. A lot of animal calls are like that in that they have some basic purposes such as territory; but they also have flexibility in what they can mean.

[@BestOneEver247]

@@MakoSica sense birds are related to dinosaurs wouldn't T-rexes do the same you know the tyrannosaur equivalent of crowing like a chicken

[@MakoSica]

@@BestOneEver247 One must wonder. Chickens are still pretty closely related to dinosaurs. They have some of the same proteins in their bones and will make the same jackhammer clicking of their beaks that it is theorized T-rex did with its serrated teeth. It’s kind of funny to imagine a T-rex opening it’s mouth to “roar” and instead release a deeper “cock-a-doddle-doo.”

[@Sebastian-tm6hk]

I still remember back in middle school when I was a tiny bean still trying to understand what math is, I'd wake up early every morning to catch a new episode of Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet and man, I understand I was a kid and all, but now rewatching some of the episodes......why the FUCK had it not clocked into me earlier how savage these little critters are.

[@nightrocker1343]

I was waiting for him to reference Meercat Manor. I was not disappointed.

[@zucottimanicotti7112]

I can see why Timone wanted to leave his family to live with a warthog

[@shori200]

This is perfect timing I wanted more animal facts to share with strangers

[@anneg8162]

😅😅😅

[@Lunch_Meat]

I've seen people compliment your knowledge, your word play, and your editing, but i have yet to see any compliment your choice of background music. Ive heard everything from video game music to underground avant-core rappers in your backgrounds. Windwaker music makes me nostalgic and im always suprised at someone who even knows the name busdriver. Keep up the good work. Youre doing a really good thing for the animal kingdom and humanity

[@whatTFisThis]

a meerkat reality show would be ine hell of a watch

[@yoloyolo3940]

No wonder Timon hangs out with Pumbaa.

[@isaacbrown4506]

Meerkats have always been one of my favorite animals, watching them tear apart snakes on the show Meerkat Manor was crazy

[@Fighterpilot555]

I was calling "Meerkat" ever since I heard you say bears just barely made top 3, and I feel proud of myself. Like seriously, meerkats *wage war* with one another!

[@KlavierMenn]

I mean, so do chimps and they are at stone age. There has to be at least 2 orders of magnitude more meerkats than chimps if this list is right.

[@mikemcconeghy4658]

Pumba's voice - "Timon, tell me again what happened to your family?"

[@MrRatchet12661]

I'm quite surprised that we didn't even got on the list. That's a good news. We apparently aren't as bad as I initially thought.

[@Reptiles_over_mammals]

Both tierzoo AND CG upload on the same day. Truly a blessing from the Lord.

[@woltimes2]

RAHHHHH ANIMALS YEAAAA🦅🦅🦅

[@C4rrots]

Timon proposing to Shenzi doesn't seem so unorthodox now.

[@unclvinny]

These videos are doggone poetry, I love them so much. Keep the genius rolling, friend.

[@esmenhamaire6398]

I'd just like to say that your style of presentation is not one that I would have thought I would like. In the genre of instructional but humourous videos about animals, zefrank is more the sort of thing I'd usually go for. But having come across your channel and watching a few videos, I enjoyed them so much that I subbed. I love how you mix factual stuff with humour, and you do it so well! Keep up the good work, I look forward to going through your past videos and watching your future videos! Superb!

[@ianhennessy9367]

bro tierzoo and casual posted on the same day… i’m in heaven

[@aliyai4000]

This video made me realise how I finally found my people at last - I literally grew up on Meerkat Manor both on Flower's leadership in the Whiskers as well as Rocketdog untill her tragic death, those little fuckers are menaces and extremely territorial. The Whiskers family was also humongous at the peak of the clan, I think it was like 40 or 50 smth (?) members during Flower's reign. I do remember one episode where I think it was Whiskers dealing with a rival clan (I do not remember if it was Lazuli or the other, but I think it was the other one) and the fight was so intense and bloody that two of the meerkats from the rival team died in the combat, one of which if my memory recalls was the son of the lead couple of said clan. They aren't messing around with territory. My favorites were always Flower and Mozart. I was rooting for Mozart so badly to finally have a happy ending (after how many times she got evicted from the Whiskers) untill she died because she managed to pull through so many times she would've died early. Flower lead that clan like an absolute champ through and through, but still had a soft spot and let others come back in the clan or let the pups grow inside Whiskers, it was endearing to see that she wasn't absolutely ruthless to the bone. Curiously enough, Zaphod maintained his leadership in the Whiskers even after Flower died and went alongside Rocketdog. Damn I really was invested into this show.

[@theincrediblehibby8239]

The nostalgia hit I got from reading this comment was almost as strong as the bong hit I took before watching the video oml

[@isabellamiller6320]

Being a meerkat manor kid is rare, but it is so special. This was my show, too :)

[@dylandepetro4187]

The fact that we didn’t crack the top 40% is honestly surprising. Especially considering all the wars and whatnot. Though, all it would take is one politician who is stupid enough to hit that nuke button to put us on top of the list.

[@Alfredo_413]

3:14 jesus christ why would you use a zoom transition there